Each week, the staffers at Seattlest share with you their favorite things of the week. From the shucked oysters availabe at a local market to the current season of The Amazing Race, Seattlest's writers want you to be in on everything that made them smile this week. What are your favorite things? Send 'em along to tips@seattlest.com more ›

An amazing thing happened this week: summer finally began. And our photographer friends got the shots to prove it. Of course, there were a few cloudy moments, too--but we didn't let them keep us down. more ›

Sex-obsessed Knox prosecutor Giuliano Mignini has backed away from his signature theory... and right into an even stranger one, as his case against the American student and her boyfriend gets weaker by the day more ›

HOCKEY: After conning their way into a record deal by packing a venue with friends, the members of Hockey left LA for Spokane and got dropped. They wisely fled for Portland where the band recorded and self-produced Mind Chaos. With a European tour coming up and an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon back in October, plan on hearing a lot more about these guys. more ›

My God, it's beautiful outside. When did that happen? Here we are sneezing and coughing and oozing from every orifice on our face when we look outside and Holy Obamalove, Batman! It's really nice out! more ›

Mike Doughty (yeah, he used to be in some other band) has a new album out this week, Golden Delicious. We saw him at the Triple Door in December for his Question Jar tour; he sat on stage and played songs (even one from that other band), occasionally drawing questions written by the audience from a large glass jar and answering them with charming humor and candor. Most felicitously, we didn't even have to ask "Hey Mike, will you make a little video of one of your new songs and dedicate it to our lovely Seattlest readers?" Because he just went ahead and did it anyways. That's how much he loves us. And you. Please enjoy "Fort Hood" and we'll hope the sun continues to shine around here for a little longer, too. more ›

, dropped a couple weeks ago, and we've been listening to it steadily since. more ›

(This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer’s market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs.) more ›

The weekend arrived, along with all 40 of our bike clinic clients. Everyone was giddy at the thought of a heli-drop bike ride on Sunday, and the bike clinic was going off without a hitch. Until Sunday, when we ended up again at 9,000 feet, with the sun replaced by snow. Blowing snow, to be precise. And we had a freelance journalist writing for the London Sunday Times riding with us. You know, something like the second largest paper...in the world. We were supposed to show him a fantastic time, and once the flakes started falling we knew everyone was in for an adventure, but not the kind they had signed up for. We'll let our intrepid journalist tell the rest of the story, in the meantime we'll revel in the glory of going down in print as the mountain biking guide who led him astray. And yet we will continue to insist that you're only truly lost if you don't know where you are--we knew where we were, it just wasn't where we wanted to be. more ›

Blackberry week continues with Seattlest Rachael's blackberry sorbet recipe more ›

Rachel Hynes is a former barista and yet still enjoys spending time in espresso places. She reviews them for us. more ›

We lifted this sound recording of a weird and prolific screamer at Belmont and Denny from the Seattle LiveJournal community. more ›

Seattlest grew up in a tiny town you've never heard of in Central Florida, where a real sandy ocean beach (on which you could drive) was 20 minutes in one direction, and a crystalline gulf beach was an hour and a half in the other. Now that we live in the Land of the Rain, we wait all year for weeks like these, when the sun is high and hot, the breeze is soft and frequent and there are enough daytime hours to book it to the lake beach after work. more ›

We did our best to ignore the shirtless guy's bongo tappy tappy, but when two California poseurs got him to provide a beat for them to rap to (badly), it was time for our person to move along. more ›

Whatever you want to call them, you know the french fry style we're talking about. They're the fries whose flavorlessness is only surpassed by their texturelessness. Dicks has em. Gimmie a Deluxe, a Spesh, an onion, a tiny bag of wet mush and a chocolate shake. Fucking everyone has em. These fries are the ultimate cop-out for restaurants that can't find a decent french fry supplier and opt for just buying potatos. French fries aren't rocket science, although--and this may be news to many many area restaurants--they are more than a slice of potato dropped in oil for twenty seconds. You gotta double dip! You think you can spit in the face of fry tradition just because you have a potato slicer? Seattle, always thinking it needs to reinvent the wheel... more ›

