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The painted lady
2024.05.21 10:51 Grenku The painted lady
A female artist in a victorian home that has dozens of doors that open to walls. She has a store room with 100s if not 1000s of paintings the size of doorways. and each painting is of a room. If a painting is hung inside a doorframe anyone can enter the room in the painting and live within that room like any other room for as long as they like, but still need to exit for hygiene and eating. The house is effectively bigger on the inside due to the Ladies powers. It's rumored she also smuggles things and maybe even people in paintings. And she does a brisk business in Labs and Lairs for the eccentric scientist who travels or finds themselves having to lay low. If she doesn't have a room to suit you (less likely now with her vast Gallery to choose from) you can comission one to be painted by the lady herself. Her staff and many objects around the house Look as though they are paintings come to life. Nobody directly sees the Lady herself, and there are rumors that she i quite old but has some type of Dorian Gray painted immortality, or transferred her sole into a self portrait of her young self, or she might have been a portrait painted by somebody that escaped the painting while trapping the original painter in a canvas burried under the floorboards. Nobody knows, and nobody asks.
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2024.05.14 09:43 Thenn_Applicant Dorian Merryweather, Lord of Longtable + AC
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Discord Tag: Garin
Name and House: Dorian Merryweather
Age: 49
Cultural Group: Reachman
Appearance: Dorian's chestnut brown hair has been greying for quite a while, however is short beard retains more color, including a few stray red hairs peppered throughout it. While his features have softened and gained some pudge as he aged past his prime, he remains in overall good shape. This is partly due to his great love of gardening and crop cultivation, which have left his hands and nails rather rough.
Trait: Numerate
Skills: Avaricious (e), Architect, Administrator, Investor
Talents: Language (High Valyrian) Cooking, Gardening
Negative Trait: N/A
Starting Title: Lord of Longtable
Starting Location: Opening Event
Biography:
It has been said; men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war. As such, it begs the question, what does a man have left when he finally tires of war? In pursuit of an answer, of any answer, one half of Dorian Merryweather’s life was spent. He was the second son of Lord Arthor Merryweather of Longtable. Like many others born in a place of natural abundance, he longed for more, for something greater than a mere provincial estate. The tourneys of Highgarden, the hunts of Horn Hill and the books of Oldtown all called to him, and so he could never ride past his father’s mild and verdant fields fast enough. Dorian counted himself lucky not to be the heir, for that meant he could pick where his future lay, unchained from the uninspiring home of his childhood. Instead it was his older brother, Bennard, who envied his free-flying lifestyle, contriving any excuse to join him on his escapades and agurk lessons and ceremonies he ought to have attended.
Lord Arthor was fairly permissive of this deriliction of duties, as the friendships forced on such journeys were worth more than lessons that could be repeated later, or tasks that could be handed off to lowborn stewards. The boys attended tourneys, balls, hunts and feasts, living the life the bards extolled as the height of reachman’s chivalry. The one time they did not shirk their duties was when their father had the honor of hosting King Mern and his court for a tourney on the Warrior’s day. The Merryweather sons would present the king and his family with silver bowls of dilligrout, a most exquisite stew of capons, white wine and almond milk. They had the joy of tasting it once the Gardeners had their fill, a taste they would never forget. On the tournament field three days later, Mern knighted them both, though Dorian was only sixteen at the time, green as a knight could ever be.
Five years later, as news of Aegon Targaryen and his early conquests spread, the lords of the Reach were summoned to Goldengrove, where they found a veritable forest of Westermen’s banners being planted beside their own. The fall of the Storm Kings had led to a whirlwind of diplomacy between the houses of Gardener and Lannister. The plan was presented to the lords with the two kings sitting beside one another on the dais as though they were brothers. They held up Aegon’s letter of demands, scornfully reading it aloud and then proceeded to tear it up to a roaring acclamation from the hall. Standing there before the hall, Mern could hardly be called the Warrior incarnate. There stood a man well past his prime, old enough to be a grandfather and with no great victories to his name, in battle or on the tourney field. All the same, this man, whom they called their king, always seemed to know exactly what to say to win someone over. If he’d declared war on hell itself that evening, the Merryweather brothers would probably still have marched off with him when the next morning dawned. Bennard and Dorian shouted as loud as anyone, death to the foreign upstart. That evening were betrothed to westerwomen they’d never met before, made plans for a real battle, which they had never fought in before, and drank, ate and sang as though the night would last forever. House Merryweather was not able to secure a command, yet King Mern remembered his stay at Longtable fondly. He gave Bennard and Dorian a place in the vanguard, and even adorned Bennard with a brooch of the order of the green hand the morning before the army Goldengrove, a momentous honor which Bennard would cherish for the remainder of his days. He did not have many left, as it turned out. The Field of Fire began like a dream, as the two brothers rode off at the break of dawn, two out of five thousand sets of gleaming armor atop proud warhorses. By the end of the day it had become a nightmare. Caught up in the maelstrom of battle, Dorian did not see the moment when their loss was assured, but the Gods know he could hear it, the creeping, hungry flames that descended on the reachmen like an army of its own. As hundreds were broiled inside their steel plate and thousands more choked on the inferno’s horrible vanguard of black smoke, Bennard and Dorian broke and fled. They were not far behind the retreating Loren Lannister in their escape, but half a minute made all the difference. The lines of fire fanned out, hunting more living things to devour, and engulfed the two brothers. Dorian could feel how the flames spread from his surcoat to his undershirt, all the way down to the hairs on his chest, beginning to sear his skin. In a desperate act he threw himself in the Blackwater, and would have perished if not for the shoddy work of his squire that morning, which left him able to tear off his plate before he could sink. With bloodied, burn-marked fingers, he clung to the roots of a tree by the riverside, water up to his chest. He was retrieved after some time, how long he could not say. For the next two moons his mind was adrift, distracted from his pains by milk of the poppy. The next two were far worse, as he grew more lucid and realized the extent of the damage. A burn-mark stretched from his right thigh, all the way up his chest and left bicep to the apple of his neck. Many times over, flakes of dead or dying skin had to be peeled off by the maester as the scabs kept bursting with blood and clear liquid. By the end of that year he was able to walk again, though the burn mark would leave a feverish red mark across the front of his body, his new skin settling into twisted lines.
Bennard was far worse for wear, alive yet burned all the way to his face and crippled from a fall off his horse. His nose and ear-lobes had to be cut off, too burned to save, and even his eyelids were permanently scarred, unable to sprout new lashes. The more lucid Bennard became, the deeper his sorrow. Eventually he began refusing food. The new lord of Longtable would not eat anything his cooks set in front of him. In spite of his ever present pains, Dorian began going to the kitchens, reprimanding the cooks for their failings. He knew his brother well and knew his palette, and began ordering them to make his brother’s favorites. When he felt they were making mistakes, he interrupted their work himself. He was a stranger to the kitchen, yet would criticize how things were cut too roughly, spiced too little or too much. He was a terror to the cooks, yet they could not refuse him.
His attempts to intervene were however hampered by a newfound aversion to heat. The sound of the hearth, of boiling and searing, the general sense of warmth around him made him nauseous and caused his movements to seize up. Still, he went to his brother’s bedside every day, and afterwards he forced himself back to the kitchens. His sister, Lydia, tried to stop him at first, but soon found her protes fell on deaf ears, and so joined him, if only to leash him in when he went too far. Finally, there was only one dish they hadn’t tried; the dilligrout they’d once served to the late King Mern. Every time it was made, it came out wrong. It soon turned out the cook who had served them that evening six years ago had since retired, and his exact method had never been recorded or taught to anyone else. Dorian would first invite the man to Longtable, then summon him with armed knights when invitations were refused.
Theomar, the man who appeared before him, was a sorry sight, looking frightened and confused as he was taken to his old workplace. It was explained by his sons that he’d been growing senile even six years ago, often snapping at the kitchen maids under him when his memory failed him. Since then he’d gotten worse, seldom eating, let alone cooking. Something in the old man’s eyes did seem to brighten for a moment when the sounds and smells of his old kitchen surrounded him, and Dorian ordered him to make dilligrout. Before long that faint spark had been drowned out by tears. He would start boiling capon or crushing almonds, only to leave the job half-done whenever he had to fetch something new. Serving maids were put at his disposal to bring him ingredients, yet an ingredient ordered would be met with a reprimand as he seemed to forget which dish he was making every few minutes. Finally Dorian snapped at the man, grabbing him by his collar and shouting accusations of treason against House Merryweather. By the time Lydia could restrain him and try to apologize, the man was a wreck on the floor. After watching it for a while, waiting for the man to get up and continue his work, even Dorian was overcome by pity and shame for what he’d done. The old cook was praying to the gods, begging forgiveness for his failings. Dorian began to realize he’d broken a great man down and would himself beg forgiveness. He offered the man his old cook’s quarters back for the rest of his life, and promised his sons that his maester would tend to the man in his old age, that he would be fed from Longtable’s stores.
At this point, he resolved to make the dilligrout himself. Through it all, Bennard was barely clinging to life, or rather being tethered to it by the will of others. He could only be fed when drugged down by the milk of the poppy, and the more often it was used, the less effective it became. Every day Dorian braved the kitchens, yet he could not recreate the flavor of that wonderful night. It was by the grace of the gods, perhaps with Theomar as their vessel, that Dorian would even come close. The old man could no longer cook, but over time he began to wander into the kitchens and sit down on a chair. At first Dorian thought the man only sought the warmth of the hearth for his weary bones, yet he discovered it to be more than that. Theomar’s eyes were like clouded glass, yet they brightened every now and then, hearing almonds being ground, smelling capons searing in fat, as though it was stirring the kitchenmaster of yore back to life. Eventually Dorian began to walk up to the old cook with his ingredients, bidding him to smell or taste small portions. Sometimes he got simple instructions out of it, ‘too coarse’, ‘too sour’, ‘underdone’. Som times a mere nod or frown was all Theomar managed. Over the course of a couple of days, Dorian put together one final attempt to get the dish made rightWhen he arrived in Bennard’s chamber, he was met with a look which brought forth discomfort that no flame could produce in Dorian. Plainly, raspingly, his brother asked him why he wouldn’t let him die. It was easy, Bennard reasoned. All Dorian needed to do was wait and become lord. The words almost made Dorian throw the dilligrout on the floor. Almost. He placed two bowls on Bennard’s table, the dilligrout and one brimming with milk of the poppy. Dorian told his brother to make his choice. If he sought death, Dorian would let him, but he would not hear that it was an easy thing, watching his brother die. That evening, the milk of the poppy was carried away by the maester, the empty bowl of stew taken to be washed in the kitchens. From then on, Bennard ate what his brother brought him without complaint. He lasted just into the new year, dying on its tenth day. In the predawn gloom of the twelfth, Theomar died in his sleep
Dorian took up his lordly task joylessly. His old wanderlust returned, spurred by the horrible memories that now stained Longtable and the reach itself in his mind. The final straw came when their new Tyrell overlords, insisted on him marrying a lady from a dornish house. His previous betrothal had fallen through, as the parents of his western bride had not wished to draw the ire of the Targaryens by maintaining an old alliance meant to oppose them. Instead of obliging, he boarded a ship from Oldtown going east. It stopped only briefly in Planky Town before going to Tyrosh. Noting him to be a nobleman, a few of the city’s wealthy men would host him for a while, though they quickly lost interest when his lack of knowledge of trade became apparent. After that, he spent time in the markets and squares where the common people lived. His old curiosity was piqued, and he decided to embark on a quest of learning, fashioning himself another Lomas Longstrider. He moved on to Myr, and the experience was much the same in broad strokes, a few rich men showed interest and quickly lost it. As he’d visited the dye markets he went to see the city’s famous artisans at work. One thing was notably different, he met a Tyroshi woman with green-dyed hair, going by the name Maryah. She was a trader, and the two had taken the same ship to Myr. She had been to Myr before and showed him many of its secrets. They spent an entire day in one of the vast delicacy markets so she could show him the many tastes of the city. Having no plans in advance, he asked where she was headed next.
Without a second thought he would join her on a journey to Lys. He soon understood it to be a test. It was not long before she teased him, speculating he’d only joined her for a chance to see the famous pleasure houses. Evening after evening they stayed in the city and Maryah would tease and test him over the matter. Finally he told her he’d renounce his betrothal for her, that there was no one else in his eye. She laughed, replying he would not have to. The next morning, Dorian awoke to find that she was already up, the green washed from her black curls. Maryah had in fact been Joanna Dayne, his dornish bride to be, having traveled the same route as him ever since his ship stopped at Planky Town to refill its food and water. She was already quite familiar with the three closest free cities, having served as a dornish envoy on behalf of its spice traders. As they planned their return to Westeros, Joanna asked him what else in the world he wanted to see. Within a few moons of being wed, they left Westeros, not to return for three years.The journey was what his mind needed, away from the Reach, its knights and tapestries, hunts and tourneys. Ultimately, the lords and knights of his homeland, for all their songs and poetry, lived every day in preparation for war, frivolous though the preparations were. Joanna showed him a different world, the remnants of Old Valyria. War was to be sure inescapable. Wherever they went, there were soldiers, tapestries, contests of arms, and yet the cities housed something else as well, a boundless potential for creation, commerce and growth.
Thanks to Joanna Dayne’s knowledge their stays became far better planned, and they could enjoy the hospitality of wealthy locals far longer. She knew how to talk about the spice trade and similar matters, and Dorian began to pick up on it. On their second stay in Myr, he procured a great deal of fine parchment and began taking notes, everything from negotiation tactics and the prices of cloves or red peppers to court customs, as well as more eclectic pieces of knowledge, details of running an eastern estate, descriptions of technological marvels he had never seen in Westeros, and ingredients in the local food. By the time they neared Qarth he had quite the list of recipes, among other things. There he was even able to learn a few all the way from Yi Ti, as some local cooks catered to merchants from the Golden Empire. On their journey home they’d end up taking the opportunity to see the newly made port of King’s Landing. By that time, a third member had joined their journey, their infant daughter Florys. Having left Longtable in the care of his sister and steward for three years, Dorian finally accepted the responsibility of running his ancestral home.
Longtable was considered to rule over some of the best lands in the Reach, ideally situated along the river with abundant soil which could provide two grain harvests in a year. Having seen the estates which supplied the great cities of the east, Dorian was all too aware of its comparative shortcomings. He found that the abundance of the land had a counterproductive effect, breeding complacency and carelessness. From his grandiose tour of the east, he went on a painstaking tour of his own lands, trying to get an overview of everything he ruled over. He paid the citadel a fee to send him half a dozen maesters in training for a season. These young men, literate and numerate, would serve his own maester in conducting a survey of the land, giving Dorian account of all resources at his disposal as lord. The results were quite varied.
Some peasants were found to have remarkable agricultural insights which they had no way of writing down, entirely reliant on passing the knowledge to their children. Knowing the risks of such a method of transferring knowledge, Dorian ordered such insights recorded. In other places there were farmers and communities who were unwittingly exhausting their soil. Instances of lack of fallow land, excessive grazing by cows and lack of crop rotation were also made note of, followed by edicts against such heedless practices. Septons, sheriffs and tax collectors were given written copies and were obliged to read them to the peasantry wherever it was deemed necessary. It also became part of the obligations of farmers to plant a set amount of clover in their fields and pastures, a practice some had taken up on their own but which had already become a standardized law among the estates belonging to Myr and Volantis. Irrigation was expanded and land inheritance was reformed to prevent the splitting of fields past a certain threshold.
