While out and about the other day, we ran across these items. Now, seeing shoes hanging from wires is nothing new, of course. Like you, gentle reader, we've been seeing them everywhere ever since we can remember. What is new, though, for us is seeing a pair of boots up there. We're kinda surprised we haven't seen this much sooner. Also, we are thankful that the utility crews hadn't gotten around to taking them......

True story! The other afternoon we were IMing about some important work-related stuff with our friend Scott G. and he asked if we'd seen Spamalot at the Paramount yet, and and we said, "Nope, you?" and it turned out he had, so he started to tell us about it and we said -- in a flash of brilliance -- "Hey, would you mind if this ended up on Seattlest?" So you’ve been in a touring......

Somehow, in between day jobs, practices, live shows, and recording their second album Beehive Sessions (produced by the Posies' Jon Auer), everybody's favorite performance group/art collective/pop band "Awesome" has found the time to put together a new theater extravaganza for all ages. And though it's kid-tested mother-approved, there's still scads of local talent involved: Here's What Happened is directed by WET's Jennifer Zeyl and has a different guest narrator each night--actor Charles Leggett, Almost......

So we'll begin, the guy at the podium said, the huge black blast door in the Microsoft Auditorium at the Downtown Library eased down its track, slowly cutting off our view of the lobby, and we shivered. "I wish the P-I were here," said the Stranger's Josh Feit at one point. "This is what they do really well." Oddly enough, the Seattle P-I, the hands-down leader in news on the web around here, wasn't on......

It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by poop. Finally D.C. contemplated taking Vermont's place as a state and marveled at the GOP lessons learned from the "Macaca Moment." Due to some sad shootings......

This weekend the National Weather service is calling for mid-70s to 80 degrees. You may want to recover from heatstroke by rehydrating in an air-conditioned theater with other bepinkenned Seattleites, and their melanin-endowed friends savoring their little moment of schadenfreude. (Here's the Seattle Times cheat sheet on the various venues.) · We caught the press screening for the not entirely laugh-free Death at a Funeral with a friend who said, summing up Frank Oz's......

Friday night around 11pm we were approaching the third hour of Thorton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth at the Intiman when our friend Boo (of Quiltsryche fame) leaned over and whispered, "This is fucking retarded." The snoring old ladies on either side of us tacitly agreed. How did this pseudo-absurdist, Capra-esque, steaming pile of maudlin cheese from the guy who wrote Our Town win the Pulitzer? The play was not without its redeeming......

Ah, the storied cherry blossoms of UW! Our favorite local non-blog once claimed that these are direct relatives of the famous trees in Washington D.C.. You see, a few mysteriously disappeared on their way from Japan to D.C. via Seattle's port when they were gifted to our great nation, the story goes. Ever since the Reagan administration cut funding and summarily fired our fact-checking department, we have been relying on old Foggy, whom we......

Seattlest had a really good friend years ago that was a huge Sparklehorse fan. We grew close over talks of her dealings with the band (one member in particular) along with other more personal dramas. Despite all of the talk, we never talked about the band's music directly, it was all at a very meta- level. Going into the show Wednesday night we were flooded not with excitement over the return of Sparklehorse after a......

We hadn't been to the Comet for awhile, but everything looked just the way we left it. Everyone was just as scruffy and working-class-bluesy and it wasn't until we sat down and talked to them later that we discovered they were from Perth, Australia, and worked at Microsoft and Amazon. We holed up in the "Being John Malkovich" lounge upstairs (complete with 3/4-size red door marked "Private") trying to guess who that maddeningly familiar band......

Monday AIR SUPPLY: Eric Klinenberg’s new book, Fighting for Air, examines how corporate ownership and control of local media has remade American political and cultural life. Klinenberg, a sociology professor at New York University, is interviewed by Michael Fancher, Seattle Times editor-at-large. 7:30pm // Town Hall // $5 Tuesday PANEL OF POETS: Sherman Alexie, Chelsea Rathburn, Richard Wakefield and Eric McHenry present "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Rhyme": a roundtable discussion......

He's not raking muck for any paper publications currently, but ex-Seattle Weekly all-star Philip Dawdy is still managing to rouse the rabble on the internet. He got noticed by Reddit.com this week after making the jump from reporting to editorializing and dissing Google, MySpace, "Web 2.0" and blogs from, uh, his blog. This yearning we've got nowadays to be actualized through an idealized self that isn't real at all, but that everyone thinks is real!,......

Wednesday, November 29 >>>Third Place Books, 7:00pm. Another weighty tome, Unreleased Beatles by Richie Unterberger, to add to your Beatles-only reference section. It details the shitload of stuff that was recorded but, you know, forgotten about what with being so high at the time, plus the whole headtrip with Yoko. Free with OCD collecting disorder. >>>University Bookstore, 7:00pm. Elizabeth George backtracks: in her last Inspector Lynley mystery, the Inspector's wife was killed. In What......

There's a great opportunity to participate in a hack of Amazon.com today that won't net you a big list of credit card numbers or any free books or anything, but it will let you feel like you put one over on a local giant while at the same time helped a local website save the planet. And who would pass that up? The WorldChanging book which we've been mentioning lately (here and here) is for......

We caught one of those Sound of Young America stand up shows the other night at the Rendezvous, featuring three openers - ranging in quality from okay to just slightly less than great - followed by the hilarious, bordering-on-genius headliner Brent Weinbach. Someone named "Brian Palmer" accurately summed up Weinbach's surreal schtick better than we ever could in this intro to his interview with him from last year: Onstage Brent Weinbach holds the microphone......

A: What Ken Jennings writes when he autographs copies of Brainiac. Other things we learned at Town Hall last night, at the opening of Seattle Follies' fourth season: Goldy (of horsesass.org) cannot pronounce Ichiro without help from the audience. (His initial effort sounded something like "icky-row.") Ken Jennings can pull off an uncanny vocal impression of Popeye. Steve Scher of KUOW's Weekday resembles a svelter Harold Ramis. Scher is a good choice if you need......

Last night, Seattlest was witness to a monumental pop culture event: Ian Bell's Brown Derby Series' interpretation of R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet (Chapters 1-12). Look, if you don't know by now about this epic tale of adultery, berettas, incontinent midgets, and terrible rhyming, we really can't take the time to explain it to you. Just go here, watch all twelve chapters, delight in the so-bad-it's-goodness, and you can thank us later. Once......

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......

This Friday, "America's Funnyman" Neil Hamburger will turn the Funhouse into the Funnyhouse (sorry, but we had to say it before he did). On the surface, Hamburger is the world's worst standup comedian. Appearing in an ill-fitting tux, oversized glasses and greasy comb-over, he delivers an unfunny stream of disjointed one-liners about his ex-wife, AIDS, lawyers, alcoholism, masturbation, hemorrhoids, dentists and so forth. Even worse are setups like "How many Spice Girls does it take......

As we enter the final days of this year's SketchFest, let's take a walk down memory lane, all the way back to the heady times of the previous weekend: Last Saturday night, three members of Seattlest's collective entity assembled ourselves in a Voltron-like fashion for some comedy at the Capitol Hill Arts Center. We were there for the performances of two troupes, San Francisco's Prank the Dean and NYC's Elephant Larry. Prank the Dean consists......