FACT: Formerly the Sultan Theater, Seattle's Lusty Lady is the original Lusty Lady. The one in San Francisco is the one that unionized and, eventually, became a worker-owned co-op. Seattle? Not a co-op. On the plus side, it's not owned by the Colacurcio family, either. FACT: The $20 that buys a 2-minute lap dance at Déjà Vu gets you 20 minutes of glassed-in nudity at the Lusty Lady. One quarter keeps a peep show......

The Lusty Lady is bold if nothing else; perched defiantly as a beacon of sleaze in the heart of downtown, eagerly eliciting disgust or curiosity from passing tourists. Every big city has at least one. Seattle’s two most prominent "Jerk Joints" (Déjà Vu being the sister) just happen to sit on both sides of the tourist sucking Pike Place Market. Joyfully unavoidable, the prudes have to stomach the godlessness for the brief hell they......

While the city goes about with itself, Seattlest spends countless hours in an ivory tower somewhere between Pike Place Market and the Lusty Lady. We pace the floor with a hunched back, wringing our hands, wrinkling our nose and whispering, "what, what, what... is the meaning of this?" Location: 2nd and Pine. Old purpose: parking lot next to Macy's Garage. New purpose: Huge gaping hole. For at least six months now, we've walked past this......

Making up for weeks of hibernation and workaholism, Kim will hit the parties this weekend. Tonight, she’ll don her Groucho glasses for a lesbian function at Jabu’s celebrating the births of her two favorite Sagitarii. Saturday, it’s to the War Room for a company party with the missus and her workmates. Finally, she’ll ship off to the sub-tropics on Monday, where she’ll spend what remains of 2007. While his wife is taking a Wilderness......

The City Council finally got around to passing "adult cabaret" zoning laws that just might let Seattle develop a strip club scene worthy of a would-be world-class city. But there's a provision that kills one of our brilliant ideas: The new rules, which passed by a unanimous vote, require strip clubs to be at least 800 feet from elementary or secondary schools, child-care centers, community centers, public parks or open space where children tend to......

"What's left with character in this city is the Pike Place Market and a couple of stores, and that's it." More classic Seattle grit is closing up shop. Central Loan & Gun Exchange downtown? Exit, stage gentrification. Seattlest expects another round of the ever-fascinating debate on Seattle identity: Greater Seattle vs. Lesser Seattle, mossback vs. booster, REI vs. Macy's, McQ vs. Singles. Lusty Lady vs. Four Seasons (oh wait -- they struck a balance).......

Profilic sex writer and all-around erotic person Violet Blue was in town for Hump 2! We'll let The Stranger use her positive comments to toot their own horn -- they're so good at it! We were more interested to see her overall positive impression of Seattle's sex-positive scene. Turns out that, despite our lame-ass strip clubs, Seattle has enough forward-thinking erotic happenings going on to impress someone who makes a living thinking about sex and......

Face it. There are no good strip clubs in Seattle. If our restaurant scene were as craptastic as our strip club scene, we'd be eating out at Applebee's, Chili's, Olive Garden, or Red Lobster (for those who swing a different way). We're happy that two local strip club owners, a.k.a. Seattle Citizens for Free Speech, have ponied up over half a million dollars to save lap dances. We like lap dances. We'll vote to save......

We understand that you come to us for up-to-the-minute information about the Seattle School Board election. On Saturday the Times ran an article calling the races for school board in Seattle "the hottest." Of course the article focused on how most candidates in the state are running unopposed. We were going to break down trends, come up with graphs, demand answers from those bureaucratic fat cats, and really delve into why of the 47 seats......

Student Flyers: The region's Top Gun for teens (uhg) suffered the loss of two students over the weekend when the plane of two freshman students lost power and crashed. Aviation High School has had approximately 1.2 million student flyers since its inception in 1992, but this is the first serious incident. Possible 'Double Voter' IDed: Washington State Republicans believe they have identified 16 voters who voted twice in the election last year and one woman......