Lord Dorian was not always successful. Some eastern ideas had been useful innovations which improved conditions across the board. In time he learned that the peculiarities of the westerosi system were sometimes necessary for the sake of stability, not merely the misshapen fruits of ignorance. His attempt to enclose part of the common lands proved abortive, as it nearly caused a peasant rebellion. A procession of aggrieved smallfolk headed for Longtable had to be dispersed by knights, armed with wooden clubs to prevent needless bloodshed.Two men were hanged and five sent to the wall, but the reform was thereafter abandoned, leading the populace to calm down. Dorian was not much of a military leader and had not wielded weapons since the Field of Fire. He became aware of his need to bolster his forces, a notion reinforced by the establishment of the Black Roses not long after his return, and again with the Kingswood Catastrophe
In the meantime, he and Joanna raised a family together. Three more daughters would be born healthy, with a couple of miscarriages and a stillbirth in between, also a daughter. Their travels did not entirely come to an end. In 13 AC they would tour the northern free cities of Norvos, Qohor, Pentos, Braavos and Lorath, which they had missed on their original journey. The lion’s share of 17 AC was spent on a journey to the Summer Islands. At other times they would make shorter journeys around the Seven Kingdoms, where they felt more secure in bringing their older children along. Whether it was visiting Joanna’s family in Dorne, tourneys and feasts in the Reach and West or even one trip to see the wall, a nameday wish by Florys, they were often on the move. Like most of their peers, they frequented Oldtown and Highgarden
The growing rift between the two queens and their children was a situation Dorian would watch with dread in his heart, remembering keenly how a generation of young men had been brought to the field of fire. To his mind, the Targaryen rule ought not go to waste. Like Valyria of old, it had begun with fire and blood, yet similarly peace and prosperity had followed in its wake. If only the dragons could stand united, perhaps another long peace like the one the Freehold once enjoyed could again be established. If not, another century of blood was upon them. Under Dorian, Longtable became a place where he sought to bring together people from across the kingdoms and forge unity over the dinner table, an attitude which somewhat vexed and confounded his more militaristic daughter and heiress, Lady Florys. Even amid her questioning of the viability of his peaceful ways when surrounded by those who would make war, a terrible sight would steel his resolve, watching the Mander burning green, every bit as terrible as the flames from twenty one years prior. That night he made a simple vow, never again.
The League of the Cornucopia, he would name his little group, a gallery of lords and ladies whose acquaintances he’d made over the years. With these fellow gourmets he would share the culinary knowledge he’d gleaned from his journeys in the east and west. Most unusual for a lord of his rank, Dorian came to spend a great deal of time in his kitchens, testing out recipes himself. On occasion, the dishes he served to his guests for these small, intimate gatherings would be the work of his own hands. The membership did vary from time to time, both based on who could make it and who he sought to bring together. Rather than a fully closed circle, the League is more like a form of feasting, only it’s done for a much smaller crowd, without the public spectacle. Such occasions allowed for more refined foods which did not need to be served to hundreds and kept constantly warm over the course of hours like some common tavern stew. It also opened up an arena of more intimate diplomacy and negotiation for those who sought it, hosted on neutral ground by a lordly mediator, free from prying eyes.
Timeline:
25BC: Dorian is born, second in line to Longtable
24BC: His sister Lydia is born
9BC: House Merryweather hosts House Gardener for a tourney and feast. Dorian and his older brother Bennard serve the dish of honor to King Mern Gardener and his family. During the subsequent tourney, Mern knights both boys, despite their inexperience and lack of victory in the tourney
9BC-2BC: Dorian spends much time travelling the reach, attending events
1BC: Dorian and Bennard fight in the vanguard at the Field of Fire. Both are burned, Bennard far more severely than Dorian. Lord Merryweather is killed. Traumatized by the battle and his new maimed body, Bennard starts refusing food. Dorian desperately tries to re-create the dish they served King Mern eight years ago. The cook who made it has since gone senile, but eventually manages to help Dorian re-create it. He is given a place at court as apology for his mistreatment at Dorian's hands before this occurred.
1AC: Lord Bennard dies at the beginning of the year, leaving Dorian as lord of Longtable. His sister Lydia fulfills her betrothal to House Tarly, becoming lady of Horn Hill. At the prospect of marrying a Dornishwoman on the King's orders, Dorian decides to leave Westeros to put off his marriage. In Myr, he meets a woman calling herself Maryah, claiming to be a Tyroshi merchant. They fall in love and travel to Lys together. There Dorian promises to set aside his betrothal for her, whereupon she reveals herself as Joanna Dayne, his dornish betrothed.
1AC-4AC: Dorian and Joanna wed at Longtable, then depart on a new journey of the east. They reach as far as Qarth before turning back home. In 3AC, on the way back, their first child, Florys, is born while the couple are in Volantis, on the way home. They return via the newly built port of King's Landing.
4AC-8AC: Using knowledge from the east, Lord Dorian embarks on a project of rationalizing the agriculture of Longtable
5AC: Dorian and Joanna have their second child, a girl named Ellyn
8AC: Their third daughter, Desmera, is born
13AC: Dorian and Joanna spend a year travelling the northern free cities
14AC: Their fourth and final daughter, Gwin, is born
17AC: Dorian and Joanna undertake a journey to the Summer Islands with their children
23AC: The aftermath of the battle of Stonebridge brings back memories of the Field of Fire, as the Merryweathers watch burning slag run down the Mander
25AC: The Merryweathers travel to the celebration of the maturity of Aegon's sons
Family Tree:
Arthor Merryweather (father, d.1BC)
Cerelle Merryweather (pending family connection) (mother, d.20AC)
Rhea Merryweather (sister b.27BC)
Bennard Merryweather (brother, d.1AC)
Lydia Merryweather (sister, b.24BC)
Glendon Merryweather (uncle, d.1BC)
Myrcella Pommingham (aunt, d.22AC)
Leo Merryweather (cousin, b.13AC)
Joanna Dayne (wife, b.26AC)
Florys Merryweather (daughter, b.3AC)
Ellyn Merryweather (daughter, b.5AC)
Desmera Merryweather (daughter, b.8AC)
Gwin Merryweather (daughter, b.13AC)
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Auxiliary Character:
Name and House: Florys Merryweather
Age: 23
Cultural Group: Reachman
Appearance: [A short, muscular woman with wavy black hair, normally worn in a bun. She has high cheekbones and a proud demeanor. Her rigid strength stands in contrast to the more relaxed nature of the Merryweather court, one she finds overly lax and casual](0_0.png (896×1344) (discordapp.com))
Trait: Hale
Skills: Swords (e), Essosi Blademaster
Talents: Dancing, Fishing, Cooking
Negative Traits: N/A
Starting Title: Heir to Longtable
Starting Location: Opening Event
Timeline:
3AC: Florys is born in Volantis, while her parents are on their way home from Essos
10AC: Florys starts training under Saathos Trevelyan, her father's Master at Arms
13 AC: She joins her parents on a tour of Pentos, Braavos, Norvos and Qohor
17AC: She travels with her parents to the Summer Islands
19AC-23AC: As she comes of age, Florys becomes more critical of her father's desire for peace, viewing it as increasingly far-fetched amid the increasingly controversial regency and the impending succession dispute. She resolves to make the kinds of connections her father seems unwilling to, in case of war
25AC: She accompanies her family to the celebrations
NPCS:
Ser Leo Merryweather (Age: 37, Archetype: Magnate) Lord Merryweather's first cousin, he has become an indispensable agent in the daily running of Longtable. Despite his foppish demeanor and aparent laziness, he is highly capable and loyal in his task of increasing his family's fortune. He remains happily unwed
Saathos Tevelyan: (Age:48, Archetype: Master at Arms) The son of a Lysene father and a Myrish mother, Saathos initially sought a career in amongst Myr's military officers, however his family's relatively low status proved an impediment to further promotion, later compounded by a dispute with a superior. He met Lord Merryweather in 3AC and eventually travelled West to offer his services five years later, finding his career progress stonewalled in his home city. Well into middle age, he still looks firm and imposing as profesisonal a soldier ought to
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Discord Tag: Garin
Name and House: Dorian Merryweather
Age: 49
Cultural Group: Reachman
Appearance: Dorian's chestnut brown hair has been greying for quite a while, however is short beard retains more color, including a few stray red hairs peppered throughout it. While his features have softened and gained some pudge as he aged past his prime, he remains in overall good shape. This is partly due to his great love of gardening and crop cultivation, which have left his hands and nails rather rough.
Trait: Numerate
Skills: Avaricious (e), Architect, Administrator, Investor
Talents: Language (High Valyrian) Cooking, Gardening
Negative Trait: N/A
Starting Title: Lord of Longtable
Starting Location: Opening Event
Biography:
It has been said; men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war. As such, it begs the question, what does a man have left when he finally tires of war? In pursuit of an answer, of any answer, one half of Dorian Merryweather’s life was spent. He was the second son of Lord Arthor Merryweather of Longtable. Like many others born in a place of natural abundance, he longed for more, for something greater than a mere provincial estate. The tourneys of Highgarden, the hunts of Horn Hill and the books of Oldtown all called to him, and so he could never ride past his father’s mild and verdant fields fast enough. Dorian counted himself lucky not to be the heir, for that meant he could pick where his future lay, unchained from the uninspiring home of his childhood. Instead it was his older brother, Bennard, who envied his free-flying lifestyle, contriving any excuse to join him on his escapades and agurk lessons and ceremonies he ought to have attended.
Lord Arthor was fairly permissive of this deriliction of duties, as the friendships forced on such journeys were worth more than lessons that could be repeated later, or tasks that could be handed off to lowborn stewards. The boys attended tourneys, balls, hunts and feasts, living the life the bards extolled as the height of reachman’s chivalry. The one time they did not shirk their duties was when their father had the honor of hosting King Mern and his court for a tourney on the Warrior’s day. The Merryweather sons would present the king and his family with silver bowls of dilligrout, a most exquisite stew of capons, white wine and almond milk. They had the joy of tasting it once the Gardeners had their fill, a taste they would never forget. On the tournament field three days later, Mern knighted them both, though Dorian was only sixteen at the time, green as a knight could ever be.
Five years later, as news of Aegon Targaryen and his early conquests spread, the lords of the Reach were summoned to Goldengrove, where they found a veritable forest of Westermen’s banners being planted beside their own. The fall of the Storm Kings had led to a whirlwind of diplomacy between the houses of Gardener and Lannister. The plan was presented to the lords with the two kings sitting beside one another on the dais as though they were brothers. They held up Aegon’s letter of demands, scornfully reading it aloud and then proceeded to tear it up to a roaring acclamation from the hall. Standing there before the hall, Mern could hardly be called the Warrior incarnate. There stood a man well past his prime, old enough to be a grandfather and with no great victories to his name, in battle or on the tourney field. All the same, this man, whom they called their king, always seemed to know exactly what to say to win someone over. If he’d declared war on hell itself that evening, the Merryweather brothers would probably still have marched off with him when the next morning dawned. Bennard and Dorian shouted as loud as anyone, death to the foreign upstart. That evening were betrothed to westerwomen they’d never met before, made plans for a real battle, which they had never fought in before, and drank, ate and sang as though the night would last forever. House Merryweather was not able to secure a command, yet King Mern remembered his stay at Longtable fondly. He gave Bennard and Dorian a place in the vanguard, and even adorned Bennard with a brooch of the order of the green hand the morning before the army Goldengrove, a momentous honor which Bennard would cherish for the remainder of his days. He did not have many left, as it turned out. The Field of Fire began like a dream, as the two brothers rode off at the break of dawn, two out of five thousand sets of gleaming armor atop proud warhorses. By the end of the day it had become a nightmare. Caught up in the maelstrom of battle, Dorian did not see the moment when their loss was assured, but the Gods know he could hear it, the creeping, hungry flames that descended on the reachmen like an army of its own. As hundreds were broiled inside their steel plate and thousands more choked on the inferno’s horrible vanguard of black smoke, Bennard and Dorian broke and fled. They were not far behind the retreating Loren Lannister in their escape, but half a minute made all the difference. The lines of fire fanned out, hunting more living things to devour, and engulfed the two brothers. Dorian could feel how the flames spread from his surcoat to his undershirt, all the way down to the hairs on his chest, beginning to sear his skin. In a desperate act he threw himself in the Blackwater, and would have perished if not for the shoddy work of his squire that morning, which left him able to tear off his plate before he could sink. With bloodied, burn-marked fingers, he clung to the roots of a tree by the riverside, water up to his chest. He was retrieved after some time, how long he could not say. For the next two moons his mind was adrift, distracted from his pains by milk of the poppy. The next two were far worse, as he grew more lucid and realized the extent of the damage. A burn-mark stretched from his right thigh, all the way up his chest and left bicep to the apple of his neck. Many times over, flakes of dead or dying skin had to be peeled off by the maester as the scabs kept bursting with blood and clear liquid. By the end of that year he was able to walk again, though the burn mark would leave a feverish red mark across the front of his body, his new skin settling into twisted lines.
Bennard was far worse for wear, alive yet burned all the way to his face and crippled from a fall off his horse. His nose and ear-lobes had to be cut off, too burned to save, and even his eyelids were permanently scarred, unable to sprout new lashes. The more lucid Bennard became, the deeper his sorrow. Eventually he began refusing food. The new lord of Longtable would not eat anything his cooks set in front of him. In spite of his ever present pains, Dorian began going to the kitchens, reprimanding the cooks for their failings. He knew his brother well and knew his palette, and began ordering them to make his brother’s favorites. When he felt they were making mistakes, he interrupted their work himself. He was a stranger to the kitchen, yet would criticize how things were cut too roughly, spiced too little or too much. He was a terror to the cooks, yet they could not refuse him.
His attempts to intervene were however hampered by a newfound aversion to heat. The sound of the hearth, of boiling and searing, the general sense of warmth around him made him nauseous and caused his movements to seize up. Still, he went to his brother’s bedside every day, and afterwards he forced himself back to the kitchens. His sister, Lydia, tried to stop him at first, but soon found her protes fell on deaf ears, and so joined him, if only to leash him in when he went too far. Finally, there was only one dish they hadn’t tried; the dilligrout they’d once served to the late King Mern. Every time it was made, it came out wrong. It soon turned out the cook who had served them that evening six years ago had since retired, and his exact method had never been recorded or taught to anyone else. Dorian would first invite the man to Longtable, then summon him with armed knights when invitations were refused.
Theomar, the man who appeared before him, was a sorry sight, looking frightened and confused as he was taken to his old workplace. It was explained by his sons that he’d been growing senile even six years ago, often snapping at the kitchen maids under him when his memory failed him. Since then he’d gotten worse, seldom eating, let alone cooking. Something in the old man’s eyes did seem to brighten for a moment when the sounds and smells of his old kitchen surrounded him, and Dorian ordered him to make dilligrout. Before long that faint spark had been drowned out by tears. He would start boiling capon or crushing almonds, only to leave the job half-done whenever he had to fetch something new. Serving maids were put at his disposal to bring him ingredients, yet an ingredient ordered would be met with a reprimand as he seemed to forget which dish he was making every few minutes. Finally Dorian snapped at the man, grabbing him by his collar and shouting accusations of treason against House Merryweather. By the time Lydia could restrain him and try to apologize, the man was a wreck on the floor. After watching it for a while, waiting for the man to get up and continue his work, even Dorian was overcome by pity and shame for what he’d done. The old cook was praying to the gods, begging forgiveness for his failings. Dorian began to realize he’d broken a great man down and would himself beg forgiveness. He offered the man his old cook’s quarters back for the rest of his life, and promised his sons that his maester would tend to the man in his old age, that he would be fed from Longtable’s stores.
