The end of Bay Area writer Maria Finn's marriage was also the starting point of new adventures in the world of Argentinean tango\, a story told in her autobiographical book\, Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home (Algonquin). After making friends at New York City tango milongas\, or social dances\, she studied the history and culture of tango\, visiting Buenos Aires\, and finding ... new love. \\"A lively debut memoir\, brimming with tango history and lore.\\" – Booklist. Tonight's program includes a tango demonstration by instructors from the Century Ballroom (soon to be our next-door neighbors on Capitol Hill). The Century Ballroom hosts a monthly Milonga—\;held this month on February 12—\;and an ongoing series of tango classes. For more information about both\, please see www.centuryballroom.com. Maria Finn is also the author of the newly arriving A Little Piece of Earth\: How to Grow Your Own Food in Small Spaces (Rizzoli).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100213T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100213T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/sampsell URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/sampsell SUMMARY:KEVIN SAMPSELL DESCRIPTION:He is a publisher—\;his own independent press\, Future Tense Books. He is a bookseller—\;Small Press Champion (yes) at Powell's in Portland. And he is a fiction writer (Beautiful Blemish and Creamy Bullets). Kennewick native son Kevin Sampsell is now author of a rollicking\, coming-of-age memoir\, A Common Pornography. \\"Memory and truth are jagged things\, and Kevin Sampsell's memoir-in-vignettes expresses this forcefully. With grit and candor\, he marches us through the heartbreak\, horniness\, and confusion of a west coast boy becoming a man.\\" – Robin Romm. \\"Embarrassing and honest\, heartbreaking and hilarious\, A Common Pornography is a great memoir from one of the Northwest's best writers.\\" – Willy Valutin.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100213T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100214T010000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/search URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/search SUMMARY:A SEARCH FOR MEANING\: Pacific Northwest Spirituality Book Festival at Seattle University DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100213T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100213T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/nokes URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/nokes SUMMARY:R. GREGORY NOKES DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100214T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100214T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/skoog URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/skoog SUMMARY:ED SKOOG DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100217T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100217T013000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/zardetto URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/zardetto SUMMARY:E B C welcomes FABIO ZARDETTO at Elliott Bay Cafe DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100217T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100217T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/sfbookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/sfbookclub SUMMARY:SPECULATIONS - ELLIOTT BAY SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100217T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100217T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/kotkin URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/kotkin SUMMARY:JOEL KOTKIN at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100217T203000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100217T203000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/mullen URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/mullen SUMMARY:THOMAS MULLEN DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100218T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100218T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/mckee URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/mckee SUMMARY:LAURA McKEE DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100219T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100219T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/mcconaghy URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/mcconaghy SUMMARY:LORRAINE McCONAGHY at Horizon House DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100219T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100219T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/durrow URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/durrow SUMMARY:HEIDI W. DURROW DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100220T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100220T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/mcglynn URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/mcglynn SUMMARY:KARYNA McGLYNN & BRANDON SHIMODA DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100220T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100220T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/hugo URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/hugo SUMMARY:THE HUGO LITERARY SERIES presents \\"GODS AND MONSTERS\\" at Richard Hugo House DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100220T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100220T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/penz URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/penz SUMMARY:ERIC PENZ DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100221T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100221T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/eslami URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/eslami SUMMARY:ELIZABETH ESLAMI DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100223T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100223T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/blum URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/blum SUMMARY:DEBORAH BLUM DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Deborah Blum makes this welcome Elliott Bay return visit this evening. Once a working newspaper journalist\, now teaching science journalism at the University of Wisconsin\, she is here with The Poisoner's Handbook\: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Penguin Press). The intrigue hinted at in the title is borne out in this fascinating work of historic sleuthing. \\"Blum makes chemistry come alive in her enthralling account of two forensic pioneers in early 20th-century New York. Blum follows the often unglamorous but monumentally important careers of Dr. Charles Norris\, Manhattan's first trained chief medical examiner\, and Alexander Gettler\, its first toxicologist ... Blum cleverly divides her narrative by poison\, providing not only a puzzling case for each noxious substance but the ingenious methods devised by the medical examiner's office to detect them ... With the pacing and rich characterization of a first-rate suspense novelist\, Blum makes science accessible and fascinating.\\" – Publishers Weekly.