The Seattle Times is reporting, way at the top in an unlikable breaking news sentence (read: cub reporter with a police scanner), that there has been an accident involving the Mercer Streetcar. According to the bolded sentence paragraph, an SUV ran an intersection and collided with an empty streetcar at the corner of Mercer and Terry. more ›

Ichiro got a bunch of fantastic goodies along with his $90 million Mariner contract, according to the AP, including: more ›

Seattlest just got back from a road trip through some of the hottest places in the country. Our partner's mother's souped-up SUV clocked the temperature at Lake Mead, NV, to be 130 degrees on July 5th, so we had to chuckle when we arrived home to a rash of weather that makes our fellow Seattleites whine and head to the Homo Depot for a new window-unit a/c. more ›

What defines a terrorist or terrorism? You know, besides standing between a Republican and the camera he wants to install in your panty drawer? Is it your actions? Is it your nationality? Is it your race? Is it your intent? We better figure it out because there are suddenly a whole lot of laws on the books all over the place that say criminals get this sentence and terrorists get this other one. Down in Eugene right now the (and this next word is important) eco-saboteurs who perpetrated a string of arsons across the Pacific Northwest are about to be sentenced. more ›

On Greenlake Way between 50th St. and the putt-putt golf course, in that parking lot bordering the Lower Woodland Park fields, lives a King County Sheriff's car. more ›

>>>Third Place Books, 7:00pm. Another weighty tome, Unreleased Beatles by Richie Unterberger, to add to your Beatles-only reference section. It details the shitload of stuff that was recorded but, you know, forgotten about what with being so high at the time, plus the whole headtrip with Yoko. Free with OCD collecting disorder. more ›

Those new signs sure don't seem to be doing the trick. more ›

The aggressively righteous environmentalists who had the brilliant idea of changing the world via firebombings in the Pacific Northwest a few years back have a court date today. Four of them are changing their plea to guilty (arson) after striking a deal with prosecutors in Oregon. Attorneys involved with the case haven't given the specifics of the deals that were made, but of the thirteen people charged six others have previously submitted guilty pleas in exchange for testimony against other defendants. Three of these guys are still at large so according to Seattlest's calculator all ten ecosabatuers currently in custody have accepted deals in exchange for testimony - Are they testifying against each other or the three guys who are still communing with nature? more ›

Celebrate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday with the Bikini Bandits and Phillyist! (NSFW). Speaking of Mr. Franklin, send in a picture of Ben (or Ed Rendell) with a red tongue and win a free t-shirt. And they might have the next YearlyKos in Philly. more ›

-"Runaway Train was the best song of the 90s." "You're fucking high, old man." more ›

Not cool, Willamette Week. Not cool. This week one of Portland's alt-weeklies published a story about what an environmental nightmare scooters are. We know two-strokes are bad, WW. We don't need to be clobbered over the head with this kind of article. more ›

Someone in Rainier Beach took aim at the world's most popular sport last night, firing several shots that whizzed though a partido de futbol on this field. more ›

Forget hot vs. not, flight vs. invisibility, and left hand vs. right hand. We've settled a far more epochal question: which beloved local pastry institution is better, Top Pot or Cupcake Royale? more ›

You're driving with two friends in one of your parents' SUVs and you wreck the thing. You go off the road, roll and land back on your wheels. Whoa, that was scary. You walk to your parents' house just down the street and notice, hey, there's only two of you now. Oh well. Crashing cars is exhausting, man, yeeeeooOOOOOW, alright. What a day, huh? Fuck it. You go to sleep. Night night. more ›