McLeod Family Portrait courtesy of Seattlest Flickr Contributor Lele McLeod Barnett Kapow! Coffee, inventors of the Ride the S.L.U.T. t-shirts, the proposers of a 300-foot Paul Allen statue, and the makers of the best espresso in the Cascade neighborhood, are looking for a new home after their landlord decided to open up his own coffee shop in the location.Capitol Hill Seattle gets a little snarky about John Curley and we love them for it.The Belltowner......

At the Port of Seattle's "Ship Canal 101" tour last week (the tour so nice we're posting it twice) they handed out a little quiz that you were supposed to be able to complete by the time the boat returned to the dock. Questions like "What was the name of the woman who founded one of the featured companies over 115 years ago? (Hint: She was the inspiration for the movie Tug Boat Annie)"......

..Comes the proposed 300-foot-tall Paul Allen statue. The coffee pullers and community activists at Kapow! Coffee have begun a (satirical) petition to erect a 300-foot statue of Paul Allen, destroyer of the Cascade neighborhood and creator of South Lake Union, in the middle of a local park. Jeremiah of Kapow!, who we've always appreciated as much for his wit as his divine espresso, ribs, "We have to show the proper respect for all the wonderful......

South Lake Union Discovery Center courtesy of Seattles Flickr Photographer Johnathan Hanlon Metroblogging Seattle reported bit-by-bit the developing story of a pedestrian cab-scooter-van accident, which proved to be fatal. A 60-year-old passenger in the pedi-cab was killed after the open-air cab alternative suffered a mechanical malfunction and ran a red light.PhinneyWood stays purely hyper-local reporting on two missing neighborhood pets: Sadie (a dog) and Kaitlyn Marie (a pure bred cat). While it might seem tedious......

The new $500 million headquarters for The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation broke ground today on lower Queen Anne. The foundation headquarters take up an entire city block, across the street from the Seattle Center and his Microsoft buddy Paul Allen's pet project, the EMP. The planned campus will be 90,000 square feet and include offices for 1,200 employees as well as an interactive museum. Sadly there is no word if there will be a......

Seven facts in honor of Little Miss Seattlest's first-ever movie, WALL-E, which we saw at the Cinerama—one of three three-panel Cinerama theaters left in the world. FACT: The Seattle Cinerama is not Seattle's original Cinerama. That'd be the Paramount, which sacrificed 1600 seats to fit the screen and three projection booths required. They screened Cinerama films from September 1, 1956, to January 26, 1958. The Cinerama we know and love today opened January 24,......

"Watching the SLUT pass by" courtesy of Seattlest Flickr photographer Jonathan Hanlon While we've been admittedly hard on the South Lake Union street car, we are actually a fan of the idea of street cars in Seattle. With the way traffic is in Seattle today and the Sisyphean task our current public transit system faces daily, we're pretty much a fan of any and all public transportation ideas for Seattle. So we were pleased to......

When we read that the Seattle Times had a large feature on the top paid CEOs in the Pacific Northwest, we wondered what the point was. Everyone knows Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Jeff Bezos—all local CEOs—are richer than God. And it turns out everyone, this Seattlest included, is wrong. According to the Times piece, the best paid local CEO in 2007 was James Voelker, who runs Bellevue's InfoSpace—a company we've never heard of.......

"Dropping Bombs" by prolific Seattlest Flickr contributor Slightly North This Seattlest finds it slightly alarming that Paul Allen has a functioning fleet of war planes, even if they are vintage ones. Starting this Friday, for a fee--because Paul Allen really needs more money--you can see Allen's private vintage warplane collection. Again the phrase "private warplane collection" makes us quake in our boots just a little bit, and raises all kinds of questions: can Paul Allen......

