Entries from Seattlest tagged with 'miami'
April 15, 2008
Sept. 7 at Buffalo Bills 10 am Sept. 14 San Francisco 49ers 1 pm Sept. 21 St. Louis Rams 1 pm Sept. 28 Bye Oct. 5 at New York Giants 10 am Oct. 12 Green Bay Packers 1:15 pm Oct. 19 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers 5:15 pm Oct. 26 at San Francisco 49ers 1:15 pm Nov. 2 Philadelphia Eagles 1:15 pm Nov. 9 at Miami Dolphins 10 am Nov. 16 Arizona Cardinals 1 pm......
Continue Reading "Seahawks 2008 Schedule Released"February 27, 2008
Speculation abounded when Charles posted about a recent study showing what would happen to Seattle if a 9.0 quake hit us. The Space Needle was called out as an icon that wouldn't go down. Seattlest's dad is the resident earthquake-and-volcanoes disaster geologist in the family, so we asked for the truth. We were told to consult the disaster flick 10.5, a made for TV turd movie starring Kim Delany (you know, from CSI: Miami, or......
Continue Reading "What Really Happens to the Space Needle in an Earthquake"January 11, 2008
We've been reading and rereading Hawks/Packers stuff all week. Here the few things we think are important about Saturday's game: 1) The Hawks' Patrick Kerney made the Pro Bowl this year for terrorizing quarterbacks, but he may not be much of a factor in this game. The Packers gave up the fewest sacks of any NFL team--not because they have a terrific offensive line, but because they designed their offense that way. Brett Favre often......
Continue Reading "Hawks/Packers: The Three Most Important Things to Know"January 9, 2008
Could we be any vaguer? No, but that doesn't mean there's still not any reason to get excited. With In Rainbows making its formal debut atop the Billboard charts, Radiohead is set to cover North America in two tour legs, one prior to and one following their recently announced European summer tour (June 6 in Dublin through July 8 in Berlin). There's no exact dates or venues just yet, but the band has confirmed......
Continue Reading "Radiohead May Play Somewhere Near Seattle Sometime This Year"January 8, 2008
For the second year in a row, a legendary coach has ended his career with a loss at Qwest Field. Last year, it was Bill Parcells who, though he's taken over as a GM in Miami, claims his final game as coach was last year's Cowboys playoff loss at Seattle. This year, it's Joe Gibbs, who resigned this morning, three days after his Redskins lost to the Hawks at Qwest. Other coaching legends who saw......
Continue Reading "Qwest Field: Where Hall-of-Fame Football Coaching Careers Go to Die"January 8, 2008
It seems time for the yearly Seattlest commentary on Paseo Caribbean Restaurant. But since they’re on their annual winter leave, this Seattlester traveled nearly 3,000 miles in search of a comparable Cuban sandwich. The destination: Miami’s El Palacio de los Jugos. The dish: a Medianoche. So how does Seattle’s sandwich stack up to a real Midnight Cuban? At El Palacio, it’s simple, straightforward, and ready in seconds. Sliced pork, ham (usually Serrano), Swiss cheese, and......
Continue Reading "Dishin': Paseo's Plausible, 'Plaudable Midnight Cuban"November 14, 2007
If you're a Cuban exile somehow randomly transplanted from Miami to Seattle, don't go see The Cook at Seattle Rep. The overwhelming majority of sources (including this play) depict you as pretty angry, and The Cook will only further piss you off. If you're anyone else, go see it--You'll love it, although it may also piss you off. If you're a hipster or, less likely, a commie, dress up in your little Castro hat......
Continue Reading "The Cook @ Seattle Rep"October 22, 2007
Did you know that there's only one credible real-estate industry voice in Seattle? It's a marketing firm in town that works with real estate developers. We've learned this from reading Aubrey Cohen's real estate reporting in the Seattle P-I. Here's a search on articles containing the exact phrase "Williams Marketing" -- they're quoted in at least one article per month since last November. (Who are the schmoes paying the P-I for ads when there's so......
Continue Reading "Post-Intelligence: the P-I's Irreal Estate Coverage"September 10, 2007
While you're enjoying an unseasonably sunny summer afternoon, we will be at Safeco Field, showing our undying support for the 2007 Seattle Mariners, authors of one of the greatest collapses in baseball history. We're not fairweather fans, not us. We gallantly display our pride for the local nine, those proud lads who...um...ok, fine, we lucked into a free ticket and didn't have other plans. Anyway, misery loves company, so we've fired up the Seattlest History-O-Matic......
