The Weekend Wrap: April 3-9

"Aurora Motels 15" courtesy of our Flickr pool's LeftCoastLetters

Mayor McGinn’s Town Hall Meeting (My Ballard)
Mayor follows up on town hall questions (Beacon Hill Blog)
Lucky Diner: New Belltown Restaurant coming May 2011 (belltownpeople)
City report recommends ‘hot spot’ policing — Broadway would probably make the list (Capitol Hill Seattle)
Planned ‘Chieftain’ pub near Seattle U ruffles some Redhawk feathers (Central District News)
Seattle Times: Ghosts of city’s maritime past lie at bottom of Lake Union (Eastlake Ave)
Fremont Troll Meets His Maker (Fremont Universe)
A less “gritty” neighborhood (Blogging Georgetown)
Councilmember Clark announces new program to revitalize and re-purpose Seattle’s empty lots (My Green Lake)
Matthew Inman, creator of ‘The Oatmeal,’ shares his thoughts on Green Lake Park (also My Green Lake)
Readers Recommend New Restaurant Across From the U Village (Laurelhurst Blog)
Madison Park as commercial hub (Madison Park Blogger)
Farmer’s Market fundraising continues; Interbay will get Thursday market (Magnolia Voice)
15th Avenue bridge to reopen in a week (Maple Leaf Life)
Now & Then Exhibit Opens at MOHAI (Montlake.net)
School of Rock moving to Crown Hill/Greenwood (PhinneyWood)
Seattle Restaurant Week is back April 10-14, 17-21 (Queen Anne View)
Rainier Valley by the Numbers: Parsing Census Data According to Race (Rainier Valley Post)
Metro proposes changes to Route 73 and 41 (Roosiehood)
Lessons In Civic Activism: Greenwood Gardens (Southend Seattle)
Kicking people in the teeth (South Seattle Beacon)
Parking changes come to the U-District (U District Daily)
Dinosaurs have arrived at Woodland Park Zoo (My Wallingford)
Richard Haag, Gas Works Designer (Wallyhood)
City seeks green “tree stewards” (Wedgwood View)
Myth-busting the ‘green stormwater infrastructure’ plan (West Seattle Blog)
What that big construction site is all about (White Center Now)