Seattle reaches its fifth homicide of the year, a man and his dog don't make the best criminal duo, the City tries to fix Gregoire's errors and Mercer Island gets fined, too. more ›

This Friday, Mercer Island's little league sluggers will be playing in the first round of the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. As the current Northwest Region champions, they will be batting against the Mid-Atlantic champions, South Shore National from Staten Island, New York. more ›

All apologies to anyone involved in this accident on the floating bridge, but the headline "Loose bucket blamed for multi-car crash on I-90" only makes us think of this: more ›

"Mercer Meditation" by grundlepuck more ›

By a 2-to-1 ratio, area residents have expressed support for using tolls to help fund the 520 Bridge replacement. This according to survey results provided in an e-mail release today by the state-created 520 Tolling Implementation Committee. more ›

The state is trying to figure out just how much you'd be willing to pay to cross the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge without being deterred by the cost to change your route. According to a study released yesterday, most drivers would continue to use the bridge, even in the face of fees up to $6.85 per roundtrip. Apparently, the state believes if you have a job on the Eastside, adding nearly $40 to your weekly commute—plus the ever-increasing cost of gas—is no big deal financially. The proposed tolls would vary throughout the day based on traffic volume—from $2.15 during lighter times to a $3.80 one-way fee during peak hours. Tolls on 520 could begin as early as 2010. Similar tolls are also being discussed for I-90, Seattle's other floating bridge. The tolls would go to funding a new six-lane replacement bridge for 520. more ›

Tomorrow night, novelist Garth Stein (Raven Stole the Moon, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets) and his piercing eyes are making a crosstown trek from Stein's Mount Baker home to the Elliott Bay Book Company, where Stein will read from his latest book, The Art of Racing in the Rain (6/25, 7:30 p.m.). more ›

Two eastside teens have been arrested for the false bomb threat that shut down Mercer Island High School on Tuesday. The teens, a 15 year old female student from Mercer Island High School and a 16 year old boy from Renton. The arrests were made around noon on Wednesday. The teens were booked into a juvenile detention center, upon suspicion of phoning in the bomb threats. more ›

Mercer Island is not just the home of the fifth richest man on earth. And 98040 isn't just the wealthiest zip code in our state. It is now known as a childhood home of Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Dunham. more ›

So we may have found a new favorite website--last night, a friend pointed us to the seriously awesome image to the right, courtesy of Vintage Seattle, a high-resolution visual blog documenting Seattle history, a labor of love undertaken by one Jess Cliffe. more ›

Real estate search engine Rotten Neighbor promises to help you "find bad neighbors before you move." What evils have users uncovered behind the closed doors of the Emerald City? more ›

Is the office slightly quieter today? Were there fewer parents dropping the little ones off at school this morning? Were there a lot more parked cars in certain spots around Wedgwood, Seward Park or Mercer Island? more ›

Our land, this inlet on the western coast of the North American continent, is a fortunate one, endowed with natural riches and settled by people who do not confuse prosperity with moral superiority. Modesty becomes us; we do not flaunt our advantages. more ›

Yesterday we were down at Pike Place Market feasting on a Three Girls Bakery sandwich and on the way out we spotted the Seafair Pirates making their rounds. "Pardon us, pirates coming through!" they said, making their way through the molasses-like flow of tourists which we thought was probably not authentic pirate behavior. (We wouldn't be completely outraged if a pirate lopped off a head or two of the sidewalk-gawking variety of tourist who's astonished to see, you know, peaches! and bread! for sale in a public market and has to stop in their tracks to verify the observation.) The pirates landed at Alki on July 7, and from the looks of their site's photo albums, they've made their way from there to Mercer Island, Kent, Chinatown, and up to Greenwood since. more ›

Seattlest grew up in a tiny town you've never heard of in Central Florida, where a real sandy ocean beach (on which you could drive) was 20 minutes in one direction, and a crystalline gulf beach was an hour and a half in the other. Now that we live in the Land of the Rain, we wait all year for weeks like these, when the sun is high and hot, the breeze is soft and frequent and there are enough daytime hours to book it to the lake beach after work. more ›

Too late! That's what we'd scream at state reps McIntire, Pedersen, McDermott and Pettigrew if we had them gathered in a room together. Their statements yesterday--that it's time to discuss a surface option for the Viaduct replacement, that we should be talking about moving people and goods instead of cars--would have really helped get something we may have felt ok marking "yes" next to on the "just for funsies" ballot we signed, licked and mailed over the weekend. As it stands we looked at the stiff piece of paper, looked at the Viaduct in all its gray glory and emphatically voted no to every lifeless, unimaginative, ungodly expensive option we were presented with. In retrospect, maybe a blank ballot would have more closely aligned with our intent, which was to convey the fact that we haven't been sold on either the new Viaduct or the tunnel and that we're more than a little annoyed at all this micro managing of our legislators we're expected to do. more ›

While those of us in central Seattle enjoyed a three-day weekend, 234,000 people, mostly on the Eastside, are looking at their fifth night without power, and PSE's telling some of them--mostly in eastern King County (Duvall, North Bend, etc...)--that they won't be back on the grid for days. more ›

-Outdoor advertising leviathan Clear Channel got a contract to wrap some Seattle community transit buses in their advertising. more ›

Summer brings a cornucopia of free outdoor theater to the bewooded groves of Seattle's parklands. Thanks to the Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival (Wooden O, GreenStage, and Theater Schmeater), there were five plays offered at Volunteer Park last Saturday and Sunday: As You Like It, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, and Robin Hood. more ›

Tuesday 18th more ›

You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. more ›

One thing you may not know about Seattlest is that we're hardcore. Hard-fuckin'-core. more ›

-Mercer Island was swallowed by the righteous sea today and no longer exists on any chart or map. more ›

It's not all work and hard-nosed politicking in the state senate. Every once in a while the senators enjoy popping the tops off a few cold ones and voting up a state mascot or something. Excuse us, "official marine mammal of Washington." That would be the orca, of course, and the senate voted 46-1 to pass the bill and send it up to the Governor who is expected to sign it. Killer whale hater Brian Weinstein of Mercer Island cast the "no" vote, arguing in favor of the seal or sea otter. Actually, the PI reports that he'll be happy to have orcas represent the state. more ›