"Midnight at Blakely Harbor, Bainbridge Island" by Garret Veley (Mantis of Destiny), from our Flickr pool more ›

It seems as though 2009 will be the year of recession-inspired backyard chicken coops. (Those lawn-mowing goats are so 2007.) We've been pretty excited about all the recent chicken coop sightings around Seattle. Even if they are only a city-limited, three domestic fowl per single-family lot, we still think they're cute. However, we have recently learned that Seattle is lagging behind on the chicken coop craze. more ›

"Bainbridge Island - Mirrors and Echoes in Eagle Harbor" by Mantis of Destiny, from the Seattlest Flickr Pool more ›

• Tomorrow night kicks off the BBQ Jazz outdoor concert series over at Interbay Golf Center. This week you can tap your toes from 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. to the sounds of on-and-off again national award-winning Roosevelt High School Jazz Combo.
• Vintage porn dating back to the VHS era was found stashed in the ceiling of the portable Blakely Elementary School classroom on Bainbridge Island. Workers discovered six nudie mags, VHS porno tapes, condoms, and ladies panties(!!) as they were demolishing the room.

Oh, Bainbridge! A prim and proper community no more, as the police broke up a Bainbridge Island brothel hosting hook--err..."ladies of the night." When strange men kept re-appearing at few neighborhood homes asking for certain laaaadies, local residents and police caught on to what was going on behind closed doors. Oh, the scandal! The turnstile brothel, which was located on the southwest part of the island, has since closed up. Juicy info like this means it's only a matter of time until our own Elliot Spitzer-esque hooker scandal breaks. Popcorn, anyone? more ›

It's been a long time since Kim had a tourist to show around, so she's looking forward to giving her father a stellar tour of Seattle and its environs. On the agenda: Chateau Ste. Michelle, Bainbridge Island, the Fremont troll, and plenty of great food--finally an excuse to go to the Kingfish! Before pops arrives, she'll kick the weekend off right, with Sera Cahoone and Zoe Muth tonight at the Tractor. more ›

How? All you have to do to is go nine weeks without food or water, locked inside a window seat. David Blaine, take note! From September 28 to November 30, Bess the cat was trapped inside a window seat, wasting down to 4.7 pounds before finally deciding to meow for help and being rescued. "Nine weeks locked in a box, without food and water, or even much air. What was left? What was meowing?" $3,000 in vet bills later, she's moving slowly but is back up to 6.4 pounds. And now, a LOLcat. (Thanks to tipster H.W. Duncan.) more ›

"Molten Sky" by aaronbrethorst more ›

The fine folks at The Four Swallows invited us over (by over, we mean across Puget Sound) for some supper. Saturday was a superb day for a ferry ride, and after a short stroll through town, we reached the farmhouse that’s been home to the restaurant for 16 years. more ›

Never a good idea to shoot a nation's mascot/symbol, folks. Don't go to, say, Australia and kill a koala bear or kangaroo. As logic would then follow, no harm should come to bald eagles within the United States. That means someone on Bainbridge Island is in big trouble after critically injuring a female bald eagle. Local police and State Fish and Wildlife officials are searching for the shooter, who could face jail time and a $10,000 fine. more ›

According to our current addiction, the Democratic Convention Watch blog, some less than stellar reporting created confusion over the status of Rep. Jay Inslee's endorsement of Clinton. more ›

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This morning we were glancing through the Going Out section of the Seattle P-I when we ran across these two questionable entries:

"War and Peace": 1 p.m. Sergei Bondarchuk's adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel (part one screens today) is widely considered to be one of Russia's greatest achievements. Right up there with Ivan Drago and those wooden dolls that open up to reveal a bunch of smaller wooden dolls. SIFF Cinema, Nesholm Family Lecture Hall, McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St.; 206-464-5830; seattlefilm.org. $7-$10. Also at 7 p.m.

"As You Like It": 7:30 p.m. This Shakespeare comedy of mistaken identities, clowns and women dressed as men dressed as women gives further credence to the theory that the Wayans brothers are descendents of the Bard. Bainbridge Performing Arts, 200 Madison Ave. N., Bainbridge Island; 206-842-8569. $15-$20.

We knew Bremerton residents were the step-chilins of the Washington State Ferry System, but now that wireless access for the 55-minute run has been delayed again we're starting to suspect a conspiracy. Bainbridge has been happily browsing away on their 30-minute jog since like the mid-nineties or something, but can Bremerton catch any of that wifi gold? Hell no. At least not until July at the earliest. Of course, the Rich Passage is the official culprit according to Parsons which has the contract to provide wireless internet to Washington ferries. more ›

After hearing "emerging Seattle choreographer" Zoe Scofield and PNB's Peter Boal at a talkin-'bout-dance panel Sunday, we were looking forward to Monday, which featured performances by Scofield and PNB. Non-dance highlights were our uber-local, fast-talking, Spalding-Grayish Matt Smith monologuing about manliness and his move to Bainbridge Island, the new wave rearrangements of cover band Nouvelle Vague (including a sing-along to "Too Drunk To Fuck"), and finishing the day inside a sweaty knot of teens listening to CocoRosie getting all rapped-up with vocal beat boxing and shiznit. We know that sounds sexy.
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Seattlest caught Bainbridge Island writer Mary Guterson at Wordstock in Portland in April, and she was so freakin' funny that we immediately bought her book, We Are All Fine Here, a dry, first-person story of Julia, a burned-out married woman who hooks up with her old boyfriend. And because Seattlest is an author-stalker, we couldn't just read the damn thing, we had to call up Guterson and chat. more ›

Bank of America, McDonalds and Starbucks? Seattlest is reeling a little from the notion of an overtly corporate party to celebrate the start of the year of the dog at Union station on Saturday, February 4th. more ›

-4000 black employees who brought a racial discrimination suit against Boeing were told today that the aircraft manufacturer did not, in fact, violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964. more ›

Popeye Banned From Coast Guard: The d'rigouritude of body art can trace its lineage back to your grandfather's classic navy tattoos. The anchor, the battleship, the waving flag and the skull and bones may not be stretched as tautly across Grandpap's chest as they once were, but they're still occasionally on display. However, they don't seem to stop him from shaking his head at your tribal bands and eyebrow piercings. New Coast Guard regulations restricting tattoos and other body modifications were reported today in the P-I to put an end to it all. No more sleeves, face tats or split tongues - Sorry, Seattle, the Coast Guard isn't for you. "The 1940s, party-hard sailor is not the image we're going for," Chief Petty Officer Keith Alholm was quoted as saying. more ›

It's difficult to be bleeding edge all the time. Sometimes by the time Seattlest gets around to posting an item, we suspect maybe it's long ago scabbed over and there's just that faint white line and memories of itchiness. more ›

Seattlest likes a challenge, especially a slightly kooky one, and then if you add a do-gooder element to it we might find it irresistible. But this one is too tough for us. more ›

Port Townsend is a favorite weekend getaway for many Seattleites, and it's easy to see why. The drive up is alone worth the price of admission (Seattlest likes Kingston ferry to Hood Canal to 19) but once there the food is good, the downtown is cute and there are plenty of activities to keep you going. more ›

Three small earthquakes off of Vancouver Island Monday morning were fortuitously timed to coincide with the Seattle Fault Earthquake Scenario Conference in Bellevue. Of course the Vancouver Island quakes were nowhere near the magnitude the conference was discussing. more ›