Up until last week, 30-year-old Matt Watson was an anonymous coffee shop employee known to many only as "Bitter Barista."

The well-worn cliche is that there is a Starbucks practically everywhere.

Portland resident "Simon Jackson" had his bike stolen by a Stumptown thief, only to find it on Craigslist in Seattle. So he did what any bike theft victim would do if he had some friends, some guts, and a lucky hat: He organized a sting operation.

Following the recent proliferation of zombie-related news stories, it appears America has now moved on to attacks by other fantastical characters.

Mom-and-pop coffee shop Starbucks is poised to expand its brick and mortar empire (slightly) further, as The Seattle Times reports the corporation is planning to open a tea-only store near the company's headquarters in Seattle.

We debunked that viral video of the Shell Oil party disaster yesterday, and speculated it was a particularly elaborate Yes Men hoax. It was. Here's their video revealing how they did it and why.

Patients and staff members on the Hematology Oncology floor of Seattle Children's Hospital came together earlier this month to lip-sync to Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger" for a dust-kickingly uplifting lip dub organized by 22-year-old North American Hockey League player and Children's cancer patient Chris Rumble.

For far too long, Seattle's real-life superhero Phoenix Jones has had his run of the Emerald City. Real-life supervillain Rex Velvet believes it's high time that "hobo snitch in a mask" learned to share.

There are a some striking images coming out of today's May Day protests, but this must be the most absurd. It's is a picture of self-declared 'citizen superhero' Phoenix Jones and his sidekick at Seattle's May Day protests, which have at times erupted in violence. Phoenix Jones has been wandering around Seattle today,…

NPR's The Salt blog picked up on a very NPR story about a Seattle public plot turned "food forest," where citizens will be encouraged to make friends with one another while frolicking and foraging for luscious, free fruits.

Seattle police have re-opened the 20-year-old cold case of Sarah Yarborough, who was killed in 1991, and using DNA samples from the scene, they've narrowed the suspect down. To a member of "the family of Robert Fuller, who settled in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1630 and had relatives who came over before him on the…

Both the Mirror and the Daily Mail have dug up some info about the scruffy seafarer spotted last week with Amanda "Foxy Acquittedknoxy" Knox. His name is James Terrano, he studies classical guitar, and he's already living with her, in sin.

The Sperm Bike is a 120-pound, 10-foot bicycle rigged with a sperm-shaped tank of liquid nitrogen and—on business days—vials of human sperm ("pre-babies"). Based on a model used in Copenhagen, Seattle's sperm bike transports its cargo from the Seattle Sperm Bank to fertility clinics. Even though it's motorized, it's…

Here we see a man named Richard Lee (not Rick, but Richard) raising a ruckus at a recent Seattle University event starring financial analyst/sports writer/columnist/former Guns n' Roses bass player/current Velvet Revolver+Loaded member/memoirist Duff McKagan. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer tells us that Lee is a…

Ever since Seattle waitress Victoria Liss Facebook-posted the awful tip she received from one Andrew Meyer—aka "You could stand to loose [sic] a few pounds" Guy—you've probably developed some negative feelings for Mr. Meyer, and possibly for other Andrew Meyers around the world. Andrew Meyers are similar to apples, in…

The mystery of Phoenix Jones — the citizen superhero who stalks the streets of Seattle seeking out injustice and, for the most part, gets his ass kicked — has at last been solved. The Smoking Gun has the arrest report of one Benjamin Fodor, a 23-year-old mixed martial arts fighter who was detained by police on Sunday…

The Seattle Police Department has begun handing out tickets to motorists—including cab drivers—who honk if they love their local Occupy Wall Street contingent. People can probably still honk if they love Jesus, though don't quote us on that.

With so many of America's criminals going the "violent psychopath" route—an overdone schtick if there ever was one—it's nice to hear about a burglar who sounds as though they derived stylistic inspiration from illustrated children's books. This person's even vegetarian-friendly.

If you spent yesterday huddled in a corner with a bottle of vodka, crying and depressed about all of the massacre and death news that this weekend has brought us so far, well ... you might want to get a refill on that drink.

We just told you about the bear who stuck its head in a jug and lost 85 pounds. Now a coyote pup's wandering around Washington state with a damn jar on its head and can't eat anything.