THEATRE: Young Jean Lee's Theater Company presents Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven (A Show about White People in Love), which is an aggressively exotic title for someone raised in Pullman, WA.Writer/director Young Jean Lee's worst nightmare was to make a confessional, ethnic identity play with a flowery Asian-sounding title. So, the young NYC-based artist did just that [...] a character named "Korean-American" navigates increasingly disturbing levels of a pseudo-Korean world intercut with......

A Seattle personal injury attorney became the first woman to set a world boomerang record for time aloft. Betsylew Miale-Gix shattered the previous record--her boomerang was airborne for 3 minutes and 49 seconds. Betsylew broke the record at a United States Boomerang Association (USBA) tournament in Tuscon, AZ. This summer, Seattle will host the 2008 World Boomerang Championships at the University of Washington. You better believe Seattlest will be there with their own stop-watch......

Photo from Seattlest Flickr User Matt Westervelt Next season on The Deadliest Catch? A Seattle-based fish processor is on its way back home after it caught fire in the Bering Sea. The Pacific Glacier caught fire on Tuesday night, forcing the majority of its 106 crew members into rescue rafts. In the Bering Sea. In the middle of the night. In the depth of an Arctic winter. No thank you. The fire started in......

A Seattle teen was critically injured this weekend after a shooting in the parking lot of Northgate Mall. A Seattlest reader, Eli Black, was at the mall shortly after the shooting and sent us photos of the aftermath. The 15-year-old victim was shot in the leg and the groin after a confrontation in a mall parking structure on Friday evening. Police believe the shooting stemmed from a previous argument that day in Northgate's Food Court.......

Archie McPhee's latest bumper stickers, posted in Seattlest's Flickr Pool Ballard residents, tired of seeing their local landmarks and homes swallowed by condos and "multi-use buildings," have taken a stand on one beloved icon of "Old Ballard." The icon? The Denny's on the corner of Market and 15th Ave NW, long a late-night stop for drunk bowlers from the now departed Sunset Bowl, bearded fisherman and other creatures of the night, including Seattlest. The......

Remember SimCity? Seattlest had some incredible towns built in that game, with commercial and residential districts packed full of shiny, tall towers and trains and street traffic all flowing as effortlessly as rivers. Scroll way over to the left to the edge of the city grid; now that is a healthy industrial district, perfectly bisected by a pollution-eating green belt. The landmarks sprouted everywhere and the money and accolades poured in. Of course, it took......

It's SIFF's last bleary-eyed, numb-assed, popcorn-butter-fingered weekend, so if you haven't stopped in for some film-festy fun, you gotta act fast. We held Audrey upside-down and shook her until she gave us some selections -- no, no, you deserve the best. There's no telling how far we'd go to make you happy. Before we get to that, here's some film-related goings-on that you might like: Friday night there's Kinski performs Berlin: Symphony of a......

-- Microwave popcorn? Pop 'em while you got 'em, Seattle city employees. -- Calling all gurgitators: Top Pot Doughnuts meet competitive eating. -- Why isn't the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce losing classified ad revenue? -- Don't drive naked. Or embracing. Or drunk. -- Another day, another luxury condo project breaks ground. -- Seattle's gotten so expensive people are fleeing to Indianapolis. -- Seattle ites buy more sunglasses per capita than any other city......

--A Seattle lawyer is officially in on the Menu Foods Ltd sue-a-thon. Local pets blog Itchmo Seattle is claiming a vastly different number of dead pets across the country than we've seen in the MSM, by the way. Which is closer to the truth: The P-I's 13 or the blog's 1,000? --Seattlest had a few science teachers in our high school days that should have been carried out of the building with an administrator......

Seattlest was down in Arizona for spring training last week, and dammit if we didn't just miss what sounds like a hell of a lot of fun with Jerramy Stevens. From The Arizona Republic:A Seattle Seahawks player faces charges of driving under the influence and possession of marijuana after his Tuesday morning arrest in downtown Scottsdale. Jerramy Stevens, the NFL team's starting tight end, was taken into police custody around 2:30 a.m. after he admitted......

Ever since Jack Roberts died and Cal Worthington disappeared, there's been a definite lack of goofy commercials on Seattle airwaves. If you, like us, are jonesing for silly ads, this ought to well satisfy your cravings. A Seattle transplant working at MTV dubs it "the best music video I've seen in a long time."......

--Someone fired a gun six blocks from Gov. Gregoire today in Tacoma. There are also reports of gunshots in downtown Seattle today and Seattlest is 90% sure we saw Gregoire in Seattle at 5th and Virginia at noon. 90%. We thought about introducing ourselves or ripping off a few rounds to mark the occasion, but didn't. --Home grown Washington State biodiesel is on the way. --Check out the Uptown in West Seattle if you're looking......

