Mike O'Brien does a tiny thing and we all get excited, Fences does a huge thing and probably pisses off a lot of people, Edmonds gets a Dick's (finally!), and a shitty thing happens in Aberdeen. A typical Friday, wouldn't you say? more ›

If you pay attention to food, or social media, or really anything, you probably remember the amazingly popular Twitter-driven scavenger hunt that Canlis ran last year to celebrate their anniversary. And if you're a business owner, you've undoubtedly thought about how you, too, can game the sharing and the Tweeting to get folks buzzing about you. Others have tried, but none have been as successful. Until possibly now. more ›

• Do you want paper or plastic? Last night, the Edmonds City Council made history, becoming the first city in Washington to place a ban on plastic bags at grocery and retail stores.
• Expecting hot heat and hot beats, the non-profit music do-gooder group Hip Hop Congress kicks off their week-long National Conference today in the Central District.

• This morning around 10:30 a.m. a woman found herself being rescued by rappelling firefighters and a city boat after her car plummeted 200 feet down a waterfront cliff in Edmonds.
• Two groups of car prowlers are making the rounds in Crown Hill. One group wielding a skeleton key seems to fancy cars with GPS units. In total, they've broken into 15 cars in five days.

The latest in the plastic bag saga: Edmonds might ban them before Seattle does, thanks to quick and decisive work by their city council (now that's a foreign concept!). According to HeraldNet, Edmonds is well on its way to already implementing what could be a quick vote on the issue--the major Edmonds grocery store has already stopped using plastic to bag groceries, except for the small bags used to separate meat and fish packages, and in their version of the ban, the sanitary bags will remain legal. If they manage to ban plastic bags before August, that would make Edmonds the first city in Washington to regulate them. We always have thought of Edmondsians as trend-setters...! more ›

Last Saturday, being one of only two remaining Saturdays in our friend's life as a bachelor, we spent the day being manly men, doing manly things, one of which was making our own beer. more ›

We're not afraid to admit it, we kinda have a thing for Rick Steves. Steves has gone beyond local travel guru and bespectacled PBS travel host to become an outspoken advocate against the criminalization of marijuana and the U.S.'s "War on Drugs." He has done so while still coming across as sensible and trustworthy. Steves is the antithesis of every stoner stereotype in mainstream culture, but much more like the responsible adults we know that choose to smoke a bowl in their free time. more ›

"I don’t venture north of even the cut, unless provoked." So said one Seattlest contributor when we asked what inspires us to turn our backs on downtown and drive north. Wimp. more ›