Seattlest headed south on I-5 this past weekend for our annual Oregon coast getaway. Instead of boring you with details about rugged ocean scenery, we thought we’d detail what must be the least beautiful of the major interstate commutes from Seattle. more ›

This guy, a Fort Lewis officer, thought it was a great idea to embezzle $700,000 from Uncle Sam during a recession and a war. Genius! Did he think they weren't gonna notice that kind of pocket change missing from the coffers? The only explanation we can come up with is that his 14-month service in Iraq was more traumatizing than has yet come to light, and if that's the case, our heart goes out to him--but dude still owes the country some cash. more ›

You can tell it's Seafair when your pets are trembling under the coffee table. Nothing signifies the dog days of summer in Seattle like the roar of a defanged F-18 driving your dog to piss himself. more ›

That's how Mayor Ole Hanson described the beginning of the general strike that was held in Seattle February 1919, one of the few general strikes ever attempted in the U.S. The Bolsheviks had just won their revolution in Russia two years earlier and the Red Scare was coming into play in our country. Add 35,000 striking shipyard workers. Subtract the city's more moderate labor officials - They were in Chicago for a vote. Those left behind broached the subject of a general strike with other unions and the city was shut down on February, 6, while rumors of poisoned water, blasted dams and union heavies en route from Chicago kept everyone else either locked in their homes or fleeing for the country. In an effort to keep the peace, or kick a lot of union ass anyway if the peace got queered, the mayor brought in soldiers from Fort Lewis and deputized 2,400 frat guys and student organization members whom he armed with clubs and guns. The city teetered towards open war in the streets. more ›

-This photo is obviously a fake. There are no tornados in Kirkland, sorry. more ›

While "Kablowie" Zarqawi enjoys the sexual ministrations of 72 virgins, a Fort Lewis soldier is sitting in Thurston County Jail for allegedly wanting to sleep with just one. more ›

The guy at Fort Lewis who has "serious reservations" about war fighting in Iraq to the extent that he's refusing to deploy is Honolulu native Ehren Watada. Assuming that he's the sole Ehren Watada from Hawaii it looks like his dad is Bob Watada who was the executive director of the state Campaign Spending Commission in Hawaii for a long time and according to the available reports kicked a lot of ass in that capacity. He retired in 2005, but not before doing a bunch of good stuff like this: more ›

-A Fort Lewis soldier is apparently taking the Governor's choice of duty campaign and running with it, choosing not to be deployed to Iraq. more ›

-The Myspace page of the Fort Lewis man accused of stabbing his wife a hundred million times was entered into evidence today because it listed a few serial killers as people he'd like to meet. more ›

A few weeks ago the Post Intelligencer published a list of recent U.S. military casualties with links to Washington state that we wrote about but ended up not posting because it seemed like it would have been too much of a downer amongst all the wise-cracky 'news of the weird' and happy-go-lucky events listings we had up at the time. However, now that U.S. casualties have climbed up to the 2000 mark we think it should be acknowledged. more ›

Seattle is known for grunge and always will be, no matter how much we might want the world to know we've moved on. Detroit is a bit less pigeon-holed, but they've earned that distinction through extraordinary musical breadth, impacting rock, R&B, industrial, techno, electro, and ghettotech along with other genres too numerous to mention. Over the next few days Seattle gets to benefit from Detroit's electronic legacy, with two shows guaranteed to move a crowd. more ›