Popular Science released its list of the 50 Greenest cities in the U.S. recently. Of course, liberal, green Seattle was on it. We came in eighth. It surprised no one at Seattlest HQ, however, that our neighbor to the South, namely Portland, came in first since some of us believe that Portland is better and we all love PDX regardless. Popular Science "collected survey data and government statistics for American cities of over 100,000 people......

Also lapsing into first person, since that's what my predecessor did. Honestly, I was waiting until Seth said goodbye for my turn to say hello. So, hello! I'm happy to introduce myself today, now that I'm totally, officially taking over the glorious, glamorous role of Seattlest Editor. A bit about me: I'm a little shy, the youngest of four. I grew up in a small southern town full of cow-tippin' folk. I spent a......

First of all, let us say that we didn't plan our Super Tuesday get-together as an Obama event. We support Obama; we've even given him $$. But we didn't ask candidate affiliation before inviting some friends, who invited some friends, and it just so happened that all 10 people who came to Seattlest HQ last night were Obama supporters (except for one girl who backs the Phoenix Suns. She was not a winner). One girl......

A freezing rainstorm left the streets by Seattlest HQ white. It's since morphed into a light snowstorm that will make our half-mile trip to the video store a winter adventure. These photos were taken at 6:58 pm. Minutes later, our Capitol Hill correspondent texted us that the hailstorm had started there. Temps could drop as low as freezing tonight, and Weather Underground forecasts snow for the rest of tonight and early tomorrow morning. KOMO weather......

It struck us halfway through Green Bay's 5th straight drive for a touchdown that Brett Favre's performance in this game was a lot like Roger Clemens' one-hit performance against the Mariners in the 2000 ALCS. When faced with a Hall-of-Famer at his best, what can you do? Favre was 18-23, throwing pinpoint pass after pinpoint pass: timing routes, hitting guys in stride, and, in the highlight that will come to represent this game, breaking out......

Seattlest is still getting our bearings after spending the last few weeks of 2007 on the east coast, but one of the most surprising things we've seen is commentary lamenting the closure of the Taco Bell on Broadway. Really? Their food was awful even by Taco Bell standards, and their only saving grace was their late hours. They were an eatery of last resorts. Good riddance. Our collective g-i tract (we're very close here in......

Not sure we've ever seen a win for which the credit belongs so overwhelmingly to the defense. For most of the game, the Seahawks' defensive line was able to get pressure with only four rushers. By establishing that, they were able to drop guys back into coverage, which led to the two pick sixes. The offense? The special teams? Not so great. But let's enjoy this one for now, shall we? Here's the scene at......

10 out of 10 Pro Bowl voters agree--the Seahawks have more talent on defense than on offense. From 2002-2004, the Hawks didn't send a single defense-er to the Pro Bowl. In 2005, rookie linebacker Lofa Tatupu went. Last year, Julian Peterson joined him. But this year, fully 36.36% of the Hawks' starting defense are Pro Bowl starters, as Patrick Kerney and Marcus Trufant will travel to Hawaii as well. We're happiest about Trufant, a Tacoma......

News of the Croc's closure sparked a lively conversation at Seattlest HQ yesterday. We suspect reactions at other blogs' virtual newsrooms were equally as visceral. The local blogosphere, if you will, seems to have turned temporarily into a Croco-sphere. Personally, we have found bittersweet solace in the words of Scripture: In 1966, I went down to Greenwich Village, New York City to a rock club called Electric Banana. Don't look for it; it's not there......

Today John Cook mentioned a new, locally based social networking site in his Venture Blog: ListenToYourWife.com. Howard Ro, the husband in the husband-and-wife team behind the site, explains: Ro, an IT consultant, says that many married women feel as if they are not "being heard." "It's not due to abuse or neglect, but just due to the nature of male dominance in a marriage," he said. "We wanted to create a forum for wives to......

It's 3:30, and the rain has stopped up here at Seattlest HQ. We even see a little sun shining through. Good news, as we spent the past three hours bailing out our basement, which Green Lake is attempting to claim as a satellite branch. The governor has declared a statewide emergency, and the storm is now officially a killer--two people died in Chehalis when a dike ruptured, reports KOMO. Here are the major road closures:......

After September's win over San Francisco, in which the Niners managed only nine first downs, we did a little capsule history over on our all-sports blog of the other times in Seahawk history when they'd held an opponent to less than ten first downs. It had only happened seven times before that game--the September game made it eight--and never twice in once season. Now the Hawks have done it twice in once season to the......

As we were ducking out of yet another Garfield blowout loss to Franklin, we joked to our friends, "What if the Huskies and Seahawks lose too! That would sure suck." But the Huskies were only three point underdogs, and the Seahawks favored to beat lowly Arizona, so we laughed the laugh of a man who's about to go late to a dinner party. We were still laughing at halftime of the Husky game, having moseyed......

Overheard at Seattlest HQ: "I can see how the guy might have a case, but it's pretty common knowledge in the industry that you don't fucking sell AutoCAD on your own -- at least not on obvious places like eBay." That Seattlest was referring to Timothy Vernor, a local guy who filed suit against Autodesk because they used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to have eBay pull auctions where he was trying to sell used......

In Slate today, Taylor Clark declared our -Ist-less neighbor to the south "America's indie rock Mecca," then spent several paragraphs dropping names and figuring out why. His conclusion? It's easy to live here. In the words of a friend of mine who used to be the music editor at the local alt-weekly, Portland is like a resort community for indie rockers who spend half the year working themselves ragged on tour. You can venture into......

