This Wednesday November 30th is the “From a Basement in Seattle: The Poster Art of Brad Klausen” book launch. This book covers all the gorgeously detailed poster artwork Brad has done for band like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Kings of Leon and events such as Monsters of Folk. His book launch will be at Elliot Bay books at 7pm, Nov. 30th. You can also purchase it online here.

For all you 80′s shredheads the Rare and Vintage Snowboard Show is opening at Evo Seattle on Friday November 5, 2010. Learn about snowboarding’s past while thinking about the season to come. Go flex some old wood!

The Zombie apocalypse is happening at the Seattle Center this weekend for Zombcon. The line up for it’s first year is impressive, with DAWN OF THE DEAD writer/director George Romero, Actor Bruce Cambell and Malcolm McDowell all to make appearances. From zombie movies to zombie comics, Zombcon is where it’s at for all things undead. Check out their online schedule for details.

Returning once again to Seattle is Smash Putt, the Miniature Golf Apocalypse. This time it takes over a detention facility in downtown Seattle built in the 1930 for 6 weeks of mayhem and excitement! There will be new chaotic mechanized obstacles plus returning favorites. Finally miniature golf done horribly right!

Mightypop is back from a much needed vacation and ready to hit the Seattle Square this saturday. Local DJ’s will be spinning the soundtrack while you shop for vintage housewares, local designed clothing and get some fantastic chow from mobile food vendors like Skillet. It’s going on in Occidental Park inbetween 11-5am, be there!

This Friday through Sunday 250 pinball and arcade games are beckoning to be played at the Northwest Pinball and Gameroom Show. All the games are set on FREE PLAY with the price of an admission ticket. Steve Wiebe, Star of the documentary “The King Of Kong“, will be in attendance. I personally am going to try to make it to the end of the arcade game Scramble, which I never was able to finish as a kid.

Switch your hub from freewheel to fixed and join the Future Tense summer fixie race series starting this friday June 11th. Each months race will begin at Cal Anderson park at 6:30pm sharp. Trick events and footdown will take place after race. As always, Future Tense is a FREE event!

This year the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) has hundreds of great movie screenings, which is making hard to choose. Their new SIFF iPhone app, created by POP, has a SIFFter visual film filter that let’s you search by country, genre, venue, title, director, or keyword. It also let’s you buy tickets right from your phone.

Here’s my picks so far for the festival: Holy Rollers, Wheedle’s Groove, Disco and Atomic War, The Chef of South Polar, Bodyguards and Assassins, and finally Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields performs 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Via Tribunali Neapolitan Pizzeria is partnering with Peroni Beer, The Stranger, Caffe Vita and The City of Seattle’s Bicycle Program to raise funds for the Seattle biking community. Each Wednesday for five weeks, beginning May 12, Via Tribunali will open its doors from 5-7PM for free pizza. You can get all the info here.

There’s a lot of buzz about the new Seattle’s Best Coffee rebranding and simple new logo. I asked around the office and these are the first comments upon viewing the new logo:

“What’s that thing in the back of your throat? It looks like a Uvula hanging down.”

“It looks sterile and old.”

“I see a blood donation center sign.”

“Looks like an old oil company logo.”

Not one of the people I showed it to liked it over the old logo. I think Starbucks and their design firm Creature jumped the shark on this one. Verdict: FAIL.