(July 09, 2010)
ICE CREAM: Another bold Ben and Jerry concoction:
Key Lime
Pie
(June 20, 2010)
SEATTLE FACTOIDS: The Hippie factor in Seattle
lawn care: Hippie
Powered Lawn Mowers
(June 19, 2010)
ICE CREAM: The miracles of ice cream science strike
again: Boston
Cream Pie
(May 08, 2010)
MOVIE REVIEW: The wurm. The spice. Does it make
any sense? Who cares!? It's David Lynch: Dune
(1984)
(May 08, 2010)
MOVIE REVIEW: That new V television series
is lame beyond belief. Let us instead recall a science-fiction movie that set
up an underappreciated and far superior early '90s TV show: Alien
Nation (1988)
(April 24, 2010)
MOVIE REVIEW: A uniquely low budget take on time
travel: Primer (2004)
(April 24, 2010)
FRENCH DIP: A top tier French Dip has been unearthed
in an unlikely location: Jimmy's
on First
(April 24, 2010)
FRENCH DIP: A no nonsense French Dip of the people
crosses our radar. But maybe our reviewer was too tipsy to know the truth: The
Spectator
(April 24, 2010)
COMMENTARY: Undependent Media does not support
panhandling in any fashion. And we're dissapointed by Seattle's recent lack
of action in supporting that stance: Panhandling
in Seattle
(March 30, 2010)
ICE CREAM: All praise to the Hubby: Chubby
Hubby
(March 27, 2010)
MOVIE REVIEW: If this film is a standard "chick
flick" then I'm glad I don't see many of them. Ghosts
of Girlfriends Past (2009)
(March 27, 2010)
MOVIE REVIEW: Undependent Media continues its quest
to watch the same movies everyone else watches. But why must they all be so
terrible? The
House Bunny (2008)
(March 25, 2010)
MOVIE REVIEW: This film is just all wrong. Sweet
November (2001)
(March 08, 2010)
COMMENTARY: Another Seattle institution is about
to vanish. Undependent Media pays its last respects: Red
Robin Flees the Nest
(March 06, 2010)
MOVIE REVIEW: I think I love Seann William Scott.
Is that so wrong? Role
Models (2008)
(March 06, 2010)
TERIYAKI: Our 25th teriyaki review happened during
rather peculiar cirucumstances: the birth of my daughter. Check it out: Sunny
Teriyaki (Ballard)
(February 20, 2010)
FRENCH DIP: A guest reviewer ventures to Green
Lake for some much needed French dippery: Green
Lake Bar & Grill
(February 20, 2010)
MOVIE REVIEW: Despite its numerous flaws Watchmen
nevertheless moves the superhero genre in a new, exciting direction: Watchmen
(2009)
(February 07, 2010)
MOVIE REVIEW: The kookiest guy in Hollywood, Mel
Gibson nevertheless turns out great movies: Apocalypto
(2006)
(February 07, 2010)
MOVIE REVIEW: Undependent Media finally reviews
one of our all-time favorite movies. And don't laugh because we're serious:
Point Break
(1991)
(February 06, 2010)
COMMENTARY: Undependent Media muses on a popular
misunderstanding of MTV's hit reality series, Jersey Shore: You
Stalked My Life on the Boardwalk
(February 03, 2010)
FRENCH DIP: The Hanley returns with his second
French Dip review: The Sandwich
Tree
(January 23, 2010)
TRAVELOGUE: Muoios East Coast take a journey to
see some New Jersey roadside oddities: New
Jersey Curiosities - Part 01
(January 23, 2010)
TRAVELOGUE: Muoios West Coast take a journey to
see some California roadside oddities: World's
Largest Artichoke!
