With chances of slushy snow this weekend you probably won’t be doing much sledding on Capitol Hill but there are still plenty of things to get out and do around the neighborhood including a big anniversary for a little beer brewer, a big sale from a Pike/Pine retailer, and an important meeting in the Central District. Meanwhile, Emerald City Comic Con will keep things busy downtown and across Capitol Hill. Check out the CHS Calendar for more.
- Standard Goods Warehouse Sale: After eight years on Capitol Hill, E Pike’s Standard Goods is having their first ever Warehouse Sale. Everything is priced to move so they can make space for 2024. Most everything will be 50% off, with some items going below $10.00.
- Outer Planet Brewing’s 9th Anniversary: 12th Ave nanobrewery Outer Planet has been celebrating its birthday all week. The party culminates Saturday with a day of beer, music, and Girl Scout cookies.
- State of Africatown 2024: Africatown is about to open its most ambitious investment yet as the affordable housing development Africatown Plaza completes construction. Saturday, the organization that also runs social and community programs focused on the economic growth and culture in the Central District will hold its 11th annual State of Africatown forum at Langston Hughes.
- In Search of Truth with Barbara McQuade and Jenny Durkan: We’re not sure what activists from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in her city will think of this. Former Mayor Jenny Durkan is scheduled to appear Sunday at First Hill’s Town Hall for a discussion with MSNBC legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade for a talk on disinformation –“a well-known part of political rhetoric, but it has implications even outside of the sphere of democracy.” While Durkan herself is a former federal prosecutor, her participation in this Town Hall Seattle talk will be interesting, to say the least. Seattle Police infamously deployed disinformation tactics including an “improper ruse” intended to disrupt Capitol Hill demonstrations during the 2020 protests under Durkan’s watch.
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