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The Beatles' Shea Stadium concert will always be remembered for Ringo's flaming drum set, George's 20-minute stand-up routine, and the backward rendition of "I Me Mine" that summoned Paul back from the dead. Attend a concert with just as many mind-blowing moments with today's Groupon: for $23, you get a ticket to the No Depression Festival, featuring Swell Season, Lucinda Williams, and Cave Singers on Saturday, August 21, at Marymoor Park in Redmond.

As the go-to source for Americana and roots music, No Depression magazine curates its own festival to showcase both well-established and up-and-coming folk acts. This year's festival is headlined by the dulcet Dublin tones of The Swell Season, consisting of Irish musician Glen Hansard and Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová, who starred together in the Academy Award–winning 2007 indie-musical Once. Other acts include acclaimed singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, Seattle indie-folk rockers The Cave Singers, and Alejandro Escovedo—winner of No Depression ’s "artist of the decade" for the '90s. Tickets are general admission, so arrive when the gates open at noon to secure a close-up spot on Marymoor Park's two enormous grass lawns, ensuring that the artists can pointedly ignore your request that they play the entire score of The Muppet Christmas Carol.

Now in its second year, the No Depression Festival began with rousing success in 2009, when Iron & Wine and Gillian Welch played to a sold-out crowd. This is also the second year that the show is presented by the Seattle Theater Group, a non-profit dedicated to spreading a vibrant, diverse selection of art, music, theater, and film to the Emerald City's environs. Revel in the earthy, AutoTune-free sounds of folk's best artists and find the musical inspiration to compose your 401(K)-funded concept album with today's Groupon to the No Depression Festival.

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Scavenger hunts help people get to know a city intimately, which may prove valuable when put in charge of hiding celebrity wax figures for the citywide celebrity-wax-figure hunt that takes place each Easter. Prepare for this venerable American tradition with today's Groupon: for $25, you get a regular registration for one person (a $70 value) to participate in the Seattle Challenge. The one-day urban scavenger race takes place on Saturday, August 28, starting and ending at Jillian's Billiard Club on Westlake Avenue North. Adults of every age, ability, and medieval guild are encouraged to participate. The race starts at 1 p.m., but you can show up from 10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. to pick up your pre-race packet.

During the challenge, teams of two or more individuals will run helter-skelter around the city in a frantic race for cash prizes and personal pride, with a first-place award of $200. Not only will participants have to solve strands of interconnected clues that would test the deductive powers of even the most seasoned consulting detective, they'll need to plot spatiotemporal stratagems while exploring undiscovered corners of the city. Although being physically fit is a plus, quick wits and wise planning will ultimately determine the winners. Participation in the challenge gets contestants a clue packet, race-number bib, and T-shirt, and fees also help toward contributions to partner charities and the prize pool. The website offers a regular FAQ, as well as a Groupon FAQ with further details on the intricacies of the race, what to wear the day of, why it's not okay to bring a boa constrictor, and more.

After the race is through and winners determined, all participants are invited to partake in an after-party and awards ceremony. Challenge participants can partake in drink specials and music while additional prizes, such as best costume, are announced. Proceeds from the race will benefit the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound. A challenge that's equal parts fun, charity, and adventure is hard for even the most spicily seasoned cynic to resist.

The $4.84 fee with regular registration is covered with today's Groupon.

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Like feral cats and domesticated roommates, bodies of water enjoy being poked with paddles every now and then. Give a nearby water body a relaxing paddle puncture with today’s Groupon, which gets you a kayaking trip through Outdoor Adventure Center in Redmond. Life jackets, paddles, and other gearstuffs are all included in each kayaking adventure. Choose one of the following flotatious forays (all of which include tax):

• $39 for a Redmond to Redhook 90-minute kayak tour (an $82 value)
• $39 for a three-hour Lopez Island sea kayaking tour (a $75 value)
• $65 for a Skykomish inflatable kayaking adventure package (a $150 value)

