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Week of February 18 to March 9, 2008 |
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Health: Tools to Manage Stress, Feb 27th, free. Like, who doesn't have stress? Learn tools to gain emotional control over stress and angst. * Also, Five Wishes, Feb 28th, must RSVP, on constructing a living will, so when you're about to meet your Maker, your desires are made clear to your loved ones. You gotta plan these sorts of things ahead of time. * Also, Hotel Monaco hosts Guitar Hero every Friday, 5 - 6 PM. Chalk this one up to mental health. Horticulture: Rose Pruning, March 1st, free. The pros from Seattle Rose Society demonstrate rose pruning first-hand, using the rose bushes at Woodland Park Zoo as the demo models. Rose pruning can be a little intimidating if you don't know what you're doing, and it's easy to screw up a good plant. * Also, the UW Botanical Garden starts its winter classes and events, including Plant Identification, Home Project Garden Design, and Botanical Drawing. Opera: Tosca, until March 9th, $25+. This one is a standard, a top-twenty in American opera, the usual favorite of many. The best day is March 9th with $15 student tickets and family day. Kids can be opera bad-asses with temporary opera tattoos, construct their own "diva tiara", and go over to the instrument petting zoo. This opera also has a funny anecdote about stage workers placing a trampoline, instead of a mattress, for the falling Tosca, to improve safety. This then led to the bouncing Tosca, as she seemingly reappeared a couple of times after leaping to her death. Sweets: Seattle Chocolate Tour, March 4th, $59. Discover everything about chocolate through taste and education. Five chocolatiers band together for a cross-town tour of sightseeing, chocolate history, production, and of course, sampling. This tour starts in the morning, so you can make chocolate your breakfast that day. You'd think anybody who works at a chocolate company would weigh like 300 pounds, but somehow, they manage. Lectures: Antioch has a couple of interesting sessions coming up, cost varies, including The Impact of Cultural Reconnection, Feb 28th; When in Gaza...But, How Do the Gazans Do It?, March 26th; The Future of Energy, March 12th; and Love, Sex, and Betrayal: Treating the New Crisis of Infidelity, April 4th. * Also, Deepak Chopra, March 4th, $40+, taking on the big, eternal questions of what is our true nature, where do we come from, and what is the meaning of our existence? Fundraisers: Bowl-a-thon, March 1st, to benefit victims of abuse and their children, to knock down pins. * Also, Support the Cure for Colorectal Cancer Benefit, Feb 28th, $250. This poo-producing body part gets the respect it deserves for a night. * Also, Leap Forth, Feb 29th, $25, in a fundraiser for the backbone campaign. Top acts take to the air and leap about on leap day. * Also, Bags and Bottles, March 9th, $35, of wine drinking. For the auction, bring a spare purse or bag, and we're not talking about your old lady here. Environmental: Greenovation, starting Feb 27th, $8/session, which includes Lowering your Monthly Energy Bills, Feb 27th; Turning Your Home Green, March 12th; and Easy Everyday Green Living, March 26th. * Also, Trial Mix Nature Lectures, $10/lecture, including Bridges to Understanding, Feb 28th; Images of Owls, March 13th; and Killer Whale Tales, March 27th. Kid Activity: Crack Open a Fossil at Dino Day, March 1st, free with museum admission. Get up close to the fossilized beasts that could eat you up in one gulp. Kids crack into shale rock, with the help of paleontologists and chisels. Any fossil they find, they keep. * Also, American Girl Fashion Show, March 1 - 2nd, $55, of girls, fashions, dolls, and hair. Really, it can't get any more girly-girl than this. Risqué: Strip-O-Rama, Feb 29th, $15, for women and trans-friendly types, female ID at the door. Women strip for women this night, starting with lessons and an amateur contest. Be prepared to take it off - no kidding! * Also, Seattle Erotic Festival, March 1st, $20, Seattle's gathering of pervies (er…, "sex-positive") come together in celebration of erotica. There's a big art show; performances include aerialistas, live psycho-classical music, bondage suspension, tango, burlesque acts, and erotic spoken word. If you don't get a boner at least once during this event, like, check your pulse. Organization: Internet Advertising Group, a group dedicated to bringing us more meaningful messages on the web, open to anyone involved in online advertising. This is a group you'd probably 50% like and 50% not like. While no one can fault the desire to create and deliver better ads, some of the ways they track individual movements and preferences can be privacy-jarring.
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Interesting
Doors
St James Cathedral hangs a set of great ceremonial bronze doors (above) telling the story of humanity in pictograph form, from creation to resurrection. The doors were first opened on the millennium, and are opened nowadays only for special occasions. You don't walk casually through these doors. Up into the 70's, the Rainer Club, being truly a men's club, used to have female guests enter through the side door, since they weren't permitted to gain passage through the main entrance. This is the place dudes went to get away from their wives for a bit, not to entertain them. Even the male and female employees had separate doors. The Pink Door, with a name like that, better live up to its name. The door itself is an oversize metal, salmon pink door, inside a historic building. Inside, it's an Italian Restaurant and free entertainment. It's a little difficult to consider nowadays, but the Moore Theater (which just celebrated its 100-year anniversary) had a separate entrance for so-called “colored” people at the side of the building. This door leads patrons to the back of the theater and its substandard seating. Triple Door, another restaurant that makes its name by its front entrance. Inside, it's amazing how much space they carved up underground. The theater has a real speakeasy vibe to it. Cool Video: Watch this guy wear every T-Shirt he owns, all at the same time. If you're having problems with viewing the video, click here.
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