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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).

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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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.).

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

• 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.

Dane Cook will perform his "comedy" at Key Arena on Friday, June 5 at 8pm. Now, the last time he was at Key Arena, we also were in Queen Anne for a performance at On the Boards. Big mistake. Parking was impossible (even for Queen Anne), and that night the neighborhood was extra douchey, with the heavy scent of Axe body spray and lots of backward-hatted frat boys giving each other the shocker. Spring break, brah. Well, get ready to avoid the area on June 5th, Seattle's stop on the ISolated INcident - Global Thermo Comedy Tour, which is "touted as the largest comedy tour in history." Dane will hit the US, Canada, Africa, Brazil, Australia, UK, and Germany, the entire time assaulting his audiences by repeating his "punchlines" louder and louder, as if that alone will make them funny. Tickets are $30-$100 and go on sale this Friday, March 20 at 10 a.m. via LiveNation and Ticketmaster.

Recall that we've been up and down Queen Anne in search of a good burger. A snowstorm apparently extinguished Flame the night we originally wanted to go, so we wandered into Hilltop Ale House that night, and Dick's the following day. Another time, we gave Peso's a try. Still not satisfied, Seattlest finally made it back to Flame.

Silly Queen Anne resident: girlfriends are for loving and fun-having, not for sacrificing. And human sacrifice is so 1999 BCE, anyway. Sounds like one Oumar Lam got way too carried away with bloodlust and tried to offer up his girlfriend's body as a sacrifice to an unspecified deity this weekend. Allegedly--kind of a ridiculous caveat given that the girlfriend received emergency surgery for knife wounds--Lam tried to slit her throat and stabbed her multiple times while under the influence of some kind of religious fervor. Thank God (hah!) she's okay. The man has been charged with first-degree assault. Anyone else thinking there must have been serious drug use involved?

Last night, the former Ace Hardware store (limit one free Oreo-like cookie with each purchase, strictly enforced) on Queen Anne began its official transformation to a real food-serving spot: the Sezoni signs are up. While the recession is ruining many restaurants around town, there seems to be no end to new pizzeria places; Sezoni claims to be cooking up the "gourmet" variety. They filed for their liquor license a month ago, so an opening seems imminent.

Three weeks in Asia gave us a burning desire for a burger, but a snowstorm put out the flame at Flame, so stuck on foot, we settled upon Hilltop Ale House to satisfy our craving. We've liked Hilltop since back when its non-smoking days mattered most, and we appreciate the neighborhood feel. The menu hawks the hormone-free nature of the burger, which comes on a baguette with sautéed onions and peppers along with mustard and mayo. Pretty good, especially with a side of tabouleh (our preference over chips), though a little skimpy for $9.95.

Seattle seems to be embracing kaiten sushi; Blue C is doing well, while a battle is brewing in lower Queen Anne with Genki Sushi now taking on Sushiland. Watch the plates revolve around on the conveyor belt, but choose carefully, as quality can be a (sushi) roll of the dice.

The slope of Queen Anne between Westlake and Dexter is a jungle. Again. In June, parks employees denuded the hillside, exposing and clearing out the makeshift homes hidden in the overgrowth. Workers tore down the illegal encampments and in some cases threw away the belongings--or was it trash?-- they found. We run by nearly every day, and stopped to read the signs, which were also in Spanish, that warned people what was to come. Aviso, they said. The ivy is back now and so are the campers. Last night we stepped over a telltale tarp that had slid down the hill and onto the sidewalk. The rustle of leaves is like someone closing a curtain. There are people who no longer ask anything of this world but to be left alone in it.

Through January 1st, SIFF Cinema is screening Francis Ford Coppola's masterpieces The Godfather and The Godfather II, and they've got newly restored, Coppola-approved studio reels. After the Xmas Eve and Day closure, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, both films will show back-to-back (Part II, which plays tonight at 8 p.m., includes a ten-minute intermission). New Year's Eve and Day are also double-feature days. Tickets are $10 ($7 matinee) for each film. SIFF Cinema is in McCaw Hall, on Mercer in lower Queen Anne.

Pioneer Property creditors received notice from the group's bank over the weekend of the group's bankruptcy filing that their bills are not being paid. Pioneer Property Group was behind the Live Historic brand, and at one point owned seven "rehabilitated" vintage buildings on Queen Anne, Capitol Hill, and First Hill, and in Fremont and Pioneer Square. We visited a few of them, condo-shopping, and they were great old buildings, but Pioneer was sailing directly into the teeth of a bursting real estate bubble and general recession. Our condolences to the people who thought they'd bought into the safety and security of a home. UPDATE: Now we hear that bankruptcy has not been filed, but Live Historic's office is closed and their phone is dead.

Just one week left for the Jamba Juice location on Queen Anne. We loved them when we first learned about them, but it seems like a long time since we've partaken in their protein powders and Peach Pleasures.

     

We don’t go bonkers for brunch. Why pay ten, fifteen bucks for someone else’s spin on eggs or bubbling of batter when we can easily cook that stuff at home?

We’ve spoken highly (sparking some debate) of Pagliacci as our place for pizza by the slice—at least locally. But imagine our surprise while reading a recent USA Today and seeing the Queen Anne location listed as one of the country’s “10 great places for solo diners to pull up a chair.” (The article was put together in celebration of National Singles Week, which started Sunday.)

Well, it's a sad day for Tully's loyalists in Queen Anne: the Boston & Queen Anne Ave location is closed! According to our (much appreciated) tipper Landon, the windows are covered up and a sign reads, "Thank you for your years of service." There are three coffee shops within spitting range of the bygone Tully's, so it's not like QAers are sunk for expensive caffeine. One of those coffee shops is a Peet's, which we like better than Tully's anyway. But...still. Sad day! (We like tips. Send them here.)

Despite early afternoon plans to consume diabetes-defying amounts of truffles and other treats at the Seattle Luxury Chocolate Salon (resulting in a complete chocolate coma), Seattlest remained committed to the weekly "Dishin'" review and reported to Boat Street Café for brunch yesterday.

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.