Wells Oliver

Recent Actions

• Posted Get Out to Seattlest
  MUSIC: Yeah, we're really not sure about this, it could go either way, but the Crocodile is hosting a Disney cover night, featuring members from Catch, Kane Hodder, Pris, and a bunch of other acts. That's right. Disney covers. If it fails, it should fail in a uniquely horrifying manner. 9pm // Crocodile Cafe // $7 SPEAKING: Come learn about the horrible ways in which you and your children will live and die as John...
• Posted 826 Seattle Turns One to Seattlest
  Seattlest is a big fan of kids. And writing. And learning. And, like, the future. Kids are the future, we are the past, and so it goes. On that note, we are excited about the first ever birthday (or the second? Is birth and age a zero-based concept or what? We're too tired to figure this out presently) of 826 Seattle, the non-profit writing center that helps kids develop their writing skills so that...
• Posted Get Out to Seattlest
  Sports: The Sonics are 6-9, on a two game losing streak, and everybody's fighting. The Orlando Magic are 11-4, have won their last four, feature Dwight Howard, and come from some place very warm! What's not to love? Tip-off is right when the next snowstorm is supposed to hit. Worth risking your life for? Yes! 7:00pm // Key Arena // tickets Books, or something similar: Elliott Bay Books has their monthly open mic night...
• Posted In The Meantime, Nothing Happens to Seattlest
  Seattlest had the pleasure, last night, of attending the opening performance of The Gates Theater's production of Waiting for Godot. In the spirit of the play, indeed in the spirit of all the meaningless diversions with which we fill the hours between birth and death, we waited. Specifically, we waited in line for tickets in what by Seattle standards could surely be described as Old Testament rain, the kind of the rain that causes...
• Posted Revisit Those Dark Halls Of Childhood to Seattlest
  The Hugo House is running an inquiry into that most terrible and divisive of subjects: childhood. On October 13th and 14th, they will feature a host of writers and speakers, all of whom share a few things in common: they write, speak, and they all had childhoods. Seattlest also had a childhood, several of them. In fact, we are in a bit of a childhood renaissance as we speak. We’ve found the adult world to...