Outdoor Adventure Center makes it easy to experience the great non-indoors by offering professional instruction and quality equipment for a wide realm of activities. Guests can commandeer a kayak for 90 minutes during the Redmond to Redhook tour ($75), which journeys north on the Sammamish River toward the fabled Redhook Brewery. After breathing in the evening air’s rich scents of ripe blackberries and wildflowers, boaters arrive at their destination and politely devour a tasty dinner accompanied by a celebratory pint. The Lopez Island sea kayak tour ($69) grants kayakers three hours of leisurely paddling along two to three miles of Lopez Island’s protected shoreline, where the Dungeness crabs and the moon jellies play backgammon on the friendly isle’s picturesque beaches. Padawan paddlers can develop their sea-arms by spending a day conquering the Cascades’ waterways during a Skykomish inflatable kayaking adventure package ($150). More-adventuresome floaters can opt to tackle one of three different sections of the river, which range from the Class I-II Lower Skykomish to the Main Skykomish, which features rapids ranking up to Class V and paintball crossfire during high water. The Skykomish package includes a photo CD of your adventure as well as a delicious post-paddle meal.

Outdoor Adventure Center is an American Canoe Association pro school and staffs experienced instructors who will prepare customers for their kayak tours by performing a modern interpretation of the traditional kayak paddle dance. Call ahead to schedule your excursion of choice and taste for yourself what early seafaring ancestors must have felt as they set out in kayaks to explore drainage ditches and accidentally discovered waterfalls.

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Just Your Luck

You'll get me lucky charms when you pry them from me cold, dead hands.

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With your kitchen's pots and pans inhabited by the evil spirits of dead pots and pans, cooking at home has become both time consuming and spooky. Get quality cuisine without interference from crazed kitchenware with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of casual American cuisine and drinks at Varsity Grill, located in downtown Tacoma on Broadway.

Enjoy a menu stacked with comforting American favorites in Varsity Grill's spacious and modern setting. Tickle taste buds with a sampling of the Varsity nachos ($9.99)—a beautiful mess of crunchy tortilla chips enraptured in a melty mass of pepper-jack and cheddar cheeses, fresh tomatoes, sour cream, guacamole, and green onions and topped off with your choice of chicken or beef—before marching onward to the Varsity BLTA ($9.99), an upgraded BLT featuring Varsity's specialty applewood-smoked bacon, lettuce, tomato, and avocado between the buttery cumulus clouds of a freshly baked croissant. The Desert Heat burger ($9.99) places a flame-broiled half-pound hunk of meat in a coating of barbecue sauce, bacon, jalapenos, and pepper-jack cheese and, like a desert mirage, will disappear quickly between your ravenous chompers. Omnivores may want to try the Buffalo chicken salad ($10.99) covered in blue cheese crumbles, tortilla chips, and blue cheese dressing, and herbivores can find solace in the veggie sandwich ($8.99), which plays the creamy textures of avocado, cucumber, sprouts, hummus, swiss cheese, and cream cheese against sharp notes of red onion, lettuce, and tomato.

Varsity Grill's vast dining area makes an ideal environment for large groups of humans or small groups of giants. The private HD theater room and 12 plasma-screen televisions will ensure that whatever game, knitting championship, or post-apocalyptic pigskin match you want to watch is on rotation, and a dueling-piano session is featured every Friday and Saturday night for no cover charge.

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Talking about sports, like winning the lotto and undergoing surgery, goes better with a cold beer. Make every hour happy hour with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of brews and pub food at Harmon Tap Room, located in downtown Tacoma. This Groupon is not valid during happy hour.

The third location for Harmon Brewing Company, Harmon Tap Room serves beers freshly made in the site's 15 barrels, contenting barley-hungry palates with year-round ales and seasonal brews. Both beer enthusiasts and infrequent drinkers will approve of Harmon's frosty selection of pints ($4.50), featuring the Great American Beer Festival–winning Brown's Point ESB. Hops habitués with something to prove can dive into the Point Defiance IPA, while those who drink beers as light as a cloud of Peeps can stick to the easy-drinking Mt. Takhoma Blonde Ale. Stay to sample hearty pub grub from the Tap House's menu. Pizza cravers may find satisfaction in the veggie-friendly Locally Green pizza ($14), topped with an ambrosial amalgamation of basil pesto, herb potato, caramelized onion, and feta cheese.

With long wooden dining apparatuses, couches for flat-screen TV watching, and slick pool tables, Harmon Tap House is a prime hangout well suited to weary office workers, contented construction men, and door-to-door poltergeist salesmen alike. This deal can also be used toward taking home a Harmon brew in the form of a 64-ounce growler ($10).