At this point, he resolved to make the dilligrout himself. Through it all, Bennard was barely clinging to life, or rather being tethered to it by the will of others. He could only be fed when drugged down by the milk of the poppy, and the more often it was used, the less effective it became. Every day Dorian braved the kitchens, yet he could not recreate the flavor of that wonderful night. It was by the grace of the gods, perhaps with Theomar as their vessel, that Dorian would even come close. The old man could no longer cook, but over time he began to wander into the kitchens and sit down on a chair. At first Dorian thought the man only sought the warmth of the hearth for his weary bones, yet he discovered it to be more than that. Theomar’s eyes were like clouded glass, yet they brightened every now and then, hearing almonds being ground, smelling capons searing in fat, as though it was stirring the kitchenmaster of yore back to life. Eventually Dorian began to walk up to the old cook with his ingredients, bidding him to smell or taste small portions. Sometimes he got simple instructions out of it, ‘too coarse’, ‘too sour’, ‘underdone’. Som times a mere nod or frown was all Theomar managed. Over the course of a couple of days, Dorian put together one final attempt to get the dish made rightWhen he arrived in Bennard’s chamber, he was met with a look which brought forth discomfort that no flame could produce in Dorian. Plainly, raspingly, his brother asked him why he wouldn’t let him die. It was easy, Bennard reasoned. All Dorian needed to do was wait and become lord. The words almost made Dorian throw the dilligrout on the floor. Almost. He placed two bowls on Bennard’s table, the dilligrout and one brimming with milk of the poppy. Dorian told his brother to make his choice. If he sought death, Dorian would let him, but he would not hear that it was an easy thing, watching his brother die. That evening, the milk of the poppy was carried away by the maester, the empty bowl of stew taken to be washed in the kitchens. From then on, Bennard ate what his brother brought him without complaint. He lasted just into the new year, dying on its tenth day. In the predawn gloom of the twelfth, Theomar died in his sleep
Dorian took up his lordly task joylessly. His old wanderlust returned, spurred by the horrible memories that now stained Longtable and the reach itself in his mind. The final straw came when their new Tyrell overlords, insisted on him marrying a lady from a dornish house. His previous betrothal had fallen through, as the parents of his western bride had not wished to draw the ire of the Targaryens by maintaining an old alliance meant to oppose them. Instead of obliging, he boarded a ship from Oldtown going east. It stopped only briefly in Planky Town before going to Tyrosh. Noting him to be a nobleman, a few of the city’s wealthy men would host him for a while, though they quickly lost interest when his lack of knowledge of trade became apparent. After that, he spent time in the markets and squares where the common people lived. His old curiosity was piqued, and he decided to embark on a quest of learning, fashioning himself another Lomas Longstrider. He moved on to Myr, and the experience was much the same in broad strokes, a few rich men showed interest and quickly lost it. As he’d visited the dye markets he went to see the city’s famous artisans at work. One thing was notably different, he met a Tyroshi woman with green-dyed hair, going by the name Maryah. She was a trader, and the two had taken the same ship to Myr. She had been to Myr before and showed him many of its secrets. They spent an entire day in one of the vast delicacy markets so she could show him the many tastes of the city. Having no plans in advance, he asked where she was headed next.
Without a second thought he would join her on a journey to Lys. He soon understood it to be a test. It was not long before she teased him, speculating he’d only joined her for a chance to see the famous pleasure houses. Evening after evening they stayed in the city and Maryah would tease and test him over the matter. Finally he told her he’d renounce his betrothal for her, that there was no one else in his eye. She laughed, replying he would not have to. The next morning, Dorian awoke to find that she was already up, the green washed from her black curls. Maryah had in fact been Joanna Dayne, his dornish bride to be, having traveled the same route as him ever since his ship stopped at Planky Town to refill its food and water. She was already quite familiar with the three closest free cities, having served as a dornish envoy on behalf of its spice traders. As they planned their return to Westeros, Joanna asked him what else in the world he wanted to see. Within a few moons of being wed, they left Westeros, not to return for three years.The journey was what his mind needed, away from the Reach, its knights and tapestries, hunts and tourneys. Ultimately, the lords and knights of his homeland, for all their songs and poetry, lived every day in preparation for war, frivolous though the preparations were. Joanna showed him a different world, the remnants of Old Valyria. War was to be sure inescapable. Wherever they went, there were soldiers, tapestries, contests of arms, and yet the cities housed something else as well, a boundless potential for creation, commerce and growth.
Thanks to Joanna Dayne’s knowledge their stays became far better planned, and they could enjoy the hospitality of wealthy locals far longer. She knew how to talk about the spice trade and similar matters, and Dorian began to pick up on it. On their second stay in Myr, he procured a great deal of fine parchment and began taking notes, everything from negotiation tactics and the prices of cloves or red peppers to court customs, as well as more eclectic pieces of knowledge, details of running an eastern estate, descriptions of technological marvels he had never seen in Westeros, and ingredients in the local food. By the time they neared Qarth he had quite the list of recipes, among other things. There he was even able to learn a few all the way from Yi Ti, as some local cooks catered to merchants from the Golden Empire. On their journey home they’d end up taking the opportunity to see the newly made port of King’s Landing. By that time, a third member had joined their journey, their infant daughter Florys. Having left Longtable in the care of his sister and steward for three years, Dorian finally accepted the responsibility of running his ancestral home.
Longtable was considered to rule over some of the best lands in the Reach, ideally situated along the river with abundant soil which could provide two grain harvests in a year. Having seen the estates which supplied the great cities of the east, Dorian was all too aware of its comparative shortcomings. He found that the abundance of the land had a counterproductive effect, breeding complacency and carelessness. From his grandiose tour of the east, he went on a painstaking tour of his own lands, trying to get an overview of everything he ruled over. He paid the citadel a fee to send him half a dozen maesters in training for a season. These young men, literate and numerate, would serve his own maester in conducting a survey of the land, giving Dorian account of all resources at his disposal as lord. The results were quite varied.
Some peasants were found to have remarkable agricultural insights which they had no way of writing down, entirely reliant on passing the knowledge to their children. Knowing the risks of such a method of transferring knowledge, Dorian ordered such insights recorded. In other places there were farmers and communities who were unwittingly exhausting their soil. Instances of lack of fallow land, excessive grazing by cows and lack of crop rotation were also made note of, followed by edicts against such heedless practices. Septons, sheriffs and tax collectors were given written copies and were obliged to read them to the peasantry wherever it was deemed necessary. It also became part of the obligations of farmers to plant a set amount of clover in their fields and pastures, a practice some had taken up on their own but which had already become a standardized law among the estates belonging to Myr and Volantis. Irrigation was expanded and land inheritance was reformed to prevent the splitting of fields past a certain threshold.
Lord Dorian was not always successful. Some eastern ideas had been useful innovations which improved conditions across the board. In time he learned that the peculiarities of the westerosi system were sometimes necessary for the sake of stability, not merely the misshapen fruits of ignorance. His attempt to enclose part of the common lands proved abortive, as it nearly caused a peasant rebellion. A procession of aggrieved smallfolk headed for Longtable had to be dispersed by knights, armed with wooden clubs to prevent needless bloodshed.Two men were hanged and five sent to the wall, but the reform was thereafter abandoned, leading the populace to calm down. Dorian was not much of a military leader and had not wielded weapons since the Field of Fire. He became aware of his need to bolster his forces, a notion reinforced by the establishment of the Black Roses not long after his return, and again with the Kingswood Catastrophe
In the meantime, he and Joanna raised a family together. Three more daughters would be born healthy, with a couple of miscarriages and a stillbirth in between, also a daughter. Their travels did not entirely come to an end. In 13 AC they would tour the northern free cities of Norvos, Qohor, Pentos, Braavos and Lorath, which they had missed on their original journey. The lion’s share of 17 AC was spent on a journey to the Summer Islands. At other times they would make shorter journeys around the Seven Kingdoms, where they felt more secure in bringing their older children along. Whether it was visiting Joanna’s family in Dorne, tourneys and feasts in the Reach and West or even one trip to see the wall, a nameday wish by Florys, they were often on the move. Like most of their peers, they frequented Oldtown and Highgarden
The growing rift between the two queens and their children was a situation Dorian would watch with dread in his heart, remembering keenly how a generation of young men had been brought to the field of fire. To his mind, the Targaryen rule ought not go to waste. Like Valyria of old, it had begun with fire and blood, yet similarly peace and prosperity had followed in its wake. If only the dragons could stand united, perhaps another long peace like the one the Freehold once enjoyed could again be established. If not, another century of blood was upon them. Under Dorian, Longtable became a place where he sought to bring together people from across the kingdoms and forge unity over the dinner table, an attitude which somewhat vexed and confounded his more militaristic daughter and heiress, Lady Florys. Even amid her questioning of the viability of his peaceful ways when surrounded by those who would make war, a terrible sight would steel his resolve, watching the Mander burning green, every bit as terrible as the flames from twenty one years prior. That night he made a simple vow, never again.
The League of the Cornucopia, he would name his little group, a gallery of lords and ladies whose acquaintances he’d made over the years. With these fellow gourmets he would share the culinary knowledge he’d gleaned from his journeys in the east and west. Most unusual for a lord of his rank, Dorian came to spend a great deal of time in his kitchens, testing out recipes himself. On occasion, the dishes he served to his guests for these small, intimate gatherings would be the work of his own hands. The membership did vary from time to time, both based on who could make it and who he sought to bring together. Rather than a fully closed circle, the League is more like a form of feasting, only it’s done for a much smaller crowd, without the public spectacle. Such occasions allowed for more refined foods which did not need to be served to hundreds and kept constantly warm over the course of hours like some common tavern stew. It also opened up an arena of more intimate diplomacy and negotiation for those who sought it, hosted on neutral ground by a lordly mediator, free from prying eyes.
Timeline:
25BC: Dorian is born, second in line to Longtable
24BC: His sister Lydia is born
9BC: House Merryweather hosts House Gardener for a tourney and feast. Dorian and his older brother Bennard serve the dish of honor to King Mern Gardener and his family. During the subsequent tourney, Mern knights both boys, despite their inexperience and lack of victory in the tourney
9BC-2BC: Dorian spends much time travelling the reach, attending events
1BC: Dorian and Bennard fight in the vanguard at the Field of Fire. Both are burned, Bennard far more severely than Dorian. Lord Merryweather is killed. Traumatized by the battle and his new maimed body, Bennard starts refusing food. Dorian desperately tries to re-create the dish they served King Mern eight years ago. The cook who made it has since gone senile, but eventually manages to help Dorian re-create it. He is given a place at court as apology for his mistreatment at Dorian's hands before this occurred.
1AC: Lord Bennard dies at the beginning of the year, leaving Dorian as lord of Longtable. His sister Lydia fulfills her betrothal to House Tarly, becoming lady of Horn Hill. At the prospect of marrying a Dornishwoman on the King's orders, Dorian decides to leave Westeros to put off his marriage. In Myr, he meets a woman calling herself Maryah, claiming to be a Tyroshi merchant. They fall in love and travel to Lys together. There Dorian promises to set aside his betrothal for her, whereupon she reveals herself as Joanna Dayne, his dornish betrothed.
1AC-4AC: Dorian and Joanna wed at Longtable, then depart on a new journey of the east. They reach as far as Qarth before turning back home. In 3AC, on the way back, their first child, Florys, is born while the couple are in Volantis, on the way home. They return via the newly built port of King's Landing.
4AC-8AC: Using knowledge from the east, Lord Dorian embarks on a project of rationalizing the agriculture of Longtable
5AC: Dorian and Joanna have their second child, a girl named Ellyn
8AC: Their third daughter, Desmera, is born
13AC: Dorian and Joanna spend a year travelling the northern free cities
14AC: Their fourth and final daughter, Gwin, is born
17AC: Dorian and Joanna undertake a journey to the Summer Islands with their children
23AC: The aftermath of the battle of Stonebridge brings back memories of the Field of Fire, as the Merryweathers watch burning slag run down the Mander
25AC: The Merryweathers travel to the celebration of the maturity of Aegon's sons
Family Tree:
Arthor Merryweather (father, d.1BC)
Cerelle Merryweather (pending family connection) (mother, d.20AC)
Rhea Merryweather (sister b.27BC)
Bennard Merryweather (brother, d.1AC)
Lydia Merryweather (sister, b.24BC)
Glendon Merryweather (uncle, d.1BC)
Myrcella Pommingham (aunt, d.22AC)
Leo Merryweather (cousin, b.13AC)
Joanna Dayne (wife, b.26AC)
Florys Merryweather (daughter, b.3AC)
Ellyn Merryweather (daughter, b.5AC)
Desmera Merryweather (daughter, b.8AC)
Gwin Merryweather (daughter, b.13AC)
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Auxiliary Character:
Name and House: Florys Merryweather
Age: 23
Cultural Group: Reachman
Appearance: [A short, muscular woman with wavy black hair, normally worn in a bun. She has high cheekbones and a proud demeanor. Her rigid strength stands in contrast to the more relaxed nature of the Merryweather court, one she finds overly lax and casual](0_0.png (896×1344) (discordapp.com))
Trait: Hale
Skills: Swords (e), Essosi Blademaster
Talents: Dancing, Fishing, Cooking
Negative Traits: N/A
Starting Title: Heir to Longtable
Starting Location: Opening Event
Timeline:
3AC: Florys is born in Volantis, while her parents are on their way home from Essos
10AC: Florys starts training under Saathos Trevelyan, her father's Master at Arms
13 AC: She joins her parents on a tour of Pentos, Braavos, Norvos and Qohor
17AC: She travels with her parents to the Summer Islands
19AC-23AC: As she comes of age, Florys becomes more critical of her father's desire for peace, viewing it as increasingly far-fetched amid the increasingly controversial regency and the impending succession dispute. She resolves to make the kinds of connections her father seems unwilling to, in case of war
25AC: She accompanies her family to the celebrations
NPCS:
Ser Leo Merryweather (Age: 37, Archetype: Magnate) Lord Merryweather's first cousin, he has become an indispensable agent in the daily running of Longtable. Despite his foppish demeanor and aparent laziness, he is highly capable and loyal in his task of increasing his family's fortune. He remains happily unwed
Saathos Tevelyan: (Age:48, Archetype: Master at Arms) The son of a Lysene father and a Myrish mother, Saathos initially sought a career in amongst Myr's military officers, however his family's relatively low status proved an impediment to further promotion, later compounded by a dispute with a superior. He met Lord Merryweather in 3AC and eventually travelled West to offer his services five years later, finding his career progress stonewalled in his home city. Well into middle age, he still looks firm and imposing as profesisonal a soldier ought to
2024.05.09 19:10 MagnaX7 Where and when will the last two neutrals be posted? (Mini-set reveal schedule)
On the reveal schedule (card gallery), there are only class reveals left, but there are still two neutrals (the others being Dorian, Gamer, and Replicator) left to be revealed.
