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CHS has the scoop on why there's a giant mosquito loitering at Broadway and Pike.

• A Redmond-based firm's high-tech biomaterial is being used to treat dogs with glaucoma, reports TechFlash.
• Rainier Valley Post has a story about a woman whose laptop was stolen right out of her lap as she was working in a Southend coffeeshop.
• CHS is celebrating the release of a new infographic (!!) showing the busiest pedestrian areas of downtown, and wishing we had the same kind of map for the Hill.

• Seattle Metblogs sent Josh over to The Croc for last night's Soundcheck, and true to form, he brought back a report and some photos. Jealous!
• Mmm, fry bread. And mmm, justice! West Seattle Blog gives ups to the Duwamish tribal "Fry Bread For Justice" event happening this weekend.
• Andrew over at Seattle Transit Blog speaks up in support of the federally funded overpass between Microsoft's campus sections.

We link to Capitol Hill Seattle content frequently in the Neighborhood News round-ups, but the latest installment of CHS-V, a short video about the election and "hope art" on the Hill, is too excellent not to embed directly. The short features nicely edited interviews with Stranger art critic Jen Graves and Obama garage door muralist Shelley Farnham, among other articulate voices. Enjoy. We're faxing 2,009 kudos to videographer David "Cheesecake" Albright and one of our favorite neighborhood blogs for this post.

Big ups to everyone who made it out to celebrate Blogsgiving last night. Cupcakes were devoured, pumpkin drinks were guzzled, hand turkeys were drawn, and normally antisocial bloggers actually mingled with one another (thanks to the aforementioned pumpkin drinks). With the help of you fine people, we raised nearly $400 for Northwest Harvest, along with a bushel and a peck of non-perishable food items. Many thanks to Grey Gallery for hosting, as well as our partners in crime, Seattle Metblogs, Capitol Hill Seattle, and Neighborlogs. Let's do it again next year!

• Burien is busy branding--and the city is using très fancy technology to do so. B-Town Blog posted the latest video and offered a bullet-point summary of the very nice branding elements you will see, should you choose to spend minutes of your life watching a YouTube about all the wonders Burien has to offer.
• PhinneyWood would like you to donate your watches to charity via Jody Laine of the Tiempo Watch and Clock Shop. Why not? You probably use your cell phone for time-keeping already, anyway.
• Care for some Irish Knockers? Why, yes, thank you for asking! Magnolia Voice had the skinny on the new menu at Mulleady's, including photos of the restaurant's interior (they have a very inviting fireplace!).

• West Seattle Blog and CHS documented yesterday especially carefully. To celebrate the anniversary of the first Denny Party landing on Alki forever ago, the Southwest Seattle Historical Society is putting together a time capsule that will include print-outs of Thursday's blog entries, among other various and sundry detritus.
• For every headline about county budget cuts, there are hundreds of people who will have their day-to-day lives affected by the loss of the eliminated programs. Rainier Valley Post asked Public Health spokesman James Apa about the projected impacts on their specific community.
• Aarwenn's CHS post about catching a glimpse into others' private lives, both beautiful and thought-provoking, breathes new life into the idea that one neighborhood could be the heart of a city. Even if you don't live in Capitol Hill (and we know many of you don't), this one's worth the read for poetic value alone.

Hey everybody, next Monday is Blogsgiving!

• Kapow! Coffee, inventors of the Ride the S.L.U.T. t-shirts, the proposers of a 300-foot Paul Allen statue, and the makers of the best espresso in the Cascade neighborhood, are looking for a new home after their landlord decided to open up his own coffee shop in the location.
• Capitol Hill Seattle gets a little snarky about John Curley and we love them for it.
• The Belltowner has the scoop on the sudden closure of the McLeod Residence. The building isn't up to fire code and the entirety of Seattle's hipster elite are in mourning.

• The Central District News covered the ribbon cutting ceremony at our newly-remodeled alma mater, Garfield High School. Seeing that the remodel was desperately needed a decade ago when we were roaming the crowded halls, we say finally. But not so fast...classes start today and the final touches still don't seem to be finished.
• Capitol Hill Seattle poses a very important question: who is the best bartender on Capitol Hill? Any nominations dear, drunk readers?
• MyBallard unmasks The Geeky Swedes. True to their name, they are an adorably Scandinavian-looking family.