The scene in the basement of Seattlest HQ last night when FOX showed Ichiro rounding third and heading home on his inside-the-park home run was what I imagine an old-time political convention looked like after they nominated the hometown candidate after 86 ballots. There were eight of us packed down there, but we all found room to jump around, wave our arms frantically so we looked like a giant third-base coaches convention, and, eventually, exchange......

Although all four lanes of the Fremont Bridge's approaches have been open to traffic for a few weeks now, crews have been busy tinkering this and that and putting those pesky last touches in order to complete the project. As tinkerers, we sympathize; the devil is always in those final details. As we've been documenting the work at various points during the process, we stepped outside the other day to take a closer look......

Tomorrow is Cinco De Mayo, so you already know that any vaguely Mexican destination is going to be filled with jackasses drinking margaritas and acting like idiots over what isn't really Mexican independence day. We're fine with the drunkenness, we're fine with the jackassery, but really, there are much better ways to spend your day and night than in some overly adorned restaurant. Here are three of them, and since we know you're going to......

The Huskies weren't among the 64 teams picked for the NCAA tournament, then neither were they among the 32 teams picked for the NIT. Down here at Seattlest HQ, stunned silence. After the first two regions were revealed, we sort of joked, "Uh-oh, looks like we didn't make it!" And then, when the final bracket was shown, well, wow...we really didn't make it! C.M. Newton, who headed the NIT selection committee, explained the selection process......

The American Institute of Architects asked 1800 Americans to name their favorite buildings in the US. After further refinement and surveying, the AIA compiled a list of the top 150 and released it on Wednesday. A grand total of two Seattle buildings made the list: at #108, the gorgeous but metroartificial Seattle Public Library; and at #135, Safeco Field. Nowhere to be found: the viaduct, the EMP, Smith Tower, Washington Mutual Tower, Rainier Tower, Qwest......

Here at Seattlest HQ, also known as "Library Dorks R Us," we've laid bare our woes of overburdened library hold queues (and overdue quotas) in the past. When 5 books, many over 300 pages, come due at the same time, what is an SPL whore to do? Well, it looks like we're in for another beating; here's what is in our queue, in order of likelihood to arrive: HOLLOW EARTH, by David Standish This non-fiction......

'Member when we made a funny ha-ha joke about thieves breaking into staged homes for sale? Well--irony of ironies--a thief did same to a friend's house last night, so we had to Tivo Saturday morning's Husky game while we spent the day repairing a broken door frame. After watching the Huskies lose by 30, we're wishing they'd broken the whole fucking house. Why do the Huskies suck? There's as many theories flying around Seattlest HQ......

She wants to know what you think. Apparently, she has some "serious, unanswered questions" she wants to pose to the people of Seattle. Her scope is wide:I will never, ever say that a vote of the people is a waste. That's just fundamentally wrong. I, as an elected official, do not believe that.This morning at Seattlest HQ, we received an anonymous email containing an internal memo from the Gov's office, revealing what some of those......

The first time we saw Brandon Roy dribble a basketball, we knew he was going to be the first Garfield High guy to make the NBA. His debut, earlier this year with the Blazers, was anti-climactic. Fellow Bulldog Will Conroy's, however, was not. Conroy's too small for the NBA, he doesn't have a great shot. Hell, he started his UW career as a walk-on. Finished it as the school's all-time assist leader. We can't ever......

Romo sign procured from Qwest Field by our roommate, who was at the game, sitting behind two Dallas fans. For some reason they didn't take their sign with them when they left. Our headline is the reminiscence of the Cowboys' botched 19-yard field goal, by a guy who watched today's Seahawks playoff win at the Kiwi and Kangaroo on Aurora. Mike Holmgren, coaching genius: What do you do if your 238-lb star linebacker tackles......

Microsoft has had a Halo movie in the works for a while now, but it looks like it was killed this week. Universal was supposed to produce the Redmond-written script, a budget was set of $145 million and no less than Peter Jackson was set to produce, but late last week it was revealed that the studio wanted to renegotiate terms and Microsoft bailed. A great post on the subject at GigaOm asks, "The real......

Recent watercooler discussion around Seattlest HQ has centered around the fact that if you do a Google search for "Seattlest," the search engine no longer "helpfully" suggests that you might have meant "Seattle St." In the grand scheme of things this isn't huge (we're already aware of the fact that us and our -ist/-est brethren are taking over the world one city at a time), but it does warm our cold little blogger hearts to......

Around Seattlest HQ, word went out about the news that Craigslist will soon start charging for Seattle job listings. Come October 22nd, the site is going to charge $25 for job postings in an effort to curb spam, overposting, and other "quality issues." Seattlest predicts the following: - Spammers slam the site for the next two weeks, going out in a blaze of "Get Paid for Surfing the Internet" glory. - Likewise, jokers will fill......

Tuesday night at Neumos, local label Sarathan Records had a label showcase and record release party for the new Purrs album. This isn't to say that we've found other labels to be filled with assholes or anything, but Sarathan Records might have the nicest artist roster around. Everyone that took the stage seemed like the type that would help you fix a flat tire even if they were late for an appointment. We're not sure......

A reader asks: I gots a question for you, Mr. Seattlest. People at work are looking for a good Karaoke venue. You heard tell of any? Friends from work want to do it Weds. night. Looking for more "hip" than unhip; more top 40/seventies/big band than modern country, etc. Everyone knows there are lots in the Int'l District, but we're not looking for a William Hung outing, to laugh at furriners. We want to have......