We love a good drink special, so imagine our delight when we came across a full-page ad in the Weekly for a big ol' happy hour next Wednesday. Join us for a special Seattle Weekly Happy Hour on June 4, when three dozen bars extend their specials to celebrate the release of our new Seattle Weekly Happy Hour Guide! Come celebrate and pick up a copy of your own! Sure, it's a Weekly-sponsored event......

Seattlest is going to see a show tonight at the Showbox. It's Of Montreal which has been around forever, it seems, but is currently rising to the point that they're selling out the Showbox. It's also The Blow from Portland and Aqueduct from here. Of Montreal is a kind of guitar disco dirty pop thing - We've been listening to Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? and we can see why tickets are available through......

--Keep an eye on the Reichert/Burner throw down here. --Today's the day Redmond gets its new operating system out the door. Vista has shipped to OEMs. --Maybe Democracy does work. American Apparel's offering 15% off if you show them your voting stub. --What you missed when you missed Foreigner at the Paramount. --Dave's Long Box asks: The ballot or the Batman? --What do you do when your seven-month-pregnant tenant calls to say her fiancee......

--Only in Seattle would our leading dominatrix want Mystery Science 3000 DVDs for her birthday. God, we are so unsexy. --For one week only Seattlest isn't the only blog in town. --The Weekly wouldn't mind seeing all the billionaires rounded up and launched into space. --Ground is broken on the soon-to-be-nation's-largest biodiesel plant in Grays Harbor. Can we quit chasing oil yet? --Condo developers are having a rough time in Seattle. Meanwhile, Kirkland residents......

Those sad, wet, cold people holding signs and waving to you this morning means that it is Election Day. Well not a real one, but a primary. Primaries are designed to get rid of the poor, self-righteous candidates, and settle on two candidates financed by special interests and who are seeking elected offices for purely selfish reasons. In the Democratic Senate race, Maria Cantwell defeated Hong Tran the day Tran didn't become a cable television......

Game show contestants get tons of ass. In fact, it's a scientific fact that if you appear on any game show you will get laid within 48 hours. Now, before you head off to L.A. to get in on this sweet, sweet action, you should hone your skills at Seattlest's Quiz Night. (Oh, sorry, we mean game show-playing skills.) 8pm at the Old Pequliar in Ballard. It’s five dollars per team to play, there are......

Last year, while Dino Rossi and Christine Gregoire spelunked for votes among felons, troops on leave, and the deceased in their closely-contested gubernatorial race, some saw it as evidence that this state's electorate is divided right down the middle...irreconcilably broken between pinko commie lefty and fascist pig righty. Apparently, we've reunited. State-, county-, and city-wide, the electorate seemed pretty sure of itself about most issues on this year's ballot, including: Whether we want to, occasionally,......

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......

Weeklies: Please, enough with the dueling themed issues. Is this some weird contest of who's going to back down first? Alright, then. We give! Uncle! The readers have folded first, now can we get back to regularly scheduled programming. Stranger, you don't want to do a fashion issue or a food issue - Just don't to it then. You don't have to throw up an anti-fashion issue or an anti-food issue just because that's what......

Both weeklies published Valentine's Day issues this week, with The Stranger deviating most from what Seattlest considers a normal issue. The Weekly straight up never deviates from what Seattlest considers their normal issue. The Stranger is huge this week, packed full of Valentine's Day sweet nothings (which, despite being easier to search online, seem a little more special in print). The much-anticipated (by Seattlest, anyway) Seattle's Sexiest People results are also in there and, meh,......

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......