Breeders Theater will be holding a special performance of ‘Casting Call’ on Wednesday, Jan. 26th, as a fundraiser for the Highline Community College Foundation’s Breeders Theater Performing Arts Scholarship.

This special performance of this new play, written by Highline Professor Dr. T.M. Sell, will benefit the Highline Community College Foundation’s Breeders Theater Performing Arts Scholarship, an organization dedicated to raising funds that help provide quality education at Highline.

“Casting Call” centers around three actors vying for what could be the role of a lifetime. While performing a death scene in a play, one of them appears to actually die. Was it an accident, suicide or murder?

Tickets, which cost $20 each, also include tasting of four wines from the E.B. Foote Winery. Bottles of E.B. Foote’s wines will also be available to purchase.

Tickets are available from the HCC Foundation and at E.B. Foote Winery and Corky Cellars, 22511 Marine View Dr. S. in Des Moines.

WHAT: Special performance of the new play “Casting Call”

WHEN: Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011; doors open at 6:30pm; show starts at 7pm.

WHERE: E.B. Foote Winery, located at 127 S.W. 153rd St., Suite B in Burien.

COST: $20 per ticket; available from the HCC Foundation and at E.B. Foote Winery and Corky Cellars, 22511 Marine View Dr. S. in Des Moines.

For more information:

• www.funds4highline.org
• www.breederstheater.com

This Friday’s “Peanut Butter & Jam Kids Concert” will feature the band Caspar Babypants, whose lead singer is Chris Ballew from the Presidents of the United States of America!

The concert will be held from Noon – 1pm in the grassy area near the spray park at the Community Center right here in Tukwila.

More info, along with audio and videos available here: www.babypantsmusic.com

We know there are no excuses for posting this video so late, as the event took place last Sunday (Jan. 10th), but, um…we left our Flip camera in our other pants, and since we weren’t wearing any to begin with…

Actually, we hate to just throw up lame raw video, and editing takes time, and um…there’s that whole “other pants” thing again.

But first, a little interesting behind-the-scenes backstory:

Two days before the pantsless prank, we received the following email from Emerald City Improv‘s Kelsey Wildstone:

First, please remember that we’re trying to be inconspicuous here.

If you’d like to film the event with a motion camera, try to find a way to disguise your camera in a box or something to make it a sort of “hidden camera”.

Use some creativity here, but the point is that we’d like to avoid people seeing you openly point a camera around.

Considering that we respect the fine art of successful pranking, and that our Publisher used to work on a hidden camera TV show (“Totally Hidden Video,” Fox), we wanted to abide by this request (unlike some local TV news stations who just showed up and shot with their huge cameras and “Reporters”). The end result was that our shooter Mark Neuman went out of his way to “disguise” our Flip camera thusly:

Mark discovered that the Flip cam fit nicely inside an empty coffeecup. Just don't put it in a full one...

A little bit of cloth and tape secured the cam in tight.

...and with a hole cut in the side, it's hidden camera time!

Okay, so here it is (finally!)…with video shot by Neuman, featuring Bart Bryan, edited by Scott Schaefer and featuring the groovy public domain hit “Midnight Special” recorded by some long-dead dude named Bill Cox in 1933, ironically during the last Great Depression when not wearing pants wasn’t a prank, it was a way of life:

Also, we were very curious to find out what the MuckyMucks at SoundTransit thought of this pantsless prank, so we sent an email to Andrew Schmid, Sound Transit Media Relations director –here’s his response:

Q: Was ST aware beforehand that this was going to happen?
A: No, we were totally caught with our… (unless you lack internet access, it was almost impossible to not know about this event).

Q: Did ST security goes pantsless?
A: No.

Q: Was security worried about this prank at all?
A: Slightly – our security is worried about everything.

Q: Did this event increase ridership? if so, by how much? (have any estimate on the # of pantsless?)
A: Yes, but the infrared technology on Link’s Automatic Passenger Counting machines is not designed to distinguish between the pant-sed and the pants challenged.

Q: Will ST tolerate future events like this?
A: So long as folks follow our code of conduct (read it here).

Q: Will ST ever sponsor future events like this?
A: No.

Q: How about creating some ST underwear for folks to wear?
A: Sorta already been done – see this.

Q: Did you, or any other ST officials, attend?
A: NO COMMENT

And in case you haven’t seen the other videos, here they are:

Far as we know, it’s the only wacky bowling party based on a Coen Brothers movie – the annual Lebowski Fest returns to the area on Monday July 20th & Tuesday July 21st!

The Fest kicks off with the Movie Party at Seattle’s Fremont Outdoor Cinema with a performance by Har Mar Superstar, Jeff Dowd and white russian flavored popcorn on Monday, July 20th.

Here are the details:

WHAT: The annual Lebowski Fest

WHEN: Monday, July 20th and Tuesday, July 21st:

MONDAY, JULY 20th: Lebowski Fest Seattle Movie Party – Featuring Har Mar Superstar and Jeff “The Dude” Dowd. Followed by a screening of the movie. All Ages. Doors at 6pm, show at 7:30. @ Fremont Outdoor Cinema – 3501 Phinney Ave. North, 98103. $20

TUESDAY, JULY 21st: Lebowski Fest Seattle Bowling Party – Bowling, costume, trivia and other contests. Appearance by Jeff “The Dude” Dowd. Ticket includes bowling* and shoe rental. Ages 21 and up. 7pm @ ACME Bowl – 100 Andover Park W, 98188. $25 Advance / $30 Day of

WHERE: Mon. 7/20 at Fremont Outdoor Cinema and Tues. 7/21 at ACME Bowl in Tukwila (located at 100 Andover Park West).

