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This page regularly updates feeds from several sources of local Seattle-area information.

This page is mostly about what's happening now. Find out what happened years ago on this date.

Times local headlines 

What's catching the eye of MSM. Take #1.

Local headlines from The Seattle Times

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PI local headlines 

What's catching the eye of MSM. Take #2.

Local headlines from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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SLOG: The Stranger's blog 

Frequent posts by the paper's writers

News and comments from The Stranger's blog

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Citizen Rain 

  Meta-posts about local blog post from aggregator Citizen Rain

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Seattlest 

These frequent bloggers are part of a conglomerate of city-focused joint-blog sites.

Recent posts from seattlest.com/

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PI's "Big Blog" 

  News and bits from PI writers.

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Crosscut 

Nothwest online newspaper for the "Great Nearby"

  Headlines from Crosscut

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Times: Postman on politics 

  Blog posts by Times political reporter and columnist David Postman

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Strange Bedfellow: PI political blog 

  Posts by PI political reporters and Joel Connelly.

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Metroblogging Seattle 

Another joint-blog, part of a different conglomerate.

Recent posts from seattle.metblogs.com/

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Pike/Pine: Street fashion 

Street fashion from the Hill and beyond

  Photos and comments on street fashion

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Life by Design 

Arts & design

  Posts from Big Fish Design

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Photos from Flickr 

Music Experience Project by dolander

Music Experience Project by dolander

sunny... seattle by picatar

Guardian of the Artic Club by SansSilver

Seattle Public Library (2) by Djof

museum by Chris Blakeley

needle02 by madalyne53

October Sky by Robert Tilman

seattle by foot by fierceflawless

Cuppa Java by cybersooz

Capitol Hill 

Blog posts about Capitol Hill neighborhood

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Queen Anne Hill 

Blog posts about Queen Anne neighborhood

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Belltown Bent 

Blog posts about Belltown neighborhood

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Georgetown Stew 

  Items about Georgetown neighborhood

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West Seattle Blog 

Blog posts about West Seattle neighborhood

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Shilshole and the waterways 

Blog posts from Ship's blog

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BizJournal headlines 

Headlines from Puget Sound Business Journal

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Stateline.org Washington news items 

State news from Stateline.org (Pew Trust)

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Seattle news pull by Google. 

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BlatherWatch 

Seattle news/talk radio and its politics

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Carless in Seattle 

BusChick gets around town in those big blue/teal/green and gold boxes with black stripes

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Some Emerald City Links 

Metro's trip planner
Metro's own trip planner doesn't give an exact map, but it offers more route choices which are often closer or quicker than Google's.
Seattle Bus Monster
Real-time tracking on a Google map of a bus route or all buses at a stop.
This week in WA history
An updated weekly look at the history of Seattle and the state.
Seattle LiveJournal users
What are LiveJournal diarists in Seattle talking about today?
Seattle Channel schedule
What's showing on Seattle Channel today?
CraigsList: Seattle / Tacoma
Local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events
Google's bus map for Metro
Enter start-point and destination address. If you're really lucky, you'll get a map of one possible -- though often bizarre -- route.

Why "Seattle"? A history primer 

Photo of Chief Seattle bust by "coolmel" on Flickr

Although native peoples had lived in villages in the area for thousands of years, Seattle is a relatively young city. The first lasting Euro/white settlement along the densely forested banks of "Elliott Bay" wasn't established until 1851.


The town that grew from those settlements took its name from a tribal elder related to both the Duwamish and Suquamish clans who had villages in the area. He was called "Chief" Seattle by the settlers even though his clans didn't recognize the kind of formal assignment of leadership duties that the word "chief" suggests. His name is sometimes also spelled as "Sealth".


"The different forms arose from the difficulty in catching the guttural pronunciation by the Indians. In addition to the above instances, it may be cited that in 1853, Theodore Winthrop wrote it 'Se-at-tlh.' In 1858, the United States Coast Survey wrote it 'Se-at-tl.' The more euphonious spelling on that first pioneer plat has persisted. The Indians' own name for the place was 'Tzee-tzee-lal-itch,' meaning 'little portage,' and referring to the trail to the large lake -Washington- so much shorter that the circuitous river route."  -- Tacoma Public Library


Pronunciation of local place names, which are often derived from (sometimes misunderstood) native words, is often a tricky task for newcomers and visitors.


Seattle's hour-glass spaped city limits are relatively small and divided into a a number of neighborhoods. (The small map lists all named neighborhoods in each section of the city.)

Starbucks Gossip 

  Way more than you probably wanted to know about Starbucks.

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Daily Weekly 

A Denver-based chain paper occasionally things here

News, politics, media, links from a Seattle Weekly blog

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Seattle Avenue 

Local news bits from a realtor

  Local news plus home-buying tips.

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Urbnlivn: Condo news & reviews 

  News and reviews of Seattle condos from urbnlivn

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LGBT Events and tidbits 

Announcements and tidbits about gay-related stuff

From gay news site seaQwa.com's Seattle-focused blog
Also see: Gay Seattle lens.

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KEXP music blog 

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Seattle Weekly: news 

What passes for "news" items from the new Seattle Weekly

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Riveted 

Writers from Rivet Mag blog arts & culture

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Shows opening this week 

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Amazon selections 

Celebrate The Rain: Cooking With The Fresh And Abundant Flavors Of The Pacific Northwest

Amazon Price: $21.09 (as of 07/12/2009) Buy Now

Answering Chief Seattle

Amazon Price: $15.95 (as of 07/12/2009) Buy Now

Feedback and updates 

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Flashfink wrote

When I was a kid growing up in Vancouver (B.C., not Washington)I watched a lot of TV from Seattle. I figured any city that has shows like J.P. Patches and Nightmare Theater must be a pretty great place!

Reply Posted April 01, 2008

robinev wrote

We've rearranged things a bit and added a feed from the interesting Seattle Daily Photo site. (Yup, we've noticed that the picture doesn't show up until you visit the site, but are hoping that will change.)

Reply Posted October 06, 2006

by robinev

Robin Evans has lived in Seattle for 25 years.  He's the "newseditor" for the gay news site lgbtQnews.com


From 1981 until 1985 or so, Evans was...

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