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• Friday's zombie crawl scared the living daylights out of Capitol Hill residents. Calls came into the SPD, who later detained the zombies until they realized it was just a costume.
• A colorful health-care rally of 3,500 strong moved into downtown Seattle on Saturday. The staged rally titled, "Health Care for All in 2009" alerted lawmakers that they wanted a single-payer national health-insurance system.
• Leave it to the Boy Scouts to come to the rescue. Kirkland-based Troop 570 was on a camping trip to Blake Island this weekend, when a woman with Alzheimer's went missing. Assembled into search parties, the troop of 29 boys found the woman unharmed two hours later.

Michael Pollan may not have the same rock-star celebrity appeal, but unlike Anthony Bourdain, he did have notes. Lots of them. Most known for his recent books The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, Pollan put together a patchwork of thoughts about food, farming, and well-being, throwing out some of his greatest-hits lines from "corn has domesticated us" to "your health is tied to the health of the land" while speaking in front of a full house at Benaroya on Monday.

Earlier this week, we reported on Anthony Bourdain’s presentation at the Moore last Saturday, which included his regular railing of Rachael Ray. The mistress of 30 Minute Meals seems a bit impatient, which is why she’s shortened the three-second "extra virgin olive oil" down to EVOO. Mmm…EVOO…TIGS (That Is Good STUFF).

Saturday night at the Moore: outside, long lines waited, people begged for tickets, while inside electricity was in the air, the crowd buzzed about what Anthony Bourdain might say. When he finally took the stage, it was a rock star reception—wild applause disrupted the start of his delivery for several minutes.

We’d been hearing a lot about the new KFC (Korean fried chicken), so we took a drive down to Federal Way (with its little Koreatown) to sample some at Cockatoo’s Chicken Restaurant—a place that, once you find it, is basically a bar with a snack menu.

It’s so great, they had to name it twice. Before you start belting out “New York, New York,” think again. We’re in Seattle, and we’re talking about one of New Yorker Anthony Bourdain’s favorite local eateries: Piroshky, Piroshky.

It’s not the easiest place to find – or to eat. Quirky hours (11-4 Tuesday through Friday), an inevitable line out the door, decision-making on your feet, a communal table… but this is what makes Salumi so special and so memorable.

CELEBRATE MLK: Take a few minutes out of the day to check out HistoryLink's accounting of Martin Luther King Jr.'s one visit to Seattle and then head to Seattle Center for some of their events. The East West Bookshop on Roosevelt also has a "concert and program of tribute" from 7:30pm-8:30pm

Like so many others, we travel each week with Anthony Bourdain to the far reaches of the world—from the comfort of our couch. But after a recent episode in Peru tantalized us, we had to get up and get out to sample some ceviche.

There's subterfuge on the menu at the mysterious restaurant called Gypsy. With no permanent address, a revolving list of chefs creating original menus for each clandestine dinner, and an application process that weeds out potential diners who'd betray the cause, Gypsy has us buzzing. Marketing is entirely by word-of-mouth. About 1,000 people have made the cut so far, and dinners for 18 usually sell out less than ten hours after the invitation e-mail is sent. The man behind it all says Gypsy is a success because diners find it liberating to leave their comfort zone: they eat with strangers, don't get to order their food, and don't even know where they're going until a few days before the dinner.

There’s subterfuge on the menu at the mysterious restaurant called Gypsy. With no permanent address, a revolving list of chefs creating original menus for each clandestine dinner, and an application process that weeds our potential diners who’d betray the cause,