Results tagged “lights”

"Seattle Macy's Christmas Star and the Merry-Go Round" by seattlerealtorgal

At least Chief Sealth's statue is brighter, anyway, thanks to a group of Belltown residents which spent the last few years raising enough money to purchase and install lighting around the memorial. They finally met their goal, and now Chief Sealth's cheekbones are easier to ogle at night. The statue has lived at the intersection of Denny, 5th, and Cedar since 1912. Little known fact: Chief Sealth's Christian name, given to him by missionaries in the mid-1800s, is "Noah."

• West Seattle Blog has been covering a weekend diving accident at Seacrest which left one man struggling for his life at Harborview.
• The Central District News also spent the weekend updating and covering a sad story of two youth shot near Garfield High School. One of the young men died at the scene, while another was taken to Harborview to care for his injuries.
• Oh no. Now that Halloween is over, the Christmas/holiday lights and decorations are arriving. Capitol Hill Seattle reports the lights are already being strung up and down Broadway.

Seattlest and the fiancee have a holiday tradition that manages to work out each year, even when our procrastination reaches DefCon Four: Catch the annual Christmas Ship show at Gas Works on December 23.

As ChrisB of Three Imaginary Girls points out, losing your job sucks. Losing a job that meant a lot to you sucks more. And losing all that during the holidays? Well that just blows a goat.

The husband-and-wife team Over the Rhine [MySpace] play at the Triple Door at 7:30pm this Thursday and Friday, and both shows are already sold out -- SRO tickets will be on sale the nights of the shows.

Seattlest has mentioned our appreciation for local band Sleepy Eyes of Death before. They opened for The Octopus Project, acting as a wonderful complement to their synthy quirkiness with a more epic, post-rock feel. Now it's their time to shine. Sure, they're opening again, but this appearance is for the release of their debut LP, Street Lights for a Ribcage. While there's something lost in the translation from live to recording (you can't capture mood lighting and fog on a CD), this mostly instrumental collection captures the sheer grandiosity of the Sleepy Eyes of Death sound. This is a moving, dynamic work, evoking the same emotional tugs as Explosions in the Sky, but with more synths and less meandering. This CD is going to turn a lot of heads and is a definite contender for one of the region's best albums of 2007. Saying that, the live show is even better, so make your way to the Croc tomorrow.

Yesterday Seattlest stopped by Chop Suey on the walk home to see how the inaugural edition of the Sunday Summer BBQ Series was going. It was empty. It wasn't terribly surprising, since marketing for the series was pretty minimal, but we do fully support the concept: early shows, with grilled fare available outside. We only stuck around for the first band, Bellingham's The Love Lights, who switch up the indie-pop formula with the addition of a horn section(!), but we left pretty pleased with the experience, since we'd never heard of them before (or the other bands on the bill for that matter). We hope more people show up to future editions of the BBQ series, since the early shows make a nice cap to a day out in the sun (the bands don't get going until 5pm), and this is a nice low-key way to find out about local acts on the rise.

Permit us to bloviate some on the death of David Halberstam today in a car crash, which is utter bullshit considering that the guy reported from fricking Vietnam and he dies in a traffic accident in San Mateo (the car that hit him driven by, in a terrible irony, a Berkeley journalism student) (actually, I'm an idiot, his driver was a Berkeley student, so there's no irony, just terribleness).

--Local author John Moe discovers that lying to your child=entertaining blog post.

Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of "Friday Night Lights" production to New Mexico.

Tuesday, December 5

Another copious serving of live tunes (not to mention opportunities to leave your smelly apartment), courtesy of Seattlest. You can thank us later.

Tuesday 8th

Though this is the organization's first few months of existence, the Mirinesse women's choir sings with confidence -- not surprising, as many of its members formerly belonged to the Northwest Girlchoir. Their whirlwind first season is already over -- three concerts this June, at Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church, Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Stanwood, and Seattle's Trinity Episcopal. Still, it's worth making plans to catch them next year.

-This is a Detroit newspaper complaining about the lack of Starbucks cafes in their city. We shit you not. It looks like the Detroit airport has more Starbucksi than the city.

Alejandro Escovedo will be performing at the Tractor this evening. Alejandro (We like to presume that we are on a first name basis with him, even though we never met. We just like the name Alejandro.) is one of the best alt-country singers out there today. He's what Ryan Adams would like to be if Ryan Adams was actually cool.

About a year ago, Seattlest was at a dinner party where we struck up a conversation with the attorney seated next to us. We chatted pleasantly for awhile and eventually we asked him where he worked. He replied that he worked for Interpol. We got very excited since their debut album Turn on the Bright Lights had us annoying our co-workers and fellow commuters for months with our attempts to sing along. We felt a little stupid when it turned out he worked for the real Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization), though in our defense we had been drinking. On Friday, catch our beloved Interpol at the Paramount when they come to rock the house with their oh-so stylish ways.