• My Ballard is covering the search for a missing local swimmer at Golden Gardens. One swimmer had already been rescued from the water and taken to the hospital to be treated for hypothermia. As of 11 p.m., the Coast Guard and rescue divers were still looking for a second missing swimmer. UPDATE: The search for the missing swimmer has been called off. A recovery effort has begun to locate the missing swimmer's body.
• Blogging Georgetown has confirmed that an advertisement declaring the sale of a local restaurant is indeed about the beloved veggie and brew bar Georgetown Liquor Company.
• The ever-witty hyper-local Capitol Hill Seattle has a number of recommended activities for this weekend's car-free hours at Volunteer Park.

Seattlest Abbey is still recovering from a waterlogged Radiohead show, so we apologize for your morning news delay. We're going to let her sleep in, even if we're still jealous we didn't get to go. Happy morning news! ~Your Editor

• We were thrilled to meet a few of our favorite local bloggers at Seattlest's Happy Hour last night. Capitol Hill Seattle, Seattle Metblogs, Science vs. Romance, and The P-I's Big Blog were all present and representing.
• Central District News warns residents to check and make sure all your car parts are still attached. One of their writers was unlucky enough to go to her car one morning and find her fuel pump and filter missing.
• The Rainier Valley Post brings its weekly drool-worthy list of goods at today's neighborhood farmer's market. The list of greens alone is worth the bus ride south.

• The Slog, with the help of the McLeod Residence, is debating if grilled cheese will be what brings foodies around to American cheese. The McLeods assert that American cheese is the unquestionable king of grilled cheese--we're not so sure. Sure, American cheese melts like plastic, but we've always actually found that a bit telling. Give us Tillamook sharp cheddar any day of the week.
• The Kirkland Weblog complains that an outbreak of local graffiti is making Kirkland look like something straight out of The Wire. We highly doubt that. Highly. In reality, Kirkland looks a bit more like Agrestic from Weeds, if we're going for cable show comparisons.
• Capitol Hill Seattle is feeling a wee bit concerned about the increased number of both abandonded buildings and panhandlers on Broadway.

Monte Cristo: Baker's Restaurant and Sweet Parlor.

You may or may not know that hyperlocal blog Capitol Hill Seattle is running a poll pitting Capitol Hill's living room, Victrola, against Capitol Hill's overly-caffeinated-stream-of-consciousness, the Slog. (You can also vote for squirrels in another hotly contested match-up.)

Now that we're not posting out of Victrola Coffee on a daily basis, heckling baristas from the safety of the back bar, we're having to rely on alternative news sources. Turns out they have been upgrading their "blog" with news we can use repurpose.

If you're still in the dark this week (and you're presumably reading this at work), well, here are some shows to keep you warm in the evening. If you've got power, take it easy and kick back with your friends and family. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone.

--When Canadians say "the war" they're still referring to Afghanistan. Pftt. Americans are so over that war.

-If you thought high demand is responsible for high housing prices, Seattle Bubble asks you to think again.

We were sweating it for a while there. It was obvious the Seattle-o-sphere was popping rivets under the stress of, well, whatever would stress us. We can't think of anything. Nevermind, our Great Hope has returned and apparently Capitol Hill Seattle Blog isn't one to waste any time jumping back into things after a vacation. They're currently asking for the person who left the following comment on their site, or anyone with related information to email jseattle@gmail.com.

Yesterday we googled the phrase "best restaurant in Renton." (Don't ask.) It turned up this post on A Displaced Hipster's Guide to Renton, which gives the Melrose Grill top honors in Seattle's southern suburb. DH's mission statement: "Two years ago, my wife and I moved out of the city of Seattle to the lovely suburby city of Renton, Washington. We've learned to survive without great restaurants, nightlife, and entertainment--here's how we do it."

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 World Cup is so over that even the most pretentious Europhiles have finally shut up, but Seattlest has some unfinished business. Before the tournament started we set up something called the Seattlest World Cup Challenge over at ESPN and a bunch of you joined, despite our lack of creative naming skills. Some of you joined and forgot about it, only to get the points a monkey flipping coins would have. We doubt we'll see you at the G&D come the new season. Some of you played along for awhile and then dropped out a little later. You may stop by for an FA final or something and we'll see you then. A brave few stuck it out to the end and are just poor guessers. You guys are probably listening to too many American announcers on Fox Sports World. And then there's the guy that won: Capitol Hill Seattle.

A tent city occured at St Joe's on the Hill this week marking the beginning of the apocolypse. Rapture, please come before the fabric of our society rends. Or we run out of oil. Which ever comes first.

-Beating someone's ass is no longer good enough in Puyallup. Now if you don't get video of it and post it on the web it never happened.