We all know someone who is in DC for the Inauguration, sure they’ve rubbed in our face a bit, and we’re all jealous of them. more ›

SurveyUSA, who also conducted a poll of Washington State voters after the first Presidential debate, just released their results from last night's Vice Presidential debate: more ›

It ain't easy being Scott McClellan. He's considered a traitor, snitch, and turncoat by the right, while the left decries him for not blowing the whistle sooner—either way, he's not getting many Christmas cards this year. more ›

When you're seen as the number-two city and number-two university in the state you can either embrace it or try and avoid the notion. more ›

If kaboom-style fireworks aren't the bang you're looking for, stop in at ACT for the theatrical fireworks of David Hare's Stuff Happens, reviewed here. It's the play about Iraq and the rockets' red glare, the difference between the spark of liberty and the blinding torch of neocon ideology. (The title refers to Donald Rumsfeld's disingenuous retort to questions about U.S. forces' disregard of post-"liberation" lawlessness.) By all accounts, it's a thought-provoking (almost 3-hour) imagining of what it was like being "in the room" as the decisions were being made, and confronts us with the outcome of those decisions, ready or not. more ›

Another group of noobs got rescued off Mt. Hood recently, and we scanned the news looking for what people had to say on the subject. We follow climbing-related news not because we're climbers per se (in fact Seattlest is really nothing of the sort), but to keep tabs on what the rest of the world thinks about "extreme" sports. And sadly we've found that digging up people saying stupid things on the topic of high-altitude climbing is about as easy as shooting some of Dick Cheney's friends in the face. more ›

Notes from a day when even Iranians are probably paying more attention to Blake Lewis than to Dick Cheney. more ›

Back in December, we defended the search and rescue efforts for the climbers lost on Mt. Hood. We were also baffled by the intensity of the national media focused on the effort--people have died on Mt. Hood and Rainier in the past without hardly a sneeze from most national news outlets--but figured it was the fact that it trailed the Kim rescue so closely. more ›

We never claimed to be good at math. more ›

Alice In Chains announced a tour schedule recently. No Layne, a duh, but the rest of the guys are doing a club tour of the states with venues like the Bowry Ballroom, the Metro and the Roxy scheduled. We don't care about New York, Chicago and L.A., you say, we want to know where they'll be playing in Seattle. Not on the list. After their appearance in NYC at the end of May they'll be going overseas to play more clubs and festivals through the end of August. No Seattle. more ›

If you own a pair of mittens we suggest you put them on your hands toute suite. It is about to get really cold up in here, making talk about the weather acceptable outside of awkward exchanges with your local barista. more ›

Seattlest was once on the NYC subway with a friend; it was winter and so we were both clad in Gore-Tex jackets. We ran into another friend--a New Yorker--who asked us if we had just gotten back from a camping trip. more ›