Time magazine claims, "You can't swing a dead cat this time of year without hitting a Top 10 List." Never one to waste a perfectly good dead cat, we decided to take a swing and create a Top Random-Number Shows Seattlest Saw This Year. And now, without any further ado, here's how your favorite bloggers broke down the year: According to Dante, everything else pared in comparison to Daft Punk at WaMu Theater 7/29/07. OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!......

Anita Rowland, matriarch of Seattle bloggers, wife and fantastic human being lost her fight with cancer yesterday. Anita was writing about her life and posting it on the web before there was a word for that kind of thing, and her real-world blogger meetups fostered a strong sense of community in an electronic medium that can be cold and isolating without friendly face-to-face contact. She'll be missed by many, as can be seen at her......

Realizing we’re in the midst of the “R” months, we had a sudden craving for happy hour oysters. But where? Recalling a recent review, we Googled “shucker's happy hour oysters” and quickly jumped on a bus after reading the first result: a June reprint of a 2006 rave in the Seattle Weekly about Shucker's fifty-cent oysters, two-dollar margaritas, and free parmesan crisps. We lost on almost all three accounts. Oysters had doubled to a dollar......

Conventional wisdom says these days ain't happy ones for pulp-and-print publications. Circulation's down. Ad revenues are down. Everyone wants to read online. So nearly every newspaper, magazine and television news program has a host of blogs these days, to compete with the millions of self-described experts, autodidacts, conspiracy theorists and Chuck Norris-aficionados who propagate the blogosphere with their own brand of citizen journalism (read: poor spelling and poorer grammar). Indeed, it's hard to get noticed......

It's become fairly commonplace for the brighter real estate bloggers, like Timothy "The Tim" Ellis over at SeattleBubble, to mock P-I reporter Aubrey Cohen once a month. See Cohen--the P-I's lead real estate reporter--writes an article about the state of the national housing market once a month when the industry standard Case-Shiller numbers are released. The Case-Shiller index (from S&P) tracks the changes in home prices for 20 US metropolitan areas each month as......

We hear the insults. Bloggers are no-names. We are malcontents. We live in our parents' basements, practicing onanism like Tiger Woods practices putting. Well we have news for you, blogger-haters. Laugh no more, because a man who has the earned respect of many for his political activism and musical genius is joining our growing club. Krist Novoselic has started a blog. This hero of the 1990s, a man who had the courage to throw his......

In December we wrote about local restaurant review site Urbanspoon. We loved it then, we love it now, and we've been loving it in the interim. Since we last chatted with Ethan Lowry, one of the three brains behind the site, Urbanspoon has really fleshed things out and branched out to a bunch of other cities. Are you a food guy or a tech guy? What's your background? I've been eating since I was born,......

When Amazon.com announced Amazon Fresh last week, it piqued some bloggers' curiosity, but we didn't spend much time thinking about it. Grocery delivery? Interesting, but we weren't going to dive in. Then this weekend we read about the "thug"-infested Safeway -- in Rainier Beach! Crap, we thought to ourselves. That's our Safeway, literally just a few blocks from our house. Apparently we're risking random parking lot beatdowns every time we visit. (It's not the closest......

Early during Sunday's Vampire Weekend set we sent a note to a friend asking, "Has KEXP frat-rock been coined a genre yet?" It was a half-flippant statement, based on the overly-enthusiastic fratty dudes standing to our left and the band's J. Crew ad appearance. In our more bitter days, we would have allowed those two factors to color our impression of the band and their output, but we'd already enjoyed Vampire Weekend's eponymous EP, so......

Back when Buffy (BtVS, that is) was on, our clan would gather on Tuesday nights to recap the week before, watch the new episode, and speculate wildly about where things were going next. We rotated hosting duties. We can't think of a TV show since that glued us all together like that (even the seventh season, which glued us mainly in disbelief that it was ending). But one evening we turned on Buffy and it......

You probably don't read ex-Seattle Weekly reporter Philip Dawdy's blog Furious Seasons. That's ok. That's why we're here: to read every blog in existence and let you know when something interesting happens (which turns out to be rarely). Philip writes about clinical depression and the little cottage industry of humongous corporations that have grown up around that illness. It's a well-written and well-researched blog by a guy who's been working that beat for several years,......

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we're sensational, but it's very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we've decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week. Torontoist Special Report: Rosie to Trump: "Fire 300 Bicyclists for Fraud!" On DCist: Students Go Wild for Slogans, Secrets and Sexual Harassment The action was thick......

What's that horn? Our own? You don't say! Latest issue of Seattle Magazine names Best Restaurants as well as Best Food Blogs. So here's the first entry, by Matthew Amster-Burton, about Seattlest contributor Ronald: Cornichon (cornichon.org) Ronald Holden is a PR agent by day and Belltown's boulevardier by night; he never misses a grand opening and never holds back with his opinion. (Full disclosure: Holden once called me a "normally reliable freelance foodie," which I'm......

We'd heard of Paleo before, but didn't know much about him, so we trucked all the way from the Hill to Ballard just to check him live. His MySpace page said the show started at 8, but the bar door was locked when we got there. We really enjoyed our four side dishes at Hatties Hat while we waited for the Tractor to open. Unfortunately, Hatties' spinach casserole and sweet potato fries were the......

