Thank God, we didn't know what we were going to do with ourselves. Now that weather is nicening up a bit (we just made that word up), don't we all just want to sit at home with the shades drawn and get caught up on Grey's!? Uh, yeah, totally. According to a fansite called Grey's Anatomy Insider: The current plan is to shoot four or five new Grey’s Anatomy episodes to complete Season 4.......

Hoo-eee, was Chop Suey's stage packed on Friday night! Promised: Macklemore, Gabriel Teodros, Rajnii, Language Arts, Knowmads, Hella Maze, and DJ Marc Sense. Performed: all of the above, plus XPerience, Khingz, and some group called 2012. Sometimes it can be exhilarating and refreshing to have so many artists jumping on and off stage in one night. In this case, it was confusing and overwhelming, and we hardly know where to start when telling you......

Finally, someone else sees things our way. Like peanut butter and jelly, there has been one natural combination longing to be put together: having a beer and thinking about your favorite insurance company. Thank God Online providers Esurance have stepped up to the plate. Meshing together insurance needs with scenester whoredom, that's right, this year it's the Esurance Capitol Hill Block Party. The Esurance Capitol Hill Block Party is a huge, two-day explosion of......

Providing yet more evidence why you should avoid documentaries with far more than a 35-millimeter pole, the producer of Iraq in Fragments today released a gag-inducing "open letter" to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences calling on them to apologize because someone made a joke he didn't like. The offender? Jerry Seinfeld who, to quote the aggrieved documentarian "poked fun" at documentaries in his introduction of the five nominees for Best Doc., and......

After spending all day yesterday leading up to the Menomena show at the Croc singing the Muppets' menah-menah doo doo da doo doo song in our heads, we were stoked to have a band that sounds exactly like Radiohead buzzing in our ears. Or, as it were, buzzing all over our bodies. (We were standing dangerously close to the speakers.) The evening started with Siberian (the band that sounds like Radiohead and Coldplay combined).......

12:23am What am I doing here? Standing in the cold, with all these people? I swore I'd never do this. Swore I'd never join the crazies, waiting all night for some sale that can't possibly be worth it. But here I am. 12:35am I guess I'll read now. I brought a couple books with me. A novel and my McSweeney's Comics anthology. I bet I'll finish the novel tonight. What else have I got to......

Every once in a while, Seattlest likes to think that we're living a fairly fulfilled life, what with family nearby, friends we care about, and the occasional prank phone call to this one guy who punched us in fourth grade. Thank God that the Rhodes Scholars program exists to remind us that we are basically a small piece of shit swirling around in the toilet bowl of life. They announced the 2007 Rhodes Scholars today,......

Thank God Drums and Tuba seriously rock, or Saturday night could have turned into a disappointing night on Ballard Ave. Opening bands aren't generally supposed to knock your socks off, but it's nice to finish a night out with ear drums intact, or maybe we're just getting old. Drums and Tuba finally came on around midnight and blew the roof off the place. The set started out with Tuba (aka Brian Wolf) blowing into......

Back in 2003, when Art Brut formed, the British music scene was dominated by power pop outfits like The Libertines, who were better as celebrities than musicians. Today, we have similarly over-hyped bands like The Arctic Monkeys and The Subways, who release albums that NME fawns over for six months until the next big thing comes along. Thank God for Art Brut. Their first single "Formed a Band," purportedly written in the first 15 minutes......

Ex-Houston Astros broadcaster Gene Elston is winner of the Ford Frick Broadcasting Award, and, as such, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame this summer. Elston beat out nine other finalists for the award, including the only one who deserves it, Mariner broadcaster Dave Niehaus. Niehaus was also a finalist last year, when he inexplicably lost out to noted malapropist Jerry Coleman. Coleman chose to use language, considered the greatest triumph of the human......