Results tagged “420”

• While we were all basking in the sun, these local--crazy--folks were running amuck in Boston.
• We were good and didn't prompt any 4/20 talk, but that didn't stop former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper, who dives into the pot vs. alcohol argument on Huffington Post.
• You may recall the mysterious explosions on Alki earlier this year, which turned out to be a secretive Justin Timberlake production. Well, tonight the reality TV insanity continues as his new game show, The Phone premieres on MTV.

Well, now, we're not going to try to put this up at exactly 4:20 because that would be, you know, predictable.

Although we've passed the point in our life where actually going to Hempfest is no longer the choice we'd make on this steamy summer weekend, it is just the kind of thing we love about Seattle: it's a unique event that doesn't take place anywhere else, at least not on the scale that it does here; it's in support of a cause we believe in wholeheartedly; and it offers great views of the mountains and the water. What more could we ask from this event?

The first caller claimed they "weren't looking to buy marijuana" (uh-huh), they were just curious if they could. Wilson claims he simply replied, "No, we're not selling dope." But we wonder if he also added a little p.s. with that statement, such as, "I do happen to arrest people for doing so." We always suspected buying drugs off Craigslist could lead only to the local police finding out, but this wasn't how we imagined it would happen.

Well, it's been a month, and that can only mean one thing: time for the next free edgy youth culture documentary, care of Scion. Last time around, the topic was blood diamonds in hip hop; this time it's all about nightclubbing in the late '80s NYC queer community.

We're living in the town that Microsoft Office built, and all in all it's not too shabby. Every once in a while we're struck by something and think, "wow, someone paid upwards of $300 for a graphical representation of a talking paper clip and we used the money to build this..." But generally it's been a pretty good deal for Seattle. Time marches on, though, and what was once the raison d'etre for personal computers becomes just another bloated piece of virus-propagation ware choking up the system drive and gathering dust. The web browser is now the first thing we open in the morning and the last program to close at night, with fewer and fewer between. Google Apps represent the future where browser is the computer. Good thing there's no such beast as Google Apps Enterprise Edition... Doh!

Local comic journalist (that's a journalist working in the medium of comics, not a journalist covering comics) Peter Bagge made the cover of Reason magazine this month.

We got our first link to WalkScore in the email a week ago and the idea of a mapping site that scored the walkability of neighborhoods sounded interesting, but when we tried to visit the site we found that it didn't work in Firefox.

We were sitting at Uber Tavern this weekend drinking a few beers, and the bartender brings in these awesome looking sandwiches that he and his buddies start chowing down on. He notices us staring (And possibly drooling just a little bit) and he throws us their menu and says, "It's only 3 blocks up the street and the sandwiches are great. Just order now. They close in 20 minutes."

No longer do harried Capitol Hill denizens have to brave the typically non-working escalator to get to Bartell's above the QFC, a block south. A Walgreens is the "Now Open" tenant of the first-floor retail space in the 44-unit apartment complex Broadway Crossing at Broadway and Pine, across the street from Seattle Central Community College.

Short and sweet: Aqueduct is teh awesome, and omfg, they're playing two record release shows at the Croc this Saturday. Lucky you, Seattlest has two pair of tickets to give away. Winners get their choice of show (all ages at 4pm or 21+ at 9pm), as well as copies of Aqueduct's latest (Or Give Me Death), their previous album (I Sold Gold), and Trying To Never Catch Up care of opening band What Made Milwaukee Famous. Enter for a chance to win by filling out the form below. Winners will be drawn tomorrow at noon.

We did an Aqueduct giveaway in February to celebrate singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/pop song guru David Terry's third full-length album. And now we're doing another one to herald his triumphant set of record release shows this Saturday at the Croc. So f-ing what? There's no denying Terry's mature pop sensibilities (try as you might, Pitchfork), and everybody knows Aqueduct is certifiably awesome live, with Terry and friends playing over pre-recorded samples and beats, adding layers of texture to the already-dense sound.

We'd heard of Paleo before, but didn't know much about him, so we trucked all the way from the Hill to Ballard just to check him live. His MySpace page said the show started at 8, but the bar door was locked when we got there. We really enjoyed our four side dishes at Hatties Hat while we waited for the Tractor to open. Unfortunately, Hatties' spinach casserole and sweet potato fries were the best thing to happen all night.

