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Periodically a stabbing at your frontal lobe will occur in the form of events throughout the year. It's appropriate with the weather being deplorable that Hump Day (Wednesday) be the day of choice this week.

Neighborhood shout-outs are fun! Because then everyone knows you live there, in that neighborhood! Seattleite couple hoofinitdesigns takes their original ‘hood designs and hand-screens them onto cotton t-shirts. Simple as that. For the time being, only Queen Anne, Pioneer Square, Ballard and Fremont tees are available, but we're rooting for some new neighborhood designs to be posted in the future.

Dirty Three play depressing but somehow uplifting songs. The group instrumental music takes elements from jazz, folk, chamber music, and traditional rock. They’re led by Nick Cave’s favorite violinist--fans of Cave’s brand of Australian literary post-punk rock will enjoy this.

""who called? what did they say?"" by Jay Cox, from our Flickr pool

Spur, Belltown (Sun-Thurs 5-7 p.m. / 11:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.) An unassuming looking place that has been nationally recognized for their creative and schizophrenic food menu, inspired by local farmers, butchers, and fisherman. From $3.50 for craft beer to their late night (11:30-1:30) $5 Rainier bottles with an order of shoestring fries, you can't go wrong with this hole-in-the-wall off Blanchard.

CHILEAN NIGHT FEVER: It's Santiago in 1978, and even in the suffocating midst of the oppressive Pinochet regime, all that Raul wants to do is dance. Despite being middle-aged, the main character of Pablo Larraín's second film fantasizes that he's John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever and performs his disco dance moves at the local bar. But soon Raul's fantasy becomes an obsession, especially after it's announced that there will be a Tony Manero impersonation contest throughout all of Chile. Tony Manero plays at the NWFF through Thursday.

Yesterday, as the mercury went from "uncomfortable" to "unbearable," the search was on for a patio that could serve up the required survival items at a time like this: chips, salsa, and stiff margaritas. Fortunately we found ourselves near El Camino, one of Seattle’s most overlooked outdoor sanctuaries.

DARK: Samuel Ligon, writer and editor of the Spokane lit mag Willow Springs, comes to town tonight to discuss his new collection of short stories. In Drift and Swerve, Ligon runs his characters through the gamut of contemporary American personal hells: drugs, abuse, sexual longing, spiritual emptiness. As is often the case, it's the book's black humor and the author's cutting prose that keep it from being a cruel slog-fest of a read. Ligon appears with Sam A.J. Rathburn and Amy Schrader, two recent Willow Springs contributors, who will also read from their work.

This was Google's first attempt at a public meetup (they're doing meetups in several cities), and no one really knew what to expect. It turned out to be a fairly informal happy hour--Googlers circled the room wearing nametags (see Exhibit A, right) and you'd just flag one down and say something like, "So, like, explain this API thing to me."

• Playground purse snatcher on the loose! A woman reported her purse stolen today at 11:30 a.m. from West Seattle Gatewood Elementary. A young man (late teens/early 20s) jumped out of a car, ran into the park, and grabbed the purse---which was sitting on the ground near the woman.
• The next bus King County Metro purchases should come with spell check, because "Freemont" is inexcusable.

LOSE YOUR AIR VIRGINITY: A first for Seattle, tonight you can get pointers (or even perform) at the Air Sex Championships. Yes, you read that correctly. Think Air Guitar sans the guitar solo, but instead swapping it with two minutes of sexy, saucy, or pure naaasty love-making moves with an imaginary sex partner. All to love-makin' tunes sure to put the audience at El Corazon in the mood. And just so you don't start flashing dollar bills, there is no nakedness at this dry humping festival, however creative costumes are encouraged.

NOT A CELL PHONE PROVIDER: Fast on the heels of Maximus Minimus, Marination Mobile makes its debut today in Fremont. The Hawaiian-Korean taco truck serves a menu of "tacos and sliders, featuring ingredients such as kalbi beef, spicy pork, miso-ginger chicken, kalua pork, and tofu...marinated in signature sauces. There is also a kimchi fried rice bowl, kimchi quesadilla, and SPAM musubi. Items run from $2-$5." Marination plans to eventually operate seven days a week, open for lunch and dinner till 2 a.m. The weekly schedule is currently as follows, but be sure to watch for updates at their website and on teh Twitter: Monday: SODO, Seattle Design Guild (1701 First Ave); Wednesday: Fremont, Soundspeed Scooters (132 N. Canal St); Thursday: Capitol Hill, Broadway Shell (1500 Broadway @ Pike); Friday: Capitol Hill, Broadway Shell; Saturday: Capitol Hill, Broadway Shell; Sunday: Ballard, Cheka-Looka Surf Shop (6300 Seaview Ave. NW). 12 p.m.-2 p.m. // Soundspeed Scooters // 132 N. Canal St // $2-5

• Add this to the traffic sucks--again--column. Eastlakers were fortunate enough to find out this morning that construction crews began work on the Boylston Avenue E street and sidewalk improvements. Work will continue daily (except weekends) till Friday, June 26.
• The Montlake home of Daphne Tomchak has been left in shambles--$18,000 worth of damages--after funding ran out mid-shoot for the Hollywood movie types who used and abused her home for the film.