"Welcome to Oklahoma" by Flickr Contributor idswart Just doesn't have the same ring to it. But NBA owners went ahead and approved the request to move the Sonics to Oklahoma. They supported the move overwhelmingly, with a 28-2 vote. We never thought we'd say this in an unsarcastic manner, but thanks, Paul Allen and Mark Cuban. They cast the lone nay votes. Guess that Oklahoma City website that listed the Sonics as a "local team"......

"S.L.U.T. on the Corner" by Seattlest Flickr Group user M.V. Jantzen The South Lake Union Trolley has struck again! Literally. Yesterday, the trolley struck its fourth car since its December debut. That averages an accident every month of the S.L.U.T.'s short existence, although this is the second accident we've reported in April. Yesterday's accident occurred when a car leaving the Center for Wooden Boats' parking lot hit the streetcar's right front bumper. No one was......

A week from today the NBA teamowners will meet in New York to, among other things, discuss and possibly vote on moving the Sonics from Lower Queen Anne to Oklahoma City. It will be interesting to see how Portland Trail Blazer owner Paul Allen votes. He is a Seattle native, who lives, works, and develops here. He also owns the Seahawks, many of whose fans would be devastated if the Sonics were to move. On......

What does the Noo Yawk Effing Times have against Seattle? Frank Bruni, their restaurant critic, puts together a list of ten hot new restaurants around the country. Geographic balance, gotta find one in the Pacific Northwest, let's see: green corner of the country, organic is hot, women chefs are hot, anything fit the bill? Wow! A two-fer, right in Seattle: Tilth, all green and a woman at the stove to boot. They send Matt......

While the printed media may be calling it the "Seattle streetcar" now, it will always be the S.L.U.T. to us. Yesterday afternoon one of the South Lake Union Trolleys struck a parked truck its backend was hanging over the streetcar's path. While the accident did not seriously damage either the streetcar or the parked truck, it did shut down service for 25 minutes, and the streetcar has been removed from service for minor repairs.......

Forbes Magazine must have gotten tired of making the same "Richest People in the World" list, because the magazine has moved on to ranking the "Nation's Most Sinful Cities." In order to do so, Forbes came up with measurable methods to rank the proclivity for each of the seven deadly sins in America's urban populations. (For example to measure the sin of "wrath" the magazine used murder rates for cities.) Of course, you're curious, just......

Sometime this week it's going to be announced that Seattle's soccer team the Seattle Sounders will be entering the MLS. GOALSeattle says tomorrow. Our friend in Chicago who knows about these things says it'll be announced at MLS Cup, which isn't until November 18, so we'll discount that and say tomorrow. It seems pointless, by now, to argue whether or not it will be announced. The Sounders aren't selling 2008 season tickets, Paul Allen......

For those (like Seattlest) who are too lazy to actually visit in person the South Lake Union coffee shop Kapow! to get their S.L.U.T. tee shirts (which they may or may not even have), they are now available online. Remember a week ago when the SLUT poster first appeared on Seattlest? A few days later the P-I, King5, the AP caught on. Joe Whatshisnuts from forty miles east of Boise is going to crack his......

You may see incumbent councilwoman Sally Clark at a local candidate forum, but you won't see one of her opponents, Bob Brown. Brown doesn't need the hoi polloi telling him what to think, because he formed some pretty strong opinions back in the early 60s and he's sticking to them. He doesn't like all the new fruity town houses, skate parks, and is the only man brave enough to speak out about the city's conspiracy......

When a Californian real estate developer announced this week that he was determined to bring a Major League Soccer team to the Pacific Northwest it was good news for some and bad news for others. Fans of the game in Seattle and Portland, where Michael Keston is proposing to set up the MLS expansion team, should welcome the chance at entry into the U.S.'s highest league. MLS in Seattle has always been a long-shot with......

The presidential election is still over a year and a half away, and we already have our favorite bit of analysis: "People think of [Rudy Giuliani] as a leader and a tough guy, and he has this image as somebody who tamed the city of New York and made the trains run on time, and seeing him dressed up like a girl would run contrary to all of those things," said Neal Thigpen, a political-science......

