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Weekend Review: Pride, Flipper, and Artopia

Friday: Flipper at The Funhouse/Novoselic at EMP

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SW blogger Krist Novoselic performs with Flipper. Stay tuned for clips from Novoselic's Q&A at EMP, earlier that evening. Photos courtesy of our friend Mackenzie at Randomville.

"What do you feel like talking about tonight?" said EMP curator Jacob McMurray.
"Oh...music," responded the star of the evening, Krist Novoselic.
Given that Novoselic was the bassist for one of the most successful rock bands of all time, his response raised a chuckle from several in the audience. But as we learned throughout the course of the hour-plus interview session, he could have talked about any number of things. As those of you who read his work for Seattle Weekly are aware, Novoselic is a huge proponent of election reform. But you may not know he's also well-versed in other areas such as potato farming, socialism, and fixing old Volkswagens. Read the entire write-up of Novoselic's Q&A at EMP.
-- Brian J. Barr

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Saturday: Artopia in Georgetown

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Now in its second year, Seattle Weekly's Artopia celebrates emerging artists, music, and beer. Click here to read Adriana Grant's report from the festival. Watch a slideshow here. Photos by Laurie Pearman.

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The Saturday Knights, Nectar

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The Saturday Knights

On Friday night, I attended the Saturday Knights' sold out CD release party at Nectar. To get anywhere with a view, I had to break out the riot elbow tricks gleaned from my youth frequenting punk shows at the Reno VFW Hall, because as hard as the unlucky souls trapped outside tried to talk their way into the sold-out show, it was obviously a bad idea to squeeze any more warm bodies into the overstuffed Nectar Lounge. Fortunately, hauling my bulky camera bag actually served me well, because I always had a little bit of extra space in front of me. Of course, dancing with a big bag is awkward (and I'm already an awkward dancer)-- and I spent the first half of the show shooting photos so that I could share images with you lovely people. Meanwhile, all of the Saturday Knights' rabid fans shouted along to every song on "Mingle" (CD release, my ass-- this record's been all over town by now) and jockeying to get closer to the stage.

I had some trouble identifying the "stage guests" Tilson alluded to in my interview with him last week (link to my story)-- but the bass player looked SO familiar, and I'm curious now, so I'll get back to you on that-- except for Trent Moorman on the drums, who'd just played the night before at his own CD release for Head Like A Kite. Obviously, his drum kit couldn't take it, and he smashed one, chucking the shattered fragment into the audience. Tilson concluded the show with an appeal to the crowd to vote for Obama, seconded by Barfly and approved by a cheering crowd of partying pinkos.

If you missed it, that's a shame, but the Saturday Knights ARE playing the Top Pot Donuts 2nd Annual Doughnut Eating Competition (?!?!)
-- Sara Brickner

Sunday: Seattle Pride Parade, Downtown

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Watch a slideshow. Photos by Marcella D. Volpintesta.

With the temperature what it was yesterday afternoon, there would have been mass faintings had the Pride Parade been held on shade-challenged Broadway. I hope the move to Fourth Avenue, with the rally to follow at Seattle Center, is firmly established now, after three years. The parade was a smoothly functioning, high-energy, no-surprises affair: as every year, the best choreography was the tight formations of the Filipino Youth Activities group, clad in black, gold, and pink, and the best costumes came from the Latino contingents, lavish Carnival-inspired headdresses.

The rolling displays were perfectly nice, but there were no breakout extra-effort presentations like last year's fondly remembered "Bears, Bath, and Beyond" float. Other kudos, however, to:
Best Bus: The lion-themed "Gay Pride," decorated with a jungle motif, complete with a dance remix of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
Best Picket Sign: The photo of Bush with the caption "Keeping a queer eye on the stupid guy"
Best Prop: The Gay Fathers Association of Seattle's giant inflatable jack-in-the-box
Best Gimmick: City Council members gliding around on Segways, some accessorized with boas.
-- Gavin Borchert

Sunday: Surfing at Westport

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Not me. Not Westport.

