There are certain pastimes we don't condone, and one of them is thinking about our local TV newscasters naked while delivering the 11 p.m. news. Ack! We blame top local radio station Star 101.5, whose "Local TV Newscaster You'd Like to See Naked" contest recently named KING-TV's investigative news correspondent Jesse Jones of "Get Jesse!" and KIRO-TV forecaster Rebecca Stevenson as the hands-down winners of the annual contest. Honorable mention to runner up KOMO-TV weatherman Jim Castillo and KING's Joyce Taylor. more ›

Originally ran on January 3, 2007, January 2, 2008--updated for January 2009. more ›

Jeff Renner, stop talking. more ›

Phew, what a week. We've had the two Port resignations, all the school closure hullaballoo, Noemi Lopez' killer landing in custody, and--late yesterday--a breakthrough in the viaduct arguments. To be honest, we'd like nothing more than to laugh about all of this. Enter, stage South End: Sable Verity's eminently LOL-worthy guest column on the Rainier Valley Post, in which she imagines the weekend wrap-up conversation between the governor, the mayor, the school district superintendent, and the county executive. It is hilariously spot on, and exactly the dose of intelligent humor we needed to get us through a rainy Friday. more ›

• West Seattle Blog's photos of the sunset over the water remind us that we live in an absolutely stunning part of the United States -- and WSB also reports that something interesting involving fisticuffs (details vague as of yet) went down at Chief Sealth High School.
• Victory tastes so sweet... and failure? Well, resounding failure makes for a great blog entry. B-Town Blog has the details on a Kennedy 61, Highline 0 football game last week. Ouch.
• These are trying economic times, but Subterfuge Seattle comes to the rescue with hints for saving money the fashionable way. Step #1 is to share pants (no, really). Who needs $0.10 ramen noodles when you can share pants?

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Psst...We're trying something new here with a daily a.m. news round-up and links to neighborhood stories and blogs. Let us know what you think! more ›

Ooooh—the Seattle P-I has launched their new crime blog, Seattle 911. It's a resting place for the flotsam and jetsam of the city's police and fire departments, where morbidly fascinated readers can take in side stories, breaking crime news, and details from daily reports. more ›

Just last week, Seattlest reported to you that there seemed to be an alarming number of stabbings in Seattle, judging by local news reports. While we haven't noticed many stabbing-related stories this week, it appears there is a new crime du jour in the headlines: serial anonymous groping. We've already written about south Seattle's serial groper twice this week. With yesterday's arrest of a suspect in the south Seattle attacks, we were hoping to see 100% fewer headlines about anonymous groping assaults. No such luck. Our nightly perusal of local news websites found this headline on KOMO 4: "Police seek public's help in nailing Puyallup groper." The headline was located directly underneath the story regarding the arrest of Darin Boler, Seattle's suspected serial groper.
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"yellow dragon on pole" by Seattlest Flickr Pool Contributor Seattle rainscreen. Thanks! more ›

We love our Mother Earth, but this is kind of silly. One hour of turning off the lights, everybody at once? It's called Earth Hour, and it's happening all over the country. Whatever, it certainly can't hurt. So, everyone, turn your lights off tomorrow night from 8-9pm, and show those, um, anti-Earth people. more ›

Since we've covered the rest of this story, Seattlest would feel hardly right ignoring the poor monkey's death sentence. As reported on the rounds of tonight's local news, the macaque monkey who bit three people in Spokane will be euthanized. The city of Spokane has determined there is no other way to be certain the monkey, Chico, is rabies-free. more ›

Seriously, we're surprised the local news stations have not created special icons to attach to all of their recent environmentally-motivated arson stories. Usually, if an event has gone on this long or had this much prominent news coverage in Seattle, local newscasters have given it some sort of pet-name by now. more ›

It seems every time we check a local news site, which is pretty regularly...okay hourly, there's a report of another malfunctioning ferry. According to our unscientific, educated guesstimate, The Washington State Ferry Service has only had a few days of normal running schedules in the past month. more ›

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama's speeches (and his very presence in the race) are inspiring people to speak up, chant—and now sing—about embracing change. Jon, Joe and Jake Bergevin, Kirkland-based brothers and musicians all, got some local colleagues together to record "Fired Up, Ready to Go" in response to Obama's uplifting words. more ›