CRAWLING ZOMBIES : It's going to be quite a cryptic brain-eating kind of Friday night in Capitol Hill, as the army of zombies plan to take over the neighborhood for the Crypticon Zombie Crawl. The costumes of the gruesome group of undead are sure to turn (or spin) a few heads. The local zombie dwellers plan to gather in front of Metro Clothing Co. dressed to kill for brains as well as tickets to Crypticon's horror convention. Now if you encounter a zombie, head to high altitudes or a bar, we've heard that alcohol preserves rotting flesh. 5:00 p.m., Friday // Meet at Metro Clothing Co., 231 Broadway E // Dress to kill and pay as you go

Beer enthusiast/evangelist Geoff Kaiser used to write about the beloved beverage for Seattlest before he got wise to the whole, hey, anyone can start a blog thing. God, we miss him bringing his market research back to Seattlest HQ. Check out his Seattlebeernews.com for updates and reviews on many of the events from Seattle Beer Week.

MvB is off to Annex Theatre tonight for Love's Tangled Web; Saturday night is Bosco's jazz gig/CD party at The Mix in Georgetown. Sunday he hopes to be kissed--with tongue--by the spring sun's rays.

April 16-18, 7 p.m. // Fremont Studios // 155 N 35th // $20-150 per showcase, dress code enforced

                   

Almost three years ago, we walked around Lake Union for your entertainment. That seemed like it took all day, so this time we rode our bike. Much quicker!

Previously we've claimed that Rancho Bravo al pastor tacos are delicious. Still true. They're not "real" al pastor tacos, though, meaning the pork isn't cooked on a vertical spit while basting in pineapple drippings and sliced directly from the spit to your soft, waiting tortilla. It's an approximation of that, but, come on, Rancho Bravo's a 10-sq.-ft. truck. (We can't wait to get to their new Capitol Hill location, but is the old KFC really an upgrade from a spot four feet away from a dumpster in a parking lot in Wallingford?)

Unnecessary drawbridge interruptions during peak rush hours are increasing the likelihood of Seattle spawning a boat rage phenomenon. Boat rage is an aquatic twist on the standard--only in this soon-to-exist sense, the violence spans traditional, intra-modal boundaries, i.e., cars turning on boats.

You're not the only one without an iPhone; Bill Gates' kids aren't allowed to have Apple products. There's a little less Fresh Mex in your future, too. Chipotle won't be opening at the gargantuan Ballard Blocks after all. For lease signs and stacked tables suggest our beloved Fremont Baja Fresh is closing, and just down the street The Triangle is up for sale, according to Fremont Universe. Fortunately, West Seattle Blog has an uplifting tale of the wayward Alki falcon who lived to fly again. Is there an app for that?

The lanes, they are a-changing. Magnolia Voice has a heads-up on upcoming changes to 15th Avenue West. And next week you may want to hoof it to the Center of the Universe since Fremont will lose some of of its free parking. Over in West Seattle, they're pondering parking in the Junction, and West Seattle Blog invites you to tell the parking planners where to put it. The pay spaces, that is. If you're scared to drive anywhere and you live in Ballard, at least you won't starve: Amazon Fresh is beginning delivery to the 98107 and 98117 zips.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR LINDA'S: Capitol Hill mainstay and Linda Derschang's namesake bar celebrates its 15th birthday tonight, starting at 4 p.m. The first 100 people to show up get a free commemorative t-shirt, but for the rest of us, it's $2.99 cheeseburgers and 1994 beer prices all night. That's when beer was like, what, a nickel? Music care of DJ Damaged Goods.

It was sunny and in the 40s--frozen yogurt weather--so we popped into Kiwi in Fremont. The regular ($3 for a small) was bland and hard, without the craved-for creamy sourness you expect from today's FroYo. It also had a strange aftertaste. Imagine the worst soft-serve ice cream you've ever had, sprinkled with Splenda. For just a little more, we coulda had some pho, yo.

         

Yesterday, faced with a rare workday afternoon with not much to do, Seattlest decided to go for a long walk. Our initial goal was to make it to Golden Gardens in time for sunset, followed by happy hour at Ray's. We knew that was kind of a pipe dream because it was 2:30 by the time we got this crazy idea, and we live on First Hill. Instead, we decided to aim for Golden Gardens and just see how far we could get, figuring Gasworks Park was maybe more realistic.

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks' opponent.

Pioneer Property creditors received notice from the group's bank over the weekend of the group's bankruptcy filing that their bills are not being paid. Pioneer Property Group was behind the Live Historic brand, and at one point owned seven "rehabilitated" vintage buildings on Queen Anne, Capitol Hill, and First Hill, and in Fremont and Pioneer Square. We visited a few of them, condo-shopping, and they were great old buildings, but Pioneer was sailing directly into the teeth of a bursting real estate bubble and general recession. Our condolences to the people who thought they'd bought into the safety and security of a home. UPDATE: Now we hear that bankruptcy has not been filed, but Live Historic's office is closed and their phone is dead.

• Capitol Hill Seattle has taken on an important question regarding the almighty hamburger. Which has the better burger, Quinn's or the Lunchbox Laboratory? The argument's raging in the comments.
• Subterfuge Seattle has successfully identified "Seattle's most socially relevant person," and they're kind enough to share not only the guy's name and bio information, but a photo as well!
• As usual, The Sable Verity has the inside scoop on all matters South End--this time, she's calling out the Seattle Public Schools superintendent for marking Rainier Beach High for closure before Goodloe-Johnson was even in charge. Ouch.

Adobe pink slips started arriving this afternoon, says the Unofficial Apple Weblog. Back in mid-November Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said, "People call this a financial crisis a lot more on the East Coast, but Silicon Valley will emerge stronger and cash flow is not a challenge for us. We have a very strong balance sheet and very deep franchises." So far the Twitter "Black Wednesday" reports are out of California; anyone have news on how this has hit Fremont?