(January 22, 2010)
MUSIC: One awesome single and lots of less than
stellar other tracks: Gossip
- Music for Men (2009)
(January 09, 2010)
MOVIE REVIEW: A huge influence on one of our favorite
recent movies, The
Wrestler (2008), this 1962 film is also superb: Requiem
for a Heavyweight (1962)
(January 03, 2010)
MOVIE REVIEW: Adam Corolla in one of the best romantic
comedies of the past few years? You bet! The
Hammer (2008)
(December 24, 2009)
MUSIC: This is the best thing Undependent Media
puts out all year. Enjoy! The 12 CDs
of Christmas 2009 - Year in Music Review
(December 15, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: The freaks come out at night: Paranormal
Activity (2007)
(December 13, 2009)
TERIYAKI: It's another Japanese restaurant that
falls flat with the teriyaki: Obasan
(November 29, 2009)
ICE CREAM: It's like the boring cousin of rum raisin:
Pistachio
Pistachio
(November 26, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: The wolf's out of the bag: New
Moon is a clunker. The
Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
(November 24, 2009)
POP CULTURE BOOKMARK: Is beauty in the eye of the
beholder? Who cares!?
MovieFone's Unsexiest Men Alive
(November 14, 2009)
BOXING: Tonight The Pac Man Express hits a road
block: Manny
Pacquiao Vs. Miguel Cotto Preview
(November 07, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Don't tell anyone but... I loved
it! Just Friends
(2005)
(October 27, 2009)
ICE CREAM: After several consecutive duds, Ben
and Jerry redeem themselves: Triple
Caramel Chunk
(October 24, 2009)
PUMPKIN BEER TOUR: The
results are in for this year's extravaganza: The
Pumpkin Beer Tour 2009
(October 16, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: If
you thought I
Am Legend (2007) was bad, its predecessor
was even worse: The
Omega Man (1971)
(October 16, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Silly
science-fiction without the necessary entertainment value: The
Fifth Element (1997)
(September 28, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Bizarre,
entertaining, and surprisingly moving. Yes, I'm talking about a Jean-Claude
Van Damme movie: JCVD
(2008)
(September 27, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: A
clever idea that forgot to have a point: Marie
Antoinette (2006)
(September 19, 2009)
BOXING: Floyd Mayweather, Jr. returns tonight on
his quest to restore order to small guy boxing: Mayweather/Marquez
Preview
(September 17, 2009)
ICE CREAM: As Undependent Media reviews their 20th
Ben and Jerry's flavor we're beginning to think they've run out of good ones:
New
York Super Fudge Chunk
(September 16, 2009)
COMMENTARY: Undependent Media pays its respects
to one of our favorite actors from the '80s and '90s who died this week at age
57: Patrick
Swayze Tribute
(September 16, 2009)
ICE CREAM: These Ben and Jerry's mixed flavors
just aren't working for me: Half
Baked
(September 14, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Charlton
Heston loves to sneer: Soylent
Green (1973)
(September 13, 2009)
PUMPKIN BEER TOUR: The world famous Pumpkin Beer
Tour is returning to Seattle: Pumpking
Beer Tour 2009
(September 07, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Overwritten
melodrama that fails to find a consistent tone: Sunshine
Cleaning (2008)
(September 06, 2009)
SEATTLE FACTOIDS: A taste of Japanese culture in
The Emerald City: Seattle
Japanese Garden at The Arboretum
(August 28, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: It’s
a refreshing change of pace for a genre screaming for a new course: The
Hangover (2009)
(August 27, 2009)
ICE CREAM: It's not to my liking but one thing
is apparent: marshmallows + chocolate ice cream = liquid gold for squishy sugar
devotees. Phish
Food
(August 24, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: It's an ambitious film that stubbornly
takes hold as a moving epic poem you won't soon forget: The
Fountain (2006)
(August 23, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: It's strange, it's interesting, but
it's also self-indulgent and inconsistent: Inglorious
