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It’s hard to imagine a world without pizza. 100% whole milk mozzarella, hand-tossed crust with the perfect outer crisp, flavorful tomato sauce — all prepared with a little TLC. What would our world be without pizza? We shudder at the thought, and instead bring you Today’s Ideal. It’s toe tappin’, hand clappin’, happy dance worthy and will bring you one step closer to culinary glee.

Founded on The Ave in 1979, Pagliacci Pizza is a Seattle institution. Voted “Best Pizza” for the past three decades, year after year, Pagliacci is the people’s choice for great pizza. It’s also an exemplary business committed to the planet and its community. With Today’s Ideal you pay $10 for $20 worth of pipin’ hot, soul satisfying Pagliacci Pizza. Kick back, take a delicious bite and revel in the fact that pizza does exist, and when you eat Pagliacci Pizza you are actually making the world a better place. Insert happy dance here.

When you purchase Daily Deals from Ideal Network, 25% of your purchase becomes a contribution to the local non profit of your choice to fund specific, measurable community projects!

Quick question: How’s your qi? You know, that life force that pulses through your body and determines your health and vitality? If you’ve got an ache, pain or nagging discomfort that you are ready to bid farewell to, Today’s Ideal can help. According to traditional Chinese medicine, when our qi is disrupted or blocked we are susceptible to pain and illness. Thankfully, addressing one’s qi is easier than you think. The answer is acupuncture, and it is used to restore the flow of qi and treat everything from headaches to infertility to back pain.
A Chinese medicine practiced for thousands of years, acupuncture alleviates a long list of symptoms and conditions. Practitioners insert fine needles at specific points into the body and unblock the flow of qi, or energy. Today’s Ideal brings you an acupuncture treatment for $40, ($100 value) at Blue Peacock Acupuncture. Owner and practitioner, Erin Dietz, uses gentle Japanese needles and works to make each treatment a comforting and relaxing experience. Whether you’re interested in addressing a specific ailment or just looking for a winter tune-up, Today’s Ideal can bring more vitality and balance to your health. Here’s to restoring our qi!

When you purchase Daily Deals from Ideal Network, 25% of your purchase becomes a contribution to the local non profit of your choice to fund specific, measurable community projects!

There are days when bar and grill food calls to you. The voice is firm, usually baritone and it’s clear that the only acceptable choices for lunch or dinner are a bacon burger (with melted cheese), a grilled chicken quesadilla or that Philly Steak sandwich that makes everything better with just one bite. On those days, there really is only one way to go –DeLuxe.

The DeLuxe Bar & Grill has been “A Capitol Hill Institution Since 1962.”Seriously, that’s almost 50 years dedicated to perfecting The DeLuxe experience. Famous for the quality and variety of its burgers, DeLuxe offers every delicious burger option and combination you can imagine. The menu also features appetizers, sandwiches, salads, entrees and daily specials. Ingredients are fresh, the staff is friendly and the bar has over 19 taps with both European and local brews rotating in seasonally. Cocktails and wine are on the menu too! Today’s Ideal doubles your money and for $10 you get $20 worth of burgers, sandwiches, and more. Call a friend, heed the voice and get thee to DeLuxe!

When you purchase Daily Deals from Ideal Network, 20%-25% of your purchase becomes a contribution to the local non profit of your choice to fund specific, measurable community projects!

The Northwest’s premier local and sustainable adventure travel company, EverGreen Escapes specializes in exclusive adventures, treks and tours — trips can be as rugged or sophisticated as you desire. With their Mt. St. Helens tour you’ll explore the mountain with your own private naturalist. The tour promises stunning views of the lava dome, crater and steaming volcano. Here’s your chance to see the mountain up close! Today’s Ideal gives you half off of the Mount St. Helens Tour — $97 for a $195 value. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, there’s still time to grab the one you love, pack the camera and explore one of our hottest, as in molten hot, Northwest gems. Happy trails!

When you purchase Daily Deals from Ideal Network, 25% of your purchase becomes a contribution to the local non profit of your choice to fund specific, measurable community projects!

With the exception of that one remarkably talented walrus, acrobats tend to be fairly trim. Flip yourself into fitness sans flippers with today’s deal: for $35, you get a two-hour circus taster class (an $80 value) at Emerald City Trapeze Arts in SoDo. This class is offered Saturdays and Sundays from noon until 2 p.m.

Emerald City's circus taster class gives you two hours to sample a variety of aerial circus arts, skipping more land-based circus arts such as feats of strength, lion-tamery, and clown-stacking. Take a few swings on the flying trapeze, wrap yourself up in the aerial silks, and try out tricks on the hoop and static trapeze. Whether you've been trapezing since birth or are brand-new to the ancient aerial craft, instructor and industry professional Tanya Brno will welcome you with dependably sturdy arms. Learn at your own pace and obtain new techniques with ample demonstrations by the circus-grade teaching staff.

