The good folks organizing the fundraising and sundry volunteer efforts for the park-to-be/p-patch at Summit and John host an open house tonight to discuss their future plans. If you're interested in finding out more or even lending a hand, head to Vermillion starting at 6:30 p.m. The organizers promise to have "tasty snacks," which we found out from the flyers they left on everyone's cars near our place a couple days ago. It's a way to get the word out, sure, but considering they keep a blog and have had ads (and posts) running on CHS, it seems odd to deliver the message via paper flyers instead of hitting up every local website in town (hint hint) for coverage. Regardless, there's an open house tonight. more ›

Seattlest is instituting a new guest editorial thing on the grounds that our readers get tired of hearing the usual suspects snark about things and would like to hear new snarky voices. Last week it was Proposition 8. This week, we have Justin Carder--chair of the Capitol Hill Community Council, vice president of business development for Instivate, and founder of the Web site CHS Capitol Hill Seattle--and his plea for a park's existence. more ›