The Mariners' decision to appeal a judge’s ruling allowing the regional-stripping powerhouse Déjà Vu franchise to open in the neighborhood reeks of the same family pandering of a few years back when they wouldn’t let you wear “Yankees Suck” T-shirts inside the stadium.* more ›

Why not hunker down at the new strip club that officials just okayed to be erected (hah) next to Safeco Field while you wait for the game traffic to die down? How many times have you been driving home from work (for the purposes of this article all of you work in Georgetown by Seattlest HQ), and it's stop-and-go on 1st Ave. S., and you have no radio in your car and don't really like sports that much so you have no idea when there will be a game at Qwest or Safeco Field, and stuck in game traffic you have thought, I wish there was an adult cabaret located right...about...here, at 1530 1st Ave. S.? About a thousand times. We know. There is a god! more ›

FACT: The $20 that buys a 2-minute lap dance at Déjà Vu gets you 20 minutes of glassed-in nudity at the Lusty Lady. One quarter keeps a peep show window open for just 15 seconds. (Allegedly. Last time we were there, we weren't scoping out our watch.) more ›

Seattle’s first new strip club in nearly 20 years is set to open sometime this summer in the basement of Fantasy Unlimited, ironically right on the S.L.U.T. line. With a nod to freedom of speech, the newest addition to the Déjà Vu family marks the end of the city’s 17 year moratorium on such establishments and is considered a huge victory for First Amendment activists and dirty old men alike. more ›

The City Council finally got around to passing "adult cabaret" zoning laws that just might let Seattle develop a strip club scene worthy of a would-be world-class city. more ›

What can you say about something like Smokey Joe's Cafe that isn't self-evident from the hype that it's the "Longest Running Musical Review in the History of Broadway(TM)"? Either that does it for you or it doesn't. If you're (relatively) young, bent and jaded you probably won't connect with the graying clap-and-sing-along demographic excited by the highly polished but hammy renditions of popular top 40 songs from their childhood. Our friend Andy who tagged along with us described it as being "like American Idol for old people," and dared us to go dance with the one woman in the audience near the stage who was for a few minutes the only person in the room with the requisite cojones to stand up during the closing rendition of Stand By Me. Luckily the man she was with eventually stood up and clapped along next to her so we didn't have to get out of our seat to meet this dare. more ›

Who knew such bitter emotion roiled beneath the placid surface of the local independent baking industry? more ›

--The real estate bubble really is getting crazy. more ›

The Washington Huskies have scored their first points in the Fulmer Cup, an annual competition to see which college football team is the lawbreaking-est. more ›

So Rick's was raided on Wednesday night:

P-I night reporter Scott Gutierrez was out on the scene and reports that police arrested 14 dancers and one manager for what a police spokesman said were violations of the city's adult entertainment ordinance.

--Miss Kirkland USA hangs it up and tips her hat to Miss Washington USA. more ›

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Susan Paynter thinks all the talk about "freedom of speech" around Referendum 1 (the four-foot rule, etc.) is a ruse -- what the clubs really want to keep "legal" is prostitution:

If we want a vote, up or down, on legalizing prostitution, then, in the words of G.W. Bush, bring it on. But if, outside of Nevada, we still oppose the oldest profession when it is practiced on the street, do we ignore it when it's inside a club that may soon be built next to your house?

"Although touching is supposedly forbidden, in the less-lighted recesses of at least two of the clubs, men reported seeing 'dancers' opening patrons' pants, putting on condoms and, at the very least, rubbing private parts through men's clothing to the point of some tough laundry stains."

