• Condos for sale! Really attractively priced condos for sale! Local developers with properties Brix in Capitol Hill and Gallery in Belltown are trying to sell condos quickly, so they've put a slew of them up for auction with big discounted prices. Prices that will only make their neighbors cry.
• Oh, the joy's of naked urban cycling. Make sure to cover the kiddies eyes Saturday, as the Gardens Everywhere Bike Parade begins riding at 1 p.m. near Gas Works Park and plans to head north.
• It's a big day for Seattle media and all the advertising and pr folk. The Puget Sound Business Journal reports, Seattle moved up to No. 13 TV market in the U.S., finally kicking Tampa-St. Petersburg to the curb 14th spot.

The intern over on the Slog has put together the stats on our brutal week of murders. There have only been eleven murders in Seattle this year--which is the good news; the bad news is, a quarter of 'em happened this week. more ›

...depending on your subscription. Business Week is bullish about Seattle burning off its excess housing inventory, while Forbes says that foreclosures are gonna keep prices in the tank. Meanwhile, Seattle Bubble is building a Google map of construction projects that have stalled out. (The Weekly's Damon Agnos beat us to the "dueling national pubs" angle. We admit it. But what if you don't read the Weekly? What then?!) more ›

That gorgeous $800,000 condo you thought you could never afford might be on a "this-recession-only" 50-percent discount sale, like this one in the Queen Anne High School building that just sold at auction for $350,000. Yikes. Too bad Seattlest still can't afford to buy, because we've been in one of those Queen Anne units and they're really nice. Very solid, and it's an old building populated, we're told, mostly by retirees who are gone a good chunk of the year, so it's also quiet. Ideal for, say, a writer. Who wants to buy us a condo? Half off! more ›

• Dan at bigasscity (the blog has returned, thankfully, to its original title) has found Seattle's most embarrassing condo project. "Escala is the love child of pathological excess," he says.
• Seattle MetBlogs sent a representative to see Mount Eerie at the Fremont Abbey last weekend, and Josh's thoughtful report is in: "Description and structural unpredictability aside, the really certain thing is that however it turns out, it will be its own kind of beautiful."
• Beacon Hill Blog turned us on to a new blog, BeHi Bonsai; we now have an excellent resource for pictures of weird shrubbery in that neighborhood. So far, this is our favorite.

The corner of Denny and Dexter represents the latest outbreak in an epidemic of uninspired developments destined to pollute our landscape for generations. more ›

In the latest edition of her quarterly-ish email newsletter, Marya Sea Kaminksi--actress, writer, director, Genius, and WET co-founder, just to name a few--shared some info on one of her upcoming projects. She's developing a monologue on a timely topic: Seattle's rampant condo abuse, in a work titled Condomillennium: A New Play About Fantasy and Real Estate. more ›

• The Southlake has some bittersweet updates about the Cascade People's Center, which is fighting to continue to serve a community in more desperate need than ever. If you want to help save CPC, grab a bite or a pint at Paddy Coyne's this Saturday; 10% of your bill will go to Center.
• We think we can all agree on the fact that puppy-stealing is not cool. Sadly, some poor family in Magnolia is experiencing just how much that is true right now.
• Vintage Seattle was all about Seattle waterways yesterday. See the Duwamish when it really was mighty and help answer a burning question about an old wreck on a Ballard beach.

• Finally, a condo sign that got it right! Thanks, MyBallard, for making our morning...we literally laughed out loud.
• Woah, West Seattle: a gallon of gas below $3! We didn't think we'd be seeing that any time soon.
• The Rainier Valley Post and the Beacon Hill Blog want to let you know the city is hosting meetings in neighborhoods near light rail stations to discuss parking. If you live in the south end, there's likely a meeting near you in the next few weeks.

• Those fellows from the Deadliest Catch are quite the local celebrities. (Take that, Steve Pool!) Folks lined up to meet Captain Phil from Deadliest Catch in West Seattle on Sunday.
• The Phinney Neighborhood Association has moved up from renters to property owners...tentatively. After 27 years of renting the old John B. Allen Elementary School on Phinney Avenue, they've reached an agreement with the Seattle Public School District to buy the building.
• Capitol Hill Seattle is looking for some new mnemonics for Seattle streets. Since "Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest" is only memorable when I don't need to remember it...we'll see how useful the new mnemonics are, but is a fun Monday morning distraction.

• If you got your car towed or ticketed during the uber-failure that was Mayor Nickels' first car-free Sunday, fear not. According to Seattle 911, the city has decided to void the tickets and refund some towing fees.
• Want to know what the view from a nearly $16 million condo (complete with staff quarters) looks like? Follow the links on The Belltowner and prepare to feel very, very poor.
• Speaking of condos, we've found some sick enjoyment in the new local website cheapshitcondos.com. Thanks to Capitol Hill Seattle for reminding us to keep checking it regularly.

