Neighborhood News and Local Blog Round-Up

drums3.jpg
"Street Truck Drums" courtesy of Seattlest Flickr pool member Slightlynorth
  • Put your jazz hands together for Seattle's Garfield High School jazz band who won first place at Lincoln Center's 14th annual Essentially Ellington competition in NYC this weekend, beating out crosstown rival jazz band and reigning champion Roosevelt High School.
  • Perverted vegetables found in Seattle.
  • Seattle Beer Week is well underway and to celebrate tonight's festivities, check out the Dry T-shirt Contest in West Seattle. Say wha? Dry T-shirt? Ohhh, they want you to wear the best beer-related shirt (oldest, farthest away, etc.).The only thing wet you'll find is the pints of beer.
  • Seattle Metblogs teaches you how to report a dead person. Well, you never know!
  • Speaking of dead people, Sightline reminds us we're all screwed when Hanford sends its toxic backwash into the Columbia. Only a matter of time, people! "A facility designed to stabilize and solidify the Hanford tank wastes is now 8 years behind schedule and about $8 billion over its initial budget."
  • Speaking of "behind schedule," the Daily Weekly reports that Microsoft is offering bonds for sale. They want to scare up about $4 billion in mad money to buy back stock and maybe get a new couch.

Email This Entry


Tips

About Seattlest

Seattlest is a website about Seattle. More

Editor: Regis Lacher Publisher: Gothamist

Contribute

Latest Tip:

In Woodinville there's a hole-in-the-wall charcuterie named Bill The Butcher which has the most outl
[more]

Latest Photo:

Recent Comments

Subscribe

Use an RSS reader to stay up to date with the latest news and posts from Seattlest.

All Our RSS