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Speaking of Mike Davidson, the Seattle PostGlobe posse, and all-digital news platforms, tomorrow night is round two of No News Is Bad News: "Making It Work" (7-9 p.m., Bertha Landes Room, City Hall). The focus is on current and near-term models in the post-newspaper ecosystem, and Cory Bergman (MSNBC, LostRemote.com, MyBallard.com) moderates a panel that includes WSB's Tracy Record, Penny Arcade's Robert Khoo, Newsvine's Davidson, Instivate's Scott Durham, Seattle PostGlobe's Kerry Murakami, and InvestigationsWest's Rita Hibbard. You can reserve your free ticket here.

Piecora's Puppynapping Tale Has Happy Ending

Over the weekend we--and seemingly every other news person in the city--got a note about a stolen Schnoodle (Schnauzer-Poodle mix) that made us question humanity itself:

  • A neighborhood-based local business discount card for Capitol Hill? Um, yes please! CHS tells us the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce is exploring the idea (take a survey about it here), and JSeattle leaks via Twitter, "Think it's definitely happening. Question is how it works." Rad.
  • West Seattle Blog posted a surprisingly brief blurb on Mac Clay's $15 million settlement from a lawsuit over his paralyzing injury two years ago at West Seattle High School.
  • Have you taken your walking tour of the viaduct yet? Queen Anne View reminds us that we have another chance on March 21. It's free, and only 45 minutes. Do it.

It's the End of the News Hole as We Know It

We've now "observed" two future of news media via Twitter (the City Club and ONA events) and watched the Seattle City Council and "No News Is Bad News" events go down via their live stream (while eyeing the #nnbn Twitter channel). One caveat before we recap: what we've learned is mostly useless in practical terms.

The son of former Seattle mayor Charles Royer is running for mayor himself, and that's straight from the HorsesAss. On the plus side, it looks like Jordan Royer is more together than mayor Nickels' son, Jake. West Seattle is sort of freaking out about the snow, while the Rainier Valley Post is freaking out for another reason: the Lakewood Seward Park Community Center is in danger of closing--there's a meeting about it Thursday. But where one door closes, a produce stand is poised to open. MyBallard reports that Top Banana should soon be back in business. And PhinneyWood has the 411 on how to find out when your bus will arrive.

CHS is wonking on (and on) about development plans around the Capitol Hill light rail station because there are community forums coming up and if you don't go, you can't complain later that your ideas were ignored by "the Man." Also, Cap to the Hill pleads for you to stop in at Boom Noodle. West Seattle Blog noted Elliott Bay Brewing is pouring a chocolate porter. 'Nuff said. The Rainier Valley Post reminds us all that February 7 is Neighbor Appreciation Day. The Magnolia Voice hits a recessionary note, with news of a townhouse developer switching to apartments mid-stream. And The Southlake details why condo financing is such a touchy subject down in SLU.

Did any of our readers catch Mars Hill Church's feature on Nightline last night? ABC ran their three page 'summary' of the feature online yesterday with the beautiful headline, "Pastor Dude's Mega-Church Draws Crowds." (It's almost as good as the New York Times' Driscoll headline, "Who Would Jesus Smack Down?") We're wondering when the program will be online so we can catch the visuals. West Seattle Blog tweeted overnight that their site received a "miniblitz" of folks who had, presumably, seen the program and were googling for more info about Driscoll and homosexuality--a subject which didn't figure prominently in ABC's write-up. We love us some generous national media attention, don't we, Mars Hill?

Neighborhood News and Local Blog Round-Up

  • West Seattle Blog and CHS documented yesterday especially carefully. To celebrate the anniversary of the first Denny Party landing on Alki forever ago, the Southwest Seattle Historical Society is putting together a time capsule that will include print-outs of Thursday's blog entries, among other various and sundry detritus.
  • For every headline about county budget cuts, there are hundreds of people who will have their day-to-day lives affected by the loss of the eliminated programs. Rainier Valley Post asked Public Health spokesman James Apa about the projected impacts on their specific community.
  • Aarwenn's CHS post about catching a glimpse into others' private lives, both beautiful and thought-provoking, breathes new life into the idea that one neighborhood could be the heart of a city. Even if you don't live in Capitol Hill (and we know many of you don't), this one's worth the read for poetic value alone.

It really isn't surprising that scam and scum are only separated by a single vowel. The latest scam hitting Seattle, made us literally sick to our stomach. According to the West Seattle Blog, who was called by their friendly local police officer, some scam artists are targeting owners of missing pets. The scammers use the contact email address left on missing posters and send false ransom emails to the worried pet owners. So Seattlest readers, if you've recently lost a pet, not only do we send our condolences, we send you this warning in the hope that your pain and worries aren't doubled by some heartless scam artist.

