Sitting here, looking out our window at the torturous rain and gray skies, thinking about killing ourselves--you know, the usual thing to do when it's June but still feels like February. But what is this? Yet another story about scantily-clad baristas! Joy! Boobs and joy and boobs and joy. This latest assault on our provocative purveyors of coffee, comes from the City of Bonney Lake and their efforts to put a stop to the girls......

MOVIES: There are two kinds of people in this world: those who are attracted to a film program called Monument Recall: Public Memory and Public Spaces, and those who are repelled. If you're the former? Tonight's your night. 7 and 9pm // Central Cinema // $5 BOOKS: New Yorker-approved author Deborah Eisenberg reads from Twilight of the Superheroes. 7:30pm // Elliott Bay Books // free THEATER: SPF 1: No Protection, "Seattle's first solo performance theatre......

Dorkbot, we've missed you. If our attendance record for the monthly technology and art event has been spotty at best recently --we've only been to one meeting since it lost the CoCA digs-- it's not because of the scheduled themes. They've all been awesome: Multimedia Performance at the Abbey, Innovation in Games back at CoCA, remote aerial photography at CHAC (actually we did get to that one)... New curator whatshisname (can't find it on the......

STORIES: Matt "Defective Yeti" Baldwin, one of the 12 funniest people on the Internet, appears with Sean O'Connor at a special A Guide to Visitors event. It's being filmed for the Seattle Channel, it's free, and the organizers point out that the Skylark serves "Tater Tots and mozzarella sticks." 7pm // Skylark Cafe at 3803 Delridge Way SW in West Seattle // free QUEUE: SIFF wants a dry run of crowd-control measures at their new......

So Rick's was raided on Wednesday night: P-I night reporter Scott Gutierrez was out on the scene and reports that police arrested 14 dancers and one manager for what a police spokesman said were violations of the city's adult entertainment ordinance. Hmm. 14 dancers and a manager. Who's missing? Right. The johns. Well, maybe there weren't any customers there at the time, with a squad of Seattle's Finest patronizing the place? No, that's not it:......

Face it. There are no good strip clubs in Seattle. If our restaurant scene were as craptastic as our strip club scene, we'd be eating out at Applebee's, Chili's, Olive Garden, or Red Lobster (for those who swing a different way). We're happy that two local strip club owners, a.k.a. Seattle Citizens for Free Speech, have ponied up over half a million dollars to save lap dances. We like lap dances. We'll vote to save......

Seattlest used to read a lot of comic books. We still read comic books, actually, just not as many of them since we shook the Marvel monkey off our back in college. (Yeah, we read trade paperback collections from the library. And started buying 52. Shut up.) But even at the height of our geekdom, we doubt we read as many comic books as David Campbell, the local guy behind Dave's Long Box. "I'm......

Saturday's show at El Corazon had a long line of youngsters snaking along Eastlake/Howell for a few blocks, which we followed to the end and then kept walking to the Re-Bar to drink while waiting for the line to die. We came back a few minutes after 10, but there was still a line and Action Action had already started playing. From the street we couldn't really make out the layered synth pop sound......