Unconfirmed reports from Halloween night place a Peet's "Coming Soon" sign at Broadway and Denny. Maybe a scary mask obscured someone's vision? Dunno, but we're interested to find out. A Peet's at that intersection would be a preemptive strike in anticipation of a Broadway light rail station. Anyway, we're stuck indoors right now and can't get over to Denny to check it out. Since you performed so spectacularly last week getting a shot of the......

The Halloween crowd was bleeding out of orifices, jack-booted and silk gowned, and they roared at the songs about compulsive masturbation; the sheep fucked and sheared and shot; school kids on heroin and cocaine; the schizophrenic dead under an overpass; the anti-hymn with the chorus "banging in the nails." The Tiger Lillies stood on the Moore's stage beneath red and blue lights that left livid bruises on the smoky air and profaned life in an......

The good news is that you can sign up for an official Seattlest commenter profile now. It'll have a little bit of information about you and the comments you've made in the past and even some comments that have been posted in reply to your comments. Neat stuff, particularly the part that displays comments on your comments. That stuff is difficult to keep track of on your own. The bad news is that you can......

Yelpers give it 4 out of 5 stars. The Accidental Hedonist says: "If you're a sandwich fiend, you can do no better than here." The Stranger suggests you get drunk and go (but what else is new). We'll never forget the first time we visited Baguette Box on Capitol Hill -- it was either cloudy or sunny or rainy and it was around lunchtime a year or two ago, we recall every detail. We'd......

-Some WASL results were released today but we'll still believe someone will get held back due to failing the test when we see it. -David Goldstein (aka Horsesass.org)'s recent radio appearance turns out to be more trial run than guest host. Looks like he got the job - Congrats, Goldy. -Michael Madson is joining the fight to save the 76 Balls that were designed for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and are now being......

There we were, mostly strangers, alerted by email, huddled around a table in a Capitol Hill back room. The product to be sampled was an extremely high-grade Bolivian variety, hard to get. Just a single bag had been a cooperative venture. "Get your nose all the way down there," we were instructed, "and make sure it's a good long inhale." So in many ways, our first coffee cupping was just what you'd expect. We hadn't......

The next time you put on makeup in the back of a cab, or make out back there, or light up a bowl, or break down crying, or make funny faces behind the drivers back, or knife him remember you're being recorded by the taxi cam. Over the last few months all 643 of Seattle's taxis have been outfitted with security cameras that snap a picture every few seconds. The article in the P-I doesn't......

The Senate was asked to support the troops this morning via a defence spending bill that included money for soldiers in Iraq, Katrina aid and, of course, drilling for oil in the Alaskan wildlife refuge. Attaching ANWR drilling to a defence spending bill that must get passed was the brainchild of Senator Stevens of Alaska who has been trying to dig up the refuge for twenty years, a move that Senator John McCain called,......

Thanks to Mister Snitch for alerting us that Bill Gates is legally changing his name to 'The Gates', after buying all rights to the name from the artist Christo for $30 million. The Gates was knighted last night in a private ceremony (hot!) with the Queen of England. The Redmond PR department has requested that Seattlest refer to the Microsoft founder as "The Gates, Knight Commander of the British Empire" from here forward. In other,......

Our boys in Redmond chose the right venue yesterday--the RSA Conference--to finally admit that they won't be able to withhold Internet Explorer 7 until the 2006 release of the Longhorn operating system as they had planned. Bill Gates also announced a new Microsoft Anti-Spyware software package coming soon, saying "We've made the decision that all of our Windows licensees should have that capability." The implication is, of course, that non-licensed Windows computers will be shut......