Indeed. There should be equal schnitzel representation.

I'm with you, Bethany.

I'm afraid there is no tradition involving hot men at Oktoberfest, only swollen, red-faced drunkards in funny hats. On what grounds then do you make such a demand? The boobs+beer equation has always worked just fine without your notions of equality.

Do they have hot shirtless guys at the real Oktoberfest in Germany? Because, of course, we must try to preserve some semblance of authenticity. Ah, those crazy krauts and their love of beer served over cleavage...

I don't understand why I'd go to the Stranger's beer garden. $20 for 20-oz of beer seems a little steep.

wtf do microbrews have to do with Oktoberfest anyway?

If Savage is taking his shirt off, I'll go.

I really hope this was a joke post because otherwise you must be retarded. Now I am not saying that no women drink beer, I am sure quite a lot do, but traditionally beer has been a male dominated market. What do men like? We like boobs!! (except you Mr Poe) Now if you persist in asking for this level of equality I will begin a petition to install pole dancers on "The View" and soft core on "Lifetime". It isn't discrimination to have events that are catered to certain sexes. Where were your cries of outrage at the lack of hot chicks at every firefighter charity calendar event?
The press release is right, if you don't like it, don't go!! Oh but it is so much easier to bitch, isn't it. Are you that lazy that inaction is actually to much work?

"too much" Dammit!!!

This would be the Stanger Microbrew Tasting Garden, muckfetro.

WTF???

You heard me. What's The Fuss?

What beer drinker in his right mind has a problem with comedy gals in Bavarian garb?

Are they going to have the Becks-with-fruit that I drank all the time in Germany since I'm a wuss? If so, I'm there.

Any Oktoberfest that takes place in September has no business claiming authenticity. Bring on the hot blond guys!

I say go for it; beer and bratwurst go hand in hand, so to speak...

And don't forget to include transgendered beer servers! We must have total equality or I just may whine to death!

@13 The official Oktoberfest is held Sept. 22 - Oct. 7 this year.

Keshmeshi, Oktoberfest always takes place starting in September.

@13, Don't be silly! Oktoberfest always happens at the end of September... and finishing on the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd.

Did I miss something there Mr Poe?
Stanger?? Please clarify.

Yeah, the Stranger is sponsoring the Microbrew Garden. Tap House is sponsoring the Buxom Beer Garden. Clement is saying they are installing an 'all manner of cleavage' within the Stranger Microbrew Tasting Garden. This isn't hard to figure out.

The chicks can stay, but it would be nice to see some meat. Preferably Dan Savage meat. Just sayin'.

Hellooo! There is the dance with the wooden log, the slapping of thighs and yodeling. Enough Man on man action for ya?!

When I was a kid, men used to wear Lederhosen at Oktoberfests.

And frequently, nothing else, other than socks and shoes.

I'm sure such traditional garb would be welcome at the Fremont event.

Unless there is an TSTG pee-in, I will be there protesting with my puppets and burning man cohorts.

There are no shots of buxomy women in German garb if I follow the link, just more words, what gives?

If the Stranger is sponsoring the beer garden this year, does that mean no fence and moat?

Hans @ 23: Thanks for the chuckle.

Fremont, you're blowing it. That list of sponsors sounds good for the Seattle Center, but Freemont? How does the chamber of commerce that (probably?) put this thing together think this is the kind of foot traffic that will behoove (OMG pun!) local businesses?

Not against the cheesy themes, just wondering "why?"

Um, cause we're Fremont and we don't have to ask the rest of you for permission to do things?

Yeah, that works for me.

I'll be there for the beer, but that's not to say I'll be ignoring the boobs.

And perhaps Bethany, Mr. Poe, and all the other whiners can follow the Tap House's lead and install their own man meat at the Stranger beer garden. Which, I realize, requires them to actually do something.

It would. But by that point, I'll be too drunk to tell the difference between a man, a woman, and a blurry outline of the border of my glasses. So...yeah. Whatevs.