Let's cut to the chase: the winner of a This American Life TV series poster signed by Ira Glass is Jessica. Congratulations, Jessica -- email us so we can figure out how to get your poster to you. The rest of you will have to settle for watching the show itself, which has its Showtime premiere tonight at 10:30. (Actually, we're pretty sure it's on InDemand, as well, but we don't have Showtime so......

Tonight's episode of This American Life is "What I Learned from TV," compiled from live performances on their tour of the same name. Pieces by David Rakoff, Sarah Vowell, and Dan Savage will be included. Seattlest went on March 7, when the live show hit the Paramount, and we can confirm that the Rakoff and Savage stories are solid. (We're also happy that Alexa Junge's piece, about her experiences as a female TV scriptwriter,......

RADIO: We don't care if it's passe to think so: Ira Glass is a goddamn genius. Our favorite kind of genius -- the kind who builds an ecosystem in which other geniuses flourish. He's in town tonight to talk about what he learned from making a TV show. 7:30pm // The Paramount // sold out, but apparently people on Craigslist think it's worth $325 a ticket MUSIC: Midlake bring '70s rock and a mess......

We confess: we wondered if it was worth it. This American Life cut down on the new radio shows so they could produce their new TV show (debuting on Showtime next month). And it's not that we didn't think they could make TV, but we really did miss the radio show. But this trailer for the TV show? It restores our faith, gives us hope, and inspires us to contemplate dropping HBO for Showtime,......

"Are you disappointed that more people aren't converting to atheism after seeing your show?" That (loosely paraphrased) was the question that kicked off Ira Glass' conversation with Julia Sweeney on Saturday night. "No. I'm not really that conceited," replied Sweeney. (Again, paraphrased. We did not smuggle in a recording device.) Glass got first billing Saturday night, but Sweeney was really the star of the show. After a brief pitch for funding from Ross Reynolds,......

It's rained--hard--five out of the last six weekends. And after a week of beautiful weather, it's supposed to cloud over Saturday and rain Sunday. Along with the byplay of their weekend, the Seattlests answer the question "Why does God hate Seattle?" James is by no means a stereotypical NPR liberal. No, he's a stereotypical PRI liberal, and he's flaunting that on Saturday night at the Julia Sweeney/Ira Glass conversation at the Paramount. He's also going......

Back in our freelance days, Seattlest was happy to get 50 cents a word. So imagine the triple cherries that flashed before our eyes when we learned that down in PDX you can get 250 writers for three measly bucks! This literary super value menu is Wordstock, a three-day confab that kicks off today through Sunday at the Oregon Convention Center. In addition to local folks Charles D’Ambrosio and Garth Stein and omnipresent indie publisher......

If this were the Marvel Universe, John Gottman would be an X-Man. He's the marriage researcher who can, famously, watch a couple talk to each other for an hour and then predict with 95% accuracy whether or not their marriage is going to last. Essay god Malcolm Gladwell used Gottman to illustrate the power of thin-slicing in Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. (Haven't read it yet? Get on it or get fired.) Radio......

John Hodgman, Writer, has offered up fascinating insights into himself for our sister publication, Gothamist. He's created smarty-pants user-generated content for McSweeney's and This American Life. And Mr. Hodgman, Writer, has published a book, The Areas of My Expertise, in which he makes up a bunch of facts. (Like that's not a contradiction in terms. Did you think no one would notice, Mr. Hodgman? Must you lie to us to be funny?) Basically, the book......

If, like Seattlest, you spend your morning commute catching up on world events through Morning Edition, you’ve probably heard excerpts from the StoryCorps project. Your fellow Americans have been busy interviewing each other, and NPR is airing a few of the results. Time was, you had to head to New York City’s Grand Central Station to book time in a StoryCorps interview booth. Now, however, two mobile StoryCorps recording stations are traveling across the......