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None of Seattle's typical "too cool for school" stand-offishness. Tens of thousands of cheerful riders, oohing and cooing, tweeting and twittering along SoundTransit's light rail line. Dozens of staffers in dayglo green shirts directed (human) traffic, and the trains (speedy, quiet) ran every ten minutes or so, tunneling under Beacon Hill and emerging high above MLK in Mt. Baker. (Big crowds expected at the Stadium station, where the MLS Sounders played Chelsea.)

Silver-throated chanteuse Marissa Nadler is prone to sing a cover or two, whether it's Radiohead's "No Surprises" or something from the oeuvre of Leonard Cohen, like "Famous Blue Raincoats" (on her latest album Songs III: Bird on the Water) or "Chelsea Hotel #2" (see above).

Got this email from reader Beth earlier in the week:

Hey Seth -

Continue reading "Get Out: Breakfast with the FA Cup Final"

As April showers turn to May flowers Seattle sports fans continue to hope that this spring will bring better times for the local professional baseball team. But, the Mariners mediocre effort has driven Seattlest to the George and Dragon in Fremont more and more often to catch the latest European soccer action. Here's why.

DEMOCRACY: There's a Seattle school levy election today. If you don't know where you are supposed to vote, but know your name and the day you were born, you can look it up online. If you can't get to that place, you can cast a provisional ballot anywhere--just march up to the nice poll-worker ladies at your local school or church and say "I'd like to cast a provisional ballot, please." We did it last election and it worked like a dream.

AIR SUPPLY: Eric Klinenberg’s new book, Fighting for Air, examines how corporate ownership and control of local media has remade American political and cultural life. Klinenberg, a sociology professor at New York University, is interviewed by Michael Fancher, Seattle Times editor-at-large.

This weekend Seattlest ventured out into the wilderness to spend both nights in Ballard. This rarely occurs, but we're willing to make the arduous journey if we know the music's going to be worth it.

Thirteen teams turned out for Seattlest trivia last night at the Old Pequliar. Want to see how you'd do? Here are all the questions. We'll post answers later today, along with a list of team standings and anything else interesting we find to say about the event.

Thursday night, the undefeated, 2nd-ranked Skyline Spartans host the undefeated, 8th-ranked Eastlake Wolves.

Many major cities around the country have a neighborhood that is considered the hub of the city's gay activity; Capitol Hill right here, Boy's Town in Chicago, Castro in San Francisco, Chelsea in New York. Seattlest has always been intrigued by how these districts come about. We're sure that each one has its own history, but we're equally sure that all of them have been pretty organic. It's something that just happens. You don't generally see a Pride parade march into, say, Laurelhurst, throw up a bunch of rainbow flags and call it a gay quarter.