Cheapshit Condos does just what you'd expect: talks smack about "the new urban blandscape sweeping through Seattle." Oh, it's funny because it's true. Got any notably, terribly, cheap condos (or even better worse apartment-to-condo conversions) in your neighborhood? Send your photos and comments to cheapshit@cheapshitcondos.com. We'd love to buy the good folks at Cheapshit a drink, but unfortunately taking on the Seattle Condo Mafia requires author anonymity, if not the full-blown Witness Protection Program. Still, Cheapshit Condos, we salute you! more ›

The is-it-or-isn't-it debate over the historical and aesthetic importance of the old Ballard Denny's was ended today with a backhoe. With none of the pomp and circumstance of the discussion surrounding the building's meaning and importance to Ballard, a backhoe began clawing into the building this morning. more ›

Seattlest has lived in eight cities across the country, and we have to be honest. We've lived in Seattle longer than we have anywhere else because we love it here. It's clean, it's culturally vibrant, it's full of extraordinary natural beauty, it's safe. But, we've never been able to reckon with the fact that it's just so damned wealthy and white. Much as we like to think of ourselves as forward-thinking, inclusive citizens, we all know our lovely little city is about as diverse as a carton of eggs. more ›

We understand you're upset, Belltown. What, with all these drug deals going on right outside your high-rise condos. You've video-taped and photographed the deals going down, you've created a YouTube channel and taken your complaints to local blogs and newspapers...and still it doesn't stop. Maybe that's because the drug dealers and users in Belltown were there long, long before the condos and well before the neighborhood was given its trendy name. more ›

Listening to KEXP the past few mornings, we heard an ad for 12th Ave's Trace Lofts that caught our attention, and not in a good way. Apparently, one of the establishments going into the condos' Trace North building is a Mexican restaurant. Named Barrio. Take it away, press release: more ›

"Angular Shadows" by Ray Tracing
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A new report tells us what we all already know, painfully and personally: rent in Seattle is at an all-time high and rental vacancies are sparse. more ›

The end is near for Sunset Bowl and its patrons. The local bowling alley, which has been open for over half a century, is set to close its doors April 13th. (Officially 1a.m. on Monday morning.) So take the time this weekend to say goodbye and get in a few last games at the old Sunset lanes. Don't be surprised to see a few more teary eyes than bleary drunk ones this weekend. It is a sad day indeed. more ›

Those folks responsible for the "Ride the S.L.U.T." t-shirts--the fine, tiny coffee vendor next to Taco Del Mar in the SoLa neighborhood (or is it SoLu?)--are going to be charging you more from here on out. Kapow! Coffee is paying the price of gentrification, condos and slutty streetcars. According to the , the 200-square-feet of splendid coffee making real estate has been feeling the push-and-pull of larger nearby coffee vendors and the sudden boom of SoLa building. more ›

A citizen-led group has been established in Ballard to save the Sunset Bowl from imminent closure. Save Sunset Bowl has already received 2,500 signatures from local voters to keep the bowling alley alive....at least until the summer of 2009, when the new owners of the property plan to break ground on a multi-use development. more ›

A small crowd has gathered on East Pine to watch the demolishing of a once quintessential Seattle block. The condos have officially won, as the buildings which once contained Seattle divey-landmarks the Cha Cha, Bimbo's Bitchin' Burrito, and Kincora's are no more. more ›

"The Board's decision ... was sentimental and capricious, but not legal," says one of the two filings that make up the suit. "The Board's action was improper and illegal."

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Archie McPhee's latest bumper stickers, posted in Seattlest's Flickr Pool more ›

Two events occurred this weekend that damaged our long and strongly held opinion of Wallingford as a sleepy bedroom suburb-within-the-city this weekend. Yes, Wallingford still tears down 4-unit rentals in lieu of 4500 sq ft single-family monstrosities at a prodigious pace, and can only get riled about an issue if it involves people using Gas Works for anything other than leisurely walks, but this weekend it showed signs of life. more ›

While the city goes about with itself, Seattlest spends countless hours in an ivory tower somewhere between Pike Place Market and the Lusty Lady. We pace the floor with a hunched back, wringing our hands, wrinkling our nose and whispering, "what, what, what... is the meaning of this?" more ›

When ever someone takes the time to type up an email to Seattlest we're prejudiced from the start to believe its contents (Seattlest readers being an unusually truthful and informed bunch), but this one is hard to swallow: more ›