We were rushing between shows on Capitol Hill and Fremont last night when we pulled up to the Fremont Bridge and saw the big detour and BRIDGE CLOSED signs and our heart sank. The detour route meant driving across the Ballard Bridge, and if we'd known that, we'd have taken Eastlake to the University Bridge, instead of Westlake. Had we but known! Anyway, here's the schedule for the closings, so that you know:Tuesday, November 13......

Seattlest's heart's cockles always get warmed when we see a bunch of people who choose to ride their bikes to get around get together, so we were predisposed to love Northwest Film Forum's Second Seattle Annual Bike-In last night. (Almost getting slammed by a driver opening her car door while riding over probably added to our joy at making it there.) Unlike most communal bike events in Seattle (Critical Mass, Bike to Work Day), the......

--Avoid the University Bridge from this day forward. Check yer bus route before heading home, at least. --Free Metro bus when you buy a house! --Free monorail pass when you buy a used car! --In 2007 a "civic square" includes 32 stories of condos. --Goldy and Ichmo have been all over the story of China poisoning our food supply. --A former sheriff's deputy from Washington accused of circulating video of himself raping his daughter......

A sinkhole opened up on a tiny road beneath the University Bridge this morning, eating two cars, forcing the Mayor to change his morning plans, and closing the University Bridge. The cause: a water main break, which was what caused Dexter Avenue to resemble Wild Waves last week. This morning's water attack occurred on East Portage Bay Road. After eating the cars, the water launched a charge toward the footing of the University Bridge, which......

We have been eagerly observing the re-construction of the approaches to the Fremont Bridge for some time now--ever since the project started in the late Cretaceous Period and we got inadvertently stuck behind some of its traffic. We watched for weeks and weeks and thought to ourselves, "just how long does it take to rebuild a two-lane approach?" Don't get us wrong; we were ridiculously happy to see actual construction rather than the usual......

When Seattlest charged out of our door this morning with bare minutes to get to the bus stop we noticed an unfamiliar stench to the air. Seattlest being Seattlest we tried to remember the last time we'd laundered our shirt and then looked around for a hippie. Once the bus doors closed, though, we stopped being able to detect anything unusually malodorous and immersed ourself into our book/iPod/daily affirmation until we got downtown. Damn if......