This legendary folksinger needs your help: Your $20 donation goes to help pay medical bills Phillips has accrued recently in dealing with his heart disease. His health took a turn for the worst last fall, although his blog notes that he's recently been able to come home from the hospital. Nonetheless, paying for heart disease care when you don't have a pension or benefits isn't easy. There to entertain you, beginning at 7 PM, will......

We're not really nutty about most of the American Idol contestants this year. We're pretty convinced cutiepie David Archuleta will win the whole thing, but he's not from here, so who cares? That kid is so incredible, we wonder what's in the water in his small Utah town. Paula wants to hang him from her rearview mirror, and we don't blame her. However, we're going to keep on keeping our eye on pretty-haired Selma, Ore.,......

Speculation abounded when Charles posted about a recent study showing what would happen to Seattle if a 9.0 quake hit us. The Space Needle was called out as an icon that wouldn't go down. Seattlest's dad is the resident earthquake-and-volcanoes disaster geologist in the family, so we asked for the truth. We were told to consult the disaster flick 10.5, a made for TV turd movie starring Kim Delany (you know, from CSI: Miami, or......

We here at Seattlest really wanted to go out and caucus on Saturday, however, HBO is showing Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. So we made some calls, and the DNC gave us permission to hold a special caucus today. They even threw in a couple delegates that Utah wasn’t going to use: Courtney: I'm caucusing for Obama even though it kills me not to be an active part of trying to put the first......

The ability to endure month after month of days like today is an unappreciated phenomenon unique to this corner of America. Elsewhere winter storms may be harsher in the traditional frozen pipes/paralyzed infrastructure sense, but the psychological toll of Steve Pool’s constant grey "with a chance of light rain" is just grueling. Long-time Seattle residents are not unlike seasoned veterans of a lifelong Chinese Water Torture and Seattlest appreciates the local grit required to......

Sometimes a good ski movie can console you during an off year, but we're already having a record-breaking snow season (ok, it's no 1998, but still, the quality and volume of the snow we've been getting this year is reminiscent of our days growing up in Utah for what that's worth). So maybe you don't need a powder porn flick to fuel your stoke, but we're thinking that Steep (showing in a limited run at......

Boom! Governor Gregoire comes right out of the gate at the new legislative session with a new bill laying "the groundwork for concrete limits on greenhouse gas emissions beginning in 2012." And, in just four short (or long, depending on how you look at it) years, the bill "would give the state Department of Ecology the authority to regulate those emissions," reports the P-I. The main thing is that "big polluters" in Washington State would......

When last we checked in with Texas A&M, their fans were sending us insane emails after we wrote about that whole Seahawks/12th man dispute. (Texas A&M has a 12th man tradition too, they said the Hawks were infringing on it). Our favorite such email concluded thusly: "Keep your latte sippin, tree huggin, PETA lovin, flannel shirt, leg humping asses off our traditions." It's funny because it's true. Honestly, what is it with our asses here......

In 2004, Ken Jennings redefined success on Jeopardy!, banking over $2,500,000 as he won 74 games. Those of us who get paid in bar credit know it's hard to make a living through trivia, but Jennings has done it. He turned his obligatory cash-in-on-your-15-minutes book, Brainiac, into something much better and broader, an examination of trivia history and culture. He also moved from Utah to the Seattle area. That, and Brainiac's paperback release tomorrow, gave......

A friend just emailed Seattlest, gushing with glee that our season's passes to the Summit (Alpental, really) grant us 5 free days of skiing at Crystal Mountain. We'd already written about how the ownership of the Summit by Boyne Mountain (who also owns Crystal Mt.) might be a good thing for mountain bikers. So it sounded like it was already working out for those of us that go mostly to Alpental (due to sheer proximity,......

Overheard walking away from Husky Stadium: "That Trenton Tuiasosopo...I wonder if he's related to Marques Tuiasosopo?" So at least there was something to laugh about after we learned, once and for all, one important thing we'd suspected about Jake Locker: He can't pass. Not to say that he won't ever be able to pass--after all, he's a redshirt frosh--but right now he can't really make throws. He can't throw outs, he can't throw deep balls,......

We're not one of those people who hate "chemicals." Mmm, Diet Dr Pepper. But a few months ago we started to avoid buying milk that contained bovine growth hormone. Are we convinced it's bad for us? No, but we're convinced it's not explicitly good for us, either, since it exists to make life easier for dairy farmers. It's easy enough to avoid, and having a real live growing kid in the house makes us more......

Last night at the Showbox, we were reminded of something Gino Srdjan Yevdjevic said in an interview with us last year: we don't remember the quote entirely, but it was something to the effect of characterizing "world music" as "shit." Not the music or the musicians, per se, but rather the genre, a peculiarly American way of pigeon-holing and marketing foreign music. Gino understood the process only too well: back in the 1980s, he......

We’ve been on a mountain bike clinic road trip smörgåsbord, starting in Bellingham a few weeks ago and then cruising through Hood River and ending up this past weekend near our hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah. This past weekend we coached a camp up in Park City, where it was a breezy 92 degrees for our afternoon rides—a temperature that is ridiculous in its own right yet still a respite from the record-setting spree......

We got these "Complimentary VIP" tickets in the mail about a million years ago advertising some "wealth creation workshops" at various hotels around Seattle. We finally got around to calling them to see what the hell this was about and the phone answerer acted completely sketchy. We asked where the Income Strategies Institute is located and she said, "I can't answer that. All I can tell you is: somewhere in Utah." WTF!?? We asked......

