Results tagged “simpsons”

You Seattle old-timers will remember that KCPQ-13 reception was once very hit-or-miss. Wasn't bothersome in the 80s since the station's schedule was mostly old, bad movies. But in the first years of their Fox affiliation, it could be quite vexing fiddling with your antenna as The Simpsons faded in and out. more ›

We've been trying to keep abreast of the latest strike news via the networks as well as our singular Canadian television channel down here but both the quantity and quality of coverage has been most unsatisfying. So we took matters into our own hands. (Confidential to Metroblogging Vancouver: If you don't provide any sort of contact address, we cannot reach you for guest/expert commentary.) We contacted The Vancouverite because we believe in their attractive tag line --"Hyper-Caffeinated Snarky News & Opinion". More importantly, following The Onion's precedent, we assign greater cultural credentials to sites employing the definite article. Here's what Editor Jackson reported about the strike: more ›

We attended an advance, VIP screening of The Simpsons movie at Cinerama on Friday night (or at least that's what the guy who sold us the ticket for the special price of $45 told us). more ›

Seattle wasn't selected as the Simpsons official hometown (screw you, Springfield, VT), but we've got a Kwik-E-Mart, so there. We've also got a great venue to watch the Simpsons on the big screen, come July 27th. We fully expect the opening night audience at Cinerama to be crazy: lined up around the block, wearing costumes, quoting their favorite lines ("Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!"), clapping and commenting throughout the film. We may not share that degree of enthusiasm (see: our caveats), but we gotta admit that if you're going to see the movie opening weekend, Cinerama's the place to be. more ›

The Simpsons make the transition to the big screen a couple weeks from now (July 27th to be exact) and we have to say that we're not as psyched for the feature film as much as we would have been, say, ten years ago. Now that the show is approaching its (dear god) 19th season, it's just not as good as it used to be. Yeah yeah yeah, that's totally a crotchety old man cop-out and the same could be said about "kids these days" and "their infernal noise," but somewhere along the way, the Simpsons veered from uber-literate scripts with witty storylines that were ironical and satirical, yet still cohesive and emotionally sound to the utter nonsense which can only be derived from a brick of hash, a pound of vicodin, and the Random Plot-o-tron 3000™. The result? Homer becomes Defense Secretary! The Simpsons go to Siberia! Bart gets monkey pox! All of which can be so tiringly hit or miss. more ›

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Oh, that Freddy Quimby. How did people title posts before the Simpsons? more ›

The Comedy of Errors is another Shakespeare play featuring mistaken identities. The Seattle Shakespeare Company's production sets the mistakes in Louisiana, with bananas and pirates and a terrific set with so much overgrowth you think Max is about to make an entrance. There's much singing of ballads and sea shanties, and it feels like the patter was punched up by Simpsons writers. more ›

Poor Alex Ross. No matter that he's a high-minded music critic, no matter that during his esteemed career he's been a columnist for the New York Times and (currently) the New Yorker, no matter that he's an anti-elitist classical music lover...he's still the second-most famous fella to go by those two four-letter names. Yep, the dude who turns up first in Google and Wikipedia is the other Alex Ross, the comic book guy. It's a shame, because music book guy Alex Ross, who was in town this weekend for the EMP Pop Conference and an "iPod lecture" at On the Boards, well deserves to be the preeminent Alex Ross in all of Alex Ross-dom. more ›

The UW has a nuclear reactor. Don't know about you, but that was news to us. There aren't any Simpsons-esque cooling towers rising above the campus, obviously - It seems it's a twee toy nuclear reactor that was built in the late 50s as a part of someone's "See how safely we can fuck with the atom?" campaign. It was even built in a glass building so everyone could see cheap and clean energy being produced on their way to class where they no doubt practiced their duck and cover routines incessantly. more ›

A couple weeks ago, we erroneously reported that button-down genius Bob Newhart would share the Benaroya Hall stage with the Seattle Symphony. Though Newhart is indeed an amateur drummer, we regret to inform there’ll be no such onstage mashup. However, it is true that Bob and Bob alone will perform his standup comedy act at Benaroya -- where in 1999 we attended his last Seattle performance -- Friday night at 8 and Saturday afternoon at 3. more ›

When you hear the name "Dave Edler," you, like us, automatically think, "Oh, of course, the right-handed-hitting third baseman who spent parts of four seasons (1980-83) with the Mariners." more ›

If your Sunday agenda included nothing but complaining about how The Simpsons is past its prime or wondering how Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria was snubbed for yet another award, it's time for a change of plans. This Sunday night, and every Sunday from now on, you should take yourself a quick nap and head out to Rebar for Flammable, Seattle's longest running house music night. more ›

-Seattlest introduces you to the fantastic imagery available at Flickr.com via the Space Needle. more ›

Bart: Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken! more ›