Humanities Washington and Naked City Brewery & Taphouse team up again for the monthly “Think & Drink” series, this time exploring how technology is reshaping our communities.

The April 9 topic is “Bit by Bit: The Digital Evolution of the Neighborhood.”

This Think & Drink discussion will be led by technology expert Alex Alben and communications strategist Hanson Hosein, and moderated by Ross Reynolds. Alben is the author of Analog Days – How Technology Rewrote Our Future. He is also a member of Humanities Washington’s Speakers Bureau. Hosein is director of the Communication Leadership graduate program at the University of Washington and former director of the school’s Masters of Communication in Digital Media program. Reynolds is the host of the KUOW radio talk show The Conversation.

“Think & Drink” starts at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9, at Naked City, 8564 Greenwood Ave. N. Admission is free.

Naked City Brewery & Taphouse and Humanities Washington’s popular Think & Drink series is back on Tuesday, Feb. 19 with a hot topic.

“An Even Greener Washington: The Future of Marijuana Post-I-502” features attorney and author of I-502 Alison Holcomb, and Seattle Police Department Public Affairs Director Sgt. Sean Whitcomb. It will be moderated by KUOW’s Ross Reynolds.

Think & Drink begins at 7 p.m. on Feb. 19 at Naked City, 8564 Greenwood Ave. N. Admission is free; food and drinks are on you.

Just in time for Tuesday’s Election Day, the latest Humanities Washington “Think & Drink” event at Naked City Brewery in Greenwood features dueling political cartoonists.

At 7 p.m. Monday, local political cartoonists David Horsey and Milt Priggee will interpret current election issues based on suggestions from the audience and moderator Steve Scher, host of KUOW’s “Weekday.” The event is free.

Horsey received the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1999 and 2003. He was the longtime cartoonist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and now draws for the Los Angeles Times. Priggee is a former editorial cartoonist for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, and a past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.

The next installment of Naked City Brewery and Humanities Washington’s “Think & Drink” series takes on negative political campaigning, starting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 8564 Greenwood Ave. N.

Presenters David Domke, Peter Callaghan and Greg Lane will discuss ”Dirty Business: A History of Negative Campaigning,” starting with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

Domke is a professor and chair of the Communication Department at the University of Washington and a former journalist. Callaghan has been a columnist with The News Tribune in Tacoma for 27 years and formerly worked at The (Everett) Herald and the Associated Press in Olympia and Seattle. Lane is the president and CEO of TVW, Washington’s public affairs television network. Ross Reynolds, the host of KUOW’s award-winning news-talk program The Conversation, will be the night’s moderator.

Think & Drink is free to attend; you just pay for your food and beverages.

Humanities Washington’s next “Think & Drink” discussion is at Naked City Brewery & Taphouse, 8564 Greenwood Ave. N., on Tuesday and focuses on “State of the Unions: A Conversation on the Institution of Marriage.”

It’s free and begins at 7 p.m. Past Think & Drink events have proved popular; arrive early to snag a seat.

Social historian Stephanie Coontz, civic leader Anne Levinson and moderator Steve Scher will lead a conversation about marriage, offering both historical context and a consideration of recent same-sex marriage legislation.

Coontz is the author of Marriage, a History and teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State College; she’s appeared in media ranging from The New York Times to The Colbert Report. Levinson is a LGBT community leader and advisor to Washington United for Marriage; she was formerly a municipal judge, Seattle deputy mayor and co-owner of the Seattle Storm. Scher is a longtime journalist for Seattle’s National Public Radio station, KUOW; currently, he is the senior host of Weekday.

Naked City Brewery’s monthly “Think & Drink” events, sponsored by Humanities Washington, are quickly becoming THE place to be on a weekday evening. April’s event on “Consumerism and the Pursuit of Happiness” was standing room only.

Coming up on May 9, “Harlots & Heroines: Images of Women in Media and Pop Culture” features scholars Jennifer K. Stuller and Amy Peloff, with moderator Marcie Sillman, discussing the media’s portrayal of women – from Wonder Woman and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Lady Gaga and the Kardashians. The conversation will range from conceptions of gender to sexuality and politics.

