Can you walk? Are you skinny, and can you pose your body in bizarre ways that come across as really sexy and alluring in photographs? Then maybe head out to the Doubletree Guest Suites Seattle Airport/Southcenter next Thursday, Aug. 12, and get your ANTM face on. All interested models should show up camera-ready. This isn't Seattlest's Next Top Model, it's America's Next Top Model. Last year, there were 600 women at the audition, so you're......

Someone buy one or several of the supposedly many 747 hulls that are about to come on the market and drop them in Seattle somewhere, please. Seriously, there is a dire need. One, they're cheap and you've got a bunch of software money to burn. It'll be like recognizing the old masters, but, you know, demeaning them at the same time...like when you bought your old man a house and then attached all those crazy......

"You're lucky to have Bumbershoot," remarked comedian Michael Ian Black the other night. "There are a lot of music festivals, but this is an arts and music festival. You get both." He paused. "You get both." Everybody laughed. Why? That is one thing we did not learn at Bumbershoot. We did learn that while, really, all carnivals are human-powered, some are more human-powered than others. Cyclecide's assortment of pedal-powered rides had lines all day, and......

Last night Robert H. Frank, the author of 'The Economic Naturalist' and a professor of Economics from Cornell University, spoke at the University Bookstore about his new book 'The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas. You may, if you are widely-blog-read, recognize his name from recent excerpts posted to the Freakonomics blog. The Economic Naturalist purports to examine the world's quandries using economic principles by analogy to field biology. The challenge is......

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......

All of the worst ideas in the history of the world come out of of undergrad business classes. Remember "Bumvertising?" UW School of Business. That's up there with the XFL as far as bad ideas go. As business class projects go, though, a "Girls of UW" calendar doesn't seem particularly bad at first. It's kind of a guaranteed winner, even--It'll sell in spite of you and if you can get free models you'll profit. There......

Sightline's Eric de Place celebrated his own private Kyoto on Friday by congratulating the region for their collective environmental work. British Columbia, which has been slow to catch up with even the rest of Canada, has finally been pushed in the right direction by the Prime Minister's recent green initiative talk. Oregon's governor Ted Kulongoski has recently said that he wants the state to become the "clean energy capital of the nation" and released an......

In non-holiday tree related Port news, all of the Seattle-Tacoma International Taxicab Association (STITA) taxis will run on compressed natural gas by this summer (the press release says "Aug. 31, 2006" but we're guessing they meant 2007). In fact all of the sedan-style STITA cabs already burn natural gas. The Port had to hunt around for sedans that use the alternative fuel, and purchased a bunch from California fleets that were retiring the cars. Ford......

That was the clear message at Benaroya Hall last night, where New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert presented a sampling of the climate change research she covers in her much-lauded book (Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change), and then joined a few colleagues on-stage for a panel discussion. Touching on a few of the main locations and research findings from her book, the punchline is a real punch in the gut, or......

Whenever we see one of those rubber county tubes in the street we're tempted to drive around the block like seventy times just so we drive over it again and again. We want our voice counted. Many, many times apparently. We want to send the message to someone, "Hey, there's people driving here and the flashing yellow at the end of this street is not cutting it." Erica Barnett has a story about these......

If you've been on the waiting list for a Toyota Prius hybrid for as long as popular mythology would have us believe, you'll be pissed off to know where your car is. The state of Washington bought it out from under you and plastered livery stickers all over it. In 2006 the state's agencies bought 222 Priuses (Priuii?) and 206 Ford Escape hybrids, making this year the first in which the state has purchased......

Town Hall - All the Thrill of Cable Access, Live! (TM). In Seattle, this is actually a draw. Maybe it's also due to their PBS-minded Upstairs Downstairs set-up. Last night the upstairs was jammed with 800 perspiring Albrightists, ready to hear her declaim on the prospects for faith-based political strategery (we believe this is related to the President's plan to hold Condi over his head during battle, to bring the sun to a stop in......

If you are afraid of fast cars (Tracy Chapman) or of movie characters existing in reality (Tom Cruise), then don't go downtown today. Because two characters from the upcoming Pixar film Cars---sotto voce: in theaters everywhere June 9th---are making an appearance at Westlake, as real-life cars. Life size models of hotshot rookie racecar Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) and Sally Carrera, a snazzy 2002 Porsche 911 (voiced by Bonnie Hunt) will be on display......

What we wanted: a wagon. Preferably stick shift, but automatic would be OK. Remote door locks, air conditioning, leather seats (kids -- we prefer fabric, but we hear leather's much easier to clean), a CD player. We don't need lots of gadgets, but we'd play with 'em if we got 'em. Models we liked: Subaru Outback, Mazda 6, Volkswagen Passat, Saab 9-5, Volvo V70. Maybe the Toyota Matrix. Definite nos: Not white -- an ugly......

