The Kress Building in downtown Seattle has been sold, and plans for a J.C. Penny in the space are in the works. Seattlest hopes this doesn't means the demise of one of downtown's scarcest business, grocery stores. more ›

You may have heard yesterday's news of downtown becoming the stabbiest neighborhood in Seattle, with two stabbings in the past week. Both of these stabbings happened at Seattle's biggest shitshow: the northbound 3rd and Pike/Pine bus stops. A suspect in the first stabbing is at large, but a suspect in the second stabbing, Alphonse Hope, is being held in King County Jail on a $250,000 bail, leaving prosecutors until Wednesday to file a formal charge. More details of the ruckus that preceded the stabbing inside! more ›

Back in 1916, Washington State was a trend setter. You may think that Mormons are conservative, but Washington's Protestants bested Utah's outlaw of liquor by a year. more ›

This weekend is going to be another busy one in and around Seattle. Which is all well and good, but it also means that, whether you drive or take the bus, you could get snarled among the road closures and parade routes. Read up on what's going to be closed, before you're late for whatever it is you're doing. more ›

Now if you've already been to the new Now & Then exhibit at MOHAI, then you recognize the old photo. Before, it was the Eagles' Aerie No. 1; after, it's the ACT Theatre. more ›

Located next to the building that used to house the Lusty Lady, Deli's bright interior lights illuminate rows of wire racks, wicker bread baskets, fruit-stands and pastry cases. But they're not displaying sweet treats or cold cuts - they're stocked with neatly-folded denims, t-shirts, accessories, and shoes. more ›

As posted yesterday, the Seattle Department Transportation has revised their proposed parking hikes -- and while some neighborhoods are spared any increases, and most neighborhood parking prices are actually decreasing, the downtown commercial core and First Hill are remaining at $4 an hour. Spared from the hike is struggling Pioneer Square, hurt by the economy and a bad reputation, whose revised rate went down from $4 to $3.50. more ›

Today, the Goat Hill Parking garage rises over the toe of its namesake. You may recall the October Re:Take with a view from the garage looking this way. In the foreground is the service entrance to the Fifth and Yesler Tower, which itself was featured in the third ever installment of Re:Take. more ›

In an era where ads and logos permeate everything from your dry cleaning bags to the sleeves handed out at the airport to hold your plane tickets, the spat over whether the city should allow large signs on the top of downtown buildings seems like it should have happened a decade ago. more ›

"If you have never seen Oregon, Washington or British Columbia in summer you lack important qualifications for imagining what the climate of heaven may be like." -- Dr. Woods Hutchinson, 1922. more ›

Re:Take is a weekly look at the Emerald City now and in days of yore through photos dug out of the city archives. This week we wish the 60s never happened. more ›

Re:Take is local history buff Rob Ketcherside's weekly look at the Emerald City now and in days of yore through photos dug out of the city archives. Ready for a cliche landmark construction photo? Read on! more ›

"In the frame" by Bjørn Giesenbauer ( giesenbauer ), from our Flickr pool more ›

The Pink Door has large black canvas shades to keep the sun out of your eyes, but said shades don't keep the heat out. All evening we were patting our temple with our cloth napkin like a 19th-century lawyer. more ›

A vision of beauty to some, while others, including tourist site TripAdvisor find Seattle's gum wall to be one of the grossest and germiest tourist attractions in the world--second only to the Irish Blarney Stone. more ›

An interesting take on the Hammering Man from Espressobuzz in the Flickr Pool. more ›

Indeed, we are talking about the alpha-pork mobile Maximus Minimus, the newest mobile food creation by Kurt Dammeier of Beecher's and Pasta & Co. and local designer Colin Reedy. We spotted--hard not to--the giant metal pig-mobile parked truck at the corner of 2nd and Pike, selling a simple menu of pulled pork (and veg) sandwiches and a few of its fixins. more ›

We usually opt for the Pike Place Special or the Rachel's All-American (both are fantastic), but today we spotted a sign declaring the special of the day as a Prime Rib Sandwich (cue drooling). We placed our order, gave our name, and paid at the register. When we told the guy up front what we'd ordered, he shook his head and said, "Man, everyone is ordering that. There's not going to be any left for me." He seemed genuinely upset by this. more ›

