Seven facts in honor of Little Miss Seattlest's first-ever movie, WALL-E, which we saw at the Cinerama—one of three three-panel Cinerama theaters left in the world. FACT: The Seattle Cinerama is not Seattle's original Cinerama. That'd be the Paramount, which sacrificed 1600 seats to fit the screen and three projection booths required. They screened Cinerama films from September 1, 1956, to January 26, 1958. The Cinerama we know and love today opened January 24,......

Seattlest likes to put on a party-planner hat for you every once in a while (we blame it on unresolved "feelings" stirred up by Julie from the Love Boat). Tonight we've got a one-two punch all lined up, centered around a screening of the silent-era Zorro, with Douglas Fairbanks, at the Paramount (7 p.m., $12). The more we watch Fairbanks, the more certain we are that he invented parkour back in the 1920s. Watch this......

Tuesday night we went to High School Musical on Tour (the Paramount, through May 25). We have up until now stayed completely ignorant of all things HSM, other than knowing it was a surprisingly successful movie musical produced by Disney that had a Shiite-like following among the Hannah Montana set. Its success surprised even The Mouse, who quickly created a franchise that includes HSM 2 (soon to be HSM 3), HSM on Ice, and this......

Straight outta London's West End (video trailer) where it ran for two years at Drury Lane, this revival of Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady is only at the Paramount through Sunday, May 4. Tickets are $25-$72. Anglophiles, if you have the slightest inclination, we advise you to hoof it on over; this one's as English as a tea, fried tomato and egg breakfast--as befits a Cameron Mackintosh and the National Theatre of Great Britain......

MUSICAL: Just you wait, 'Enry 'Iggins! Lerner & Loewe's proto-Pretty Woman fantasia, My Fair Lady, opens at the Paramount, starring British theatre actors Christopher Cazenove and Lisa O'Hare as Professor Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle. The production unites the original U.K. artistic team with Trevor Nunn (director), Matthew Bourne (choreography and musical staging), and Anthony Ward (production design). 7:30 p.m. // Paramount Theatre, 911 Pine Street // Tickets: $25-$72 MUSIC: Peter Morén, the lead......

FRIDAY ART: Roq la Rue and its sister gallery BLVD are having joint openings tonight. At Roq la Rue, San Francisco artist Robert Burden explores the joys and soulless commercialism of the toybox. At BLVD, Wastelands and Wilderness features new work by Parskid and Chip 7. Parskid's work evokes the mystical dark forests of the Pacific NW, while Chip 7's work is a paranoid exploration of sci-fi fantasy and globalism. Plus, at BLVD you......

The 4th Annual Care for the Market luncheon, held yesterday at The Paramount Theatre, was a wake-up call for us. When we think of Pike Place Market, we picture ourselves gorging on Beecher's macaroni and cheese. We envision ourselves carrying bundles of ginormous dahlias, sampling oh-my-god-these-are-good peaches, and listening to the funky sounds of street musicians. We don't necessarily think of meals and housing for low-income senior citizens, childcare for those who can't otherwise......

Eco-Theatre: Keep the Light On at Annex is human-powered theatre -- bicycling literally keeps the lights on. The collection of three dystopic one-acts includes Foxy Populi ("a hilarious, sharp-fanged satire on the downfall of Western civilization, through the meltdown of a crazed blond pop star"), 1001 ("a skein of surreal scenes spun by a Scheherazade-like delivery boy who tangles with a one-eyed pharmacist, a homicidal client and a lisping Mexican widow") and ElectriCity (a......

Time magazine claims, "You can't swing a dead cat this time of year without hitting a Top 10 List." Never one to waste a perfectly good dead cat, we decided to take a swing and create a Top Random-Number Shows Seattlest Saw This Year. And now, without any further ado, here's how your favorite bloggers broke down the year: According to Dante, everything else pared in comparison to Daft Punk at WaMu Theater 7/29/07. OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!......

We start things off this weekend with a simple two words from Donte: Muthafucking Justice! As Halloween approaches, it seems that the tradition of Seattlests stalking each other continues. Seth will attend the opening night of the Seattle Opera's first ever co-production with New York's Metropolitan Opera, Iphigenia in Tauris, which is conveniently scheduled at the exact fucking same time as the Husky/ASU game. He'll try to catch the fourth quarter at the Spectator on......

