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at Intiman Theatre, 7:30pm, Tickets $20/$10 Students and Under 25

Blog called DallasFood is making big, brown waves with a ten-part (ten part!!) series about a small, Plano, Tex., chocolate-maker called NoKa. Point being, for starters, that NoKa's not a chocolate-maker per se but a chocolatier who purchases commercially packaged chocolate bars from a third party and uses them to make, or confect, a chocolate couverture. In installments of Dickensian intensity, DallasFood ferrets out the source of NoKa's chocolate: Bonnat, a respected firm based in the French Alps that actually processes beans from chocolate plantations in Africa, Asia and South America.

In non-holiday tree related Port news, all of the Seattle-Tacoma International Taxicab Association (STITA) taxis will run on compressed natural gas by this summer (the press release says "Aug. 31, 2006" but we're guessing they meant 2007). In fact all of the sedan-style STITA cabs already burn natural gas. The Port had to hunt around for sedans that use the alternative fuel, and purchased a bunch from California fleets that were retiring the cars. Ford stopped making CNG Crown Victorias in 2004 ("Who Killed The Compressed Natural Gas Car?"), but there are companies out there that convert standard petroleum cars to CNG.

Every once in a while, Seattlest likes to think that we're living a fairly fulfilled life, what with family nearby, friends we care about, and the occasional prank phone call to this one guy who punched us in fourth grade.

The Scion film series comes to an end Tuesday night at the Harvard Exit with Pablo Aravena's graffiti documentary Next: A Primer on Urban Painting, featuring interviews with the likes of Futura, Lee Quiñones and Doze Green, as well as younger art collectives like the Inkheads, the Barnstormers and Heavyweight.

Last night at the Old Pequliar, the winning trivia team defeated 12 others to take home $100. Want to know how you'd do? Gather together 4 of your friends and see how many of these questions you can answer. We'll post the correct answers later today -- along with the team standings from last night and maybe some other insights.

Our little ditty against the Statuette of Liberty drew some comments from Dan Savage yesterday:

Eight days to tie, nine days to break! After today's afternoon downpour, we've now endured 25 straight days with measurable rainfall--matching the diluvian nightmare that Seattleites of 1961 experienced.