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2024.05.08 03:40 darrenjyc Curiosity Café presents "ART: What's the Point?" — Tuesday May 14 (6pm) at the Madison Avenue Pub (FREE!)
This event is brought to you by Being and Becoming, a Toronto based non-profit. We aim to create community around exploring everyday concepts and experiences so that we may live more intentional, thoughtful, and meaningful lives. We use philosophy as a tool with which we can come to a richer understanding of the world around us.
By offering activities, spaces, and other opportunities for conversation and co-exploration, we hope to enable the meeting and fusion of individuals and their ideas. Everyone is welcome, regardless of background: indeed, we believe the journey is best undertaken alongside explorers from a variety of disciplines, cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.
About Curiosity Cafés
For those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to join us at our Curiosity Cafés and are wondering what they’re all about: every two weeks, we invite members of our community to come out to the Madison Avenue Pub to engage in a collaborative exploration of our chosen topic. Through these events, we aim to build our community of people who like to think deeply about life’s big questions, and provide each other with some philosophical tools to dig deeper into whatever it is we are most curious about.
We will be hosting our next Curiosity Café on Tuesday May 14 from 6:00-8:30pm at the Madison Avenue Pub (14 Madison Ave, Toronto, ON M5R 2S1).
The event is free but please RSVP here or here to attend.
The topic of this café is: "ART: What's the Point?"
Art is a major and seemingly indispensable part of our culture. We browse art galleries, read literature, attend film screenings and concerts, and decorate our rooms with sculptures and paintings.
Opinions about the purpose and value of art, however, have been and remain deeply divided. Some contend that art – unlike cars, vaccines, and engineering degrees – has no function, or at least eludes or transcends conventional standards of utility. (“All art is quite useless,” wrote the Irish author Oscar Wilde in his foreword to The Picture of Dorian Gray.) Others contend that art can offer moral instruction or therapeutic benefit, or even galvanize social and political change. Artists themselves have variously described the creative process as sacred, therapeutic, emancipating, and miserable.
All this raises the question: What is the point of art? Is there a purpose to enjoying it — or creating it? Does art have a moral function? How is a work of art supposed to make you feel — or think? Does art always need a meaning or a message?
Join us at our next café, moderated by Being and Becoming's own Marybel Menzies and Adrian Ma, to discuss these and other art-related questions in a lively, collaborative, low-stakes setting.
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By offering activities, spaces, and other opportunities for conversation and co-exploration, we hope to enable the meeting and fusion of individuals and their ideas. Everyone is welcome, regardless of background: indeed, we believe the journey is best undertaken alongside explorers from a variety of disciplines, cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.
About Curiosity Cafés
For those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to join us at our Curiosity Cafés and are wondering what they’re all about: every two weeks, we invite members of our community to come out to the Madison Avenue Pub to engage in a collaborative exploration of our chosen topic. Through these events, we aim to build our community of people who like to think deeply about life’s big questions, and provide each other with some philosophical tools to dig deeper into whatever it is we are most curious about.
We will be hosting our next Curiosity Café on Tuesday May 14 from 6:00-8:30pm at the Madison Avenue Pub (14 Madison Ave, Toronto, ON M5R 2S1).
The event is free but please RSVP here or here to attend.
The topic of this café is: "ART: What's the Point?"
Art is a major and seemingly indispensable part of our culture. We browse art galleries, read literature, attend film screenings and concerts, and decorate our rooms with sculptures and paintings.
Opinions about the purpose and value of art, however, have been and remain deeply divided. Some contend that art – unlike cars, vaccines, and engineering degrees – has no function, or at least eludes or transcends conventional standards of utility. (“All art is quite useless,” wrote the Irish author Oscar Wilde in his foreword to The Picture of Dorian Gray.) Others contend that art can offer moral instruction or therapeutic benefit, or even galvanize social and political change. Artists themselves have variously described the creative process as sacred, therapeutic, emancipating, and miserable.
All this raises the question: What is the point of art? Is there a purpose to enjoying it — or creating it? Does art have a moral function? How is a work of art supposed to make you feel — or think? Does art always need a meaning or a message?
Join us at our next café, moderated by Being and Becoming's own Marybel Menzies and Adrian Ma, to discuss these and other art-related questions in a lively, collaborative, low-stakes setting.
2024.05.04 05:12 ClaimSalt1697 15 connections you may have missed in the Maasverse ✨🌙
⚠️ WARNING: MAJOR spoilers for ACOTAR, TOG, and CC ⚠️
#1. The jewel in Goldryn—Aelin's sword once wielded by Athril and hidden by Brannon—shares certain similarities with a certain Illyrian warrior's Siphons:
A ruby the size of a chicken egg was embedded in the hilt . . .
HOF Ch 36
Occasionally, he'd spy Goldryn's ruby gleaming while she held it, as if fire glowed in the heart of the stone.
KOA Ch 50
. . . [T]he cloth smothering Goldryn burned away and the ruby glowed bloodred.
EOS Ch 14
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No, it was to hold in place the large, depthless cobalt stone that graced the back of the gauntlet . . . twin red stones adorned Cassian's gauntlets, their color like the slumbering heart of a flame.
ACOMAF Ch 16
That's bullshit," Cassian spat, the Siphons on the backs of his hands burning like ruby flames.
ACOSF Ch 11
Cassian's Siphons glowed like fresh blood . . .
ACOSF Ch 71
Artist: book_s150 on IG
#2. Lucien likely literally saw through Feyre's glamour:
“This eye . . . ” Lucien gestured to the metal contraption. “It can see things that others . . . can’t. Spells, glamours . . .
ACOWAR Ch 33
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“Forever,” I parroted, glancing behind—to where Lucien stood in the gravel drive.
His gaze on me. Face hard. As if he’d seen through every lie.
As if he knew of the second tattoo beneath my glove, and the glamour I now kept on it.
ACOMAF Ch 69
Artist: BrittanyKellerArt on Etsy
#3. The Bone Carver revealed the Asterian corruption of the Cauldron—and its kill-switch perversion—8 published years prior to the revelation in House of Flame and Shadow:
"Long ago . . . there was a Cauldron . . . They say all the magic in the world was born in it. But it fell into the wrong hands. And great and terrible things were done with it . . . It could not be destroyed, for it had Made all things, and if it were broken, then life would cease to be.
ACOMAF Ch 18
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"We pooled our power, and imbued those gifts into the Cauldron . . . [a]nd then bound the very essence of the Cauldron to the soul of this world."
. . . "You gave this world a kill switch."
"We gave many worlds . . . kill switches."
HOFAS Ch 25
Artist: listening_stars_ on IG
#4. Possible wyrdmarks appear in both ACOTAR and CC:
I kicked my boots against the stone door frame . . . Bits of ice came free from the gray stones of the cottage, revealing the faded ward-markings etched around the threshold.
ACOTAR Ch 2
A mighty black cauldron held by glowing, slender female hands . . . [t]hose hands tipped it over . . . not sparkling, but . . . effervescent with small symbols, perhaps of some ancient faerie language.
ACOTAR Ch 13
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Marble and granite obelisks rose like thick spears, many inscribed—but not with names. Just with strange symbols. Grave markers, or something else?
HOSAB Ch 29
Tharion said, “What was down here?” He scanned the passing walls of the canyon floor—all of them carved with strange symbols.
HOSAB Ch 45
The Under-King lifted a bony hand, and an eerie, greenish light wreathed his fingers. Ithan could have sworn ancient, strange symbols swirled in that light.
HOSAB Ch 62
Artist: book_s150 on IG
#5. Aelin, Rowan, and Rhys all have to siphon off bits of their power to stave off madness . . . to stave off being completely consumed:
And that terrible, relentless pressure writhing in her veins . . . [s]he’d siphoned off as much as she dared, but not all.
KOA Ch 35
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A flash of teeth as Rowan smiled. “A certain person we know likes to siphon off her power . . . to keep its edge dull.” Dorian could feel Rowan’s stare . . . “The choice is yours how much you allow it into your life, how to use it—but go any longer without mastering it, Majesty, and it will destroy you.”
EOS Ch 13
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“It seems like you have a great deal of magic constantly in use at once.”
“It helps me work off the strain of my power. The magic needs release—draining—or else it’ll build up and drive me insane . . . "
“Actually insane?”
. . . “Actually insane. Or so I was warned. I can feel it, though—the pull of it, if I go too long without releasing it.”
ACOMAF Ch 48
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#6. Tamlin's words to Rhysand hint at their involvement of a Maasverse crossover . . . and may give us clues regarding Rhysand's long-lost sister:
I didn’t smile as I countered with, “I suppose you think I should be thanking you, for stepping up to assist in reviving me.”*If Rhys is thanking Tamlin for anything, and we're dealing with a Maasverse crossover, I'm going to get crazy here and say it'll be discovered that Tamlin did save Rhys's sister all those years ago and she somehow wound up in Midgard (see full crackpot theory post HERE).
“I have no illusions that the day you thank me for anything, Rhysand, is the day the burning fires of hell go cold.”
ACOFAS Ch 11
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“Too dark,” the Astronomer read. “It is too dark to see. Only hear.”
“Can you pinpoint where in Hel your mystic is?”
. . . “Not precisely, but judging by the cold, I’d say deep. Perhaps the Chasm itself.”
HOSAB Ch 38
Hel. Lost A.E. 17001.
She had to sink into one of the chairs as she read the note. A dark, cold world with mighty creatures of night.
HOSAB Ch 72
Artist: domesticartcreature_ on IG
#7. Truth Teller may have been blessed by the Bone Carver:
"The Sword of Truth. That’s what they called Damaris. Legend said the bearer—Gavin—could see the truth when he wielded it.”*To piece together how the Sin-Eater in TOG may be connected to the Bone Carver in ACOTAR, see #2 HERE
“And?”
“Mala blessed Brannon, and she blessed Goldryn.” She peered into the gloom. “What if there was a god of truth—a Sin-Eater? What if he blessed Gavin, and this sword?”
QOS Ch 50
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Silence. Then the silent, hazel-eyed warrior laughed quietly.
How had he understood without Rhysand translating?
. . . The warrior spoke with a low voice that skittered down her spine. Rhysand glanced at him with raised brows, then translated for Bryce with equal penance, "You're lying."
HOFAS Ch 21
Artist: whimsicalillustration on IG
#8. Bryce was not the only living gate . . . not the only one primed to be a living gate:
His precious gift, his key, he had called her. A living gate, he promised . . .
Kaltain smiled up at him . . .
QOS Ch 82
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Rowan fell to his knees as the three Wyrdkeys within Aelin’s arm dissolved into her blood.
. . . by letting the keys into her, they had entered the true Wyrdgate. A step, or a thought, or a wish would allow them to access any world they desired.
KOA Ch 94-95
Artist: romannaboch on IG
#9. The parasitic water in CC was foreshadowed in HOSAB:
“You’re parasites.”
“What are all creatures, feeding off their resources? You should see what the inhabitants of some worlds did to their planets—the rubbish, the pollution, the poisoned seas. Was it not fitting that we returned the favor?”
HOSAB Ch 73
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#10. Aelin may possibly be Starborn through Mala's final gift:
Mala only held out a hand.
In it lay a kernel of white-hot power. A fallen star.
“Take it. One last gift to my bloodline.”
KOA Ch 98
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The pure light of a star*—from another world. From long, long ago. The gift of the ancient Fae, reborn again.*
Bryce stood before the Gate, holding the star she’d kept hidden within her heart, and let the light build.
HOEAB Ch 87
Artist: morgana0anagrom on IG
#11. All three protagonists, across all three series, both physically die at some point—AND all three lose their humanity in lieu of their Fae forms:
Aelin watched her own small chest rise, fall, rise . . . [t]hen stop moving all together.“You died,” Elena whispered. “Right there, you died.
EOS Ch 68
Aelin glanced sidelong at her. “Am I still human, deep down, without a human body to possess?”
KOA Ch 101
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“Fay-ruh,” he said again . . . “Where did you go when you died?”
ACOMAF Ch 18
I’d become . . . [a] High Fae—immortal. What had they done?
ACOTAR Ch 46
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Even before she had come to lie dead before him, he’d fought to keep her heart going.
HOEAB Ch 94
It was only upon making the Ascent and reaching that threshold back to life, brimming with new power, that immortality was attained . . .
HOEAB Ch 8
Artist: vine_ry @ IG
#12. The three Wyrdkeys, given over to the gate by Aelin, and the sealed Wyrdgate itself, may exist in another form in a different world:
“Long ago . . . there was a Cauldron . . .*For a truly phenomenal theory explaining how the Wyrdgate and wyrdkeys could = the Cauldron and its three feet, see THIS post by emilystheories
"Millennia before you were born, the three feet on which it stands were successfully cleaved from its base in an attempt to fracture some of its power."
ACOMAF Ch 18
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“Wyrdkeys,” Yellowlegs breathed, eyes glowing. “It describes the three Wyrdkeys to open the Wyrdgate.”
QOS Ch 40
Because that was the other thing the Wyrdkeys could do, the other power that the Wyrdmarks controlled: life.
QOS Ch 45
Artist: konimycl on IG
#13. There are two wolves with similar names . . . and a dragon with a name that just may play into the Pack of Devils tattoo:
The white wolf was watching her again . . . Fenrys’s ears perked, twitching.*Look, I found zero proof that the TOG wyverns have horns, but I like the idea of dragons + wolves
KOA Ch 3
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There was a wolf at the gallery door . . . “Please tell Danika Fendyr that if she continues to use the supply closet as her own personal locker, I will turn her into a lizard.”
HOEAB Ch 1
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Leading them along the sheer face of the Northern Fang was Iskra. Her bull, a massive beast named Fendir, was a force of nature in himself.
HOF Ch 27
Danika’s filthy fingers began pulling the handle . . . [h]er jaw tightened, the older tattoo on her neck—the horned, grinning wolf . . . rippling with tension.
HOEAB Ch 1
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#14. Feyre, Rhys, and Tamlin all share similar dialogue that highlights both the eventual success or demise of their relationships:
I breathed, “I killed them" . . . My hands slackened as another shuddering sob worked its way through me. “It should have been me.”
ACOMAF Ch 30
"I was supposed to be there. I wasn’t. And they slaughtered my mother and sister anyway . . . It should have been me,” he said.
ACOMAF Ch 45
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“Tell me there’s some way to help you,” I breathed. “With the masks, with whatever threat has taken so much of your power. Tell me—just tell me what I can do to help you.”
ACOTAR Ch 22
I reached again. Once more, a tendril of his [Rhys's] power yanked the plate further back.
“Tell me what to do,” he said. “Tell me what to do to help you.”
ACOMAF Ch 11
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Amarantha spat, and my body twisted, breaking bit by bit . . .
“Amarantha, please,” Tamlin moaned, his blood spilling onto the floor. “I’ll do anything.”
ACOTAR Ch 44
“Please,” I wept. “I will—I will give you anything—”
Something shifted in his [Tamlin's] eyes at that.
ACOMAF Ch 77
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#15. Not only are Cormac's shadows similar to a certain Illyrian warrior, but Cormac himself might have Illyrian tattoos:
Shadows ran down Cormac’s arms . . . Like Ruhn’s shadows—only darker, more feral somehow . . . “Why do your shadows appear different from Ruhn’s?” Bryce asked Cormac.
