Brother Ali is here to share The Undisputed Truth in person! From the Twin Cities, this man has a powerful story and a powerful vision for what hiphop can be. He's challenging, personal, and fresh. Witness: From a compelling feature in City Pages last year: One minute, Ali's sonorous voice is a crowd-controlling force—as brash as anything since Run-DMC shouted down their own building-sized beats—and the next it's a whispery lullaby.[...]Yet as Ali's reading list......

Welsh five-piece Super Furry Animals are known for crafting catchy orchestral psychedelic pop-rock -- hence the terribly "trippy" cover art for their latest album Hey Venus. The band's been together since '94, and while most UK groups of that time period have split up or gone on permanent hiatus, SFA are still going strong. For that, you can credit the drugs. Seriously though, the Furries make songs with sunny melodies and melancholy, nearly doo-wop......

We haven't read a ton of military history, but we've read enough to know that the most grievous mistakes by battle commanders aren't those that lead to defeat, but those that are made in the wake of victory. The biggest mistakes are by commanders who, having driven their opposition into full retreat, fail to press the advantage, chase the retreaters down, and destroy them. To cite just one example, had Confederate General P.G.T Beauregard ordered......

In 1987, the British illustrator Martin Handford creates a cartoon character named Wally for a series of children's books. Renamed Waldo for the American edition, he becomes an icon of pop culture. Meantime, Marie-Eve Gilla moves from graduate school in Burgundy to the Pacific Northwest, becoming the first classically trained French winemaker in the Washington, working at Covey Run and Gordon Brothers before being recruited as general manager for the new Forgeron Cellars in Walla......

After enjoying last weekend's Washington Brewer's Oktoberfest, we are now preparing ourselves for this weekend's Fremont Oktoberfest. The festivities start at 5pm tonight and continue through Sunday. So, you should have plenty of time to make it to the festival (Without missing any important football games…). There will be a pumpkin carving contest using chainsaws, a 5k Run/Walk on Sunday morning, musical entertainment and a "Dog Day" on Sunday afternoon. But, as is the......

Fountain Run with Friend, uniquely capturing a non-crowded, sans-elephant-ear moment of bliss at Bumbershoot this year courtesy of Crickontour. Share your own Seattle slivers in the Seattlest Flickr pool, won't you?......

Mariner big leaguers are feeling good with the team at 13 games over .500, but if they belonged to an M's farm team, they'd be expecting a pink slip. Future Mariners, you see, aren't supposed to try to win too much. So says Greg Hunter, the Mariners' director of minor-league and scouting operations:A good gauge is .500. You want your clubs to be somewhere around there, whether it's a few games above or below. You......

The Porter family will think twice before they stroll the beach beneath Kenny G's Malibu bluff estate again, after a Power Bar chucked from there popped nine-year-old Brooke on her thinkin' box, opening a wound that took four stitches to close. Hershey's Kisses were also among the objects hurled at Brooke and her 12-year old brother Chase, who's autistic and has Down's Syndrome. Cops say that two teens with no connection to the fake......

This is the kind of rescue we like at Seattlest. There's no ambiguity about it--the guy falls, he gets hurt, and a Coast Guard helicopter goes up to 7,000 feet to fetch him. Contrast that with the Cougar Mountain guy who's still being doubted over at the P-I: I leave a message for Schreck and am still waiting for a callback. The Schrecks were media-friendly when their brother/husband was missing and tight-lipped once he appeared.......

Last year we lamented a less-than-stellar meal at a forgettable Japanese restaurant, wishing we’d instead gone to ol’ reliable: Takohachi. Especially after an active day, we crave the salty goodness of the grilled mackerel dish known as saba shioyaki, or saba-shio for short. Forget about the latest version of Dining for a Determined Amount of Dollars. Run, don’t walk, to the International District before Takohachi closes. Just like the beloved Koraku, this restaurant will be......

Seriously, some of you are going to have to pick up the slack, because Seattlest only runs for frisbees and buses, and often not even for the latter. There will be another in ten minutes, right? We don't know much about the running world, except that people tend to develop favorite routes. Maybe you share them with friends or fellow runners, but it goes kinda like "OK, so after a couple blocks you'll see this......

Saturday night, a cool fifty degrees downtown. Parked on Western. Climbed the stairs to the market. Crossed the street at 1st & Pike. Something special in the air -- we could feel it. The Long Winters were finally back home in Seattle after a long tour of the U.S. and Europe and would be playing our favorite venue, the Showbox. Spacious yet intimate, stylish but not too hoity-toity -- we like the Showbox because we......

OK, perhaps there weren't a million people at Neumo's on Saturday night, but the turnout for the Buttrock Suites was downright impressive. Replete with live band, the Suites was a smörgåsbord of guilty-pleasure rock, sexy swagger, and manic modern dance madness that threw the first punch and kept swinging all night long. The energy was a bit low when we arrived towards the end of the readings, but it did not stay down once the......

