In a city like Seattle with a vibrant Chinatown/International District neighborhood, it may be easy for some to forget (or remain unaware of) the historical wrongs which affected its population. The U.S. Senate's unanimous approval of Resolution 201 yesterday, which apologizes for anti-Chinese discriminatory laws—most notably the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882—may change that. more ›

Maybe you're a parent who's just moved to the Seattle area and wondering what the natives do when The Grim strikes again for the winter. Or maybe you've got young visitors coming into town, and you're not sure how to entertain them. Here are some of our favorite ways to celebrate autumn with the kiddos in Seattle. more ›

During the Tacoma teachers strike, so many community members wondered “what about the kids?” We were especially concerned by the numbers that the strike highlighted: third-largest school district in the state, more than half of Tacoma public school students (about 18,000) who qualify for free breakfasts and lunches served at school. We decided to head to our nearest food bank, St. Leo’s Food Connection, to see how we could help out. more ›

Police announce arrests in July's gang-related shootout in Kent, Tacoma teachers stick to their guns, Amazon wins big, and Washington State loses bigger. All that, plus a very surly Friday Morning Jam, in today's headlines. more ›

In today's news: joblessness remains, human remains, and a mandate from a judge telling Tacoma's teachers to call off the strike. more ›

With teachers across the Sound using the threat of a strike as a collective bargaining chip, it's easy to forget that it's technically illegal for them to do so. more ›

Start your morning with a little Foxy Knoxy. Plus: tons of crimes, one crime in a stupid hat, noble police dogs and a body found in a trash can, with a couple of lawsuits sprinkled on top. more ›

Our neighbors to the South held their 3rd Annual Tacoma Craft Beer Fest yesterday, our own Dikla attended and reports back on an afternoon of beer tasting out in the sun. more ›

Another development in this creepy Northwest saga: a foot has been found in a Vancouver, BC marina, bringing the total number of feet found in the Salish Sea area to 11. ELEVEN. We're shaking in our boots. more ›

Crispy, flaky, fluffy pastry surrounds your choice of 9 fillings in Pampeana's baked empanadas. more ›

Four 14 years, RelocateAmerica has been ranking the Top 100 Places to Live. You'd think with so much experience, they'd be better at it. more ›

We've found a great little treasure for this week's Kickstarter spotlight project. Searching around the site, there's not a whole lot to be found vis-a-vis music in Seattle at this moment, so this time, we reached out to other towns nearby. more ›

Criminals--what will they think of next? Today's news brought prison escapes, positive identifications and directions from God. Oh, and the Yellow Pages. more ›

A murder, some crows, the end of a Qwest, and, of course, skaters gonna skate (legally). It's your Monday afternoon news roundup. 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 ›

In other news from last night, this totally creepy and horrible thing happened. more ›

All the news that's left, after the end of what was kind of a slow news day. more ›

He is We caught our attention a little while ago. We've been using bandcamp.com as a sort of jumping off point to find new bands in Seattle that may not have made a splash in our music scene yet. Being one of the most popular groups when you search for Seattle bands, we figured they might be worth a listen. They definitely veer off the beaten path a bit when it comes to typical music from this area. However, they stick to the popular singer/songwriter style with acoustic guitar and back-to-basics feel. Featuring a female on lead vocals for the most part, the lyrics tend to be more touchy-feely, rather than story-teller, but enjoyable none the less. more ›

After the horrifying footage of last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan overtook TVs and computer screens around the world, local media outlets are turning their sights to theoretical natural disasters in our backyards — literally. NBC affiliate King5 produced a segment, which aired last night, that hypothesized the effects of an earthquake and resulting tsunami on the Port of Tacoma and Fife. That’s right: In addition to keeping an eye on Mount Rainier in case it erupts, Tacomans and their neighbors should also be wary of Commencement Bay water flooding the area in as little as 17 minutes. Take a look at the video below, which also emphasizes education and preparedness planning. more ›

Three men were charged with conspiracy after successfully hacking Comcast’s website. James Robert Black, Jr. aka "Defiant" appeared in federal court in Tacoma last week to answer charges that he and the two other men working remotely shut down Comcast’s website for almost five hours in May of 2008. more ›

