Thursday night, we left our advertising job for the day, drove deep into the Washington Park hood, wolfed down our freighter-sized BLT and bag of salt and vinegar chips in the parking garage, and made our way into the New Gym at The Bush School, which is apparently insanely cool. (Hello? A whole program on diversity? Seniors fundraising so they can attend their second White Privilege Conference?). There we witnessed the brilliance of Jean......

The February performance of Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues is commonplace in cities across America. In Seattle, "V-Day" will be celebrated with a performance on February 24th at The Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI). Sponsoring the event is the Seattle Office of The National Council of Jewish Women. To advertise the performance, The Council produced the colorful print you see to the right. The advertisement is running in The Seattle Weekly and JT News,......

Last year we invoked the name of Cal Worthington as a flimsy excuse to post the amazing "Montgomery Flea Market" ad. Now, we actually have an ad from the master himself. Big ups to Cal for wearing a Mariners jacket (and also for the zebra). There is a definite lack of men on horses leading zebras around in our television advertising today. Worthington, incidentally, is still alive--he turned 87 last month. This terrific profile in......

Redmond native and actual Guitar Hero Carrie Brownstein did some work on the advertising of the game Rock Band. You might have seen these commercials; four rocker-lookin types sit around and cut on each other in the jaded and weary fashion of musicians on the road. That's not her work, thank god. She was on a different team pushing a different concept. Anyway, she's got an article up at Slate today about her experiences with......

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When we sat down to do our endorsements we reached a disturbing conclusion. We cannot, in good conscience, vote for anyone. Position 1 Jean Godden: Wrote for the Seattle Times when it endorsed Bush in 2000. Joe Szwaja: Involved in a 1990 domestic dispute in which his then-girlfriend threw a bottle at him and he threw a plate at her. Position 3 Bruce Harrell: Doesn't spend enough time with his 15-year-old son from a previous......

For everyone that doesn't have an eight, nine or ten-year old daughter or doesn't work at either paper or any of the local television stations or at Key Arena, Hannah Montana is some Disney television thing that toured through Seattle yesterday to a storm of coverage and over-inflated ticket prices. The show's pretext is that this teenager leads a double life: everyday anonymous jerk by day, rock star Hannah Montana by night. It looked like......

This company pissed us off with their graffiti-esque chalk attack advertising recently in Downtown Seattle, but as far as we know not much came of it. Well, an anti guerrilla advertising site was created, but to our knowledge the city of Seattle didn't hold the company responsible for all their visual litter. It's a different story in Bellevue, though. The city to the East is apparently less tolerant of this job site's hyper-aggressive marketing schtick,......

We'd like to take a brief moment to thank this week's advertisers on Seattlest The Next Iron Chef, starting Sunday in its quest to find...the next Iron Chef. The Darjeeling Limited, in theaters now. Busted Tees, where they have some shirts on sale for $9.99! The Heartbreak Kid, which has a special contest for Seattlest readers. You can win a pair of tickets to see the movie and a $200 gift card. If you're interested......

Tuesday night Seattlest won $35 playing pub trivia at the Boxcar Ale House in Magnolia. And we earned every goddamn penny -- it was a brutal slog of an evening. "I'm about to get stabby," said one of our teammates at about 9:50, when it was clear that we weren't getting out of there anytime soon. The quiz was a reasonable 50 questions. And Tuesday's host -- we didn't catch her name -- wrote a......

Yesterday at about six o'clock in Westlake Center square there was a protest going on. Matching shirts, coordinated singing and sign stamping; it was the most together group we've seen demonstrating since...ever, probably. Westlake's mix of teenager hanger outers, office workers and shoppers gave them a wide berth, hanging out on the fringes as if gulping a huge breath of air before darting for the entrance to the mall. Don't look, don't acknowledge, don't--for god's......

There was a time when every urban iPod listener had a choice to make regarding personal speakers. Do you use some pair of headphones from the 80s with the orange foam on them that you found in the spare electronics box in the garage to disguise your identity as an iPod owner? Or do you fly the snowy whites your iPod came with and announce your Apple Cool to everyone on the bus, and......

You may recall that Seattlest recently moved to Rainier Beach. The house we're renting came complete with a mystery: a newspaper box posted next to our mailbox. We haven't subscribed to a newspaper for over a decade but, we know what a newspaper box is for. What we don't know is anything about the newspaper advertising on our delivery receptacle: the Western Sun. Google? Nothing. Wikipedia? Nothing, unless it's an unmentioned alternate name for......

Hey guys, we hate to have to ask you to do this, but if you have a minute or so can you fill out a survey? It would really help us get a handle on who's out there which will in turn help us improve the site. Fourteen multiple choice questions and you're out. And, no, we're not going to sell your information to anyone, but, yes, we may use it to sell advertising on......

We knew Bremerton residents were the step-chilins of the Washington State Ferry System, but now that wireless access for the 55-minute run has been delayed again we're starting to suspect a conspiracy. Bainbridge has been happily browsing away on their 30-minute jog since like the mid-nineties or something, but can Bremerton catch any of that wifi gold? Hell no. At least not until July at the earliest. Of course, the Rich Passage is the......

We got these "Complimentary VIP" tickets in the mail about a million years ago advertising some "wealth creation workshops" at various hotels around Seattle. We finally got around to calling them to see what the hell this was about and the phone answerer acted completely sketchy. We asked where the Income Strategies Institute is located and she said, "I can't answer that. All I can tell you is: somewhere in Utah." WTF!?? We asked......

