ACROBATS AT THE MALL: We understand that, when the Southcenter mall opened up a couple weeks ago, there were some aerialists and acrobats there to provide some fanfare. Apparently, Pacific Place got all jealous, because they'll be welcoming aerialists, diablo artists and comediennes from Teatro ZinZanni Thursdays through Sundays for the rest of the month. Head to the mall tonight to get a free show! 6 p.m. // Pacific Place // Free MORE CIRCUS STUFF:......

"Ain't That the Truth" photo courtesy of Seattlest Flickr contributor Sprizee It's that time of year folks. The Seattle Weekly has released it's "Best Of" edition and the categories get stranger every year. Check out this years winners for: Best Companion to Have During Your Brazilian, Best Intergenerational Workout Facility, Best Tropical Starches, and Best Place to Feel Ashamed.Blogging Georgetown rejoices that their neighborhood is still not ruined enough by hipsters to have been voted......

We love a good drink special, so imagine our delight when we came across a full-page ad in the Weekly for a big ol' happy hour next Wednesday. Join us for a special Seattle Weekly Happy Hour on June 4, when three dozen bars extend their specials to celebrate the release of our new Seattle Weekly Happy Hour Guide! Come celebrate and pick up a copy of your own! Sure, it's a Weekly-sponsored event......

Not that we need to feed his ego or anything, but John Roderick (of The Long Winters) is a funny dude. Whilst heating up our chicken pot pie from Trader Joe's, we perused a copy of the Weekly someone had left out. Starting from the back, it wasn't long before we saw a goofy cartoon Roderick giving us a great big toothy smile. With his column, entitled, "Exposing the Poker Skills of the Sasquatch! Class......

With 1,967,000 unique visitors in March, the P-I comes in twentieth, in fact, according to the Nielsen ratings of the U.S. online news field. (Oddly, that's a drop of 8% from March last year.) The Seattle Times didn't crack the top 30, so we don't know where they're at. But Village Voice Media, the alien overlords who run the Seattle Weekly, can boast a 12th-place finish, with about 2.8 million visitors to their network. This......

The Seattle Repertory Theatre has just announced its artistic director, David Esb...Esbjornson has decided not to renew his contract. When it expires on June 30, 2009, so will he. Esbjornson joined Seattle Rep in 2005, and we still have trouble with his name."Though we are genuinely disappointed with David's decision, we understand that a complex series of factors informed his thinking." said Marty Taucher, President of the Board of Trustees. "David is well into developing......

The February performance of Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues is commonplace in cities across America. In Seattle, "V-Day" will be celebrated with a performance on February 24th at The Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI). Sponsoring the event is the Seattle Office of The National Council of Jewish Women. To advertise the performance, The Council produced the colorful print you see to the right. The advertisement is running in The Seattle Weekly and JT News,......

Kudos to Maggie Dutton of the Seattle Weekly. Maggie, author of the Weekly's "Search and Distill" column, continues her torrid love affair with beer this past week by discussing the merits of aging certain beers. She hits the bottle right on the cap with her story. Some beers that come to market these days are not quite ready to drink. Sure, you might enjoy these beers just fine, but give them some time to......

The Seattle Weekly's Rick Anderson pointed us to what may be the greatest unintentional comedy festival in Internet history. Following a series of nearly thirty break-ins, Magnolia residents have turned to the internets to catch the burgular, through a series of extremely misguided tips.—We had a young white male with a green hooded sweatshirt knock on our door and ask if we would like to sign up for evironmental action support. He walks with a......

Realizing we’re in the midst of the “R” months, we had a sudden craving for happy hour oysters. But where? Recalling a recent review, we Googled “shucker's happy hour oysters” and quickly jumped on a bus after reading the first result: a June reprint of a 2006 rave in the Seattle Weekly about Shucker's fifty-cent oysters, two-dollar margaritas, and free parmesan crisps. We lost on almost all three accounts. Oysters had doubled to a dollar......

