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Cheap Bastard's® Guide to Seattle. Secrets of Living the Good Life—for Less! PDF

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Secrets of Living the Good Life—For Less! THE Seattle is full of free and ridiculously inexpensive stuff—you just need to know where to look. Leave it to “The Cheap Bastard” to uncover all the ins and outs and exclusive bargains to be had, and to tell you the real deal with wit and humor. The Cheap Bastard’s Guide to Seattle will show you: • Entrance to plays, flms, concerts, comedy clubs, and museums, as well as the zoo, pools, and other great places for family fun • Classes of all sorts, including dancing, yoga, language, cooking, and coffee-brewing • Food, including pizza, oysters, and sushi • Haircuts, manicures, and massages David Volk is the author of The Tribe Has Spoken: Life Lesons from Reality TV Seattle and has written for national and regional publications, including Seattle Maga- zine, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and Koi World and Water Gardens. He lives in Seattle. Visit him at davidvolk.com. Cover design by Bret Kerr Cover images licensed by Shutterstock.com ® ® ® CheapBastard_Seattle_mechV2.indd 1 ® 9/9/13 5:15 PM Volk 2nd Seattle Edition David Volk Live Large for Less! Live Large for Less! Think you have to earn big bucks to live big in Seattle? Think again. ® CheaP BaSTard’S CBSeattle_4pp.indd 1 9/6/13 11:30 AM The Help Us Keep THis GUide Up To daTe We would love to hear from you concerning your experiences with this guide and how you feel it could be improved and kept up to date. Please send your comments and sugestions to: Seattle CheaP BasTarD’s® series ® CheaP BaSTard’S Seattle secrets of living the Good life—For less! Second Edition David Volk ® Guilford, Connecticut an imprint of Globe Pequot Press ® globe pequot press Guilford, Connecticut www.GlobePequot.com CBSeattle_4pp.indd 3 9/6/13 11:30 AM The All the information in this guidebook is subject to change. We recommend that you call ahead to obtain current information before traveling. Copyright © 2014 by Morris Book Publishing, LLC All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission should be made in writing to Globe Pequot Press, Attn: Rights and Permissions Department, PO Box 480, Guilford, Connecticut 06437. Cheap Bastard’s Guide is a registered trademark of Rob Grader. Project Editor: Lauren Szalkiewicz Text design: Sheryl P. Kober ISSN: 2158-5903 ISBN: 978-0-7627-9230-6 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CBSeattle_4pp.indd 4 9/6/13 11:30 AM To Jerry Katz (1930–2013), a great father and the nicest father-i n-l aw a guy could have asked for. CBSeattle_4pp.indd 5 9/6/13 11:30 AM CBSeattle_4pp.indd 6 9/6/13 11:30 AM CONTENTS Introduction xiv SECTION 1: Entertainment in Seattle 1 Theater: Free speech 2 The Rise of the House Usher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Always Free . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Drama Deals: Discount Tickets & More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Film: Cheap shots 29 Free Year-R ound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Cheap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Summer Screenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Music: of Free i sing 42 Jazz/Blues/World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Eclectic/Rock/Folk/Country/Bluegrass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Classical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Summer Concerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Comedy: Free-f or-a ll 69 dance: Free expression 75 Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Participatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 SECTION 2: living in Seattle 81 Food: on the House 82 Happy Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Free Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Not Free, but Pretty Doggone Cheap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Wine, Beer & distillery Tastings: Cheap drunk 113 Woodinville Wineries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Hair & spa services: Freestyle 127 Hair Salons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Beauty & Aesthetics Schools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 CBSeattle_4pp.indd 7 9/6/13 11:30 AM Personal Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Massage Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Children’s events & activities: Free to Be You and Me 1 3 5 Destination Playgrounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Story Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Cheap, but Not Free. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Arts, Crafts & Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Fun with Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 The Games People Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Family Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Odds & Ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Kids Eat Free . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 literature, libraries & other life lessons: Free association 159 Readings & Other Literary Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Ridiculously Cheap Spoken Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Free Classes with Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Health & Medicine: live Free or die 17 9 Testing, Testing . . . Is This Thing Working?—Clinical Studies . . 180 Free Condoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Alternative Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Fitness & Fun: Free Kicks 1 8 5 Park It Here: Nearby Getaways That Will Keep You Busy All Day . 186 Recreation Centers & Pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Free Chi: Free Yoga & Other Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Sporting Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Group Bike Rides & Runs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Thrift stores: one Man’s Trash is another Man’s Furniture 1 98 Building Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Furniture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Sporting Goods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 Food. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 viii Contents CBSeattle_4pp.indd 8 9/6/13 11:30 AM SECTION 3: Exploring Seattle 2 0 9 Walking Tours: a Cents of place 21 0 City Tours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Government Buildings & Other Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Factory Tours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Building Tours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Nature Tours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Gallery Walks: Free-F orm Fetes 21 8 Gallery Walks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Getting around seattle: Free Rides & Freeways 223 Getting Out of Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Gardens & Gardening: Free Range 2 2 9 Gardens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Gardening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Museums: Free to see in Your Free Time 23 7 Always Free . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Occasionally Free . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 appendix a: additional Resources 248 appendix B: library Branch locations 2 5 2 appendix C: pools & Recreation Centers 25 5 appendix d: pWYC performances 2 5 9 appendix e: additional seattle Music Festivals 262 Index 27 0 Contents ix CBSeattle_4pp.indd 9 9/6/13 11:30 AM

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