Seattle Weekly/Clay Wins Seattle Times Poll

Seattle Weekly tells us Clay overwhelmed the Seattle Time's website poll put up last Friday asking which concert Seattlers were most looking forward to. Clay won the poll with an astounding 80%, which will land him on the Nov. 4 cover of the Time's weekly concert guide called Ticket.

ACHIN' FOR AIKEN
Seattle Weekly

It was a big week for local fans of Clay Aiken. First, they made joyful noise at the departure of Aiken-bashing Seattle Weekly staffer Steve Wiecking (see Letters). Then they united to put Aiken's cute, freckled face on the cover of The Seattle Times' Ticket section this Friday, Nov. 4. In a Times reader poll, a whopping 80 percent voted to award the spot of honor on the paper's Friday entertainment guide to the American Idol loser. (Take that, Steve!) Of the choices offered in the poll (including Matchbox Twenty's Rob Thomas and Disney's Chicken Little), we would've preferred the indie musician Bright Eyes--but that's why we at Seattle Weekly hog the editing duties ourselves and don't let readers vote. . . . In other Weekly news, we welcome arts writer Sue Peters to our staff. Peters, who has worked for San Francisco Chronicle Publishing and Salon, among other publications, will cover visual arts for the paper. LYNN JACOBSON