Back in 1981, Mike Nichols directed a famous version of Waiting for Godot at the Lincoln Center in NYC, starring Steve Martin and Robin Williams. We recall that at some point in college, we saw an interview with Steve Martin about that production, and Martin said something memorably apt: "We decided to serve the comedy of the play, because the ideas would serve themselves." Steve Martin's intuition was on our minds Saturday, while sitting......

Starring Michael Caine as Clay Bennett Steve Martin as the Seattle SuperSonics and Sonic Fans as Uncle Ted.......

Last night at the Showbox, we were reminded of something Gino Srdjan Yevdjevic said in an interview with us last year: we don't remember the quote entirely, but it was something to the effect of characterizing "world music" as "shit." Not the music or the musicians, per se, but rather the genre, a peculiarly American way of pigeon-holing and marketing foreign music. Gino understood the process only too well: back in the 1980s, he......

So, somehow it escaped our attention until yesterday that in the last issue of Seattle Weekly, Adriana Grant, the editorial assistant, was dispatched to do a hatchet-job on one of our favorite U-District Bars, Kai's Bistro....

If you act quickly -- and we mean QUICKLY -- you may be able to sneak in some free theatre this evening, as part of Live Theatre Week (which we meant to tell you about earlier but forgot and thanks to Metroblogs for reminding us to remind you). What you do is you go to Seattle Performs, and register for a free account. This enables you to see which theaters still have free tickets......

Sunday afternoon, after watching George Mason ensure that we'd lose our NCAA tournament pool for the 17th straight year, we joined some middle-aged ladies, high school kids, elderly couples, and 20-something drama enthusiasts at the Seattle Shakespeare Company's excellent production of Cyrano de Bergerac. If you're a fan of Steve Martin or Janeane Garofalo, you know the basic story--an eloquent, soulful, but straight-up freaky lookin' person finds a smokin' hot but skin-deep avatar to express......