It's not Halloween, no it is a Monday night (actually early Tuesday morning) in the middle of February. And still this guy was standing in front of Seattlest at Dicks at 1:30 in the morning. We love this town!......

The glorious fall sunsets have disappeared along with the mouldering husks of Halloween pumpkins, and according the weather report, we can all expect a long, cold, wet weekend. But this being the Northwest, that's never stopped us from getting out and about; here's the weekend plans of your intrepid Seattlest contributors: By the time this hits the digital newsstands, Jeremy is going to be on his way to Fadó for post-work cocktails; after that......

With the lights dimmed enough to put you at ease, Twisted Cork in downtown Bellevue is the perfect after-work wine bar. Once inside, you are greeted by some of the friendliest hosts in town. If a table is not open, you may relax at the cobblestone fountain bench and peruse a wine menu of more than 100 wines by bottle and glass. Our original intent was to test our knowledge of port wines during......

Unconfirmed reports from Halloween night place a Peet's "Coming Soon" sign at Broadway and Denny. Maybe a scary mask obscured someone's vision? Dunno, but we're interested to find out. A Peet's at that intersection would be a preemptive strike in anticipation of a Broadway light rail station. Anyway, we're stuck indoors right now and can't get over to Denny to check it out. Since you performed so spectacularly last week getting a shot of the......

So that paper Clay Bennett mask didn't score you the costume-contest office pool? Your Lewinsky dress was irredeemably soiled? It's not too early to think Haloween '08. And we've got the coolest outfit idea for you: Jerry Cantrell. The Alice in Chains guitarist/singer will even trade you his threads for a charity donation. Starting November 5 (and going through 11/26), Cantrell's auctioning off some of "his favorite clothes from key moments in his career" to......

Today we'll be playing the part of a slobbish, washed-up Seattle Police Detective. Our character has spent years busting pimps, dopers, gangbangers and the occasional Amish fellow. And for what? A goddamn string of broken promises, broken bones, two ex-wives and a bad liver. Happy Halloween. So, doll face... What are you wearing?......

So many good Halloween photos, so few days that are actually Halloween. Thanks for sharing Derrick and Darina with the Seattlest Flickr pool, shauniquakardinal.......

Some things go together so naturally that you wonder how they ever existed apart from each other. Peanut butter and jelly, Spencer and Heidi, the gays and Halloween. And now a musical double-header that seems to be a match made in heaven: Rocky Votolato and Jesse Sykes (and the Sweet Hereafter). Thanks to Barsuk (their shared record label), the two singer-songwriters are on the road together, and their joint appearances promise to be something......

The Halloween crowd was bleeding out of orifices, jack-booted and silk gowned, and they roared at the songs about compulsive masturbation; the sheep fucked and sheared and shot; school kids on heroin and cocaine; the schizophrenic dead under an overpass; the anti-hymn with the chorus "banging in the nails." The Tiger Lillies stood on the Moore's stage beneath red and blue lights that left livid bruises on the smoky air and profaned life in an......

Tonight only, the British disturbo-cabaret group Tiger Lillies appear at the Moore for their Misery Guts Tour. If you're not heading to a Halloween party, a Tiger Lilllies show is a reliably transgressive alternative. They've been called a "Brechtian punk cabaret combo," and that's by people who like them. Martyn Jacques croons in falsetto his tales of London's underworld, prostitution, slayings, and bestiality, to rollicking gypsy-flavored accordion accompaniment. 8pm // Moore Theatre // Tickets $25......

It's Seattle Shakespeare Company's version of the wandering prince Pericles on Friday night for MvB, followed Saturday night by Britain's accordion-driven, Brechtian street opera trio with neo-castrati Martyn Jacques, the Tiger Lilies at the Moore, ladies and gentlemen. Having been invited down to San Francisco for a friend’s bachelorette bacchanalia with only one directive ("Bring a wig"), Courtney is hoping she doesn’t end up in the clink this weekend. While laughing at Charles for attending......

Seattlest--very much not a design geek--loved last week's match between designers Naz Hamid and Chris Glass. It works like this: One designer creates an image in fifteen minutes. His opponent then has fifteen minutes of his own to edit/riff on/respond to that image. They go back and forth for ten rounds, all while the peanut gallery (that's you) and a designated commentator judge the results. Last week's commentator was Rosecrans Baldwin, who is a funny......

Seattle's infamous Bicycle Hobo(TM) tipped us off to this cool Halloween scavenger hunt thing going on this weekend that we hadn't heard of previously, evidently called the Mess-Man's Messquerade. Here's the run down from the site: The hunt starts soon after 7pm in the sunken parking lot behind Cafe vita/Wild Rose entrance off 10th ave. This historic location is where Seattle’s first BIKE POLO tournament was held by yours truly at the 1st Messquerade.......

Just in time for Halloween, it's the do-it-yourself Larry Craig Paper Bag Mask! Seattlest's RSS reader belatedly informs us that Slog had this an hour ago. Damn you Slog!......

We start things off this weekend with a simple two words from Donte: Muthafucking Justice! As Halloween approaches, it seems that the tradition of Seattlests stalking each other continues. Seth will attend the opening night of the Seattle Opera's first ever co-production with New York's Metropolitan Opera, Iphigenia in Tauris, which is conveniently scheduled at the exact fucking same time as the Husky/ASU game. He'll try to catch the fourth quarter at the Spectator on......