This is gonna be one of those gorgeous evenings that Seattleites suffer through the fall, winter and "spring" for, but we won't be enjoying it. Roast a marshmallow at Golden Gardens for us, because we'll be in our basement watching the All-Star Game. more ›

Everything we know about dodging the draft by heading to Canada we learned from The Brothers K and popular mythology. So, we don't know much. Little before our time, there. Despite the fact that today's army is all volunteer (and today's Canada is more Conservative) there are still some soldiers waiting out Iraq up north. Almost everyone that this Salon article mentions seems to have already pulled a shift in the Middle East and is in Canada dodging a redeployment. The article talks about these soldiers (they estimate some 250 of them) and the great lengths that Canada has gone to to see that they are returned to the U.S. military. more ›

Ex-Seattleite, ex-Stranger-nic and ex-grassroots campaign manager Phil Campbell wrote a book that we loved about Grant Cogswell's run for City Council in the wake of WTO. The book is Zioncheck for President, which we've discussed with Phil in the past. Now Stephen Gyllenhaal has bought the rights to the film adaptation and plans to produce the thing DIY style here in Seattle. more ›

Our actual drive time won't change, but it's about to feel shorter. Morning host Deborah Brandt is leaving KUOW in mid-February:

At KUOW, Deborah Brandt, who has been the local host for "Morning Edition" for nine years, is departing in mid-February. Derek Wang, who had been weekend host, will succeed Brandt. Wang, in turn, will be replaced by Jamala Henderson.

Today marks the final edition of the King County Journal, a newspaper that, in various incarnations, has been covering suburban King County for like, a hundred years or something. more ›

Gothamist, among many others, is reporting that a plane has apparently crashed into a building on the upper east side--you can see the exact location on 72nd via Gothamist's Googlemap hack. Currently it is being reported as a helicopter that crashed into the building. You can see pictures at the Gothamist site (national news sites didn't have anything yet, but they've got screen captures from local news up on their site). more ›

There are about 17 of us who really enjoy following local politics. We can name the members of the city council, know our state representatives, and generally aren’t that popular at parties. more ›

There's a whole lot of latino going on in the park right outside our house in the Central District. Normally our neighborhood is exceptionally quiet all day, save for the sound of baking donuts from Gai's, until the little league softball or pee-wee football teams start showing up around 2:30. So we were mighty surprised to hear quite the ruckus out in Judkins Park, and peeking out we saw at least a couple hundred people in the park--more than pass through in a month, we'd wager. more ›

Seattlest is a SeattlePI.com power user (so you don't have to be) so we get real excited about new website functionality over there. Yesterday the P-I launched something new with the unfortunate "my" prefix (which does immediately let you know exactly what it is, but is tired nonetheless). Ok, you've been a web user for some time now. We're assuming you're pretty savvy or you wouldn't be here and you can probably guess what "My-PI" does without any training wheels from Seattlest, but that's not going to stop us from rambling on for another couple hundred words. more ›

. And this week, KUOW listeners get Guy Nelson and Marcie Sillman riffing on the phrase "call now and give us money, please." more ›

As Seattlest was falling asleep last night we caught a glimpse of a teaser for a local news story that we couldnt stay awake to watch: an escort ad client shot by a pimp for refusing to reimburse the escort's gas money. The teaser included a shot of a two-page spread-eagled escort ad section from one of the local alternative weeklies. more ›

Geological change continues coming fast and furious (as these things go) to the south where Moung St. Helens is stewing. Another earthquake overnight collapsed a section of the lava dome that's recently sprouted on the mountain. more ›

Photographers, start your cameras! The Discovery Park Advisory Council is sponsoring a photo contest, with winning submissions to be published in a photo calendar (presumably for 2007). more ›

Maybe a Playboy Centerfold can generate excitement with a canned blurb and a posed photograph, but can a middle-aged newspaper columnist? The fearless P-I marketing department evidently thinks so, resulting in our favorite new feature of any local newspaper: "Get To Know…", on the back page of the P-I's local news section, beneath the weather report. more ›