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. How did you get involved with the new magazine? In one sense,......

Seattle-based music magazine No Depression will cease publishing after its May-June 2008 issue. No Depression is a bi-monthly print music magazine focusing on the umbrella of American roots music - covering artists as varied as Willie Nelson to The Shins. The magazine has been offering their take on American music since 1995, when they published their first issue. In an open letter to their readers, the publishers of No Depression explain how they've come......

N+1, the NYC-based literary magazine, launched with a bang back in the fall of 2004. In the inaugural issue, the editors took aim Dave Eggers & the McSweeneys/Believer crowd, deriding them as "the regressive avant-garde," and at the iconic critic James Wood (then at The New Republic, now at The New Yorker) whom they called a "designated hater," and who--along with his TNR co-horts Leon Wieseltier and Dale Peck--they accuse of writing literary criticism that......

It's got Pirelli tires, modified exhaust, custom paint, and the driver's side once held the actual ass of an NBA player. Starting bid is $30,000 for Brandon Roy's custom-built Dodge Charger in Trailblazer colors. It's pictured above outside Bellevue's CarNutz Customz (where the "z" stands for "zavings"). Unless Jimi Hendrix had some tricked-out psychedelic van that sprayed acid in gas form, this has to be the dopest car ever owned by a Garfield High grad......

It's fantastic that Rev. Hutcherson's pro-discrimination ballot initiative died a sad, lonely death recently. The fortunes of domestic partnerships in our state are on the rise, Democratic Presidential candidates seem to have their gay houses more or less in order and Seattle Pride just wrapped up its second go-round Downtown. Things seem to be looking up, but Seattlest likes to judge which way the wind blows by figuring out where the money goes. The local......

So much new stuff! Food critic Bethany over at the Slog tipped us off about Cafe Presse opening not far from our office so we sauntered over for a lunchtime look-see. We spotted it easily because of the yellow sign. It's on the west side of 12th Avenue, on the block south of Madison, forming a French triangle (un triangle français) with Licorous and Lark. Maybe they can all field a soccer team against......

Local photographer Victoria Renard is auctioning off this corset, once the proud (and alluring) possession of this formerly local musician Neko Case. Her description: This item is a 50's era black lace full length girdle-style bustier with 6 garter attachments made by Lady Marlene. The tag says the cup size is 36 C but I am a 38 D and it fits great. The materials are elastic, nylon and rubber and the back is......

Howard Schultz is probably enjoying his first relaxing day in a while today after the Starbucks shareholder's meeting yesterday. At least, he finally had a chance to explain to everyone just what the hell he was talking about with that whole memo thing. You remember the memo--we're talking about the one where he complained that Starbucks had lost its way in the name of growth and had become a cookie cutter retail chain that was......

We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he's working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur,......

Monday A NADER REMEMBERS: Recalling his childhood in Winstead, Connecticut, former presidential candidate and longtime political and social activist Ralph Nader offers 17 values a child should learn to become a conscientious adult. Not helping elect neo-fascists was, unfortunately, #18. 7pm // Third Place Books // FREE Tuesday EROTICA: "One Foot on the Floor: A Reading of Erotica." Jennifer D. Munro (aka Dawn O'Hara) -- whose work has appeared in many collections, including "Best......

One of our 43 Favorite Things about Wallingford is closing up shop over the next few days. Music & toy store, art gallery, and occasional show space Electric Heavyland is closing for good on January 1st. Rather than the standard "rising rents" storyline that you're used to, the Electric Heavyland folks are closing the shop so they can focus on their record label, enterruption. Since they're closing to focus on music, it would seem that......

MUSIC: Criminally underrated British singer-songwriter Jim Noir delivers his psych-pop twice tonight: first an acoustic set at Sonic Boom in Ballard, and then rocking out at the Croc as part of the Sub Pop/Barsuk Winter Celebration and Holiday Party Extravaganza. 6pm // Sonic Boom Ballard // Free 8pm // Croc // $10 SINGIN': Have a very piratey Christmas at this month's Northwest Seaport sing-along, full of shanties and featuring a recitation of "A Visit from......

The October issue of the Atlantic Monthly is on newsstands now and on its cover are the words "America's Smartest Cities." Please, nothing draws a Seattleite to a magazine faster than a tagline that indicates his intellectual ego is about to receive some much needed stroking. On the other hand, we've seen articles with this kind of headline on the internet and they're generally disappointing. Yeah, yeah, we have a lot of college graduates and......

