A view of the stadiums by Hammerin Man from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

Tickets are nearly gone for this Saturday's highly anticipated event: The 7th Annual Elysian Brewing's Great Pumpkin Beer Festival. Don't let them sell out from under you. You want to go to this. more ›

What are you going to talk about around the grill today? How about Amanda Knox or a gang fight in Sodo? Yup, you're sure to be the life o the party. more ›

Maruta Shoten is really a Japanese American market, and for that reason it feels like home to many of us who grew up going to a store like this one. It is small enough to explore it on your own and (if you grew up without Japanese school) is full of foods with unfamiliar letters on the packaging. The foods themselves are familiar enough: square tubs of roasted nori, 25-pound bags of Calrose rice by the door, super-kawaii containers of Hello Kitty and Botan rice candies. By comparison, other stores like Uwajimaya fall in the pan-Asian category and are more focused on a variety of Asian countries like the Philippines, Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. Maruta is small, and the aisles are a bit narrow, but never, in our experience, oppressively crowded. Like many small ethnic food markets, Maruta is manageable, and delivers small bites of Japanese American-ness, both culinary and culture-wise. more ›

"Nickelsville," a roving camp for the Seattle area's homeless is moving again. The city of Seattle offered the group an extension on the permit at their current site, at a former fire station on 127th Street in Lake City, but on May 15th, the group is moving to an undisclosed location. more ›

The City Council passed legislation extending the maximum building heights in SoDo. Here's why it's a good thing. more ›

The Crystal Method lunched into a furry of hard hitting beats and grooves and the crowd went wild... more ›

It's simple: Seattle vs. Portland in a mobile foodie showdown on the streets of Sodo! more ›

Fresh Hop 2009 (7.5%) pours a clear abyss of deep amber that produces a strong initial foamy head which rests on top before receding, leaving behind a cobweb lace inside the glass. As it is runs underneath the nose, a waft of floral sweetness meshes well with grapefruit and subtle pine. Sipping this, you pick up mild earthiness (almost grass-like), along with strong grapefruit citrus before the caramel is detected mid-way. It finishes with additional--but mild--hop bitterness. Overall, this beer isn't heavy on the tongue and would kill with a hearty BLT or even some beer-battered fish and chips. more ›

We’re not trying to dissuade you from meeting Dan Aykroyd! We just suggest you focus on what’s truly and awesomely bizarre about him: his UFO obsession. more ›

So Kia has a new car, right? It's actually an "urban passenger vehicle"--as opposed to those modes of transport that only work in rural areas with a solo driver--and it's called the Soul. In order to celebrate its launch, Kia is hosting a ten-city tour featuring test drives and loads of live music. The Soul Collective hits up Seattle tonight and sticks around for the next four days at SoDo's Pacific Industrial Center. more ›

"6th Avenue" by Taylor Hain (tthain), from our Flickr pool more ›

Employees of Sound Transit were understandably filled with a certain pride yesterday morning as they showed off the new light rail operations and maintenance center for the collected media. more ›

"NOK - Feels Like Summer" by liquidnight, from the Seattlest Flickr Pool more ›

It's the Friday before a long weekend. Why are you still in the office? Get outta here. Take a three-martini lunch... as an appetizer for happy hour. We don't wanna see an once of productivity out of you. Enjoy the weekend and take the Seattlest Flickr pool with ya!

FUZZY: Everyone's favorite NYC-based noise-pop band, the Vivian Girls, are back at Neumo's tonight. Last year, their self-titled debut made it on nearly everyone's best-of list, despite the fact the band lacks the harmonic sensibilities of, say, tour mates like the Pains of Being Pure at Heart (not with them tonight). In fact, for all the talk about a resurgence of "noise pop" with cascades of fuzz and distortion, the Vivian Girls remind us of no one more than the notorious, idiot-savant kiddie band the Shaggs. more ›

Hell no! They won't go! To a different school! Central District News documents school-closure protesters marching downtown. CHS is not a high school, but it sounds like one, and the cool kids there are talking about the hill's newest resto, The Tin Table. Over in SoDo, where things change faster than you can say Rocky Mountain News, new blog Sodo Agogo is going bye-bye already. more ›