Stuller is the author of Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology and co-founder and programing director of Seattle’s GeekGirlCon. Peloff is the associate director of the Comparative History of Ideas program at the University of Washington, where she teaches gender, women and sexuality studies. Sillman is a senior reporter with KUOW who produces in-depth news segments on Northwest life and culture.

The event is free. It starts at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 9, at Naked City Brewery & Taphouse, 8564 Greenwood Ave. N.

Naked City Brewery & Taphouse is sponsoring another “Think & Drink” event, this time on the topic of consumerism and happiness.

The free event is at 7 p.m. on Wed., April 4, at 8564 Greenwood Ave. N. “Consumerism and the Pursuit of Happiness” will be a conversation with John de Graaf and Laura Musikanski, coordinators of the Happiness Initiative. They’ll talk about the rise of consumerism in post-war America, and its impact on national happiness. The discussion moderator is Ross Reynolds, host of KUOW’s news-talk program “The Conversation.”

De Graaf is the filmmaker and author behind Affluenza; Musikanski is the former executive director of Sustainable Seattle. Together, they are coordinators of the Happiness Initiative (happycounts.org), a national nonprofit, nonpartisan project that studies and promotes conversations about the various factors influencing our personal and community well-being.

Think & Drink is sponsored by Humanities Washington.

The “Think & Drink” conversation series, sponsored by Humanities Washington, returns to Naked City Brewery & Taphouse, 8564 Greenwood Ave. N., with six more events next year.

The first, “Alien Encounters: Sci-Fi Movies, the Cold War and Today,” is at 7 p.m. on Jan. 11. It’s hosted by Robert Horton (right), author and film critic for The (Everett) Herald and KUOW, and features film clips from classic sci-fi films such as “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and “The Day the Earth Stood Still.”

It’s free, except for your drinks and food.

The Think & Drink series is also branching out to Spokane in February and June, and Yakima and April and August. Naked City hosts the event every other month. The topics for the rest of the year haven’t been chosen yet.

Humanities Washington hosted its first “Think & Drink” event last month at Naked City Brewery & Taphouse in Greenwood, and it was so successful they’re doing it again Tuesday night.

The topic is urban planning and development, and this time, HW is partnering with Northwest Film Forum, which ran its “Remaking the Metropolis” documentary series last week. “Think & Drink” starts at 7 p.m. at 8564 Greenwood Ave. N.

Speakers for Think & Drink:

• Steve Scher, event moderator and host of KUOW’s Weekday.
• Nicole Huber, professor of architecture, University of Washington.
• Bryon Ziegler, urban planner and designer, Strategy Workshop LLC.

Speaking of Naked City, the brewery recently won the gold medal in the American Ale category at Lallemand’s Brain of Brewer’s Competition in Denver with its Podunk IPA. This is Naked City’s first gold medal at a national brewer’s competition.

And the folks at Naked City will be celebrating their third anniversary with an all-day party on Saturday, Oct. 22.

Join us for all day happy hour, raffles & giveaways, live music, an oyster bar, & up to 15 fantastic Naked City Beers on draft and cask including rarities and one-offs available exclusive at Naked City for our anniversary. Come try Dark Passage, a stunning merlot barrel aged imperial sour, along with casks of Big Lebrewski & an as yet unnamed 9.7 % Imperial IPA. Limited edition anniversary shirts will also be available!

Naked City Brewery & Taphouse is hosting the first “Think & Drink” event by Humanities Washington next Wednesday. The hosted conversation is called “The Politics Behind Your Pint,” and will explore the history of liquor laws.

Speakers include Steve Scher, event moderator and host of KUOW’s “Weekday”; William Rorabaugh, University of Washington professor and author of “The Alcoholic Republic”; and Charles Finkel, founder and president of Pike Brewing Co.

“Think & Drink” starts at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21, at Naked City, 8564 Greenwood Ave. N. It’s free to attend. If you have any questions, you can email Zaki Abdelhamid at zaki@humanities.org, or call 206-682-1770.