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Woodland Park zookeepers tossed soccer balls to some of their charges last Wednesday to commemorate the first round of the MLS Cup Playoff Western Conference Semifinals, which ended, of course, in a lame tie. The Sounders better win Sunday or AMY GET MAD!! Regardless, check out the 15-year-old, 850-pound grizzly brothers, Keema and Denali, demolishing the hapless balls while five-month-old snow leopard cubs Gobi and Batu and the zoo’s Humboldt penguins take a more friendly, frisky approach. The soccer balls are part of the zoo’s animal enrichment program which aims to promote natural animal behavior and keep the animals mentally stimulated.

With swine flu defeated, it’s time to turn our attention to the killer bear loose on our streets.

In yet another story that gets more disturbing with every detail, we learn that the underage hunter accused of killing a hiker after he mistook her for a bear was 14 years old. And, contrary to previous reports that said the young hunter was with an adult, he was actually only with his 16-year-old brother. According to KING 5's report, the two boys from Concrete, Wash., were dropped off by their grandfather earlier in the day to do some hunting on Sauk Mountain. Both are licensed to hunt bears, and supposedly the 14-year-old has been licensed since he was nine. Which begs the question: nine-year-olds can register to hunt with firearms? Surely there has to be a parental or adult supervision clause with that license. Or have we just decided it's fine to arm pre-teens if it's for hunting?

Throw away your razors, guys, and embrace your inner mountain man: it's time to start cultivating your entry in the first ever North American Beard and Moustache championship. The prestigious follicle competition will take place in Bremerton, Wash. on July 5th. The competition, put on by Bremerton's Whisker Club, is expected to bring moustaches, as well as the faces to which they are attached, from as far away as Europe.

We sometimes go to the Farmers Market to buy and eat some animals. Yesterday, at the West Seattle Farmers Market, a bear escaped to the Junction at California and Alaska looking like it was wanting to eat some humans.

For those of you that are info Top Chef, you can check out the full review of last night's episode on Chicagoist. We were excited to see that beer had the spotlight for part of the show, but it was sad to see it was done in such a sell-out, corporate fashion. Check out the embedded clip for the ten-minute Quickfire Challenge (you can forward to the 3:45 mark).

This weekend's highlight for Geoff will be a Brewer's Dinner at The Collins Pub held by Hair of the Dog Brewery from Portland. 6 courses paired with 6 beers, plus a few special releases to boot. As a Bears and now semi-Seahawks fan, he'll be hoping that Brett Favre breaks a hip during Saturday's Seahawks game at Lambeau Field.

Placekickers are held in low regard by their football teammates.

Saturday, Tera will give herself a VIP tour at the opening of Aritzia. She will follow this potentially hectic event by introducing a friend to her newest wine obsession - Twisted Cork. Sunday she will trek to Qwest and root for Chicago, uh, eh, oops...Seattle. Yes, root for the Seahawks. Jack's heading to the Showbox proper tonight to see Canadian indie pop band Stars. Sunday, he's hoping to see Rex Grossman slip into old...

It's still raining, but that's not stopping us this weekend. As we get ready to head out the door, the Seattlest staff is once again sharing our weekend plans in the hopes that we'll see you along the way.

We recently asked friends and strangers if hosts of popular television shows “Devine Design”, “Flip This House” and “House Hunters” were real-life designers and real estate agents before network giants “discovered” them.

Late summer is berry season, which means it is also bear season. A 51 year-old man mountain biking in Banner Forest (near Port Orchard on the Kitsap Peninsula) was attacked by a male black bear last week. His dogs were running ahead of him, and he heard them barking. He turned a corner, and was face-to-face with the bear, which then attacked him. Attacks by black bears are remarkably rare, which makes the situation all the more puzzling. Miraculously he survived and is in good condition, and both dogs are alive and well. Every mountain biker, hunter, hiker, random person that Seattlest knows seems to have their own opinion: he shouldn't have had his dogs off leash, shouldn't have been riding by himself, he was in a freaking "Forest" what do you expect...and so on.

After living 56 steps (Yes, we counted several times) from this branch of the Elysian Brewery, Elysian Tangletown will always be one of our favorites.

German squirrels are roaming Berlin on a murderous rampage.

