Well, now, we're not going to try to put this up at exactly 4:20 because that would be, you know, predictable. Mainstream media are always trying to be funny about pot, writing headlines about plans going up in smoke, or stoners trying to keep to a schedule. Mainstream media have overt allegiances (to advertisers like Big Oil, Big Pharm) and unspoken alliances (to news sources like police and prosecutors) that makes it hard for their......

Although we've passed the point in our life where actually going to Hempfest is no longer the choice we'd make on this steamy summer weekend, it is just the kind of thing we love about Seattle: it's a unique event that doesn't take place anywhere else, at least not on the scale that it does here; it's in support of a cause we believe in wholeheartedly; and it offers great views of the mountains and......

Actually, don't believe most of what you read on Craigslist. The spokesman for the Kitsap County Sheriff is denying he's a great hook-up for this weekend's international stoner holiday after his number was anonymously posted on Craigslist as a source for pot. In the following days, Deputy Scott Wilson received numerous calls on a personal line inquiring about the purchase of marijuana. The ads titled, "re: 420" and "re: Got Weed?" were removed by......

We love starting rumors. While talking to a Redhook rep at the Winter Beer Fest this weekend and trying their small batch German Winter Wheat (pretty good!), he mentioned that they are hoping to open a brewpub in Fremont within the next 18 months. The rep's best comment: "We've conquered the US; now we need to re-conquer Seattle." It's about time they figured out they made a mistake ever leaving in the first place.......

Well, it's been a month, and that can only mean one thing: time for the next free edgy youth culture documentary, care of Scion. Last time around, the topic was blood diamonds in hip hop; this time it's all about nightclubbing in the late '80s NYC queer community. Paris is Burning is all about New York fashion houses, but not the ones you may think you know. African American and Latino gay men and......

We're living in the town that Microsoft Office built, and all in all it's not too shabby. Every once in a while we're struck by something and think, "wow, someone paid upwards of $300 for a graphical representation of a talking paper clip and we used the money to build this..." But generally it's been a pretty good deal for Seattle. Time marches on, though, and what was once the raison d'etre for personal computers......

Local comic journalist (that's a journalist working in the medium of comics, not a journalist covering comics) Peter Bagge made the cover of Reason magazine this month. Bagge is on staff at the magazine and routinely does hilarious/horrifying cartoons about life in Seattle through Libertarian eyes (and if there's a ground zero for material for a Libertarian cartoonist it could very well be Seattle). The cover image is, of course, a self portrait. The Washington......

We got our first link to WalkScore in the email a week ago and the idea of a mapping site that scored the walkability of neighborhoods sounded interesting, but when we tried to visit the site we found that it didn't work in Firefox. Just now a press release from Sightline came in announcing the site and we checked back to see if they got the browser issues worked out. They have. HOWEVER, WalkScore gave......

We were sitting at Uber Tavern this weekend drinking a few beers, and the bartender brings in these awesome looking sandwiches that he and his buddies start chowing down on. He notices us staring (And possibly drooling just a little bit) and he throws us their menu and says, "It's only 3 blocks up the street and the sandwiches are great. Just order now. They close in 20 minutes." The new restaurant is called......

No longer do harried Capitol Hill denizens have to brave the typically non-working escalator to get to Bartell's above the QFC, a block south. A Walgreens is the "Now Open" tenant of the first-floor retail space in the 44-unit apartment complex Broadway Crossing at Broadway and Pine, across the street from Seattle Central Community College. Yes, apartments, not condominiums. Broadway Crossing is a Capitol Hill Housing project, a tax credit-financed property for renters earning from......

Short and sweet: Aqueduct is teh awesome, and omfg, they're playing two record release shows at the Croc this Saturday. Lucky you, Seattlest has two pair of tickets to give away. Winners get their choice of show (all ages at 4pm or 21+ at 9pm), as well as copies of Aqueduct's latest (Or Give Me Death), their previous album (I Sold Gold), and Trying To Never Catch Up care of opening band What Made......

We did an Aqueduct giveaway in February to celebrate singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/pop song guru David Terry's third full-length album. And now we're doing another one to herald his triumphant set of record release shows this Saturday at the Croc. So f-ing what? There's no denying Terry's mature pop sensibilities (try as you might, Pitchfork), and everybody knows Aqueduct is certifiably awesome live, with Terry and friends playing over pre-recorded samples and beats, adding layers of texture......

We'd heard of Paleo before, but didn't know much about him, so we trucked all the way from the Hill to Ballard just to check him live. His MySpace page said the show started at 8, but the bar door was locked when we got there. We really enjoyed our four side dishes at Hatties Hat while we waited for the Tractor to open. Unfortunately, Hatties' spinach casserole and sweet potato fries were the......

If there's one thing singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist David Terry loves, it's a juicy pop hook. On his third Aqueduct full-length, Or Give Me Death [stream the entire album here], along with big drum sounds and ELO synth riffs, he's incorporated mariachi horns, string arrangements, layered vocals, and piano lines, making it his most mature release yet. And yes, we say that knowing full well that the album contains "As You Wish" [mp3], which just so happens......

SUPER BLOW: A bunch of big guys grabbing each other while wearing skin-tight clothes, with ass-slapping and Prince songs. No, it's not Comeback, its the goddamn SuperBowl. Sorry editor Dan, but we're rooting for the Colts. 3pm // Any couch or barstool will do // Free, but if you start drinking at 10am you'll pay the price by halftime ONE-SHOT MONOLOGUE: For Stories from the Atlantic Night Cafe, Mike Daisey creates his monologue an hour......

