A couple of items get a little bit closer to reaching a ballot in 2012 -- but one's a lot further along. Meanwhile, Occupy Bellingham is evicted, business owners prepare for the minimum wage increase and an arrest in the Christmas Eve murder of a Woodinville teacher. more ›

The week's noteworthy events and people not involving Thanksgiving, as reported by Seattle's neighborhood blogs. more ›

From Friday's fire in the Cherry Hill neighborhood to the Fremont Abbey's Sixth birthday party, all the news and events of the week as covered by the neighborhood blogs. more ›

Enjoy a little informal science with your beer this evening. Stop by the Queen Anne Science Cafe. more ›

Despite a recent turn in temperature, Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream's newest location on Queen Anne has been tempting those strolling by since the space went from "empty storefront" to "purveyor of tasty treats" back in September. And fortunately for all us (QA residents or otherwise), this uptick in business means Ms. Moon has been able to expand the store's offerings to go beyond the company's dessert, to include the most important meal of the day: breakfast. Well, if your breakfast usually incorporates ice cream. more ›

The Uptown Theater comes back to life tomorrow night as the projection switch is flipped and the silver screen is once again lit up with moving images. Last year, the future of the Uptown was uncertain as AMC bowed out of its 50 year lease on the long time Queen Anne movie house and left open the possibility of the historic theater being gutted and laid dormant for at least five years. Fortunately for the cinéaste in all of us, SIFF Cinema stepped in immediately and gave the Uptown a new lease on life. more ›

Our weekly check in with Seattle region neighborhood blogs. more ›

A snapshot of the week's news items as reported by Seattle neighborhood blogs. more ›

This weekend, get within arm's length of itty bitty snakes, touch the face of language, and do something nice for yourself and the environment. more ›

A glimpse at what's been happening around Seattle from its neighborhoods' perspective. more ›

Here are a few of our suggestions for celebrating Farmers Market Week (August 7-13th). more ›

Chocolopolis, a Queen Anne store devoted to artisan chocolate, might intimidate some chocolate lovers. And when we first visited a tasting class, we weren’t sure what to expect. more ›

News, tidbits and other items as written by the blogs of the neighborhoods they take place in. more ›

Seattle recently got rated one of the top ten safest cities for pedestrians, yet many of our neighborhoods are so insular, they're separated by impossible-to-cross arterials or frayed edges that take pedestrians from sidewalks and storefronts to construction and no sidewalks. Enter the Lake 2 Bay Loop, a proposed pedestrian-friendly initiative designed to attractively and accessibly connect Elliot Bay to Lake Union. more ›

This is the latest in a series of posts examining the naming origins of our Seattle neighborhoods. Last week we hit up the University District and its previous designation of Brooklyn. Today it's up Queen Anne Hill, via the Counterbalance. more ›

Re:Take is Seattlest contributor and local history buff Rob Ketcherside's new weekly look at the Emerald City Now and in days of yore. Each week, Rob will bring us a pair of photos - one from Seattle's municipal archives, and one of the same spot as it apears today. Rob starts us out this week in Queen Anne, where the construction of apartment buildings once got a bit out of control to the detriment of the area. Of course, we know better now. more ›

There's so much going on at Toulouse Petit, a New Orleans-themed brasserie that opened last night at Queen Anne & Mercer, you don't know quite where to start. A year in the building, you can see the effort on the walls, the floors, the tabletops, in the platoons of staff and the extensive menus (food, wine, cocktails, happy hour, with breakfast and lunch still to come). There's something for every wallet here, starting with a fatcat's $42 steak (filet with foie gras, veal-cognac-shallot reduction, white truffle oil). For the frugal, the happy hour menu offers boudin blanc ($4), spicy fried alligator ($5), lamb's tongue en remoulade ($6); for the spendthrift, a blackened USDA prime rib eye ($18). more ›