HOSAB Ch 16
The Crown Prince of Avallen had changed into a climate-appropriate gray T-shirt that did little to hide . . . his arms. A tattoo of strange symbols encircled his left biceps, the black ink gleaming in the bright lights.
HOSAB Ch 9
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Azriel, without Rhysand to translate, watched in silence. Bryce could have sworn shadows wreathed him, like Ruhn's, yet . . . wilder. The way Cormac's had been.
HOFAS Ch 1
Artist: elizianna.the.one on IG
If you'd like some more "missed connections" posts, see:
10 connections you may have missed in ACOTAR and beyond
10 things you may have missed in Throne of Glass
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NON-PROFIT OF THE WEEK
Youth Sports Alliance @ Snow Park Lodge Thursday, March 28, from 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
To celebrate winning the Defender Service Award and the newly bestowed Land Rover Defender, the Youth Sports Alliance invites everyone to join the celebration. Your votes drove them to victory, and now they want to share the honor with the community. Come out to support their great work in helping kids in our community thrive. Enjoy live music, a cash beer bar, and complimentary cookies and hot chocolate for all. No RSVP necessary - come celebrate this national honor from Chase & Outside Magazine with the community
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Easter Activities
Get ready for some Easter fun in Park City! Here are some egg-citing events and delicious dining options to celebrate the holiday weekend:
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Sushi & Sake! @ Park City Culinary Institute (SLC) Friday, March 22, from 6:30 - 9:00 PM
Roll up your sleeves and learn the craft of making maki rolls and classic nigiri sushi. Then you get to enjoy your culinary creations with a taste of sake. Sake pairings will complement the meal for guests 21 and over. And don't let the name fool you, this event takes place in Salt Lake.
1484 S. State Street Salt Lake City, UT
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Hot Glass 5-Course Dinner @ Red Flower Studios Saturday, March 30, @ 6:00 PM
Savor a 5-course dinner crafted atop 2100-degree molten glass, blending gourmet flavors with visual spectacle. Experience an interactive dining adventure which is a fusion of artistry and gastronomy. I can't wait to try this one!
Chef Adam Walker brings a wealth of culinary expertise to the table, honed his skills in fine dining, Japanese flavors, and personalized culinary experiences. Now, as a private chef, Chef Adam is dedicated to crafting unforgettable moments through his passion for cooking and entertaining. COST: $200
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Celebrate Spring @ Mindful Cuisine Friday, March 29, from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM / Sign-up Deadline Sunday, March 24
Indulge in the vibrant flavors of spring with The Basement Table's pop-up restaurant menu, curated by Chef Linda from her days in California. Enjoy the freshness of Sugar Snap Pea in Lemon Vinaigrette and English Pea Crostini, followed by Mustard Grilled Chicken and Spinach Pine Nut Salad. Delight in Pecorino Pudding with Soft Eggs, concluding with Strawberry Pavlovas.
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Fisher Vineyard 5 Course Wine Dinner @ Riverhorse Thursday, April 25, @ 6:00 PM
Join winemaker Whitney Fisher for a special evening featuring a five-course dinner paired with wines from Fisher Vineyards. The event starts with a reception, followed by a curated dinner with exclusive dishes. Tickets are $150++/person.
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Park City Brewing March 26th Trivia Night / March 27th Bingo Night @ 7:30 PM
Gather your friends for March game nights with drink specials! Enjoy 15% off during Appy Hour on Thursdays & Fridays from 3 - 5 PM. Plus, don't miss out on Sneaker Tree $5 Drafts every Saturday and Sunday. It's the perfect way to unwind and have some fun!
Culinary School @ Park City Culinary Institute Saturday, March 23, from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
I can't remember who told me they were interested in culinary school, but whoever you are, this one is for you. Park City Culinary Institute invites you to a free Chef Demo. Discover how culinary school can enhance your skills and career opportunities. COST: FREE
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SPORTS
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Rossignol Women's Nordic Ski Day @ Soldier Hollow Sunday, March 24, from 9AM - 4:00 PM
This is for all my Betties friends!
Experience a fun day on the snow tailored for women of all ages and abilities! Whether newcomers or seasoned skiers, attendees are welcome. Enjoy small group lessons, Rossignol ski demos, and delightful gift bags. Morning and afternoon sessions available. Don't miss the fun-filled adventure at Soldier Hollow Nordic Center! COST: $60
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March Madness @ No Name Through April 8
If you weren't lucky enough to get tickets, you can surround yourself with fans at No Name who will be in on the action. Get ready for the excitement of the First Round of March Madness on March 21st-22nd, followed by the Second Round on March 23rd-24th. The action heats up with the Sweet 16 on March 28th-29th and the Elite Eight on March 30th-31st. Don't miss the Final Four on Saturday, April 6th, leading up to the NCAA Championship Game on Monday, April 8th!
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Demo Days at Compass Sports March 23 -24, from 7:00 AM -7:00 PM
Join Compass Sports for two special demo days celebrating the end of an incredible ski season! On March 23rd, experience exclusive discounts on this year's skis and demo the newest gear from Atomic Skis. Then, on March 24th, demo the latest boards from Niche Snowboards.
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Wild Women Full Moon Snowshoe Tour @ Wasatch Adventure Guides Various Days AvailableLocal ladies of Park City, Heber Valley, and Salt Lake City are invited to join the Winter StargazeFull Moon Snowshoe Tours sponsored by Wasatch Adventure Guides and Stio! Explore Park City trails under the moonlight, with moderate difficulty and gear rentals available online. It's an opportunity to expand outdoor circles and networks while enjoying the winter scenery.REGISTER
Under the Lights @ Solider Hollow Wednesday, March 20, @ 5:45 PM
The Nordic community in Park City comes alive at this friendly competition. Skiers can tackle 2.5, 5, or 7.5 km tracks. Post-race, there's an awards ceremony, a grill-out, s'mores, and a fun relay race. REGISTER
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BalletNEXT: Best of Sleeping Beauty Wednesday, March 20, from 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Michele Wiles, the creative force behind BalletNEXT, has reimagined this Tchaikovsky classic with help from the skilled StringFX musicians. Narrated by Katrina Kmak, a favorite among the kids, this event promises enchantment. Stick around after the show for a chat with Michele Wiles and the performers. REGISTER
March Madness @ The Montage Daly's Pub & Rec 10:30 AM - 10:00 PM March Madness is upon us! Dive into the thrill of the tournament, where every matchup is packed with action and nail-biting suspense. Gather your friends, enjoy tasty snacks, and cheer for your top teams. 📷
March Moonlight Snowshoe Tour @ Swaner Preserve Monday, March 25, from 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Join Swaner naturalists for an enchanting snowshoe adventure under the full moon, discovering the wildlife inhabiting the preserve! Trek through the Swaner Preserve, delving into the wetlands and observing nocturnal animals in their natural habitat. Dress warmly and reserve your spot early as space is limited. Snowshoe rentals available onsite.REGISTER
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Mike Libecki @ Park City Institute Friday, March 22, @ 7:00 PM
Renowned explorer Mike Libecki is known for conquering remote peaks and instilling adventure in his daughter. Honored as National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, he's completed over 85 major expeditions globally. From Afghanistan to Antarctica, he shares his philosophy of "joyineering," embracing joy in life's challenges and triumphs.REGISTER📷
Full Moon Ski & Snowshoeing @ Sundance March 22 & 23, 4:30 - 9:30 PM
Embark on a magical moonlit adventure either cross-country skiing or snowshoeing through Sundance's scenic wooded trails. Perfect for families or a fun date night, enjoy the beauty of the full moon on the snow-covered landscape. This unguided event allows you the freedom to explore at your own pace.REGISTER
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First Tracks @ Deer Valley Wednesday, March 27, @ 8:30 AM
Experience the thrill of First Tracks exclusively for Deer Valley Season Pass holders. Enjoy early access to the slopes with no reservations required. Take your turns down the renowned corduroy groomers on a bluebird day. What a lovely way to start your day! All lifts will be operational.📷
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Spring Equinox Ecstatic Dance @ Enlighten Wellness Saturday, March 23, from 6:00 PM -9:30 PM
Experience the potent energy of the Spring Equinox with a transformative evening of Yoga, Ecstatic Dance, and Sound Healing. Set intentions for the season during a Cacao Intention Ceremony, then let loose on the dance floor. Dive deep into self-expression with Ecstatic Dance, free from judgment and limitations. Conclude the evening with a Soundbath and closing circle to honor the shared experience. REGISTER
Spring Renewal: A Seasonal Gathering @ The Shop Sunday, March 24, from 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Join a rejuvenating Yoga Flow, followed by tea and a guided journey to welcome the arrival of spring. This donation-based event supports the Sound Summit Trails Foundation, contributing to our community's outdoor spaces. Come together with friends and neighbors to embrace the new season in a spirit of unity and renewal.
Town Series @ Utah Olympic Park (February 15 event rescheduled to March 22) 5:00 PM Check-in / 6:00 PM Race
Join the Town Series for thrilling downhill and SkiMo races at UOP lifts. All ages welcome. Alpine Individual Race: $45 each, Skimo Race: $40 each. COED teams, at least one female required. All proceeds from the Town Series support Park City Ski & Snowboard athletes, programs and coaches.
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FAMILY FUN
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Avalanche Dog Film with Doggo Meet & Greet Wednesday, March 27, from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Experience a heartwarming family film screening of "Superpower Dogs," showcasing the extraordinary bravery and life-saving abilities of some of the world’s most remarkable canine heroes. Following the movie, meet the awe-inspiring avalanche dogs from Wasatch Backcountry Rescue. This special event is in partnership with the exhibit "Snow: Tiny Crystals, Global Impact." Admission is free!
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Pac-12 Women's Gymnastic Championship @ Maverik Center Saturday, March 23, @ 1:00 PM
Get ready to witness the thrill and precision of the Sprouts Pac-12 Women's Gymnastics Championship LIVE.
Mary Poppins @ The Egyptian Theatre March 22 - 31Prepare to be enchanted as Disney's beloved Mary Poppins comes to life on stage! Based on P.L. Travers' books and the classic film, the musical follows the magical nanny as she teaches the Banks family and audiences valuable life lessons. With unforgettable songs and stagecraft, it's a truly magical experience for the whole family. GET TICKETS
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Disney Princess In Concert @ Eccles Theater (SLC) Saturday, March 30, @ 7:30 PM
Experience the magic of Disney Princesses live on stage with Broadway and TV stars Alyssa Fox, Syndee Winters, and Hiba Elchikhe for a concert of a lifetime. This show features your favorite princess songs and behind-the-scenes stories.
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3/20 Daôi Freyr @ The Depot
3/20 Dorian Electra @ The Complex
3/20 Steve n’ Seagulls @ The Stateroom
3/20 Rylee McDonald @ Steven Bosco Duo @ The Spur
3/20 DJ Juggy @ Downstairs
3/21 Muddpuddle @ Corner Store Pub & Grill
3/21 Aspen Anonda @ Alpine Social Aid & Pleasure Club
3/21 Sydnie Keddington @ Silver Star Cafe
3/21 Bas @ The Depot
3/21 Diggin Dirt @ The Stateroom
3/21 DJ Dolph @ Downstairs
3/21 Randin Graves & Dueling Pianos
3/22 Chris Bender & Fastback @ Après Pendry
3/22 Matthew & The Hope @ Silver Star Cafe
3/22 Kim Dracula @ The Depot
3/22 Daniel Weldon @ Dejoria Center - State Road Tavern
3/22 Mike Lebecki @ Park City Institute
3/22 Madi Diaz @ The Stateroom
3/22 Satsang @ The Cabin
3/22 Mary Poppins @ The Egyptian
3/22 Kamiyah @ The Complex
3/22 DJ E-Flexx @ Downstairs
3/22 Corey Smaller & Renzos Fault @ The Spur
3/23 Shannon & The 3 Kings @ Canyons Village
3/23 Christan Scheller @ Snowbasin
3/23 Ryan Innes @ Après Pendry
3/23 Hot House West @ Silver Star Cafe
3/23 Chelsea Wolfe @ The Depot
3/23 Vox Veis @ The Complex
3/23 Farrell Dillon @ Park City Institute
3/23 Satin Steel @ The Notch
3/23 Mary Poppins @ The Egyptian
3/23 Michelle Moonshine @ Sundance Resort
3/23 The Pickpockets @ The Cabin
3/23 San Fermin @ The Stateroom
3/23 DJ Shift @ Downstairs
3/23 Grant Matheson & Sauci @ The Spur
3/24 Morgan Snow @ Snowbasin
3/24 Classic Steve @ Après Pendry
3/24 Mary Poppins @ Egyptian Theatre
3/24 03 Greedo @ The Complex
3/24 Alli Brown & Dueling Pianos
3/24 JP Saxe @ The Complex
3/25 Ryan Caraveo @ The Complex
3/25 Aspen Anonda & Daniel Torriente
3/26 Gentri @ The Eccles Theater - Delta Hall - Salt Lake City
3/26 Jon O & Radio Roulette @ The Spur
3/27 Gentri @ The Eccles Theater - Delta Hall - Salt Lake City
3/27 Birdtalker @ The Stateroom
3/27 Rylee McDonald & Morgen Call Duo @ The Spur
3/27 DJ Juggy @ Downstairs
ARTS & CULTURE
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Interactive Art Installation: "Doors of Opportunity" Honoring President and Rosalyn Carter Through March 31Wasatch County Library, in collaboration with Park City Library and Habitat for Humanity of Summit and Wasatch Counties, Utah, honors the lives of President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalyn Carter with an interactive art installation. Symbolizing the Doors of Opportunity they opened, each library hosts a dedicated installation where the public can write notes of gratitude to the Carters for their work in affordable housing. The installation runs until March 31 at Park City Library, Wasatch County Library, and Park City ReStore.
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Spring Into Art: A Local Artists Showcase @ The Yarrow Hotel March 22, from 3:00 PM - 8:00 PM / March 23, from 10:00 AM - 6:00 PMCheck out the vibrant creativity of Summit County artists at the inaugural Spring Showcase, organized by the Park City Artists Association. With the participation of twenty-six talented local artists, this two-day art exhibition at the Yarrow Hotel (Double Tree on Park Avenue) is a great opportunity to discover and acquire unique artworks. This free and family-friendly event serves as a platform to support our local artists!
Vintage Fashion Show Wednesday, March 20, from 5:00 PM -7:00 PM
Get ready to step back in time and witness the evolution of ski fashion at the History Welcome Party on March 20th at the Utah Olympic Park. Organized by the International Skiing History Association (ISHA) and Alf Engen Ski Museum, this event marks the beginning of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame’s annual gathering in Park City. From padded one-piece jump-suits to over-the-boot stretch pants and floral designs, the fashion flashback promises to be a sight to behold. Join us for a celebration of skiing history and style! COST: FREE
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The Art Ecosystem: Art Talk with Local Industry Leaders @ Kimball Art Center Monday, March 25, from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Discover the dynamic contemporary art scene flourishing in Park City with a panel moderated by Leslie Thatcher. Featuring panelists Jocelyn Scudder, Executive Director of the Arts Council; Aldy Milliken, Executive Director of the Kimball Art Center; Jen Schumacher, Co-Chair of the Park City Gallery Association; and Mitch Bedke, Chair of the Park City Artists Association, this event offers a comprehensive overview of visual arts in Park City.
