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WHERE DOES CREATIVITY COME FROM?: For a city filled with a decent amount of creatives, advertising folks, and clients that always want the Big Idea, newest movie Art & Copy is a must see. The film, created by acclaimed documentary director Doug Pray (Hype!, Scratch, Big Rig), riffles through the minds of the ad industry's most creative and iconic product pushers. After tonight's 7:00 p.m. showing, select Seattle creatives and ad folks will host a discussion panel about the film.

Zipcar just emailed us about their activities and festivities planned for this Saturday. The day begins with do-gooding: after assembling at Cal Anderson Park at 12:30 p.m., they're going to pick up litter on East Pine Street from 1-3. Then it's back to the park for the rest of the "Sounds Outside" concert, complete with Zipcar picnic snacks, park games, and special treats like driving credit for all members. (As per usual, if you recruit someone impressionable to the Zipcar agenda, you get extra credit.) If you want to help out, RSVP to cleanseattle (at) zipcar.com. Here's the full Sounds Outside lineup: 1:00 p.m. Figeater; 2:30 p.m. Industrial Jazz Group; 4:00 p.m. Greg Sinibaldi; 5:30 p.m. Syncopated Taint Horn Quartet; 7:00 p.m. Bert Wilson.

• Taking an interest in the smaller crimes that go unnoticed by the 10 o'clock news, CHS shines a light on an everyday drug bust in Cal Anderson Park. Even $10 in heroin can get ya in trouble.
• Awakened by the sounds of paintball guns, Wallyhood blog reports of recent paintball attacks on Wallingford resident's property.

As if Sasquatch, Bumbershoot and concert series at Marymoor Park, wineries, and the zoo weren't enough, also coming up: Sounds Outside, the fourth annual free avant-garde music festival presented by the Monktail Creative Music Concern. Dubbed "a celebration of adventurous music and community," this year's fest takes place on two non-consecutive Saturdays, July 25th and August 15th, at Cal Anderson Park. Full lineup after the jump.

Capitol Hill Seattle was on fire today, with a Google-mapped report on the dog cops chased around Cal Anderson for an unreasonably long time and a poll on who should be the face on Capitol Hill's dollar bill. (Maybe we suggest Editor MvB's visage?) The Southlake enthused about The Bachelor's visit to Seattle, including five points of interest and--yes--a Google map of the episode's highlights. Cascade Bicycle and MyBallard want to talk about the Burke-Gilman's missing link. Matthew, Laurie and Iris over at Roots And Grubs were let down by their Trader Joes tortillas, but shared how they saved dinner. It sounds scrumptious!

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Photos from December 17-18, 2009.

Meteorologists are predicting heavy snow this Friday for north King County and the mountains, and if that isn't worthy of an exclamation point then we're not sure what is! Snow means, of course, sitting inside with peanut butter hot chocolate and thinking dreamy philosophical thoughts about individuality (snowflakes, etc.) or James Bond (On Her Majesty's Secret Service). It means reading Snow by Orhan Pamuk, A Winter's Love by Madeleine L'Engle, or The Winter Of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck.

• Capitol Hill Seattle covered the breaking news of a police stand-off that closed Cal Anderson Park yesterday.
• Ballard institution Zesto's passed their health inspection this go-round after last year's epic fail.
• George W. is in elite company for sucking. He's surpassed Nixon's unenviable record of the worst performing market since Herbert Hoover.

Since the Olympics have eschewed nudity to the point that even male swimmers are wearing unitards now, this weekend's "Shorts vs. Shirts" game at Cal Anderson Park will have to satisfy your nude athletics craving. The gist of this soccer game is that one team will be wearing just shorts and another team will be wearing just shirts. You must wear one, but you can't wear both. Men on the Shirts only team can wear underwear or thongs, but it must show skin. The match starts tomorrow at 10 a.m., where we imagine early risers will be rewarded...either with good views or eager cheering fans.

By now, you’ve most likely realized that Seattlest loves a little bit of the strange in our daily lives. Between all the off-beat circuses, live movies, and pillow fights, our entertainment tastes obviously run a little bit off center. It shouldn’t come as a surprise then that spending a day shooting nine holes of golf around Capitol Hill, in costume, at the bi-annual Seattle Urban Golf was right up our alley.

My God, it's beautiful outside. When did that happen? Here we are sneezing and coughing and oozing from every orifice on our face when we look outside and Holy Obamalove, Batman! It's really nice out!

A hundred or so people met at Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill last night, to serenade the full lunar eclipse with Bonnie Tyler's '80s classic, "Total Eclipse of the Heart." The plan was to sing the song for the entire 51 minutes of the lunar eclipse. Sadly, Seattlest could not take the song or the cold long enough to see if they succeeded.

On the plus side, the basketball and tennis courts at Cal Anderson Park are completely open.

Seattle's known as one of the least-churched cities in the U.S. But consider this recent report from the Barna Group, which found that three out of every four American adults interpret literally the Bible story in which Jesus rises from the dead after being crucified and buried. The numbers are taken from a thousand-person telephone survey. There's some interesting poll information there, and some even more interesting commentary from the Barna Group ("Your partner for information, strategy, execution and transformation!" says their website):

A minority of the people who believe these stories to be true consistently apply the principles embedded in these stories within their own lives. It seems that millions of Americans believe the Bible content is true, but are not willing to translate those stories into action. Sadly, for many people, the Bible has become a respected but impersonal religious history lesson that stays removed from their life.

Seattlest can't find any hard data from the poll to back up these last statements from Barna, an admittedly Christian organization, and we're not sure who's providing the official description of what it looks like to "translate those stories into action." However, we would be down for a grand Seattle-style social experiment: for 24 hours, Cal Anderson Park could be turned into a playground for all the apparently-repressed Biblical literalists to freely act out their beliefs. The prayer walkers will be on hand to referee; we think this could yield a crop of fascinating YouTube material.

We did our best to ignore the shirtless guy's bongo tappy tappy, but when two California poseurs got him to provide a beat for them to rap to (badly), it was time for our person to move along.

East wing of Cal Anderson Park. Right next to the water cooler.

Cal Anderson Park reflecting pool, 9:10am.

This morning we noticed that someone had dumped some Ultra detergent into the fountain at Cal Anderson Park, which made a bunch of pretty foam, but which perturbed us because we weren't sure if that was getting into our drinking water. The park, as you might already know, is basically a very cool lid for the reservoir that sits underneath it.

Strolling through Volunteer Park on our lunch break, we spotted a new skate bowl where the antiquated reservoir used to be. With what looks like a (mini) super-collider laid out on the bottom, it's Seattle grunge meets Seattle hi-tech. Is this a response to the success of Cal Anderson Park, just down the Hill, with the younger set? If so, Volunteer is firing both barrels.

We're certainly not the only ones to be ragging on new housing being built on the Hill. But we've got our eyes on another development, specifically the nine condos for sale at the corner of 11th and Howell, right across from Cal Anderson Park. Seattlest lives near these condos and has been acutely aware of their construction, via one year of all kinds of noise starting everyday 'round 7 in the AM (and *that's* why we hate the unions).

Seattlest chortled like little Stewie over this headline. Do you know why? Because this post is about the long-awaited opening of Cal Anderson Park!