Conventional wisdom says these days ain't happy ones for pulp-and-print publications. Circulation's down. Ad revenues are down. Everyone wants to read online. So nearly every newspaper, magazine and television news program has a host of blogs these days, to compete with the millions of self-described experts, autodidacts, conspiracy theorists and Chuck Norris-aficionados who propagate the blogosphere with their own brand of citizen journalism (read: poor spelling and poorer grammar). Indeed, it's hard to get noticed......

Aw geez. Another noble Seattle name goes into the toilet. Redhook Brewery, the brand launched by Paul Shipman and Gordon Bowker more than 25 years ago, will become part of a corporate entity called Craft Brewers Alliance after it takes over Portland-based Widmer Brothers for a reported $50 million. Names are terribly important, as Bowker would tell you himself, were he not the most modest of men. It was Bowker, a Ballard native, who co-founded......

So Krist Novoselic blogs for the Weekly now. Oooh. Courtney Love doesn’t need any stinking alt-paper to share her anarchic thoughts. She’s got authenticity. She’s got voice. She’s got MySpace. Love’s latest piece, a 3700-word manifesto—titled "oh shit the inspartion fairy sprinkeld her glitter"—speaks volumes about her character. its ironic cos its loose and sick and cool and beuatiful and Linda doesnthave time ever- wich is a shame as its our record mostly tho......

We hear the insults. Bloggers are no-names. We are malcontents. We live in our parents' basements, practicing onanism like Tiger Woods practices putting. Well we have news for you, blogger-haters. Laugh no more, because a man who has the earned respect of many for his political activism and musical genius is joining our growing club. Krist Novoselic has started a blog. This hero of the 1990s, a man who had the courage to throw his......

We failed to notice yesterday, among all the hubub over Councilman Richard McIver's arrest on domestic violence charges, a post from Seattle Weekly political reporter Aimee Curl. McIver remains in jail and has claimed he'll be pleading "not guilty" to the charges. Columnist Robert Jamieson Jr. is taking him to task in today's P-I stating, "For his sake, that stance had better just be a legal formality before coming clean -- or a typo. Otherwise,......

Not even merely Blog Hot. She's actually approaching TV Hot. Check her out in this (unfortunately un-embeddable) video clip from KOMO4. However, while KOMO has decided she's attractive enough for TV, the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild has decided her employment at the P-I is egregious enough to warrant a lawsuit. They say she's a reporter and belongs in the guild's bargaining unit. The P-I maintains that she's some kind of new media person and not......

In December we wrote about local restaurant review site Urbanspoon. We loved it then, we love it now, and we've been loving it in the interim. Since we last chatted with Ethan Lowry, one of the three brains behind the site, Urbanspoon has really fleshed things out and branched out to a bunch of other cities. Are you a food guy or a tech guy? What's your background? I've been eating since I was born,......

Seattle. Portland. Which one's better? You may say: "How can you choose? Each has their good points. It's like asking which religion is better." Guess what, asshole, that Negative Nellie attitude is the reason nobody ever asks for your fucking opinion. Jerk. To the debate! First up, it's a pro-Seattle opinion. Seattle is better than Portland, by Jeremy "The Seatown Samurai" Barker When I tell people that I think Portland's gone down the wrong road......

So we've developed this routine of biking over to Cafe Presse on Sunday afternoons to read our New Yorker; there's coffee-and-a-croissant involved, usually a soccer game on, and then maybe an afternoon Stella starts to sound good. On a good day, three hours go by like that and we emerge happily over-caffeinated and edified -- or slightly wobbly and rooting for Manchester United. Enter the Seattle Times to ruin everything with a glowing review. (The......

Last week Seattlest whined about the pending doom of the Rainier Cold Storage Stock House in Georgetown, a building that is a Seattle Historic Landmark. "'Historic Landmark' might as well be a death sentence in Seattle," we said, meaning that any building so labeled in Seattle would be quickly demolished (although later in the week the Seattle Weekly would have a different take on the phrase in an article about Peter Steinbrueck and his recent......

