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You start your appraisal from the ground up. White Skechers (the Shape-Up model), crew socks, flesh-colored pantyhose, the iconic orange hotpants--indeed there's a lot to look at before you get to the logo Hooters tee (or vee, as it were). The back of the shirt reads "Delightfully tacky yet unrefined." Some two dozen uniformed Hooter Girls on duty this noon for the ribbon cutting of a new Hooters in South Park, where Rascal's Casino once raked it in.

It's that time of the year again to cram your body into fine stitched fabric, consume large amounts of pickled cabbage, and slur your speech all in honor of a prince. If you think that we're talking about that 'Fest in Seattle you're mistaken. Far from Bavaria in the South Park neighborhood, Baron has been producing lagers since 2003. On tap at their Greenwood neighborhood taproom the Pillagers Pub is their fall lager, Oktoberfest.

Adding to this week's lamentable streak of violence, we woke up to find a report from Seattle 911 that a man had been killed in a hit-and-run accident last night near Cherry and Sixth in Downtown. The body was found just past midnight. According to the SPD Blotter, there are no witnesses at this point, but "officers observed a security camera on the east side of the Seattle Metropolitan Tower that might cover the intersection."

As though the city is slowly going mad in the dry and oppressive heat (for Seattle), yet another brutal killing occurred last night in Leschi. The Central District News has the most detailed account yet, but in brief, an altercation earlier in the day led to a shooting around the 800 block of 32nd Ave. S shortly after 8:30 p.m. The victim was shot as he drove by the shooter's house. A police stand-off ensued that lasted for more than five hours, until SWAT officers determined the suspect was not in the house. He was arrested early this morning in West Seattle, near Delridge and Andover.

Teresa's former next door neighbor and friend Beth just emailed us that the South Park Community Center has graciously volunteered to host a candlelight memorial vigil so that friends and neighbors can gather and celebrate Teresa’s memory. "We will gather at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday July 23rd, on the South Park Community Center ball fields and share memories and celebrate Teresa’s life. If you would like to say a few words, there will be an opportunity to do so." There's a Facebook event page. The Seattle Times has a feature story on Teresa Butz, a South Park resident stabbed to death on Sunday by an assailant who entered an open window in her home.

If you see this man, call the police. At right is the official police sketch of the suspect wanted in connection with the brutal Sunday assault of two women in South Park.

Fresh off their box office FAIL, today the Jonas Brothers announced the dates and cities for their upcoming tour. "The Jonas Brothers World Tour 2009 presented by Burger King®" (whaaaa?) makes its Seattle-area stop as the sixth date of the tour on June 28th at Tacoma Dome--before the Jo Bros proceed to lug their 140-foot plus stage, along with a "one-of-a-kind circular water screen [and] multi-color laser effects," all across the country and eventually to Europe and South America. Tickets go on sale March 28th via Live Nation, though there seems to be early presales if you're a Team Jonas fan club member (*shudder*) or enrolled in Citicards' Private Pass program. If the news of this tour doesn't give you an instant (but purity ring-approved) boygasm, we highly suggest you watch tonight's episode of South Park.

Sometimes the world really is a beautiful place. Specifically when there's beer involved. Jack's meeting friends on Saturday for a session of oak-aged beer tasting at Brouwer's Big Wood Fest. He'll then spend the rest of the day rubbing his tum tum and smiling a lot. Thrilled about the possibility of the year's first snow fall, Kim will spend as much of the weekend as possible getting over the cold that's been lingering for a...

Study up on Jesus.

Outside Key Arena last night, there were a few religious protesters with big signs urging passersby to repent of their evil ways, but inside the venue was a packed house eager to see The Police for their first tour in twenty years. The crowd definitely skewed older (and drunker), kinda like your parents at Oktoberfest, and the stage was sparsely set for the band's three solitary figures. As always, Sting was in one of his sleeveless t-shirts that rode up in the back, all the better to show off how well he's aged, thanks to approximately nine thousand hours of yoga a day. The show kicked off with "Message in a Bottle," complete with a greeting of "Hey Seattle, how ya doing?" to which the crowd, on its feet, responded enthusiastically: "OH MY GOD, STING IS TALKING TO ME AND HE KNOWS THE NAME OF THE CITY IN WHICH I LIVE!"

