Seattlest wishes it was at a coffee shop on Saturday, when the snow was falling in swift, wet flakes. We imagine sipping a delicious doppio espresso, protected from the cold and watching the snow fall. Instead, we are braving the pouring rain and have ended up here, in Fremont, at Cafe Ladro. We're wet, cold and crabby. Ladro is bustling with the young professionals crowd. An entire table of six is covered in laptops, another......

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer’s market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs. Seahawks vs. Deep Dish Pizza Preview On Sunday morning while Shaun Alexander was looking deep......

A few hours from now, London folktronic sextet Tunng kicks off the weekend early and for free at Nectar. Doors are at 5pm for the 21+ happy hour show. Saturday night offers a solid all-ages show at the Croc, with Art in Manila (including ex-members of Azure Ray), The Good Life (Cursive side-project), and singer-songwriter Johnathan Rice. Here's the latter looking pissed at an inattentive Showbox crowd earlier this year, even though he's dating Rilo......

If you are very lucky, old friends will on occasion fly across the country to visit you. They’ll sit on your couch and tell you which of your college chums became a body builder. When necessary, they’ll gently remind you whatever dating mishaps have recently befallen you, nothing could top the Beckett-quoting fool you were smitten with freshman year. These friends are to be treasured, given fresh towels and mints on their pillow. The morning......

There's nothing like the prospect of a smart hip-hop show to build up our anticipation on a Saturday night. One where we know that the act we're going to see can't fail to deliver, cranks that up a little higher than we can generally handle when we're forced to first stop by a friend's party before the show. To all those in Shoreline that we bored with excited chatter about Lyrics Born and Blackalicious......

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......

Last night Richard Wiseman -- "Britain’s only chair in the Public Understanding of Psychology" -- spoke at Town Hall about his study of quirkology. Which, if you don't know, is the study of the offbeat in human behavior as a way of shining light on why we act the way we do. Here's a short recap of what we learned about: >>Speed dating: He didn't get into this in the talk, but it sounded interesting,......

Monday started even earlier than Sunday with the Coen Brothers' heavily-touted No Country for Old Men. The elegantly slow-moving picture (care of cinematographer Roger Deakins) lives up to the hype, so much so that we can take it as their formal cinematic apology for their abysmal duo Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers. Ethan, Joel, we forgive you. Especially if it means that you won't sic scary-as-hell psycho-killer Javier Bardem on us. Next up was Juno,......

Unlike rock gods, athletic heroes, or Warren Beatty, quiz hosts don't get groupies. (Not that we'd do anything with groupies, thoughts of our wife prompt us to add.) But pub trivia playres? Look out! A probing report from Diane Mapes in the PI opened our eyes to the hot and heavy entanglements going on under our noses whenever we host. "Where do you meet guys in Seattle?" she's asked. Her answer: pub trivia. Granted, I......

A while ago we were looking for a picture of a mojito and in our search we ran into local author (and mojito photographer) Amanda Ford. She told us she had a book coming out and we said, Great, let us know when it's on the shelves and we'll interview you. The book is called Kiss Me I'm Single: An Ode to the Solo Life, and its message is of "fierce individuality and even stronger......

Pigeon Dating from Seattle Daily Photo. Thank you! Strut your stuff and show off your brilliant photographic plumage in the Seattlest Flickr pool.......

In the wake of Hansa the Elephant's death from herpes, many Seattleites are understandably concerned about whether they, too, could contract this fatal disease. Board-certified veterinarian Dr. Ophelia Roberson-Sykes, DVM, graciously agreed to answer a few of our questions. Seattlest: So how likely is it that I could have elephant herpes? Dr. Roberson-Sykes: Not likely. Herpes can only be transmitted through direct contact, like through kissing an infected elephant. Seattlest: Well I was dating this......

Vitals: 26 yo RHP. Born in Tokyo, Japan. 6-0, 187. 94-45, 2.99 in Japan. 3-2, 4.36 here. $6.3 million salary. Arsenal: Dice-K throws six pitches--three fastballs: a mid 90s four-seamer (rides high), a low 90s two-seamer (moves down), and a cut fastball that moves away from righties, and three off-speed pitches: a slow 11-7 curveball. a mid-80s slider that he tries to back-door lefties with to strike them out, and his change-up, which is considered......

How to tell Jon Rowley's dating service from Deborah Jean Palfrey's: Business entity • Palfrey: Pamela Martin & Associates • Rowley: Taylor Shellfish Farms Business activity • Palfrey: as DC Madam, offers adult fantasy service • Rowley: as lifestyle guru, offers sensory compatability research Client base includes • Palfrey: Department of State • Rowley: Department of Ecology Operating environment • Palfrey: hot water • Rowley: cold water Locations include • Palfrey: Washington DC • Rowley:......

Monday PREQUEL TO MCARTNEY'S WINGS: Richie Unterberger, the author of several books on the history of rock, shows some film footage and plays some music recordings of unreleased Beatles material. He´s promoting his latest book, The Unreleased Beatles -- Music and Film. We had no idea they were in jail! (Ha! Because of the "unreleased" -- see how...oh...sure, we can move on.) 7pm // Seattle Central Public Library Microsoft Auditorium // FREE GARDENING AT......

