HAVE SOME FAITH: George Michael wrote songs that informed the sexuality of millions of young girls around the world—songs that went on to become gay anthems, long before he came out. The 25Live Tour promises to be the hottest, funnest, gayest, screamy-est concert Key Arena has seen all year. Wave to this Seattlest who will be sitting in the second row. 8 p.m. // Key Arena, Seattle Center // $49.40-$250 A BIG NIGHT OUT: Columbia......

Last month, Ron from Beacon Hill commented that he prefers Roy's BBQ to the nearby Jones BBQ. This spurred us to get off our ass and finally check Roy's out. The verdict: hot damn, that's a good sandwich. That's the biggest difference between Roy's and a place like Jones: Roy's is all about sandwiches--pulled pork, beef brisket, pulled chicken, even the oyster po' boy. As usual, specialization pays off. The Georgia Gold (a favorite......

Seattlest has long been an on-again-off-again vegetarian. Our last fall from herbivorous grace came in our New York City-living days, when our girlfriend at the time's dad cooked us up a burger and some hotdogs. We didn't have the heart to say no, and they just smelled so good. Thank God, because we wound up moving to New Orleans, where life is meaningless without a good roast beef po-boy and all the juice it......

We love lists. Which is why we're a little sad that we didn't know about Amazon.com's UnSpun until we read The Paper Noose's post on Georgetown's place in the Top "Hip" Neighborhoods to Live in Seattle, WA. There's nothing we love better than completely arbitrary lists with no discernible criteria beyond kneejerk personal opinion -- except maybe passing them along. According to UnSpun users, the top 10 "hip" neighborhoods are: 1. Capitol Hill (surprise,......

... in a couple of years, anyway. "After two years, it's definitely moving," writes invaluable neighborhood blogger Captain Columbia City. He talked to the market's coordinator, Karen, on Wednesday, the last day the Columbia City Farmers Market will be open this year. Of course, Columbia City Plaza was sold to a development firm on the east coast recently, and so when the Plaza owners lease expires early next year, they'll sign a new one......

Starbucks is going to slim down its drink menu, notes Starbucks Gossip. They cite a line from an AP wire article on recent Starbucks business: "Starbucks also said it plans to cut the number of different drinks on its menu, a move it hopes will help baristas get customers through the line more quickly." This makes sense to Seattlest. We're fans of Barry Schwartz and his Paradox of Choice: too many choices stress people out.......

The quick answer: there is still Seattlest Trivia at the Old Pequliar. But now it only comes around every five weeks or so. After Seattlests Seth and David hung up their quiz caps, a number of people signed up to join the quiz-hosting rotation at the Old Pequliar. (So for now, no slots are open.) Regular players NAMBLA debuted as hosts this past Tuesday with an excellent quiz, and they'll be doing it again.......

Shortly before our car exploded, we were looking for a new place to rent. After our car exploded, our apartment search took a back seat to car shopping. But in the last few weeks, once our new car was settled, we returned to scanning Craigslist and strolling through neighborhoods. After spending all of our time in Seattle living above the cut (Wallingford, Wedgwood), we were hoping to move to the Rainier Valley (better work commute)......

We were planning to write some posts this week on Pair (we love it) and Columbia City (we really love it). But then our car burned up, so we thought we'd put that at the head of the line. About two minutes before this photo was taken, we were headed to a service station. My wife was driving, I was in the passenger seat, and our daughter was in back. Then, BANG! Someone grenaded......

Seattlest has two big dogs. We love them. We are those people who love them a little bit like our children. But: they are our dogs, and we love them. Like actual children, we are clear on the fact that not everyone else would love them, and honestly we don't like everyone else's dogs either. Especially the small yappy ones. So a state law to allow dogs in bars? Please, please, Seattle, make it stop.......

We're thinking about moving. Note to our landlord, if you're reading this: Thinking about.. We aren't declaring our intent yet. So if you'd like to consider that recent rent increase ... well, we're still in Wedgwood, so that might not actually change anything. We're at least a year away from being ready to buy a house, so we're focusing on apartments. Here's what we want: to be within walking distance of anything interesting. Ideal trifecta:......

Friday evenings, Columbia City Cabaret takes over the Columbia City Theatre for some adult-oriented hijinks. Emceed by Tamara the Trapeze Lady (who also performs), the program changes from week to week, so its performance history already includes various singers and bands, burlesque artists, drag queens, aerialists, and probably a juggler of something. For the Cabaret, doors open at 8pm, the show starts at 9pm. Tickets are $15 at the door. The Columbia City Theatre......

You know that five year-old Nokia candy bar we’ve been lugging around? Shocking, but it’s not Bluetooth-enabled! We learned this at a Bluetooth demo yesterday at the Olympic Hotel, which featured an open bar and some crazy-ass gadgets A cable-free printer? Shut UP! A Bluetooth stethoscope? Paging Dr. Bailey... The surfeit of iPod adapters (isn’t someone at Apple working on this?) brought to mind a very Cartesian question: If you’re listening to an iPod in......

Last Friday, Seattlest spent an enjoyable evening at the Columbia City Theatre. We were there to see the new Black Box Opera production, “Sondheim, Newman and Weill.” It’s a cabaret show made up of songs by, not surprisingly, Stephen Sondheim, Randy Newman and Kurt Weill. We especially enjoyed the ensemble approach the company used. The four singers and the pianist created mini-scenes for each song, giving the whole show a comfortable continuity. In this way,......

Local food blog tastingmenu.com spent last week coordinating the second annual TasteEverything Independent Food Festival Awards. The awards are given by bloggers around the world to honor their favorite food experiences of the past year. Several of the 2006 awards went to local experiences: Phat Duck awarded Best Preservation of Italian Meat and Spirit to Pino Rogano. Orangette awarded Best Final Resting Place for a Walnut to the Columbia City Bakery's walnut levain. And Seattle......

Next in line of Oscar-nominees: Steven Spielberg's Munich, playing at the Metro, Columbia City, and the Meridian 16. So far, this is the one that has us most baffled, Best Picture-wise. It's good, even brilliant in parts, just like most of Spielberg's work, but it's problematic, and not just in the political sense. Munich imagines what happened after the 1972 Olympics, when all of the Israeli athletes were rounded up by Palestinian terrorists and killed.......

Pizza sucks in Seattle. Feel free to post your own obscure favorite in the comments or simply let it pass. Sure, there are a few highlights here or there around the city where something resembling an actual pizza can be obtained, but the overall quality of the city's pizza is piss poor. Here's a tip: If the crust is wet, it sucks. Wallingford, oddly, has a few ok places, though. The Wallingford Pizza House......

Seattle is a great progenitor of technology, but only now, in the year 2005, is municipal Wi-Fi finally coming to town. To put this in context, Spokane has had a wireless downtown corridor for over a year. Is Seattle behind the times? Mayor Nickels launched the service on May 18th by logging on via laptop in Columbia City. His office's press release cites the Seattle Wi-Fi Project's goal to... ...attract more customers to local business......

" src="http://www.seattlest.com/archives/bbbelltown1_small.JPG" width="126" height="252" hspace="5" vspace="5" align="right" /> Seattlest has been known to enjoy many great First Thursdays, but we've always secretly asked ourselves why Pioneer Square should have all the fun. It looks like we weren't the only ones, given the recent explosion of new walks all over the city. Kick off the neighborly art exploration boom by putting on your (fashion-forward) walking shoes and heading to tonight's Belltown Night Out. This monthly "art-fashion-design-and-shopping......