Last week a mean-spirited commenter at Techflash said, "As I was solving the second part of the puzzle it suddenly dawned on me that I did not want to party with a bunch of people who would take the time to solve the second part. As Groucho Marx once said, 'I would never belong to a club that would have me as a member.'" Last night the nerds had their revenge. more ›

Tonight marks the last movie in the Route 08: Scion Independent Film Series. This time the good people at Toyota are sponsoring a free screening of Chop Shop, the second film by writer/director Ramin Bahrani, best known for his depressing, yet totally stellar debut, Man Push Cart. Thematically, Chop Shop sounds like more of the same: more ›

Face it, folks: it's fall in Seattle, and along with cooler nights, leaves changing color, and the beginning of football season, fall also marks the annual Scion independent film series. Yes, it's corporate-sponsored lifestyle marketing aimed at the hip youth demographic, and yes, they just want the kids to buy their damn cars, but we're willing to shill for it when 1) it's free and 2) the films shown are actually worth seeing. The series kicks off tonight with Heavy Metal in Baghdad, the first full-length film made by the good people at Vice: more ›

While Seattlest continues our Miami-based advance scouting of the Dolphins game later this season (ok, we are hanging out on the beach), we want to make sure that we give today's Bears-Seahawks pre-season game a little bit of electronic ink too. more ›