All in all, opening night of SIFF this year wasn't half-bad. The movie was good, the weather cooperated, and unlike last year, there was actually free food and drinks. Of course, the program didn't start until 20 minutes late, which means after all the introductions and thank yous, the film was on at 8 p.m. instead of 7. You know, SIFF stuff. more ›

"New Hive @ Night" by Ray Hutchinson, plucked from our Flickr pool more ›

Devastating news for most adolescents as their favorite malls--and parent-free hang-outs--are facing bankruptcy. General Growth Properties Inc., the nation's second-largest mall operator, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which owns local mall properties: Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood, Bellis Fair Mall in Bellingham, and Westlake Center in Seattle. With their stock prices cheaper than an on-sale pack of gum, financial reorganization will be key, for what's been claimed as the largest real estate failure. We just hope it can turn around, so it doesn't force a void (and access to the Monorail) in downtown. more ›

The survey will be conducted throughout certain pockets of the city; volunteers are asked to avoid drunk people (there goes Belltown), don't wake anyone up, and knock only once on campers and cars before they begin gathering additional information about the needs and issues that the homeless face to find permanent housing. more ›

KIRO 7 says many people parking downtown are cheating by using handicap placards that do not legally belong to them. Those with placards have the ability to park for as long as they like in pay spots on the street, and since it's illegal to tow handicap vehicles in the state of Washington, have little to worry about. more ›

We just got an email about this event from the folks at Sound Magazine, so thanks for the seven-hour heads up, we guess: "Sound Magazine presents The Song Show, an evening of amazing music and riveting onstage conversation with the Northwest's best looking artists and audience, filmed live!" The lineup is as follows: 7:30 p.m. Ross Beamish, 8:15 p.m. Kyle Bradford, 9 p.m. Betsy Olson, 9:30 p.m. Betsy Olson band set with Sera Cahoone. It's tonight at the Can Can, with tickets $5 GA and $10 VIP seating (with a better view). more ›

• A Redmond-based firm's high-tech biomaterial is being used to treat dogs with glaucoma, reports TechFlash.
• Rainier Valley Post has a story about a woman whose laptop was stolen right out of her lap as she was working in a Southend coffeeshop.
• CHS is celebrating the release of a new infographic (!!) showing the busiest pedestrian areas of downtown, and wishing we had the same kind of map for the Hill.

If you're anything like this Seattlest, fancy haircuts aren't exactly budgeted. Sure, any swanky Seattleite can trip into a downtown salon and fall into its charm, but it's us young, broke, and fabulous folks that need a good reason to splurge. more ›

Friends, it's time we put aside our differences and came together in the name of an hour that is happy. This "happy hour" will consist of finely mixed beverages and tasty snackers from the good people at the Zig Zag. We shall brave the cold and the rain and the hellfire just to reach the fun. This month's happy hour also serves as our quasi-4th birthday pseudo-celebration, so join us from 5-8 p.m. Oh yes, there is also a prize pack to give away (including a $10 gift certificate to Barrio, t-shirt, beer mug, shot glass, and bottle opener), courtesy of the app-happy people at GoTime. Drop us an RSVP on teh Facebook, and head on down to the Zig Zag tonight. more ›

As part of a push to clean up downtown, Seattle Public Utilities will be reclaiming 700 dumpsters from the alleys south of Denny and west of I-5. In order to maintain some kind of order, they'll increase the number of daily trash and recycling pick-ups from that area. We mandated a roundtable discussion of the move at Seattlest HQ so our readers can more intensely experience every facet of our hive blog-mind. more ›

CommuteSeattle is an "initiative of the Downtown Transportation Alliance (Downtown Seattle Association, King County Metro and the City of Seattle)" which is responding to the fact that driving in and out of Seattle on a regular basis begins by giving you a twitchy eye and ends with a Glock in the glovebox which you promise to only use on people who drive up beside you and try to merge. It's for commuters, employers, and property owners, and it tries to assemble all the information any of them might need to help people choose life (outside a car). We count ten little car-alternative icons on the home page for commuters. Ten! Maybe they should add one for Snow Day. more ›

"I Love Seattle" by James Hall (seattleye) more ›