Weekend Review: Hayes Carll, Zombies, and a Vice President

Friday Afternoon: Al Gore at The Sheraton

Photo by Chris Kornelis. The audio of Vice President Gore's speech is comin' right up.

For those who haven't heard, a couple of scary climate change facts from the former vice president/Nobel laureate/Oscar winner:

*If we continue on this path of increasing CO2 emissions there will be an 11-degree increase in temperature in this century.

*The polar ice cap, which used to be about the size of the continental U.S., is now 43 percent gone and could melt entirely in five years.
-- Read Aimee Curl's full review of the vice president's visit on the Daily Weekly

Friday Night: Hayes Carll at The Sunset

Carll and his band adroitely plowed through most of their fine LP, Trouble In Mind, and sprinkled in some rootsy scorchers for good measure, this being an appropriately rowdy crowd for a Friday at the Sunset, where drinking anything other than Rainier just feels unnatural.

Carll, who's from South Texas, has a Wooderson-like charm onstage, where he eschewed standard cowpoke garb for a knit Mexican poncho, a look favored by collegiate stoners throughout North America. He's also a total ringer for Ben Best, one of the stars of the hilarious tae kwon do comedy, The Foot Fist Way, which he also co-wrote (Best also had a cameo in Superbad, as the guy who recognizes the blood on Jonah Hill's pants to be from a young woman's period). Anytime an entertainer reminds you of Wooderson and Ben Best, well, that's about perfect for a Friday. This 'ol boy's got a bright future in front of him.
-- Mike Seely

Saturday: Zombie Walk in West Seattle

The Fourth Annual Seattle Zombie Walk too place in West Seattle on World Zombie Day, Saturday, October 26. Watch a slideshow of World Zombie Day by Marcella D. Volpintesta.