Remember how traffic has been terrible and people have been sad about it? Well, the City's heard you, and they're relieving your pain with an early Halloween present (because people give those, right?): they're opening the Viaduct two days early. more ›

The science center may not have a wealthy benefactor like MOHAI, but they're still being rewarded for the good work they do to instill in Seattle's future nerds a love of science. more ›

Disturbing behavior at a vigil for a dead woman, proposed changes (read: increases) to ride the boats, a spot for good news for an abandoned baby and yes, a little bit of weather talk. At last, it's nearly the weekend. more ›

Here's a piece of good (and real) news for the day: the financially-troubled Intiman Theater has reached their first fund-raising benchmark. more ›

The were four stabbings in Seattle last night. Not quite a rash and not yet an epidemic, but that's still a lot of knifin'. more ›

• Finally, some good news on the horizon with regards to housing in Seattle! Seattle Bubble has the story.
• Real estate on Beacon Hill is looking promising, too, reports Beacon Hill Blog, thanks to light rail plans.
• Ballard has a lot to discuss about how the viaduct will affect their neighborhood, and My Ballard hosts the conversation. (My Ballard has an unusually active comments section, we're noticing today.)

Today was kind of a rough news day here in Seattle. Even Jesus Obama let us down a little bit today by announcing he's going to expand Bush's faith based programs. Meanwhile, California's talking about letting everyone have pot, whereas our own local officials are limiting the access even sick people get to good weed in Washington. Before we pack it up and head home for the day, we figured we'd put it to you people: any good news going on? more ›

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We just read Melanie McFarland's farewell column and we're a little choked up. It's good news for her -- she's off to become a TV editor at IMDB. But we're out a reviewer who likes all the right shows for all the right reasons. more ›

The governor has declared a statewide emergency, and the storm is now officially a killer--two people died in Chehalis when a dike ruptured, reports KOMO. more ›

Winds the likes of which haven't been seen in nearly eight months are set to descend on our little burg tomorrow night. Forecasters say it's fifty-fifty right now whether they'll miss us to the north or land right on top of Duvall's fragile little power system. The good news is that everyone's generators haven't even had time to gather dust, much less make their way onto Craigslist. In fact, Seattlest even has some propane cannisters we didn't use during the summer camping season. First Puget Sound Energy customer to comment on this post after losing power tomorrow night gets 'em. Is that a rinkydink prize to win for being suddenly time-warped to the Stone Age? Last December if we'd have stood in front of G.I. Joe's with them we could have gotten upwards of $20 for them. Apiece! Anyway, we'll throw in a coffee at the cafe of your choosing to drink while you charge your laptop and cell phone. more ›

Lately the Seahawks' offense has been about as offensive as a Bastyr College commencement address. more ›

It’s been hard for us to admit this, greenie that we are, but a vote for Prop. 1 is in order, at least from this Seattlest's perspective. more ›

With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it's a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-A-Verse. Luckily, even with all the things we have to do, we still managed to get together to let you know what we've all been up to. more ›

Pearl Jam capped off this year’s three-day Lollapalooza blowout on August 5, and as anyone who knows much about the band might expect, singer Eddie Vedder badmouthed Big Government (Mr. Bush) and Big Business (BP Amoco) on stage. If you weren’t lucky enough to be there (as we weren’t), but caught AT&T’s “live” Blue Room webcast of the band’s performance, you missed some of Eddie’s poli-sci jabs because they were strategically removed. more ›

The good news is that you can sign up for an official Seattlest commenter profile now. It'll have a little bit of information about you and the comments you've made in the past and even some comments that have been posted in reply to your comments. Neat stuff, particularly the part that displays comments on your comments. That stuff is difficult to keep track of on your own. The bad news is that you can still post as an anonymous-type, but you'll appear only as "guest" and you won't be able to make up cute little names for yourself that relate to the topic at hand. Lame, we know. At least you won't be forced to type in a nospam@whatever.com email address every time you comment. You will be asked for a valid email address if you sign up for a profile account, and a fake nospam@ address isn't going to work because you need to confirm your account via email. You won't be able to change that email address once your account is verified, either. WE WON'T SPAM YOU. Promise. In the near future this will be a link to our privacy policy. more ›

