Tonight in Denver, Barack Obama will make history by becoming the first man in over three and a half years to accept the Democratic Party’s nomination for President. Here is everything you need to know about tonight. •The speech will take place at the 75,000 seat INVESCO Field at Mile High, where the Seahawks are 1-0 all time, beating the Broncos 23-20 in 2006. •The speech should start sometime between 6:45 and 7:00 p.m. (ish).......

As we wrote earlier, the Huskies play Cal-Berkeley tonight in the first round of the Pac Ten Tournament. They'll be doing it without an injured Jon Brockman, seen by many as the team's best player. However, is he any good? Dusty (Yes): Brockman owned Kevin Love at Hec-Ed, and if you say “but Artem Wallace guarded him” then maybe HE should be conference player of the year. AR-TEM! AR-TEM! AR-TEM.…MVP! MVP! MVP! I’m not......

We asked our fellow Seattlests: What's the last good book you read? And what's coming up on your summer reading list? James: I just finished Songs of Innocence, Richard Aleas's second book about ex-PI John Blake. Like Aleas's first book, it's a noir mystery where you're a little ahead of the hero; the tension comes from wondering how the hero will handle the truth. On deck: another dead woman and the detective obsessed with her,......

When Federal Way resident Frosty Hardison was on the Daily Show, he said the Rapture would be coming along in oh, " five to seven years." But when we heard news that Def Leppard, Foreigner, and Styx would be at the White River Ampitheater on September 26th, the first thing we thought was: September 26th is a Wednesday, what the hell? And then we realized that Frosty was actually wrong. Dead wrong. This is a......

The Daily Show appearance of the guy who staged a semi-successful one-man Holy War against An Inconvenient Truth in Federal Way has already been posted elsewhere, but we can't help reposting. He's really a funny guy--his Church Lady and his Al Gore impressions are hilarious and it seems like hanging out with him would be like spending some high energy time with Robin Williams, if Robin Williams were a religious nut who believed that any......

--Bill Gates is appearing on the Daily Show next week. --Federal Way hopes it has started a "healthy debate" on global warming. Who'd a thought banning An Inconvenient Truth would be the first step towards that. --The Cha Cha is going to be ousted by condos soon, but it will live on in pavement art. --Hendrix will be immortalized in energy drink. --Landlords, get a renter in that unit before someone comes and steals all......

To make your own political campaign lawn sign. While Seattlest sits and waits for the Daily Show to wake up and finally go knock on Matthew Baldwin's door, we suggest you check out the call for submissions over at The Morning News by our favorite local jester of the tech world. Make your own political lawn sign for a fictional or historical person (no actual politicans allowed), stick it someplace public, and send your photo......

When he last graced our fine city, Mr. Jonathan Hodgman was touring for his new book The Areas of My Expertise. He has since then become straightman-comic hawker of Apple computers and Resident Expert on the Daily Show. Seattlest could possibly be more jealous, but we're not certain. He is back on tour because his book has been released in paperback. Is that the literary equivalent of a pop-song/DJ remix mashup? We hope to find......

This has been a rough week for your -ist pals, though you wouldn't know it from the great posts all over the network. Plagued with server problems, our tech team (led by the great Neil Epstein) toiled around the clock to solve the glitches as they arose. Seriously, we've said, typed, and thought the phrase "server problems" more in the past week than we have for the last 35 years combined. Why not say......

Seattle as a city is currently in danger of becoming the guy at the party with the undone zipper. When we come strutting out of the men's room anxious to talk about technology and the environment and progressive politics all anyone can see is the Discovery Institute hanging out of our pants. Seattlest cringes every time the national media references a particular "Seattle-based think tank" - They won't let us pretend for a minute that......

The Northwest Film Forum's been showing The Girl from Monday for a week now, but for tomorrow night's screening at 8pm, director Hal Hartley will be in attendance to introduce his latest work and hold a post-film Q&A. Since Hartley's veritable indie film royalty, this is a big geeky deal. The Girl from Monday has been dubbed a "fake sci-fi movie," but it's also a dark dystopian satire, a vision of the future where humans......