kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 24 2007 | seattle, news, NBA
wow ... this thing is escalating ...
Quoted: Seattle city officials filed a lawsuit Monday to keep the SuperSonics from leaving town. The lawsuit filed in King County Superior Court was a counter move to a Sonics' attempt to be released from their lease on KeyArena. According to the complaint, "The Sonics promised to 'play all home games ... exclusively"' at the arena at the Seattle Center through Sept. - National Basketball Association news
- kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 16 2008 | seattle, news, music
Some good music at Marymoor Park in July from the Sub Pop label.
Quoted: Sub Pop Records, the indie label that gave the world Nirvana, will celebrate its 20th birthday with a weekend of concerts in a Seattle park in July.
Among the groups reuniting or breaking long hiatuses for the July 12-13 event at Marymoor Park are Green River, Red Red Meat, the Fluid, Beachwood Sparks and Seaweed.
Current label acts confirmed to appear include Mudhoney, comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, Fleet Foxes, Foals, Grand Archives, the Helio Sequence, Iron & Wine, Kinski, Low, No Age, Wolf Parade, Pissed Jeans and the Ruby Suns.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 10 2008 | seattle, news
A nice, feel good story. This guy seemed nice enough when I saw him on the news the other night.
Quoted: A homeless man who has spent the past two years living in a treehouse has a new, terrestrial home just in the nick of time, thanks to neighbors. ...
After delivering the RV Tuesday evening, owner Timothy Custer decided instead to sell it to Csaky for a penny.
ShareViewed: 4 Times - kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 20 2008 | seattle, nba, news
If road teams won't want to play in OKC, how hard will be be to get players who will actually want to be on a team based in OKC?
Quoted: Shaquille O'Neal and other Phoenix Suns personnel say they can't see Oklahoma City as a better NBA city than Seattle.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 19 2008 | seattle, news
T has been mentioning the Lusty Lady too frequently lately.
Quoted: When Déjà Vu opens another strip club downtown later this year -- right by the federal courthouse and the swanky new Metropolitan Towers condos -- it won't be the only strange bedfellow in town.
On the other side of downtown from where naked women will give lap dances down the street from seated juries, the Four Seasons hotel and condominiums will open next to Seattle's legendary strip club: the Lusty Lady.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 16 2008 | news, health, seattle, local
Seattle is on the list for greatest number of parks per square mile.
Quoted: A look at the best walking cities in all 50 states.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 22 2008 | seattle, news, weird
Aren't there cases where police can just take a kid away? This should have been one of those times.
Quoted: A Seattle police officer stopped a mother from lighting a cigarette near an open gas can inside her car at Pike Place Market Friday -- and likely prevented an explosion that could have injured her infant daughter inside the vehicle.
- kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 03 2008 | seattle, news
FYI - A map of where all the red light cameras are/will be in Seattle.
Quoted: Seattle street crews will install two dozen additional red-light cameras at 19 busy intersections this year, Mayor Greg Nickels and the City Council announced Wednesday.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 18 2007 | health, seattle, news
Read this before dinner, not after ... you might want to change where you're headed. These are restaurants that have 10 or more health and safety violations this year.
Quoted: The local restaurants with the worst health inspection records are a surprising group, including one of the city's finest restaurants, Wild Ginger, above. The Seattle P-I analyzed thousands of inspections to tell you where the problems were found.
ShareViewed: 16 Times - kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 12 2007 | seattle, news, travel
Good news for travelers ...
Quoted: Virgin America will offer seven new daily non-stop flights from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to San Francisco and Los Angeles starting in March of 2008. ...
Virgin America is the fourth new airline to announce service to Sea-Tac in 2007; earlier this year, Air France started non-stop service to Paris, AeroMexico started non-stop service to Mexico City, and Lufthansa announced non-stop service to Frankfurt. And, earlier this week, Northwest Airlines announced new non-stop service to London.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 08 2007 | seattle, nba, news
Ouch ...
Quoted: NBA commissioner David Stern warned on Thursday that if the SuperSonics leave Seattle he sees no way the league would ever return to the city. "I'd love to find a way to keep the team there," he said, "because if the team moves, there's not going to be another team there, not in any conceivable future plan that I could envision, and that would be too bad." At a news conference following his... - National Basketball Association news
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