As Seattlest reported a couple of weeks ago, Washington State was trying to unload a used passenger ferry on Ebay. Sadly, the time has come and gone for bidding on the Chinook, without an acceptable bidder. This wasn't one of the "your best offer" sales on Ebay, Washington State wouldn't part with the boat for less than $4.5million and no one laid down that kind of offer. Bidding on the boat closed yesterday without a single legitimate bid. Guess folks who are looking for mulit-million dollar boats aren't doing their shopping on Ebay. more ›

The inhabitants of the Bering on 14th Ave E and E Thomas were delighted to see the Seattle City Light truck roll up last night around 4:30pm. We know because we called one of them, and he was all, "Fuck yeah, I'm delighted. You can quote me." more ›

Tonight is a night of hard choices. Sure, it's more on the scale of where to see Snakes on a Plane then how to replace the viaduct, but it's a hard and important decision nonetheless. That decision? Do you attend the ghetto-fabulous debut of Bootylib at the Baltic Room or the 80s fabulous Prince vs. Michael at Rebar? more ›

As Seattlest was just saying, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku was at Town Hall last night, giving a talk on parallel universes and string theory. We prefer to get our science fix from people who don't sound like they're physicists "in theory" (or who advise the Star Trek franchise), but we keep an open mind. more ›

is doing a Seattle-centric show this week. more ›

As Seattlest trudged to work today we saw two items of note discarded on the sidewalk. The first was a baby's pacifier. The second was the grown up version of a baby's pacifier: a bag of pot. Don't people usually have those little strings to tether pacifiers to babies so that they don't get dropped? Maybe potheads need those as well. You can clip your stash right to your sleeve and in a pinch you've got a roach clip. more ›

As Seattlest was falling asleep last night we caught a glimpse of a teaser for a local news story that we couldnt stay awake to watch: an escort ad client shot by a pimp for refusing to reimburse the escort's gas money. The teaser included a shot of a two-page spread-eagled escort ad section from one of the local alternative weeklies. more ›

University of Washington officials thought long and hard about how to couch the messaging when they floated a "Hey, wanna double or triple tuition?" balloon. What they came up with was "a Robin Hood plan." more ›

As Seattlest is well aware, everyone loves a catfight. There ain't nobody--not your elderly neighbor, not your mom, not even the Pope--who can argue against the undeniable hotness of two lovely ladies beating the crap outta each other. more ›

The Tacoma Rainiers' season is in full swing. Currently they sport a moderately respectable record of 17-20 and are in third place, five games out of first, out of their division’s five teams. Salt Lake leads the pack with a 21-14 record. As Seattlest reported on April 13th, the Rainiers’ hometown arena, Cheney Stadium, still has the feeling of authentic, pre-steroid baseball. However, Seattlest just learned that one of its classic features is, as we write, being replaced and upgraded. All the wooden stadium seats, which not only have been in the stadium since it was built, but date back to their first game in the San Francisco Seals stadium back in 1931, are being given the old heave ho. During their prosperous lifetime, the seats have supported the sweaty bottoms of fans of the Seals, the San Francisco Missions, and for two years their only major league team, the San Francisco Giants. Upon the completion of Candlestick Park and the Giants’ move there in 1960, Tacoma snapped up the seats and installed them in the newly built Cheney Stadium. 35 years later, plastics, as presciently predicted by Mr. McGuire to the young Ben Braddock, have taken over, as this is the year that the wooden seats of old are being replaced with their plastic counterparts. After 74 consecutive seasons of baseball, you may be wonering where their next destination might be? Well, my friend, the answer is the homes of dedicated Rainers’ fans the world over, and that may well include you. They’re going for $75 a pop with quantity discounts. more ›

Local company SmallTownPapers (yes, one word) has launched a website that promises to digitally protect the very root of everything we hold true--that is, America's small town newspapers. The company's goal is to create a searchable database--in some cases, going back to the 1800s--of these papers, as well as preserving the papers' actual looks. As Seattlest is a longstanding fan of the police logs of small-town papers, this could well be a treasure trove. more ›