These local cultural leaders will delve into how the Arts Council, Kimball Art Center, galleries, and artists collaborate to cultivate an environment where art thrives. They will discuss the needs of artists in Park City, the missions of their respective organizations, and the importance of collaboration in fostering a deep appreciation for art in our community.
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ConnectHER: How to Leverage Your Retirement Funds Wednesday, March 27, from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Did you know your retirement funds can be your powerhouse for passive investments? Join us at the ConnectHER Seminar: How to Leverage Your Retirement Funds to discover how to create wealth via self-directed IRAs. Guest speaker, Kaaren Hall, CEO of uDirect IRA Services, will share insights on passive investment strategies, the latest trends in self-directed investing, and critical rules of self-direction. With over 20 years of expertise, Kaaren has guided thousands of Americans in diversifying their portfolios using self-directed IRAs, managing over $1B in assets.
This is a Hybrid (In-Person & Virtual) Event. ONLY those who plan on joining us In-Person should purchase a ticket to this event. ZOOM LINK
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Brews & Hues: Spring Fabric Dyeing & Kombucha Tasting @ The Lodge at Blue Sky Friday, March 29, @ 3:30 PM Discover the art of natural dyeing and indulge in a kombucha tasting at Gracie's Farm. Guests are invited to a fabric dyeing class where they'll learn to create stunning designs using farm-fresh ingredients. Savor homemade kombucha while crafting beautiful pieces for the home. All ages are welcome to join in the creative experience! COST: $200RESERVE
Retelling Greek Classics: An Exploration of the Modern Epics with Madeline Miller Thursday, March 21, @ 5:00 PM VIA ZOOMHave a conversation with bestselling author Madeline Miller as she discusses her modern retellings of Greek classics, including "The Song of Achilles" and "Circe." Delve into themes of love, sacrifice, and the power of mythology with one of New York Times best-selling authors. GET TICKETS
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Elle Aesthetics Wellness Night Thursday, March 21, from 4:00 PM - 6:00 PMGuests are invited to an evening of presentations on hormones, nutrition, and skin health. Connect with the expert team to discover ways to enhance well-being. Special skincare offers and $15 vitamin shots available. Don't miss this opportunity to unwind and pamper yourself.
136 South Main Street Heber City, UT, USASIGN UP
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Spring Equinox - Cacao Ceremony @ Shamanic Twist Wednesday, March 20, from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Join a special ceremony as the arrival of spring is in the air and apparently the arrival of a new astrological year. It's time to let go of anything that you are holding on to that no longer serves you. This will include a Cacao Ceremony and a chance to move your body. COST: $45
228 West 200 South Kamas, UT 84036
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The Taste of Things @ Park City Film March 22 - 24 / Fri & Sat @ 7:00 PM / Sun @ 6:00 PM
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Best Of Park City This WeekMarch 20 - 27
NON-PROFIT OF THE WEEK
Youth Sports Alliance @ Snow Park Lodge Thursday, March 28, from 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
To celebrate winning the Defender Service Award and the newly bestowed Land Rover Defender, the Youth Sports Alliance invites everyone to join the celebration. Your votes drove them to victory, and now they want to share the honor with the community. Come out to support their great work in helping kids in our community thrive. Enjoy live music, a cash beer bar, and complimentary cookies and hot chocolate for all. No RSVP necessary - come celebrate this national honor from Chase & Outside Magazine with the community
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Easter Activities
Get ready for some Easter fun in Park City! Here are some egg-citing events and delicious dining options to celebrate the holiday weekend:
- Basin Recreation’s Easter Egg Scramble and Hunt: Join the fun at Matt Knoop Park on March 30 @ 12:00 PM for an egg scramble designed for kids aged 5 and under, with a separate hunt for ages 6-10. SIGN UP
- Blossoms and Bubbly: Spring Floral Workshop at Goldener Hirsch: Create beautiful floral arrangements while enjoying a glass of bubbly at this spring workshop on March 29. GET TICKETS
- Homestead Resort: Gather your loved ones for a delightful Easter brunch experience at Homestead Resort on March 31. RSVP
- Montage Deer Valley: Experience the joy of Easter with an exciting egg hunt followed by a scrumptious buffet at Apex on March 31. Adults: $95 pp / Kids $45. Call 435-604-1402 for reservations.
- Boneyard Saloon: Bloody Mary bar at Boneyard Saloon from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
- Drafts Burger Bar: Enjoy Easter breakfast from 7:30 – 11 a.m. and choose from the lunch and dinner menus until 10 p.m.
- Goldener Hirsch Restaurant: Celebrate Easter with a fireside brunch featuring Chef Sethil’s alpine-inspired menu. RESERVE
- Grub Steak: Treat yourself to a 3-course Easter dinner at Grub Steak, featuring baked Alaskan halibut and homemade desserts. $54.75 pp/ RESERVE
- Hearth and Hill: Brunch buffet featuring a variety of savory and sweet dishes for the whole family. Adults: $64 / Kids $30 RESERVE
- KITA: Easter breakfast and brunch buffet, including a carving station with maple glazed ham. $50 PP / Kids $20. RESERVE
- Lodge at Blue Sky: Enjoy an Easter brunch buffet accompanied by live music at YUTA. Call 435-336-2646.
- Riverhorse on Main: Celebrate Easter with an endless array of brunch-style tapas. Adults: $125 / Kids $75 RESERVE
- Stein Eriksen Lodge: Indulge in a lavish Easter Brunch Buffet featuring a delectable selection of dishes for the whole family. Adults $150 / Kids $50. RESERVE
- Waldorf Astoria Park City: Delight in made-to-order omelets, carved ham, seafood, and more. Adults $110 / Kids $55. RESERVE
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Sushi & Sake! @ Park City Culinary Institute (SLC) Friday, March 22, from 6:30 - 9:00 PM
Roll up your sleeves and learn the craft of making maki rolls and classic nigiri sushi. Then you get to enjoy your culinary creations with a taste of sake. Sake pairings will complement the meal for guests 21 and over. And don't let the name fool you, this event takes place in Salt Lake.
1484 S. State Street Salt Lake City, UT
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Hot Glass 5-Course Dinner @ Red Flower Studios Saturday, March 30, @ 6:00 PM
Savor a 5-course dinner crafted atop 2100-degree molten glass, blending gourmet flavors with visual spectacle. Experience an interactive dining adventure which is a fusion of artistry and gastronomy. I can't wait to try this one!
Chef Adam Walker brings a wealth of culinary expertise to the table, honed his skills in fine dining, Japanese flavors, and personalized culinary experiences. Now, as a private chef, Chef Adam is dedicated to crafting unforgettable moments through his passion for cooking and entertaining. COST: $200
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Celebrate Spring @ Mindful Cuisine Friday, March 29, from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM / Sign-up Deadline Sunday, March 24
Indulge in the vibrant flavors of spring with The Basement Table's pop-up restaurant menu, curated by Chef Linda from her days in California. Enjoy the freshness of Sugar Snap Pea in Lemon Vinaigrette and English Pea Crostini, followed by Mustard Grilled Chicken and Spinach Pine Nut Salad. Delight in Pecorino Pudding with Soft Eggs, concluding with Strawberry Pavlovas.
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Fisher Vineyard 5 Course Wine Dinner @ Riverhorse Thursday, April 25, @ 6:00 PM
Join winemaker Whitney Fisher for a special evening featuring a five-course dinner paired with wines from Fisher Vineyards. The event starts with a reception, followed by a curated dinner with exclusive dishes. Tickets are $150++/person.
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Park City Brewing March 26th Trivia Night / March 27th Bingo Night @ 7:30 PM
Gather your friends for March game nights with drink specials! Enjoy 15% off during Appy Hour on Thursdays & Fridays from 3 - 5 PM. Plus, don't miss out on Sneaker Tree $5 Drafts every Saturday and Sunday. It's the perfect way to unwind and have some fun!
Culinary School @ Park City Culinary Institute Saturday, March 23, from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
I can't remember who told me they were interested in culinary school, but whoever you are, this one is for you. Park City Culinary Institute invites you to a free Chef Demo. Discover how culinary school can enhance your skills and career opportunities. COST: FREE
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SPORTS
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Rossignol Women's Nordic Ski Day @ Soldier Hollow Sunday, March 24, from 9AM - 4:00 PM
This is for all my Betties friends!
Experience a fun day on the snow tailored for women of all ages and abilities! Whether newcomers or seasoned skiers, attendees are welcome. Enjoy small group lessons, Rossignol ski demos, and delightful gift bags. Morning and afternoon sessions available. Don't miss the fun-filled adventure at Soldier Hollow Nordic Center! COST: $60
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March Madness @ No Name Through April 8
If you weren't lucky enough to get tickets, you can surround yourself with fans at No Name who will be in on the action. Get ready for the excitement of the First Round of March Madness on March 21st-22nd, followed by the Second Round on March 23rd-24th. The action heats up with the Sweet 16 on March 28th-29th and the Elite Eight on March 30th-31st. Don't miss the Final Four on Saturday, April 6th, leading up to the NCAA Championship Game on Monday, April 8th!
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Demo Days at Compass Sports March 23 -24, from 7:00 AM -7:00 PM
Join Compass Sports for two special demo days celebrating the end of an incredible ski season! On March 23rd, experience exclusive discounts on this year's skis and demo the newest gear from Atomic Skis. Then, on March 24th, demo the latest boards from Niche Snowboards.
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Wild Women Full Moon Snowshoe Tour @ Wasatch Adventure Guides Various Days AvailableLocal ladies of Park City, Heber Valley, and Salt Lake City are invited to join the Winter StargazeFull Moon Snowshoe Tours sponsored by Wasatch Adventure Guides and Stio! Explore Park City trails under the moonlight, with moderate difficulty and gear rentals available online. It's an opportunity to expand outdoor circles and networks while enjoying the winter scenery.REGISTER
Under the Lights @ Solider Hollow Wednesday, March 20, @ 5:45 PM
The Nordic community in Park City comes alive at this friendly competition. Skiers can tackle 2.5, 5, or 7.5 km tracks. Post-race, there's an awards ceremony, a grill-out, s'mores, and a fun relay race. REGISTER
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BalletNEXT: Best of Sleeping Beauty Wednesday, March 20, from 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Michele Wiles, the creative force behind BalletNEXT, has reimagined this Tchaikovsky classic with help from the skilled StringFX musicians. Narrated by Katrina Kmak, a favorite among the kids, this event promises enchantment. Stick around after the show for a chat with Michele Wiles and the performers. REGISTER
March Madness @ The Montage Daly's Pub & Rec 10:30 AM - 10:00 PM March Madness is upon us! Dive into the thrill of the tournament, where every matchup is packed with action and nail-biting suspense. Gather your friends, enjoy tasty snacks, and cheer for your top teams. 📷
March Moonlight Snowshoe Tour @ Swaner Preserve Monday, March 25, from 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Join Swaner naturalists for an enchanting snowshoe adventure under the full moon, discovering the wildlife inhabiting the preserve! Trek through the Swaner Preserve, delving into the wetlands and observing nocturnal animals in their natural habitat. Dress warmly and reserve your spot early as space is limited. Snowshoe rentals available onsite.REGISTER
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Mike Libecki @ Park City Institute Friday, March 22, @ 7:00 PM
Renowned explorer Mike Libecki is known for conquering remote peaks and instilling adventure in his daughter. Honored as National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, he's completed over 85 major expeditions globally. From Afghanistan to Antarctica, he shares his philosophy of "joyineering," embracing joy in life's challenges and triumphs.REGISTER📷
Full Moon Ski & Snowshoeing @ Sundance March 22 & 23, 4:30 - 9:30 PM
Embark on a magical moonlit adventure either cross-country skiing or snowshoeing through Sundance's scenic wooded trails. Perfect for families or a fun date night, enjoy the beauty of the full moon on the snow-covered landscape. This unguided event allows you the freedom to explore at your own pace.REGISTER
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First Tracks @ Deer Valley Wednesday, March 27, @ 8:30 AM
Experience the thrill of First Tracks exclusively for Deer Valley Season Pass holders. Enjoy early access to the slopes with no reservations required. Take your turns down the renowned corduroy groomers on a bluebird day. What a lovely way to start your day! All lifts will be operational.📷
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Spring Equinox Ecstatic Dance @ Enlighten Wellness Saturday, March 23, from 6:00 PM -9:30 PM
Experience the potent energy of the Spring Equinox with a transformative evening of Yoga, Ecstatic Dance, and Sound Healing. Set intentions for the season during a Cacao Intention Ceremony, then let loose on the dance floor. Dive deep into self-expression with Ecstatic Dance, free from judgment and limitations. Conclude the evening with a Soundbath and closing circle to honor the shared experience. REGISTER
Spring Renewal: A Seasonal Gathering @ The Shop Sunday, March 24, from 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Join a rejuvenating Yoga Flow, followed by tea and a guided journey to welcome the arrival of spring. This donation-based event supports the Sound Summit Trails Foundation, contributing to our community's outdoor spaces. Come together with friends and neighbors to embrace the new season in a spirit of unity and renewal.
Town Series @ Utah Olympic Park (February 15 event rescheduled to March 22) 5:00 PM Check-in / 6:00 PM Race
Join the Town Series for thrilling downhill and SkiMo races at UOP lifts. All ages welcome. Alpine Individual Race: $45 each, Skimo Race: $40 each. COED teams, at least one female required. All proceeds from the Town Series support Park City Ski & Snowboard athletes, programs and coaches.
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FAMILY FUN
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Avalanche Dog Film with Doggo Meet & Greet Wednesday, March 27, from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Experience a heartwarming family film screening of "Superpower Dogs," showcasing the extraordinary bravery and life-saving abilities of some of the world’s most remarkable canine heroes. Following the movie, meet the awe-inspiring avalanche dogs from Wasatch Backcountry Rescue. This special event is in partnership with the exhibit "Snow: Tiny Crystals, Global Impact." Admission is free!
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Pac-12 Women's Gymnastic Championship @ Maverik Center Saturday, March 23, @ 1:00 PM
Get ready to witness the thrill and precision of the Sprouts Pac-12 Women's Gymnastics Championship LIVE.
- Session 1 at 1:00pm features powerhouse teams from Stanford, Arizona State, Washington, and Arizona.
- Session 2 at 5:55pm, showcasing the talents of Cal, Utah, UCLA, and Oregon State.
Mary Poppins @ The Egyptian Theatre March 22 - 31Prepare to be enchanted as Disney's beloved Mary Poppins comes to life on stage! Based on P.L. Travers' books and the classic film, the musical follows the magical nanny as she teaches the Banks family and audiences valuable life lessons. With unforgettable songs and stagecraft, it's a truly magical experience for the whole family. GET TICKETS
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Disney Princess In Concert @ Eccles Theater (SLC) Saturday, March 30, @ 7:30 PM
Experience the magic of Disney Princesses live on stage with Broadway and TV stars Alyssa Fox, Syndee Winters, and Hiba Elchikhe for a concert of a lifetime. This show features your favorite princess songs and behind-the-scenes stories.
GET TICKETSMUSIC THIS WEEKGo to KEPT CURRENT MUSIC for show times, tickets, and future concerts.
