"Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske" by SeattleDailyPhoto. This morning, the president announced that Seattle Chief of Police Gil Kerlikowske is his pick for the nation's new Drug Czar. That means a local will direct national drug policy, though the position will no longer be Cabinet-level. (Curio...

We hardly knew ye. And now you've been slaughtered by the Washington State Department of Licensing! Life is unfair, especially because your shows were--we're told--really entertaining. Seattlest lifts our coffee mug to you, and in homage we'll post a recent video of an SSP performance. We hope you g...

"CK And Starhead" by Seattlest Flickr Pool contributor SlightlyNorth. As part of a push to clean up downtown, Seattle Public Utilities will be reclaiming 700 dumpsters from the alleys south of Denny and west of I-5. In order to maintain some kind of order, they'll increase the number of daily trash ...

Jobs are difficult to find, but not so scarce that P-I staffers aren't feeling free to turn down Hearst's online operations job offers. "Bottom line: An online-only P-I is not a done deal. At least not yet," says Publicola's Sandeep Kaushik. Southlake reports on a man shot in the butt, and Queen Ann...

Los Angeles Premiere of "Music and Lyrics". Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, CA. February 7, 2007. www.bauergriffin.com Pic Shows: Haley Bennett." src="http://www.mediumdreams.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/70207a1-bennett-h-b-gr-05-thumb.jpg" width="354" border="0"/ I had a chance to...

Up in Kenmore, a woman awoke to a giant, 15 foot sinkhole in her driveway this morning. When unusual seemingly natural phenomena occur at Seattlest HQ, our kneejerk response is to think back over our possible sins of the last 24 hours in case we managed to unknowingly aggravate the pantheon. However...

The Reading Eagle has a nice Patricia Arquette interview article up. She talks about the supernatural and how she messed around with things as a teenager, but wouldn’t do so now. In fact, in the interview, she says, “…Don’t mess around with what you can’t explain.”...

This is terrible, but when Seattlest noticed the weird new streetlights on 10th Avenue the other night, we thought, "No need to investigate just yet. Capitol Hill Seattle is probably already on it." And what do you know? They were. The Washington Bus has Gary Payton rapping, of course, and an ode to...

Seattlest's wine guy, Ronald, kicks off the weekend by hosting a $75, 5-course, 5-wine wine dinner Friday at Portfolio, the dining room of the Art Institute's culinary academy. (Note: 20 percent discount to Seattlest readers; call 206-239-2363 for reservations.) Saturday night will find him, Barolo ...

"Troy Loses Bet, Everyone Else Wins" by Zoomar. VINYL IS SO IN RIGHT NOW: DJs, music collectors, and music lovers of all sorts who also happen to own a record player should consider heading down to the powerhouse Big Dig Record Show in Eastlake tonight. You'll probably score some great deals on the ...