For serious wine geeks, it's all about the pursuit of perfection. We'll tolerate the bafflement of friends, the disappointment of poor vintages, the torment of indifferent service and the frustration of inferior bottles--because we have faith that now and again, with the clarity of a religious vision, we will experience something Utopian. In a column last week, Slate.com's resident wino Mike Steinberger asks whether a bottle of wine is worth $700. Not just any bottle,......

Steve Jobs just unveiled the new iPhone in his keynote speech at Macworld in San Francisco. If you're a Mac freak you already know this because you've been sucking down the Mac Insider streaming coverage like crack through a straw. If not, would you just lookit this thing? Photo: Endgaget.com It has an accelerometer in it for chrissake. It is a phone, wide-screen iPod, and "internet communicator" all in one. No buttons, all done by......

Living in Seattle, we've become attuned to the winter solstice, as it's the date we can start looking for evidence that the world isn't falling into an ever-increasing black maw. The next few days are critical. If this site is to be believed, we have 3 seconds less daylight today than yesterday. In theory, this process will start to reverse itself. But you know how skeptical we are about "theories" these days. Sunrise was......

How does one sum up the experience that is 26.2 miles of "mixed winter precip"? Pretty. Much. Sucked. The Seattle Marathon course is sadistically hilly in the 6 miles, and the weather, typically foul. That's why roughly twice as many people opt to run the half, and many, many more rational Seattleites skip the event entirely. Even the suckiest marathons have their moments. For example: Mile 14: A spectator holding a pink tagboard, garage sale-style......

Mark Frauenfelder of the awesome site Boing Boing and the awesome magazine Make Magazine (which Seattlest has contributed articles to) will be in town tonight at the awesome Seattle gallery Roq la Rue. "Retrorama!" opens at the gallery this evening and Mark has some paintings in the show. We sent him some email asking about it and his replies are below. Lots of people know you as a Boing Boing contributor and Make Magazine......

Tonight is the monthly meetup organized by entrepreneurial site nPost, whose networking meetings are becoming a bit of a regular occurrence for Seattlest since for the most part, they don't suck. The last meeting we attended took a bit of an odd turn however, as power networkers from BEANonline congregated for their own gathering at the tail end of the NPost event, leveraging social opportunities for minimization of Seattlest amusement potential. Seriously, they represented......

In the Seattle Times this morning there's an article on how Ron Sims' early efforts to raise awareness around global warming, in 1988, made him the laughingstock of the Times editorial page, who accused him of "belching" hyperbolic rhetoric: "The point is," wrote the amused editorialist, "that the sky-is-falling, icecaps-are-melting, oceans-are-rising rhetoric must be tempered by common sense." With little support for the idea from the environmental community and none from council colleagues, the......

Complaining about Starbucks has been a favorite Seattle activity since they blew up on the international scene and became almost synonymous with espresso around the country. Their roasts are too bitter, their drinks are too sweet and fattening, their baristas too mechanical. We'd complain about Microsoft more, but we just don't know enough about software to really care that much. Coffee we know. It's too damn sweet/bitter/milky/ expensive/small-coffee- farmer-unfriendly. There not being a whole lot......

A few weeks ago, Capitol Hill Housing had its Annual Meeting, which may surprise you if, like Seattlest, you were unaware that CCHIP existed at all. The community-based non-profit housing development and management corporation is dedicated to the twin goals of affordable housing and the preservation of neighborhood character. We attended because of a panel discussion they were hosting, featuring four other developers with current Capitol Hill projects. It wasn't a developer love-fest -- the......

Evidently fed up with left-wing bias on current radio home KJR 950, the Sonics are moving their radio broadcast to right-wing talk station KTTH ("The Truth") 770 next season. KTTH is home to right-wing ranters Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Michael Medved and Bill Bennett. One silver lining to the move--Bill O'Reilly, who airs from 6pm-8pm, would frequently be pre-empted during basketball season. As part of the move, the Sonics will eliminate their current simulcast......

The holidays are over (except for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, of course), so authors are starting to make their way to Seattle again, ready to read excerpts and sign autographs so that you'll be tempted to buy their latest title. Here's a cheat sheet for the week in book tours. Monday, January 9 5:30, EB: Timothy Noah, editor of the late Marjorie Williams' The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and......

Seattlest is a SeattlePI.com power user (so you don't have to be) so we get real excited about new website functionality over there. Yesterday the P-I launched something new with the unfortunate "my" prefix (which does immediately let you know exactly what it is, but is tired nonetheless). Ok, you've been a web user for some time now. We're assuming you're pretty savvy or you wouldn't be here and you can probably guess what "My-PI"......

The Seattle-based U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy arrived at the North Pole on Monday as a part of an international scientific mission. The 420' Healy is accompanied by the Swedish icebreaker Oden and together the ships are offically set to conduct sea floor mapping and ice coring exercises, but if you believe that's their only mission than Seattlest needs to clue you into the military significance of the S. Claus Northern Compound. We're just......

The PI published an article yesterday about the rise of large pot growing operations in the state of Washington, particularly Chelan County and there's an identical version in the Seattle Times today. Last summer and fall pot harvests were captured with an estimated street value of $25.6 million in Chelan and Douglas counties. Seattlest doesn't think they're talking about those three plants you trapsed into Discovery Park to stash and then promptly forgot the......

Despite some snow over the weekend local ski conditions are "spring-like" at best and many area lifts remain stationary. Check websites or call before leaving the city if you're counting on chair lifts. Be aware of what the conditions are like in the area before hiking up. Stevens Pass is closed. Snoqualmie is closed, despite 10" since Friday. They did hold Mudstock over the weekend and have a letter to pass holders up here.......