Thanksgiving doesn't allow for us Seattlesters to partake in our usual rock and roll lifestyles. Instead it's friends and family and mellow times about the house. Our drinking's liable to be more restrained and coordinated with a heavy meal of rich food. (Seattlest Geoff offered some choice beer recommendations earlier this week for those who've got a pit-stop planned on the way to grandmother's house tomorrow.) And according to the weather report, it's going to......

It’s almost Thanksgiving and we’ve yet to deliver any holiday recipes. We feel deep shame. If there was a Seattlest penalty box, we would sit in it. The truth is that this year we’ll be sitting back, relaxing and watching the dog show that’s after the Macy’s parade while our sister-in-law (also a chef) does the bulk of the heavy cooking. We will, however, be bringing our pumpkin pie. Pumpkin pie is something we’ve always......

As if The Terrorists haven't already been winning by employing their agents, the American Indian, to poo-poo on our Thanksgiving parade of turkey, football, and/or explaining your deviant behaviors to your meddlesome aunts and uncles whom you only see once a year. This time, worst of all, our very own government is getting in on the act. Are you flying this holiday and wondering if you can bring aboard your grandmother's delicious jelly or......

Last Friday we saw Sea Wolf at Chop Suey. We found this Pop Matters review of their first full-length album, but if you'd like to learn more, here's an interview by Sound on the Sound. The band says "We want to be JUST LIKE:"Wolf Eyes, Wolf Parade, We Are Wolves, AIDS Wolf, Wolfie, Wolf Colonel, Patrick Wolf, WolfMother, Guitar Wolf, Steppenwolf, Hugo Wolf, Kate Wolf, Laurent Wolf, Wolf City, Duran Duran (though they don't really......

Remember a few years back when "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" came out and the Flaming Lips were suddenly everywhere? Mitsubishi started using "Do You Realize" to hawk their cars and Justin Timberlake was dressing up in a dolphin suit and jumping on stage during Lips shows? For a few glorious moments the hipsters and frat boys were humming the same tune, and no one seemed to mind. Flash forward to early 2007 and......

This summer, Seattlest thought we were smart. Oh so smart. We were engaged. Our financial missteps were behind us. We’d plotted to start saving dough—to get a less-expensive apartment, sock the monthly savings into a high-yield account and, in a couple of years, look for a condo or fixer-upper in West Seattle. Rent something cheaper now; buy something modest later. Damn, it felt good to be a forward-thinker. So we searched for that less-expensive......

The Seattlest Flickr pool is full to burstin' with visual splendors. But is that enough for us? No. We're greedy. Our photo contributors already do an awesome job taking photos of events like Pride and the solstice parade. So we figure, why not ask them -- meaning you -- to document a particular event ahead of time? Genius. Your assignment: the Buffy "Once More With Feeling" midnight showings at the Egyptian. We'd really love......

No, Seattlest didn't quite make it to everything on the checklist we created last Friday, but we did manage to stay out past midnight on both weekend evenings, proving we've still got it after all. Friday night's Purr toga party proved to be a sausagefest, which I'm sure was fun if you're into that sort of thing. We, however, are not, so we headed down to Chapel to party with our people. Damn it was......

Okay, okay. So Pride is actually going to happen. Even now, on the precipice of this extraordinary weekend celebration o' gayness, all our friends have no effing clue what's going on. If they, in all their gay glory, don't have a clue, we figured maybe you don't either. But Seattlest is here for you in these tough times and that's why we're gonna break it down all easy-like and tell you what we think......

The Solstice Parade in Fremont was as cool as we've ever seen it this weekend and our personal highlights were the pink riot cops, the Ents and the water monsters. The water monsters were a part of a float that was based on the theme of the privatization of water and one of their characters was shouting "free water!" as they approached. It was, however, particularly disappointing to learn that they meant "free water" as......

It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by poop. Finally D.C. contemplated taking Vermont's place as a state and marveled at the GOP lessons learned from the "Macaca Moment." Due to some sad shootings......

A new musical genre: not heavy metal, but fiberglass. First, Seattle Opera got in on the frenzy of Pigs on Parade, whipping up an Opera Pig named Rusty. Then the scenic studios manager, Michael Moore, composed a 20-second "aria" for the pig to sing, and persuaded baritone John Boehr to lend it his voice. A bit of electronic wizardry in Rusty's snout senses when people come snooping around the plaza in front of McCaw......

When the news broke last month that Pride had been cancelled, Seattlest's heart wasn't broken. Honestly, last year we didn't go to what all our friends swear was a blow-out party downtown and at the Seattle Center. We thought it was lame to take Pride away from its rightful owners on Broadway and parade our pansy asses through the downtown shopping district, as if all the tourists need to revel in our queerness with......

Too disturbing for the Market? Lemme tell ya, we think this whole Pigs on Parade thing has gotten out of hand. You know the concept: local artists create fiberglass scultpures based on Ur-piggy Rachel, eventually sold to raise money for the Pike Place Market Foundation. One such sculptor is Colin Reedy, an Oregon furniture designer whose previous contributions include a couple of ride-em "Pork Choppers." This particular creation, titled "Prosciutto and Melon Pig," ought......

Adios Lakisha. Did we call it, or what? We know, we also made some comment about how none of the Idol contestants chose any good BeeGees songs this week, but we stand corrected. KiKi did "Staying Alive," but we totally forgot about it because it was just that meh. Obviously the rest of the country agreed with us, and she was sent home last night. We'll give a quick sum-up of last night's show:......

