…in Four Columns Park on east Capitol Hill probably refers to a young man who died in a freak auto accident under the Alaskan Way Viaduct in early March. The photocopied essay taped to the barricade is a statement by the Dalai Lama, asking his followers to pray for the people of Tibet.

In happier events, dozens of fans gathered outside the Paramount Theater’s stage door Friday night, hoping for a glimpse of that pushing-40-but-still-hawt Eddie Vedder.

Who sez scientists are unsentimental? Not the Pacific Science Center bosses who lit up the arches for St. Patrick’s Day.

In the “it’s not a bug, it’s a feature” department, Greyhound’s boasting of a service “improvement” resulting from its recent axing of hundreds of small-town destinations, some of which now have no public transportation whatsoever.