• MyBallard has the exclusive: the beloved Archie McPhee's is leaving Ballard.
• While normally a sentence with puppies can be nothing but delightful, Lights & Sirens managed to write one that is the absolute opposite: "Parkland man who was mauled by puppies dies."
• Coyotes are not your cat's friend. Sadly, Capitol Hill Seattle has reported the death of another adored pet by coyotes on the hill to remind us.

• Those fellows from the Deadliest Catch are quite the local celebrities. (Take that, Steve Pool!) Folks lined up to meet Captain Phil from Deadliest Catch in West Seattle on Sunday.
• The Phinney Neighborhood Association has moved up from renters to property owners...tentatively. After 27 years of renting the old John B. Allen Elementary School on Phinney Avenue, they've reached an agreement with the Seattle Public School District to buy the building.
• Capitol Hill Seattle is looking for some new mnemonics for Seattle streets. Since "Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest" is only memorable when I don't need to remember it...we'll see how useful the new mnemonics are, but is a fun Monday morning distraction.

The is-it-or-isn't-it debate over the historical and aesthetic importance of the old Ballard Denny's was ended today with a backhoe. With none of the pomp and circumstance of the discussion surrounding the building's meaning and importance to Ballard, a backhoe began clawing into the building this morning. more ›