Yesterday Seattlest stopped by Chop Suey on the walk home to see how the inaugural edition of the Sunday Summer BBQ Series was going. It was empty. It wasn't terribly surprising, since marketing for the series was pretty minimal, but we do fully support the concept: early shows, with grilled fare available outside. We only stuck around for the first band, Bellingham's The Love Lights, who switch up the indie-pop formula with the addition of a horn section(!), but we left pretty pleased with the experience, since we'd never heard of them before (or the other bands on the bill for that matter). We hope more people show up to future editions of the BBQ series, since the early shows make a nice cap to a day out in the sun (the bands don't get going until 5pm), and this is a nice low-key way to find out about local acts on the rise. more ›

Yesterday Seattlest broke out of the office at noon, grabbed a Tats'trami and headed to Occidental Square. There's nothing like passing a short hour with a book and a gut bomb in a square... Actually, had a book along, but it was only cover for our real mission which was to watch all the little people go about their little lives and they happily obliged by showing up and staring back at us. What? Just eating a sandwich and reading over here. Nosy freak. more ›

Oh yes, Seattlest fans, it's that time of year again. When, after weeks of teasing, the sun finally decides to stick around. When all able-bodied gay men head to Madison Beach in their tight little shorts with their cute little dogs, and all the able-bodied lesbians head to some outdoor location with their picnic blankets and their mullets for an Indigo Girls concert. more ›

It's a little known made-up fact that soon after the Oregon Trail was blazed a group sprang up to oppose its expansion. It's the very first example of a long and illustrious tradition of opposing the expansion of transportation projects in our region that flows directly into opposing the monorail and the 520 and Viaduct replacements. So ingrained is this instinct to oppose that Seattlest found a petition signed by 15 local residents the other day asking that we please quit cutting across our front yard to get to the door of our duplex. more ›

We're trying to decide if we're panicked about the bees. The other day -- sunny, warm -- we were in Volunteer Park in the middle of a patch of clover and it was completely bee-free. It would have been chilling except, like we say, the sun was out and it was in the 80s. We have a lot of respect for bees, and not just because a dead one stuck in some honeycomb took revenge on us from beyond the bee-grave. It's because they always seem to be busy getting stuff done. You rarely spot a bee just fucking around out there. more ›

What a weekend! Temperatures in the 80s! more ›

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UW physicist Wick Haxton is in a competition worthy of reality TV--if the average American actually cared about science, that is. He is competing with three other teams in various US locations to be chosen as the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant for over half a billion dollars to build and run a laboratory buried deep under Stevens Pass to study neutrinos. (The further underground, the less the sun's rays interfere with techniques used to study these mysterious little subatomic particles that many physicists believe are the key to understanding not only the Big Bang, but other elusive phenomena like supernovae and dark matter.) more ›

For once, it was actually nice weather at the Gorge for Sasquatch. Last year was all sturm und drang and the year previous was approximately the temperature of the sun, but the gods smiled down on all gathered in George, Washington yesterday afternoon, as it was a pleasant 80 degrees under partly cloudy skies. more ›

Hey--Seattlest Seth here. As you know, I could talk about sports for hours (Never, ever, sit next to me at a dinner party). And since I don't want Seattlest getting too sports-heavy, I'm moving Tonight's Target over to a new, sports-only blog I started yesterday while listening to the Mariners game on my porch. more ›

, and our guess would be that it applies even more to the latter. We've heard it from several people that adults don't vote, either. After last week's grossly misguided injustice, we're fairly certain both rumors are true. That's why we're making it a point to head off further sadness the best way we know how: with a blog post. more ›

Seriously, some of you are going to have to pick up the slack, because Seattlest only runs for frisbees and buses, and often not even for the latter. There will be another in ten minutes, right? We don't know much about the running world, except that people tend to develop favorite routes. Maybe you share them with friends or fellow runners, but it goes kinda like "OK, so after a couple blocks you'll see this big-ass tree--it's pink in April but by now probably just sort of green--and turn right there. Then go left after that VW bus that has been parked on the corner for the past two years..." more ›

Not a screaming sunny blazer of a day that makes you want to go suck oysters and beer out at Ray's until the sun disappears, but not really cold, either. A perfect day to go ride your bike in the woods. Here's some friends of Seattlest doing just that up at Galbraith Mountain outside Bellingham. more ›

Last we spoke, Seattlest was in Morocco guzzling as much mint tea as we could find. Now back home in our studio apartment--this time with several pots of freshly planted mint--we found ourselves craving a particular treat that we’d enjoyed abroad, something we liked to call the salad that knows no boundaries. more ›