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Hugs and Kisses #31: Tad the Grunge Personification, the DVD

Friday's Freak Show: The Post's Front Page and the "Water-Cooler" Effect

Seattle Unsuccessfully Poaches NY Cops

Bringing Sexy Back: An Open Call for 2009's EMP Pop Conference

Typical: The Times goes across country for a story in its own backyard

Right on the heels of our article on youth basketball, the Times, in its Sunday magazine, published its own takeout on the subject. While our story keeps the focus on the incredibly interesting local scene, the Times wrote about a kid way out in Seattle who is getting a lot of attention for his tale ... More >>

Battle in Seattle and Virtual JFK Ask Are We, or He, the People?

Two movies ask: Do the masses or the man make the difference in history?

Don't Look Now

The war on terror percolates through Jonathan Raban's topical novel

Parable of the Writer

Octavia E. Butler, science fiction visionary, 1947–2006

Attack of the Killer Kapitalists

Protestors rally to oppose the world trade organization.

Nation

Protestors rally to oppose the world trade organization.

Nation

Protestors rally to oppose the world trade organization.

Hendrix From Heaven

Trimpin Whips Up a Tornado of Guitars

Extreme Costume Ball

A New Protest Movement Hits the Streets in Style

It Takes a Global Village

From Africa to Australia to America, Activists Raise a Ruckus Around the World

Get Me Download!

Reporting the real Philadelphia story

Global Warnings

Documenting Seattle's Festive Resistance

Prague

Documenting Seattle's Festive Resistance

Elven Like Me

Otherkin Come Out of the Closet

Keepers of the Flame

As Moderate Groups Turn Down the Heat, Anarchists Light a New Way for Dissent

Open-and-Shut Cases

While Detainees Languish the Feds Subvert Their Own Secrecy Arguments

Take a Shrill Ride

Cobain, the Friendly Ghost, the Friendliest Ghost You Know

Storm Clouds

FTAA: Big Capital Brings Its Dark Circus to Miami

Clubfooted Nonsense Yowled Through Thick Walls

FTAA: Big Capital Brings Its Dark Circus to Miami

Jay-Z in a Bottle

Table 50, a kinder, gentler bottle-service club; KEXP invades New York

No Future

Kurt Cobain's Final Denial

LEGACY OF DISSOLUTION

Earth dig up a sparkling new album

'The Heart of the Game'

Earth dig up a sparkling new album

The Departed

In a lonely place: Love and loss in hypnotic bike-cop movie

Never More

The death of a hometown antihero: Ann Powers reports from Seattle on the suicide of Kurt Cobain

News Roundup: Chris Brown/Rihanna, Oxford Collapse, Sunny Day Real Estate, Coney Island Rockabilly Festival

--Chris Brown reached a plea deal in court yesterday in his felony assault case. Brown will avoid jail time by receiving probation, doing 180 days of community service in his native Virginia, and attending domestic violence counseling classes. Brown is ordered to stay 50 yards away from Rihanna for ... More >>

'Dance Tracks Presents Pezzner & Brendon Moeller'

--Chris Brown reached a plea deal in court yesterday in his felony assault case. Brown will avoid jail time by receiving probation, doing 180 days of community service in his native Virginia, and attending domestic violence counseling classes. Brown is ordered to stay 50 yards away from Rihanna for ... More >>

'Blackened Music Series'

--Chris Brown reached a plea deal in court yesterday in his felony assault case. Brown will avoid jail time by receiving probation, doing 180 days of community service in his native Virginia, and attending domestic violence counseling classes. Brown is ordered to stay 50 yards away from Rihanna for ... More >>

'Top Chef''s Ashley Collaborating With Alex Guarnaschelli on New Restaurant

Bravo​In an exit interview with the blog Endless Simmer, last night's Top Chef ejectee, Ashley Merriman, passed along this nugget for us to chew on: "I just moved from Seattle to New York. I'm transitioning out of being the executive chef at Branzino in Seattle. For the next couple of months ... More >>

Post Explores Perils of Jaywalking, Finds Citizens Unconvinced

​Today in the Post: Jaywalking! Threat or menace? (Well, WCBS already scooped them on the dangers of holiday shopping, so they had to go with this.) They find New Yorkers continuing to walk against lights even after the recent, gruesome pinning under a bus of jaywalker Lolaa Alrashied. "That ... More >>

