Victoria Thomas Gentry, owner of Vain, a community-center-gallery-art-studio-hairstyling-salon, checks new wall hangings in the lobby.

Belltown by night is known for its urban, hip nightlife, a party rep that has caught the attention of both our mayor and police chief because of the occasional gunfight and assorted bad-boy mayhem. (To you who are, even now, composing e-mail about the gross misrepresentation of Belltown by my mention of a few isolated incidents in an otherwise diverse and peaceful neighborhood, let me just say, keep reading.)