In addition to the latest birther video, Ye Olde Huffington Post has a piece today on the top cities for eating local, and--citing Cafe Flora and Art of the Table--currently Seattle ranks 5th, behind San Francisco, New Orleans, Portland, and Albuquerque. If you'd like to vote our town up (or down), be our guest. HuffPo also invites readers to participate in a mapping project by sending in photos and info of their favorite spots to get locavore grub. And in the final mention, they link to the Princeton Review's rankings of universities, in which UW was one of the fifteen schools named to their 2010 Green Rating Honor Roll. more ›

Our good friends at the American Chemistry Council, a plastics industry organization, have pumped another $500,000 into the fight against Seattle's dastardly plastic bag "tax." Because if there's anyone out for our best interests, it's the plastics industry. And they're willing to put their money where their mouth is; this makes a total of $740,000 in contributions they've made. The pro-bag fee people raised a totally comparable $9,500 in June, for a total of about $65,000, mostly from local enviros. more ›

AUSTIN CITY SHIMMY: Bob Schneider made our sister site Austinist's highlight reel for SXSW back in March--winner of the SXSW Band of the Year and Best Male Vocalist awards, Schneider is touring for his new album Tarantula. Country, roots-rock, call it what you will, just don't expect a 45-minute set. With 15 or so albums to draw from, Schneider has more songs up his sleeve than a double-sided LP. Plus, he's at the Triple Door, so you can just sit back and make yourself comfortable. more ›

Untitled photograph by itsallinfun (Jonathan Armstrong), from the Seattlest Flickr pool more ›

Last week we held our first guest blog post contest, and the winner was LaFemmeMonkita! We sent her to the new Croc to see Dr. Dog. We chose her post because...well, not that it was a crowded field the first time out, but what could be more Seattlest than posting about recycling...and its olfactory drawbacks? Not much! Hope you enjoy it. more ›

...why have recycling trucks been parking and driving around in circles in front of our house all day? more ›

While we were reporting on Project Red Dress, we got a chance to schmooze with Seattle chapter of Fashion Group International board members Susan (Regional Director-Elect and Treasurer) and Janaea (Programs Chair), also the founders of Beauty Revolution magazine, Seattle's online beauty and fashion magazine. We caught up with them again online and conducted a Google Talk interview, because we're cool like that. more ›

So here's your update on yesterday's Seattlest poll, inspired by the NRDC claiming that luxuriously soft toilet paper is "worse than driving a Hummer!" since so much toilet paper comes from virgin forests. We wondered if green Seattle was putting its derriere on the line for the forests and the answer is--not so much! Only 29 percent of you reported using recycled-content toilet paper. And by far the largest contingent, 47 percent, were double-ply softies. We don't judge because we're luxury tp-ers, ourselves--we've always felt like we were balancing it out with the one-ply stuff you get in public bathrooms but perhaps that's just an ad hoc rationalization. Here's a scary photo over at Sightline to show us what our quilted habit costs. more ›

We've just been tipped off by a reader that the NRDC has luxuriously soft toilet paper in its sights. "Worse than driving a Hummer!" they say, claiming that "more than 98% of the toilet roll sold in America comes from virgin forests." They're trying to raise awareness about the environmental cost of this "virgin" toilet paper, especially when it comes in multi-ply packs. 98 percent seems high to us--we're sure Seattle is willing to chap its collective ass a little for the sake of old-growth. But just to be sure, we're polling. Be honest now! more ›

After a massively successful 21-year run, the Northwest Flower & Garden Show--the third largest flower and garden show in North America--is calling it quits. more ›

Your old ride may be more eco than you know. Microsoft's green guru Rob Bernard crunched the numbers and found that a 2001 Volvo was the most energy efficient vehicle for him to drive. Take that, Prius pious. Businesses can now get the company's carbon calculatin' dashboard which is cool, but you'd think that first they'd find a way to let more employees work from home. Oops, did we just type that? more ›

Danny Westneat has 50 percent of a good column in the Seattle Times about adapting our hyperconsumptive ways to something we can all live with. But he tries to hang it on the "hypermiler" hook, a buzzword which "means going to extremes—in changing your habits as well as your technology—so you can max out your gas mileage." more ›

In the wake of a brutal tussle between car and bicycle last weekend, it's good that New Belgium Brewing's Tour de Fat, the "traveling celebration of all things bicycle," arrives in town on Saturday, opposite the carbon-spewing, combustion engine worship-fest that is Seafair, what with the supersonic jets and souped-up motorboats. more ›

Into the Good Stuff by Synapped more ›

This morning, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced a proposed ban on foam food containers and a fee for disposable bags at grocery stores. The ban on polystyrene foam products would outlaw common items like plates, meat trays, eggshell containers, and cups from both restaurants and grocery stores. The so-called "green fee" would apply to both paper and plastic bags at your local grocery store. The fee would impose a 20-cent charge for each disposable bag. more ›

AP Photo/Elaine Thompson more ›

Unlike our beloved baseball All Star Game, we’ve tended to skip the NBA's version in recent years. However, with our hero Brandon Roy, in Sunday's game we can’t wait to watch our fellow ex-Bulldog cram some FANtastic™ action down the East’s face. However, we’ll be in Vancouver--sorry TNT. more ›

It’s one of those Sunday mornings where the air is very still and heavy, and the dim light is giving you plenty of room to recover from Saturday night. For us, it’s the perfect time to visit the newest Victrola Coffee location on Pike Street. more ›

We love Australians, probably because they aren’t as Eurotrashy as our trans-Atlantic friends, and they are seemingly the only other country on the globe that has a reasonable disdain for soccer. more ›

Just in time for MLK Day, a friend emailed us this WTF? moment, brought to you by the automated internet. He's been researching old advertisements for slave auctions, and a Google search brought up this text ad for eBay: more ›

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer's market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks' opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs. more ›

You'd assume that the few people who showed up at Key Arena tonight were hoping from a show from Kobe Bryant. more ›

Several years ago, we gave up on Tamarind Tree after some absurdly inept service (dishes came out of order – or didn’t come at all – and the waitstaff were cold), enjoying instead the consistent sweetness and goodness of Green Leaf. But in a moment of unfaithfulness, after hearing recent rave reviews, we decided to give TT another try. more ›

When faced with a Hall-of-Famer at his best, what can you do? more ›

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer's market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs. more ›

Uh-one! Uh-two! Uh-one-a-two-a-three-a-four! (cue funky guitar lick). more ›

In a story that's being emailed around the city, mostly with the subject line "Dude, did your dad start jogging?", cops want to find the short, brown-haired jogger who flashed a lady while running yesterday. Writes Levi Pulkkinen of the P-I:

The woman told officers the man pulled up his white T-shirt and dropped his black running tights as he ran past her near the intersection of Wallingford Avenue North and North 54th Street. 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 ›

We've been hitting shows on the Seattle music scene for about four years now, and if there's one thing we can say with certainty, it's that Seattle doesn't need more musicians, it needs ones. Such may be the consolation of learning that next week, the Seattle chapter of Paul Green's School of Rock opens. If Green's now famous "school" can help create a new generation of musicians whose influences go deeper than Green Day, that alone will be an achievement. more ›

As ChrisB of Three Imaginary Girls points out, losing your job sucks. Losing a job that meant a lot to you sucks more. And losing all that during the holidays? Well that just blows a goat. more ›