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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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Performing Artists Reviewing Themselves Performing

Does the band America really tour with a baby fashion show?

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The Tooth Fairy is a burglarizing fetishist specializing in black-market ivory trade, and she must be stopped. Today’s Groupon helps keep teeth in mouths and out of the hands of maniacal, winged phantasms: for $59, you get a complete oral exam ($124), teeth cleaning ($110), and x-rays ($118) at Baer and Nartea Family Dentistry, a $352 total value.

This family dentistry practice is the stronghold of Drs. Theodore Baer and Randy Nartea, two expert dentists with a combined experience of over two decades. A visit to their supreme dental facility is an ideal opportunity to give dirty or abandoned mouths an overdue cleaning and structural critique. These friendly dental aficionados will take up their gear and venture into your primary head hole, examining overall oral health and wellness, taking digital x-rays of your mouth, and finally, clearing out every speck of sand or spinach nestled deep in the darkest tooth crevices. The appointment will last roughly 60–90 minutes, after which time you’ll emerge with a squeaky-clean set of teeth to show off in your next family portrait or mug shot.

By improving mouth health, you can improve overall health; research suggests a link between periodontal diseases and other chronic conditions, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and Alzheimer's. A cleaning might not cure brain fever or hammer toes, but broken fillings and cavities can't hide from Dr. Baer or Dr. Nartea's expert eye. If you lay in bed at night fearing the piercing pain of a future cavity, let them check it out so you can sleep easy with a clean bill of health and nip dental disaster in the bud. Call ahead for an appointment.

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What You Didn't Know: The Months

Which secret month can only be observed by the rich?

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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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The Inventor of Food

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Preserving the past is an excellent way to prepare for the future, which explains the enduring popularity of Renaissance Faires, taxidermy, and Betty White. Go medieval with today's Groupon: you get your choice of two admission options to the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire, held over three weekends: August 7–8, 14–15, and 21–22. Choose between the following:

• $20 for a family pass for two adults and two children valid for one day (a $45 value)
• $8 for a single adult pass valid for one day (a $16 value)

The Renaissance Faire takes place at the lush Maris Farms in Buckley. The theatrical event features fully costumed kings, queens, jesters, revelers, domesticated basilisks, bands of merry minstrels, and more in a celebration of all things post-medieval. The event entertains elegant lords and ladies alike with fun 16th-century-themed activities for the whole family, including puppet shows, games, and full-contact jousting. Drink in the musical stylings of Hawke the Balladeer, watch a dazzling alchemical display when Zinger's Royal Magick takes the stage, or brace yourself for the acrobatic equestrian trickery of Cavallo Equestrian Arts. Compulsive gambolers, meanwhile, can bust out their fly morris dance moves during the day's peasant dancing, which takes place before professional fencing demos at the Academia della Spada. For something more modern medieval, No Parchment Needed will be performing unscripted japery on the Queen's Stage, while the Hammered Troll Ale House boasts a full line-up of Celtic, Scottish, and even pirate troubadours. You can find a full list and times of the faire's events by clicking the schedule on the sidebar here.

Feast on capon legs, corn, and pickles before drowning the grub in yon stomach-cask with a bottle of ye olde refreshing root ale as you pass the thatched-roof huts where you may purchase medieval weaponry, fantasy (dragon) art, and hand-hewn hardwood wares. Observing the blacksmithing and leather-making demos may inspire you to change careers and join a guild, even if its health-care plan is largely leech-based. Join the lists with today's Groupon to the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire and revel in a day of capering, cavorting, jests, jousts, japes, jigs, gypsies, mages, mongers, merry-making, mead, raffish ribaldry, roguish roistering, telling of tales, making of musicks, and other sundry frivolity.

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Renaissance Rigs

Hungry dogs were the decorative topiary arrangements of Renaissance-era streets.

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Do you remember that house party in college when you and your friends made a pact to open your own bar after graduation? You may not have followed through on that dream, but somebody else did and they're keeping the party going 7 days a week. The Waterwheel Lounge in Ballard is that booze-fueled bar of fun and games you and your friends dreamed of. And Tippr's got a deal on it just in time for summer.

