YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT: Marion Nestle will be in town tonight to speak about Food Politics: Advocacy for Social Change as a part of UW's 2010 Food: Eating Your Environment series. Nestle is the author of six award-winning books, including What to Eat, Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health and Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Food and Nutrition. Tonight she will be covering the healthy food social movement currently happening in the U.S. along with ideas on how we can go about fixing this fast food nation food system of ours. more ›

CACOPHONY: British extreme metal band Cradle of Filth, Norwegian black metal group Satyricon, and Greek death metal band Septic Flesh will converge upon the Showbox at the Market tonight for a riotous, maybe-possibly Satanic, soul-chillingly shockerrific celebration of the dark side this evening. Wear your cutest black leather/nose chain combo and hit up that mess; don't forget your ear plugs. more ›

Kim is shooting from the hip this weekend (papow!). The only solid plan is her friend's weekly L Word watching party on Sunday. Between now and then, she'll probably go see Shenandoah Davis at 2020 Cycle with Your Heart Breaks and KHV. Maybe there'll be a delicious meal culled from our local farmers markets. Maybe she'll hop on a train and go to Portland. Anything could happen, people. Anything. more ›

Wow! Today's Friday the twelfth, and that leaves you all of twelve shopping days till Christmas. Which sort of sucks, since you're probably a little nervous about the state of the economy and whatnot and thinking that maybe fattening up the old savings account is a wiser move than buying a new Wii Fit. But insofar as gifts are an unavoidable fact of the holidays, we here at Seattlest thought we'd offer you some clever gift ideas for the holidays with an emphasis on both your budget and what you can do to help grease the wheels of the local economy just a bit. more ›