Does anyone remember when Full Sail Black Gold Bourbon Aged Imperial Stout came out in early 2006? That was the last Bourbon aged beer distributed by Full Sail, and wow...what a beer it was. It was a big stout with tons of flavors imparted by the barrel, and it remains one of our Top 10 Beers of All Time. Step forward to February 2008, and Full Sail is doing it all over again with......

Hey, Seattlest! I'd like to start a sex advice column, but there's a catch-22. I'm not a columnist yet, so no one's sent me any questions, but unless I answer questions I don't have a column. Can I just pick a question Dan Savage answered in "Savage Love" and answer it myself? If anyone asks, I'll claim I "solicited questions from friends." I read his column every week -- I must be a friend, right?......

Seattlest and the fiancee have a holiday tradition that manages to work out each year, even when our procrastination reaches DefCon Four: Catch the annual Christmas Ship show at Gas Works on December 23. Seems the Argosy people that host the singers (Seattle Girls' Choir) on their ship have their own tradition: Ask the choir to sing beautiful, traditional holiday carols that everyone in attendance will recognize and sing along with no one will......

The Stranger has endorsed a No vote on the RTID Proposition 1 (along with the Seattle Times, but thankfully with more logic and, er, research). Their reasoning? "Rather than letting compromised politicians tell us what's possible, the people should tell the leaders what's needed: more light rail without massive roads expansion." So what is the proper course of action for Congress regarding the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, bill? The bill would ban employment discrimination......

Rockstar Seattlest commenter (ex; you're dead to us, Jake) 8bitjake had the scoop earlier this week for those that were paying attention. He got an email from a friend at the Eastside game studio Bungie: "So heres my big secret. You should google Bungie + Microsoft + separation this week. You know that big ol BILLION dollar franchise Bungie has created for Microsoft, to show their appreciate Microsoft is letting Bungie leave. Of course Microsoft......

When family’s in town, Seattlest usually troops to Pike Place Market so the out-of-towners can say they saw our city’s bustling bazaar. Though we’re not repeatedly thrilled by it, the Market is a sense-assaulting place to burn an afternoon with all-ages, crowd-tolerant kin. But it’s something else entirely beyond the northernmost booth or on the exit stairs facing the viaduct. It’s a trashy, scare-little-cousin-Susie jungle out there. Even now, with the Centennial Celebration in......

Once upon a time you could write a book on the typewriter in your attic, bundle the pages together with some butcher paper and twine and schlep it to New York to give to your publisher and then forget about the whole thing until it was time to blow the dust off the keys for the next go round. Or so we imagine it. Then came the critics. And then the book tours. Then Amazon.com......

After Felix Hernandez' terrible eight-inning reign, the A's won't be contesting Jarrod Washburn's accession to the mound. What a performance--the best in Mariner opening day history, and one of the best in opening day history period. ESPN says Hernandez is the first pitcher to record 12+Ks and not give up a run on Opening Day since Bob Gibson did it in 1967. Later that year, Gibson won games one, four, and seven of the World......

Bill Virgin, writing in last Thursday's P-I Business section, shed light on memo sent out by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz (courtesy here of Starbucks Gossip). Since then, news of the memo has traveled the internet a few times over. On the one hand, the wiseacre in us says, "you made decisions to expand from 1,000 to 13,000 stores and nobody thought about the dilution and commoditization of the experience???" Please. Even at 1,000 stores,......

One thing we love about Coug fans, when their teams are winning they are the cockiest, most trash talkingest group of hombres this side of the Cascades. This year is no different, and with good reason. After a decade of dreadful basketball they are currently second in the Pac 10, number ten in the country, and have a realistic shot of nabbing a three, or dare they dream, a number two seed come March. Tonight......

Ask anyone who's serious about cocktails, and they'll tell you that Murray Stenson at ZigZag is Seattle's best barman. Knows his drinks, knows and remembers his customers. Seattlest was hooked from hello on our first visit. Murray introduced us to cask-strength Macallan's, Hendrick's gin, super-premium vodkas. He works fast (not for nothing is he called Murr the Blur) but never seems rushed; he dips a straw and tastes a drop of virtually every drink......

Before we get started, a question: the Old Pequliar wants to know if people are interested in a quiz on the day after Christmas. If you'd be likely to show up, or if you usually show up but wouldn't, let us know in the commments so we can report back. Seventeen teams played Seattlest's pub quiz at the Old Pequliar last night. The top three teams took home cash, and the last place team......

Seattle needs real world, technology-focused get togethers. Desperately. Microsoft does some things and so do some of the other larger shops in town but they tend not to be general attendance-type events. There's Mindcamp. There's the Penny Arcade thing, sort of. There might be a few others we're not thinking of right now, but come on, we feel like we should be able to name a dozen or so events. Which is why we were......

Three days after the Seahawks' Jerramy Stevens and the Raiders' Tyler Brayton engaged in a groin-kicking contest, the debate rages on--mostly about Stevens' immaturity. Seahawks Insider scared up Raiders' star Warren Sapp's thoughts on Stevens: "This dude has been a piece of (crap) [read: shit] since he got in this league and it's never going to change about him ... [He's] just a punk ... Something's got to change about it but he's going to......

