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Lenin at Christmas by jbhthescots from the Seattlest Flickr pool.

Find out the week's noteworthy news, people and events as reported by the neighborhood blogs.

Morgen heads over to Columbia City Theatre once again for today's photo. The Fremont Abbey's first round at CCT is the setting. This photo in particular is Shenandoah Davis who recently embarked on a four month tour of non-stop shows. She has a beautiful voice, soul... and tattoo.

Birdsz_16901442 by f8stop from the Seattlest Flickr pool.

While Christmas in Seattle was pretty much defined by Sunday's arrival of Windmageddon 2011, it was still a generally peaceful weekend, with some notable exceptions, naturally.

Considering that Boxing Day is traditionally a day of shopping, recovery and general lazying around about the home as people prepare to jump back into the workday on Tuesday. However, if the sense of cabin fever extends well into the evening, here are a couple of options for you to consider.

Another week in the Seattle book world. Many things are happening--though they're a bit more spread out than usual. Don't let that dampen your spirits, get our there and embrace the interesting and unique events in our city. Cheers!

A slow sports weekend in Seattle meant the end of the Seahawks' playoff dreams was all the more visible.

These days Boxing Day is mostly observed in countries inside the British Commonwealth (and their former colonies); this is the day when gifts are exchanged with friends and neighbors and is considered to be the most informal day of the holiday season. Guards are down, camaraderie is up, as is a general air of bonhomie.

Morgen takes us back to Bumbershoot once again for KEXP's special lounge session with none other than local soul sweethearts Pickwick. Sold out shows left and right, Doe Bay mainstage, and nods on NPR are just the beginning for this incredible group.

Meet Riley. Riley is a little girl who knows one thing: She can't stand the gender-normative marketing that insists that little girls should like princess-y things and little boys should like superhero stuff. It's just all so...PINK, you know?

Not much tends to happen during the week between Christmas Day and New Year's Eve, almost as if the news felt as non-committal to the last week of the year as the rest of us do. "Oh, do something? Meh, all right." And so it goes about its business, popping out the occasional solid story and then going about looking busy with a sheaf of papers in hand.

An Alleyway, Seattle by kosmosxipo from the Seattlest Flickr pool.

A Bellevue office building flames out and an elderly driving man tries the game "England!" Otherwise, a quiet day.

With it being the holidays and all, this Tuesday is pretty light on stuff to do. But fret not, we were still able to dig something up.

As we move away from the immediate aftermath of the Department of Justice findings regarding the Seattle Police Departments, we begin approaching the period of time where adjustments are supposed to be made. Enter former SPD chief Norm Stamper, who weighs in on what he thinks has gone wrong among the men in blue.

Morgen takes us back on the road up to Bellingham at Wild Buffalo once again. Allen Stone has an unforgettable look and voice but the two don't exactly seem like they go together; She says, who cares. Whatever package that kind of natural talent and raw emotion comes in we'll take it!

A lot of people get "misanthropy" confused with "schaden freude"; even though the subjective mind frames share a lot in common, the two are distinct from each other. Rather than getting into semantics, however, let's see if we can use the world wide webz to illustrate the difference.

This wheel-shaped dessert? GQ magazine named it "Dessert of the Year" in 2010. It's called a Paris-Brest, named for a bike race in France, the Paris-Brest-Paris. The PBP is the second-oldest cycling event in the world, and still the longest one-day event since it covers 1,200 km (750 miles). That's a lot of riding. Closest thing hereabouts is, of course, the STP, organized by the Cascade Bicycle Club. The annual ride, held in the second half of July, sends 10,000 riders from Seattle to Portland. It's about a quarter of the distance covered by the PBP, and comes complete with food carts, tech support and an overnight stop for exhausted riders.

In an exact opposite approach to the news that we saw on Monday, Tuesday supplied a large number of noteworthy items, with impact that reaches across international borders, the revisiting of a couple trouble making repeat offenders and the transition to a new era in urban commuting.

Star by B. K. Dewey from the Seattlest Flickr pool.

Seeing as most folks will be going to see the sold out Portlandia show at the ShowboxMarket, tonight might be a good night to head out and check out some of Seattle's thriving music scene.

Morgen takes us over to Capitol Hill today in St Mark's Cathedral. The same people behind Fremont Abbey's Round put on an incredible show at the cathedral with a killer lineup including the subject of today's photo, Noah Gundersen.

The A.V. Club's semi-regular feature Sawbuck Gamer just came out with their "Best Browser Games of 2011" list, and its contents could serve for at least a week's worth of Afternoon Breaks. However, as time is running low, we'll just feature our favorite two from the list.

Wednesday's pace, while busier than Monday, still has nothing on Tuesday in terms of noteworthy developments.

Washington Homecoming by photosbysomeguy from the Seattlest Flickr pool.

A couple of items get a little bit closer to reaching a ballot in 2012 -- but one's a lot further along. Meanwhile, Occupy Bellingham is evicted, business owners prepare for the minimum wage increase and an arrest in the Christmas Eve murder of a Woodinville teacher.

IT’S A PSYCHOBILLY FREAKOUT: Way back in 1990 Sub Pop signed a rising Dallas band called The Reverend Horton Heat. And they looked at their signing and saw that it was good. Hallelujah. The group’s first album, Smoke ‘em If You Got ‘em, (re)introduced psychobilly to American punk rock fans, and 21 years and 10 albums later, The Rev is still preachin the good word strong. So strong that they perform two nights at El Corazon; first with Seattle country-rock mainstays The Supersuckers and locals Redneck Girlfriend, and then with The Supersuckers and Seattle punk madmen Zeke. Amen.

Campfire OK isn't just a bunch of pretty faces, they've got a unique blend of vocal, banjo, guitar, piano and percussion that brings people in and gets them dancing. Mychal Cohen may be the face of the band, but the incredible talent of each member is what makes this group great. Morgen takes us to their performance at Capitol Hill Block Party earlier this year.

Perhaps you've heard the whispers, perhaps not; in any scenario, the time has come for us to confirm the rumors: As of 4:00p.m. Saturday December 31st, 2011, the Seattlest will be going on indefinite hiatus.