GAMERS GONE WIRED: sudo apt-get PAX-10!!!!11one1!! The gamer convention of the year is upon us. On Friday, "Girls and Games: The Growing Role of Women in the Game Industry" at 4:30 p.m. caught our eye. On Saturday, "Is Casual Killing Core Games?" at 6 p.m. sounded interesting. Ken Levine of BioShock fame delivers the keynote address on Friday night, and there will be music and LAN parties! Ahhh, we just had a nerdgasm. Friday through......

Many thoughts crossed our mind last night as we left the showing of Edward Curtis's In the Land of the Head Hunters at the Moore, not the least of which was our continued amazement that film ever took off. No more or less so than contemporaneous films like Birth of a Nation, Curtis's work bears witness to the fact that early film sucked. The narrative is disjointed, the story thin and hard to follow. It......

Saturday night at the Moore: outside, long lines waited, people begged for tickets, while inside electricity was in the air, the crowd buzzed about what Anthony Bourdain might say. When he finally took the stage, it was a rock star reception—wild applause disrupted the start of his delivery for several minutes. Bourdain prowled the stage, proud of his accomplishments. He was amazed that what he calls an obnoxious, testosterone-driven, insider’s article about restaurant life......

The following is a contest from our sponsor, Joe Jackson's Rain. Recorded with the rhythm section that accompanied him on the classics Look Sharp and I’m the Man, Joe Jackson returns with Rain. In classic Jackson style, Rain is full of humor, swing, sophistication, barbed social commentary...and those perfect songs. Rain is already seeing acclaim from everyone from Paste to Stereogum to USA Today. Catch Joe Jackson’s tour as it lands in Seattle on Sunday,......

ART: New York graffiti artist Ghost a/k/a Cousin Frank has a show up at the BLVD Gallery. A pioneer who got started in the late 1970s, Ghost was on the ground for the NYC subway graffiti movement featured so prominently in Warriors. His stuff is instantly recognizable. If we end up walking by, we're heading in. 1-6 p.m. // BLVD Gallery, 2316 Second Avenue // FREE FILM: Now where did that cat Jonesy get......

We clued you in to this last October, but now it's official: Sub Pop Records is celebrating its 20-year existence with a three-day comedy and music festival July 11-13. And the (initial) lineup, though weighted more heavily in the hipster-ish now, features a few super acts from the label's big then. Per yesterday's press release: The SP20 activities will commence with a comedy show on July 11 at The Moore Theatre. Among the performing......

SOCIAL HOUR: Girl Power Hour, we remark without comment, lasts two hours. It's is a "social networking experience for young professional women in Seattle... for meeting other cool women, sharing ideas, inspiring each other and connecting on a personal or business level, over cocktails." Meet up at the W Hotel for spring fashion tips from Closetfly, fitness advice from Sassy Fit, and declutter advice from A Logical Mess. There's also a clothing drive for......

NOON JAZZ: Cornish's music department is putting on a noon concert featuring the Jazz Composers Ensemble with Jovino Santos Neto, the Brazilian pianist, flutist, and composer. We don't have a lot of information on this, but come on, it's free. Grab something at Joe Bar and head on over. noon // Kerry Hall, 710 E Roy St // FREE DHARMA MEDITATION: Are you a continuing dharma student? Don't be fronting your sense of refuge:......

THEATRE: Suzanne Morrison's one-woman show Yoga Bitch is the tonight's highlight at SPF 2-Sweatproof!, the solo performance festival ongoing at the Theatre Off Jackson. Morrison's show recounts her trip to Bali for a two-month yoga retreat that illustrates, if nothing else, that the path to inner peace and killer abs has some hairpin turns in it. We found a Yoga Bitch excerpt on YouTube and were persuaded to see the whole thing. 7pm //......

We're not fools -- a lot of you will miss this, purposefully, because you don't care about rail-riding hobo culture. But that is your loss. When he was still under 40, the New Yorker called William T. Vollman "one of the twenty best writers in America under 40." He's been to Afghanistan, Cambodia, and Seattle. He's in town tonight to talk about his voluntary hobo-age, chronicled in Riding Toward Everywhere. We read an excerpt of......

The historic Moore Theatre turns 100 this year. December 28th is their big centennial celebration. We got to thinking about this major milestone the last time we were there. It was last Monday night, the Iron and Wine show. We were sitting in our seats, waiting for razor-shy Sam Beam to take the stage and we got to looking around. As always we were impressed by the high ceiling, grand arches, intricate moldings... Then we......

Admittedly, the only reason we know this is because we submitted a poem and it's on a bus, and so we were invited to the party. Sadly there was never any chance that we were going to stand up in public and read it. Its only purpose is to disrupt the glances of bus riders lingering over the list of things you're not allowed to do on buses in Spanish, the announcement of whichever UW......

