LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the week was that the Mayor's Hot Tamale was revealed, and that a Kwik-E-Mart was erected in Burbank. Phillyist was busy doing the Fourth of July up right, exercising their......

--By a--if you can believe this--unanimous vote of the Seattle School Board, Maria Goodloe-Johnson is the new superintendent. --You already couldn't listen to Don Imus in Seattle, but now it's a nationwide thing. --The hiker who died in a fall at Baker Lake this week was also a rocker. --Mariners vs. Boston postponed due to this. --According to the P-I, Seattle has other blogs. --Local boy Luke Burbank on his new, as-yet-untitled NPR show. --How......

PUBLIC TALK: Do you get guns? We don't, not really, but Wazzu's own Joan Burbank, professor of English and American Studies, thinks she does. She wrote a book on the subject, and she's going to talk about Gun Culture and American Democracy tonight at Town Hall. 7:30pm // Town Hall Seattle, Eighth & Seneca (downstairs; enter on Seneca) // $5 tickets at the door RITUAL EMBARRASSMENT: "Melodrama and lust and braces and accidental erections"! If......

Tomorrow morning, a local boy's going to try to make toothpaste confiscation funny: One of the few shows produced by NPR that actually achieves wit on a regular basis, Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me, is gonna be guest-hosted by a Seattleite for the next three weeks. As our kids slouch back to school weighed down with our expectations for their futures, it might lighten their loads to hear a little about Luke Burbank, Nathan......

Seattlites rejoice! For this episode marked the beginning of what Seattlest hopes may be a long and loving relationship. And no, sorry ladies, not one involving McDreamy. Rather one where the producers of the show had the good sense (after a false start or two) to realize that a show based in Seattle? Might be a nice idea to shoot there once in a while. Instead of, you know, using a patch of dried grass......

If Southwest Airlines builds a passenger terminal at Boeing Field, as they proposed yesterday, your life will be better. Boeing Field is ten minutes closer to downtown, and the terminal would be small enough that the most aggravating aspects of air travel--parking, long lines, interminable delays--would be eliminated. We lived for a time near Burbank Airport in Los Angeles, and flying in and out of there was a delight. In comparison to LAX (think Sea-Tac......

We've always had a soft spot for Alaska Airlines. They seem slightly exotic and yet local all at the same time. But the recent Times story on Alaska's lackluster, lagging performance of late made us realize that we were not alone in our recent Alaska Airlines travel nightmare. According to the Times, Alaska Airlines ranked as the worst airline in the nation for on-time arrivals and departures during May, according to a new federal......