Seattlest spent last night at a whirlwind preview event for the fabulous new H&M store downtown. It'll be open to everyone tomorrow at noon. We hear that if you get in line early, you can get a gift certificate to cover your opening-day shopping spree! Woot! Trust us, there are at least 50 things we felt like buying right off the rack (mostly hot vests and incredibly soft sweaters), if only we'd had hundreds of......

Seattle's City Markets hand-drawn advertisements have made national blogs and newspapers. Using the celebrity of the moment or the latest scandal, they entice you to come on in and get a great deal. Previous targets have included Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lynn Spears, Trent Lott, and Ben Affleck. Today The City Market decided to take a political turn with their advertisements, by featuring the democratic front-runners for President, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Happily, a Seattlest......

Oh Sundance, has it been a year already since last we ventured to your snowy, film-filled climes? We had barely touched ground before we heard the usual gripes: there's less free parking, more expensive tickets, and it was way better back in the day. Of course, this year there's also no Lindsay Lohan in attendance (thanks rehab!), and the big theme is "Focus on Film," which means, amongst other things, "My idea of 'celebrity'......

Dear Spank Rock, We're sorry. For the last few months we've been completely trashing you after hearing Alexxxchange's DJ set at Chop Suey. The phrase "when bad DJs happen to good records" came out of our mouths on more than one occasion. We couldn't help ourselves though, as that set just did not do it for us, leaving us to question what the group would do on the whole. We even skipped other opportunities to......

The Seattle Monorail, which has already endured more obloquy than Lindsay Lohan's dietician, is in trouble again. The Seattle P-I has been screaming bloody murder this week, proclaiming on their front page that the Monorail's proposed Green Line will cost "$11 billion." The City Council, which apparently has final say on the project (despite the fact that voters approved it four separate f***ing times), has turned into a Chicken Little brigade, led by longtime......