This week, take a look at where and when to find some of 2011's finest stock, before we'll have a whole new year of crap to look forward to. more ›

If you're like me, you have a little brown box hidden somewhere deep in your closet full of every cell phone you've owned since before flip phones were even invented. This is a box of shame, and while your significant other likely hounds you relentlessly about throwing it out, you can't bear to part with that piece of American history. Am I right? more ›

Enjoy a little informal science with your beer this evening. Stop by the Queen Anne Science Cafe. more ›

Over the weekend, Man Man, City Arts Fest, Pacific Science Center Laser Dome and a grumpy parks department teamed up to bring you the chaotic live experience you never knew you wanted. more ›

Experimental rock group Man Man invades the Pacific Science Center Laser Dome this Saturday, promising high energy fun and mesmerizing visuals. more ›

Maybe you're a parent who's just moved to the Seattle area and wondering what the natives do when The Grim strikes again for the winter. Or maybe you've got young visitors coming into town, and you're not sure how to entertain them. Here are some of our favorite ways to celebrate autumn with the kiddos in Seattle. more ›

If you've never made it to Burning Man (because you know never to follow a hippie to a second location, or possibly because the idea of spending a weekend trapped in a sweltering expanse of badlands dressed in fake fur and feathers just isn't you bag), you may have missed the 26-foot Rubik's Cube by local artists' collective GroovLabs (who do make some pretty awesome stuff), which they installed at the event in 2009, presumably to confuse the dehydrated, peyote-eating masses. But don't worry--it's coming to the Pacific Science Center, just for you. more ›

The science center may not have a wealthy benefactor like MOHAI, but they're still being rewarded for the good work they do to instill in Seattle's future nerds a love of science. more ›

Space Needle Thru Window by Heath Ashli from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

From sour lemons to robots to Fantagraphics and Nepal—I’m pretty excited about lit events in Seattle this week. They may range from the absurd to the autobiographical, but that’s what makes this week so special. Happy week in lit to you all! more ›

Remember back when we reported on Pacific Science Center's incredible use of technology known as Laser Bieber? Those were such innocent times. Now, it appears as if PSC is looking to actually take over the world, one "Monster" at a time. Introducing Laser Gaga. more ›

Gunfire, vandalism and somewhat-buried treasure in the news today. Plus a look at some weekend weather that probably won't suck. more ›

BACK TO THE MOON!: Andrew Chaikin, author of “A Man on the Moon,” recounts his conversations with Aldrin, Armstrong and other Apollo astronauts and discusses the recent LCROSS moon mission. It’s been forty years since One Giant Leap and instead of lunar suburbs and sweet dune buggies, we’re intentionally crashing rockets into the moon’s surface. Sounds like something we’d do. more ›

Yes, yes, Seafair is this weekend, but if you are a parent of a gradeschooler, or a nerd, or both, then there is a much more important event. Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince is playing at the Pacific Science Center IMAX. more ›

A few weeks ago, Seattlest had the pleasure of attending the Seattle Laser Dome's latest show, Laser Daft Punk. Our love for Daft Punk has been completely irrational since their WaMu Center show, so between that and the fact that it'd been a while since our last laser show (Laser Plan B), we headed down with some friends to check it out. more ›

Tonight protons and electrons will be flying as the Northwest Science Writers Association and Pacific Science Center host a scientifically-charged event titled "Dumb, Getting Dumber?" more ›

We've already mentioned the Thermals show tonight, but if you're more inclined to shake your bon bon tonight, here are some safe bets. more ›

Is your coffee cup half-empty yet? Krispy Kreme is selling a 16-ounce drip for a dime, which may be good news for those Microsoft temps getting a 10 percent pay cut. That's 40,000 grumpy Microserfs temporary workers, if you're counting. Is this why Washington is Number Two in bankruptcy growth? Even Lucy, the famous Ethiopian fossil (no really, she's old) isn't making money. Her last day at the Pacific Science Center is March 8. The snow isn't sticking around either, but you're probably okay with that. more ›

Two hundred years ago today Charles Darwin was born, and 150 years ago this year, he killed God by publishing this momentous occasion, but for the life of us, while putting together today's "Can't Miss It," we couldn't find a single damned happy hour, lecture, or event for tonight. And strangely, neither Elliott Bay Books nor Town Hall even have an event scheduled, leaving us thinking that maybe we could have worked something out. more ›

Tonight's the all-ages Red Bull Big Tune Battle at Neumo's. It's a big hiphop competition (twelve producers are picked to compete, whittled down from the eighty who applied from all over the Northwest and even northern California), and the regional showdown for one of the only legit national beat battles. This year's featured guests are Detroit's Black Milk and Elzhi. more ›

NOT BURLESQUE: Columbia City Theater is a really great room to watch singer-songwriters do their thing. Tonight, the room will host a CD release party for the exquisitely talented Shenandoah Davis, featuring special guest Molly Rose, and others. Grab a drink and kick back in the old Vaudeville theater for a night of introspective, arty songwriting. more ›

SCIENCE WITH A TWIST: We've always had fun at the Pacific Science Center's monthly events for adults. If you enjoy science and drinking, you can't get much better than this. This month's event is focused around their new exhibit, Speed, and a drink they're calling the "Turbo Charger." Win tickets to the new Batman movie, watch a speed-themed movie on the IMAX screen, and eat and drink to your heart's content. more ›

CHARITABLE INDULGENCES: If you're not too hungover from tonight's couture cocktails with Jack Mackenroth at Product Runway, something beautiful involving imported beer and fine Scotch is happening in Fremont both tonight and tomorrow: the HopScotch Spring Beer and Scotch Festival. The festival's a benefit for NW Folklife, so think of your purchase of extra tequila tastings as an act of springtime charity. more ›

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"Keep in mind the name Matthew Brzezinski. This book feels like a practice run from a young author destined for big things." more ›

We had no idea that FOSEP was hosting firebrands like these guys. As blogfish (where we also learned October 8 was International Cephalopod Awareness Day) puts it, the duo's Framing Science talk "has stirred some blogging scientists to react with great umbrage." Great fucking umbrage, indeed! (It turns out it's just the atheists, being thin-skinned again.) The Seattle event didn't umbrage that many Seattleites that we could see. Many headed over to McMenamins for beer after. But it should have, and not just Dawkins' apologists. We'll explain.
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When you call your memoir Avoid Boring People, as Dr. James Watson did, and then go around the country talking about it, you've set yourself up for a rather easy dig. more ›