Columbia City

Margarita Favorita

Bun Love Part II, French Edition

Chickpea Makes Nature's Perfect Bar Snacks

Tamales Make for Good Picnic Fare at Columbia Park

Mercer Island Farmers Market Report

West Seattle Farmers Market Today

As we await the imminent opening of the rest of the farmers markets (starting next month with Columbia City!), pay a visit to the trusty stand-bys who have been braving the elements to provide us with fresh produce and other fabulous food year round.

Another Step for Gentrification in Columbia City?

Local shop owners are at odds over a proposed Business Improvement Association.

Farmers Markets, Frida's Recipes, and Other Food Events

Local shop owners are at odds over a proposed Business Improvement Association.

Mardi Gras Parties

Just close your eyes and think of Rio

Moore Theatre Centennial Party

Vaudeville ain’t dead!

Lottie's Lounge

A friendly, easy-going place in Columbia City with cheap drinks and bizarre potato skewers.

Roy's BBQ

This Columbia City smoker won't turn your messy-cheeked pleasure into a Tums moment.

Bright Man's Burden

What will it take for Seattle's black political community to get behind a candidate like Darryl Smith?

Africa

What will it take for Seattle's black political community to get behind a candidate like Darryl Smith?

Sloooow Soul

The Wellington's food is worth the wait.

Raspberries, Peaches, Wild Mushrooms, and Rhubarb

The Wellington's food is worth the wait.

Breakin' Records: We're Breakin' 'Em!

​Seely may not be impressed, but most of us are. Last night was the highest low temperature on record, says Cliff Mass--a balmy 71 degrees. Even if other regions are accustomed to such temps "on the reg," as Kenny Powers might put it, they also have a lot more air conditioning than we do. Toda ... More >>

Light Rail's Urban Tourists Discover South Seattle Is, Um, in Seattle

​As middle-class whites fall in love with light rail, some are traveling the line to discover foreign lands. Witness a couple strapping Caucasian men who emerged at the Columbia City station the other day wheeling bikes and looking around as if they were college backpackers just landed in Timb ... More >>

Hold That Train! (And, While You're At It, Fix that Machine)

​I had my first experience with running for a light rail train today. I got across the street from the Columbia City station just as the train was pulling up, waited a pause to let the train headed in the opposite direction leave, then made a break for it, grabbing my Ocra card out of my purse ... More >>

Do Good on Wednesday, October 14: Baked Goods & Happy Hour

Columbia City Bakery has been selling Equality Cookies--1,676 at last count--in support of Referendum 71, donating $1 for each cookie sold to Washington Families Standing Together. This coming Wednesday, October 14, for its fourth anniversary, every dollar you spend all day long at Columbia City Bak ... More >>

Rocket Queen: Meet the New Columbia City Theater

A historic room in a musically deprived neighborhood gets a new lease (literally) on life.

The Whore Moans Change Their Name, Play "Last Show" July 3 at Columbia City Theater

​Don't call it a break-up; it's more like a "re-branding." Members of local punk outfit The Whore Moans have decided to retire their semi-scandalous moniker--and possibly change their sound, too. According to a press release from Mt. Fuji Records, the band will now be called "Hounds of the W ... More >>

Too Beautiful to Live

​Don't call it a break-up; it's more like a "re-branding." Members of local punk outfit The Whore Moans have decided to retire their semi-scandalous moniker--and possibly change their sound, too. According to a press release from Mt. Fuji Records, the band will now be called "Hounds of the W ... More >>

Tonight: Hobosexual at the Blue Moon, Too Beautiful To Live with the Long Winters at Columbia City Theater

​Hobosexual, with What What Now, Greenriver Thrillers. Blue Moon Tavern, 712 N.E. 45th St., 675-9116. 10 p.m. $6. Two-man band Hobosexual sounds like a hybrid between '80s hair metal, dirty blues and Southern rock. As in, John Lee Hooker crossed with Warrant's "Cherry Pie" crossed with "Gimme ... More >>

Morning Food News: Free Ice Cream (!) at Full Tilt This Sunday, Artisan Food Festival Headed to Pike Place Market

