We know our name is Seattlest, but sometimes the best events take place outside of the Evergreen State. So this week, we're suggesting you clear your Saturday and take a much-needed day trip down the gorgeous Oregon Coast for the Wild Mushroom Festival in Lincoln City. more ›

MvB is off to SIFF Cinema for Preston Sturges' Depression-era fable, Sullivan's Travels, and then there's a going-away party for a friend on pilgrimage, held in the medieval pageantry of Canterbury's. more ›

We were very impressed by the great mobilization of Seaside, Oregon's Internet Defense Forces after our very first post about that town. Since then, we've had the pleasure to re-visit the place on several occasions, to eat at Herb's, and to exchange e-mails with residents. As a result, we have fallen deeper in love with both its charming small-town Americana as well as its gaudy tourism-pandering excesses. Seaside is the gold-standard and deliciously eponymous archetype of seaside towns, 'nuff sed. more ›