While we're finding you writerly folk some jobs, why don't some of you look into the Puget Sound Business Journal: they've got two staff openings: the banking, residential real estate and economy beat and sports, retailing and marketing and media. more ›

This weekend, Seattlest scored an email interview with Larry Mizell Jr, aka Gatsby of Cancer Rising, aka Man About Town (our term, not his). Readers: read on! more ›

Ahhh…wine vs. beer. A debate some of us have had quite a few times. more ›

"Les Schwab, 89, was the sort of bigger-than-life person for whom Oregon is legendary: the independent maverick and unabashed capitalist who insisted on doing business his way, who ignored business trends, treated people with respect — and raked in the profits." more ›

When you sign up for enough lists your inbox tends to get clogged up with a lot of useless and unwanted press releases, but every once in a while you'll find a nugget of gold glittering in the mud. Today we received a release with the subject line, "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - High-waisted, wide-leg - You don't have to wear skinny jeans." more ›

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At the risk of beating the pulp of the dead horse, Seattlest knows that many are still without power at home. We feel a little remiss in that all that we can do is sit around and post lame things about it when, instead, we should be going out there and doing something about it. Well, the problem is that we have a barbarian's understanding of electric fundamentals. Sure, sure. We can wire up 12 volt DC gadgets in our car; we can even wire some rudimentary circuits on the ol' 110 in the palatial estate. So perhaps it is more accurate to say that we have an educated barbarian's understanding of electricity. more ›

MUSIC: The grandfather of punk (and thus the great-grandfather of indie rock) Jonathan Richman is in Ballard at the Tractor tonight. You might recall his song "Roadrunner" in the School of Rock soundtrack or you may recognize his influence in every rock band everywhere since the mid-60s. more ›

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Intiman's current production of Native Son is so good, we hardly feel qualified to talk about it. Go see it. It's fast, with no intermission, and it burns through the pages of Richard Wright's 1940 text with a violence that doesn't dissipate when the thing ends and you're thrown out onto the streets of Seattle only to realize the play is still being acted out all around you. You can't really go home from this one. more ›

A few weeks back we suggested you might lay off the local salmon, you know keep your mercury levels in check and all that good stuff. However, in even more doomsday-ish news, some marine biologists are concerned that we might not have fish to avoid eating within the next 40 years. more ›

Holy crap are we proud of Microsoft today! No, we know you're braced for this to take a dramatic turn towards the ironic at any moment, but straight-up, this is good stuff. The BBC is reporting that Microsoft has threatened to stop doing business in China if the regime there doesn't back off on the human rights violations. The particular offense that has Redmond reconsidering the Chinese market? China's crackdown on bloggers! more ›

The latest chapter in the drama (using the term loosely) around WSDOT's updates of the Alaskan Way Viaduct article on Wikipedia. Wiki administrator Crzrussion posted on the article's talk page this explanation from Amy Grotefendt at WSDOT :

No offense was intended in providing updates to the Wikipedia page, and we want to abide by the expectations and guidelines involving the Wikipedia community. The Wikipedia page was updated on October 27, 2006, to correct inaccuracies about the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the Alaskan Way Viaduct and Seawall Project and project cost estimates. Below is the information we wanted to correct – we invite others to make these updates or we would like to make these changes, if no one objects. more ›

Earlier this weeek we mentioned a cool map mashup that our sister site Gothamist has. They have feeds for both the police and fire departments in New York City and it makes for a really cool and really useful little application, and it's something that we'd love to have on our site here. However, we've never had a police feed in Seattle and now we don't have access to the fire department's data either. The Seattle Fire Department has decided that it's too dangerous to give the public data on 911 calls in a usable format. more ›

Seattlest's radio only has two buttons; one for KUOW and one for KEXP, and we only use those when our iPod's battery gives up the ghost 2 minutes into a drive. Or if Moe's on. more ›

Foot wear trends have been pissing us off for quite a while. There's no such thing as formal flip-flops, Tevas are an abomination with or without socks and these new gardening clogs that seem to be the rage have us questioning the legitimacy of man's dominant position on the food chain. more ›

Google's released Google Trends, which compares the frequency of two searches. After trying out the obvious, (black beats white, dogs beat cats, and good obliterates evil) we tried a few Seattle-centric battles. more ›

Seattlest lived in Seattle for a couple of years without a car and it wasn't that bad. It's a city that's really conducive to walking, what with the hills and the rain and everything, and the bus system is fast and on-time. Oh, also the monorail's coming any day now. Ok, Seattlest lived in Seattle for a couple of years without a car and you know it sucked. We bought a stylish junker for ourselves a while back and have been destroying the environment and participating in global society as an aggressor in comfort and on-schedule ever since. more ›

Collective highlights from Seattlest's year in reading: more ›

For those of us compulsive channel-changers whose dials aren't permanently affixed to KEXP or NPR, finding good stuff on the radio can be maddening. more ›

We understand that you come to us for up-to-the-minute information about the Seattle School Board election. On Saturday the Times ran an article calling the races for school board in Seattle "the hottest." Of course the article focused on how most candidates in the state are running unopposed. more ›

The busy beavers over at Seattle's Northwest Environment Watch have taken their statistical sideshow to the wilderness. They've decided to track the health of five northwestern indicator species: gray wolves, woodland caribou, greater sage grouse, Chinook salmon, and the resident orcas off the coast of Washington and British Columbia. (Yes, Virginia, there's a chart!) more ›

Is it just Seattlest or does the Amazon.com site suddenly look stupider? more ›

Seattlest, and all the other -ist sites, tend to embrace metropolitan living. The goings-on, trends, and fast pace keep life entertaining, interesting, and almost always on the go. Fortunately for Seattleites, when your fledgling software employer has you working 70-hour work weeks for the fifth year in a row, or you have had it with yet another traffic jam on 520, or you visit Fremont and let out a heavy sigh at the realization that the "center of the universe's" soul has been sucked dry, there is solitude and the beauty of nature only a few hours away to renew your well being. more ›