"Uzumaki" by liquidnight, from the Seattlest Flickr pool more ›

, and though we didn't exactly rush out and buy his record, it was a good scene. more ›

Actually, there's a little Friday night music from 5-6:30pm in Westlake Plaza, the Latin jazz sound of Sonando. Saturday the music runs from 11am-4:30pm, which is when the results of the sculpture competition get announced. more ›

You may see incumbent councilwoman Sally Clark at a local candidate forum, but you won't see one of her opponents, Bob Brown. more ›

Are you there Seattle art world? It's us, Seattlest. We're trying our best to talk up your First Thursday openings, but it looks like you've crapped out on us this month. We understand: you're on vacation or something, it's kinda hot out, the BLUE ANGELS are in the sky ... We've got posts to post, however, and damned if we won't find something to recommend from your namby-pamby Art Walk offerings. more ›

The weather is stunning and you need to burn off yesterday's celebratory beef and beer, right? Right. Luckily for you, it's First Thursday! So get off your duff, take a stroll and enjoy some free art. Here are our ten picks for tonight's walk: more ›

Laser Rocket Arms hates it when we call them "the new Husker Don't." more ›

Hey guys, we hate to have to ask you to do this, but if you have a minute or so can you fill out a survey? It would really help us get a handle on who's out there which will in turn help us improve the site. Fourteen multiple choice questions and you're out. more ›

After being out of the loop for a while, we were interested to read that Washington will have a presidential primary on February 19, and that the City Council races are set (Rasmussen, you are going down). more ›

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But let's not lose sight of another change that's proved another vast improvement: Pentagram's reworking of SAM's brand identity. more ›

As we mentioned the other day, Seattlest was very excited for the PNB production of Carmina Burana, but we left a bit perplexed and frustrated. To start, we enjoyed Mark Morris' Pacific, a light and dreamy piece that found our thoughts wandering in a pleasant way about halfway through, befitting of a day spent listening to the ocean advance and retreat while pretending to read a book. It was a short and "limited" (to borrow from Seattlest Michael's summation) composition, but the perfect exemplar of Morris' work: seamless integration of ballet's technique and precision with the freedom and rule-free whimsy of modern dance. We love that he breaks ballet traditions by having group pieces with three men and one woman, all performing the same choreography (sure, later in Carmina Burana we have a woman with three men but stereotypically she's a harpy and they are pining for her), and the costumes were simple and perfectly suited to the choreography. more ›

Are you looking at that? It's the Pacific Northwest Ballet's production of Carmina Burana, and that's an entire choir behind the giganto Illuminati-looking sculpture hanging from the ceiling. The sheer scale of this piece has us salivating, the chanting backdrop to Carl Orff's seminal composition coursing through our veins and pounding in our head. Choreographed by Kent Stowell, former PNB artistic co-director and epic brewer of ballet dramas, Burana kicks off the "Celebrate Seattle Festival" on Thursday evening, and we are giddy with anticipation. more ›

--Isn't it a running theme of the first season of Reno 911 that officer short shorts constantly has his police bike stolen? And then that Seattle cop had his bike stolen yesterday from outside the police office at Seattle Center and he was probably standing there, with his mustache and his short shorts. And no bike. That's funny. Reno 911 is apparently doing some kind of roll your own episode contest to promote the movie. The above image is from a Seattle entry, but we put the embed below the fold because it's ten minutes long. Cuz we're always thinking of you, Valentine.
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Oh Boston, you silly over-reacting bunch of Nancys. Who can't tell the difference between a LiteBrite and a real bomb? Seriously, getting riled up and freaking the fuck out over some strange marketing thingies? more ›

You'd think it was the Second Coming or something. TV news shots, front page of the local dailies, big story in the New York Times. It's a fucking ski lift, for chrissakes. You get on, you ride in a gondola for five minutes, you get off at the top. But it's in Portland, you know, so it's got to be terrific. Even Amy Jenniges, former Stranger staffer now at the Portland Mercury, thinks it's hot shit. What are they calling it? An icon for the Rose City? Like the Eiffel Tower? more ›

