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This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer's market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs. more ›

Taking the bus tunnel in to work this morning was pretty cool. Our commute was probably all of four minutes shorter than it's been for the past two years while the tunnel's been closed, but we got to walk a little more and we enjoyed the validity that the undergroundness of it brought to our home>to>work experience (that part might be the Chicago talking...it ain't a commute if you're not underground). more ›

On Friday while walking to work downtown, we saw a motorcycle cop at an intersection on southbound 3rd Ave waiting to turn. He had to wait for the northbound bus to pass, which was running a yellow light. He waited and the bus was still rolling by when the light turned red. The cop was in a hurry since he was turning on a red light, which is probably illegal (who knows?), and so he didn't have time to notice the pedestrian who had started crossing the street during the last seconds when the light was still yellow, as she was obscured by the bus. He almost ran over her, but he swerved and braked and just barely avoided the collision. He looked pissed. Then he started yelling something and turned on his red and blue cop lights. We're pretty sure he ticketed her for jaywalking but we didn't stick around to find out. more ›

No Dawgs in the tourney this year and no Seattlest bracket to fill out, but apparently they're going to play the thing anyway and we're inviting you to avoid the office for as long as possible with us on Friday at Spitfire. Come first thing in the morning. Come for a long lunch (I'll probably do this). Skip out early and show up at 3 (or this). We'll be there, or, at least Seattlest Seth will and our drink specials still hold even when he gets mad about something and tries to cancel them: more ›

On Friday, December 29th at 10am, KEXP will begin counting down the top 90.3 albums of 2006 (does that mean 90 good albums plus one only a third of which is any good? We don't know). In the meantime, until December 26th you and everyone you know can vote for your own top five albums of the year. more ›

We are wrong a lot, and on Saturday evening it was a great feeling to have this fact proven once again. more ›

The Hugo House is running an inquiry into that most terrible and divisive of subjects: childhood. more ›

A week ago Friday, Seattlest arrived at work to discover that our '93 Mazda 626's engine was pouring out more white smoke than a '40s film noir. We dropped it off at the nearest repair place and awaited the bad news: we'd sprung a coolant leak and blown a headgasket. At 192,000 miles, the engine had died. more ›

This week's weather was beautiful, enough to justify Seattlest's first bbq of the year. But it's going to be a wet weekend, according to KOMO-TV's Scott Sistek. How will Seattlest keep dry? Read on... more ›

Snip! Fluttering to the cutting room floor is Bumbershoot's Friday. The festival announced yesterday that they'll be scaling back this year to three arts-filled days instead of their traditional four. Bumbershoot will be on Saturday, Sunday and Monday of Labor Day 2006. more ›

AMF Imperial Lanes in Rainier Valley is the next stop on the Seattlest bowling tour. more ›

On Friday the City Council capped off a busy week by appointing Sally Clark as Jim Compton's replacement. more ›

Hey, Seattlest, what are you doing this weekend? more ›

Not sure what to do this weekend? Seattlest can help. Here's our weekly rundown of what we'll be doing during our days of rest. more ›

On Friday, Issaquah High pulled off its second earth-shattering upset of the year, defeating Bellevue High's nationally-ranked football team. more ›

On Friday night Seattlest caught the Washington Ensemble Theatre's production of Crave. Not to be confused with one of our favorite restaurants in town, this play is the handicraft of Sarah Kane, a brilliant, troubled artist who spat out five intense and violent works before hanging herself at age 28. The marketing we've seen for the play would like you to think that the play is "sexy and brutal." Make no mistake---this play is definitely brutal, but focusing on the topic of sex does not automatically make something sexy. Crave is certainly anything but. more ›

On Friday night a Bothell woman attempted to quit this mortal coil by steering her car down a Bellevue pier and plunging into the not-so-frigid waters of Lake Washington. Bellevue cops who had been tipped off by her ex-husband where on hand to haul the woman from her car via an open window shortly after splashdown. more ›

From time to time we suck at Seattlest. It's not often, but it does happen. On Friday, for example, we sucked. When talking about The Stranger we confused two separate incidents that have nothing in common except that they both involved Seattle police mistreating young black males in front of Seattle nightspots (1, 2). That's terrible of us and we apologize. Misspelling the names of Stranger writers is not cool either. We also reported not one, but two events as if they were taking place this past weekend when they are actually still in the future. That's great if you wanted to attend but thought you missed them, but not so great if you care about things like accurate reporting. more ›

Guru of Gang Starr fame is dropping by Chop Suey this evening. If there was any justice in this world Guru would be selling out the Key Arena (admittedly awkward if the Sonics happened to be playing there at the same time). Gang Starr had some of the most thoughtful lyrics around and they really did a lot to redefine the limits to hip-hop. Since he's not selling out Key Arena, we can at least enjoy him within the intimate confines of Chop Suey. more ›

If you are at all interested in digital media, copyright, technology, and your rights online, you are probably following the Metro Goldwyn Mayer, et al., v. Grokster case currently being tried by the Supreme Court. The essential nuts and bolts of this case is whether or not software creators can be held liable if their technology can be used to perpetrate copyright violations. The case is also a discussion of the famed Betamax case that allows people to make copies of media for their fair use. more ›

Sure, Modest Mouse is sold out. Bob Dylan is sold out (though for the life of us we can't understand why). If you are, however, looking for live music this evening, your best bet is KRS-One at Chop Suey. He was a member of the legendary Boogie Down Productions, which despite its embarrassing name was one of the most important hip-hop bands of the 80s (you know, the decade that VH1 likes to have shows about). He is a master of thoughtful and substanative rhymes about politics, race and culture. Really, he is the "anti-Nelly," and we can think of no better endorsement of a musician out there then being the "anti-Nelly." more ›

About a year ago, Seattlest was at a dinner party where we struck up a conversation with the attorney seated next to us. We chatted pleasantly for awhile and eventually we asked him where he worked. He replied that he worked for Interpol. We got very excited since their debut album Turn on the Bright Lights had us annoying our co-workers and fellow commuters for months with our attempts to sing along. We felt a little stupid when it turned out he worked for the real Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization), though in our defense we had been drinking. On Friday, catch our beloved Interpol at the Paramount when they come to rock the house with their oh-so stylish ways. more ›