​Full Tilt in Columbia City hosts Scoop Fest 2010 this Sunday, July 25 from 2 to 5 p.m. You can enjoy free ice cream and live music by Big Sur, Shenandoah Davis, and The Femurs. (Remember, the shop serves beer, too.) If you can, dole out some cash. Donations are being accepted to benefit the R ... More >>

Last Night: The Head and the Heart Pack in Fans, Earn the Hype at Columbia City Theater

Laura Musselman​The Head and the Heart, Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground Columbia City Theater Friday, August 6 Opening with "Cats and Dogs" and "Coeur D'Alene" was one of the smarter moves The Head and the Heart made during their set at Columbia City Theater last night. The much-buzzed-ab ... More >>

Bourbon: Now at the Columbia City Theater

Daniel Stockman, 2009.​ Whiskey Wednesday's investigation into the sushi and hard liquor situation of Liberty has been postponed for the sake of a a very important event in Columbia City (and quite frankly, the need to explore bars outside of Belltown and Capitol Hill). The historic Columbia C ... More >>

Cafe Car: Pool Is Not for Pickups at Billiard Hoang

Photos by Matthew Piel​A weekly column in which we ride the light rail to random stops, hop off, and wander around until something strikes our culinary fancy, treating the train like our own personal café car. The Stop: Columbia City The Vibe: A neighborhood in transition. Columbia City has ... More >>

Eat Pizza at Flying Squirrel, Do Some Good In the Neighborhood

This is how much Rocky The Flying Squirrel likes pizza​It's never been easy being a small, neighborhood movie theater. But these days--what with the big chains muscling in on your turf, the prevalence of 3D screens and IMAX screens, and the fact that most of the movies out there today just fla ... More >>

Win a Pair of Tickets to Columbia City Theater's New Year's Eve with Dyme Def Hounds of the Wild Hunt NighTraiN

Derrick Santini​If you can't decide whether you want to kick off your New Year with rock and roll or hip hop, Columbia City Theater is your best place to be this Friday night. CCT's New Year's Eve party is featuring the best of both worlds -- Seattle's most swaggering hip hop trio Dyme Def wil ... More >>

Vashon Island Bar Owner Debuts Restaurant in U District, Roy's BBQ Says Goodbye to Columbia City, & More

Roy's BBQ says goodbye to Columbia City on January 9.​The owner of Vashon Island's beloved watering hole The Hardware Store opened a business at 5001 25th Avenue Northeast in the University District. 50 North offers comfort food like fried chicken and burgers, much like what they're known for ... More >>

SPD Considering Soft Touch for Columbia City Crack Dealers

Image via​Skeptical cops have called it "hug-a-thug." Supporters maintain that it is far and away the most effective way to fight crime. It is the Drug Market Initiative--a program created by a renowned criminologist from New York that encourages law enforcement to take a carrot-and-stick approach ... More >>

Dyme Def

Image via​Skeptical cops have called it "hug-a-thug." Supporters maintain that it is far and away the most effective way to fight crime. It is the Drug Market Initiative--a program created by a renowned criminologist from New York that encourages law enforcement to take a carrot-and-stick approach ... More >>

West Seattle Could Lose the City's Best Burgers, Columbia City Bids Goodbye to Roy's BBQ, & More

Roy's BBQ says goodbye to Columbia City on January 9.​Here's a rundown of a rather grim week in restaurant news... The biggest buzz is in West Seattle, where SeaMart at 16th Southwest Holden Street is in judicial foreclosure. Whether any of the businesses based in the business emerge unscathe ... More >>

Win a Pair of Tickets to See SHIM, Whalebones, Hobosexual, and Pipsisewah at Columbia City Theater Tomorrow Night!

