RAWR!! by Crickontour Crickontour, thanks for reigniting our childhood plane obsession. As always, found in the Seattlest Flickr Pool.......

Not too long ago, we were attempting a trip to San Francisco. As soon as we got to SeaTac, we found that our flight was somehow already an hour and a half late. The employees at the ticket counter, civil without being friendly, couldn't get us on another flight, so we got some food and a drink and watched our delay get longer. Eventually, it was time to board (on what was now the......

Our bike route to work from Magnolia to Capitol Hill takes us down a short hill on 20th Ave W to the Pier 91 bike trail. That little street runs right along a ton of train tracks leading into the train yards. (It's on the back side of the Interbay Golf Center.) Generally it's filled with locomotives connected to empty cars or lines of containers waiting to be shipped one place or another. Noting terribly......

Inspired by a random iPod event at Seattlest's Thanksgiving, a friend lamented the early death of John Denver and then launched into a diatribe about how he didn't pull a Kennedy; that is, Denver wasn't a dilettante pilot. He went on to explain that Denver was an experienced pilot who owned many planes and flew often. He died, our friend claimed, when one of the fuel tanks in the experimental plane he was flying......

David Copperfield may think he can make the word "no" disappear, but it's going to be for a grand jury to decide. A federal grand jury is looking into a 21-year-old Washington woman's claim that Copperfield raped her at his private, 150-acre resort in the Bahamas. The story she tells is pretty amazing...we hesitate to use the word "incredible," because if it's true she's endured something terrifying. She says she was approached almost immediately after......

Kim is off to see Susan Werner at the Triple Door Sunday night. This weekend is a toss up for Matt between going down to Portland for the final days of the Body World 3 show at OMSI or heading out west to the The 26th Annual West Coast Oyster Shucking Championship and Washington State Seafood Festival. As previously noted, Seth is going to take The Grand Tour with George Jones at the Paramount. Friday,......

Jim Riches, Deputy Chief of the FDNY, is one of the producers of the Urban Legends video that questions the supposedly heroic actions of Mayor Giuliani on 9/11. Jen Carlson recently interviewed him for our sister site in New York. How long have you been in the FDNY? 30 years experience in some of the busiest firehouses in NYC. Which firehouse are you working at now? Assigned to Bureau of Operations as Deputy Chief FDNY.......

Last week Seattlest whined about the pending doom of the Rainier Cold Storage Stock House in Georgetown, a building that is a Seattle Historic Landmark. "'Historic Landmark' might as well be a death sentence in Seattle," we said, meaning that any building so labeled in Seattle would be quickly demolished (although later in the week the Seattle Weekly would have a different take on the phrase in an article about Peter Steinbrueck and his recent......

One of the great things about Seattle is that it's the gateway to the United States for lots of foreigners. Alaskans, for example, regularly show up at Sea-Tac, wild-eyed and ready to reach for a knife at the first sign of a bear. They've been fleeing the wilderness and arriving on the shores of Seattle since way before regular air service was established. However, last week a particularly 21st century chain of events led one......

We're bringing it up because Seattle Times brought it up. Here's why we hate the idea of making clubs get licensed in order to be clubs: If we happen to have some huge influx of new citizens, you can bet the majority of them aren't coming here simply because they want to sit in a cubicle for nine hours and return home to their ever-tinier condo so they can watch TV. Where people work, they......

Ichiro got a bunch of fantastic goodies along with his $90 million Mariner contract, according to the AP, including: --A housing allowance, which will be $32,000 next year. --Either a new Jeep or Mercedes SUV each year. --Four first-class plane tickets to Japan for his family. He also deferred $25 million of the $90 million contract, so the Mariners will be paying Ichiro until 2032, when Francis Bean Cobain is 40 years old. Yowza. Ichiro......

Better believe it, the 25-year reign of the Copper River salmon is over. The new king comes from the mighty Yukon River, and the architect of its ascendancy is (no real surprise) the same power-behind-the-throne, Jon Rowley. Nothing personal, the assembled court seemed to say (to the Copper) at a luncheon down at Elliott's Oyster House. You've had a remarkable run, leading Seattle diners into new realms of taste. But the new guy, well,......

You don't need us to tell you what it's like out there right now. But you could tell Seattlest what you've been doing now that we're all San Diego temperatures and whatnot--drop it in the comments if you're the sharing type. In the meantime, we hit the streets with our camera cruised Flickr photos tagged "Seattle" that weren't in our already glorious Seattlest pool, to see what people have been provoked to do by that......

We were frickin' *there* so we speak some from authority on this subject--the key at bat of tonight's 5-2 Mariner win (even bigger than Sexson's funk blast) was Brandon Morrow facing Jermaine Dye with one on and two out in the eighth. M's pitching coach Rafael Chavez visited the mound before the ab, and we suspect they planned a little trickery. Since Morrow had walked the previous batter on four pitches, Dye would be expecting......

Monday FANTASTIC FICTION SALON: Novelist, nonfiction author, and short story writer Terry Bisson has swept every honor in the science fiction field as well as France's Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. He joins Hugo House's Writing Fantastic Fiction workshop series, where he will teach "Who Likes Short Shorts? We Like Short Shorts!" 7pm // Hugo House // $4 donation ARTS & LECTURES POETRY SERIES: "Poetry is what maintains our capacity for contemplation and difficulty." That's......

