Last night, in the middle of the movie round, Seattlest officially became old. "What Canadian actor, who died in Mexico, appeared in seven movies directed by John Hughes, more than any other performer?" we asked. more ›

Back in Emeril's pre-Katrina heyday, chefs and serious foodies used to dismiss it as the Bam! network. Now it's disdained as All-Rachael, All-The-Time. You know, the Food Network, not about cooking so much as lifestyle (travel, glitz), weaponry (knife-wielding, cake-frosting) and tours of candy factories. Deliberate programming choices, made to draw viewers too sedate for Housewives and too chicken for Survivor. more ›

We wandered the campus of Walla Walla's Whitman College campus, our alma mater, this weekend. more ›

In a not-always-successful attempt to keep our TV watching to a minimum, we have a no-reality-TV rule at home. But we do have one exception: Top Chef. New episodes broadcast on Bravo TV at 10pm on Wednesdays, but the Bravo people must be even more into the series than we are because you can watch practically the entire season every day, and we think that next Wednesday you can, in fact, watch the ENTIRE season, beginning to end. And we think it would be a surprisingly good use of your time. more ›

Sorry whitey, your days of running the city are over. The Seattle City Council has narrowed the list of contenders to replace retiring Jim Compton from 98 to 14, and there ain't a cracker among them. more ›

98 people have applied for the vacant seat on the Seattle City Council. more ›

Once upon a 1998 the Real World was filmed in Seattle and the cast lived on one of the piers down by Myrtle Edwards. They were probably going for a houseboat feel but couldn't find or build anything large enough to contain the cast along with the cameras and equipment it takes to make the World Real. It probably worked in favor of the show because whenever you're trying to brainwash someone it's best to isolate them from anyone who's not a part of your message and no one lived down there in 1998. Ah, a reality TV producer's wet dream: Eight young adults living drunken and alone near an urban center.. more ›

It's that time of year again...the startup of the fall season of TV, and the chance for Seattleites to nab their 15 minutes by appearing on various reality shows. We already love Jude and Jacob, the Lakewood twins on MTV's The Reality Show. (The conceit of the show: Ten pitches for reality shows battle it out in order to be picked as...a reality show.) The hook for the Lakewood fellas? The search for love. The catch? Jacob like girls, and Jude likes boys. But we like 'em 'cause they seem sweet and funny and they are self-described "jumpropers." more ›

As previously alluded to, Seattlest is unabashed in our love for television. We tend to gravitate toward the good stuff, but we are by no means too highbrow to watch reality TV. Case(s) in point: the gloriously addictive trainwrecks known as Surreal Life 5 and Being Bobby Brown. For us, the viewing of such apocalypse-heralding fare is merely a spectator sport; that is to say, we've got no aspirations to be the castmember who actively works to alienate everyone in the house. While Seattlest is certainly not sociopathic enough to vie for a spot on a reality show, we cannot assume the same is true of our readership. For that reason, we feel the need to announce that America's Next Top Model will be holding auditions in Seattle next week. more ›

Seattlest has a friend who is competing in the Coeur d'Alene Ironman Triathlon in June. Naturally, we think she is stark raving insane. Aside from the staggering physical demands of an Ironman triathlon, what really wrinkles our brow about triathlons in general is the running part. You see, we run for frisbees and buses, and that's it. Period. So to pile on a serious run after some hardcore biking and swimming (which we're not that wild about either) just seems just over the top. Now really. more ›

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After the heartbreak of Willard's premature ejection from Survivor, we were primed and ready for Seattle's Alex to continue his quiet rise to power on The Apprentice. more ›

All of a sudden, Survivor is on Wednesday nights. And all of a sudden, Bellevue's own Willard is gone. more ›

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We thought we were down to one Seattleite reality TV star after Verna's aforementioned spectacular flameout on last week's Apprentice. This would leave us with Alex, who skated through yet another episode by lurking quietly in the background. (Though, to his credit, he backed up his leader at the...Seattlest regrets to inform you that we actually typed "rose ceremony" before realizing we meant "boardroom"...Alex backed up his leader, Bren, in the boardroom.) Our guess is that people who believe in "family, God, and America" are the same people to take into battle for backup. God bless Alex. more ›