"[Untitled]" by Seattlest Flickr Photographer sea kay We just have a few more weeks of our favorite regular mouth-watering local blog post--the "what's new at the Columbia City's Farmers Market this week" post at the Rainier Valley Post. There are only a few more markets until it closes down for winter, and this week we think we'll have to pick up some yummy winter squashes and roasted hot peppers. Grab a bite to eat......

"Double Georgetown" by Steve Mohundro After our last business meeting, our colleagues would attest that, to us, Double GT is a double gin and tonic. Today, though, it means an equally intoxicating Georgetown. Go ahead... get us drunk on your fabulous images of our gorgeous town, with or without quinine. Thanks for sharing!......

Even if this was John McCain's Chief of Staff, we still wouldn't vote for him. Photo courtesy of Seattlest Flickr Photographer Jessiqua A couple of Seattle's finest neighborhood blogs are also covering Nickelsville. Blogging Georgetown and West Seattle Blog are both giving thorough coverage to the story.Did someone say gumbo? Honest to god, Louisiana-made gumbo in Seattle? Hallelujah! The Central District News has a glowing (tummy-grumble-inducing) review.Ballard High graduate Jean Smart won an Emmy last......

"Funky" (the 9lb Hammer in Georgetown) by Seattlest Flickr photographer Lacroix Blogging Georgetown asks a very important question: how clean is your watering hole? The answers are the county health inspection scores for Georgetown bars.Lights & Sirens answers the age old question, what's the quickest way to a man's heart? The answer in Tacoma? A cordless drill.Continuing the question and answers theme--the Big Blog wants to know what you'd name the newest parks in Seattle?PhinneyWood......

The coolest building in Seattle was destroyed last year because it froze the earth under it after decades as a cold storage facility (and because, Skeptical Seattlest says, it was a billion square feet of prime Georgetown real estate that was scary and dark inside). The Sabey Corporation that owns the old Rainier brewery complex on Airport Way has been trying to figure out what to replace the cold storage building with since before it......

GEORGETOWN SMELLS LIKE ART When the creativity faucet is on full blast, it can get tricky to turn it off--so these 25 local artists aren't even going to try. Instead, they have signed up to participate in a 24-hour art marathon in a beautiful old building in Georgetown, presented to the general public by CoCA for the 16th year in a row. By the time you read this, the marathon will have commenced; there are......

"Ain't That the Truth" photo courtesy of Seattlest Flickr contributor Sprizee It's that time of year folks. The Seattle Weekly has released it's "Best Of" edition and the categories get stranger every year. Check out this years winners for: Best Companion to Have During Your Brazilian, Best Intergenerational Workout Facility, Best Tropical Starches, and Best Place to Feel Ashamed.Blogging Georgetown rejoices that their neighborhood is still not ruined enough by hipsters to have been voted......

DEAD BABY BIKE RACE: The mission statement up for consideration at the Dead Baby Bike Club is: "We just want to ride our bikes and not get hassled by the man." The Dead Babies, a hard-drinking, semi-organized band of bicylists, are holding their annual few-holds-barred bicycle race across the city tonight; it will be a madcap sight to behold. Make sense of their website if you dare; pre-reg is at 5 p.m., and the......

"Eat Your Veggies" by Seattlest Flickr Contributor zeebleoop Now's your chance, Tacoma and Seattle! According to Lights & Sirens, crews from the epic show COPS will be riding and filming with Pierce County sheriff's deputies for the next four to six weeks. While we're not encouraging illegal behavior, this could be your only chance at 15 minutes of fame and a lifetime of re-runs.Meanwhile. "Magnolia is Really Part of Seattle..." is a little disturbed by......

"Pillager" courtesy of Seattlest Flickr photographer devin kate Sometimes we can't help but love Ballard and how, despite all the changes, the neighborhood is trying to retain it's heart and soul. My Ballard's coverage of the annual and epic Ballard Seafood Festival reminds us of all that we love about Ballard--long lines for salmon barbecue (with copius photo evidence), coverage of the couture cover-all contest, and the crowning of a record breaking lutefisk eating champion.Blogging......

"Built Tough" by aaronbrethorst Another day, another choice selection from our wonderful Flickr Pool.......

THAT'S SO DOPE: Dope Emporium is a free festival of all things hiphop: DJs, MCs, spoken word artists, graffiti artists, and more. It's going down as part of Artopia, an arts extravaganza in the extremely dope neighborhood of Georgetown, so hop on a bus and experience some of the best Seattle hiphop has to offer. Our picks: Candidt, Orbitron, B-Girl Bench, Waves of the Mind and Dim Mak. Hot! 2 p.m. - 10 p.m.,......

"Thee Emergency" by Josh of Sound on the Sound The Georgetown Music Festival was this past weekend. We weren't there (though some other Seattlests have harrowing tales), but now we kind of feel like we were, thanks to our always vivid Flickr pool.......

G IS FOR GEORGETOWN: There are few parts of Seattle we love more and know less about than gritty and glorious Georgetown. We were smitten from the moment we walked into Jules Maes Saloon three years ago and have never looked back. Adding considerable wonderfulness to the neighborhood is the Georgetown Music Festival—Seattle's most under-appreciated music festival—happening this weekend. If you love local music like we do, you will be spending Friday and Saturday......

