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Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! At Seattle's own Chop Suey: It's I! Heart! Rummage!

The first sign that anything was wrong at Seattle's beloved Crocodile Cafe, was the abrupt end of I Heart Rummage (IHR). Within a week of the first IHR being cancelled, the Crocodile was closed for business. I Heart Rummage has been a long loved staple of independent Seattle shoppers. The monthly craft market has been delighting us since 2001 with hand-made goodies from dozens of local artisans.

Outfit called Not For Tourists has just published a guide to Seattle. It's a handsome book, looks just like Moleskine journal, complete with oilcloth cover, fat elastic closure, gorgeous paper. The Seattle version is tenth in a series, cobbled together by a design staff in faraway Noo Yawk with input by a locally based "city editor" named Fred Beldin, who contributes occasional music reviews to The Stranger.

First Thursday's nice and all, but we're also a fan of first Sunday -- that's when I Heart Rummage, Seattle's most famous urban craft show, takes center stage at the Crocodile. Do we get there as often as we'd like? No. Do we love it when we do go? Yes.

"I don't know much about these heart rummages," a friend said recently. "You go to them though, right?" And we havegone to them. Once. And it's been at least 18 months, since we were non-parents at the time. And we really liked it, so we're not sure exactly why we haven't been back, but back we haven't been. We didn't even realize it'd been taken over by Urban Craft Uprising, a local crafter event that...

Maybe we failed to give credit where credit was due yesterday in the Bumpershoots post. Some of the best stuff at the festival tends to not be music (notably the 826 thing from last year) and they have a lot of cool sounding events listed on their website that aren't music, but definitely are worthy of a mention.

Seattlest just kicked down a few tips on where to get music for your iPod on the safe side of the law, but we don't endorse keeping all that for yourself. Look at you, with your selfish little ear buds. Get over to The Mirabeau Room for happy hour tomorrow and their weekly "Playlist" event and share with the rest of us.

Crafty hipsters will gather Sunday at the Crocodile for yet another installment of I Heart Rummage.