This month Seattlest Book Club is reading Seattle-born and -raised Pauls Toutonghi's debut novel Red Weather, just out in paperback from Random House. You'll get a discount if you buy it at Bailey-Coy or Santoro's. We emailed questions, he emailed us back answers. Red Weather is set in Milwaukee, but are there any aspects of your experience growing up in Seattle that make their way into the book? Many of them, absolutely. Well, "Alexander Hamilton......

Monday SEATTLEST BOOK CLUB PICK: For March, we're reading Jonathan Raban's Surveillance, set in a not-so-distant future, when everyone's actions are highly monitored. Get a head start on the conversation by hearing from Raban himself. (We'll know if you went or not.) 7pm // UW Bookstore // FREE FANTASTIC FICTION SALON: Connie Willis, an award-winning SF writer, hosts this discussion of sci-fi/fantasy fiction writing. (As a new member of Hugo House's "Writing Fantastic Fiction"......

This is Tom Landry, the greatest coach the Dallas Cowboys ever had. This is Chuck Knox, the best coach the Seattle Seahawks ever had. The met only once, on Thanksgiving Day 1986 in Dallas. The Hawks won 34-14, thereby proving that Chuck Knox was a better coach than Tom Landry. Even though Homer Simpson bought Landry’s hat in order to earn his worker's respect, and even though Sarah Vowell took a break from snooping around......

Seattlest dropped in at the Seattle Rep for the late August Wilson's final play in his ten-cycle series, Radio Golf. It's playing through February 18, and well worth making a trip to the Rep for, if only for the chance to see a Seattle theater audience that's not almost exclusively white. Tickets range from $22 - $36 ($10 if you're under 25 with ID). There are also rush prices 30 minutes before each performance.......

Boeing employees have always been stereotyped as nerdy and dull, but perhaps they adopt this mask as a means of corporate survival. The corporation, which once employed one in three Seattleites, does not approve of mankind's baser instincts, as evidenced by today's abrupt firing of 68-year-old CEO Harry Stonecipher for marital infidelity. The company, now based in Chicago, reveals little detail in a press release. What they do divulge is that the affair, with a......