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To Seattlest Everett may be nothing more than a traffic annoyance on the way up to B'ham, but apparently there are a bunch of actual people who live there; working, living, breathing. Flying. To get from SeaTac to Seattle is kind of a pain in the ass. To get from Seattle past Everett is a huge pain in the ass so imagine what it must be like to get from the airport to Everett. That's right, a nightmare too dark to even contemplate. At the rate the light rail line is progressing north it could potentially beat you there if you tried to drive it at rush hour, which is probably why Everett's been making some noise about getting commercial flight into the city recently.

Seattle is a pretty good place to be if you're into food. Probably way better than average, even, for a city our size. There are tons of hip-ish new restaurants with creative menus constructed from organic ingrediants, there are a gazillion Asian and Asian-influenced places that are fantastic and the seafood is incredible almost everywhere. However, when it comes to food that Seattlest might label "Old World," there is nothing.

Man, is there a LOT of Bumbershoot stuff on Seattlest right now. If you're anything like Editor Dan you're hoping for a break in the Bumber action; a contributor's recounting of a trip to Lake Chelan, a reaction to a dunderheaded Seattle Times editorial, or even some lame PR survey naming Seattle 16th Most Fashionable City West of the Rockies. Anything! Well, you can hope for something different, but your hopes will be dashed because this is another Bumbershoot post.

-BLVD (who we talked to earlier this week) opens their inaugural show tonight.

Anyone who thought that our state legislature had any chance at all of forcing Wal-Mart to act less like Wal-Mart raise your hand. Yeah, none of you. House speaker Frank Chopp sat on the "Wal-Mart Bill" yesterday instead of allowing a vote on it, despite a big push by his traditional allies in organized labor. The bill would force employers of 5,000 or more in the state of Washington to allocate 9% of their payroll to health benefits. Chopp alternately doesn't think it will help, doesn't want to piss off businesses and doesn't think it has the votes, or, some say, he made a deal with someone. The world may never know. The P-I speculates that he may be killing the bill in favor of a voter initiative which could help bring out the progressives next election day, but screw that. Progressives will already be out (or mailing it in) to stand up against the homophobes and their jackass king Eyeman. To Seattlest's knowledge no such initiative campaign currently exists and even if it did it's an abuse of the initiative process because the legislation is sitting right there on his desk staring him in the face and all he has to do is put it to a damn vote. Ahem.

The outside world holds a vision of Seattle's relationship to salmon that has us spooning pink fish flakes from a bowl of milk in the morning or simply grabbing one from the nearest body of water for an anytime sashimi snack. This view is not altogether unfounded. Is the tide ebbing, though? Maybe your last out-of-town guest ordered the tilapia after countless past visits spent tentatively ordering blackened salmon from the foreign seafood menu. Or, if they ordered the salmon maybe they asked for it by brand, "I'll have the Copper River salmon. I believe it's in season. Medium-rare, please." When these houseguests arrive from airports such as O'Hare you know the unthinkable has happened. Salmon has become passé.

The dust on the paper lanterns is three years old this week at Chop Suey and the occasion will, of course, be celebrated. Sub Pop artist and Seattlest fav Helio Sequence has been bought and paid for by KEXP and The Stranger so the show Wednesday is free in honor of the anniversary. Seattlest isn't particularly fond of free events because there's no way to call ahead and buy our way onto a list.