This is a gift for our would-be Portlandist readers. Upper Playground earlier this year teamed up with gallery Fifty24SF to compile a DVD introducing the world to a variety of urban contemporary artists. The Run Up profiles 27 of today's hottest artists, with heavy leanings on traditional street art (think graffiti), but incorporating other disciplines as well. We realize that we mention our love for Seattle's home for urban contemporary art BLVD on a pretty......

-That former neo-Nazi guy who was terrorizing Roosevelt was convicted of weapons charges today. -KUOW's John Moe and his wife unveiled a new child to promote his book Conservatize Me today. Also, his wife is pregnant with their third website. Congratulations Moes. -Help, panic, freak out - Run to the hills or something. West Nile is upon us. Damn these sins! -An Oregon developer is building a housing community called "The Shire" complete with......

Because Friday night had been a late one, it was nearly noon before Seattlest awoke on Saturday. Dazed we were and wondering, Had we really been rocked by pirates last night? Yes, yes we had. Those thieving, snarling, dirty darlings raped and pillaged their way into our hearts Friday night. The setting: Ballard’s own Sunset Tavern. The pirates: Captain Bogg & Salty. So who are these pirates? -Think Jack Black, Axle Rose, ACDC, with......

Much to the shock of the safety-first set, we run at night, without one of those hi-viz vests. Once, when we were running past the Comet Tavern, a frat boy emerged and accompanied us a couple of blocks, 'til he fell down, laughing. We run at night partly because darkness is slimming, and partly because real runners are morning people. They don't hit the snooze.They don't hit the bottle. They just do it. We loathe......

DO NOT PARK IN THE PARKING LOT AT THE WATERWHEEL LOUNGE!! There, we warned you. If only someone had passed that same information along to us, our evening at the Waterwheel would have been more nearly perfect. The slope which leads from 15th Avenue to the parking lot nearly took out our transmission. The sign has been taunting us for some time. It features both a martini glass and a hamburger, both things we enjoy.......

If you ever move to Spokane, meet the right people, say the right things, and end up becoming mayor of that town, it may be not be a good idea to spend your free time soliciting young men in gay chat rooms and offering them civic jobs. Stick to ribbon cuttings at the zoo and having people let you win the Bloomsday Run. Soon-to-be-former Mayor Jim West, a one time state senator who voted against......

Second only to December 21st, when we can finally stop crying in our coffee every morning because the days will actually start getting longer, this is our favorite time of year. Yes, paradoxically it does mean that days are now getting shorter, and soon to become downright gloomy at times, but Seattlest is complex and human like that. Regardless, the combination of perfect crisp air, autumnal colors, and you'll-soon-be-wearing-boots-and-sweaters temps makes us a bit......

The National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NAMBLA, is the oversight body for college sports. Run by college presidents, it tries to ensure the integrity of the student/athlete experience. Towards this end, it has instituted many stupid rules. For example: say you are a college football player, and Seattlest is a college coach. If we see you on the side of the road with your car out of gas, we couldn't give you a ride to......

Earlier this week, Seattlest found ourselves taking part in an activity we hadn't done in a while: sorting through the wares of thrift stores on The Ave. Lately, we've been kinda feening for some end-of-summer sunglasses and shoes (always shoes), so we focused our efforts in those areas. Here's a quick review of our experiences at two local thrift faves--- Red Light 4560 University Way NE 206-545-4044 Sunglasses: We try on a bunch of......

Animal lovers, start your engines: the Furry 5K Run/Walk kicks off this Sunday at 10am in Seward Park. As an owner of two large healthy dogs plucked from rescue shelters, we have a soft spot for this perennial rite of spring. The sheer number of participants with varying types of dogs in tow is the highlight of this event benefiting local Seattle animal shelters. You don't need to have a dog to enter the race,......

Matthew Baldwin went out for a run recently on what appears to be a fantastic spring day and brought along a friend and a camera. Oh, and since he's Matthew Baldwin he also packed his sense of humor (as seen on your favorite web sites like www.defectiveyet.com and www.themorningnews.org). The result is the "A Run Around Lake Union" photo series. The route took them around Lake Union --six miles by their measurement, "too far......

The intensity of the "Basketball Apple Cup" never matches that of its gridiron counterpart, but Washington State's excruciating offensive style made Sunday's version unbearable. Here's the Cougs' unexpurgated playbook: 1) Dribble around until 35-second clock is about to expire. 2) Hurl up shot. 3) Cross fingers. 4) Run back on defense. Cougar players have learned to recognize when they've scored from hearing the crowd gasp in surprise. Opposing teams key on Thomas Kelati, WSU's only......