We hear the insults. Bloggers are no-names. We are malcontents. We live in our parents' basements, practicing onanism like Tiger Woods practices putting. Well we have news for you, blogger-haters. Laugh no more, because a man who has the earned respect of many for his political activism and musical genius is joining our growing club. Krist Novoselic has started a blog. This hero of the 1990s, a man who had the courage to throw his......

Monday the 10th, at 7pm, the Paramount Theatre presents Charlie Chaplin's 51st, 52nd, and 53rd films, all from 1916: The Floorwalker, The Fireman, and The Vagabond. They're all half-hour or so shorts from early on in his Mutual Films era, and feature Chaplin's genius for environmental comedy, with mishaps with escalators and fire poles. In his autobiography, Chaplin wrote that his notion of humor was based on "the subtle discrepancy we discern in what appears......

Rachel Hynes is a former barista and yet still enjoys spending time in espresso places. She will review them. This is her third such review. It's 8:45am on a Sunday morning when we stroll into Katy's Corner Cafe and the gal behind the counter is cheerful in a way that's totally disarming. Our early Sunday crabbiness disappears as she explains that a veggie quiche is about to come out of the oven. She serves our......

LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the week was that the Mayor's Hot Tamale was revealed, and that a Kwik-E-Mart was erected in Burbank. Phillyist was busy doing the Fourth of July up right, exercising their......

Ex-Seattleite, ex-Stranger-nic and ex-grassroots campaign manager Phil Campbell wrote a book that we loved about Grant Cogswell's run for City Council in the wake of WTO. The book is Zioncheck for President, which we've discussed with Phil in the past. Now Stephen Gyllenhaal has bought the rights to the film adaptation and plans to produce the thing DIY style here in Seattle. In keeping with the grassroots spirit of Zioncheck for President, Gyllenhaal said he......

FESTIVAL: The first-ever (official) Lebowski fest in Seattle kicks things off at the Showbox. Tonight's the chubby dance-rock of the oft tighty-whitey-clad Har Mar Superstar and a screening of the Coen Brothers' classic. Tomorrow's bowling with The Dude at Kenmore Lanes. Wear your best bathrobe and pound some white Russians, or you'll be out of your element, Donny. 8pm doors // Showbox // $15 MUSIC: We still haven't gone to a show at the......

Tuesday, December 12 >>> Roger O'Donnell at Baltic Room. No longer part of The Cure, keyboardist Roger O'Donnell graces Oscillate to perform some synth-driven pieces from his first solo album The Truth in Me. With Christopher Willits. 10pm; $15. 21+ Wednesday, December 13 >>> Betamax at Old 5th Ave Tavern. Seattlest Kim's folktronic band-o-dorks takes over this Maple Leaf dive bar for a pre-holidays folk-out. *mp3: Long Long Long 8pm; free. Thursday, December 14......

The PI's John Cook offered the best short summary of what's new at Zillow in his Venture Blog today: Big changes at Zillow.com today, with the company overhauling its Web site to include user-generated for sale listings, a real estate wiki and a new service called "Make Me Move" that allows any home owner to set a dream price for their home on the site. You can get more sober and insightful discussion from Zillow's......

Carlos Rodela doesn't hold much stock with the Seattle music scene, either its cloistered, big-fish-in-a-small-pond pretensions or with its rock star showmanship. "The idea of musicianmanship is absolute shit," he told us over coffee. "There is no playing better, there's just difference. Different Songs. What did Elvis Costello say? That rock and roll is the 14-year-old kid in a bedroom coming up with a new rock song. That's rock and roll." Rodela's been around......

Not to spoil it for you, but at The Stranger's HUMP! amateur porn film festival, the entry "Getting a Leg Up in Porn" featured a cumshot delivered via the game Mousetrap. It's hilarious, and of course we are allowed to spoil it for you because the films are shown four or eight or a dozen times over the weekend and then destroyed. If you haven't seen it, you'll never see it. Anyway, the Mousetrap cumshot......

-Two journalists are refusing to testify against Ehren Watada. Apparently he "spoke contemptuously of the president" to them. Man, is that a crime? -Not all biodiesel is vegan. -All over the city today expectations are being adjusted according to the fact that the Seahawks failed to find the endzone yesterday. -It's hard to comment before seeing the tools and reading the fine print, but if Microsoft is really releasing a hobbyist/indie/DIY game development kit......

