What'll you have: Dewars or Redhook? Go to Saint, Hazlewood, Shorty's, or the West Seattle Easy Street Records tonight, plunk down some cash, toss back a drink and support The Vera Project, one of the city's most avid supporters and nurturers of Seattle's underage music scene. Starting tonight and running through Saturday, participating bars around town will donate money to the Vera for every Dewars or Redhook you buy in a fundraising effort called A......

Street Car at Third and Yesler courtesy of the Seattle Municipal Archives Belltown says thanks but no thanks to streetcars.The Stranger has an amateur porn contest, while according to the Central District News, the Central Cinema has an amateur horror movie contest.Now that the remnants of Nickelsville has moved to Discovery Park, the Magnolia Voice is your source for all things Nickelsville. There was a movie filming yesterday in Ballard, and MyBallard has the scoop.......

ALL INCLUSIVE: Knowledge is power. Bone up on making your website design more accessible to every PC, Mac, and Blackberry by taking this course, sponsored by Refresh Seattle. Consultant Wendy Chisholm will speak and everyone will head over to the Red Door for snacks afterward. 6:00 p.m. // Fremont Public Library, 731 N. 35th St. // Free WEDDING SEASON: Our ex-boyfriend from college introduced us to the excellent band The Wedding Present. Even his......

Georgetown by Seattlest Flickr photog smohundro The Belltowner is the bearer of wonderful and awful news. The very, very good? H&M opens in downtown Seattle on Thursday...as in tomorrow! The not at all good news? A policeman on bike was attacked with a surgical instrument in Belltown this Saturday. A West Seattle "Thriller" dance team is practicing to participate in a dance-off to beat the world "Thriller" record.Blogging Georgetown wonders if there's a real estate......

Pork Pork Pork by our very own scarequotes Like most things we've attempted to borrow from the 70's, modern key parties just don't sound like nearly as much fun. According to the Belltowner, a "lock and key" singles party will be happening at See Sound next week.Capitol Hill Seattle spots a "government money pit."Unsurprisingly, Magnolia and Queen Anne residents aren't too pleased about the idea of a new jail being built smack dab in the......

First things first: Brett Paulson, barman at Txori, responds to recent violent incidents in Belltown by circulating a petition that asks Governor Gregoire to send in the Washington State Patrol "to help eradicate the open air drug trafficking." Txori is two doors from Wally's, a convenience store that's a magnet for low-lifes, and Paulson's beginning to think it's safer to walk through Belltown's alleys than its sidewalks. Councilman Tim Burgess is on the case......

Kushi are Japanese skewers, bamboo or metal. Threaded with a sardine, a prawn, peppers, pork belly or chicken hearts, they're grilled over makeshift charcoal braziers and served up to passersby in Tokyo. In Belltown, you get to sit. In fact, you'll be served on the new open-air deck along Second, a 40-seat expanse at sidewalk level, while executive chef Billy Beach grills your mushrooms or gizzards (over imported coals) inside. This is Kushibar, from......

[Untitled] by Seattlest Flickr Photographer Jared Wagner. Yummy, sushi! According to the Belltowner, Belltown's latest Japanese street food restaurant, Kushibar, opened to full tables today.The latest North-Broadway-almost-10th-Avenue restaurant is opening next week. Will Poppy succeed or fail?Kirkland's downtown is having its first sidewalk sale this weekend. Here's to hoping for some summer days for shopping.Last, but certainly not least, Seattle's version of the Statue of Liberty, the Alki Statue of Liberty--is out of storage and......

"Urban Coyote I" by Seattlest Flickr contributor prima seadiva The Belltowner covered the Monorail's latest debacle. If the Monorail is looking for a new slogan, we submit the following: "The Monorail--And You Thought the Ferries Were Busted."Phinneywood celebrated the latest artistic addition to their neighborhood: a mural by local artist Ryan Henry Ward. Ward is in the midst of trying to paint 50 different murals in Seattle neighborhoods.Central District News warns of coyotes in the......

Trains by Seattlest Flickr Contributor mraaronmorris My Ballard has lots of tasty news, reporting on Paseo's first day in a new location, Rachael Ray shooting an episode of Rachael's Travels at Volterra, and lots of fat salmon going through the Locks.Phinneywood reports and shares photos of an adorable knit crosswalk pedestrian flag that's popped up in Greenwood. We are all for guerrilla knitting projects, especially those that benefit your community, so we say hooray! The......

South Lake Union Discovery Center courtesy of Seattles Flickr Photographer Johnathan Hanlon Metroblogging Seattle reported bit-by-bit the developing story of a pedestrian cab-scooter-van accident, which proved to be fatal. A 60-year-old passenger in the pedi-cab was killed after the open-air cab alternative suffered a mechanical malfunction and ran a red light.PhinneyWood stays purely hyper-local reporting on two missing neighborhood pets: Sadie (a dog) and Kaitlyn Marie (a pure bred cat). While it might seem tedious......

Robert L. Jamieson has a big, big problem with the way things are down in Belltown and a pretty strong idea of who's to blame: If the fates had cast Greg Nickels as mayor of New York City when Times Square was the pits, overrun with crime and grime, the renaissance of the one-time eyesore would have stayed a dream. "One-time eyesore," huh? Apparently Robert Jamieson hasn't been to New York recently. Jamieson's been on......

