Have you outgrown Adam Sandler, yet long for foul-mouthed, self-effacing, Jewish-themed humor? It would be too Borscht-belt to make a yarmulke and dreidl joke here, but we'll leave to your imagination to suppose we did. Tonight at the Triple Door, Good for the Jews rocks the house. Or shtetl. If that's what a shtetl is. Oy! more ›

How easy it is to poke mean-spirited fun at Silverman Festivals, aka Bite of Seattle. The family-owned commercial enterprise, enabled by the City of Seattle in the guise of a community festival, symbolizes so much of what's wrong with America today: greed, exploitation, overweening appetite and tons of just plain crappy food. A cheap and easy target for the smug and self-satisfied. (For one such potshot, see Cornichon's "Blah of Seattle" post a year ago.) more ›

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Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of "Friday Night Lights" production to New Mexico. more ›

COMEDY: Sarah Silverman is the reason we tell people to see "The Aristocrats" and now the woman has a TV show and a movie of her own, where she gets to say "I like to tell people that when God gives you AIDS (and God does give you AIDS, by the way), make...lemonaids." more ›

Sometimes, we write a trivia round, look at it for a second, and realize that it's way too difficult to actually deploy in a pub full of people who've been drinking. more ›

On the off chance that you simply don't have enough estrogen in your life currently, this evening the UW's Hub will play host to the annual LUNA Fest, a "by women, about women" film festival now in its 5th year. The standout entry will likely be One Weekend A Month, about a single mom who gets enlisted to Iraq thanks to her weekend National Guard gig. All proceeds from the event go to the Breast Cancer fund and local women's organizations. This member of the Seattlest family will be in the house, handing out LUNA bars until they come out your ears. more ›

at the Guild 45th. (It gets our coveted "pretty good" rating.) more ›

This weekend, Seattlest will be representing at a high school basketball game, a chamber music concert, a church in Burien, and Alderwood Babies-R-Us, respectively. For the full 411, see below. more ›

Even though today is Wednesday, as far as we're concerned, yesterday was Hump Day, since that's when submissions were due for The Stranger's first annual amateur porn contest. Public viewing of the, um, entries will be the evening of August 20th at the Northwest Film Forum, with the awards party later that night at Chop Suey. more ›