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Following the announcement that Seattle's crime rate is the lowest it's been in 40 years, Seattle Times columnist Nicole Brodeur has an article about how it doesn't feel that way, given the the shooting at the party downtown, the shooting of DéChé Morrison, the stabbing of Shannon Harps, the schoolteacher who got beat into the pavement on East Pine, and the woman hit in the head with a hammer.

I was glad to hear about the strides police have made on the streets of Seattle. But really, all it did was remind me there have been no arrests in the three recent murders, or in the two attacks. Police have a "person of interest" in the Harps case, but to be honest, the police sketch looked like every other 30-something white guy in Seattle: wool cap, beard, earring. I think I dated him last summer.

Coming home from work on the bus last night, we got to thinking about how even getting to vote on a light-rail package this year is going to be an uphill fight. The dire prospects for light rail anytime soon pushed us to extrapolate the costs to our psyche of waiting during the ride home.

[Full Disclosure: We were in APP (then called "IPP") from 1st-8th grade.]

Gluck's operatic masterpiece, the much-neglected Iphigenia In Tauris, premiered this weekend at Seattle Opera. Inexplicably, it's only been staged once at the New York Met, and that was some 90 years ago. In Seattle, never. But it's suddenly hot: San Francisco and Chicago did a co-production with Covent Garden last year, and the Met, looking to spread the cost and risk of staging new productions, asked Seattle to co-sponsor a new Iphigenia, enlisting the artistic team of director Stephen Wadsworth and stage designer Thomas Lynch.

We really hesitate to head out for curry, as it’s a staple in our cooking repertoire – sort of our emergency food. But when we found ourselves at Racha recently, we decided to give the exotic sounding Jungle Curry a try.

Sometimes when you start going off about how *hysterically funny* someone is, people take it as a dare not to laugh. But Lauren Weedman cracks us up, and we don't care who knows it.

"Neighbors fear development" has become the Seattle equivalent of "dog bites man." Of course neighbors fear development. That's what they do.

Starbucks, give 'em credit, is able to do more than one thing at a time. Mark of maturity, that. The papers are full of its plans to expand into every corner of the globe; this week it's Russia. On the domestic front, meantime, they're promoting a slogan to follow up on last year's "Geography is a Flavor." The new catchphrase: "Coffee is Culinary."

After all, the Seattle P-I's got a story on the recent street violence, the Seattle Times has coverage of the war zone and the thug factor. And although three of the four incidents since June occurred after 10pm, it's easily worth the $500,000 the city will spend over the next four months to keep lunch hour safe in Westlake Park. We were there, and we've never felt more secure -- which was great because we couldn't find any bike racks in front of Westlake Mall and had to lock our bike to a trash can.

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.

--By a--if you can believe this-- vote of the Seattle School Board, Maria Goodloe-Johnson is the new superintendent.

We woke this morning with a smile because for once in our topsy-turvy lives, we were going to indulge in a pastry baked by someone else. We were going to Ballard’s Cafe Besalu. The last time we went to Besalu we were en route to the Sunday Farmer’s market and ordered just one croissant to share with our market buddy--we knew we’d sunk very low when we shouted “Hey look, free beets!” in a ploy to scarf the last bite. This morning, we were going to do Cafe Besalu justice: sit at a table, order a coffee and a pastry and not share with anyone.

In the beginning, there was the whole bear, the whole goat, the whole hog. You caught it, you cooked it, you ate it. Civilization basically meant you could roast smaller pieces and eat smaller chunks. Now, by the 21st century, we've reached the ultimate indulgence: a whole meal of mini-portions.

Seattlest's windchimes chimed last night. That's usually an indication that winds are stronger than average. Usually our chimes just sit there limp and dead. The windstorm that was promised for last night turned out to be tamer than anticipated, though, or at least our threshold for windstorms is set so high that anything below sustained 45mph winds now seems pretty weak. We're under the impression that if someone in Woodinville sneezes a forest of undecided trees will hurtle themselves at feeder lines, but we're not hearing reports of a lot of new damage today outside of a Q13 story on West Seattle this morning. Here are the outages Seattle City Light currently recognizes.

New on the Seattle Weekly's website--a page for the Weekly's "Street Team."

The big drama on Project Runway this week was Jude Law getting thrown off the show for having contraband in his room at the PR compound and we have to say that it was more than a little disappointing how quietly he went into that good night. Can you imagine past villians getting thrown off the show for having fashion books in their room? Santino would have popped a neck vein and whipped Gunn with it until he repeated, "whatever happend to Andre" ad infinitum, but Jude just sat and took it. And left.

By now it’s no secret that Seattlest is all ga-ga over local showmasters, Awesome. We’ve recommended numerous times that you, John and Jane Q.P., experience for yourselves this strange and wonderful ensemble, and well, here we are once more.

Town Hall - All the Thrill of Cable Access, Live! (TM). In Seattle, this is actually a draw. Maybe it's also due to their PBS-minded Upstairs Downstairs set-up.

We're glad we stuck around for the audience Q&A after the panel discussion on gentrification Thursday night, hosted by the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs.

This year St. George's Day falls on a Sunday, so chances are you’ll be attending a party tonight or Saturday. The question then becomes how will you celebrate the actual holiday? Simple. Dine on an English meal.

There probably aren't too many soccer fans in Seattle who have footage of the Sounders circa 1975 sitting around in the attic. We estimate that description fits maybe one guy. It's likely that there aren't too many people in the city who have the technological knowhow and, more importantly, the desire to upload video of Seattle's soccer team to YouTube either. Again, if we had to guess the size of that group we'd go with one. Luckily, they are the same guy!

What's the difference between seeing Neko Case in Seattle vs. seeing her in Milwaukee? In Seattle, concertgoers sip microbrews. In Milwaukee, they're drinking tallboys of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

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…

Seattlest was outside the walls recently (Lynnwood) and we managed to catch an earful on the state of Seattle as seen by the right side of the political spectrum. "And they're even worse in Seattle. They're crazies downtown." We were talking about smoking and it was unclear who the denizens of downtown Seattle were worse than and in what fashion. Those comments were courtesy of a legit Joe On The Street, though, so whatever he meant we're taking it to heart. On the other hand you have the established punditocrasy of the right embodied by wanna-be Joe On The Streets like Jonah Goldberg who recently had a few things to say about our enclave:

King County will be holding its primary election next Tuesday; however, in two races the primary will also act as the general election. Because Democrats live in the city and Republicans live on the Eastside, the two races that feature only candidates from a particular party will be decided next week (or in the courts sometime next June).

What exactly is behind our sudden fascination with "found" material? Are we simply so enamoured with the cheap voyueristic thrills that reality television affords us that we've begun seeking out similar glimpses into the lives of others? Get away from that window you freak! Perverts...

In Seattle the markers indicating the change in seasons go beyond the weather and blooming cherry blossoms. It's spring, and it's time for the course catalogs to start arriving at your door. We didn't receive our personal favorite from the Experimental College until last week, but it's been online since March 2. You can register online March 16th and you better be on the ball about it this semester if you don't want to get shut out of that sushi class once again.

Continuing Seattlest's new feature, Downer Friday: Sites around the world have been commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a place Seattlest has personally visited and personally been marked forever by.