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Thousands gathered Friday for the memorial of police Officer Timothy Brenton, who was killed in the line of duty on Halloween night.

WALKING ON THE MOON: The Northwest Film Forum keeps on 69ing with their screenings this week of Downhill Racer and Camille 2000. As a lovely coincidence, 1969 was also the year that Neil Armstrong did his giant leap for mankind. As such, the NWFF is well within their purview to show footage of the moon landing tonight as part of their 69 film series. A screening of the original television broadcast starts at 7 p.m., followed by a montage of major NASA events leading up to and including the landing, stitched together love by local filmmaker and sound artist Joe Milutis. 7 p.m. // Northwest Film Forum // 1515 12th Ave. // $9

Forty years ago next Monday, the world watched as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon, which is still one of the coolest things ever. This weekend, the Museum of Flight is beginning a week of exhibitions celebrating the moon landing's anniversary.

At 2:01 EST / 11:01 PST today, you can watch West Seattle H.S. and UW alum, Gregory C. Johnson and six other astronauts of mission STS-125 blast off into outer space. Up, up and away! Johnson will be piloting the space shuttle Atlantis throughout its 11-day service mission to repair NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.The big ol' telescope--sent up into space in 1990--needs some tender loving care since its last fix seven years ago. The crew of STS-125 have scheduled five spacewalks to fix the snafus and update camera technology that's expected to last until 2014. Godspeed.

GRINDHOUSE: The Sunset's monthly night of chopsocky fun Kung Fu Grindhouse puts out another installment of more delicious b-movie trash. Tonight's triple-header kicks off with Charles Bronson as a bareknuckles boxer in Hard Times, followed by monster movie From Beyond at 8:30, and closing the night with Jackie Chan in Dragons Forever.

First of all, may we just say it's great to be back in the Seattlest saddle again after a somewhat extended absence! We actually...*sniff*...missed you guys. Alright, back to business. Thanks to Twitter, we now know about a neat local cooking site named, appropriately, CookLocal. They're covering the very important rutabaga and sunchoke baked chips beat this week. West Seattle Blog passes along news about South Seattle Community College's new scholarships, money set aside to help out anyone who's ever been in the U.S. foster care system. The Weekly's Sara Brickner reports on N.A.S.A.'s show at Nectar last night on Reverb, with photos and all ("go-go dancers, a giant visualizer screen and aliens" is part of the write-up, reason enough for you to click on that link). And over at the Seattle Post-Times, they're upset about the new, unsightly ads on Washington ferries. Of course, the pictured ad supporting the Post-Times' case is for the Woodland Park Zoo's flamingos exhibit--not exactly the devil incarnate.

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!

Four years ago, President Bush announced his Vision for Space Exploration; we would, he said, aim to return to the moon by 2020, develop an "extend[ed] human presence across the solar system," and build new vehicles to take us where we want to go in space. Part of that plan was a request to NASA to complete the International Space Station, retire the current, aging space shuttles (to be replaced by a new Crew Exploration Vehicle) and to close the space shuttle program facilities across the country by 2010. The time is drawing steadily near for Congress to reaffirm that course of action. King5 tells us that Seattle's Museum of Flight, on East Marginal Way, could be home to one of those shuttles in a year or two, and that, of course, would be downright really frickin' cool.

Most of us who have spent any time bored on the internet, or have bored friends who send us forwards about everything they find, know our porn star name. The formula for this is, of course, the name of your first pet and the street you grew up on. (For example, we have the world's most boring porn star name ever: Minnie Smith.) More advanced bored internet surfers may also know their soap star name and Star Wars character name.

To the average damp Seattle dweller, life in eastern Washington's Moses Lake--complete with rodeos, farms, and arid landscape--may very well seem like a different world. But NASA believes that Moses Lake and its surrounding landscape better mimics life on the moon. That's why NASA has decided to test a prototype of a lunar vehicle near Moses Lake this summer.