Once upon a time Seattlest considered North Aurora to be a shithole, to be avoided at all costs. But, eventually, we had to go to Home Depot and a used car lot, and that car rack store, and (doh) the unemployment office, and the movie theater, and IHOP and the European deli and Computer Stop and Chubby & Tubby (so far not Stupid Prices, though) and Kmart, Burgermaster, the cemetery and a hundred other tiny......

Some guy who decided Halloween was just too fun to be only one day a year got a heavy dose of ironic justice yesterday:A Puyallup man who posed as a decorated Marine Corps captain for two years will tend graves at the Tahoma Military Cemetery in Kent as part of 500 hours of community service, a federal judge has decided. Reggie L. Buddle, 59, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to unlawful wearing of U.S.......

Just when the CHS blog was getting antsy, our friend Bosco emailed us with the date in question: Smith is set to open Tuesday, June 19. And not a moment too soon. We've been doing the Mervyn's lady "Open Open Open" chant for weeks now. For those of you not familiar, Smith is the newest watering hole from Linda Derschang, goddess of the Seattle-friendly hotspot. There's a whole saga involved involving an ancient Egyptian curse......

Seattlest finally got out to see a performance of Line One at the CHAC on Friday. The premise of Line One is that the actors on stage are all wearing Bluetooth cell phone earpieces - Different people call the show and are patched through to various actors' cell phones and the actors repeat what they say. The theme is different for each performance's phone calls, and part of the reason we took so long to......

Vodka Lemon opened its run at Central Cinema last night and Seattlest was there because, after a forceful interior discussion, we couldn't recall ever having seen an Armenian film. Certainly not lately. Vodka Lemon was shown in Seattle for the 2004 SIFF, but since we usually stall out by the third page of the catalog, this was news to us. In other news, before we get to the movie, Central Cinema has a new spring......

-How many more "kid stumbles on human remains" stories is it going to take to get the whole area declared a cemetery? Is it just us or have there been a ton of these lately? -In another disturbing trend, a high school student in Kent planned a shooting spree but confessed his plot to investigators rather than actually carrying it out. Good choice, kid. -The Stranger's got the Great Blue Hope Darcy Burner's responses......

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......