Archive for the 'Downtown' Category


Finding Happy Hours in Seattle

After seeing Seattle Busmonster and a dozen other cool Google mash-ups, I had the brilliant idea of creating a Seattle Happy Hour finder only to find out that it already existed. Unthirsty.com is a happy hour finder for anywhere (including Seattle of course) and as of this writing there are dozens of happy hours posted [...]

Condo Shopping in Seattle

I’ve been thinking about getting all grown up and purchasing a home. A condo, to be exact. I don’t want to deal with a yard and if at all possible I’d like to maintain my walk-to-work urban lifestyle. The problem, real estate buys are complicated! The market is crazy (inflated? a good time to [...]

The Prolific Space Needle

I feel confident guessing there are millions of photographs of the Space Needle littering personal photo albums, office desks and on Seattle tourist paraphenalia everywhere.* As Seattle’s most prominent and well known skyline feature, both tourists and locals can’t help but shoot the thing. You can view the Space Needle from myriad perspectives at [...]

Seattle Immigration Protest March

On Monday April 10, 2006 the streets in cities all over the US were flooded with demonstrators peacefully protesting legislation approved by the House of Representatives last year that would make felons of on what has become the National Day of Action for Immigrant Justice. Pictured at right, Third Avenue in downtown Seattle was [...]

Seattle Skyline at Night

Source: LJ post, traced photo url to user ‘tfinsea’ at photobucket.com.