TUESDAY, SEPT. 13 2016: South Sound events + craft beer and cider …
The Swiss + The Copper Door = burning questions and burning sun
Crescent Moon Gifts + 99 Bottles = protection against witches and gluten
LIFE BEYOND EARTH
Think of the astonishing advances that will occur if we discover life beyond Earth. Because the civilization communicating with Earth will most certainly be thousands of years more advanced than our own, we will instantly become privy to the wisdom of the ages. That civilization will have learned how to cure disease, outlive nuclear weapons, and solve the countless other quandaries haunting our species, so life expectancy on Earth will skyrocket. Earthlings will wire into an intergalactic Internet, through which far-flung civilizations communicate across time and space. As earthlings are freed from planetary tethers, eons of alien science will make us immortal, omniscient, and transcendentally wise, which is nice. “The Search For Life Beyond Earth” is the subject of the last Science Café to be held in Tacoma. Josh Krissansen-Totton, University of Washington, Astrobiology Program and Department of Earth and Space Sciences, will go behind the headlines and explore how astronomers and astrobiologists are trying to detect life on exoplanets (planets around other stars), and when they’re likely to be successful. Come with all your burning questions about the search for life beyond Earth at 6:30 p.m. in The Swiss Restaurant and Pub.
PREFUNK: There’s a feeling that lingers with summer — like when you can still see the sun’s glow dance inside your lids after you shut your eyes, or how you can still feel the ocean waves rocking your body hours later while lying in bed. Grab the last bit of summer before your apartment feels old and all you want is to go to sleep without shivering. The Copper Door is offering a last taste of summer. The Stadium District bottle shop and taproom’s Tasting Tuesday flight features Fremont Brewing’s Summer Ale, Pacific Brewing & Malting Co.’s Montamara Summer Ale, Airways Brewing’s New Zealand-style Summer Ale and Alesmith Brewing’s Double IPA. Pours start at 6 for $6. Summertime, and the drinking is easy.
WITCH BOTTLE CLASS
Halloween will be upon us before we know it. You might be sketching out your witch costume right now, drinking a pumpkin ale and drawing a withered old crone wearing a distinctive hat and clutching a magical broom. But unlike Frankenstein’s monster, witches are real, and a significant percentage of Americans now identify themselves as being one. Some are Wiccans, some follow other Neo-pagan paths, and still others consider themselves to be witches of a different type. Crescent Moon Gifts would like to help you ward off witches of a different type. At 5:30 p.m., the Tacoma store will host a witch bottle making class for your home protection. Back in the 17th century witch bottles were buried to ward off spells. A few years ago U.K. researchers opened and analyzed the contents of a rare intact witch bottle. Inside were “bent pins, a nail-pierced heart made of leather, fingernail clippings, belly-button lint, and hair, all swimming in a bath of 300-year-old, nicotine-tinged urine.” It apparently took some seriously bad mojo to go up against 17th-century witches. Call (253) 572-8339 or sign up online at www.crescentmoongifts.com.
PREFUNK: After much consideration and 10 years of sharing the love of craft beer, Craig and Tiffany have decided to not renew their business lease at Crossings Center in Federal Way, the current location of their 99 Bottles beer store. The beer store will remain open until early December — possible longer if someone purchases it. In the meantime, it’s business as usually, which means a weekly flight of drinks. In honor of Washington Cider Week, 99 Bottles will offer of flight of four ciders while you shop: Virtue Cider’s Percheron Cidre Fermier, Cider Riot!’s Everyone Pogo!, Tieton Cider Works’ Smoked Pumpkin and One Tree Cider’s Ginger. The store is open from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
