Today Seattlest welcomes our new sports correspondent to the fold. Drew Milam is a longtime Seattle resident who recently returned to the Emerald City after some time in the Bay Area, and claims to be super tight with fellow Santa Clara alum Steve Nash, Brandi Chastain and NFL referee Mike Carey. No word on if he got the gig because he is a Hillary supporter (pleasing Editor Kim) and a Garfield alum (pleasing Seattlest David).......

Wild speculation surrounding the possibility of Radiohead playing somewhere in Washington sometime in the next year has got us pissing ourselves with excitement. The P-I A P-I reader blog called Ear Candy** thinks they might headline the Sasquatch Festival at the end of May with REM and The Cure but our sources are suggesting the band will embark on a West Coast run after their European summer tour ends. As of right now, the......

Poor John Vanderslice. John wrote the bulk of his new album, Emerald City, while knee-deep in legal limbo after a visa application for his girlfriend, a French national he met in Paris, was rejected by US Immigration. The songs and themes are fueled by an era of deep insecurity and paranoia; they develop in front of a backdrop of ritualized and mythologized current events. But at its simplest, Emerald City is made up of......

Real estate search engine Rotten Neighbor promises to help you "find bad neighbors before you move." What evils have users uncovered behind the closed doors of the Emerald City? Near Carkeek Park: Grouchy Old Man w/ Loud Music The grouchy old man who lives here likes to play his radio very loudly in his backyard. Lately he has begun playing it in the middle of the night and the cops have been called several times.......

National soccer correspondent Jason McDonald covered Saturday's Sounders home opener for Seattlest UPDATE: Holy crap, the Economist was there too! After watching the--let’s call it "considered discourse"--in the comments section of Seattlest Seth’s post on how to hate the Portland Timbers, Seattlest decided to stand with the ultras of each team (one per half) during the Sounders' home opener. Here is how each group fared. First Half: Emerald City Supporters (ECS) We applauded their passion......

What are the people who edit the Seattle article on Wikipedia fighting about these days? Whether or not "Rainy City" is a real nickname for Seattle. Someone is bored at work. A user with the catchy name of 67.161.84.145 insists that it's not. In fact, they insist it's slanderous: I changed the nickname. As a Seattle native, I have never, ever heard it called "Rainy City." It is not, nor ever has been a common......

NE 52nd Street, University District, Seattle Back when we lived in the periodically-frozen tundra, we dutifully shoveled our sidewalks because, personally, we hated walking across others' snowy sidewalks which subsequently froze over to resemble the desert of Arizona a jagged lunar surface. And after shoveling, the procedure called for sprinkling one's walk with automotive-floorboard-eating, soil-poisoning rock salt to melt any ice. Thankfully, these days there are some less harmful alternatives that will not harm......

No, not "Say WA." Popular opinion seems to be split, but we firmly believe that "Say WA" was better than "metronatural," just like Carmen Electra is a better actress than Paris Hilton. Metronatural, however, sounds positively Joycean compared to "See"-@-L. You remember "See"-@-L, right? Right? Our prior city slogan? Unveiled in 1999? Gave "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" a run for its money? The only kind of marketing slogan lamer than a made-up......

Every time someone comes to visit Seattlest from our pre-Emerald City life there's a moment when the two of us arrive at a crosswalk and Seattlest pulls up in strict abeyance of law and social conditioning and our friend charges through the light, only to recognize sometime halfway down the next block that we're still waiting for the white walking guy signal. When we catch up we explain the situation: Pedestrians obey the traffic......

"The more the merrier." Shakespeare, maybe? We don't know. Anyway, it's true. But it's difficult to just invite someone tag along to a big city pro or college sporting event. There's the matter of getting tickets in the same row, or of being able to afford tickets in the first place. These barriers do not exist for high school sports. Seating is always of the festival variety, and tickets--well, if you could afford to go......

The big drama on Project Runway this week was Jude Law getting thrown off the show for having contraband in his room at the PR compound and we have to say that it was more than a little disappointing how quietly he went into that good night. Can you imagine past villians getting thrown off the show for having fashion books in their room? Santino would have popped a neck vein and whipped Gunn with......

Any day now Seattle will catch a break. I mean we are owed one. It's been a rough couple of months here in the Emerald City, and now that the shit stain of a month that was July is coming to an end, maybe with it so will our run of heart breaking news. Just how depressing has it been around here? So bad that the local papers haven't been able to blare the depressing......

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddy for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bids Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has some suggestions to fix that. They're also throwing Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash. Yeah, we may have a few issues with our World Cup broadcasters here, but this guy......

Last night, Seattlest came in a humbling-but-deserved third in our regular trivia contest at the Old Pequliar. Ten teams were playing, so we won $10 (double our entry fee), but the first-place team raked in $70. Seattlest is there most Tuesday nights, so if you've ever got an urge to give us a run for our money, show up by 8:00. We had to let the rest of our team handle a round on their......

The city of Renton, which radiates out from the south end of Lake Washington east toward the Cascade foothills, is "eager to shed its blue-collar reputation," according to the Seattle Times. City officials have decided on a two-pronged approach: 1) Remove this guy from his job as Renton's director of arts and cultural affairs. 2) Lure the Sonics to town. They want a new basketball arena to be Phase Two of an "urban village" development......

Seattlest is going to expand its scope a bit. We've already taken on the task of mentioning events in Portland every now and then, but rather than making it an occasional thing, we're formalizing that arrangement. We love it here in the Emerald City, but if you've got to get away, we'll help you out with a destination, something that you just can't get here. We won't keep this exclusive to Portland, but we will......

