Can't Miss It: Wednesday
REAL STRONG ALE FESTIVAL: Collins Pub will be hosting the annual festival which takes place from March 3 to March 7. The line-up of beers includes Imperial Stouts, Imperial India Pale Ales, Barleywines, and Sour Ales. Beers will be available in sample flights or in full glasses.
The list:
Lost Abbey Angels Share 08
Alaskan Barleywine 08
Mad River Wheat Wine 09
Southern Tier Creme Brule 09
Deschutes Abyss
Deschutes XXI
Deschutes Mirror Mirror
Deschutes Dissident
Full Sail Old Boardhead Barleywine 05
Port Brewing Older Viscosity 09
Fish Old Woody 08
Anchor Old Foghorn 07
Pike Old Bawdy 07
Deschutes Jubel 2010
Great Divide Hercules IPA
Plus, a few surprises
4:00 p.m. // Collins Pub
SEATTLE SUPERSONICS?: Their names roll off the tongue, a litany of the damned: the Providence Steam Roller, the Wilmington Quicksteps, the Cincinnati Porkers. They are the lost squads of professional sports history—teams forsaken by fans, fleeced by owners, or forgotten by time. Until now.
Kiss 'Em Goodbye unearths the real stories of dozens of vanished teams that once graced North Americ's big leagues. Like the St. Paul Apostles, the only major league team never to have played a home game; Card-Pitt, the NFL's World War II doormat; and the Philadelphia Quakers of the NHL, a team owned jointly by bootleggers and a retired boxer who climbed back into the ring to help meet payroll.
In obituaries for both big-city franchises that skipped town (the Baltimore Colts, the Brooklyn Dodgers) and small-town teams that had their brief moment of glory (the Tonawanda Kardex, the Pottsville Maroons), Kiss 'Em Goodbye commemorates mysterious fires, waterlogged basketball courts, fields tended by goats, and uniforms that broke team budgets. It's all here in a fascinating, hilarious, page-turning celebration of teams that prove it's not whether you win or lose, but that you once played the game.
7:00 p.m. // Sport Restaurant and Bar
OLD PARTNER: In a remote valley in South Korea, the elderly Mr. and Mrs. Lee live on a farm with their rickety ox. For forty years, the animal has served them faithfully, hauling untold firewood loads and dragging the plow through fertile fields. This documentary playfully and poetically tells the story of the ineffable bond between the Lees and this creature as their lives wind down in tandem. The camera lingers intimately on the ox's kind eyes and creaky bones, allowing us to sense the depth of this sentient being's loyalty as he carts Mr. Lee to town. In return, Mr. Lee collects special fodder by hand and refuses to spray insecticides for fear of poisoning his beloved beast. A charming, heartbreaking, existential buddy tale, Old Partner conveys the almost mystical inextricability of humans and nature.
7:00 p.m. // Northwest Film Forum // Tickets: $6-$9
