A couplea things to get up to:

Big Wheel Bingo @ Can Can – Watch bingo done right in their last show of their season. They’re tarting it up with Orkestar Zirkonium. Get your daubers ready!

Club Pop @ Chop Suey – Good dancin’ last time I went. 18+, but, still fun to get down with the kids.

I don’t know about you, dear readers, but I’m loving this cheese series. Take one of my favorite foods, and combine it with two of my favorite things: writing, and visiting farmers markets. Today’s entry in our series is Golden Glen Creamery. I found them at the Bellevue Farmer’s Market and had a lovely chat with Judy Jensen, one of the owners and cheesemakers of Golden Glen Creamery.

Golden Glen Creamery at Bellevue Farmer’s Market

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I was just browsing through our Metroblogging Seattle pool, and came across this photo of the Mukilteo Lighthouse. No one runs the lighthouse now; it’s an attraction and the centerpiece of the park, since, I suppose, modern navigational systems have replaced the need for lighthouses. The first guy to run it, in 1906, was awarded the post because he helped save a tugboat crew that had run aground. The last one was a Coast Guard Boatswain, who left when the light station was closed in 1990 [historylink]. Still, it’s awfully pretty.

via LJ Seattle

Apparently one of the small train engines that moves cars around the yard had a slight oops today at King and Alaskan. More pictures are available from Seattle’s ever-entertaining LiveJournal community.

Today’s NBA draft (ESPN, 4:00 Pacific) will re-shape the future of the Sonics (on-court, at least) [times]. With the number 2 pick, they’re assured of either Kevin Durant or Greg Oden – two players who will have an immediate and positive impact on whichever team drafts them. Furthermore, the Internet is alive with rumors (hard to believe, I know) that the Sonics are looking to trade Ray Allen to the Celtics for the #5 pick (and Theo Ratliff’s contract) and/or Luke Ridnour to the Hawks for the #11 pick.

If you’re a Sonics fan and you read this blog (welcome to the both of you, by the way) it seems certain that the team you root for today will not be the same team you root for tomorrow. And this is a good thing. The question remains, though, will the player personnel changes be enough to capture the attention and support of the fans in time to keep the team from moving to another state? And, if they stay, how do you feel about playing a little Spanish 21 before the game? [times] And if nobody hears the trucks heading to Oklahoma City in the middle of the night, does that mean the Sonics didn’t really move? Or were they never here in the first place?

It’s that time of the year again, Seattle, that time of the year in which movies are made even more entertaining by being available for your outdoor viewing pleasure. It really is fun to see movies outside when the weather’s nice; you can go by yourself or with a group of friends, have a little picnic, and watch a flick in true style. You have a lot of outdoor movie options if you live in this area, too.

• At South Lake Union, it’s the Cinema on the Lawn Series. The lawn is behind the SLU Discovery Center at Denny and Westlake Ave. Picnic food, blankets and low back chairs are welcome, but no outside alcohol. Starts at 7 p.m. with music, food, movie trivia and a Redhook beer garden. Movies start about half an hour after dusk.Breakfast at Tiffany’s, June 29; KEXP DJ Pick on July 13, Election on July 27 and Little Miss Sunshine on August 10.
• Seattle Outdoor Cinema in Fremont actually started June 23 but there are plenty more movies on the way. This Saturday, June 30, they’re showing Airplane There’s a movie each Saturday through September so check their schedule for full listing. This is a friendly, party atmosphere–some films feature live action interaction from actors or bands and the crowd is always really into what’s going on onscreen.
• Movies at the Mural are showing Moulin Rouge, Casino Royale and Princess Bride, three movies which are also being shown in Fremont, only on different dates. Well, no one goes to outdoor cinema for a delicate drama which requires a lot of thought–certain films just lend themselves better to this sort of viewing than others. The Mural Ampitheater is a great place to watch a movie, but it can be a real challenge to remain undistracted by alll the other things the Seattle Center has to offer. See site for full list, showings begin in August.

Am I the only one who thinks this article is incredibly weird and that it’s not really, hmmm, how should I put it, “legit,” to state as fact in a news article that a man, “placed a curse on [Spokane].”

What?! Did he waive his hands and declare everyone in the city was going to get thinner?! Did he declare Spokane to exist always in a state of boredom? Did everyone I know from Spokane (and it seems like a lot) move here to escape the gypsies?!

Upon further Wikipedia inspection, I found no mention of this “curse.” After a Google attempt, I found several articles from The Spokesman Review that referenced this said curse, but they all came up as “nonexistent” when I clicked the link. Finally, I found an article in the Review that said this Jimmy Marks guys reversed the curse in a “double chicken ceremony – one extra crispy and one regular.”

OH! Ok. That makes total sense now…

Can you please tell me, former-Spokane Seattlelites, is this gypsy curse common knowledge in your hometown?!

Tonight at 7 p.m. – Vital 5 Review Release Party @ Hideout – Vital 5 publishes a quarterly made from the writings and doodlings of people who visit the bar. The Hideout is a pretty neato place, and, it’s right next door to an artificial limb store (and down the street from the hospital) in case your bar fight goes horribly, terribly awry.

Also, Cirkus Pandemonium @ Funhouse – Portland’s take on Circus Contraption. It’d be cool to see them do a troupe-on-troupe performance-off. Someday, someday…

via The Cable Car Home Page

On its way downtown, the 12 bus crosses the east side of Capitol Hill and rides Madison the rest of the way downtown. Since it passes right over Pill Hill, during mid-day the bus is always crowded with elderly residents headed for their doctor’s appointments.

One of the gentlemen on today’s bus was one of Seattle’s true elders, an aged patrician with watery eyes and a gentle smile carved out of a thousand wrinkles. He was talking to the slightly younger man next to him.

“Wow,” he said. “This was so much easier when Madison had the cable cars.”

They’ve been gone since 1940, incidentally.

In light of my entry last week [mb] urging bikers to learn evasive procedures, I thought I should report back that I now think the drivers of cars should also consider this. This comes courtesy of the lady who did not look behind her before opening the door of her SUV into 15th ave E. yesterday. Luckily I managed to hit the brakes, and while I took a tumble, I was relatively unscared, however, it is inspiring this public service announcement to drivers:
LOOK BEHIND YOU BEFORE OPENING THE DOOR. I mean, what if I were a truck as opposed to a cyclist? There goes your door!