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During regular business hours today, Fed-Ex/Kinkos will make 25 black-and-white copies of your resume on high-quality paper for free. You even get to keep the copies! We love them for this almost as much as we love Krispy Kreme whenever they do a freebie day. Seattlest wishes you a happy productive job hunt--hope this helps.

It's 100 percent free to be thrilled about the inauguration of our new executive leader. Joy isn't the only freebie today, however. (What? There's more?!) Krispy Kreme will give you one free donut today in honor of the occasion, and a bunch of department stores such as Nordstrom and Macys are giving away free cosmetics and beauty products starting today and continuing until supplies last. Though fitting to the savvy celeb now residing in the White House (we're speaking, naturally, of Michelle Obama), the beauty giveaway is actually in response to a lawsuit accusing the department stores of price fixing on their cosmetics. That kind of two-faced cheating is simply not going to be tolerated under the Obama administration. Get your free stuff before the country runs out of donuts and concealer!

Seattlest is always looking for interesting events to cover, and this season, one holiday party in particular caught our eye: Latkepalooza, the only place to be on December 24th for Seattle's Jewish community. This morning, we caught up on Google Chat with the Jewish Federation's Cameron Levin, the Young Leadership Division Director who organizes and promotes the annual party with her Volunteer Chair Nick Barrat, to find out more.

Starbucks--and Babeland, and Krispy Kreme, and Ben & Jerry's, and Irwin's, and Cupcake Royale, and probably other places we haven't heard about--got a lot of publicity when they offered to give away free coffee to anyone who voted today. (And maybe more Facebook publicity than they hoped for. ) Turns out, though, that bribing rewarding voters with free stuff violates some of those pesky election laws. Never fear, though: You can get a free tall brewed drip coffee at Starbucks just by asking for it, whether you've voted or not. The invaluable Big Blog is staying on top of the status of all those promotions.

Seattlest was in Vancouver this weekend, and, on a whim, made our first foray into a Tim Hortons. We'd heard good things -- "the apex of Canadian cuisine," for example -- and as lifelong doughnut fans we were happy to test that claim.

We're doughnut lovers, but we've never been a fan of the light, airy, spun-sugar doughnuts that Krispy Kreme built its empire on. We're devotees of the solid, cakey, embody-the-word-pastry doughnuts hand-forged by Top Pot.

As usual, Seattlest has donuts on our mind. Since we are compelled to endure that barbaric time of day known in some parts of the world as have been thinking about them too.

Bummed by bumper-to-bumperdom, Seattlest recently jumped off I-5 and onto Route 99 for a journey north. Late for an appointment, we now had limited time for a much-needed snack. We wanted it quick, cheap, and crisp. Yes, we had a crispy craving (not to be confused with a Krispy Kreme).

Results are in from partly-local food blog The Ethicurean's recent doughnut taste-off. They pitted doughnuts from Top Pot, Mighty-O, and Krispy Kreme against each other. You should read the entire taste-off account -- very entertaining -- but we'll spoil the results now:

We quickly decide on our favorites. For the Butter Bitch, Top Pot’s old-fashioned is the best because it has a consistent flavor but isn’t sickeningly fake. The cake is nice and moist. Mighty-O’s raspberry chocolate donut is her second favorite. “It’s a close call between the two,” she admits. When I raise a miniature cinnamon donut, she shrugs and says, “I just love those.” The cinnamon minis are in a class of their own.

Continue reading "The Latest Dispatch in Local Doughnut Wars"

Forget hot vs. not, flight vs. invisibility, and left hand vs. right hand. We've settled a far more epochal question: which beloved local pastry institution is better, Top Pot or Cupcake Royale?

Seattlest is way into the culture of life, so on Saturday we decided to experience some firsthand in Skagit Valley at the 22nd Annual Tulip Festival. After a brief detour to Krispy Kreme, we made our way over to Tulip Town, a self-described "magical place," though to us, it seemed kinda low on magic when compared to the acres and acres of tulips. Don't get me wrong; tulips are great flowers, and the colors are fantastic (personal favorite: deep purple, just like the band), but they are, after all, just tulips, devoid of supernatural attributes. Fields are slick, muddy, and puddle-full, so it's best to dress accordingly. We saw some frat-boy meathead wearing Birkenstocks slip in the mud and were sorely disappointed when he was able to recover his balance.