photo by suzie [flickr] via our group pool [#]

• Wonder why Value Village (currently for lease!) has that weird smell? Maybe it’s because most of Pike/Pine used to be an auto row. [capitolhillseattle]
• Ladies, your new Bachelor is a Bachelorette reject and Kirklander. [seattlest]
• Now you know what Kim Thayll and Jeff Ament think about grunge. [subpop]
• One word Radiohead preview. [soundonthesound] Yet, even though I saw them twice this tour I still feel a twinge of soggy clogged traffic jealousy.
• Those of you who buy the local daily will be spending an extra quarter for the privilege of newsprint. [p-i]
• The harrowing adventures of a scrappy band of alt-weekly employees struggling to bring you a newspaper in the face of electrical crisis. [slog]

Speaking of that pesky bag fee, Alchemy Goods took all of the signage from Bumbershoot and turned them into stylish messenger bags. [bumbershoot] Just in time for this year’s festival, going back to school, or preparing for more eco-friendly shopping. Really, how many other people can say that Fergie danced in front of their tote bag?

Get your own at Red Balloon. [$]

I just can’t get enough newspaper stories about the deep and powerful effect that next year’s shopping bag fee will have on Seattleites of all stripes. Each of us are special snowflakes, meaning that there are a near-endless supply of tales to tell about how bringing a bag to the store or shelling out a few cents for one will make our lives ever so different once Everything Changes. Today, feast upon the a trio of predictions of how things will be different for grocery baggers who will need a shelf for reusable sacks rather than the plastic bag hangers, mothers who live in fear of nagging daughters, and people already overwhelmed by the paper vs. plastic question who might be crippled by having to decide between returning home or just buying a new bag. [p-i]

I feel so boring for just planning to always pay for disposable bags whenever my purchases are too many to carry. How will you cope? You have only four months to plan!

photo by viv | seattle bon vivant [flickr] via our group pool [#]

• Hempfest caused Christopher Frizzelle to have an out of body experience. [slog]
• Drink with Seattlests tonight at MOE. Remember: no EdWe IRL. [seattlest]
• Teens swimmers circumnavigate Mercer Island for charity, high school graduation. [times]
• A downside of being the daughter of the Seahawks coach is that you get ousted from your fantasy football league. [wbaltv]
• Kapow! wants a statue of Allen to tower over SLU. This is just another excuse to sell t-shirts to go with their coffee, right? [bigblog]

everyblock’s view of the capitol hill infoclouds.

Friends, Seattle is now one of the elite eight cities graced by the presence of EveryBlock. No more toiling to find the news most relevant to your microgeography with all of the RSS feeding, Google alerting, online media scouring during your lunchbreak. Just plug in your ZIP code and let the filtered firehose of data — news, building permits, emergency dispatches, photos, reviews, real estate listings, sidewalk troubadour sightings — about your immediate vicinity wash over you. Or if that’s too much data for the average human mind to process, just hope that your favorite neighborhood weblog tunes in to sort out the interesting from the dull to repurpose it for your refined palate.

(via lost remote [#])

You’ve driven out to the Eastside to see them play in parks. You’ve crammed into the Capitol Hill Block party in the early afternoon to hear them play in the streets. You’ve camped out at Sasquatch to see them play at the Gorge (twice!). You’ve stayed up to watch them play on late night television. And that’s just in the span of a few summer months. Now, beloved local baroque hymnists Fleet Foxes have announced an indoor show in Seattle at the majestically crumbling Moore.

For the surprisingly low price of $15 and all of the associated fees, you can get yourself a ticket to witness the quintet (four of whom sing) filling the place to its soaring ceilings with soaring neospirituals on 19 October. By then, real autumn will be in full effect and this show will be exactly what you need. [themoore]

• OMG. Seattle Times totally ruined the Olympics (for people who didn’t watch swimming live on CBC instead of tape-delayed NBC yet still signed up for breaking-news SMS alerts.) [lostremote]
• Flower Houses are a hold out in the rapid condoification of Alki. [seattledailyphoto]
• Metblogs Dear Leader profiled. [good]
• Washington is a lot more twittery than most of the country, pretty mainstream for other webtrends. [andrewchen via waxy]
• Get psyched for labor day with Kevin Cole’s selections for this week’s KEXP podcast. [bumbershoot]
• I guess no one told the City of Seattle about setting a reserve price on eBay auctions: five million dollars worth of spacetoilets sold for less than $13k, depriving pedestrians, homeless, drug users a few moments of privacy, sparing the city a little bit of embarrassment. [citizenrain]
• One Bus Away is the “new king of bus arrival prediction sites“. I’ve been meaning to try out the iPhone app, but haven’t been convinced to shell out $10. [seattletransitblog]

Starting tomorrow, Bumbershoot tickets hop up to “regular” price: three-day passes go from $80 to $100; daily passes go from $35 to $40. So if you think you’ll be spending Labor Day at Seattle Center (and you really should — every time I look at the lineup I see three or four exciting things I’d missed previously. For instance, did you know that FINAL FANTASY is playing on Sunday night? He is.), dial up the online order form [#] or make a quick trip to your friendly neighborhood Starbucks before the close of business.

And before you start complaining that in the olden days tickets used to be cheaper, please consider that the advance price for three days at Bumbershoot would barely cover a day at most other big summer music festivals. Plus, you don’t even have to see Jack Johnson!

• In truly astonishing news, Starbucks is going to open stores in the Netherlands, which has until-now been Starbucks-free aside from a roasting and distribution center. But don’t worry about them pushing out cafe and coffeeshop culture: they’re only opening in train stations and will, like all of their other stores, be any kind of smoke free. In less astonishing news, the Netherlands is reportedly “between Belgium and Germany”. [p-i via bigblog]
• On Seattle’s anti-public sitting law, part of the “civility” package from the 1990s. [10things]
• Now straights are being gay bashed in Belltown. [belltowner]
• Sharpies are awesome and turn out to be important in the recording process. [lineout]
• Failed club for sale, includes fake Lamborghini? [capitolhillseattle]
• The reason the “sexpresso” story won’t die is because people are keeping it alive. [citizenrain]
• Like the native american feather accessories and keffiyehs before it, now even the fannypack is being reappropriated by the hipster class. [captothehill]