He does surprise small venues around here sometimes too.

The City of Seattle owns the shell and the 2 other groups lease and operate it.

Oh, I can also see him popping up in Portland as well. I'll keep my eye out.

They have pledged to ruin the climate by using as much power as possible?

I don't see how the amount of electricity climate pledge arena uses accomplishing absolutely nothing is relevant.

Amazon shat out the whole bullshit "Climate Pledge" only after they illegally fired the employees, one of whom was Emily Cunningham, who spearheaded the internal movement to push the company to do better on climate.

"Climate Pledge" is a fucking lie. I'd rather the arena stayed named after a fucking bank since that's at least less offensive and dishonest

Climate pledge arena is the first net zero arena though. It offsets stuff by buying renewable energy credits from Seattle city light and also solar arrays and whatnot. But still, it could save about 5% more power by turning the lights off.

"I pledge to make a pile of money so large it becomes impossible to climb-it"

Would you believe they have obnoxiously bright lights on all night

it's amazon, so it's a sad bit of cognitive dissonance.

Ironically, the public transit to the Crypto.com Arena is excellent.

Orphan's Own old timey orphan crushing machines.

"If it ain't Orphan's Own, don't crush an orphan with it!"

And just look what the people have to say...

"For us, it's always been orphan's own or nothing, it takes longer, sure, but we'd rather just let those sad little fucker's starve if we can't crush them with the best machine"

-Departing US Senator from Maine, Losin' Susan Collins

The name is disgusting and malicious greenwashing.

For the company's 2019 annual general meeting (AGM), 28 Amazon employees filed a shareholder proposal asking the company to create a climate change plan; over 7,500 Amazon workers signed a letter in support of the proposals. Shareholders voted it down. In advance of a September 2019 tech industry walkout to protest inaction towards climate change, over 1,500 Amazon employees called for the company to commit to achieve zero emissions by 2030, among other asks. The day before the walkout, Amazon made a climate pledge which included being carbon neutral by 2040.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_and_trade_unions#Climate_change

Maybe they pledged to increase it.

I'd call it funky melodic hip hop. Kinda like Outkast, Jurassic 5 or Blackaliscious to my ear, but I'm not intensely familiar with it.

it's not my thing, but I genuinely enjoy some of his tracks. here's a couple of samples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZqCUAF_enM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG3JsmOmDqw

It's an Amazon subsidiary specifically for green washing so it's even better!

Anticipating "bombed to volcanic glass arena" if and when America gets what's long overdue to it

I've lived near Toronto my whole life, and SkyDome was such a great name for the stadium. The roof opens! SkyDome! Then a company bought it, and now it's just "CompanyName Centre". I'm still pissed about it.

Relatedly, there was also a venue called the Air Canada Centre, or ACC. That one was technically named after the airline, Air Canada, but when I was younger I hadn't heard of the airline, and "Air Canada Centre" on its own sounded cool enough it just made sense. Like Air Jordans or Airwalk, it felt like we were putting Air on stuff, and this was in Canada, so Air Canada Centre. It wasn't until they changed it to be named after some other company that I was like "why would they do that, the name was already.... wait what the fuck...? It was always corporate?"

99.9% of people have no clue about what's going on here

Yeah, the common people are the real evil in this story. 🙄

Sometimes it’s the only location to host your event with a large crowd. Sometimes the most liberal bands perform there, and they’re so big it’s the only one in the city to host that many people.

At least for climate pledge arena, they regularly make sure to donate to renewable energy, the local tribes, and the community.

The European shows apparently sold out and the venues he was set to play in the US are of comparable size to the European ones, I can't see filling seats being his issue.

"Look, I support Macklemore and his views, I just support billionaires and their capital more."

Do you think the venues turned him down because they thought the show would be too small? I don't have data on hand, but word on the street is that these shows have been jam out.