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Anyone who's walked through Seattle's Chinatown/International District knows its delicious restaurants, late-night karaoke, vegetable stands, and eclectic shops. Dig a little deeper, and you'll discover there is so much more to this vibrant neighborhood than what meets the eye. The heart of the city's Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, the neighborhood's history is a patchwork of different peoples striving to make a new life in a sometimes unwelcoming city.

For 25 years, Chinatown Discovery Tours has provided intimate, lively, personal guided tours that are true to the daily cultural life of the Asian Community in Seattle's Chinatown/International District. Their tours explain the area's past and evolution, while also revealing many of its hidden gems.

And today, just $8 gets Tippsters a 90-Minute Chinatown Discovery Tour from the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience - an $18 value.

Whether you're a local or a tourist, this tour will provide incredible insights into the history and cultures of one of Seattle's oldest, most diverse, and vibrant neighborhoods. With fresh eyes and a new perspective, you won't ever view the neighborhood the same again.

Utterly useless outside the realm of competitive raccoon tickling, the human thumb would have no conceivable function were it not required to guide a bowling ball to its target. Treat it to a little rabies-free fun with today's deal: for $7, you get two full games and one pair of rental shoes (up to a $14.46 value, including tax) at Brunswick Bowling Center. This Groupon is good at Brunswick Majestic Lanes in Lynnwood. Fridays and Saturdays are the most popular times for bowling-based congregations, so show up early if you come on those nights—or be prepared to wait and engage in a little recreational noshing at the full snack bar.

Bowling is the great social equalizer—a common ground where grizzled undercover clowns, blue-collar English lords, LARPer librarians, big and tall lingerie models, hordes of hive-minded hipsters, and the other two social demographics that comprise America can unite in common cause and topple a gaggle of stuck-up, inanimate wooden pins. Brunswick has been a household name in this egalitarian pastime almost since the beginning, with a company history that dates back to the 19th century, providing classic American good times to all manner of patrons across the country. And with today's Groupon tying the room together, you'll get to play two games (up to a $10 value) in its hallowed halls wearing a pair of freshly disinfected bowling shoes (a $3.79 value).

Unlike other competitive sports, such as dogsled racing and rap battles, bowling has zero barriers to entry and a shallow learning curve. When you're ready to take the next bold step in ball-hurling evolution, engage in a round of cosmic bowling, where dancing lights, thumping tunes, plumes of mist, and glow-in-the-dark bowling accoutrements light up the full sensorium—transforming your bowling ball into a glittering planet hurtling through a vast and unknowable universe before exploding into a supernova of scattered pins. And since you can buy up to 10 of today's deal, you'll be able to spend a good chunk of your day or night at Brunswick taunting your friends and taking out frustrations on a group of hapless pinheads with today's Groupon to Brunswick Bowling.

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When someone's getting all up in your grill, the best thing to say is "You better step off! The surface temperature of grills can approach 550 degrees Fahrenheit—you shouldn't be standing on that thing!" Today's deal demonstrates a high regard for safety by leaving the grilling to the professionals: for $15, you get $30 worth of gourmet cuisine and drinks at Flat Iron Grill in Issaquah.

Flat Iron's husband-and-wife owners serve up steakhouse and seafood fare with South American influences from a sleek space in Gilman Village. The midday menu is populated with gourmet soups ($4.50+), salads ($8+), and hearty hand-held artisan sandwiches, such as the pulled pork panini ($10) enveloped in soft focaccia bread and loaded with poblano, fontina cheese, and arugula.

Dinner diners will be tempted to start a meal or debate on whether Superman can outrun the Flash by diving into an order of the sweet corn flan ($10) with brown butter, chili oil, parmigiano cheese, and grilled artisan bread. Otter-Americans, meanwhile, can explore the shallows for spicy rock shrimp ceviche ($12) and jumbo prawns ($22) with salsa criolla, chimichurri, and grilled asparagus. Equally enticing entrees include the Muscovy duck with sweet potato gnudi, roasted fennel, arugula, and a fresh bing cherry sauce ($23), while grilled treats like the pork prime rib with goat cheese poblano polenta ($19) offer forkfuls of flame-kissed flavor. For a serving of the ultimate indulgent supperfare, head straight for the Oscar Argentino ($35), a 7-ounce filet of beef served with a purple Peruvian potato mash and draped in the decadent topping of Dungeness crab and an ancho pepper hollandaise sauce.