Neighborhood shout-outs are fun! Because then everyone knows you live there, in that neighborhood! Seattleite couple hoofinitdesigns takes their original ‘hood designs and hand-screens them onto cotton t-shirts. Simple as that. For the time being, only Queen Anne, Pioneer Square, Ballard and Fremont tees are available, but we're rooting for some new neighborhood designs to be posted in the future. more ›

As former residents of Queen Anne, we can vouch for the myriad of stairs and passageways that connect the hill’s random access ways. Around every corner there seems to be a staircase that only squirrels or cats knew about until that racy "mature" rag Sunset Magazine exposed the phenomenon. more ›

• The 29-year-old Beacon Hill-ian who (allegedly) says he mixed PCP and pot, got paranoid, and shot his father to death is being held on $1 million bail, says the seattlepi.com.
• Now, how about a story about surprise self-mutilation with a razor at Alex Pardee's signing at Upper Playground Seattle.

Seattle police officers Friday night responded to a call of a young child wandering the streets in Queen Anne around 9 p.m. The SPD Blotter reports the police officers-turned-babysitters found the lively and rambunctious three-year-old boy at 9th West and West Galer, sporting a blue sweatshirt, pants, a diaper (we hope clean vs. dirty), and wool socks. more ›

Yesterday, a tipster reported there was a random but really cute ice cream truck parked outside her home. Come to find out, the fancy-schmancy, custom-built ice cream truck was home to Parfait, an upscale mobile ice cream parlor serving up artisanal organic ice cream. more ›

A revamped, community-sponsored Queen Anne Farmers Market opens this afternoon at three at the corner of Queen Anne North and Crockett, replacing an earlier enterprise that had become mired in politics and recrimination. Patty Spahr, its director, has assembled a cast of local farmers and food vendors (Skillet, Sorrentino's, Secret Stash) despite hefty obstacles (street use, parking, health inspections, etc.). more ›

CRAWLING ZOMBIES : It's going to be quite a cryptic brain-eating kind of Friday night in Capitol Hill, as the army of zombies plan to take over the neighborhood for the Crypticon Zombie Crawl. The costumes of the gruesome group of undead are sure to turn (or spin) a few heads. The local zombie dwellers plan to gather in front of Metro Clothing Co. dressed to kill for brains as well as tickets to Crypticon's horror convention. Now if you encounter a zombie, head to high altitudes or a bar, we've heard that alcohol preserves rotting flesh. 5:00 p.m., Friday // Meet at Metro Clothing Co., 231 Broadway E // Dress to kill and pay as you go more ›

There aren’t many places in Seattle where you can eat massive turkey dinners while rocking out to Alice in Chains and not have to worry about some American Idol shit coming on next and wrecking the scene. more ›

A month ago, the Seattle Times told us a Honduran crack syndicate had been operating within the forested sketchiness of Kinnear Park, before realizing Belltown’s traditional function as the area’s go-to drug market. more ›

The third week of the month is rapidly approaching, and that means Seattlest Happy Hour! This month our merry band of travelling blogger vagabonds makes it all the way to the wilds of Lower Queen Anne. We're hitting up Solo, located at 200 Roy St (right by Seattle Center), for their all-day happy hour: $1 off all beers and wines, $2 Rainiers, $3 wells, $4 sangria, $5 vittles, and, we can only assume, $6 blowjobs. Join us from 5-8 p.m. for food, folks, and fun, as well as other outdated taglines. more ›

Who knew that food could be so dangerous to your health? more ›

GEEK TRIVIA: The infamous Geeks Who Drink take over Ozzie's on LQA. This may surprise those of you who visit their site and read about "two geeks who drink and host pub quizzes throughout Colorado, Texas and New Mexico." But now they're here in Washington, too. The quiz is eight rounds of eight questions and is played by teams of up to six people. There are audio rounds, too. Expect to spend two to three hours drinking in friendly company, and possibly losing to a team called Reverend Horton Hears a Who. more ›

• Schmudget analyzes the 2009-2011 House budget and compares it to the Senate's, released yesterday.
• MyBallard is concerned about tents on Shilshole and stolen trees.
• The Troll got tagged! Fremont Universe reports, and they have photos.