Well, folks, Pride weekend has officially come and gone, and every last ounce of rainbow has been squeezed out of our veins. It was a hot weekend to be outside on hard, hot pavement drinking beer and scoping the scene, but we perservered so that we could have a tale to tell you people. We didn't bother dragging ourselves to boy parties, so feel free to tell us all about those in the comments.......

After what seemed to be the longest winter in Washington history, a weekend full of warm sunshine was just what Seattle needed. Thankfully, this weekend finally delivered--and then some! With tempratures topping the 90's both Saturday and Sunday, Seattle tied high temperature records for those days. What did you do to enjoy the sunshine--was it too hot or just right for pride? Did any of the local drag queens' makeup run? If it was a......

On an impulse we have now filed in the "a supposedly fun thing we'll never do again" category, we decided to bike down to Madison Park from Capitol Hill this afternoon, with the temperature hovering around 90. Coasting down, the wind in our hair, passing grumpy motorists, we were asking ourselves why we don't do this more often. Then we arrived. We don't think we've ever seen the park so crowded. It was end-to-end people.......

This arrived in our in-box while we were in transit today. The author is a friend of Seattlest who's recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of Washington and is moving to Washington, D.C. in a month and some to take up a prominent position at a major U.S. government agency. He is, apparently, bored. Hey All, Don't ask how this got started, but after a long discussion with a bunch of students and a......

Looking to get your bluegrass on this weekend? Hot Buttered Rum is ready to put a smile on your face and get you on your feet. The bluegrass band from northern California will be at Neumos on Saturday evening for a co-bill with the Waybacks, also from CA. Hot Buttered Rum will close. We've only seen them once at Wakarusa a few years ago, and it was a hell of a show. They can......

We usually stay pretty hog-tied to the folk and roots music world, but a year or so ago, we found ourselves volunteering to cover a show at Neumo's featuring Common Market and The Coup. Hot damn! That was a good show. The Coup is back in town tonight for a set at Nectar in Fremont. Think of a mix between Public Enemy and Prince. Check it: 9 PM // Nectar Lounge // $12......

As after all great magic tricks, we're still puzzled how this was done. God knows we love Ballet -- like everyone else who works around Broadway and Pike. It's not just a restaurant, it's our unofficial cafeteria. We've got the menu memorized, the staff all know we like tea and bring us a pot without asking, the price is always right. But we do eat there a lot, so today we walked into the QFC......

We didn't go to a single concert at the Showbox last year. Ok, so we saw Obama at the SoDo, but that's not nearly the same thing, even though there were bands preceding the politics. It's most unusual for us to have a Showbox-free year, that's for sure. But along with that Gutter Twins show in March, there're a few more events on the Showbox calendar that are worth buying tickets for in advance......

Uh-one! Uh-two! Uh-one-a-two-a-three-a-four! (cue funky guitar lick). Seahawks kicker Josh Brown may have been thinkin' about losin' that funky feelin', but he won't. No, he's gonna use what he's got to get just what he wants. Hey! Hot pants!Seahawks kicker Josh Brown says he'll wear heated warm-up pants in the freezing weather at Saturday's playoff game in Green Bay. Brown says he has equipped his pants with battery-powered heaters for the calves, thighs and hamstrings.Hot......

Can't go wrong with Kitten la Rue -- especially if you're ChrisB in SEA, one of the many generous contributors in our Flickr pool. Thanks for the "Hot Chocolate."......

A few weeks ago, singer/raconteur Jenny Owen Youngs was in town, playing at the High Dive the same time as the Fremont Bridge was being closed evenings, which led to our arriving mid-set in a state of high dudgeon. We decided to skip a half-assed review, and afterwards fired off some impertinent questions via email. We just heard back, and as you'll see, Jenny schools us a bit. Now we adore her even more. If......

We're doubling up this evening, and dropping in at chamber guitar group Tuning the Air, in their new CHAC-tastic location, for some Robert Fripp-ist unchained melodies. Here's the pdf of their Seattle Magazine profile. If you like acoustic guitars, this is your home on Monday nights. 8-9pm // CHAC // $10 suggested donation Then if the power's still on, we're off to Fremont, and the Jenny Owen Youngs show at the High Dive. We had......

For a guy who's nearly tone deaf, Eddie Argos has done pretty well for himself in the world of rock music. When his band Art Brut broke a couple years ago, their sound--spoken-word lyrics over choppy punk rhythms and AC/DC-inspired riffs--stood out in the London indie scene, amongst Britpop redux bands like Babyshambles and Bloc Party. Their debut album, Bang, Bang, Rock & Roll was a Pitchfork and KEXP fave, and the first time......

(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.) Seahawks @ Pierogies preview. Our technical advisor on this meal was Evans School Saira, who......

Not even merely Blog Hot. She's actually approaching TV Hot. Check her out in this (unfortunately un-embeddable) video clip from KOMO4. However, while KOMO has decided she's attractive enough for TV, the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild has decided her employment at the P-I is egregious enough to warrant a lawsuit. They say she's a reporter and belongs in the guild's bargaining unit. The P-I maintains that she's some kind of new media person and not......