When a Californian real estate developer announced this week that he was determined to bring a Major League Soccer team to the Pacific Northwest it was good news for some and bad news for others. Fans of the game in Seattle and Portland, where Michael Keston is proposing to set up the MLS expansion team, should welcome the chance at entry into the U.S.'s highest league. MLS in Seattle has always been a long-shot with the players we have (Paul Allen, Adrian Hanauer who co-owns the Seattle Sounders) either not interested in or not capable of bringing a team here. This new guy--despite being from out of town, despite being from California, despite being a real estate developer, despite his intentions of handing the team to his son to manage--might be the guy who can get an MLS team into Qwest Field. Good news for soccer fans. more ›

The advisory vote on the Viaduct is in and a crushing defeat has been issued to the “No and Hell No” campaign by write-in candidate “Hell No and No.” With strong turnouts in West Seattle, Magnolia and Capitol Hill, voters voiced their opinion on the mayor’s tunnel: as of 11:30pm, 69.88% responded in the negative to a tunnel-surface hybrid--a dramatic “Hell No” in our book. And voters rejected the elevated structure alternative with a less emphatic 55.48%-44.52%--a definite “No” by our reckoning, but definitely not a “Hell No.” Remember the scene in Dumb and Dumber when Dumb takes a one in a million shot to be good news? “So I have a chance!” We’re going to hear from Dumb regarding this 55%. more ›

A King County Metro bus driver was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of peeping into a woman's apartment window in Ballard. Fresh off the heels of their whopping 4.3% ridership increase announcement (*yawn*); now this mess. Good news is that with this guy behind bars, his bus may actually be able to pick up a few more riders...
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Everyone likes to set things on fire, so don’t lie. The good news is that in cooking, pyromania is often sanctioned. There exist a plethora of dishes that necessitate lighting a big alcohol fire, or flambéing. Our personal favorite is Crêpes Suzette. more ›

Rainier Beach (public school): Black fans. more ›

So. The Huskies. The team that's our city's best chance at a 2007 championship trophy, and they can't even beat the Cougs. Historical fact: No team has ever lost to Washington State University and gone on to win the championship of anything. more ›

THEATER: The Brown Derby Series, which debilitated audiences last year with their staged production of Trapped in the Closet, is back, this time they're doing Total Recall. With Seattlest favorite Dusty Warren! more ›

Two weeks ago we were watching American Experience: Influenza 1918 on PBS, because something else was a repeat. So we were reminded that between spring of 1918 and the end of that year, 675,000 Americans died of the flu -- 20 million worldwide-- and no one still knows why, precisely. (In fact, about 36,000 Americans die of the flu annually.) more ›

If you're in the mood for some wide-eyed, Kool-Aid stained boosterism, look no further than this article in today's P-I. It's in response to the New York Times piece announcing a condo-sales slump. The tone is strictly "move along, nothing to see here." more ›

Last week, Governor Gregoire displayed punting skillz we hadn't suspected she had when she told Seattle voters she was forming a new band called The Deciders and good news, we were all in it! It got us musing about how what to do about the Viaduct has bogged down into name-calling between fractious camps. (Here we wave merrily at the Slog, David Sucher, and WSDOT.) more ›

We couldn't help but notice that maitre d' Mikel Kanter from Vancouver's Elixir bistro is telling tourists an awfully familiar story:

He also offered that the term "Skid Row" was coined just outside the window for the logging skids that led to the water in earlier times. Skid Row, of course, became a term for the down and out, and there's nothing down and out about Vancouver these days.

--The horrible aftershocks of the internet gambling ban rock a local website. more ›

Have you been down in your basement lately? more ›

If it's not a great Gatsby, we can blame F. Scott Fitzgerald's preference for establishing mood at the expense of story arc. The good news is that this production revels in atmosphere: Tom Lynch's pitch-perfect set design and Jane Greenwood's gorgeous '20s costumes -- combined with Scott Zielinski's dreamily radiant lighting -- conjure up exactly the right nostalgia for a time that never was. We could have done without the itinerant saxophonist, whose bluesy wails belong in the adaptation of a novel by Saul Bellow, not Fitzgerald. more ›