The coldest place in Washington yesterday – and maybe on Earth – was definitely Westport. I took some buddies surfing Sunday and the temperature – both in the air and in the water - was in the low 50s. It was bloody cold. Nevertheless, the conditions were good. The wind behaved itself until later in the afternoon and sets came in about thigh high and clean, perfect for my beginner buddies. Neither one of them had ever really surfed before and both came away addicted. We’re already planning a Baja trip for when we all have lots of money and time off. But for now, we’ll keep going back to Westport. On the way home, the crummy weather broke just outside of Olympia. And there was lightning, a major rarity here. Both of my companions were fast asleep by then and I tried to wake one of them but she made some noise and rolled her head to the other side. So I drove north, feeling the air warm up, watching the lightning, listening to Radiohead, and admiring a sunset the color of mangos, the likes of which I’ve rarely seen outside the tropics. I’m glad summer’s finally here.
-- Jesse Froehling

Weekend: Debauchery

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Friday: Got about the only outdoor table that was to be had on 1st Ave at Belltown Bistro, where I provided my own personal homage to Pride Weekend by drinking a lot of Sangria before catching Pity the Foo's scorching set at the Jewelbox. Saturday saw me walk from Highland Park to Georgetown (never figured it'd be so easy) to volunteer in the Artopia beer garden, followed by a home screening of Adam Carolla's "The Hammer," which has to rank as one of my favorite comedies of the year. Sunday included a day trip to Vashon Island, where the new potatoes at Vashon Hardward Company really are the best and where venerable dive bar Palmer's has been replaced by a red sushi-bistro. The times, they are a changin'.
-- Mike Seely

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    Julian Casablancas, Strange Boys and Rainbow Arabia.at Showbox at the Market, 7 p.m., $22, all ages

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    The Swell Season at the Paramount Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $32, all ages


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  • Last Night: Built to Spill @ The Showbox


    Who: Built to Spill
    Where: Showbox in the Market
    When: Friday, November 20

    Watching Built to Spill last night, I couldn't help but think of what Bill Graham said about The Grateful Dead--they aren't the best at what they do, they're the only one who do what they do.

    For close to two decades, the great Idaho concern has made indie rock as soaring and sprawling and wonky as the Western U.S. territory they call home. They are very much a band from west of Rockies, which also means they have little of the drive to succeed so prevalent among East Coasters. In other words, Built to Spill doesn't really give a shit, which is both awesome and frustrating in the best possible ways.

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  • New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof Bashes Microsoft Bing

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    Don't even ask about the Dalai Lama.
    While several nice things have been written about Microsoft's new Bing search engine, including by his NYT colleague David Pogue, op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof does not agree. In a scathing Friday blog post, Kristof accuses MSFT of tailoring Chinese-language search queries in Bing to censor sensitive topics like the Dalai Lama, Tiananmen Square, and Falun Gong.

    Kristof writes that Microsoft's explanation, a software bug, "insults my intelligence and yours." He continues, "My hunch is that Microsoft simply has decided at a top level that it will compromise what principles it must to ingratiate itself with China." And further, "Now Microsoft is sacrificing the integrity of Bing searches so as to cozy up to State Security in Beijing. In effect, it has chosen become part of the Communist Party's propaganda apparatus."

    Got a response to that, Steve Ballmer?

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  • Tonight: Those Darlins with King Khan, Mt. Fuji Records Showcase #2, Nonsequitur

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    Those Darlins
    Those Darlins, King Khan and BBQ Show at Chop Suey, 9 p.m., $12

    A totally bizarre combination of freaky dance rocker King Khan and punk-infused country band Those Darlins. Weeeeird.

    Nonsequitur presents the music of composer John Luther Adams at the Good Shepherd Center, 8 p.m., $5-$15, all ages

    Pianist Cristina Valdes will play Among Red Mountains and Nunataks, while Steven Schick will play The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies.


    Black Whales, the Whore Moans, Virgin Islands (EP release) and Mr. Gnome at the Sunset, 9 p.m., $8

    The second of two Mt. Fuji-centric shows; this one is also a release party for Virgin Islands' (ex-Cops) Age of Anxiety EP.

