The aim of this page is to provide a quick index to all kinds of useful websites for people living in Seattle. Eventually this page may get broken into multiple articles.
Note: If you are thinking about adding links to this page, please consider creating a new page instead under General resources or another section. There's a discussion on what should really go here (or if this page should exist at all!), please add your comments!
Government sites
Moving around
- Metro Transit -- bus timetables, trip planner, and more
- Sound Transit
- Washington State Ferries
- Lost in Seattle - project to map the city.
- Also see Commuting
Travel Guides / About Seattle
- Seattle Parks Site
- Wikitravel.org Seattle article
- Wikipedia.org Seattle article
- The Rainier Valley - Information about the South-East neighborhoods of Seattle
- GoNorthwest.com Seattle
- City of Seattle Virtual Tour
- Seattle.About.com
- VirtualTourist Seattle Forum
Classifieds
- Craigslist - post and find pretty much anything
- NWSource classifieds (Seattle Times and P-I)
- Freecycle Seattle - Worldwide movement dedicated to recycling useful items within communities
News sites
Schools
Community Sites
- Craig's List Seattle - Online uber-classifieds
- SeattleSucks.com - A website for people with less lauditory views about Seattle
- seattle.wifimug.org - Reviews of coffee shops with free wireless Internet access - also a wiki
- East Coast Seattle - Yahoo! Group for people from the East Coast who live in Seattle
- Seablogs - Conglomeration of all Seattle based blogs
- seattle.metblog - seattle's corner of the metroblogging community weblog universe
- Also see Community
Events
- General Information
- CoffeeHouseWall.com A 3-D wall of event posters showing what's going on in and around Seattle: arts, theater, music, exhibits, film, festivals, galleries and more.
- SeattleArt.org - The Multimedia Underground Guide to the Seattle Emerging Art Scene
- ParentMap Newsmagazine Click&Search calendar - Events and activities for families around the Sound
- Seattle Networking Guide - This month's top professional, social and civic networking events in Seattle
- takepartinart.org- Events calendar of the Arts Coalition, a consortium of more than 140 King County arts groups of every size and across all disciplines.
- SeattlePerforms.com - live-theatre listings from all around the Sound
- More Local Event Calendars
- What's On When.com Seattle
- The Stranger suggests
- Metroblogging Seattle
- Upcoming.org: Metros: Seattle
- Seattle Times: Entertainment & the Arts
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: What's Happening
- KPLU Arts Calendar
- HurryOut user-posted events
- Books
- Music
- CoffeeHouseWall.com A 3-D wall of posters showing what's going on in and around Seattle: arts, theater, music, exhibits, film, festivals and events.
- ForceWeb.com - Puget Sound Music Community
- JamBase.com Seattle - List of Seattle events
- The Stranger Calendar
- Seattle Weekly events
- Genres
- Electronic
- Northwest Techno - Northwest Electronic music / Rave Culture website
- Dance All Night Northwest - Committed to bringing you news, reviews, photos, interviews, venue listings and whatever info you need to successfully dance the night away.
- Hip-Hop
- Lowell Henderson.com - Local DJ/Promoters Event Oriented Website
- Seaspot - Seattle's Online Hip Hop Community
- UrbanKind.com Seattle - UrbanKind's hip hop calender
- B-Boys B-Boys guide to the Seattle Hip Hop scene
- Indie-pop
- The Seattle Pop List - Mailing list for Indiepop in Seattle
- Jazz and Blues
- Punk/Hardcore
- NW Hardcore - NorthWest Hardcore - has a concert calendar and message board.
- Punkin House - Events at the Punkin House and sometimes other small DIY venues.
- Electronic
- Nightclubs
- ClubZone.com Seattle - ClubZone.com's Seattle entry page (click 'events'`)
- Also see List of nightclubs
- Organizations - Seattle Peace Concerts, The Vera Project
- Singles Activity Club
- Sports teams
- Seattle Mariners - Major League Baseball at Safeco Field
- Seattle Seahawks - National Football League at Qwest Field
- Seattle SuperSonics - NBA basketball at Key Arena
- Seattle Storm - Women's basketball at Key Arena
- Seattle Thunderbirds - NHL hockey at Key Arena
- Technology