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You don’t need to be a member of the Seattle Yacht Club to be a snobby boater. Follow a few simple rules and you too can avoid being confused for a visitor of lesser boating pedigree like some Lake Tapps drunk.

There will be plenty to see, do, and hate tomorrow, here is a guide—although we’ll probably end up sleeping in, before re-organizing our photo albums.

A sinkhole opened up on a tiny road beneath the University Bridge this morning, eating two cars, forcing the Mayor to change his morning plans, and closing the University Bridge. The cause: a water main break, which was what caused Dexter Avenue to resemble Wild Waves last week.

Look, Nickels, a little strategy for ya. A little Tao of tunneling. You want a tunnel that bad, you gotta go with the flow of where the tunnel wants to go. Screw the waterfront thing that was crazy. But here you go -- concerned citizen Craig Dalby has found you a place for a new tunnel: the Montlake Cut.

To your roster of historic and colorful rhizomes (Russets, White Rose, Blue Victor, Yukon Gold, Yellow Finn, Red Ruby...Cascade, Nooksack, Ontario, Seminole) you can now add the Ozette. It's a fingerling grown for centuries in the gardens of Makah Indians on Washington's most western coastline, brought there, it's believed, by Spanish conquistadors who had discovered all manner of edible tubers in the South American Andes.

An email from a reader posed a relatively simple question: Where can I get a good waffle? Turns out said reader was from Houston, where they'd managed to find themselves a waffle sent straight from some whole-grain, nutty heaven, and they hadn't yet found themselves a suitable alternative here in the Northwest.

For years it was an eyesore/interesting feature of Portage Bay. Just blocks away from Gasworks Park, the Kalakala stood bow to shore for quite some time with its bulk jutting out into the lake for kayakers to paddle around and yachts to navigate by. Seattlest would occasionally run into some unpaid nautical artisan who lived and worked on the thing at area bars, but nothing ever seemed to get done. The Kalakala always looked like its dilapidated self.

The University of Washington is facing opposition to its proposed biodefense laboratory from neighborhood residents. The biolab would be classified as "level-three," meaning it would be able to handle lethal, infectious diseases that can be treated but not cured.