Things we learned at trivia last night: more ›

Washington Husky running back Michael Houston is off the team and, presumably, not going to get a pickup from Orange Cab anytime soon after some Saturday night hijinks involving a taxi, a McDonalds, and--it goes without saying--a strip club. more ›

-Lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy, pride...blogging? more ›

Back when we made our oh-so-controversial declaration that Seattle's strip clubs sucked, there was a little nagging voice at the back of our head. "What about the Sands?" it whispered. "You haven't actually been there. And they were remodeled recently. Maybe it's awesome!" more ›

Strip club owners got their wish: The referendum to overturn Nanny Nickels' anti-ecdysiast laws will be on the ballot in November, not September. At least, so says the PI:

The City Council settled the question Monday of when the proposal should go to voters -- not whether it should. That was decided for politicians some time ago when the strip-club industry collected sufficient petition signatures to challenge new rules banning lap dances and dim lighting in clubs. more ›

We established yesterday that Portland wants to be Seattle by pointing out the fact that they have residents who quit the car (for a month) in much the same way Ballard resident Allen Durning has (for good). Tenuous, maybe, but good on 'em. The idea that families need automobiles like they need prime time television should be challenged. Today we suggest that San Francisco wants to be Seattle by pointing out the fact that their lap dances are being threatened in much the same way ours were (successfully, unfortunately) recently. more ›

Face it. There are no good strip clubs in Seattle. more ›

Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scene. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers. more ›

Today is No Pants Day. It's also Cinco De Mayo. Seattlest thinks celebrations for the former will get started after celebrations for the latter, continuing until tomorrow. Since they'll run into tomorrow anyway, Seattlest declares this weekend No Pants Weekend. You can celebrate as you see fit, but for all the ladies, tomorrow's DJ Assault show is going to be the place to get your Girls Gone Wild on. more ›

Oh no, oh no, the ferries are a top target for the terrorists! The No. 1 target, in fact. Well, the No. 1 target for maritime terrorism, which is kind of like saying Cupcake Royale is the No. 1 target for cupcake terrorism. Just as we don't buy that Bad Men would threaten our cupcake supply, we are similarly unconvinced that any maritime target is likely to be the subject of an attack. When we put on our terrorist hats* and think like a terrorist, it just doesn't make any sense to sink a boat. What are they gonna do, commandeer a ferry and crash it into the Space Needle? more ›

We love this town. But we'd love it ever-so-much more if it had these things in it. (Budding entrepreneurs, take note.) more ›

Mayor Nickels' campaign to make local strip clubs no fun for anyone popped up on the local radar again yesterday. Turns out Georgetown residents aren't too happy with Nickels' desire to create a strip club zone that borders their neighborhood to the north. more ›

Next to Centerfolds, Seattle's only male strip club (unless you count that place way out in Rainier Valley--which we don't), sits a dive bar worthy of the moniker, Crown Hill Pub. It is, afterall, in Crown Hill, and seeing as they only serve beer and wine, it is merely a pub. Most establishments which only serve beer and wine make up for lack of hard liquor with a vast selection of local microbrews and regional vintages. The Crown Hill Pub's most exotic selections include Miller High Life, Budweiser, Yellow Tail, and Ernest & Julio Gallo. That's fine, though, because we're not here at 10 o'clock on a Sunday morning to try something new, or god forbid, something drinkable. We're here to nurse our hangover and shoot free pool. more ›

Seattlest is pretty fond of our neighbors to the North--this much you probably already know. But despite our weakness for Canuckery, we can't avoid mocking curling as a sport, albeit an Olympic one. As luck would have it, a bunch of Seattlest's co-workers went curling and we got dragged along. Research, we rationalized, just research. more ›

Student Flyers: The region's Top Gun for teens (uhg) suffered the loss of two students over the weekend when the plane of two freshman students lost power and crashed. Aviation High School has had approximately 1.2 million student flyers since its inception in 1992, but this is the first serious incident. more ›

Not that we don't have our share of gubanatorial insanity here in Washington, but at least we're not California. You may remember that they elected the Terminator as their governor in a special recall election. Yes, it's still funny and getting funnier every day. We only wish that Seattlest was around in 2003 so we could legitamately say, "We told you so," now. more ›

There's a strip club just far enough north to sometimes escape notice called Rick's on Lake City Way. It's been in the news before and depending on the circles you run in it's notorious/famous for skirting the law. A "well-known, documented vice location" according to Seattle Police report issued yesterday. more ›