FULL PUPPET NUDITY: You might have noticed that big banner on the side of the Paramount advertising puppet cleavage Avenue Q. Well, tonight is opening night, so if you haven't gotten your tickets for this ever-so-brief run of the Tony Award-winning show, now's your time. Seattlest will be there tonight for the kick-off, but then it's up to you to get out and see those puppets sing and swear all over the place. June 10-22......

Saturday at the Croc, we hated most of the crowd at first sight. Who invited the tools to John in the Morning at Night? Jager shots were being consumed, and there were way too many dudes in backwards white baseball caps, just chillaxing with their brahs. For this, we can only blame Vampire Weekend. As previously mentioned, despite their hyperliterate lyrics (who else would title a song "Oxford Comma"?), Vampire Weekend's indie afropop-by-way-of-Graceland sound......

Don’t you hate when you’re out by the lake sitting on a dock with your best buds, sipping on some mass produced brew, just laughing and having a caucasianly good time, when someone pulls out a guitar and starts strumming until a song breaks out—evening ruined. Well to make matters worse it would appear that not only is that douche an attention hog he (FACT: It’s always a dude) is also an environmental outlaw. Today......

Go see Parsons Dance at the Meany tonight or Saturday. You should go to watch one man perform one solo, and you will thank Seattlest for telling you to do so. In all our many years spanning from actually being a dancer to attending countless modern dance performances, we have never in our life seen anything such as Parson's 1982 work Caught. (That we had never seen it, much less heard of it until now,......

"Damn, I didn't know Chali 2na was in J5!"...

Seattlest had never been to the O Lounge until last weekend, and, given the service there, we may or may not return in the forseeable future. It's a swank 'n' posh little bar/music venue that acts as an adjunct to Orrapin, the Thai restaurant next door. With its warm orange walls covered in candles and Hindu-inspired wooden bas reliefs, the space is (in the words of one of our companions for the evening) "very top-of-Queen......

Were you at Bumbershoot on Friday? We were. Here is what we saw… 1) The Perfect Sized Crowd - enough people to make people watching interesting, but not so crowded that we were fighting tides of people around the corners. There were hippy folks, beer bellied guys with big beards and short, teens and 20ish-30ish hipsters of every subculture, families with fancy strollers or middle school kids just psyched to be able to get $10......

If you aren't one of the 4 million people going to see Dave Matthews Band at the Gorge, we offer you our congratulations as well as a recommendation to see the newly reunited Dinosaur Jr. at the Showbox. Yes, we know we blogged about it before, but it's Dinosaur Jr. If you are feeling more digitally inclined, you might be interested in checking out the new Radiohead blog. It's full of cryptic posts and nighttime......

Seattlest has engaged in more than our fair share of dating. From our years of experience doing so in this town, we've already established tried-and-true places to meet up with someone for a first date, to make out in public on a subsequent date, and to let him down easy not too long after that. Hell, sometimes it feels as if all we do is date, and why not when it combines a few of......