Mon 18 Aug 2008
Gourmet chocolatier Theo Chocolates will be firing up a grill on the sidewalk outside their factory in Fremont and serving s’mores August 21st through the 23rd from 3 to 6 p.m. These s’mores feature marshmallows and graham crackers made by Theo and customers can choose their own chocolate from among Theo offerings.
Mmmm-mmm good!
When: Thursday 8/21, Friday 8/22, Saturday 8/23 - 3 to 6 p.m.
Where: Theo Chocolate, 3400 Phinney Ave N - in Fremont
Sun 17 Aug 2008
October 2008 is the 25th Anniversary of Michael Jackson’s Thriller video.
Seattle locals at Seattle Thrillers are getting together to learn how to perform The Thriller Dance! On October 25th, Thrill the World 2008 will be putting on a world-wide Thriller event and Seattle WILL be represented! See Seattle Thrillers meet-up site for more info.
Practice starts today, Sunday, August 17th from 6-8pm.
7537 31st Ave SW (West Seattle)
206.724.2963 (call if you need directions)
Here’s a video from last years Thriller dance at Westlake Center:
Fri 15 Aug 2008
In an annual migration of epic proportions, Susan Robb’s Toobs return to Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill.
This Friday, August 15, 11:00am - 5:00pm at Volunteer Park on Capitol HIll on 15th Ave. East and E. Prospect.
This is the second performance of Warmth, Giant Black Toobs at Volunteer Park since their appearance last year in 2007.
Wed 13 Aug 2008
Cabaret Cruises on Lake Union. Lounge in luxury whilst sipping delicious cocktails and enjoying award-winning cabaret.
Fri 8 Aug 2008
It’s the Tiki Yard Sale and International Tiki Day ART sale.
Lots of neat used things, a lot of it at LOW prices.
Incredible new works of art from Dawn Frasier. Items of decorative usefulness from Woofmutt too.
Saturday August 9 10 AM-2 PM
9021 24th ave SW in West Seattle.
AKA: Dawn Frasier’s house.
(That’s on 24th SW in the second block south of Trenton…One block east of Westwood Village.)
Tue 5 Aug 2008
One Night Only: Thursday, August 7, 6-10 pm
Book signing of Museum of Bad Art: Masterworks
and presentation of bad art by curator-in-chief, Michael FrankEvent will include the opportunity for the public to donate bad art to MOBA (The Museum of Bad Art) and trade with Seattle’s bARTer Sauce.
The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) has been featured in People, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Rolling Stone, and other publications. Located in the basement of a theater in Massachusetts, MOBA is a unique institution dedicated to the celebration of artistic effort, however misguided. The collection is comprised largely of canvases found discarded on curbside trash piles or obtained for a pittance at thrift stores and yard sales.
Michael Frank, curator-in-chief, will disclose his trade secrets on identifying and locating bad art, and discuss the finer details of bad art interpretation. Bring a piece of art to this low-rent antique road show to learn whether some of the detritus in your attic or basement is, in fact, museum worthy!
bARTer Sauce will also be there. Bring something to trade for some weird things Rosalie will have on display.
http://www.bartersauce.com
Rosalie’s rules:
1. Whatever I get, I trade for something else.
2. You have to tell me a story.
3. I’ll never trade for an accordion.
So stop by between 6-10pm for the Museum of Bad Art’s new book signing and to chat with Michael. Come by at 7pm and 9pm to see his presentation on bad art.
Location: Stir, 216 Alaskan Way S. Pioneer Square (under the viaduct between Main and Washington)
Sun 3 Aug 2008
Rick Klu will be guest bartending at Hatties Hat this coming Monday AUGUST 4th in Ballard. It will be a benefit for a friend, HOLLEY “750″ PARAMUSH, who just had surgery. He will be raffling off some cool stuff too! Should kick off about 8PM until 11PM or later… Please be willing to donate! THANKS…
Hattie’s Hat
5231 Ballard Avenue NW
Wed 30 Jul 2008
Get your tat on at the Seattle Tattoo Expo at the Seattle Center.
