There are lots of fun things to do today; including conversations about food, a book reading, and a poetry slam. more ›

A quietly unassuming movie, intellectually engaging beginnings of theater and more information than you thought was available about the bean that makes our mornings complete; who says nothing happens on Monday? more ›

A Song of Fire and Ice isn’t worth reading because HBO decided to turn it into a series; it was worth turning into a series because of a richly textured and detailed history delivered in a clear, authoritative, authentic voice and rendered in service to engaging characters and compelling plots. more ›

We know it's getting toward the end of the month, but your thinning wallet shouldn't be keeping you at home. Here are three fun events that are happening tonight--and all of them are under $10. more ›

Seattle is a meta-city... We talk about talking, we self-examine, we tell stories about our stories. Which makes tonight’s Town Hall Seattle talk with Eva Gabrielsson the perfect Seattle literary event. more ›

THE NATHAN HALE SOCK HOP: Settled in nicely at the bottom of your dial, pulsing with its irresistible signature of chopped hi-hat sixteenth notes, rabid bass lines, kick drum woofer exercises, and—on Sunday—gospel, is C-89.5 FM, the official radio station of Nathan Hale High School, national dancefloor tastemaker. This year marks four decades of student-run programming, divas-in-training, and the artful manipulation of its round the clock tick-tock heartbeat. To celebrate, C89.5 is taking over Neighbors with performances from Brooklyn Bounce, H-Boogie, Niamh Egan, Lisa Dank, and Melakai. Congratulations, C89.5, here’s to another 40. Saturday 5:30 p.m. // Neighbours // $8.95 (All-ages), VIP section (21 and over) $50 more ›

Happening tonight and tomorrow at Town Hall, a group of writers, graphic designers filmmakers and musicians from both cities will present original and new works on the theme “community/home/location”. The all-star participants include songwriter and pianist Robin Holcomb (Seattle); Cajun music forerunner Zachary Richard (NOLA); Seattle writers Molly Wizenberg, Megan Kelso, Riz Rollins, and Jonathan Evison; NOLA writers James Nolan, Dedra Johnson, and Asia Rainey; Seattle artists Jeff Kleinsmith and Jeffry Mitchell; NOLA artists Ness Higson and Daniela Marx; Seattle filmmaker Ben Kasulke, and NOLA filmmaking ensemble Court 13. more ›

HITCHCOCK DOUBLE FEATURE: As a part of Revenge of All Monsters Attack!, the Grand Illusion will be showing a Hitchcock double feature with the all-time favorite horror films, The Birds and Frenzy tonight. Though many are familiar with The Birds, Frenzy is one of Hitchcock's later films; promising more explicit sex and violence as it details the "Necktie Murderer," who brutally kills and rapes women using--you guessed it-- a necktie. What would Halloween be with a little Hitchcock to get you warmed up? more ›

LISTEN AND LOVE: Noise for the Needy continues into its second evening with 16 bands playing four Ballard venues. As part of this year’s four-day festival, over 80 bands are helping raise money for a variety of charities, including Red Cross Family Relief for King and Kitsap Counties, Roots Youth Shelter, Urban Rest Stop, and others. The place to be tonight is Tractor Tavern for Portland folk/acoustic outfit Horse Feathers, our beloved Tiny Vipers, Friday Mile, and Goldfinch. None of these catch your fancy? Check out the list of other performances. more ›

HOCKEY: After conning their way into a record deal by packing a venue with friends, the members of Hockey left LA for Spokane and got dropped. They wisely fled for Portland where the band recorded and self-produced Mind Chaos. With a European tour coming up and an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon back in October, plan on hearing a lot more about these guys. more ›

GREEN PORNO: Daughter of Ingrid Bergman, former Mrs. Scorsese, ex-Lancome model, and creator of a series of short films about the sex lives of animals, Isabella Rossellini makes an appearance as part of the Seattle Arts & Lectures series. The Blue Velvet songstress even designs her own costumes for the show. more ›

WORLD SERIES GAME 1: It's the defending World Series champs against the reigning payroll champs. We're cheering on Ibañez with the hope that he will someday return to Seattle where we spell his name right. more ›

It ain't easy being Scott McClellan. He's considered a traitor, snitch, and turncoat by the right, while the left decries him for not blowing the whistle sooner—either way, he's not getting many Christmas cards this year. more ›

Every once in a while at a Town Hall reading, we have to pinch ourselves to make sure we're awake. Is this really true? Did over 150 people just pay $5 to hear a lecture on behavioral economics? Obviously it helps to be interviewed on NPR. Or maybe it was the New Yorker story by Elizabeth Kolbert. more ›

His studies show that people clearly make irrational mistakes, thus thwarting the expectations of standard economists and turning them into crabby people with shriveled souls. Yet, because we make them over and over again, we are, as his book title has it, Predictably Irrational. Our irrational behaviors have structural origins, Ariely says, comparing the situation to our eyesight. We may know that a change in color is an optical illusion, but we can't think our way out of seeing the mistake. Same with our regularly-programmed screw-ups. more ›

Towards the very end of last night's People Talking and Singing, as the clock ticked past 10:00 and John Roderick announced he'd play another song and take a few requests from the audience, our butts chimed in: "Hey, this is starting to go on a little long." more ›

True confessions time: We've never set foot in 826 Seattle. We think we might have seen the building once, at night, while driving somewhere else. more ›

NETWORKING: Seattle ContentNext Mixer: "the concept is simple: you come, you meet people, you talk. You do deals, too, of course (and then you tell us about them)." more ›

PUBLIC TALK: Do you get guns? We don't, not really, but Wazzu's own Joan Burbank, professor of English and American Studies, thinks she does. She wrote a book on the subject, and she's going to talk about Gun Culture and American Democracy tonight at Town Hall. more ›

That's one thing we learned from The Moth Story Tour on Sunday night at Town Hall. Actually, we learned that from the brochure, which explained what local voices were going to appear in which cities. Cho in LA, Savage in SEA. more ›

If this were the Marvel Universe, John Gottman would be an X-Man. He's the marriage researcher who can, famously, watch a couple talk to each other for an hour and then predict with 95% accuracy whether or not their marriage is going to last. more ›

The holidays are over (except for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, of course), so authors are starting to make their way to Seattle again, ready to read excerpts and sign autographs so that you'll be tempted to buy their latest title. Here's a cheat sheet for the week in book tours. more ›

Love her, hate her, or wish she'd stop looking down her nose at the people she's writing about, Barbara Ehrenreich knows how lance the zeitgeist and get conversations flowing. She's the oil to Ann Coulter's vinegar. And she's got a new book out: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, in which she pretends to be someone else and searches for a white-collar corporate job. She fails, and damns the white-collar world as one of "economic cruelty." (We hope that wasn't too much of a spoiler.) more ›