That photo is LETHALLY ADORABLE. Lucky I voted earlier because I am now dead.

Love your outfit, Bethany dear. Very kicky!

See, this is why Fremont rules.

You come up with red tape to do something.

We just do it.

Yep, definite cutest picture of the day award.

Cutest pic was Monica's pic of her new baby with a signed ballot envelope next to it ...

FYI: Barrio means neighborhood in Spanish. Americans have given the word a derogatory connotation to refer to the "undesirable" Latino areas, so cut it out, your whiteness is showing!

I love that picture so much. Can you guys post it again around Christmas?

I'll echo @6. Barrio = neighborhood. Not rich neighborhood, not poor neighborhood, just neighborhood.

I felt bad for Hunters over that poor decrepit abomination of a rink. At least they tried. Logistically it couldn't have been easy.

I wonder if you could set one up next to SSCC?

My whiteness is always showing. Thanks for calling it out -- seriously. Much appreciated. But do you not get the gentrification vibe from that place in a way that makes the use of that title less than recuperative?

@8: I see what you're saying. But my point is sort of that this is not a neutral space in a neutral (or middle-class neighborhood). This is an upscale restaurant in a wealthy neighborhood. Does the title really feel recuperative? As juanalonso shares in a continued conversation over on Facebook, "I know what you're saying. I was there once and asked why all the Mexicans were in the kitchen and all the waitstaff was white. What?!"

After years and years of reading Slog, I just wanted to register real quick to tell you that "Holiday Lube Board" has made my year.

@12 I'm not sure what you mean by "does the title feel recuperative." Do you mean is the name of the restaurant an attempt to restore something?
I haven't been to the restaurant since I'm not living in Seattle now, but I guess I'd prefer that I had Mexicans cooking me Mexican food than someone else. Did you ever go to the Mexican place on the Ave (near where Hot Lips used to be) after a Chinese family bought it and tried to keep it Mexican? Terrible. It's not to say anyone can't learn to cook any cuisine, but it's a safer bet. I guess Juan's point is based on the assumption that waitstaff are paid more? Or perhaps white Capitol Hill residents would rather have white servers?

@6, @8, in Latin America, it means "neighborhood". In the USA, it has attached to it a predominantly Chicano meaning: "Chicano neighborhood". There's some New York Boricua flavor there too, but the adoption of "barrio" in the US, especially IN ENGLISH, is predominantly an LA Chicano, i.e., Mexican-American, thing.

Words have contexts, you know. Just like "white" isn't just the color of a sheet of paper. The word "hood" is also "just neighborhood" but it has specific connotations; and like "barrio" is rarely used even by residents to refer to their specific neighborhood, even in Spanish, but generically, to denote the predominantly Hispanic or Latino communities in the area, or other ethnic groups; barrio chino, barrio judío, barrio gabacho.

In Mexico, you won't hear the word "barrio" much at all, at least, not to refer to a specific neighborhood by name; the name for a municipal neighborhood is "colonia". Not just in Mexico City either. You wouldn't ask "what barrio are you from?"; you'd ask which colonia.

Frankly "Chicano neighborhood" is a much funnier way to describe Capitol Hill (or a restaurant there) than "poor neighborhood" would be.

I'm with Fnarf... and here's a thing on Barrio (and Poquitos, and a newer, better place):

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/less-…

I'm with @6 and @8. I associate Barrio with neighborhood, and obviously the owners do as well. Unless you use the Alanis Morissette irony method, Barrio is not ironic.

Adorable pic.

I got all exited last year when I heard the announcement of an ice rink. I grew up in a colder climate, and ice skating was an integral part of my childhood. So, major nostalgia and all that. I still own a pair of hockey skates that I still drag out and use once every few years.

But when I heard this ice rink was an "ice rink" made of plastic, I just wanted to hurl. I was actually angry at the moron that came up with this horrible idea for tricking me into thinking this might bring back fond childhood memories. It was a terrible, terrible idea. An idea that should never ever be repeated. Ever.

In reality, WA is already an Hispanic state, but you insulated people on Mercer Island and Capitol Hill don't realize it yet.

What I love is all the Hispanic restaurant workers in Fremont at the Thai, Indian, and other restaurants.

As to plastic, if it's post-consumer recycled plastic, what's the problem?

"WE TRIED HARD TO HAVE FUN Charles, Bethany, plastic, lube"

Looking forward to the Savage Love letter-of-the-day that elucidates this haikuish sex-failure lament.

BTW, folks, I know Jen and I did not take her remarks in a negative way AT ALL nor should my response be taken that way either. Sometimes my sense of humor doesn't show as much as it should. We have a lot more serious stuff to deal with tonight!!!