Friday Theatre: The Solo Performance Festival, SPF2: Sweatproof!, returns to the Theatre Off Jackson with a terrific lineup of uni-personned shows. In fact, tonight has a terrific lineup all on its own, thanks to the Unicycle Collective. Their MonoLodge 4 is an evening of solo shorts from Seattle veterans and up-and-coming talents: Keith Hitchcock, Jennifer Jasper, Troy Mink, K. Brian Neel, Becky Poole, Mary Purdy, Seth Rosenbloom, Mark Siano, and Jenna Bean Veatch. (Saturday......

Do you sometimes feel like your sassy, snarky, heartfelt comments go unnoticed? Well, we hear you. Seriously. A new little feature here in the ist-averse is a log of our top commenters. So, if you want to be a big star all over town (or in your own imagination), the quickest way to blog-user superstardom is to comment. It doesn't have to be brilliant to get logged, it just has to be relevant. So go......

Hello co-workers. Do you see us burning a hole through your backs, staring at you viciously out of the corners of our eyes as we watch you come into the shared kitchen, grab an essentially non-recyclable pseudo-styrofoam cup from the stack next to the water cooler and somehow manage to avoid the sign that my friend put up next to the cooler indicating what wasteful, ignorant fools you are for not being able to bring......

Not the best holiday season for baseball. But this untitled photo, added to the Seattlest Flickr Pool by Troy McClure SF, shows that they are keeping the spirit alive. With lights!......

Gluck's operatic masterpiece, the much-neglected Iphigenia In Tauris, premiered this weekend at Seattle Opera. Inexplicably, it's only been staged once at the New York Met, and that was some 90 years ago. In Seattle, never. But it's suddenly hot: San Francisco and Chicago did a co-production with Covent Garden last year, and the Met, looking to spread the cost and risk of staging new productions, asked Seattle to co-sponsor a new Iphigenia, enlisting the......

This just in: Seattle Rep’s 2007-2008 season in the Bagley Wright Theatre begins with Shakespeare’s beloved comedy, Twelfth Night, followed by a powerful play about the Cuban revolution, The Cook by Eduardo Machado. A new play, The Breach about Hurricane Katrina comes next, then the classic Molière comedy, The Imaginary Invalid, and finally Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney brings his skills to a classic Greek adventure in The Cure at Troy. In the Leo......

Troy Loses Bet, Everyone Else Wins from Seattlest Flickr Pool member Zoomar. Hot stuff Troy, thanks for sharing!......

25 teams! Free ashtrays for the taking! Controversy about whether or not Bangor is a "city" or just part of Bremerton! And a geeky white boy dance-off to close the evening! Yes, last night's Seattlest trivia at the Old Pequilar was, again, a madhouse -- the fun and exciting kind of madhouse. Our friend Brannon fulfilled a lifelong dream of writing a trivia quiz and making his friend read all the questions -- and a......

With the Seattle Shakespeare Company's productions, it seems as if they're always hit or miss. Their current season has contained some of each, and the current play, The Winter's Tale, is a mixed bag. In this case, the set design and art direction is plain ol' lovely, while the acting leaves a bit to be desired. As a whole, the play is a rumination on the varied potential of love. The first half concerns......

Thirteen teams turned out for Seattlest trivia last night at the Old Pequliar. Want to see how you'd do? Here are all the questions. We'll post answers later today, along with a list of team standings and anything else interesting we find to say about the event. Round 1: Geography 1) What's the largest city in Pierce County, Washington? 2) What is the longest mountain range in the world? 3) What is the largest county......

All music all the time wears us out, so we decided to hopscotch around Bumbershoot this year and take advantage of the talks, arts performances, and art exhibits. Thinking Globally I We arrived a little late, having forgotten about a little thing called traffic (about half the people on the #8 bus disembarked and hoofed it from Dexter). Ngugi Wa Thiong'o was reading from his Wizard of the Crow (which we think John Updike......

Wednesday was the second and final showing of SIFF's 2006 Fly Film Festival, this year based on scripts submitted to the Screenwriters Salon. We kinda wish they hadn't done that. The challenge is that the filmmakers are given 5 days to shoot, 5 days to edit, and 2 days post-production, to come up with a finished 10-minute film. This year's crop of auteurs were Virginia Berta Bogert, Douglas Horn, Kris Kristensen, and Brad Wilke. Weirdly,......

Bumbershoot sent out an email this morning announcing a bunch of acts for this year's Smaller, Better Festival. There's even more hiphop on the bill with the addition of local act Blue Scholars and Common Market and Brit chick Lady Sovereign (who we're looking forward to seeing with The Streets soon). Area indie rockers Crystal Skulls and Rocky Votolato will be there and to continue the trend of one Brit band for every couple of......

Already riding the Hawks bandwagon? We'll give you two weeks of in-depth *football* coverage to impress your friends on game day. Note: that's *football* coverage, not coverage of which player's dad has an incurable disease or of Tim McGraw's game prediction. Unlike most NFL teams, but like the two-time champion New England Patriots and three 2005 Seahawk opponents, the Pittsburgh Steelers employ a 3-4 defense. That's three defensive lineman and four linebackers. The more common......

Well, another month has rolled around, which means it's time for another installment of SIFF's Screenwriters Salon. In a change-up from the seminar format, this month's offering is a "top-secret" staged script reading, featuring George Wing. The George Wing -- who, by the way, used to be a legal assistant here in Seattle, before they turned 50 First Dates into a hit film and he disappointed his parents by turning his back on a promising......

Thursday night, the undefeated, 2nd-ranked Skyline Spartans host the undefeated, 8th-ranked Eastlake Wolves. It's the final regular season game for both teams--the winner will stand alone as the 4A KingCo champion. It's what the English would call a "derby"--both teams are from the same town, Sammamish. And while this game won't garner the international media attention of a Arsenal v. Chelsea match (or even a West Ham v. Charlton), it will be contested just as......

With SketchFest Seattle chugging into its final weekend, we had a sit-down with Dusty Warren. Seattlest figured he'd be a good guy to talk to, as he's been performing sketch comedy in Seattle since 2000 and is a member of two groups performing this weekend. First there's Flaming Box of Stuff---they just returned from New York where they were a part of a HBO showcase at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre---and then there's the two-man......