Yeah, we've got the same lame resolution as everyone else for 2008: Eat healthier and get to the gym more often. But, as we sit here drinking our first beer of 2008, a 6 month old homebrewed stout, we realized that we need a few beer goals for 2008. Following are a few things we plan to accomplish in the following year. 1) Finally make that trip to Walking Man Brewing in Stevenson, WA. Some......

With all of the people that live/work on the Eastside, it is really surprising to not find more beer spots to explore. Granted, we probably haven't found everything worth visiting, but it just seems there is plenty of room for more good beer on the Eastside. Below is a summary of what you can enjoy on the other side of the lake. Breweries: Rock Bottom Bellevue is about the only place if you want......

Saturday, Tera will give herself a VIP tour at the opening of Aritzia. She will follow this potentially hectic event by introducing a friend to her newest wine obsession - Twisted Cork. Sunday she will trek to Qwest and root for Chicago, uh, eh, oops...Seattle. Yes, root for the Seahawks. Jack's heading to the Showbox proper tonight to see Canadian indie pop band Stars. Sunday, he's hoping to see Rex Grossman slip into old......

We were just about to lean into a nice Sunday morning, working on our NaNoWriMo effort, when we opened the New York Times Web site just to see if any disaster had befallen us overnight that may take precedence over our literary venture. What we saw, buried toward the end of the day's headlines, was this: "Norman Mailer, Towering Writer With Matching Ego, Is Dead." We gasped, choked, looked around the empty basement of Stumptown......

Oh, baby...what a weekend. This Seattlest may have drunk more great beer in the past 4 days than we have in the preceding year since the last Great American Beer Festival. Well, maybe that's a stretch...but not by much. After flying to Denver on Thursday afternoon, we headed to check-in to our rooms at The Curtis hotel. Just one block from the beer festival, it turned out to be a prime base for the......

So, you think you have been to a beer festival before? Maybe you went to Fremont Oktoberfest , or maybe you even went to the Seattle International Beer Fest this summer. If you really want to go to a beer festival, get yourself to Denver in 10 days. The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is every beer lovers dream. 408 breweries. 1,884 beers. One huge convention center. 3 straight days of goodness. Can it......

When this Seattlest moved here a few years ago, we were renting a place near the Ave and walked by Big Time Brewing on our very first day in town, right after driving two days straight from the Midwest. We knew very little about beer in the NW at that point and wandered in not knowing what to expect. They had four of their own IPAs on tap that first trip into this wonderful......

If you have not had the pleasure of trying this wonderful concoction from Big Time Brewing, you should get down to their brewpub on the Ave. as soon as possible. The Old Sol is a wheatwine, similar to a barleywine, but brewed with about 50% wheat malt. This year's batch weighs in at about 11% alcohol, which makes this beer a very nice sipper. The malt is rich and sweet to start out, but......

We were delighted to find out that offerings from Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales have hit the shelves in your better beer stores around Seattle. We would not be surprised if very few people in Seattle have heard of this small brewery out of Dexter, Michigan; let alone tried their beer. Jolly Pumpkin takes pride in producing small batches of Belgian inspired beers, which are all aged in oak barrels and bottle conditioned (Except for......

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......

If you are looking for a road trip this weekend, you should think about checking out Bellingham on Saturday. April Brews Day is a benefit being held at Depot Market Square in Bellingham. They will have at least 11 confirmed breweries attending to sling their tasty beers. Featured Breweries: Diamond Knot: This brewery from Mukilteo always has brews worth checking out. Their IPAs are definitely worth trying, especially if they happen to have their XXX......

Off to the right there is our dad's family. It's 1934, Kansas. They've been beaten by the dust storms. They're all packed up and headed to Arkansas, where they'll last two weeks. They'll stop on the White River, contract malaria from mosquitoes, and trek back to Kansas. They'll only survive because our grandfather will get $1 a day from the government for grading the dust dunes left after storms into elevated roads. If nothing......

Seattlest has been through our fair share of earthquakes, and while Jonathan Raban's book Surveillance gave us a quivering reminder of the Nisqually quake, we understood the optimism inherent in his ending. Seattle is still there; shaken, likely forever changed, but still there. We know quakes can be insanely devastating, but they don't scare us nearly as much as what we discovered in grad school in central Illinois: tornadoes and wind storms. The first time......

Christopher Lydon's Open Source did a show last night, "One Nation, Under Surveillance," partially inspired by Jonathan Raban's new book Surveillance and his article in the Guardian, "We have mutated into a surveillance society -- and must share the blame." If you missed KUOW's broadcast, you can check out the MP3. You can also check out Raban's contributions to the show's comment thread, including this wrap-up: An afterthought: we need to treat the word “surveillance”......

The Seattle Public Library hosted 'A Salute to Tim Egan' last night at the inconvenient hour of 5:30 PM. Tim Egan is a Seattle native who won the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism in 2001. He's most well known for writing about the Pacific Northwest. A couple of weeks ago he was awarded the National Book Award for The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Stories of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. Seattle is......

Wednesday, December 13 >>>Hugo House, 7:30pm. Screenwriters Salon: Geoff Miller and Mark Handley invite you to bring your questions about format, technique, structure, dialogue, writing characters, and how to use your catering gig to hand your script to celebs. $5 general/$2 students. Free to members. >>>Seattle Public Central Library, 5:30-7:00pm. Mayor Greg Nickels and City Council President Nick Licata rochambeau to see who gets to salute Seattle author Tim Egan. His book, The Worst......

There's a Great American Story about young, would-be stars packing suitcases and heading for Hollywood. People obviously still do that Hollywood thing, but, really, why go through all the bother of chasing a dream when it shows up at Key Arena once a year with an American Idol face on? In 2006 you can even half-ass your shot at the bright lights. Actually, now, thanks to Youtube, we can half-ass the story of your......

You don't really need to have an opinion on whether autistic art is accidental art or if that means anything. You don't have to recognize Seattle as a nexis of outsider art from the galleries to the stones stacked in Fremont. You just have to check out this short interview in the Morning News with Gregory Blackstock and then page through his book of visual lists that includes various feats of sorting like "The......

The Harvard Exit hosted one of those first come/first serve free screenings of the new Dan Clowes/Terry Zwigoff film Art School Confidential Monday night. The theater had a special row of seats reserved for the beleaguered hard-working employees of the local funny book factory that published both the screenplay and the original comic book series from which the film derives its material... or so the poor schlubs were led to believe. PSYCHE! Turns out all......