There Is A Karp Documentary

What's the hold up on the long-rumored documentary about one of the more underrated and unapologetically gully bands of the 1990s? Documentary filmmaker Bill Badgley needs money. He's been holding benefits all month on the "Portland-to-Seattle corridor," according to the Seattle Weekly. The above ... More >>

The James Beard Awards Semi-Finalists Have Been Announced

Will the spirit of James Beard smile upon New York chefs?​The James Beard Foundation announced its list of semi-finalists for the annual James Beard Awards today, kicking off the food world's very own Oscar season scrum. The semi-finalists were selected from a pool of 21,000 online entries; th ... More >>

Public Art Keeps One-Upping Itself in Weirdness, Blowing Our Minds

​Many of New York's public art spectacles are either temporary (the Gates, the Waterfalls) or permanent and established (the Wall Street Bull, the LOVE sculpture). Chicago, however, takes serious risks with its urban centerpieces. Take their latest offering: a human eyeball (well, not really h ... More >>

Film

​Many of New York's public art spectacles are either temporary (the Gates, the Waterfalls) or permanent and established (the Wall Street Bull, the LOVE sculpture). Chicago, however, takes serious risks with its urban centerpieces. Take their latest offering: a human eyeball (well, not really h ... More >>

Jet Blue Contest Winner Tells All

​ Surely you remember my contest where the best travel essay won a free month on JetBlue. Well, Courtney Sampsell nabbed the prize, and though she never sent me a postcard, she did come home with a lovely new essay about the experiences she enjoyed around the country, and that's good enough ... More >>

Bill Frisell & Vinicius Cantuaria

​ Surely you remember my contest where the best travel essay won a free month on JetBlue. Well, Courtney Sampsell nabbed the prize, and though she never sent me a postcard, she did come home with a lovely new essay about the experiences she enjoyed around the country, and that's good enough ... More >>

James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chef Semifinalists Announced

opentable.comThe product of blood, sweat, and tears​It's almost time for the Oscars. That is, the Oscars of the food world: the James Beard Foundation Awards. Today marked the announcement of the restaurant and chef semifinalists, who were chosen from a record 28,000 online entries. Finalists ... More >>

Hear A New TV On The Radio Track, "Will Do"

​TV on the Radio has debuted a new track on the radio, appropriately enough: Courtesy Seattle's 107.7 The End, please enjoy TVOTR's "Will Do," a remarkably airy, uncluttered, elegant semi-slow jam set to anchor the band's upcoming Nine Types of Light, due out April 12.

Teenage Girl Meets Adult Self, Disappointment Ensues, in We Go Way Back

​TV on the Radio has debuted a new track on the radio, appropriately enough: Courtesy Seattle's 107.7 The End, please enjoy TVOTR's "Will Do," a remarkably airy, uncluttered, elegant semi-slow jam set to anchor the band's upcoming Nine Types of Light, due out April 12.

FOX TROT

Fleet Foxes are feeling kind of blue

New Yorkers Are Kind of Couch Potatoes, Says Survey

This totally counts as exercise.​As residents of a city known for busy people who seem perpetually on the go, we weren't surprised that New York was not ranked the nation's Most Sedentary City by Men's Health. The honor there went to Lexington, Kentucky. That said, we were a little shocked to ... More >>

Soundgarden

This totally counts as exercise.​As residents of a city known for busy people who seem perpetually on the go, we weren't surprised that New York was not ranked the nation's Most Sedentary City by Men's Health. The honor there went to Lexington, Kentucky. That said, we were a little shocked to ... More >>

COSMIC RAYS

Zomby dedicates this show to you

Brad Thomas Parsons, author of Bitters, Discusses the World Beyond Angostura

photo by Ed AndersonA bitters man.​ It used to be that Angostura was the only bitters a bartender needed. Nowadays, it seems like the number of mysterious little brown vials on the bar just keeps multiplying. Brad Thomas Parsons, author of, Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, wi ... More >>

Starbucks Sees Liquidity in Juice Market; Papasito Grill Burned by Noise Complaints

​Starbucks, no longer satisfied with being everywhere, has decided to be everywhere even more. The Seattle-based chain bought Evolution, a high-end juice company, Thursday. Execs plan on opening health and wellness-themed stores.[Washington Post]Papasito Grill and Agave Bar's Upper West Side locat ... More >>

Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories

Nate "Igor" SmithCamille Dodero's Gathering Of The Juggalos retrospective is among the Honorable Mentions. ​The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphn ... More >>