--A reviewer of a rave has a reasonable point: "There were definitely more girls wearing awesome revealing outfits than I have ever seen in Seattle, which brings me to the negatives: Why in the world were cameras not allowed?" --When he isn't pitching, Mariner Miguel Batista is saving marriages. --Why you should buy local, even if you're buying Deathly Hallows --Nine cents more -- better recalibrate prices on all those things that cost less than......

--Dino Rossi, not your best day. --Rent-a-Goats spotted in West Seattle, coyotes spotted on Capitol Hill. --Seattle Parking Enforcement hates Jesus. --The Rashard Lewis deal is final, and Sonics fans approve. --Is there a street sign out there with your name on it? That's the fan and A/C aisle of the Northgate Target last night, as posted on LiveJournal by Lady of the Carrots.......

--Sally Clark has pulled her nightlife plan citing the fact that everyone from the mayor to the other city council members to the lowliest 1st ave drunk hates it. --A woman may have successfully attempted suicide by train in Auburn this morning. --4th of July ain't nothin but Thanksgiving in the summer. --Starbucks starts to look at its carbon emissions. --So, you’ve decided to join a Startup and live the life of high risk,......

-- 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......

-- What do Susan Paynter and The Stranger have in common? -- "Let’s make for some kick-ass elementary and middle schools . . . and the high school issue should take care of itself." -- One sin just got a little less taxed: 42-cents-per-liter liquor surcharge ends Sunday. -- Jobster and the blogosphere aren't getting along these days. -- Sonics fans, who last night were angry about the Ray Allen deal, are warming up......

--The baby on the Nevermind album cover is old enough to have acne. Left unanswered: Is he on his high school's swim team? --David Postman's Spokane cabby sez: "The one good mayor we had died of cancer or something." Yes...or something. --Breaking down http://sportslogopundit.blogspot.com/2007/06/everett-hawks.html">the Everett Hawks' logo. --"'Every School a Great School' is a wonderful goal, but I think we should start with 'Every School an Adequate School' and work up from there." --State......

--Denny's is the new Cha Cha. --Starbucks announced their new World Beat menu today. --Mega-change at mega-church Mars Hill. --Why KEXP isn't observing the day of internet radio silence. --Get your Husky football tickets now, only about 35,000 seats available! -- "The texture of Seattle: Seattle feels, looks, tastes like the cinematic 1980s." Image courtesy of Grundlepuck.......

--iTunes just passed Amazon to become the third-largest music seller. --It's like a contest now: Who can be the next to get a body part trapped in something and then cut that body part off with a pocket knife to miraculously survive. Stay tuned for the photo set of Seattlest getting our head wedged between two rocks during a flood tide. --Tacoma is mobilizing for war on Clear Channel Billboards. --Where does our energy......

-- John Moe's Family Herman project: the funniest riff on The Family Circus since the Dysfunctional Family Circus. -- Consumerist presents: Confessions of a Starbucks Barista. Commenters say: she sounds like a PR flack. -- An Event Apart is in town. -- Metro buses unwrapped, then partly rewrapped. -- Up-to-the-minute updates on Seattle Web 2.0 popularity. Quick, someone give them venture capital. -- Dig your trench coat out of your closet -- the Noir......

-- Next up for Connected Ventures? A shot-for-shot remake of the Disturbing Behavior trailer. -- Listen to Vonnegut Mary Schmich, people! Wear sunscreen! -- Seahawks super-blogger Mike Sando, plucked from the Tacoma News-Tribune by ESPN.com, says his au revoires. -- So is Josh Rouse actually the "perfect fit" for a Seattle soundtrack? -- Just call us the Bureaucracy Kid, fastest passport processors in the country. -- 5000 cars: Microsoft breaks ground on the western......

--Does the ability to access Golden Gardens by foot even exist? Great question. --Shit flowing up and down the aisles of a transatlantic flight made one passenger feel "physically abused and neglected." --The line has been drawn. --In related news, tomorrow is "Dump the Pump" day. --Dawdy posts a short follow-up to yesterday's rant on Web 2.0. -- An old SNL parody commercial invoked in discussion of Seattle's Christian Muslim Episcopal priest. -- "Less......

--Oregon teen busted screwing horses by barn cam. --Sonic Youth is doing a CD for Starbucks. You know what? Fuck everything. --The Buffy musical episode is going to play at the Egyptian at the end of the month. Nerd. (See you there.) --The guys at Neumos will handle the booking for Chop Suey now that the Chop Suey guy left to do the booking at Nectar. Follow? --Sure, I'll join your cult. --Sure, I'll......

--Brawny men are tearing apart the old Rainbow Grocery space, but the brawny men won't say why. --"To the lechy homeless men: I am not a dancing female gift the City of Seattle decided to kindly bestow for your afternoon entertainment." --Eyewitness to a suicide. --The new Sufjan Stevens album will be called Oregon, With the Wind and will be release only in a hoaxy parallel universe. --USS Mariner has a few ideas for......

--Someone wrote a 1700-word complaint letter to Starbucks because their partner couldn't get his Raspberry Soy Mocha. The world has officially jumped the shark. --Bill Nye eulogizes Mr. Wizard. --We all know King Felix hasn't been the same since his injury, USS Mariner describes specifically what's different. --Ichiro's best quotes. --17% of Seattleites commute by bus, the other 83% are assholes.......

-- Watch out, tuberculosis! Seattle's coming after your ass. -- "This building is a Macintosh. Most buildings in downtown Seattle are PCs." -- Mike Webb: still missing. -- Starbucks: Jones Soda is out, Izze is in. -- Hotel 1000 violates Scalzi's Law of Hotel Internet Connections -- but that's a good thing. -- "If I ever get a hearty recommendation from the Stranger that says my movie is crap save for the art direction,......