3/20 Daôi Freyr @ The Depot
3/20 Dorian Electra @ The Complex
3/20 Steve n’ Seagulls @ The Stateroom
3/20 Rylee McDonald @ Steven Bosco Duo @ The Spur
3/20 DJ Juggy @ Downstairs
3/21 Muddpuddle @ Corner Store Pub & Grill
3/21 Aspen Anonda @ Alpine Social Aid & Pleasure Club
3/21 Sydnie Keddington @ Silver Star Cafe
3/21 Bas @ The Depot
3/21 Diggin Dirt @ The Stateroom
3/21 DJ Dolph @ Downstairs
3/21 Randin Graves & Dueling Pianos
3/22 Chris Bender & Fastback @ Après Pendry
3/22 Matthew & The Hope @ Silver Star Cafe
3/22 Kim Dracula @ The Depot
3/22 Daniel Weldon @ Dejoria Center - State Road Tavern
3/22 Mike Lebecki @ Park City Institute
3/22 Madi Diaz @ The Stateroom
3/22 Satsang @ The Cabin
3/22 Mary Poppins @ The Egyptian
3/22 Kamiyah @ The Complex
3/22 DJ E-Flexx @ Downstairs
3/22 Corey Smaller & Renzos Fault @ The Spur
3/23 Shannon & The 3 Kings @ Canyons Village
3/23 Christan Scheller @ Snowbasin
3/23 Ryan Innes @ Après Pendry
3/23 Hot House West @ Silver Star Cafe
3/23 Chelsea Wolfe @ The Depot
3/23 Vox Veis @ The Complex
3/23 Farrell Dillon @ Park City Institute
3/23 Satin Steel @ The Notch
3/23 Mary Poppins @ The Egyptian
3/23 Michelle Moonshine @ Sundance Resort
3/23 The Pickpockets @ The Cabin
3/23 San Fermin @ The Stateroom
3/23 DJ Shift @ Downstairs
3/23 Grant Matheson & Sauci @ The Spur
3/24 Morgan Snow @ Snowbasin
3/24 Classic Steve @ Après Pendry
3/24 Mary Poppins @ Egyptian Theatre
3/24 03 Greedo @ The Complex
3/24 Alli Brown & Dueling Pianos
3/24 JP Saxe @ The Complex
3/25 Ryan Caraveo @ The Complex
3/25 Aspen Anonda & Daniel Torriente
3/26 Gentri @ The Eccles Theater - Delta Hall - Salt Lake City
3/26 Jon O & Radio Roulette @ The Spur
3/27 Gentri @ The Eccles Theater - Delta Hall - Salt Lake City
3/27 Birdtalker @ The Stateroom
3/27 Rylee McDonald & Morgen Call Duo @ The Spur
3/27 DJ Juggy @ Downstairs
ARTS & CULTURE
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Interactive Art Installation: "Doors of Opportunity" Honoring President and Rosalyn Carter Through March 31Wasatch County Library, in collaboration with Park City Library and Habitat for Humanity of Summit and Wasatch Counties, Utah, honors the lives of President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalyn Carter with an interactive art installation. Symbolizing the Doors of Opportunity they opened, each library hosts a dedicated installation where the public can write notes of gratitude to the Carters for their work in affordable housing. The installation runs until March 31 at Park City Library, Wasatch County Library, and Park City ReStore.
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Spring Into Art: A Local Artists Showcase @ The Yarrow Hotel March 22, from 3:00 PM - 8:00 PM / March 23, from 10:00 AM - 6:00 PMCheck out the vibrant creativity of Summit County artists at the inaugural Spring Showcase, organized by the Park City Artists Association. With the participation of twenty-six talented local artists, this two-day art exhibition at the Yarrow Hotel (Double Tree on Park Avenue) is a great opportunity to discover and acquire unique artworks. This free and family-friendly event serves as a platform to support our local artists!
Vintage Fashion Show Wednesday, March 20, from 5:00 PM -7:00 PM
Get ready to step back in time and witness the evolution of ski fashion at the History Welcome Party on March 20th at the Utah Olympic Park. Organized by the International Skiing History Association (ISHA) and Alf Engen Ski Museum, this event marks the beginning of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame’s annual gathering in Park City. From padded one-piece jump-suits to over-the-boot stretch pants and floral designs, the fashion flashback promises to be a sight to behold. Join us for a celebration of skiing history and style! COST: FREE
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The Art Ecosystem: Art Talk with Local Industry Leaders @ Kimball Art Center Monday, March 25, from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Discover the dynamic contemporary art scene flourishing in Park City with a panel moderated by Leslie Thatcher. Featuring panelists Jocelyn Scudder, Executive Director of the Arts Council; Aldy Milliken, Executive Director of the Kimball Art Center; Jen Schumacher, Co-Chair of the Park City Gallery Association; and Mitch Bedke, Chair of the Park City Artists Association, this event offers a comprehensive overview of visual arts in Park City.
These local cultural leaders will delve into how the Arts Council, Kimball Art Center, galleries, and artists collaborate to cultivate an environment where art thrives. They will discuss the needs of artists in Park City, the missions of their respective organizations, and the importance of collaboration in fostering a deep appreciation for art in our community.
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ConnectHER: How to Leverage Your Retirement Funds Wednesday, March 27, from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Did you know your retirement funds can be your powerhouse for passive investments? Join us at the ConnectHER Seminar: How to Leverage Your Retirement Funds to discover how to create wealth via self-directed IRAs. Guest speaker, Kaaren Hall, CEO of uDirect IRA Services, will share insights on passive investment strategies, the latest trends in self-directed investing, and critical rules of self-direction. With over 20 years of expertise, Kaaren has guided thousands of Americans in diversifying their portfolios using self-directed IRAs, managing over $1B in assets.
This is a Hybrid (In-Person & Virtual) Event. ONLY those who plan on joining us In-Person should purchase a ticket to this event. ZOOM LINK
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Brews & Hues: Spring Fabric Dyeing & Kombucha Tasting @ The Lodge at Blue Sky Friday, March 29, @ 3:30 PM Discover the art of natural dyeing and indulge in a kombucha tasting at Gracie's Farm. Guests are invited to a fabric dyeing class where they'll learn to create stunning designs using farm-fresh ingredients. Savor homemade kombucha while crafting beautiful pieces for the home. All ages are welcome to join in the creative experience! COST: $200RESERVE
Retelling Greek Classics: An Exploration of the Modern Epics with Madeline Miller Thursday, March 21, @ 5:00 PM VIA ZOOMHave a conversation with bestselling author Madeline Miller as she discusses her modern retellings of Greek classics, including "The Song of Achilles" and "Circe." Delve into themes of love, sacrifice, and the power of mythology with one of New York Times best-selling authors. GET TICKETS
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Elle Aesthetics Wellness Night Thursday, March 21, from 4:00 PM - 6:00 PMGuests are invited to an evening of presentations on hormones, nutrition, and skin health. Connect with the expert team to discover ways to enhance well-being. Special skincare offers and $15 vitamin shots available. Don't miss this opportunity to unwind and pamper yourself.
136 South Main Street Heber City, UT, USASIGN UP
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Spring Equinox - Cacao Ceremony @ Shamanic Twist Wednesday, March 20, from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Join a special ceremony as the arrival of spring is in the air and apparently the arrival of a new astrological year. It's time to let go of anything that you are holding on to that no longer serves you. This will include a Cacao Ceremony and a chance to move your body. COST: $45
228 West 200 South Kamas, UT 84036
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The Taste of Things @ Park City Film March 22 - 24 / Fri & Sat @ 7:00 PM / Sun @ 6:00 PM
- Peerless cook Eugenie has worked for the famous gourmet Dodin for the last 20 years. As time went by, the practice of gastronomy and mutual admiration turned into a romantic relationship. Their association gives rise to dishes, one more delicious than the next, that confound even the world’s most illustrious chefs. But Eugenie is fond of her freedom and has never wanted to marry Dodin. So, he decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.
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2024.03.18 15:19 fermenteddarkness New show uploaded on mixcloud
Polina Suffer - Splatter
CIERŃ - Disposable
Bloody Dead And Sexy - Maya
Radio Scarlet - Sestra Sestra
Frozen Charlottes - Witness Marks (Morose Version)
Stygmatia - Proch
Vision of the Void - In the Shadows
Frankenstein - 13th Floor
The Cramps - Big Black Witchcraft Rock
Miguel And The Living Dead - Aliens Wear Sunglasses
The Brickbats - Undead Rock and Roll Music
Screaming Dead - Night Creatures (Live in LA - Part Time Punks Sessions)
THE RED MOON MACABRE - BLACK WIDOW
Cinema Strange - Golden Hand
The Horatii - Eyes for Infamy
Dermabrasion - Goblin Dance
BLACK HEROIN GALLERY - The Boy Who Married The Spider-Face Girl
55CASTLES - HIGH NOON
TELARAÑA - Insomnio
Soft Scent - The Howl
Ötzi - Storm
Martyr Lucifer - Feeders
The Sweet Kill - Queen
Frank The Baptist - The Stoic
SCATTERED ASHES - Feral
Dorian's Steaming Shadow - Hold On to Me
Quarter Life - Falling
Terminal Serious - Walk On A Roof
A Cloud of Ravens - The Blackest Mantra
La Metamorfosi - Goodbye
Lord Thaddeus - Give It Up
Queen Eleanor's Cross - S.O.S
The Shadow Majlis - Mazdur
Aven Graph - Judgment Day
The Sad Lunatics - Six Feet Under
Clergy - Towards Death
Basavriuk - Below and Beyond
The Terror - Parasomnia
Paura Diamante - Abigail (Chiffon Magnifique Remix)
Digital Drvgs - Funeral Party
Darkways - Lies
Esoterik - Trickster
Night Hexe. - Shapes in the Dark
Fleischkrieg - I Believe In Gnomes
Ex-Hyena - Spiral Down
Warwick - Con Dolor
Spectral Spells - Underwater
Curtain - Obsession
Mark E Moon - Vertigo
TANGERINECAT - Ask Owl
Dunkelwald - Lobos Ciegos (ScummV Remix)
Noromakina - Infernal (feat. Marga VM)
Propter Hoc - Beyond the Pleasure Principle
The Mystic Underground - In A Darkened Room
Distant Stares - Vessels Will Dry
The Darkstar Calling - Shadow of your love On The Floor - In Her Eyes (Piano Version)
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CIERŃ - Disposable
Bloody Dead And Sexy - Maya
Radio Scarlet - Sestra Sestra
Frozen Charlottes - Witness Marks (Morose Version)
Stygmatia - Proch
Vision of the Void - In the Shadows
Frankenstein - 13th Floor
The Cramps - Big Black Witchcraft Rock
Miguel And The Living Dead - Aliens Wear Sunglasses
The Brickbats - Undead Rock and Roll Music
Screaming Dead - Night Creatures (Live in LA - Part Time Punks Sessions)
THE RED MOON MACABRE - BLACK WIDOW
Cinema Strange - Golden Hand
The Horatii - Eyes for Infamy
Dermabrasion - Goblin Dance
BLACK HEROIN GALLERY - The Boy Who Married The Spider-Face Girl
55CASTLES - HIGH NOON
TELARAÑA - Insomnio
Soft Scent - The Howl
Ötzi - Storm
Martyr Lucifer - Feeders
The Sweet Kill - Queen
Frank The Baptist - The Stoic
SCATTERED ASHES - Feral
Dorian's Steaming Shadow - Hold On to Me
Quarter Life - Falling
Terminal Serious - Walk On A Roof
A Cloud of Ravens - The Blackest Mantra
La Metamorfosi - Goodbye
Lord Thaddeus - Give It Up
Queen Eleanor's Cross - S.O.S
The Shadow Majlis - Mazdur
Aven Graph - Judgment Day
The Sad Lunatics - Six Feet Under
Clergy - Towards Death
Basavriuk - Below and Beyond
The Terror - Parasomnia
Paura Diamante - Abigail (Chiffon Magnifique Remix)
Digital Drvgs - Funeral Party
Darkways - Lies
Esoterik - Trickster
Night Hexe. - Shapes in the Dark
Fleischkrieg - I Believe In Gnomes
Ex-Hyena - Spiral Down
Warwick - Con Dolor
Spectral Spells - Underwater
Curtain - Obsession
Mark E Moon - Vertigo
TANGERINECAT - Ask Owl
Dunkelwald - Lobos Ciegos (ScummV Remix)
Noromakina - Infernal (feat. Marga VM)
Propter Hoc - Beyond the Pleasure Principle
The Mystic Underground - In A Darkened Room
Distant Stares - Vessels Will Dry
The Darkstar Calling - Shadow of your love On The Floor - In Her Eyes (Piano Version)
2024.03.18 15:19 fermenteddarkness Playlist for last weekend
Polina Suffer - Splatter
CIERŃ - Disposable
Bloody Dead And Sexy - Maya
Radio Scarlet - Sestra Sestra
Frozen Charlottes - Witness Marks (Morose Version)
Stygmatia - Proch
Vision of the Void - In the Shadows
Frankenstein - 13th Floor
The Cramps - Big Black Witchcraft Rock
Miguel And The Living Dead - Aliens Wear Sunglasses
The Brickbats - Undead Rock and Roll Music
Screaming Dead - Night Creatures (Live in LA - Part Time Punks Sessions)
THE RED MOON MACABRE - BLACK WIDOW
Cinema Strange - Golden Hand
The Horatii - Eyes for Infamy
Dermabrasion - Goblin Dance
BLACK HEROIN GALLERY - The Boy Who Married The Spider-Face Girl
55CASTLES - HIGH NOON
TELARAÑA - Insomnio
Soft Scent - The Howl
Ötzi - Storm
Martyr Lucifer - Feeders
The Sweet Kill - Queen
Frank The Baptist - The Stoic
SCATTERED ASHES - Feral
Dorian's Steaming Shadow - Hold On to Me
Quarter Life - Falling
Terminal Serious - Walk On A Roof
A Cloud of Ravens - The Blackest Mantra
La Metamorfosi - Goodbye
Lord Thaddeus - Give It Up
Queen Eleanor's Cross - S.O.S
The Shadow Majlis - Mazdur
Aven Graph - Judgment Day
The Sad Lunatics - Six Feet Under
Clergy - Towards Death
Basavriuk - Below and Beyond
The Terror - Parasomnia
Paura Diamante - Abigail (Chiffon Magnifique Remix)
Digital Drvgs - Funeral Party
Darkways - Lies
Esoterik - Trickster
Night Hexe. - Shapes in the Dark
Fleischkrieg - I Believe In Gnomes
Ex-Hyena - Spiral Down
Warwick - Con Dolor
Spectral Spells - Underwater
Curtain - Obsession
Mark E Moon - Vertigo
TANGERINECAT - Ask Owl
Dunkelwald - Lobos Ciegos (ScummV Remix)
Noromakina - Infernal (feat. Marga VM)
Propter Hoc - Beyond the Pleasure Principle
The Mystic Underground - In A Darkened Room
Distant Stares - Vessels Will Dry
The Darkstar Calling - Shadow of your love On The Floor - In Her Eyes (Piano Version)
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CIERŃ - Disposable
Bloody Dead And Sexy - Maya
Radio Scarlet - Sestra Sestra
Frozen Charlottes - Witness Marks (Morose Version)
Stygmatia - Proch
Vision of the Void - In the Shadows
Frankenstein - 13th Floor
The Cramps - Big Black Witchcraft Rock
Miguel And The Living Dead - Aliens Wear Sunglasses
The Brickbats - Undead Rock and Roll Music
Screaming Dead - Night Creatures (Live in LA - Part Time Punks Sessions)
THE RED MOON MACABRE - BLACK WIDOW
Cinema Strange - Golden Hand
The Horatii - Eyes for Infamy
Dermabrasion - Goblin Dance
BLACK HEROIN GALLERY - The Boy Who Married The Spider-Face Girl
55CASTLES - HIGH NOON
TELARAÑA - Insomnio
Soft Scent - The Howl
Ötzi - Storm
Martyr Lucifer - Feeders
The Sweet Kill - Queen
Frank The Baptist - The Stoic
SCATTERED ASHES - Feral
Dorian's Steaming Shadow - Hold On to Me
Quarter Life - Falling
Terminal Serious - Walk On A Roof
A Cloud of Ravens - The Blackest Mantra
La Metamorfosi - Goodbye