Basterds (2009)
(August 16, 2009)
SEATTLE FACTOIDS: Another parade of individually
decorated plaster creations arrives in Seattle: Penguins
on the March
(August 15, 2009)
TERIYAKI: Undependent Media discovers more unappealing
Lower Queen Anne teriyaki: Sam's
Sushi
(August 13, 2009)
FRENCH DIP: Ryan Hanley, The King of Beef, begins
his search for Seattle's best French Dip sandwich: French
Dip Rankings Overview and Rizzo's
(August 10, 2009)
MUSIC: The musical bar has been set for 2009: Regina
Spektor - Far (2009)
(August 05, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Undependent Media almost always enjoys
awkward science fiction: Night
of the Comet (1984)
(August 03, 2009)
COMMENTARY: Hal Clarke lets loose on half-assed
Seattle attempts at saving the world: Attack
of the 20 Cent Grocery Bags! Part Deux
(August 02, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: A realistic teen romance that just
happens to involve vampires? So be it: Twilight
(2008)
(August 01, 2009)
TERIYAKI: There's a new teriyaki boss in town:
Sunny Teriyaki (Northgate)
(July 31, 2009)
TERIYAKI: We should have ordered the Mongolian
Beef: Teriyaki Wok
(July 29, 2009)
ICE CREAM: The Day of the Monkey has at last arrived:
Chunky
Monkey
(July 29, 2009)
ICE CREAM: Blue eyes crying in the cobbler: Willie
Nelson's Country Peach Cobbler
(July 29, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Everyone else seems to love it but
to me it's one of the worst comedies of the decade: Knocked
Up (2007)
(July 21, 2009)
TERIYAKI: Seattle's best teriyaki? Nope. Seattle's
Best Teriyaki
(July 19, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Borat
(2006) is probably the funniest movie of the decade. Sacha Baron Cohen's
second stab at the big screen, Bruno
(2009) is hardly worthy of any laughs.
(July 18, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Undependent Media is going documentary
crazy. Here is our latest doc analysis: Murderball
(2005)
(July 15, 2009)
ICE CREAM: Undependent
Media continues its mission to work its way through the Ben and Jerry ice cream
library: Mission
to Marzipan
(July 13, 2009)
TRAVELOGUE: The mysterious, the majestic, the miraculous...
Stonehenge
(July 09, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Undependent Media is going documentary
crazy. Here is a great one: The
King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
(June 29, 2009)
MUSIC: Undependent Media pays tribute to the greatest
entertainer of the 20th century: MIchael
Jackson Tribute
(June 26, 2009)
SPORTS: Redemption... look for Muoio in the yellow
flowered shorts in this CNBC clip of Emeritus' health initiatives: Pop
Culture Bookmarks
(June 21, 2009)
SPORTS: Humiliation... thy name is The Beer Mile:
Barnyard Beer Mile 2009
(June 21, 2009)
TERIYAKI: Undependent Media visits some more nickle
and dime meisters on its search for the teriyaki Holy Grail: Toshi's
Teriyaki
(June 20, 2009)
MUSIC: Dagan turns rapper T.I.'s Whatever You
Like into a silly mess. Watch his absurd rendition right here: Dagan
- Whatever You Like
(June 14, 2009)
MUSIC REVIEW: We're clearing the unpublished archives
with some reviews we've been wanting to share for a while: The
Ting Tings - We Started Nothing (2008)
(June 13, 2009)
MUSIC REVIEW: A brilliant album title for a brilliantly
understated album: Yeah
Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (2009)
(May 31, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Undependent Media is going documentary
crazy. Here is our latest doc analysis: Man
on Wire (2008)
(May 31, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Undependent Media is going documentary
crazy. Here is our latest doc analysis: Religulous
(2008)
(May 28, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Undependent Media is going documentary
crazy. Here is our latest doc analysis: Tyson
(2008)
(May 10, 2009)
BOXING: A blow-out on the official score cards,
just not mine: Chad
Dawson D12 Antonio Tarver
(May 06, 2009)
COMMENTARY: Swine flu was a bust. Don't worry:
Undependent Media has found the next world ending pandemic: Pignolia
Flu Pandemic!