Wonder why we need to spend $100 million to renovate Garfield High? Because Garfield gives the world things like this:Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy was chosen as the NBA's Rookie of the Year on Wednesday after leading all rookies with averages of 16.8 points, 4.0 assists and 35.4 minutes in 57 games. The 6-foot-6, 229-pound guard was named the West's Rookie of the Month in January, February and March. He also made the All-Star game's......

Really the only thing worth remembering from last night's game was an amazing swing by Ichiro. In the 4th inning, Harden threw him a nasty splitter that fooled him. But he changed his swing mid-stroke, adjusted his bat downward, and reached the ball about a foot off the ground. And he didn't just make contact, which would've been an amazing feat in itself--he lined the ball into centerfield. Then Beltre grounded into a double play.......

While Seattlest Jack was at Crystal, we made a run for the northern border, with promises of a huge dump of snow up at Whistler. We were buzzing as we drove up the Sea-to-Sky from Vancouver, as there was snow on the ground starting in North Van. It was the most snow we've ever seen in that area, the entire drive up from Squamish was a powdered-sugar-covered winter wonderland. Saturday delivered 18" of new, Utah-light......

Sometimes you earn a win, and sometimes the other team gives you one. Here are the all-time screw-ups by opponents that helped Seattle teams win big games. 1) Tony Romo We've pretty much covered this, and it's got to be #1. 2) Jim Sweeney and the 1975 Apple Cup Up 27-14 with 3:01 left and the ball deep in Husky territory, the Cougar coach let his players talk him into passing for a touchdown. The......

We returned to the homeland over the holidays. Lugged skis and snowboards to the land of 3.2 beer, special garments, and the "Greatest Snow on Earth" only to find they had half the snow base compared to what we have here. Everything seemed backwards. We picked up the local weekly, which feels smarmily like Seattle's version as so many do (albeit, sadly, the SLC web version makes the Weakly look divine). And what do people......

The hometown Portland Trailblazers make a special appearance in Seattle tonight, taking on the Oklahoma City Sonics. It's the season opener for both teams. Also today, tickets for some of the Husky men's non-conference games in the 2006 portion of the 2006-07 season go on sale. That exciting slate includes a bunch of schools that have "state" in their names even though they aren't actual states, like Sacramento State and Portland State, and schools that......

Remember the monoski? The snow skate? Exactly. It is with great reservation that Seattlest takes a peek at the SMX, a mountain bike/ski hybrid thingamajigy. It feints at combining our two favorite sports, and yet we remain skeptical--is this the Segway of snowboarding? We're intrigued because this new toy takes its cues more from mountain bike design than from skis or snowboards--this product is being reviewed on a mountain bike site and that's a suspension......

Fresh off our unfortunate dining experience at Chinoise in food-bland Queen Anne, Seattlest is lamenting the lack of good dim sum in our Chinatown-ed town. Why are all of our dumplings and buns and rolls and cakes so soggy and stale and limp and lame? Go to any of the local food boards and the dim sum debates rage on: "Who's got the best dim sum in Seattle?" In the near corner, the Seattle/Chinatown contenders......

Yeah, we know you just spent all weekend at Bumbershoot. Is the wee little baby tired? Can't handle any more music? Ah, look at that poodum... Wednesday 6th >>> The Original Superstars of Jazz Fusion at The Triple Door. Everyone who survived the jazz fusion movement without a dehabilitating acid freakout assembles here to fry your mind the natural way. 7pm/10pm; $45/50. You can only buy tix for the 10pm online. >>> Boards of......

Last week we were watching the progress of local adventure racing team, DART-NUUN, at the 2006 Primal Quest in southern Utah. We checked back in on Saturday and oh dear, team member Ryan VanGorder apparently collapsed from heat stroke and had to be airlifted to a hospital in Salt Lake City. Not good, as heat stroke in those conditions has a high fatality rate. Happily, Ryan pulled through--his wife was racing with a different team,......

No, not those crazy people. Adventure racing uber-event Primal Quest is underway outside Moab, Utah. Anyone familiar with the terrain down there is probably wincing at this point, because that part of the world is just downright miserable at this time of year, especially for us NW types. Temps are supposed to get into the triple digits as of tomorrow, and there's a few local teams slogging through the harsh desert for a minimum of......

Governor Gregoire, apparently unaware that her job could be taken from her in two and a half years, is leaving it up the state's National Guardsmen whether they want to patrol the US-Mexico border. President Bush is sending 6,000 National Guard members to the Southern border to end the problem of people entering the country illegally. Showing the kind of bold decision-making that caused her to get outpolled by John "My position on the war......

True, Seattlest did point you to Alpental's closing weekend coming up, and a couple resorts that are ekeing out the last vestiges of winter. We used to be a die-hard skier; grew up in Utah, dad put us on skis the day we could walk, blah blah blah. Screw all that, we want to ride our bike. Whistler is going to be officially opening its bike park on May 13th, despite the fact that many......

Two seasons ago (skipping over last year's non-winter), a friend of Seattlest attended closing day at Alpental on May, 5. He donned a ridiculous outfit--something involving an Adidas sweatsuit and gold chains, we hazily recall--and was one of the more normal-looking people there. If you've still got that dayglo monosuit lurking in the back of your closet, bust it out and join your brethren this weekend. With all other Washington ski resorts already shut down......

Brandon Roy carried the Huskies to yet another win last night. His 28 points led the Dawgs over Utah State in the first round of the tournament, and his double jab step, rise and shoot three late in the game was the nail in the Aggies' coffin. Jamaal Williams had a big game, too, providing needed scoring early in the game when the Huskies started very, very slow. The Dawgs had balanced outside shooting, and......