Bad Monkey Productions' staging of Rebecca Gilman's Blue Surge is an uneven piece of theater: on the one hand, the technical side of the production is weak; on the other, the actors--with little to work with besides a strong script and each other--deliver powerful and moving performances which make the play definitely worth seeing. The play follows Curt (Andy Clawson), a small town vice detective, and his partner Doug (Robert Walker) as they try to......

If P-I blogger Monica Guzman in fact knew this guy was coming before he walked up behind her in her cube at the Post Intelligencer with a video camera, then she's in the wrong line of work. Monica appears to be the new, more female version of Brian Chin at the P-I (i.e., post random shit), but if this is her acting like she's confronting a I'll-get-famous-video-blogging-or-else stalker then there's a place for her in......

The strangest terrorist in the history of sports, television broadcasting, cheerleading, and terrorism is evidently operating out of Seattle. He or she alleges this conspiracy: that sports television producers are biased against sluttily-dressed cheerleaders. And he or she is doing something about it--sending insecticide-laced letters to TV networks and local stations. This is from one of the author's letters, several of which have had a Seattle postmark:For the last 6 years, Ohio State cheerleaders have......

With the sun out, the temperatures high, one can only think of one thing-- what's going on in the World of the -ist's? Bostonist dug deep to uncover Barack Obama's unpaid parking tickets, their Governor's latest ethical lapse, and a plagarizing sports writer. Chicagoist had everything in twos: two views on having the Olympics, losing two members of their Super Bowl team, and two music festivals. DCist put their noses in legal books as......

Spring appears to have, er, sprung, at least temporarily, in most of the Ist-A-Verse, so naturally, we're all feeling pretty good. (Yes, we know that spring doesn't officially start till later this month. Just let us enjoy our weather!) And that makes us that much more eager to share all of the nifty things we're up to... Over at Sampaist, spring has more than sprung: it's sweltering! But, as everyone knows, museums are an......

What was the big news of the last week? Crazy lady astronaut stalker, no contest -- three teams riffed on NASA's PR nightmare for their names. NASA, a.k.a. Need Another Screening Application, took first prize after winning the tiebreaker question, narrowly edging out Isaac Asimazel-tov. NASA won last week, under a different name, so may be shooting for a Hüsker Don't-style domination of Old Pequliar quiz night. Last Ones to Know won third place outright,......

--Former talk show guy Mike Webb was found guilty of insurance fraud today. He's a "former" talk show guy in that he's no longer on the radio, but we understand he still broadcasts privately over the internet. --McDonalds coffee was found to be better than Starbucks by some magazine. Doesn't McDonalds serve Starbucks or are we dreaming that? --KEXP changes out the lightbulbs. How many deejays does it take. --If you like Gawker Stalker......

Seattlest caught Bainbridge Island writer Mary Guterson at Wordstock in Portland in April, and she was so freakin' funny that we immediately bought her book, We Are All Fine Here, a dry, first-person story of Julia, a burned-out married woman who hooks up with her old boyfriend. And because Seattlest is an author-stalker, we couldn't just read the damn thing, we had to call up Guterson and chat. Because it's in first-person you get access......

Our good friends at Bostonist are big fans of DriveTime, a weekly vlog created and hosted by Ravi Jain during his commute to work. Most of the time, he picks up guests in his car and chats with them as he drives along, but for the past month, like everybody else, he's been focused on the World Cup. Now, for the first time ever, Ravi's going to take the show on the road in......

You've heard of Gawker Stalker, right? When someone spots a celeb walking around Manhattan they notify the Gawker website of the identity and location of said star and a bunch of weirdos can track them on a map. Celebrities hate it and stalkers and people who think it's funny to piss of celebrities love it. Well today and tomorrow Seattlest is adapting the stalker game for use here, except in our version there's only one......