Bill Resler, beloved coach of the Roosevelt High School girls basketball team, which was featured in the documentary Heart of the Game, was fired on the eve of the season, reports the Times' Craig Smith. Roosevelt administrators aren't saying why, at least not publicly. Privately, according to Resler, they're telling parents he held forbidden offseason practices, which Resler denies. Smith cites previous complaints against Resler that he encourages rough play and sometimes swears. Those haven't... more ›

BASKETBALL: It's a battle for first place in Kingco's Mountain Division when Roosevelt hosts Redmond. more ›

*mp3: S.O.S. more ›

AUTHOR, AUTHOR: Dr. Neal Barnard has his self-promotional finger on America's pulse with his book: Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs. Is a low-fat vegetarian diet in your future? more ›

Last Monday, Oakland band Faun Fables was a doublebill with local, hyper-experimental whozits, the Degenerate Art Ensemble. We don't know who does the booking for the Triple Door, but we applaud them for the amazing variety of the shows they present. As a case in point, this Saturday is Eurofever: A Tribute to ABBA and the Bee Gees, while Sunday offers the Roosevelt High Jazz Ensembles. That's keeping the mix fresh. more ›

SIFF enters its second full week with a slew of great documentaries, including the final screening of fair trade coffee doc Black Gold (Tuesday, 9:30pm @ the Egyptian). The directors, Marc and Nick Francis, will be in attendance, as will Tadesse Meskela, an Ethiopian Farm Cooperative Organizer featured in the film. The SIFF screenings mark the first time the directors and subject have been together since the making of the film---and the first time Meskela has seen the film on the big screen. more ›

Roosevelt High's Marcus Williams, now at Arizona, has decided to stay with the Wildcats for at least one more year. (If you happen to pay $75/year to subscribe of ArizonaAthletics.com, you can watch the press conference. College athletics--exploitative? Not at all...makes sense that the university makes money off of a fantastically-talented ballplayer telling the media he'll stay in school.) more ›

The year 2005, despite being the "Year of the Natural Disaster," has also been designated the "World Year of Physics" to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Einstein's "Miracle Year." In 1905 Albert Einstein published papers on the Photoelectric effect, Brownian motion and the Stairway to Heaven of scientific theory: Special relativity. We're not going to geek up Seattlest by trying to explain Brownian motion here, but feel free to follow the links if you're into that particular flavor of digression. more ›

Celebrities, they are good looking, rich, and if you believe what you read in US Weekly, are just like us (they check their mail). More and more, however, celebrities are also making our laws. Why vote for Stuffed Shirt McPolicy when you can vote for karate-chopping superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger? People like voting for faces they recognize; our own city council has former Seattle Times columnist Jean Godden and former TV reporter Jim Compton. more ›

March Madness isn't just the NCAA men's tournament, though Seattlest knows they've trademarked the name. At the risk of a lawsuit, we apply it to the hundreds of loser-out basketball tournaments taking place all over the country, from the South Dakota state "A" championship to the public school championships in New York City. Local teams began tournament life last weekend with the Pac-10 Women's basketball tournament and the State 3A Boys and Girls Tournaments. more ›