We’re only going to be in our twenties for the next three weeks, so lately we’ve been trying to feel younger--and there is no better place to accomplish this than at a local district Democrat meeting. Once again we were one of the youngest people in the room. We love you sweet, sweet democracy. What always strikes us about these meetings is how hard it is to find parking, and all the wasted paper......

Last year, we had the joy of walking around town before the precarious date of 6/6/06 and seeing images of nuclear holocaust strung across every light poll in town (meaning on Capitol Hill). This year, we get the pleasure of anticipating our big 3-0 on a far more auspicious date: 7/7/07. As a child of 7/7/77, we've lived with the inevitability of next Saturday for our whole lives. For us, it's the only time......

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti......

I love Al Gore and I was really looking forward to seeing him talk at Town Hall on Monday night, but I was under no illusions that I would get to see him announce that he was running for President. I fell for that one before. When Barack Obama came through town on a book tour I got in a blood-boiling, fist-pumping frenzy for some kind of announcement, but what I got was a tepid......

Man, it's the Beastie Boys thing all over again. We just got the email from Town Hall that Al Gore's appearance at Town Hall this Monday, June 4, is sold out already. Tickets were only $5, but still! Listen to what some lucky (and thrifty) listeners will get to hear about: Al Gore’s fiercely-argued new book, The Assault on Reason, is an indictment of current policy making -- especially the President’s use of power and......

Monday BOOK CRUSH: Librarian Nancy Pearl´s latest book is Book Crush, a guide to books you loved when you were growing up. How does she know? Head over to the launch party and find out. 7-8:30pm // Seattle Central Public Library Microsoft Auditorium // FREE PETER BEAGLE SPEAKS: For the Fantastic Fiction Salon, fantasy author Peter Beagle (The Last Unicorn, Tamsin, and The Innkeeper's Song) teaches "Dialogue Says it All." 7pm // Hugo House......

The Daily Show appearance of the guy who staged a semi-successful one-man Holy War against An Inconvenient Truth in Federal Way has already been posted elsewhere, but we can't help reposting. He's really a funny guy--his Church Lady and his Al Gore impressions are hilarious and it seems like hanging out with him would be like spending some high energy time with Robin Williams, if Robin Williams were a religious nut who believed that any......

FILM: The NW Film Forum is screening the potentially watchable Climates, which won a less than inspiring 71% at the rotten tomato site. Of course you can't go by those ratings since a masterpiece like Anchorman scored a feeble 64%, but an over-rated gorefest like Pan's Labrynth won a ludicrous 95%. That's worse than Al Gore losing to George Bush. 7, 9:30 // 1515 12th Ave // $8.50 MUSIC: The last time we did......

They can handle uncertainty--it is a professional requirement, in fact--but they tend to avoid speaking about their research unless they are very certain about something. (At least the good ones do.) Increasingly so, the precision and certainty of science are being put on trial on a public scale never before experienced. And to a degree, the admirable tendency of scientists to demand certainty is in conflict with our need as the public to potentially act......

Monday SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES: Art Spiegelman's 1992 Holocaust tale Maus (based on a true story) won the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to a comic book. Its success paved the way for the graphic novels thriving today and led to Spiegelman's ten years on the staff of the New Yorker. In the Shadow of No Towers (2004) gathers his recent broadsheets of disenchantment with the war on terror. 7:30pm // Benaroya Hall // Tickets:......

Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of "Friday Night Lights" production to New Mexico. Bostonist was happy they finally found an Anna Nicole Smith connection to their fair city and that an Apple Store was opening up. They were less happy that new rules have been established limiting underage shows and that their Governor is spending......

MUSIC: Tim O'Brien, Jerry Douglas, Chris Thile & How to Grow a Band, Darrel Scott Band, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Uncle Earl, and many more at Wintergrass. Wintergrass is one of the biggest bluegrass festivals in the country, and this is one of the best line-ups they've had in some time. It's worth it to go see all the bands, or just to hang out in the lobby and jam out all weekend for free.......

We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he's working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur,......

Federal Way got all the press, but more than one school in Washington can ban An Inconvenient Truth. Yakima was in on it too. The Associated Press is reporting that a panel of teachers, parents, administrators and right-thinking people have decided that the film can be shown to a Yakima school's Environmental Club. Environmental Club? At least in Federal Way it was a science class. The Environmental Club? What kind of environmental club worth it's......

At the Elizabeth Kolbert talk last December, UW professor Stephen Gardiner echoed Al Gore and Jimmy Carter's sentiment that the looming crisis posed by global warming is a moral predicament more than a political, religious, or scientific one (albeit, it is all of those other things as well, just not as urgently so). Today we read about a joint coalition formed by both evangelical and scientific types aimed at convincing the current administration and congress......

--The bet is on - If the Bears win on Sunday Mayor Nickels will cough up some salmon and coffee to Chicago's Mayor Daley. If the Seahawks win Daley has promised not to kick his ass. --The Huffington Post found out about Federal Way's Inconvenient Young Earther who got the Al Gore film banned from schools down there. --Local online real estate site Redfin is teaming with local software manufacturer Microsoft for their new......

