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• Posted Saturday's Bumbershoot Best Bets to Seattlest
  Bumbershoot starts off Saturday with arguably the best all-around lineup of artists and performers at the three-day festival. For what it’s worth, the weather is supposed to be decent, but there aren’t any guarantees. The forecast isn’t totally inspiring, but we’ll take anything short of an outright downpour as a win. As an all-knowing, all-seeing hivemind, Seattlest has your Bumbershoot recommendations handled. If you're going to brave the crowds, bathroom lines, and ever-present corporate tents,...
• Posted Downtown Sports Bars Mired in Yuppiness to Seattlest
  Seahawks Truck courtesy of Seattlest Flickr user Bernzilla It took us almost four years to get the nerve up to dine at Fisher Plaza’s Sport restaurant. Any bar that close to Steve Pool and Fox Radio gives us pause. The fact that ABC has random video cameras hanging from the ceiling didn’t help either. Sport subscribes to the Fox Sports Grill theory that any modern sports bar worth its weight in jojos must have an...
• Posted Hempfest or Methfest? Pick Your Poison to Seattlest
  Hempfest is probably the best weekend of people-watching in Seattle. Hippies, psuedo hippies, hip-hop kids, wide-eyed first-comers, and everyone in between congregate on the boulder-rimmed shores of Myrtle Edwards Park for the annual summer gathering of stoners masquerading as "hemp advocates." Anyone who has ever been knows it’s more like a cauldron of bad speeches, Lyndon LaRouche flyers, and sloppily dressed teens, but it’s worth a glance if you’ve never been. Edmond’s own travel...
• Posted Flesh-Eating Marmots No Reason to Avoid Bandera to Seattlest
  Having avoided tougher hikes all year due to general gutlessness and late-melting snow, we finally tackled a real challenge in Bandera Mountain Monday, confronting our lack of conditioning and the embarrassment of seeing people twice our age negotiate the same slopes without our pained expressions of agony. Bandera is one of the big, bald mountains on the left-hand side of I-90 as you near the Pass. It’s easy to get to, but that’s about...
• Posted Seattlest Recommends Live Ammo Seafair to Seattlest
  You can tell it's Seafair when your pets are trembling under the coffee table. Nothing signifies the dog days of summer in Seattle like the roar of a defanged F-18 driving your dog to piss himself. Combined with the Navy sending a sampling of its Pacific Fleet into Elliott Bay this week, Seafair isn’t so much a summer celebration as it is a friendly flexing of our military might. Since the Seattle area may...