Continue Reading "The Five Worst Collapses in Seattle Sports History"July 9, 2007
As a teenager, Seattlest loved posters. We plastered Miami Vice stills rock gods, Tiger Beat pages swimsuit models and sports stars on our walls with tacks, tape and that white boogery stuff. Some boys grow up and out of the phase. Others become obsessed with poster art, set up savings accounts for Flatstock, and bitch about those who “flip,”—resell high-demand gig posters—for a steep profit. (We fall somewhere in between.) Artillery Design, a new......
Continue Reading "Brad Klausen Unleashes Artillery Design"May 8, 2007
Skyline by Musely, another fine contributor to the Seattlest Flickr Pool. Don't know about you, but we hear the drum/synth-heavy Miami Vice opening. Cue the pastels, bikinis and sunblock; it's nearly summer. Thanks for sharing!......
Continue Reading "Seattlest Pix: 07May08"April 29, 2007
Nowhere is racial bigotry more starkly communicated than during coverage of the NFL draft. If you're interested in the race of a recently-drafted player, you don't need to glance up to look at the guy's photo. No, just listen to the commentators: White draftees are "lunchpail guys" who have "motors that won't quit." Black players are "natural athletes" with "character issues." Then we move on to the narration of the game film where we......
Continue Reading "Seahawks Draft Two Lunchpail Guys, Five Natural Athletes, and a #DIV/0"March 20, 2007
MUSICALS: Camelot opens with previews tonight--the barely-recognizable celebrity they've pressganged into the production is Michael York, who you know from Austin Powers. 7:30pm // 5th Avenue Theatre // $20-63 BOOKS: Speaking of barely-recognizable celebrities, ex-MASH star Mike Farrell reads tonight from his memoir Just Call Me Mike: A Journey from Actor to Activist--it's a sequel to his disappointing first memoir, The Name Is *Mister* Farrell, You Disgusting Little Toad: A Journey from Actor to Activist......
Continue Reading "Get Out"March 15, 2007
No, we can't root for the Huskies, but there are plenty of former kids who a few short years ago were playing in front of sparse crowds at some smelly high school gym, but in the next two days will play ball on a national stage: Thursday --Mitch Johnson (O'Dea) of Stanford, vs. Terrance Williams (Rainier Beach) of Louisville, 9:40am --Micah Downs (Juanita) of Gonzaga vs. Indiana, 6:45pm Friday --Marcelus Kemp (Garfield) and Lyndale Burleson......
Continue Reading "Local Boys in the NCAAs"February 8, 2007
Boys: Successful, happy and wealthy In Miami playing for the Heat Still lovin' the game A sports agent working with an NBA team Out of college, preparing to be a sports broadcaster Successful In the NBA A man with a Ferrari Living like I want to A professional athlete A sports agent of playing pro ball somewhere in the world Rich Girls: Successful and married Happy Alive In medical school In a different country Successful......
Continue Reading "Ballard High Basketball Players' Responses to the Prompt "In 10 Years I Would Like to Be...""January 30, 2007
If you've got a MySpace page, or don't have any qualms about "borrowing" someone else's, you can catch a free screening of Reno 911!: Miami tonight at 7pm at Pacific Place. Reno 911!: Miami will be showing at theaters in Boston, Phoenix, and Seattle on Tuesday January 30th as part of MySpace’s Black Carpet Screening series. If you’re in any of those cities, you only need to print out your MySpace profile, get in your......
Continue Reading "Free Screening of Reno 911! Movie Tonight "January 21, 2007
Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into......
Continue Reading "Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse"January 17, 2007
If you're in the mood for some wide-eyed, Kool-Aid stained boosterism, look no further than this article in today's P-I. It's in response to the New York Times piece announcing a condo-sales slump. The tone is strictly "move along, nothing to see here." It begins: Seattle's market was not to blame for a recent decision to change a planned 34-story downtown building from condominiums to apartments. Rather, the slumping condo markets in cities such......
Continue Reading ""We're Unsinkable!": Local Newspaper Downplays Nationwide Condo Slump"November 27, 2006
Expect an email from your aunt in Jersey, as Seattle's in the New York Times today: For all the fame of the rain in this soggy city, conversations about climate often lead to local defensiveness: Seattle, which averages about 38 inches of rain annually, is far from the country’s wettest big city. Atlanta, Boston, Houston, Miami and New York are just some of the others that get more rain. And then a bunch more of......
