Seattlest doesn't find this picture funny at all. We know firsthand how hard those awkward years of high school can be. The pimples, the pants that didn't fit right, the God-awful hours spent wishing Heather Cannon would think of us as more than that creepy guy staring at her. If you think this picture is funny, well, you're a bad person. more ›

Last night, Seattlest wanted a quiet celebration. Unlike some of our brethren, we did not want to be amongst the madding crowd in Pioneer Square (we wanted to be far from it, in fact). So we joined a different crowd: the quiet, meditative Compline crowd at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral. more ›

Seattlest was a bit grumpy earlier this week when we realized we had tickets for Seattle Opera’s Ring cycle over the coming week. Did we really want to spend a good 18 hours over four days ingesting a steady diet of Wagner, Wagner and more Wagner? No, we did not! Especially when the performances conflicted with a few really good social events we would otherwise have gone to. But after cursing ourselves for not putting the dates in our calendar when we got the tickets months and months ago, we reconciled ourselves to the Ring. more ›