(May 03, 2009)
TERIYAKI: Two more exciting entries in our quest
to dominate Seattle's robust teriyaki scene:
Tokyo Garden and Ichi
Roll Wok & Teriyaki
(May 03, 2009)
BOXING: Total domination: Pacquiao
TKO2 Hatton
(April 26, 2009)
MUSIC REVIEW: Maybe one day U2 will stop trying
to be Coldplay because really, they are so much better than that: U2
- No Line on the Horizon (2009)
(April 26, 2009)
MUSIC REVIEW: One good single doesn't equate to
a good album: The
Killers - Day and Age (2008)
(April 25, 2009)
ICE CREAM: Undependent
Media continues its mission to work its way through the Ben and Jerry ice cream
library: Peanut
Butter Cup, Dublin
Mudslide, Dave
Matthews Band Magic Brownies
(April 25, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: I
knew this movie would be entertaining:
Enchanted (2007)
(April 24, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Undependent
Media takes a look at the cult science-fiction cartoon:
Titan A.E.
(2000)
(April 20, 2009)
TERIYAKI: Our strangest teriyaki experience ever
and one that unfortunately left a bad taste in our mouth:
Manna Deli
(April 19, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: "Sweaty
ball topping" is indeed the height of this lame, clichéd, miserably
acted monstrosity.: What
Happens in Vegas (2008)
(April 18, 2009)
COMMENTARY: Hal Clarke is super fed up with people
overusing the word "super" on a daily basis: A
Super Death for a Super Shitty Adjective
(April 15, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: After rediscovering Mickey Rourke
in the best movie of the decade, 2008's The
Wrestler, Undependent Media explores Rourke's dark, '80s side:
9 1/2 Weeks (1986)
(April 15, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Weird movies are our forte, but this
one is just too scattershot:
Little Children (2006)
(April 12, 2009)
TERIYAKI: Fremont gets in on the teriyaki show:
Yak's
(April 11, 2009)
COMMENTARY: Undependent Media expresses their hate
with the current rash of synthesized vocals polluting contemporary pop music:
The
Rise of Synthesized Vocals
(March 30, 2009)
COMMENTARY: The demise of pen and ink newspapers
has caused many to confuse "freedom of the press" with good natural
selection. Case in point: this month's closure of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's
print edition. Our stance: We don't think it's so bad at all: Way
of the Dodo
(March 24, 2009)
ICE CREAM: A Ben and Jerry's mini-masterpiece:
Imagine
Whirled Peace
(March 23, 2009)
ICE CREAM: The worst ice cream I have ever tasted,
a Ben and Jerry's travesty: ONE
Cheesecake Brownie
(March 21, 2009)
COMMENTARY: A zany St. Patrick's Day tradition
that we had never heard of... until this year: Pinch
of the Leprechaun
(March 16, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: A New Jersey superhero born of toxic
waste? Indeed.
The Toxic Avenger (1984)
(March 15, 2009)
TERIYAKI: The best teriyaki in the U-District so
far: Teriyaki 1st
(March 14, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Not much to say on this one:
Dan in Real Life (2007)
(March 10, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Get ready for the absurd Clint Eastwood
caricature machine:
Gran Torino (2008)
(March 10, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Another crummy super hero movie?
You betcha: Spider-Man
3 (2007)
(March 06, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Youthful nostalgia in a pizza with
extra anchovies: Loverboy
(1989)
(March 01, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: A giant cinematic pile of crap:
Zapped! (1982)
(February 27, 2009)
BOWLING: Ten pins. That is all that separated Sunset
Forever from their first bowling championship:
Sunset Forever Week 06
(February 22, 2009)
MUSIC: Undependent Media unleashes its latest in-house
musical collaboration: Pollution of the Right
Hand - How to Save a Life (The Fray Cover)
(February 21, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Another dud Tim Burton "reimagining:"
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
(February 19, 2009)
BOWLING: Bowling is back in Seattle!
