Sure, we've read his bestselling book, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child: The Heart of Parenting. Heck, we even own the DVD. But it wasn't until after last night's lecture at Town Hall, presented by Parent Map, that we could truly call ourselves John Gottman fans. He charmed the sold-out crowd with heartwarming anecdotes and stone-cold research, and by the time we left, we were better, calmer parents (or soon-to-be parents). Part local legend, part international......

Since there's a "Blogger Lounge" here at MacWorld, we figured we'd use it. What the hell. So we're at MacWorld and if you have a computer and/or are capable of reading, you've probably heard that Apple is pushing even more shiny things on the world and some of those shiny new things were announced on Tuesday. We didn't attend the keynote, but friends of ours who did described it as Oprah for geeks; with all......

Barack Obama's celebrity endorsement by Oprah Winfrey didn't go unnoticed by local Republicans. Never shy about borrowing strategy, they've recruited their own big name person--former Seahawk and Coug Robbie Tobeck. Tobeck is the putative author of a letter emailed this morning to supporters of Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi. He invokes some hoary football metaphors in an attempt to turn his football "celebrity" into cold hard campaign cash.As a former Seattle Seahawk and Washington State......

For a Presidential candidate—especially one who has recently surged in the polls—Barack Obama is kinda a rock star. So it makes sense that he'd host his latest Seattle appearance at a rock club. The Seattle Generation Obama Concert takes place Tuesday night at the Showbox SoDo. Obama will be there, doing his campaigning thing, along with special musical guests the Dusty 45s and (the still-reunited) Brad. Since Obama and company are going after the......

So we woke up with no intention of getting all Gloria Steinem on you early on a Sunday morning, but after searching for the tie that bound together our first day of Bumbershoot, we couldn't help but gloat that the women of Bumbershoot were kicking ass/taking names. We started our day with Decadance Theater, an all-female dance troupe who popped, locked, flipped and B-Girled their way through a history of hip-hop, stomping all over a......

The first rule of Seattlest Book Club is you have to read the book. The second rule of Seattlest Book Club is you have to read the book. It's a well-known fact that Seattlest idolizes Oprah. (Our editor-in-chief is from Chicago. What do you expect?) So we figure she's got a book club, we need a book club. Especially since we're America's most literate city. The deal is pretty simple. For March, we're going to......

--Sean Penn, book your hotel room now. --Our drunken taunting of Redmond High's boys basketball team: did it inspire them? --Elvis, your Portland State football tickets will be at will call next season. --More Stranger/Weekly warfare. --Grays Harbor College's nickname: Not really offensive, but not really nice. --Former Seahawk Isaiah Kacyvenski is on Oprah today, as part of their "Against All Odds" series. [Via Seahawks Insider]......

As fall settles in and another calendar page gets turned, thoughts turn from bbq's and vacations to holidays and the realization that '06 is coming to an end. With all that going on, with change in the air, we wonder what is it that made that makes the -ists ponder? Phillyist is concerned that the war on Trans fats could affect it's beloved cheese steak sandwiches, something for which we should all be concerned.......

Bummed by bumper-to-bumperdom, Seattlest recently jumped off I-5 and onto Route 99 for a journey north. Late for an appointment, we now had limited time for a much-needed snack. We wanted it quick, cheap, and crisp. Yes, we had a crispy craving (not to be confused with a Krispy Kreme). Aurora Avenue was serving up lots of Asian options, which ordinarily might have met much of our criteria. There were also many fast food joints......

They've sold music. They've sold movies. Now, Starbucks is adding a "third leg to the stool": books. But not, you know, good books. They're officially launching their "book strategy" with Mitch Albom's new novel, For One More Day. Per the PI: Albom's sentimental narratives are far from the Beat poetry traditionally associated with coffeehouse culture, and from CDs by Coldplay, Antigone Rising and others that Starbucks has sold. But Lombard said the author's new book,......