-- Microwave popcorn? Pop 'em while you got 'em, Seattle city employees. -- Calling all gurgitators: Top Pot Doughnuts meet competitive eating. -- Why isn't the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce losing classified ad revenue? -- Don't drive naked. Or embracing. Or drunk. -- Another day, another luxury condo project breaks ground. -- Seattle's gotten so expensive people are fleeing to Indianapolis. -- Seattle ites buy more sunglasses per capita than any other city......

--A former Redmond church leader is being charged with child rape. --Mike Webb is still missing and his house has been ransacked. --Remember when the debate over whether to build a high bridge to West Seattle was concluded when a ship rammed the low bridge? How come that kind of stuff can't end debates now? --Light rail in Portland a crime magnet? --There was some kind of condo incentive in Seattle where if you bought......

--Seattle Transit Blog is reporting that 3rd Ave Downtown is all transit all the time even after the completion of the bus tunnel. --For some reason we're under the impression that the world at large would be interested in an account of this sale for tool nerds up in B'ham. --Lowest of the low tides is coming. --You really can just throw a "2.0" on anything right now. For instance: PR 2.0. --PETA says......

-- You want warm weather in this town, you're gonna have to follow the rules. -- Someone who managed to score a ticket to the Beastie Boys show recaps the concert. -- The eyes of the basketball world are focused on the Northwest. -- How a menu item is bjorn. Er, born. -- Colbert was right: America's #1 threat touches down on I-90 in North Bend. -- Do you think kink? Probably. Northwest Folklife......

-- Peter Bagge talks sports complexes. -- "Best Media-Affiliated Sports Blog" two years running? Congrats, Seahawks Insider. -- 100 years after Seattle took the city over, Wallingford transplant Archie McPhee urges you to free Ballard. -- This was no boat accident. -- Can Rainier Avenue drivers be scared straight -- by billboards? -- JetBlue, Expedia. Expedia, JetBlue. -- Ken Jennings discovers the saddest sentence on Wikipedia.......

--In Wallingford we all fight to be the last on the bus "You go first" "No, you go first" style. Don't know about the rest of you. --Short short hair is not at all unattractive. --Shilshole to Downtown ferry? Hell yes. Let's bring back the Mosquito Fleet! --Wonder if this is related to this. --Ichiro, once overrated, is now underrated. --Trendy chicks at the Cheese Festival --Venus is coming to Roq La Rue.......

--Damn right, "Beware the Kraken." --Are you the guy who rented Max Maven’s Mindgames on VHS from Scarecrow? --The greatest anti-spam device ever has been unveiled. --A meeting with Les Schwab is not soon forgotten. --A studio on the Hill for $1500 a month? Sign us up! --This is just a really nice story about two Seattle women becoming friends in the 1930s. Where the river was from The Paper Moose. Where it is......

--The Pioneer Square building that caught fire Monday has a pretty cool history. --Sonics diehards give their answers to this prompt: "If the Sonics win the #1 pick, I'll ______." --Bellevue has four of the top 100 high schools in the country. Garfield is the only Seattle school at #361. --Sherman Alexie says all NBA fans are "racial" but he worries that some are "racist." --Pop quiz: what didn't Starbucks sell when the logo......

-- When it comes to city parking spaces, one size no longer fits all. -- We're not that rainy? Next you'll be telling us Chicago isn't exceptionally windy! -- ...but will you be able to fold it into an electric paper hat? -- Which SIFF film panels will be worth your time? -- Rick Neuheisel: Great recruiter, right? Actually, not so much. -- Former KIRO talker Mike Webb is AWOL. -- "If you got......

-- Revenge + Craigslist = aunt's house stripped bare. Also, second-degree burglary, malicious mischief and criminal impersonation charges. -- NYC asks: What's a WaMu? -- Lycopene, schmycopene, says Fred Hutch. -- Sometimes parenting brings out your best. And sometimes... -- Neko Case will be on the tee-vee tonight, with M. Ward. -- Mike Sando's early look at the Hawks roster suggests Kelly Herndon could soon be out of a job. -- Starbucks' favorite Beatle?......

--No, BRT will never die. --A bunch of buses--half of them hybrids--are on the way to Seattle streets. --Downtown is a sausage fest. --Gas price protesters are like gnats chasing an elephant says a UW prof. --SuperSonicSoul piles on basketball's most hated man. --Back when Robert Horry shoved Bob Kloppenburg, we didn't have Flash, but Suns fans do. Play Whack-a-Horry! --Online airfare soothsayer Farecast sheds that pesky "beta" label.......

--Will BRT never die? --Foreclosures up, unemployment down. --There's already more Vista than OS X in the world. --Happy Felix Day! --McLeod Residence is throwing a benefit for severely injured rocker Eric Lashes. --It feels "really strange" to have a truck run over your head. --A locked VW does not make a good babysitter.......

News from a day where we spent hours looking for a two-cent stamp. --Lily Allen was in town, having a self-image crisis. --Will Ken Griffey Jr. hand out jock straps to Mariner fans when he returns in June? --60 Minutes does Redfin. Redfin is thrilled. --Amazon.com snaps up Dpreview.com. --Are there bad neighborhoods where the doggy taxi won't go? Like the Magnuson dog park maybe? --Courtesy of the increasingly kick-ass West Seattle Blog, we present:......

Notes from a day when even Iranians are probably paying more attention to Blake Lewis than to Dick Cheney. --Mario Batali is terrorizing New York on his scooter. --The folks in this meeting at KIRO hq probably wondered if they'd been transported to the set of The Office. --Conference or no conference, Seattle U's going D1 again. Hoorah! --When you're a wanted bank robber, cardboard-sign-at-a-busy-intersection beggar is just too high-profile a side job. --Stop annoying......

--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......