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Allison Krauss and Union Station are at Marymoor Park on Saturday. There was a lot of moaning and gnashing of teeth from the Seattlest camp when the Summer Nights concert series was canceled, but Marymoor seems to have picked up a lot of that slack with a decent series. Here's Allison Krauss and Union Station back when they were called Union Station and Allison Krauss. more ›

Last year, we had the joy of walking around town before the precarious date of 6/6/06 and seeing images of nuclear holocaust strung across every light poll in town (meaning on Capitol Hill). This year, we get the pleasure of anticipating our big 3-0 on a far more auspicious date: 7/7/07. more ›

"I sent it to one organization, the Seattle True Independent Film Festival...and they declined by sending me an email form-letter," said Alex Mayer. We're sitting with Mayer in a coffeeshop down at Union Station--ironically in the same business park as Vulcan's glittering corporate office--talking about the delayed (by a year) Seattle debut of Mayer's new film, Paul Alien. more ›

Rob Ketcherside got fed up with wearing a wristwatch and ended up creating Seattle Clock Walk, a walking tour of 27 public clocks in downtown Seattle:

Almost all are at some hub of activity: train station, retail district, public square, ferry terminal. . . . Visitors or newcomers to Seattle should find this to be a good first step in the city. Even if you're a life-long resident, maybe you're bored of always doing the same thing when you're downtown.

Over the last six weeks, we scored a temp gig working for a certain, local e-retailer that possesses the planet's largest selection. On our daily jaunts to the International District, we had the chance to observe progress on the Sound Transit tunnel. With its above-ground plaza, the I.D. station is the only place in which one can leisurely peek down into the tunnel during construction. more ›

Beginning July 1, Amtrak is adding another train to the Seattle-to-Portland route. That'll mean a new 11:20am departure from Seattle and a new 2:50pm departure from Portland, in addition to existing STP trips at 7:30am, 2:20pm, and 5:25pm; and PTS trains at 12:15pm, 3:55pm, 6:20pm and 9:45pm. One-way fares start at $26 (and top out at $42). more ›

Bank of America, McDonalds and Starbucks? Seattlest is reeling a little from the notion of an overtly corporate party to celebrate the start of the year of the dog at Union station on Saturday, February 4th. more ›

Seattlest has a favorite cookie. And we'd like to tell you all about it. more ›

When Seattlest packed our hobostick and headed to Chicago's Union Station with a one way ticket for the Empire Builder in our pocket lo those many years ago we were, of course, excited about arriving in Seattle. At the same time, leaving Chicago tore a hole in us. In fact, we can still point to the scarred crater on our chest where Chicago music used to be and if you look close enough you can see right where Tortoise lived. You know how amputees sometimes still get sensations from limbs they no longer have? Seattlest still feels that from Tortoise, right in our chest. more ›