Uh, excuse us, Seattle, hi, we got this email over the weekend, but we think it belongs to you. Hey, it's no problem. Yeah, yeah, this mail guy is weird isn't he? Does he look in your windows, too? Oh, you've been getting some of our magazines? Look, haha, those are for research. Anyway, we have no idea what veryDisgruntled is talking about, but it's always the right time for good old AMERICAN si-fi. To......

Friday night Seattle gets a new art gallery -- BLVD, dedicated to urban contemporary art. (Note to the uninitiated: that's "boulevard," not "beloved.") We talked with gallerist Kirsten Anderson, who also owns Roq La Rue, the neighboring lowbrow/pop surrealism gallery, about urban contemporary art and what to expect from BLVD. You've said that, in a nutshell, lowbrow and pop surrealist artists grew up listening to punk and new wave, while urban contemporary artists grew up......

The e-mail arranging the interview said "call if you have any trouble finding the office," but we really didn't understand what she meant until we found ourselves under the Viaduct, staring into a shady-looking importer's warehouse with their address. Was this really the office of a highbrow and hip foreign policy quarterly aimed at intellectually minded college students? With the sinking suspicion we were trespassing, we climbed a flight of rickety, well-worn wooden stairs and......

FORTUNE magazine recently released its 2006 list of the 500 largest companies in America. At first glance, not much has changed among our local representatives: Costco (#28) is still the largest company in the state. Microsoft (#48) is the second largest, and Bill Gates credits his nearly paperless office for his amazing productivity. Washington Mutual (#99) is the biggest of 5 Seattle-based companies on the list, followed by Amazon.com (#272), Nordstrom (#293), Starbucks (#338),......

Dead tree magazines continue to bleed value as witnessed by the recent sale of Spin for a case of Pacifica bottles and some old cassette mix tapes (ok $5 million). Was Blender the culprit as suggested at the Stranger, or is Pitchfork and the like eating the lunch of all the paper rock magazines? There's also magazine sale news a bit closer to home today. Paul Allen is getting ready to unload The Sporting News......

Now, Seattlest was paying attention to this episode, really we were. It's just that shortly prior to the program's start, we received a disturbing piece of news that has tainted this—and dare we say, all future—episodes. You see, Seattlest was spending something of a lazy Sunday afternoon catching up on back issues of magazines and one in particular had a feature on Miss Grey herself, Ellen Pompeo. Now, ordinarily, we stay away from mentioning anything......

We aggressively agree when they come after the EMP, sometimes to the point of inspiring an uncomfortable silence in the wake of our diatribe. Rarely do we have to defend the Needle, which is not to say that we actually want to go there. Can't we locals and tourists alike admire it from afar? And generally we beam in the steady glow of praise piled onto the Central Library, as if we drew it up......

Seattlest's newest feature enters its second week with this installment, which makes it the most successful new feature launch in recent memory. Make sure to tune in next Tuesday as the drama unfolds: Will Seattle Market actually play three weeks in a row and become the longest running series in the history of Seattlest, or will it peter out after this lackluster performance? You decide. First, the name sucks so if you've got a better......

Rod Stewart is performing at the Key Arena tomorrow evening. This is Rod Stewart, people. Sure he may be old and might not have released an interesting album since the early Reagan years, but talk about sex appeal! His walker alone could attract more models than all of the Strokes combined. He's touring in support of his latest collection of standards that we think is dreamy. There are plenty of tickets available on craigslist.......

We'll admit it--we programmed Orange Cab into our cell phone just because we thought it was funny--it's not Yellow Cab and what do oranges have to do with Seattle? As with most major decisions in our lives, we made it capriciously and with great good luck. We've also noticed that our cabbies are uniformly pleasant to talk to. We've never had to talk when we don't want to, we've never had to endure political......

If you’ve been downtown lately and walked by the Taboo Adult Video on First Ave., you’ve probably noticed that it looks a little different, and well, kinda fancy. And if you were to go inside--y’know, just to ask directions to the nearest Tully’s, certainly not to browse their mammoth DVD collection--you’d see that the store has undergone a complete remodel. Seattlest spoke with an employee who explained that Taboo is a family-owned business; the family’s......