Tomorrow (Tuesday, Aug 6th) is the night (many of) you have been waiting for all year: Seattle Night Out. Starting around 5 pm, your neighbors will be blocking off the streets from traffic, setting up card tables for food, maybe even running a line out for a PA system.

Casseroles, salads (lettuce and fruit-focused), pizzas (meat and vegetarian and perhaps even gluten-free), desserts (brownies and home-baked cookies, I hope) will begin to appear, along with sodas (diet and regular), two buck chuck (red and white) and whiskey (hip flasks shared surreptitiously).

More importantly, your neighbors will be there, out on …

Good morning. It’s going to be a beautiful day, and you need to get outside!

OK, what are you going to do? How about checking out Tilth’s Annual Chicken Coop and Urban Farm Tour, a self-guided, cross-city tour of your neighbor’s backyards, featuring their fine fowl and the elaborate edifices built for them. It’s happening today, Saturday, August 3 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tickets ($5 – $15) and maps can be picked up at the Good Shepherd Center, where Tilth has their office and garden.

Says they:

Seattle is a national hot spot for chicken coops and urban …

(Updated: I asked the candidates several questions, and posted the answer to the wrong question for all the candidates. I have corrected it below.)

I invited all candidates running for the District 4 Seattle City Council seat to share their thoughts on the crisis around homelessness that our city is facing, and offered to reprint their answers here. I heard back from Alex Pedersen, Emily Myers and Cathy Tuttle, who’s answers I share here.

(Reminder: Ballots must be in by Tuesday, August 6th. The ballot dropboxes will close at 8 pm.)

Question: There is a growing frustration in the neighborhood …

Seattle’s Department of Transportation will be holding an open house this Thursday, July 25th from 6 – 8 pm at the Wallingford Senior Center (in the Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N #140) to discuss utility, drainage, curb and sidewalk repairs scheduled for N. 50th St. Work is scheduled to begin as early as Monday, July 29th.

As early as the week of July 29, you can expect:

The long wait for the return of the Iron Bull (2121 N 45th St) is over.

It will not return.

In its stead, though, The Tailgate is now under construction, owned and managed by Liza Danger and Trevor Marsh, the owners of The Octopus Bar on the same block.

However, don’t go there expecting to find an extension of The Octopus’s Georgetown vibe. Tailgate, as its name implies, will be a sports bar first and foremost. The promo text explains:

Tailgate is redefining a sports bar as the place for all those who enjoy drinking, community and culture, and of …

Fresh on the heels of last week’s “Two Options ot Meet the City Council District 4 Candidates This Week“, we have two more opportunities coming up:

First, this Saturday, June 8th, the 43rd District Democrats are hosting a candidate forum at 1pm at the University of Washington’s Husky Union Building (HUB) Room 250, 4001 E Stevens Way NE.

The forum, which will be moderated by CrossCut columnist Dae Shik Kim Hawkins Jr., is open to all candidates. There are seven confirmed candidates attending, including Shaun Scott, Emily Myers, Joshua Newman, Alex Pedersen, Cathy Tuttle, Ethan Hunter, Beth Mountsier. The public …