If you overdid it a little on the Fourth of July, you're not alone. Between the personal harm and the property damage, this weekend racked it up for quite a few area residences and businesses. more ›

Lions take the downtown, making fireworks at home goes about like you would expect, the City gives worthy drivers boots, and threatening someone else with a knife rarely ends well. All this wisdom in today's morning headlines. more ›

Seattle Fireworks, Slightly Obscured by Grundlepuck from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

Remember in 2009, when Ivar's tried to ruin the Fourth of July by taking everyone's favorite fireworks away from all of us, essentially crushing the hopes and dreams of people of all ages? And then the year after that, the Family Fourth on Lake Union was in peril, too? more ›

Re:Take is a weekly look at the Emerald City now and in days of yore through photos dug out of the archives. This week, the rockets' red glare and foothills stripped bare. more ›

Dear Rich Seattlites, more ›

• With the Chase Family 4th fireworks bonanza now over, event organizers are back to scrambling, as one-time sponsor JPMorgan Chase--who inherited the WaMu fireworks contract--has announced they will no longer sponsor the large fireworks show.
• We have eight days, EIGHT DAYS (!) till the light rail opens. For residents who live in or south of Rainer Valley, guest columnist Martin Duke of Seattle Transit Blog offers a quick guide to navigating your way to the stations.

"The Crowds got Larger..." by Aimee Wenske (cloverity), from our Flickr pool more ›

ZOMBIES WALK AGAIN!: First it was zombies on Cap Hill and now the streets of Fremont are expected to be littered with the living dead at Fremont Outdoor Film's Red White & Dead Zombie Party. They will be assembling record-breaking zombie masses (anyone can join), in an attempt to beat the Guinness World Record for largest walking zombie mob. Afterward, the gruesome group will meet zombie book authors, listen to zombie bands, try to dance like the zombies in "Thriller" and watch the romantic zombie comedy film,"Shaun of the Dead." more ›

• Tomorrow night kicks off the BBQ Jazz outdoor concert series over at Interbay Golf Center. This week you can tap your toes from 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. to the sounds of on-and-off again national award-winning Roosevelt High School Jazz Combo.
• Vintage porn dating back to the VHS era was found stashed in the ceiling of the portable Blakely Elementary School classroom on Bainbridge Island. Workers discovered six nudie mags, VHS porno tapes, condoms, and ladies panties(!!) as they were demolishing the room.

As if one cancelled fireworks show this year wasn't bad enough. One unpatriotic son-of-a-gun and environmental activist is suing the City of Seattle to stop this year's Fourth of July celebration and fireworks show at Gas Works Park. Don't you want to see the Chase Family 4th try to top the now defunct WaMu's past shows? His rant: the city's alleged failure to do an environmental assessment. The city's rebuttal: no need, for a one-time event on city property. May we suggest another tactic: LEAVE. Here is a far-from-Seattle firework-free weekend retreat. more ›

"Untitled" by zeebleoop

MvB can't decide if he's heading out early or late, but at some point he'll be at Uber Tavern drinking an assortment of "very rare" beers and snacking on Swedish meatballs. more ›

You can tell it's Seafair when your pets are trembling under the coffee table. Nothing signifies the dog days of summer in Seattle like the roar of a defanged F-18 driving your dog to piss himself. more ›

CSI Seattle has the lowdown. He may spend most of his days playing a real-life version of Gil Grissom,* but one day a year he has to skip the lab tests and explain to people why this road is closed. What makes it all worthwhile? "Double time. Cha-ching!" (*We're sure he's sick of the comparison. Sorry. But it seemed nicer than comparing him to Horatio Caine.) more ›

Independence Day in Seattle was a cloudy affair. Several people commented to us that they weren't even going to bother with the fireworks, because it was too overcast for the display to be worthwhile. Just before sundown, though, the sky moved off. We turned the corner along the Burke on our way to Gasworks Park, and there was the city, across the water, in all its reflective glory. Buildings casting shadows against one another, and a breathtaking sunset shone from their windows. more ›

BOMBS BURSTING, ETC: Happy Independence Day! Grill up some zucchini, down a beer or three, and enjoy your day off. Ivars is doing their exploding chemicals thing after sunset, so if you're into that, sedate your dogs/chickens/goldfish and enjoy the 23 minute show over Elliott Bay. Or wherever: check here and here for your options. more ›

It turns out, it wasn't our booze-addled brains: The Seattle Center fireworks display on Monday night was messed up due to a computer program glitch (Y2K strikes 8 years late!). According to the : more ›

Seattlest David: What's up, computer? more ›