For just $10, Tippsters receive $25 to spend on food and drinks at The Waterwheel Lounge. Spend it on their amazing beer and drink specials, as well as their fried chicken, mountainous nachos, and Carolina pulled pork sandwiches.

With the arrival of summer, The Waterwheel Lounge has commandeered the parking lot and turned it into the largest drinking play-field in Ballard. It's the perfect place to bring a large crowd of friends for a rowdy night out. It's also a great place for a hair-of-the-dog hangover treatment. It may just be the best place in Seattle to high five a trucker while drinking cold beers and playing outdoor bingo. Purchase it now before Tippr employees buy up all the vouchers!

Monday – industry night; Tuesday – outdoor bingo/poker; Wednesday – RockBand bar night; Thursday - poker; Friday - Karaoke; Saturday - Karaoke; Sunday - live music.

Anyone who’s tried nailing an oven-fresh pizza pie to a wall knows that pizza looks better briefly propped on a five-finger pedestal. Today’s Groupon puts $25 worth of pizza back where it performs best. For $10, you get $25 worth of pizza, pasta, burgers, beer, and more at Bison Creek Pizza, located inside the historic Burien Theater.

All of the savory pies on Bison Creek's menu are crafted from homemade whole wheat or regular dough and sprinkled with 100% real cheese with your choice of sauce (trailblazer barbecue, zesty red, garlic cream, or primo pesto). Try Rod's Wrangler Roundup ($13–$25), which corrals pepperoni, pineapple, green peps, sausage, and fresh garlic on a barbecue-covered base. Vegetarians, meanwhile, will giddy up over the veggie supreme ($12–$24) smacked with a garden-fresh medley of mushrooms, olives, onions, green peps, tomatoes, and pineapple. Wheat and gluten-free pizzas will appease the allergic, and the lil bandit's menu caters to teenier tastes. While waiting for your pizza to pupate from its oven cocoon, ward off vampires and coworkers who keep "accidentally" almost kissing you with an order of garlic bread ($4), or branch out into chicken strippers ($7.95) dunked in barbecue sauce or homemade ranch. Diners who already had pizza for breakfast can bury their hunger-sorrows in a Bison Creek quarter-pounder ($6.95) or a baked plate of smoked gouda mac 'n' cheese with bacon ($9.95) before closing with a giant chocolate chip cookie ($5.25) that feeds two.

Bison Creek occasionally plays host to a roving selection of live music, with no cover for those 21 and older. So whether the night's house band is the AC/DC-esque Chrome Molly (July 17) or a suspiciously accurate Def Leppard "tribute band," get in the party spirit with beverages from the bar, including Skittles-infused vodka, spiked fruity punches, and house wines. Stampede to the historic Burien Theater and enjoy a rowdy late-night slice, to grab a carbtastic lunch, or just to treat allergic ears to a night of gluten-free local tunes with today's Groupon.

Not valid for happy hour.

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The Bison Menace

How many bison does it take to overthrow the government?

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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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To ensure freshness, arrogant scientists recommend storing nuts in abandoned tree stumps, the jowls of soft-toothed bears, or empty cassette cases. Ignore illegitimate science advice with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $25 worth of nuts, dried fruit, and more from Nutty Guys. Your order can be placed online or by phone and must be redeemed in one transaction. Shipping is not included with this deal.

Nutty Guys sports a massive selection of nuts, dried fruit, candied delights, organic goodies, and more. Legume fundamentalists will raise fists in solidarity at the chance to buy both raw peanuts and raw Spanish peanuts (each starting at $3.33/8 oz.), while nut progressives can try punishingly powerful wasabi peanuts ($3.01/8 oz.). Fuel snack times with mango cubes ($3.75) and apple-juice-sweetened blueberries ($6.38/8 oz.), or sweeten a stash with chocolate-covered pretzels ($3.78/8 oz.), cinnamon-toffee almonds ($4.73/8 oz.), or cinnamon gummy bears ($3.28/8 oz.).

