So Kirkland's Jason Mesnick did not end up with the bachelorette, despite all the blog commenters in his corner. The P-I has an interview with Jason today on life after one of the more public rejections you can receive (what's ABC's audience share these days?)--but if you take a look in the comments, you start feeling a little better for the guy. He's appreciated. Deeply. On a soul-level. Honestly, Cupid must be fat and lazy......

Seattle Metropolitan, the award-winning magazine of quirkily numbered lists launched in March 2006, is seeking an editor. For some reason, they failed to include a punchy little list in their job posting on Craigslist, so we took a whack at "metropolitanizing" it. If you're interested in joining the Seattle Met editorial team, first ask yourself these questions. That's right, we're asking you to introspect. It won't hurt! 1) Can I generate and execute imaginative lifestyle......

Actually, don't believe most of what you read on Craigslist. The spokesman for the Kitsap County Sheriff is denying he's a great hook-up for this weekend's international stoner holiday after his number was anonymously posted on Craigslist as a source for pot. In the following days, Deputy Scott Wilson received numerous calls on a personal line inquiring about the purchase of marijuana. The ads titled, "re: 420" and "re: Got Weed?" were removed by......

We see on Craigslist that the dry cleaners on the east side of 15th Ave, the cunningly named "Alterations and Dry Cleaning" are selling out with four years left on their lease. After 22 years in business, they look like they're giving up the whole kit 'n' caboodle:This opportunity is turn key – all equipment is provided. Technically we're part of their "steady flow of loyal customers," but only because we try to spread the......

In short, no. (Duh.) But, Paste magazine ran an article recently suggesting that, perhaps, it's on its way out. We thought the article made a lot of valid and interesting points, like this one: “Mayor [Greg] Nickels and other city leaders don’t have a clue about the impact of their policies on this community,” says Tim Hatley, lobbyist for the Seattle Nightlife & Music Association. “If you’re Dan [Cowan, owner of Seattle fixture the......

Some people complained about how hot and overcrowded the caucuses were yesterday; others took advantage of the high turnout to make politically simpatico acquaintances. A quick review of CL's Missed Connections reveals that pre-Valentine's caucus love is in the air: Feb 10 - Yellow pantsuit at the caucus - w4m - 60 - Feb 10 - First Babtist Church caucus (harvard st) - m4w - (seattle) Feb 10 - gorgeous dark haired girl at wallingford......

Hey, Seattlest! I'd like to start a sex advice column, but there's a catch-22. I'm not a columnist yet, so no one's sent me any questions, but unless I answer questions I don't have a column. Can I just pick a question Dan Savage answered in "Savage Love" and answer it myself? If anyone asks, I'll claim I "solicited questions from friends." I read his column every week -- I must be a friend, right?......

The Craigslist ad reads:Do you want to earn extra cash blogging about your community? MyZip.net is building the first nationwide network of neighborhood blogs. We will pay you $50 per month for writing about your neighborhood on your own ZIP code site (example http://www.98122.net). We're in favor of this because neighborhood microblogs support our top-secret strategy of using RSS feeds and Google alerts to bring you news as if it happened to us. Also, MyZip.net......

Making up for weeks of hibernation and workaholism, Kim will hit the parties this weekend. Tonight, she’ll don her Groucho glasses for a lesbian function at Jabu’s celebrating the births of her two favorite Sagitarii. Saturday, it’s to the War Room for a company party with the missus and her workmates. Finally, she’ll ship off to the sub-tropics on Monday, where she’ll spend what remains of 2007. While his wife is taking a Wilderness......

It's safe to assume that Sharon Jones is cooler than you. The current queen of neo-funk/soul grew up in Macon, Georgia and Brooklyn, singing in church before ending up doing session work in the '70s as the anonymous vocals on dance and disco records. Without a solo contract of her own, she left the industry and took odd jobs like corrections officer at Rikers Island and Wells Fargo armored car guard. Fate intervened in......

There is no prettier place in America to watch a sporting event than Husky Stadium. Boats dot Lake Washington off the east end zone, the foothills are beyond, and, off in the gloaming, the Cascades. And there's the Husky band too, who last week did a James Brown tribute. Seriously, even if you aren't into sports, you should check it out. Tomorrow's game is at noon, and it's supposed to be 50 and sunny--perfect football......

Winds the likes of which haven't been seen in nearly eight months are set to descend on our little burg tomorrow night. Forecasters say it's fifty-fifty right now whether they'll miss us to the north or land right on top of Duvall's fragile little power system. The good news is that everyone's generators haven't even had time to gather dust, much less make their way onto Craigslist. In fact, Seattlest even has some propane cannisters......

This company pissed us off with their graffiti-esque chalk attack advertising recently in Downtown Seattle, but as far as we know not much came of it. Well, an anti guerrilla advertising site was created, but to our knowledge the city of Seattle didn't hold the company responsible for all their visual litter. It's a different story in Bellevue, though. The city to the East is apparently less tolerant of this job site's hyper-aggressive marketing schtick,......

Seattlest watches as a S.L.U.T. is born and Seattle Flickr users go nuts over a local art installation. A restaurant critic demands a Diner's Bill of Rights over a gnat next to her drink, and, in lieu of a Portlandist, Seattlest debates with itself over the identity of the Northwest's crown jewel. Seattlest also joins the guys from Fantagraphics for an ill-fated gun party in the woods. LAist saw national headlines soar this week with......

