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It’s a new month, and that means a new dining promotion around town. Returning is New Urban Eats, featuring some of the relative newbie restaurants in and around the Seattle area. For $30, you’ll enjoy three courses—a choice of appetizer, entrée, and dessert from a fixed-price menu.

"I don’t venture north of even the cut, unless provoked." So said one Seattlest contributor when we asked what inspires us to turn our backs on downtown and drive north. Wimp.

As we promised last week, Seattlest played the quiz at Kate's Pub last night. Our team, Eclectic Boogaloo, ended up winning the pot, although it took a tiebreaker round to get there. (Sorry, Ozzy's Outcasts. Good game.)

Seattlest first encountered The Hoopleheads a few months ago when we gave trivia at The Jones a whirl. They beat us, though they didn't win the evening. We ran into them again on August 1 when we hosted trivia at the Old Pequliar. They won outright that evening, and introduced themselves after the contest. By the way, they said, we're working on a Seattle pub trivia website. Great, we replied, let us know when it's up and running.

Tuesday night, Seattlest decided to ratchet up the difficulty level on the quiz at the Old Pequilar. And we think that worked well. We heard bitching, but it was good, brain-smacking bitching, not lynch-the-quiz-host bitching.

Last night, Seattlest checked out the quiz at Murphy's Irish Pub in Wallingford. This evening, we were playing with a full team of 5 members.

Crisis. Opportunity. We don't need self-help myths about Chinese characters to draw connections between the two. Last week's debacle at our regular trivia venue? A great opportunity to wander from local pub to local pub, trying out their quizzes and telling you which ones are worth your while.