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An endless stream of Downtown Seattle Flickr photos:
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Accessing the news is just as easy, or rather as natural as breathing nowadays.
We turn on the tv, we browse the Internet, we fetch the newspaper from the mailbox, then poof! we have our dish of the day's news.
Most people claim that convergence in the Internet has strengthened civic awareness and participation through the blogs. In this sense, people are able to air out sentiments and comment on the...
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Early Sunday morning Bedlam took the first steps towards getting the Belltown Needle installed in
the proposed Bell Street Parks project....
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Paul Allen would like to thank the New York Times for this specially prepared PR puff piece:
Seattle's New High-Tech Hub
By JANE HODGES Published: June 21, 2009
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I hope this finds you well and you are enjoying your Summer!...
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Seattle’s service industry may have a reputation for being a bit cold and sometimes even smug, but for every dismissive, hair-tossing elitist hipster server, there is an obnoxious, self-entitled customer. I want to take an opportunity to reflect on the behavior of customers, and to empathize...
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Publisher's Desk - by Alex R. Mayer
Cinerama Movie brings in $5 Million
From Belltown Messenger #68 - June 2009...
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Last year I was forced to go to a pumpkin patch near what Seattleites call "Redmond" and this pumpkin patch was filled with young exhuberant Microsoft guys and their families. And every damn one of the Microsoft guys had designer jeans on. Expensive-looking finely stitched weirdly cut jeans...
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By Clark Humphrey. From Belltown Messenger #67, May 2009.
For months, Seattle Police spokespeople have asked Belltown neighborhood advocates to be patient, insisting they...
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Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels downs five pints of pale ale and four dozen oysters before most people have gotten out of bed, all this to gird himself for his unending day of town meetings attended exclusively by cranks, conspiracy-theorists and common street loons; and then there are those soul-...
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The Verdict on Tribunali
RONALD HOLDEN eats his street - From Belltown Messenger #67, May 2009
Seems like...
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Update 5-21-2009
Another neighborhood news enthusiast loses interest in blogging: "inbelltown.com" is a dead link....
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By Naomi Stenberg - From Belltown Messenger #67 - May 2009
When I saw the title Lullabies from the Axis of Evil, I pictured a band, disaffected and grungy, wearing heavy eyeliner,...
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By P.J. Glassey - From Belltown Messenger #67 - May 2009
Did you know that the calorie-in calorie-out theory has been debunked for years? It’s the type, the combination, and...
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by Gillian G. Gaar - From Belltown Messenger #67 - May 2009
Checked out the new Crocodile on its opening weekend. I wasn’t invited to the “pre-opening” shindig, but the first...
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By Cameron Levin - from Belltown Messenger #67 - May 2009
Belltown, a hub for culture and the arts, attracts a vast gauntlet of bourgeois couples, shoppers, foodies, hustlers,...
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Hey Friends,
Most of you are acquainted with the BCOP program (Belltown Citizens On Patrol) ...........this Saturday, May 2nd our scheduled patrol walk is going to team...
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If it bleeds, it leads. Some more sleazy, exploitative trash from King-5:
Belltown residents join forces to take back their neighborhood...
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EXCLUSIVE: Top 30 Newspaper Sites for March -- Seattle 'P-I' Sinks Without Print Boost
By Jennifer Saba
Published: April 22, 2009 12:10 PM ET
NEW YORK
"Maybe print does drive online readership....
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The bi-annual election of officers for the Belltown Community Council was held tonight and the following people were elected:
Richard R. Nordstrom President
Ariel C. Sanderson Vice President and WPAC Liaison
Ron Turner Vice President...
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Eager to start linking to the Seattle P-I again, so here's a VIP Seattle old-money obit:
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 · Last updated 4/20/2009 3:10 p.m. PT...
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BREAKING! How pretentious is it for me to announce that something here is "breaking." I mean, I only update this site three times a month! Oh well, it's only a blog. I'm not gonna follow up on Brett's latest media appearance. See you in a couple weeks. -Alex...
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Update 5-22-09: All the crap below disparaging the baby-brand-new Post Globe is retarded. As usual I was wrong becuase I've been seeing good things there lately.
Update 5-...