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  • Comment of the Day: Furious Styles Member Didn't Expect T-Shirt Controversy

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    A reader who calls himself a current member of the band Furious Styles responds to Local Hardcore Band 'Furious Styles' Uses Cop-Killing to Sell T-Shirts. He says the murder of an innocent police officer isn't going to change his group's views on law enforcement.

    "The past day has been a shit-storm for a shirt that wasn't even supposed to reach mainstream society. This shirt wasn't a silly publicity stunt and frankly we're supprised at the ammount of attention it's recieved. We've never wanted or expected mainstream success or attention. This shirt was meant to sell to a select few fans, not to be peddled off onto Seattle's teenagers at Hot-Topic.

    Anyone who knows Furious Styles knows our stance on police and just because an officer is actually killed doesn't mean we're going to change our tune, so to speak. It wasn't a joke then and it's not a joke now.

    Topics: Crime & Punishment
  • Saturday's Set Times and "Itinerary" for Them Crooked Vultures' Seattle Visit

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    7 p.m.: The Paramount doors open.

    8 p.m.: Mini Mansions take the stage in support.

    9:15 to 10:45 p.m.: Them Crooked Vultures (Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, Nirvana's Dave Grohl, and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age) take the stage.

    11:15 p.m.--12:15 a.m.: Jones leads the band in a nostalgic bit of fishing out the window of their suite at The Edgewater Hotel.

    12:15--2 a.m.: The band break into Anthony's, raids the liquor, heats up a pan, and Jones cooks up some Zeppelin-style fish 'n' chips.

    2 a.m. til Exhaustion: Homme and Grohl take their pants off and reenact that damn statue at the Olympic Sculpture Park.

    Sunrise: With the park finally open, the three men enjoy a leisurely stroll past the eraser.


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  • It's Official: Schoolyard Heroes Are Calling It Quits

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    Justin Dylan Renney
    Schoolyard Heroes at Vera Project.
    To close the book on the band after eight years of making music reaching back to core members' high school days, horror rockers Schoolyard Heroes will regroup with their classic lineup -- Ryann Donnelly, Jonah Bergman, Steve Bonnell, Brian Turner -- for December 19's Horrordays at El Corazon. It will be their last show. Kane Hodder will also be reuniting their original lineup for the show, and promptly break up.

    "I'm really glad schoolyard heroes are being put to rest the way it started," vocalist Ryann Donnelly told us yesterday before today's official announcement. "And, honestly, the reason we're calling it a day on Schoolyard isn't because we don't love it."

    Donnelly says the reason it was time to move on was that she and Bergman couldn't see working as Schoolyard without Bonnell and Turner, who exited separately within the last year.

    "It was strange to play shows as Schoolyard Heroes with different people," she says.

    In the announcement on their web site, Schoolyard hinted at the future:

    "Don't freak out! If Schoolyard Heroes has taught you anything over the years, it is that death is always around you... and that from death shall emerge new channels of destruction. Loud, distorted, maybe even operatic channels."

    We'll post more info as we get it.

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  • David Mendoza, Former Owner of Pazzo's Pizza, Weed Smuggler, Gets 14 Years in Prison

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    Definitely under new management
    David R. Mendoza's life in summation: former Garfield High School class president. Owner of the historic Liberty Theater in Bend, Oregon, and the bro-friendly Pazzo's Pizzeria in Eastlake. Apparent friend to the entire B.C. chronic smoking nation.

    As of today, however, you can add sentenced pot smuggler to that list.

    Topics: Crime & Punishment
  • Sighted: A Taco Truck Parks in Pioneer Square

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    My car just automatically followed this truck after spotting it on Jackson Street, followed it to it's Thursday through Saturday parking spot. Tacos El Campesino sets up on Occidental between Yesler and Washington and opens for business at 4:00 p.m., but the honking cars behind me precluded me from getting the closing time and more info. This truck usually produces a better than decent torta (carne asada over carnitas).

