# 2026-07-31 Discovery Log

## Social source discovery: r/SeattleEvents

- Feed: 25 posts (2 new since last run)
- No new candidates this run. New posts (t3_1vb6mgg, t3_1vahoae) contained no extractable external event source URLs.

## Source implementation: Georgetown Pizza & Arcade

- ✅ Added: Georgetown Pizza & Arcade — recurring YAML (2 events) — Pingolf (2nd Sunday monthly, $10) and Last Sunday Detention Match Play ($5) pinball tournaments in Georgetown

## Source discovery: bookstores/authors, city calendars, new venues, running, distilleries, night markets, craft/vintage fairs, immersive/museum, record fairs, tabletop gaming, salsa/dance, queer nightlife

Ran `dead-sources.py` first — 2 zero-event calendars this snapshot
(`frye-art-museum-frye-art-museum`, `tag-sand-point`), 0 external failures.
Both are pre-existing/already-known situations (Frye between exhibitions,
Sand Point tag with no currently-tagged live events); neither meets the
30+ consecutive day dead-source bar from a single snapshot. Nothing flagged
as newly `dead`.

Searched 10 verticals. The overwhelming majority of leads were already
covered by an existing ripper/external calendar or already tracked in
`docs/source-candidates/` (511 files going in) — this project is very
thoroughly mined at this point:

- ❌ Skipped (already covered): Columbia City Night Market, Seattle Night
  Market — `sources/seattle_night_market/`, `sources/recurring/columbia-city-night-market.yaml`
- ❌ Skipped (already covered): Woodland Park Zoo, Populus/Firn rooftop,
  Ounces Taproom, Reuben's Brews, Renegade Craft Fair, CHASM (Capitol Hill
  swap meet), Kenyon Hall, Seattle Aquarium, Queer Social Club, SPL Authors
  & Books, seattle.gov city-wide/arts/parks feeds, Climate Pledge Arena,
  Third Place Books — all confirmed already present under `sources/` or
  `sources/external/`
- ❌ Skipped (already candidate, no status change): Flight Club Seattle,
  RailSpur Seattle, Human People Beer (re-confirmed 0 upcoming events, no
  change since 2026-07-22), Mox Boarding House (both existing candidate
  files re-confirmed `notviable` — Shopify store, events hardcoded on a
  marketing page behind a FlexBooker booking widget, no machine-readable
  feed), Meeples Games (re-confirmed `blocked` — SiteGround captcha)
- ❌ Not Viable: Northwest Record Show, Seattle World's Vintage Fair — both
  held at Seattle Center Armory/Exhibition Hall and already surfaced via
  the existing `seattle-center` aggregator ripper; their own sites
  (Facebook-only, and a Weebly/Square Online single-event page
  respectively) have no independent structured feed worth a dedicated
  source
- ❌ Not Viable: WNDR Museum Seattle — permanently closed December 2023
  (8 months after opening); stale search results still surface it as an
  active immersive-art venue
- 🔍 Investigating: Baila District — Latin dance studio, 2920 NE Blakeley St,
  University District. Squarespace confirmed but `/social-dancing`,
  `/events` (redirects), and `/calendar` (`calendarView: false`, 0 items)
  all lack a populated events collection — no structured feed found this
  pass. `docs/source-candidates/baila-district.md`
- 🔍 Investigating: CID Night Market — Seattle Chinatown-International
  District's annual street festival (next: Sat Sep 26, 2026). Custom site,
  no CMS fingerprint or feed found; only ~2 dated events/year org-wide
  (Night Market + Lunar New Year). Low priority given volume.
  `docs/source-candidates/cid-night-market.md`

No source met the bar for implementation this cycle (built-in-type feed
confirmed working with events > 0) — both new leads need more investigation
before a ripper can be written against real data.