All-Pro Alcohol Consumer Jerramy Stevens will play football for Tampa Bay next season. The Buccaneers signed Stevens after the draft on Sunday (terms undisclosed) but not before having a little sit-down. "We had a very serious talk with him today," said GM Bruce Allen. "I think Jerramy Stevens is a good young man. He is focused on doing things right. More importantly, he has to do things right."

In the future, when Vegas favors your Super Bowl opponent by a touchdown or more, it's best to consider that they're perpetrating some fraud on the betting public or simply don't know what they're talking about only after you've thought long and hard on the possibility that they indeed know exactly what they're talking about. You should, unlike Seattlest -- born and raised in the Windy City -- think long and hard on it before you finish a particularly drinky NFC Championship by seating yourself in front of Southwest.com. In retrospect, no way the Bears are winning that game, and even if they do it's ten below outside -- only the most jingoistic of idiots turns cars over and parties in the streets when it's ten below. There was no Shuffling in Chicago this weekend. It was more of a mad dash from one thermostat to the next.

--The guy who was in charge of the Zune squirted himself off the Microsoft campus to "focus on the next chapter of his life." Riiight. X-Box leader J Allard takes over.

As we have documented before our local politicians enjoy wagering on sportsball games with politicians from other cities. However, for some reason our guys keep picking the Seattle team and losing the best.

--Didn't seem like the same Rex Grossman yesterday either, did it? (From someone who has seen every Bears game this season, no, it did not.)

Unfortunately, the Bears still won, in overtime, and a tumultuous 2006 Seahawk season is over.

--Seattle Song scales Mt. Si for the scenery.

The Seahawks and Bears have never met in the playoffs, however, Seattle teams have danced with the Windy City's finest in the postseason.

Editor Dan loves you, Seattle. City, people, land, water and professional sports franchises; all of it. However, he cannot back you on the issue of the Seattle Seahawks vs. the Chicago Bears. If you're looking for calming words of compassion or hilarious Seahawks histrionics Seattlest will take care of you there, too, but one of us grew up with a Bears helmet painted on our neighbor's garage door and didn't appear in a photograph without any Bears paraphernalia until he was about 15, and that kind of indoctrination just doesn't wash away in half a decade of Seattle drizzle. In fact, to this day we maintain a close relationship with a few Chicago-based RSS feeds and we'll check in on them throughout the week.

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to.

Our national football correspondent, Pauls Toutonghi, is scouting potential Seahawks playoff opponents for us, and may have found a way to make the Bears' Rex Grossman even worse

The -ists this week had politics on the brain. And what goes better with politics? Partying-- that's two great tastes in one. Oh, and Kevin Federline...can't forget about Kevin Federline. That's three great tastes in one.

On the last day of September, the Huskies beat Arizona for their third consecutive victory, and the Seahawks were in Chicago, feeling pretty good about inaugurating October against the Bears. Sure, Shaun Alexander was out, but their potent four-receiver attack had rolled over the Giants.

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for?

Strange connection we know, but anyone at the sold out Neumo's show last night got an earful of it. Marc Broussard and company were in town slinging their Southern Louisiana charm on us unsuspecting Seattleites and we were all googley eyed in amazement. The music was a refreshing mix of his old classics and some great new material (great new song). Seemingly out of place at Neumo's, the soul/jazz/r&b/rock combination was a refreshing change of pace. We still have fond memories from the first time we saw Marc Broussard in Seattle - two years ago on a rain-soaked Bumbershoot Mainstage. Last night was much more comfortable, but noticeably less on the "rock" side than their first show. One other thing we noticed last time and didn't this time? The absence of their RIDICULOUS lead-guitar player. Where the hell was that guy? We were amazed before, but he was nowhere to be found. Did Seattlest stumble upon some tour drama here? Nevertheless, they pulled it off without him and the bass player kindly picked up where his missing band mate left off. Fresh off a prison beating by the Chicago Bears - we were even sympathetic to the on-stage banter about his frustration with Reggie Bush and the New Orleans Saints. At one point they stopped the set to make a toast to Reggie Bush with a few Jagerbombs and even incorporated him into some of their lyrics. Lots of smiles and dancing; who knew Seattle and the Bayou would get along so well together?

With only one out of every one thousand internet searchers using their A9 search engine, Amazon decided to effectively pull the plug on the service by eliminating the once-highly-touted features that supposedly made A9 worth using. From the AP: