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May 16, 2008
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Looking for a way to get out and enjoy some beer with the nice weather this weekend? You've probably got it all figured out, but here are a few ideas anyways: University District Street Fair - Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (6 p.m. Sunday). Nearly 400 craft and food tents to browse, plus live music and other events. The Big Time Brewery beer tent will be the place to be...
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Seattlest has heard good things about the All-Star Pop Culture quiz at Jillian's ever since it started up. We still haven't had a chance to check it out—Tuesday's our regular trivia night, even when we're not hosting. But since the spring season kicks off tonight, we did the next best thing: interviewed Trevor Trifiro, the brains behind the quiz. Assume I've never played pub trivia before. What should I expect when I come to All-Star...
Continue Reading "We Interview: Trevor Trifiro of All-Star Pop Culture Trivia"May 14, 2008
Wednesday morning, Route 301 from Shoreline to downtown Seattle. Waiting patiently, sweating profusely, standing on an over-crowded bus yet again. It's been in the news many times this year. Ridership is up. And with gas prices as they are, we expect the number of people riding will only climb higher. Back in 2006, King County Executive Ron Sims announced a plan to deliver "up to 21 million more annual bus rides within 10 years." Transit...
Continue Reading "We Need More Buses"May 13, 2008
We bring you installment number one of Seattlest's Midnight Movies. No, that's not Kristen Wiig, Amy Poehler, and Casey Wilson. That's real life. That's Bob Fosse. This has nothing to do with Seattle. But, if you're sitting awake in the middle of the night, feelin' blue from the rainy and dreary day that's past, perhaps this'll cheer you up. Enjoy!...
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May 13, 2008
It's raining and crappy out today, which means it's a work day for the guy who hangs out on the skybridge walkway between 1st Ave and Colman Dock Downtown. He's always up there, but when it rains he makes sure that all of the drains are unclogged and no one has to dance around the huge lakes that form on the walkway en route to the ferries. We're not sure why he does this, but...
Continue Reading "The Cleanest Patch of Pavement to be Found in Downtown Seattle"May 12, 2008
On our way down to Portland this weekend, we stopped at the Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens in Woodland, Washington. The grounds were nice, the lilacs pretty, but it was the history found within the old farmhouse we found most interesting. Specifically, a yearbook we believe belonged to Hulda's daughter. We're not sure we were supposed to touch it, much less thumb through it, but we couldn't help ourselves. When we came upon this message (above...
Continue Reading ""An Ardent Admirer""May 11, 2008
Photograph of the Reverend Al Sharpton by Armchair Messiah on Flickr Gothamist watched a series of civil disobedience events, protesting the Sean Bell shooting verdict, unfold across the city--over 200 people, including the Reverend Al Sharpton, were arrested. Somewhat related, on behalf of a black freelance reporter for the NY Post, the NYCLU sued the city and NYPD for racial profiling.Phillyist took a look at how city employees are bankrupting Philadelphia. Not that they...
Continue Reading "Week Around the Ists"May 10, 2008
Nader on Mt. Rushmore, courtesy of the Ralph Nader Flickr Group "Hello Abbey - I work with the, still-nascent, Seattle office of the Nader-Gonzalez campaign..." You lost me with still-nascent--but, that the press release came from the never-ending Nader campaign is perfection. If, for some reason, you're interested in seeing Ralph Nader--and not throwing tomatoes at him for 2000--he will be speaking at The University of Washington on Wednesday May 14th at 7p.m. at Kane...
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We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on Seattlest. Plenty, a book about a couple attempting to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment NWSource, an online guide to Seattle’s entertainment and recreation opportunities. Zipcar, cars by the hour or day, just around the corner. Sign up now and get $50 in driving credit! Busted Tees, which introduces three new designs a week. If you're...
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Seattlest just got our stimulus check from the government—cha-ching!—and we're looking for ways to spend it that don't involve just handing it over to the oil companies. We thought we'd share some ideas: 1) A new tattoo. Recommendations for artists and studios are very welcome in the comments. 2) Gifts for Mom. Sunday is Mother's Day, and our mother is in the opposite part of the country. It would've been cool of us to surprise...
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Or sunburns, more likely. We doubt any of of you have actually thought to pack sunscreen on your person, given the state of our weather lately. KOMO says it's only fifty-five degrees out there, and maybe it is, but it feels awesome outside. It's Friday afternoon, people. Just get up, walk to the elevator, and be on your way. No one will even notice. Go on now. You know you want to. You know you...
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At least, we think this picture counts as evidence. To recap, as Seattlest Jack pointed out a couple of days ago, there's some urban legends about the meaning of sneakers hanging from power lines. Obviously, as an urban legend, there's a lot of interpretations, as commenters on Jack's post pointed out: Some said it means drugs can be easily scored in the area, some think it's a gang thing, others heard it meant that...