Flat Iron Grill's clean and contemporary décor is contrasted by a lush outdoor patio—an airy space where one can cap an evening of staring into the eyes of a beloved boyfriend or cut of beef with a sumptuous sweet such as the berry-vanilla cream puffs doused in chocolate and berry compote ($8) or a glass of grape-blood from the extensive wine list. Wine and dine a hot date who shares your passion for breeding cassowaries with today's Groupon to Flat Iron Grill.

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Time travel may be theoretically impossible for those without ready access to black holes, but as a new Groupon subscriber you have the opportunity to go back in time to one of our most popular deals. More than 500 subscribers bought this Groupon the first time around, and now we're bringing it back just for you. For $2, you get two games of bowling plus shoe rental (an $11 total value) at one of two fine 10-pin establishments: Roxbury Lanes & Casino, across from Roxhill Park on Roxbury Street or Magic Lanes on 15th Avenue SW.

Besides strengthening arm muscles, thighs, glutes, calves, and Jeff Bridges impressions, 10-pin bowling at either Roxbury Lanes or Magic Lanes strengthens socio-familial bonds by giving friends and families a casual, nonviolent arena to challenge each other over chit-chat and fermented ales. After lacing up your rented shoes, grab a large, heavy orb and experience a double dose of ballesthenics, either solo or surrounded by bodyguards (though they'll have to bring their own Groupons). Roxbury Lanes feature family-friendly Sundays, with more-alcohol-fueled bowling specials during the week, and Magic Lanes devotes 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sundays to family-friendliness. Your two games will allow you to get into the groove and away from the gutters, and if your repetitive pin crushing stimulates your food-crushing desires, both bowling alleys have restaurants (Asian and American in Roxbury Lanes and just plain American in Magic Lanes), though cuisine is not included in the cost of the Groupon.

There are few things in life as satisfying as knocking perfectly arranged objects down, be they a meticulous configuration of wooden pins or a row of skyscraper dominos. Today's Groupon to bowl at Roxbury Lanes & Casino or Magic Lanes lets you tap into the heedless joy of a kindergartner knocking over building blocks—only unlike in kindergarten, you're never forced to pick up your mess by a sulky, disgruntled giant.

Redeemable starting on 7/29/10.

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The majority of monolingual Americans are often bitterly disappointed when they find that René Magritte's Ceci n'est pas une cheeseburger is not a cheeseburger. Today’s Groupon offers a remedy for that tragic misconception: for $7, you get $15 worth of big burgers and fries at Zippy’s Giant Burgers and Fries in Highland Park.

Zippy’s Giant Burgers boasts a simple menu of ginormous gobs of burger meat made from fresh, locally supplied ingredients and ground on-site daily from 100% chuck. Burgers are offered in a range of sizes and with standard optional patty-toppers (five kinds of cheese, bacon, and hot peppers, $0.75 each), and start with the wee 3-ounce Lil’ Zips ($2.25+) and the standard 5-ounce Zip Burger ($4.25+). Heartier appetites can get in a decade's worth of hamburgery before embarking on an intergalactic voyage with the 10-ounce, two-patty Zip Royale ($6.50) or the triple-layered Big Mouth ($7.75). The black bean burger ($4.75), meanwhile, promises to cause spontaneous salivation in the hungry herbivoyeur secretly watching you through the eatery’s front windows. Fries ($1.50) and onion rings ($1.50), hand-dipped ice cream cones ($1.50), milk shakes ($3.50), and floats ($3.25) all provide ideal moons to your small planet of a burger.

The brightly decorated counter-service eatery is a happy-making place to stop in for a quick meal on the go before returning to the dust cloud of fighting cartoon characters, as well as a worthy arena for an impromptu soda-guzzling contest, thanks to its more than 20 different flavors of vintage pop ($1.50). So stop by for a savory meal of an oversized American classic at Zippy's Giant Burgers and Fries.

Zippy's is a cash-only restaurant; any amount you owe past what your Groupon is worth must be in cash.

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Young children are inquisitive by nature, but they’ll never learn the consequences of their curiosity unless you answer their questions about why the house is overflowing with pudding. Today’s Groupon similarly educates budding adults: choose to pay $3 for one general admission (a $6 value) or $15 for a three-month membership (a $30 value) to the Children's Museum of Tacoma downtown.

