No way to avoid it, it's Christmas weekend. But there's still plenty to do, and more than you might expect with which to distract yourself. So after you get your shopping done at Century Ballroom, go see the best Pageant ever at the Blue Moon Tavern (yes, really), and then dance yourself clean on Christmas proper at Re-bar. more ›

The 41st annual Bumbershoot kicks off tomorrow, The Big Lebowski settles into the cinema, and the Nu Klezmer Army takes over the Moon, all this weekend! more ›

MORE HORNS: If there's one motto consistent through the years of this Seattlest's life, it's "More horns!" It's similar to "More Cowbell," but inclusive of such excellent instruments as the trumpet, the french horn, the tuba, and--our favorite--the trombone. That's why we're recommending you attend HonkFest West this weekend, a three-day event in Ballard and Georgetown dedicated to horns and drums. See the schedule here. more ›

QUEER AS...: Northwest Film Forum and Three Dollar Bill Cinema have gotten together for a new series running all April on Thursdays at the Forum: God Save the Queens, a four-week retrospective on British queer cinema. Tonight, it's , a 1964 biker movie about gay romance amongst working class Brits. Originally commissioned as a novel about a "Romeo and Romeo in the South London suburbs," the story was substantially tamed down for filming, but still violated the Hollywood Production Code (it was one of the earliest films to be screened in the U.S. despite that fact). more ›

Donte is taking advantage of cheap post-holiday travel by heading down to SFist territory to see Lindstrom's only west coast date on this mini-tour, since Where You Go I Go Too was one of last year's best releases. more ›

Katelyn has, as usual, what feels like several dozen shows to attend this weekend. She'll be darting in and out of venues, doing the laundry she meant to do three weeks ago, and making a point to re-stock her sock supply at Target. more ›

WHO IS INVERSE'S INVERSE? California hiphop duo Inverse are named thus because, to a potentially undiscerning eye, the two rappers' backgrounds don't have very much in common with each other. Sometimes opposites make the best hiphop, though, each side bringing its own wealth of experience and musical influences. According to their Myspace, Inverse raps about "happiness, pain and everything in between." With locals Cancer Rising, Akrish, Notion, and Know Choice opening up for them, this is going to be an easy-going, sunny hiphop show that will do right by you this weekend. more ›

Stalk of the Town returns! This weekend officially welcomes us to the rainy season. So how will Seattlest be reaffirming life and nourishing our collective creative urge? more ›

CELEBRATE THE SALMON: The Pacific Northwest is known for coffee, technology, and Boeing these days, but three hundred years ago we were known--if you'll allow us some leeway in the use of "known"--for salmon and trees. A group of Northwest Indian tribal organizations throws an annual, multi-ethnic, three-day party down on the Waterfront to celebrate the spiritual and ecological importance of salmon in our region, and the party commences today. Along with the music, dancing, pow wow, and usual vendors, there will of course be a salmon barbeque--so bring your appetite! more ›

ARTISTS X-ING, WITH CAMERAS: A motley crew of photographers are gathering down at the Market tonight to explore the area through their camera lenses for the evening. They're meeting at that brass pig by the fish throwers (could this event get any more Seattle?) and will be snapping photos around the Market, downtown, Pioneer Square, the waterfront, and more. It's open to anyone who wants to join in the spirit of discovery and photography. more ›

Three shows have claims on our affections for Friday night: Onry Ozzborn’s solo set at Nectar, We Wrote The Book On Connectors at the Blue Moon, and the hippest hiphop night to grace Belltown in awhile, “The Corner” at the Rendezvous Room. more ›

We had a little haus-warming party Friday to celebrate our new East Ballard digs. We've been enjoying our new neighborhood, meeting new human and feline neighbors during our walks, discovering its little nooks, and enjoying all of the old pickup trucks that seem to be one of its characteristics. We hope to start boring you with our fabricated embellished observations soon. At some point during our proceedings on Friday, local historian and awesome guy, Walt Crowley boarded a train bound beyond the mortal limits of the city of Seattle. more ›

