On Saturday night, we took one of our oldest and best friends to her very first hiphop show over at the Sunset in Ballard. She's typically more of a KT Tunstall/Garden State soundtrack kind of girl, and we had to bribe her with $2 mojitos at La Isla's late Happy Hour to get her to even leave the house after 9pm. Her feedback after three hours of Elefaders (trippy), N/NW (loud) and dj100proof's mixes?......

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. Seahawks vs Pulled Hogette Sandwiches Preview On Friday night we were continually awoken by the......

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). It looks exactly the......

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......

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......

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. Seattlest Jack voted and as difficult as it was, here's his top five: 1. Neko Case -......

We are wrong a lot, and on Saturday evening it was a great feeling to have this fact proven once again. Last week we picked the beloved Huskies to lose the Apple Cup; however, we forgot that they would be playing the Cougars, which means that even a crappy U-Dub team has a very good chance at a win. As Emmett Watson pointed out in his Friday column, the Cougars have only won 29 of......

The Hugo House is running an inquiry into that most terrible and divisive of subjects: childhood. On October 13th and 14th, they will feature a host of writers and speakers, all of whom share a few things in common: they write, speak, and they all had childhoods. Seattlest also had a childhood, several of them. In fact, we are in a bit of a childhood renaissance as we speak. We’ve found the adult world to......

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. We flirted with the idea of getting a rebuilt motor, but soon decided we'd rather have a car......

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... Ronald plans a weekend excursion to Snoqualmie to help a colleague move her office overseas and get his hands on various electronics that won't work where she's going. An ideal opportunity to try out Flexcar's new keycard system. Then home to......

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. We have a lot of complaints about Bumbershoot: It's crowded. There's too much to see. The beer gardens are too small and it took us the better part of an hour to buy......

AMF Imperial Lanes in Rainier Valley is the next stop on the Seattlest bowling tour. As the name implies, Imperial is an AMF franchise. “AMF Always Means Fun,” the slogan goes, though when the company began in 1900, AMF meant American Machinery & Foundry. The industrial-equipment manufacturer started developing the automatic pinspotter in the ‘30s and mass-producing them in the ’50s, along with bowling balls, pins and other equipment. AMF introduced automatic scoring in......

On Friday the City Council capped off a busy week by appointing Sally Clark as Jim Compton's replacement. Clark had been working at Lifelong AIDS Alliance when she, along with 102 others, applied for the position. There had been speculation that the council was looking to replace Compton with a minority candidate, making Clark, the only white finalist, something of a long shot. After early rounds of voting failed to produce a majority, Clark won......

Hey, Seattlest, what are you doing this weekend? Seth is coughing up a lung or two. Michael vB, filing from the Victrola cafe, is delighted for an excuse to spend even more time there tonight: Byron Schenkman, the virtuoso harpsichordist/pianist from Seattle Baroque Orchestra is celebrating Mozart's 250th Birthday by banging out some Mozart numbers on the upright from 8-10pm. Also the film Cache (Hidden) has opened at the Guild 45th and he'd sure like......

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. Out-of-town: James is visiting the fast-growing Phoenix suburb of Surprise, Arizona, where he's showing his beautiful baby daughter Simone off to assorted aunts, uncles, and grandparents. At some point, he'll take Simone to her very first Frank Lloyd Wright home: Taliesin West. In-town: Editor Dan intended to spend the weekend shopping,......

On Friday, Issaquah High pulled off its second earth-shattering upset of the year, defeating Bellevue High's nationally-ranked football team. What makes this such a big upset? Check out Bellevue's resume: --Four-time defending state champions --Winners of 30 consecutive games --Ranked 10th in the country by USA Today --Ranked 1st in the state by the Seattle Times This isn't the first time Issaquah's shocked the prep sports world. Earlier this year, they knocked Seattle Prep out......

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......

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. During a lengthy cell phone conversation between the woman and her ex that had him scouring the eastside......

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......

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......

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......

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 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......