Results tagged “alfranken”

Considering the 2008 elections occurred, oh, nearly eight months ago, it's hard to believe that some outcomes still aren't determined. Decision 2008 came a little closer to the end today when the activist judges Minnesota Supreme Court, in a 5-0 ruling, ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner of last fall's Senate race. Of course, current Senator/sore loserman Norm Coleman is threatening to keep fighting the not-so-good fight and taking an appeal to federal court, but we kindly suggest that Norm just pull an Uncle Ted and give up now. Or start his campaign for Governor in 3...2...1.... Update: Coleman has conceded.

Seth Kolloen, Seattlest editor emeritus and current editor of Sports Northwest magazine, has found a local sports stand-in for Obama's VP.

CASTING CALL: Local director Garrett Bennett is looking for extras to cast in his independent film The Spy & the Sparrow.

Since there's a pretty heavy overlap between the set of people who read this site and the set of people who listen to KUOW, we're going to guess that most of you already heard of Conservatize Me by KUOW's John Moe, despite our inexcusable failure to review this entertaining, thought-provoking book. For those who haven't, profuse apologies.

Late last night Seattlest was mingling with the post-concert crowd in the Founders Room at Benaroya Hall. We'd just had our socks knocked off by an Erwin Schulhoff piece in the Music of Rembrance concert commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day. (Which makes Schulhoff's death one more thing we have against Nazis.) According to our notes, try the cheese plate, skip the house Pinot.