Seattlest is horribly distracted right now. Not only is our site acting a wee bit like Tom Cruise on Oprah’s couch (sorry about the paucity of posts, and comments may be down for a little while), but we’re getting married in a few weeks. OK, not all of Seattlest is, just this contributor and well, our esteemed editor Dan (huzzah!). But not to each other. Really. But we digress. We had a lot on our......

USA Today reveals that America's next would-be culture czar is already enthroned as (gulp) the nation's barrista baron. Little did Jerry Baldwin, Ziv Siegl and Gordon Bowker expect, when they sold their modestly successful coffee company to the determined guy they'd once hired to do their marketing, that he'd turn Starbucks into the world's most frequented brand. And yet, and yet. Not satisfied with the company's phenomenal growth, Howard Schultz wants to be even more......

[See the end of this post for contest information. Win a shirt!] On April 7th, Asia Argento's film "The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things" based on JT LeRoy's collection of short stories will open at the Varsity. Asia Argento may look familiar to American audiences--she has played roles in xXx and Land of the Dead and can be seen in Sofia Coppola's upcoming Marie-Antoinette. It seems like a disparate and sparse list of films,......

"Hey guys my name is vern. I am a Writer who is trying to go clean after a life of crime, alcohol, etc." Those are the first words that greet visitors to Then fuck you, jack: the Life and Art of vern, home of one of the few truly unique voices in online film commentary. Pale echoes of Roger Ebert and Pauline Kael are a dime a dozen. Funny, insightful, Bush-hating, grammatically challenged reviewers who......

-The Seattle Times finally deigned to soil its dainty hands with The Stranger's FSU story. -A man was a "victim in or a witness of" a hit-and-run event in Federal Way, followed the perps to their apartment and called police. And got stabbed for his troubles. Is this evidence of a 'Stop Snitching' program down south? -A Tom Cruise look-alike robbed a video store in Bothell today. Did this same Tom Cruise look-alike tell......

Turns out that a low-fat diet doesn't reduce your risk of getting cancer or heart disease. Thank you, thank you, thank you, medical science. Cheer over your spilled skim milk and then make haste to the following former danger zones: Cave Man Kitchens: Melt-in-your-mouth barbeque that's worth the drive to Kent. This is the very barbeque that the Chicago White Sox ate after clinching the 1983 AL West division crown at the Kingdome, and at......

Seattlest is home sick this afternoon. Bad. But, happily, we're able to watch disgraced "memoirist" James Frey lick Oprah's boots on KING 5. She's decided that she was wrong to defend him and confronts him directly about his apparently fictional A Million Little Pieces, live. She also brings on the book's editor, literary celebrity Nan Talese, who comes off as a total phony. She says that an "author's note" will explain what Frey made up,......

Seattlest loves it when huge local retailers start getting into what those in the content business call "the content business." You may remember reading our post about Starbucks and Hollywood recently. To paraphase ourselves we weren't very excited about it. Kind of ambivalent and not really expecting much from it. Amazon.com and Starbucks are two different creatures, though, and when we heard yesterday that Amazon would be launching a show of its own we were......

The American Lung Association recently released their "State of Tobacco Control" report cards and Washington did a lot of work buffing up our transcript. "A"s in Smoke Free Air and Cigarette Tax, a "B" in Tobacco Prevention and Control Spending and an unfortunate "C" in Youth Access. All in all it's not a report card we'll have to hide from mom until we can forge the "F"s into "B"s like we had to in grade......

Ryan Adams, the prolific bad-boy of alt country, is performing tonight and tomorrow at the Moore Theatre. Despite the fact that he once referred to his former girlfriend Parker Posey as his exe-'cute'-ive, we still have a soft spot in our heart for the guy. His songs are generally pretty good and if you ignore the fact that he releases approximately 14 albums a year, you are almost guaranteed to have a good time. Plus,......

If you're like Seattlest, the Academy Awards, like most award shows, can make you feel like the world has gone crazy. You're obligated to watch, or to care, at least to get through water-cooler conversation at work the next day. We usually haven't even seen most of the nominees for Best Picture, and if we have, then we know for a fact that the nominated The Aviator was ridiculous while the unnominated Hotel Rwanda......