"Caution!" by Shawn McClung, from our Flickr pool">

Torontoist learned what happens a big city paper announces plans to outsource 100 union editing jobs—an editor takes revenge by editing the crap out of the internal memo that made the announcement.

"Obligatory lighthouse shot" by Mary Land, from our Flickr pool

Starting today, you can get discount 3-day festival passes for the 2010 Sasquatch! festival. So far, Pavement has been confirmed to perform, and the complete festival lineup will be announced on February 16.

Thousands gathered Friday for the memorial of police Officer Timothy Brenton, who was killed in the line of duty on Halloween night.

"On the Loop trail" by Mary Land, from our Flickr pool

The cranberry is one of only three commercially-important fruits that originated in North America (the other two are the blueberry, and the Concord grape), and Washington is one of five states that produce the majority of the cranberries in this country. While you may have missed the local harvest, it is still worth a trip out to Long Beach to check out the cranberry bogs and visit the Pacific Coast Cranberry Research Foundation Museum.

We’ve moved from Election Day to Election Week. Will Election Month be far behind?

The unconventional symphony is a celebration of inspiration and fantastic bravery by real heroes like doctors, nurses, and family members who make a difference in young lives. (Sorry Superman. You may have saved Lois Lane a bajillion times, but you probably don’t know how to set up an IV.)

        

Woodland Park zookeepers tossed soccer balls to some of their charges last Wednesday to commemorate the first round of the MLS Cup Playoff Western Conference Semifinals, which ended, of course, in a lame tie. The Sounders better win Sunday or AMY GET MAD!! Regardless, check out the 15-year-old, 850-pound grizzly brothers, Keema and Denali, demolishing the hapless balls while five-month-old snow leopard cubs Gobi and Batu and the zoo’s Humboldt penguins take a more friendly, frisky approach. The soccer balls are part of the zoo’s animal enrichment program which aims to promote natural animal behavior and keep the animals mentally stimulated.

In true West Coast style, this event is stripping away all barriers of exclusivity and getting its "do-gooder" on by making the event free and donating all profits from their raffle to Art Corps for kids.

TIGER LILLIES: Seattle’s Cabaret Festival kicks off tonight with the beautifully hellish Tiger Lillies. The UK trio uses accordion, ukulele, upright bass, saw, theremin, the tiniest adult drum set we’ve ever seen, and leader Martyn Jacques’ beautifully tortured falsetto to tell tales of doomed prostitutes, pressganged sailors, and the terrifically deformed. Tonight, they’re focusing on songs from Shockheaded Peter, the musical adaptation of the German fable book (Hint: the children don’t fare well), and The Gorey End, their collaboration with dark cartoonist Edward Gorey that began with some of his unpublished stories and ended with his death. We can’t wait.

"Architecture puzzle." by Elliot Norwood, from our Flickr pool