Seattlest will be counting down to 2011 with a series of posts on our highlights of this year and what we're looking forward to in the next. Got a list to suggest? Send it our way. See the entire series here. more ›

Will you kids please, please sit sill and eat your goddamn carrots and not try to kill each other? Can I not leave town for five effing minutes without the house burning down? Here I am in Nice, on the French Riviera, in a freaking thunderstorm, and I get word that Christina's, the restaurant that put Orcas Island on the map, food-wise, is gone for good. Damn! more ›

Forget what everybody's saying for a second and remember that driving a car still can be fun. Open country roads, bright-shining sun, no cops in sight--there isn’t a replacement for this experience. Gas be damned. more ›

Thanksgiving doesn't allow for us Seattlesters to partake in our usual rock and roll lifestyles. Instead it's friends and family and mellow times about the house. Our drinking's liable to be more restrained and coordinated with a heavy meal of rich food. (Seattlest Geoff offered some choice beer recommendations earlier this week for those who've got a pit-stop planned on the way to grandmother's house tomorrow.) And according to the weather report, it's going to be cold but clear tomorrow, with morning to afternoon sunshine to make that drive a little more pleasant. more ›

8pm // Neumo's // $20. 21+ more ›

What with all the tear gas, video crews, and Subcomandante Marcos imitators in Seattle in 1999 for the WTO protests, Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper’s resignation seemed a bit anticlimactic. It was ironic (but not deliciously) that “Chief Moonbeam” oversaw SPD’s flirtation with jackbooted riot-gear finery. Previously, the San Diego transplant had been criticized by–-what’s the word? Neofascists?--for speaking out of school about police brutality and for his cultural inclusiveness. more ›