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• Belltown People wonders exactly how much the artsy Free Sheep Foundation was involved with Capitol Hill's recent Gamblergate sting operation. What's the vig, capisce?
• Meanwhile, over at MyBallard, the news is that kids are skipping out of Salmon Bay School with the swine flu hot on their heels. We wish could get another animal in this item.

• A friendly reminder that Mother's Day is on Sunday. Yes, this Sunday. With that said, if you still need to make brunch or dinner reservations check out Seattle Met Magazine's round-up of the best local places to take Mom.
• Diamonds turn out not to be recession-proof forever. TechFlash reports Seattle's online retailer Blue Nile saw sales drop 11 percent to $62.4 million in the first quarter. On the bright side, maybe your mom can benefit from a "declining diamond price environment."
• Ballard's Bastille Café and Bar is set to open by Bastille Day. Actually, by June 29. The French fooderie is looking for waitstaff, says MyBallard, and will offer "Free Frites Day" the Sunday before they open.

KIRO TV has a slideshow of the light rail collision, shot from their copter. The accident happened at MLK and South Dawson, and their photos show the car's occupant being wheeled off in a stretcher. This is why we can't have nice things. The damn thing's not even officially running yet and it's already all scratched up.

We're high on transit and so is a certain Metro driver who seems to have mistaken route 42 for a rock shop. Dude, you know the 5-0 rides that line. You best conduct business on the 7. It happens to stop near the Columbia City Library, where, the Rainier Valley Post reveals, car prowls are on the rise. It's happening in West Seattle, too, where residents are taking a bite out of crimes. We're ready to fight back ourselves. Someone smashed our car window at Seward Park Monday afternoon. Now we're prowling Craigslist and pawnshops for our stolen laptop. If you see an iBook G4 with the serial number scratched off, buy it--no questions asked--and we'll pay you back, k?

Over at Capitol Hill Seattle they're going all i-team over the Howell airgun shooting. The Rainier Valley Post has got hints to where all the Valentine hearts are hidden in Hillman City. MyBallard has the pre-opening news on Green Go Food, "fast food with a conscience." And Publicola busts new HUDster and inveterate Twitterer Ron Sims for his faulty real estate prediction.

• Forgive us if we only post cool neighborhood pumpkin photo links from now until Friday, because we can't help our Halloween-loving selves. Today's splendid carved creations come from West Seattle Blog.
• Capitol Hill Seattle wants to know what your Election Day plans are, besides, of course, you know, voting.
• It worked! After 6 missing days, Seattlest posted about a missing True Value truck yesterday and it was found. We kid, we kid, but we are glad that the Greenwood True Value got their truck back.

• Zombie hordes take to the street in West Seattle!
• So that's why we were woken up by a low-hovering helicopter early Sunday morning. In the CD, someone stole a limo filled with apparently unsuspecting passengers and a police helicopter was called in to pursue.
• Be on the look out for a stolen True Value truck--the Greenwood store's truck was stolen six days ago and still has not been found. That's strange, since the phone number and logo is plastered all over the truck.

WAMU'S KRAUSS PLANT: Tonight's the night: some old dude named Robert Plant is appearing with the angelically voiced Alison Krauss. They're touring for the album Raising Sand, which Rolling Stone praised for its "relaxed, smoky harmonies and reverbed midtempo rockabilly." All ages. Or you could go see Great Big Sea with all these people.

• A couple of Seattle's finest neighborhood blogs are also covering Nickelsville. Blogging Georgetown and West Seattle Blog are both giving thorough coverage to the story.
• Did someone say gumbo? Honest to god, Louisiana-made gumbo in Seattle? Hallelujah! The Central District News has a glowing (tummy-grumble-inducing) review.
• Ballard High graduate Jean Smart won an Emmy last night and MyBallard celebrates the news. In other once-local celebrity news, according to the Big Blog, UW Alumni Anna Faris will host SNL this weekend.

• Those fellows from the Deadliest Catch are quite the local celebrities. (Take that, Steve Pool!) Folks lined up to meet Captain Phil from Deadliest Catch in West Seattle on Sunday.
• The Phinney Neighborhood Association has moved up from renters to property owners...tentatively. After 27 years of renting the old John B. Allen Elementary School on Phinney Avenue, they've reached an agreement with the Seattle Public School District to buy the building.
• Capitol Hill Seattle is looking for some new mnemonics for Seattle streets. Since "Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest" is only memorable when I don't need to remember it...we'll see how useful the new mnemonics are, but is a fun Monday morning distraction.

• West Seattle Blog reports that former Garfield Bulldog, Washington Husky, and current Portland Trailblazer Brandon Roy, will be dedicating a new basketball court at the Delridge Community Center next Wednesday. We remember Roy as one of the tallest kids walking the halls of GHS and it's great to see him succeeding and giving back to the local community.
• Capitol Hill Seattle reports what we noticed aghast yesterday--Dick's on Broadway is closed for construction. Thankfully, there's nothing major to panic about, as they will reopen this Thursday.
• Local blogger Sable, of The Sable Verity is on fire! She posted 25 separate posts yesterday, many of which were about the presidential election and Sarah Palin. Tucked amongst the politics posts, was an insightful personal piece on race, cultural competency, and intentions. Sable seems to be equal parts smart and sassy. Her blog's tag-line reads: "You can disagree, but I’ll still be right." And, for today, we don't have a single word of disagreement.

Apologies for the lack of a Roundup yesterday. There was this little obscure music and arts festival going on in town this weekend. Plus, it was Labor Day--so we abstained from work to show solidarity with the proletariat. Now for your regularly scheduled neighborhood news.

