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Potential Conflicts Between McGinn and the Council
Tonight:
The Seattle Municipal League, an entirely non-partisan group of open-government advocates who rate candidates based on their "capacity to serve effectively" rather than their politics (Joe Mallahan got an "outstanding" and Mike McGinn got a "good"), is turning 100 this year, and they're celebrating tonight with a dinner and awards ceremony.
One award winner we're completely psyched about? Futurewise for "Organization of the Year." Founded as 1000 Friends of Washington in 1990 to defend the Growth Management Act, Futurewise fights sprawl in courtrooms across the state and in legislators’ offices in Olympia.
The Muni League will be auctioning off a lunch with King County Executive Dow Constantine (also a GMA stalwart) and one with City Council Member Tim Burgess (a stalwart on, um, panhandling). The best prize? A chance to go jogging with Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna, which I guess could be fun.
Tickets are available, but are close to selling out. You can get 'em here .
Tonight at 5:30, at Showbox SODO, 1700 1st Avenue S.
Tomorrow:
You can look at Seattle's BirthDIYfest , taking place at the Vera Project tonight, in a couple of different ways.
If you're an artist, particularly someone obsessed with making your own beats, or pressing vinyl records out of your friend's band's mp3s, or trying to start your own weirdo arts collective, it's like a networking event where people from a few different uber-indie record labels are going to have tables set up.
Or you can just go to peek your head into Seattle's hippie DIY scene, in all its homemade-t-shirt glory.
Either way, it's a sweet excuse to support awesome indie music projects around town, like the All Ages Movement Project and the Seattle DIY Movement. And Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground and Feral Children, two of Seattle's flagship indie bands, are performing.
Tomorrow at 9:30 at the Vera Project (Warren Avenue N & Republican Street). Tickets are $10.
Also on Tomorrow's Calendar:
Youth Speaks, a group of astounding talented youth poets, are having their annual poetry grand slam tomorrow—the winner's go to the national poetry slam in Los Angeles. Friday at 7 pm at the Moore Theater (1932 2nd Avenue). Tickets are $15/youth, $20/21+.
There's a special meeting of the City Council's Regional Development and Sustainability committee, for a public interview and comment session on the appointment of Marco Lowe as Director of the Office Intergovernmental Relations—a job that's at the center of potential conflicts between McGinn and the Council because it's the city's lobbying office. What, for example, is the city's position on 520. Friday at City Hall Council Chambers, Floor 2 (600 4th Avenue), at 2 pm.
The Hugo House presents "The Laws of Attraction," an artistic summit of nationally-renowned essayist Philip Lopate, lauded local actress Marya Sea Kaminski, and the band Happy Hour Hero. Friday at 7:30 the University of Washington's Kane Hall (Room 120). Tickets are $15 to $35.
The Seattle Municipal League, an entirely non-partisan group of open-government advocates who rate candidates based on their "capacity to serve effectively" rather than their politics (Joe Mallahan got an "outstanding" and Mike McGinn got a "good"), is turning 100 this year, and they're celebrating tonight with a dinner and awards ceremony.
One award winner we're completely psyched about? Futurewise for "Organization of the Year." Founded as 1000 Friends of Washington in 1990 to defend the Growth Management Act, Futurewise fights sprawl in courtrooms across the state and in legislators’ offices in Olympia.
The Muni League will be auctioning off a lunch with King County Executive Dow Constantine (also a GMA stalwart) and one with City Council Member Tim Burgess (a stalwart on, um, panhandling). The best prize? A chance to go jogging with Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna, which I guess could be fun.
Tickets are available, but are close to selling out. You can get 'em here .
Tonight at 5:30, at Showbox SODO, 1700 1st Avenue S.
Tomorrow:
You can look at Seattle's BirthDIYfest , taking place at the Vera Project tonight, in a couple of different ways.
If you're an artist, particularly someone obsessed with making your own beats, or pressing vinyl records out of your friend's band's mp3s, or trying to start your own weirdo arts collective, it's like a networking event where people from a few different uber-indie record labels are going to have tables set up.
Or you can just go to peek your head into Seattle's hippie DIY scene, in all its homemade-t-shirt glory.
Either way, it's a sweet excuse to support awesome indie music projects around town, like the All Ages Movement Project and the Seattle DIY Movement. And Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground and Feral Children, two of Seattle's flagship indie bands, are performing.
Tomorrow at 9:30 at the Vera Project (Warren Avenue N & Republican Street). Tickets are $10.
Also on Tomorrow's Calendar:
Youth Speaks, a group of astounding talented youth poets, are having their annual poetry grand slam tomorrow—the winner's go to the national poetry slam in Los Angeles. Friday at 7 pm at the Moore Theater (1932 2nd Avenue). Tickets are $15/youth, $20/21+.
There's a special meeting of the City Council's Regional Development and Sustainability committee, for a public interview and comment session on the appointment of Marco Lowe as Director of the Office Intergovernmental Relations—a job that's at the center of potential conflicts between McGinn and the Council because it's the city's lobbying office. What, for example, is the city's position on 520. Friday at City Hall Council Chambers, Floor 2 (600 4th Avenue), at 2 pm.
The Hugo House presents "The Laws of Attraction," an artistic summit of nationally-renowned essayist Philip Lopate, lauded local actress Marya Sea Kaminski, and the band Happy Hour Hero. Friday at 7:30 the University of Washington's Kane Hall (Room 120). Tickets are $15 to $35.