This Eagle is going to be a Flickr hit. more ›

9pm doors// Baltic Room, 1207 Pine St. // $10 // 21+ more ›

*Carrie Clark mp3s here. more ›

--Didn't seem like the same Rex Grossman yesterday either, did it? (From someone who has seen every Bears game this season, no, it did not.) more ›

Not true! Sure, Alexander Calder's 39-foot painted steel Eagle is going to be Seattle's next icon, but from this angle it looks kind of like a puppy getting ready to nip at its master's trousers. Rivalry of middle-aged artworks: Eagle is 35, Needle's pushing 50. more ›

SAM just can't wait to open its sculpture park. Over on the Slog, Jen Graves summarizes the kvetching about SAM's sculpture park's January 20th opening. more ›

It's a bar, it's a gallery, it's a cafe, it's an installation art space, it's probably going to become part of the Belltown circuit that should involve Roq La Rue, BLVD, and the Sculpture Park. It's the McLeod Residence. more ›

Governor Gregoire stood in front of the sculpture park yesterday and threw packets of hundred dollar bills into the Sound until $220 million disappeared into the sludge, or, she may as well have. Actually, she talked about the myriad environmental concerns that threaten Puget Sound and she pledged $220,000,000 towards the $9 billion the Puget Sound Partnership says it will take over the next 14 years to adequately protect and repair the Sound. more ›

If you think it's too early to talk Halloween, you must really hate those Xmas tchotchkes that have shown up in major retailers near you. We, on the other hand, think Friday the 13th is the perfect day to start celebrating. more ›

You can't buy tickets for the next Seattle Erotic Art Festival until January -- the show isn't until March -- but there is one thing you can do to get ready: Paint your horny little heart out. SEAF '07 is officially accepting submissions:

The CALL FOR ART is now open. Artists 18+ are invited to submit work that explores the diversity of erotic art - explicit, subtle, unconventional, beautiful, shameless, and beyond - to SEAF's fifth annual Juried Exhibition, Auction, and Festival Store. All media will be considered; art is selected based on quality of execution, originality of subject, and depth of emotion. more ›

-There was a positive development in the life of the woman who was once a P-I reporter and a spy, which is a change as you can imagine. more ›

-The nation's fifth Latino-owned bank is coming to a Kent near you. more ›

In Seattlest's little egg of grey matter, every news item is connected to another, bigger, news item. We can't help ourselves. So when we see that the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild is going to settle with the Seattle Times for pay raises of $0.00 for the next two years, we have to connect it to something else, and in this case that something else is the Joint Operating Agreement that binds the Seattle Times and the P-I (did we say "Sculpture Park" in the headline? We meant "JOA"). In our mind the Seattle Times has been throwing fights for as long as we can remember in order to sustain the losses necessary to end the JOA and look all the more wretched in front of a Joint Operating Agreement arbitrator. That they appear to be pretty adamant in this contract situation is a sign that that campaign is over, and we'll find out sometime next year whether it succeeded or failed. Alternately, the newspaper guild is taking a dive so as to not allow the Seattle Times to continue hammering the P-I and the arbitrator with their poor little newspaper routine. more ›

Possibly we first saw this meme in a blog post, but the barely controlled chaos that is our newsreader makes calling it back up not feasible at this time. It caught our eye. Hey, that's smart, we thought, wish we'd thought of it. We're pretty sure the first time we saw someone tie the delays at the Sculputure Park to the striking concrete workers was in a blog post. Ninety percent certain. Then it appeared in the Seattle Times and in about a million other blog posts and each time we see it now the idea loses a little luster. It became annoying and then kind of insulting to the strikers who are trying to do what they feel is the right thing and to news consumers who are trying to figure out what's going on in the world. Now it's in the P-I today, but at least they have the decency to mention a few other projects that are suffering before hitting readers with the cutesy Sculpture Park, and we should be clear that Seattlest is all in favor of the Sculpture Park and we're so there once it opens we'll be there every day. We'll be the Seattlest sculpture. But using the Sculpture Park and its delays (and let's point out that it's also been delayed due to non-concrete related factors) is condescending and belittling. Readers don't care about light rail or the Fremont Bridge - They need to be clobbered with the Sculpture Park! Because this strike is screwing the city, right SDOT? more ›