Results tagged “inauguration”

Since at initial glance this latest news reflects in a potentially negative manner upon the good people of Seattle, we'll spin it right round, baby. The Seattle market may have had the lowest inauguration ceremony viewership in the country yesterday, but it's because we were all watching online or gathered in large groups at bars to celebrate Obama's message of unity in practice as well as in spirit. We're very tech-savvy in this part of the world, don't you know, so it was nothing to us to click 'play' on MSNBC's streaming video of the occasion. We also like to drink, and it's been depressingly foggy here lately, which was all the more reason to head to a bar at 8 a.m. The Raleigh-Durham folks are clearly haters of love and fun and fellowship, as they had the highest viewership in the country.

One of the delights of our morning was the plethora of Lincoln/Obama comparisons floating around the media, so CHS' documentation of one artist's visual conflation between the two leaders strikes us as particularly timely. Columbia City Blog's pithy observation via Twitter about the new zeitgeist has stuck with us, as has Big Blog's report from the King County Juvenile Detention Center ("your past is not your future" was all we had to read before choking up yet again). Another heart-strings-tugger: Rainier Valley Post's entry with one Seattleite's plea to McDermott and Obama for inauguration tickets. (She and her father did end up getting a special invite from the President himself.)

End US Support for Israel’s War on the PalestiniansIf you've got a mind to add anything to the list, we bet you can. Get down to Westlake Plaza for the "City-Wide Inauguration Day Celebration and Rally" that's supposed to last until 4 p.m.

Belltown's living room, Buckley's, is packed. We're facing a traditional American breakfast: eggs over easy, bacon, hash browns, toasted muffin. Pat of butter, small plastic tub of raspberry jam. We've already had our espresso, now it's time for a serious Mary, garnished with pickle, pepper, olive and lemon slice, accompanied by shot of Pete's Wicked Ale. Deceptively traditional; only today do we recognize its incredible diversity. So here's the challenge: What to tackle first? The spicy tomato-vodka beverage? A bite of garnish? The pickle or the pepper? Perhaps the bacon, crisp and peppery? Not the hash browns; they look like they came out of a box. With humility and gratitude, we pick up our fork and break one of the yolks. The first bold stroke of action taken. The price and promise of breakfast, of hope and virtue, a meal both real and serious, the cheerful and joyous beginning of a new day.

Barack Obama has just been sworn in at the 44th President of the United States, if you're wondering why you're the only one in the office. For the snow boots-on-the-ground perspective, our sister site DCist has been live blogging the inauguration in the 27 degree weather. "It's not just about what they're wearing," the commentators on PBS observed a few moments ago, and it's true. Obama actually became president about 5 minutes before he took the oath. You know how the government is about getting things done on time. CHS spent the morning canvassing inauguration parties on our Capitol Hill and snapping photos. If you've got photos to share, drop 'em in our Seattlest Flickr pool.

We all know someone who is in DC for the Inauguration, sure they’ve rubbed in our face a bit, and we’re all jealous of them.

Hi, Seattlest readers waiting bemusedly for your Neighborhood News and Local Blog Round-up. We're mixing it up and moving NN&LBR-u to the afternoon so we can deliver fresher links, rather than the day-old variety. So look for that later on today. In the meantime, you've got a few minutes, why not enjoy a doughnut? Also, this week, we've got Inauguration news coming from our sister site DCist (and the crazy kids at Chicagoist who road-tripped out)--and we've sent Seattlest Audrey off to Sundance to sneak a peek at a bunch of films that will no doubt show up later this spring at SIFF.God it's exciting. Now excuse us while we show our doughnut--a glazed old-fashioned, if you must know--who's boss.

Holy crap, y'all! Two more days of the Bush Administration—an era that, at times, felt like it would never end. And yet here we are. Have you volunteered yet for tomorrow, the Obama-initiated national day of service? We'll be on Yesler picking up trash and collecting food. Do join us there or at any other location, and help get the new Obama Administration started right. Meanwhile, revisit the primaries, election season, and the parties of election night in our Flickr pool.

We're reminded (via Monica Guzman's Twitter feed) that the Obama inauguration is gonna be well-attended. Both Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell's offices have stopped taking ticket requests; Murray got over 6,000 potential takers for about 350 potential tickets. If you're not on someone's list already, you're probably out of luck. Is it too early for bars to start advertising inauguration parties? We think not.

Our compatriots at DCist have been scouting for information on inauguration tickets. Turns out you can't get them from TicketMaster. For one thing, they're free. And for another, it's a government hand-out.

Tickets to the 56th Inaugural Ceremonies will be provided free of charge and distributed through Members of the 111th Congress. The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies does not provide tickets to the public. Members of the public interested in attending the Inaugural Ceremonies should contact their Member of Congress or U.S. Senators to request tickets.

Before we moved our worldly possessions across Elliott Bay to West Seattle, we'd never visited that neighborhood's Beveridge Place Pub. And we'd never tasted 3-Grid IPA, an excellently hoppy product of that neighborhood's Schooner Exact Brewing Co. Now that we pose as West Seattle regulars, we recognize both pub and brewer as priceless neighborhood gems; there's no better place to kill a few (happy) hours, and no finer micro-local IPA.

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost.

The strongest windstorm since the 1993 Inauguration Day storm that sunk I-90 killed six people is coming.

Thirteen teams turned out for Seattlest trivia last night at the Old Pequliar. Want to see how you'd do? Here are all the questions. We'll post answers later today, along with a list of team standings and anything else interesting we find to say about the event.

This has been a rough week for your -ist pals, though you wouldn't know it from the great posts all over the network. Plagued with server problems, our tech team (led by the great Neil Epstein) toiled around the clock to solve the glitches as they arose. Seriously, we've said, typed, and thought the phrase "server problems" more in the past week than we have for the last 35 years combined. Why not say it a few more times, just for fun? For example, SFist is sure the San Francisco Chronicle wishes they could blame server problems for this error. But this San Francisco man that appeared on "The Daily Show" is, sadly, no glitch in the system.