THEATRE: Suzanne Morrison's one-woman show Yoga Bitch is the tonight's highlight at SPF 2-Sweatproof!, the solo performance festival ongoing at the Theatre Off Jackson. Morrison's show recounts her trip to Bali for a two-month yoga retreat that illustrates, if nothing else, that the path to inner peace and killer abs has some hairpin turns in it. We found a Yoga Bitch excerpt on YouTube and were persuaded to see the whole thing. 7pm //......

Seattlest is getting word that 2nd Avenue in downtown Seattle has been closed due to police activity. The south-bound lane of the street between Virginia and Stewart has apparently been closed since 8 this morning. Seattlest's downtown spy reports a crowd gathering underneath a building where police are trying to dissuade a woman from jumping off a ledge. Does Seattlest have any other downtown readers who can keep us up-to-date on the situation? Did this......

Depending on how excruciating your teenage years were, the documentary Billy the Kid [blog] will have a different effect on you. Certainly if you have or know someone who has Asperger's syndrome, it'll make you squirm a bit. But it's also about being an outsider in a small town. About wanting to share interests. About negotiating the changes life throws at you. About falling in love for the first time and emotional insecurity. Except for......

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer's market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs. On Wednesday we took our special touch friend to see The Kite Runner. She spent......

Time magazine claims, "You can't swing a dead cat this time of year without hitting a Top 10 List." Never one to waste a perfectly good dead cat, we decided to take a swing and create a Top Random-Number Shows Seattlest Saw This Year. And now, without any further ado, here's how your favorite bloggers broke down the year: According to Dante, everything else pared in comparison to Daft Punk at WaMu Theater 7/29/07. OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!......

Seattlest wanders. ¡Mira! is no more. Not even the upside-down exclamation point was able to save it from the, er, difficult location (basement of the Labor Temple). Intrepidly going where so many others have failed is the Middle-Eastern Zaina, installing a clone of its Pioneer Square falafel stand in subterranean Belltown. Cafe Minnie’s is no more. Belltown’s greasiest greasy spoon, and only 24-hour joint at that, was finally done in, not by crappy food and......

Jonah Lehrer, editor of Seed Magazine and author of the blog The Frontal Cortex has written a terrific book centered around this thesis: Creative people discovered truths about how our mind works well before scientists did. In the book, Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Lehrer shows how the work of some famed authors, artists and even cooks anticipated neuroscience discoveries. Here's how he tells it:I actually argue that Proust anticipated some fundamental discoveries in modern neuroscience.......

We were first turned onto Susan Werner back in our New York days when she played a free show at the World Trade Center. We were broke and all about free things, and we had a nice healthy respect for the sort of music the show sponsor WFUV felt like sharing with the world. We were impressed then by her candid poetics and a particularly lovely tune called "Time Between Trains" that stuck with......

This past Friday, Steinbrueck Park was the site of a free, four-hour concert that punctuated Pike Place Market’s Centennial Celebration. It was a great time to be a proud, passionate Seattleite. A wonderful time to be a frugal tourist. And, despite a tiny bit of Pearl Jam-overpromising by Party promoters, a perfect time to be Seattlest. As people started to pour into the area, claiming spots in what little grass was left by the freshly-erected......

Yesterday, when a reader informed Seattlest of an enclosure going up at Gas Works park for a private event, we posted some smart assey thing about the park's recent unfriendliness towards private events. We were aghast that public property could be employed as someone's personal party space, but, you know, not really. We pictured a dog run-like chain link fence enclosure near the back of the park, maybe in that newish area that no one......

We were unusually excited to be seeing Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House down at ACT. While we love the theatre, we tend to feel that a lot of theatre...well, sucks. Boring, repetitive, drawing-room plays about coming to terms with things (race, disease, sexuality, victimization, etc.). So we're always on the look-out for exciting new playwrights with truly original voices, and Ruhl seemed a good bet. A Pulitzer prize finalist and a MacArthur "genius" award winner......

Holly Crap, Seattlest Seth picked Albany over Virginia. Tease him all day at Spitfire in Belltown, where he and others lucky enough to skip work or be otherwise unemployed are gathering to watch the NCAA Tournament on their 600 TVs. Bloody Marys are $5 and Rolling Rocks are $3 when you mention Seattlest. Come on Long Beach State, work your magic.......

Tonight at 6:45pm the 10th-seeded Zags will tip off their 9th consecutive NCAA Tournament against 7th-seeded Indiana. Zag faithful from all around Seattle are set to gather at Spitfire and other quality drinking establishments to witness the start of yet another tournament run. Earlier this week the Gonzaga equipment manager was likely instructed to pack both the white uniforms and the road blues for the Zags trip to Sacramento. In the tournament, the lower seeded......

Special Gonzaga correspondent Sean O'Connor reports that the Zags will make the tournament. It’s been an interesting season for the boys over in Spokane, to say the least. After a hot start and wins over North Carolina, Texas and UW there were four losses in a row to Nevada, Duke, Virginia, and Georgia. Then came the 2 conference losses, the arrests of Josh Heytvelt and Theo Davis, and a 3rd conference loss (the most since......

