Breakfast by jdespres15 from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

2 pm - 4 pm // Cupcake Royale (Capitol Hill & Bellevue) // $3 more ›

Chona Kasinger shows Almost Famous, a selection of her dynamic concert photography at the West Seattle Cupcake Royale. We've shown her photographs on Seattlest in the past -- her bright, active images of artists on-stage and off remind us why we started going to shows in the first place. Her show runs through October, with an opening party tonight is part of the West Seattle 2nd Thursday Art Walk. more ›

• Taking an interest in the smaller crimes that go unnoticed by the 10 o'clock news, CHS shines a light on an everyday drug bust in Cal Anderson Park. Even $10 in heroin can get ya in trouble.
• Awakened by the sounds of paintball guns, Wallyhood blog reports of recent paintball attacks on Wallingford resident's property.

SINGER/SONGWRITER: It's been too long since we heard Molly Rose's dulcet vocals ring out in a local bar, but that's remedied tonight at the Tractor. It's a CD release show for her new album Clandestine, and she's appearing with the Nick Jaina Band and Pickwick. Molly puts just the right amount of poetry into her lyrics, conjuring up image fragments that wriggle like a worm on a catchy hook. more ›

We are obsessed with effete pastries in this town. We've always been aware of the bias against Big Donuts, which is why we still have yet to see the return of industrially produced Dunkin' Donuts or the metric invasion of socialized Tim Horton's around here. We run strong opinions that illuminate partisan allegiances, flawed methodologies notwithstanding—c'mon, guys, It's the right tool for the right job...you can't meaningfully compare the two directly. more ›

Topped by a ganache made with Theo Chocolate and a truffle filling made from Stumptown espresso, Cupcake Royale's limited-edition offering has a pedigree, but does it earn the name "Deathcake"? Um, we're still alive. This is not chocolate suicide, people. It's hardly a nick on the wrist. Pastry czarina Sue McKown of ill-fated and oddly-named Coco La Ti Da helped improve Cupcake Royale's product--or so we've heard. At least the Deathcake costs less (now $4.95) and is smaller than in previous years, so you don't have to share. (As if we would.) more ›

New Salted Caramel Cupcakes at Cupcake Royale by cakespy more ›

• Joining us for the first time in our Round-Up is Lake City Live, with a request for more and better coffee in their area. It's true--we drove around in Lake City a few days ago and all we found were Jack In The Boxes and car dealerships. No Vivace branches to be found.
• Someone on Seattle Livejournal was summoned for jury duty to two different courts for dates within two weeks of each other. What to do, what to do? Seattlest will take one of those summons off your hands, as we've been wanting to serve for years now and have remained un-beckoned by the law.
• It's just about that time for an Amanda Knox post, and West Seattle Blog kindly obliges with an archived video of a King5 interview with Amanda's sisters.

Starbucks--and Babeland, and Krispy Kreme, and Ben & Jerry's, and Irwin's, and Cupcake Royale, and probably other places we haven't heard about--got a lot of publicity when they offered to give away free coffee to anyone who voted today. (And maybe more Facebook publicity than they hoped for. ) Turns out, though, that bribing rewarding voters with free stuff violates some of those pesky election laws. Never fear, though: You can get a free tall brewed drip coffee at Starbucks just by asking for it, whether you've voted or not. The invaluable Big Blog is staying on top of the status of all those promotions. more ›

Cupcake Royale // Ballard, Washington // Sunday // 8:45 PM more ›

But of course, Amy Sedaris was wonderful at Neumo's last night: charming and funny and crafty and crude. Everything we look for in a lady. She sat onstage in a big comfy chair for a little chat with local film czar Warren Etheredge, mostly about her new book and related tales of party-hosting, but also about her run-in with Martha Stewart (a very masculine woman), her appearance on My Name Is Earl (could be recurring), and her foul-mouthed Piglet impression (completely hilarious). The full house ate it up, just like the tasty treats provided by Cupcake Royale. more ›

Results are in from partly-local food blog The Ethicurean's recent doughnut taste-off. They pitted doughnuts from Top Pot, Mighty-O, and Krispy Kreme against each other. You should read the entire taste-off account -- very entertaining -- but we'll spoil the results now:

We quickly decide on our favorites. For the Butter Bitch, Top Pot’s old-fashioned is the best because it has a consistent flavor but isn’t sickeningly fake. The cake is nice and moist. Mighty-O’s raspberry chocolate donut is her second favorite. “It’s a close call between the two,” she admits. When I raise a miniature cinnamon donut, she shrugs and says, “I just love those.” The cinnamon minis are in a class of their own. more ›

It's Mother's Day weekend. Some people say we should remember our mothers all year-round, not just on a single day. But we do! With yo momma jokes! Seattlest contributors share their favorites, along with their plans for enforced family togetherness. more ›

Forget hot vs. not, flight vs. invisibility, and left hand vs. right hand. We've settled a far more epochal question: which beloved local pastry institution is better, Top Pot or Cupcake Royale? more ›

Oh no, oh no, the ferries are a top target for the terrorists! The No. 1 target, in fact. Well, the No. 1 target for maritime terrorism, which is kind of like saying Cupcake Royale is the No. 1 target for cupcake terrorism. Just as we don't buy that Bad Men would threaten our cupcake supply, we are similarly unconvinced that any maritime target is likely to be the subject of an attack. When we put on our terrorist hats* and think like a terrorist, it just doesn't make any sense to sink a boat. What are they gonna do, commandeer a ferry and crash it into the Space Needle? more ›

Seattlest recieved an e-mail recently, pointing us to an article in the Village Voice about sensuality and food. In the article, one person mentioned about how they believe that cupcakes are a "sexy food." more ›