Two Amazing Goals

May 2, 2012

Newcastle Goal

Sounders Goal

Kings' Pain Is Seattle's Gain

by Steve Kelley in Seattle Times

The season ended in Sacramento the way it began. In the final seconds of the season's final game a huge crowd at Power Balance Pavilion stood and roared its thanks as the Kings beat the Los Angeles Lakers.

In the opener and in the finale, the Sacramento fans celebrated wins over L.A. that must have felt like a new beginning for the franchise. They cheered as if they knew the Kings were theirs forever.

Those fans don't deserve all the anxiety that their ownership is bringing upon them, just as Seattle didn't deserve what happened to it when it lost the Sonics.

But there is a one big difference. The NBA has gone above and beyond to lobby politicians for a new downtown arena in Sacramento. It didn't break a sweat on its way out of Seattle.

Norah Jones  - Little Broken Hearts
review by Nick Cavelleri in SPIN

The lesson to glean from ...Little Broken Hearts — what may well endure as the second essential record of Norah Jones' career — is that hate can be transformational. And not the mild emotion triggered by a neighbor's yapping dog or a cubicle-mate's constant gum-snapping. We're talking the gush of crude that rose unstoppably from the Deepwater Horizon to humiliate experts on deep- sea tectonics. We're talking the destructive power of Vesuvius smothering the innocents of Pompeii in blankets of burning ash. This is douse-the-motherfucker-in-gasoline-and-light-a-match stuff. Murderous hate. Hateful hate. This might come as a surprise for the 23 million or so who bought 2002's Come Away With Me and have given Norah Jones only their cursory attention since. In fact, that debut became the most listenable blockbuster of the decade for precisely the opposite reason. The soft twilight of her disinterested alto, the refined near-jazz, the romantic vagaries: it was universally… pleasant. Go ahead and deride it for being too vanilla. It was sumptuous vanilla.

Seattle Beer Week - May 10-20
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