Wednesday, November 1 >>>Benaroya Hall, 7:30pm. Seattle Arts and Lectures brings prolific big shot and errant van survivor Stephen King by. Maybe you’ve heard of him? For the Constant Reader, it’s an event not to be missed. He'll talk about Lisey’s Story, his latest novel. Tickets $25 and $35. But, like many things in King’s Dark Tower world, they’ve already moved on. >>>University Temple Methodist Church, 7:00pm. Keeping with the All Soul's Day theme,......

The first time we saw "Ask an Uptight Seattleite" in Seattle Weekly we thought it was a fake headline for "Ask a Mexican" and was supposed to be some kind of joke reaction to Seattle's reaction to "Ask a Mexican." Then we read it and it was the funniest thing we've probably ever read in the Weekly. It was funny and accurate (and exactly the kind of thing that would be great on Seattlest) and......

Today, Seattlest presents a new feature: Ask a Dot-Commer. Today's dot-commer is Dave Epstein, who's dot-commed it for AOL, United Online, and others since 1998. So, dot-commer, why did Google spend more than $1 billion for YouTube? Several reasons: First, YouYube has decent deals in place with several content providers (such as Universal). This will allow them to hopefully resolve some of the copyright issues. 2) The main cost of YouTube is bandwidth. Google has......

Reference help from the Seattle Public Library is going 24/7/365.25: The Seattle Public Library now has live online reference services around the clock. For anyone up after midnight cramming for a test, stuck at home and unable to get to a library branch or even on vacation with a laptop, the library is available. All that's needed is to go to www.spl.org, select "Ask a Librarian" and choose "Chat with a Librarian." The service is......

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They're biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That's right, Mapquest says "Houston had the......

After years of insisting that “good citizens” were the key to winning ballclubs, the Mariners have hired one of baseball’s notorious bad guys, Carl Everett. The move improves the Mariners offense (whether the degree of improvement is worth Everett’s reported $3.4 million salary is in question). It’s also exposed an ugly vein of local intellectual elitism. The move was a poorly-kept secret so already the local Internets are buzzing with commentary—and laughter. Because, besides getting......

Big little environmental site Grist Magazine speaks to a global audience, but we love them the most when they cite environmental object lessons from their home city of Seattle. Today's "Ask Umbra" feature involves a question from a reader on the "living roof." Seattlest has lived in a fair number of arrangements under "living roofs," in this damp city, but we have to admit that none of those roofs were living by design. As a......

This weekend, Seattlest will be representing at a high school basketball game, a chamber music concert, a church in Burien, and Alderwood Babies-R-Us, respectively. For the full 411, see below. Audrey's watching HBO's happy-go-lucky AIDS film. Tomorrow, she'll evince her newly-found concern for third-world poverty and disease by going Christmas shopping downtown. Sunday afternoon, find her at the Triple Door, having successfully weaselled her way into the KEXP event with Morcheeba. Sunday morning, most Seattlests......

Seattlest grew up in the Fremont area and remembers the excitement Paseo caused when it first took up residence on Fremont Avenue. We lived close enough to Paseo that we could smell the food from our backyard. We loved the spicy and bold flavors of Caribbean cuisine and Paseo quickly became a Seattlest favorite. So how on earth could we have forgotten about it? How could three short years spent on Capitol Hill give us......

What with all the tear gas, video crews, and Subcomandante Marcos imitators in Seattle in 1999 for the WTO protests, Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper’s resignation seemed a bit anticlimactic. It was ironic (but not deliciously) that “Chief Moonbeam” oversaw SPD’s flirtation with jackbooted riot-gear finery. Previously, the San Diego transplant had been criticized by–-what’s the word? Neofascists?--for speaking out of school about police brutality and for his cultural inclusiveness. After WTO, he resigned and......

Occasionally, Seattle likes to put its wrong foot forward. This time it's the Discovery Institute, which normally spends its time wonking about land use and transportation issues. Now they're encouraging high school science teachers to "teach the controversy" surrounding evolutionary theory, a controversy that they're busy creating. The Discovery Institute claims that it has no Creationist aims up its sleeve, and is only advocating scientific criticism of a too-venerated theory. But its senior fellow Dr.......

When we tell people we're headed to Japanese Gourmet for lunch, most squinch up their noses and say, "but what's it really called?" The answer? Japanese Gourmet. The li'l lunch spot is near the Market, tucked in on Stewart across the street from Sur La Table. The sushi and the noodle dishes are tasty, but the lunch special bento boxes are the reason we keep going back. Weekdays from 11 to 3 you can......

No, not the Lorene Cary memoir, which Seattlest found to be a moving and well-written book. We're talking about the black ice that our local traffic reporters have us convinced is a sinister and rare weather condition. When their voices go up in pitch with "reports of black ice on the roadways" we quiver at the vision of our number 15 bus skidding down Mercer Street, helpless at the mercy of this dark, invisible......