Eli Sanders on the Internal Panic at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Assuming Hearst continues with the process of closing down the print edition by mid-March, it's easy to imagine an online-only P-I staffed with as few as 20 people. Or even fewer..."

Brendan Kiley Interviews the Dance Company locust (Among His Questions: Why Do They Insist on Lower-Casing Everything?)
"Choreographer Amy O'Neal is allergic to stuffiness. She grew up in Texas, but when she was 13 and 14, her father, an officer in the air force, was stationed in Ankara, Turkey. O'Neal used to sneak out of the house at night and into Turkish dance clubs..."

Dave Segal on James Blackshaw's Spellbinding Guitar Odysseys
"While you were squandering your adolescence on video games, TV, sports, internet porn, and meaningless hookups, English guitarist/pianist James Blackshaw was busy becoming one of the most accomplished musicians on the instrumental head-music scene..."

Bethany Jean Clement on the Rob Roy in Belltown
"A Rob Roy is a version of a manhattan made with Scotch. Rob Roy (1671—1734), the cocktail's namesake, was an outlaw-hero, the Scottish version of Robin Hood. The Rob Roy is a cocktail bar in Belltown, named after the drink named after the man. The bar used to be called the Viceroy, until the Viceroy boutique hotel chain—with hotels around the world, though none in Seattle—took umbrage and sent Viceroy-the-bar a cease-and-desist letter..."

Lindy West Hands Out a Couple Extra Academy Awards
"I sort of loved the Oscars this year. They were as boring as ever (possibly boringer), but they were also weirder than ever..."

Underage Music Columnist Casey Catherwood Reports from White Center
"Ice-cream shops usually slow down during the frigid season, but this winter, Full Tilt Ice Cream in White Center has kept consistently busy hosting all-ages shows. New local bands play for the sole compensation of free ice cream..."

Jen Graves on Zombies and Modernism at Seattle Opera
"There were empty seats on opening night and regulars twittering that the proceedings were 'creepy' and 'weird,' as if opera itself were not deeply weird..."

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Charles Mudede on Antony and the Johnsons, plus all the usual music columns; David Schmader eats a ton of fish tacos; Dominic Holden on Laurelhurst residents suing their own neighborhood group; Erica C. Barnett on an unlikely opponent to a new affordable housing plan; Jen Graves on the art-world phenomenon William Kentridge, plus a conversation about sculpture at Vermillion last week and Tivon Rice's show at 911 Media Arts Center; reviews of the books I Want to Take You Higher (about Sly and the Family Stone), My Revolutions (a novel by Hari Kunzru), The Customer Is Always Wrong (about retail drudgery), Beat the Reaper ("actively disgusting... nauseating gore"), Lola's Luck (about gypsies), Waltz with Bashir (a graphic-novel version of the movie of the same name), and a bad biography of Neil Diamond; reviews of new albums by local bands Gun Outfit, Police Teeth, and Telekinesis; reviews of the movies Gomorrah, Ballerina, and Two Lovers; Dan Savage on kissing post-blowjob; an I, Anonymous about "the hottest mess in town"; Mistress Matisse on staplers; this week's noteworthy concerts and parties; the lovingly updated movie times; and all the other calendars and columns.