Tonight only, the British disturbo-cabaret group Tiger Lillies appear at the Moore for their Misery Guts Tour. If you're not heading to a Halloween party, a Tiger Lilllies show is a reliably transgressive alternative. They've been called a "Brechtian punk cabaret combo," and that's by people who like them. Martyn Jacques croons in falsetto his tales of London's underworld, prostitution, slayings, and bestiality, to rollicking gypsy-flavored accordion accompaniment. 8pm // Moore Theatre // Tickets $25......

Cirque Dreams @ The Moore Theatre Sat 2pm & 8pm, Sun 2pm // Ticketmaster $29-$49 (plus fees) Who doesn't love a circus? Maybe dead people. They might not like the hustle and bustle. The guy next to us was in his forties, in a suit, and kept pointing out things to his date, exclaiming, "Oh, no way!" Most of the rest of the audience was pre-teen or just-teen. We developed a strange craving for......

CIRCUS: Cirque Dreams presents a "Jungle Fantasy," which has nothing to do with Spike Lee. Aerialists, contortionists, vine-swinging characters, strong men and balancers perform in this touring production featuring "special effects, inventive choreography, puppeteering, and dazzling costumes." If you saw Cirque Ingenieux the last century, it's like that, sort of Soleil-lite: a Euro-flavored, theatrical setting for performers much more flexible and coordinated than you've ever dreamed a human being could be. It's "big-top spectacle"......

Spectrum Dance Theater at the Moore Theatre 8pm tonight, tickets $15-$45 (plus fees) Spectrum Dance Theater's Never-Mind had its world premiere last night and ends tonight. It's a disturbing work, set to Kurt Cobain's perturbing music. If repeated shotgun blasts bother you, this is not your kind of show. If you're intrigued by the idea of Cobain getting a fix from Love, or seeing fans swept up into his tragic dance, then make plans.......

Here's a special Saturday post, to alert you about the Spectrum Dance Theater double bill, The Miraculous Mandarin / Petruchska; the last show is tonight at 8:00pm at The Moore Theatre. Tickets are $24.50-$29.50 (plus TM fees). SDT Artistic Director Donald Byrd is known for taking contemporary dance in unusual narrative directions. This is a frank exploration sex and violence: a remarkable variety of sexual positions and acts of violence. Be warned: Byrd says......

Jack White and The Raconteurs brought their anecdotal "A" game to a sold out Moore Theatre Thursday night. The crowd was remarkably less shiny than our original assessment (we were waiting for the lone drunk "Bic lighter" lady in front of us to actually light her hair on fire); but we still love our Rock shows at The Moore. Jack White and Brendan Benson had great on-stage chemistry – whipping their inaugural Seattle audience......

Another week of Seattlest making all your plans for you. You don’t even have to think! Joy! Monday 20th: >>Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's second album sounds like they've started hanging out with the Black Keys. Hallelujiah. With Elefant and The Morning After Girls at the Showbox. 8pm, $17adv/$19 door, (21+) >>Shock Therapy: DJs Deutcher Meister, Lu Ying, Kamikaze at The Bad Juju Lounge Free! Tuesday 21st: >>Fish Scale Tour: Ghostface Killah, M-1, Common Market......

Ryan Adams, the prolific bad-boy of alt country, is performing tonight and tomorrow at the Moore Theatre. Despite the fact that he once referred to his former girlfriend Parker Posey as his exe-'cute'-ive, we still have a soft spot in our heart for the guy. His songs are generally pretty good and if you ignore the fact that he releases approximately 14 albums a year, you are almost guaranteed to have a good time. Plus,......

Tonight, if you aren't going to see DJ-AM (you fool!), your best bet is Beck and Le Tigre at the Paramount. We know that Beck is a Scientologist, but at least he didn't yell at Matt Laurer (or if he did, it was in private). If you're feeling nostalgic for 1993, then Evan Dando at the Tractor is your thing. We don't know if Evan is as dreamy as he was back then, but here's......

If you are more into reverb (and we think that you are), go see Built to Spill at the Showbox tonight. They are one of our all time favorite bands (Built to Spill fun fact: They often play a really long version of Neil Young's 'Cortez the Killer' which is a great opportunity to grab a beer or two. If you are not drinking, it is an excellent opportunity to grab a Shirley Temple or......

For some unknown reason Moby's show at the Paramount is sold out. His most recent album, 'Hotel,' is amazingly bland and forgetable. Actually, now that we think about it the album before that was also amazingly bland and forgetable. According to Moby's website, 'Hotel' has gone gold or platinum in France, Germany, Uk, Switzerland, Poland, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, and Italy. Sure, the U.S. may have Focus on the Family's James Dobson, Bill Frist and Fox's......