March 5, 2009I’ve been in the mood for a really tasty cigar.
February 19, 2009In celebration of our 16th president’s bicentennial birthday last week, I grabbed a fin, pocketed my ID and headed down to Tom’s Smoke Shop on the Ave.
February 6, 2009Sex is enduring.
February 5, 2009With Aprie boutique occupying the space once home to the aptly named Off the Wall novelty and head shop, the Ave is left with just a few smoke shops.
January 29, 20095.0/5.0
January 15, 20093.0/5.0 At a time when Marley & Me dominates box-office earnings and the Jan.
January 8, 20092.0/5.0
December 8, 2008Do-it-yourself stocking stuffers
December 4, 2008The day is calm and so am I.
November 13, 2008It’s a drizzly afternoon in late fall.
October 30, 20084.5/5 stars The Arturo Fuente Gran Reserva Petit Corona Natural (5x38) is medium bodied with a medium-full flavor.
October 23, 2008This Friday, Oct. 24, a film comes to the Metro that addresses a score of important, queer social issues in the arena of a California high school.
October 17, 2008 Primeros Regionales cigars offer high value at a low price.
October 2, 2008On Dec. 8, 2005, Initiative 901 went into effect.
September 25, 2008Dear readers: Kaleidoscope was a single page, splashed with concert dates and poetry readings.
May 22, 2008Things were going slowly at 11 a.m.
May 22, 2008The regulars were at the Pike Place Market last Saturday: fish throwers, street performers and fresh food customers.
May 22, 2008Cassie Wright is at the end of her career as a porn star, and as a grand finale, she’ll break the industry record for consecutive sex acts.
May 15, 2008Seattle band Ernest Bridge has a modest following, including 548 friends on its MySpace music page.
May 15, 2008In 1995, Pixar Animation Studios released Toy Story, the first full-length CGI film ever released.
May 8, 2008When Buckshot and 9th Wonder released The Chemistry in mid-2005, it brought together two parts of the East Coast that were, at the time, in very different worlds of music.
May 8, 2008Audience members watching the premiere of Lease: Seattle’s Own Rock Opera might see some seemingly familiar faces.
May 1, 2008Morgan Spurlock returns to television this spring with the third season of 30 Days, the reality show in which people spend the titled amount of time living someone else’s life.
May 1, 2008Don’t fear death, life’s too short
May 1, 2008Yellow is a movie short with no dialogue, but the seven-minute Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) 2008 selection is no silent film.
April 24, 2008Suspensful thriller is an audience pleaser
April 24, 2008If you’re lucky enough to be able to afford paying $46.55 on back row, third level seats at the Paramount, grab your Husky Card and hurry downtown to the Divine Performing Arts Chinese Spectacular before the tickets sell out.
April 24, 2008Morgan Spurlock journeys the world in search of the terrorist
April 18, 2008On April 22, UW’s Campus Animal Rights Educators (CARE) present “Spoken Word with Jared Paul,” where you’ll have a chance to see a performance by self-professed hip-hop/punk/experimental/spoken word artist Jared Paul.
April 18, 2008 It’s mid-April, and the Quad’s signature pale pink flowers have begun to bloom just in time for the Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival.
April 10, 2008 1988 saw the release of the vividly and creatively shot foreign film by Pedro Almodóvar, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
April 10, 2008Written by Mark Jude Poirier and directed by newcomer Noam Murro, Smart People portrays the struggles of a dysfunctional and emotionally malnourished family as it tries to regain some kind of normalcy years after the death of the wife and mother.
April 4, 2008Hit me – 21 is no bust