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A Pumpkin Beer Festival In Seattle To Start The Halloween Season
Pumpkin season is upon us. Most places are now filled with orange displays, the convenience store is pushing their pumpkin cappuccino things, and of course there’s plenty of candy. We’re all about celebrating Halloween even if it is still an entire month until the big day, especially if it involves some special holiday beverages. One brewery in Seattle knows that there’s only one way to truly get the season underway, and that is with a pumpkin beer festival.
The Elysian Brewing Company is putting the final preparations in place for The Great Pumpkin Beer Festival. Things will be taking place this weekend, October 10 and 11, at the brewery’s Capitol Hill location. There will be plenty of pumpkin beers to help lager lovers get their fix and celebrate the season. The brewery will be honoring nine of their own beers, including The Great Pumpkin Imperial Pumpkin Ale, Hansel and Gretel Ginger Pumpkin Pilsner, and Night Owl. There will be concoctions from other breweries as well including Southern Tier, Rock Bottom, and Dogfish Head.
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Seattle Music Venues: Neumo's
A reincarnation of the early-'90s Seattle music venue Moe's Mo' Rockin' Cafe, Neumo's returned to the city in fall 2003, picking up where it had left off the previous decade. Original Moe's founder Jerry Everard teamed up with another local venue owner to take back Moe's original space, which had been used as a disco, several clubs, and even a video arcade, since it closed its doors in 1997.
Today, Neumo's hosts bands like uber-hipsters The Teenagers and punk legends Neurosis and Converge. Despite a few unlikely appearances (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) on its calendar, Neumo's has stayed true to its underground rock roots: Moe's did, after all, play host to the Flaming Lips and Radiohead in its early days.
The venue, located in Seattle's Capitol Hill area, has gotten nothing but glowing reviews from Seattle's local press. In addition to praise for its layout (one writer claims you can get an unobstructed view of the stage no matter where you stand), the venue also scored props for its gig selection.
Local writer Geoff Carter summed it up:
Its bookings are among Seattle's most righteous and run the gamut from old-school punk to new-school power-pop with stops nearly everywhere in-between.
Related Stories:
· Neumo's [Official site]
· Seattle Music Venues Map [Jaunted]
· Live Music coverage [Jaunted]
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To Do in Seattle: Oscars For Free
It's mostly standing room at Chop Suey, which is actually more of a music venue/standard-issue club than a theater. But that won't stop the Oscars from playing there this Sunday. They'll have the ceremony rolling live on the onstage projection screen.
Chop Suey's Oscars party starts at 4 p.m. and admission is free, so get ready to start drinking on the cheap early. The event will be co-hosted by the Peoples Republic of Komedy, who will fill the commercial breaks and "boring parts" with live prank calls and Oscar-themed comedy. You may not run into as many film nerds here, but on the brighter side, you run a higher chance of enjoying some grade A drunken debauchery.
[Photo: seattlephotoblog]
Related Stories:
· Chop Suey [Official Site]
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To Do in Seattle: Oscars Party
Ever dreamed of partying with the stars at the Academy Awards? Well, you'll probably never get to. But you can have something akin to a real Oscars night in Seattle, where Central Cinema will hold its Oscars dinner party this Sunday. The fact that the "invitation" alludes to Bjork's famous swan ensemble makes us suspect the event will be less cheesy than you'd think.
Arrive at Central Cinema, a small dinner-movie theater, and sit in the main room for a prix fixe dinner and the whole Awards thing running on a big screen. Dinner tickets are $60 (tax and tip included) and offer you stuff like prime rib and chocolate mousse, but not the pizzas Central Cinema is known for.
Balcony tickets go for $28 (tax and tip included) and include a lighter menu plus a glass of bubbly. There will also be an informal contest for the best costume, so you might want to pull that Bjork swan replica you made out of storage, dear superfan.
[Photo: deepmedia]
Related Stories:
· Central Cinema [Official Site]
