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......

This, honest to God, is what we would do if we won the lottery: We would purchase a Portuguese League basketball team and stock it with former Washington Huskies. We would spend our mornings sipping sangria by the seashore, our afternoons trying to say that ten times fast, and our evenings watching some of our favorite ballers ever. But until our lucky numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6) come up, we're settling for......

Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU, spoke last night at Town Hall to publicize his new book In Defense of Our America. Notwithstanding the scheduling genius that placed Romero opposite mega-bestselling author Khaled Husseini (The Kite Runner) the lower auditorium was full of citizens waiting to voice their displeasure with ACLU policies. Romero didn't get any criticism for defending the Ku Klu Klan, Neo-Nazis, Ollie North, Fred Phelps, and NAMBLA. No, Seattle's citizens......

Last night Seattlest went to Town Hall to hear Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini read from his new novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. Hosseini's first novel, The Kite Runner was in many ways a phenomenal achievement and by all accounts, the new book has surpassed even the most hopeful of expectations. Hosseini was well spoken, thought provoking. He not only read from his novel but also spoke about his work with the UNHCR (United Nations High......

--No, BRT will never die. --A bunch of buses--half of them hybrids--are on the way to Seattle streets. --Downtown is a sausage fest. --Gas price protesters are like gnats chasing an elephant says a UW prof. --SuperSonicSoul piles on basketball's most hated man. --Back when Robert Horry shoved Bob Kloppenburg, we didn't have Flash, but Suns fans do. Play Whack-a-Horry! --Online airfare soothsayer Farecast sheds that pesky "beta" label.......

Wednesday, February 21 >>> The Thermals at Chop Suey. The Thermals are back in town to rock out for the cause of saving all ages shows. With Helvetia, Speaker Speaker. * mp3: How We Know 8:00 pm doors // $10 adv. // All ages >>> The Budos Band at Neumo's. James Brown may be beating women in heaven, but on Earth we've still got the Budos Band, a ten-piece of twentysomethings who bring sweet......

Brandon Roy, the reigning Western Conference Rookie of the Month, is on a roll and slowly making the NBA his own personal league. Don't think that a certain two-time NBA MVP/Victoria, B.C. native hasn't noticed. Canadia's own Steve Nash will miss tonight's Blazers vs Suns game with what doctors are calling an aggravated right shoulder, but with what we are calling a pulled ovary. When we posed this theory to our official Seattlest Steve Nash......

10. Mariners vs Yankees (August 22): The Yankees kept taking the lead and the Mariners kept coming back. In the ninth, with the score tied 5-5, A-Rod came up with a clutch bases loaded strike out. Later that inning Adrian Beltre won the game on a walk off home run. 9. Seahawks vs Green Bay (November 27): The field was covered in snow, Alexander ran for over 200 yards, Hasselbeck over came a slow start......

Stay with us here, will you? Florida cops busted ex-Sonic Eddie Johnson yesterday. He allegedly broke into a neighbor's home and molested an 8-year-old. But--and this is important--the ex-Sonic Eddie Johnson that's been charged is NOT the rangy, sweet-shooting forward of the 1991-93 playoff teams. A different Eddie Johnson played for the Sonics first, getting into 24 games in 1987. That Eddie Johnson is the alleged child molestor. In the interest of fairness, let's hear......

It's rained--hard--five out of the last six weekends. And after a week of beautiful weather, it's supposed to cloud over Saturday and rain Sunday. Along with the byplay of their weekend, the Seattlests answer the question "Why does God hate Seattle?" James is by no means a stereotypical NPR liberal. No, he's a stereotypical PRI liberal, and he's flaunting that on Saturday night at the Julia Sweeney/Ira Glass conversation at the Paramount. He's also going......

Here at our work, some guy's been trying to give away damn good seats to tonight's Sonics game all day, asking $5 below face, then $15 below face, then "any reasonable offer," which inspired co-worker wiseguys to propose trading cement pieces and old socks for the tix. Last time the Sonics and Suns played, they set an NBA record for three-pointers in a game, scored more points than any two teams in ten years. Ray......

Two days later, the horrible officiating in Super Bowl XL (led by Bill Leavy, at right) continues to be a major media story. Our take? Sure, there were some bad calls, but the Hawks would have still won had they played better, coached better, and not had some critical injuries. Still: The folks at 12 Seahawks Street urge you to call the NFL to complain. Or you can sign a petition contending that the game......

Sonics forward Danny Fortson yesterday blamed Suns' owner Jerry Colangelo, New York Post writer Peter Vescey, and the advancing age of NBA referees for his increasing uselessness as a basketball player. Sounding like he's been hanging out too much with Richard Lee, Fortson gave reporters his reasons why he leads the league in technical fouls: "Clearly, things are set against me, as simple as that." "Ever since they went out and talked about me, my......

The Sonics lost their first preseason game last night, 82-75 to Nate McMillan's Portland Trail Blazers. McMillan, you will recall, played 12 years for the Sonics and coached the team for 5. But, after his contract expired last season, he made the admirable decision to test new waters as the coach of the notoriously uncoachable Blazers. McMillan's move elevates the Sonics-Blazers rivalry to one of the NBA's most compelling. To draw an analogy for those......

Until Saturday, the most memorable moment Jerome James provided as a Sonic was the time he was suspended for falling asleep during a team film session. "I wasn't asleep, I just nodded off," he later said. Or when he was late for practice when he couldn't get his car--a Hummer H2--out of his driveway after a Seattle "snowstorm." But last Saturday night, in Game 1 of the Sonics' first-round playoff series, James played the best......