Feel like doing a little Oktoberfest drinking this weekend, Washington style? The Washington Beer Commission is holding their 1st annual Oktoberfest at St. Edwards State Park on Lake Washington in Kenmore. There are going to be some great local brewers there, but don't expect to find any of the big German brewers. There will of course be the requisite oompah music and German food from local vendors (doesn't get much more German than that!).......

[UPDATE: Once again we fall prey to the print media's knee-jerk print-first, ask-questions-later response. Man, that kind of rushed, speculative reporting really does a number on our carefully cultivated bloggy credibility.] We don't talk enough about Kenmore. It seems like it's quiet out there. We listen, we don't hear anything. Except for the float planes. And except for the McMenamins proposal to lease the seminary in St. Edwards State Park for use as a......

The 90,000-square-foot seminary building at St. Edwards State Park is "one of Washington's unique treasures." But it hasn't been kept up since the 80s, and it's falling apart. Luckily, reports the P-I: McMenamins, a Portland-based chain of hotels, restaurants and brew pubs, submitted a 2005 letter of intent to lease the seminary building and turn it into a hotel with a restaurant and a conference center. Brian McMenamin, co-owner of the company that made the......