We understand you're upset, Belltown. What, with all these drug deals going on right outside your high-rise condos. You've video-taped and photographed the deals going down, you've created a YouTube channel and taken your complaints to local blogs and newspapers...and still it doesn't stop. Maybe that's because the drug dealers and users in Belltown were there long, long before the condos and well before the neighborhood was given its trendy name. What you all......

Want further proof America is going to hell? The Seattle Times reports kids in Lynnwood are drinking the bong water from meth pipes to get high. According to the Times, “Worb water" is the meth-laced water that's left in a water pipe after it's been used to smoke methamphetamines.” Move over crack-pipe scrapers, there’s a new scumbag on the drug-desperation block and he’s called “worb water." Silly us thought drinking normal bong water was......

An armed man was forcibly subdued in the lobby of a downtown hotel this weekend after an alarmed ex-girlfriend alerted staff that the man had a gun and intended to use it. The altercation, which involved as many as four employees, escalated into a full-fledged wrestling match as the suspect became violent and refused to hand the firearm over. Seattle Police responded relatively quickly and relieved the hotel staff of the suspect, whom they......

This is the coolest collection of random, old Seattle photos we’ve ever stumbled upon while not working at work. For anyone who can’t imagine 3rd and Pine before crack, or the masochistic liberal who wants to marvel at a time when people would have paraded massive, old growth firs down the street in celebration, this is your time capsule. If you like slacking off at work or just appreciate a little cultural history, these......

Baby, it’s getting cold outside. Not that we need that excuse, but the nip in the air has us craving something volcanic. Time for some soon-doo-boo chigae. Head north on 99, and you’ll start hitting some Korean restaurants at the upper reaches of the city limits. Many are mediocre, while one is great for grilled meats, but continue on to our prime pick for a special soup that’ll cure the winter blues. Destination: Hoosoonyi, where......

If you’re gonna make an album with orchestral arrangements care of living legend composer Van Dyke Parks, you’re gonna have to go all out to perform it right. That’s why the first half of super English major/elven queen Joanna Newsom’s grandiose show last night at Benaroya Hall featured the accompaniment of local 29-piece chamber orchestra the Northwest Sinfonia to cover her last full-length, the epic five-song masterpiece Ys ("ees"). It’s not hard to recreate......

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......

Real estate search engine Rotten Neighbor promises to help you "find bad neighbors before you move." What evils have users uncovered behind the closed doors of the Emerald City? Near Carkeek Park: Grouchy Old Man w/ Loud Music The grouchy old man who lives here likes to play his radio very loudly in his backyard. Lately he has begun playing it in the middle of the night and the cops have been called several times.......

For those (like Seattlest) who are too lazy to actually visit in person the South Lake Union coffee shop Kapow! to get their S.L.U.T. tee shirts (which they may or may not even have), they are now available online. Remember a week ago when the SLUT poster first appeared on Seattlest? A few days later the P-I, King5, the AP caught on. Joe Whatshisnuts from forty miles east of Boise is going to crack his......

It's been a few short weeks since we shared our friend's tasting notes on Bacon Salt. Since then, we're sure you've ordered several jars and whipped up any number of tasty bacon-salty recipes. (That or you shrugged and read one of Seth's sports posts instead.) But if you have incorporated Bacon Salt into your daily cooking routine, now's your chance to earn the best prize of all -- even more Bacon Salt. Because at a......

When family’s in town, Seattlest usually troops to Pike Place Market so the out-of-towners can say they saw our city’s bustling bazaar. Though we’re not repeatedly thrilled by it, the Market is a sense-assaulting place to burn an afternoon with all-ages, crowd-tolerant kin. But it’s something else entirely beyond the northernmost booth or on the exit stairs facing the viaduct. It’s a trashy, scare-little-cousin-Susie jungle out there. Even now, with the Centennial Celebration in......

We had an AHA! moment last night when we first started hearing about the Veggie-Booty-and-salmonella mash-up. The P-I reports:More than 50 people in 17 states, mostly children age 3 and younger, were infected with salmonella bacteria after eating Veggie Booty, according the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Web site.Why age 3 and younger? As a Salon story puts it: "Veggie Booty is basically crack for babies. Which is exactly why parents buy it." A couple......

Mark Siano has been performing in Seattle for over ten years (with stops in New York, LA, and most recently the Orlando Fringe Festival!). His new show ‘The Mark Siano Soft Rock Spectacular’ plays this weekend at Re-bar, and features soft rock, dance, and comedy. You've written, performed sketches, monologues, choreographed dance; however, it appears that singing is your favorite. Why? Singing is the most satisfying. I can't control it; I just want to sing......

German squirrels are roaming Berlin on a murderous rampage. Bears in New Jersey are breaking into people's homes for crack money. And some mysterious large-footed monster went and vandalized every. single. school bus. in the Renton school district.......

Stravinsky125 @ PNB Through June 10 // McCaw Hall // Tickets $18-$145 The big thing on PNB's Stravinsky-celebrating program is State of Darkness, a 34-minute solo choreographed by Molissa Fenley. We saw Jonathan Porretta, but the casts change. The music is Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, and in contrast to the "pagan sacrifice" orchestral theatrics, Fenley emphasizes solitary ritual and the limits of human endurance. A movement sequence (nothing showy, nothing too aerial) is presented, the......