A meeting was held today between rival Seattle Pride factions and after last year's fancy, new and successful Downtown Pride we assumed that the result of this meeting would be the announcement of this year's fancy, new-ish and (financially) successful Downtown Pride. Despite the money problems that Seattle Out and Proud, the organizers of last year's events, have run into since then--they own Seattle Center a hundred grand--and despite the on-again, off-again stutter steps of......

After many on again, off again mis-starts Seattle Out and Proud is abdicating responsibility for Pride festivities this year, as expected. In 2007 Pride organizers Seattle Out and Proud (SOaP) voted in new leadership and SOaP’s primary concern was to produce a financially sound March and Festival in 2007. This week, after months of intense research and negotiation, it has been concluded that producing a Pride Event at Seattle Center is not financially prudent at......

Maybe (okay, most likely) Seattlest is waaay behind on this, but we just watched The Comedians of Comedy and we gotta say, good stuff. You see, our better half is out of town this weekend so we're passing the time doing what any good husband would do in his wife's absence -- putting a nice dent in the checking account by renting movies and drinking too many gin & tonics. The Seattle connection? Okay. The......

We don't know why we agreed to this. Seattlest has given us another reason to be hopelessly addicted to the weirdness that is American Idol, and we've agreed to keep you updated on all things Fanjaya from here on out. Honestly, the only good thing to ever come from that show was Kelly Clarkson, and it's all been down hill from there. Until now. Now there are two Seattlites (okay, Sanjaya is from Federal Way......

Because we don't go out on school nights and we need to plan... SATURDAY: It's St. Patrick's Day so, take in the Parade and head over to Seattle Center for the Irish Festival. If you don't, we'll take the leg of the chair to ye. 12pm - 6pm // Parade Route and Seattle Center // All Ages // Free SUNDAY: Nothing really caught our eye for Sunday in the city. So we suggest really getting......

The Asubpeeschoseewagong (more easily pronounced as "Grassy Narrows First People") of Ontario, Canada are in town this week after a long twisty trip across the continent to meet with Weyerhaeuser officials and attend the Built Green Conference. The Seattle timber company buys wood that a company called Abitibi harvests from land that the Grassy Narrows First Peoples claim as their tribal lands in the Whiskey Jack forest of northern Ontario. The group has been......

"Streetcar gongs ceased their clamor; newsboys cast their unsold papers into the street; from the doors of mill and factory, store and workshop, streamed 65,000 workingmen. School children with fear in their hearts hurried homeward. The life stream of a great city stopped." That's how Mayor Ole Hanson described the beginning of the general strike that was held in Seattle February 1919, one of the few general strikes ever attempted in the U.S. The Bolsheviks......

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to. In Austin, bands are beginning to confirm for SXSW and the rumor mill is up and running. Good thing, too, because we all know how much Austinites love live performances. Austin also found itself in the national spotlight, with Longhorn Legend......

Since there's a pretty heavy overlap between the set of people who read this site and the set of people who listen to KUOW, we're going to guess that most of you already heard of Conservatize Me by KUOW's John Moe, despite our inexcusable failure to review this entertaining, thought-provoking book. For those who haven't, profuse apologies. The #1 thing we enjoyed about this book is that it's the first we've read of this genre......

Tuesday, December 5 >>> Peter Walker at El Corazon. Not to be confused with Paul Walker or Peter Weller, Peter Walker's in town to support Young Gravity, his second album. We have read, though, that Walker evokes another Pete--Yorn. With maybe a bit more bite. 7pm doors; $10. All ages. With Division Day. Wednesday, December 6 >>> Victrola's own folk chanteuse Molly Rose headlines a singer/songwriter parade of not-yet stars at the Sunset Tavern.......

If you're hiking, consider charging up your iPod, as Seattlest finds out that a man lost during a hike was found by the glow of his iPod. That cleverness seems to be devoid in cops who were using police cruiser instant messaging clients - although we imagine IMs "so are you nakie" to be included in cop shows, just for realism. If only the cops were busting the Hummer-driving jerk who made a poor......

--We know the Weekly is cutting its editorial staff, but this is ridiculous. --Tuesday's election through the eyes of a poll watcher. --Tuesday's election through the eyes of a librarian. --Tuesday's election through the eyes of 18 bajillion pundits, via PoP. --We have some very important information concerning this link, unfortunately we are forbidden from ever revealing it. --Not everyone is onboard (ugh) with turning the rail corridor into a recreational bike trail, it seems.......

Perhaps it was a need to assuage disappointment over Matt Hasselbeck's injury, or the thrill of being at an NFL game...but something spurred a Thurston County prosecutor attending Sunday's Hawks game to allegedly follow his paralegal into a Qwest Field women's bathroom stall and make sweet love to her. We'd imagine the conversation went something like this: Thurston County prosecutor guy: Hey, me and the paralegal are going to go do it the bathroom stall......

There's a temptation when you see a very funny show to try to tell people what's so funny about it, which is a recipe for disaster. So we're not going to do that. We have restraint. We're just going to point out that up-and-coming funnyman Steven Martin has adapted German satirist Carl Sternheim's 1910 comedy, The Underpants, and it's showing at ACT through November 12. Tickets are in the $40-$50 range, depending on the......

After leaving our eye appointment this morning and a quick pit-stop at Monorail Espresso, something across the street caught our attention on the way back to the parking garage. We crossed the street to see what a line of people were doing in lawn chairs and sleeping bags at the corner of 6th and Pike--all were fairly young, maybe late teens or early twenties. Some hot movie coming out? No, the line didn't stretch around......