"autumn has arrived. let's party" by Viv | Seattle Bon Vivant "DJ Red Pony @ Roche-Bobois," notes Viv. "Lovely," note we. Thanks so much for adding it to our Flickr pool, which grows ever richer with contributions from people like Viv—and you.......

"afternoon nap" by Seattle Bon Vivant With the week we've had, no other image quite captures where we'd like to be right now. Thanks for sharing, Seattle Bon Vivant. Now, won't the rest of you join us?......

Over the weekend, we made three trips to the new Stumptown Coffee on 12th Ave (next to Cafe Presse). We're not actually coffee geeks, it just worked out that way. (These people are coffee geeks.) We're more of a cafe geek. If you aren't familiar, Stumptown Coffee is based in Portland, and this is their big move into the Seattle market. (Edmonds' ZuKafe claims to have been their first Puget Sound wholesale account.) Here's Seattle......

Pike Place Market’s very public Centennial Celebration wraps up this Friday, the 100th anniversary of its onion-borne existence. As with any freshly-minted centenarian, the Market will dawdle obliviously amid the avid attention of family, friends, and Willard Scott the press. To commemorate the milestone, there will be stage performances, special presentations and, as we noted earlier this week, other activities taking place from 9am on. But the candles won’t truly be lit until around......

Local food blog tastingmenu.com spent last week coordinating the second annual TasteEverything Independent Food Festival Awards. The awards are given by bloggers around the world to honor their favorite food experiences of the past year. Several of the 2006 awards went to local experiences: Phat Duck awarded Best Preservation of Italian Meat and Spirit to Pino Rogano. Orangette awarded Best Final Resting Place for a Walnut to the Columbia City Bakery's walnut levain. And Seattle......

How's this chronology for the reopening of the much-loved and long awaited Boat Street Cafe: after two years of buzz: * A dreamy online review ("an exciting development for our neighborhood") last month at Urban Seattle. Buzz! * A dreamy writeup ("charming and complete") a couple of weeks later in The Stranger. Buzz! * A dreamy review one week after that in Seattle Weekly ("sublime yet homey"). Buzz! * A dreamy review online in......