After deciding who should be president, the state of the university housing system, and how good my sister's stuffing is, we got down to the real knock-down, voices raised discussion: when, exactly, did Seattle become a real restaurant town, and who were the players?
Without fanfare, as far as our eyes and ears can reach anyway, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has birthed itself a new online-only site – SPI [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/spi/] – for those young readers who are supposed to save the newspaper industry.
Connie Bruck delivers one of her classic profiles, "Rough Rider [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/12/071112fa_fact_bruck]," in the November 12 issue. Sam Zell, born in Seattle and a major landlord in this region, (though he is every inch Chicago-raised), comes across as a crazy like a fox
A tip of the organizational hat to Slog [http://www.thestranger.com/slog] for giving us the long list of all the political parties happening around town tonight. We decided to annotate the list a little so you have some idea what to expect if you're there. Yes on Proposition 1 Westin Hotel, 1900 5t
The Sound Off [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/soundoff/comment.asp?articleID=340904&source=mypi] is still burning up at the P-I Web site over the "Impeachment: If Not Now, When?" op-ed piece that ran at the top of the site's homepage over the weekend.