There's a film crew all set up and shooting some kind of car/shoot 'em up scene right now at 1st and Stewart. We noticed them from our office perched high above the director's chair and ran down to get some shots of our own. When we asked a woman who looked like part of the crew what they're filming, she rubbed her eyes wearily and said in a thick German accent, "German television." Um, OK.......

when I look at the stars i feel like myself, by the incomparable Rachel-B. Hot damn, our city is gorgeous. One of the many scattered gems of the Seattlest Flickr pool. Are your photos in there?......

Seattlest arrived on scene soon after the Capitol Hill Block Party had opened. We wandered, checked out the stage locations and thought about getting a beer, then spotted a booth touting free bottled water. It looked like the booth had something to do with praying to the Earth Spirits or some other new wave white hippy crap, but we decided to take our chances. We asked for a water and oddly enough their were no......

While you are now officially unable to see Hootie and the Blowfish this weekend in Roslyn, WA (get well soon, Hoots), next week offers a great show at the High Dive. And it's on a Wednesday night, so you don't have to contend with the mongrel hordes and/or white-capped frat boys that inhabit the Fremont environs every weekend. Magic Bullets formed in San Francisco a couple years ago, and the sextet's first album a......

LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the week was that the Mayor's Hot Tamale was revealed, and that a Kwik-E-Mart was erected in Burbank. Phillyist was busy doing the Fourth of July up right, exercising their......

--Because we never forget, Seattlest christens tomorrow--the one day a year Wallingford neighborhood groups have to share their precious park with the rest of the city--"Fuck Wallingford Day." --It's a cold, shrouded city where no one wants to talk to you or know your name, but they'll happily watch your YouTube videos. (via Metblogs) --Safeco is selling GPS transponders for your kid's car. "How many times have I told you I don't want you......

Hot diggity dog! We got a special invitation in our inbox this morning: As a valued Amazon customer, you've been specially picked to get an early look at a new website Amazon has just launched called Askville. Askville is a place where you can ask any question on any topic and get real answers from real people. It�s a fun place to meet others with similar interests to you and a place where you......

Okay, okay. So Pride is actually going to happen. Even now, on the precipice of this extraordinary weekend celebration o' gayness, all our friends have no effing clue what's going on. If they, in all their gay glory, don't have a clue, we figured maybe you don't either. But Seattlest is here for you in these tough times and that's why we're gonna break it down all easy-like and tell you what we think......

Hey, whaddya know? Ever since the Showbox upped the service fees and made a pact with the devil, their bookings have been less than stellar. In fact, we haven't been to the downtown venue for a single show so far this year, which is totally out of the ordinary. Sure LCD Soundsystem and the Arctic Monkeys played last month, and of course Robin Williams sold out his three-day stand, but taking a look at......

Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but about as close as they'll get. They're also still waiting on some inbox relief after a spammer is arrested. As Chicagoist counts down the days to its third anniversary party, they found all-organic pizza to be underwhelming amidst the hoopla, tried......

SILENT MOVIES: It's Week II of the Paramount's Harold Lloyd retrospective. Silent Movie Mondays brings you Dennis James on the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ and ought to be on one of those things-to-do-before-you-die list because that's just the kind of experience it is. Of course, if you're into fast-paced comedies, it's just something-to-do-tonight and there's no reason to make a big fuss about it. Trader Joe's is the sponsor, by the way, and they're being......

Hot issues don't really die, ever, they just retreat underground and cool for a while before popping up in new places. Increased regulation of strip clubs was put down by voters recently by a pretty strong majority, but according to this email we just received the City Council is reintroducing some of the restrictions of the placement of new clubs in the form of a zoning ordinance. Today at 5:30 at City Hall there's a......

Monday SHERMAN FREAKING ALEXIE: The best-selling author returns with his first novel in ten years. Flight tells the story of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a violent search for his true identity. Real Change-published poets (that would actually include Alexie, too) read as part of the program. 7:30pm // Town Hall // $5 LOCAL AUTHOR: Maya Sonenberg, the Creative Writing Program Director at the UW, presents a......

Hot damn, it’s nice out there. Seattlest just got back to the office after a long-but-too-short lunch break. There we were, reading a book in the sun down at the waterfront park, near the Aquarium – lifting our head every so often to peer out at the ferries making their way in and out of Elliott Bay. And the Olympic Mountains, of course, reminding us that it’s just about time to dust off our......

Hot on the heels of revelations of what it's like to share a condo building with former Seahawk Jerramy Stevens (good if you like getting showered with condoms and vomit), comes a bizarre story from the Atlanta home of new Seahawk Patrick Kerney. A woman who was Kerney's houseguest claims she was raped there. She says she met a guy at a bar (The Lodge, in Buckhead), brought him back to Kerney's house, and fell......