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. She was unmoved. "The university does a lot of good," she said. "The football team's job is to win games." But now our friend has read the Seattle Times' stomach-turning series about the alleged rape, attempted murder,......

Last night while having dinner at Friend A's house, the wife got a call from Friend B with whom she and A had gone snowshoeing on Friday. Friend B was calling because she had read the newspaper and discovered a story about an avalanche that happened on the trail they took.A group of youths aged 12 to 16 and an adult were hiking near Lake 22, a popular trail off the Mountain Loop Highway east......

Fountain Run with Friend, uniquely capturing a non-crowded, sans-elephant-ear moment of bliss at Bumbershoot this year courtesy of Crickontour. Share your own Seattle slivers in the Seattlest Flickr pool, won't you?......

The Rainier Cold Storage Stock House--part of the beautiful and historic and absolutely irreplaceable Rainier Cold Storage campus in Georgetown--is being replaced. The building cannot be saved as Seattlest has previously discussed here and here, and a campaign to try to force property owners Sabey Corp. to preserve it as-is seems like it wouldn't hold up in the face of the condition of the building, despite the Seattle Historic Landmark status it currently enjoys. Brooke......

"What's wrong with this picture?" asks Friend of Seattlest and Flickr contributor Florid Designs. She snapped it yesterday in downtown Renton. Hint: what's the name of the street?......

Portland experimental rockers Menomena are coming to Neumos this Friday with openers All Smiles and Grand Archives. Enter here for a chance at tickets, a wicked cool poster and Menomena's critically acclaimed album, Friend and Foe (which you can stream right here). We'll be drawing for the winner tomorrow at noon!......

Portland's electro post-rock outfit Menomena is known for both their abstract pop hooks and digital loops. They'll be breaking out the guitars, keyboard, organ, drums, saxomophones, glockenspiel, and multi-part harmonies for their upcoming show at Neumo's this weekend. Stream their latest album, the exceedingly well-reviewed Friend or Foe, here. And fill out the entry form below for your chance to win a pair of tickets to Saturday's Friday's show, as well as a copy......

The Friends of The Seattle Public Library Book Sale The Library Book Sale is going on at Magnuson Park this weekend. If you haven't been you should go. If you've been there you know you should have been throwing elbows against the heavy bag for weeks--little old ladies don't move themselves when you're trying to get to those diamonds in the rough, but what a rough! We're talking about a few acres of loose, unsorted......

The Huskies weren't among the 64 teams picked for the NCAA tournament, then neither were they among the 32 teams picked for the NIT. Down here at Seattlest HQ, stunned silence. After the first two regions were revealed, we sort of joked, "Uh-oh, looks like we didn't make it!" And then, when the final bracket was shown, well, wow...we really didn't make it! C.M. Newton, who headed the NIT selection committee, explained the selection process......

There' a constant ebb and flow when it comes to the music we love. Sometimes it seems like there's just nothing interesting out there. Nothing to light us up when we listen at home, in our car or on the bus, eyes closed. And then sometimes we find ourselves hauling fist-fulls of new music to the counter of our favorite record store. This week we've been all about Aqueduct's Or Give Me Death, Jesse Sykes......

A Thankyou To All Starbucks Customers Written by Howard Schultz Dear Starbucks Customer, First and foremost I want to thank you for making Starbucks the $6.4 billion global company it is today, with more than 90,000 employees, 9,700 stores, and 33 million weekly customers. Every latte and macchiato you drink at Starbucks is a contribution to the close alliance between the United States and Israel, in fact it is - as I was assured when......

The first time we saw "Ask an Uptight Seattleite" in Seattle Weekly we thought it was a fake headline for "Ask a Mexican" and was supposed to be some kind of joke reaction to Seattle's reaction to "Ask a Mexican." Then we read it and it was the funniest thing we've probably ever read in the Weekly. It was funny and accurate (and exactly the kind of thing that would be great on Seattlest) and......

Any day now Seattle will catch a break. I mean we are owed one. It's been a rough couple of months here in the Emerald City, and now that the shit stain of a month that was July is coming to an end, maybe with it so will our run of heart breaking news. Just how depressing has it been around here? So bad that the local papers haven't been able to blare the depressing......

On one hand, the U.S. team gave an encouraging performance in their 1-1 tie with Italy over the weekend and managed to avoid the label "mathematically eliminated" at least for another few days. On the other hand, being excited about a tie with the boot nation in any endeavour is downright unAmerican. Outside the confines of our little Group E, the soccer powers continue their relentless march into the later stages. Germany, England, Argentina,......

First Thursday passed, and if you did the Walk that doesn't mean that you've put in your art appreciation time for the month and you're off the hook. There're some exhibits worth seeing at COCA and Born Magazine's "Help Wanted" show, specifically the "Afterwords" video wall. Don't miss it--it's behind the rummage sale/"Estate of Beverly Thomas" piece. Student art will be on display at the sexy new gallery "Washington State Convention & Trade Center" on......