Results tagged “onsaturday”

On Saturday night Rainer Beach and Auburn Riverside captured the state's boys and girls 3A basketball championships.

Pity poor Pluto. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified the celestial body as a dwarf planet. Along with being totally emasculating, the IAU's declaration meant that Pluto was stripped of its rights as a full-fledged planet, including health insurance (medical, vision, and dental), a sweet parking space, and a Platinum American Express card. Well, now Pluto is fighting back, or at least it's found a group to take up the cause:

Saturday // Macklemore // Nectar // $7 //21+

Last summer (ah, summer!) we drove down to Portland for their annual Pickathon Roots Music Festival, where we found ourselves exposed to all manner of folkies from Portland and beyond. One of the bands that stole the weekend for us was from Indiana, of all godforsaken places. On Saturday night, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band played a show in the barn that seriously blew our mind. Joined by Seattleite Jason Webley, they just played a flat-out barn burner of a show.

On Saturday we will be in a land where betting on sports is not only legal, they reward you with free drinks for doing so. We'll be placing some money on the Seahawks, with the understanding that if they lose we are out both happiness and money.

On Saturday the beloved Seahawks will play the Redskins in the opening round of the NFL Playoffs. Taking up the issue on whether or not the Hawks will lose are author Pauls Toutonghi, marketing genius Jason McDonald, and comedy festival standout Dusty Warren.

On Saturday, we took our godson, his mom and his dad to Baby Loves Disco. Since we don't have a kid of our own and don't have any experience with kid-themed events, 17-month-old Eli agreed to let us interview him about the party.

No. But that doesn't make this factoid from a political campaign article in today's any less disturbing:

Well! Seattlest lives for weekends like the upcoming one. On Saturday night, we've got Seatown representing rather well at Chop Suey. Assisting North Carolina all-star Little Brother in making the night oh-so-memorable are 206's tough-spitting Dyme Def, rhyme maestro Grynch, The Physics (thank you, God!), and DJ Top Spin. That's right, mutha-flippin Grynch will be there. Seattlest is going because we missed The Physics a couple weeks ago and truly regret that. We are also going because we have heard too much about Grynch to have never heard him live. Who IS this very white guy who throws it down like that? Check out "How I Feel" on his MySpace. We like!

We knew that last winter's windstorm was a boon to salesmen of propane and propane accessories, but now it seems like it gave a little nudge to young lovers as well. Apparently there was a "baby boomlet" this September, nine months following the storm and mass power outages. This is always the cool part about big weather events: they bring people together. My roof is fucked up, my neighbor's roof is fucked up--we can set aside the fact that he brings his dog over to crap on our lawn and he can temporarily forget that our non-starting car has been collecting leaves on the curb directly in front of his house for some six months. There are shingles everywhere! Let's have a little solidarity over that! Who cares that they're mostly his and he's never going to come around and clear them out of our bushes! The same holds true inside the house. The generator only puts out enough wattage to run the space heater, the plasma and the wine fridge so there's no question about whether the Xbox is going to get any play tonight. That's a recipe for love.

There are not enough hours in the day. Just. Not. Enough. If we weren't already going to the New Pornographers show tonight, we'd likely be found at the Ten Tiny Dances performance at CHAC (7:30pm, $15). If you haven't seen it before, the idea is there's a 4' x 4' platform that the dancers have to (more or less) stay on for their performance, like when we were kids and the floor was lava. Lava!

On Saturday Seattlest attended the wake of Vincent Gallapaga. Although he welcomed us into his life with so little reserve that it's hard to imagine a time when we didn't know and love him, we didn't actually meet until 1999 when he'd just gotten back from Australia with a master plan to open a savory pie shop. Which he did, several years ago. Unlike a lot of people who pass through the service industry as a barista or waiter on the their way through school or until another project takes off, Vince loved the life. He opened Pies & Pints because his cooking and hosting had outgrown his kitchen at home and it was apparent at his wake on Saturday that the restaurant opened the pleasure of his acquaintance to the masses. A lot of people got to know Vince during his time in the world, and his energy was infectious.

On Saturday, a tractor clearing brush from under I-5 near South Massachusetts struck and killed a homeless man in a sleeping bag, hidden away in the blackberry brambles. The accident is "sparking," as the P-I has it, "a policy review."

