Last night was the first of three where the magical duo of Penn and Teller mystified an all ages audience. When they aren't on the road, their act goes on in Vegas most nights of the week to much larger venue than our humble Paramount Theater. Having been to one of these shows and sitting way back in the cheap seats, the Paramount was an upgrade to the tenth degree. This time we were able to see the tricks up close and enjoy the magic that much more. It's a lot more powerful to see slight of hand from ten feet away when you think you'll be able to figure out how they did it, but are fooled again anyway. more ›

Ashia and Your New Best Friends in 'Our Very Best?' Tonight, 10:30 at the Rendezvous in Belltown. more ›

Franklin vs. Garfield is one of the Seattle sports events that you just shouldn't miss. Here's what we wrote about it for The Stranger in September:

True local hoops fans don't miss this game between two perennial inner-city basketball powerhouses, even at the cost of connubial tranquility. The 2005 game at Garfield fell on Valentine's Day, but happily married Husky basketball coach Lorenzo Romar was there anyway. A win in this game means neighborhood bragging rights for the rest of your life.

Saturday, Tera will give herself a VIP tour at the opening of Aritzia. She will follow this potentially hectic event by introducing a friend to her newest wine obsession - Twisted Cork. Sunday she will trek to Qwest and root for Chicago, uh, eh, oops...Seattle. Yes, root for the Seahawks. Jack's heading to the Showbox proper tonight to see Canadian indie pop band Stars. Sunday, he's hoping to see Rex Grossman slip into old... more ›

David Copperfield may think he can make the word "no" disappear, but it's going to be for a grand jury to decide. more ›

We really hesitate to head out for curry, as it’s a staple in our cooking repertoire – sort of our emergency food. But when we found ourselves at Racha recently, we decided to give the exotic sounding Jungle Curry a try. more ›

Last year, we had the joy of walking around town before the precarious date of 6/6/06 and seeing images of nuclear holocaust strung across every light poll in town (meaning on Capitol Hill). This year, we get the pleasure of anticipating our big 3-0 on a far more auspicious date: 7/7/07. more ›

Starbucks CEO and former Sonics owner Howard Schultz is memorandizing about "the watering down of the Starbucks experience." We'd like to hear what he has to say about the bigoting up of the Seattle experience. more ›

Friday night, our buddy remarked that in NYC these days, you can tell how good a club is by how many people are outside smoking. Saturday night down at the Croc, we reflected that you can probably tell how good a band's going to be by how many body piercings and tattoos you can spot in the crowd. By that measure, we didn't have much to look forward to from Alexi Murdoch. more ›

One thing we love about Coug fans, when their teams are winning they are the cockiest, most trash talkingest group of hombres this side of the Cascades. This year is no different, and with good reason. more ›

The American Institute of Architects asked 1800 Americans to name their favorite buildings in the US. After further refinement and surveying, the AIA compiled a list of the top 150 and released it on Wednesday. more ›

In the future, when Vegas favors your Super Bowl opponent by a touchdown or more, it's best to consider that they're perpetrating some fraud on the betting public or simply don't know what they're talking about only after you've thought long and hard on the possibility that they indeed know exactly what they're talking about. You should, unlike Seattlest -- born and raised in the Windy City -- think long and hard on it before you finish a particularly drinky NFC Championship by seating yourself in front of Southwest.com. In retrospect, no way the Bears are winning that game, and even if they do it's ten below outside -- only the most jingoistic of idiots turns cars over and parties in the streets when it's ten below. There was no Shuffling in Chicago this weekend. It was more of a mad dash from one thermostat to the next. more ›

Or learning that your bitchy-but-incapacitated mother has "woken up" from Alzheimer's? more ›

If you're in the mood for some wide-eyed, Kool-Aid stained boosterism, look no further than this article in today's P-I. It's in response to the New York Times piece announcing a condo-sales slump. The tone is strictly "move along, nothing to see here." more ›

Bill Gates made some interesting comments on Digital Rights Management in front of a group of bloggers today in Seattle. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch and a room full of Mac laptop-wielding leading-blogger types got to chat with Gates on the subject of the approaching Mix Conference in Las Vegas, and one of the questions that was asked concerned the long-term viability of DRM. The Microsoft Zune has gotten a lot of criticism over its implementation of rights management, particularly in the way it "expires" previously free tracks that are transferred from one Zune to another as well as the Zune's departure from Microsoft's previous "Plays For Sure" rights management scheme. more ›

No, not "Say WA." Popular opinion seems to be split, but we firmly believe that "Say WA" was better than "metronatural," just like Carmen Electra is a better actress than Paris Hilton. more ›

If it weren't for our life as an -ist, we're not sure we'd ever leave our apartment. Fortunately, to fully -ist, one must seek out the new, the fresh, and the unknown. Brand new, or just new to us, that's what we're all about this week. more ›

Vegoose 2006 Confirmed Artists: more ›

Face it. There are no good strip clubs in Seattle. more ›

A quick rundown on where our beloved Husky basketball types are now. more ›

It's all about the gin, the vermouth, the garnish, the size of the glass, even the temperature of the ice. The folks who know are here in Seattle. Four luminaries on the dais at the Mayflower Park Hotel: from New York, authors Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown (), local guru Robert Hess (drinkboy.com), and celebrity bartender Ryan Magarian. Two dozen people in the audience for a seminar on martinis. more ›

Hey--so, are the Sonics really going to move? more ›

Both the Associated Press and the Stranger's Erica C. Barnett report that the hydra-headed Sonics' ownership group (tete grande belonging to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz) will meet tomorrow. more ›

The Bill Gates Show in Vegas is wrapping up but if you want to catch up on all the hot Gates action there's the Gates keynote, the Gates/O'Reilly interview and the Gates blogger lunch. At what point does Gates become a bigger brand than Microsoft itself? more ›

A post in Tuesday's DCist mentioned a campaign in the other Washington to adopt a bland song named "Come to Washington" as an official "city anthem." Then, in a follow-up post, DCist nominated nine other, better songs. Readers voted for their favorites and suggested a few more. The current fave seems to be the Magnetic Fields' awesomely evocative "Washington, D.C." more ›

While exiled on the East Coast, we relied on the Internet for Mariner coverage. And we learned something surprising. The local paper that covers the Seattle Mariners best is the Tacoma News Tribune. more ›

The troubles only began for travel agents that cater to the pervert set when Vegas's new ad campaign beat them to the punch on the whole "What happens in Thailand stays in Thailand" thing. Now they have Sen. Karen Fraser and Olympia breathing down their necks in the form of Senate Bill 6731 which seeks to curtail the sex tourism industry (which may or may not actually exist, in our opinion). more ›

The news is as unwelcome as a 7-10 split: the owners of Greenwood's Leilani Lanes have sold to a developer who plans to raze the place and build apartments. more ›

Last night, Alex Rodriguez, Seattle's most-hated former P-I Sports Star of the Year, came to the plate in the 9th inning of the Yankees' must-win game against the Angels. Derek Jeter, the anti A-Rod, had singled to lead off the inning. more ›

Not too long ago, we brought to your attention the fact that select metro buses had started purportedly offering wireless connections. We were fairly pleased to discover that the first leg of our commute, Route 48, was supposedly already online, with the piece-de-resistance of our daily slog, Route 545, slated for next in line. ( We'd still be torn between reading our book, a time-honored bus activity that we actually look forward to, and getting a crapload of email out of the way before we even hit our desk--but at least we'd have that choice to make.) more ›