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MUSICAL REVIEW: Tonight Seattlest Matt is checking out what was the longest-running musical review in the history of Broadway, Smokey Joe's Café. A hit-list from the '50s and '60s of songs by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, it opens tonight and runs through June 17th. We can almost hear the K-TEL announcer: Featuring 40 of the greatest songs ever recorded, including such hits as "On Broadway," "Hound Dog," "Jailhouse Rock," "Stand By Me," "Spanish Harlem," "Love Potion #9," and "I’m a Woman."

The book: Pauls Toutonghi's novel Red Weather.

The recent hubbub at Critical Mass (paired with some magnificently asinine comments on Seattlest Matt's post) reminded Seattlest of why we prefer to keep our bikes as far away from roads, cars, and people as possible. But sometimes getting out to actual dirt isn't a reality. This past Monday, after a lazy weekend and looking forward to taking Tuesday off from work, we set out around our neighborhood in the Central District for a little evening "urban" riding--avoiding the roads as much as possible, these urban rides seek out places with interesting architecture and concrete thingamabobs perfectly built for bike shenanigans. We find it a far less expensive mechanism than the red sports car for trying to recapture our youth...