They're setting up for Sandfest 2007 at Westlake Park, which is this Saturday, the 25th. "Community sponsors" will have sculptures built, and then for a $1 suggested donation you can vote for whichever strikes your fancy. (It benefits the Moyer Foundation.) Actually, there's a little Friday night music from 5-6:30pm in Westlake Plaza, the Latin jazz sound of Sonando. Saturday the music runs from 11am-4:30pm, which is when the results of the sculpture competition......

We think Chief Gil Kerlikowske said it best:"We want to hold the ground we've taken and maintain the peace here and have real-time information about where the hot spots are..."Right away you get a sense of the high-level strategy involved in taking Seattle back, street by street, from people with very little money, clean clothes, or a complete high school education. Was it necessary to make the announcement in such a dramatic fashion? We......

Since Monday, Seattle's Parks Department has hired buskers such as Hickman to play from about 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays through September at Pioneer Square and four other parks downtown: Freeway Park, Waterfront Park by the Seattle Aquarium, Westlake Park and Hing Hay Park. Each busker gets paid $30 to play at a park during those hours. The buskers are an expansion of the city's effort during the past two summers to change the......

Oh Boston, you silly over-reacting bunch of Nancys. Who can't tell the difference between a LiteBrite and a real bomb? Seriously, getting riled up and freaking the fuck out over some strange marketing thingies? Over here in Seattle, we're rational types who don't jump to instant, fear-mongering conclusions about things we find in our streets...oh hey, waitaminute:On July 15, 1996, police evacuate a nine-block area around Westlake Center in downtown Seattle after a pickup truck......

If you are afraid of fast cars (Tracy Chapman) or of movie characters existing in reality (Tom Cruise), then don't go downtown today. Because two characters from the upcoming Pixar film Cars---sotto voce: in theaters everywhere June 9th---are making an appearance at Westlake, as real-life cars. Life size models of hotshot rookie racecar Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) and Sally Carrera, a snazzy 2002 Porsche 911 (voiced by Bonnie Hunt) will be on display......

How often do you walk through the Westlake Park plaza? Ever look down on your way through?...

Seattle is a great progenitor of technology, but only now, in the year 2005, is municipal Wi-Fi finally coming to town. To put this in context, Spokane has had a wireless downtown corridor for over a year. Is Seattle behind the times? Mayor Nickels launched the service on May 18th by logging on via laptop in Columbia City. His office's press release cites the Seattle Wi-Fi Project's goal to... ...attract more customers to local business......

Nestled right in the heart of downtown Seattle is a little bit o' free WiFi. Of all places to find out about this little gem, I came across it while viewing pictures of Seattle on Flickr. So take your laptop to Westlake Park and go surfing. thnx dantc According to the press release, dated February 7th: The Downtown Seattle Association (DSA) is introducing free wireless Internet access, also known as WiFi, in Downtown Seattle's Westlake......