Neighborhood News And Local Blog Roundup

"Windmill Hamburger Joint Greenwood or Phinney Ridge..." by Wonderlane.

The Rainier Valley Post has photos of the landslide that shut down the 9700 block of Rainier Avenue for most of the yesterday's business hours. Around 5 p.m. yesterday, the block re-opened to cars--this time with concrete barriers in place, just in case more earth thought it would be fun to interrupt traffic flow.
King County jails are shaking things up in light of the budget crisis sweeping the state. The Daily Weekly reports that inmates will have to start wearing their orange jumpsuits all the time, now, to save on laundry costs.
There's a new local music and arts site in town--ReignCity has arrived! We've been super-psyched for launch. What's online now is exactly what the urban arts needs in Seattle: a sortable, easy-on-the-eyes calendar, a music news blog, and event spotlights.
Greenwood gets a spotlight in the Times, and even receives the descriptor "hip," reports PhinneyWood. They sound so surprised! Seattlest has thought Greenwood was the next Big Thing (after Georgetown) for at least five minutes now.

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