photo courtesy of Seattlest Flickr user sonek321 With the eyes of the cycling world focused on the mountains of southern France, why would one of the best-known names in the sport be in Seattle today? Well, if you've been kicked out of cycling's top event because of your shady past and you describe your own team as "having come to symbolize cycling's doping scandal," the only obvious solution is to deny everything and go on......

Last night, a besuited Crispin Hellion Glover took the stage at Broadway Performance Hall with the perfunctory greeting: "Good evening. Presently, I will read to you from eight books." And he did. Now, we were kinda expecting something along those lines, as the Northwest Film Forum's blurb on his film events this weekend announced: All performances preceded by Glover’s one-hour slide show, which consists of ten eight different stories dramatically narrated by Glover himself.......

A while ago we were looking for a picture of a mojito and in our search we ran into local author (and mojito photographer) Amanda Ford. She told us she had a book coming out and we said, Great, let us know when it's on the shelves and we'll interview you. The book is called Kiss Me I'm Single: An Ode to the Solo Life, and its message is of "fierce individuality and even stronger......

Christopher Hitchens filled Town Hall to overflowing last night to talk about his new book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. It was nearly standing room only. Seattlest was one of the last people to squeeze into the hall and find a seat. Apparently Seattle has a lot of atheists. Who knew? In his other appearances around the country, Hitchens has appeared with a local theist as a debate partner. He was scheduled......

Seattlest went undercover last night, attending a book launch party for The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design by Dr. Jonathan Wells, senior fellow of the Discovery Institute. The party was held in the Rainier Square Atrium and was open to the public - when a press release announcing the event popped up on our Technorati watchlist for "book signing Seattle" last month we put it immediately on our calendar. Dr. Wells, accompanied......

-Danny Westneat commits a felony in today's Seattle Times by talking about online gambling sites. PoP comments. -The awesome Orcinus blog announced a summertime shift away from right-wing militias and towards environmental issues. And whales. -Amazon.com thinks that it can succeed where others have failed and has begun hawking groceries online. -This chick went to the Anderson Cooper book signing wearing an "Anderson Cooper gives me a boner" tee shirt. -Joel Pinero may have......

If you're a liberal, a Democrat, left-leaning, a new media person, an old media person, a fundraiser, a grassroots organizer, or a blogger or any combination of those you probably already know that some of the cool kids are in town this weekend and have plans to catch them in concert at least once. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of Daily Kos and Jerome Armstrong of MyDD are going to be kicking around Seattle and the area......

We know we already trumpeted Pete Bagge and the comic artist group show at the Sessions Gallery, but comic artists are a deprived, media-hungry bunch who are always clawing their way in the spotlight—and we don’t want to anger them. That’s why we recommend you get your autograph pads and hustle down to Zanadu Comics (1923 3rd Ave.) this Wednesday, from 4-6 pm, for a book signing for the new comics anthology, Roadstrips. Put together......

In 1996, Kirsten Anderson opened an issue of Juxtapoz and fell for an art movement. Two years later, she founded Roq La Rue, Seattle’s first art gallery devoted to Lowbrow and Pop Surrealism. Last year Anderson literally wrote (and edited) the book on Pop Surrealism, sensically titled Pop Surrealism. And last month Roq La Rue moved into its fourth space -- the largest yet -- just in time for its annual Halloween group exhibit and......

Just like the Nick Hornby event a couple weeks ago, the UW bookstore is sponsoring another author reading at the Neptune tonight. This time it's beloved B-movie actor Bruce Campbell, who will be reading from his latest book (his first novel) Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way. He'll be signing copies of the book if and only if you buy it from the bookstore---this gets you a numbered ticket, which confers upon you a place......

Fans of progressive radio will want to tune in this afternoon between 12 and 3pm (you're late) for the Ed Schultz Show broadcast from Town Hall. If you had known about the event earlier you could have bought tickets to see it live and helped benefit First Place, but you already dropped the ball on that. Listen to AM 1090 to hear Ed talk to Governor Gregoire about her current trade mission (she'll be on......