The state 4A boys basketball tournament is down to the semifinals, and if you had Todd Beamer High going all the way, I'm sorry but you aren't going to win your pool. more ›

LIVING LEGENDS: No, not Twiggy. We're talking about the hiphop crew out of Cali, two members of which will be performing at Neumos tonight. The Grouch and Eligh are touring for the holidays (official tour title: "How The Grouch Stole Christmas"), sharing the evening's bill with Bayliens and 206 Zulu cornerstones Alpha P. The duo will release an album called Say G&E in the spring, so attendees tonight should be getting a sneak peek at the new material; we've also heard The Grouch's solo album Show You The World, which fans of underground and indie hiphop (a la Atmosphere) are encouraged to check out. more ›

At least Chief Sealth's statue is brighter, anyway, thanks to a group of Belltown residents which spent the last few years raising enough money to purchase and install lighting around the memorial. They finally met their goal, and now Chief Sealth's cheekbones are easier to ogle at night. The statue has lived at the intersection of Denny, 5th, and Cedar since 1912. Little known fact: Chief Sealth's Christian name, given to him by missionaries in the mid-1800s, is "Noah." more ›

The bountiful ecosystem of the Pacific Northwest is worth between $243 billion and $1.22.1 trillion, economic and environmentalist researchers announced late last night. Phew! Numbers are far easier to work with than poetic sentiments about our "introverted, feral, buddhistically cool" raindrops (Tom Robbins), "unruly mobs of young clouds" and "green stand of mountains" (Ken Kesey), or Chief Sealth's sacred, inter-connected vision of "every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods." more ›

is the union of two traditions: the one, early American cinema, and the other, the elaborate performances of the Kwakwaka'wakw Tribe. more ›

THEATER: The Brown Derby Series, which debilitated audiences last year with their staged production of Trapped in the Closet, is back, this time they're doing Total Recall. With Seattlest favorite Dusty Warren! more ›

THEATER: You have only five more chances to catch WET’s latest offering, In Disdress Now: Redux. Marya Sea Kaminski’s one-woman show was originally developed as as part of On the Boards' Northwest New Works Festival in June 2006. Now the “story of a girl wrestling meaning out of love, porn, and the folds of an enormous red hoop dress” has been expanded into a full-fledged tour de force. more ›

7 & 9pm // Grand Illusion Cinema [1403 NE 50th (Corner of University Way and 50th)] // $7 more ›

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Yesterday we did a post on Mars Hill and their big article on Salon.com and we definitively established that they're a cult in the comments. So that's settled. Today we've got to mention them again because the Mars Hill blog announced overnight that they'll be up and running in West Seattle on October 1st, but it won't be at their new facility out there because it won't be ready in time. For the time being they'll be holding services at Chief Sealth High School. West Seattle Blog wonders if anyone will care about this comingling of church and state. more ›

-State senator Pat Thibaudeau announced that she won't try to retain her seat in the 43rd against Ed Murray (who announced recently that he wants it). Evergreen Politics has an obit. more ›

-A fishing boat burned up this morning off of Richmond Beach. Six people aboandon ship and Chief Sealth put out the fire. more ›

After releasing a damning report on Chief Sealth's girls' basketball program, two Seattle Times reporters apparently expected the world to stop while investigators tore the school a new one. Instead, just a single player was suspended and Sealth went on to win the state championship. And now those same reporters are doing something you might find surprising: more ›

If you want to avoid the media's glare, you probably don't want to beat an opponent by 84 points. But the Chief Sealth girls' basketball team did just that. And the Seattle Times fixed them in their sights. more ›

Unlike Londoners during the Blitz, we Seattleites haven't had much of a chance to prove our mettle in the face of danger. more ›

March Madness isn't just the NCAA men's tournament, though Seattlest knows they've trademarked the name. At the risk of a lawsuit, we apply it to the hundreds of loser-out basketball tournaments taking place all over the country, from the South Dakota state "A" championship to the public school championships in New York City. Local teams began tournament life last weekend with the Pac-10 Women's basketball tournament and the State 3A Boys and Girls Tournaments. more ›

March is a limbo month--too warm for winter, too cold for spring. more ›