Results tagged “rogers”

Like our high school hero Dan Zanes, we prefer to share "all ages" music with our toddler instead of mind-numbing "children's music." While we are not bumpin' to tales of Jay-Z's unfortunate experiences with his lady friends in various high-priced vehicles, neither are we interested in musical lessons on counting, going potty, and naps.

Later this month, the 5th Avenue Theater opens what they're calling a 50th-anniversary production of West Side Story, recreating the original Jerome Robbins choreography. This isn't a touring show starring some washed-up 70s sitcom star--the 5th Avenue is using local talent. Hoorah!

Neighborhood-centric blog aggregator Outside.in released its list of "America's Top 10 Bloggiest Neighborhoods". Seattle, tech-centric 2.0tropolis that it is, must've cracked the top 10 with at least one neighborhood (cough Capitol Hill cough cough), right?

Yesterday we wrote that the Huskies would beat #10 Wazzu, and we were wrong. Don't be that surprised, it happens a lot.

THEATER: You have only five more chances to catch WET’s latest offering, In Disdress Now: Redux. Marya Sea Kaminski’s one-woman show was originally developed as as part of On the Boards' Northwest New Works Festival in June 2006. Now the “story of a girl wrestling meaning out of love, porn, and the folds of an enormous red hoop dress” has been expanded into a full-fledged tour de force.

Yesterday some guys from SFist emailed about a bet of some kind they wanted to make. When the Seahawks beat the 'Niners on Thursday night we'd get to post some gloating thing on their site. That was the gist of it. Well, it blew up in our faces, in play-by-play form, no less. Here's SFist Christopher Rogers reporting for Seattlest:

We have two words for you: Nyandigisi Moikobu. He's a 6-5 swingman for Sealth, and he is our new favorite basketball player. Here's what he did in just one play last night vs. Ingraham.

The funniest thing Seattlest ever overheard in New York happened when we were going to NYU. We were eating in the dining hall when this musical theater kid came in and sat down next to his musical theater friends:

Carl Rogers, owner of the Old Pequliar, got in touch to give us his take on the events from last week. He writes:

[Former quiz host] Word, who now lives in California, was in town visiting for about a week. For old times sake, he wanted to host trivia. Sounded like fun- or so I thought. Many people came to see Word- he was a very popular host at the o.p. Trivia rivalry being what it can be, and Word being; 1. stupid, and 2. really drunk, he and [the most recent host] butted heads from the onset. Word grew progressively more drunk as I am sure [recent host] and his friends grew progressively frustrated. The evening ended with a discrepancy in who the winners were. Instead of trying to recount or be reasonable about it, Word shut them down and told them the contest was over. To add insult to injury, he physically threatened [recent host].

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There's a whole wide world out there, and here's the proof:

Seattlest really hopes you took our advice back in March and bought tickets to Turn of the Screw, the Seattle Opera Young Artists’ Opera, because it is fabulous. We went last Friday and were very impressed. Very frightened and very impressed. (You can get a taste of the music and the staging in the video on this page.)

Long intrigued by those screaming TV ads, we finally attended our first monster truck show two days ago (um, SUNDAY!!!) at the Tacoma Dome.

Sometimes even the most dedicated Seattleite needs a break--so last week we split town and drove to California. Seattle stayed with us for the first few days as a continuous drizzle followed us southward. It felt as though the clouds were hovering over the car. By the time we reached Santa Barbara, the rain was so heavy that it was front-page news, literally. (We'd link to the story, but the Santa Barbara News-Press requires cash money to look at.)

Fans of the "rock'n'roll" genre will presumably enjoy tonight's "Art of Modern Rock" exhibition held in conjunction with the Flatstock poster show series presented by the American Poster Institute. The Seattle Times already scooped Seattlest's team of investigative journalists on the story, but we think the show merits worth mentioning again, in so much as this may turn out to be the only part of the Bumbershoot festival certain members of Seattlest will see this year.

Seattlest loves the Seattle Public Library system. So what if the downtown library can, from certain perspectives, be compared to a smushed cheese grater? We hardly ever make it through the front doors, and we'll tell you why -- in a bit.

A man in Lakewood, WA, was arrested Wednesday for shining a laser at planes entering and leaving Sea-Tac International Airport. The official charge, Unlawful discharge of a laser, sounds like something straight off of Buck Rogers's rap sheet, and Seattlest hopes the next time we are arrested it's on a charge that sounds equally as cool. It is, however, a felony.