DIY isn't just for musicians and craftistas anymore. If the words "artisan cheese" kick your salivary glands into overdrive and and spur your desire to be that artisan, call the Mt. Townsend Creamery in Port Townsend and make plans for an August weekend workshop: Vermont farmstead cheesemaking pioneer and renowned teacher Peter Dixon will be returning to Western Washington Aug 4-6 to teach two cheesemaking courses at the Mt. Townsend Creamery in Port Townsend.......

The Austin-based Craft Mafia has been a hit in Texas and in other cities and Seattle just the kind of place for a new familia. And as if in answer to that void SeattleCraftMafia.com launched today. We are a group of like-minded, quirky, independent business owners and artisans in the Seattle area who have come together to offer mutual support, information, resources, and enthusiasm to one another, and to offer goodwill to the communities in......

Maybe we failed to give credit where credit was due yesterday in the Bumpershoots post. Some of the best stuff at the festival tends to not be music (notably the 826 thing from last year) and they have a lot of cool sounding events listed on their website that aren't music, but definitely are worthy of a mention. Not only will the Rat City Roller Girls be skating at Bumbershoot this year, but they will......

In honor of President's Day, we've included our fave prezzes along with our weekend activity list. Michael vB is going to see the NW Dance Split Bill ($18) at On the Boards either tonight or closing night Saturday, 8pm. Then Sunday morning he plans to scram on down to the Hi-Spot before the brunch crush for some delicious breakfast vittles. He likes Harry S Truman, because he was "scrappy." Audrey will spend the long weekend......

-When you hear that an experimental plane has crashed you expect to hear that some kind of ninja plane from Boeing Field ditched into the ocean. This time it's a DIY job, though. We're guessing the flight itinerary didn't read "Garage, Chehalis Airport, trees, Harborview ICU," but that's unfortunately what happened. -Our beef has Mad Cow, their beef has Mad Cow, let's just call the whole thing off. -The end of Hotmail is approaching. Finally,......

Seattlest has another podcasting event we want you to attend. We really want to hear you out there, apparently, so if you produce or know of a podcast that's Seattle-related in content or dialect you should post it in the comments or email Seattlest. Our all-seeing eye is currently sweeping the internets for some new additions to our links section and we want to make you famous. The DIY technology magazine Make Magazine will be......

Seattlest's bus ride to work lasts about twelve minutes. That's just long enough for us to find a seat, sit in it, open our bag, take out our laptop and boot it up, Start, Shutdown, Yes we would like the computer to shut down, put it away and get off the bus. Ah, another productive commute! You didn't notice it, but during the minute our computer was on it attempted and failed to find any......

If, like Seattlest, you spend your morning commute catching up on world events through Morning Edition, you’ve probably heard excerpts from the StoryCorps project. Your fellow Americans have been busy interviewing each other, and NPR is airing a few of the results. Time was, you had to head to New York City’s Grand Central Station to book time in a StoryCorps interview booth. Now, however, two mobile StoryCorps recording stations are traveling across the......

The DIY armour that that guy killed at the federal courthouse yesterday attempted to use didn't prevent him from becoming "that guy killed at the federal courthouse yesterday." Future desperados may want to take note: a cutting board in a Jansport on your chest will not be enough to protect you if you are planning on furtively waving a WWII grenade at a court building. Perry Manley, dressed up in camoflage and a homebrew bullet......

Seattlest has long been vexed by the disappearance of hardware because we own a toolbelt and we need to keep a certain supply of nails in the pouch or it won’t jingle satisfactorily as we walk about, assessing DIY projects around the home. 2001 marked the local hardware store odyssey, when gruff, snippy, "no-piercings-no-service" City People’s Mercantile left 15th Avenue. The Fred Meyer’s on Broadway used to have a hit-or-miss selection, but that’s gone, too.......

Seattlest happily revisited a little bit of our musical past Friday night by attending the world premiere of the Minutemen documentary We Jam Econo. The film, by director Tim Irwin and producer (and Seattleite) Keith Schieron, mixes amazing live footage with recent interviews with surviving band members and various other survivors of the 80s punk scene. We left all wiggly and inspired and suggest that you do the same; see the bottom for dates......

It looks like a couple of the kids will be getting together this weekend at Linda's to raise money for Teen Dance Ordinance foe and friend of the music scene, City Council member Richard Conlin. Check it out; it's a Rock Star Bake Sale. Local music types from your favorite bands such as U.S.E., IQU, The Catch, Mountain Con, Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, Brad, and others (notably, John Wesley Harding) will be contributing......