Admittedly, this weekend is pretty dead. Here's what we got: more ›

7:30pm // ACT // $10 (25 and under) to $54 more ›

We got our first link to WalkScore in the email a week ago and the idea of a mapping site that scored the walkability of neighborhoods sounded interesting, but when we tried to visit the site we found that it didn't work in Firefox. more ›

We've always gotten a strong High Fidelity vibe from Pitchfork. Duh, right? The music geek relationship is hardly subtle. But now that Blue Moon booker Jason Josephes is spreading these recordings he made in Minneapolis with Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber back in '97 we can't even think of the music moguls at P'fork and not imagine a dank basement with matresses crammed against the walls, a mic hanging from an exposed two by four and John Cusack tapping away at a Casio singing about a naked transexual with nothing but margerine for eyes. You can hear the fat in her thighs... more ›

Seattlest expects another round of the ever-fascinating debate on Seattle identity: Greater Seattle vs. Lesser Seattle, mossback vs. booster, REI vs. Macy's, McQ vs. Singles. Lusty Lady vs. Four Seasons (oh wait -- they struck a balance). Pick your thesis and antithesis. more ›

This weekend there are a lot of shows that we recommend you avoid, not that you're going to listen to Seattlest and tear up your tickets or anything, but if you previously had no idea these were happening this weekend you can pat yourself on the back for successfully avoiding any mention of them so far. First Fishbone is playing Studio 7. Stay away. Second, Jello Biafra is in town. Not there's anything wrong with Jello, exactly. Let's just say he draws a particular crowd. Finally, the Gypsy Kings are at the Paramount. more ›

Is Seattlest the only person left that hates seeing the last of the city's beer-only drinking venues launch themselves into the new cocktail era and start serving hard alcohol? The Comet--that was a blow. We loved the fact that you could only get beer and wine there up until a year or so ago. You could buy everyone who was bellied-up a "shot" for like $20. The shot was actually some weird glug or something that walked the line of alcohol content they were allowed to serve, but it was cheap as hell. Now the Blue Moon has apparently made nice with the Control Board and is updating their liquor license to enable the sales of hard alcohol. Great, great bar, as it is. Great residents, great transients. One of the funnest bars in Seattle and the patrons seem to get plenty drunk on the current offerings. When Seattlest Dan and Seattlest MVB were in there recently we hadn't been sitting for ten minutes before some woman from Alaska dumped the contents of her purse on our table and sprayed us with cheap perfume. She got 86'd about 20 times and every time she returned she'd show up at the table looking for her phone and her coat. The last thing she needed was a shot, but if it were available at the bar we have no doubt someone would have slipped her one. Now, we understand that bars make a crap-load of money from the sales of hard alcohol and that dives have been getting killed lately by the smoking thing and the sprinkler thing, but we still love us a pub. Are there any left? And if we're going to continue to phase out these Draconian, Victorian-age drinking laws where are we going to address the ridiculous state-run liquor stores? more ›

My name is Marianne Short and I am the Vice President of Human Resources with the Seattle Mariners. I have tried to do some detective work here after I saw a blog that someone had sent me describing a situation that developed while trying to fill out an application at Safeco Field. I have narrowed the search down to you and hope I am sending this to the right person. more ›

The Mariners' player payroll will top $100 million in 2007. $111 million, to be more precise, an $18 million increase over last year. more ›

-"Runaway Train was the best song of the 90s." "You're fucking high, old man." more ›

The Blue Moon isn't closing - the guy who owns it is just considering selling it because he doesn't want to sign a Good Neighbor agreement in order to get a hard alcohol license. But, hey, let's eulogize it anyway! A bunch of famouns literary types used to drink there and it's a cozy little dive and blah blah blah. We always order the swill from the Blue Moon for some reason and you've just read the most half-assed eulogy of all time. The Moon would have wanted it that way. more ›

The PI got all Mossback on Seattle's newish crop of shiny shirt enclaves today with an article entitled, "Classy clubs or cheap imports?" more ›