Capitol Hill's hardest working man in show business, CHAC's Matthew Kwatinetz, has been devoting long hours to the survival of Odd Fellows Hall as an arts space, ever since he found out about the planned sale. A pragmatist, Kwatinetz isn't tying all his hopes to keeping the Hall for arts use; he's more interested in it as evidence of the arts being forced out of Capitol Hill, an area they once defined. After hosting an......

Saturday, Tera will give herself a VIP tour at the opening of Aritzia. She will follow this potentially hectic event by introducing a friend to her newest wine obsession - Twisted Cork. Sunday she will trek to Qwest and root for Chicago, uh, eh, oops...Seattle. Yes, root for the Seahawks. Jack's heading to the Showbox proper tonight to see Canadian indie pop band Stars. Sunday, he's hoping to see Rex Grossman slip into old......

--142 drive-through Starbucks customers "payed it backward" in Illinois? Bull. Shit. --We couldn't even get past the headline of this KOMOTV story the first time though. Next time we might be able to scan the page for photos before we close the tab, and maybe tomorrow we'll read it. --It's Second Thursday tonight which means absolutely nothing to you unless you're a West Seattle resident looking for an art walk near the Junction. --Our......

The UW became a more urban campus today with the purchase of the Safeco tower. Don't get us wrong; we love the sprawling, verdant expanses, nooks, and crannies of the main campus. However, a properly urban university -- like its students -- should engage with its neighborhood by wandering beyond campus and fanning into the surrounding area. We like having the UW as our neighbor and like it being positively involved in the neighborhood.......

Mayor Nickels' campaign to make local strip clubs no fun for anyone popped up on the local radar again yesterday. Turns out Georgetown residents aren't too happy with Nickels' desire to create a strip club zone that borders their neighborhood to the north. If this zoning change is approved, any new strip clubs in the city would be built there and Georgetown residents would have to explain the sex industry to their impressionable children,......

This post may have nothing to do with Gasworks or the Friends of Gasworks Park. But you'll have to read it to find out. Diabolical! So here's the question: Have you ever wondered where "free" parking comes from? Well, it comes out of your pockets, with all that lint. It's estimated that the average parking space costs more than a car. When you shop, dine out, or see a movie, you pay indirectly for parking......

Seattlest isn't going to stand here in front of you and pretend we know anything about architecture or urban planning or design or anything like that, because we don't. It just doesn't seem intuitive to us that the results of a City Council commisioned study suggest that the way to encourage high-rise structures downtown is to make them more expensive to build. High-rise buildings (or higher-rise buildings) are a part of Mayor Density's plan......

Seattlest's head just exploded. We've been covering the undecided fate of the waterfront trolley for a couple of weeks now, but today's front-page article in the P-I sealed it: everyone's crazy, no one talks to each other, and you might as well just buy a Lionel train set if you're into trolleys. Apparently, despite reassurances that moving the trolley barn north into Port of Seattle-owned land and laying tracks through Myrtle Edwards Park would......