A look into the two day event with over 200 local wineries and restaurants. Plenty of wine, lots of food, and plenty more wine! more ›

Women of all ages flocked to the Grand Ballroom of the downtown Seattle Westin last night to bid on handbags by designers like Kate Spade, Balenciaga and Chanel. The silent auction was held in honor of Gilda’s Club Seattle which provides free support to those affected by cancer. One of the highlights of the evening was the live auction featuring handbags signed and donated by celebrities including Marcia Cross, Olivia Newton John and Elizabeth Moss. Dale Chihuly’s custom design garnered the highest bid of the night, selling for a whopping $2050. A further ploy for donations gave one lucky bidder the opportunity to take the shirt right off a firefighter’s back for the winning bid of $225. more ›

BLACK CURRANTS AND BELL PEPPER: Cabernet Sauvignon, anyone? Wine tasting alert! For your fiver, you can taste a selection of Cabernet wines--and if you buy a bottle or two to take home, they'll return your tasting fee. We recommend you put on your nice jeans (the clean ones with no holes) and head to Belltown for a swanky but satisfying evening of light, educational indulgence. more ›

We humans are delusional; we think we have free will and immaculate perception. We don't rob Peter to pay Paul, we borrow from our friends so we can buy oil from our enemies. We turn our food supplies into even more fuel, and we'd grow yet more if only we could afford to import still more fertilizer from our neighbor to the north, even as we build a fence to keep out our neighbors from the south. more ›

MUSIC: Other than at Sasquatch in May, tonight's your only chance to see Smoosh on their current tour, when they open for Bloc Party at the Paramount. Yeah, Bright Eyes are also playing over at the Showbox, but seriously, you'd try to get scalped tickets to go see them over Smoosh? Whatever. more ›

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Still hedging your bets about New Year's Eve? For what it's worth, here's what we're doing. more ›

The Seattle Times had a front page piece the other day about how a UW fraternity has given up the date rape and brawling in lieu of correct posture, wine tasting and knowing which fork to use for the salad. This is the SigEps' "Balanced Man" program. Seattlest is guessing that Balanced Men still find the time to get shitfaced and punch holes in the drywall, but ideally at someone else's house and not while wearing identifying markings. more ›

This weekend, Seattlest will be representing at a high school basketball game, a chamber music concert, a church in Burien, and Alderwood Babies-R-Us, respectively. For the full 411, see below. more ›

As we may have mentioned before, we love us some wine. While our tastes are biased against the lighter stuff (i.e., to paraphrase Kanye: Seattlest doesn't care about white wines), we loooooooove reds. We like them deep, dark, meaty and full-bodied with a smooth finish. All the better if they're stored in American oak barrels, which can give wine a nice nutty hint of baking spices. more ›

Seattlest loves cheese. And not just one cheese in particular---cow, goat, sheep---we love it all. We'd eat cheese from camel or llama or yak's milk if we could get our hands on some. Moreover, we like our cheeses nice and complex: the more aged, the creamier, the stinkier, the sharper, the better. more ›

Seattlest is always happy when it can direct our readers to an affordable wine tasting that supports a worthy cause. On Wednesday Yakima Cellars is offering a wine tasting for just $5 at the Vintage Park Hotel at 1100 Fifth Avenue. more ›