In addition to today being the first day of SIFF, it's also the first day of Seattle Beer Week! Get ready to plan your strategy--and to cash in some vacation time. more ›

Don Younger, the owner of the Horse Brass pub in Portland, passed away early Monday morning from complications triggered by slipping and breaking his shoulder at home last week.Younger was part of a group of bar owners, including Matt Bonney and Matt VandenBerghe of Brouwer’s, who called themselves the Publican National Committee. more ›

Drinking is the best. If your 2010 was like mine, you drank a lot of things. Between unpaid internships (free coffee and free booze is THE ONLY WAY YOU GET PAID) living with the folks for a while (mmm neverending fridge full of beer), finally getting a grownup job (YAY, now I can afford my own drinks, sort of) and writing for such fine publications of Seattlest, one ends up drinking a whole lot of things. In no particular order, here are ten of the best of those things: more ›

PAUL CONSTANT LIKES IT: We'd express an opinion ourselves, but we haven't read it yet, though our interest has been sufficiently piqued. Oh, what are we talking about? It's this "existential mystery novel" called Oh! A Mystery of Mono No Aware by Todd Shimada. We're not even sure exactly what "mono no aware" means, because it's, like, one of those super deep Japanese concepts you can only understand after studying the meaning of a circle for several years. Or maybe the author can explain at his reading tonight. 6 p.m. // Kobo at Higo // 602 S. Jackson St. // free! more ›

Beer enthusiast/evangelist Geoff Kaiser used to write about the beloved beverage for Seattlest before he got wise to the whole, hey, anyone can start a blog thing. God, we miss him bringing his market research back to Seattlest HQ. Check out his Seattlebeernews.com for updates and reviews on many of the events from Seattle Beer Week. more ›

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