The first thing that struck us about the 3.15-mile, $1.6 billion project that is the University Link light rail line is that it will have half of the projected ridership of the 16-mile Central Link line. Kinda makes us think they should have started with the U District - Capitol Hill part first. As it is, the Central Link goes online in 2009, University Link in 2016. We also marveled at how full the room......

Capitol Hill studio Pilates Body Fitness is celebrating their 5th year in the Capitol Hill Arts Center with an open house this Sunday. It's a good chance to stop in to check out the equipment, meet the instructors, and see if you're interested in giving this hippie holistic exercise bullshit a try. (Tongue-in-cheekiness aside, pilates is great, and we'd totally do it every day if we were an independently wealthy ex-trophy wife and/or trust......

CHS had the news last night, and then Metblogs posted before us, too, so to make up for our tardiness, we visited the Office Nomads site, chatted with cofounder Jacob, and took pictures. They just signed a 3-year lease the beginning of this month, and are in full prep-mode before their opening on November 1. (Open House 6pm-9pm.) The new Office Nomads offices are located in the old Heath Printers building on Boylston, the block......

If you like trucks, if you like the darndest equipment and gear, or if beefy firefighters and/or the color fuck me red turns you on, grab the family and head on over to Fire Station 17 this weekend! They are having an Open House this Saturday. We live about two blocks from these guys and girls and they really earn their keep; we're glad to have them as neighbors. We occasionally see one come......

SPORTS OBSESSION: Any longtime Seattlest reader knows that we can't get enough of curling, whether it's watching on the CBC or playing ourselves at Seattle's Granite Curling Club, the only dedicated curling facility on the West Coast. Our obsession is often met with odd looks, but a curling open house is honestly one of the best ways going to spend your time/money. 12pm-5pm // 1440 N 128th St. // $10 MUSIC: In an act of......

This weekend, the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center is having an Open House, while Cooper Artist Housing is having Open Studios. We know this because some old friends of ours are Cooper cultists and they sent us a postcard. How droll! How last century! If you can, come on by. We live in a building with some pretty interesting peeps, doing some pretty nifty stuff. We'll have a new film short & photos [They're working......

Waking up to find we live in our old high school is actually a recurring nightmare in Seattlest's sleep therapy unit. You know the old high school-turned-apartment/condo conversion on Queen Anne? The maketing people have enlisted the help of the school's alumni association in hopes that grown-up Grizzlies will want to sleep in their old Chem classroom (wait... didn't they already do that?) After closing in 1981, the former Queen Anne High School did......

We're certainly not the only ones to be ragging on new housing being built on the Hill. But we've got our eyes on another development, specifically the nine condos for sale at the corner of 11th and Howell, right across from Cal Anderson Park. Seattlest lives near these condos and has been acutely aware of their construction, via one year of all kinds of noise starting everyday 'round 7 in the AM (and *that's* why......

Gothamist posts on the capture of a NYC perv thanks to Little Brother and a camera phone. They also scour the city for vodka martinis and Shamrock shakes and spot the friend from the Wonder Years at a city law firm. New York police think that Littlejohn is their man. Houstonist is no stranger to megachurches or stripmalls or mega-strip-churchmalls. The children of Houston are under assault by unknown forces as this week a playground......

As with any other Winter Olympiad, perennial favorites took most of the focus. Figure skating (at least the falls were funny), speed skating (had its moments), and the skiing events (*yawn*) received the bulk of NBC's melodramatic coverage, but this year could prove to be the breakout year for Seattlest obsession curling, just added to the Olympic roster in 1998. With the help of some nudity (and some unprecedented US success), the sport managed to......

In honor of President's Day, we've included our fave prezzes along with our weekend activity list. Michael vB is going to see the NW Dance Split Bill ($18) at On the Boards either tonight or closing night Saturday, 8pm. Then Sunday morning he plans to scram on down to the Hi-Spot before the brunch crush for some delicious breakfast vittles. He likes Harry S Truman, because he was "scrappy." Audrey will spend the long weekend......

Tonight there's an Open House for the City of Seattle's Draft Waterfront Concept Plan, 5:30 to 7:30pm (with a brief presentation at 6:00pm), in the Bertha Landes Room, Seattle City Hall, 600 Fourth Avenue. Everybody holla! If you're not aware, there are big doings in the works for Seattle's waterfront. Back in 2004, Seattlest attended a Visioning Charrette, which presented the results of design groups' brainstorming sessions, and it was a mixed bag. Some wanted......

We loved loved loved the site where the Empty Space used to have their little things over in Fremont. Yes, part of it was that we could walk there if we were so determined but Seattlest also thinks that it was just the perfect size for a...middling to struggling financially theatre company. There were maybe, what, a hundred seats in there? That's the perfect size. Nevermind the fact that we haven't seen anything there since......

Seattlest may not be convinced that there's any good reason to leave our fair city -- but at least we can rest assured that we've got a modern and easy-to-use airport to assist us in our travels when necessary....