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  • Two Very Different Opinions on the Seattle Housing Market

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    To buy or not to buy? That is the question.
    CNNMoney.com reports today that if you're in the market for a lifetime's worth of debt, Seattle is a great place to live. The Emerald City placed second behind only San Francisco in a list of cities most likely to see their home values increase by 2011.

    According to forecasters polled by the cable-news giant, that means a 3.8% jump thanks to our "better than average" job market. A welcome softening of the 15% free fall housing values have taken since the bottom fell out. And a seriously delusional load of crap if you're to believe the lovable cranks over at real-estate blog Seattle Bubble.



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  • Tonight: Julian Casablancas, the Swell Season

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    Julian Casablancas, Strange Boys and Rainbow Arabia.at Showbox at the Market, 7 p.m., $22, all ages

    The Strokes' frontman releases a solo album.

    The Swell Season at the Paramount Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $32, all ages


    Actors who played a couple in a movie get together in real life, start a band and discover the pitfalls of romance in the public eye.


    Topics: Happenings
  • Last Night: Built to Spill @ The Showbox


    Who: Built to Spill
    Where: Showbox in the Market
    When: Friday, November 20

    Watching Built to Spill last night, I couldn't help but think of what Bill Graham said about The Grateful Dead--they aren't the best at what they do, they're the only one who do what they do.

    For close to two decades, the great Idaho concern has made indie rock as soaring and sprawling and wonky as the Western U.S. territory they call home. They are very much a band from west of Rockies, which also means they have little of the drive to succeed so prevalent among East Coasters. In other words, Built to Spill doesn't really give a shit, which is both awesome and frustrating in the best possible ways.

    Topics: Concert Reviews
  • New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof Bashes Microsoft Bing

    microsoft-bing_logo_resize.JPG
    Don't even ask about the Dalai Lama.
    While several nice things have been written about Microsoft's new Bing search engine, including by his NYT colleague David Pogue, op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof does not agree. In a scathing Friday blog post, Kristof accuses MSFT of tailoring Chinese-language search queries in Bing to censor sensitive topics like the Dalai Lama, Tiananmen Square, and Falun Gong.

    Kristof writes that Microsoft's explanation, a software bug, "insults my intelligence and yours." He continues, "My hunch is that Microsoft simply has decided at a top level that it will compromise what principles it must to ingratiate itself with China." And further, "Now Microsoft is sacrificing the integrity of Bing searches so as to cozy up to State Security in Beijing. In effect, it has chosen become part of the Communist Party's propaganda apparatus."

    Got a response to that, Steve Ballmer?

    Topics: Business
  • Tonight: Those Darlins with King Khan, Mt. Fuji Records Showcase #2, Nonsequitur

    thosedarlins6.jpg
    Those Darlins
    Those Darlins, King Khan and BBQ Show at Chop Suey, 9 p.m., $12

    A totally bizarre combination of freaky dance rocker King Khan and punk-infused country band Those Darlins. Weeeeird.

    Nonsequitur presents the music of composer John Luther Adams at the Good Shepherd Center, 8 p.m., $5-$15, all ages

    Pianist Cristina Valdes will play Among Red Mountains and Nunataks, while Steven Schick will play The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies.


    Black Whales, the Whore Moans, Virgin Islands (EP release) and Mr. Gnome at the Sunset, 9 p.m., $8

    The second of two Mt. Fuji-centric shows; this one is also a release party for Virgin Islands' (ex-Cops) Age of Anxiety EP.

    Topics: Happenings
  • Comment of the Day: Furious Styles Member Didn't Expect T-Shirt Controversy

    clueless.jpg
    A reader who calls himself a current member of the band Furious Styles responds to Local Hardcore Band 'Furious Styles' Uses Cop-Killing to Sell T-Shirts. He says the murder of an innocent police officer isn't going to change his group's views on law enforcement.

    "The past day has been a shit-storm for a shirt that wasn't even supposed to reach mainstream society. This shirt wasn't a silly publicity stunt and frankly we're supprised at the ammount of attention it's recieved. We've never wanted or expected mainstream success or attention. This shirt was meant to sell to a select few fans, not to be peddled off onto Seattle's teenagers at Hot-Topic.