The Showbox SoDo announced today that they'll be serving lunch Tuesdays through Fridays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The venue is open for lunch as of this Thursday, February 19, and they're kicking it off with a "Gastronomic Stimulus Package" on Thursday and Friday. (Because no other businesses have been co-opting that term.) Whatevs, we don't turn up our noses at free. more ›

One of our favorite Flickr pool contributors is Shawn "SlightlyNorth" McClung, a Denver transplant with an eye for graffiti and the wilds of SoDo. After ogling a whopping ten of his Flickr sets in SlightlyNorth's "Ephemeral Art" collection, we asked the man to tell us more about his photography, the tagging community, and his abiding love for an often-neglected neighborhood. more ›

The reason our giant, broken dinosaur of a television sat in our driveway for months on end was not because we wanted to work the white trash chic aesthetic into our cute Capitol Hill residence. No, it sat there because we are cheap and lazy. It's a lethal combination. But the launch of the state's new free electronics recycling program, E-Cycle Washington, on January 1 meant we could no longer use our selectively mean nature to excuse the hulk of an appliance taking up space next to our almost-as-broken Ford Taurus. "When are you going to take that thing to the recycling place?" our housemate began to ask on a weekly basis. "Tomorrow!" we would chirp in reply, and then fail to take it when we said we would. more ›

We are dedicated to finding the perfect hot lunch in Georgetown. Top contenders thus far have been Smarty Pants' Troublemaker sandwich, a drippy cheesy mess stuffed with ungodly amounts of spicy chicken and bacon; the gouda fennel polenta at Georgetown Liquor Company, fried crisp and topped with a scrumptiously zingy and sweet apple balsamic reduction; and the perfectly crunchy, well-seasoned chicken salad sandwich at Georgetown Truck Stop, until that hut of heaven closed in fall of 2008. There's a new guy in town, though. The sourdough bacon burger at recently-opened Burger Madness, on 4th Avenue South (just north of Costco), just edged its way into our all-time favorite four hot lunches in SoDo/Georgetown. more ›

Snow-crusted trash bins are overflowing all over Seattle, thanks to missed garbage collections last week. Garbage pick-up should resume today; if you're unwilling to wait your turn or for some reason the trucks skip your house over the next five days, the City of Seattle would like you to know that you can drop off trash yourself for free at the nearest Recycling and Disposal station until January 1st. The two stations located in Seattle proper are in Wallingford, on North 34th Street and in SoDo, on 5th Avenue South. more ›

This dusting, this light haze? We laugh at your puny snowfall, Seattle! We are mighty, we are determined, we are not dissuaded from commerce (or from pleasure, for that matter) just because some of the streets are slippery. So say the folks at BizXchange, anyway. They were planning on holding their holiday party tonight for members--it's a barter and exchange program--at Herban Feast in SoDo. With the snow and all, and so many events getting canceled, they decided to open the doors to all business owners and managers. Complimentary drinks and hors d'oeuvres from 6 to 11 tonight, in a terrific space (3200 First Ave. S.). So drive carefully and come on down. more ›

Recently, the good things in life have seemed 'blink and you miss it,' while the trying times have been 24/7. Here's a reminder to blink and see the good things around us more often. If you happen to catch that 'blink moment' with the click of a shutter, please do share it with the Seattlest Flickr Pool. more ›

Some graffiti and Citizen Cope for your Tuesday afternoon, courtesy of Matt O'Brien. more ›

Yesterday, we looked up at the clock tower and noticed we had just enough time to duck in for coffee before heading off to...Wait a minute! We what!?! more ›

The cost of fielding a perennially bad team may finally start hitting the Mariners in the bank account next season. The P-I is reporting that the M's will move to KIRO-AM next year in a $5.5 million per year deal for three seasons. This season, at KOMO-AM, the M's are earning $10 million in radio revenue. The huge reduction in radio revenue can be attributed to lower ratings, due to the team's poor performance as well as the growth of internet/satellite radio. The Mariners' broadcast crew will move with the team. more ›

Get ready for more record high temperatures in Seattle today, as summer's finally here. Another beautiful shot of a sunny day in SoDo, courtesy of our Seattlest Flickr Pool. Have you seen that thing lately? Add your photos now. more ›

We love a good drink special, so imagine our delight when we came across a full-page ad in the Weekly for a big ol' happy hour next Wednesday. more ›