Are food safety and food tasty mutually exclusive goals? You have to ask after both Zesto's and Wild Ginger show up on the P-I's list of Seattle's dirtiest restaurants. more ›

Hot issues don't really die, ever, they just retreat underground and cool for a while before popping up in new places. Increased regulation of strip clubs was put down by voters recently by a pretty strong majority, but according to this email we just received the City Council is reintroducing some of the restrictions of the placement of new clubs in the form of a zoning ordinance. Today at 5:30 at City Hall there's a meeting to discuss the ordinance, which, this email claims, will reduce the areas available to new strip clubs to those outlined on the map below. more ›

The Port is on a mission to kill Fishermen's Terminal and thereby stamp out one of the last embers of working Seattle. By "kill" we mean "revitalize" or "update for today's urban needs" or something else that means a healthy and functioning area of the city will be wiped away to make room for yuppie entertainments. No more liveaboards, the Port says, ostensibly in response to the four bodies that have been found floating in Salmon Bay over the past few months, but we know that they've been waiting for any opportunity to march into the area with a scrub brush and a couple thousand gallons of bleach for years now. The drowinings are to the new restrictions what 911 is to Iraq; the one has nothing whatsoever to do with the other, but you've wanted to do this thing anyway so why not call it a reason. more ›

Last week a commenter pointed out Flood Maps which pairs NASA elevation data with Google Maps and show us the various lands we'd lose if the ocean were to raise a variable amount of meters. Worldchanging hit on this at the end of March: more ›

An HGTV crew will be in Seattle in the spring to film local cribs for their "Small Spaces, Big Style" show so if you have a designy space that's smaller than 1000 square feet you should get in touch with them. more ›