Even with ties to people in high places, the Seattle Police Department was deee-nied, while 30 other Washington agencies were awarded a combined total of $18,543,197 to cover the cost of hiring/rehiring 71 officers over the next three years--benefits included. more ›

• Tonight we expect it to be all-out airness in Eastlake at El Corazon for the Seattle Regional Air Guitar Championships. We also hear one of the judges has a thing for the keytar.
• A homemade float plane (who does that?) had a splash landing this morning into Lake Sammamish. Its pilot, an 82-year-old Redmond man, was left unscathed.

Seattlest headed south on I-5 this past weekend for our annual Oregon coast getaway. Instead of boring you with details about rugged ocean scenery, we thought we’d detail what must be the least beautiful of the major interstate commutes from Seattle. more ›

Turns out cloudy weather and passive-aggressive behavior will only attract people for so long. Recent data from the US Census shows that the Seattle-Bellevue-Tacoma metropolitan area is the slowest-growing region in the whole wide country of the largest 100 areas that grew last year. From 2007 to 2008, we only grew at a 1.4 percent rate. Across the mountains the Tri-Cities were attracting enough people to become the third-fastest growing area, up 3.5%. Of course from 2007 to 2008 the need for rodeo clowns greatly outweighed the need for fish tossers. more ›

Violent crime rates are up in Bellevue and down in Tacoma, according to the most recent FBI reports. The number of occurrences of violent crime reported in that new, shiny city across the lake increased from 65 in 2007 to a whopping 91 in 2008--a 40 percent boost in one year, for whatever reason. (Fights at The Parlor?) Down in Tacoma, the reported occurrences of violent crime went from 1,085 to 905 in that same time span (a 17 percent drop). In related news, the migration path of several flocks of flying pigs will lead them right over downtown Seattle this afternoon around 4 p.m., so be sure to step outside and take a gander at what is sure to be an educational sight. Seattle's info, of course, wasn't turned in on time to be included in the FBI's report. (Win!) more ›

The B-Town Blog has an ominous Port of Seattle bulletin regarding Sea-Tac operations: "Airport is open--two runways are operational. There are many airline-initiated cancellations. Backlog of stranded passengers awaiting rebooking. Travelers are advised to contact their airline for flight status and to attempt to rebook from home." We're having trouble pulling up the flight status link, and we heard via Twitter earlier this morning that Alaska Air's phone wait was 149 minutes. As you might expect, there's no room at the inn, and many travelers are sleeping in airport. It gets worse: airport stores haven't been getting deliveries, so supplies are scarce. more ›

Never know what you're gonna find when you climb down a manhole. It could be your average sewer, or... well, this guy found a huge, once-luxurious, 120-year-old Turkish bathhouse hidden under downtown Tacoma. The kicker is that the property was at times owned by famous vice lords Peter Sandberg (7th paragraph down on this page) and Vito Cuttone (11th paragraph down). How fantastic, in the traditional sense of the word! Really, who woulda thunk? It seems ripe for some sort of historical romance novel about a prostitute, her pimp, and the logger who loves them both. more ›

People calling themselves Seattleites fell primarily into two camps when finding alternatives for a Sonics replacement: the Sounders crowd and the folks who think our professional basketball void could be filled with hockey. more ›

HALF-NAKED BOOTY GIRLS: The 2 Live Crew outta Miami is at Nectar tonight, and you know what that means: half-naked booty girls, according to local emcee Wizdom. "I believe it," he told us with anticipation. The 2 Live Crew has been holding down the sexually explicit end of hiphop since the '80s. Warning: there might be juggalos present. Locals Mad Rad, Champagne Champagne, and Jay Barz open for this promisingly profane and colorful evening. more ›

He's not the cultural Molotov cocktail his VP opponent is, but he's probably talked to Barack Obama, like, dozens of times, so, OMG a guy who knows Obama was in Tacoma this weekend! This photo is courtesy of grundlepuck, and he's got a few more of the Joe Biden/Cheney Stadium event worth checking out in the Seattlest Flickr Pool. more ›