(This week we bring you the second part of Rich's adventures in Belgium. You can read the first here) more ›

Fashionistas, alert! Neodandi House of Couture, which opened its doors this August in Pioneer Square, will be hosting their debut fashion event Saturday, December 5. Off The Wall: A Neodandi Fashion Opera, a tribute to Michael Jackson’s life and unique style, promises "an eclectic evening of Michael Jackson inspired music, dancing and fashion collections for men and women, chronicling the famous entertainer’s career." more ›

After a flurry of demonstrated community concern, the sale of the Capitol Hill OddFellows building to developer Ted Schroth was finalized in January of 2008, and his company seemed to want to put the whole uncomfortable matter behind them when touting the glorious financial potential of the space:

"The OddFellows Building presented us with an incredible opportunity to restore one of the neighborhood's most cherished icons," said Ted Schroth, the project's developer. "It has been an exciting and rewarding project to be a part of, and we are very excited about the tenants who have already chosen to make the building their home. We are looking forward to finding the right mix of remaining retail and office tenants to share in this remarkable piece of history."

Odds are there will be thousands of Michael Jacksons crawling the streets this Halloween, so do yourself a favor and up the ante by actually learning some of Jackson's most recognizable choreography, gleaned straight from his music videos. The folks over at Century Ballroom dance studio are teaching a four-week Michael Jackson Tribute class series, covering the moves from Jackson's "Beat It," "The Way You Make Me Feel," "Bad" and "Thriller." (Overachievers: learn how some of the choreography was conceived by listening to NPR's interview with Jeffrey Daniel, who worked with Jackson on the "Bad" and "Smooth Criminal" videos.) more ›

Phew! What a day! more ›

• For the fans who missed out on the Michael Jackson memorial, tonight at 8:00, a music video medley and tribute will be shown celebrating the King of Pop at the Northwest Film Forum. Online tickets are sold out, but there should be still a few available at the door.
• Photos have surfaced from the Fisher Building fire and power outage that knocked out KOMO, Bing Travel, and even Allrecipes.com right before the big holiday weekend. We can only imagine the panicked and pissed off home cooks without their Fourth of July recipes.

It was thirteen days ago Seattle and the rest of the world learned about the passing of one of the most iconic entertainers, Michael Jackson. And since then we've been on serious MJ overload. Now in a fitting final star-studded tribute, the King of Pop's memorial service will take place today in Los Angeles. The event itself, planned to attract millions worldwide will also be broadcasting here in Seattle at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum's JBL Theater from 10-11:30 a.m., which will be free for fans to come watch and pay their final respects. more ›

Pike Place Market today. more ›

• Nothing brings out the masses quite like a weekend full of full throttle, glittery, sweaty, and crazy fun events including Seattle Pride Parade, Rock 'n' Roll Marathon, and the Greenwood Car Show.
• Whatever happened to childproof locks? Friday evening a 4-year-old girl in Tacoma decided to open the door of the family minivan while her mom was driving. The young girl fell out and was run over by the back tires, later treated with non-life-threatening injuries.
• On Sunday 1,000 people gathered to moonwalk together on Jackson Street in Union Station paying tribute to Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop."

None of Michael Jackson's solo tours stopped in Seattle. The closest he came was the 1984 Victory Tour, which played three dates at BC Place. more ›

Via the ex-Soundgarden frontman's Twitter: "Driving from Poland to Berlin. Just heard Michael Jackson died. Makes me sad. I remember the Jackson 5 on a black and white tv. He had magic!" more ›

• It took about an hour for the story to go from TMZ rumor to official news, but yes, Michael Jackson died this afternoon, at the age of 50. RIP to The King of Pop, and sorry you got overshadowed, Farrah. LAist coverage here.
• The missing lady who forgot to take her bipolar meds and left her car on the Seattle-bound ferry was finally found hitchhiking up near Lake Forest Park.
• Get ready to experience the power of the pipes, 4,000 organ pipes to be exact, this Sunday as Seattle hosts the American Guild of Organists convention. Sunday's opening performance will put famed organist Douglas Cleveland behind the keys of Seattle's St. James Cathedral's organ.

