Get your name on the official list for Experience Music Project's 2008 Pop Conference, taking place in our very own Hendrix-drenched, spring-obsessed city from April 10–13. That's next weekend! This year's theme is "Shake, Rattle: Music, Conflict, and Change," and EMP has gathered over 160 writers, speakers and musicians to expound on the many facets of the subject. (The conference is completely, gloriously free.) The many panels we're excited about include Riotous (featuring presentations......

Knowledge: Seattle University is having a Globalization & Justice conference and you're invited. Today's keynote speaker is the very famous, very sharp...Anil Gupta, ladies and gentlemen! Put your hands together for his talk, "G2G – Grassroots to Global: the Knowledge Rights of Creative Communities." Gupta founded the Honey Bee Network, which is good because if the real ones don't bounce back, we may need to turn to them for pollen collection. 5:30pm // Pigott......

We usually stay pretty hog-tied to the folk and roots music world, but a year or so ago, we found ourselves volunteering to cover a show at Neumo's featuring Common Market and The Coup. Hot damn! That was a good show. The Coup is back in town tonight for a set at Nectar in Fremont. Think of a mix between Public Enemy and Prince. Check it: 9 PM // Nectar Lounge // $12......

Prince Howard of Schultz, the man who would be our entertainment king, also wants to feed us frozen yogurt. Yes, the man who brought you Frappuccino wants you to start licking his Pinkberry. The instrument is Maveron, a private investment firm Schultz and Wall Street banker Dan Levitan started ten years ago. (Levitan, then with Schroder Wertheim, had handled the Starbucks IPO.) Maveron, duh, is a mashup of maverick and vision. They've put money into......

Seattlest is obviously rather excited about the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tomorrow night. So excited, in fact, that we thought we'd go to the Google to find out what sorts of happenings are going to, well, happen tomorrow in celebration of the big release. We knew about an event at the University Bookstore and figured something similar would be going down at Elliot Bay Books and maybe one or two local......

Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but about as close as they'll get. They're also still waiting on some inbox relief after a spammer is arrested. As Chicagoist counts down the days to its third anniversary party, they found all-organic pizza to be underwhelming amidst the hoopla, tried......

Yes, we're Folklife enthusiasts. Where else can you get a funnel cake, a hip-hop spitfest, a latin dance party, and a contest for liars, all in one place? We quoted Prince in the headline because we wouldn't be surprised if he showed up at Folklife this year. There is so much shit going on this weekend, and you don't have to drive all the way to the silly Gorge and pay through your nose......

A Poem Collected From Press Materials on the Topic of Mark Strand Being Tonight's Poet in the Seattle Arts & Lectures Series at Intiman Theatre, 7:30pm, Tickets $20/$10 Students and Under 25 “Mark Strand has chosen the negative path, with loss as the first step towards fullness: it is also the opening to a transparent verbal perfection," murmurs Octavio Paz. “I seem to be a tourist on planet Earth,” Strand has said -- born......

Everyone likes to set things on fire, so don’t lie. The good news is that in cooking, pyromania is often sanctioned. There exist a plethora of dishes that necessitate lighting a big alcohol fire, or flambéing. Our personal favorite is Crêpes Suzette. The histories of Crêpes Suzette are at times conflicting, but it is generally accepted that Henri Carpentier made them first. Sometime before the turn of the century (about the same time that the......

Between fake terrorist alerts and scandals big and small, this just might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We're exhausted just thinking about it. First up, SFist, who saw their little 'ole site be the center of what was a nice little scandal (even getting their editor on TV) only to find their scandal dwarfed by the even bigger scandal caused by their Mayor boffing one of his aides' wife. We're not......

SUPER BLOW: A bunch of big guys grabbing each other while wearing skin-tight clothes, with ass-slapping and Prince songs. No, it's not Comeback, its the goddamn SuperBowl. Sorry editor Dan, but we're rooting for the Colts. 3pm // Any couch or barstool will do // Free, but if you start drinking at 10am you'll pay the price by halftime ONE-SHOT MONOLOGUE: For Stories from the Atlantic Night Cafe, Mike Daisey creates his monologue an hour......

As the world holds it's breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning. Austinist was in a musical frame of mind as they listened to the new Shins album, updated the SXSW band listings and got called "punk rock" for their efforts by MTV. And an ice storm swept through the area. Bostonist said goodbye to John Kerry's plans......

Sounds like the title of an aria by Verdi or Bellini, doesn't it? (Imagine an evil basso singing "Nessun mangia!") But, hey, it's just noodles. And noodles can be very tasty, as we know. Still, these are special. So, the background. Alfred, Prince of Windischgrätz, had a distinguished career as a general in the Austro-Hungarian army. At the end of the 18th century, he commanded the Marche region, south of the Po delta on Italy's......

With the Seattle Shakespeare Company's productions, it seems as if they're always hit or miss. Their current season has contained some of each, and the current play, The Winter's Tale, is a mixed bag. In this case, the set design and art direction is plain ol' lovely, while the acting leaves a bit to be desired. As a whole, the play is a rumination on the varied potential of love. The first half concerns......

