Century 21 Exposition - 1962 Seattle World's Fair by What Makes The Pie Shops Tick? from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

Piped into space by Damon Edwards- A Passion for The Pacific Northwest from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

King Jet Car taking off near the Space Needle by Trixie Lane from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

The Seattle you know was conceived in 1961 with the construction of these landmarks. more ›

AMERICAN NEEDLE by Photocoyote from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

League Lab HQ: From Both Sides by jdespres15 from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

Finally! The Space Needle comes out with its big secret. And it actually has to do with space! more ›

Space Needle Thru Window by Heath Ashli from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

It's been said around town the last few days, but it is worth repeating. Seattle would be a much different kind of city without the philanthropy and largess of Bagley Wright, who passed away suddenly of a heart attack Monday night at the age of 87. more ›

The Space Needle (again...!) by Kate Hailey from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

Untitled Photo by glimpseandecho from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

In today's ridiculously long morning headlines: the Space Needle pride flag, the City Council race, Gregoire signing a lot of things, how screwed we are in an earthquake (still), officer-involved shootings, and more. Plus, an adorable video of a lioness failing to eat an adorable human baby. more ›

Saucy Sisters at the Space Needle, PETA activists doing what they do (being offensive and not helping animals, really), people still being out of work and the Seattle Times' unfortunate and slightly sexist choice of a headline. Read up! more ›

Dear Space Needle: You must be joking. more ›

Dear Space Needle: We are very disappointed. more ›

Dear Space Needle: We see that it is your birthday. We're willing to put aside the fact that you're a show-off, and have drafted a list of things that we'd give you, if we could. We're sure you'll understand. more ›

A win for the Mariners, a loss on I-5, plus the Space Needle's birthday and a tragic fall in Boston. Alex has your AM news, hot and fresh. more ›

Invented holidays are mostly kind of a cheap gimmick, but we like to recognize World AIDS Day because it's always worth raising awareness about a deadly disease that often most affects those least prepared to deal with it. The Space Needle will go red today, Starbucks has all kinds of crazy promotions, Project RED wants to make sure no babies are born with HIV by 2015. There are many ways to celebrate the day—make your own AIDS Day poster, change your profile pic, watch a video or buy some Starbucks to give 5 cents to (RED), attend a Hard Rock benefit for Dunshee House—but probably the most important action you can take is to protect yourself and get tested. Free HIV testing is available in Seattle at: more ›

Re:Take is a weekly look at the Emerald City now and in days of yore through photos dug out of the city archives. This week we wish the 60s never happened. more ›

Wait, don't get your hopes up, it's not a replay of Quincy Pondexter, has nothing to do with March Madness. It's Seattle's top two independent restaurants. Can you guess? Number one, duh, is Sky City at the Space Needle, which serves over 250,000 meals a year at an average of $60 per, for a gross of $14 million. In national terms, that puts the Needle in 33rd place, right behind Chops Lobster Bar in Atlanta, Georgia. The Top 100 list, compiled by trade mag Restaurants & Institutions, is weighted heavily to Noo Yawk and Vegas, the country's biggest markets for big spenders. (Number one in the country, in case you were wondering, is Tao Las Vegas, which served 600,000 meals and took in a cool $60 million. Old Ebbett Grill in DC served a million meals, on the other hand, and only took in $24 mill; two huge Bavarian joints in Frankenmuth, Michigan, for their part, served roughly the same number of diners apiece, but the average ticket was under $15, so no big deal.) We promised you two, so here's the second Washington entry in the top 100: Salty's on Alki, described admiringly in these very columns some months back, where 200,000 locals and visitors spent about $50 apiece in 2009. more ›

"SPACE NEEDLE FROM OLYMPIC SCULPTURE PARK" by OTTAVAYAN from the Seattlest flickr pool. more ›

"Unnamed" by Jenny Vorwaller, from our Flickr pool more ›

"Day 2: Erlenmeyer Bulb Experiment" by Kelsey ( monotony ), from our Flickr pool more ›

...inspired by today's earlier Seattlest Pix, here is another splendid photograph that uses large pieces of infrastructure to beautifully frame the composition. more ›

"Untitled" by Aaron Morris, from our Flickr pool more ›

The History Channel debuts tonight a Seattle-centric edition of its highly entertaining Life After People. Each episode focuses on a few cities, showing what would happen if people just disappeared. CGI effects and dramatic narration abounds. We're promised a Space Needle collapse. Good times. The show's at 7 p.m. if you have DirecTV, 10 p.m. if you have Comcast. more ›

the creatively named "IMG_8915" by Espressobuzz, from our Flickr pool more ›

"The City," by Jeremy Center (The Good Reverend Ogalthorpe), from our Flickr pool more ›

In case you missed it or were just confused, the racket from the helicopters circling around the Space Needle last night was caused by the the giant light beam celebrating the launch of Microsoft's new decision engine, Bing. more ›

If you didn't catch it, bolts of lightning lit up the dreary Seattle skyline last night. The electrically charged bursts went straight for our Space Needle turned giant lightning rod. For once, the city had a good ol' down pourin' thunderstorm. Not this b.s. dribbling rain. (Still, no where near a rocking Midwest T-storm.) You could even smell it in the air, a real down and dirty thunder and lightning storm. With some hail throw in for good measure. more ›