You know what we need in this town? We need a new giant chain restaurant with a theme. Lucky for us, then, that we’re getting one–a new House of Blues is going to be opening eventually right next to the Paramount P-I ^[1]. You know, ’cause Planet Hollywood did so well ^[2] just a few blocks away. (That’s possibly unfair of me. I always associate the two because of Downtown Disney, which is just one of the things that is wrong with my home state, which is not the point here.)

The Seattle Theatre Group hastens to assure us that the programming at the Paramount isn’t going to change, no matter what moves into the neighborhood: “The theater is going to continue with the shows they have always had, some of which includes shows by us. The House of Blues development at the Paramount Tower is really more about providing hospitality services to all of the Paramount patrons.”

One can only hope that the hospitality services involve a late happy hour equal in awesomeness to the one at the Dragonfish.