Party: Rebar, March 8th, free with cover. A wrap party for SexLife Live. Ah, remember the good times of season number one with guests from previous shows including sex educators, actors, and strippers. This beats waiting for the DVD box set. Also, on March 15th, come on in for a porn swap. Trade old porn for new porn, because, like, after you've seen your porn a couple of times, how many more times are you gonna do whatever you do with it, you little pervy? ۰ Else, Pyramid Lounge holds its one year anniversary party, March 7th, free. The same belly dancers that kicked off the Pyramid Lounge return to stage. Come party with the fire pixies.
Activity: Astronomy Nights, March 12th, free, at Greenlake Park and Paramount Park. An open night for anyone interested in the stars. Bring any instruments you might have and participate in the oldest science in humankind. Plenty of enthusiasts on-hand to answer your questions and inspire your stargazing hobby.
Fashion: Student Fashion Show, March 11th, $15, by the Art Institute of Seattle. Actually, student design presents the conditions for the apex of fashion. Students typically have little money but a lot of time and imagination, sometimes resulting in some wonderfully creative pieces not possible elsewhere. ۰ Else, RAGS Wearable Art Sale, March 10th, $65, proceeds benefit YWCA domestic violence program. Just like the pages of Vogue, here's a chance to acquire wearable art at less cost. Here's a chance to acquire gorgeous one-of-a-kind pieces of wearable art at a bargin.
Theater: Defending the Caveman, starting March 9th, $35. Before there was Venus/Mars and other mushy explanations between men/women, there was a guy shaking his club at the gender differences. Ug - get primitive and go to this show.
Lectures Performance Art History by RoseLee Goldberg, March 8th, $12. While some critics were belittling performance arts, RoseLee was studying and disseminating it. Learn about its place in our culture, it's major developments, and impact of technology and influential artists. ۰ Else, Wildfires in Western Forests, March 8th, on the UW Campus, free. Let it burn, or save it? Decide here.
Food: Vegfest, March 12th - 13th, Seattle Center, $5. An exhibition blasting the stereotypes: vegetarian food is either bland, takes a lot of work to cook, or is for chicks who don't shave their pits. If you wanna go vegatarian, but finding it difficult or don't know what to do, start here. Like, there's only so many different ways you can put together beans and salads, so expand your recipe book.
Reading: Tuesdays at the Cabaret, March 8th at the Hugo House, $5. The underbelly of Seattle's writing world. Original poetry, comedy, and prose take stage, presented by "Defenders of the Truth."
Music: Sol Afrique performing at Zula Eritrean Ethiopian Restaurant, March 6th, 8-10 PM, free. An African music troupe performing for dining pleasure. A mix of members from Africa bringing in their own blends.
Outdoors: Executive Women's Golf Association Spring Tee Off, $35. A lot of business gets done on the golf course, so if you feel out of the loop, here's a way to get into the circle.
Organization: World Languages. Hablas Espanol or Parlez vous frencais? Well, these people do. Here's a chance to practice a new tongue, or speak to others in your native language.
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The New Opera Season: Don't understand opera as well as you'd like? Well, don't worry! Everything you need to know about the upcoming 2005-2006 opera season, you've already learned from watching Bugs Bunny cartoons as a kid.
What’s Opera, Doc: Remember “Kill the wabbit?” And Elmer, summoning fearsome “SMOG!” with his spear and magic helmet? What about Bugs as Brünnhilde, with her not-so-svelte horse? This fabulous cartoon is Looney Tunes’ tribute to Seattle Opera’s signature piece — Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, onstage at McCaw Hall this August. The shows are already sold out, so those of you who don’t have tickets may have to content yourselves with this Chuck Jones masterpiece, which features tunes from several other Wagner operas appear mixed in with the famous “Ride of the Valkyries” and “Siegfried’s Horn Call” from the Ring. Best of all, Elmer and Bugs sing a thrilling love duet — compwete wif speech impediments! If you’ve got tickets for the Ring, keep in mind that even though Bugs insists operas don’t have happy endings, each of the four Ring operas, in Stephen Wadsworth’s acclaimed staging, is as ambiguous and provocative as anything in art.
Rabbit of Seville: "Welcome to my shop! Let me cut your mop! Let me shave your crop—daintily, so daintily.” Bugs and Elmer perform Rossini’s Barber of Seville in this terrific cartoon—a reminder that Looney Tunes is simply old-fashioned comic opera starring animals. Comedy is comedy, whether Bugs or Figaro. Seattle Opera presents two comic operas next season, full of crazy disguises, practical jokes, and ludicrous love at first sight. In Johann Strauss, Jr.’s Fledermaus (performed in January), a man goes to a costume party thrown by a woman in drag and flirts with a gorgeous foreign lady who turns out to be his own wife in disguise, spying on him. In Mozart’s Così fan tutte (performed in March), two guys put on disguises and try to seduce each other’s girlfriends—and are dumbfounded when it works! This is what humor is all about: drag, disguises, and dummies.
Deduce, You Say Hollywood in the 1940s was obsessed with all things British, and Daffy and Porky get in on the action in this great cartoon, in which Dorlock Holmes and his trusty sidekick Watkins hunt down the dreaded Shropshire Slasher. Next year is quite a British year at Seattle Opera: in October, the company presents a new opera by the young American composer Jake Heggie based on Graham Greene’s novel End of the Affair, set in London during the Blitz. (The detective in the opera is a little more successful than poor Dorlock.) The Seattle Opera season concludes in May with Verdi’s Macbeth, based on Shakespeare’s “Scottish play”, and starring one of the world’s greatest slashers. Also, next April Seattle Opera’s Young Artists will present Turn of the Screw, by Benjamin Britten, England’s greatest opera composer. The opera is based on Henry James’ spooky story and set in a haunted British country house...and will be simply ripping, old chap!
