News: October 2009 Archives

Back to the tie though, which Times' columnist Steve Kelley accurately describes as more of a loss. With three straight wins leading into the game, another revved-up record crowd at their backs, and an opponent they'd beaten twice before, the Sounders should have won.

We hate to be the bearers of Monday's bad tidings. That's more Garfield's territory. But this is a something you ought to see.

When they’re not doing that, presumably they’re making out with mirrors or enjoying the smell of their own farts. Hell, even a columnist for The Oregonian did a Top 10 list of why Duck fans suck. (We can only imagine how bad our hubris would have to be for Steve Kelley or Art Thiel to ever turn on us.)

• You can buy your liquor in the mall this holiday season.
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We here at Seattlest know you want to be educated about the issues and people on the ballot in the upcoming election. You want to, but you can’t at the moment. You have to do laundry. Then, you have to check facebook, and then check email, and then check out that link on YouTube with the dancing baby.

Sure, Denver has the boy in the balloon, but we have baby orcas!

Protect Marriage Washington, a PAC aimed primarily at stopping Referendum 71 from passing in the upcoming election, created a slick ad last week that was provocative enough to cause quite a bit of mocking derision from the left side of the internet.

• Torontoist checked out the weird and wonderful sights on their city's newly launched version of Google Street View, including this keeper.

• Continue reading "Weekly Around the -Ists"

The Seattle City Council gave the green light for a new streetcar line.

Mayor Nickels took heavy fire for the City's handling of the storm. It certainly cost him some goodwill, and whoever our next mayor is, he'd better be equipped to respond to winter storms effectively and quickly if he expects his constituents to stay happy.

Seattle mayoral candidates Joe Mallahan and Mike McGinn spent this weekend trading shots both literally and figuratively at a “debate” at the Conor Byrne Pub in Ballard on Saturday night.

The US Conference of Mayors will hold their fall leadership meeting this weekend in downtown Seattle.

A man was assaulted in the U District when he refused to give a group of assailants his pizza.