Whalebones, all bundled up for winter.​Got anything going for Saturday night? Columbia City Theater's got yet another stellar lineup of local rock tomorrow at 9 p.m. SHIM is headlining, with a supporting cast of some of Reverb's favorite local rockers--Whalebones, Hobosexual, and Pipsisewah, a ... More >>

Hoping for a Hock at Thanh Thao

​Dish: Bun Moa (#141) Place: Thanh Thao in Columbia City. Price: $6.95. In the Bowl: The menu advertises it as "mashed pork-pie, ham, pig's feet, and vermicelli spicy soup." Supporting Cast: A side dish of bean sprouts, shredded cabbage, a few strips of iceberg lettuce, Thai basil, banana ... More >>

Seattle's Top 5 Croissants

Le Rêve's golden child: the plain croissant. ​Whether you come by your love of buttery baked goods via a stint in Parisian pastry school, or simply fancy yourself a Francophile, there's good news: if you're looking for a close-to-perfect croissant, there's no need to hop the next 767 to Charl ... More >>

Empire (Espresso Bar) State of Mind

www.empireespressobar.blogspot.comWorld Cup is no small matter here.​Columbia City is one of those rare neighborhoods which visiting always makes me want to purchase a fantastic, historic house and renovate it. While this would be an incredibly impractical and, let's face it, bad decision on m ... More >>

Fleet Foxes Debut Helplessness Blues to Intimate Crowd at Columbia City Theater

Fleet Foxes played at the Columbia City Theater on Thursday, April 15th, 2011. Photos by Laura Musselman.​ Fleet Foxes Columbia City Theater Thursday, April 14th, 2011 Using the 140 characters of a Twitter stream as a judge of someone's emotional state is, at best, a bit dubious. Watching Fle ... More >>

Columbia City Wants Recognition for Its Restaurants

​Organizers of a Columbia City eat-around hope the fund-raising event will help the neighborhood secure a spot on local eaters' mental lists of dining destinations. "Columbia City isn't considered by a lot of Seattleites as a place to go out," event organizer Mika Yamamoto says. "Hopefully th ... More >>

Today Reverb Recommends Catching Seattle Band Sad Face Play on the Light Rail Tonight

​ Got an email a few days ago from local band Sad Face hyping their show at the Columbia City Theater tonight. What caught my eye was the pre-show stunt they're planning on route to the gig.

Snackdown! Columbia City vs. Central District

​Our final match-up in the Neighborhood Snackdown pits Columbia City against the Central District. Which is the better neighborhood for eating?

New Reunion Was The Clear Winner, Last Night at The Columbia City Theater

​Abraham, New Reunion, Deaths Three Daughters Columbia City Theater Thursday, September 15 Oh, Columbia City. Your charming restaurants, quaint cafes, and zippy little light rail make me feel like I'm in another world, far away from Seattle's gritty downtown streets. I was in this magical bub ... More >>

Today Reverb Recommends Attending Sunday's Screening of The Doe Bay Sessions

The Maldives are one of more than a dozen bands to be featured Sunday's Doe Bay Sessions Screening at the Columbia City Theater.​ If you're a fan of wan acoustic folk songs being played in idyllic wooded settings, then you won't want to miss Sunday night's screening of The Doe Bay Sessions. Bi ... More >>

Columbia City's The Royal Room Opens Friday. Skerik, Thousands, and 20 Other Bands on Tap For the First Week

Thousands plays Columbia City's Royal Room (5000 Rainier Avenue South) at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday.​Wayne Horvitz promised that the Royal Room -- the club he's opening in Columbia City with Rendezvous/OK Hotel peeps Steve Freeborn and Tia Matthies -- was going to feature eclectic booking that would ... More >>

Columbia City Cinema Rebirth: South-Side Non-Profit Pledges to Restore Beloved Theater

​Nine months ago the venerable Columbia City Cinema became the latest local indy theater to collapse under the weight of the recession (and, in its case, city-code violations). Now, someone else is stepping in to take a stab at resurrecting this South Side institution.

Rookies Has Booze and 'Chos for the Big Game

​The neighborhood vibe in Columbia City is especially pronounced because its restaurants and bars are designed so folks can talk instead of watch TV - which is infuriating when there's a very important game on. When Alabama played LSU for the first time this season, my husband and I had eveni ... More >>

This Is Killer: Cold War Kids Book Three Nights at the Columbia City Theater, March 1 to 3

​OK, so the last record was a little on the ... tepid side. But the Cold War Kids still put on one of the best, sometimes violent shows around. And putting them into the Columbia City Theater for three nights (March 1 to 3) sounds a lot like a cage fight. If you wanna/need to go to these rid ... More >>