Fresh by D G H from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

Tonight: Take your pick: there are fishes, there are plants, there are TV shows and movies, and Selena Gomez (maybe). more ›

Seattle Public Schools face a tough choice, the City of Kent comes down on medical marijuana, the Eastside loses contact and a fishy company has the SEC on its tail in today's news. more ›

Your love of sushi is threatening to leave the planet high and dry. Just in time for World Ocean Day, here are some tips and resources for how to get your paws on some sustainable, smart sushi. more ›

It's almost impossible to keep a pulse on the plethora of food related events and happenings in Seattle. Seattlest weeds through the multitude of options and brings YOU the cream of the crop in our weekly column, Food Frenzy. We've got the beat on special restaurant events, booze-related happenings, cooking classes and basically anything food-related because what's not love about eating and drinking in our city? This week we bring you sustainable seafood (complete with Francis Lam), cheap chowder, barleywine and more. more ›

Surprisingly, the above ad (NSFW, unless your work is burlesque- and/or violence-friendly) isn't part of PETA's "sea kittens" campaign, but it might as well be. Objectification of women? Check. Making fish "sexy"? Check. Somehow drawing a parallel between killing a person with harming a fish? Check. The PSA is from Dutch animal rights group Wakker Dier ("awake animal"), but we fully except PETA to recruit some local burlesque performers the next time they need to protest Pike Place Market fish-throwing. more ›

PETA isn't a fan of the fishmongers using real fish as "props." They'd prefer rubber fish instead. Now, a reasonable person might point out that the fish they use don't have feelings to be bruised, they're dead. But in the realm of sea kittens, reason is scarce. more ›

We're reluctant to spend this absolutely glorious sunny Monday morning writing about this weekend's horrific murders down in Graham, Washington. What Seattlest would rather do is watch web cams of Northwest wildlife, and we bet that's what you'd rather think about, too. The Hancock Wildlife Foundation has two live streaming web cams of bald eagle nests in British Columbia, and a handful of other recorded segments from years past of such wonders as the Chehalis salmon run. When will Dreamworks make a movie about talking, singing bald eagles and Chinook salmon? We'd buy that DVD/BluRay combo pack. Mornings and webcams like these remind us that we have the privilege of making our home in one of the world's most bountiful, beautiful areas. Sunshine, please stay! more ›

Last week, Dishin' delivered the scoop on fried shrimp heads from our favorite sushi restaurant in Seattle. more ›

Sign, signs, everywhere a sign. Unemployment leads to fewer traffic jams. Glad we could help you out with that. Over in Perugia, Italy, investigators on the stand today said Amanda Knox turned cartwheels at the police station. And down in the deep blue sea there's a groovy new species of fish that a UW scientist named psychedelia. We'll smoke up to that. more ›

One of the downsides of being a restaurant reporter is that when there's a night off from a planned meal out, we usually want to cook something at home--whether simple or complex. This probably sounds like a strange complaint to some, but we rarely go out and eat "critique-free," and when we do, we prefer little Asian restaurants. more ›

Ever since we almost died from choking on a salmon bone, Seattlest has known the truth: fish are terrorists, they are anti-American, and they should be illegal. It's nice to know the feds are on their enforcement game: early this morning, Immigrations and the FDA raided Ocean Beauty Seafoods, a seafood processing plant here in Seattle, taking with them all kinds of "historical stuff" (verbatim from Ocean Beauty's Director of Marketing). No official word on the reasoning behind the raid, and the company's still in business shipping out slimy briny dead creatures for profit. more ›

John Fish (spokesman for the McCain campaign): I'd like to open the floor for questions. more ›

No sensationalism, please, no hoaxes. No phony "Fierce French Fish (Bites the Hand that Feeds It)" headlines. Seriousness must prevail, even when Seattlest is posting dispatches from the west coast of France. more ›