• My Ballard is covering the search for a missing local swimmer at Golden Gardens. One swimmer had already been rescued from the water and taken to the hospital to be treated for hypothermia. As of 11 p.m., the Coast Guard and rescue divers were still looking for a second missing swimmer. UPDATE: The search for the missing swimmer has been called off. A recovery effort has begun to locate the missing swimmer's body.
• Blogging Georgetown has confirmed that an advertisement declaring the sale of a local restaurant is indeed about the beloved veggie and brew bar Georgetown Liquor Company.
• The ever-witty hyper-local Capitol Hill Seattle has a number of recommended activities for this weekend's car-free hours at Volunteer Park.

Some guy at a bar last night told Seattlest that some friends of his got city approval for a public art prank in Queen Anne yesterday. He said that they set up some bogus construction site with a big painting of the city skyline obstructed by a new tram to take Queen Anne residents in to downtown. The painting supposedly listed the cell phone number of one of the pranksters. Guess we can expect an mp3 of angry Queen Anne nimbies (sp? Nimby-ies?) screaming bloody murder to start making the rounds of all the blogs soon. If it's true that this happened and that our elected city government rubber-stamped this prank, then we live in the coolest city in the world. more ›

Just kidding about the sixth foot found, literally. It appears to have been a prank, rooted in that quirky Canadian sense of humor. more ›

Apparently the three-day-weekend wasn't quite long enough for some pranksters in Ridgefield, Washington. School in Ridgefield was delayed for two hours this morning because someone had let the air out of the tires of the school district's entire fleet of buses. The pranksters were quite polite—not slashing the 22 buses' tires, but simply stealing the valve stems. more ›

The first caller claimed they "weren't looking to buy marijuana" (uh-huh), they were just curious if they could. Wilson claims he simply replied, "No, we're not selling dope." But we wonder if he also added a little p.s. with that statement, such as, "I do happen to arrest people for doing so." We always suspected buying drugs off Craigslist could lead only to the local police finding out, but this wasn't how we imagined it would happen. more ›

Impostor Washington University of St. Louis has declared war on the real University of Washington. (Which is obviously the one located here in Seattle, in Washington State.) Washington University's Student Union President, Neil Patel proclaims, "On behalf of the student body, Student Union has declared war on the University of Washington. We're tired of being confused with the University of Washington. We're in St. Louis, dammit." more ›