Have any need for a living fossil, Japanese folk art, or home brew equipment? Check out the West Seattle Community garage sale. Starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 11 there will be a total of 520 different vendors offering their wares from a transformer dining table (at 7031 13th SW), to a human hair wig (being sold at 1722 SW Cloverdale). 

Be sure to start right at 9 a.m. before all the good items are gone!

Baseball was born as the perfect sport, which is at its essence, America’s pastime. A relaxing game where you can spend your whole day at the park with a beer in your left hand and a good friend sitting to your right as you complain to each other about the umpires.

Somewhere along the line someone got confused. Someone thought ‘big number good’ and decided that ‘no baseball is not a relaxing pastime, it needs constant scoring to satisfy the ever shortening American attention span – it needs more hits’.

This infectious idea, this poisoning of the mind started in 1973 as an experiment that went on for too long. Initially this contagion was confined to the American League. It was one of the beautiful oddities of baseball – where one league had the designated hitter (DH) and one did not.

The quote “standing on the shoulders of giants” is a quote that was popularized by Isaac Newton as a metaphor for using the understanding and knowledge of those that have gone before us to make progress. It is a quote that can certainly be applied metaphorically to the 2024 Men’s March Madness Tournament.

Without the progress of Jim Calhoon bringing UConn into the national spotlight through his several title runs from 1999 – 2011 UConn would never have attracted head coaching candidate Dan Hurley, and they would certainly never be in the conversation as a NCAA men’s basketball Blue Blood.

On Saturday, Jan. 13 the beaches of Santa Monica exploded with Frisbees being thrown, spirit abounding, and players dressing up in different costumes to represent their team. This was not some kind of alien beach party invasion, it was beach ultimate Frisbee.

For the uninitiated, ultimate Frisbee is a sport where players receive a Frisbee off an initial throw (or pull) from the other team, and then work the Frisbee up-field by throwing the disk to their teammates.

Those teammates are then tasked with catching the Frisbee, stopping, then throwing the Frisbee to other teammates until someone catches it in the end zone to score. If the Frisbee touches a single grain of sand or blade of grass it is a turnover, and the other team gets a chance to do the same towards their goal.

If you were to go to the West Seattle Admiral Theater, there is a chance that you may see a picket line and protesters asking for better working conditions, the reinstatement of a former employee, better wages, and the recognition of the Theater Workers Union among other demands.

However, according to the theater owner Jeff Brein, there is no strike, and no union, “[t]here is not a single active current employee of the theater who is protesting, picketing or otherwise involved in a dispute currently being conducted by former employees and outside people.”