ZIPCAR OPEN HOUSE: Drop in at the grand opening of an actual downtown office for Zipcar--in the old Dept. of Licensing location at 3rd and Union. The open house runs until 5 p.m., and if you stop in and join Zipcar today, there's no annual fee for your first year. We're told there's also a prize wheel where you can win driving credits and other goodies, plus free snacks. We use the Zipcar ourselves, and we're happy to hear that the City of Seattle is joining them in a car-sharing arrangement for city employees. more ›

Even if she's your student. Because that's not ethically wrong at all. At all. It is, however, quite legal, according to today's ruling by a Washington Court Of Appeals panel holding that state law does not specifically prohibit a teacher from having sex with his or her eighteen-year-old student(s). The decision came after the trio of judges reviewed Matthew Hirschfelder's case; Hirschfelder was a choir teacher solidly into his thirties when he had sex with one of his students, a delicate flower aged eighteen years. Yes, he was committing adultery. Yes, the fling happened on school grounds. (Whoa.) And apparently, yes, the sex was not explicitly illegal. more ›

Judge Marsha Pechman will preside over the City of Seattle v. Sonics trial, scheduled to begin Monday. Since the fate of our beloved pro basketball team rests in her hands, Seattlest wanted to take a closer look at the person standing at center court. more ›

While we don't know if Mayor Greg Nickels' latest proposal to ban concealed weapons on city lands will ever become law (we imagine a little thing called the Constitution and this little group called the NRA might have some problems with that one), hundreds of new laws will take effect in Washington this Thursday. more ›