First meeting as roommates at Brigham Young University, the titular Nutty Guys began their ascent to nut domination—supplying major chains such as Smith's and Albertsons—by making door-to-door sales. Today, Nutty Guys pulverizes honey-roasted peanuts ($3.53/8 oz.) into spreadable butters; arranges the classic deluxe mixed nuts ($4.62/8 oz.) with pecans, Brazil nuts, almonds, cashews, and macadamias; and sates cereal enthusiasts with granolas.

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You're Nuts

Please stop, Al Gore.

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Before ocean surfing, thrill seekers were forced to sneak onto a rock-concert stage and leap board-first onto waves of angry humans. Practice paddling atop waves that can’t punch you in the head in retaliation with today's Groupon: for $43, you get a paddleboard rental from Wave Hounds in Fremont. Exchange your Groupon for either a single-day rental for two people or a two-day rental for one person (both an $86.70 value, including tax). For those requiring a car rack to bear the board to the beach, the friendly, stoked staff at Wave Hounds will provide one for no additional cost. Wetsuits are also available to rent for an additional fee.

Though a stand-up paddleboard is easy to use and most people can manage it with a decent sense of balance and a sextant, the on-staff paddling pros will provide a condensed, 10-minute lesson for those who need it. With board onboard, water walkers can speed off to any nearby body of water, including Green Lake, Lake Washington, Lake Union, and Lake Sammamish or any other spot indicated by a blue blob on a map. In addition to bestowing a stand-out ab workout, a stand-up paddleboard allows for more-mellow explorations of distant shoals. The board provides a quiet, connected-to-the-sea means to poke around mysterious inlets and intimate coves. With multiple boards in stock, the husband-and-wife team behind Wave Hounds is sure to have a well-fitting 2-D steed for any rider.

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Here Comes the Wave

If there's one thing I love, it's a hilarious massage.

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If your shady parking spot rests beneath bird-filled trees or someone scrawled carpetbagger into the inch of dirt on your car window, Classy Chassis can give your vehicle its original off-the-lot shine. With today's Groupon, you get the Ultimate Wash for $6 (up to a $15 value) at Classy Chassis locations in Puyallup and Lakewood. Classy Chassis shines and spiffs up automobiles of all shapes, flavors, and super sizes using state-of-the-art washing equipment. This Groupon isn't just great for sprucing up your own car—it also makes the perfect passive-aggressive gift for your dirty carpool driver.

The Ultimate Wash starts with a quick high-pressure pre-spray that loosens dust's death grip on your road-ship's hull, followed by a thorough wheel cleaning and an underbody blast that scrubs the car's seldom-seen tummy. While you're playing an intense game of racquetball inside your car, Classy Chassis will buff the car's exterior and reveal its natural shine with a tri-color polish process. As a final nicety before the rinse and dry, the car wash will apply a 30-day sealant with rain repel—the next best thing to attaching an RV-sized umbrella to the roof.

With several awards from the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce, including "Business of the Year", Classy Chassis has emerged as a dependable, welcoming neighborhood car-wash joint; it also offers auto detailing and oil changes. Whether your car just drove hopelessly lost through an Iraqi sandstorm or your pickup truck is covered in ectoplasm after a collision with a ghost marching band, Classy Chassis will leave your auto as glistening and gleaming as the day it was emerged from a Transformer's womb.

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Class Is in Session

Officer! Someone stole the tiny car I use to get around in my regular car!

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Sea urchins are the healthiest, most relaxed creatures on Earth due to their positive self-image and spiny skin. Today's Groupon offers similar protection from stress, sickness, and sea otters: for $29, you get a one-hour acupuncture treatment at Abundant Health Acupuncture & Chinese Herbs in the Museum District.

