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• Seattle Opera must have been on a high note on Friday, when they were awarded a $500,000 grant to debut the new American opera Amelia in May 2010.
• We welcome the handmade chocolates (hellooo, raspberry-wasabi dark chocolate truffle!), traditional German treats, and delicious ganache-filled confections from Madison Valley's Suess Chocolates & Pastries, the newest chocolate shop on the block. If one truffle isn't enough for you, there are truffle-making classes too.

It's all of nearly two as we write this, and we could already use a tall cold one. In anticipation of the end of the workweek, we checked out Seattle Beer News, and sure enough, God bless 'em, there's at least three decent beer events this weekend. Tonight Water 1st, an organization dedicated to bringing water, sanitation, and public health to the poorest communities around the world, is hosting their Water 1st, Beer 2nd fun(d)raiser in South Lake Union tonight at 7 p.m. Tickets are $30 and you can enter a raffle for a Hawaiian vacation. But if you're less social justice-minded (or just cheap), you can head to either the Elysian for their winter brewfest Saturday, or out to West Seattle's Beveridge Place Pub for their week-long barleywine festival, where you can drink yourself under the table without all the fuss, like a normal person.

Checking out former Seattlester and all-around beer expert Geoff Kaiser's new home on the web, Seattle Beer News, we came across an interesting factoid: Today is the first day of the Collins Pub's Fifth Annual REAL Strong Beer Festival. What's "real" strong beer? According to Geoff, one triple IPA weighs in at 11 percent ABV. There's a variety of other short-run and vintage beers on tap from Northwest craft-brewers. Should be awesome. The fest runs today through March 1 down at 526 Second Ave., at the base of the Smith Tower.