"This is like the center of the black community." -- Omari Tahir Garrett, The Corner. more ›

Police attribute an arson in the Central District last night to a fight over an XBox. From KIRO: more ›

We're glad we stuck around for the audience Q&A after the panel discussion on gentrification Thursday night, hosted by the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs. more ›

This Thursday the UW will host a panel discussion about change in Seattle's Central District, pitting gentrification against "revitalization"--the latter, we hope, being something said panel will subject to more rigorous definition. We are pleased to see this topic discussed in a public forum, but these days we wonder who listens to panels any more, much less an academic-sponsored one (as opposed to those ever-popular corporate-sponsored panels--everyone listens to them). What happens after the panel? Will EW cover the hot after-panel gossip? more ›

Seattlest had avoided reading our favorite national papers over the past few days because we feared what stupid conclusions they might reach about Saturday's shootings, especially since the stupidity was so present from the beginning with our own damn local papers. However, the New York Times, of all places, instead recently printed a short article wondering what we're going to do with our homeless Wonder Bread sign, now that the property is slated for Nickel's-style urban assault development. more ›

Every so often Seattle University does something that makes us reconsider never responding to their alumni appeals. They host tent city (here's the KUOW take). Now they're partnering with Seattle's third-oldest non-profit professional theater, Empty Space. more ›