Lectures: Elder Parents Care, March 9th, free. So, what do you do when Mom and Pop start to take as much energy to care for as Junior? Understand how to deal with this situation, if they're starting to become a concern that needs to be addressed. ж Also, since you'll be in a mode of contemplating mortality after this lecture, you might as well start thinking about your own. Five Wishes: An End of Life Planning Tool, March 8th, free. Make some plans before you become worm food.
Singles: Speed Dating, March 16th for singles aged 25-35, $25 when you use discount code NH22 for $5 off. If your New Year's resolution was to meet new people, here's a unique way to stick to the plan. A lament of people in this age group is, "Where can I meet new people?" since the club and party scene is a vestige from the past. Here's a way to connect with several people in one night with similar backgrounds and interests….and save a few bucks in the process
Presentation: Strange Fruit, March 11th, free. This is the story of Nina Simone in multimedia format. A musician with a tumultuous life who took on civil rights through her works. Her life and legacy is presented through photography and a small jazz ensemble.
Outdoors: Climb for Clean Air, sponsored by the American Lung Association, March 6th. The event itself is free, but if you want to sign up to go climb Mt. Rainer with the group later this summer, then it's $100. This is a good way for novices to go climb that big mountain right in our own back yard.
Festival: Vegfest, March 11th & 12th, $5. Forum for vegetarians to unite; join over common food, health, and philosophy. Vegetarians always get screwed when they go out to a restaurant with their meat eating friends as a group, and when the bill comes they end up dividing the check evenly by the number of people in the party.
Family Event: Wide Purim Carnival, March 13th, free, by Seattle Jewish Community Center. Over 30 carnival booths with games for the kids, music, entertainment, hot dogs, and Hamantashen cookies (don't know what it is, but it still sounds yummy to us.)
Program: 2006 Alaska Construction Outlook, March 9th, $15, by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. It's big land up there, with a lot of big construction projects going on after the thaw. Here's how to get your slice of that pie.
Sexuality: BDSM, Laughter, and Making a Scene, March 10th, $20. Most people probably aren't in a giggling frame-of-mind when someone is spanking their ass and barking out, "Thank you very much. May I please have another?!" Go see how these two topics come together. ж Also, Backdoor Basics, March $12th at Babeland, $30. The final frontier of sex, here's to converting your exit into an entry. The clerks at these stores always have hilarious stories of straight guys coming into the store, bumbling around, trying to ask for the right equipment to shove up there, but being paranoid of appearing gay about it.
Women’s Interest Classes: It's a toss up depending how you feel: The Beauty of Imperfection, March 9th, $44. As any woman knows all too well, society can be ruthless equating self-worth with beauty. Here's how to accept yourself, or accept your upcoming change at your own pace. Also, Strippersize, March 9th, $44. It's not exactly pole tricks, but a lot of leg and hip movements, and a way to feel flirty while working out.
Organization: Historic Seattle, a group preserving historic buildings of our past. These folks might actually be able to help you find old photos of your Seattle house. This group certainly does a good deed for the community, but if you're an unlucky developer trying to renovate a historic building you might be amazed at the outsized political influence this group can have.
Knucklehead Organizations:
Look under the veneer of
Seattle
and you'll find some fascinating and weird groups that you probably
never knew existed.
The Rocket Men: These guys just together, complete with their outfits and jetpacks, and just appear. Approximately fifteen of them will line up along different points of a bus route, and then get on, one-by-one.
The Moped Army: Screw Harleys! These guys are bad-asses with 50cc engines at 35 MPH. Don't think these guys are weenies either. They could really clean someone's clock if they wanted to.
Dead Baby Bikes Club: This one is even better: think of Easy Rider with bicycles. You can practically hear Born to Be Wild playing in the background as you coast downhill and lock up your ride to the bike stand. No baskets with flower decorations mounted to the handlebars here.
Infernal Noise Brigade: You can take them for about five minutes before you want to stick an ice-pick in your each, which is the point.
Guerilla Masquerade Party: As they say, it's because dressing up for Halloween is just not enough. A couple days before, they'll pick out a theme and a place, and then as a group, take over a bar for a night.
