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A hearty Seattlest thanks to the Ballard Driving Academy. This is exactly the kind local advertiser--a business that screams Seattle, but really politely, doesn't want to draw too much attention to itself--we're looking for. Remember, with all that's going on in Ballard these days, the safest place is in your car. Why not let the Ballard Driving Academy show you how to drive it, while you're in there?

FUZZY: Everyone's favorite NYC-based noise-pop band, the Vivian Girls, are back at Neumo's tonight. Last year, their self-titled debut made it on nearly everyone's best-of list, despite the fact the band lacks the harmonic sensibilities of, say, tour mates like the Pains of Being Pure at Heart (not with them tonight). In fact, for all the talk about a resurgence of "noise pop" with cascades of fuzz and distortion, the Vivian Girls remind us of no one more than the notorious, idiot-savant kiddie band the Shaggs.

A generation ago, Seattle's most famous person was a fictional clown who lived in the city dump.

Inspired by the Weekly trolling YouTube looking for video of transformers blowing, we offer you this 23-second clip with not one but two surprise explosions. Our dream would have been to embed this Almost Live! classic on Northwest weather predictions, too, but we can't. So we'll have to tempt you with the "snow mixed with cheese" line to get you to click on the link.

Dave Niehaus will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on Sunday morning, and if you haven't started driving yet, well, we don't think you'll be able to make it to Cooperstown by then.

• My Ballard lets all you Ballard-drivers know that a traffic camera has been installed at the busy corner of 15th and Market.
• The Rainier Valley Post reports that Ana Ortega, the principal at Ali Kurose Middle School has resigned in the midst of an SPD investigation into sexual abuse by a teacher's aide at the school.
• Phinneywood is mourning the loss of another Woodland Park Zoo animal. Last week it was a monkey from congestive heart failure; today, a gazelle that died after being attacked by another animal in the African Savannah exhibit. (The lions are pleading the 5th.)

Nothing ages as poorly as sketch comedy television. You remember it being it hilarious, but when you sit someone down in front of a "Mr. Show" or "Kids in the Hall" or "Ben Stiller Show" DVD, invariably, the first episode passes in uncomfortable silence before you have to admit that, at the time, it was hilarious, but maybe it would have made more sense to watch a few clips on YouTube instead of buying the boxed set collector's edition DVDs.

Somehow, in between day jobs, practices, live shows, and recording their second album Beehive Sessions (produced by the Posies' Jon Auer), everybody's favorite performance group/art collective/pop band "Awesome" has found the time to put together a new theater extravaganza for all ages. And though it's kid-tested mother-approved, there's still scads of local talent involved: Here's What Happened is directed by WET's Jennifer Zeyl and has a different guest narrator each night--actor Charles Leggett, Almost Live! and Seattle Channel's Nancy Guppy, and man about town Sean Nelson.

Seattlest probably isn't going to go see Adam Sandler's new movie Click. Momentarily setting aside the fact that we're a bit behind on our theatrical releases (haven't seen Inconvenient Truth and it's playing 5 blocks from the house), the flood of big name comedian vehicles have been disappointing lately. Word is even Nacho Libre sucks. Sandler hasn't made a good movie in... Has Sandler ever made a good movie?

More recent transplants to Seattle read no further. You won't be interested in this post's subject matter and if Seattlest tried to describe to you the many subtle pleasures of Almost Live you would probably come away with the feeling that the show is a provincial, cable access level copy of a copy of Saturday Night Live. And since Saturday Night Live itself sucks (except the news - we love you Tina) we just feel we're not going to get anywhere trying to convert you. Opinions do vary, though, so who knows, maybe you should check it out anyway. After all, Bill Nye didn't just get crapped out of the Space Needle one day. He got roots.