Think you have what it takes to join the roller derby? Today is your last chance to sign up for tomorrow's tryouts with the Rat City Rollergirls. more ›

Rollergirls and bikers own the viaduct, the Occupation diversifies its base of operations, and the people of Edmonds love Dick's. more ›

This past Saturday was Rat City Rollergirls' second bout of the season at KeyArena. Seattle's own all-female flat-track roller derby league hosted the Rose City Rollers from Portland in a showdown that was sold out 15 minutes after it began. See the scores below! The next Rat City bout is on Saturday, March 19, and tickets are already on sale. More information on their website. more ›

Seattle's own Rat City Rollergirls kicked off a new season of roller derby last month, and bout number two of the season is set to go down at KeyArena tomorrow afternoon, into the early evening. more ›

Hell on Wheels will be screening tomorrow, May 6 at Central Cinema and Friday, May 7 at Capitol Theatre in Olympia. Full event details below. more ›

SHE GOT SOUL: Bettye Lavette, a Detroit native and prolific singer-songwriter well known for her work in the Motown era, is visiting Seattle tonight and tomorrow night. Though Lavette toured in the 1960s with the likes of Otis Redding and Ben E. King and even had a short stint with the James Brown Revue, she always flew under the fame radar until 2005, when she released her album, I've Got My Own Hell to Raise. While in Seattle, Lavette will be singing songs from her latest album, The Scene of the Crime, along with old favorites from the '60s. more ›

"light has a feather" by Kevin Rosinbum, from our Flickr pool more ›

• Awwwwwww, yeeeeah! Seattle was named 2009 City of the Year by Fast Company Magazine. Go us.
• Think again if you're up to no good in West Seattle, they have "Deadly Aim" on their side. Word to the wise, don't want to mess with a roller derby girls, especially this weekend.
• Never thought you'd see this: Former GOP Nominee Dino Rossi challenge former Seahawk, Brock Huard to a spring roll-eating contest. Anything for charity, right? It's the last day to get your tickets to the ID Spring Roll 2009, a party/fundraiser for the International District's Downtown Chinatown. Oh, the Massive Monkees will be there too.

The City Council has approved Arena Sports' proposal to renovate Hangar 27 at Magnuson Park. The project, which is entirely privately funded (are you listening basketball fans?) will begin immediately, and the facility will open in 2009. The city retains ownership of the structure, however, Arena Sports will receive free rent up to the value of the improvements. Additionally, Arena Sports will offer free programs and scholarships. Nearly 50 percent of the floorspace will be available for non-sporting community events. more ›

Remember when Starbucks asked the Rat City Rollergirls to change their logo? Most people we knew hadn't noticed the similarities—concentric circles, sans serif text, a couple of stars, and a woman in the middle—until Starbucks made a legal issue out of them. And we certainly didn't confuse the two entities. Yesterday, Michael Atkins at the Seattle Trademark Lawyer blog noticed that Starbucks had a July 16 deadline to oppose the Rollergirls' application for a trademark on their logo--and they didn't do it. No opposition, no request for a deadline extension, nada. Does this action via inaction mean the Rollergirls get to keep their logo? We can only hope. Starbucks could certainly use every last scrap of public goodwill. more ›

Rat City Rollergirls have faced some seriously tough competition in their quest to become champions of the roller derby circuit, but the local team may be facing their toughest competitor to date--off the track. The current battle pits Rat City Rollergirls vs. the Starbucks Corporation in the legal arena, rather than an old hangar at Magnuson Park. At stake in the battle is no trophy or championship, but rather trademark issues and the right to keep a beloved logo. more ›

Sniff sniff, single tear. It's the last full week of SIFF, so you're well approaching your last chance till next year to take in some of that sweet filmy goodness. SIFF's not just movies; this week offers both the Opticlash 2 VJ battle at the CHAC and the Face the Music party at Neumo's, the latter of which includes performances by Viva Voce, Jesse Sykes, and Siberian. Tickets for both are going fast! more ›

Man, is there a LOT of Bumbershoot stuff on Seattlest right now. If you're anything like Editor Dan you're hoping for a break in the Bumber action; a contributor's recounting of a trip to Lake Chelan, a reaction to a dunderheaded Seattle Times editorial, or even some lame PR survey naming Seattle 16th Most Fashionable City West of the Rockies. Anything! Well, you can hope for something different, but your hopes will be dashed because this is another Bumbershoot post. more ›

Seattlest may have spent Saturday sweating our asses off and getting seriously sunburned, but we managed to catch some of the best of the best of what that Bumbershoot thing had to offer. more ›

You be the judge. This Saturday, two wheel-obsessed events face off at Magnuson Park. In one corner we have the Northwest Film Forum's Bike-In, an outdoor event with music, bike-related demonstrations, beer garden, raffle, and screenings of bike-themed films on a large outdoor screen. The event is co-sponsored by the Cascade Bicycle Club. more ›

Maybe we failed to give credit where credit was due yesterday in the Bumpershoots post. Some of the best stuff at the festival tends to not be music (notably the 826 thing from last year) and they have a lot of cool sounding events listed on their website that aren't music, but definitely are worthy of a mention. more ›

VALTRON 3000 is co-captain of Throttle Rockets, one of the four teams in Rat City Rollergirls. more ›

The weather can't make up its mind, but at Seattlest, we can. We're going to rain down our weekend plans on you. Recognize. more ›

-The sea was angry yesterday, my friends, and the 520 was closed overnight. Today it opened but perhaps prematurely as this LJ user got hit with a fish. more ›

We're scum. We're lazy, TV watching Ameri-trash. We follow mainstream sports and the off-year Olympics, but we haven't supported our local alternative sports entertainment franchise Rat City Roller Girls by attending an event yet. What the hell is wrong with us? Seriously? We've marked every date on both our paper calendar hanging in the kitchen and in our iCalendar and it hasn't helped. It's always the night we have dinner plans or the night we had set aside for crushing female empowerment, athletic ability, the arts and creativity with the hammer of our non-attendance. more ›