Seattle will continue to have two daily newspapers, at least for the immediate future. It sounds like both papers were unwilling to leave things entirely in the hands of the arbitrator who was set to deliver a binding verdict on the dispute: They settled with each other and the terms include the Times buying the P-I out of JOA stipulation that the smaller paper would continue to receive revenue in the event that that paper......

The Seattle Weekly government in exile launched its website today and has promised to continue posting to it until the people rise up and give them their paper back. Anyone pining for the city's other weekly and its lovable cast of characters circa the Bronze Age through about a year ago should head over to Crosscut immediately. We'll see you back here when you've had your fill. :::Seattlest fumbles with getting our new cell phone......

BOOKS: Suze Orman, Seattlest's unofficial accountant from television is at the Central Library tonight. Mrs. Seattlest refuses to acknowledge that her name is pronounced "Susy." 12:30pm (whoops, already missed this one // Microsoft Auditorium/Central Library // free MOVIES: Roll your own double feature at the Crest tonight. Blood Diamond and Casino Royale are both there, but don't do that thing where you pay for one show and watch like eight movies. Actually, you'll have to......

We came across two examples of Microsoft's less-successful marketing attempts yesterday. One from the '80s via YouTube: And one from SXSW a few days ago via BoingBoing: In a rare instance of us supporting The Man, Austin P.D. hauls off a guerrilla marketing posterer for Microsoft Zune on 6th St. at SXSW. I am not sure I heard everything clearly, but I think he said: “We’ll have none of your advertising for your DRM’d crippleware’d......

A special report from national advertising correspondent Pauls Toutonghi Many of you were shocked, saddened, bemused, flummoxed, or at least mildly interested by the death of Anna Nicole Smith this afternoon. But an interesting sidebar to the story comes from the world of online advertising. In the world of online advertising, content providers (such as CNN) have paid many millions of dollars to set up intelligent advertising systems, systems that match the pages you're viewing......

A hot tip just arrived in our inbox. It's about a bill that was proposed in the House in Olympia yesterday that would enforce some transparency into ticket prices. There's a bill introduced yesterday in the state House, HB 1978, that would require ticket vendors/promoters/etc. to disclose in their advertizing the full cost of a ticket. Remember when The End was advertising Endfest tickets for $10.77? And then once Ticketbastard levied its convenience charge and......

If you're in the mood for some wide-eyed, Kool-Aid stained boosterism, look no further than this article in today's P-I. It's in response to the New York Times piece announcing a condo-sales slump. The tone is strictly "move along, nothing to see here." It begins: Seattle's market was not to blame for a recent decision to change a planned 34-story downtown building from condominiums to apartments. Rather, the slumping condo markets in cities such......

As a part of its advertising campaign for the company's new Office Accounting Express application, Microsoft is hosting a technology startup company competition reminiscent of TV's Apprentice and World's Best Inventor (or whatever that show was called). Once a winning startup is selected and their market has been proven, Microsoft will release something very similar but uglier, cheaper and with DRM and drive the startup out of business. We kid, Microsoft! It comes from a......

In case local breweries need more cheap advertising, Olympia’s got them covered. Lawmakers recently created a "state-sanctioned commission to better market [Washington-brewed] ales to consumers." Naturally, brewers are loving it. And so should fans of Washington beer. Because not only is the commission going to promote this alcoholic nectar, specific sections of the Revised Code of Washington require that: The commission shall … develop and submit to the director for approval any plans, programs,......

If the P-I is to be believed - and a good six out of ten times they are - we are in the midst of an illegal advertising blitz. The paper has an article today on a particularly grotesque form of urban pollution: unauthorized advertising appearing on the sides of buildings. In previous years the city would hear of maybe two a year, but so far in 2006 the city has received twelve complaints.......

Screw you, Kenmore Air. You fly these things over our duplex every 2.5 minutes en route to Lake Union and you offer that tantalizing tourist flight around Seattle that's just out of Seattlest's financial grasp, and then, if those two weren't enough, you confound us by never ever hacking any boaters to bits when you're on the lake. We've been out there when it's busy and we can attest to the fact that it's difficult......

Update: KIRO wants to know if you like metronatural, don't like it, or don't have an opinion. Since "stupidest slogan we've heard since 'Say WA'" wasn't an option, we chose "don't like it," as did 78% of the people who bothered to weigh in. Also, Adrants a) joins the mockery pile-on, and b) credits the $200,000 campaign to local agency Exclaim. Congratulations, we guess. Original post: Gridskipper is the first blog--though we're sure will......

-Outdoor advertising leviathan Clear Channel got a contract to wrap some Seattle community transit buses in their advertising. -Please disregard all this "landslide in the making" stuff. People hear that crap and they don't bother voting. -The shack that originally housed Gates, Ballmer, Allen, et al. in Bellevue was sold for $38.6 million this week. Meanwhile Jimi Hendrix's old house almost got bulldozed a year ago. -Fundraiser time at KUOW - Let the complaining commence!......

Seattlest still hadn't been back to Liberty after the bad service fiasco we encountered there when sampling their drinks and sushi early this spring. Once bitten, twice shy, and we haven't received official word that they've gotten their shit together just yet. But earlier this week, we were up on 15th running a few errands when we saw sandwich boards advertising Liberty's espresso. And so we returned to the scene of the crime. Turns......