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LAY OF THE LAND: Queen Anne

Home to: Young professionals turned off by the hype and noise of Belltown, professional artsy types drawn into the arts vortex (Intiman, Seattle Rep, opera, ballet, On the Boards, EMP)

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Carol Lay

Street Eats

• Sexual Real Estate: Houses, Apartments, and Businesses that Provoke Fond Sex Memories and Mortifying Regrets by Sean Nelson
• LAY OF THE LAND: Fremont: Home to: Artsy free spirits, crafty kooks, non-homeless hippies
• LAY OF THE LAND: Ballard: Home to: Aging hipsters with alt-country sympathies, homesick Norwegians
• LAY OF THE LAND: Queen Anne: Home to: Young professionals turned off by the hype and noise of Belltown, professional artsy types drawn into the arts vortex (Intiman, Seattle Rep, opera, ballet, On the Boards, EMP)
• LAY OF THE LAND: Capitol Hill: Home to: Gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendereds; artsy straights who don't mind being sexual minorities (or at least equals)
• LAY OF THE LAND: Downtown: Home To: Out-of-towners, noisy street revelers, colorful hobos
• LAY OF THE LAND: Belltown: Home To: Sexy upper-income city folk, and the sexy hipster workforce staffing their cafes and boutiques
• LAY OF THE LAND: U-District: Home To: The young and horny; the aged and predatory
• STDs, Babies, and Rape: Where to Turn When Things Go Wrong by Annie Wagner

Mecca Cafe (526 Queen Anne Ave N): You can pick up just about anything at the Mecca: a stiff drink, a blue-plate special, lung cancer--not to mention boozy book-readers, hourly employees, and horny alcoholics.

Paragon (2125 Queen Anne Ave N): A Belltown alternative on top of Queen Anne, catering to a straight-and-narrow, Tom Leykis-lovin' crowd, where men will be "men" (of the highlighted-hair, jewelry-wearing, loudmouthed variety) and women will learn to love it.

Tini Biggs (106 First Ave N): After Capitol Hill's Neighbours, this Lower Queen Anne favorite is the scoring-est joint in town, serving humongous specialty martinis in a long, thin room loaded with the sort of heterosexual adventurousness usually associated with airport bars. Even fags get hit on by women here--hard.

Natural Habitats

Seattle Center (305 Harrison St): A colossal mix of the urban and suburban, of art and commerce, providing cruising across the spectrum, from the hordes of teenage girls in MTV slut wear lining up for the concert at KeyArena to drunk punks passed out on the grass around the Kurt Cobain memorial fountain.