Results tagged “focus”

The internet is indeed alluring and the source of many pleasures, and locals just can't keep their hands off her. This morning, we learn that Washington state legislators are ga-ga for Facebook (late pass! but welcome) and that Mars Hill Church has given worshippers the go-ahead to tweet during services (...ugh). Careful, guys: the world wide web is a cruel mistress. Forgive the Napoleon Dynamite reference, it was unavoidable.

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer’s market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs.

If you've been following Seattlest David's football and cooking series, you'd know that there's hardly anything more unlikely than that he'd be talking about cooking to a regional radio audience.

It's not exactly mind-blowingly awesome legislation, but our lady Maria Cantwell and her pals in the Senate have managed to negotiate a mileage standard for all U.S. cars and SUVs today. Currently, cars have to get at least 27.5 miles per gallon, while SUVs only have to get a measly 22 mpg. That's pretty pathetic from an environmentalist perspective, but it's also irresponsible from a business perspective. After all, just about every other country has been making cars that get far better gas mileage for years now. Who wants a gas-guzzling American car (Ford Focus gets 26 mpg!) when gas prices are hovering around $4/gallon and there's the option of getting a high-mpg car like Honda's Insight (61 mpg) or Volkswagen's Beetle (38 mpg)?

WOMEN & MONEY: Personal finance expert and author, Suze Orman talks about the complicated and dysfunctional relationship that women have with money in her book, Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny.

Oh Sundance, has it been a year already since last we ventured to your snowy, film-filled climes? We had barely touched ground before we heard the usual gripes: there's less free parking, more expensive tickets, and it was way better back in the day. Of course, this year there's also no Lindsay Lohan in attendance (thanks rehab!), and the big theme is "Focus on Film," which means, amongst other things, "My idea of 'celebrity' is the filmmaker who directed my favorite film at the Festival." Hear, hear. With that in mind, what we've seen in our first ~18 hours:

Seems like there's a lot of love going around for Bill Murray. Like a virus, it is. Throughout Hollywood, at Cannes, in the press, amongst the hipster elite...everybody's lovin' that hangdog face. Seattlest can't blame 'em, as Bill's worked so hard lately to mold meaty, genuinely affecting performances in well-crafted films and in return, gotten the shaft every year come award season.

For some unknown reason Moby's show at the Paramount is sold out. His most recent album, 'Hotel,' is amazingly bland and forgetable. Actually, now that we think about it the album before that was also amazingly bland and forgetable. According to Moby's website, 'Hotel' has gone gold or platinum in France, Germany, Uk, Switzerland, Poland, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, and Italy. Sure, the U.S. may have Focus on the Family's James Dobson, Bill Frist and Fox's 'Life on a Stick' but at least Moby's album hasn't gone gold. Frankly, that is enough to make us want to stand up and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. On second thought since Moby always sports cool glasses, maybe the crowd is just looking for some fashion tips.