After being out of the loop for a while, we were interested to read that Washington will have a presidential primary on February 19, and that the City Council races are set (Rasmussen, you are going down). Reading about the candidates we were delighted to see that one of Sally Clark's opponents, Judy Fenton, is running on one issue: get rid of the naked statue in the Olympic Sculpture Park. No one, ESPECIALLY US, wants......

We spent the weekend camped out at NWFF, watching the beginning of their 12-film Jacques Rivette celebration, Lighter Than Air. If you struggle with ADD, this is not the festival for you; we put in 462 minutes and only watched two films, 1970's Out 1: Spectre and 1974's Celine and Julie Go Boating. A Rivette film is brief at two hours, usually runs at least three, and hits its stride around the 4-hour mark.......

Suicide Girls is five years old, which makes these young starlets some of the grande dames of alt-porn. You can celebrate with them tonight, when they bring their controversial burlesque show to Neumo's. "Controversial" not because Donald Wildmon is picketing, though. "Controversial" because a lot of burlesque performers think that the live Suicide Girls show isn't really burlesque -- it's stripping. ChartAttack explained the distinction, back in 2004: The Suicide Girls have burlesque and stripping......

According to the Seattle Times there's an all-male (read: gay gay gay) nude beach near Edmonds called "The Quiet Place" that Sounder train commuters catch a daily glimpse of on their way up to Everett. For four of five seconds of the trip everyone on the train puts down their sudoku and presses themselves against the glass for a taste of this fleshy paradise: Some men recline on towels. Others stroll this way and that,......

San Francisco is proud host of a new reality show called "How to Get the Guy" that's unfortunately not a descendant of Will and Grace, Queer Eye, The L Word, American Idol etc. Also a biodefence lab is coming to the East Bay and SFist teaches wine pairing. Getting on the wrong train sucks. Getting on the wrong train and becoming the victim of what will later be described as a "stabbing spree" really sucks.......

We love this town. But we'd love it ever-so-much more if it had these things in it. (Budding entrepreneurs, take note.) 1) Soft-serve frozen custard, preferably attached to a good burger joint and with rotating flavors of the day. We've mentioned this before. 2) Thunderstorms. There's nothing like being able to see lightning strikes when you're a mile away. 3) Street food! Carts pushed by immigrants offering a variety of culinary delights. We long......

Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get to the bottom of it they interview the writer Jonathan Raban. Bostonist has its first birthday party and investigates how to attach more gambling dollars to the Red Sox. Benjamin Franklin is celebrated and Johnny Damon is not. Image by Ethan Bagley......

As with any other Winter Olympiad, perennial favorites took most of the focus. Figure skating (at least the falls were funny), speed skating (had its moments), and the skiing events (*yawn*) received the bulk of NBC's melodramatic coverage, but this year could prove to be the breakout year for Seattlest obsession curling, just added to the Olympic roster in 1998. With the help of some nudity (and some unprecedented US success), the sport managed to......

The Mariner’s only have Felix's pitching to talk about, so in lieu of good baseball, we just got served a softball that Bea Arthur could hit out of the park blindfolded. Ladies and gentlemen (and perverts), Seattlest presents: Nudestock. The local membership-based “clothing optional” Fraternity Snoqualmie -- lurking nearby the otherwise squeaky-clean Issaquah environs -- is inviting you to their annual flesh fest. Apparently you need not be a member to join, but we......

Ahh…you know it’s summer when bicyclists in the buff make their return to Seattle. We have grown accustom to marking the summer solstice with the annual Fremont Fair and the running of the nude bicyclists. But why wait until next weekend? This Saturday, June 11, nudes will be descending on Gas Works Park at 9 am for the second World Naked Bike Ride. The two-wheeled streakers will wend their way to the Seattle Center beginning......