Seattlest lives close to what is easily the weirdest Safeway ever. The Wedgwood Safeway, any of the store's employees will be happy to tell you, has been serving the neighborhood since 1951 and is as small-town America as a branch of a major chain can get. That said, the Wedgwood Safeway is definitely an odd place. It hasn't been updated in years so the now-common Safeway Earth-tone colors aren't in the produce section and the......

Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily Allen discovered when she was barred entry to the US. The British mapping agency caused further bad karma, by blocking a 3-D representation of London in Google Earth. But the smiles returned to Londonist's faces as they interviewed Baroness von Reichardt,......

Some guy who decided Halloween was just too fun to be only one day a year got a heavy dose of ironic justice yesterday:A Puyallup man who posed as a decorated Marine Corps captain for two years will tend graves at the Tahoma Military Cemetery in Kent as part of 500 hours of community service, a federal judge has decided. Reggie L. Buddle, 59, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to unlawful wearing of U.S.......

Alright folks, Seattlest completely understands why you haven't taken down your Christmas lights. You're lazy, and that's okay. We're lazy too and we still have lights draped along the length of fence in front of our house. But for the love of God, Allah, FSM, or whatever, it's time to stop turning them on. We're almost halfway through January for shit's sake. Maybe you were late this year in putting them up and you want......

The 2007 Washington Legislative session begins today, and Governor Gregoire wants to spend big. Her argument, we have a $1.9 billion surplus, and we should spend that money on education, health care, and other gross poor people things. Of the four billion dollars in increased spending she is looking to add to the state’s two year operating budget, she wants half to be spent on education. None, however, will be spent to track down Sasquatch.......

Have you been down in your basement lately? Well we have, and bad news, it's flooded. The good news, however, is that it will still be flooded tomorrow. So instead of spending all night mopping and spreading out towels, come on down to The Old Pequliar in Ballard for Seattlest Trivia Night. There are huge cash prizes, three dollar Newcastles, and cheap tacos. $5 per team. Teams capped at five. The trivia starts at 8pm.......

On Tuesday, the American -ists will be celebrating democracy and hitting the polls, letting politicians know what they really think. It just made us wonder: if it were up to the -ist-a-verse, what would we be voting for? Londonist votes for better skincare, alternative spaces for art, cute little birds and the men who keep them, and concrete. Lots of concrete. Shanghaiist votes for one of the Bee Gees and Air Supply (it's a double-ticket),......

--Defective Yeti is live-blogging as he reads Moby Dick. And on the other end of the intellectual spectrum, Seattlest Seth is live-blogging as he watches every episode of The Rockford Files. --"I have no beef with gays, upscale condos, hotels and the free market," but all together somehow it pisses Sound Politics off. --"Is that crack smoke coming out of your mouth?" - KOMO springs a public toilet trap on a couple of guys in......

--That lovey dovey crap we said about Microsoft and China earlier today? Forget it. --Best unloved Reality TV-based Halloween costume. Ever. --Couple local skiers seem to be mixed up in a porn thing with a guy called Warren Miller. --John Moe unveils the girls team secretly plotting the violent overthrow of the boys team. Go on, girls! --SeattleDuck says no to procrastination, yes to Getting Things Done. --Renton's Displaced Hipster displaces himself even further,......

Which is it, newsmedia types? Safe or not safe? Earlier this week there were 18 billion articles on the freshly-released City Crime Rankings report that listed Seattle as the 262nd safest city in America. 262nd? That's not safe at all! Used to be a time when Seattle was safer than Portland, at least. No longer true, according to this report. Portland is the 249th safest city in the Union. Our region's safest city is Bellevue......

These cold nights we've been having really take us back to when we were kids and we had to ruin our awesome Halloween costumes with coats and bulky sweatpants to keep warm. The kids are out there working hard this Halloween night, so don't be an ass. Cough up the candy. Tuesday 31st, Halloween Night >>>"Devo Tribute Night" at Chop Suey. Teeth and Hair, The Pleasureboaters, The Torn ACLs, A Gun That Shoots Knives.........

Since we don't play the quiz at Kate's Pub every week, we missed the memo: Teams should come dressed up in costume. (Kate herself made a fetching serving wench.) Last night our team was among the large minority in street clothes. Among the mighty impressive costumes was a Pulp Fiction duo: a woman dressed as Mrs. Mia Wallace, complete with a red hypodermic dot on her chest, and a guy dressed as Jules Winfield. A......

Halloween + an extra hour of drinking = four shot and four stabbed over the weekend. Two people were shot as they smoked outside of a fraternity party on UW's Greek Row and are expected to survive at Harborview. They were apparently bystanders to some kind of armed conflict in a nearby alleyway where 12 casings were found. "Officers could hear gunfire continuing in the distance," when they arrived on the scene. From the Seattle......

Halloween is Tuesday, which means this weekend is really the time for all of the –ists to celebrate. And whether they’re designing super-spooky costumes or talking about the super-spooky upcoming elections, we’d say that they’re doing a fine job of it. Austinist knows that few things in life are scarier than zombies, people with way too much money, and politicians who try too hard to be funny. Slightly less scary, depending on whom you......

Wednesday, October 25 >>>Rendezvous Jewel Box Theater, 7:30-10pm. Are you afraid of the dimmed lights in a theater? A Guide to Visitors presents their annual Ghost Story night. Spooky stories about haunted office buildings and ghost quests, told by people such as the woman who leads a ghost tour of Pike Place Market. The press release says the Jewel Box is haunted, so maybe the dead will chip in a tale or two themselvs.......