The Children’s Museum of Tacoma offers an entertaining smorgasbord of interactive exhibits and educational events designed to nourish and develop youthful imaginations. New Digs helps little ones understand the basic stages that occur before food can be served to them with an urban garden complete with a produce stand and a delivery truck. In Becka’s Studio, larval Leonardos can hone their artistic skills with daily experiments in color, sculpture, painting, and collage. Blow, break, and boogie with bubbles during Bubble Time, or experience Soar into Story, featuring Caldecott Medal winner Gerald McDermott and his Native American stories of Raven and Coyote.

Although a general admission will keep young minds and their older guides entertained for an entire day, a three-month trial membership multiplies that day by 90 and adds multitudinous benefits, including unlimited admission, members-only play times, 10% off purchases at the museum gift shop, and more. Stimulate children both inner and outer with today’s Groupon to the Children’s Museum of Tacoma.

Membership starts on the day of purchase. New members only.

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Kidpocalypse!

Finally, kids can safely eat from the garbage.

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After scientists revealed UFOs were actually full-grown tortillas, people everywhere filled swimming pools with guac and beans to catch and dissect the floury creatures. Nab a tender, baby disc with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $21 worth of tacos, Mexican eats, and drinks at Barracuda Taqueria.

Eschewing the lettuce, tomatoes, and frequent Seinfeld references favored by more Americanized tacos, all of the tacos on Barracuda's menu are crafted from homemade corn tortillas and served with cilantro and diced onions. Try the al pastor ($4), a streetwise Mexi-meat of slow-roasted pork marinated in peppers, achiote, pineapple, and spices, then topped with pineapple pico. The even más auténtico lengua ($4)—beef tongue topped with pickled red onions and queso fresco—is a street-stand classic from the streets of Mexico City and tastes best through a flamboyantly colored lucha libre mask. Vegetarians, meanwhile, can fill up on the veggie taco, packed with rice, black beans, and sautéed 'shrooms and squash ($4). And from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Barracuda serves breakfast burritos topped with locally sourced eggs, chorizo, barbacoa, jalapeños, potatoes, beans, ham, and more. Preface the tortilla parade by conjuring up a cauldron of chile con queso ($5) or the Barracuda street nachos ($7) caked with mounds of chile con queso and picadillo meat, but keep your vestigial second stomach open for a dessert of Mexican pot de crème (Mexican chocolate topped with cream, $4.50).

A casual décor complete with walls encrusted with beer caps and a visible cooler gives Barracuda a cool, chill ambience where everyone feels like they're hanging out on their best friend's deck, especially if they order a frothy beer or Barracuda's refreshing sangria. Discuss the latest concept album idea with your psychedelic mariachi band over a few tasty tacos and drinks at Barracuda Taqueria with today's Groupon.

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Battling Barracudas

Why are barracudas even better hunters on land?

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Sight, the workhorse of the five senses, puts in too many hours keeping man from falling in manholes. Give the most overworked sense a vacation with today's Groupon: an individual or family/dual membership to the Frye Art Museum on First Hill. Purchase one of the following Groupons for a yearlong membership:

• $35 for a family/dual membership (a $75 value)
• $25 for an individual membership (a $50 value)

Although admission to the Frye Museum's art-filled halls is always free for everyone, individual museum membership treats you to an exquisitely oil-painted cornucopia of exclusive perks, including:

• Access to exclusive exhibition opening receptions and members-only events, including Tea and Tours and members' happy hours.
• Opportunities to learn more about art with lectures, films, and music thanks to free or discounted tickets and the ability to reserve tickets in advance
• A subscription to FRYE, the museum's membership publication
• A 10% discount at the museum store and invitations to members-only sales
• A 10% discount at Daniel Smith Artists' Materials
• A 25% discount at all U-Frame It stores

Family/dual memberships (for up to two adults and all children under 18), meanwhile, will receive all of the above benefits, plus notification of special family-focused museum events.

