Results tagged “mattsilvie”

Face it, folks: it's fall in Seattle, and along with cooler nights, leaves changing color, and the beginning of football season, fall also marks the annual Scion independent film series. Yes, it's corporate-sponsored lifestyle marketing aimed at the hip youth demographic, and yes, they just want the kids to buy their damn cars, but we're willing to shill for it when 1) it's free and 2) the films shown are actually worth seeing. The series kicks off tonight with Heavy Metal in Baghdad, the first full-length film made by the good people at Vice:

This month we subject Pauls Toutonghi’s young adult novel Red Weather to the awesome critical power that is Seattlest. The book has nothing to do with Seattle, but Toutonghi allegedly spent some formative years here and he’s old friends with our most frequent contributor, so what the hell? We’re trying out a new “point/counterpoint” format, with contributors Matt Silvie and James Callan facing off.

This month Seattlest Book Club is reading Seattle-born and -raised Pauls Toutonghi's debut novel Red Weather, just out in paperback from Random House. You'll get a discount if you buy it at Bailey-Coy or Santoro's.

In between obsessively checking their progress in various NCAA tournament pools, here's how Seattlest types will spend their weekends.

What will the weekend bring? Why, the new 4A state basketball champion, of course! So the staff of Seattlest picks our favorites in today's critical semifinal game between Franklin and Curtis. Also, they mention some other stuff they are interested in.

What's Seattlest doing this weekend? What isn't Seattlest doing this weekend?

In honor of President's Day, we've included our fave prezzes along with our weekend activity list.

Will the beautiful weather stick around for our weekend? If it does, plans may change and you may see us prancing through various municipal parks. As of now, however, here's how the weekend's shaking out.

Obviously the streets of the Emerald City will be empty between 1-5pm on Saturday, when the Seahawks play, but what are people doing the rest of the weekend?

Not sure what to do this weekend? Seattlest can help. Here's our weekly rundown of what we'll be doing during our days of rest.

This weekend, Seattlest will be representing at a high school basketball game, a chamber music concert, a church in Burien, and Alderwood Babies-R-Us, respectively. For the full 411, see below.

When this week began, wrestler Eddie Guerrero and TV pioneer Ralph Edwards were both alive. No one outside Steel Country had heard of Rep. John Murtha, and Bob Woodward still had credibility. Next week is really only three days, so probably nothing will happen. Thus, we at Seattlest intend to enjoy ourselves over the weekend.