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Ten Reasons to Stay at the Ace Hotel

By Kate Kiefer on 7:00 AM on October 29, 2009

My brand new husband and I went to Palm Springs for our honeymoon last week. We stayed at the super fabulous, vintage-themed Ace Hotel. They also have locations in Portland, Seattle and New York City, so next time you plan a vacation, check out the Ace. You’ll love it....  read more

Found in: Blogs, List of the Day

ReSTART Internet Addiction Center Opens in Seattle

By Michael Saba on 7:30 AM on September 10, 2009

ReSTART, the world's first internet-addiction residential treatment program, opened recently in Redmond, Wash. (ironically enough, the neighborhood where Microsoft was founded). The center offers a 45-day, $14,000 rehabilitation course that promises to help addicts ease dependencies on social networking, online video games, texting and a host of other technological time-wasters....  read more

Found in: Culture, News

Sonic Youth Leads Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party

By Jeremy Goldmeier on 1:00 PM on April 30, 2009

Well, we're finally reaching the tail end of music festival lineup announcement season. It's a bittersweet moment, of course.No more wacky message board speculation about who will play Coachella. No more selling spare organs to pay for all of those premium VIP passes. No more "Beastie Boys to headline..." headlines. Sigh... memories....  read more

Found in: Music, News

Seattle's Crocodile club set to re-open March 20

By Rachel Dovey on 1:56 PM on February 13, 2009

In December of 2007, a pair of Seattle up-and-comers named Robin Pecknold and J. Tillman played a set at the city's infamous corner-venue The Crocodile Cafe. It was the last show ever played there. The next day, owner Stephanie Dorgan called her waitstaff and told them she was closing the venue due to financial difficulties....  read more

Found in: Music, News

Seattle, July 30: Apocalypse Wow!

By Michael Saba on 3:32 PM on July 23, 2008

And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder. One of the four beasts was saying: "Come and see." And I saw. And behold, a white horse.As a society, we've become pretty obsessed with the idea of Armageddon. Pick your poison: World War IV, climate change, pandemic disease, zombies, peak oil, meteor, expiration of the Mayan calender cycle...everyone's got a theory on why the end of days is just around the corner. Maybe it's in our nature; the yearning for civilization to grind to a halt and see humanity subdivided into the ultimate "us and thems," the perfect expression...  read more

Found in: Music, News