--Edgar Martinez is being inducted into the Mariners Hall of Fame. --A Seattle couple is threatening to name their child "Cooperstown" after the NY town that holds the Baseball Hall of Fame. --A zebra at Woodland park charged a fence and broke its back. --LeBron James has signed on to shill software for Microsoft. --Where can you get a decent meal in this town after 9pm? Metafilter says... --Local jazz legend Floyd Standifer is dead.......

--A Seattle-area business-type is set to compete on The Apprentice this year. It's James Sun, CEO of a "mature alternative to social networking sites such as Facebook.com and MySpace.com" called Zoodango.com. Uh, "Zoodango" doesn't strike us as particularly mature... You're fired. --You are indeed beautiful, cafeteria visitor. You are beautiful. --"And if a Congressman wants to take his oath on a stack of Hustlers, I could care less." --Don't think you can badmouth Pitchfork......

A Seattle real estate investor discovered last night the petrified corpse of a fried dead rat baking on the heating element in his new condo. This will come as unwelcome news to certain gloom and doom real estate haters because it demonstrates that the Seattle market remains bubble proof. When you look at other real estate markets outside of Seattle - Darfur, Glod, Buffalo - first time home buyers have to a pay a......

Seattlest carries an umbrella in our shoulder bag every single day. All summer long we carried it, even though we were experiencing the driest season ever recorded in Seattle. In mid July sometime, a friend from out of town made one of the lame, old Seattle Rain Jokes, and we forgot momentarily what he was talking about. Even the word was unfamiliar - "What is this 'rain' you speak of?" We're more than ready for......

So when you commit yourself to double-booking for an evening, how do you prepare? Ordinarily Seattlest doesn't have an issue since there's a bit of a break between events, or one is low-key, the other more lively, but Monday night we made the decision to not only catch the synthy-goodness that is the Rentals at Neumos, but to catch some of New York's finest MCs at the Boot Camp Clik show at Chop Suey......

The end is near. Soon SIFF will be but a fading memory. So if you've been putting it off, this weekend is the last chance until next year for you to get some festival action. As an added bonus, on Sunday night at the Broadway Performance Hall, there will be an encore presentation for two of the films (one short, one full-length) that end up taking home SIFF awards. If you missed 'em the......

-This is a Detroit newspaper complaining about the lack of Starbucks cafes in their city. We shit you not. It looks like the Detroit airport has more Starbucksi than the city. -There are tomes to be written about Seattle drivers, but don't look for a chapter on road rage. We're cool as cucumbers behind the wheel. "You go." "No, you go." "No, I insist." -A guy in Snohomish County was arrested last night after......

How can you mention Tori Spelling's new show noTORIous in a Seattle newspaper and not mention the fact that an indie movie she's involved with just finished shooting in Seattle? Alright, admittedly the movie has been flying way way below the radar of the MSM in Seattle since its inception and we're not sure if that's by design or not, but we've seen the trailer and it looks like it's going to rock. It's got......

At Seattlest, we read the candidate endorsements so you don't have to flip that far into your paper. In our thorough research, certain themes emerged. At the P-I, they wrote endorsements as if they were late for a meeting. For Seattle City Council--return all the incumbents, they say. Statewide Initiatives? Say no to everything! Port Commission? It's time for change! The Stranger used the dorky gimmick of asserting that they were drunk as they wrote......

A Seattle middle-schooler was recently found dead after an apparent round of "the choking game" in which she tied a karate belt around her neck. In response to that incident and others the Seattle Public School District is going on an information campaign to raise awareness of this age-old method of getting high. The standard "talk to your kids about the dangers of __insert idiot behavior here___" seems to be the path they're taking on......

It has come to this. Today Seattlest will decend into the time-tested and approved depths of pointing and laughing at Craigslist posts. Welcome to the latest Seattlest feature where we click through thousands and thousands of Craigslist for-sale items and highlight a few incredible buys for you. These will be items that no Seattleite can pass on, so be prepared to act quickly and contact the sellers as soon as possible. Tibetan Brass Bell and......

The Seattle Times today reports that a farm near Enumclaw is under investigation for offering sex with animals. A Seattle man died July 2 in Enumclaw; the medical examiner said the death was accidental and the result of having sex with a horse. The horse was not injured. Ew, ew, and ew. And for the "who knew?" files: bestiality is not a crime in our fair state. The Enumclaw Courier-Herald carries no reporting on......