Can we just say how glad we are that Hollywood week is finally here!? Ten minutes into the first auditions show, we'd had enough of American Idol auditions, with all their gratuitous fun-poking at less-than stellar singers and people not blessed with good looks. But, we stuck with it, looking for a Seattleite (or anyone, really) worth getting excited about. The closest thing, you may remember, was Selma, Ore., horse girl Kristy Lee Cook.......

Blues legend Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the devil to get his guitar skills. Kristy Lee Cook--our Northwest hopeful for American Idol--didn't have to sell anything quite so dear to pay for a ticket to the Philly auditions, but parting with a horse she'd trained can't have been fun. (Unless to rural folk like her--she's from Selma, Oregon--training and selling horses is commonplace. We don't know from farm life.) Kristy failed in her......

American Idol Season 7 started last night, in case you've had your head in a hole this week. The first episode recounted the folks and freaks that turned out for auditions in Philadelphia, so we're not surprised that no one from Seattle showed up. There was, however, a glint of hope for our geographical neighborhood in the form of Kristy Lee Cook from Selma, Ore. She's 23. She's a horse girl who camps, fishes and......

Thirteen teams turned out for Seattlest trivia last night at the Old Pequliar. Want to see how you'd do? Here are all the questions. We'll post answers later today, along with a list of team standings and anything else interesting we find to say about the event. Round 1: Geography 1) What's the largest city in Pierce County, Washington? 2) What is the longest mountain range in the world? 3) What is the largest county......