Tomorrow could bring Seattle its next reality TV train wreck star, as the Fox show So You Think You Can Dance holds an open casting call in downtown for all styles of dancers and great performers—bring on the jazz hands--to audition for the show's fifth season. We just have a mean version of “I’m a Little Teapot” in our repertoire so we’ll pass, but if you got rhythm, follow the legwarmers Saturday, March 28, to the Moore Theatre. Doors open at 8 a.m. Break a leg, Seattle! more ›

Seattle’s athletic misfortunes may be embarrassing, but at least we aren’t hosting the Jonas Brothers for the Thanksgiving Day halftime show. more ›

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). more ›

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Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels either loves condos or he hates renters. The Mayor's Office has indefinitely frozen a $350,000 fund created to compensate Seattle area renters who'd been forced out of housing due to condo-conversions. Mayor Nickels wants to wait and see if the legislature passes a statewide bail-out funded by developers this winter. Because it makes perfect sense to rely on the people who are profiting most off of Seattle renter's misery. more ›

Last week we were taking Husky football with a friend who was upset that the University hadn't fired coach Ty Willingham. We mentioned that, though he hadn't won many games, Willingham had restored integrity to the football program. more ›

When we lived in LA we had no problem watching the Huskies play at Pauley Pavilion. We could just get in our car, hop on the 10, and presto, eight hours later we were in the building. more ›

Is there drama in Saturday's NFC divisional playoff game between the Hawks and Packers? Well, the playoffs are always dramatic. But this game packs (ha!) even more of a theatrical punch. The storylines: more ›

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The new Zagat is out, at least the one "devoted to Seattle" restaurants. And with "all due respect" to "local editor" Alicia Comstock Arter (who also contributes to Northwest Palate), it's "a freakin mess." The trouble, "brewing for years," is that the "capsule reviews" take isolated "nouns and adjectives" from "reader comments" and string them together to make "nonsensical" and "often inaccurate" profiles. It's a Fox News approach to dining, all pseudo-oracular, disjointed headlines with "little substance." more ›

No. But that doesn't make this factoid from a political campaign article in today's any less disturbing: more ›

You Seattle old-timers will remember that KCPQ-13 reception was once very hit-or-miss. Wasn't bothersome in the 80s since the station's schedule was mostly old, bad movies. But in the first years of their Fox affiliation, it could be quite vexing fiddling with your antenna as The Simpsons faded in and out. more ›

Placekickers are held in low regard by their football teammates. more ›

Anti- reissued three Neko Case albums today: Furnace Room Lullaby from 2000, Blacklisted from 2002, and last year's Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. Stock up if you don't have 'em. more ›

It's Seattle Shakespeare Company's version of the wandering prince Pericles on Friday night for MvB, followed Saturday night by Britain's accordion-driven, Brechtian street opera trio with neo-castrati Martyn Jacques, the Tiger Lilies at the Moore, ladies and gentlemen. more ›

The scene in the basement of Seattlest HQ last night when FOX showed Ichiro rounding third and heading home on his inside-the-park home run was what I imagine an old-time political convention looked like after they nominated the hometown candidate after 86 ballots. more ›

Both the Seattle Times and Fox Sports report he'll sign a five-year extension on Friday. more ›

Seattlest decided to check out the new Tap House Grill yesterday evening. They opened earlier this week in the old Planet Hollywood location right next to Fox Sports Grill, on 6th Ave. between Pike and Pine. more ›

Some of you may be interested in checking out the newly opened Tap House Grill in downtown Seattle. Although we have had issues with service, beer quality and availability of beers on their list at the Tap House in Bellevue, we are still hoping the Seattle location works out. With 160 beers on tap, it should not be hard to find something you want. The new Seattle location is in the old Planet Hollywood building on 6th Ave., between Pike and Pine. The location is prime, which means it will likely be constantly packed. more ›

Christopher Hitchens filled Town Hall to overflowing last night to talk about his new book, . It was nearly standing room only. Seattlest was one of the last people to squeeze into the hall and find a seat. Apparently Seattle has a lot of atheists. Who knew? more ›

Quick, while Paris is in jail and the politicians annointed as "official" candidates by CNN and Fox are poking each others' eyes out, let's take a moment to talk about the Farm Bill. (Yeah, right.) Seriously, because you are what you eat, you know. (Yeah, right.) more ›

Last night on the Discovery Channel there was a Deadliest Catch wrap-up-type episode where Mike Rowe had all the assorted captains gathered at the Lockspot in Ballard for some "why do you do it?" commiseration. It's like in their blood or something. There was no satisfactory answer, actually. Seattlest can understand why people fish crab up in Alaska. You can get hurt, sure, but you make some money and you don't have to put up with a lot of other people. Why do the Deadliest Catch guys do it, though? There's definitely a Heisenburg thing going on with the main characters of this show--for some reason the Seattle tubes are more or less vacant of any mention of the Deadliest Catch, but the show's near 24-hour domination of the Discovery Channel suggests that it is, in fact, wildly popular. These Captains and crew are reality TV stars. Not the kind of MTV/Fox stars who change careers to making pro bar appearances five nights a week after they get voted off the island, but reality TV stars nonetheless. If you could chose between somehow parlaying that reality TV stardom into some cash or continuing on in the world's most dangerous profession, well, you'd step to parlaying. more ›

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Yes, this story about some sad sack of a cop and his wife in Michigan is a few days old, but the really enjoyable aspect of this news item comes to you courtesy of Seattle's own Q13 Fox news. Enjoy. more ›

Vitals: 27 yo RHP. Born in Tainan, Taiwan. 6-3, 225. 27-13, 3.84 career. 0-2, 5.84 in 2007. $489,500 salary. more ›

Say this for new Sonics owner Clay Bennett--he knows shitty basketball when he sees it. And he's replacing the men most responsible for bringing it to you, GM Rick Sund and coach Bob Hill. more ›

For our headline, we borrow the words of that magnificent artisan of the English language, Fox Sports Northwest's Brad Adam. Could anyone sum up Felix Hernandez' breathtaking, complete game shutout, no-hit-thru-seven-innings performance last night any better? Probably not, but let's take a look-see. more ›

More snow--today's games are postponed. they'll play a doubleheader on Sunday, and try to make the third game up during an off day later in the season. more ›

Cities in other states. Why, during 24 tonight, did Fox 13 news use their "Coming up" commercial break to tell us they have Breaking News about a bunch of people who got shot in a mall in Salt Lake City? (Granted, we're from there, so we care but we don't understand why this is making the Seattle news.) And why are they reporting on their site about a murder-suicide in Philadelphia? more ›

Today is an absolutely lovely day in Park City, sunny and so warm that we had to take off our coat and scarf to walk around. Yesterday was lovely too, but we wouldn't know, because we spent, oh, approximately fourteen hours in a single theater. Was it worth it? You be the judge: more ›