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. If this is true every anti-streetcar hippie just got their second morning wood of the…morning. Exclusive Seattlest Video of......

Ichiro got a bunch of fantastic goodies along with his $90 million Mariner contract, according to the AP, including: --A housing allowance, which will be $32,000 next year. --Either a new Jeep or Mercedes SUV each year. --Four first-class plane tickets to Japan for his family. He also deferred $25 million of the $90 million contract, so the Mariners will be paying Ichiro until 2032, when Francis Bean Cobain is 40 years old. Yowza. Ichiro......

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. Please don't do that. Really. Each year,......

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......

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. The car sits there, day and night. There's never anyone in it. It's raison d'être, we believe, is to deter speeding. A drama repeats hundreds of times nightly: car speeds north toward lake, gets within sight of cop car, slows down. Then, presumably, driver sees that no one's......

Wednesday, November 29 >>>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. >>>University Bookstore, 7:00pm. Elizabeth George backtracks: in her last Inspector Lynley mystery, the Inspector's wife was killed. In What......

Those new signs sure don't seem to be doing the trick. Tatsuo Nakata, chief of staff for council member David Della, was killed by a West Seattle motorist while walking in a marked crosswalk. He sustained major head injuries as a result of being run down, and died in the hospital Tuesday afternoon. This morning, an 11-year-old boy was hit in a crosswalk on his way to West Seattle's Madison Middle School. "It appears......

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......

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. You know who's going to be upset about those Bikini Bandits? The Houston school system. Houstonist also reports on some redevelopment shenanigans over a landmark theater. LAist's sex advice column on......

-That traffic snarl you're either about to experience or just experienced wil be/was caused by the funeral procession for the cop that got killed by the chick with the SUV. -Seattle City Light is carbon neutral for the second year in a row at a cost of about $2 per customer per year. -Did the Blue Moon finally read the graffiti on the bathroom wall and sign the dreaded Good Neighbor Agreement or did......

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. There was some kind of scooter gathering in Seattle this weekend. We saw it twice - Once when we were recreating along Eastlake Saturday afternoon and once later in the evening in Ballard......

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. According to the P-I story, "witnesses said they could literally hear the bullets whizzing past as they dived for the ground." The cops don't know who did it, though a witness claimed to see someone firing from a green SUV. The game was suspended. No makeup date......

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? It's a cruel choice, but we are cruel people. And we have voted. Two local indulgence vendors enter, one local indulgence vendor leaves: by a vote of 8-3, Top Pot reigns supreme. Who voted for which, and why: Michael: Top Pot rules......

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. Three hours later......