If there's one thing singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist David Terry loves, it's a juicy pop hook. On his third Aqueduct full-length, Or Give Me Death [stream the entire album here], along with big drum sounds and ELO synth riffs, he's incorporated mariachi horns, string arrangements, layered vocals, and piano lines, making it his most mature release yet. And yes, we say that knowing full well that the album contains "As You Wish" [mp3], which just so happens to be the best blatant Princess Bride-cribbing song EVER.

SUPER BLOW: A bunch of big guys grabbing each other while wearing skin-tight clothes, with ass-slapping and Prince songs. No, it's not Comeback, its the goddamn SuperBowl. Sorry editor Dan, but we're rooting for the Colts.

For serious wine geeks, it's all about the pursuit of perfection. We'll tolerate the bafflement of friends, the disappointment of poor vintages, the torment of indifferent service and the frustration of inferior bottles--because we have faith that now and again, with the clarity of a religious vision, we will experience something Utopian.

Steve Jobs just unveiled the new iPhone in his keynote speech at Macworld in San Francisco. If you're a Mac freak you already know this because you've been sucking down the Mac Insider streaming coverage like crack through a straw. If not, would you just lookit this thing?

Living in Seattle, we've become attuned to the winter solstice, as it's the date we can start looking for evidence that the world isn't falling into an ever-increasing black maw. The next few days are critical. If this site is to be believed, we have 3 seconds less daylight today than yesterday. In theory, this process will start to reverse itself. But you know how skeptical we are about "theories" these days.

How does one sum up the experience that is 26.2 miles of "mixed winter precip"?

Mark Frauenfelder of the awesome site Boing Boing and the awesome magazine Make Magazine (which Seattlest has contributed articles to) will be in town tonight at the awesome Seattle gallery Roq la Rue. "Retrorama!" opens at the gallery this evening and Mark has some paintings in the show. We sent him some email asking about it and his replies are below.

FREE!

In the Seattle Times this morning there's an article on how Ron Sims' early efforts to raise awareness around global warming, in 1988, made him the laughingstock of the Times editorial page, who accused him of "belching" hyperbolic rhetoric:

Complaining about Starbucks has been a favorite Seattle activity since they blew up on the international scene and became almost synonymous with espresso around the country. Their roasts are too bitter, their drinks are too sweet and fattening, their baristas too mechanical. We'd complain about Microsoft more, but we just don't know enough about software to really care that much. Coffee we know. It's too damn sweet/bitter/milky/ expensive/small-coffee- farmer-unfriendly.

A few weeks ago, Capitol Hill Housing had its Annual Meeting, which may surprise you if, like Seattlest, you were unaware that CCHIP existed at all. The community-based non-profit housing development and management corporation is dedicated to the twin goals of affordable housing and the preservation of neighborhood character.

Evidently fed up with left-wing bias on current radio home KJR 950, the Sonics are moving their radio broadcast to right-wing talk station KTTH ("The Truth") 770 next season.

The holidays are over (except for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, of course), so authors are starting to make their way to Seattle again, ready to read excerpts and sign autographs so that you'll be tempted to buy their latest title. Here's a cheat sheet for the week in book tours.

Seattlest is a SeattlePI.com power user (so you don't have to be) so we get real excited about new website functionality over there. Yesterday the P-I launched something new with the unfortunate "my" prefix (which does immediately let you know exactly what it is, but is tired nonetheless). Ok, you've been a web user for some time now. We're assuming you're pretty savvy or you wouldn't be here and you can probably guess what "My-PI" does without any training wheels from Seattlest, but that's not going to stop us from rambling on for another couple hundred words.

The Seattle-based U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy arrived at the North Pole on Monday as a part of an international scientific mission. The 420' Healy is accompanied by the Swedish icebreaker Oden and together the ships are offically set to conduct sea floor mapping and ice coring exercises, but if you believe that's their only mission than Seattlest needs to clue you into the military significance of the S. Claus Northern Compound. We're just saying, you don't go to the North Pole for ice cubes. The next destination for the Healy is Tromsø, Norway. (If the cartoonish qualities of the map linked in the previous sentence seem odd to you, you should see the plan for the Aftermath of the Iraq Invasion that's hidden away inside the Pentagon.)

The PI published an article yesterday about the rise of large pot growing operations in the state of Washington, particularly Chelan County and there's an identical version in the Seattle Times today. Last summer and fall pot harvests were captured with an estimated street value of $25.6 million in Chelan and Douglas counties.