Tuesday 7th >>> Foreigner at The Paramount. Be warned: whether you're cold as ice or hot-blooded, this is the kind of rock that leads to double-vision. *video: Urgent 8:00pm; $40-$150. The $150 includes a pre-show wine tasting and meet & greet. >>> Bonnie Prince Billy at The Tractor. Will Oldham has been keeping us at arm's length with the "Bonnie Prince Billy" moniker for years. We can pretend it isn't true, but it is.......

Rory Stewart spoke at the University Bookstore on Monday courtesy of the World Affairs Council, which, frankly, we had never heard of before. Rory Stewart is that cool guy who's written two bestselling books, walked 6,000 miles across central Asia, and served as Deputy Governor of two provinces of Iraq under the Coalition Provisional Authority. He's 33. What have you done with your life yet? His most recent book, Prince of the Marshes, is about......

SIFF runs a tight ship. Even though their Face the Music party at Neumo's last night had a bajillion bands on the bill---all of whom were doing ~20 minute sets chockful of covers, as a tribute to musicians featured in films at the festival--- somehow they were actually running ahead of schedule. How often does that happen at a regular rock show, let alone one with eleven musical acts? Somebody must've been cracking the......

Trish Repko is the lead singer of Satin Skirmish. The band's new album drops this fall. What's the latest? Oh, you know, nothing much. Trying to be good. You’ve got a new album coming out. Does it have a name yet? Since my next work is like nothing that has ever come before it, at first I couldn’t imagine using actual words that had actually been used before to describe it. But having walked......

Tonight is a night of hard choices. Sure, it's more on the scale of where to see Snakes on a Plane then how to replace the viaduct, but it's a hard and important decision nonetheless. That decision? Do you attend the ghetto-fabulous debut of Bootylib at the Baltic Room or the 80s fabulous Prince vs. Michael at Rebar? As Seattlest mentioned last week, the Baltic Room has a new Thursday monthly. Entitled Bootylib, emphasis will......

Another week of Seattlest making all your plans for you. You don’t even have to think! Joy! Monday 20th: >>Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's second album sounds like they've started hanging out with the Black Keys. Hallelujiah. With Elefant and The Morning After Girls at the Showbox. 8pm, $17adv/$19 door, (21+) >>Shock Therapy: DJs Deutcher Meister, Lu Ying, Kamikaze at The Bad Juju Lounge Free! Tuesday 21st: >>Fish Scale Tour: Ghostface Killah, M-1, Common Market......

When you hear the name "Dave Edler," you, like us, automatically think, "Oh, of course, the right-handed-hitting third baseman who spent parts of four seasons (1980-83) with the Mariners." But there's more to Dave Edler than his strong jaw (see photo) and his six career home runs. Elder's also a senior pastor at Yakima's Foursquare Church (actual motto: "Making it hard to go to Hell in Yakima, Washington") and, now, the mayor of Yakima. The......

As if you don't know, this weekend was the Northwest Regional Barista Competition, presented by the Specialty Coffee Association of America, and hosted by Hines Public Market Coffee and Stumptown Coffee Roasters. Seattlest was there, live, reporting away like a real reporter, just without the expense account. (Actually we had to leave to go find a hotspot. But we typed part of this post live and it was thrilling. We were standing *that* close......

Sure, sure you're all punk rock and hope that the troops will pull out of Iraq. Well, we say good for you, but you're not nearly as punk rock as Barbra Streisand. That's right--Babs' new song, Stranger in a Strange Land is a lovely anti-war number you might want to check out. Despite the fact that the war in Iraq has not been going to0 well, few mass-appeal musicians have released any actual protest songs,......

Robert Crumb. Prince Valiant. Peanuts. And now Dennis the Menace. What do they have in common? As we noticed in the PI, local publisher Fantagraphics is collecting and reprinting each of these series (or oeuvres, in Crumb's case) in multi-volume complete collections. They'll publish the first volume of Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace in September. They'll publish another 24 volumes over the next 11 years -- that's almost 11,000 strips -- covering Ketcham's run......

Seattlest knows that the U-District has its drawbacks- parking, obnoxious students, bioterror laboratories- uh, scratch that last one... but a pleasant Saturday can easily be found there. Check out the Big Book Sale at the U-Bookstore. Witness the crowds at the Farmer’s Market, now that everything is in season. And if you’re seeking shelter from all that hideous sunlight, the Grand Illusion is screening Rolling Thunder, a William Devane starring revenge flick scripted by Paul......

Those screams of terror you heard last week emanated from the lungs of Mariner fans, who learned that Aaron Sele will likely be the team's fifth starter in 2005. Sele's career engenders the same feelings as Kevin Costner's. One may have enjoyed most Costner movies, but if one was subjected to The Postman, the only possible result is enduring hatred. Likewise, if Sele has been a moderately successful pitcher, he is also the auteur of......