Throughout the campaign we have been gathering the top political writers in the country, and asking them to discuss the presidential race. Today they discuss the Democratic National Convention. Seattlest: Thank you for taking some time off in Denver to speak with us. What are your impressions of the convention so far? Tom (The Wall Street Journal): First off, there's an EDWARD Kennedy? Where has this asshole been hiding?! Mark (CBS News): I had the......

Tonight in Denver, Barack Obama will make history by becoming the first man in over three and a half years to accept the Democratic Party’s nomination for President. Here is everything you need to know about tonight. •The speech will take place at the 75,000 seat INVESCO Field at Mile High, where the Seahawks are 1-0 all time, beating the Broncos 23-20 in 2006. •The speech should start sometime between 6:45 and 7:00 p.m. (ish).......

THAT'S FUNNY, BITCHES: Chris Rock is one of those people who can just stand there and we'll laugh. But when he opens his mouth, forget it. We kind of laugh so hard we can't even hear what he's saying half the time, cycling through our various laughs from chuckle to cackle and snort. So you're probably glad we won't be at the Paramount tonight for his show. We'd just distract everything, and he'd probably make......

Tuesday was Hillary Clinton Day at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. The Senator and former Presidential candidate gave a rousing speech that most pundits agreed accomplished what she had promised to do: leave no doubt that she is fully behind the candidacy of her former rival, Sen. Barack Obama. Before the speech, all any journalist trolling for stories inside the Pepsi Center wanted to do was figure out any sort of fresh angle on......

One day down and three more to go here in Denver at the Democratic National Convention. Below are some of the top moments of Day 1 for DCist (and a couple lowlights for good measure). Sen. Ted Kennedy's speech, obvs. The expectations going in were that this would be the senator's final public speech -- but Kennedy walked out on stage and continued standing during his entire speech, defying expectations that he would look different,......

From the Editor: As this week unfolds, we'll be incluidng posts from our pal at DCist, Sommer Mathis, who is in Denver for the Democratic National Convention. Enjoy! DCist is here in Denver for the Democratic National Convention, which kicks off tomorrow. We were too wiped out to attend last night's big Media Welcome Party at Elitch Gardens (though there's some evidence we may not have gotten in anyway), but we can tell you......

We here at Seattlest like to provide our readers with valuable advice when we think it’s necessary. Two blog posts we’ve seen today make us think it’s important to advise that you stay the hell away from Denver. First, according to the New York Times blog The Lede, in November, the city’s voters passed a law similar to Seattle’s that makes pot the city’s "lowest law-enforcement priority." Well, it seems that the cops in Denver......

Forbes Magazine must have gotten tired of making the same "Richest People in the World" list, because the magazine has moved on to ranking the "Nation's Most Sinful Cities." In order to do so, Forbes came up with measurable methods to rank the proclivity for each of the seven deadly sins in America's urban populations. (For example to measure the sin of "wrath" the magazine used murder rates for cities.) Of course, you're curious, just......

Photo by Shawnmebo There’s nothing like a clear winter day to illustrate how beautiful Seattle’s natural skylines are. As the only major American city to boast not one, but two mountain ranges easily within view (the Aurora Bridge is a dangerous yet spectacular place to catch both ranges with a simple swivel of the head) it’s days like this that make Seattlest reflect upon what an overrated piece of shit Denver is. Folk cornball John......

Inspired by a random iPod event at Seattlest's Thanksgiving, a friend lamented the early death of John Denver and then launched into a diatribe about how he didn't pull a Kennedy; that is, Denver wasn't a dilettante pilot. He went on to explain that Denver was an experienced pilot who owned many planes and flew often. He died, our friend claimed, when one of the fuel tanks in the experimental plane he was flying......

The Sonics open their season tonight in Denver. Game's at 7:30, you can watch it on FSN. If the Sonics' owners weren't trying to move them, we'd probably write about how this is a rebuilding year for the franchise, about how this season isn't really about winning but about watching Durant and #5-pick Jeff Green learn how to play in the NBA. We'd write that the Sonics' front office wisely brought in a couple......

Oh, baby...what a weekend. This Seattlest may have drunk more great beer in the past 4 days than we have in the preceding year since the last Great American Beer Festival. Well, maybe that's a stretch...but not by much. After flying to Denver on Thursday afternoon, we headed to check-in to our rooms at The Curtis hotel. Just one block from the beer festival, it turned out to be a prime base for the......

An NFL-record streak ended today with the Seahawks' loss to the Steelers. Shaun Alexander had had a run of at least ten yards in 68 consecutive games. But not today. Alexander's longest run, which came late in the fourth quarter, was only eight yards. He rushed for 25 yards on 11 carries, his worst game since 11/17/02 at Denver, when he had 18 yards on 11 carries. But, as Alexander himself stated in "The Road......

So, you think you have been to a beer festival before? Maybe you went to Fremont Oktoberfest , or maybe you even went to the Seattle International Beer Fest this summer. If you really want to go to a beer festival, get yourself to Denver in 10 days. The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is every beer lovers dream. 408 breweries. 1,884 beers. One huge convention center. 3 straight days of goodness. Can it......

In June of 1996, Shawn Kemp had just outplayed Michael Jordan, and even the most pessimistic Sonics fan agreed that the Supes had been a healthy Nate McMillan away from taking the crown. The awful aftertaste of the Denver upset was gone. With a 28-year-old Gary Payton and a 27-year-old Shawn Kemp--two sure hall-of-famers--in their primes, and a solid surrounding cast, the Sonics were ready to dominate the NBA for a few years. Our window......

