Can't Miss It: Tuesday
INTERNATIONAL TIPPLE TASTING: As a Pacific Rim port, Seattle should really be more broadly acquainted with saké than it is. Enter tonight's premium sake tasting at Umi Saké House in Belltown, a Saké Nomi event designed to familiarize attendees with thirty of the world's finest (and in some cases, rarest) brands. You and your fellow fermented rice enthusiasts will be able to sample a saké whose brand hails straight from 1505 as well as an igloo-brewed variety called "Divine Droplets." Kampai!
5 p.m. // Umi Saké House, 2230 1st Avenue // $40 (includes all sake, plus appetizers). Call 206-467-SAKE for tickets.
BIG QUESTIONS: University of Rochester professor Adam Frank dives right in to the eternal topics tonight in Science On Tap's latest installment at T.S. McHugh's. His lecture, entitled "End of the Beginning: Before the Big Bang in Cosmology, Mythology and the Science vs. Religion Debate," will surely be thought-provoking--all the more so if you're nursing a few beers while the man speaks. Familiarize yourself with Frank's blog at Discover Magazine, Reality Base, if you have some extra time at work today.
7:30 p.m. // T.S. McHughs, 21 Mercer Street // Cost Of Beer
SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION: Have you heard hiphop production duo N.A.S.A.'s track "Spacious Thoughts," the one with Kool Keith and none other than Tom effin' Waits? Get on it, it's too trippy to miss. Or check out the David Byrne/Chuck D/Ras Congo/Seu Jorge/Z-Trip collaboration, "Money," also from N.A.S.A.'s recent album, Spirit of Apollo. The world is your friend, because N.A.S.A. will be dropping their unique species of fire at Nectar tonight. Probably shouldn't miss that party.
8 p.m. // Nectar Lounge // $10adv // 21+
