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Some summer weekends, the Hill is a ghost town. Not surprised by it anymore but we do wonder where all the people go. Thanks to the goodness for the Internet, we can find out.

Poll:

After seeing the success of Rancho Bravo in our part of the city, the gastronomic explorers that power restaurant Sitka and Spruce must have taken note. Seattle Magazine says S and S is (probably!) moving from Eastlake to Capitol Hill. The glossy mag doesn't know where, yet. Thoughts? (We're also testing our new polling code. So belly up to the bar and vote already.)

UPDATE: Thanks for your votes. You were WRONG -- unless you voted Other. Zeebleoop, on the other hand, was on the mark. Sitka (and more) destined for Melrose.

UPDATE:
Interesting "Other" from Zeebleoop in comments below. From a PI real estate post:

Two local developers plan to renovate two adjacent historic automotive buildings in the Pike-Pine neighborhood of Capitol Hill to be used for restaurant and retail.

Liz Dunn of Dunn & Hobbes and Scott Shapiro of Eagle Rock Ventures announced on Monday that they had acquired the two buildings, at 1515 and 1531 Melrose Ave., and plan to renovate them once the current tenant, Metro Auto Rebuild, leaves at the end of January.

Looks like a good possibility. The PDF available from the developers says space will be available for 'tennant build-out' in mid-May.

Kinda late in the game -- poll ends tonight at midnight -- but Capitol Hill-friendly Seattle Quake is in a hard-fought battle against Colorado's GForce Hockey Club to make it through to the next round of Outsports Best Gay Sports Group 2008 tournament.

Call us homo homers if you will but you gotta pull for the hometeam.

Now that we're done documenting the year that was on CHS, it's time to pick the Hill's story of the year.
The nominees:

• Shannon Harps murder (January)
  It scared, angered and left us with a lot of questions. Some were moved to get 'more involved.' Most just went back to living once James A. Williams was locked away.
• Light rail station process and jet art controversy (April)
  It scared, angered and left us with a lot of questions. Wait, same thing here -- but different as the process continues and, ultimately, is about building a great addition to life on the Hill.
• Critical Mass incident on Aloha (July)
  This moment in Hill history sparked by a run-in between a car and a pack of Seattle cyclists out to make a point gave everybody something to buzz about. Combustible engine vs. pedal power. Yuppies vs. hipsters. Reservation holders vs. the reservation-less.
• Snow and ice shuts down Hill (December)
  Of all the nicknames, I prefer Snowpocalypto for the vision of 'end times' the impact the storm and ice brought to Capitol...

This conversation has me working on a Capitolhillseattle.com census. Details to come. I'm in a measuring the collective kind of mood. Add in this weekend's KEXP's pledge drive promotion countdown of the top 903 albums of all time and this question was inevitable:

What's your favorite album... ever?

I'm data driven so will not argue with the numbers -- my favorite album, it turns out, is Morcheeba's Charango (unsurprisingly not on Rolling Stone Mag's list of top 500 albums). You?

In the recent Slog coverage of Crave's lost lease, neighbor jrrrl makes a suggestion for the displaced eatery:

Move to 15th. Can we please put a looong piece of masking tape along the middle of 14th ave? Yuppies stay on that side, hipsters stay on this side. Gays get to use both sides due to a grandfather clause, but only if they're still flaming. We will trade you Boom Noodle for the Canterbury.

I'm curious -- which team are you on? I usually (mistakenly) assume everybody is just like me. That would make you all disgusting, money grubbing, sell-out yuppies. Let's do a quick show of hands.

We recently had a nice little discussion here about the best bartender on Capitol Hill. Decided to embrace and extend that discussion and make nominees the possible choices for a CHS happy hour get-together this month. How's Tuesday, Sept. 30th sound? Vote for one of the nominated watering holes below.

Seattle City Council newbie Bruce Harrell is proposing the creation of a new city Web site designed to harness the power of the city's 'silent majority':

With the available web technology, Councilmember Harrell will call for the implementation of an online gateway incorporated with the current Seattle.Gov website that allows every citizen the opportunity to provide their input in a structured, electronic polling format.

We like ourselves a poll here and there. And other greats of the Seattle Internet have put them to good use, too. So we're not surprised the city wants in on this online democracy thing, too. This, of course, warrants a poll.

We admit it. Last year's award was rigged. We're ready to tell all. To the highest bidder.

In 2007, we were designated Seattle's top neighborhood blog by Seattle Weekly. Last year's award was selected by some SW editor and showed their typical level of editorial judgement.

What we're saying is there's no way we should have won over West Seattle Blog.

In 2008, we're screwed. It looks like the voting for Seattle's top neighborhood blog is being turned over to you, the people. We're not asking for a miracle. We're only asking that you keep it from becoming too amazingly humiliating.

Vote here for Capitolhillseattle.com -- skip to question #12! We'd never stoop so low as voting for ourselves (but beg for votes? not below us!) so we're voting for our neighbors over at Central District News.

Rash of car break-ins in Miller Park begs an interesting question -- what's your strategy for preventing auto break-ins? And, if you don't lock, let us know what kind of car you drive, what's on your auto Ipod and where you park. We have errands we need to run.