Every year Creative Cities publishes their annual Vitality Index report. The report quantifies 35 US cities based on their overall creativity and vitality. This year, Seattle is number three! more ›

Rumor has it that you can't build yourself up by tearing someone else down. That advice never made it to Portland, though. Evidence: The 2009 Rosey Awards site is all about sneering at other so-called creative communities, including our own. (See above.) more ›

• Hella Bus has an engaging, creative, relevant (and short!) video episode about politics in Olympia--including the best fifteen seconds of political film we've seen in ages tucked in at the very end.
• Videogum wrote about 'Nightline's Great Satan Debate--apparently it was a laugh riot!
• The Daily Weekly got a hot tip about a man wearing a jacket printed all over with Asian call-girl ads. Weird.