The February performance of Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues is commonplace in cities across America. In Seattle, "V-Day" will be celebrated with a performance on February 24th at The Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI). Sponsoring the event is the Seattle Office of The National Council of Jewish Women. To advertise the performance, The Council produced the colorful print you see to the right. The advertisement is running in The Seattle Weekly and JT News,......

The Seattle Weekly pulled feature writer Huan Hsu off the bashing-local-charities beat this week, and instead had him profile the coach of a high school girls tennis team. A coach who is now fired. Why? Well, let's take a look at the fourth word of Hsu' story: "Sexy." Hsu leads with the salacious details of a "sensual" poem coach Aaron Silverberg read to his Ballard High charges.Drinking you in. Melting you under my tongue. Touching......

The Seattle Weekly was criticized on various blogs last week for their story on the inner-workings of Seattle's homeless newspaper Real Change. Today on their blog they've started running letters that they received in response to that story. Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 6:00 PM To: sw letters Subject: Grandmother from Ballard says you suck Dear Weekly, I've read you for years and the article on dissing Real Change is the worst reporting ever. Whats......

Real Change executive director Tim Harris says on his blog that the Seattle Weekly wants to exposé his street newspaper back to the Gutenberg age. In Harris' post, entitled "Seattle Weekly: What the Fuck?," he gives the history of his contact with reporter Huan Hua, and relates what he says he heard from a Hua interview subject, former Real Change employee Israel Bayer:From the questions he was asking, Huan's angle wasn't hard to suss......

The Seattle Weekly government in exile launched its website today and has promised to continue posting to it until the people rise up and give them their paper back. Anyone pining for the city's other weekly and its lovable cast of characters circa the Bronze Age through about a year ago should head over to Crosscut immediately. We'll see you back here when you've had your fill. :::Seattlest fumbles with getting our new cell phone......

The world's oldest newspaper may have canceled its print edition, but thanks to the patronage of law enforcement officials, you'll always be able to get the Seattle weeklies on paper. It's where cops get their tips:Everett detectives have been investigating Paradise Tanning as a front for a prostitution operation since August. That's when a detective found an advertisement for the business listed in a "sensual" section of The Seattle Weekly, according to court documents. The......

When all of the bubbly started wearing off on the first morning of 2006 we exited the bed, scaldeded off some of the dirt and defeat of 2005 in the shower and sat down with the first pot of coffee of the new year to crack open the laptop and see if the internet was still as we'd left it. Oh All That Is Holy, what bizzaro world have we awoken to?!? The Seattle Weekly's......

Not since Joe's Asprin Stacking Blog joined forces with Alexis's Rice Crispe World Blog to form Joe & Alex's Little House of Horrors Blog has a merger of this magnitude so shaken Seattle's media environment. Villiage Voice Media, owner of The Seattle Weekly, has announced a merger with alt-weekly publisher New Times Media. Being absolutely ignorant of the specifics of this merger as we currently are, Seattlest can safely say that we are not fans......

We've been waiting for a while now for The Seattle Weekly to take a few baby steps into the world of the internet. Rival weekly The Stranger came around not too long ago with forums, a blog and some RSS goodness that we think is really working out for them, so we've been a bit mystified by the continuing reluctance of The Weekly to do anything at all on the internet, However, today we discovered......

We happened on the most recent Tablet last night and we were halfway through the editor's letter announcing the demise of the magazine when it occured to us that we hadn't heard about this being the final issue from any other source. Then we realized the damn thing just came out. It's been expressed elsewhere, though, that Tablet just didn't get talked about enough, and as a media outlet of sorts we're partly to blame.......

The Seattle Weekly hitting newsstands today contains their 'Best of Seattle' ballot for your voting pleasure. Vote for the best pilates studio, best local microbrew and best reason to leave Seattle. If you find the ballot confusing or that there are just too many categories to decide on you can keep the coming anxiety attack at bay with Seattlest's handy guide to The Seattle Weekly's Best of Seattle Ballot: 8. Best local website: Seattlest.com 9.......

We aren’t over the fact that Portland’s Willamette Weekly won a Pulitzer Prize last week. It’s just so damn impressive, we have to take a moment to dwell on it just a little bit more. The WW is putting on a very good show of playing the whole thing down--it takes a magnifying glass or Google to find any mention of it on their site. Seattlest hopes that somewhere in the background Nigel Jaquiss and......

How is that Seattlest has not only never read, but never heard of the novel that The Seattle Weekly based their issue around this week? We read a lot; books and the like. We love regional novels. We love science fiction novels. We love ecological science fiction novels! Of course there's a regional, ecological science fiction novel out there somewhere. There are probably a hundred of them: little vanity press affairs or handwritten manuscripts getting......

It comes out first and their features have been consistently decent, so the Weekly's cover story is a good place to start. This week's "Black, White and Redneck" (or toned down to "Black and White in Grays Harbor County" once you get past the cover) is a little uninspiring, though, so let's leave it at that. Seattlest feels like we may have been a bit short with The Seattle Weekly and that may not be......

The Stranger returned from its week of Ben Exworthy coverage with a story that must seem really big to them, but... Yawn. Last week The Issue That Exworthy Bought was mildly entertaining, but ultimately tiring. Wow, a Seattlite hipster with money and ego! What a scoop! The money is great and all, but Seattlest wishes that Exworthy would have used some of the space to advertise the venerable Northwest Harvest instead of squandering the entire......