An old Rainier slogan held, "There's new vigor and strength in every drop." The Swap drivers and passengers will need every bit of this strength to get to Texas and back in 8 days. Even as we wish them the best of luck, we also want them to hurry back—we need a little more Lone Star in our lives. more ›

Last night, in the face of too-cold-too-soon autumn weather, we corralled our friend (and friend of the Slog) Carollani into her badass newish car and headed over to the 5th Avenue Theater for the official opening night of --a Broadway-bound musical playing now through Sept. 30. more ›

If there's anything we learned studying literature in college, it's that everything either comes from Shakespeare, Greek mythology or the Bible. Seattlest used to entertain herself by playing "From Whence Did That Allusion Come?" Yeah, we only had two friends in college. more ›

Someone from the Zune marketing borg emailed last week and asked if Seattlest wanted to be assimilated announce a show. And, hell yeah, of course we do, so much so that we even have some amateur Zune ad copy prepared: "Once you go brown..." Well, that's all we've got so far. We're working on it. So the band for this free and public show is Secret Machines from the Lone Star State, which happens to be a band we dig. You might remember them from their recent happening at the Showbox where they eschewed the whole stage thing that so many bands accept with lemming-like resignation and played in the round. Uh, Shakespeare style... more ›

As fall settles in and another calendar page gets turned, thoughts turn from bbq's and vacations to holidays and the realization that '06 is coming to an end. With all that going on, with change in the air, we wonder what is it that made that makes the -ists ponder? more ›