Sunset Forever Week 05
(February 17, 2009)
TERIYAKI: Undependent Media travels to Greenwood
for some teriyaki: Oak Tree
Teriyaki
(February 16, 2009)
BOWLING: Bowling is back in Seattle!
Sunset Forever Week 04
(February 15, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: An odd yet cliche romantic comedy
drama hybrid that never quite won us over: Ghost
Town (2008)
(February 12, 2009)
MUSIC: Undependent Media's resident musical enigma,
Dagan pays tribute to the greatest movie of the decade, The Wrestler:
The Wrestler (Bruce Springsteen
Cover)
(February 09, 2009)
TRAVELOGUE: Undependent Media LOVES Roadside Attractions:
Bob's Java Jive
(February 08, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Viewing it for the first time ever
11 years after the fact, the film is still a big winner: As
Good As It Gets (1997)
(February 07, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Torture porn for the masses: Hostel
(2005)
(February 05, 2009)
TERIYAKI: Undependent Media makes its first foray
to Capitol Hill for some teriyaki:
Chopsticks
(February 05, 2009)
BOWLING: Bowling is back in Seattle!
Sunset Forever Week 03
(January 29, 2009)
BOWLING: Bowling is back in Seattle!
Sunset Forever Week 02
(January 23, 2009)
MUSIC REVIEW: A fun if slightly pretentious '80s
style affair: The
Teenagers - Reality Check (2008)
(January 22, 2009)
BOWLING: Bowling is back in Seattle! Sunset
Forever Week 01
(January 18, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: The best movie of the decade: The
Wrestler (2008)
(January 16, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Just because the people making a
movie are having fun doesn’t mean I have to enjoy watching them: Mamma
Mia! (2008)
(January 11, 2009)
MOVIE REVIEW: Undependent Media returns to our
youth with a girls lose their tops movie extravaganza: Gas
Pump Girls (1979)
(January 03, 2009)
COMMENTARY: Uniformity in all its unabashed glory:
The
Collared Black Striped Shirt Club
(December 24, 2008)
COMMENTARY: The city of Seattle has reached a new
low is ass backwards logic: Seattle's
Three Pronged Attack of Ridiculous Stupidity
(December 22, 2008)
MUSIC: Our year-end music review is here! The
12 CDs of Christmas 2008
(December 20, 2008)
SEATTLE FACTOID/COMMENTARY: Snow
in Seattle: Inaction in Action
(December 18, 2008)
MOVIE REVIEW: Iron
Man (2008) is a lesson in casting over concept.
(December 15, 2008)
MOVIE REVIEW: I
Am Legend (2007) is a poor man's Night of the Living Dead.
(December 13, 2008)
BOXING: Screw HBO and Showtime
with their overpriced, absurd, piece of shit boxing pay-per-views. And all hail
the Versus channel for picking up a great match-up that turned into
2008's fight of the year: Adamek
SD12 Cunningham
(December 09, 2008)
MOVIE REVIEW: Train, say your prayers, and take
your vitamins! Bigger,
Stronger, Faster * (2008)
(December 07, 2008)
MUSIC REVIEW: Kelly Clarkson meets Lolita
for the potty mouthed teen set: Katy
Perry - One of the Boys (2008)
(December 06, 2008)
BOXING: Yes, the Pacquaio/De La Hoya fight was
a bad joke. But the punchline certainly was a surprise: Pacquiao
TKO8 De La Hoya
(December 05, 2008)
BOXING: In boxing, sometimes we get great match-ups
while other times we get farcical spectacles. This time it's the latter: David
and Goliath: De La Hoya/Pacquiao Preview
(December 03, 2008)
MOVIE REVIEW: Why are all airplane movies so bland?
At least this one didn't make my eyes bleed: Journey
to the Center of the Earth (2008)
(November 27, 2008)
MUSIC REVIEW: After 17 years of waiting, Undependent
Media is thankful for just one thing this Thanksgiving: Guns N' Roses new album.
Guns
N' Roses - Chinese Democracy (2008)
Updates Archive February 2008 - November 2008