At Abundant Health, your full-body tune-up consists of a 15–20 minute consultation followed by 20 to 30 minutes of treatment. One of the friendly, experienced acupuncturists will start with a casual consultation to determine your main pains and the goals of the treatment. By performing a tongue assessment, feeling your pulse, and checking for irregularities in your abdomen, your acupuncturist will be able to determine what treatment methods will be best for alleviating your malfunctioning microchip. Acupuncture treatment consists of inserting small, thin needles into specific points on your body called meridians. These points are situated along channels where energy, or Qi (like "cheese," without the tasty "se" finish), flows throughout the body. Many people find acupuncture a relaxing and restorative treatment that can effectively alleviate many conditions, such as pain, stress, asthma, allergies, headaches, menstrual cramps, back pain, infertility, and more.

By mobilizing Qi, your body can restore the proper functions of muscles, nerves, vessels, glands, rock bands, and organs. The harmonious environment of Abundant Health is an art-filled oasis that will reignite your old friends and current foes, yin and yang. Experience the ancient healing practice that channel surfs your body's programming until the marathon of Twilight Zone reruns finally stops wreaking havoc on your sense of reality. Call ahead to schedule an appointment.

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Acupunkture

Why don’t no-good punks care about the wetlands?

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Though rubber-banding a photograph to a roly-poly super ball increases its utility, its picture quality plummets after playing just a few rounds of fetch. Put a photo in a durable place with today's Groupon: for $45, you get one 16" x 20" gallery-wrapped canvas from Canvas on Demand. Shipping and handling are included with the cost of this Groupon.

A wrapped canvas is a professional photorealistic reproduction printed on textured artist canvas and gallery wrapped around a sturdy 1.5" edge. Upload your desired image and pass it off to Canvas on Demand's image-touch-up experts. They'll make complimentary fixes, such as improving sharpness, balancing color, fine-tuning contrast, and removing suspiciously red eyes, before reproducing your image on a 16" x 20" canvas. Customers can also opt to mail in traditional prints; Canvas on Demand's image magicians will make a high-resolution scan and return originals by mail—unless they're baby photos, which are returned via stork.

With a wrap-around canvas, your new art will have a colorful edge, and it won't need a frame. About a week from receipt of your initial submission, you'll have your gallery-canvas print in hand, ready to hang with pride above any lonely fireplace in need of a non-imaginary friend.

This Groupon is available for redemption starting June 16.

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On Demand

When does that baby movie about the babies come out?

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Today's side deal gets you admission for two to one night of the Columbia City BeatWalk, a multi-venue musical tour of the historic Columbia City neighborhood (a $14 value). Since 1995, the art-walk-inspired festival has brought a wide range of musicians to local venues from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the second Friday of every summer month. Children get into BeatWalk for free.

Choose from one of four dates:

• June 11
• July 9
• August 13
• September 10

The volunteer staff will scan your Groupon and stamp the hand of your choice on your night of choice, guaranteeing entrance into an evolving list of multiple local venues. Performers of all musical styles pack the lineups on these Fridays, with upcoming performances by jazz-swing band Fedora, old-school blues and country by W. B. Reid & Bonnie Zahnow, and lightheartedly serious classical from the double-bass-and-cello Bottom Line Duo. Check BeatWalk's lineup page for future venues and artists as they are added.

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Ways to get famous in Seattle: a) Start an indie rock band that hits it big in the mainstream. b) Found a revolutionary software company. c) Feature a mind-blowingly awesome happy hour menu – twice a day – at your gorgeously designed, always-hoppin' restaurant.

Tippr is proud to feature today's deal at one of our favorite restaurants. <b>$15 gets you $30</b> to spend on after-work or late-night food and drinks at Peso's Kitchen in Lower Queen Anne. Once the deal tips, everyone's voucher will bump up to <b>$35</b> when the deal closes!

Peso's is a Seattle institution. They've got an extensive menu of mouth-watering Mexican fare with Northwest ingredients, one of the best margaritas in the city, a late-night happy hour to end all late-night happy hours, and a line of beautiful people out the door most times of day. These are just a few of Peso's many claims to fame.

Phone: (206) 283-9353 / For menu and more info: http://www.pesoskitchen.com