Sheila Klein's "Sky Within" by Alan Cordova from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

As Black History Month enters its final week, here is the Mount Baker Baptist Church on 25th and Jackson. more ›

There is good eating to be found near the station, even if you have to dodge a few cars to find it. Thai Recipe is located in the same strip mall as Domino’s on McClellan, and it is the only Thai restaurant we know of that even borders on North Beacon Hill. The very friendly staff serves good, reliable, and tasty Thai food, available for take out or to eat in the small dining room. more ›

• "Gross!" is right. The Rainier Valley Post explores reports of mouse droppings at the Mount Baker Safeway and wonders rightly, "Where is the health department?"
• While the Mount Baker Safeway is having rodent problems, the neighborhood's Rainier Grocery Outlet is shutting down next week just in time for Thanksgiving.
• Hooray! We will be keeping at least de facto nudity at Seattle area parks.

• Lights & Sirens reports the real way to get folks to turn in felons is to offer them free gasoline. Last month, the Tacoma Crime Stoppers began a gas card giveaway to reward tipsters who provided information about the county's most wanted felons. In less than a month, 14 of Tacoma's 50 most wanted felons have been arrested.
• According to The Belltowner, there is hope yet for the beloved Crocodile Cafe--or at least the building that once housed it. The owner of Marcus' Martini Heaven (unsurprisingly, named Marcus) has applied for a liquor license for the Croc's old home.
• The Rainier Valley Post wants to let all you garage sale and junking fans know that Mount Baker is hosting a Mount Baker Community Center Saturday morning to get a map of the houses that will be participating. Hopefully one of you finds some great Antiques Roadshow-worthy trinket.

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 ›