Pioneer Square News

Hundreds of people line up on Thanksgiving outside of City Hall in hopes of being given a warm coat or a pair of socks, 300 of which were handed out.

A panel of 12 community leaders was recently named by the Metropolitan King County Council to evaluate candidates for appointment to the council seat that will become vacant when Council Chair Dow Constantine is sworn in next week as King County Executive.

It always been a priority for me to give back and support worthy causes. I recently partnered with Union Gospel Mission to make over their dining room.

Actually it's mostly the Truncheon. Check out the comments left in the past few days.

Belltown became famous in the days of "grunge" music and the "grunge" look. So there's no small irony in a business group urging the neighborhood's condo and property owners to pay extra taxes so they can make their streets as clean as an indoor shopping mall.

City Council president Richard Conlin signed legislation today authorizing the city's Office of Economic Development to accept an allocation of $40 million in federal New Markets Tax Credits .

On Tuesday, Seattle City Council president Richard Conlin signed legislation authorizing the city's Office of Economic Development to accept an allocation of $40 million in federal New Markets Tax Credits .

From atop the Space Needle, Seattle awaits us. The tree-lined streets of Queen Anne Hill to the north; the Frank Gehry-designed Experience Music Project directly beneath us; tugboat racing in the harbour; and on the fringe of downtown, Qwest Field and Safeco Field, two of North America's newest and most attractively designed sports stadiums.

ArtXchange , a local gallery in Pioneer Square, works to promote cultural exchange through art, film, and photography.

The housing market continues to stabilize nationally, according to the third-quarter report from Seattle-based real estate site Zillow.com. But a neighborhood-by-neighborhood look at Seattle shows that fortunes can vary in the distance of a few bus stops.

At Delancey in Ballard, owners Brandon Pettit and his wife, Molly Wizenberg, keep the menu brief - focusing on pizza from a wood-fired brick oven.

An old episode of Frasier , the television comedy set in Seattle, focuses on an impending strike at the fictional radio station where Frasier works as an on-air psychiatrist.

Seattle Steam Company , about which I wrote last year when it announced it would begin burning waste wood, is about to start generating electricity for the first time since 1925, according to The Seattle Times .

"...FYI, they also play the same hip hop music in Belltown, where a more Vanilla crowd hangs out, if you know what I mean..." You have clearly not been to Belltown lately if you truly believe that.

I just received this email from the sweet people at Grand Central and wanted to pass it on! Who can resist a bake sale? It's a delicious way to raise money for a worthy organization that also rewards patrons with every tasty bite.

Sefer Zeqiraj creates beautifully displayed walls of bell peppers in the produce department of the upscale grocer Whole Foods .

West Seattle Hi-Yu may be a summer festival, but its volunteers don't take a break in winter - it's always time to look ahead to next year, including raising money with the holiday ornament sale.

So we're into the doldrums of November: knowing it's going to rain, wondering if it might snow - waiting for Thanksgiving, drumming our fingers, waiting for something to happen .

A threatening note was left at the scene of an Oct. 22 arson that destroyed three Seattle vehicles -- nine days before an officer was shot to death and another was wounded -- but specific officers were not directly targeted, police said Wednesday.

Seattle police gather Monday near 29th Avenue and East Yesler Way, where Officer Timothy Brenton was killed Saturday night as he sat in his patrol car with an officer-trainee. The two had been discussing a traffic stop when a car pulled up and someone inside opened fire.