At 3 a.m. last Sunday morning, Daniel Stoy, a Microsoft employee from Fargo, in town for a conference, was beaten by five or six men "outside a bar" in the "Belltown neighborhood." digg_url = 'http://digg.com/world_news/Belltown_in_Beatdown_Crisis'; That's the P-I, with their view-from-30,000-feet-style coverage. Stoy was in a coma, but emerged from intensive care on Tuesday. A more forthcoming commenter says the attack happened: ...on 1st Ave, between Bell and Blanchard, in front of Bell Tower (which......

"Batman vs. Superman" courtesy of Flickr photographer Sheeky The Belltowner reports on the SPD's arrest of Superman on 3rd and Pine. Apparently, Superman is jealous of all the attention Batman is getting and threatened to snatch a baby.According to MyBallard, over 3.5 million people tuned in on Tuesday night to watch the season finale of the Deadliest Catch—the real man's reality show with a Ballard connection.The ever-busy West Seattle Blog posted photos of coyotes and......

In Pamplona this week, they're celebrating the festival of St. Fermin. The most famous event, the encierro, played a central role in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: the so-called "running of the bulls" through a narrow, 825-meter passage of narrow streets. YouTube has video of last year's event in Spain; no doubt there will be more images later today. And tonight, in Seattle, our own running of the "bulls" in Belltown. Starting point is the......

Until today, Belltown was the last neighborhood in Seattle without a pho parlor. No longer. Black Bottle, that estimable watering hole for the the Under 30 set, is now serving an elegant pho made with beef brisket that's braised to medium-rare, then roasted to order. The lean and fatty bits--and it's a huge amount of meat--meet up in the broth, and pho, of course, is all about the broth: beef bones, star anise, rock......

We understand you're upset, Belltown. What, with all these drug deals going on right outside your high-rise condos. You've video-taped and photographed the deals going down, you've created a YouTube channel and taken your complaints to local blogs and newspapers...and still it doesn't stop. Maybe that's because the drug dealers and users in Belltown were there long, long before the condos and well before the neighborhood was given its trendy name. What you all......

We love a good drink special, so imagine our delight when we came across a full-page ad in the Weekly for a big ol' happy hour next Wednesday. Join us for a special Seattle Weekly Happy Hour on June 4, when three dozen bars extend their specials to celebrate the release of our new Seattle Weekly Happy Hour Guide! Come celebrate and pick up a copy of your own! Sure, it's a Weekly-sponsored event......

Scott Staples says he always wanted to be on Capitol Hill but couldn't find the right spot. That was before Quinn's, which opened late last year. In the meantime, Zoë the dinner house on Second that he opened in 2001, has become a Belltown fixture. At the bar, the original drinks menu has evolved to more contemporary cocktails ("Spring Flowers" of Ciroc vodka, St. Germain elderflower liqueur, lemon sour and Moscato d'Asti, $9.75). Hold......

Someone named Shilo Urban at Seattle-based CultureMob claimed yesterday that: It’s going around the streets of Seattle like wildfire that Johnny Depp is going to buy the old Crocodile Cafe and make it much, much cooler (and hotter) than it ever was before. Apparently Seattlest isn’t in touch with "the streets," cuz we haven’t heard a thing. Or maybe we’re just not hanging with the right drunks. This is from several unreliable sources, some......

There's a 36-year-old senior surgical resident with the University of Washington who's in the hospital as a patient this week. Police are still looking for his assailants. If you were wandering around Belltown at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning and remember seeing a fight, or a group of meatheads running away from one, call the Seattle Police Department's Homicide and Assault unit at 206-684-5550. The way we read it, one group--the Korean victim, his girlfriend,......

Chefs William Belickis of Mistral, Scott Carsberg of Lampreia, Kerry Sear of Cascadia First Mistral, temple of gastronomy, hushed inner sanctum of the molecular, closed six weeks ago. Then Lampreia, sacred (and almost secret) destination for Seattle devotees of haute-cuisine, put itself up for sale. Now Cascadia, that hardy and trendy hybrid, is out as well. All three owner-chefs have their reasons, and they're not even the same reasons. Mistral's William Belickis is on......

You know how sometimes it seems like you read about the same damn thing every time you turn around? Like Britney. Or Ron Paul. Or the Sonics. It's going to happen again this week, and the name you'll be hearing is Txori. (Think "chirp," like a birdie.) It's the new Basque café (more accurately, a pintxos bar) in Belltown owned by Joseba Jimenez de Jimenez and his wife, Carolin Messier de Jimenez, the couple who......

The title does not refer to the Spokane Street Bridge that "Really Big Things" on the Discovery Channel just featured. Although that was cool. Anonymous tip: KIRO TV built a new parking lot, on the corner of Broad St and 3rd Ave in Bell Town. Look real close at this picture and see if you can figure out what has us all laughing.......

Seattlest got together with local rockers Young Sportsmen last night in their Bell Town practice space to discuss the finer points of incest, judo, and Webster’s Dictionary… Some have dubbed the Seattle music scene, "incestuous." Does that ring true at all, in terms of how the Young Sportsmen came to be? Jeff: Yes, most definitely. [Laughter] I’m sure you guys could elaborate on that… Ryan: Is there anything to really elaborate on? I mean I......