Few things in this life outside of giant dads can provide adults with the sky-splitting thrill of being flung through the air. Soaring to and fro on a trapeze apparatus will give you an energizing physical workout to go with the airborne experiences you've daydreamed and nightdreamed about since childhood. Join the vaunted company of dancing bears and moustachioed iron-women and let your inner circus star take literal flight with today's Groupon. Call to schedule your class.

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DIY Superpowers

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Today's side deal gives you a chance to test out your sea legs and their ability to quickly morph into high-speed land legs at the Islander Aquathon, presented by Dilettante Chocolates and BTO Multisports. Held in Luther Burbank Park on Mercer Island on Wednesday, September 1, at 6:30 p.m., the Islander Aquathon is a new, bikeless multisport competition that features competitive swimming and running. Choose from one of two registration options:

• $17 to register for the short course—500-meter swim/5K run ($35 value)
• $25 to register for the long course—1,000-meter swim/8K run ($50 value)

Both running courses will remain near the lush bounds of Luther Burbank Park, and depending on your choice of length, you'll start the event by being fish-like through one or two loops of the swim course.

The Islander Aquathon is the first race of its kind in Seattle, but owner, operator, and USA Triathlon–certified race director Porter Bratten has been staging multisport races in New York and California since 2007. The Islander Aquathon is designed to be accessible for first-time racers, multisport vets, and amphibious competitors who've been preparing for this race their whole lives with an arduous regimen of crossing busy highways and crocodile-infested rivers. Grab today's side deal for the chance to test your own limits, unite the notoriously contentious land and water, and speed past sideline spectators at the Islander Aquathon.

Race participants must sign waiver prior to race.

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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

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While the Great Wall of China may win the accolades of history, the Great Backscratcher of Thailand, built to reach any itchy corner across the vast, narrow expanse of the nation, saved more lives than can be counted on a single hand. Feast upon equally ingenious Thai creations with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of Thai cuisine and drinks at Thaiku in Ballard.

Much like Thailand itself, Thaiku's menu comes loaded with traditional and authentic Thai delicacies; unlike Thailand, it contains few elephants. Kick-start your tummy's tuk-tuk with an appetizer such as giow tawt ($6.50)—crab and cream cheese wrapped in won ton and served with plum sauce—or the por sia sod ($6.50), a fresh salad and Chinese sausage roll wrapped in rice paper and topped with house hoisin sauce. Along with classic noodle dishes like pahd see iew ($8.50), adventurous diners can feel like they're eating from a genuine Bangkok street stall minus the backpack-shaped sweat stain on their back with an order of North Thailand's staple kao soy (fresh egg noodles in yellow curry and coconut broth, $8.95), guay tiow bed (a soup of rice noodles, sliced duck, rich anise, cinnamon, and sweet soy broth, $7.95), or the gai yaang ($12.95), a marinated chicken paired with sticky rice and a sweet green papaya salad.

Thaiku's cozy interior blends wooden beams and hanging lights with unexpected accents, like the rickshaw hanging from the ceiling. The restaurant's intimate back bar, Fu Kun Wu, lubricates awkward first-date conversations with specialty cocktails and herbal apothecary beverages, as well as late-night dining. Keep your mood chipper with the oolong tea-ni—black tea infused vodka, then shaken with lemon and sugar—or be bold and sample Thaiku's notorious patented cocktails made with the African herb yohimbe, which is considered to be both an aphrodisiac and mild hallucinogenic, similar to making out during a David Lynch movie. These hardcore herbals are literally not for the faint of heart, and Thaiku strictly limits them to one per customer. Live jazz adds an appropriately heady atmosphere for such cocktails on Wednesdays and Thursdays. And unlike your cousin's weekly Casio basement shows, there's no cover.

This deal is not valid with happy hour pricing.

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Thaikoos

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Boot camps are a quick way to get in shape for upcoming marathons or adrenaline-pumping prison escapes. Jump the fence with today's Groupon: for $39, you get one month of unlimited boot-camp classes at Renton Results Boot Camp (up to a $247 value), located in Renton on Burnett Avenue.

Renton Results Boot Camp is dedicated to providing intense, motivational group workouts that deliver a fat-burning, muscle-strengthening outcome. Your month of unlimited sessions will consist of three classes each week; a schedule of 10 classes to choose from makes finding time for the intense workouts doable for even the busiest car-to-car magazine-delivery workers. Classes are available at 6 a.m., 6 p.m., and 6:45 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and at 9 a.m. on Saturdays. Groups consist of 20 people or less, ensuring plenty of one-on-one attention and zero chance students will accidentally merge over into teeming-hive mind. Camp owner Luka Hocevar is a certified personal trainer fully versed in the arts of the dumbbell and heart pump, balancing his muscle mastery with a devotion to helping boot campers get in shape. Learn the proper techniques and most effective exercises while improving endurance, strength, and body tone with a worthwhile fitness experience that doesn't involve your dog throwing Frisbees in the air for you to catch with your teeth.

