A conversation with Seattle
Okay, sure, rainy and cold, Google. Maybe get with the times. The National Weather Service just issued an Excessive Heat Watch for this Thursday and Friday, forecasting temperatures in the low-to-mid-90s. In fairness, Seattle is still pretty white, with some 70 percent of residents plunking for Caucasian. Continue reading Hey Google, Why is Seattle So…?
Weather-wise, it was the nicest Saturday in a while, and while the rest of you were walking Green Lake or mowing your yards, I was hanging with the Otaku in the caverns of the Convention Center at Sakura-Con 2012. The annual anime and manga gathering brought fans together from all over the Northwest, North America, Japan, and even Norway to cosplay, watch anime, attend panels, and buy lots and lots of anime- and manga-related stuff. Continue reading All About the Cosplay at Sakura-Con 2012
Really, it’s all increasingly less about “nerd culture” than it is about “pop culture.” With the enormous success of television shows like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones, movies like The Hunger Games, and the internet super-celebrity of George Takei and Wil Wheaton [Please give him back his Kindle–ed.], the traditional lines between genre fans and so-called regular folks have become indiscernible, a fact which is reflected in the year-over-year growth in ECCC attendance. Continue reading The 2012 Emerald City Comicon, According to Bosco, with Cameos by George Takei, Wil Wheaton & Summer Glau
We at The SunBreak are going to re-use, re-cycle, and re-gift some of the tried and true ideas from our 2009 and 2010 gift guides, along with some new items crowdsourced just for this holiday season. Happy Shopping! Continue reading Rerun: Buy Stuff! The SunBreak’s Guide to Gifting
“Approximately 20 percent of all people planning to dress up for Halloween will wait until the last minute to choose their costume,” reports Value Village, with results from their proprietary in-house Halloween Shopping Survey. This is serious! 1,068 people were polled nationally. So it’s likely you haven’t really figured out what you’re going as yet. Continue reading No Halloween Costume? Low Budget? You Need a Second Hand
Half of the fun of a cat show is the cat people: those that feed their cats baby food, those that don matching outfits, those that clothe their cats. Everyone is eager to talk pussies and doesn’t mind you touching theirs. And these cats are used to being handled, so they are generally friendly, easygoing, and social. What more could one want? Continue reading Head to Tukwila Sunday for a Cat Show of Epic Proportions (Photo Gallery)
You’ve got three choices of local scavenger hunts: the Pike Place Market tour, the Pioneer Square tour, and the Seattle Art Museum Tour, though for the latter, a separate admission to the museum is required. Each tour takes about two to three hours to complete. Continue reading Seattle: The Game Gives An Excuse to Tour Pioneer Square