Our beloved boys of summer (?) return to the friendly confines of RoBro after a 3-3 road trip to Boston and Toronto, cementing them firmly in last place in the AL West—16.5 games behind the Angels. It was a busy week for the M's, one which featured a star pitcher's arm falling off, while King Felix threw two gems, yielding only one unearned run in 14 innings pitched. The team was busy off the......

Seattlest gave up trying to figure out what exactly was and wasn't truly happening in Courtney Love's celeb-drama-queen world a while back. The latest Courtney Love news on the tubes, though, is just too bizarre and (possibly) sad to let lie: Kurt Cobain's widow seems to have misplaced the Nirvana frontman's ashes. Actually, the headlines say Cobain's ashes were "stolen." And Love, of course, is "suicidal" with grief and anger. "If I don't get......

Kurt Cobain shaped the country's rock music landscape while wearing Converse sneaks. He blithely, angrily altered Seattle's future, ripped a hole for the city on the map of pop culture, all while wearing Converse. He went nuts on stage. He whispered and screamed. He played the shit out of guitars. He shot up and nodded off in the shoes. Kurt killed himself while wearing Converse. The shoes were prominent in the image that famously......

Kurt might be amused to learn that, since 2003, at least one jackass criminal has been using his social security number to make fraudulent purchases. Said jackass has apparently skimmed some £36 million—about 5,000 million US dollars these days—from the deceased rock star's estate. "Mr. Cobain" might have continued his spending spree had he not slipped up in 2007; his purchase of a $3.2 million New Jersey mansion drew the attention of Courtney Love.......

So Krist Novoselic blogs for the Weekly now. Oooh. Courtney Love doesn’t need any stinking alt-paper to share her anarchic thoughts. She’s got authenticity. She’s got voice. She’s got MySpace. Love’s latest piece, a 3700-word manifesto—titled "oh shit the inspartion fairy sprinkeld her glitter"—speaks volumes about her character. its ironic cos its loose and sick and cool and beuatiful and Linda doesnthave time ever- wich is a shame as its our record mostly tho......

Wait--choke back that vomit. We're making shit up. Speculating doom, if you will. Only half of that title is true. Charles Cross' 2001 biography of Kurt Cobain actually is being adapted for the big screen. By highly-anticipated The Kite Runner and Wolverine screenwriter David Benioff, no less. (Aside: Seattlest once met Benioff at an Austin bar, while unsuccessfully schmoozing with Hollywood types. Before we knew better, we asked him, "Are you a writer, too?" Ha.)......

Kurt Cobain’s widow and his hometown have a lot in common. Both Courtney Love and Aberdeen have battled substance abuse. Both are scorned for their blighted appearance. And both had a lot of wood running through them in their heyday. But only one of these Cobain survived-bys wants to memorialize Kurt Horcrux-style—to protect and preserve the bits of his soul still influencing music, pop culture, and the minds of talented, tortured teens. That would be......

Remember the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind, the album that made the band—and the word "grunge"—a household name? A naked baby, swimming blithely in pristine water, reaches for a dollar bill—a dollar bill that's on a large fish hook. The image is memorable for its ironic, dangerous, clear message. Courtney Love didn't catch the meaning. Director AJ Schnack does. Love reportedly made $50 million selling 25% of Nirvana's song catalog in 2006. More recently, she......

"I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, care if I'm old." Perhaps Kurt Cobain didn't care about aging, but we think he would care if he knew that Breed would end up as the soundtrack to Major League Baseball 2K7. The soundtrack also includes the Stooges and the Pixies. You can hear the whole thing here. Baseball video game soundtracks have advanced somewhat since the days when......

She wants to know what you think. Apparently, she has some "serious, unanswered questions" she wants to pose to the people of Seattle. Her scope is wide:I will never, ever say that a vote of the people is a waste. That's just fundamentally wrong. I, as an elected official, do not believe that.This morning at Seattlest HQ, we received an anonymous email containing an internal memo from the Gov's office, revealing what some of those......

--Our friend Tad would eat up this story about anti-terrorism exercises being foiled by the size of mail slots. --Gawker parses a stream of Courtney Love's consciousness and pulls out Frances Bean's first word: Pee. --Line Out's got some thing about gay porn appropriating Yellow Magic Orchestra samples that strikes us as funny, but we can't think of anything funny to say about it. --Todd Bishop checks in on Microsoft's Chinese blog policy today......

Photograph of Rick Santorum conceding defeat with his family by Gene J. Puskar/AP The -ists this week had politics on the brain. And what goes better with politics? Partying-- that's two great tastes in one. Oh, and Kevin Federline...can't forget about Kevin Federline. That's three great tastes in one. -Bostonist discussed two big state issues-- what sort of math constitutes a marriage and what kind of alcohol can be sold in most grocery stores.......

Seattlest went to school in Olympia (for awhile, anyway, with apologies to Courtney Love) and we more or less recall the political foment of The Evergreen State College, the lo-pro, no-letter-grades hothouse that produced Rachel Corrie, the student-activist who was killed when she was struck by bulldozer in Gaza three years ago today. Mistake or murder? Martyred activist or hippie fool? Was she killed by Israel, or sacrificed for the cause by the International Solidarity......

One day after legendary hitter Rafael Palmiero was suspended for steroid use, ESPN reports this morning that Mariners starting pitcher Ryan Franklin is suspended 10 days for the same thing. To our minds, the suspension of Franklin, a wisp of a righthander, shows just how prevalent steroids are in baseball. If a slender player like Franklin takes them, who doesn't? In other drugs news, former Seahawks receiver Koren Robinson checked himself into rehab. Last month......

It may not be as desirable as hottest rock star wife or as prestigious as greatest novel, but our own Congressman Jim McDermott has been named the 38th worst American. In a new book by conservative author Bernard Goldberg the 100 worst Americans are ranked, from Michael Moore (number 1) to Hippie O'Flagburner (number 100). Goldberg told the AP that McDermott had made the list because of his visit to Baghdad in the fall......

Here we are in the home stretch of the 31st annual Seattle International Film Festival. If you haven't seen a great foreign film/documentary/indie flick, or at least an advertisement featuring aspects thereof, you only have till this Sunday to do so. Between now and then, some festival films of note (and in a nutshell) include: · 5 X 2 - Five Times Two, from the director of Swimming Pool, a look at five significant events......