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Tue 15 Jan 2008

I love to roll my belly!

Posted by Ruby under Dance , Items of Interest
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If I can do it so can you! and if you can’t or want to do it better then learn from these women…my mom thinks they rock (and I already know they do!)!

February 23 & 24, 2008
Northgate Community Center

Troupe Hipnotica is proud to host the first ever workshop event focusing
entirely on the use of Improv Choreography within Tribal Belly Dance.
Workshops will range from beginner to advanced and will address many of the topics that arise when learning and applying improv choreography. This is an amazing opportunity to learn from those who pioneered this style as well as up and coming troupes.

Even better, come and show us your moves at the Saturday night show featuring all improv performances and of course lots of shopping!

Workshops:
Saturday 9-5pm
Sunday 9-3pm

http://www.troupehipnotica.com/cues/index.html

Thu 10 Jan 2008

Slutty designer taser

Posted by Janet Galore under Weird , Items of Interest
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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is winding up this week. It’s the world’s grand geek gadget fest each year, and Las Vegas is ground zero. An eruption of techno-porn, thinly veiling pent-up consumerism, greed, and outright lust… it’s perfect for Vegas!

Top on my list… the leopard taser. With an MP3 player!

designer taser (c) gizmodo.com

Top 10 Reasons We’re Doomed at gizmodo is a must-read…

How are violent weapons with a sassy case one of the most buzzed about gadgets here? How are Tasers even considered gadgets? These things have clearly been erroneously put in the hands of cops and security guards everywhere who see them as a great alternative to handling situations verbally, and now we’re supposed to give them to people who see leopard print as a pretty hip fashion choice? Commodifying serious violence isn’t funny or cute, and just because you slap the shittiest MP3 player ever in a hip holster for a pink Taser doesn’t make it a gadget I’d want to see people carrying around.

But I say, damn, that’s a fine girlie weapon. I wonder if they’d let me into Venom with it.

Tue 8 Jan 2008

Good-bye Old Virginia Inn!

Posted by Cissy under Items of Interest
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Last chance to party like it’s 1983.

The Virginia Inn is closing it’s doors after Sunday for an extensive re-model.

Rumour does tell that many of Seattle’s old guard are meeting to reminisce about the ‘day’….as in asymmetrical hairdos, the last aired episodes of both M*A*S*H and Laverne & Shirley, smoking indoors, and secretly wanting to split down to Tugs to dance to Michael Jackson’s #1 album for 37 consecutive weeks, Thriller….but it’s not ’straight’ night.

Meeting mid-late afternoon. Wear something off your shoulder.

Tue 20 Feb 2007

Smells like a garage

Posted by Marlow Harris under Items of Interest , Music
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Redfin’s San Francisco blog had a wonderful post “Palo Alto: In Praise of Garages”, enumerating several noteworthy garages in the Bay Area. They noted both the garages of young Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard and another noteworthy garage, the place where Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs started their “Homebrew Computer Club.” This enterprise later became Apple.

I couldn’t think of any famous garages here in Seattle, unless you counted
Kurt Cobain’s, whose life ended in his garage.

Cobain Garage
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Nirvanahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_%28band%29″>Nirvana> was arguably Seattle’s greatest garage”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garage_band_%28music_group%29″>garage band, though
not”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Washington”>not its only famous one.

Nirvana (photo source unknown)
Today, February 20th, would have been Kurt’s 40th birthday. He was born in 1967 in Aberdeen, WA.

The garage was torn down by Courtney, shortly after his death, perhaps because she couldn’t stand looking at it or maybe to avoid it becoming a shrine.

Courtney sold the house in 1997 for $2,895,000. The listing agent had a brokers Open House, and the curious were able to wander about for clues to the previous owners existence. The garage had been torn down by then, a fence put up around the property and a bench erected in Viretta Park, that has had to substitute for a shrine. Courtney had contacted Lake View Cemetery (where Bruce Lee is buried) and Greenwood Memorial Park in Renton (where Jimi is buried) but both cemetery owners were concerned about security. Cobain was cremated; the cremains are kept in an undisclosed private location. His family has yet to approve of any official memorial site.

Zillow has the home listed a ZESTIMATE™ of $5,861,884.00. Which is probably about right.

Kurt Cobain Seattle Home
www.Flickr.com

This Saturday, February 24th, would have been Kurt and Courtney’s wedding anniversary. They were married 2/24/92 in Hawaii.

The where Nirvana played its first gig was on the auction block for sale last year.The where Nirvana played its first gig was on the auction block for sale last year.This is not the first Cobain home lost .……Courtney Love lost both her New York home and a historic home in Olympia she bought for Kurt’s sister Kim.

The where Nirvana played its first gig was on the auction block for sale last year.This is not the first Cobain home lost .……Courtney Love lost both her New York home and a historic home in Olympia she bought for Kurt’s sister Kim.Cobain listing on Ebay.

The other members of Nirvana were Dave Grohl, who went on to front Foo Fighters and lives in LA.

Krist Novoselic’s ties are deeper in the Northwest, and he spends time in Seattle and in his home Southwest Washington he shares with his wife, local clothing designer Darbury Stendaru, who had a studio on 1st Avenue, but now only does trunk shows. They also celebrate their wedding anniversary this month (2/27).

Our United States. Of Grunge and Government