Of course, if your name was Frosty, wouldn't you want to pretend that global warming doesn't exist, too? "Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old. Next thing you know, Federal Way will cough up "Concentration" Jones (the Holocaust really didn't happen) and "Spacy" Anderson (we never set foot on......

We watched the CNN special tonight that went behind the scenes at Time magazine and documented the process by which they choose their annual "Person of the Year" award. Those who love to rail against the MSM will be pleased if not flattered by their decision, and no doubt many bloggers and other contributors of "user-generated content" (which should get awarded "Most Overused, Awful Buzz Word of the Year") will rejoice. Many will say it......

There's a great opportunity to participate in a hack of Amazon.com today that won't net you a big list of credit card numbers or any free books or anything, but it will let you feel like you put one over on a local giant while at the same time helped a local website save the planet. And who would pass that up? The WorldChanging book which we've been mentioning lately (here and here) is for......

Locally-based techno-environmentalists WorldChanging.com are hyping their book on Saturday at Town Hall and badass science fiction author and green futurist Bruce Sterling will be there to talk about it with WorldChanging editor Alex Steffen - Bruce wrote one of the book's introductions and recently sent this to one of his email lists: (((If this tome becomes as big a hit as its spiritual ancestor the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG, we can accelerate the change to a......

-Rep. Dave Reichert-Clouseau continues to "investigate" whether the earth revolves around the sun whether global warming is caused by humans. -Was The Stranger wrong about that whole urban archipelago thing? Maybe, says The Stranger. -How many times does Defective Yeti have to say it? He's not into yetis. He's not into cute yetis and he's certainly not into cute wampas, so knock it off already. -Now is your chance to help the Capitol Hill......

We had trouble figuring out exactly what Ballard is doing to convince the world it's so green and environmentally huggable, but whatever it is, it's working. Al Gore has apparently even jumped on the alternative fueled bandwagon and started heralding Ballard's credentials. Check him out in this NYU speech: Individual Americans of all ages are becoming a part of a movement, asking what they can do as individuals and what they can do as consumers......

Went to this NetGreen thing today at Bergen Park in Ballard. Took the bus, even. Dozen or so "electeds" on hand (city, county, federal) with their attendant staffers. Lots of bikes. An electric Xebra Zapcar. Lots of self-congratulatory speeches. Did you know Seattle has an Office of Sustainability & Environment? Dude who runs it, Steve Nicholas, holds Master's from Harvard, no less. He's all up for this project, whatever it is. So's city councilman Richard......

Oh Al Gore you're so darn funny. You're just ridiculous. You and your "global warming" and the idea that there's someone responsible for it...How do you come up with this stuff? Everybody, look at Al Gore and his little army of penguins and pay no attention to the fact that our laughter is just a little too forceful to not have originated from a place of fear. The Wall Street Journal tracked the origination of......

Earlier this month, the National Parks Conservation Association celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of our country's National Park system. Perhaps trying to steal a little limelight from Al Gore, President Bush managed to avoid his father's inactivity in this arena by using the 1906 Antiquities Act to establish a national monument in New York (an African Burial Ground) and creating the world's largest protected marine area off Hawaii's coast. (His pop joins the......

-That weird storm earlier caused eighteen thousand cars to crash into each other on I-5 near the Thorn Lane exit. -Al Gore was on Jim McDermott's show this morning and the chances are good that this is a link to it. Apparently he was only on for a few minutes. -The state's Democratic convention begins today in Yakima but no way can it possibly be as entertaining as the Repbublican convention proved to be.......

Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scene. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers. Bostonist sees Boston and Somerville each whip out their art and face off. A plagiarized novel is the......

Seattlest got invited to the screening of the new Al Gore flick, An Inconvenient Truth, at Pacific Place last night. (It opens Friday, June 2 in Seattle.) For an Al Gore flick, Mayor Greg Nickels and King County Executive Ron Sims show up. (And they pretend to make nice, because columnist Brodeur scolded them about not playing well together.) Then after the film, Chris Gregoire comes out and introduces surprise guest Al Gore and......

There were a bunch of events in Seattle last week that revolved around climate change that may not have reveresed the affects of global warming all on their lonesome, but were definitely the kind of thing we'd like to see more of. Most of it revolved around the mayor's report on climate change that he presented along with the greenest presidential never-was kicking around, Al Gore. Officially it's the "Mayor's Green Ribbon Commission on Climate......

Greg Nickels made Rolling Stone. Is his new disc out? No. Is he being heralded as one of our country's leading environmentalists? He is! He's one of the "Warriors and Heros: Twenty-five leaders who are fighting to stave off the planetwide catastrophe." Uh, no mention of his significant role in the killing of the green line, but the magazine loved his motions towards Kyoto. Seattlest had an opinion of the mayor's Kyoto commitment back in......