Results tagged “sovietunion”

This month we subject Pauls Toutonghi’s young adult novel Red Weather to the awesome critical power that is Seattlest. The book has nothing to do with Seattle, but Toutonghi allegedly spent some formative years here and he’s old friends with our most frequent contributor, so what the hell? We’re trying out a new “point/counterpoint” format, with contributors Matt Silvie and James Callan facing off.

The first time we saw Kultur Shock, they were opening for Gogol Bordello at Neumo's, and we have to admit, we'd never heard of them. It was an all-ages show, so we were drinking our fill in the Bad Juju lounge next door, until the insane sounds of the band dragged us away from our beers. Quickly we came to regret missing the first half of their set.

Last night at the Old Pequliar, eight teams competed for cash at Seattlest's debut quiz. With Newcastle's doubling of the prize pool, that left $80 to be divvied among the top three teams. The results:

Let's have a moment of silence to listen to the pitter-patter of raindrops and reflect on the poor citizens of Seattle circa 1953. That year holds the record for continuous days of measurable rainfall in Seattle (and thus provides the tenuous basis of this series) but 1953 also witnessed 94 continuous days of zero measurable publication of the Seattle Times. Writers and editors for that paper went on strike on July 16 to protest low wages. At that time a Seattle Times editor pulled down a cool $110 a week.