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Imbibing Agenda

Upcoming Drinking Events: Ginger Bliss release party; Mezcaleria Oaxaca Opens

Plus: Boozing it up at Pike Place Market, oyster HH returns to Whole Foods.

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This Saturday, celebrate the release of a new collection of cocktail recipes from Seattle author A.J. Rathbun.

Bargain oysters = happy times. On Tuesday, October 4, Whole Foods Westlake reintroduces oyster happy hour; from 6 to 8pm the slippery suckers are just 69 cents a piece. (Oh and lookie here, on Wednesdays it’s 50 cent wings.)

Thursday: Long-awaited Capitol Hill distillery and tasting room Oola throws itself an opening party, your chance to check out its vodka and gin and get a look at the Graham Baba-designed tasting room.

Pike Place Market hosts Arcade Nights on Friday the 7th. The $25 admission is purchasable at Brown Paper Tickets. For that you receive 10 tokens, each good for a beverage or snack. It’s 21 and over, drinks on offer include wine, beer, and hard cider.

A mezcal collection AND food from the Carta de Oaxaca folks? That’s more than a little exciting. Saturday, October 8 is opening night at Mezcaleria Oaxaca at 2123 Queen Anne Avenue N. You never know what Seattleites are going to show up for, but if the consistently clusterfucky crowd situation at Carta is any indication, you’ll want to arrive early.

Also on Saturday: Rob Roy celebrates the release of Ginger Bliss and the Violet Fizz, the new cocktail book from local writer A.J. Rathbun. Meet the author, buy a book, and sample some of the cocktail recipes between 2 and 4pm at the Belltown bar.

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Tags: Cocktails, Seattle Bars, Books & Authors, Whole Foods, Mezcal, Oysters, Drinking Events, Queen Anne, Cocktail Recipes, Belltown, Books About Drinking

Bars We Need

The Stranger’s Paul Constant Calls for a Literary Bar

“No nattering blogs or flickering videos to distract from the words you’re writing, speaking, or reading.”

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The White Horse Tavern, West Village, New York

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So here’s what we need: a fairly large bar, nothing fancy, not too expensive. Open almost all the time. Maybe a typewriter here or there for ambience. Ratty books on shelves. Some sort of an area that can easily become a stage. Chairs. Tables. No TV, no Wi-Fi. No nattering blogs or flickering videos to distract from the words you’re writing, speaking, or reading. A jukebox stuffed with Edith Frost, the Magnetic Fields, and the Pogues. That’s about it for the hardware.

That’s Paul Constant, writing about his dream of a Seattle bar for writers in a new Stranger article entitled “A Barroom of Their Own.”

Constant points out that despite Seattle’s status as America’s most literary city after New York, we don’t have a literary movement—a style of writing unique unto our writers. He attributes this to the fact that Seattle’s writers don’t really have an informal gathering space in which ideas can be exchanged casually and in a manner more freewheeling than is possible at prescheduled literary gatherings.

When I moved to Seattle from Washington, DC, a city in which, to its cynical denizens’ amazement, a literary bar had only just opened (it’s now a chain, so…), I took it for granted that there would be scores of such establishments here. But I found only a haunted and dusty Blue Moon Tavern.

Anyway, it’s a good read.

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Tags: Books & Authors, The Stranger

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