Three members of Rep. Rick Larsen's staff have been fired in the wake of one of the most boneheaded uses of Twitter in the site's history. more ›

If you're even remotely interested in what's opening, closing, or happening in Seattle, it's wise to immediately begin following the Daily Journal of Commerce's Twitter account. It's as simple as that. more ›

What's lightening the mood of Viadoom? The Viaduct itself, silly. more ›

Our favorite Twitter account this week goes out to all the young folks. more ›

The Seattle Police Department has another Tweet-a-Thon, Gregoire is advising everyone to batten down the budgetary hatches, and a whole lot of drunk people got cited over the weekend. more ›

Ride More, Twitter Less by glueslabs from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

A letter from Mayor McGinn to The Village Voice has put the Mayor squarely in the middle of a no-holds-barred fight between the star of Punked! and a hip, New York newspaper/massive media conglomerate. more ›

This week's pick for Seattle's must-follow Twitter account will shed some light on the many uses of Seattle's utilities. more ›

The biggest non-scandal of the month has hit home again. On Thursday, the day US Representative Anthony Weiner resigned over the controversy surrounding a scandalous picture on his Twitter, the Washington State GOP re-tweeted a public records enthusiast who came up with this underwhelming nugget: more ›

Each week, Hanna highlights her favorite local Twitter account. Think of it like #FollowFriday, but less about getting followers, and more about exposing users that are notable, humorous or informative--and always under 140 characters. This week, it's to market, to market. more ›

From now until I forget to do it, each Thursday, I'm going to highlight my favorite Seattle Tweeter. Think of it like #FollowFriday, but less about getting followers for myself, and more about exposing Twitter accounts that are notable, humorous or informative--and always under 140 characters. more ›

Hikes and declines in the news today. Tuition is up, the Mayor is down and Weinergate rages on. more ›

Two weeks into the new year, Seattle Public Library (SPL) is proving it's changing with the times. Last week, it was announced that SPL is offering free mp3 downloads to library card holders through Freegal. This week, SPL announced that it is now on Twitter @SPLBuzz more ›

33 people gathered at Tap House Grill in Bellevue last night for Seattle Net Tuesday’s Tech Volunteer & Non-profit Mixer. The crowd included a variety of local computer programmers, testers and IT support specialists. First time attendee, software tester Paul Wirsing came out because he was “curious and wanted to see what opportunities are available to help.” Representatives from non-profits like Olive Crest, KITH and Girls in Tech were also present to share their needs with these tech savvy volunteers. more ›

As history is happening, suddenly everyone has access to this story AS it plays out. Anyone can contribute, notify, alert, and report, constantly broadening the pool of information we all collectively consume to better understand a situation. more ›

Mayor Nickels took heavy fire for the City's handling of the storm. It certainly cost him some goodwill, and whoever our next mayor is, he'd better be equipped to respond to winter storms effectively and quickly if he expects his constituents to stay happy. more ›

He's Brandon Pettit, musician from New York. She's Molly Wizenberg, the voice of Orangette. Their romance is chronicled in Molly's book, A Homemade Life (a title that makes you think it's going to be about an old lady's patterns for quilts, while it's actually two interwoven stories about Molly's dad and Molly's boyfriend). Anyway, Brandon--a composer and lecturer who studied in France (as did Molly)--moved to Seattle and, wouldn't you know it, decided that his calling life was (wait for it) pizza. more ›

None of Seattle's typical "too cool for school" stand-offishness. Tens of thousands of cheerful riders, oohing and cooing, tweeting and twittering along SoundTransit's light rail line. Dozens of staffers in dayglo green shirts directed (human) traffic, and the trains (speedy, quiet) ran every ten minutes or so, tunneling under Beacon Hill and emerging high above MLK in Mt. Baker. (Big crowds expected at the Stadium station, where the MLS Sounders played Chelsea.) more ›

Speaking of regular readers, hey, you fly-by types: What the hell, make a commitment for once in your life. 5,000 people already subscribe to our RSS feeds (full stories on four separate channels), or you can follow us via our automated headline feed on Twitter. Crank up your iPhoneBerryDroid and enjoy our mobile version. more ›