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Give 'Em the Boot Camp?

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A grocery store is like a carnival midway—it offers shelves and shelves of goodies that only become available after lobbing baseballs at stacks of bottles. Today's Groupon brings the fresh food to you without the messy carnie cons: for $30, you get $60 worth of fresh, organic fare delivered to your door from Delicious Planet. This Groupon must be used in one order and must be for at least $50 worth of food. A delivery charge of $6.95 is not included, but any remaining balance after the minimum $50 food order may be used toward the delivery fee. Before ordering, check the list of delivery areas and look for your zip code. This Groupon may also be used toward Delicious Planet's Detox Program, or Thanksgiving or holiday menus.

As a dependable source for door-delivered gourmet organic fare, Delicious Planet is an ideal choice for busy individuals who still want to eat organically and nutritiously. All deliverable entrees are packaged securely and environmentally soundly and are ready for freezing, heating, or storing forever in preparation for John Cusack–foretold apocalypses. Breakfast items such as the coconut brown-rice porridge ($3.99) steal morning meals back from psychedelic cereal spokesmen, and the vegan, gluten-free mondo chipotle black-bean burger ($10.95) entree delivers burger bliss without firing up the grill. With a host of sandwiches and wraps and plenty of cooked frozen fare, Delicious Planet brings professional meals with vital, flavorful, and healthy variety, while also providing a viable alternative to rowdy, raucous farmers' markets and their notoriously foulmouthed veggie vendors.

Delicious Planet's founder, Randi Carter, is a trained nutritionist and alumnus of Seattle's Bastyr Institute; her business today is individually focused with an extensive food inventory to complement healthy lifestyles. Great for diet-conscious professionals with no time to cook or those who've had it with the flashy but ultimately empty moves of choreographed Mountie delivery services, Delicious Planet delivers locally reared fare to its adoring human supporters. Polish your demon-shaped doorknocker in preparation for a home-delivered sustenance upgrade.

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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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For $90, today's side deal lets sprouting sportspeople ages 3–10 hone their skills in an instructional eight-week soccer league from i9 Sports in Redmond (a $184 value). This Groupon is only valid for i9 Sports' fall 2010 session, which starts on Saturday, September 11.

For eight exciting weeks this autumn, children will flock to the fields of Marymoor Park to score some new skills and friendships, with all instruction designed and led by Seattle-native and USSF-certified Jacob Haney. In addition to providing a steady stream of professional instruction and individualized attention, i9 Sports works hard to maintain a positive, supportive environment that forbids negative language from both participating children and adult onlookers, and gives each player equal playing time. Over the course of the eight-week league, children will maneuver themselves through a throng of drills and exercises, sharpening both technical and teamwork techniques. Leagues meet for practice once a week on Saturdays, and are organized by age group to keep young ones safe and feeling confident. Call ahead to register your miniature proto-adult for an eight-week league, or enter your Groupon number during online registration.

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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

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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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Poetry would be comprised entirely of haikus and sonnets dedicated to cakes and pastries if poets didn't devour their idyllic subjects before having a chance to write. Today's Groupon says what meter and rhythm cannot: for $29, you get a nine-inch signature chocolate-truffle cake or an elegant lemon cake (a $60 value) from Starry Nights Catering & Events in Kirkland.

Starry Nights is a family owned and operated catering company that hand-makes its all-natural cakes from scratch, using only whole ingredients free of shortening, substitutes, and artificial flavors. Choose one of two European bakery–style classic cakes to please your choice of chocoholic or citrus stalker: the signature chocolate-truffle cake, which features layers of rich fudge cake fused together with a Belgian-chocolate mousse, or the elegant lemon cake, a vanilla chiffon cake stuffed with raspberry jam and a homemade lemon-mousse filling tucked cozily under tart lemon curd. Each of the nine-inch cakes will be covered in a vanilla buttercream and meticulously decorated to an elegant finish by Starry Nights' professional confectioners, ensuring a beautiful and scrumptious treat to bring to a staff soiree, whimsical wedding shower, or vaudevillian slapstick cake fight. Experience a chocolate buttercream covering for a $5 additional fee, or upgrade to a custom inscription for just $1 more (no custom décor).

If bigger bashes and more largely populated political protests call for a larger serving of sweetened sustenance, you may apply the value of your Groupon toward a bigger cake order. Call ahead at least two weeks in advance to place your order.

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The Chocolatier

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