October 8, 2009
Perched in an office chair amid a bank of computer screens, speakers and mixing boards, UW senior Jack Walsh seems absolutely comfortable.

May 28, 2009
Saturday, May 23 Coming over the crest of The Gorge for the first time is a breathtaking experience, and when combined with the ever-expanding Sasquatch! Music Festival, there was no better place in the world for a music lover to be during Memorial Day weekend.

April 16, 2009
While it can generally be assumed that albums made up of discarded session material are either self-indulgent or full of songs that were purposefully abandoned, Death Cab for Cutie’s five-track EP The Open Door is an exception.  The album is comprised of songs that didn’t make it on their first album, Narrow Stairs, which hit No.

April 9, 2009
I walked inside the Showbox at the Market just in time to hear Bayside rip into their hit single “Duality.” The signs outside advertising the show as sold out weren’t lying, and the crowd I waded through to get a view of the stage served as proof.

April 2, 2009
When Pimp C announces, “Back from the dead!” at the beginning of UGK’s eighth and final record, entitled UGK 4 Life, it’s a spine-tingling moment.

March 12, 2009
Sol Moravia-Rosenberg started rapping when he was in the fifth grade.

March 5, 2009
The brace-faced, plaid-clad crew was out in force at Neumos Feb.

February 26, 2009
3.5/5.0

February 5, 2009
Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino were playing in a completely empty Chop Suey around 6 p.m., testing their instruments for the sound check, when Johnson jumped down from the stage and hollered at “Dan Dog,” the roadie, to take over.

January 29, 2009
4.0/5.0 When Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino met in 2002, they hit it off and began dating.

January 8, 2009
From the sidewalk, 5253 Brooklyn Ave.

July 29, 2008
The annual Capitol Hill Block Party returned this year looking a little more grown up. The blocks around Neumos still undulated with the shoulder-to-shoulder shuffling of thousands of youths, but this year two of the five stages were 21 and older, and the beer garden stretched for nearly one block.

July 22, 2008
The guys from Berkeley put on a catchy and energetic show — or as frontman Chris Chu described it to me, “aural bliss with a twist of lime.” I bought their CD after the concert, contributing some gas money to help pay for the band’s trip home.

May 29, 2008
Though the weather wasn’t always ideal, this year’s Sasquatch! Music Festival was one of the best.

May 29, 2008
The Seattle International Film Festival’s (SIFF) Opening Night Gala drew some big names to McCaw Hall on May 22.

May 22, 2008
A spur-of-the-moment decision by freshman Nick van den Heuvel was seemingly the deciding factor in the UW’s victory in the Seattle hip-hop duo Blue Scholars’ “Fire for the People” competition.

May 15, 2008
As far as hometown shows go — or any show, for that matter — Minus the Bear’s triumphant return to Seattle and The Showbox couldn’t have been any better.

May 8, 2008
Though they’ve been making lots of noise in Reading, England before their European LP release, Pete & the Pirates’ U.S.

May 1, 2008
Washington Weekend showcases student film, dance and drama

May 1, 2008
The political nature of Rising Down, the Roots’ eighth studio album, is visible beyond the music.

April 24, 2008
Though I don’t generally make the connection between great indie music and Canada, there’s definitely something to be said for the combination.

April 22, 2008
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) plans to plant more than 800 trees this year as part of a continuing effort to expand the city’s urban forest.

April 16, 2008
It was time to roll out.

April 11, 2008
Four members of the Husky Snowboard Team plan to travel to the Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort this weekend for the third annual Red Bull Snow Warz competition.

February 28, 2008
One sunny morning I was walking back on Northeast 47th Street from a delicious breakfast on the Ave, when I saw a malicious piece of graffiti scrawled across the side of Beta Theta Pi’s house: “F*** Fratts.” The fantastic spelling gave me a quick laugh at first, but then it sank in — I was just insulted.

February 21, 2008
Imagine climbing five stories up a building without using stairs, swinging through the branches of a tree or scaling a flat brick wall three times your height.

February 21, 2008
Boy, was I ever wrong. When I said a few weeks ago that serious crime in the “north of 45th area” wasn’t as bad as the buzz, a mini crime wave dawned.

February 14, 2008
I live between a giant contradiction, one that shouldn’t be questioned as much as it should be enjoyed.

February 7, 2008
According to the UWPD, we students north of 45th are in pretty good shape when it comes to the dark forces of crime.

January 24, 2008
By choosing the UW, a campus serving more than 40,000 students, you volunteer to become one person in a sea of faces.

January 17, 2008
For those not in the Greek system, last week was initiation week for several frat-ernities and sororities on campus, and some houses haze their members.

January 10, 2008

December 7, 2007
By the time he reached age 12, six of Peter Kithene's siblings and both of his parents had died of undiagnosed diseases without ever receiving medical attention.

November 7, 2007
From the time Randy Byers was introduced to science fiction, he was a fan. As a freshman at the University of Oregon he attended his first sci-fi convention, Norwescon, which he cites as one of his main reasons for moving to Seattle. And that was just the beginning.