--Though he's been rumored to be a candidate for both the Liberty and Long Beach State head coaching jobs, Cameron Dollar says it isn't true. Which means he's probably on a private plane to Long Beach right now. --Sharkansky jumps the shark. --Georgetown's Jeff Green on the Blazers? Oh, please, God, yes. --A-Rod to the Angels? Oh, please, God, no. --Speaking of the Angels, thanks to them you'll learn a new baseball term today: coconut......

Monday WOMEN & MONEY: Personal finance expert and author, Suze Orman talks about the complicated and dysfunctional relationship that women have with money in her book, Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny. 7:30pm // Town Hall // $5 AGORAPHOBES TAKE HEART: Everything you’ve been told about dating is wrong. Love Will Find You is a new approach to love from dating expert Kathryn Alice. It may be the first dating......

Dorkbot, we've missed you. If our attendance record for the monthly technology and art event has been spotty at best recently --we've only been to one meeting since it lost the CoCA digs-- it's not because of the scheduled themes. They've all been awesome: Multimedia Performance at the Abbey, Innovation in Games back at CoCA, remote aerial photography at CHAC (actually we did get to that one)... New curator whatshisname (can't find it on the......

"I voted for Dino Rossi" is not what you say when you are dating a hard-left politics dork. Seattlest once learned this the hard way. The revelation sparked an argument. We lost. For months, we spent lonely nights reading Lewis Lapham, trying to cure our moderate streak. But, with the Democrats in gridlock over the Viaduct issue, we feel vindicated. The internecine squabbling that's led us to a point where we're having a meaningless advisory......

In case you hadn't heard, San Francisco's all abuzz today because their mayor, is, apparently, a sex-crazed maniac. Earlier this year he was dating a 20-year-old restaurant hostess, and now news that he slept with the wife of one of his top aides. The aide, according to a family friend, "confronted the mayor on the issue, expressed his feeling about the situation in an honest and pointed way, and resigned." We'll bet he did. Meanwhile,......

It'd been awhile since we'd last been to the Tractor Tavern and, well, we found that we'd missed the place -- the faded old cowboy boots hanging from the ceiling, the curious glory-hole in the men's crapper, the huge oil painting of the bright red tractor, and then the other one of the majestic horse with all the lightning in the background. Okay, that one's kind of weird, but it fits somehow with the country......

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to. In Austin, bands are beginning to confirm for SXSW and the rumor mill is up and running. Good thing, too, because we all know how much Austinites love live performances. Austin also found itself in the national spotlight, with Longhorn Legend......

OK, we fell for it. For all those who claim that liberal interest groups don't spin like conservatives, pay attention. In a press release from late December 2006 (and other releases dating back to at least 2004), the public-agency hound watch organization PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which has many park employees as members) had intimated that employees of the Grand Canyon have been asked not to tell tourists about the scientifically-derived, geologic age......

Deadspin reports that Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo and American Idol winner Carrie Underwood are "a thing." How can this be? It's all over the Internets that Seahawks kicker Josh Brown and Underwood are an item. OK, not so much an item as he thinks she's cute and apparently talked to her and got her number and may or may not have called her. Miss Underwood, you are a little too plain for our taste, but......

Wednesday, November 29 >>>Third Place Books, 7:00pm. Another weighty tome, Unreleased Beatles by Richie Unterberger, to add to your Beatles-only reference section. It details the shitload of stuff that was recorded but, you know, forgotten about what with being so high at the time, plus the whole headtrip with Yoko. Free with OCD collecting disorder. >>>University Bookstore, 7:00pm. Elizabeth George backtracks: in her last Inspector Lynley mystery, the Inspector's wife was killed. In What......

Somehow the word "ecosexual" escaped our vocabulary until yesterday. Maybe we were too busy dunking our lexicon into industrial solvents in an attempt to cleanse it of the "metronatural" fiasco to notice any new variations (actually we didn't see what the big deal was about metronatural. shhh!). The word ecosexual refers to someone who selects dating partners based on their green credentials. The fact that such people exist and that there's a preponderance of them......

If you like what Quilty 3000 plays on KEXP between noon and 3pm on Saturdays, you might like Quilty 3000 ... in that way. And she's on the market, according to her Stranger Lovelab profile. If it is to be believed, she likes puppies, long walks on the beach, and guys who really listen music geeks, KEXP, and vinyl. Seattlest does not have any experience dating DJs, so we feel incapable of offering any advice.......

We're kinda feeling like the Seattle internets are dead -like ghost town dead- right now and we're attributing it to Microsoft. Internet Expolorer 7 is here. Media Player 11 is here. Office 2007 is coming. Vista is coming. We don't mean to short anyone else's project by failing to mention it, but that already is just about every high-consumer-visibility piece of software that Redmond makes. Is this like the most productive couple of months in......

Amy DeZellar, Seattle resident, read and answered questions about her sex life last night at the University BookStore. Her book Dating Amy: 50 True Confessions of a Serial Dater is one of the throng of blooks being released this year. DeZellar began chronicling her dates at Dating Amy in 2003 shortly after she moved to Seattle because she didn't have any girlfriends to bitch to. 50 bad dates later, the happy ending/book deal showed up.......

We haven't read the novel that Rebecca Agiewich spun out of her blog Breakup Babe, but we are familiar with the site itself and once upon a time subscribed to the Babe's tales of woe. The Breakup Babe blog chronicled her various spectacular breakups and attempts to date again in their wake, but it's been kinda idle recently and we understand that blogging doesn't exactly increase one's value in the dating pool (shh, don't tell......