TICKETS: Tickets are on sale here, and the last Lebowski Fest sold out in advance so considered yourself warned, dude.

INFO: “Come down Tuesday July 21st and check out the one and only Lebowski Fest at ACME Bowling, Billiards, and Events. Please note that ACME Bowl will be closed to the public during this event. Sorry for any inconvenience.”

Jeff Dowd, the inspiration for The Dude, will appear in Seattle! Ever heard of the Seattle Seven? That was Jeff Dowd (and six other guys). The Dude will help the roadies on the Speed of Sound tour kick off the West Coast leg.

*Bowling is general admission and not guaranteed. Bowling shoes not required with any non-dark soled shoe.

To whet your appetite for this unusual fest, here’s a trailer for the Coen Brothers movie (to see more clips, click here, but be warned that several use what one might call “adult language”):

Click here to view the embedded video.

The boys from The Tukwila Blog couldn’t resist the assignment earlier this week: Go do a story on trim, athletic, beautiful and scantily clad women running loose upon a field of grass.

Okay, so it was actually artificial turf, at the Starfire Sports Complex here in Tukwila, anyway, but who’s counting?

Tough assignment.

It was a combo mini-camp, open tryout and media event featuring The Seattle Mist, an expansion team in the Lingerie Football League.

The LFL was born of the Lingerie Bowl, which was first televised on a pay-per-view setup during halftime of the Super Bowl five years ago.

During games players wear, well, some lingerie plus pads and helmets. It’s full contact, tackle, seven on a side.

The Mist will play four regular season games, starting at home September 11 against the San Diego Seduction at the ShoWare Center in Kent.

Our gawking reporters, Bart and Mark, failed to ask many intelligent questions, but did manage to snap a few photos, a few of which are shown below.

This is the first professional coaching position for Mist Coach Robert Long, whose college playing experience earned him a tryout with the Tennessee Titans.

“There won’t be a playbook,” Long said. “But I’m going to teach these players a dozen or more basic plays, quick study stuff, West Coast offense.”

Tailgate parties will be allowed at the ShoWare before games, says league Creative Director, Heather Theisen. And games will be played on Friday nights.

“The Lingerie Football League with the Seattle Mist will be, essentially, ‘Nightlife meets Sports meets Baywatch’,” Theisen said.

Meet some of The Mist, but don’t get too misty-eyed – after all, it’s just a game:

The time capsule was made of a galvanized trash can sealed with duct tape.

In order to get into the garbage can capsule, the tape had to be cut off.

And what was the most significant item (in our humble opinion) found within?

A bumper sticker that read:

“Tukwila: next to the largest city in Washington.”

My, how times have changed…

Full Seattle Times story here.

From their website:

This is Big City Comedy’s 1 Year Anniversary show at the amazing Gordons on the Green.  Coupled with great food and drinks, Gordons has brilliantly transformed their banquet space into a comfortable loungey atmosphere. Located conveniently next to I-5 and with ample parking this makes Gordons a Comedy Treat for the south end.  Gordons was recently given the compliment of being on par with any comedy club across the nation.  Excitement keeps growing along with the popularity of this Fun Event.  Join us for what has been hailed as the “Monthly Date Night” everyone should schedule, “Comedy on the Green”.

Since performing at his first open mic in 2000, he has gone on to perform all over the United States and Canada as one of North Americas most exciting new headliners. In 2004 Gabriel was the winner of the Seattle International Comedy Competition.

In 2007 Gabriel performed at the HBO Comedy Festival in Las Vegas. Gabriel is a Capricorn. His favorite color is orange. His favorite food is ice cream. He has brown eyes and brown hair. He lives in Olympia Washington.

When no one else is around he likes to listen to Styx Greatest Hits. He was born in 1973. He has two parents, two brothers, one wife, one son, and one mother-in-law. In 2nd grade Gabriel finished second in the school spelling bee. The word he lost on was machine. Gabriel was voted Most Inspirational on his 9th grade baseball team. He graduated from high school in 1992 with a G.P.A. of 2.8. Gabriel is 5’11″. He doesn’t want you to know how much he weighs, but its less than his high bowling score, which is 252.

Here’s a video clip of Gabriel:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Tickets are $12 and can be purchased online here.

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This Father’s Day, why not help a needy dog out and make Dad happy at the same time by adopting a very unique canine named Spike:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Go to Dan The Sausageman’s website and order now, and you’ll receive a FREE 9-Ounce Summer Sausage!

CREDITS:

• Written/Directed by Scott Schaefer
• Voiceover by Henry Dardenne

We first found this ad on May 28th on seattle-tacoma craigslist > south king > missed connections:

How was your trip to Maui??? – w4m – 25 (SeaTac)

We met at at an airport parking place in Seatac on May 19th.

I was going to Disneyland and you were going to Maui.

You helped my daughter and I out with our luggage.

If you remember me, please let me know!

Then, a few days later, came this rather interesting rebuttal:

Hi,

You posted this for my husband.

His trip to Maui went fine, I was a day late due to a conference.

Why do you want to know how his trip went?

You must be the lady he mentioned when we were in Hilo.

He said you have a nice looking daughter and thought that you may have adopted her.

He said you stared at him plenty.

Mrs. Jake B.

Under the terms of the deal, Microsoft will pay the Sounders roughly $4 million a season for five years, according to people familiar with the arrangement.

Unfortunately, when a player gets “Blue Screened” and has to be re-booted, the entire cache of the stadium must be cleared and the BIOS re-set, but this usually only takes about seven minutes…