Another beautiful photo from Seattlest Flickr contributor Tim Willis Yesterday's stormy weather left over 35,000 homes in Western Washington without power. Nearly 20,000 of the homes affected were in Seattle and South King County. The National Weather Service warned of gusts of over 55 mph yesterday and, while it's no scientific measure, the windows of our house were rattling and the power flickered more than once last night. Thankfully, it never went out. The Washington......

Winds the likes of which haven't been seen in nearly eight months are set to descend on our little burg tomorrow night. Forecasters say it's fifty-fifty right now whether they'll miss us to the north or land right on top of Duvall's fragile little power system. The good news is that everyone's generators haven't even had time to gather dust, much less make their way onto Craigslist. In fact, Seattlest even has some propane cannisters......

Gas Works Park may not recover its former place as our #1 greatest park ever after its little tar leak last week. We took a walk over there yesterday and wandered around what was basically an empty space on a gray and prematurely cold day, pressing our nose up against the chain link here and there and dwelling on what exactly this park sits on top of: benzene, mercury, lead, etc. It's gross. Current......

TONIGHT at Meany Hall, it's "Climate Change and the Future of Life on Earth," a two-hour multi-media presentation designed to freak your climatological shit out. It stars the world-famous paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and environmental activist: Dr. Richard Leakey. Shazam! (What? We never get to say "Shazam"!) Author of The Sixth Extinction, Dr. Leakey will talk "about our impact on the environment"...um, no, he's gonna open up a can of knowledgifying whup-ass is what. The Sixth Extinction......

Seattlest's windchimes chimed last night. That's usually an indication that winds are stronger than average. Usually our chimes just sit there limp and dead. The windstorm that was promised for last night turned out to be tamer than anticipated, though, or at least our threshold for windstorms is set so high that anything below sustained 45mph winds now seems pretty weak. We're under the impression that if someone in Woodinville sneezes a forest of undecided......

King County Journal has the rundown of which areas are still without power, and when they're likely to get it. But more outages could be on the way. A relatively mild storm is expected Wednesday , and the Times gets this dire prediction from a City Light spokesperson:"If we get even moderate winds, we may find quite a few of those trees that were just on the edge may tip over, and we may have......

It's been business as usual since the day after the storm in some Seattle neighborhoods. We eat, we drink, we Christmas shop, we gather all the shingles from the street and life goes on. Meanwhile, the Eastside continues to live red in tooth and claw. It's still mostly dark over there and crowds await Mel Gibson's next gasoline delivery at each service station. Hopefully it'll drive home how much energy it takes to power a......

Yes, it's the new year, but we find it hard to look forward without a few final looks back. Instead of doing a straight-forward Favorite/Greatest/Best Films of 2005, we thought we'd reflect on some of our more interesting times at the movies during the past year. Audrey: The most fun I had seeing a film this year was at The Seven Gables for a packed screening of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. The......