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We roll out of bed, ready to face a new year of great coffee shops, stellar coffee and hearty roasts. Seattlest welcomes 2008!

Just when the CHS blog was getting antsy, our friend Bosco emailed us with the date in question: Smith is set to open Tuesday, June 19. And not a moment too soon. We've been doing the Mervyn's lady "Open Open Open" chant for weeks now. For those of you not familiar, Smith is the newest watering hole from Linda Derschang, goddess of the Seattle-friendly hotspot.

Kid-friendly restaurants have a children's menu with macaroni and cheese and other toddler staples. They welcome families and have more than one high chair and booster seat. Most have crayons and some have craftier stuff, like Tutta Bella's wiki stix. That is usually as far as the accommodation goes--unless you frequent suburban junk food hell-holes like Chuck E. Cheese.

It was a dark and stormy night on Capitol Hill, and we were looking for a Mr. G. Roe.

We had thought our 15th Avenue breaking news this morning would be pointing out that Coastal Kitchen is still closed from last night's flooding. But that was before we got to 14th Avenue East and East Thomas, and noticed something ... different. Luckily we had our camera phone with us.

So Cypress, 15th Avenue's newest lounge, has opened, as we promised. We took a quick glance at the drinks menu (martinis, wine, the usual beer suspects) and the new decor: the booths running along the north wall all face southward into the bar, making it a much more open, see-and-be-seen space. The bar is where the bar used to be (handy, that, drinkers being creatures of habit). As you can see from the obligatory cell phone photo, the front opens right onto the street with a little lounge area. The address is 330 15th Avenue East. We'll be dropping in for reals later on, but if you beat us to it, feel free to chime in in the comments.

Saturday we went to go see The Museum Play at WET. We've been musing over what to tell you about it since then. It's a world premiere, see, and why give the story away? So few things these days have the opportunity to surprise us. If you don't care about that then by all means, read this Weekly review, or this bizarre, what-was-he-drinking? one in the P-I. [UPDATE: Here's the Stranger's AW! with a response within shouting distance of ours, and the Times' Misha Berson, with whose review we also find ourselves nodding agreeably.]

In our quest to spot something [Ed: ANYthing] happening on 15th Ave before the microblogonauts at Capitol Hill Seattle do, we bring you this possibly useful news item. Ongoing road work is going to close 15th Avenue East from Madison to Denny (that is, from Thumper's to Safeway) this Saturday, for most of the day. It's all according to plan:

The one-woman show Child of Hungry Times is being hosted by WET, which is holed up in the former Little Theatre space, at 608 19th Avenue East.

"You're ridin' high in April, shot down in May," Frank Sinatra used to sing. For Hines Public Market Coffee, at Eastlake Avenue East and East Lynn Street, the shooting starts in late July or August, when their building is scheduled to be demolished and replaced by a new one.

As lazy organic foods shoppers who don't like to walk any farther than we have to, Seattlest is perturbed by the rumors that Rainbow Natural Grocery on 15th Avenue East has a cloudy future. We've seen for ourselves that shelves aren't getting restocked, and we hear that employee paychecks sometimes don't pay out. Something ain't right.