It's getting warm in the Puget Sound, which means tempers are rising and litigants are getting hot under the collar. Today, it's Amazon vs. the Hells Angels, a heated argument among school board members and more. more ›

Once the site of a posh country club with an Olympic-sized swimming pool, Meadowdale Beach Park in Lynnwood is now one of the few publicly accessible Puget Sound beaches in the Greater Seattle area. Accessible, that is, via a sometimes-steep 1.25 mile hike from the parking lot through a forest path. This isn't the place to bring your massive inflatables or your rolling BBQ. Yet the hike isn't so strenuous that you can't bring the little ones. (One note--the parking lot is small and fills up fast, so if you go on weekends, go early.)
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• SIFF is calling for all young film-loving kiddos to apply for a spot on their very first FutureWave Youth Jury (for high schoolers) and the Films4Families Youth Jury (for kids grades 4-8) at this year's festival. Application deadline is 5 p.m. Monday, May 18.
• Washington likes to tweet a lot. Social media-savvy us create the biggest percentage of people who are active Twitter users from across the U.S.
• A brutal lovers quarrel between Granny and Gramps in Lynnwood. She kicked him where it counts for being unfaithful over 35 years ago.

• Goats do roam in Lynnwood, but for how much longer? Goats are so much cooler than domestic pets.
• One tequila, two tequila, three tequila--floor. Need a little tequila salvation? Capitol Hill's The Saint (think bright blue building) is celebrating its uno birthday, with a week-long all-night happy hour, starting tonight and running through next Thursday. The code word: El Toro.
• It's a beautiful day at Boeing, who just won an order to deliver more 787s, the Everett Herald reports.

Devastating news for most adolescents as their favorite malls--and parent-free hang-outs--are facing bankruptcy. General Growth Properties Inc., the nation's second-largest mall operator, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which owns local mall properties: Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood, Bellis Fair Mall in Bellingham, and Westlake Center in Seattle. With their stock prices cheaper than an on-sale pack of gum, financial reorganization will be key, for what's been claimed as the largest real estate failure. We just hope it can turn around, so it doesn't force a void (and access to the Monorail) in downtown. more ›

Some Lynnwood residents may have had a different church-going experience on Easter Sunday, when a 2.5 magnitude "micro" earthquake occurred just before 10 a.m. This was just one of the many "micro" quakes that have been shimmy-shaking throughout Washington this year. Researchers worry that if these "micro" quakes turn into anything bigger, say a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, it would be catastrophic for Seattle and its skyline. If that does happen, we know the Alaskan Way Viaduct is a goner and so would be many of the old high-rise buildings (Hello, Columbia Center), built before new earthquake friendly regulations were enforced in 1994.
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Remember that incident up in Lynnwood where the kid died after drinking meth bong water? Apparently this man in Lewis County has some kind of death wish for his wife and nursing infant, or (more probably) he doesn't read the news. He gave his unwitting wife a glass of water spiked with meth to help her summon up the energy to do household chores--and then, in a strikingly strategic move, talked about what he'd done on the phone while in jail on other charges. The first person to spot an anti-meth-water public service announcement on TV wins a lifetime's worth of a sense of grim resignation to humanity's stupidity. more ›

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