Over at new Crosscut.com, Knute Berger reports that the Seattle School District will send four local high schoolers to the White Privilege Conference in Colorado Springs. Hoorah! We can think of no better place than Colorado Springs to teach all about the wonders of white privilege--proximity to ski resorts, an overwhelmingly melanin-free population, an outsized number of John Denver fans to convey the magic that is singing-songwriting...wait, what's that?the goal of the gathering is to......

The American Institute of Architects asked 1800 Americans to name their favorite buildings in the US. After further refinement and surveying, the AIA compiled a list of the top 150 and released it on Wednesday. A grand total of two Seattle buildings made the list: at #108, the gorgeous but metroartificial Seattle Public Library; and at #135, Safeco Field. Nowhere to be found: the viaduct, the EMP, Smith Tower, Washington Mutual Tower, Rainier Tower, Qwest......

To which the first question is, What the hell's a Seattle Examiner? It turns out to be part of Qwest billionaire and conservative Christian Philip Anschutz's online media empire: 22 U.S. cities now have Examiners. (Though there look to be Examiner staff on-the-ground in only four: Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Denver, and San Francisco.) Who knew? This is what happens when we don't have Mossback to kick around any more. "Their" Seattle UW tuition story......

Josh Brown is a strong Christian, so he may be uncomfortable with what we are about to say, however, we've been screaming it for hours, so why stop now? We love you Josh Brown. Josh Brown, we want to hold you in our arms. We want to fly with you on the back of a unicorn to a far off castle in the clouds, where we can to live together and have babies. Unfortunately I......

Are we more Lake Forest Parkish or Minneapolisesque? Four-foot rules exist in Bellevue, Everett, Federal Way, Kirkland, Lake Forest Park and Tacoma, according to city reports. Burien requires dancers to be at least 10 feet away from patrons, while Renton prohibits off-stage performances altogether. Cities that don't ban dancers from getting near customers include Chicago, Denver, Dallas, Minneapolis, Philadelphia and San Diego, according to another city report. Los Angeles and Portland also lack such rules,......

Life ain't exactly peachy for an Olympia man who, for the second time in his life, forgot everything. Forgot who he was, forgot his fiancee's face, forgot where he lived and, on the bright side, presumably forgot the Macarena song. Doctors confirmed that he experienced memory loss from dissociative fugue, a type of amnesia, and cannot recall his life before Sept. 10, when he woke up on a sidewalk in Denver without any idea who......

Mike McGonigal, of Chemical Imbalance fame, recently put out the highly anticipated fourth volume of his zine/cd/book/behemoth Yeti. We've barely begun to sink our teeth in to the 244 pages of obscure genius he's collected here and we've only had time to listen to the cd twice so far. We'd go in to more detail about its contents, but why bother? Pitchfork already reviewed it weeks ago, and at length. However they neglected to mention......

The atmosphere of Saturday's thrilling comeback win over UCLA, the second-biggest UW home comeback ever, apparently won over recruits for both the football and basketball team. Kennedy's Nate Williams, a running back/safety who's dominated opponents this year, told recruiting coordinator Chris Tormey after the game that he'll be a Husky next year. Williams also had a verbal offer from UCLA, according to Scout.com. The basketball team got a committment from Justin Holiday, a 6-6 swingman......

The most electrifying athlete in Seattle history is trying to get back into basketball. Shawn Kemp's in the Denver Nuggets tryout camp, and he's there for a reason--coach George Karl. So reports the AP. "He challenged me a few years ago to become one of the best players in the league, and I accepted the challenge," Kemp said. "That's one of the reasons why I wanted to come here. I knew he [Karl] wouldn't take......

-A fire west of I-5 on East Newton Street was extinguished so recently that if you rubber-neck on your way home you may see firefighters and reporters sifting through the rubble. There is already an insane quote from a resident, though: "Now I'm going through exactly what all my friends in Louisiana are going through." Oh yeah, it's exactly the same. -Vulcan announced something that may actually be pretty cool for once. They're putting up......

We totally heart neo-Nazis. They're just so darn cute, what with those little swastikas and their quaint beliefs about white supremacy and the Protocols of Zion. So, of course, we had to go to the CHAC for their current production of God's Country. God's Country weaves the Seattle trial of the white supremacist group called The Order (based on Whidbey Island), the assassination of Jewish Denver radio shock jock Alan Berg, and the hate-filled......

Seattlest's favorite cooking show doesn't star Rachael Ray or Iron Chef Morimoto. No, we're partial to America's Test Kitchen, the public television sibling of our favorite cooking magazine, Cook's Illustrated. Host Christopher Kimball doesnot make up words such as "jambalika" or forcefully oppose the rigid culinary doctrines of the Ota Faction. America's Test Kitchen is less about charming the audience and more like Highlander: there can be only one best recipe for Denver omelettes, and......

The FBI is investigating a man who spent a signifigant amount of time in Seattle from 1999-2000 for possible connections to the London bombings. From the P-I: British police have identified Haroon Rashid Aswat as a possible source of logistical, financial and technical support to the four bombers, according to media reports. The question for federal agents in Seattle is whether the man named by Scotland Yard is the same man as Aswat Haroon Rashid......

There was a time when local television was interesting and original. Seattleites growing up in the 1970s, for example, spent childhood afternoons watching J.P. Patches: a clown who lived in the city dump with a drag queen. Today, what little locally-produced television there is merely parrots successful national programs. Hence, “Gimme the Mike,” the Seattle-specific American Idol ripoff running on KONG. Seattlest was curious. We watched last night, for as long as we could. In......

You put in months of dedicated service working odd hours for paltry compensation. You handle crises with diligence, creativity, and finesse. When the cold cuts run out, you send someone to the store. When the fountain drinks dry up, you put up a note. Management hangs you out to dry and yet you soldier on. Such is the life of Dawna Lentz. Lentz was in the news last month when the Quiznos Sub Shop she......