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Are you a hophead? If you are, get your butt up to Cooper's Alehouse on Lake City Way on the north side of the city. Their 5th Annual IPA Festival is currently in full swing. They have some very tasty beers on tap and more on the way.

We'd just stepped out of our shower this morning when the lights went out...went back on...went out...went back on...went out again. We had to put in our contacts by candlelight. Seattle City Light estimates there were 5499 other people sharing that experience with us. As of their 10:00am update:

SketchFest Seattle, the country's first sketch comedy festival and the only one in North America to take place at Capital Hill's Erickson Theatre, is entering its final weekend of shows.

A little while ago, we did a little data mining of the Missed Connections on Craigslist, to check Seattle's romantic pulse. Frankly it was feeble and thready. But we were hoping that with the onset of spring, things have picked up.

As you know, there's a strict quota on mentions of Craigslist per quarter. Not too many, not too few. Our longtime favorite CL section is the Missed Connections (not altogether unsimilar from the Stranger's I Saw U ads), for their mix of inept stalking, momentary erotic yearning, and occasional literary gems.

We're back in Seattle proper for our final installment, a look at two very different facilities...

Behind perhaps only Andrew Sullivan (or Michael Musto if you live life through VH1) Dan Savage is our country's most prominent gay. From time to time in Seattle we may think of him merely as "that dude from The Stranger" but the guy is syndicated in a hell of lot of papers around the country, writes a decent book, and generally makes a lot of sense when he appears on television to discuss serious subjects. He's a National Voice, and we have precious few of those. Because of that, it is your civic duty as a bookish Seattleite to not only purchase Dan Savage's new book "The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family," but to attend his reading tomorrow night at Bailey/Coy Books.

Yesterday Eric de Place held forth over pollution and urban design on the Cascadia Scorecard site. Examination of a 2000 Larry Frank study of Puget Sound vehicle emissions per household (which he doesn't link to and we can't find - C'mon Eric, it's the web) leads him in this direction: