It would seem someone in Seattle not only likes Blayne, our uber-tanned licious-loving local on Project Runway: someone loves him. The self-described "crazy drunk boy at R Place" admits to hyperventilating after meeting The Blayne (oops, wrong contestant), but valiantly asks for another chance via Craigslist's Missed Connections.......

Last week, Seattlest was embarrassed when the one local chap to make it onto the Greatest Reality Show That Ever Was (Blayne) turned out to be the camera-hoggy, catch phrase-happy, can-tanned queeny diaper-dress designer. So, we were thrilled pleased to see he somehow toned it down for week two. There was only one obnoxioulicious catch phrase moment, and even his fake-n-bake tan looked a little less, well, fake-n-bakey. He even made us giggle in the......

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). The chefs were challenged to......

On May 2nd, during the Bravo!-glam event of this spring, twenty teams from several of Seattle's best design firms will showcase the innovative (and hopefully, fierce!) haute couture lines they've been challenged to design from manufacturing materials like upholstery, plastics, and lighting. Though this won't be on TV, the entertainment value of this one-night-only fashion show looks very promising. Oh, my! What will Seattlest wear to Product Runway? Our usual hoodie and jeans combo......

Tonight: Style Out in SoDo or Neema/Cool Nutz/Cancer Rising in Fremont? The choice is difficult for local hiphop fans. On the one hand, we've got Alpha P (classic and skilled pros), The Physics (hilarious and enthused), and a host of talented performers working the social movement angle of hiphop. On the other hand, we've got Neema (he's promised a bunch of new material tonight), Cool Nutz (from NE Portland, repping the deliciously dope King......

Alice in Chains’ former lead singer would be blowing out candles today had he not said yes, yes, yes to drugs. The Chains gang would likely still be making both crunchy (Dirt) and beautiful (Sap) music. Jerry Cantrell, who co-founded the band with Layne, probably would have written some lighter lyrics and cut his hair. Seattlest would have had the pleasure of seeing Alice in Chains—or the supergroup Mad Season—live. Even more importantly, had Layne......

Our land, this inlet on the western coast of the North American continent, is a fortunate one, endowed with natural riches and settled by people who do not confuse prosperity with moral superiority. Modesty becomes us; we do not flaunt our advantages. With pleasure, then, we open Kurt Dammeier's new book, Pure Flavor, which celebrates our region's bounty and offers some suggestions for simple preparations that enhance the pleasure this fare brings to our senses.......

Mom always told me not to talk with my mouth full. But that's just what Leite's Culinaria wants local food writers to do for a project about food writing. Launched last year in New York City, now spreading around the country, "Talking With Your Mouth Full" is a night of reading by food writers "to highlight the versatility of the craft." Contact for Seattle is Kathleen Flinn, author of the soon-to-be-published memoir of a year......

Monday BOOK CRUSH: Librarian Nancy Pearl´s latest book is Book Crush, a guide to books you loved when you were growing up. How does she know? Head over to the launch party and find out. 7-8:30pm // Seattle Central Public Library Microsoft Auditorium // FREE PETER BEAGLE SPEAKS: For the Fantastic Fiction Salon, fantasy author Peter Beagle (The Last Unicorn, Tamsin, and The Innkeeper's Song) teaches "Dialogue Says it All." 7pm // Hugo House......

OK, Seattle maybe you're not so bad. Or, maybe someone hasn't caught an incident here like this series of crashes on an obviously icy street in Portland (sorry, couldn't find it on YouTube). The very first driver is by far our favorite: caroming off cars and telephone poles, and somehow accelerating across the same intersection three times until they run into a wall. And even that wall can't stop them. Bravo!......

Over the last six weeks, we scored a temp gig working for a certain, local e-retailer that possesses the planet's largest selection. On our daily jaunts to the International District, we had the chance to observe progress on the Sound Transit tunnel. With its above-ground plaza, the I.D. station is the only place in which one can leisurely peek down into the tunnel during construction. At first, the deserted station, what with its fine......

The big drama on Project Runway this week was Jude Law getting thrown off the show for having contraband in his room at the PR compound and we have to say that it was more than a little disappointing how quietly he went into that good night. Can you imagine past villians getting thrown off the show for having fashion books in their room? Santino would have popped a neck vein and whipped Gunn with......

To the right is a picture of a llama named Bravo, which we chose because Seattle Opera's BRAVO! Club has 477 members and they would not all fit in a photo. Also, we like llamas. Wednesday night, BRAVO! took over the Frye Art Museum (which is the kind of thing they do) to give themselves a private birthday party, though they didn't have any cake that we could see. There were hors d'oeuvres and......