Rainier Beach (public school): Black fans. O'Dea (private school): White fans. That's the stereotype. So, tonight, as we bounded across Henderson Street toward our car after Rainier Beach's Metro league semifinals 52-46 win, and a black teenage girl asked "Do you know who won the game?," we smiled. We were about to deliver good news to this Beach partisan, we thought. "Rainier Beach won," we reported. "Awwww, DAMN!" she said, scrunching her face up in......

Seattle has more than it's share of space privateers, as we've noted in the past. Paul Allen and Vulcan have been making progress and it's not a secret, but we haven't heard much about Jeff Bezos and his company Blue Origin in quite some time. Until today, actually, when we found out that Blue Origin completed a test flight in November in Texas. Yeah, Texas - They have a research facility here in Kent......

--Tim Eyman is still doing his Tim Eyman routine to the thunderous ticks of the second hand drawing his fifteen minutes to a close. --Nial Kennedy punked Microsoft today by replacing an image of his that Microsoft was linking to with this modified goatse picture. --Remember that guy your sister used to date who was a cousin of the guy's dad who worked with the neighbor of that Merit Financial dude from the news?......

Initiative 91 is one answer. We just voted against spending public moneys on sports stadiums. Major League Soccer wants all its teams to play in small, soccer-specific stadiums, but we don't currently have one of those laying around and one would be tough to build in the current environment. Too bad, because those are really cool stadiums that have great atmosphere and look sexy on TV and professional soccer at the highest (American) level would......

"I sent it to one organization, the Seattle True Independent Film Festival...and they declined by sending me an email form-letter," said Alex Mayer. We're sitting with Mayer in a coffeeshop down at Union Station--ironically in the same business park as Vulcan's glittering corporate office--talking about the delayed (by a year) Seattle debut of Mayer's new film, Paul Alien. The name of the movie gives you a good idea of the subject: "Seattle billionaire is......

Super-smarty pants Lakeside School--alma mater of Bill Gates and Paul Allen--is being sued, sued, sued by a former teacher who asserts that: --Lakeside's work environment is racially hostile --Six black teachers have left the school since Sept. 2003 --The school admitted black students unprepared for its curriculum, and didn't give them enough help. --He was reprimanded for opposing the appearance of conservative author Dinesh D'Souza at the school. Lakeside's statement was: "While we cannot comment......

-Some stores are refusing to stock the new Scissor Sisters disc after the band stated that CD prices are too high. -Paul Allen has built a new brain map as comprehensive as it is evil and Seattlest would like to be the first to welcome our new overlord to sentience. It really isn't so bad once you get used to it. -The spinach threat has caused local business Triple B Corp. to toss so......

With just over a month until Halloween, the Forbes Magazine Guide to Trick or Treating came out today. Two of the nation's top five trick or treat targets are right here in Seattle: Bill Gates and Paul Allen. You won't get those little Mounds bars from these guys--more like a whole huge-ass Nestle Crunch bar, possibly wrapped in gold leaf. Theirs aren't the only houses to hit in the Seattle area. Here's a full list.......

What a workload, what a record! For close to ten years, 3,500 nights in a row, the barkeeps at Tini Bigs have been shaking, stirring & pouring. Not to mention researching, developing & testing, testing, testing. (Who can say as much? 13 Coins and Denny's, those always-open stalwarts, don't have the same reputation for innovative drinks, to say the least.) To celebrate, owner Keith Robbins dropped the price of libations to $3.50...for a couple......

Tim Ceis from the mayor's office recently sent a letter to Northwest Seaport basically telling them to get their rotting piece of Wawona the hell out of Paul Allen's park ASAP or it's going to be hauled out to the middle of Lake Union and shot. The Wawona is that giant hull near the Armory and Center for Wooden Boats at the southern tip of Lake Union, tucked away behind the Swiftsure. If you've been......