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Learning: Lots of good events coming up at the Trade Development Alliance of Seattle, cost varies, including Global Outlook: Fear of the Black Swan, Nov 2nd; 2007 Export Promotion Symposium, Nov 6th; Technology Controls, Nov 7th; Opportunities for US Companies with St. Petersburg & NW Russia, Nov 7th; Business Opportunities with New Zealand, Nov 8th;
How to Finance Your Customer's Export: Export-Import Bank of the US, Nov 19th. * Also, Computer Forensics Fundamentals
, Nov 10th, free. You can't hide your tracks, especially on a computer. Get an introduction to this field, of what the hidden information is on your computer, what the experts do, and how they get to it. Thoughts of guys wanting to hide their porn surfing comes to mind here. * Also, Spanish Traveler's Language Café
, Nov 3rd, $89. If you're traveling to a Spanish speaking country, here's the key phrases you need to speak and understand.
Natural Health & Wellness: 2nd Annual ALIVE! Expo, Nov 3rd - 4th, get a free one-day ticket with code "SPIN
" to all readers. This is a health and wellness expo for the entire family.
Alternative practitioners and natural product companies come together to explain their products, services, and benefits. Learn how to improve your health through fitness, alternative solutions, education, exercise, and living a healthy lifestyle. Besides the education, the cool thing about this fair is all of the freebies you get, of food samples, free massages, and hourly prize drawings.
You'll leave the fair with a stuffed goodie bag so big, you'll need both hands!
Party: Kilt and Mini Bash
, coming up on Nov 10th, $40. This classic to the Seattle scene returns after a one year absence. More good-looking legs than a Thoroughbred farm. A party with manly men, naughty little school girls, and ample eye candy for both genders. This is one of the top ten parties on the Seattle social landscape this year. * Also, Passion for Mashin
, Nov 2nd, by food donation. This is a simple proposition - just show up and have a good time. Seattle's largest private art gallery opens its space for a party, of art, food, wines, dance, and music. This Friday, they celebrate their third anniversary. Parties are a lot more fun when someone else is doing the organizing, and you only need to show up.
Wine: Sips and Shoes, Nov 4th, $35. Women will be cackling at this event. Every women donates a pair of new or almost new shoes. Then, women spend the rest of the day bidding on other women's castoffs, while sipping wine and getting autographs from Seattle firefighters signing their calendar. * Also,
Sipping & Holiday Shopping, Nov 5th, $40, of jazz, wines, appetizers, and holiday shopping of wine related items.
Shopping: Crave Party, Nov 3rd, $25, shop and become a better you, covering nine categories to improve your wardrobe, looks, talents, and fortunes. * Also, Holiday Shopping Extravaganza
, Nov 15th, $35, to sip, nosh, and mingle with several hundred of the area's finest, fabulous, like minded women. * Also, Holiday Crafts Workshop, Nov 3rd, $75. They provide the materials and directions, and you supply the talent and inspiration. Leave with your own hand-made necklaces, truffles, mosaics, candles, and wreaths.
Agriculture: Manure Management: Got Livestock? Got Manure! Nov 1st and Pasture Management: Becoming a Grass Farmer,
Nov 8th, free. Become the Poo Master. First, learn how to put crap to use, literally, at this class. Then, learn how to manage the grazing capacity of your green slice of serenity so your herbivores always have enough to eat.
Family: Meet the Mammals
, Nov 3rd, free with admission to the museum. This is cool for a couple of reasons. First, there's a lot of visual stimulation. Second, there's a bunch of scientists on-hand to answer kid-questions. Third, there's a lot of touch items, of spines, quills, scales, tusks, and antlers. * Also, Hot Sandwich Club
, Nov 4th, free, a monthly jazz concert held in a gothic church. This would be one time when wearing sunglasses in church is not frowned upon.
Other Cool Stuff: Fall Bridal Show, Nov 3rd, $20. Lots of vendors, plus fashions, and classes. * Also, Columbia City Beatwalk,
Nov 2nd, $5. Rainier Ave usually isn't on the mind of consideration, so vendors are binding together to provide some fun and entertainment to make this spot of Seattle inviting. * Also, Kirkland Performance Center has a full line up for November, including Gene Bertoncini, Nov 2nd; Carmona Flamenco, Nov 9th; Seattle Opera Young Artists, Nov 10th; Uncle Bonsai, Nov 17th; Movie For Your Mind, Nov 19th;
28TH Annual Seattle International Stand-Up Comedy Competition, Nov 23rd; Sister's Christmas Catechism, Nov 24th; Celtic Music's Voyage To Appalachia, Nov 30th and Dec 1st. * Also, First Freemont Artwalk, Nov 2nd, free, celebrating the Day of the Dead for this particular event.
Movie: Pass it On!, Oct 29th premiere at Bainbridge Cinemas. If The Secret is your thing, then this is the follow-up. This film covers how to translate the passion and energy you gain from The Secret into actionable items.
Organization: Horn of Africa, helping others in a challenging spot of the world. If you're from this spot on the globe and made it to Seattle, this group helps you with the transition of language, education, employment, and housing,. |
Seattle's Spookiest Spots:
When the members of my tribe become a myth among white men, when you think that your children are alone in the field, the shop, the store they will not be alone. When you think that your streets are deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled and still love this land, for the dead are not powerless. Dead I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds. Chief Seattle
Whether you believe Chief Seattle's philosophy of disembodied souls wandering the Earth or not, there are some seriously creepy places in Seattle. Riding with Jake of Private Eye Tours tests Seattle's purported crème de la creepiest:
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Maynard Alley, site of the 1983 Wah Mee massacre
in Chinatown. Older residents of Chinatown believe the alley is haunted and say don't go down there. If you're brave enough to go, peek through the window by the chained doors and you'll get more than a sense of nostalgia when you see everything left exactly where it was on the night of the murders. One gets the sensation that the victims still linger...
Harvard Exit Theater on Capital Hill, self-starting movie projectors and fireplaces as well as numerous purported apparitions spark the spooky here. The lobby has an electric feel in the air, as if more life is happening there than just a handful of movie patrons.
Comet Lodge Cemetery has a history straight out of a Poltergeist movie. This five acre cemetery became two when developers built on top of three acres of Indian burial ground and resting place of babies and children. Numerous reports of poltergeist activity in the homes built there, leave one wondering if Chief Seattle was right.
Cool Video: Here's how last year Sips and Shoes went down.
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