As our friend who sent us the info announced this news, so shall we: "GAY GASP! Hillary's coming to town tonight!" Okay, so we were at an event on Saturday, when Maria Cantwell joined longtime local Hillstumpers Jay Inslee and Ron Sims for a chat about Mrs. Clinton's Clean Energy Plan. A young woman who claimed to be a UW student stood up and asked the three if they could do something to get......

Seattlest was so tired last night, coming down with a cold we've been coming down with for a couple of weeks now, and hearing rumors of snow. All of this honestly made us just want to curl up under a thick blanket and watch the re-runs of Man Versus Wild that have been backing up on our TiVo. But alas, we had agreed to check out some band from Portland called Casey Neill and......

The Tacoma News Tribune had their big Seattle cruise season preview a few weeks ago: 191 cruise ship calls, 3,000 busloads of passengers from the airport to the cruise terminals, 14,082 cruise industry jobs created in 2005, 1 article we couldn’t get completely through. Harpers index it ain’t. Unless this is it, we’re still waiting for the Seattle dailies to publish their yearly love poems to the cruise industry. Empress of the North The Empress......

ELECTION NIGHT PARTY: Get happy with Cary Moon and the People's Waterfront Coalition, the prophets of the surface/transit waterfront. 7:30-9pm (votes trickle in circa 8:15) // Edgewater Hotel [2411 Alaskan Way, Pier 67] 9pm-? // Spitfire Grill [2219 4th Ave] MUSIC: What does it do to your "keeping it real" status when your hip-hop album, which more than touches base on drug culture, only blows up after attention from the Vices and Pitchforks of the......

-The UW Daily went to Tubs and concluded, "Given the convenience of Tubs and the legitimacy of the establishment, I decided students should be more willing to try out the hot tub rooms." -You know, 45th actually does suck. Seattlest can't even cross it on foot without stumbling on the wavy pavement so we understand why it's made the mayor's "Dirty Dozen." -Themed car decorations rule and "Primates of the World" from Ballard is......

Until the mid-17th century, the Royal Navy would give its sailors daily ration of brandy. Then they captured Jamaica and switched to the local hooch, rum, which they diluted with water & lemon juice. The citrus prevented scurvy, kept the Brits healthier than the French and Spanish, whose sailors were still knocking back brandy; Britannia soon ruled the world. With such historical cred, you'd think rum would get more respect. Instead, the Temperance Movement named......

A Celebrity cruise ship returns to port today after doing the Inside Passage with 115 norovirus infected passengers. You never hear of noroviruses (norovirii?) unless a whole cruise ship or an entire school is infected because they're common enough to be unremarkable. Just some highly contagious digestive issues - When it ruins a cruise, though, we can't let it pass without comment. Seattle Times says the ship left from Seattle last Friday so they must......

We 'Merkins are a devout lot. We remember our nation's dead in May, venerate fireworks in July, celebrate the arrival of a boatload of Yerpeen settlers in November. What we don't honor, strangely, is the first demonstration of nature's annual generosity: the salmon run. (Helpless mankind, sacrificial fish. They've taken care of us for centuries, now it's our turn to take care of them. More on this soon.) But if there's no official thanksgiving, there......

That disturbance in the water? It's Seattle's iconic wild salmon, swimming onto our plates just in time to rescue our souls from the long, dark winter. The concept of Redemption by Salmon is central to our civic religion, our Northwest Faith. We venerate the salmon: it dies for us, we eat it and are saved. In gratitude, we expend a fair measure of our riches to assure its immortality. Okay, maybe that's layering a bit......

Ah summer in Seattle. You never know what you might find around the bend. Whether it’s 19 cannons being fired off at Pier 36 this morning, bad traffic, or the Blue Angels screeching overhead, Seafair continues into August. So don’t forget to check the schedule to mark where you want to be or not be. Personally Seattlest can’t wait for the Parade of Ships on August 3rd. And guess what? You can actually take a......

Look out residents of The Ave - The University District Street Fair is going to be all up in your face Saturday and Sunday. Seattlest is guessing that the choices you made in life many years ago will dictate whether you'll be in attendance or not, so this post is just a reminder for the people out there who are firmly in the "Of course I'm going...when is it again?" camp. Or maybe you haven't......

Forget the hydroplanes at Seafair...we love us some tugboat races, and they're happening tomorrow. The tugboat races are part of the Seattle Maritime Festival, which kicked off Wednesday and goes through Sunday. The tugs will race from the Grain Terminal to Pier 66 (Bell Street)--where they'll be serving hot dogs. There'll be a beer garden at Pier 57, or you can get a great view of the races from Myrtle Edwards Park. There will......

Seattlest drives by 2200 Denny Way every day and is anxiously anticipating the grand new structure with a Whole Foods and other retail shops that the neighborhood desperately needs. We have noticed the little modern structure across the street that seemed to have sprung up overnight. It’s large windows glow mysteriously at night. Turns out it is Paul Allen’s Vulcan Discovery Center where you can both purchase a condo or view the models of plans......

We've heard murmurings about this for weeks but have yet to get down there to check it out ourselves--which might be okay because it's possible that we could die from the cuteness. The Seattle Aquarium has a newborn otter! Let the orca be Washington's official marine mammal--we're psyched about the little dude or dudette (biologists haven't gotten close enough to discern the gender of the wee one). Some background on the critter, via the aquarium's......

Seattlest pointed out a few days ago that the future of the waterfront streetcar is not bright, but forces seem to be aligning to keep it around after all. The sticking point was, and continues to be, the maintenance barn near Pier 70 that is inside the boundaries of a planned SAM sculpture park. However, when the announcement was made that the barn and the streetcar would be scrapped in favor of the park and......