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Who Is This "Rock Star" They're Talking About?
By Jim Shearer on 04/27/2009
Filed under: HODGEPODGE
While reading this week's Sports Illustrated, an article's ("It's Like You Never Left, Kid") sub-headline caught my attention: Grown Men reduced to tears, a rock star downloading 14-year-old playoff footage on his iPhone, an entire city falling in love all over again: Ken Griffey Jr. is back in Seattle, and, damn, it feels good MORE »
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LISTS: Top 10 Nirvana Moments
By Jim Shearer on 04/08/2009
Filed under: LISTS
Fifteen years ago today, with a suicide note and a shotgun by his side, Kurt Cobain's dead body was found in his Seattle home. A coroner's report suggested that Cobain had taken his life a few days earlier--probably on April 5. At the age of 27 Cobain had musically achieved beyond his wildest dreams (do you think a chain-smoking janitor really thought he'd ever be called the "voice of a generation"?). The Nirvana frontman would have gone on to accomplish more, but how much more, we'll never know. MORE »
SUMMER FESTIVAL UPDATE '08: Aug. 30-Sept. 1
By Jim Shearer on 08/29/2008
Celebrate Labor Day weekend (considered by many to be the final weekend of summer) in Seattle, WA this Saturday and Sunday. Don't know what a "bumbershoot" is? Besides being a yearly music festival, it's also another word you can use for umbrella. Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA August 30-September 1 Beck Death Cab For Cutie Stone Temple Pilots The Offspring T.I. (above: Use your "bumbershoot" however you wish this weekend!) Band of Horses The Black Keys Man Man Neko Case The Walkmen MORE »
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