Tonight, City Inside/Out hosts a discussion on Seattle's homelessness problem stretching outside of Downtown, and outreach organizations following suit, with both outreach organizations and neighborhood groups. Can a compromise be reached? more ›

• Creativity strikes again! Wallyhood reports of a gold papier-mâché sculpture found in Gas Works Park with a note, saying it was gifted to the citizens of Seattle. It's the type of guerilla art that just warms the heart.
• In an international six degrees of separation kind of way, a reader from Seattlest's sister site Shanghaiist helped identify the mysterious mustache man with amnesia. All of which goes to prove that you should never, ever underestimate the power of the Ists.

A second Aurora Avenue Motel has been declared unsafe and unsanitary by the Washington State Department of Health. Today, residents of the Seals Motel are facing a state-sanctioned ouster, while just two weeks ago it was residents of the Green Lake Motel who experienced the same. It would seem the Department of Health could have just photocopied the report against the Green Lake Motel and changed the name, as the findings are identical. more ›

It's L Ron Hubbard's birthday today. If you're looking for an opportunity and excuse to celebrate, look no further. more ›

What do you get when you cross first-class amenities with a blood-thirsty, third-world parasite? If you’re a downtown Seattle hotel you get bed bugs. more ›

Scientology Protest on Aurora Ave. photos courtesy of Flickr User bh88keys more ›

Once upon a time Seattlest considered North Aurora to be a shithole, to be avoided at all costs. But, eventually, we had to go to Home Depot and a used car lot, and that car rack store, and (doh) the unemployment office, and the movie theater, and IHOP and the European deli and Computer Stop and Chubby & Tubby (so far not Stupid Prices, though) and Kmart, Burgermaster, the cemetery and a hundred other tiny places the memories of which have congealed into one big impression of Aurora Avenue North. Now we consider it one of the most organic, vibrant and honest places in the city. more ›

We went a different direction the other day and ended up at perhaps the newest Asian (plus more) grocery store in town: HT Oaktree Market (10008 Aurora Avenue North). When we walked through the front door and saw roasted ducks, chickens, and – can you believe it – even a whole pig hanging from a bar, we knew this was going to be something special. more ›

Doesn't matter whether you rebuild, retrofit or dig. Doesn't matter if the State Dep't of Transportation pretends they need to maintain the Viaduct's current capacity of 110,000 vehicles a day (even if The Stranger and others make it clear the number is closer to 75,000). more ›

If you got caught in traffic today because Aurora was closed for five hours, you've got your friendly Seattle cops to thank:

Just after 1:30 a.m. Monday, officers were called to an apartment building in the 1500 block of Aurora Avenue North following a report that a man there had thrown a knife at his girlfriend and threatened two other people in the apartment with a rifle... more ›

Seattlest is very upset today, and finding it hard to look anyone in the eye. Why are we sad? Tomorrow is the final day of business for all Larry's Markets in the Seattle area. more ›

Bummed by bumper-to-bumperdom, Seattlest recently jumped off I-5 and onto Route 99 for a journey north. Late for an appointment, we now had limited time for a much-needed snack. We wanted it quick, cheap, and crisp. Yes, we had a crispy craving (not to be confused with a Krispy Kreme). more ›

-People are still pretty pissed about Mooie, the puppy that was found with acid burns all over it recently, and they should be pissed. There's a reward for information leading to the culprits and King County Animal Control is getting a lot of crap for how they handled the case. more ›

If you’re like Seattlest, you hate the game, not the playa. If you’re a Seattle City Council member, you heart the homeless, but they tents the live in? Not so much. Councilmembers unanimously approved Harry Potter-esque District 2 council member Bill “Fergie” Ferguson’s proposal to turn closed motels into homeless housing. The “Jumpstart Initiative” is modeled on the Aloha Inn, the Aurora Avenue motel-turned-tent city remedy the city purchased in 1991. That earsplitting sound you hear was Seattlest nearly ripping the Velcro clean off our Trapper Keeper as we rushed to graph the breakneck pace of the council’s progress toward the Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness. more ›

Seattlest likes north Aurora unsavory. It gives us a sense of where things stand; a zero to start from when measuring the ebb and flood of everyday life. Of course we don't live up there or anything or, for that matter, go there much. I think we may have atttempted to get to Shoreline once by that route, but finally turned back before reaching it. Too far. more ›