As 7:30 a.m. rolled around, we were ready for breakfast and tired of slowly following the STP riders through Kent, so we made our way back to I-5 and headed south to the first of two stops that took us away from the bicyclists' course. more ›

Seattlest came across a couple interesting stories today regarding substance use and abuse. more ›

Spotted by Seattlest last night at The Sunset Tavern, an ironic intersection of corporate sponsorship and state law. more ›

Real Change executive director Tim Harris says on his blog that the Seattle Weekly wants to exposé his street newspaper back to the Gutenberg age. more ›

might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We're exhausted just thinking about it. more ›

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. more ›

Somehow, the world of -ists managed to make it through the week despite news that Jen & Vince broke up. more ›

Divey holes-in-the-wall continue to close or come up for sale with their owners shaking a yellowed fist at the smoking ban, but so far the public outcry against the 25' rule has been nonexistent. Philip Dawdy lets us know that at least one reporter is not going to let it die without a fight in the current Seattle Weekly. more ›

-A guy in Tacoma tried to step in on a fight between his mom and step-dad and was shot. Accidentally. In the head. He died 40 minutes later. more ›

Seattlest posted a lament recently about the unexpected down-side to the new indoor smoking ban, specifically our newly rediscovered sense of smell. Where is the justice in prohibiting one foul odor only to open the floodgates to lesser noxious fumes? Apparently, the champions of freedom at the ACLU read Seattlest, as they have now seized this historic opportunity to answer the call to justice (from their recent news alert): more ›

Masters of atmospheric drone/psych/whatchamacallit rock Kinski and Oneida put on a powerful show at Neumo's last Saturday, sharing the stage for a final jam session following their individual sets. There's enough stylistic overlap between the two bands that its surprising when people you've never heard of who write about music more often compare Oneida to the more abstract noise efforts of Sonic Youth than with the more obviously similar Kinski. The predominantly instrumental and intense, hypnotic rock sound is perhaps better described by the geniuses at Pitchfork in this less than glowing review of the 2004 release Secret Wars "....Songs are built atop the constant cycling of hyper-minimal progressions, fairly bludgeoning the listener into a state of docility with as minimal an approach as possible." Word. more ›

Seattlest vividly remembers when we were about five years old, sitting in our aunt's kitchen watching our grandmother dragging off a filterless cigarette, blowing columns of smoke out her nose like a possessed hell-horse (seriously, that woman had nostrils of equine proportions). We thought smoking was ipso facto with being older--a rite you become entitled to once you pass a mysterious life milestone that at the time was well beyond our grasp. Our perspective on smoking changed rather dramatically in the decades that followed, but it doesn't change the fact that some old people hate the smoking ban. Wheeling 25 feet outside for a toke is not high on their list of enjoyable activities, it seems. more ›

Despite the warnings that the smoking ban would ensure anarchy and despair on the nightlife front, instead smoking has strengthened its role as a social lubricant. A new brand of comradery is being forged nightly as smokers go outside for their nicotine fix. This isn't all that surprising, since people are social creatures, not unlike the uber-cute momonga. Not to be too Fremont-hippie about this, but we crave company and need one another, knowing we can get more done together than we can alone. more ›

Q: When does the smoking ban start? more ›

Seattle smokers are breathing a little, uh, easier, today after the state Supreme Court struck down a Pierce County smoking ban, stating that banning smoking from Pierce County bars, restaurants, and casinos is in conflict with state law. more ›