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| Week of June 4 to June 10, 2007 |
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Update: Biznik, the Seattle-based hybrid online and face-to-face networking group for indie business people, is organizing its first mega event. Seattle BizJam, June 9th, $100, promises to attract hundreds of local entrepreneurs for a schmoozing extravaganza that lasts day and night. Described as a radically different kind of business conference, this is a good opportunity to learn from others facing the same daily battles. Check it out. Lectures: Japan Rising, June 5th, $30. The 90's were pretty much a write-off for Japan, but it's cooking up a head of steam now. Here's what Japan's rising profile means for the US and the rest of the world. * Also, How to Make Almost Any Diet Work, June 5th, free, on how body chemicals are the real culprit behind the food you're shoving into your pie-hole. Control your body chemicals, and you can then control your diet, or so the thinking goes. After this, Seattle Spin is going to publish a best seller, super-duper, no-fail, two-phase diet: eat less and exercise more. Racing: The Green River Saddle Club starts its barrel racing series, June 6th, $10. Both you and the horse will be tuckered after this one. * Also, Fremont 5K Briefcase relay, June 8th, $25/person. This is good and all, but it's just really an excuse to hit the beer garden afterwards. Ballet: PNB continues its Stravinsky 125 program, until June 10th, celebrating the 125th birthday of the composer, with four dances that display different classic styles. Here's a little reality check: those dancers are pretty people from the ankles up, but if you ever take a look at their feet, those things are just nasty. * Also on deck is the retirement party of PNB principal Patricia Barker, June 10th, $30+. The entire dance corps and every fan will be there to put the last chapter onto this great dancer's career. Family, Family Night with Allyoop, June 9th, $10 per family. This is simple and good fun for the kids, of songs, stories, riddles, and musical games, the type of stuff families had fun with before household electricity. * Also, The Green Sheep by Seattle Children's Theater, starting June 4th, $17.50. There aren't many plays out there for the toddler set, but this is one of them. Puppets, backed by music, search for that elusive green sheep, teaching the concepts of size, color, and distance along the way. Music: NW Accordion Concert, June 10th, free, and they even throw in free snacks and parking to boot. You'll have a binary response to this one. You'll either love it or want to stab your ears with an ice-pick. * Also, Mass in Time of War, June 10th, $20, music that evokes images of clashing armies. * Also, Bridge the 48th Parallel Festival: Janacek's Glagolitic Mass, June 7 and 9th, $39+, playing one of the most notable pieces to come out of Czechoslovakia. Business Items: The Society of Professional Organizers has their next monthly meeting on June 5th, free for new attendees. Boy, if anyone should run an organized meeting, it's these folks. You'll also look like a chump if you come in late. If your stuff, and your life, is in chaos, here's the group that can whip it into order. * Also, Start Up Demo, June 7th, $25. The proof is in the pudding, so at this event, six start-ups demonstrate their new products, discussing how they built them, funded them, and will get them to market. Use their lessons for the million-dollar idea swimming around in your head. Events: The CDM Psychic Institute has a free demonstration of psychic abilities on June 9th, 3 - 4:30 PM. Come with your burning question for an answer by a psychic (other than, "What are next week's lotto numbers?") and learn how to enhance your own inner clairvoyant. Perhaps they'll even invite members from the Seattle Skeptics Society for a little demo (speaking of which, they have a June 15th meeting you can attend as well). Classes: Women's Power Make0ver, June 7th, $299. Go from chump to champ with this class. Identify in particular why you're failing, and how to use the right blend of masculine/feminine skills to pull ahead. * Also, City Chickens, June 9th, $32. Get into chicken psychology and be the chicken. Learn how to go from little chick to egg- producing machine. Your neighbors will be over for omelets soon. Art: Offering Reconciliation, starting June 7th, events and cost varies. Bellevue Art Museum takes on the intractable problem of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The art is based upon those who've suffered from the conflict, emphasizing the universal human values of pain, loss, peace, and hope. The exhibition features 135 ceramic bowls with a unifying symbol by top Israeli and Palestinian painters, sculptors and photographers. |
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Stuff: Bread: Great Harvest Bread Company provides a free sample slice of bread that's practically big enough for meal. Taste a slice, and then you can understand why people pay $4 for a loaf of their bread. Food Samples: You need a membership (or good friend) to get in the door, but Costco provides so many sample tastings on a Saturday, it's like a mini-buffet as you make your way through the store. One step up from free is the famed $1.50 hot dog and 20-ounce pop special. You don't need to be a member to buy this little combo. Actually, Seattle is the only region where the polish dogs outsell the regular hot dogs. Go figure. Thursday Art Walks: This is a fun little party, and with the good weather, a pleasant festival atmosphere really flourishes. Pioneer Square has the granddaddy art walk on first Thursdays, Kirkland has an art walk on second Thursdays, and Ballard has an art walk on second Saturdays. Cool YouTube Video: Not a YouTube video this week, but the City of Seattle is producing its own weekly TV show, City Stream. There are about a dozen other city-produced programs as well, covering Seattle government, city issues, and quality-of-life topics.
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