We were all happy to hear about the return of this weekend’s Washington Brewers Festival at Saint Edward State Park. If you are looking for a last minute Fathers Day present, is there anything better than taking your dad out to drink beer all day (While watching people throw kegs)? Maybe you are not quite as crazy about beer as we are, but we like to know what the “must haves” are before going into......

C'mon, Seattle Times. You get a press release related to the McMenamins affair in Kenmore from some mysterious source claiming that the whole deal is off and you turn around and announce it to the world without so much as a phone call to McMenamins? When Seattlest gets a release in the mail detailing the city's plan to dye the sky green we immediately start ranting about how blue skies were good enough for us......

[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......

Seattle beer enthusiasts who sulkily attended last year’s lame, cramped Washington Brewers’ Festival at Fisher Pavilion have reason to rejoice: The former Summer Microbrew Festival returns to St. Edward State Park this Father’s Day weekend. We’re not exactly sure why the macro microfest pulled up stakes from St. Edwards in 2006 and changed its name. Bold Hat Productions announced the Summer Festival’s cancellation, citing a "shifting of focus toward charitable community events." (Their site, curiously,......

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......

This week Seattlest invites you to get your hand out of your pants and join us for some shows... Wednesday 12th >>> WIRE presents: Pleasurecraft This is a Blackout cd release; performing live with New Gray Area at The Baltic Room 9pm; Free! Thursday 13th >>> The Clumsy Lovers at St. Edward State Park (Kenmore) >>> "Trapped In The Closet!" at Rebar 7pm doors; 8pm show, $10 >>> Refugee All Stars of Sierra Leone......