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Seattle’s most gangster all girl metal/punk band, The Valkyries, are hosting their CD release party, We Always Win, with Neon Nights, Space Cretins and the Blue Ribbon Boys at the Bit Saloon. Come get assaulted by the sounds!

The Bit Saloon

(4818 17th Ave. N.W., 782-1680)

 myspace.com/thebitseattle.

$7. 9 p.m. Sat., April 11.

Seattle Fashion Show
Friday, April 17th  •  8 pm – 10
Fashion Show starts at 8 PM
@ New York Fashion Academy • All ages welcome
5201 Ballard Ave. 
Cost: 10.00
Beer and wine garden available with identification

The Haute Trash Fashion Show Deets:

The Haute Trash Fashion show is brought to you by a group of progressive fashion designers, bringing their 25-years experience to the 8th Annual Recycled Art and Fashion Show.  The group’s designs have been featured at the Seattle Art Museum, Burning Man, county fairs, and dozens of other community festivals throughout the Western U.S. Designs and accessories are made from a wide variety of unconventional materials like inner tubes, food packaging, soda pop tops and other salvaged materials.

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Nothing in the history of the world is more amazing than Leslie and the Lys. And I don’t know about you, but I am ready to be a part of history and witness the bedazzling debauchery. This is not a joke. The sparkly sensation will grace our humble community to perform in all her fabulousity at MOE Bar, Monday, March 30^th. Tickets are available at www.ticketwest.com, MOe Bar, Rudy’s Barber Shop and select QFCs, or call by phone: 1-800-992-8499.

Rosie Kohlmeier from New York Fashion Academy won 1st place and a $3,000 scholarship at the second annual Project Red Dress benefit for the American Heart Association on Friday night. She is the second consecutive student from NYFA to win the student fashion design competition.

Only two students from each of Washington state’s fashion design schools were selected to compete in the competition, hosted by the Seattle Chapter of Fashion Group International. Each student had to construct a red dress in 16 hours on the International Academy of Design and Technology campus, and like Project Runway, had to showcase their final piece, ready or not, on runway models. The judging criteria was based on construction, fit, fabric, finishing techniques and movement, and Nick Verreos of Project Runway was the guest of honor and celebrity judge.

Kohlmeier’s garment was a playful, bell-shape taffeta cocktail dress with a bow on the front bodice. Judges selected her piece because of the  ”impeccable construction”, complex detailing and overall structure. Second place went to Maria Canada, from Seattle Community College for her harem-inspired, iridescent silk chiffon gown.

The Iron Bartender Competitors

The Judges

The Mike McSorley Fanclub

The Winner, Mike McSorley

The Crowd of Hotness (Tiger Tail)

Did you know that there are over 1,700 mixed drink recipes? Probably not, because I just made up that number, but chances are that you’ve never heard of obscure drinks like, Sex with an Alligator, Dead Nazi or Michael Moros Detroit Boy. You probably don’t know how to make them either, so it’s a good thing we have educated and skilled bartenders to broaden our horizons and our palates.

This Sunday at 7pm, the Tiger Tail will feature an Iron Bartender event, with Seattle’s top bartending studs: Mike McSorley of TiniBigs and Majorie and Dallas Taylor of ToST Lounge, dueling for the title of Master of the Universe. Competing bartenders will have three 7-minute and two 15-minute sessions to create their uniquely styled concoction of randomly selected cocktails that will be taste-tested by the Washington Liquor Control Board. I kid! But wouldn’t that be hilariously awesome? The real judges are renowned author AJ Rathbun, Kelly O (writer for the Stranger’s “Drunk of the Week” column), and Liberty owner, Andrew Friedman. They promise to be just as dogmatic and oppressive as the WSLCB.  Come join in on the fun, debauchery, and cocktail snobbery.

704 NW 65th St, Seattle, WA  206-781-TAIL (8245)

Open 7 days a week, 3 p.m. – 2 a.m. (food served 4 p.m. – 10 p.m.)
Happy hour! 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. everyday

Check out Holiday Bizarre: A Jewish Christmas coming up at the Tractor Tavern tonight and tomorrow. This original musical play follows the adventures of the three Wiseman law firm representatives – Goldberg, Frankenstein and Murray – as they investigate the hidden identity of the biological father of the baby Jesus. Joseph claims that he has never made love to his own wife, and Mary says that her child is the Son of God, but it seems that God is not the only one that has “known” Mary in this Jewish retelling of the Christmas story. The Easter Bunny, The Pope, Santa Claus and the Ghosts of Christmas past and future are only some of the other characters that participate in this mile-a-minute farce featuring original music, a three-humped camel and lots of hats. Sponsored by our Jewish buds at Jconnect.

The Tractor Tavern

Tue, December 16th at 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Wed, December 17th at 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

5213 Ballard Ave NW
Seattle, WA 98107
(206) 789-3599

To all my fellow Jews of Ballard: when you’re bored stiff on Christmas eve, I suggest you check out Latkepalooza, an annual holiday (Chanukah-style) bash sponsored by Young Leadership of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. There will be dancing, DJ Mayhem from MoVin’ 92.5 spinning live, a Jones Soda Latke Buffet and hundreds of other Jewish people in their 20′s and 30′s!

Event Details

December 24, 9pm-2am (9-10pm free Jones Soda Latke Buffet)

War Room in Capital Hill, (21+ only, ID required)

RSVP to www.JewishinSeattle.org/yld Cost: $25 in advance, $30 at the door

Earthues, Ballard’s fair-trade and organic textile wholesaler, is kicking-off the holiday season and their newly arrived “Caravan of Treasures” from the Silk Road of the Indian subcontinent to Istanbul with their annual Holiday Extravaganza. Enjoy light refreshments, revelry and textiles galore this Friday, December 5th from 6 to 10pm.

Also swing by Earthues during Ballard Art Walk, December 13th from 6-9pm to schmooze it up with featured guest artists (contemporary organic knitwear), Barbara Gauld Kim Burroughts of Vertitude. Be sure to wear your cutest knittet cardigan or scarf.

Earthues is located in the historic Ballard neighborhood on Ballard Avenue. Their holiday hours are Monday-Saturday, 11-6pm (Thursdays until 9pm) and Sundays 11-5pm.

Earthues, A Natural Color Company
5129 Ballard Avenue NW
Seattle, WA 98107
Telephone – 206-789-1065