The Frye Art Museum appeared on the world's canvas in 1952 from a 232-piece private collection of primarily late-19th- and early-20th-century German paintings owned by Seattle art aficionados Charles and Emma Frye. The museum's current permanent collection was built on that original donation, and consists of mostly American and German paintings and works on paper, hosting a rotating cast of temporary exhibitions and upcoming exhibitions. Tête-à-tête recreates Charles and Emma's original home gallery, right down to the Oriental carpets, potted silk palms, the gossip chairs where they gossiped about Gossip Girls, and some of the finest examples of Secessionist artwork—stuffed floor-to-ceiling in the salon-style format to overload the senses in the best way possible, much like getting crushed under an avalanche of adorable baby penguins. Historians, meanwhile, will discover a silent black-and-white window into the Klondike boom of the early 20th century in A Day in Skaguay, which portrays the silent past before sound was invented. And coming just in time for Halloween are Seance: Albert Von Keller and the Occult and the ambitious, mind-bending installations of Implied Violence: Yes and More and Yes and Yes and Why.

Art—like a good haircut or a very special episode of Alf—is made to be viewed and to tickle deeper thought. Seize this opportunity to enrich your fallow eye-soil, or gift this Groupon to expand the horizon of any art-collecting uncle who refuses to buy a painting that doesn't have a dog playing poker in it.

Not valid for existing members. Must redeem Groupon within three months.

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Bowling was originally a card game, but players quickly tired of having to play 10-pin-pickup with obnoxious seven-year-old nephews. Modernize by hurling your boredom into a wooden formation of fun with today's deal: for $5, you get two games of bowling plus shoe rental at one of two fine 10-pin establishments (a $11.40 total value):

• Roxy's Casino, across from Roxhill Park on Roxbury Street
• Magic Lanes on 15th Avenue SW

Besides strengthening arm muscles, thighs, glutes, calves, and Jeff Bridges impressions, 10-pin bowling at either Roxy's Casino or Magic Lanes strengthens socio-familial bonds by giving friends and families a casual, nonviolent arena to challenge each other over chit-chat and fermented ales. After lacing up your rented shoes (a $3.50 value), grab a large, heavy orb and experience a double dose of ballesthenics (up to an $7.90 value for two games), either solo or surrounded by bodyguards (though they'll have to bring their own Groupons). Roxy's lanes feature family-friendly weekends, with more alcohol-fueled bowling specials during the week, while Magic Lanes devotes all of Sunday to family-friendliness. Your two games will allow you to get into the groove and away from the gutters, and if your repetitive pin crushing stimulates your food-crushing desires, both bowling alleys have restaurants (Asian and American in Roxy's and just plain American in Magic Lanes).

There are few things in life as satisfying as knocking perfectly arranged objects down, be they a meticulous configuration of wooden pins or a row of skyscraper dominos. Today's Groupon to bowl at Roxy's Casino or Magic Lanes lets you tap into the heedless joy of a kindergartner knocking over building blocks—only unlike kindergarten, you're never forced to pick up your mess by a sulky, disgruntled giant.

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The Whys and Whens of Fireworks

How long after eating should you wait before using fireworks?

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While revenge is a dish best served hot, generosity is best served at body temperature, allowing you to pick up the plate and pass it around the table. Pass the tasty generosity or eat it all by yourself with today's Groupon: for $25, you get $50 worth of fresh, shareable small-plate dishes and drinks at Ventana on 1st Avenue in Belltown. This Groupon is valid anytime except happy hour.

At Ventana, executive chef Joseph Conrad transforms local, seasonal ingredients into a novel selection of North American small plates, designed to share with friends and domesticated relatives. The grilled trevisio mixes roasted fennel with charred lemon and Spanish olive oil ($8), and the Alaskan king salmon backstrokes through a sea of corn, pancetta, and grape tomatoes ($14). Crispy truffle fries ($6) cozy up to the tender Ventana burger, which brims with chile rellenos, bacon, and escarole and is served with a side of decadent Humboldt Fog goat-cheese dressing ($13). Desserts such as the red-velvet cake massage taste buds with fresh berries, chantilly cream, and raspberry sauce ($7). An international wine selection is sure to slap a smile on faces' lips, and handcrafted cocktails include game-changing creations such as the Bloody Mary with bacon vodka and rimmed with chorizo sea salt.

Inside Ventana, soaring ceilings and exposed beams offer a sleek, upscale environment, and wrap-around windows flaunt glassy views of the city and Puget Sound. Gather friends to dine under an early evening sunset, or satisfy owl cravings with late-night dinner (served until midnight).

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Americanbiguous

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