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NEW ITALY: Few countries do art and design (and wine) better than Italy. And Italian cinema has always been among the best, which is why SIFF is presenting The New Italian Film Festival, a series of 8 Euro festival movies selected by a jury and sent to Seattle. Tonight’s two showings are Different From Whom?, the satirical story of a gay man who runs for mayor in a right-wing town, and The House in the Clouds, a drama in which disparate brothers deal with their self-absorbed father.

The AP whipped up a story on the Bonvicini hire prior to the official announcement, but we waited for the Twitter confirmation before we went with the story. People say bloggers post first, ask questions later. But that's not us, man. We're here with the facts! And the fact is that Joan Bonvicini is one of only 18 coaches in Division I history with more than 600 victories. Go Redhawks!

Here with a preview of tonight's Washington vs. Seattle University game is Seattlest's SU Winter Sports Correspondent Cody Goins.

• Somewhere on the fringes of our consciousness, we're aware that there is a place called West Seattle, which is where people live who don't mind being repeatedly screwed. That's why they won't be surprised to find out that the "low bridge" will keep opening during their commute.
• My Ballard commenters have theories--boy, do they have theories--about who's responsible for all those bike "carcasses" being left along the Burke-Gilman.
• Meanwhile, the Central District News has a theory of its own which involves dinosaurs being thin at one end...whoops, wrong one...which involves Seattle U building a new stadium for its fancy-schmancy Division I basketball team.

The Seattle Times and City Club sponsored yesterday's debate between Rob McKenna and John Ladenburg, which was hosted at Seattle University as part of the school's Social Justice Week program. Times crack reporter Bob Young reports on how it all went down. We'll cut straight to the important part: neither are for legalization of marijuana, and in fact McKenna wants to reclassify pot as a "more serious drug" thanks to BC growers' potent strains.

WORDY SHIPMATES: Sarah Vowell's finally here to read from her book about the thought-life of Puritans such as John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, and Roger Williams. She's "not interested in the whole person," says Vowell in a recent interview with Seattlest Editor MvB. Take Roger Williams: "I'm mostly interested in what he thought about religion, government, community, Indians and how much Roger Williams was getting on his nerves. I don't really give a hoot what he had for breakfast or how he felt about his mom." This is one reading we feel more than comfortable recommending!

We've all thought about it. You've got this really great idea and you are sure it would make millions. Only you're not sure how to go from that sticky note you jotted the idea on three months ago to actually starting to build a real live business. Plus there's the whole family/rent/mortgage/band thing that sucks up your time. And your job.

Our friend was at Seattle University's Law School Graduation over the weekend and sat next to Larry Flynt.

An associate professor of military science at Seattle University has been arrested in Colorado as part of a child sex sting. Andrew Douglas Frank was arrested in Canon City, Colo., where he had flown to meet a teenage girl he'd been communicating with online. The underage girl he'd been sharing risque communiques with was no Lolita, she was in fact, an undercover officer.

According to the Capitol Hill Blog, by way of Blogging Georgetown:

There is a low power radio station over at SU on 12th Ave. It's on 89.1 Mhz, and is very low power. One can only get it within 1/4 mile from the campus, beyonf which some religious station blocks them out. The signal is strongest at 12th and Cherry.They claim to use 1330 khz also, but didin't have any luck there. The call letters are KSUB.

Kakuta Hamisi, a member of the Maasai tribe of Kenya, is working over the summer at the Woodland Park Zoo, talking to zoo visitors about Maasai culture and conservation.

Al D'Amato isn't a U.S. senator anymore, but continues to act like one. D'Amato's fathered a child at the age of 70, which is four years shy of Strom Thurmond's record, but nothing to sniff at.

Whitman College: Jeffrey Sachs, economist and author

There's a potentially interesting article in the Seattle Times about a potentially interesting class at Seattle University that includes in its coursework a potentially interesting experiment. It's an experiment in "media deprivation" for a class called "Restorative Solitude." Ninety six hours, no media. Awesome. It reminds us of Chris Pirillo's Google Fast. In the teeny bopper world in which the article is set "media" are things like cell phone, email, internet, iPod, TV, at least those are the options in their "what could you live without" poll (we voted internet). Hat tip to the Times for realizing the futility of listing "newspaper" in there, at least, but that's a pretty narrow view of what constitutes media to the teenagers or young twentyish types towards to whom this article seems to be directed.

What's the only local college ever to make the NCAA Men's Basketball Final?

A tent city occured at St Joe's on the Hill this week marking the beginning of the apocolypse. Rapture, please come before the fabric of our society rends. Or we run out of oil. Which ever comes first.

Yeah, we know -- out-of-town guests are the only reason you visit the Space Needle in the first place. But there's more to this city than really tall spires with Galileo-inspiring drops. Got friends or family coming from out of town? Here's 43 suggestions for things to do with them.

We loved loved loved the site where the Empty Space used to have their little things over in Fremont. Yes, part of it was that we could walk there if we were so determined but Seattlest also thinks that it was just the perfect size for a...middling to struggling financially theatre company. There were maybe, what, a hundred seats in there? That's the perfect size.

Every so often Seattle University does something that makes us reconsider never responding to their alumni appeals. They host tent city (here's the KUOW take). Now they're partnering with Seattle's third-oldest non-profit professional theater, Empty Space.

Seattlest has no time. No time to contemplate our future. No time to mindlessly surf the internet. No time to pick blackberries, baby our sunburn, tune up our bike, while away the hours, smell the roses, make another pot of coffee, stop for a 12-pack on the way home, be annoyed by the Blue Angels or write this post. We certainly have no time to attend the Take Back Your Time North American Conference in Seattle today through Sunday.