Once upon a time Seattlest considered North Aurora to be a shithole, to be avoided at all costs. But, eventually, we had to go to Home Depot and a used car lot, and that car rack store, and (doh) the unemployment office, and the movie theater, and IHOP and the European deli and Computer Stop and Chubby & Tubby (so far not Stupid Prices, though) and Kmart, Burgermaster, the cemetery and a hundred other tiny......

Sketch comedy isn't rocket science. Get some funny jokes, present them in a scene, and get off the stage. Simple enough, yet most sketch comedy isn't good, it's pretty groan inducing. Relying too much on bad/tired jokes, yelling, cursing, and sketches that drag on long after the joke has been made. Sketch Fest Seattle goes out of their way to make sure you won't sit through too many of these groups. Now in its ninth......

Local photographer Jenny Jiménez got robbed big time. Some skeevy dudes broke into her house and stole a whole mess of shit worth over $20K, including photography equipment, computers, and her mother's wedding ring, which Jenny was going to use in her own nuptials this fall. Way to go, assholes. From her LiveJournal post: My home was burglarized yesterday morning between 8:40am and 12:30pm. All of my camera gear, both of our computers, all......

We recently had a brief exchange with a Peet’s Coffee barista during which she said something about Peet’s opening a shop in upper Queen Anne. In September. We freaked. Given the ridiculously short time-frame, though, we filed the idea away under Wishful Thinking. But this weekend we came across a related tidbit while perusing Chowhound. Someone posted this sentence on July 16: “I just heard that Ravenna Gardens is about to be replaced by… Peet’s......

It's kind of late to tell you about this, admittedly. The show's been sold out pretty much since tickets went on sale. What is it with you people? Brandi Carlile was in town like two weeks ago playing at the Paramount. But because we dig her so much, and we dig her backup twins and the people around her that we've dealt with in our other life as a sort-of journalist, we couldn't help......

If you can't tell what that picture is supposed to be, it's Seattlest's Nano strapped to the back of Seattlest's phone (which is, itself, an mp3 phone), which is as close to an iPhone as we'll be getting for the time being. Not that we're above a little gadget humping every now and then, but we're going to sit this one out. People with less restraint (or fatter wallets) than Seattlest will soon be......

This email showed up in the Seattlest inbox this morning: I was walking to work this morning on Pine near the Market and walked past a business that has been in-progress for a few months, The Chocolate Box. It looks like it's gearing up to open, but I'm starting to question who, exactly, they'd like to work there. First, they have 10-15 signs in the front windows proudly exclaiming "WE'ER HIRING!" (mis-spelling is theirs). I......

Like a chorus of howls at the moon, there’s a rumor going around that one-time absolutely incredible super-band Temple of the Dog will reunite for a Seattle show. Next month. People are already begging for tickets on Craigslist. We haven’t the slightest clue if this is a cruel hoax meant to fuck with our Singles-era-loving heads, or if there’s truth to the rumor. Seattlest Jack did say he “saw fliers” for such a show at......

-- Revenge + Craigslist = aunt's house stripped bare. Also, second-degree burglary, malicious mischief and criminal impersonation charges. -- NYC asks: What's a WaMu? -- Lycopene, schmycopene, says Fred Hutch. -- Sometimes parenting brings out your best. And sometimes... -- Neko Case will be on the tee-vee tonight, with M. Ward. -- Mike Sando's early look at the Hawks roster suggests Kelly Herndon could soon be out of a job. -- Starbucks' favorite Beatle?......

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)......

And while you're at it, trash the place!! A recent Craigslist advertisement invited the general CL-viewing public to come into someone's home and take whatever they wanted. And the general CL-viewing public complied. The person who owned the home was obviously not the person who posted the ad, putting this prank at about the same level of complexity as ordering a half-dozen pizzas with weird toppings to a friend's house. Yeah, ha, ha. However, while......

Scott Kennedy (at right, with the guv) is trying to get $20 pledges out of 100 Seattleites to buy a $2000 MacBook Pro for the syndicated ultra-lefty radio and tv show "Democracy Now." Why do you think Democracy Now deserves a laptop over, say, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me or The Diane Rehm Show? Don't get me wrong - I love 'Wait Wait' as much as the guy who loves wearing Tevas over his......

Microsoft has apparently caught on to the fact that everyone and their little brothers have been modifying old school Xboxes with expanded disk capacity and a home-brew chip to turn them into media centers. Today Redmond announced the Xbox 360 Elite that claims "a bigger hard drive, better high-definition video support." Seattlest is partial to the homebrew version: an old Xbox from Craigslist ($100), a huge hard disk ($100) and a clandestine meeting with the......

Howard Schultz is probably enjoying his first relaxing day in a while today after the Starbucks shareholder's meeting yesterday. At least, he finally had a chance to explain to everyone just what the hell he was talking about with that whole memo thing. You remember the memo--we're talking about the one where he complained that Starbucks had lost its way in the name of growth and had become a cookie cutter retail chain that was......

RADIO: We don't care if it's passe to think so: Ira Glass is a goddamn genius. Our favorite kind of genius -- the kind who builds an ecosystem in which other geniuses flourish. He's in town tonight to talk about what he learned from making a TV show. 7:30pm // The Paramount // sold out, but apparently people on Craigslist think it's worth $325 a ticket MUSIC: Midlake bring '70s rock and a mess......

We vividly remember the first time we saw Brett Wolfe: in 1998, we were standing outside in a parking lot on Dexter, talking to someone on our cell phone. We stopped silent when we saw a guy with only one leg riding his bike up Dexter, and he was passing people like they were standing still. This was before we became immersed in mountain biking ourselves, before we found out about Wolfe, who has completed......