It's those pesky tree roots throwing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers off their levee fixin' game. Before the engineers can begin flood repairs--all by the federal rule book, of course--King County will have to chop down 150 potentially problematic trees along seven levees. Select trees will be removed from alongside the Green, Snoqualmie, and Raging rivers to strengthen the levees. King County plans to replant 600 trees elsewhere, in the wake of the fallen trees. more ›

It seems that another year will pass without a Pearl Jam concert in Seattle. So it goes. Of no small consolation: Between trips to the studio to record their next album, the band's members will appear all over town in the coming months. Here's who, where, and when: more ›

Sup Pop is well-known for unabashed self-promotion and grandiose overstatement. Thing is, most of that (tongue-in-cheek) hyperbole is deserved. The much-touted reunion of Green River, one of the label's first signees, was no different. It truly was the highlight of Sub Pop's two-day 20th birthday bash. more ›

Without Green River in 1984, there might be no Sub Pop Records today. Without Sub Pop in 1987, there might be no Mudhoney—or even Pearl Jam—in 2008. (Green River begat Mudhoney and Mother Love Bone; MLB begat PJ.) And without either in the 80s, there likely would have been no "Seattle Sound" explosion in the early 90s. more ›

We clued you in to this last October, but now it's official: Sub Pop Records is celebrating its 20-year existence with a three-day comedy and music festival July 11-13. And the (initial) lineup, though weighted more heavily in the hipster-ish now, features a few super acts from the label's big then. more ›

Dave Reichert can sell. His image as the "Savior Sheriff" of Green River sold him a ticket to Washington, D.C., a few years back and now, after a lengthy struggle with his conscience, he’s sold the right to have his book adapted into a TV miniseries on Lifetime. more ›

As ChrisB of Three Imaginary Girls points out, losing your job sucks. Losing a job that meant a lot to you sucks more. And losing all that during the holidays? Well that just blows a goat. more ›

The Onion AV Club says Mudhoney's 1991 album Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge is worth a re-listen. Say they:

[EGBDF] came out two months before Nirvana's Nevermind—and in a sense, it's the Bizarro Nevermind ... Every Good Boy in hindsight sounds like the grunge that should've been: ratty, humble, punky, weird, and catchy without resorting to grunting machismo.

In a few seasons, Seattle indie stalwart Sub Pop will shed its adolescent husk and turn 20. Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman, the dudes who put Soundgarden and Nirvana in bins before major label reps stormed Seattle, will, according to this bio, celebrate "as conspicuously as they can manage." more ›

The 8th congressional district lost five-term Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn and candidate Rodney Tom in the last twenty-four hours. more ›

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In Seattle when your neighbor's dog won't shut up you glare out the window at nobody in particular momentarily before sliding it shut (with authority, because there's no neighborly impropriety on god's green Earth that can't be solved with a slammed window) and that's the end of it. That's not how they roll in Auburn, though. In Auburn they shoot the thing. more ›

If the voting public of the United States had gotten a chance to vote directly against Donald Rumsfeld last night, it would have been a landslide on the order of Seattle Initiative 91. Doesn't matter who the other guy was. It could have been Gary Ridgeway, the Green River Killer himself, or Mike McGavick even, getting sworn into office in January. We can dispense with all that, though, because all the Democratic voting for State legislatures, Federal legislatures, governors, etc, etc, apparently got through; pierced Bush's bubble. Rumsfeld resigned today and he's stepping down to be replaced by former CIA head Robert Gates. See ya. more ›

The Melody Unit's Kevin Kelly On a Life Spent in SeattleMusic, Why the Band Never Made It, and Why He's So Ambivalent AboutTheir Latest (Greatest) Album more ›

Seattlest got together with local rockers Young Sportsmen last night in their Bell Town practice space to discuss the finer points of incest, judo, and Webster’s Dictionary… more ›

We're hoping this isn't a Green River Killer type of town, despite, you know, the Green River Killer. We also hope it's not an organized crime kind of place where if your envelope comes in a little short for too many weeks in a row, whoops, they find your skull at Interlaken Park a few years later. more ›

-The two high school kids who were killed by a train this week in Pierce County were apparently listening to a boom box when they were struck in the back. Man, that thing must go to eleven... more ›

Yesterday the Cascadia Scorecard blog commented on a P-I article from two days ago on the subject of Seattle's troubled urban forests. The article from the Post Intelligencer is quality stuff and you should copy the link for yourself for reading at another time. We know that stuff piles up and you eventually just end up deleting it all because who has time to read that many links, but at least you'll have made an effort. It's about invasive species outcompeting our native floura, a subject also well covered in the David Williams book. more ›

First were the crimes, then came the books. Inevitably, on January 3, comes the movie. Sure, it was just a matter of time, but there's also a matter of taste. more ›

We're currently toning our TV watching muscles for the fall and we're extra excited about the new Seattle-based legal drama set to premiere as a part of Q13's Sunday lineup. King County Cold Case (or "K3C" as we'll immediately start calling it) is the story of a local crime lab headed by a hard-nosed prosecuting attorney played by Tom Skerritt. Hillary Swank will costar as a lawyer recruited by the department from the most-dangerous-offender project. One of the more significant subplots will involve a chaotic on-again off-again romance between Skerritt and Swank and their struggles to hold onto anything substantial in the present while they investigate the criminals of the past. more ›