Seth Kolloen, Seattlest editor emeritus and current editor of Sports Northwest magazine, has found a local sports stand-in for Obama's VP. We were laughing through our tears as we read it.To put it in baseball terms, Obama’s got a three-run lead, going into the seventh inning. And who’s coming out of the bullpen for tomorrow night’s debate? Joe Biden, the Bobby Ayala of American presidential politics. Joe Biden, who sunk his 1988 presidential campaign by......

CASTING CALL: Local director Garrett Bennett is looking for extras to cast in his independent film The Spy & the Sparrow. 3-8pm // First Church of Christ Scientist [1519 E. Denny Way] // $Whatever minuscule remnants remain of your dreams of an acting career BOOKS: Don't wear sweatpants to this event. Erotica writer Jennifer Munro reads from her award-winning work, as does the winner of Hugo House's erotica writing competition. Keep your fingers crossed for......

Since there's a pretty heavy overlap between the set of people who read this site and the set of people who listen to KUOW, we're going to guess that most of you already heard of Conservatize Me by KUOW's John Moe, despite our inexcusable failure to review this entertaining, thought-provoking book. For those who haven't, profuse apologies. The #1 thing we enjoyed about this book is that it's the first we've read of this genre......

Late last night Seattlest was mingling with the post-concert crowd in the Founders Room at Benaroya Hall. We'd just had our socks knocked off by an Erwin Schulhoff piece in the Music of Rembrance concert commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day. (Which makes Schulhoff's death one more thing we have against Nazis.) According to our notes, try the cheese plate, skip the house Pinot. We ran into Seattle Symphony conductor Gerard Schwarz, who'd written a startlingly neo-Romantic......