Thinking of the Red Bull Music Academy still puts a smile on Seattlest's face. While almost overwhelming with the amount of talent that came through, the fact that all of that great music came through Seattle is still mindblowing. The event left an impact on the scene too, with some people deciding to move to the area, and others ensuring that their tour plans bring them back through the Emerald City. Osunlade's appearance at tonight's......

There is a film by which the love all Seattleites have for the Emerald City can be measured. Can you stomach the whole movie; Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks and a cute kid for 105 minutes? Doubtful. But how long will you watch this TBS mainstay while waiting for the scene where he rows a boat from Lake Union to Alki or just one more shot of The Houseboat's exterior? Five minutes? One commercial break? Two?......

Seattlest has never been in Stand By Me. If we were corralled by a prepubescent hiking companion and asked what one food we'd want to eat for the rest of our lives, it would not be cherry flavor Pez. Nope. We'd pick smoothies. We used to be big fans of the local Juice Plant chain -- especially the Boys of Summer -- but when they went out of business, we became regular patrons of San......

Obviously the streets of the Emerald City will be empty between 1-5pm on Saturday, when the Seahawks play, but what are people doing the rest of the weekend? Seth is going to a UW gymnastics meet tonight, then possibly to lesbian night at the War Room (don't ask--there are wheels within wheels, as Jeeves would say) and to the King Classic high school basketball jamboree at Key Arena Saturday night. Matt Silvie will be checking......

Some may call it the Rainy City, the Emerald City, or the Jet City, but around here, we call it like we see it: Seattle is the Coffee Capitol. To say that Seattlites love their lattes is a gross understatement. Without coffee, it’s unlikely that much would happen in this rainy, emerald city, and there would undoubtedly be fewer jets. But while much has been said of our noble brew, less has been noted of......

Hmm...now where have we seen this before? Meredith goes to Joe's bar (Joe!). Meredith meets man. Meredith takes man home and ravishes him for supposed one-night stand only to be faced with him again the following morning. Oh, that's right: The very first episode. But fear not, viewers, those highly original and not at all trite and/or metaphorically-leaning writers have not yet begun to recycle storylines. They have, however, decided it was about time for......

When this week began, wrestler Eddie Guerrero and TV pioneer Ralph Edwards were both alive. No one outside Steel Country had heard of Rep. John Murtha, and Bob Woodward still had credibility. Next week is really only three days, so probably nothing will happen. Thus, we at Seattlest intend to enjoy ourselves over the weekend. Seth's going to the Ballard JazzWalk tonight. Two performers he's looking forward to seeing: Dawn Clement, an inventive young pianist,......

Gotham. Motown. The Big Easy. The Windy City. The City of Angels… The Emerald City? Writers too often use "Emerald City" to avoid redundant usage of "Seattle," and though we've mentioned it before, we feel it's high time to remind ourselves of the term's lame origins. It's not the sort of organic, grassroots phrase arising from street slang, a local poet, or a crusty columnist's typewriter. Instead, in a cheap bid to promote tourism, the......

What a treat this week's episode was, hmm? Chalk full of little easter eggs for us Pacific Northwesters. Plus, the triumphant return of Joe ! And mocha lattes! Special appearances by Mamas Grey and Yang! Lake Washington aerial view! And, Seattle Grace Hospital continues to single-handedly be responsible for the whole of Seattle Magazine's circulation. The gang kicks off the evening with a little nightcap, courtesy of the Emerald City Bar and its risen-from-the-dead-owner Joe,......

It is a dark, ugly secret, but not all of Seattlest hails from our glowing Emerald City. Aye children, tis true. Please don't shun us. This weekend, the Seattlest contingent originally from Utah, all one of us, returns to the motherland. We do this typically once per annum around the holidays, as our beloved parents and various aunts/uncles/cousins still call Salt Lake City home and it is no surprise that the skiing there is pretty......

Seattle summers are a time for frolicking and play, while the gray winters here are well-suited for quiet reflection. The transition is an all too quick one, since the Seattle autumn lasts all of a month, more of a switch than a season. This weekend is a good time to bid farewell to blue skies and welcome the fall by helping out the less fortunate before beginning your winter hermitage. Saturday the folks at Innerflight......

Who needs Hollywood? The superstars are flocking to the Emerald City. Jane Fonda was just at Seattle Costco hawking her autiobiography, and now Goldie Hawn showing a touch more class, is coming to Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park on Saturday, May 14, at 6 pm. Her autobiography even has a better title than Jane’s My Life So Far. Goldie: A Lotus Grows In the Mud reveals Goldie’s "joy of being a daughter, a......

Seattlest Revolution marches ever onward, growing in strength and numbers. Today's new recruit is Kate of Accidental Hedonist fame who'll be issuing orders to our taste buds from here out. Actually, we've hypnotised her into the belief that posting on Seattlest isn't beneath her, so here's hoping she takes a while to come to. While Seattlest plans to serve up enough Kate to keep your belly round, there's always seconds at her site so make......

Maybe Seattle doesn’t have a river to dye green just for the occasion, but there are still scads of St. Patrick’s Day activities here in the Emerald City. We suppose you could go to the Seattle Center for the big celebration there, but most people would rather be out drinking, so for your Irish pub-crawling pleasure (cover charges as noted): In the U District and Wallingford, you’ve got all kinds of options, some of which......