This weekend ditty—Sunday Mornin' Coming Down—brought to you by Beveridge Place Pub's Barleywine Bacchanal, which wrapped up last night but can still be felt today. (Our favorite NW offering: Water Street's Old Wookie.) 'Til next year, you most sweet, smoky temptress of brews. more ›

Local Singer/Songwriter Joanna Horowitz got a crazy idea a year or so ago. A long-time musician involved in the theater business, she thought it might be fun to write a musical. Enter 100 Heartbreaks... more ›

Apparently, Clay Bennett wants to talk again. Now, we don't know squat about owning sports teams, so we won't presume to give Mr. Bennett advice on how to negotiate with this waterside shanty-town. But one thing we do know is Love, specifically the requisite sweet-nothings that lubricate this most powerful of human conditions. And, as far as we can tell, this is what this Storm/Sonics thing is all about: Bennett and Seattle coming to an understanding relationship so that they know what to expect when they hop into the civic sack together. more ›

Every once in a great while we'll be reading the Seattle Times (we're housesitting and they get it here) and we'll learn something. We can't express to you the shock of it. This morning we were reading their Bumper column (the Times's version of the P-I's Getting There), and ran across this comment from a guy who got a warning for honking...well, here, you read it:

The other day Mark Cruz, of Renton, was waiting to turn left at a green light in downtown Seattle. The car in front of him was sitting under the light, turn signal blinking, but had not budged even though all oncoming traffic had passed. Cruz honked his horn to urge the driver to move. "Then I was pulled over by a Seattle police officer on a motorcycle. He let me off on a warning for honking at the car in front of me. more ›

Seattlest stumbled across The Name Inspector early this year -- not long after the blog was started. As the about page says, "The Name Inspector takes a close look at names and tells you what makes them tick (or tank) from a linguistic point of view." We're word nerds, so we were hooked immediately. And we're not alone. more ›

This email showed up in the Seattlest inbox this morning: more ›

Someone wrote in via our tip widget today: more ›

USS Mariner writer and friend of Seattlest Jason Michael Barker is smack in the middle of upstate New York's massive snow dump. Yesterday his school, the Culinary Institute of America, had its first snow day since 1996. more ›

Ever see a news story about this kind of thing and think "Holy shit what would it be like to be inside the store when that happens?" Now Seattlest knows someone who can answer that question. more ›

Friday night Seattle gets a new art gallery -- BLVD, dedicated to urban contemporary art. (Note to the uninitiated: that's "boulevard," not "beloved.") We talked with gallerist Kirsten Anderson, who also owns Roq La Rue, the neighboring lowbrow/pop surrealism gallery, about urban contemporary art and what to expect from BLVD. more ›

Trish Repko is the lead singer of Satin Skirmish. The band's new album drops this fall. more ›

Seattlest wants to introduce you to Hardison. Take a moment. It's worth it. You can find some of their mp3s for download here. more ›

The wake of late playwright August Wilson is today from 11am-8pm and tomorrow from 11am to 6pm at the Bonney-Watson Funeral Home. He'll be buried in Pittsburgh this weekend. more ›