Wasn't that long ago, matey, we'd be lucky to see any fresh salmon in Seattle. Bristol Bay had a huge sockeye fishery, the largest in the world, but the catch was frozen stiff before it made it to local markets. Now, we're spoiled silly, with fresh, wild salmon coming in from the mouths of rivers all along the Alaska coast: the Yukon, the Taku, the Stikine and, best of all, the Copper. The folks......

This month Seattlest Book Club is reading Seattle-born and -raised Pauls Toutonghi's debut novel Red Weather, just out in paperback from Random House. You'll get a discount if you buy it at Bailey-Coy or Santoro's. We emailed questions, he emailed us back answers. Red Weather is set in Milwaukee, but are there any aspects of your experience growing up in Seattle that make their way into the book? Many of them, absolutely. Well, "Alexander Hamilton......

We randomly checked out the Walkmen and Kaiser Chiefs show at the Showbox last night, mostly in the dark about their work. Although we had seen the Walkmen live once before, we couldnt remember if they had made much of an impression. During the opening, a friend summed up their sound as "like the Strokes except not irritating." That's a good enough summary although we'd swap out the Strokes with Rod Stewart, who Walkmen lead......

Somehow, we don't expect many people to be reading Seattlest this afternoon (and honestly, if you are right now, please stop and run outside while you can). We'll use the gorgeous weather as a touchpoint for our brief initial comments on Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time: Thank god we don't live in the Midwest. That aside, so far we're enthralled with Egan's ability to craft historical figures into living, breathing characters with better depth......

Living in the city can be a real pain in the ass--there's drunks outside your apartment at two in the morning, hoboes in the trash at six, traffic's terrible, the buses are worse, and every so often some jerk bashes in your car window and steals your stereo, registration, sunglasses...or maybe even the whole car. But we here at Seattlest all but exist to report and kvetch about this stuff, and despite it all,......

Bill Scott died Sunday. As Bill the Beerman, he was Seattle's most recognizable sports figure in the early-80s. Him or Jack Sikma. Here's what going to a Mariners game was like back then. You and your Dad would leave Greenlake at about 6:45 for a 7:05 game. You'd sail down 99, encountering no traffic. You'd park at Bemis Bag Warehouse, about a block and a half from the Kingdome. You'd cross 1st ave and......

Seattlest got our first chance to stick our fingers in the Viaduct's wounds this weekend courtesy of a WSDOT walking tour. Unless you're the type to sign up for a St Patrick's Day 15,000 K fun run or something like that opportunities to walk around on the Viaduct's road bed are few and far between, so this tour was greatly appreciated. On Saturday morning we met at the 1st and Columbia onramp to collect......

A friend of ours just told us a little story today about how her Marine boyfriend, recently back from a tour of duty in Iraq, tried to break up a drunken fight a couple months ago outside the Jack in the Box at Broadway and Denny. Our soldier in question was out late one night with a drunken friend, who decided that what he needed most out of life was the thrill of throwing......

Steve Jobs just unveiled the new iPhone in his keynote speech at Macworld in San Francisco. If you're a Mac freak you already know this because you've been sucking down the Mac Insider streaming coverage like crack through a straw. If not, would you just lookit this thing? Photo: Endgaget.com It has an accelerometer in it for chrissake. It is a phone, wide-screen iPod, and "internet communicator" all in one. No buttons, all done by......

--Seattle: slightly less drug use than San Francisco, slightly more than Detroit. --Six books we've never heard of are winning awards from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. --The Gates Foundation invests heavily in companies that undermine it's philanthropy says the Seattle Los Angeles Times. --Timothy Burgess wants onto the Seattle City Council and the only thing Seattlest knows about him is that Sound Politics seems to be in favor of him. --Lake City experiences......

There are those who espouse the theory that "experiences" make better gifts than things (does Deja Vu offer gift certificates?), but we're not above worshiping material goodies ourselves. Either way, Seattlest wants you to give good, yummy, thoughtful things--tangible or experiential--to those you love and so over the next couple of weeks, we'll offer our local picks for things to pick up. Green Groceries For the meat-and-potatoes family members who all too often don't even......

The premise of last night's technology event Ignite Seattle was simple. Get into groups and spend a half an hour building bridges out of popsicle sticks, stand on them until they break, and then listen to a bunch of super short presentations. It worked. We learned so much about happenings in and around the Seattle tech world we feel like we leveled up like twenty times. Really, we had high expectations --enough so that......

Our own Madame Hooky divines whether it's worth calling in sick Friday and heading for the slopes. She'll conjure your excuse and tell you where to go. Save your sick days, Seattle. Everything is as it was a week ago, with no new snow anywhere, not even up in B.C. Our Summit insider says:It was icy last night and probably a bit slushy this weekend. Not the epic conditions like last weekend.The rain respite won't......

--Social interactions diminish in higher density settings? Now that would appear to throw a wrench into the thinking around here. --We thought Post-It Notes weren't good for anything besides annoying our officemates, but it turns out we are dead wrong. --Something has risen up from the ashes of the Infernal Noise Brigade and it looks like they're returning to their roots. --Youtube's got Seattle snow angels. --Global warming must be complete bullshit because it......

photographed at new condo job site, Fremont Not that we're saying anything; we're just saying: a suggestive finger, a suggestive phrase, "plumbing"... and the other phrase for which the plumbing trade is unfortunately infamous, plumber's crack. We just gave you four; combine two and two however you like.......