Results tagged “pier”

A passerby spotted the body of a 38-year-old Seattle man under a pier in Elliott Bay this morning and promptly called police. Investigations are underway. We know what you're thinking, but yes, both of the man's feet were still attached. More information to come.

As our friend who sent us the info announced this news, so shall we:

that have been backing up on our TiVo. But alas, we had agreed to check out some band from Portland called Casey Neill and the Norway Rats. We'll be honest--the main draw for us was Jennie Conlee (the Decemberists). We had been so stoked about seeing the Decemberists and Laura Veirs next week, and then a Decemberist came down with some illness bad enough to make them cancel the tour (we hope they're okay!). This was going to be about as close to the Decemberists as we were going to get this year.

The Tacoma News Tribune had their big Seattle cruise season preview a few weeks ago: 191 cruise ship calls, 3,000 busloads of passengers from the airport to the cruise terminals, 14,082 cruise industry jobs created in 2005, 1 article we couldn’t get completely through. Harpers index it ain’t. Unless this is it, we’re still waiting for the Seattle dailies to publish their yearly love poems to the cruise industry.

ELECTION NIGHT PARTY: Get happy with Cary Moon and the People's Waterfront Coalition, the prophets of the surface/transit waterfront.

-We haven't heard when they're going to move it down here, but it's reported that a Seattle company is buying heavily into The Pearl.

Until the mid-17th century, the Royal Navy would give its sailors daily ration of brandy. Then they captured Jamaica and switched to the local hooch, rum, which they diluted with water & lemon juice. The citrus prevented scurvy, kept the Brits healthier than the French and Spanish, whose sailors were still knocking back brandy; Britannia soon ruled the world.

A Celebrity cruise ship returns to port today after doing the Inside Passage with 115 norovirus infected passengers. You never hear of noroviruses (norovirii?) unless a whole cruise ship or an entire school is infected because they're common enough to be unremarkable. Just some highly contagious digestive issues - When it ruins a cruise, though, we can't let it pass without comment.

We 'Merkins are a devout lot. We remember our nation's dead in May, venerate fireworks in July, celebrate the arrival of a boatload of Yerpeen settlers in November. What we don't honor, strangely, is the first demonstration of nature's annual generosity: the salmon run.

That disturbance in the water? It's Seattle's iconic wild salmon, swimming onto our plates just in time to rescue our souls from the long, dark winter.

Ah summer in Seattle. You never know what you might find around the bend. Whether it’s 19 cannons being fired off at Pier 36 this morning, bad traffic, or the Blue Angels screeching overhead, Seafair continues into August. So don’t forget to check the schedule to mark where you want to be or not be. Personally Seattlest can’t wait for the Parade of Ships on August 3rd. And guess what? You can actually take a cruise around the Sound on an aircraft carrier if you play your cards right. Here’s an interesting discussion going on about Seattlites’ feelings about Seafair in the PI.

Look out residents of The Ave - The University District Street Fair is going to be all up in your face Saturday and Sunday. Seattlest is guessing that the choices you made in life many years ago will dictate whether you'll be in attendance or not, so this post is just a reminder for the people out there who are firmly in the "Of course I'm going...when is it again?" camp. Or maybe you haven't been seen on University Way since American Apparel was Pier One. Go down and have a look.

Forget the hydroplanes at Seafair...we love us some tugboat races, and they're happening tomorrow.

Seattlest drives by 2200 Denny Way every day and is anxiously anticipating the grand new structure with a Whole Foods and other retail shops that the neighborhood desperately needs. We have noticed the little modern structure across the street that seemed to have sprung up overnight. It’s large windows glow mysteriously at night.

We've heard murmurings about this for weeks but have yet to get down there to check it out ourselves--which might be okay because it's possible that we could die from the cuteness. The Seattle Aquarium has a newborn otter!

Seattlest pointed out a few days ago that the future of the waterfront streetcar is not bright, but forces seem to be aligning to keep it around after all. The sticking point was, and continues to be, the maintenance barn near Pier 70 that is inside the boundaries of a planned SAM sculpture park. However, when the announcement was made that the barn and the streetcar would be scrapped in favor of the park and a "decorated bus" there was some resistance.