Continue Reading "Evidence That Sneakers on Power Lines Mean Drugs Around"May 8, 2008
Photo by Nils Geylen. Thanks! Calling all metric system nerds and Seattle history heads: today is the 217th anniversary of the day the French National Assembly said "Go!" to an official effort to create a metric system. In 1795, France voted the new "meter" into effect as the national unit of measurement and hasn't looked back since; it took the U.S. of A. until 1988 to pass a similar resolution and, 20 years later,...
Continue Reading "Seattle, Meet The Metric System"May 7, 2008
Despite a recent rash of violence surrounding America's Next Top Model in Seattle, this Seattlest decided it would be okay to host an ANTM-viewing party tonight. Though there was a fair amount of yelling two cycles ago because our hatred for Natasha and last cycle because our devotion to Heather (the model with Asperger's Syndrome), were not shared by our friends, we figured that since previous parties the wife organized took place without any...
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May 7, 2008
It was only four days ago that a friend of ours mentioned that shoes hanging from a power line meant it was a "safe" area for dealing drugs, or that it had to do with gang territory. He couldn't remember exactly. We thought that was stupid. We've always thought it was simply the work of some shithead bully. Then we thought of the opening shot in the 1995 stoner-flick, Friday. There they were, a pair...
Continue Reading "Sneakers on the Power Lines, Sandwich in Our Pants"May 5, 2008
We sometimes go to the Farmers Market to buy and eat some animals. Yesterday, at the West Seattle Farmers Market, a bear escaped to the Junction at California and Alaska looking like it was wanting to eat some humans. Anyone know what was going on here?...
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This year’s Kentucky Derby will be marked more by the tragedy of Eight Belles than the dominance of Big Brown. But no matter what you think of the race itself, good times were had down at local racetrack Emerald Downs this weekend. What happened to Eight Belles is awful; no one can argue that. For those not aware, the 2nd place horse suffered two broken ankles immediately after the race finished and had to...
Continue Reading "Derby Day at Emerald Downs"May 4, 2008
A group of Hare Krishna devotees stopped right across the street from Seattlest's house on Capitol Hill to drum and chant and, as their business card told us, "easily awaken our dormant God-consciousness." "That was fantastic, guys," one of the leaders said as the group climbed into a minivan. We think they were headed to 12th and Thomas. Hallelujah!...
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Bostonist went to ROFLCon, a semi-academic conference about the internet and its enthusiasms, and ended up with a Brawndo hangover.Seattlest opened the floor to a few local hip-hop artists who were stirring about Reverend Wright’s controversial comments.Gothamist was amazed to hear that an NYU student decided to eat a muffin found in a classroom--only for the muffin to be filled with razors, leftover from a different professor's class ("ideas in absurdism and randomness," etc.)....
Continue Reading "Week Around the Ists"May 3, 2008
This is what the sun looks like, and that blue stuff behind it, that is called the sky. Sunday and Monday should be nice, so get outside while you can, because the rest of the week looks like the last twenty days....
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In one of those mysterious black-is-white, up-is-down occurrences, Mayor Greg Nickels and the City Council's Richard Conlin have in unison agreed to push for a $0.20 per paper-or-plastic bag fee at grocery and convenience stores and drugstores. While we're still trying to figure out what the vision is, we're aware that paying for bags bugs the hell out of a lot of people. Unsurprisingly, a new fee isn't popular except with people who already share...
Continue Reading "Plastic Bags, Cold Dead Hands, Got It, Guys?"May 2, 2008
HistoryLink.org turned a spritely 10 years old yesterday. In Internet Time that must be like turning 100 years old: an impressive accomplishment in any case. Happiest Birthday to you! It's no secret that many of us in the Seattlest blogroom love HistoryLink. In fact, Seattlest HQ has three direct phone lines, all terminating in red phones kept under glass bell jars. While all of our other traffic, telephonic and internetronic, is efficiently routed by...
Continue Reading "Happy Birthday HistoryLink!"We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on Seattlest. Plenty, a book about a couple attempting to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment NWSource, an online guide to Seattle’s entertainment and recreation opportunities. Zipcar, cars by the hour or day, just around the corner. Sign up now and get $50 in driving credit! Busted Tees, which introduces three new designs a week. If you're...
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Earlier this week, as MyBallard noted, King County Metro reported that Seattle bus ridership in the first three months of 2008 is six percent higher than the same period last year, which we think is great. The more of us on buses, the less of us driving. However, the more of us on buses, the more chance there is to encounter obnoxious cellphone users, which we do not think is great. So we were psyched...
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May 1, 2008
If you do happen to be craving some Japanese antiques, you better get in line now! According to Seattlest tipper and former editor Seth, who has apparently left his windowless office, there is a line around the block at Kyoto Art and Antiques on First Avenue near Qwest Field. The sale started officially at 11 and goes to 7pm according to a gigantic banner stretched across the building. If there's a line stretched around...
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We were getting ready to head down into Ballard last night to check out the Willie Nelson Tribute at Conor Byrne when we had the bright idea of taking our wife out for a dinner date on the way. The short and sweet note asking her out to the singularly lovely Madame K's put a smile on her down-in-the-dumps face almost as big as the one the Madame's orgasm dessert would soon put on ours....
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