Life After Death
Some good may actually come from last month's demise of Capitol Hill's Foxes Restaurant and Lounge [In Other News, Melissa Ross, March 1]. Hungry insomniacs will be happy to know that in mid-June, an all-night diner--Jack's Roadhouse--will open at the 1501 East Olive Way site.
Marcus Charles (proprietor of the Bad Juju Lounge in Capitol Hill and Marcus' Martini Heaven in Pioneer Square) has taken over the building's lease and is planning to turn the place into a 24-hour "classic roadhouse," complete with diner-style comfort food, pool tables, pinball machines, a jukebox, and a "South Florida theme" to be emphasized by a giant shark tank.
Meanwhile, drag queens and punks who regularly packed Foxes' Thursday-night spectacle of horror-show camp and undiscovered bands will have to content themselves with Sit & Spin's Faux Bang revival this Friday, May 4, and upcoming monthly installments thereafter. HANNAH LEVIN
Unlucky Seven
7-Eleven Inc. is suing a Renton man over copyright infringement. No, the local fellow didn't pilfer the secret formula for blue Slurpees. Dallas-based 7-Eleven, the world's largest convenience-store chain with 20,000 stores and $108 million in profits last year, is taking Won Joon Choe to federal court because Choe's own Renton convenience store--LUCKY-7 Food Mart--is mimicking the 7-Eleven logo.
Choe's LUCKY-7 logo cleverly features a large numeral 7 with the colors red, green, and white. According to 7-Eleven's April 18 complaint, Choe had agreed to stop using the copycat logo in August 1999, but still hasn't complied. 7-Eleven is worried that Choe is duping customers into thinking they're actually getting 7-Eleven goods at the LUCKY-7. NANCY DREW
I Have a Dream... of Condos
On Monday, April 30, with an 8-0 vote, the city council approved earmarking $400,000 for James Kelly and the Urban League to build a mixed-use development at 23rd Avenue and Massachusetts Street--the site of the former Colman School. The project will feature an Urban League headquarters, and market-rate and below-market-rate condos ["Museum Peace," Phil Campbell, April 19].
To the chagrin of activists in the black community, the Central Area location was originally slated for an African American museum. NANCY DREW
