No really. It's true. According to the League of American Bikes (via the Cascade Bicycle Alliance in our case), Washington is the most bicycle friendly state in the union. According to the LAB, "Washington’s model bike laws, signed and mapped statewide bike route network, dedicated funding from the state for bicycle related programs and projects, and an active statewide bicycle advisory committee" are reasons that the state earned top honors above Wisconsin, Arizona, Oregon (numbers......

Photo courtesy of Seattlest Flickr contributor zeebleoop Well, unless you want your burger to be a bun, pickles, lettuce cheese, and condiments. Or perhaps of the exotic meat or veggie variety. Local QFCs and Fred Meyers (parent company: Kroger) are recalling ground beef purchased at their stores over the past few weeks. The beef is being recalled after an outbreak of E. coli in the Midwest traced to the beef. Of course this recall comes......

Local supermarkets QFC and Fred Meyer have issued a recall on bottles of their Everyday Living Bleach. The companies have issued a warning about the potential for explosion when opened. Of course, because of the potential for explosion, the last thing QFC and Fred Meyer want you to do is return the bunk bleach bottles to the store. They will not take or replace the defective bottles. Rather they ask that you call the manufacturer......

We're not one of those people who hate "chemicals." Mmm, Diet Dr Pepper. But a few months ago we started to avoid buying milk that contained bovine growth hormone. Are we convinced it's bad for us? No, but we're convinced it's not explicitly good for us, either, since it exists to make life easier for dairy farmers. It's easy enough to avoid, and having a real live growing kid in the house makes us more......

We've thus far deferred on shipping news to Editor Dan, primarily because we are lame and don't contribute enough. Yet his last post about one of our favorite shows got us to thinking. We've tried to figure out why we find the show so compelling --maybe because it's reality/documentary about real people rather than people who want to be stars. We have in the past jokingly ranked the show more interesting than some of......

KING 5 did a great job with a story about the growing demand for organic beer. One of the best points of the story is this comment, "While many beer snobs belch at the idea of an organic Budweiser, local brewers are hoping the marketing muscle behind the macro-brewers will further bring organics to the masses." While we will not touch any organic beer made by Budweiser, becuase it will be just as bad......

Donna Giordano, a 25-year veteran of the of the grocery wars, has a lot to say about what's for dinner. As president of QFC, she runs 77 supermarkets in Washington and Oregon. But QFC is part of the giant Kroger Corp, and only a tiny part at that, so she has to convince the bean counters back in Cincinnati that Seattle shoppers care about quality. The newest QFC, which opened this week at 5th and......

Why go to the clubs when there are many hotties working at local business establishments? We've culled Craig's List, the Stranger I Saw U, and local blogs to determine where you, the reader, can find hotties without paying a cover. --Icon Coffee ("radiant and beautiful" barista) --the Starbucks at 2nd and Seneca ("many good-looking and handsome guys") --a local salon (see illustration) --the Ballard Fred Meyer ("incredibly cute brunette" working at the wireless counter) --Stellar......

Last week we toughed it out through the chilly night and made our way to the Crocodile to see The Joggers, hailing from Portland. While it filled out over the course of the evening, Seattlest was still one of few willing to brave the elements, leaving much of Seattle to miss what was a very good show, highlighted by the hijinks of a few intoxicated audience members. Seattlest showed up during the openers Oxford Collapse.......

We only got into mangos this year. We're not big tropical fruit fans, so when we got one in one of our first SPUD boxes, we pureed it for our daughter. And that was the first time we confronted the nightmare that is dissecting a mango. We also discovered that, unlike pineapples and coconut, mangos are really tasty. At first, we assumed our clumsy dissection efforts were a product of our ignorance. Surely someone out......

Shopping for cartophiles this holiday season? We suggest a visit to any one of Seattle’s swell map stores. Of course, maps primarily serve a practical, navigational purpose, but one needn’t be map-literate to dig them as works of art. This is no more apparent than at Metsker Maps, ground zero of Seattle mapperies. Metsker sells all kinds (physical or political, terrestrial or nautical, contemporary or historical), in all shapes (flat, bas-relief, spherical), and in all......

Seattlest has long been vexed by the disappearance of hardware because we own a toolbelt and we need to keep a certain supply of nails in the pouch or it won’t jingle satisfactorily as we walk about, assessing DIY projects around the home. 2001 marked the local hardware store odyssey, when gruff, snippy, "no-piercings-no-service" City People’s Mercantile left 15th Avenue. The Fred Meyer’s on Broadway used to have a hit-or-miss selection, but that’s gone, too.......

Seattlest has bad weekends from time to time. They're unavoidable. Sometimes you wake up on the wrong side of the bed. You burn yourself making coffee. It's raining. You realize your phone's been dead for hours. It's so packed at Fred Meyer you just give up on your 68-pack of toilet paper and get one roll from 7-11 that costs you $4 and has a layer of gross gas station dust on the top......