Last night the Colorado Rockies won the National League pennant and removed themselves from the dreaded list of franchises that have never made it to the World Series. The four teams still on that list: Texas Rangers/Washington Senators, Washington Nationals/Montreal Expos, Tampa Bay Devil Rays/Tampa Bay Rays, and our home town nine, the Seattle Mariners. If it's any consolation of those four teams the Mariners have come the closest in the past twenty six......

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti......

BEE: Re-Bar's spelling bee is back after last month's finals. Seattle Weekly writer Gavin Borchert won last time around, spelling words like "festschrift," "cockalorum," and "samadhi" correctly. 7pm // Re-Bar // $5 BOOKS: A train crash sends a poison gas cloud drifiting towards Minot, North Dakota. Someone's got to warn the town, but calls to the offices of all six local radio stations went unanswered by Clear Channel's robot deejays. One died and thousands were......

SUPER BLOW: A bunch of big guys grabbing each other while wearing skin-tight clothes, with ass-slapping and Prince songs. No, it's not Comeback, its the goddamn SuperBowl. Sorry editor Dan, but we're rooting for the Colts. 3pm // Any couch or barstool will do // Free, but if you start drinking at 10am you'll pay the price by halftime ONE-SHOT MONOLOGUE: For Stories from the Atlantic Night Cafe, Mike Daisey creates his monologue an hour......

Three years ago, we all hoped for aging middle infielder Omar Vizquel to fail a physical so the M's wouldn't complete an agreed-upon deal for him. And our pleas were heard. Well, M's fans, break out your prayers to the patron saint of aged middle infielders failing physicals again, because we need another favor from him. Pending a physical, the M's are going to deal two good young prospects, Chris Snelling and Emiliano Fruto, for......

Seattlest got together with local rockers Young Sportsmen last night in their Bell Town practice space to discuss the finer points of incest, judo, and Webster’s Dictionary… Some have dubbed the Seattle music scene, "incestuous." Does that ring true at all, in terms of how the Young Sportsmen came to be? Jeff: Yes, most definitely. [Laughter] I’m sure you guys could elaborate on that… Ryan: Is there anything to really elaborate on? I mean I......

After Wired ran a story documenting the GoogleCenter of the United States a bunch of ists jumped on the opportunity to figure out their own middle. Gothamist, Chicagoist, Bostonist and Seattlest all zoomed in on their creamy GoogleCenters. A crack cartography team is hard at work determining the GoogleCenter of the Ist-a-verse as you read this... Austinist read a book about Olympian Bode Miller and liked it. They also took a few pictures of the......

Consider “The Other Washington”… Which one is it? Well, it’s a matter of perspective. For most of us Northwesterners, the phrase refers to our nation’s capitol, as in “those fat-cat politicos in the other Washington.” For much of the rest of the country, it refers to our fair state. (If memory serves, the tourism board had a slogan in the ‘80s, along the lines of “Visit America’s other Washington -- the state!”) This slight......