Culture Buzz Living in Seattle just got a lot more interesting. In response to vigilante Phoenix Jones, a new breed of super-villain has been born. Seriously. This is actually happening and not a parody of “Watchmen”.
Culture Buzz This is the story of Rodney and Lynse Conradi, newlyweds who managed to find love shortly before Rodney lost his battle with cancer. Rodney proposed on Valentine's Day and they were married two days later. Within a day of their hospital basement marriage, Rodney was sedated. Within a month he was dead.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to throw a whole bunch of money off a building and into the street? So did we.
Culture Buzz “Thanks so much for ruining the fun. Total, complete killjoy!” Yep, that about sums it up. (via Reddit)
Culture Buzz Reporter Meg Coyle for KING 5 in Seattle was reporting on sledding safety on Queen Anne Hill when a very unhappy woman called her out for being a “killjoy”. Seattle residents take their sledding very seriously.
Culture Buzz A KING TV reporter in Seattle gets interrupted while covering a popular street closed for sledding. The news anchor has a good comeback, too.
Culture Buzz The Ltd. Art Gallery in Seattle unveiled its “These are the Droids You're Looking for” show this week. Here are but a few intergalactic pieces you'll see there.
Business Buzz This is horrible. A pregnant protester named Jennifer Fox has miscarried after being pepper sprayed and hit in the stomach by Seattle police officers during a peaceful protest last week.
Celebrity Buzz Considering the hideous crime she's forever associated with, maybe dressing up as a home invader wasn't the best idea. As we say in the hyper-judgmental media, “bad optics.”
Music Buzz In 1992, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder pulled Selene Vigil-Wilk, former lead singer of Seattle grunge band 7 Year Bitch, from the water after she drunkenly slipped off a dock. (via grungebook.tumblr.com)
As a Washingtonian, I can honestly state this is the most interesting thing happening at Safeco this year.
At a New York press conference, Rep. Anthony Weiner admitted to sending a lewd photo to a woman who wasn't his wife, then lying that he was the victim of hackers when the photo became public. Weiner also confessed to exchanging sexual photos and e-mails with 6 other women in recent years, some of whom while he was married. He said he has no intention of resigning from Congress.
Hipmunk made a nifty little guide for what to expect when you walk around various cities in the US. The quip about NYC is pretty accurate.
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Best Week Ever found this amazing photo of a young woman coxswainging like a boss at an indoor rowing event. Now let's help make her internet famous. Use our photo editor to make your own Intense Coxswain photos and drop them in the comments!
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Seattle's Quest Field has always been famous for its “12th man” effect, where crowd noise is so loud that it disrupts communication amongst opposing teams. Last Saturday, the usual deafening roar got cranked to 11.
Six Minutes of people slipping, sliding, and crashing on Seattle's Capitol Hill during the recent snow storm in the Pacific Northwest. Can't say I'd have done much better on that hill.
An epic snowstorm in Seattle turns streets into slides. Watch out for that bus.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/arts/music/29seattle.ht...
The city, known as an incubator for high school musical talent, has been slowly building a jazz scene.
Somebody needed to do it. Cory Calhoun and friends remade the Perfect Strangers intro shot-for-shot, except in Seattle instead of Chicago. I hope this turns into a competition. We clearly need one of these for every U.S. city. Get to work, people.
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Seattle's man says putting together the pieces of his memory has been a frustrating, confusing experience.