Seattle's lone local afternoon talk show, Northwest Afternoon is airing its final episode tomorrow. Northwest Afternoon (or NWA for those locals in the know, who have no clue of the Compton N.W.A) has been a Seattle institution for 24 years. For as long as we can remember, NWA was on from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. on KOMO TV—a safe bet to tune into if you were interested in what had happened on today's soap operas, planting local perennials, pet psychics, or pseudo local news celebrities. While we haven't tuned into NWA for years, unless we were heavily sedated, it is definitely the end of an era, a sign of the times, and further evidence of the shrinking of local media. more ›

"We're playing our (BODY PART) off every day and got nothing to show for it. I'm tired of (VERB ENDING IN -ING) losing, I'm tired of getting my (NOUN) beat, and so have those guys. We gotta change this (NOUN) around and get after it. And only we can do it. The fans are (ADJECTIVE) off, and I'm (ADJECTIVE) off and the players are (ADJECTIVE FOR USELESS) off. And that's the way it is...I'm tired of (NAME OF PERSON IN ROOM) losing this...every night we bust our (SLANG TERM FOR HAQ JUROR). It's gotta be a total team (VERB ENDING IN -ING) effort to turn this thing around, and that's it." more ›

Seth Kolloen starting covering sports for Seattlest in January 2005. Late last year he took over as editor, before leaving us to become the editor of the brand new Sports Northwest Magazine. We caught up with Seth poolside at the W Hotel to discuss the move to press row, his sports blog, and why he won’t be calling Maggie Gyllenhaal any time soon. more ›

We think we're such hot stuff here in Seattle, but Portland and Vancouver got their Edibles many harvest moons ago. So did Cape Cod, the Twin Cities, and the Iowa River Valley. No matter, the first issue of this new full-color quarterly is finally on the stands (at Metropolitan Markets, PCC, Whole Foods), circulation of 70,000, handsomely produced on recycled, ecologically correct, non-glossy stock. Five bucks a copy, but $28 a year for a subscription. more ›