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What’s in a Name? For EMP, now MoPOP: Everything

What’s in a Name? For EMP, now MoPOP: Everything

Paul Allen's wild, wide-spanning museum needed a new name

Formerly the EMP Museum, the newly-christened Museum of Pop Culture celebrates its new name

Best Scary Movies to Watch on Halloween

Best Scary Movies to Watch on Halloween

In case the weekend shut-ins among us need a little help rounding off the perfect horror movie marathon. (Watch at your own discretion – we can’t be responsible for any “accidents.”) Listed in no particular order: The FlyYou will never look at Jeff Goldblum the same way again. Night of the Living Dead (1968)The zombie…

Scary or Funny? Baby Thinks Magazines Are Broken iPads

According to whomever made the video, this 1-year-old baby thinks magazines are broken iPads. You could also argue the baby thinks the magazine has scratch’n’sniff capability. Either way, the baby is being greedy.    

X Factor: Team Lomax Delivers, While American Dream Story Line Depresses

X Factor: Team Lomax Delivers, While American Dream Story Line Depresses

Thanks to an unexpected office rivalry, I find myself properly hooked on the X Factor, another Simon Cowell singing contest that has been popular in the UK for years and just crossed the pond this year. In case you don’t watch, but still care: 32 acts (narrowed from thousands) are battling to win a 5…

X Factor Update: Team Lomax Still Cuter

X Factor Update: Team Lomax Still Cuter

Last night’s X Factor episode was bumped to a delayed baseball game (woe!), so we have to wait until tonight to really deliberate over which Seattle contestant is the best. In the meantime, to respond to Brangien Davis’ challenge of my preferred X Factor candidate, I submit new evidence: a video diary of Phillip Lomax,…

Seattle’s Phillip Lomax on the ‘X Factor’

Our staff photographer, Hayley Young, just alerted me to the fact that an adorable Seattleite named Phillip Lomax has made his way to the bootcamp stage of Simon Cowell’s new Idol-esque program called The X Factor. Here’s Lomax keeping it classy in his audition with Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon.” Hayley tells me…

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