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Posted on Thu, 02/24/2011 - 8:00pm

An Oscar Party, Dealing with Your Mommy Issues at SIFF Cinema and More Top To-do's

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Seattle magazine staff

Must Quote Along
Mommy Dearest quote-a-long at SIFF Cinema
Saturday (2/26) - See Faye Dunaway channel Joan Crawford in this epic 1981 flick that gives readers an insider’s peek at old school Hollywood and the over-the-top parenting style of a Hollywood starlet. Who wouldn’t want to spend a Saturday night unleashing those pent up mommy issues with an audience of people screaming, “No wire hangers!” $7-12. 7:30 p.m. SIFF Cinema, 321 Mercer St. siff.net.

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Posted on Thu, 02/24/2011 - 3:37pm

Cookus Interruptus: How to Use a Pressure Cooker

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Cynthia Lair

Today's pressure cookers are safe and efficient. I love using mine to cook beans, grains and root vegetables, even applesauce. Here's how. (for printable instrutions, click here)

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Posted on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 7:06pm

Outdoors: Shelter from the Storm

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Roddy Scheer
www.roddyscheer.com
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Roddy Scheer
Learn to Snowshoe at REI, and the snow-covered slopes of Snoqualmie Pass can be your winter's domain...

If you've always wanted to try snowshoeing, a winter sport for truly everyone, now is your chance to learn the basics from the experts in a warm dry environment before your own first trip out into the wilds. REI staff will walk through the basics of selecting approriate gear and finding out where to go in our area at the Seattle Flagship Store on Thursday evening February 24 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Register online for this FREE class. Read more »

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Posted on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 2:25am

Can You Tiger Mom a Preschooler?

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Hsiao-Ching Chou
tiger mom
Hsiao-Ching Chou explores the art of tiger momming.

Some days, I suck at being a tiger mom. It simply requires more attention to monitoring my daughter's work than I have time to devote. On those days when I let my daughter watch TV instead of practice writing letters and numbers, the self-flogging kicks in and, perhaps irrationally, I fret that the one, two or even three missed practice sessions somehow will mean the difference between another year of preschool or early entrance into kindergarten.  Read more »

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Posted on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 9:49pm

Great Schools Come from Great Teachers

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Alison Krupnick

I wanted to write a blog entry about HB 1609, the “Great Schools” bill, which was debated in Olympia this week, but failed to move out of committee.  A similar bill in the Senate, SB 5399, was blocked from public hearing by Senator Rosemary McAuliffe, chair of the Senate Committee on Early Learning and K-12 Education.  Read more »

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