Continue Reading "New York Times Reports That It Rains a Lot Here"September 5, 2006
The 1985 Orange Bowl between UW and Oklahoma is one of Seattlest's earliest memories. After Dad told us to stop fidgeting (we were real nervous) we sat our 8-year-old butt in a chair, by the 17-inch Sony Trinitron, and watched the flickering images of a titanic Husky upset beam back from Miami. We were too young to know that we were watching genius at work. With Coach Don James' game plan, the Huskies ran for......
Continue Reading "UW vs. Oklahoma: "By Saturday, I'd learned a thing or two.""August 21, 2006
Former Washington Husky offensive lineman Bob Sapp is best-known around these parts falling down--falling down on QB Damon Huard's goal line fumble, for a touchdown, in the 1994 "Whammy in Miami," when the Dawgs snapped the 'Canes 58-game home winning streak. Now, Sapp makes other people fall down, in Asia, as a novelty mixed-martial arts fighter. Here's video of Sapp beating on people, along with a rather discomfiting comparison to the animal world.......
Continue Reading "Bob Sapp Legally Obliterates People"August 6, 2006
Even as the stores sport back to school sales (which depress us, even now), summer lingers on your friends the -ists. This week's collection of links provides some of the best, worst, and oddest bits of summer fun. So, bring your laptop up onto the roof, make yourself an umbrella drink or ten, and enjoy this week's choice posts from across the Gothamist network. Torontoist (where it's 75 degrees F as of this writing)......
Continue Reading "Elsewhere In The Ist-a-verse"July 2, 2006
Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddy for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bids Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has some suggestions to fix that. They're also throwing Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash. Yeah, we may have a few issues with our World Cup broadcasters here, but this guy......
Continue Reading "Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse"June 25, 2006
Sampaist is on the scene in São Paulo beginning this week to become the only ist south of the Equator. Editor Leandro M. Pinto leads the paulistanos down there. You can protest someone at his office, sure, but when the whistle blows at the end of the day can you follow him home? D.C. has sports fans, apparently, and elephants aren't really cut out for zoos. There's this trick where you can read information from......
Continue Reading "Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse"June 21, 2006
Not many Seattle sports icons can call themselves champions. Mandatory All-Star participants, yes. Champions, no. Last night Gary Payton, the greatest Sonic of all-time, won himself a ring with the Miami Heat. Besides the obvious, he joins Randy Johnson and…(wow), no one else, as a larger than life 206 athlete who achieved sport's ultimate honor. In February of 2003, Payton's time in Seattle came to an end when he was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks......
Continue Reading "A Ring for the Glove"June 18, 2006
San Francisco is proud host of a new reality show called "How to Get the Guy" that's unfortunately not a descendant of Will and Grace, Queer Eye, The L Word, American Idol etc. Also a biodefence lab is coming to the East Bay and SFist teaches wine pairing. Getting on the wrong train sucks. Getting on the wrong train and becoming the victim of what will later be described as a "stabbing spree" really sucks.......
Continue Reading "Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse"June 11, 2006
LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where do ist editors go when they hang up the 'editorial we'? They take on MySpace, apparently. At least Ben Brown does. Austinist reminds of the just rewards of less savory careers this week and then they witness the Arctic Monkeys and We Are......
Continue Reading "Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse"May 21, 2006
LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They're biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That's right, Mapquest says "Houston had the......
Continue Reading "Elswhere In Ist"May 15, 2006
The middle of the year is approaching, so we think it's fair to give you an update on the folks we listed as creating some of the best tracks to come out of the area last year. For those of you who missed out the first time, here's a second chance to hear what the Pac NW is putting out into the world. Suntzu Sound - Tickles SunTzu Sound is building on their momentum in......
Continue Reading "Re-visiting Seattlest's Best of 2005"April 23, 2006
SFist commeters pose for before and aftershocks when the mayor commemorates a 1906 earthquake...at 4:30 in the morning. A hot tip on the Chronicle vending machines comes in and the SFist war correspondent risks life and limb to post this dispatch from the frontlines. Houstonist announces their new Cops spinoff "World's Funniest Tazer Videos" and the possible cancellation of their pervs' "World's Grossest Bathroom Videos" and PBS trains cams on cows at, uhg, Mootube. Also,......
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