Happy St. Patrick's day. We promise not to inundate you with boiled potatoes, cabbage and corned beef, well maybe just a little. Instead we celebrate other time-honored traditions relevant to Irish culture, aka: whiskey. more ›

Let's kick this drinking, raucous, rollicking, and fight-inducing holiday off right. The Dropkick Murphys released a new album that's kicking some of its own ass. Here's a vid of their single "Going Out in Style". more ›

It takes a lot to keep my drunk Irish grandfather out of the pub - except on St. Patrick's Day. On this least hallowed of days, when everyone else suddenly also becomes Irish and drunk, he prefers to stay home, watch golf, and eat beer bread. Here's the recipe, so you can do the same. more ›

St. Patrick may have effectively become the patron saint of drinking, but the man was a pretty austere dude. As he wrote in his Confessio, "I used to stay out in the forests and on the mountain and I would wake up before daylight to pray in the snow, in icy coldness, in rain, and I used to feel neither ill nor any slothfulness, because, as I now see, the Spirit was burning in me at that time." Hardcore, Pat. more ›

Join Tom O'Douglas at the Palace Ballroom for the 3rd annual St. Patrick's Day Beer Blast. Eight local breweries will be pouring their Irish Style brews paired with bites. The best part of the deal if you purchase your ticket in the next 24 hours (March 8 when the clock ticks Midnight), the cost, a mere $15, a $15 savings. more ›

As with Valentine's Day, the Seattlest in-box gets flooded with emails announcing St. Patrick's Day restaurant promotions. more ›

FOR THE WEALTHY BOOKWORMS: Chilean exiled author Isabel Allende is the keynote speaker at a benefit lunch over on the Eastside today, at the Maydenbauer Center. She wrote "The House of The Spirits," an epic generations-spanning magic realism novel about Estaban and Alba and (maybe) Pablo Neruda, among other dozens of acclaimed literary manifestations of genius. If you have the minimum $150 donation to get you a seat at the benefit, this is where you need to be at lunch-time. more ›

HIPHOP EXTRAVAGANZA: My, oh my, Seattle hiphop fans are in luck this weekend: the Blue Scholars are doing a stripped-down version of last year's The Program, with three nights at Neumos. This time, Common Market will join them every night; Truckasaurus and very special guests are playing on Saturday, Macklemore and Dyme Def will play on Monday night. Saturday's already sold out, but the second two nights are equally as awesome. Don't miss it. Really. more ›

"Irish Elvis" by ReeBeckiSupergirl
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We're exactly one-quarter Irish, which we think means we need to spend at least 25% of today in bright green clothes, sipping Guinness and eating potatoes and hash. Luckily, there's no shortage of events going on in and around town to satisfy part-Irish like us. more ›