Seattle's beloved brewer of Manny's Pale Ale (and now, the wonderful 9LB Hammer) releases Bob's Brown Ale on this day every year to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House and to honor the memory of their old friend, Bob Hirsch, who died of cancer at age 21. More than seventy bars in the Seattle area will have this 6.3% ABV ale pouring today (Bob's bday). Bob's Brown Ale is big and brown with......

"Norton at the Record Store" by seattlerealtorgal We've been sweet on square format photographs lately, but what really got us about this one was the brilliant splash of color—such fabulous colors in our beloved Georgetown to rival the colors in any other neighborhood. Show us your colors in the Seattlest Flickr pool. Thanks!......

Georgetown scooters 2 by El Gregein For getting us to ponder scooter gangs in Georgetown, this picture gets the honor of picture of the day. Have another image that will inspire us down ridiculous trains of thought? Add it to the Seattlest Flickr Pool. Thanks for sharing.......

A sakana ichiba (fish market) at Shibuya station is our favorite Tokyo battleground. Close to closing time, customers hover around the refrigerator cases, scouting out the sushi and sashimi assortments--especially the packages of maguro, mutsu, and more. Then, at about 7:45, the man with the marker does the "makete" (discounting) action, slashing prices on fish that must fly off the shelves. We jostle for position, reaching for the best boxes of uni and chunks of......

According to the Capitol Hill Blog, by way of Blogging Georgetown:There is a low power radio station over at SU on 12th Ave. It's on 89.1 Mhz, and is very low power. One can only get it within 1/4 mile from the campus, beyonf which some religious station blocks them out. The signal is strongest at 12th and Cherry.They claim to use 1330 khz also, but didin't have any luck there. The call letters......

When Seattlest worked closer to Pike Place Market, the obvious lunchtime choice was between crumbly, delectable tamales or hearty gyros. Now that we find ourselves in Sodo 40 hours a week, we've had to venture out and blaze a new lunch hour trail. Our heart, mind, and friend's recommendations led us to Smarty Pants, only five minutes away (plus a few, due to an inconveniently placed train)... We now believe in love again, Seattle, and......

Seattle locals The Hands released a CD unto the world on Friday and a mere four fifths of Neumos could not contain the crowd that turned out to witness the event. No! Midway through the first opening band's set the velvet curtain was lifted to allow the accumulated dirty rocking masses full access to the Neumos floor. The CD title is The Hands and we haven't gotten all the way through it yet, but it......

The UK's Guardian Unlimited spoke to Seattle's Fleet Foxes (thanks, CHS) ("a group whose unique sound is hymnal and baroque, with mandolins and banjos and extraordinary vocal harmonies") and got the scoop on Seattle's development opportunity. Lead singer Pecknold says something like, "Go Sodo, young bands," saying that Georgetown "is probably a bit like SoHo in New York in the 1970s, with a lot of industrial space." But what got our attention is this nugget,......

We've been Ellen Forney fans since we read "I Was Seven in '75" -- back when it ran in The Rocket. Her latest project is Lust, a collection of the "Lustlab Ad of the Week" cartoons she does for The Stranger, published this month by Fantagraphics. We interviewed Forney about the cartoon at Georgetown's All City Coffee, just down the block from the Fantagraphics store where there will be a book launch party tomorrow night.......

Untitled by Espressobuzz Who says there's no good pizza signs in Seattle? The Seattlest Flickr pool just cracked 500 members and it could use even more, so come on in if you haven't already.......

photo courtesy of caseysail in the Seattlest Flickr pool. We hope this isn't a growing trend. From the Croc to the Sunset Bowl to all of Seattle's bars, it seems as though any place of which beer is an integral component is endangered with stifling regulation or closure or even the wrecking ball. The very latest, of course, is a portion of the old Georgetown brewery just a scant few days after the 104th......

Ever since we read Frito Pie 101 in the Stranger, we've been itching to try a Frito pie and last night at Georgetown's Smarty Pants we sealed the deal at last. It's not a deal we'll be renegotiating any time soon. We're far from experts, of course. All we can say is that when rating it on its "appeal," we're Russian judges. Nyetch. It was a Seattlest meet-up, so we bought a Frito pie for......

There's a nice little piece over at Crosscut this morning about Georgetown's Rainier Cold Storage Stock House (and the demise of), but just like the neighborhood opposition to the building's demolition, it's too little too late. To be fair, the building's owners broke their way through many walls (a much beloved building that defines a neighborhood, an official Seattle Landmark) with the wrecking ball of public safety: it's going to collapse onto Airport Way,......

"Shoes-on-the-Roof" by El Gregein Every morning, we pluck another gem from the Seattlest Flickr pool and showcase it on the site. Want in? Join us on Flickr.......

This Georgetown bike couldn't possibly have looked as cool in real-life color. Thanks for dropping Spokes in our Flickr pool, El Gregein.......

Things always die down right around the holidays, so not much is going on tonight, except local noise mavens X-Ray Press will be celebrating their CD release (and the addition of their new keyboardist) at Jules Maes in Georgetown. Meanwhile, on Saturday David Bazan (of Pedro the Lion and Headphones) plays at the Croc unless you want to go to Chop Suey and get rocked (non-threateningly) by Shonen Knife. Here's a video from last night's......