Saturday night, a cool fifty degrees downtown. Parked on Western. Climbed the stairs to the market. Crossed the street at 1st & Pike. Something special in the air -- we could feel it. The Long Winters were finally back home in Seattle after a long tour of the U.S. and Europe and would be playing our favorite venue, the Showbox. Spacious yet intimate, stylish but not too hoity-toity -- we like the Showbox because we......

Factory by Michael A. Goldberg. From the Seattlest Flickr group. Thanks for sharing!......

The Seattle-based U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy arrived at the North Pole on Monday as a part of an international scientific mission. The 420' Healy is accompanied by the Swedish icebreaker Oden and together the ships are offically set to conduct sea floor mapping and ice coring exercises, but if you believe that's their only mission than Seattlest needs to clue you into the military significance of the S. Claus Northern Compound. We're just......