Photograph of Michael Strahan, coach Tom Coughin (holding the Vince Lombardi trophy) and quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning by Tien Mao Gothamist was amazed after the Giants won the Super Bowl, the city went wild, and it witnessed a ticker-tape parade.Barack Obama drew 20,000+ ahead of Seattle’s Saturday caucus.Londonist had Super Tuesday too.Elusive guerrilla street artist Banksy revisits Los Angeles.After the Patriots lost the Super Bowl and came this close to making......

It's safe to assume that Sharon Jones is cooler than you. The current queen of neo-funk/soul grew up in Macon, Georgia and Brooklyn, singing in church before ending up doing session work in the '70s as the anonymous vocals on dance and disco records. Without a solo contract of her own, she left the industry and took odd jobs like corrections officer at Rikers Island and Wells Fargo armored car guard. Fate intervened in......

Seattlest watches as a S.L.U.T. is born and Seattle Flickr users go nuts over a local art installation. A restaurant critic demands a Diner's Bill of Rights over a gnat next to her drink, and, in lieu of a Portlandist, Seattlest debates with itself over the identity of the Northwest's crown jewel. Seattlest also joins the guys from Fantagraphics for an ill-fated gun party in the woods. LAist saw national headlines soar this week with......

On Monday night we went to the Giants game with a chance to see Barry Bonds break Hank Aaron's home run record. He didn't go yard, choosing to get number 756 the next night--what an ass. However, we did have a front row seat for Nook Logan's 193rd hit, so our grandkids will get to hear all about that. The game, and in fact our entire weekend in the Bay Area, was a total......

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti......

This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. Austinist has a chat with the ever-fashionable Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, and managed to catch some local fashionistas making......

Permit us to bloviate some on the death of David Halberstam today in a car crash, which is utter bullshit considering that the guy reported from fricking Vietnam and he dies in a traffic accident in San Mateo (the car that hit him driven by, in a terrible irony, a Berkeley journalism student) (actually, I'm an idiot, his driver was a Berkeley student, so there's no irony, just terribleness). Halberstam's Summer of '49, about the......

It was the spring of 1989, and Ken Griffey Jr., a 19-year-old with 61 at bats above A-ball, embarrassed Cactus League pitchers and made the Mariners. It is the spring of 2007, and Brandon Morrow, a 22-year-old who's thrown 16 innings professionally, is embarrassing Cactus League hitters and forcing himself into the M's bullpen mix. Morrow, the M's first round pick (5th overall) in last June's draft, has thrown 6.1 scoreless innings in four appearances......

Little-known fact: Dizzy Gillespie's last performance was in Seattle. Little-cared fact: Seattlest could've gone. But tickets were expensive and we were in high school and we figured we catch Gillespie the next time he came through. There wasn't a next time--and there might not be for 79-year-old Doc Severinsen either, and we wanted to do something nice for our grandparents, so we joined The Greatest Generation Sunday afternoon at the Renton/IKEA performing arts center. Severinsen......

Sometimes you earn a win, and sometimes the other team gives you one. Here are the all-time screw-ups by opponents that helped Seattle teams win big games. 1) Tony Romo We've pretty much covered this, and it's got to be #1. 2) Jim Sweeney and the 1975 Apple Cup Up 27-14 with 3:01 left and the ball deep in Husky territory, the Cougar coach let his players talk him into passing for a touchdown. The......

According to the P-I, the Mariners aren't kidding about going after Barry Zito. The Mariners aren't backing off their interest in Oakland left-handed starter Barry Zito, the pitcher expected to come out of the winter (if not the winter meetings themselves) with the most lucrative contract awarded a pitcher. And, on another front, the M's are rumored to be involved in a possible three-team deal where they'd deal Richie Sexson and Rafael Soriano and end......

On the last day of September, the Huskies beat Arizona for their third consecutive victory, and the Seahawks were in Chicago, feeling pretty good about inaugurating October against the Bears. Sure, Shaun Alexander was out, but their potent four-receiver attack had rolled over the Giants. But that night the gridiron gods turned their calendars. Maybe theirs had a particularly ugly picture of the EMP, or Ken Schram, or that WTO protester in the turtle suit,......

--We were feeling like sort of a dork for spending our Friday night at the Garfield/Franklin football game, but less so when current NY Knick Nate Robinson sat down about fifteen feet from us. Robinson's brother Jacque is a senior running back for the Bulldogs. Older brother was there with a few friends. For the most part, people left him alone. We snapped a few clandestine photos of us with the Great in the background.......

Local boys Travis Snider (OF-Jackson High of Mill Creek) and Tim Lincecum (P-UW) were both drafted in the first round of June's MLB draft. Thought we'd check in. Snider, drafted #14 overall by Toronto, is hitting .296 with 5 homers for Pulaski (VA) of the short-season Appalachian League. His second pro homer cleared a 23-foot-high fence and landed across the street from the stadium. To see Snider, you'll have to travel to Pulaski's Calfee Park,......

Pass on local boys Tim Lincecum and Travis Snider, instead selecting RHP Brandon Morrow from Cal, who supposedly throws 99 mph. Watch video of him here. Lincecum went 10th to the Giants. It's rumored that he could be in their bullpen by summer's end. Jackson (Mill Creek) High's Travis Snider went 14th to the Blue Jays.......

The NFL admitted yesterday that the referee of Sunday's Seahawks-Giants game, Larry Nemmers, should have gotten off his knees, because he was blowing the game. Nemmers reviewed two Giants' touchdowns on instant replay. He ruled that both were, in fact, touchdowns. The NFL says he was wrong--neither touchdown should have counted. They added that they have urged Nemmers to keep his head out of his ass, to call it both ways, and to stop trying......

Being a Seattle sports fan on Sunday afternoons used to mean a forced trip to Ikea. We mean, what was the other option, catching the Seahawks on TV? Even as the Seahawks slowly improved the past few years, they were no fun to watch, as they blew games and went on late season losing streaks. It was enough to make us want to smash our brand new Flurkten (which we put together ourselves, thank you......

The Sonics lost their first preseason game last night, 82-75 to Nate McMillan's Portland Trail Blazers. McMillan, you will recall, played 12 years for the Sonics and coached the team for 5. But, after his contract expired last season, he made the admirable decision to test new waters as the coach of the notoriously uncoachable Blazers. McMillan's move elevates the Sonics-Blazers rivalry to one of the NBA's most compelling. To draw an analogy for those......

You know, we love nothing more than a music festival (okay that's a lie, our number one true love is Jupiter Jones of the Three Investigators Series, but we fear that will be unrequited). In order to satisfy our cravings for a music festival, the incredibly nice people at the Northwest Programs for the Arts have organized the Seattle Music Festival at Alki Beach. They have gathered some pretty cool acts including They Might Be......

One of the most-anticipated, most-discussed and most-watched sporting events of 2005 will be played today. You probably don't know what we're talking about. That's because this event is a soccer match. "Whenever I'm watching a soccer game," an American comic once said, "I'm thinking, 'Pick up the f***ing ball.'" This observation has stuck with us because it succinctly encapsulates American feelings about the world's most popular sport. We just don't get it. And that annoys......

The Tacoma Rainiers' season is in full swing. Currently they sport a moderately respectable record of 17-20 and are in third place, five games out of first, out of their division’s five teams. Salt Lake leads the pack with a 21-14 record. As Seattlest reported on April 13th, the Rainiers’ hometown arena, Cheney Stadium, still has the feeling of authentic, pre-steroid baseball. However, Seattlest just learned that one of its classic features is, as we......