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Wild speculation surrounding the possibility of Radiohead playing somewhere in Washington sometime in the next year has got us pissing ourselves with excitement. The P-I A P-I reader blog called Ear Candy** thinks they might headline the Sasquatch Festival at the end of May with REM and The Cure but our sources are suggesting the band will embark on a West Coast run after their European summer tour ends. As of right now, the only guaranteed U.S. shows are a handful of random gigs in the South--kicking off in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Cinco De Mayo of all times and places. After all, nothing pairs quite like cheap tequila and sophisticated Brit rock. more ›

We may have the lowest crime rate in 40 years, but it sure doesn't feel like it. more ›

Both the P-I and TNT report that Mike Holmgren will return as coach of the Seahawks. more ›

An artist who "used his own blood as ink" is now cops' main suspect in the murder of Shannon Harps. more ›

We're not sure if barista experience is even necessary. more ›

Boom! Governor Gregoire comes right out of the gate at the new legislative session with a new bill laying "the groundwork for concrete limits on greenhouse gas emissions beginning in 2012." And, in just four short (or long, depending on how you look at it) years, the bill "would give the state Department of Ecology the authority to regulate those emissions," reports the P-I. more ›

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The Rev. Ken Hutcherson, who, in addition to demonstrating the importance of increased protective headgear for linebackers, bully-pulpits Redmond's Antioch Bible Church, announced he's founded the AGN Financial Network, to finance his plan to buy Microsoft his brand of morality. more ›

Details are starting to leak out about the Carnation woman suspected of killing her parents, her brother and her wife, and their two kids Christmas Eve with the help of a boyfriend. more ›

Are food safety and food tasty mutually exclusive goals? You have to ask after both Zesto's and Wild Ginger show up on the P-I's list of Seattle's dirtiest restaurants. more ›

We're not sure how to recommend a 7-hour movie, except to agree with Roger Ebert that it does "take the enormous bulk of Leo Tolstoy's novel and somehow transform it into this great chunk of film without losing control along the way," and to point out that the seven hours includes intermissions. SIFF is showing War & Peace at their McCaw Hall theater in two parts (Part 1: almost 4 hours, with intermission; Part 2: 3 hours with intermission). more ›

Not even merely Blog Hot. She's actually approaching TV Hot. Check her out in this (unfortunately un-embeddable) video clip from KOMO4. more ›

Front-page screamer in the P-I today: School crimes under wraps. more ›

The P-I is still defending its decision not to run the random photo of Arab-lookin guys the FBI passed them last week, as if not participating in a man-hunt for two guys who happened to ask a question about the workings of the ferry in front of the wrong citizen detective is something that needs any more ink. more ›

We had an AHA! moment last night when we first started hearing about the Veggie-Booty-and-salmonella mash-up. The P-I reports:

More than 50 people in 17 states, mostly children age 3 and younger, were infected with salmonella bacteria after eating Veggie Booty, according the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Web site.

A decomposed body was found in the house of ex-radio guy Mike Webb. We heard that first on the television, but we've been reading about Webb on the excellent Blatherwatch blog for a while now--they've been following Webb's fall for months, even from way back in the days before they had a special category for "Mike Webb Missing" on the blog. more ›

We haven't been banging on our Port drum lately because others are doing a bang-up job for us; in particular the Stranger's Josh "Bloodhound" Feit and the P-I's Kristen "Pitbull" Millares Bolt -- and Capt. Tobey, to be fair. In the wake of the brouhaha over The Case of the Commission-Approved Severance That Wasn't, Feit's been Slogging furiously, not so much gloating over the scandal as refusing to let the Port or the Seattle Times* -- "Commissioners need to make some apologies and get back to the people's business" -- gloss over the matter without learning from it. more ›

Seattle will continue to have two daily newspapers, at least for the immediate future. It sounds like both papers were unwilling to leave things entirely in the hands of the arbitrator who was set to deliver a binding verdict on the dispute: They settled with each other and the terms include the Times buying the P-I out of JOA stipulation that the smaller paper would continue to receive revenue in the event that that paper ceased publishing. more ›

Seattlest is all about complaining about transportation in Seattle. We invented complaining about transportation in Seattle. We were complaining about transportation in Seattle via pony express when the Duwamish were still arguing over whether to build canoes or kayaks. But this thing in the paper today about the UW light rail station being disconnected from other transit seems a little premature. The charge is that the fictional 520 exchange of the future doesn't connect with it and, furthermore, there's no parking in the vicinity either. more ›

Yet another postponement, and the new plan is to try to play a doubleheader on Monday, beginning at 10:05 am PST. The M's have a day game in Boston on Tuesday, so this would mean they'd play 3 games in about 28 hours. Not good. more ›

--Brett Tomko, who we'll always love for his terrific relief performance in this critical game, is the Dodgers' fifth starter, beating out Washington State High School Hall of Famer Mark Hendrickson. more ›

--The real estate bubble really is getting crazy. more ›

A Boise couple discovers Seattle, and decides to relocate. Hubby gets a job, wifey doesn't. They can't afford to buy a house or get opera tickets, like they did in Boise. Move back, maybe? No...complain to the P-I. more ›

--Putting random stuff in brackets and voting on it is all the rage. First the blog thing, and now gay clubs go head to head. Stay tuned next week when Seattlest pits our socks against each other in a bracket from hell. more ›

The P-I's Joel Connelly fires a shot across the Stranger's bow this morning with a satirical column titled "Peer into future after car ban -- it isn't pretty." more ›

Leah Slemmer knows from breaking the law. She’s been arrested nearly as many times (49) as years she’s blessed the planet with her presence (54). On Wednesday, she failed to reach the half-century mark (unless the Times’ curiously incongruous story is accurate) when a state trooper was too busy to drag her sorry ass to jail. more ›

KING 5's Investigators have their panties in a bunch about the racist and pornographic emails Port of Seattle police were sending on Port time, using Port computers. In their story, they can hardly bring themselves to present the liberally pixelized graphic evidence. Again and again. It turns out, "over a two-year period, 32 officers -- nearly a third of the entire force -- either received, saved, or passed on more than 175 inappropriate e-mails, including sexually explicit and pornographic images and racist videos and jokes." more ›

Just two weeks ago, Steve Huling announced that the family is selling their auto dealership, which they've owned for 60 years. more ›

In a seismic shift, non-crazy-talker John Creighton will be the Port of Seattle's new president and chairman, as the indefatigable Kristin Millares Bolt reports in the P-I. This just after Tay Yoshitani was announced the new executive director last week. more ›