In a not-always-successful attempt to keep our TV watching to a minimum, we have a no-reality-TV rule at home. But we do have one exception: Top Chef. New episodes broadcast on Bravo TV at 10pm on Wednesdays, but the Bravo people must be even more into the series than we are because you can watch practically the entire season every day, and we think that next Wednesday you can, in fact, watch the ENTIRE season,......

Seattlest had two very different opera experiences this past weekend, and we wanted to share both with you. (We know Seattlest’s own MVB has already favorably reviewed one of them, but we wanted to add our own two cents.) Here’s the thing about Die Fledermaus (aka “The Bat”). Yes, it’s enjoyably light and funny, but it has moments that fall flat. An operetta (which is the category Die Fledermaus falls into) requires more acting than......

A fire did some damage to an apartment building in Bellevue last night and forced the evacuation of 200 residents when someone's flaming kitchen got out of hand. Newly installed fire alarms are being credited with getting everyone evacuated, but the resident we talked to said he messed with his until a wire finally came loose and it shut up. Only then did he realize that alarms were also going off in the adjacent......

Seattle's own Bill Gates was named Time magazine's Man, or "Person," of the Year. Well, he and that wife of his, Melinda, who will share the honor with 'You Too' front man Bono. The magazine chose the three because of their, "charitable work and activism, and not because, "we needed to pick two white people and a foreigner, " like in 1987. The Medina couple's Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (selfishly named after themselves) has......

Previously on Showdog Moms and Dads: Seattle's own Brandon and Ryan took Liberace to doggie physical therapy and headed off to Philadelphia for the Big Show. Worlds collided on last night's Showdogs episode as the five families assembled in a bed-and-breakfast outside of Philadelphia. Last week we proposed betting on the first person to be bitten by Liberace--and we can't declare a winner, since the little terror managed to nip at almost every other......

Previously on Showdog Moms and Dads: Seattle's own Brandon and Ryan took Liberace to L.A. and had a great big fight. Liberace had the cast removed from his little tiny leg, and continues to prove himself the shrillest, nippiest, most unpleasant of yippy little dogs. The guys took him to pool therapy, where a well-paid woman in a wetsuit helped him swim around the pool. (Seriously, who knew there was such a wide range......

Previously on Showdog Moms and Dads: Brandon and Ryan's little Liberace broke his leg and had surgery. Brandon and Ryan took Alaska Airlines down to LA so that Ryan's company, High Maintenance Bitch, could have a booth at the Emmy Awards. The guys took a walk on the beach in Malibu, where Brandon fell obsessively in love with a very large house, then busted out with the quote of the night: "Do they have......

Previously on Showdog Moms and Dads: "SPRAY BOTTLE! SPRAY BOTTLE!" A bit light on the levity this week on Showdogs: Seattle's own Liberace fell down the stairs and broke his little leg. Brandon and Ryan hung tough with him at the vet's, at least until Brandon had to leave to sell cell phones. We think we're starting to "get" the relationship...especially when Brandon referred to Ryan as his "housewife." Poor little Liberace. He had......

Previously on Showdog Moms and Dads: Brandon and Ryan went all Cops on us and involved the Issaquah police in their dog-related domestic dispute. We open back in the parking lot of Riverdog in Issaquah, where Brandon is telling the cops that Ryan is holding his dog "for ransom," which we think has to be the most dramatic reimagining of the situation possible, and which, we have decided, is driving us further into Ryan's......

Wherein Seattlest follows the fate of Seattle's most recent reality TV folk, Brandon and Ryan of Showdog Moms and Dads. We got a little preachy in our last post about Showdog Moms and Dads, so this week we'll just tell you about the funny stuff you missed. It was a show devoted to the area below the belt. Lourdes, the childless woman who treats her German shepherds as her children, took her bitch in......

When one door closes, another one opens. Just a few weeks after Bellevue's Willard was voted off Survivor, we are now represented, reality-TV wise, by two local fellas named Brandon and Ryan on Bravo's Showdog Moms and Dads. The show is an extension of Showbiz Moms and Dads, where we watched bad parenting in action in the form of adults forcing their children to become child actors. The show was hilarious, but only because......

Not sure what to do tomorrow night? If Autolux isn't your thing, we have a few ideas that might be right up your alley. If you feel like going highbrow on hump day, head over to Town Hall at 7:30 to see physicist and best selling author Brian Greene drop some knowledge about superstring theory. What is superstring theory, you ask? Well, it's the attempt to reconcile Newtonian-style physics and the subatomic particle level.......