As is all over the news, Michael Jackson died earlier this afternoon. Seattle's legendary Quincy Jones says goodbye to Michael in this statement: "I am absolutely devastated at this tragic and unexpected news. For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at such a young age, I just don't have the words. Divinity brought our souls together on The Wiz and allowed us to do what we were able to throughout the 80s. To this day, the music we created together on Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad is played in every corner of the world and the reason for that is because he had it all--talent, grace, professionalism and dedication. He was the consummate entertainer and his contributions and legacy will be felt upon the world forever. I've lost my little brother today, and part of my soul has gone with him." more ›

Writer/director Harmony Korine (Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy) is not for everyone. But enough people in Seattle are for him that last night's 9:15 p.m. showing of latest film Mister Lonely had the little theater at the Northwest Film Forum completely packed, and now the film's run has been extended another week (through May 29th). more ›

So, you think you have been to a beer festival before? Maybe you went to Fremont Oktoberfest , or maybe you even went to the Seattle International Beer Fest this summer. If you really want to go to a beer festival, get yourself to Denver in 10 days. more ›

Last week was a bad one for pioneers and philosophers of our favorite beverages. On Thursday, beer (and liquor) guru Michael Jackson passed away at 65. A day earlier, Alfred Peet, founder of Peet’s Coffee, died in his Ashland, Oregon home. He was 87. more ›

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No, Seattlest didn't quite make it to everything on the checklist we created last Friday, but we did manage to stay out past midnight on both weekend evenings, proving we've still got it after all. more ›

OK, perhaps there weren't a million people at Neumo's on Saturday night, but the turnout for the Buttrock Suites was downright impressive. Replete with live band, the Suites was a smörgåsbord of guilty-pleasure rock, sexy swagger, and manic modern dance madness that threw the first punch and kept swinging all night long. The energy was a bit low when we arrived towards the end of the readings, but it did not stay down once the band took the stage. There were mullet wigs and torn jeans and bandannas and pleather pants, and did we know that Rhett Miller had nice pipes? Yes, he does. However, the prolific singer was in fact Rick Miller, and apparently the mistake we just made happens far to often to good old Rick (thanks for dropping us a line, Rick, and for John Galt's comment). The important point is: Rick Miller had buttrock-worthy pipes that could easily handle a range from Steve Perry to Klaus Meine, and he had Seattlest wrapped around his pinky (current Rick info, including his bluegrass predilections, is on the Buttrock Suites MySpace page). more ›

It seems that it's always about day two of the fest that we really fall in love with this place---the overheard intense discussions of films, the industry gossip, the random interactions with individuals you will never see again, and all that swag just ripe for the taking---really, these are a few of our favorite things. more ›

It's the end of an era. Check out the standings list below and you'll see "Hüsker Don't," as you might expect -- but you'll see them in third place. Ever-renamed team State of the Onion played Nancy Zerg to HD's Ken Jennings, as did comeback kids Thaiku Hookers, who took second place. more ›

Jagshemash! more ›

Seattlest has a new line of thinking on the stasis-problem exhibited by Seattle showgoers. Our new theory is that Seattle crowds aren't actually as lame as we once thought, they just have a lot of inertia. It takes a lot to get them going, but once they are, the new problem is getting them to stop. We thank The Rapture for giving us the inspiration for this new thinking, as Monday's performance and afterparty were truly eye-opening. more ›

Local dance collaborative locust debuted the world premiere of their new dance-video-music mashup "Mockumentary" at On the Boards last night, and it was one of the most intriguing, beautiful, dark, and thoroughly enjoyable performances that we've been to in a very long time. more ›

Okay, okay, you have empathy fatigue or some bullshit like that and you don't want to even hear it anymore. You gave! We know! Don't even mention the word "benefit" in your presence or you're likely to go off on some compassionate conservative rant right here. So, we won't. We won't say that Guilty Pleasures at the Sunset tonight is a benefit. more ›

Something happened this weekend. The last time it happened, Saddam Hussein was a free man, Michael Jackson's biggest legal problem was an expired chimpanzee license, and Franz Ferdinand was best known for sparking a war that resulted in nine million deaths, not as a hipster band. more ›

One of our favorite MC's, Aesop Rock, is playing at the Showbox tomorrow night. We like him mainly because he has a great seesaw-type delivery and occasionally drops references to comic books. We like to think he is the MC we would have become if we had actual talent and didn't grow up in a small town in Pennsylvania. more ›

Evidently, the Husky football team's 1-10 season caused many fans to cancel their season tickets. So for the first time in Seattlest's memory (which stretches back to the Michael Jackson days), the Huskies are offering reserved ticket game plans. more ›

Seattle has its own flavor. It's an American city, sure, but it's its own city, with obsessions, neuroses, and pathologies that are uniquely Seattle in character. Seattlest loves that about Seattle. There are some personalities that have gained national prominence that are either from this city or not but are seen to have characteristics that personify the city. Michael Jackson is not one of those people. Regardless of how many times The Stranger puts him on the cover or however many column inches they devote to him, Seattle will never be a MJ town. Thankfully. So Stranger, please, stop. Enough with the King of Pop. We stopped caring years ago. He stopped being relevant to American culture years ago. Despite that, we are still awash in national coverage and the last thing we need is another cover story by one of the alternative weeklies on Michael f'ing Jackson. more ›