Another day, more news. But not much of it. It appears that after a day like yesterday, the world does kind of stand still. more ›

"Nickelsville," a roving camp for the Seattle area's homeless is moving again. The city of Seattle offered the group an extension on the permit at their current site, at a former fire station on 127th Street in Lake City, but on May 15th, the group is moving to an undisclosed location. more ›

(For example to measure the sin of "wrath" the magazine used murder rates for cities.) more ›

Already (as of 8:35 am): more ›

We normally run from a restaurant that’s advertised as Chinese and American. Common sense, but it also dates back to a day in New Hampshire when we walked into “Judy’s (or whatever her name was) Chinese Restaurant” and were given dinner rolls and butter along with our menus. more ›

We’ve been on a mountain bike clinic road trip smörgåsbord, starting in Bellingham a few weeks ago and then cruising through Hood River and ending up this past weekend near our hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah. This past weekend we coached a camp up in Park City, where it was a breezy 92 degrees for our afternoon rides—a temperature that is ridiculous in its own right yet still a respite from the record-setting spree of triple-digit temps currently being recorded down in the valley. This is not normal. Utah is generally populated by people who say they like the heat, in large part because it’s not too hot. That was our mantra when we grew up here: "It’s not like Arizona hot." Except now it is Arizona hot here. more ›

Are you a hophead? If you are, get your butt up to Cooper's Alehouse on Lake City Way on the north side of the city. Their 5th Annual IPA Festival is currently in full swing. They have some very tasty beers on tap and more on the way. more ›

--Brett Tomko, who we'll always love for his terrific relief performance in this critical game, is the Dodgers' fifth starter, beating out Washington State High School Hall of Famer Mark Hendrickson. more ›

Who knew such bitter emotion roiled beneath the placid surface of the local independent baking industry? more ›

We could hardly contain our blase excitement when we heard that Sound Transit was going to be having a meeting in our neighborhood about not just connections from Rainier Valley for the new light rail link, but also about the Eastside corridor project. Across I-90, turning north: a light rail humming along next to the clotted artery that is currently 405, our commute would be a floating dream, what now takes almost an hour sometimes, could happen in just 20 minutes. While we read mindless crap on our computer! more ›

Snapped Tuesday morning as I waited at a red light to turn left onto Lake City Way.... more ›

Such a tease. The interior of this former "place to pimp your import ride" on Lake City Way has been hidden for the last couple of months behind windows full of brown paper. The paper finally came down yesterday -- Monday -- revealing chairs, tables, and a menu listing pies, cakes, sandwiches, and other delights. Plus espresso, of course. At least we think it said something about espresso. "Open Tuesday through Sunday," we said... more ›

--The Mariners faced Lou Pinella and the Cubbies in AZ yesterday. more ›

Cities in other states. Why, during 24 tonight, did Fox 13 news use their "Coming up" commercial break to tell us they have Breaking News about a bunch of people who got shot in a mall in Salt Lake City? (Granted, we're from there, so we care but we don't understand why this is making the Seattle news.) And why are they reporting on their site about a murder-suicide in Philadelphia? more ›

Seattlest is going to see a show tonight at the Showbox. It's Of Montreal which has been around forever, it seems, but is currently rising to the point that they're selling out the Showbox. It's also The Blow from Portland and Aqueduct from here. Of Montreal is a kind of guitar disco dirty pop thing - We've been listening to Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? and we can see why tickets are available through Craigslist and not TicketsWest. They also have a weird schtick going on and have really wordy album titles (Horse & Elephant Eatery (No Elephants Allowed); Deflated Chime, Foals Slightly Flower Sibylline Responses) which we're usually suckers for. Despite it being about the music, of course. more ›

Monte Cristo: Baker's Restaurant and Sweet Parlor. more ›

--Seattle's Matthew Baldwin (aka Defective Yeti) is one of the 12 funniest people on the internet, according to Valley Wag. more ›

We're thinking about moving. more ›

About two inches here near Greenlake. Some downtown streets are closed. KOMO just reported that even full buses with chains have bad traction. They also report about 15 accidents in the last 30 minutes. But, Aurora and I-5 look pretty good, at least in Seattle, if you can get there. more ›

After listening to the various radio stations this morning, here's the scoop: more ›

--Turns out 1% of the best hotels in the world are in the Seattle area. more ›

We returned to the homeland over the holidays. Lugged skis and snowboards to the land of 3.2 beer, special garments, and the "Greatest Snow on Earth" only to find they had half the snow base compared to what we have here. Everything seemed backwards. more ›

No, not the game company. (We'd love to know how many hours Cranium's lawyers spent agonizing over Cranium's Collectibles, though. And whether or not Cranium will be buying craniums.com.) more ›

--Please, Ballmer, tell us again about Microsoft, Linux and intellectual property. more ›

Initiative 91 is one answer. We just voted against spending public moneys on sports stadiums. Major League Soccer wants all its teams to play in small, soccer-specific stadiums, but we don't currently have one of those laying around and one would be tough to build in the current environment. Too bad, because those are really cool stadiums that have great atmosphere and look sexy on TV and professional soccer at the highest (American) level would be great here. Initiative 91 doesn't actually forbid stadia from getting built with public money, it only cares if there's no return on the investment and since the MLS is largely owned by a bunch of really rich guys who love soccer the ROI tends to be shit. more ›

Rob Ketcherside got fed up with wearing a wristwatch and ended up creating Seattle Clock Walk, a walking tour of 27 public clocks in downtown Seattle:

Almost all are at some hub of activity: train station, retail district, public square, ferry terminal. . . . Visitors or newcomers to Seattle should find this to be a good first step in the city. Even if you're a life-long resident, maybe you're bored of always doing the same thing when you're downtown.

Washington Husky running back Michael Houston is off the team and, presumably, not going to get a pickup from Orange Cab anytime soon after some Saturday night hijinks involving a taxi, a McDonalds, and--it goes without saying--a strip club. more ›

Urban travel blog Gridskipper is in the final round of their search for the -iest cities in the world. And in this case, all the -iests are sex-related:

By Friday of this week, the world shall unequivocally know which city is the fetishest, which city is the lesbianest, which city is the gayest, which city layeth with the minions, which city is the least-sexiest; which city ye shall call Man and which ye shall call Woman. And how? By your vote, Gridskipper readers. By your vote. Some of these finals we've started last week, some we're rolling out today. They're based on the semifinal round tallies. We've taken the top two contenders in each category for a tête-à-tête to the superlative death.

The professional team with the world's most talented roster--Beckham, Raul, Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos among them--will play at Qwest August 9th. more ›

Last week we were watching the progress of local adventure racing team, DART-NUUN, at the 2006 Primal Quest in southern Utah. We checked back in on Saturday and oh dear, team member Ryan VanGorder apparently collapsed from heat stroke and had to be airlifted to a hospital in Salt Lake City. Not good, as heat stroke in those conditions has a high fatality rate. more ›