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Now's the time to rent office space in Seattle's business districts, apparently. Microsoft halted talks on a possible office space lease in South Lake Union, citing economic woes. From the P-I's report: "The loss for now of Microsoft as a potential tenant will put additional downward pressure on office rental rates in Seattle, according to Kip Spencer, the co-founder of OfficeSpace.com and an executive at JE Dunn Construction Co." Ouch. Even the giant is brought to its knees when it comes to money problems.

It seemed like every other person we passed had a maroon "Oklahoma" t-shirt tucked into their shorts and a smug air about their head region when we were walking around campus before the UW game on Saturday. By our reckoning (UCLA beat Tennessee, BYU beat UCLA, Washington was a terrible call away from taking BYU to overtime) OU were maybe going to get more of a game than they expected. And then they played the game and, it hardly seems possible, the smugness intensified around the heads of the Oklahoma faithful. Campus still looks beautiful, though. Sprizee took this shot of the sun setting on it and left it in the Seattle Flickr Pool for our enjoyment.

Photo Taken by beloved Flickr Contributor, Slightly North

Even though he grew up in Seattle and has recently joined the UW jazz studies faculty, and even though he had an intriguing-looking gig at SAM during last fall's Earshot Jazz Festival, we still haven't managed to catch a performance by trumpeter Cuong Vu. But we'd sure like to catch him tonight at UW's Meany Hall and finally hear him in person.

reports on his blog that state Sen. Joe Zarelli recently hosted right-wing Israeli politicians and others at a two-day conference down in Vancouver, to fan the flames of Islamophobia.

THEATER: You have only five more chances to catch WET’s latest offering, In Disdress Now: Redux. Marya Sea Kaminski’s one-woman show was originally developed as as part of On the Boards' Northwest New Works Festival in June 2006. Now the “story of a girl wrestling meaning out of love, porn, and the folds of an enormous red hoop dress” has been expanded into a full-fledged tour de force.

SPORTS: Garfield vs. Franklin basketball is the best sports rivalry in the city. Only happens twice a year. There's bands, guys trying desperately to impress their friends in the stands, and usually a cheerleader battle or two. This is as close to Duke-UNC as we have in this state. NOTE: Bring a sweater, the gym will be COLD.

We want to make it clear right away that this is a student performance. We enjoyed the chance to see these two pieces, but mostly we went to hear a variety of young singers. What they lack in technical skill, they can sometimes make up for in drive and commitment. Sometimes.

Seattlest lives a neighborhood over from the University of Washington, and in our day to day lives we're kind of ambivalent about that fact, but every now and then we really think about it and we're happy to be in close proximity to such a large and distinguished house of knowledge. They teach stuff there, and more than that, they learn stuff. Science, language, the arts, and the inexorable forward motion of the human condition happening just a few streets over, 24/7!

The Blue Moon isn't closing - the guy who owns it is just considering selling it because he doesn't want to sign a Good Neighbor agreement in order to get a hard alcohol license. But, hey, let's eulogize it anyway! A bunch of famouns literary types used to drink there and it's a cozy little dive and blah blah blah. We always order the swill from the Blue Moon for some reason and you've just read the most half-assed eulogy of all time. The Moon would have wanted it that way.

It's rained--hard--five out of the last six weekends. And after a week of beautiful weather, it's supposed to cloud over Saturday and rain Sunday. Along with the byplay of their weekend, the Seattlests answer the question "Why does God hate Seattle?"

Tucked away through an easy to miss doorway, the skyspace appears, from just outside, to be a goofy, oddly painted kind of storage room. "Is this it?" we said to the bored UW student posing as a security guard, but she was too busy staring at the floor to respond. Inside, the exceptionally bright and clean walls and hand carved wood benches are precisely shaped to mess with the viewers sense of space: the room feels small and large at the same time, drawing you in to figure out why (We stopped to review what substances might have been in that post-lunch brownie, but confirmed the sensations were created entirely by the space itself).

As promised, Seattlest attended the PTSD lecture given at the UW last night. This was the first installment in this year's three Allen Edwards Psychology Lectures, and we're delighted to report that it's okay to come even if you aren't, you know, medically credentialed or what-have you. (Advance registration is "required," although they also "register" at the door. Seattlest initially had visions of having to fake a psych degree on our way in: goatee, pipe, slight Europish accent, but unfortunately, it wasn't called for.)

Seattlest first heard about the predilection David Lynch has for meditation shortly after 9/11, when he suggested that winning a war against suicidal religious fundamentalists would require us to think happy thoughts and do some breathing excercises. This didnt exactly inspire the requisite confidence to secure a nomination for Secretary of Defense from the neo-cons, but then again, that's not really saying anything.

A post-apocalyptic short film will be shot in Seattle this coming Sunday and they're looking for extras in the future goth vein. Where does one shoot a post-apocalyptic short film? Microsoft Campus? Seattle Center? Lower Madison? No, no, no. Rainier Brewery!

For some time now, weblogger and documentarian Chuck Olsen has been working on his film Blogumentary. Now, combining a subject and a city near and dear to Seattlest, Blogumentary will be premiering this Friday at the UW's Evans School of Public Affairs.

In Seattle the markers indicating the change in seasons go beyond the weather and blooming cherry blossoms. It's spring, and it's time for the course catalogs to start arriving at your door. We didn't receive our personal favorite from the Experimental College until last week, but it's been online since March 2. You can register online March 16th and you better be on the ball about it this semester if you don't want to get shut out of that sushi class once again.

Seattlest heard a rumor that its neighbor to the east, Redmond, is home to one of the most profitable 7-Elevens in the entire USofA.