--Though he's been rumored to be a candidate for both the Liberty and Long Beach State head coaching jobs, Cameron Dollar says it isn't true. Which means he's probably on a private plane to Long Beach right now. --Sharkansky jumps the shark. --Georgetown's Jeff Green on the Blazers? Oh, please, God, yes. --A-Rod to the Angels? Oh, please, God, no. --Speaking of the Angels, thanks to them you'll learn a new baseball term today: coconut......

For serious wine geeks, it's all about the pursuit of perfection. We'll tolerate the bafflement of friends, the disappointment of poor vintages, the torment of indifferent service and the frustration of inferior bottles--because we have faith that now and again, with the clarity of a religious vision, we will experience something Utopian. In a column last week, Slate.com's resident wino Mike Steinberger asks whether a bottle of wine is worth $700. Not just any bottle,......

That was the clear message at Benaroya Hall last night, where New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert presented a sampling of the climate change research she covers in her much-lauded book (Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change), and then joined a few colleagues on-stage for a panel discussion. Touching on a few of the main locations and research findings from her book, the punchline is a real punch in the gut, or......

--Tim Eyman is still doing his Tim Eyman routine to the thunderous ticks of the second hand drawing his fifteen minutes to a close. --Nial Kennedy punked Microsoft today by replacing an image of his that Microsoft was linking to with this modified goatse picture. --Remember that guy your sister used to date who was a cousin of the guy's dad who worked with the neighbor of that Merit Financial dude from the news?......

Great comedy minds regulary rave about sketch comedy group Kasper Hauser so we felt we were in good hands going in to Thursday's night's show at Re-bar. In town to promote their new book Sky Maul: Happy Crap You Can Buy From a Plane, Kasper Hauser weaves their sketch character's in and out of CEO presentations for the fledgling SkyMaul corporation. Each speech includes some of the humorous catalogue items from the book. It makes......

Let's look back at a week in which no site in the -ist network adopted anyone from Africa... -Austinist reveled in the dumb antics of some U.T. law students and posted some great audio from former New Orleans natives who've decided to stay in Austin. But the best news for Austinist? They were voted Best Local Entertainment Web Site by the local Austin alt-weekly. Congrats, Austinist. -DCist gloried in being told their musical tastes made......

Gothamist, among many others, is reporting that a plane has apparently crashed into a building on the upper east side--you can see the exact location on 72nd via Gothamist's Googlemap hack. Currently it is being reported as a helicopter that crashed into the building. You can see pictures at the Gothamist site (national news sites didn't have anything yet, but they've got screen captures from local news up on their site). Update: From Gothamist: City......

The Seahawks' team flight back from Chicago made an emergency landing in one of the Dakotas and it appears to be a medical-related stop. We first suspected Boulware 's concussion, but it turns out that assistant coache Ray Rhodes was feeling sick. Since he has an history of stroke symptoms the plane stopped for him. Apparently many members of the team also entreated the pilot to fly the plane back to Chicago as they had......

By embracing you with hard rocking hands, petting your head with beats, and letting you know in a sweet falsetto voice that the rocking will never stop, Spoon bends you into believing that everything is going to be okay. Even in the hot hot sun, even when the only food you can afford is roasted corn, even when they have David Cross do an interpretive dance of one of their songs and he shows......

All music all the time wears us out, so we decided to hopscotch around Bumbershoot this year and take advantage of the talks, arts performances, and art exhibits. Thinking Globally I We arrived a little late, having forgotten about a little thing called traffic (about half the people on the #8 bus disembarked and hoofed it from Dexter). Ngugi Wa Thiong'o was reading from his Wizard of the Crow (which we think John Updike......

Boeing will be discontinuing its inflight internet service, the painfully named Connexion by Boeing, as of this month. Shrugging and offering the painfully obvious excuse that "the market" didn't snap it up like Coke Blak, Boeing will take a one-time fee hit of $320 million to close up shop on the service. Sadly, the P-I took the bait and tromped out examples of how sad the market was and how hard diversification is for a......

Seattlest hit the first local showing of Snakes on a Plane last night at Cinerama. It was Seattlest, our friends, and about 1,000 high-school kids. The ticket-holders line was a few hundred strong, stretching nearly the entire block betweeen Lenora and Blanchard. We slowly got drunk on clandestine vodka, and yelled at passing cars. The theater itself (doors opened at 9) was raucous. Previews were welcomed with enthusiasm--it helped that they were for the new......

As previously stated, Seattlest advocates opening night Snakes on a Plane festivities (attention, slowpokes: the 10pm Cinerama show is already sold out, though some tix are still available for the 12:45am show, and we suppose you could just go see it tomorrow). But we are also capable of appreciating the high-brow. With that in mind, we strongly suggest you see 1969 French classic Army of Shadows in a theater while it's still around. It's......

Yes, by this point it's been completely overhyped, and there's no way it could possibly be as awesome as we originally imagined, but Snakes on a Plane is finally in theaters this Friday. If you wait and see it on DVD, it'll suck; if you wait for a half-empty matinee, it'll suck. Truly, the only way to experience this pinnacle of cinema verité is opening weekend, with a loud, raucous, preferably drunk audience. Seattlest whole-heartedly......

God, we're so sick of Snakes on a Plane that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this weeks' Gothamist network post. Austinist makes it easy for us, with Candidate......