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It was a coincidence that Central Cinema was showing an all-Swayze ticket starting the night of his death. They're showing Dirty Dancing tonight at 7, and Road House every night until September 17 at 9:30.

• Find yourself a fiesta of sweet and salty Mexican food, plus a few boozy margaritas, as you celebrate Cinco de Mayo around town.
• Taking a trip down Seattle's historical streetcar road, the Central District News reminisces over a really cool map and history of the city's once functional streetcar routes from 1912.
• Sound Transit's boring machines left a lovely reminder of the construction disasters to come, as a Beacon Hill resident found a 21-ft. sinkhole in her backyard.
• Tori Spelling was first to have the bash-all family book tour, now her mom Candy Spelling--clearly still bitter--has her own book tour for Stories from Candyland. Tonight she will bitch share more of her "my daughter doesn't talk to me anymore" stories at Bothell's Third Place Books.
• PhinneyWood has a surprising round-up of local restaurants in their hood receiving some pretty bad scores for their health inspections. We are talking "Red Critical" violations, people.
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From the buzz circulating the budding career of Josh Blue, we thought his Saturday evening performance at the Kirkland Performance Center would be full of self-deprecating and occasionally awkward humor. It was not.

Evergreen State College alumni and fourth-season winner of Last Comic Standing, Josh Blue is coming to the Kirkland Performance Center (KPC) this Saturday. We're looking forward to an evening of self-deprecating humor, as Blue’s comedy stems from his personal experiences of living with cerebral palsy. Blue hopes to dispel stereotypical myths about the "disabled" through stand-up comedy and what he calls "reverse teasing." (His comedy routine is not recommended for children under 16 years old, by the way.)

To see Seattle's culinary scene up close, just like the locals do, get thy butt over to the Gray Line tour desk! Aunt Minnie from Moline can spend a summer afternoon watching a real live chef!

What better way to raise money for cancer than a good old-fashioned moustache pageant? Seemingly classy-ass Monsieur Moustache is tonight at the Capitol Hill Arts Center, with the proceeds going to help pay the leukemia treatment bills of local waiter extraordinare Nick Farina. (Proceeds will also be shared with the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.) Nick's not the only guy out there with over a million dollars in bills (since, you know, our system's fucked), so the organizers are hoping to make this an annual benefit to raise money for cancer patients and organizations.

Last year Seahawks kicker Josh Brown publicly announced his crush on Carrie Underwood. He'd even gotten her phone number. But soon after, Underwood was linked to Cowboys QB Tony Romo.

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.

Unlike rock gods, athletic heroes, or Warren Beatty, quiz hosts don't get groupies. (Not that we'd do anything with groupies, thoughts of our wife prompt us to add.)

How easy it is to poke mean-spirited fun at Silverman Festivals, aka Bite of Seattle. The family-owned commercial enterprise, enabled by the City of Seattle in the guise of a community festival, symbolizes so much of what's wrong with America today: greed, exploitation, overweening appetite and tons of just plain crappy food. A cheap and easy target for the smug and self-satisfied. (For one such potshot, see Cornichon's "Blah of Seattle" post a year ago.)

Last year, we had the joy of walking around town before the precarious date of 6/6/06 and seeing images of nuclear holocaust strung across every light poll in town (meaning on Capitol Hill). This year, we get the pleasure of anticipating our big 3-0 on a far more auspicious date: 7/7/07.

--If Shawn Kemp pitched a reality show, SupersonicSoul thinks it would go a little something like this.

Maybe (okay, most likely) Seattlest is waaay behind on this, but we just watched The Comedians of Comedy and we gotta say, good stuff. You see, our better half is out of town this weekend so we're passing the time doing what any good husband would do in his wife's absence -- putting a nice dent in the checking account by renting movies and drinking too many gin & tonics.

MUSICALS: Camelot opens with previews tonight--the barely-recognizable celebrity they've pressganged into the production is Michael York, who you know from Austin Powers.

We were watching the final episode of VH-1's The Next White Rapper last night and the most ridiculous character on the show was surprisingly not one of the final two rappers (although John "King of the Burbs" Brown is pretty fucking ridiculous), but one of the celebrity music producer guest judges. We can't remember what the guy's name was so there's no way we'll be able to dig up a picture of him, but imagine a man-boy-like skeleton decked out in fat chains and a skewed mesh baseball hat. Dude, you're like 85 years old. Aren't you going to grow up before you die? The music industry is awesome and no small part of that awesomeness is directly attributable to the Peter Pan executives and producers who steal away with all the money in return for appearing in public in some hilarious get-up every now and then.

SEATTLEST BOOK CLUB PICK: For March, we're reading Jonathan Raban's Surveillance, set in a not-so-distant future, when everyone's actions are highly monitored. Get a head start on the conversation by hearing from Raban himself. (We'll know if you went or not.)