Last year artists Sarah Kavage and Nicole Kistler collaborated on an art installation called The Living Barge Project that opened Seattlest's eyes two facts. One, Seattle has a river. Two, that river sucks. We took a tour of the Duwamish to hear about some of the environmental nightmares that exist in and around it and to see Sarah and Nicole's Living Barge, which was exactly what it sounds like: a barge, planted and beautiful. We crushed on it so hard that we were one industrial accident in the Bay away from absconding with it under cover of night and breaking for open water. That was a year ago. Now the Barge has been dismantled and replanted in South Park and while the river may still suck, at least a whole lot more people are aware of it. Seattlest for one. Rivers never actually suck, of course, and the Duwamish is no exception, but the lower five miles just before it empties into Elliott Bay around Harbor Island are a Superfund site. PCBs, PAHs, mercury, phthalates, blah blah blah. You're a bitter pill, industry.

When we were kids, we spent a lot of time reading Edith Hamilton's Mythology, soaking up heroic tales and Olympian feuds and tips on using hydraulic dynamics to remediate environmentally damaged areas. When we got to college, we ended up reading more classical mythology, but it didn't have that same wide-eyed appeal (or we were squinting more).

River City Skatepark doesn't exist yet, but the future site in Seattle's South Park neighborhood is getting prepped now and there is an opportunity to help plant some trees there next week. Stop by on Monday around 10:30. Bring gloves. See our last post on this for the location.

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for?

Because not everyone is content to wait around until the Earth's natural geologic activity outpaces Seattle Process by burping up a lava flow miraculously formed into the shape of a skatepark, Grindline and River City Skatepark are going it alone. Sorta. They're attempting to put together a privately developed public skate park in the heart of South Park (because, yeah, we were wondering about "River City" too). When it's finished, there will be a huge bowl section, an extensive street park, and offices for the skatepark design company Grindline. They just got finished clearing the lot.

A: What Ken Jennings writes when he autographs copies of Brainiac.

Zillow is apparently not content to simply zestimate the value of your neighbor's house. Either that or they've been out of blog headlines for a few weeks and are finding it oh so cold out there. Seattlest got an email just now pointing us to Zillow's quarterly home value reports for five different cities, and since Zillow is here, one of those cities is Seattle. (Not every email that shows up in Seattlest's inbox shows up on the site, of course, but since we'd like to stake a claim someday, a home values report for Seattle is interesting to us. According to this report, it's much more likely that we'll eventually stake that claim somewhere like South Park than our current hood of Wallingford. And thank god.)

The straight up coolest art installation of the spring that every man, woman and child should have seen will be floating through Elliot Bay today at 10am. It's the Living Barge project from artists Nicole Kistler and Sarah Kavage and they say 10am but we say you should be on the lookout between 10 and 11, optimistically.

It's not easy to get to the South Park neighborhood of Seattle. At least it wasn't for us. We had directions to a marina where we would get a guided tour and we still had problems. With a guide! Last Saturday we drove around Harbor Island a little, saw some sights, met lots of friendly Chinese and finally arrived at the Harbor Marina just in time for a Duwamish river tour and the opening weekend of the Living Barge project.

Seattlest spent a couple years in Seattle without a car and it wasn't really that bad. Buying liquids at the store was the #1 problem. When you go to QFC and buy OJ and a half rack plus a few other odds and ends it doesn't sound like much, but it's a bitch to get home. We were the sole member of our household at that point, though, so not having a car shouldn't have been much of a problem. Alan Durning of Northwest Environment Watch is a family man with three kids so when he says he's going car-free it actually means something.

Apparently some residents of Seattle's South Park neighborhood feel that having a Superfund site in their backyard is enough, the rotten shirkers. They say it should disqualify them from helping cutting a few minutes off greater Seattle's freedom to jet about the country. Seattlest admits the discussion of Southwest's proposed move to Boeing Field hasn't exactly centered on environmental impacts so far. (But editorial boards tend to have their seats in lofty crags.)