    Anyone who knows Furious Styles knows our stance on police and just because an officer is actually killed doesn't mean we're going to change our tune, so to speak. It wasn't a joke then and it's not a joke now.

    Topics: Crime & Punishment
  • Saturday's Set Times and "Itinerary" for Them Crooked Vultures' Seattle Visit

    davejosh.jpg
    7 p.m.: The Paramount doors open.

    8 p.m.: Mini Mansions take the stage in support.

    9:15 to 10:45 p.m.: Them Crooked Vultures (Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, Nirvana's Dave Grohl, and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age) take the stage.

    11:15 p.m.--12:15 a.m.: Jones leads the band in a nostalgic bit of fishing out the window of their suite at The Edgewater Hotel.

    12:15--2 a.m.: The band break into Anthony's, raids the liquor, heats up a pan, and Jones cooks up some Zeppelin-style fish 'n' chips.

    2 a.m. til Exhaustion: Homme and Grohl take their pants off and reenact that damn statue at the Olympic Sculpture Park.

    Sunrise: With the park finally open, the three men enjoy a leisurely stroll past the eraser.


    Topics: News
  • It's Official: Schoolyard Heroes Are Calling It Quits

    noschool.jpg
    Justin Dylan Renney
    Schoolyard Heroes at Vera Project.
    To close the book on the band after eight years of making music reaching back to core members' high school days, horror rockers Schoolyard Heroes will regroup with their classic lineup -- Ryann Donnelly, Jonah Bergman, Steve Bonnell, Brian Turner -- for December 19's Horrordays at El Corazon. It will be their last show. Kane Hodder will also be reuniting their original lineup for the show, and promptly break up.

    "I'm really glad schoolyard heroes are being put to rest the way it started," vocalist Ryann Donnelly told us yesterday before today's official announcement. "And, honestly, the reason we're calling it a day on Schoolyard isn't because we don't love it."

    Donnelly says the reason it was time to move on was that she and Bergman couldn't see working as Schoolyard without Bonnell and Turner, who exited separately within the last year.

    "It was strange to play shows as Schoolyard Heroes with different people," she says.

    In the announcement on their web site, Schoolyard hinted at the future:

    "Don't freak out! If Schoolyard Heroes has taught you anything over the years, it is that death is always around you... and that from death shall emerge new channels of destruction. Loud, distorted, maybe even operatic channels."

    We'll post more info as we get it.

    Topics: News
  • David Mendoza, Former Owner of Pazzo's Pizza, Weed Smuggler, Gets 14 Years in Prison

    Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Pazzo's(1).jpg
    Definitely under new management
    David R. Mendoza's life in summation: former Garfield High School class president. Owner of the historic Liberty Theater in Bend, Oregon, and the bro-friendly Pazzo's Pizzeria in Eastlake. Apparent friend to the entire B.C. chronic smoking nation.

    As of today, however, you can add sentenced pot smuggler to that list.

    Topics: Crime & Punishment
  • Sighted: A Taco Truck Parks in Pioneer Square

    campesino.jpg
    My car just automatically followed this truck after spotting it on Jackson Street, followed it to it's Thursday through Saturday parking spot. Tacos El Campesino sets up on Occidental between Yesler and Washington and opens for business at 4:00 p.m., but the honking cars behind me precluded me from getting the closing time and more info. This truck usually produces a better than decent torta (carne asada over carnitas).

    Topics: Eats report
  • Two Very Different Opinions on the Seattle Housing Market

    houseforsale.jpg
    To buy or not to buy? That is the question.
    CNNMoney.com reports today that if you're in the market for a lifetime's worth of debt, Seattle is a great place to live. The Emerald City placed second behind only San Francisco in a list of cities most likely to see their home values increase by 2011.

    According to forecasters polled by the cable-news giant, that means a 3.8% jump thanks to our "better than average" job market. A welcome softening of the 15% free fall housing values have taken since the bottom fell out. And a seriously delusional load of crap if you're to believe the lovable cranks over at real-estate blog Seattle Bubble.



    Topics: Economy
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