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How did everyone fair for Thanksgiving? Hopefully the holiday was divided between comfortable family time spent overeating and relaxed good times with friends overdrinking. I went to Oregon with The Italian to meet his family (nervous stomach and gnashing of the teeth start here). My qualms were quickly put to
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Took Taylor to lunch at Wild Orchid for her birthday this week and did a little Halloween shopping. I am always amazed at how early stores get the jump on holidays. Christmas stuff sold in September. Easter decorations sold in February. Fourth of July in March. It kinda makes it
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Hello, boys and girls, lusty lads and horny hotties, diddlers and donut doers. Depeche Mode has let me down, just not as badly as NIN or Duran Duran let me down. Call it artistic growth, necessary change or refer to musical evolution. I don't care. I am convinced that some of
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Two things First, where is the good looking Carson Daly from 1997? Why has he been replaced with the too tan, too thin buzz-cut hair having, suit-wearing Carson? That's bad. Quit it. I want the T-shirt wearing Carson back. Second, why is everybody freaking out that Kate Moss does nose candy? Yes, I
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Friday, Sept. 23 Arriving fashionably late with Miss Rose, I met Armani suit-wearing Kansas at 21 Commerce's front doors and proceeded to have a fabulous night. 21 Commerce should have chiggity-checked itself before it wriggity-wrecked itself by having a self-confessed beer-tender manning its martini bar in the Skyy Lounge for its two-year
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Say goodbye to summer. I know, I know, but admit it - it's over. Wednesday, Sept. 14 Caught Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at Nuemo's for Ebony and The Italian's birthdays. BRMC's new music is so much mellower than their last two albums. Anyone who went thinking she was going to rock out
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Forget the small talk. Let's jump right in to last week's Weekly Volcano 200th issue party: Saturday, Sept. 10 Holy crap! The Weekly Volcano Party was the bomb. Tommy Carson is such a badass dresser. I loved his zoot suit. Pappi Swarner and Lady S made quite the darling pair. DJ Jomama
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Ramble, Ramble, Ramble. I forgot to refill my ADD meds. Just joking - or am I? There are 150 different beers to try, all singles for under $3, at MSM Deli on Sixth Avenue. Get a killer sammy and drink your beer on the patio in broad daylight. Whoa. Thanks, hot-tippers Joe and
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Has anyone else noticed the clown face kids? The first one I saw I was like, whoa, lay off the Ritalin. After seeing a couple more of these kids in different areas of town, I was like, ohhhh this is bad. One thin pre-teen looking boy was giving attitude to
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Saturday, Aug. 20 Under The Trees is such a cool community art/music event, and it gets better every year. Go Music, PZ and I arrived right as Fear Train Caravan ended, but we caught the full set of James Whiton. The soup kitchen was a huge success, feeding folks and the
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Summer breeze makes me feel disincline I've been kinda sick lately. I haven't been doing much. Summertime sickness is the worst. There's something especially vile about a runny nose and hacking cough in 80-degree weather. Healthy people give you extra space in grocery lines, pulling their children close to their legs like
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Thursday, July 14 GG met me at the Boneyard in time to catch Sea Jayne Trip do a killer version of beloved Afghan Whigs' song "My Curse," originally sung by Scrawl's Marcy Mays in '93, but Tiffany handled the vocals well. I hope there'll be more of that. GG and I
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Friday, July 18 T-town Represent piled in the car and roared off for Olympia at 7:30 p.m. only to be stalled by inching traffic on I-5 South. Why is it easier to sit in traffic if you know that some cars got crushed or that sweaty, rough looking men are working
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Sunday night dinners with my urban family are sensational. It's so chill. Rose made the most incredible spaghetti sauce and Unkie Troy supplied the meat (doesn't he always). Seven of us crowded into the living room to watch "VH1's Least Metal Moments" and howled with laughter. Images of Celine Dion
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Myspace, Myspace, Myspace. Everybody's on Myspace. Besides straight-up porn, I can't think of any other Web site to which you can lose whole hours of your life. There are cool peeps on the site to meet and all. Heck, half the South Sound is on there. Mostly, I like jumping
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Friday, June 3 THIS RAG'S EDITOR and I enjoyed tasty nibbles at SIX OLIVES Friday night. This Sixth Avenue lounge rules due to the complimentary food and drink samples randomly distributed throughout the evening. We sampled a new dessert: raspberry sorbet in a martini glass with vanilla vodka, garnished with
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After spending the weekend feeling like A SINGLE MOM OF ADD TEEN-AGERS, I have a profound respect for the real moms out there. I had no idea how tough it was. My 17-year-old sister Sara Tess flew out for our father's wedding. He left on his honeymoon, so I had
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Thursday, April 21 OVER THE MOON CAFE had some sensational music for Art Walk. TRAVIS HARTNETT (Seattle) played the sweetest stuff. I went for the duck appetizer and the Malbec wine with JONES. After some entertaining banter, we walked up the hill to IDA'S PUB to see to HANDSOME and PROTECTOR
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Thursday, May 19 Lincoln Bowl off East 38th has some of the finest Southern food around. DO IT, his friend, THIS FINE RAG'S EDITOR and I ate big platefuls of ribs, barbecue chicken, and corn bread. The lounge provided one of the strongest vodka 7's I have had in forever. I
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Thursday, April 14 This may go down as the best show of the year for me. I know it's still early, but seriously, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE rocked full tilt for two hours. Worst thing of the show: the cowbell was sampled. No one stands up there playing live. If