"This is a horrible accident for everyone involved," Transportation Department spokesman Russ East said. "We're going to take a look at our practices and procedures. We're asking, 'What do we need to do to make sure that this doesn't happen again?' "

On Saturday, Frank Hughes of the Tacoma News-Tribune reported that local real estate developer Dave Sabey had offered to buy the Sonics from Clay Bennett and make them the centerpiece of a development he's planning south of Boeing Field.

Seattlest got our first chance to stick our fingers in the Viaduct's wounds this weekend courtesy of a WSDOT walking tour. Unless you're the type to sign up for a St Patrick's Day 15,000 K fun run or something like that opportunities to walk around on the Viaduct's road bed are few and far between, so this tour was greatly appreciated. On Saturday morning we met at the 1st and Columbia onramp to collect our hard hat, safety vest and donuts. Maybe ten or fifteen of us formed a group and WSDOT guy Ali Amiri marched us out onto the roadway. When we took Ali's picture he said, "Oh, no. This isn't for some website is it?" The world can read Seattlest like a book.

On Saturday, they will rock you. In advance of their first show ever in a bonafide rock club, Seattlest asked Buttrock Suites co-founder, producer, choreographer, dancer, and lead head-banger Diana Cardiff how exactly they combine Poison and Bon Jovi with grand jetées and pointed toes. However they damn well please, it turns out.

At right is Pete Walker Hunter. He grew up in Atlantic City, where his mom's a casino dealer. He starred at Virginia Union University, leading the conference in interceptions, and since graduating with honors in 2002, he's struggled to carve out an NFL career. He's been with the Cowboys, Browns and Jets.

On Saturday local comic book deity Fantagraphics is opening a retail outlet in Georgetown. It's their first one and it's going to be incredibly cool, but this is a "soft opening" meaning they'll be there and there should be some stock in the place, but don't expect them to be a well-oiled retail machine. Their grand opening isn't until December so, shhhh, don't tell anyone.

The Viaduct is closing this weekend for a semi-annual inspection, which we like to imagine as Mayor Nickels walking up to and attempting to shake a support column. Thumbs-up, DOT, looks like we're set for another year or until such time as a replacement tunnel is funded!

The Hugo House is running an inquiry into that most terrible and divisive of subjects: childhood.

If you haven't already checked out Black Bottle (a "gastro-tavern") at 1st and Vine in Belltown, and you're into sharing great food but aren't into spending a fortune, it's about time.

Man, is there a LOT of Bumbershoot stuff on Seattlest right now. If you're anything like Editor Dan you're hoping for a break in the Bumber action; a contributor's recounting of a trip to Lake Chelan, a reaction to a dunderheaded Seattle Times editorial, or even some lame PR survey naming Seattle 16th Most Fashionable City West of the Rockies. Anything! Well, you can hope for something different, but your hopes will be dashed because this is another Bumbershoot post.

Decisions, decisions. This member of Seattlest will have a good friend in town for the duration of Bumbershoot weekend, so most of our scheduling will depend on him. Good thing our friends tend to have taste. Present company excluded.

Forget gay marriage. The greatest threat to that holiest of institutions is Mariner manager Mike Hargrove. His idiotic bullpen management this weekend, summed up in this post at USS Mariner, caused at least one marital breach we know of. There must be others. Says a USS Mariner commenter:

In which Seattlest contributors divulge their weekend plans and disclose their favorite things to BBQ.

On Saturday and Sunday, the Pike Place Market was host to the 2nd Annual Seattle Cheese Festival. The weather cooperated, so it ended up being two beautiful days of mass cheese consumption. Seattlest personally ate more cheese in the span of an hour than most people should ingest in a lifetime. Oh but it was worth it...

The weather can't make up its mind, but at Seattlest, we can. We're going to rain down our weekend plans on you. Recognize.

On Saturday, in their first appearance in the NCAA tournament since 2001, the Husky women won a thriller, beating Minnesota thanks to some gutsy rebounding, timely shooting, and hopelessly incompetent Gopher coaching.

What will the weekend bring? Why, the new 4A state basketball champion, of course! So the staff of Seattlest picks our favorites in today's critical semifinal game between Franklin and Curtis. Also, they mention some other stuff they are interested in.

What's Seattlest doing this weekend? What isn't Seattlest doing this weekend?