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,......

The last few months have seen a few changes in the "house music nation." Here's your update, in case you haven't been keeping up. - Flammable's tireless curator, Brian Lyons, has skipped town to LA. The Sunday house music night, commonly referred to as "church," continues however, under the watchful eyes of Wesley Holmes and DJ Graham. Brian isn't gone for good, but is down in LA for the next 6 months for work, planning......

The only reason we’re mentioning Stupid Prices is because we love its irresistibly ridiculous name. But as long as we’re on the subject... Stupid Prices is a local chain of liquidation outlets, selling all manner of merchandise dumped off by big retail stores. The first of its nine no-frills Western Washington stores -- including Woodinville’s Stupid Furniture -- opened in Federal Way in 2003. Stupid Prices has since become a favorite of thrift-minded bargain-hunters, with......

Feeling lucky? The Super Bowl's the time to enlarge your wallet by beating the bookmakers. You can bet on practically anything about the game. To wit: Who will be the first offensive lineman called for a holding penalty? The Hawks' Sean Locklear is the favorite, at 11/2. What player will have the longest single reception in the game? Darrell Jackson is the favorite, at 7/2, but the value bet is Joe Jurevicius at 8/1. Who......

Shopping for cartophiles this holiday season? We suggest a visit to any one of Seattle’s swell map stores. Of course, maps primarily serve a practical, navigational purpose, but one needn’t be map-literate to dig them as works of art. This is no more apparent than at Metsker Maps, ground zero of Seattle mapperies. Metsker sells all kinds (physical or political, terrestrial or nautical, contemporary or historical), in all shapes (flat, bas-relief, spherical), and in all......

Seattlest (like much of Seattle) likes to ignore the Viaduct's continued existence. Sure, we're as happy as anyone to propound our right-thinking solution to a disinterested audience, but the weather's been very nice. We've had other things on our plate. So a hearty thanks to the People's Waterfront Coalition for reminding us the sagging concrete monstrosity is still there. They're feeling chipper these days because, as they say in their email: If the gas tax......

Our right to elect a violent, delusional felon to the mayoralty of Seattle is in jeopardy. If you care about freedom, read on. King County, the Seattle Times, and probably the high priests of the Bilderberg Conference are conspiring to keep local insane person Omari Tahir-Garrett out of the mayor's race. Why? Because his form of political protest makes the Man uneasy. In 2001, Tahir-Garrett expressed his political views with ACTION--by sneaking up on......

Modern technology, the personal computer and the internet exist to Save the Earth, right? Yes, there are some peripheral goals like making people loads and loads of money, but ultimately it's to Save the Earth. Hopefully. Whether it's working or not or even has a chance at success is debatable, sure, but is really beside the point. Technology is what people do, so, you know - When all you have is a hammer... If the......

As previously alluded to, Seattlest is unabashed in our love for television. We tend to gravitate toward the good stuff, but we are by no means too highbrow to watch reality TV. Case(s) in point: the gloriously addictive trainwrecks known as Surreal Life 5 and Being Bobby Brown. For us, the viewing of such apocalypse-heralding fare is merely a spectator sport; that is to say, we've got no aspirations to be the castmember who actively......

Seattlest drives by 2200 Denny Way every day and is anxiously anticipating the grand new structure with a Whole Foods and other retail shops that the neighborhood desperately needs. We have noticed the little modern structure across the street that seemed to have sprung up overnight. It’s large windows glow mysteriously at night. Turns out it is Paul Allen’s Vulcan Discovery Center where you can both purchase a condo or view the models of plans......

Whether via tampon purchasing or virtual human neutering, this week's Grey's Anatomy was all about the gentle art of emasculation. Well, emasculation but also half-naked chicks. So it kind of all balanced itself out in the end. Ready to recap? Let's begin. Naturally, the episode begins with more Seattle geography for the insane, and in a nice continuity switch-up, we're also told it's 4:30 am. Not sure why we're suddenly privy to the good doctors'......

Rod Stewart is performing at the Key Arena tomorrow evening. This is Rod Stewart, people. Sure he may be old and might not have released an interesting album since the early Reagan years, but talk about sex appeal! His walker alone could attract more models than all of the Strokes combined. He's touring in support of his latest collection of standards that we think is dreamy. There are plenty of tickets available on craigslist.......

New means of communication have always ushered in radical changes in our societal structure. The internet, the television, and the telephone have irrevocably changed our day-to-day existence. The latest communication method our society will have to prepare for is TyraMail. What is TyraMail, you ask. Is it some super-fast, spam-free, ultra-secure tool? Well frankly, no. It's the name for the notes super model Tyra Banks sends to the contestants in episodes of America's Next Top......