--Someone fired a gun six blocks from Gov. Gregoire today in Tacoma. There are also reports of gunshots in downtown Seattle today and Seattlest is 90% sure we saw Gregoire in Seattle at 5th and Virginia at noon. 90%. We thought about introducing ourselves or ripping off a few rounds to mark the occasion, but didn't. --Home grown Washington State biodiesel is on the way. --Check out the Uptown in West Seattle if you're looking......

Monday AUTHOR, AUTHOR: Dr. Neal Barnard has his self-promotional finger on America's pulse with his book: Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs. Is a low-fat vegetarian diet in your future? 7pm // University Bookstore, Bellevue // FREE Tuesday SOUND ECOLOGY: John Lombard, senior policy analyst for Steward and Associates, an environmental consulting firm, presents a proposal detailing the legal and political realities necessary for......

When you lose 108-87 and the recap writer feels compelled to point out that the game "wasn't nearly as close as the final suggests," something has gone very wrong. The Zags, who beat then-#2 UNC and then-#8 Washington earlier this year, have lost four in a row, capped off by last night's loss at Virginia where they trailed 60-26 at half. John Blanchette, writing in the Spokane Spokesman Review, asserts:They're overscheduled. They're undermanned. They're expectation-heavy.......

At right is Pete Walker Hunter. He grew up in Atlantic City, where his mom's a casino dealer. He starred at Virginia Union University, leading the conference in interceptions, and since graduating with honors in 2002, he's struggled to carve out an NFL career. He's been with the Cowboys, Browns and Jets. And on Saturday, you'll be screaming at him. Hawks cornerbacks Kelly Herndon and Jimmy Williams, both backups when the season began, are on......

While those of us in central Seattle enjoyed a three-day weekend, 234,000 people, mostly on the Eastside, are looking at their fifth night without power, and PSE's telling some of them--mostly in eastern King County (Duvall, North Bend, etc...)--that they won't be back on the grid for days. --18,000 people in Seattle still don't have power--mainly in the Rainier Valley and West Seattle, but some in Madrona and Leschi. The P-I reports they'll all have......

When the Zune marketing team was formed at Microsoft they probably had a bunch of meetings with the Xbox guys and, well, every other product marketing team in Redmond. There is precedence for Microsoft delivering a product into a crowded marketplace with a clear stand-out, and Xbox/Playstation isn't the only instance of the company having success there. But with the iPod it's a hell of a problem, iPod being the defacto term for portable music......

Getting right to it, Seattlest needed a damn haircut. We tried the long hair thing for awhile, but ultimately decided that two good-hair-days out of seven wasn't worth it. So we hit the internets on a quest to find the perfect hair salon. What's "perfect" to us? Well, the words "super" and "cuts" aren't in the name, the stylists are professionally trained, have more skin than makeup on their faces, and wear colors other than......

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......

Wednesday, September 27 >>>Town Hall, 7:30pm. Science and medical writer Thomas Hager tells you all about the drug that you won't hear about on House, M.D.: "The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered disease, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics." But does it make you feel like hugging strangers? $5 at the door. >>>Bella Cosa Foods, 4:00-6:00pm: Federico Bibi lets you taste two organic olive......

-Damn you, concrete strikers. Damn you. SAM will announce a new Sculpture Park opening date after the holiday weekend. -We may have little idea when it's coming (~Jan 30th), but we now know how much Vista will cost when it gets here (Windows Vista Home Premium, $239). It's available for preorder on Amazon. -Dan Savage is so confident he'll be arrested tomorrow he's packing an overnight bag. -The Fattest: 1: Mississippi*; 2: Alabama; 3:......

A full house of feminists and gender warriors attended the release party of a new biography of James Tiptree Jr. at the Elliott Bay Bookstore Tuesday night. Julie Phillips is the author of James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, an examination of a remarkable woman who wrote genderbending science fiction stories while leading, in effect, a double life. Writing as James Tiptree, Jr., she led editors and readers alike to believe......

After kicking our collective asses for four consecutive days, the heat is finally backing down. So pull yourself together. Go outside again -- especially to Capitol Hill this weekend. Tuesday 25th >>> The Long Winters at Sonic Boom in Ballard. Putting The Days To Bed, the third LP from Seattle's The Long Winters, combines the lyrical intimacy and melodic complexity of the Ultimatum EP with the guitar pop rave-ups of the bands previous full lengths.......

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,......

Like seemingly most people in Seattle, Seattlest is a transplant. From Virginia specifically. This morning we had this article from the New York Times Magazine sent to us [requires registration]. It discusses the difficulty in reaching a consensus on a design for a future expansion of one of the most revered areas on the Grounds of the University of Virginia (Seattlest's alma mater). For those unfamiliar, the University of Virginia was originally designed by......

This week's weather was beautiful, enough to justify Seattlest's first bbq of the year. But it's going to be a wet weekend, according to KOMO-TV's Scott Sistek. How will Seattlest keep dry? Read on... Ronald plans a weekend excursion to Snoqualmie to help a colleague move her office overseas and get his hands on various electronics that won't work where she's going. An ideal opportunity to try out Flexcar's new keycard system. Then home to......

The woman who was in charge of the Seattle Center is stepping down after 18 years on the job. Wait, someone was in charge of Seattle Center? We've always had the impression that it just kind of drifted through life going wherever the tides and winds swept it and if there was a hand on the tiller the captain had died long ago and his skeleton was roped into the cockpit. We were wrong, though.......