While trolling through today's Floor Proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives for our other job (it's an exciting one), we noticed something that will probably get no coverage anywhere else. However, we think it is important to note when Congress singles out one faith as important. We think it's doubly important to note when the vote is taken while Congress fights with the Bush Administration over funding the government for the next year, haggles......

We had a good time at Mosby Farm's pumpkin patch on Saturday morning. The pumpkin patch was abundant, the wheelbarrows were plentiful, the hayride was free. Little Miss Seattlest and her friend ran shrieking through the fields and got satisfyingly dirty. They discussed getting stuck in the muck when the tractor pulling the hayride got, well, stuck in the muck. We bought pumpkins, and they're beautiful. But the reason we went: the corn maze.......

It's kind of late to tell you about this, admittedly. The show's been sold out pretty much since tickets went on sale. What is it with you people? Brandi Carlile was in town like two weeks ago playing at the Paramount. But because we dig her so much, and we dig her backup twins and the people around her that we've dealt with in our other life as a sort-of journalist, we couldn't help......

They say that one of the hardest things to do in life is replace a legend. This seems to be true in sports and entertainment; in politics, however, it varies. If this is the case, then December 2006 is going to have one heck of a job living up to the last thirty days. Last night November 2006 officially became the wettest month in Seattle history, with a jaw-dropping 15.59 inches of precipitation. December 2006......

You'd think the President of the United States could handle a one-fingered criticism, and you'd think a Congressman would have better things to do than get a bus driver fired, but apparently not, according to the King County Journal: [Congressman Dave] Reichert rode with Bush in his motorcade when the president came to the Eastside in June to raise money for Reichert and the state Republican Party. Stopped on an entrance to the freeway from......

Yeah, we know -- out-of-town guests are the only reason you visit the Space Needle in the first place. But there's more to this city than really tall spires with Galileo-inspiring drops. Got friends or family coming from out of town? Here's 43 suggestions for things to do with them. 1) The Fremont Troll followed by the statue of Lenin. 2a) If they're male, show them the badass urinal in the 5 Point Cafe where......

The bar is set extraordinarily low for visual entertainment from DJs. Most opt to just mix tracks on two turntables, and while that (hopefully) sounds good, it's just doesn't have the same presence as a band. That's why showmen like Jamie Lidell or Jeremy Ellis and John Arnold are such breaths of fresh air, giving a crowd something to watch while providing the body with a rhythmic imperative. Tonight's Oscillate with Jeff Milligan should prove......

Apple launched a missile at Redmond today by releasing software called Boot Camp that allows its super sexy new Intel-based hardware to run Windows XP. For some reason we thought it was going to be the other way around. We imagined the first bomb would be Apple releasing a version of OS X that played on standard Wintel computers which shows how much we know. Is Apple a hardware company or a software company? Boot......

Every year around this time, Seattlest gets a little backlogged with things to do. Maybe it's the season, maybe it's the fact that we're leaving town, or maybe it's a conditioned feeling left over from our experiences in middle and high schools. Every year, we subjected ourselves to a litany of winter and "holiday" concerts with all of the various musical groups we were a part of. (Excuse us while we re-repress that memory.)......

Seattlest is grumpy. We'd planned to ramble on at length about all kinds of fun and exciting things to do outside this spring, and then, like an unwanted distant relative, our heretofore non-existent winter decided to pay us a surprise visit and make up for some lost time and precipitation. We know, we know, yesterday we were much cheerier about it and suggested you buck up like little campers and ride it out. This......

Seattlest took a trip down to Portland over the (self-imposed) long weekend to see what the heathens do with themselves without an -ist, and on a lark we decided to take the train. Score! Through Portland's "The Big Deal" deal you and a friend can get there and back for $48. If you don't have a friend we suggest finding a travelling companion (or a friend) via Craigslist. Being the concerned Seattleites that we are......