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The National Weather Service had released a high wind warning for Seattle. It hasn't gotten quite that bad yet.

The night's first piece paired the Northwest Symphony Orchestra with Michael Shrieve, a badass, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame drummer who played with Santana at Woodstock. The combination of heavy percussion and hearty strings and brass had our knees bouncing. Next up was Messina, a funny, chatty guy with endless reserves of enthusiasm for the cause his symphonies support. The tango "Dance of the Rain" featured Dance Contemporary performers and Andre Feriante on acoustic guitar. The orchestra's string section paid perfect compliment to Feriante's deft fretwork.

Mateo Messina, a Seattle native, has been composing television and film scores and penning symphonies for 10 years. His most recent score is for the upcoming, buzz-magnet comedy Juno. His latest symphony will be heard tonight at Benaroya Hall's (sold out) Symphony Legacy concert. (That's him above, at last year's show.)

There are a lot of synth-pop bands out there today -- too many perhaps -- so it can be an arduous task, to muck through it all and find the ones that actually have something more to say than, "Check out this keyboard my mom bought me!"

he 1960 Huskies, who will be honored en masse Saturday when the Dawgs play #1 USC, lost only one game and beat #1 Minnesota in the Rose Bowl, the only time the UW's beaten a #1 team.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Portland snake enthusiast, Matt Williamson was rushed to the hospital after a recent assault by an unnamed rattlesnake.

As of this morning, queer couples in the state of Washington have about three new rights, which include, but are not limited to:

We asked our fellow Seattlests: What's the last good book you read? And what's coming up on your summer reading list?

In the wake of Hansa the Elephant's death from herpes, many Seattleites are understandably concerned about whether they, too, could contract this fatal disease.

We had an AHA! moment last night when we first started hearing about the Veggie-Booty-and-salmonella mash-up. The P-I reports:

More than 50 people in 17 states, mostly children age 3 and younger, were infected with salmonella bacteria after eating Veggie Booty, according the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Web site.

We understand you conducted telephone surveys to determine if the respondents would be willing or otherwise tolerant of being the subject of medical experiments should they be in a condition subject to these studies. Can you confirm whether they were asked to comment on whether they thought others should be experimented on without consent?

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.

On Saturday, Frank Hughes of the Tacoma News-Tribune reported that local real estate developer Dave Sabey had offered to buy the Sonics from Clay Bennett and make them the centerpiece of a development he's planning south of Boeing Field.

Kurt Vonnegut, up there with Twain and Melville and Kesey as the most original American novelists ever in the history of writing stuff, died tonight. He was 84. He'd been in the hospital since a fall a couple of weeks ago. Attention kids: this is what happens if you chain-smoke for 73 years.

We knew that Carlos Guillen's 2001 bout with tuberculosis was serious, but until we read this feature by Jon Paul Morosi (formerly of the P-I, now with the Detroit Free Press), we never knew that Guillen was so close to death:

He could barely sleep. He had a fever every night. He battled headaches and weakness. He lost almost 20 pounds. He coughed up blood. Yet, Carlos Guillen continued to play shortstop for the Seattle Mariners.

Continue reading "Six Years Ago, Carlos Guillen Was a Coin Flip From Going Six Feet Under"

When Seattlest was a starving college student in Portland, we visited the Taste of Portland festival on the river during a particularly hot day. We got a cheeseburger from McCormick and Schmick's--the next day, we were so sick we went to the hospital, where we found out we had salmonella. We were sick for over a week, approaching two. It was the most miserable illness we've ever had, save for an ear infection 8 years ago that caused us to scream nonstop for almost an hour (infants of the world, we understand your plight).

"Quick, Marge, get my gun! There's one of them nutria swimmin' in the river over there!"

Grey's girls are using some questionable coping methods. Meredith submerges herself in the bathtub; Izzy cops to eating a whole tub of butter.

Charges against Marie Robinson have been dropped and she'll probably be turned over to a state mental hospital. Marie Robinson was facing murder charges after authorities arrived at her apartment to find her drunk with two of her three children starved to death - a 6-week-old and a 16-month-old died (although she believes they were "kidnapped by a secret police agency that wants to stop her from doing scientific research"). Her 2-year-old lived by eating uncooked rice and pasta.

Just two weeks ago, Steve Huling announced that the family is selling their auto dealership, which they've owned for 60 years.

No press release or newspaper article could do justice to the questions anyone naturally has when they hear about a family who chooses to intervene with the growth and sexual maturation of their severely disabled daugher. But the blog by the girl's family most certainly helps.

There is no doubt that the reports of a family that intentionally stunted the growth of their disabled daughter so she would be easier to care for are bizarre and surprising. But what Seattlest finds even more bizarre and surprising is that the P-I, known of late for finding one small, boozy detail of a story and then blowing it up to inappropriately Herculean proportions, chose to entirely omit the detail that the condition the 9 year-old girl suffers from--static encephalopathy--is very often the result of excessive fetal exposure to alcohol.

When Snohomish High student Brett Karch nearly got his leg blown off firing the traditional pre-football-game cannon, he probably expected a card, maybe some flowers...Not so much:

According to Karch's medical records, security guards notified police after Karch received disturbing phone calls and visits from parents and students, some of whom threatened to "break his other leg" or worse, if he didn't keep quiet about the accident. Hospital staff had to move him to a secure room where they monitored visitors.

Continue reading "In Snohomish, They Don't Cotton to Cannon Blast Victims"

Those new signs sure don't seem to be doing the trick.

Episode six settles a longstanding real estate debate: Where would Burke and Cristina's minimalist condo exist in "real" life?

A largish Albertson's employee had an upset tummy on Saturday, but she's all better now that doctors extracted a baby from her. From the P-I:

Ep 4's credo is first do no harm. Its the Hippocratic oath, but surgeons, Meredith opines, are hippocrites.

Last night a record 450 teams packed into the Old Pequliar for Seattlest Trivia. Sadly we had to disqualify 432 of the squads when they would not participate in the mandatory drug testing. The remaining 18 team answered questions on tragic romances, the World Series, John C. Reilly movies, and Project Runway.

Episode Three finds Meredith in the morning, musing on fantasy. Most surgeons fantasize about performing heroic operations, but Meredith imagines being the filling in a Finn/Mcdreamy sandwich.

Could've been the groaning, could've been the bleeding--the article doesn't say.