Seattle recently got rated one of the top ten safest cities for pedestrians, yet many of our neighborhoods are so insular, they're separated by impossible-to-cross arterials or frayed edges that take pedestrians from sidewalks and storefronts to construction and no sidewalks. Enter the Lake 2 Bay Loop, a proposed pedestrian-friendly initiative designed to attractively and accessibly connect Elliot Bay to Lake Union. more ›

NOLLYWOOD!: Since the weather's perfect, contrarians will want to shoebox themselves inside the U District's tiny Grand Illusion Theatre to catch a documentary about Nigeria's burgeoning B-movie film industry. Nollywood Babylon, which Film Threat calls "Irresistible," is about to close, and you don't want to make a liar of Film Threat, do you? No, you do not. Also it's a Canadian documentary, and it's Canada Day. If that doesn't get you there, we throw our hands up. more ›

From the comments on SeattleTimes.com, you'd think that spending a couple of bucks on a park was High Treason. But Belltown, home to some 10,000 of us, has no park. more ›

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. more ›

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... more ›

--Another M's fan idly threatens a boycott here. more ›

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. more ›

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. more ›

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! more ›

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 to Vancouverize Seattle and so we understand that he wants taller buildings and probably more of 'em and that's great. We think giant buildings are a good idea particularly if there's some affordable residential pieces there. What they're going to do to traffic is a whole other rant, but we like the concept. Urban, right? more ›

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. more ›