Located across from Northgate Mall in one of Seattle's densest retail areas, Northgate Community Center provides a welcome respite from the noise and commotion of the surrounding neighborhood. The center shares a parking lot with the Northgate Library, which is located just to the north.
St. Rat, of the Cal Anderson Park's Hot Rat Summer mosaic in Seattle, Washington, mimics a religious object. The Stranger asked Seattle University art historian Ken Allen and Dr. Kristen Doll of the school's Department of Theology and Religious Studies about what it meant. Allen told The Stranger it reminded him of the Rat Bastard Protective Association, a mid-50s art movement on the West Coast, as well as beat writers like Jack Kerouac. Doll said mosaics are common in religious art, but St. Rat's sainthood is an open question.