Tonight is the fourth Ignite Seattle tech event and since the two previous ones that we attended were so mind-explodingly great, we recommend it without reservation. Lots of drunk technology guys and entrepreneurs will be mixing with each other and taking in the super short presentations that super smart people are scheduled to give. Deepak Singh will be talking about nanotech and biology, which admittedly is not everyone's bag, but we promise you it will......

It's fantastic that Rev. Hutcherson's pro-discrimination ballot initiative died a sad, lonely death recently. The fortunes of domestic partnerships in our state are on the rise, Democratic Presidential candidates seem to have their gay houses more or less in order and Seattle Pride just wrapped up its second go-round Downtown. Things seem to be looking up, but Seattlest likes to judge which way the wind blows by figuring out where the money goes. The local......

A meeting was held today between rival Seattle Pride factions and after last year's fancy, new and successful Downtown Pride we assumed that the result of this meeting would be the announcement of this year's fancy, new-ish and (financially) successful Downtown Pride. Despite the money problems that Seattle Out and Proud, the organizers of last year's events, have run into since then--they own Seattle Center a hundred grand--and despite the on-again, off-again stutter steps of......

After many on again, off again mis-starts Seattle Out and Proud is abdicating responsibility for Pride festivities this year, as expected. In 2007 Pride organizers Seattle Out and Proud (SOaP) voted in new leadership and SOaP’s primary concern was to produce a financially sound March and Festival in 2007. This week, after months of intense research and negotiation, it has been concluded that producing a Pride Event at Seattle Center is not financially prudent at......

--On Tuesday the Committee for a Two-Newspaper Town asked a judge to disappear the Joint Operating Agreement that tethers the Post-Intelligencer to the Seattle Times. We're not quite sure where they're going with that one yet. --Safeway burst onto the local biodiesel scene today with a pump in West Seattle. $2.85 for B20! Damn! We mean, uh, that's good that the Earth is being saved. --Replacement's replacement needs replacing on the Stranger masthead. We......

That giant snapping sound you heard this week was the gay and lesbian community splitting in two over the proper way to celebrate Pride Weekend in Seattle. On the one hand the festivities, particularly the Running of the Gays, have gotten too large for Capitol Hill. We have a sense that the phrase "too many straight people" belongs in that last sentence somewhere. On the other hand, there’s a strong feeling that the proper......

We know it's still February and the Pride Parade isn't until June, but an event like that takes a lot of planning. There's a lot of organizing to do before you even start planning, and then you can't really organize until you get the volunteers together to meet each other, preferably over drinks. Come to think of it, you may have to meet four or five times over drinks to get everyone comfortable with each......