The air smelled fantastic when we got off the Waterfront bus line at its northernmost stop yesterday. It was muddy, salty, with notes of decomposition and extreme biological activity. Low tide. Near-record low tide, and what would be described as a stench if it were in your house, for example, was overpowering and fantastic along the waterfront. more ›

You may see incumbent councilwoman Sally Clark at a local candidate forum, but you won't see one of her opponents, Bob Brown. more ›

Laser Rocket Arms hates it when we call them "the new Husker Don't." more ›

After being out of the loop for a while, we were interested to read that Washington will have a presidential primary on February 19, and that the City Council races are set (Rasmussen, you are going down). more ›

But let's not lose sight of another change that's proved another vast improvement: Pentagram's reworking of SAM's brand identity. more ›

You'd think it was the Second Coming or something. TV news shots, front page of the local dailies, big story in the New York Times. It's a fucking ski lift, for chrissakes. You get on, you ride in a gondola for five minutes, you get off at the top. But it's in Portland, you know, so it's got to be terrific. Even Amy Jenniges, former Stranger staffer now at the Portland Mercury, thinks it's hot shit. What are they calling it? An icon for the Rose City? Like the Eiffel Tower? more ›

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Not true! Sure, Alexander Calder's 39-foot painted steel Eagle is going to be Seattle's next icon, but from this angle it looks kind of like a puppy getting ready to nip at its master's trousers. Rivalry of middle-aged artworks: Eagle is 35, Needle's pushing 50. more ›

It's a bar, it's a gallery, it's a cafe, it's an installation art space, it's probably going to become part of the Belltown circuit that should involve Roq La Rue, BLVD, and the Sculpture Park. It's the McLeod Residence. more ›

-The nation's fifth Latino-owned bank is coming to a Kent near you. more ›

In Seattlest's little egg of grey matter, every news item is connected to another, bigger, news item. We can't help ourselves. So when we see that the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild is going to settle with the Seattle Times for pay raises of $0.00 for the next two years, we have to connect it to something else, and in this case that something else is the Joint Operating Agreement that binds the Seattle Times and the P-I (did we say "Sculpture Park" in the headline? We meant "JOA"). In our mind the Seattle Times has been throwing fights for as long as we can remember in order to sustain the losses necessary to end the JOA and look all the more wretched in front of a Joint Operating Agreement arbitrator. That they appear to be pretty adamant in this contract situation is a sign that that campaign is over, and we'll find out sometime next year whether it succeeded or failed. Alternately, the newspaper guild is taking a dive so as to not allow the Seattle Times to continue hammering the P-I and the arbitrator with their poor little newspaper routine. more ›

Possibly we first saw this meme in a blog post, but the barely controlled chaos that is our newsreader makes calling it back up not feasible at this time. It caught our eye. Hey, that's smart, we thought, wish we'd thought of it. We're pretty sure the first time we saw someone tie the delays at the Sculputure Park to the striking concrete workers was in a blog post. Ninety percent certain. Then it appeared in the Seattle Times and in about a million other blog posts and each time we see it now the idea loses a little luster. It became annoying and then kind of insulting to the strikers who are trying to do what they feel is the right thing and to news consumers who are trying to figure out what's going on in the world. Now it's in the P-I today, but at least they have the decency to mention a few other projects that are suffering before hitting readers with the cutesy Sculpture Park, and we should be clear that Seattlest is all in favor of the Sculpture Park and we're so there once it opens we'll be there every day. We'll be the Seattlest sculpture. But using the Sculpture Park and its delays (and let's point out that it's also been delayed due to non-concrete related factors) is condescending and belittling. Readers don't care about light rail or the Fremont Bridge - They need to be clobbered with the Sculpture Park! Because this strike is screwing the city, right SDOT? more ›

No thanks to the Seattle Art Museum or their contractor, Sellen Construction, for making it easy to attend Hempfest this weekend. Their obstinacy in complying with terms of a Parks Department permit wasn't resolved until midweek. more ›

-We're like totally changing our oceans with all this carbon dioxide, man. more ›

In our newsletter from SAM yesterday they told us all about the progress that's been made at the Olympic Sculpture Park over the course of Feb, but we can't find that same information on their website. They say they're finished with their restorative efforts on the seawall. more ›

If you're not watching Game 7 (go Pistons), consider heading downtown to the waterfront for the SAM Olympic Sculpture Park construction kickoff event spectacular. The sculpture park isn't set to be completed until a year from now, but the Party in the Park---sponsored by Target?---is tonight from 4:30 to 8:30 pm. Featuring music and jump roping and dancing (oh my), this soiree is free and for the whole family. Seattlest is particularly excited for the performance of everybody's favorite afroed new wave soul luvaman, Reggie Watts. more ›

It was just a single line in the weekly newsletter from the Northwest Film Forum, but it set Seattlest's heart a-flutter: more ›

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