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100224T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100224T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/drama URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/drama SUMMARY:STAGES - ELLIOTT BAY DRAMA BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100224T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100224T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/wallis URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/wallis SUMMARY:JIM WALLIS at Seattle First Baptist Church DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100224T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100224T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/bussel URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/bussel SUMMARY:RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL & Friends DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100224T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100224T200000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/rakha URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/rakha SUMMARY:NASEEM RAKHA DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100225T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100225T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/hessler URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/hessler SUMMARY:PETER HESSLER DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100226T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100226T013000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/storm URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/storm SUMMARY:SHARI STORM & KAREN BURNS DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100227T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100227T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/haslett URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/haslett SUMMARY:ADAM HASLETT with CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE at the Sorrento Hotel DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100227T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100227T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/opera URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/opera SUMMARY:SEATTLE OPERA presents ASPECTS OF \\"FALSTAFF\\" DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100227T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100227T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/ochsner URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/ochsner SUMMARY:GINA OCHSNER DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100228T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100228T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/african URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/african SUMMARY:AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS ALLIANCE Group Reading DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100228T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100228T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/react URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb10/react SUMMARY:REACT THEATRE presents EASTERN STANDARD DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100303T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100303T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/fbookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/fbookclub SUMMARY:ELLIOTT BAY BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:Each month\, the Elliott Bay Book Club reads and discusses the best in contemporary fiction with the occasional classic thrown in for good measure. Our March selection is The Journey of Little Gandhi by Elias Khoury. A many-layered story of Little Gandhi\, or Abd al-Karim\, a shoe shine in a city fractured by war. Shot down in the street\, Gandhi's story is recounted by an aging and garrulous prostitute named Alice. Ingeniously embedding stories within stories\, Little Gandhi becomes the story of a city\, Beirut\, in the grip of civil war. Laila Lalami in the Los Angeles Times says\, "\;Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chandler\, and Istanbul\, Orhan Pamuk. The beautiful resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury."\;
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100303T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100303T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/chalkerscott URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/chalkerscott SUMMARY:LINDA CHALKER-SCOTT DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100304T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100304T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/thompson URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/thompson SUMMARY:GABRIEL THOMPSON DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100305T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100305T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/sheff URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/sheff SUMMARY:DAVID SHEFF & NIC SHEFF at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:Presented by the RECOVERY CAFÉ\;. Author/journalist David Sheff and his son Nic make this Seattle return to discuss Beautiful Boy\: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction (Mariner)\, David Sheff's much-praised family memoir. \\"A brilliant\, harrowing\, heartbreaking\, fascinating story\, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts.\\" - Anne Lamott. \\"When one of us tells the truth\, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our own pain and that of others. That's ultimately what Beautiful Boy is about.\\" - Mary Pipher. Advance tickets ($10/free students) are available through www.brownpapertickets.com or 1-800-838-3006. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information\, please see www.recoverycafe.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100305T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100305T020000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/andrews URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/andrews SUMMARY:SIDNEY S. ANDREWS DESCRIPTION:Pioneer Square's Boren Block One\, once home to the Seattle Hotel\, is now best known as the plot of land on which the infamous \\"Sinking Ship\\" parking garage now sits. The hotel's razing in 1961 helped spark the historic preservation movement in the city\, a movement that would\, within a decade\, help save both the Pike Place Market and Pioneer Square from a similar fate. Sidney S. Andrews\, author of Boren's Block One\: A Sinking Ship (Create Space)\, speaks tonight about the block's history\, which includes stories from Seattle's earliest days—\;totem pole thefts\, Japanese American hoteliers\, the ill-fated (recent) monorail\, and more. We can't think of a better time to reminisce about Pioneer Square's past and contemplate its future.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100306T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100306T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/shields URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/shields SUMMARY:DAVID SHIELDS DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100306T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100306T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/stallings URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/stallings SUMMARY:ARIEL MEADOWS STALLINGS DESCRIPTION:Thinking of planning a \\"Demolition Derby\\" style wedding? Bride-to-be hipsters\, nonconformists\, and others tying the knot without joining the nation of pink and white will find comfort and advice in Ariel Meadows Stallings' book\, The Offbeat Bride\: Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides (now in a second edition from Seal Press). \\"Finally\, a wedding guide that won't make you puke. Whatever your idea of nontraditional may be\, The Offbeat Bride is here to tell you that it's all gonna be okay.\\" - Wendy McClure\, Bust Magazine.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T034751Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100307T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100307T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/marcy URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar10/marcy SUMMARY:WILLIAM L. MARCY DESCRIPTION:William L. Marcy\, assistant professor of history at St. Martin's University\, makes the case that the U.S. has\, starting with the joining of the Reagan administration's anti-Communist initiatives with the "\;War on Drugs\,"\; played a large role in actually establishing the drug trade as a central economic base in Central and South America. He talks tonight about this and more\, as chronicled in his book\, The Politics of Cocaine\: How U.S. Foreign Policy Has Created a Thriving Drug Industry in Central and South America (Lawrence Hill Books). "\;Marcy investigates why South American drug trafficking has remained so hardy and lucrative even as the U.S. has spent billions—usually on wrongheaded measures\, as he sees it—to combat both production and export. Costly raids and drug seizures have had minimal impact on production and no impact on U.S. consumption\, argues Marcy ... Marcy's connections and conclusions richly reveal how intricately the legitimate and illegal economies are entangled across two continents."\; - Publishers Weekly.
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