Details:
Sat 26 Jul 2008
Last weekend’s sold-out Seattle Area Home Bar Tour was, by all measure, a rousing success. A two-day affair of private bars, home lounges, surf and spy music, tiki history and humorous clothing, this tour is becoming a not-to-be-missed tour d’farce by the retro tiki lounge crowd in Seattle. If you didn’t make it, you can view a video montage or Flickr photo set
The action started Friday night with a party at Pete’s Monkeyskull Voodoo Lounge. Appetizers, fruity drinks with little paper umbrellas, a barbeque and a selection of Terence’s exotic music collection ruled the evening.
Jeffrey Cook delighted the crowd with a slide show retrospective of the History of the Tiki Bar.
Bringing the evening to a close with a musical performance was “The Band from U.N.C.L.E.” with retro instrumentals, exotica, tiki and a spot-on rendition of Martin Denny’s “Quiet Village”.
The next day, tourists met at Lincoln Park to board a big yellow school bus that took them on their magical Home Bar Tour.
First stop was Dan and Michelle’s Castaway Lounge, a perfect re-creation of Gilligans Island, complete with bamboo bicycle blender and clamshell putting green.
Next, off to Andy and Liz’s Ship Aground Lounge Tiki Bar on Beacon Hill. We dined on roast pig and spicy cocktails while enjoying the new backyard tiki bar and underground lounge, and the storefront disco upstairs.
After that, the gang boarded the bus again to visit Josh Menashe’s “Paradise Beach”, an incredible tiki bar created with the assistance of Lynette Wylie, owner of Island Life, a shop specializing in Polynesian, Hawaiian and Tiki decor. Josh’s home bar is located on the hills above Puget Sound with beautiful mountain views in the front, and an incredible swimming pool and tiki bar in the back.
The tour concluded at Terence’s “Shrunken Head Lounge” in West Seattle, a home bar that manages to combine a 1960’s lounge asthetic with touches of tiki and other exotica.
A great time was had by all.
Fri 4 Jul 2008
Sat 28 Jun 2008
The 2008 Seattle Power Tool Race & Derby is an event where you modify a “power tool” into a racer and then compete against other people who have done the same. The 2008 event will feature all the same fun & shenanigans of last year with a few new surprises…
The race will be held on the afternoon of June 28th as part of the Artopia Seattle festival in scenic Georgetown.
First races will be noon to about three, second heat will go from five till…….
Also, don’t miss the ever-groovy Moonspinners at 5pm at “The Stables” in Zone 2.
The Moonspinners perform a diverse playlist: 60’s era soul, girl group, French pop, 70’s punk, good old rock-n-roll, plus they’ve got their own theme song. Be there!
Sun 22 Jun 2008
“Now Serving Cheesecake: The Classic Art of Cartoon Pin-up,” organized by Los Angeles author and archivist Alex Chun, highlights stunning original artwork and artifacts by Jack Cole, Dan DeCarlo, Don Flowers, Bill Ward and Bill Wenzel. Chun is the author of no fewer than six books featuring the work of these artists and examining their contributions to American popular culture. Many of these artists enjoyed success in the field of mainstream comics, creating memorable characters like Plastic Man, Josie & the Pussycats, and Torchy Todd, working in newspaper syndication and comics publishers including Archie and Timely Comics - the predecessor to Marvel Comics. The publication of Dr. Fredric Wertham’s sensational tirade Seduction of the Innocent, and subsequent Senate hearings on Wertham’s suggestion that comic books led to juvenile delinquency and social deviancy, forced these artists onto the pages of men’s magazines. These popular digests, published primarily by Humorama, featured photos of 50s icons like Bettie Page and gag cartoons with scantily clad women. While mild by today’s standards, these anachronistic depictions of blonde bombshells, silly secretaries and gold-digging seductresses are emblematic of their era.
The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, June 28 and continues through July 25 at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, located at 1201 S. Vale St. The opening reception from 6:00 to 9:00 PM features a live pin-up cartooning demonstration and a performance of 50s torch songs by the Fraus. Author Alex Chun will attend to sign his many pin-up books, published by Seattle-based Fantagraphics Books. The opening coincides with the colorful “Artopia” Georgetown arts festival featuring art, music, dance, performance art, film, and the ever-popular Hazard Factory power tool races throughout the neighborhood.
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