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 ARE WHAT YOU EAT: Marion Nestle will be in town tonight to speak about Food Politics: Advocacy for Social Change as a part of UW's 2010 Food: Eating Your Environment series. Nestle is the author of six award-winning books, including What to Eat, Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health and Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Food and Nutrition. Tonight she will be covering the healthy food social movement currently happening in the U.S. along with ideas on how we can go about fixing this fast food nation food system of ours. more ›

, after having questioned the wisdom of destroying so much parking down at Seattle Center, we've been more and more attuned to the environment and trying to figure out how to decrease our "carbon footprint," all the more apropos given that today's Earth Day. But this morning, we received the following email from a friend of Seattlest who works in the environmental policy field: more ›