Alexa, the internetz rating service, is out with a ranking of Seattle's top 50 media websites. Not surprisingly, da Timez-&-Pee-Eye combo site, nwsource.com, is numero uno. Our good friends at Slog are in fourth place. Seattlest.com is a more-than-respectable tenth. WestSeattleBlog is 15th. Says Alex Mayer, publisher of dead-tree Belltown Messenger (#42) and live-electron Downtown Dispatch (#36), "The future of media is on the web."

Last night, Seattlest and friends—up for a light dinner and a few glasses of wine—discovered that West Seattle’s cozy, just-down-the-street Blackbird Bistro is, as of this week, shuttered. (No more half-price-bottle Tuesdays!) A note on the door and papered windows cited a sale of the curvy space and promised the new owners will not disappoint. (As usual, West Seattle Blog knew this was coming and we didn’t.) Of some consolation: The Bohemian, new on the California strip a few blocks south, offers decent $15 bottles of cab and merlot. Every day.

  • The always helpful Central District News offers Crave, who recently lost their Capitol Hill lease, some available locations in the CD. We second the idea, Crave in the neighborhood sounds great to this CD resident.
  • Did you find a My Buddy Doll drunk in Belltown? Because someone lost one drunk in Belltown and have taken to Craigslist and Belltowner to find the doll.
  • Sure they are gas guzzlers, but we're a total sucker for a gorgeous old car. West Seattle Blog has photos galore from this weekend's Junction car show.

  • West Seattle Blog was one of the first to report results from the Primary vote yesterday! Dang, those guys are good. Now, has Dan Savage mysteriously left the country? Because WSB is also concerned about some stolen pugs....

    • The West Seattle Blog notes, with great pride, that a West Seattle High School alumnus has been chosen to command the next space shuttle mission. We bet that guy's stories will be hard to beat at the next class reunion. "So Greg, what have you been up to?" "Oh not much, just being an astronaut with NASA, commanding space shuttles in, you know, outer space."
    • The Slog reports recently-for-sale Capitol Hill club King Cobra is being threatened by the state over their hosting of a semi-professional wrestling night. The state wants King Cobra to obtain a sporting event license to continue hosting the matches. If King Cobra refuses to comply the state is threatening "administrative action" which, we assure you, isn't nearly as scary as Seattle semi-professional wrestler Billy the Fridge.
    • The Mid-Beacon Hill blog posted a crime story under the headline "Don't Read This if You're Having a Nice Day" and it was pretty spot on. Don't do it.

    More photos, courtesy of Christopher Boffoli, after the break.

    -- Seattle's got one. Where else can you find a Starbucks with a La Marzocco espresso machine?
    -- Ironically, he was flying into town for a Goldfinger reenactment event.
    -- Let's move more of our commute to the water, suggests West Seattle Blog.
    -- Turns out it's crowded at the Pike Place Market. Plan your produce trips accordingly.
    -- Seattle's home to a half restaurant? And you have to try it, along with 10 more?
    -- Portland may be the home of half the names you hear on The Simpsons, but they still don't get a Kwik-E-Mart. What does that Nelson kid say all the time?

    Photo: He is iamdonte. He takes pictures. And coins terms like AtlasGate.

    News from a day where we spent hours looking for a two-cent stamp.

    We got an email last week pointing us to a West Seattle blog post and a thread on Seattle LJ about Pagliacci and their delivery areas. The speculation was that since the pizza place wouldn't deliver to some shady neighborhoods that seemed more physically proximate to its store than other, more upscale, neighborhoods that it would deliver to, there must be a great Pagliacci conspiracy going on in West Seattle. The email suggested that it might make for a decent Seattlest post and on the surface it was interesting but we didn't really have the time to go dig into the comments of the posts it cited and it seemed like an email that we weren't the sole recipient of by a long shot. What seemed like too much work for not enough scandal to Seattlest was P-I gold, however. Apparently the anonymous email also went out to Robert Jamieson Jr. of the Post Intelligencer and today he commented.

    Those new signs sure don't seem to be doing the trick.

    Yesterday we googled the phrase "best restaurant in Renton." (Don't ask.) It turned up this post on A Displaced Hipster's Guide to Renton, which gives the Melrose Grill top honors in Seattle's southern suburb. DH's mission statement: "Two years ago, my wife and I moved out of the city of Seattle to the lovely suburby city of Renton, Washington. We've learned to survive without great restaurants, nightlife, and entertainment--here's how we do it."

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