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• Urban farming--Sightline has a nifty article with mock-up photos about what it would be like to really green up our cities. Because, you know, it would be totally cool to have cows on the roads.
• Publicola has its own problems with recent KING5/SurveyUSA polls, offering the hope we could have both a bag tax and a not-Mayor Nickels! Oh, and Erica C. Barnett scratches back at Joel Connelly for flaming her in his column today.

Shortly after 2 a.m. this morning, a 20-year-old British woman, steps away from her apartment, noticed a man had been following her. At the corner of 10th Avenue East and East Highland Drive, the attacker pulled a knife and lunged for her purse, cutting both the purse strap and the woman's wrist. Moments later, the victim flagged down a nearby police car, alerting them of the robbery and the fleeing assailant. A police pursuit ensued, although it ended without finding the suspect. more ›

Our good friends at CHS alerted us to a new hot dog restaurant coming to Capitol Hill Octoberish. Po Dog will be located in the same building as the Mercury (1009 E Union). They'll be serving veggie dogs, beef dogs, dogs with peanut butter and bananas (!), and beer. No word if their semi-unconventional take on hot dogs will also include cute wittle puppies. (Fingers crossed?) more ›

• Belltown People wonders exactly how much the artsy Free Sheep Foundation was involved with Capitol Hill's recent Gamblergate sting operation. What's the vig, capisce?
• Meanwhile, over at MyBallard, the news is that kids are skipping out of Salmon Bay School with the swine flu hot on their heels. We wish could get another animal in this item.

CHS's seadevi notes the Vita/Theo collaboration--"You got coffee in my chocolate! You got chocolate in my coffee!"--has hit the New York Times style blog. Howard, you might want to sit down for the first sentence: "From Seattle, the birthplace of Starbucks, comes a cooler coffee company." (Why do people have to make invidious comparisons? Why?!) The verdict: one bar is a "tasty rush," while the other is a "milder, milkier affair." more ›

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

The good folks organizing the fundraising and sundry volunteer efforts for the park-to-be/p-patch at Summit and John host an open house tonight to discuss their future plans. If you're interested in finding out more or even lending a hand, head to Vermillion starting at 6:30 p.m. The organizers promise to have "tasty snacks," which we found out from the flyers they left on everyone's cars near our place a couple days ago. It's a way to get the word out, sure, but considering they keep a blog and have had ads (and posts) running on CHS, it seems odd to deliver the message via paper flyers instead of hitting up every local website in town (hint hint) for coverage. Regardless, there's an open house tonight. more ›

We've now "observed" two future of news media via Twitter (the City Club and ONA events) and watched the Seattle City Council and "No News Is Bad News" events go down via their live stream (while eyeing the #nnbn Twitter channel). One caveat before we recap: what we've learned is mostly useless in practical terms. more ›

Over at Capitol Hill Seattle they're going all i-team over the Howell airgun shooting. The Rainier Valley Post has got hints to where all the Valentine hearts are hidden in Hillman City. MyBallard has the pre-opening news on Green Go Food, "fast food with a conscience." And Publicola busts new HUDster and inveterate Twitterer Ron Sims for his faulty real estate prediction. more ›

Got a tip from Joshua, who just talked with the owner of the B&O Espresso about his Capitol Hill plans, and it doesn't sound like the wrecking ball is imminent. Majed says he's been invited to stay at the Belmont and Olive location for another "two to three years." This on the heels of CHS reporting that the proposed B&O location on Broadway is "for lease" again. These are troubled times and we'd prefer if nothing came between us and our preferred chocolate mousse purveyor. more ›

CHS is wonking on (and on) about development plans around the Capitol Hill light rail station because there are community forums coming up and if you don't go, you can't complain later that your ideas were ignored by "the Man." Also, Cap to the Hill pleads for you to stop in at Boom Noodle. West Seattle Blog noted Elliott Bay Brewing is pouring a chocolate porter. 'Nuff said. The Rainier Valley Post reminds us all that February 7 is Neighbor Appreciation Day. The Magnolia Voice hits a recessionary note, with news of a townhouse developer switching to apartments mid-stream. And The Southlake details why condo financing is such a touchy subject down in SLU. more ›

CHS has the details on the Capitol Hill BB sniper's age. Police rounded him up yesterday, and discovered his weapon was a "high-powered" BB rifle with scope. Really the only good news to come out of this is that it's not sometime Seattlest contributor Silvie. more ›

• CHS datamined the scoop on the newest new restaurant to hit Odd Fellows Hall, Tin Table: "We believe that food and wine should be an experience for the senses and a festival to spirit."
• Seattle Metblogs realized the hard, concrete fact that we all probably have been trying to avoid stubbing our emotional toe on: a decision on what to do about the Viaduct will never arrive. (In the meantime, Ballard is still holding out for a tunnel.)
• TechFlash reported on Amazon's economy-defying holiday traffic surge--their traffic was up 7 percent compared to December 2007. Though we wonder how much of that was Seattleites checking to see where their snowbound packages were.

Seattlest is instituting a new guest editorial thing on the grounds that our readers get tired of hearing the usual suspects snark about things and would like to hear new snarky voices. Last week it was Proposition 8. This week, we have Justin Carder--chair of the Capitol Hill Community Council, vice president of business development for Instivate, and founder of the Web site CHS Capitol Hill Seattle--and his plea for a park's existence. more ›

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! more ›

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• 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! more ›

Party-planning troika Seattlest and Seattle Metblogs, and CHS want to hold a special BlogsGiving Evening (TM) around mid-November, and we're soliciting suggestions for a venue that can hold about 75-100 thirsty and slightly hungry people and their iPhones, laptops, and digital cameras. If you or a venue you know would like to be part of this evening to benefit inter-blog amity and a local food bank, please drop us a line: editor at seattlest.com. Our operators are standing by! more ›

We're stealing this real estate post almost directly from CHS, who discovered Redfin's cool graphs before we did. But we'll refine the focus to condos to avoid outright plagiarism. Redfin's numbers show that since October '06, the number of Capitol Hill condos on the market has ballooned from just over 100 to just under 250 currently. Meanwhile, the average list price has hovered around $475/sq. ft., while actual sales price has declined significantly since last April, from over $475/sq. ft. to about $435/sq. ft. (For reference, on a 400 sq. ft. condo, that's a price drop of $16,000.) Economists will not be surprised that the peak in inventory corresponds very nicely with the subsequent drop in sales price. more ›

One of the Capitol Hill Blog contributors has been having run-ins with Broadway's new Brix condo construction crews. Or with people who hang around that area looking like construction workers. All sweaty and tan and muscled. Lifting things. They've managed to piss off Hillku too. more ›

So goodbye old Broadway QFC! Goodbye, old Broadway Taco Bell! Goodbye, old house! Maybe now we'll see some action on the plans for the block, as reported by the Stranger back in June 2006:

This site will soon [Ed: Hah!] become a 6-story mixed-use building. On the ground floor there will be 25,000 foot of retail. "I'm looking for boutiques--like apparel," says the developer Bob Burkheimer. "Independent shops, maybe a restaurant. The idea is to get more street-level retail on Broadway, liven it up."