As Seattlest reported last month, Kress IGA was expected to open in June, and that day has arrived. Downtown Seattle now has a supermarket! We attended the ribbon-cutting earlier this week, and are pleased to report that the store offers lots of services and goodies. Most impressive was seeing the produce section immediately at the landing of the escalator or staircase descent from 3rd Ave; a display of asparagus at under a dollar per......

Chefs William Belickis of Mistral, Scott Carsberg of Lampreia, Kerry Sear of Cascadia First Mistral, temple of gastronomy, hushed inner sanctum of the molecular, closed six weeks ago. Then Lampreia, sacred (and almost secret) destination for Seattle devotees of haute-cuisine, put itself up for sale. Now Cascadia, that hardy and trendy hybrid, is out as well. All three owner-chefs have their reasons, and they're not even the same reasons. Mistral's William Belickis is on......

Zooey Glass gives a little sermon, in the longer sermon that is Franny & Zooey, about "the Fat Lady" -- Seymour once told him to shine his shoes (before a radio show?! as Zooey argued) for this mythic creature, who it's said lives inside every one of us. When we saw Jersey Boys at the 5th Ave on Friday night, though, she was sitting behind us. She clapped as the familiar doo wop songs began,......

"On October 1, when tickets went on sale for the Seattle premiere of Jersey Boys," the press release solemnly informs us, "all 5th Avenue Theatre box office records were broken." Obviously someones of a certain age miss their white doo wop. A big money-maker on Broadway, Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons and how they ruled the airwaves between 1962 and 1967, on the strength of Valli's signature falsetto.......

Stand at the corner of First and Pike, and you almost hear the thunder of Seattle's hotel wars, the howitzers of the future as they battle for attention in the trades, the travel mags, the lifestyle glossies. First into battle: a new Four Seasons, across the street from the downtown Art Museum: 21 stories, 149 hotel rooms, 36 residential condos, opening 2008. If your memory goes back more than two years, you'll recall that Four......

"What's left with character in this city is the Pike Place Market and a couple of stores, and that's it." More classic Seattle grit is closing up shop. Central Loan & Gun Exchange downtown? Exit, stage gentrification. Seattlest expects another round of the ever-fascinating debate on Seattle identity: Greater Seattle vs. Lesser Seattle, mossback vs. booster, REI vs. Macy's, McQ vs. Singles. Lusty Lady vs. Four Seasons (oh wait -- they struck a balance).......

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too,......