Sound Transit completed its first test runs of the long-awaited Light Rail system on MLK Way in the Rainier Valley yesterday. Sound Transit's first run-through was done at "walking speed," which we assume is considerably slower than the max of 35mph the trains will go, to ease area drivers and pedestrians into sharing the road. Originally, Sound Transit had hoped their first run would be at full speed and with traffic, but they wisely decided to take the first trip slowly.

• In a weekend filled with sudden and shocking death, Blogging Georgetown mourned the violent passing of Monstero!, a well-loved skull-shaped art car in the neighborhood. Monstero! was destroyed in an early morning garage fire on Sunday morning.
• My Ballard lets us know that, despite the recession the rest of us are feeling, Ballard is still booming! The blog reported on the opening of a new skate shop on Ballard Avenue and that local pizzeria Snoose Junction is opening a second store in neighboring Greenwood.
• The Rainier Valley Post had an epic weekend of posting, including a detailed report on valley gas prices. Five gas stations are selling a gallon of gas for under $4. And, depressingly, that's welcome news.

• Now's your chance, Tacoma and Seattle! According to Lights & Sirens, crews from the epic show COPS will be riding and filming with Pierce County sheriff's deputies for the next four to six weeks. While we're not encouraging illegal behavior, this could be your only chance at 15 minutes of fame and a lifetime of re-runs.
• Meanwhile. "Magnolia is Really Part of Seattle..." is a little disturbed by the realization Seattle's premier swinger's club is at the base of their fine bridge. It's not key parties anymore. Magnolia and the Wet Spot have been pleasing Seattle's kinks for years before you even noticed, so it can't really be that big of a deal. Right?
• Anyone want to buy a cafe in Georgetown with us? According to Blogging Georgetown, the Georgetown Truckstop is up for sale and they've decreased the asking price to $80,000. All they ask for is $65,000 up front, so if you have $64,980 and want an enthusiastic co-owner...let us know. We see it now--the Seattlest Salon, where port is served all day and the dress code is all tweed, all the time.

• My Ballard lets all you Ballard-drivers know that a traffic camera has been installed at the busy corner of 15th and Market.
• The Rainier Valley Post reports that Ana Ortega, the principal at Ali Kurose Middle School has resigned in the midst of an SPD investigation into sexual abuse by a teacher's aide at the school.
• Phinneywood is mourning the loss of another Woodland Park Zoo animal. Last week it was a monkey from congestive heart failure; today, a gazelle that died after being attacked by another animal in the African Savannah exhibit. (The lions are pleading the 5th.)

The glorious fall sunsets have disappeared along with the mouldering husks of Halloween pumpkins, and according the weather report, we can all expect a long, cold, wet weekend. But this being the Northwest, that's never stopped us from getting out and about; here's the weekend plans of your intrepid Seattlest contributors:

When Amazon.com announced Amazon Fresh last week, it piqued some bloggers' curiosity, but we didn't spend much time thinking about it. Grocery delivery? Interesting, but we weren't going to dive in.

The press release came in a short time ago and we haven't really had the opportunity to go through it with our hair pick of information discovery, but the fact that the Mayor even has an Immigration and Refuges Initiative is, itself, a good start. Look, World, Seattle has an immigration initiative and it doesn't involve the construction of any Great Walls, much less mass arrests or the floating of barges full of human cargo out the Sound (or, if it does call for mass arrests and deportations at least that part's buried and "improving services to Seattle's growing immigrant population" is the headline).

Unopened moving boxes. Furniture in temporary locations. No clue where the closest pizza, Thai, or Indian delivery places are.

The quick answer: there is still Seattlest Trivia at the Old Pequliar. But now it only comes around every five weeks or so.

Shortly before our car exploded, we were looking for a new place to rent. After our car exploded, our apartment search took a back seat to car shopping. But in the last few weeks, once our new car was settled, we returned to scanning Craigslist and strolling through neighborhoods. After spending all of our time in Seattle living above the cut (Wallingford, Wedgwood), we were hoping to move to the Rainier Valley (better work commute)...

We could hardly contain our blase excitement when we heard that Sound Transit was going to be having a meeting in our neighborhood about not just connections from Rainier Valley for the new light rail link, but also about the Eastside corridor project. Across I-90, turning north: a light rail humming along next to the clotted artery that is currently 405, our commute would be a floating dream, what now takes almost an hour sometimes, could happen in just 20 minutes. While we read mindless crap on our computer!

By hurling themselves to their deaths over the Aurora Bridge, local Grumpy Guses have area workers miffed.

Sarah Edwards drives on the left side of the street near her office because the body of a suicide from the bridge towering above once crashed onto the hood of a co-worker's car.

Continue reading "Can't These Damn Suicide Jumpers Show a Little Consideration?"

While those of us in central Seattle enjoyed a three-day weekend, 234,000 people, mostly on the Eastside, are looking at their fifth night without power, and PSE's telling some of them--mostly in eastern King County (Duvall, North Bend, etc...)--that they won't be back on the grid for days.

AMF Imperial Lanes in Rainier Valley is the next stop on the Seattlest bowling tour.

Next to Centerfolds, Seattle's only male strip club (unless you count that place way out in Rainier Valley--which we don't), sits a dive bar worthy of the moniker, Crown Hill Pub. It is, afterall, in Crown Hill, and seeing as they only serve beer and wine, it is merely a pub. Most establishments which only serve beer and wine make up for lack of hard liquor with a vast selection of local microbrews and regional vintages. The Crown Hill Pub's most exotic selections include Miller High Life, Budweiser, Yellow Tail, and Ernest & Julio Gallo. That's fine, though, because we're not here at 10 o'clock on a Sunday morning to try something new, or god forbid, something drinkable. We're here to nurse our hangover and shoot free pool.