SPORTS OBSESSION: Any longtime Seattlest reader knows that we can't get enough of curling, whether it's watching on the CBC or playing ourselves at Seattle's Granite Curling Club, the only dedicated curling facility on the West Coast. Our obsession is often met with odd looks, but a curling open house is honestly one of the best ways going to spend your time/money. more ›

Last night, Seattlest was witness to a monumental pop culture event: Ian Bell's Brown Derby Series' interpretation of R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet (Chapters 1-12). Look, if you don't know by now about this epic tale of adultery, berettas, incontinent midgets, and terrible rhyming, we really can't take the time to explain it to you. Just go here, watch all twelve chapters, delight in the so-bad-it's-goodness, and you can thank us later. more ›

Seattlest has no mercy. Whether it's mastery of the blogosphere, dominance on the dodgeball circuit, or destruction of competition when it comes to trivia, Seattlest has no problem decimating all that step in our path. Think you can take us? Well, tonight you'll get your chance to be embarassed. Consider yourself warned, or come down to point and laugh at the losers in our wake. more ›

Tonight is a night of hard choices. Sure, it's more on the scale of where to see Snakes on a Plane then how to replace the viaduct, but it's a hard and important decision nonetheless. That decision? Do you attend the ghetto-fabulous debut of Bootylib at the Baltic Room or the 80s fabulous Prince vs. Michael at Rebar? more ›

Last week Seattlest went to a rave at the never-mentioned Aristocrats. While not quite a resolution for the new year, we're certainly trying to experience some new things, musically and otherwise. It wasn't the most attended party in history, but it was fun to hear some gritty house and ghettotech on a club system and to see that the younguns are still out there for their beat marathons, despite the same claims that plague the rock scene. Seattlest's days of 12 hour parties are long over except for a few wonderful yet exhausting exceptions, but it's good to know that they're still happening. more ›

Seattle takes itself much too seriously. We drive (badly) as if there are lives on the line. We go to shows, whether of the rock or DJ variety and stand, arms crossed, wearing our "impress me" faces. We cause big stinks over trivial incidents, bloviating ad nauseum with a sense of self-importance. Really, we just collectively need to lighten up. Luckily this week offers two prime opportunities to, as the kids might say, "act a fool." more ›

Seattlest has oft-cited our love of "Awesome" (after all, they are now officially Ones to Watch). We go and see them every chance we get, so of course we were at their music-cum-theatre production of Delaware: A Subtle Spectacular when it premiered this February at the Re-Bar. And of course we knew we'd be back for the second staging in October. So there we were, at the Re-Bar last Friday for their big opening night show, wondering how in the hell we were going to describe it all. more ›

Seattle is fast on its way to becoming a true techno powerhouse. The last two years have seen a boom in the genre's local prominence, with local producers making international waves and the club landscape making adjustments to accomodate this new techno viability. more ›