Apparently, there's some other annual festival this weekend besides Sasquatch. That's right, Memorial Day also hearkens the return of Folklife, Seattle's hippiest fest, held every year at Seattle Center. Local singer-songwriter/friend of Seattlest Ali Marcus will be playing the festival (Sunday, 4pm at Cafe Impromptu in McCaw Hall), so we turned to her for an expert opinion on what's worth your time this weekend, besides hackysack and drum circle. Seattlest Kim's already given you her picks, but if you're looking for a few more options this weekend, Ali's selections are listed below. more ›

As evidenced by last summer's Qwest Field sellout for Real Madrid, Seattle is full of soccer fans. more ›

“It just sounds like a website,” she says. She’d rather her sound be dubbed “country noir” or “Americana,” …if anything at all. more ›

Those of you with plans to hijack the Tractor Tavern and remove its nuclear warheads or use it as a control center in your effort to take control of a top-secret government outer space super-weapon on Saturday May 27, think again. Your plans may be foiled by, no not the cook, but a member of the band. more ›

The fourth annual Olympia Comics Festival will take place Saturday May 28. Reached for comment, Festival director Frank Hussey (pronounced "Hussy" as in a lady of ill-repute, not "Hoo-say" like "Dan Pussey!") insists to Seattlest that, "One of the key phrases to me is that this event is 'the anti-comics convention comics convention' -- the goal is to be fun, entertaining, fascinating and social as opposed to providing back issue browsing and waiting-in-line-for-an-autograph opportunities." more ›

Buy a book & give a warm welcome to the latest incarnation of Dave Eggers’s non-profit writing/tutoring organization, 826 Seattle. more ›