NASCAR has dispatched a few celebrity drivers to Olympia to wine, dine and convice law makers of the wisdom behind a Kitsap racing oval. The task is daunting--few Washington officials have expressed a lot of interest in the facility, particularly when a part of the deal is bankrolled by the taxpayer, and a recent Elway poll shows that only 16% of the taxpayer is prepared to put up that money. We have to believe that more than 16% of Washington would appreciate a little car racing in the state, but, well, it's probably the same deal as the Sonics: Seattle doesn't hate basketball, it just doesn't want to be taken advantage of by it. NASCAR is NASCAR, though, and those ads you see plastered all over their cars buy a whole lot of access. They hear "no" once and they ask again. Hear it a second time and they send in Richard Petty to trade a little paint with state senators. This is the bill they're trying to get us to agree to.

resto critic Frank Bruni.

Oh Sundance, has it been a year already since last we ventured to your snowy, film-filled climes? We had barely touched ground before we heard the usual gripes: there's less free parking, more expensive tickets, and it was way better back in the day. Of course, this year there's also no Lindsay Lohan in attendance (thanks rehab!), and the big theme is "Focus on Film," which means, amongst other things, "My idea of 'celebrity' is the filmmaker who directed my favorite film at the Festival." Hear, hear. With that in mind, what we've seen in our first ~18 hours:

After 14 years as executive chef at Ray's Boathouse, Charles Ramseyer is leaving town. Bailing out. He's been recruited by celebrity restaurateur Jeffrey Chodorow (TV's ) to open a new joint in Noo Yawk City called Wild Salmon. Opening day scheduled for April 6th. Charles says he's wants to bring the Pacific Northwest to Manhattan; meanwhile, he offers this advice to those he leaves behind:

Image you're the type to buy a "celebrity owned" Range Rover from Craigslist. Man, is your life fucked up! What is wrong with you? Do you think that just because a Seattle celebrity owned that thing before you that it somehow makes your life more interesting? Is it alpha to own such a vehicle, to sit with your ass in the seat that was occupied by our most embarassing athletic figure? Is it going to help you get laid? Is it going to help you close some kind of deal? Is it going to pay for itself in new accounts inside of year? Or are you going to take a bath on it and not even care because you got to be the guy who bought and sold and took a bath on Brian Bosworth's Range Rover? More power to you. Drive proud. Enough about you. In this Craigslist ad and the accompanying eBay auction, why is the fact that Bosworth owned the vehicle a selling point? And more importantly, how is Brian Bosworth still rolling in a Range Rover? Apparently the old rock star linebacker to classic 80's poster material to movie star to best-selling author to (big drop here) speaker at corporate events career path still pays out after all these years. We'd 'a thought he'd be in something a little more...practical by now. We'll let you know when that one appears on Craigslist: "2001 Civic / Celebrity Owned."

A little over a month ago a fine was levied against Celebrity Cruises for dumping waste water into Puget Sound. Oh how we wish we could say "for illegally dumping waste water into Puget Sound," but, unfortunately, we can't. Cruise ships operate under a Memorandum of Understanding in the Sound that says what they can dump, where, and what happens to them when they completely disregard those rules. It isn't a law, though. It's just something they signed. California has a law governing cruise ship behavior in California waters. Oregon has a law. British Columbia has a law. Damn Alaska has a law.

Everyone knows the recipe for fame in America...

Celebrity Cruises is getting hit with a $100,000 fine for dumping graywater into the Sound. Maybe $100,000 sounds kind of steep for flushing some shower and sink water into the Sound? It happened ten times in nine days. Whoops. The hundred grand is out of the goodness of Celebrity's hearts, though, since there is no legislation that prevents cruise ships from dumping sewage into our water. What we have in the state of Washington is a "Memorandum of Understanding," which we've talked about at greater length in the past. The short version is that cruise companies agree to pay fines if they dump waste water in the Sound, but they can't be inspected and there's no potential for legal enforcement of the fines.

Halloween is Tuesday, which means this weekend is really the time for all of the –ists to celebrate. And whether they’re designing super-spooky costumes or talking about the super-spooky upcoming elections, we’d say that they’re doing a fine job of it.

A certain megalomaniac who will remain nameless lest we feed her already bloated ego recently sent out an email to god knows who, hyping the national tour (including a stop in Seattle tonight) supporting a book she edited. Note the humility evident in the priority of the first sentence:

Seattlest loves coffee. We would never do anything to hurt coffee and we're pretty sure the feeling is mutual. We were raised up in coffee, like Southerners are raised up in the church.

Proving once and for all that there is literally no issue too inconsequential for human beings to bicker about, the blog I Heart Seattle ripped the Slog a new asshole for, among other things, "lacking clarity and standards," having too much "celebrity gossip," and "not linking to other local blogs."