   | Watch a movie under the stars this summer at South Lake Union Park. The free movies begin around dusk,between 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.,but viewers are encouraged to stop by early to grab a spot on the lawn next to the MOHAI museum. Here’s the lineup: Aug. 4: “10 Things I Hate About You” [...] Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’$2.5 million pledge to defend Washington’s gay-marriage law marks by far his biggest entry into politics and thrusts him into the national debate over the rights of same-sex couples. The donation,which Bezos made with his wife,MacKenzie,is likely the largest political contribution to a gay-marriage campaign in the [...] How Can We Have Sex if You Don’t Call? Gay Dating,and Other Nightmares by Rory Callahan -This is a FREE PREVIEW of the new novella. Now available at Amazon.com Intro … Dating horror stories are a common enough contemporary literary genre,often written by humorists. Most of us have had some sort of [...] As expected, Amazon.com posted a sharp drop in its second-quarter profit Thursday after reinvesting in the business. The Internet retailer reported a razor-thin profit of $7 million,or a penny a share,down from $191 million a year ago. From the same newspaper that critcized Amazon in a scathing report on warehouse conditions,comes this piece today: As Amazon.com builds new distribution centers throughout the U.S.,the Internet retailer wants its warehouse workers and even its customers to think of it as a generous employer. In a message on Amazon’s homepage Monday,Chairman and [...] Eastlake’s own Ship Canal Grill has claimed top honors at the second annual Bite Of Lake Union tastefest held right at our Lake Union Beat office on Eastlake ave. Chowder samples from ten local eateries were provided by volunteers in a blind taste test to our staff,and the winner was selected by a point [...] We’ve found a a couple of the clearest journalistic statements on the touchy subject at hand. They are both by the same man,written after the Virginia Tech shootings and the recent Colorado massacre. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/07/aurora-movie-shooting-one-more-massacre.html
You already know about South Lake Union’s yearly block party,but now the contestants for this year’s annual burger contest have been named. This year,Blue Moon Burgers,Brave Horse Tavern,Lunchbox Laboratory and Whole Foods Market will compete to take the title from the returning three-time champs from Seastar Restaurant and Raw Bar. The 8th [...] No,you’re not dreaming –more like having ‘Deja vu’–as crews get ready to close the on- and off- ramps for I-5 at Mercer Street again this weekend.The ramps will shut down starting Friday,July 13 at 11:00p.m.,and remain closed until 5:00a.m. on Monday,July 16.SDOT says the work is dependent on the [...] |      |
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