EBay recently launched FashionVault, a safe home for auction-aholics to purchase designer goods. Sure, we understand - there's a lot of money to be made in Jimmy Choos. But you're the site people associate with Beanie Babies, quasi-famous celebrity autographs, and things that are shaped like Jesus. In short...there's still some eBay stank to be found lingering, Balenciaga or no. Case in point? One of their highest tiered categories is Reenactment Attire. Sorry eBay, but this is not making you any cooler. more ›

Women of all ages flocked to the Grand Ballroom of the downtown Seattle Westin last night to bid on handbags by designers like Kate Spade, Balenciaga and Chanel. The silent auction was held in honor of Gilda’s Club Seattle which provides free support to those affected by cancer. One of the highlights of the evening was the live auction featuring handbags signed and donated by celebrities including Marcia Cross, Olivia Newton John and Elizabeth Moss. Dale Chihuly’s custom design garnered the highest bid of the night, selling for a whopping $2050. A further ploy for donations gave one lucky bidder the opportunity to take the shirt right off a firefighter’s back for the winning bid of $225. more ›

• Condos for sale! Really attractively priced condos for sale! Local developers with properties Brix in Capitol Hill and Gallery in Belltown are trying to sell condos quickly, so they've put a slew of them up for auction with big discounted prices. Prices that will only make their neighbors cry.
• Oh, the joy's of naked urban cycling. Make sure to cover the kiddies eyes Saturday, as the Gardens Everywhere Bike Parade begins riding at 1 p.m. near Gas Works Park and plans to head north.
• It's a big day for Seattle media and all the advertising and pr folk. The Puget Sound Business Journal reports, Seattle moved up to No. 13 TV market in the U.S., finally kicking Tampa-St. Petersburg to the curb 14th spot.

DOWN ON THE CORNER: The Corner, our favorite one monthly live hiphop night down at the Rendezvous, has its one-year anniversary tonight. (Already?!) As usual, Oldominioner Candidt has put together a stellar line-up: JFK of Grayskul, Silent Lambs Project with Lisa Loud, and UW reps Rudy & The Rhetoric; he'll also throw in a set of his own. So solid. We've been looking forward to this for months now! more ›

A CONSCIOUSNESS OF LIMITLESS INQUIRY: The ferocious Naomi Wolf will be at Town Hall on Friday to do a reading and sign copies of her latest manifesto, Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries. The introduction alone is worth reading, and it's available online in full at Huffington Post. Ignore the Palin photo montage to the right of the text--or don't, because it adds a chilling sense of urgency to Wolf's words. more ›

• In the dark of night, a two-story house was pulled across Fremont. Check out the story on the newly launched Fremont Universe.
• Someone stole a tow truck from Gene's Towing in Tacoma. Not the most inconspicuous getaway car.
• Do some good, go to Dutch Harbor and swig a few beers with Sig and the crew of The Deadliest Catch. The Nordic Heritage Museum is auctioning off the trip on September 21st, according to MyBallard.

If you are as intrigued by the mystery of D.B. Cooper as Seattlest is, but have more expendable cash than we do, we have just the auction for you! more ›

One lucky local photographer turned the rest of us into lucky photo viewers today by getting inside the mostly dismantled Sunset Bowl the other night. more ›

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For a man who's been missing for over 30 years, D.B. Cooper sure has been in the news a lot lately. Just last week, we reported that a parachute with possible connections to the mystery had been found in Clark County, Wash. Today, a 36-year-old man in Arkansas—who discovered three bundles of $20 bills on the shores of the Columbia River as an 8-year-old, which were proven to have belonged to Cooper—announced plans to auction off a few of his treasures. Before last week's discovery of Cooper's possible parachute, the deteriorated $20 bills were the only evidence found in the lone unsolved "skyjacking" case. more ›

There are times, we admit, that we just don't get it. Downtown merchants, in a rare spasm of civic altruism, turn over space to a bizarre philanthropic two-fer: Pacific Northwest Ballet, which has its own money-machine at McCaw these days, the iconic Nutcracker, and Northwest Center, the most sacrosanct of local charities. more ›

You can't buy tickets for the next Seattle Erotic Art Festival until January -- the show isn't until March -- but there is one thing you can do to get ready: Paint your horny little heart out. SEAF '07 is officially accepting submissions:

The CALL FOR ART is now open. Artists 18+ are invited to submit work that explores the diversity of erotic art - explicit, subtle, unconventional, beautiful, shameless, and beyond - to SEAF's fifth annual Juried Exhibition, Auction, and Festival Store. All media will be considered; art is selected based on quality of execution, originality of subject, and depth of emotion. more ›

Would it be worth it to get out of bed that early on a Sunday to score some "free" and no doubt choice real estate probably located on the Moon? more ›

This weekend provides two opportunities for you to make purchases from the Seattle International Film Festival Group. On Saturday (10am-1pm) in the downstairs lobby of the Broadway Performance Hall, there's the annual Holiday Sale, where you can get "movie memorabilia, picturehouse paraphenalia, and sundry SIFF swag---all for beaucoup bargains." We interpret that to mean there will be film- and SIFF-related items for cheap. New this year: movie posters for sale as gift wrap. $5 gets you a roll of five random movie posters to use as wrapping paper. First off, we think this is a great idea for a unique way to wrap your gifts, and second, if there is a God in heaven, we will end up with some posters for The Pacifier. SIFF gift wrap is only available at the Holiday Sale, so your one shot to get it is tomorrow morning. Also, there will be free cookies. more ›