The Seattle Weekly pulled feature writer Huan Hsu off the bashing-local-charities beat this week, and instead had him profile the coach of a high school girls tennis team. A coach who is now fired. Why? Well, let's take a look at the fourth word of Hsu' story: "Sexy." Hsu leads with the salacious details of a "sensual" poem coach Aaron Silverberg read to his Ballard High charges.Drinking you in. Melting you under my tongue. Touching......

You probably don't read ex-Seattle Weekly reporter Philip Dawdy's blog Furious Seasons. That's ok. That's why we're here: to read every blog in existence and let you know when something interesting happens (which turns out to be rarely). Philip writes about clinical depression and the little cottage industry of humongous corporations that have grown up around that illness. It's a well-written and well-researched blog by a guy who's been working that beat for several years,......

Saturday we ran into Philip Dawdy sitting in front of Liberty. We were all blah blah affordable housing, blah blah CHHIP, but Dawdy was unimpressed. "What is that, 40 units?" he asked. "Why aren't you talking about what's happening with the Alaska Building?" Alaska Building? We looked up Dawdy's 2005 Seattle Weekly story:The mayor pointed due west of his City Hall office to the city-owned Alaska and Loman buildings. The Alaska Building currently houses some......

One of the weirder blog posts about the Seattle Weekly "expose" of Real Change is over at Crosscut, courtesy of ex-Weeklyite Chuck Taylor. (We'd point you to the Metblogs recap but it's fatally flawed, in that it's missing one of the seminal posts on the subject, namely ours. So no can do. But here's Real Change's take on the kerfluffle-thus-far.) Taylor's post is titled: "You don't have street cred if you can't do the......

The Seattle Weekly was criticized on various blogs last week for their story on the inner-workings of Seattle's homeless newspaper Real Change. Today on their blog they've started running letters that they received in response to that story. Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 6:00 PM To: sw letters Subject: Grandmother from Ballard says you suck Dear Weekly, I've read you for years and the article on dissing Real Change is the worst reporting ever. Whats......

Since we liked Part I, we've locked like a laser onto Part II of Beethoven & Friends. This time it's personal. To get under the skin of Beethovenian myth, Byron Schenkman is going to play some music by Beethoven's influences and teachers (Bach, Haydn, Mozart), while kicking out the jams on the Senenade in D, Op. 41, and Variations on an Austrian Air, Op.105, No.3. Frankly, it's also just a good chance to hear......

Real Change executive director Tim Harris says on his blog that the Seattle Weekly wants to exposé his street newspaper back to the Gutenberg age. In Harris' post, entitled "Seattle Weekly: What the Fuck?," he gives the history of his contact with reporter Huan Hua, and relates what he says he heard from a Hua interview subject, former Real Change employee Israel Bayer:From the questions he was asking, Huan's angle wasn't hard to suss......

The Seattle Weekly government in exile launched its website today and has promised to continue posting to it until the people rise up and give them their paper back. Anyone pining for the city's other weekly and its lovable cast of characters circa the Bronze Age through about a year ago should head over to Crosscut immediately. We'll see you back here when you've had your fill. :::Seattlest fumbles with getting our new cell phone......

We don't really have to look any farther afield than the Stranger to get more than our fill of Seattle Weekly bashing in any given week, but right now there's an article in a Phoenix daily about the New Times Media vs. Village Voice Media culture war that jettisoned Weekly longtimers out the Weekly's door (and into something yet to be seen). The gist of the article is that across the country the left-leaning, axe-grinding,......

Oh no they dihn't! For what must be very good reasons, Seattle's graying alt weekly and more-alt-than-thou weekly have a running pissing contest going on -- messy, as you can imagine -- with the Stranger achieving a more regular stream in public. The results tend to appeal to a limited audience, so we thought we'd help out. Here's Paul Constant with the latest Sloggy spray. Dear Seattle Weekly, Why did you put Jaime Hernandez......