You may have thought a turkey-and-gravy-flavored soda would be disgusting. No, it gets worse. A Christmas-season four-pack of Seattle-based Jones Soda features bottles labeled Sugar Plum, Eggnog, Christmas Tree, and Christmas Ham. (There's a Chanukah pack, too, with a dreidel inside: latke, applesauce, chocolate coins, jelly donut.) But we're not here to be disgusting, we're here to be informative. more ›

Have you been following the Belltown crackdown on crack "controversy"? Guy named Brett Paulson, barman at Txori, thinks it's so bad that the mayor needs to call in the State Patrol. We're not saying that the corner of Second & Bell isn't a bit, well, dodgy, especially in the wee hours, but c'mon, gang. The last person killed in Belltown was a tourist who got flipped out of a runaway pedicab and run over by a minivan, nothing to do with crack, but the vigilantes would have you believe there's gunfire nightly. more ›

Alexa, the internetz rating service, is out with a ranking of Seattle's top 50 media websites. Not surprisingly, da Timez-&-Pee-Eye combo site, nwsource.com, is numero uno. Our good friends at Slog are in fourth place. Seattlest.com is a more-than-respectable tenth. WestSeattleBlog is 15th. Says Alex Mayer, publisher of dead-tree Belltown Messenger (#42) and live-electron Downtown Dispatch (#36), "The future of media is on the web." more ›