Earl Greyhound was scheduled to play the Croc way the hell back in January, but before they could bring their Zeppelin-heavy rock to town, they wrecked their van and cancelled the show. Boo. But now we have evidence to support our folks’ oft-spoken belief that (shitty) things happen for a reason: Greyhound is playing the Paramount Wednesday night—and they’re opening for Chris Cornell. Greyhound is a NYC outfit we know almost nothing about, but......

The triple play kicks off at 7pm tonight at the Paramount Theatre: Chaplin's One A.M., The Count, and The Pawnshop, all from 1916. There are no little tramps in these shorts, just a very drunk guy who's attacked by his house as he tries to sneak in late, a tailor's assistant ensnared in high society hi-jinks, and an assistant in a pawnshop who turns out to be a one-man wrecking machine. Just so you know,......

Monday the 10th, at 7pm, the Paramount Theatre presents Charlie Chaplin's 51st, 52nd, and 53rd films, all from 1916: The Floorwalker, The Fireman, and The Vagabond. They're all half-hour or so shorts from early on in his Mutual Films era, and feature Chaplin's genius for environmental comedy, with mishaps with escalators and fire poles. In his autobiography, Chaplin wrote that his notion of humor was based on "the subtle discrepancy we discern in what appears......

SILENT MOVIES: It's Week II of the Paramount's Harold Lloyd retrospective. Silent Movie Mondays brings you Dennis James on the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ and ought to be on one of those things-to-do-before-you-die list because that's just the kind of experience it is. Of course, if you're into fast-paced comedies, it's just something-to-do-tonight and there's no reason to make a big fuss about it. Trader Joe's is the sponsor, by the way, and they're being......

HAROLD LLOYD: Tonight kicks off a month-long retrospective of the films of Harold Lloyd [learn more!], with Grandma's Boy and Dr. Jack. Lloyd's character wore round glasses and a perpetual look of earnest enthusiasm. (That still is from Movie Crazy.) He knew that keeping audiences on the edge of their seats with stunts made them laugh even harder -- but he may not have known that his clueless can-do attitude would sum up the......

This week -- after literally years of telling ourselves we'd go -- we finally made it to one of the Paramount's silent movie showings. Now we're kinda kicking ourselves for the delay. Next Monday is the last in this January's series of German Expressionist films: Asphalt. It may not be long on plot. IMDB sums it up like so: Asphalt is set in Berlin. A well-dressed woman (Betty Amann) steals a precious stone from......

MUSIC: Normally, we try to avoid El Corazon at all costs, but there’s an early show there today for a very good cause. During last week’s storm, Kate Fleming, a talented voice-over artist, died while attempting to save the audio gear in her home studio. Tonight’s show—featuring Speaker Speaker, Patience Please, Megasapian, In the Empty City, and more—is in Kate’s memory, with the money benefitting her family. 4:30pm doors, 5pm show // El Corazon //......

Wednesday, October 18 >>>EMP, 6pm. First The Police's Andy Summers gets interviewed by EMP Senior Curator, Jasen Emmons. Then he signs his book, One Train Later: A Memoir. You need tickets to stand in the "Don't Stand So Close To Me" book-signing line, available with purchase of the book from University Book Store. Andy will sign one piece of memorabilia per copy of his book. Did we mention he has a book out? $5......

Now that it officially feels like spring, it's time to start thinking about summer, and more specifically, the summer concert season. While the Bumbershoot lineup has been partially announced, and Sasquatch is right around the corner, there's a whole bunch of big shows going on sale this weekend. Cast your eyes upon their collective majesty: INXS tickets for their June 3rd show went on sale earlier today. Yes, it's a US Bank-sponsored Concert at Marymoor......

The Paramount Theatre's Silent Movie Mondays during February are actually concerts in disguise. Yes, yes, silent movies are great. Seattlest laments the advent of the talkie on a daily basis. Yes, yes, seeing one of Hollywood's first stars, Gloria Swanson, on the big screen is a great opportunity that shouldn't be missed. But the real reason to be at the Paramount on Monday is that Dennis James will be providing live musical accompaniment. The film......

That construction near the Paramount Theatre is phase one of Sound Transit's plan to turn the Downtown bus tunnel into a bus & train tunnel. The Pine Street Stub Tunnel is what they are building now--a spur off of the main line which will allow trains to turnaround. Pine Street has been reduced to two westbound lanes during construction, and is now a teeming river of frustrated drivers on Paramount event nights. Try to......