Released via the Seattle Police Department Twitter feed, officers shot a man yesterday at Greenwood Ave. N and Holman Road, who is suspected in yesterday's Shoreline bank robbery and a string of other bank robberies. Prior to shots being fired, officers had spotted the bank robbery suspect stopped in traffic at Holman and 3rd Ave. with a stolen pick-up truck. A team of police cars quickly began to box in the truck. Trying to flee, the suspect rammed the stolen pick-up into a police car and a car carrying a father with his kids at the corner of Greenwood Ave. N and Holman Road. Police fired four shots, stalling the suspect who sustained injuries to his arm. The family of three was uninjured. more ›

Via the ex-Soundgarden frontman's Twitter: "Driving from Poland to Berlin. Just heard Michael Jackson died. Makes me sad. I remember the Jackson 5 on a black and white tv. He had magic!" more ›

Okay, just a quick rundown for new readers: Staying in touch with Seattlest is all about choice. You've got your RSS feed (full stories on four separate channels), or you can follow us via our automated headline feed on Twitter. We've just upgraded our mobile version for extra iPhone optimization, and we've also got a Seattlest fan page on Facebook, which lets us post our Seattlest feed for all you Facebook addicts out there--and invite you to Seattlest Happy Hours. Lastly, if you're one of the ten people who own a Kindle, you can subscribe to Seattlest at the Kindle Store for just $1.99. more ›

Matt Hasselbeck was stuck on a delayed flight from Newark to Seattle this morning. So how did Hass pass the time? By Tweeting!: more ›

• Dog people, stop reading and just look at these cute puppies instead. Cat people, keep reading. PhinneyWood blog reports that Greenwood's cat-loving-adoption organization PAWS celebrates the adoption of it 10,000th kitty.
• Still wringing out their clothes, photos and soggy possessions, the residents of the recently flooded Wedgwood neighborhood want the city to foot the bill for all the damages the broken water main caused.
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Shoreline Schools has just released what we think is their first-ever guide to their newest ursine drop-in student. Sounds like they're taking an anti-bullying stance: "This morning a jogger reported seeing a bear behind Kellogg/Shorecrest headed into the Hamlin Park woods. Yesterday afternoon it was reportedly seen near Parkwood in the Twin Ponds area. As reported on the news, this type of bear is not a threat to people unless cornered. Our students have been advised to stay away from the bear if sighted." more ›

• SIFF is calling for all young film-loving kiddos to apply for a spot on their very first FutureWave Youth Jury (for high schoolers) and the Films4Families Youth Jury (for kids grades 4-8) at this year's festival. Application deadline is 5 p.m. Monday, May 18.
• Washington likes to tweet a lot. Social media-savvy us create the biggest percentage of people who are active Twitter users from across the U.S.
• A brutal lovers quarrel between Granny and Gramps in Lynnwood. She kicked him where it counts for being unfaithful over 35 years ago.

We only know one person who owns a Kindle, so we often forget to mention you can subscribe to Seattlest at the Kindle Store for just $1.99. more ›

As we mentioned on Friday, we've got a dinner invitation of sorts for you tonight. more ›

Kurt Cobain's widow is supposedly all pissed off yet again, this time about moving men throwing out a dead bird that was actually a £8,000 piece of art by British taxidermy artist Polly Morgan. The piece of art was in Love’s bedroom, with its pedestal already packed to be sent to her new house; the bird was left sitting on a sideboard, and when the movers came, they threw it away. In response, Courtney fired her assistant. We scoured Ms. Love's completely unintelligible Twitter feed for any sic-heavy, crazy-ass, 140-character rants on the topic, and all we found were the following: "they threw out my El Pollo Loco the first Polly Morgan piece and she is gracious enought o find another embryonic chicken and put it under a belljar w a lil chandelier." and "Polly Morgan is a great artist and i thought this would stir uop a debate about art vs trash." Indeed. more ›

We just added Q13's Parella Lewis to our Twittabase--we wanted to make sure we're bringing you a fair and balanced weather report--and already she's rewarded us by predicting a partly sunny weekend. Contrast this with Cliff Mass, working out of the notorious socialist stronghold of the UW, and his fixation on depressing graphs about the cold. As a caveat, four of Lewis's recent tweets mention drinking coffee to wake up and another one is a Thoreau quote, so it sounds like she's as desperate for sun as anyone else. more ›