Kushi are Japanese skewers, bamboo or metal. Threaded with a sardine, a prawn, peppers, pork belly or chicken hearts, they're grilled over makeshift charcoal braziers and served up to passersby in Tokyo. In Belltown, you get to sit. In fact, you'll be served on the new open-air deck along Second, a 40-seat expanse at sidewalk level, while executive chef Billy Beach grills your mushrooms or gizzards (over imported coals) inside. This is Kushibar, from......

[Untitled] by Seattlest Flickr Photographer Jared Wagner. Yummy, sushi! According to the Belltowner, Belltown's latest Japanese street food restaurant, Kushibar, opened to full tables today.The latest North-Broadway-almost-10th-Avenue restaurant is opening next week. Will Poppy succeed or fail?Kirkland's downtown is having its first sidewalk sale this weekend. Here's to hoping for some summer days for shopping.Last, but certainly not least, Seattle's version of the Statue of Liberty, the Alki Statue of Liberty--is out of storage and......