Spring appears to have, er, sprung, at least temporarily, in most of the Ist-A-Verse, so naturally, we're all feeling pretty good. (Yes, we know that spring doesn't officially start till later this month. Just let us enjoy our weather!) And that makes us that much more eager to share all of the nifty things we're up to... Over at Sampaist, spring has more than sprung: it's sweltering! But, as everyone knows, museums are an......

--A portion of all Sonics/Storm ticket sales now go to opposing civil rights for gays!. --Local bloggers watched the Oscars: Slog, Northwest Progressive Institute, Blatherwatch, --The brackets for the 4A state boys and girls tournaments are set. --The best and worst of customer service in Kirkland. --The Pacific is learning how we talk about the weather in Seattle. --Why is the 48 called the Tiger Woods of the bus system?......

Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don't let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things we love, you included. Just be glad you're not amongst the things we hate. SFist saw their beloved mayor enter rehab, and they loved the......

We got an email last week pointing us to a West Seattle blog post and a thread on Seattle LJ about Pagliacci and their delivery areas. The speculation was that since the pizza place wouldn't deliver to some shady neighborhoods that seemed more physically proximate to its store than other, more upscale, neighborhoods that it would deliver to, there must be a great Pagliacci conspiracy going on in West Seattle. The email suggested that it......

As the world holds it's breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning. Austinist was in a musical frame of mind as they listened to the new Shins album, updated the SXSW band listings and got called "punk rock" for their efforts by MTV. And an ice storm swept through the area. Bostonist said goodbye to John Kerry's plans......

Today marks the final edition of the King County Journal, a newspaper that, in various incarnations, has been covering suburban King County for like, a hundred years or something. Yeah, I know: Stop the presses. Newspapers, those rough first drafts of history, aren't supposed to just cease to exist. I worked as a reporter at the KCJ until the end of the year, then started another job. It was a lucky break; I didn't......

If you're in the mood for some wide-eyed, Kool-Aid stained boosterism, look no further than this article in today's P-I. It's in response to the New York Times piece announcing a condo-sales slump. The tone is strictly "move along, nothing to see here." It begins: Seattle's market was not to blame for a recent decision to change a planned 34-story downtown building from condominiums to apartments. Rather, the slumping condo markets in cities such......

We watched the CNN special tonight that went behind the scenes at Time magazine and documented the process by which they choose their annual "Person of the Year" award. Those who love to rail against the MSM will be pleased if not flattered by their decision, and no doubt many bloggers and other contributors of "user-generated content" (which should get awarded "Most Overused, Awful Buzz Word of the Year") will rejoice. Many will say it......

Bill Gates made some interesting comments on Digital Rights Management in front of a group of bloggers today in Seattle. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch and a room full of Mac laptop-wielding leading-blogger types got to chat with Gates on the subject of the approaching Mix Conference in Las Vegas, and one of the questions that was asked concerned the long-term viability of DRM. The Microsoft Zune has gotten a lot of criticism over its implementation......

Speak now before McCain's new bill makes us turn comments off forever. – Commercial websites and personal blogs “would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000.” – Internet service providers (ISPs) are already required to issue such reports, but under McCain’s legislation, bloggers with comment sections may face “even stiffer penalties” than ISPs. — Social networking sites will be forced to take......

--There's a Nintendo video game based on the paintings of Bob Ross that was getting developed in Seattle, but it looks like it got yanked. Damn, damn, damn that would have been awesome. --Free piano on Capitol Hill. Uh, you provide the transport, we imagine. --If you spot a little riot going on in the streets this weekend, take a look around for a camera crew before you start throwing news boxes through windows. Battle......

--UW researchers have discovered how to spy on users of the new Nike+ipod sports kit. --Are there any bloggers out there who wouldn't consider a career change to alpaca sales? --The Robotic Gourmand's verdict on Pagliacci pizza: nice crust, tasty sauce, cheese that tastes like it comes from a box. --If you think the Hawks' D.J. Hackett kicks ass, you're right. Seahawks Insider proves it. --Looking for cool greeting cards? Look no further. --"Do I......

Pete Wells, the guy who notoriously hates food bloggers, is now the Dining & Wine editor at the Noo Yawk Times. Seattlest, who wasn't indicted (in fact, escaped mention enitrely) is thus inclined to be charitable, despite, well, problems in several recent items. Wells's latest article, a melancholy piece about an underappreciated cocktail of his own invention, only serves to reinforce Seattle's place in the cocktail universe. (Leaving aside, for a moment, that NYT editors......

If you're hiking, consider charging up your iPod, as Seattlest finds out that a man lost during a hike was found by the glow of his iPod. That cleverness seems to be devoid in cops who were using police cruiser instant messaging clients - although we imagine IMs "so are you nakie" to be included in cop shows, just for realism. If only the cops were busting the Hummer-driving jerk who made a poor......

Holy crap are we proud of Microsoft today! No, we know you're braced for this to take a dramatic turn towards the ironic at any moment, but straight-up, this is good stuff. The BBC is reporting that Microsoft has threatened to stop doing business in China if the regime there doesn't back off on the human rights violations. The particular offense that has Redmond reconsidering the Chinese market? China's crackdown on bloggers! "Things are......

We are not running out of oil. So says UW professor of Economic Geology, Eric Cheney. (Economic Geology? Never heard of it but apparently it exists.) It will just eventually cost more than anyone could probably ever afford. It might be a heck of a lot more expensive than it is now, but there will always be some oil available at a price, perhaps $10 to $100 a gallon. Let's see, fuel becoming scarce enough......