Tell him there's about a 1 in 6 chance he'll appear on Jeopardy! in the next couple of years. He'll obsessively check his phone messages the whole time. That's right: we passed the recent in-person Jeopardy! audition held in Seattle, which means we're officially in the applicant pool. 400 contestants appear in a season, the applicant pool is 2000-2500 people--voila! One in six. What next? The waiting game. Oh, and studying like a mofo. Ken......

They're talking; are you listening? Here's the round-up on speakers of note. Thursday, September 14 >Town Hall fielder's choice: at 7:00pm, rabble-rouser Jim Hightower ($10) on sustainable communities, or at 7:30pm, Irwin Redlener ($5) on what’s wrong with our approach to preventing and responding to mega-disasters. >Elliott Bay. 8:00pm. Jennifer Gilmore reads from her debut novel, "Golden Country," about the Jewish Immigrant Experience Project. Free, our hand to God! Friday, September 15 >Third Place......

“With the possible exception of Imperial Venice,” says Sunset magazine, Seattle is "the most boat-obsessed city in the history of the world." And among the seemingly hundreds of other festivals going on this weekend in Seattle is one to celebrate this obsession: the 29th Annual Wooden Boat Festival in South Lake Union Park. The park, which continues to see daily growth and development, is the long-time home to the Center for Wooden Boats. The center......