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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. more ›

The fire started in the boat's laundry room and spread throughout the boat. The fire burned for five hours before being extinguished by 16 crew members, who stayed on board to fight the blaze. Eighty percent of the Pacific Glacier's crew calls the Seattle-area home. The entire crew survived the fire without incident or injury, despite the whole floating in the Bering Sea in the middle of February in a life raft or fighting a fire in an enclosed space thing. more ›

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. more ›

Archie McPhee's latest bumper stickers, posted in Seattlest's Flickr Pool more ›

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 many hours to bring the little guys to the pinnacle of urban development, and then, since the game never ends, it took another many hours to tinker the place into slums and ruin, rezoning here, tearing out a transportation hub there, until finally you had to unleash natural disasters upon the land just to keep yourself interested. more ›

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. more ›

--The real estate bubble really is getting crazy. more ›

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. more ›

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."
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--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. more ›

--Edgar Martinez is being inducted into the Mariners Hall of Fame. more ›

--"Who's at the door, honey?" "The Sonics!" "Uh, tell them I gave at the office." more ›

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 premium for condos that come with fried rat carcasses. more ›

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?" more ›

Realizing it would only make us crazy to attempt to create a playlist of both bands for the day, we went with the "prepare for the first" approach. Doors for the Rentals were at 8pm with only one opener, while Boot Camp Clik had about a slew of openers and a later door, so it was a safe (and correct) assumption that the Rentals would start first (and there was no way we were going to miss that). The hours before the show were spent getting into rock-out mode, with a soundtrack consisting of old Weezer (Blue Album for life!), Dalmations (we certainly had our awesome on), and on the walk to Neumos, Daft Punk's Coachella set (Technologic indeed). We arrived just in time to see frontman Matt Sharp take the stage. more ›

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 first (and second) time around, be there! more ›

-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. more ›

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 Lovecraft, it's got Seattle and Pac NW coast, it's got Grant Cogswell screenwriting, it's got Tori fucking Spelling in it. What's it take to get a movie press up in here? Because if Tori fucking Spelling is not going to be enough we don't know what will. more ›

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! more ›

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 the website being circulated to parents. more ›

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. more ›

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. more ›