| Genealogy: Creative Ways to Share Your Family History, Nov 12th, $5. Don't leave a stale photo book to your grandkids. Here's how to put together something worthy of your memory, so you descendants will understand exactly how cool you really were back in your day.
Health: Life Science Week
, Nov 4-11th, with a symposium on current life science research, and an interactive weekend down at Pacific Science Center. There's a lot of promising research going on, and they want to tell you all about it. There are lectures, demos, and hands-on activities for the kids. All-in-all, they have a mix of activities for brains aged 8-80.
Art: Fine Wine + Design, Nov 8th, $50. Fifteen Washington
wineries pour, accompanied with food, jazz, and curator-led tours. * Also, SAM Teacher Workshop, Nov 10th, free, on how teachers can use the resources of the Seattle Art Museum
as part of their teaching and curriculum. * Also, Envisioning Seattle, starting Nov 11th, free. It's a lot easier to imagine something if you can see it. The best architectural models of future projects for the Seattle scene go on display.
Theater: 365 Finale Party
, Nov 11th, free. The grand ambition was to produce a play a day, for an entire year. Well, they've almost done it, and now it's time for the wrap party. Some of the plays took place at traditional performance halls, but some of their other stuff was pretty guerilla performance - you might have seen one of their performances around Seattle and not even realized it.
Restaurants: The Cheesecake Factory
opens in Southcenter. The Cheesecake Factory is good when you want more than pub food, but are not up for the full Italian restaurant experience and want something more convenient. Of course, they make their name on their desserts, so go light on the dinner. * Also, Veil Restaurant,
with that LA dinner club vibe, specializing in the be-seen set. The coolness factor of this spot continues to grow in the Seattle scene. Food is haute cuisine, best paired with wines along the way. Use this place when you need to impress someone.
Bookstore Events: Barnes and Noble up at Northgate has a bunch of events this month, free, including
Baseball Memoirs of a Lifetime; 77 Years of Loving the Game, Nov 8th; a debut of monthly poetry series on Nov 11th; Kelley Moore, author of Cube Chic, Nov 10th; American Girl Group get-together on Nov 14th, and Stephen L. Gibson, author of A Secret of the Universe on Nov 29th. * Also, Third Place Books
, a favorite community hang-out, hosts lots of author events, including: Judy Schachner of Skippyjon Jones and the Big Bones, Nov 6th; Lawrence Kreisman, The Arts & Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest, November 7th; Molly Gloss, The Hearts of Horses, November 8th; Carolyn Jessop, Escape, November 9th; Peter Masson, Passages of Time
, November 10th; Chris Jericho A Lions Tale: Around the World in Spandex, November 11; and Phillip Haldeman, Shadow Coast, November 14th.
Family: Turkey Plates, Nov 8th, free, as much of a Thanksgiving tradition for the kids as pumpkin carving for Halloween. * Also, Hip-Hop sessions
for girls and women, Monday nights, $5. Use Hip-Hop as a learning metaphor for leadership and artistic _expression_. * Also, Crown Hill Arts Festival, Nov 10th, free, with classes, an artwalk, and evening performances, which all adds up to a nice little neighborhood get-together.
Clothing: MARQSMEN, a men's apparel and accessories store, celebrates its one-year anniversary. This spot has already won a couple "best-of" awards for their selection - good store and website, though their blog is a little off. Organization:
Beneighbor, how is it that you know the guy who lives a neighborhood away, but not the guy in your building? This site connects folks who live in the same condo or building, so you know who's there and what's going on. With this, you can find neighbors, communicate with each other, and share photos of the place. |
The Nutcracker and Its Alternatives
The Nutcracker is a good holiday event, but it's a once every 3-5 years type of thing. Ballet organizations just love this Christmas tradition. A typical American ballet company gets 40% of its annual revenue from Nutcracker performances alone, and it nicely acts as a child's first exposure to the ballet. Go ahead and do the Nutcracker if it's time to take the kids again; else, here are other good holiday performances:
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The King and I, starting Nov 14th, $20+, the clash of a teacher from the west with a king from the east, who apparently isn't familiar with birth control. Also, Elves and the Shoemaker, Dec 9th at Village Theater
, $12+, for ages 4-8, a Brothers Grimm story takes the stage, exploring themes of kindness and giving, just in time to be good little kids before Santa makes out his naughty/nice list.
A Christmas Carol, starting Nov 25th, $25+. This one is the antidote to Christmas grumpiness. This is one of those things like the Wizard of Oz, where you can see it a bazillion times and still be entertained. Plus, their ghost of Christmas future is scarier than any Halloween ghost - really, wear a diaper.
Home for the Holidays, Seattle Men's Chorus starting Dec 2nd, $15+. Judy Collins joins them on opening night. They sing some new songs and old classics.
Jersey Boys, starting Dec 5th, $31+. This is sort of an anti-Christmas thing. Four quasi-mobsters from Jersey become the Four Seasons, selling 175 million records before reaching the old-man age of 30.
Cool Video: Ford Modeling Agency is having an open call in Seattle, Nov 18th. Here's the 411:
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