Last night at about 10:20 p.m., a bicyclist was struck and killed by a car taking the Dexter Way North exit from Aurora, says Queen Anne News. The police arrested the car's driver after "an evaluation showed signs of impairment." more ›

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

We were impressed by this morning's Times article about the need to increase bicycle safety on the city's streets. more ›

We were delighted to find out that offerings from Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales have hit the shelves in your better beer stores around Seattle. more ›

We've seen a lot of dangerous places in Seattle to ride a bike (Dexter, 15th, the Burke-Gilman) and at each of those we've either come close to clipping bikes with our car or nearly rode straight over them with our bus. There's only one place in the city that Seattlest can never remember a near miss with a bicycle, or ever even considered that someone on a bike might be a potential road hazard we'd have to deal with. Other cars, potholes, the too-close-for-comfort guard rails, the fantastic view of the Olympics, cataclysmic seismic activity: those we've successfully navigated on this route, but never a dude on a bike. Certainly never a peloton of death-defiers in the middle of the night, whooping it up and mugging for the camera... more ›

A sinkhole opened up on a tiny road beneath the University Bridge this morning, eating two cars, forcing the Mayor to change his morning plans, and closing the University Bridge. The cause: a water main break, which was what caused Dexter Avenue to resemble Wild Waves last week. more ›

South Lake Union is currently under water after a 20" main was broken by contractors this morning. Some businesses in the area aren't getting water and the area around Harrison and Dexter is flooded. more ›

We vividly remember the first time we saw Brett Wolfe: in 1998, we were standing outside in a parking lot on Dexter, talking to someone on our cell phone. We stopped silent when we saw a guy with only one leg riding his bike up Dexter, and he was passing people like they were standing still. more ›

SEATTLEST BOOK CLUB PICK: For March, we're reading Jonathan Raban's Surveillance, set in a not-so-distant future, when everyone's actions are highly monitored. Get a head start on the conversation by hearing from Raban himself. (We'll know if you went or not.) more ›

CASTING CALL: Local director Garrett Bennett is looking for extras to cast in his independent film The Spy & the Sparrow. more ›

If you got caught in traffic today because Aurora was closed for five hours, you've got your friendly Seattle cops to thank:

Just after 1:30 a.m. Monday, officers were called to an apartment building in the 1500 block of Aurora Avenue North following a report that a man there had thrown a knife at his girlfriend and threatened two other people in the apartment with a rifle... more ›

The Seattle Times reported today that commute times all around Seattle are increasing. We've never heard of a metropolitan area that had decreasing commute times, so it's not exactly news that it's taking people here longer and longer to get to work (We'd love to hear of a metro area with decreasing commute times, though, so if you know of someplace please share. No fair citing Detroit during the 90's or something with similarl rapidly declining population). It is vaguely news that commute times are escalating so rapidly, but it doesn't really seem like they're keeping up with population growth, so maybe the actual story is that commute times are not advancing as fast as could be expected given all the new jobs and residents in the area and the lack of any mass transit to speak of. Despite our numerous watery choke points, maybe we had superfluous highway capacity? That could be ridiculous bullshit, of course, because we can't quickly come up with any census data that has the granularity to match the Seattle Times's 2004-2006 time frame. more ›

Seattle is a pretty good place to be if you're into food. Probably way better than average, even, for a city our size. There are tons of hip-ish new restaurants with creative menus constructed from organic ingrediants, there are a gazillion Asian and Asian-influenced places that are fantastic and the seafood is incredible almost everywhere. However, when it comes to food that Seattlest might label "Old World," there is nothing. more ›

All music all the time wears us out, so we decided to hopscotch around Bumbershoot this year and take advantage of the talks, arts performances, and art exhibits. more ›

Our reader sent this in asking if we knew what it was all about. Unfortunately, we don't, but we do have a strong suspicion that as soon as we're good and frenzied to know (yeah, yeah, this post is contributing to it) the rest of the billboard will be completed. Meet such-and-such product or whatever. more ›

On the odd days that Seattlest drives to work rather than bus it from Wallingford to downtown and back we generally tend to stay away from 5. Sometimes we do 99, but our prefered route is Dexter / Fremont Bridge, a route that does have one significant drawback: the damn bikers. Note to Lance wannabes: There's no yellow jersey awarded for getting from Denny to Fremont in under six minutes so it may not be absolutely necessary to blow by the peloton in the middle of the road. Stay in your lane. Beating us to Fremont is not going to convince us to sell our car for a downpayment on a bike rig like yours and risk our lives daily racing you down Dexter, so chill out. more ›

No comments, just schedules. (Because we're lazy, that's why.) more ›

Seattle native Charles Burns will appear at the Center on Contemporary Art Wednesday to sign copies of and promote the new Pantheon collection of his 12-issue comic book series Black Hole, originally published in stapled pamphlet form by everyone's favorite local funny-book manufacturing concern. more ›

It looks like it's going to rain all weekend (T-Storms even!) and frankly there's not a lot going on barring Citizen Cope, which is sold out. Yeah, you should try to get in to the Robert WIlliams thing, but as Seattlest Silvie suggested in the comments, you may have to go early and spend some time waiting in line. In the rain. Tonight's also Bright Eyes, but since he sucks there's no way you'll be going to that. more ›