May 15, 2008
Looking for a way to get out and enjoy some beer with the nice weather this weekend? You've probably got it all figured out, but here are a few ideas anyways:
University District Street Fair - Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (6 p.m. Sunday). Nearly 400 craft and food tents to browse, plus live music and other events. The Big Time Brewery beer tent will be the place to be to grab a pint. They'll be set up right in front of the brewery, and they'll be pouring this year's Ave Rat Malt Liquor. Can't think of a better place to enjoy a great Big Time IPA than sitting out in the sun (hopefully).
Two Beers Brewery at the Park Pub - This Sunday, May 18, from 3-10 p.m., the Park Pub (614 Phinney Ave N.) will be serving up this new Seattle brewery's Immersion Amber Ale, 20:20 Blonde Ale and Crooked Belgian Wit, and possibly a sneak-peak of another beer. There will also be door prizes, an outdoor BBQ, and Two Beers merchandise will be available. $1 from every pint will go towards recovery homes for alcoholics.
Mariners vs. San Diego Padres at Safeco Field - The Mariners suck. But, you know what? There is nothing like drinking beer in a ballpark in the sun. The San Diego Padres are coming to town for an interleague series, and their record is actually as bad as the Mariners. The M's could pull off a win. Friday is J.J. Putz bobblehead night (why do people love these so much?), so we'd stay away. But, Saturday night still has tickets available in the left field bleachers for $15. There are more than 20 different beers on draft at Safeco, so you won't have a problem finding something good (Bridgeport IPA is our fave at the park).
Image thanks to joehaenes on Flickr.
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Portland's Velveteria Museum of Velvet Paintings has taken over the art gallery space for the month of May, offering a wondrous eyeful of, well, pretty much what you might expect from a collection of velvet paintings--unicorns, naked ladies, Skinny Elvis, Fat Elvis, sad clowns, sad Jesus--it's all there, waiting to be loved, laughed at, idolized, lusted after.
One more collection of doozies after the jump...
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Earlier this week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that:
Jeff Raikes, 49, will succeed Patty Stonesifer as head of the world's largest philanthropy, managing a $37 billion endowment, $3 billion a year in grants, and ambitious goals such as eradicating malaria and developing a vaccine to prevent AIDS.How lucky that Raikes was right there at Microsoft all along. It's like Gates hired based on keywords, one of which is "my company."
In 1997, with the whole philanthropic world to choose from, Bill and Melinda Gates settled on Patty Stonesifer, who was retiring as Senior Vice President of Microsoft's Interactive Media Division to head to Dreamworks. Interactive media, global health...potato, pot-ah-to? Eleven years later, she announced she'd be leaving, and the New York Times speculated that "The arrival of a new chief executive, possibly an outsider, is the last step in the foundation's transition to a more orthodox institutional structure, with clearly defined divisions knit together by a central management team that Ms. Stonesifer has assembled over the last two years."
But no! In your face, New York Times! It turns out the best person to succeed Stonesifer is old-guard Microsoft insider Jeff Raikes (employee #105ish), who had just announced his plans to retire as head of the Microsoft Business Division (home of the Office money-printing machine: we've read estimates of 70% operating margins). So now we have three established criteria for the Foundation position: be a Microsoft SVP or President, be tight with Bill, and announce your retirement just prior to the position opening up.
We're not sure if these criteria were communicated to recruiting firm Russell Reynolds, who could have saved themselves the trouble of an international search; the Seattle Times says, "the firm eventually produced about 150 potential candidates, including political, academic and business leaders. With Raikes, who is not well known outside the software industry, the foundation chose a trusted insider to manage a growing operation and enormous budget over an expert in global health, development or philanthropy."
Maybe, like Stonesifer, he's willing to work for $1 per year.
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May 15, 2008
The latest endorsement may not be on a John Edwards scale. But, in such a tightly contested race, every endorsement (especially one from a superdelegate) is a victory worth celebrating. Washington Representative and superdelegate Jim McDermott announced his support of Barack Obama today. McDermott told the Seattle P-I that he is supporting Obama because he is "confident as president he will end the war in Iraq and bring our sons and daughters home." McDermott...
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The Eastside Ben & Jerry’s has a conundrum. The downtown Kirkland development of Lake Street Place is forcing the store to vacate its waterfront location during the upcoming summer months. This puts an obvious damper in the store’s business plan. On numerous summer days, we have walked past a long line of ice cream addicts salivating out the Ben & Jerry’s door. How will the downtown Kirkland staple re-coup its forecasted summer losses? Find...
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We’ve been big fans of Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid since reading Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia (James Beard Foundation’s Cookbook of the Year for 2000). This coffee table-worthy book completely captured us with great recipes, gorgeous photos, and even its glossary. We immediately dug deep into their earlier work, including the aptly named Seductions of Rice, which is also as much travelogue as it is cookbook. There have...
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An associate professor of military science at Seattle University has been arrested in Colorado as part of a child sex sting. Andrew Douglas Frank was arrested in Canon City, Colo., where he had flown to meet a teenage girl he'd been communicating with online. The underage girl he'd been sharing risque communiques with was no Lolita, she was in fact, an undercover officer. Franz, who identified himself on-line as "sugardad4u33," had been chatting with...
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HOT! SHORTS! SUNBURN! SPRING!: Or should we say "SUMMER!"? It's going to be hot and sunny and clear today. You can do something with that, or you can sit under a tree and do nothing. Just put on some shorts and a tank top while you do whatever it is you do to revel under father sky. We wanna see some skin in Cal Anderson Park today. Also, skin will likely be visible at...
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Seattlest has heard good things about the All-Star Pop Culture quiz at Jillian's ever since it started up. We still haven't had a chance to check it out—Tuesday's our regular trivia night, even when we're not hosting. But since the spring season kicks off tonight, we did the next best thing: interviewed Trevor Trifiro, the brains behind the quiz. Assume I've never played pub trivia before. What should I expect when I come to All-Star...
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Fishing the Sound by epic Seattlest Flickr contributor Slightly North Sorry local fisherman. After the NOAA ruled out shooting as a cause of death, we know we passed the blame to your understandable anger at the gluttonous sea oafs. But the latest theory on just how six local sea lions died places the blame squarely on mother nature's shoulders. Now, according to investigators, the sea lions do not appear to have died of gunshot wounds,...
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"Seattle Center in Miniature" by rgeorgi This and other weird/wonderful toy versions of our world can be found in our weird/wonderful Seattlest Flickr Pool....
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We've all called in hooky and faked a cough or cold to get out of a day of work. Sometimes the daily grind just seems unbearable...we understand. But we sincerely hope that karmic justice comes fast and furious at Sandra Dee Martinez, a 40 year-old woman who faked brain cancer to get out of work. Martinez received over $21,000 of paid time-off from her job at the Department of Social and Health Services in...
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