• The Grateful Dead came alive once again--kinda--this weekend at the Gorge.
• Thanks to the state cutting $1.5 billion from edu-ma-cation funding, more than 2,900 Washington teachers found out Friday their summer break just got extended.
• Folks in West Seattle saw something this weekend, it could have been a dolphin, could have been a group of whales. But they saw something.
• The high school kids in Mill Creek, who threw down in a mean food fight last week blew it for everyone when they lost their prom. (tear) Now it's back on. (suckas) Bring on the haunting photo decisions to wear sequins and gaudy white "pimp" tuxes. Oh the horror! more ›

We'll take it for granted that you will get pleasantly buzzed on nutritious, delicious microbrews at this year's Fremont OktoberFest, which might as well be called BeerFest. Someone else will have to fill you in about all the different kinds of beer this weekend (we heard there would be something like thirty breweries serving up!) at another time, though, because we would prefer to discuss the excellent local music offerings at this event. Seattle's ramping up for fall, which will come sooner rather than later; this is the perfect time to find a couple new local bands to love this winter. more ›

Although we've passed the point in our life where actually going to Hempfest is no longer the choice we'd make on this steamy summer weekend, it is just the kind of thing we love about Seattle: it's a unique event that doesn't take place anywhere else, at least not on the scale that it does here; it's in support of a cause we believe in wholeheartedly; and it offers great views of the mountains and the water. What more could we ask from this event? more ›

Employee number 53, Charlie Ayers was hired in 1999 to run the lunchroom at Google. Before that, he'd been catering for musicians (including the Grateful Dead) around San Francisco. By the time he left six years later, still a hippie at heart, he had a staff of 150 and was feeding 4,000 googlers a day at 10 locations. ("Well, wouldn't you know it, some people got fat.") more ›

While there is plenty of good beer in Seattle to keep us busy, it is always nice to head out of town to visit some of the brewpubs spread around the Pacific Northwest. We try and do a trip as often as we can, which usually turns out to be one trip every three months or so. more ›

If you were looking forward to seeing the White Stripes later this month at the Paramount, you can forget it. more ›

This spring, the Forest Service will be increasing the permit range for camping in the ridiculously overcrowded highly popular Alpine Lakes Wilderness area. They were also contemplating a fee hike from $3 to $5, but the increase didn't move forward. more ›

Seattlest has learned that Folklife, our favorite of the Seattle Center festivals, has gained the reputation of being a four-day conclave of smelly, weed-smoking, WTO-hating, free-loving hippies. more ›