Lord Thaddeus - Give It Up
Queen Eleanor's Cross - S.O.S
The Shadow Majlis - Mazdur
Aven Graph - Judgment Day
The Sad Lunatics - Six Feet Under
Clergy - Towards Death
Basavriuk - Below and Beyond
The Terror - Parasomnia
Paura Diamante - Abigail (Chiffon Magnifique Remix)
Digital Drvgs - Funeral Party
Darkways - Lies
Esoterik - Trickster
Night Hexe. - Shapes in the Dark
Fleischkrieg - I Believe In Gnomes
Ex-Hyena - Spiral Down
Warwick - Con Dolor
Spectral Spells - Underwater
Curtain - Obsession
Mark E Moon - Vertigo
TANGERINECAT - Ask Owl
Dunkelwald - Lobos Ciegos (ScummV Remix)
Noromakina - Infernal (feat. Marga VM)
Propter Hoc - Beyond the Pleasure Principle
The Mystic Underground - In A Darkened Room
Distant Stares - Vessels Will Dry
The Darkstar Calling - Shadow of your love On The Floor - In Her Eyes (Piano Version)
2024.03.18 15:17 fermenteddarkness Playlist for last weekend
Polina Suffer - Splatter
CIERŃ - Disposable
Bloody Dead And Sexy - Maya
Radio Scarlet - Sestra Sestra
Frozen Charlottes - Witness Marks (Morose Version)
Stygmatia - Proch
Vision of the Void - In the Shadows
Frankenstein - 13th Floor
The Cramps - Big Black Witchcraft Rock
Miguel And The Living Dead - Aliens Wear Sunglasses
The Brickbats - Undead Rock and Roll Music
Screaming Dead - Night Creatures (Live in LA - Part Time Punks Sessions)
THE RED MOON MACABRE - BLACK WIDOW
Cinema Strange - Golden Hand
The Horatii - Eyes for Infamy
Dermabrasion - Goblin Dance
BLACK HEROIN GALLERY - The Boy Who Married The Spider-Face Girl
55CASTLES - HIGH NOON
TELARAÑA - Insomnio
Soft Scent - The Howl
Ötzi - Storm
Martyr Lucifer - Feeders
The Sweet Kill - Queen
Frank The Baptist - The Stoic
SCATTERED ASHES - Feral
Dorian's Steaming Shadow - Hold On to Me
Quarter Life - Falling
Terminal Serious - Walk On A Roof
A Cloud of Ravens - The Blackest Mantra
La Metamorfosi - Goodbye
Lord Thaddeus - Give It Up
Queen Eleanor's Cross - S.O.S
The Shadow Majlis - Mazdur
Aven Graph - Judgment Day
The Sad Lunatics - Six Feet Under
Clergy - Towards Death
Basavriuk - Below and Beyond
The Terror - Parasomnia
Paura Diamante - Abigail (Chiffon Magnifique Remix)
Digital Drvgs - Funeral Party
Darkways - Lies
Esoterik - Trickster
Night Hexe. - Shapes in the Dark
Fleischkrieg - I Believe In Gnomes
Ex-Hyena - Spiral Down
Warwick - Con Dolor
Spectral Spells - Underwater
Curtain - Obsession
Mark E Moon - Vertigo
TANGERINECAT - Ask Owl
Dunkelwald - Lobos Ciegos (ScummV Remix)
Noromakina - Infernal (feat. Marga VM)
Propter Hoc - Beyond the Pleasure Principle
The Mystic Underground - In A Darkened Room
Distant Stares - Vessels Will Dry
The Darkstar Calling - Shadow of your love On The Floor - In Her Eyes (Piano Version)
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CIERŃ - Disposable
Bloody Dead And Sexy - Maya
Radio Scarlet - Sestra Sestra
Frozen Charlottes - Witness Marks (Morose Version)
Stygmatia - Proch
Vision of the Void - In the Shadows
Frankenstein - 13th Floor
The Cramps - Big Black Witchcraft Rock
Miguel And The Living Dead - Aliens Wear Sunglasses
The Brickbats - Undead Rock and Roll Music
Screaming Dead - Night Creatures (Live in LA - Part Time Punks Sessions)
THE RED MOON MACABRE - BLACK WIDOW
Cinema Strange - Golden Hand
The Horatii - Eyes for Infamy
Dermabrasion - Goblin Dance
BLACK HEROIN GALLERY - The Boy Who Married The Spider-Face Girl
55CASTLES - HIGH NOON
TELARAÑA - Insomnio
Soft Scent - The Howl
Ötzi - Storm
Martyr Lucifer - Feeders
The Sweet Kill - Queen
Frank The Baptist - The Stoic
SCATTERED ASHES - Feral
Dorian's Steaming Shadow - Hold On to Me
Quarter Life - Falling
Terminal Serious - Walk On A Roof
A Cloud of Ravens - The Blackest Mantra
La Metamorfosi - Goodbye
Lord Thaddeus - Give It Up
Queen Eleanor's Cross - S.O.S
The Shadow Majlis - Mazdur
Aven Graph - Judgment Day
The Sad Lunatics - Six Feet Under
Clergy - Towards Death
Basavriuk - Below and Beyond
The Terror - Parasomnia
Paura Diamante - Abigail (Chiffon Magnifique Remix)
Digital Drvgs - Funeral Party
Darkways - Lies
Esoterik - Trickster
Night Hexe. - Shapes in the Dark
Fleischkrieg - I Believe In Gnomes
Ex-Hyena - Spiral Down
Warwick - Con Dolor
Spectral Spells - Underwater
Curtain - Obsession
Mark E Moon - Vertigo
TANGERINECAT - Ask Owl
Dunkelwald - Lobos Ciegos (ScummV Remix)
Noromakina - Infernal (feat. Marga VM)
Propter Hoc - Beyond the Pleasure Principle
The Mystic Underground - In A Darkened Room
Distant Stares - Vessels Will Dry
The Darkstar Calling - Shadow of your love On The Floor - In Her Eyes (Piano Version)
2024.03.08 03:25 Global_Breakfast Top row seats at Theater Royal Haymarket, how well can you see the stage? Is it worth even going?
Hello London. I'm thinking about going to see Picture of Dorian Gray at the Theater Royal Haymarket but the 40-60£ seats in the top of the gallery are the only ones in my price range.
Has anyone seen it? I hear it's great, but is it worth going if I have to sit that far back? Thank you
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Has anyone seen it? I hear it's great, but is it worth going if I have to sit that far back? Thank you
2024.03.08 03:23 Global_Breakfast Top row seats at Theater Royal Haymarket, how well can you see the stage? Is it worth even going?
Hello London. I'm thinking about going to see Picture of Dorian Gray at the Theater Royal Haymarket but the 40-60£ seats in the top of the gallery are the only ones in my price range.
Has anyone seen it? I hear it's great, but is it worth going if I have to sit that far back? Thank you
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Has anyone seen it? I hear it's great, but is it worth going if I have to sit that far back? Thank you
2024.03.06 20:09 KeptCurrent Best of Park City March 6 - 13
KEPT CURRENT
NON-PROFIT OF THE WEEK
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Red, White & Snow March 7 - 9 Red, White & Snow Event in Park City: The premier wine, culinary, and ski event, Red, White & Snow is back for a weekend-long celebration, benefiting the National Ability Center. For 20 years, this event has united top chefs and winemakers, showcasing exquisite culinary delights and fine wines. It's more than just a gastronomic and oenophilic experience; it's a community of food and wine enthusiasts dedicated to changing lives and promoting inclusive outdoor recreation for all.
Many of the wine dinners are sold out, but you can still join the slopeside splendor of Wine on the Mountain at the St. Regis. A perfect mix of skiing, sipping, and savoring awaits, with a vintage ski vibe and a costume contest that'll add flair to your après-ski. Taste the vintners' best in an unforgettable alpine setting.GET TICKETS
FOOD & DRINK
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Dos Olas Specials
I am always looking for food that is delicious but doesn't break the bank - which you know, is hard to find.
The cantina bar at Dos Olas keeps the winter warm with favorites like $4 street tacos on Taco Tuesdays and $12 nachos on Nacho Normal Wednesdays. You can catch all the big games on numerous big screens, indoors or out, while exploring the state's largest selections of tequila & mezcal.
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Northern France vs. Southern France: Fox School of Wine Friday, March 8, from 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM There are 8 spots left as of this writing, so jump on it!
Wine Tasting Duel with Professor Olivier Perronet at Fox School of Wine: While there's no declared winner, you'll explore each region's distinct characteristics and flavors. This event features five approachable, under-$40 hidden gem wines, complete with stories, history, and food pairing ideas. Test your palate with the Blind Tasting Challenge. Discover your favorite in this fun-filled, educational wine journey.
Enhance your wine tasting experience with delicious Charcuterie Platters, available for purchase from our friends at Park City Dessert. Must be ordered at least 1 day in advance.
New Location: They are now located at the Treasure Mountain Inn - Crescent Room.
WINE TASTING
CHARCUTERIE
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Après at the Goldener Hirsch Daily 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
If you are looking for a spot to après, Goldener Hirsch invites locals to swing on by to toast the day's adventures. Steps from the lifts, this Austrian-inspired chalet offers epicurean delights by the fire on a snug patio. Enjoy a bubbly champagne, indulge in signature fondue, savor the gourmet Goldener hot chocolate, or bite into a housemade Bavarian pretzel amidst festive vibes. No reservations required.
MENU
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Yurt Dinners @ Solider Hollow March & April
Venture into the starlit forest of Soldier Hollow for a unique evening snowshoe adventure, leading to a cozy yurt. Awaiting guests is a private, fine dining experience, featuring a four-course meal by an intimate fire. Savor the winter season with s’mores by the fire or cherish warmth inside the yurt with loved ones.
GET TICKETS
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Drinks with 64 Reykjavik Distillery @ Sundance Resort Friday, March 8, from 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Spotlighting 64 REYKJAVIC DISTILLERY, Owl Bar hosts Joe Spiegal, Brennivin's importer from Iceland. Savor an evening of unique craft cocktails and conversations with the distiller. The distillery's secrets, rumored to be from an elf named Benedikt, include natural infusions and sustainable, locally sourced ingredients, adding a mystical depth to their flavors. Skál to the mysterious elf lore! Entry is complimentary, unfortunately, the drinks are not - it's Utah!
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Fire & Ice @ McHenry Beach March 9-10, from 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Nestled mid-mountain by Silver Lake Lodge, Moët Hennessy, will build a 15-foot ice bar, and feature exclusive drinks from Whispering Angel, Belvedere Vodka, and Woodinville Bourbon. Get instagram ready with an 8-foot-tall rosé bottle ice sculpture, indulge in top culinary delights, and warm up by wood-burning fire. With live DJ music, cornhole, brand giveaways, and comfy seating, it's set to be a memorable affair. Open only to guests 21 and up.
March Green Drinks w/Recycle Utah @ fulFILLed Tuesday, March 12, from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Besides the cocktails and appetizers, this event is all about plastic! Hear insights from Kimberly Flores of fulFILLed, on tackling microplastics with easy swaps, and dive into discussions with Mike Luers, from Snyderville Basin Water Reclamation District on microplastics, nanoplastics, and microrubber. Busing or carpooling is encouraged. If you don't know about this store, check it out. It's got some cool stuff and doing good things to help keep Park City sustainable. COST: FREE
REGISTER
SPORTS
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BMW IBU World Cup Biathlon @ Soldier Hollow March 8 - 10
Witness top global athletes in world cup action. It's been five years since Soldier Hollow last hosted a World Cup biathlon competition so don't miss this! Free Admission.
Wasatch Citizens Series @ White Pine Farm Saturday, March 9, 10:00 AM
Skate right up into the WCS series, Utah's top racing event for citizens! Races kick off with the youngest competitors leading, followed by the Open and Age Group Masters. The courses and venues may shift with the snow and logistics. This is a non-fluro event. REGISTER
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Women's Ski & Ride Weekend @ Park City Mountain March 8 - 10
Get ready for a weekend of empowering ski and ride clinics for all skill levels, including, backcountry avalanche safety, beginners confidence skills, terrain park freestyle, aprés events, and more!
SIGN UP
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The Art of Dancing: Learn to Social Dance / Learn to Ballroom Dance March 5 - April 30
Social Dance Series: From West Coast Swing to Hustle: Inspired by "Dancing with the Stars"? Want to shine on the dance floor at any social event? Join this dance series and learn how to move confidently with any partner. Whether it's weddings, parties, clubs, or concerts, this curriculum covers West Coast Swing, Hustle, Nightclub 2-Step, and more contemporary styles. No partner or experience needed. Enjoy discounts when registering with a friend. Get ready to transform your dance skills and meet new people in a fun, welcoming environment. COST: $150-$180
Tuesdays: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Social Dance Tuesdays: 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Ballroom DanceREGISTER
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Town Series @ Utah Olympic Park Friday, March 8, check in 5:00 PM / Race 6:00 PM
Join the Town Series at UOP, featuring downhill and SkiMo races with separate timings. Open to all, recommended for intermediate level and up. COED teams required for awards. Training opportunities available.REGISTER
Nordica Connect Tour @ Deer Valley Friday, March 8, from 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Carve out a day for skiing and camaraderie with the Nordica women's team. Begin with coffee and a swag bag, move on to group skiing in pre-assigned groups, and experience ski swaps to test the latest Nordica skis. Savor a slopeside lunch, an afternoon ski session, and cap off with a vibrant après party including snacks, music, and a raffle. REGISTER
FAMILY FUN
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Family Art Saturday: Biocrust Sculpture @ Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Saturday, March 9, between 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Biocrust, (a.k.a.biological soil crust) is a vital ecosystem in arid areas. Drawing from Jorge Rojas & Dr. Sasha Reed's "The Biocrust Project," this free event invites families to craft biocrust sculptures with clay and tissue paper. Drop in anytime between 1-4 pm, for creative fun for all ages.
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Family Mindful Yoga with Randi Jo @ The Shop Saturday, March 9, from 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Randi Jo’s Yoga & Mindfulness for Kids classes foster exploration of body, heart, and mind. Children develop patience, imagination, focus, flexibility, balance, and strength. Through exercises and breath work, they learn to adapt their energy levels and adopt important life skills. No need to register, just show up!
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SheJumps Get the Girls Out! @ Alta Saturday, March 9, from 8:30 AM - 4:45 PM
Celebrate International Women's Day with SheJumps' Get the Girls Out! This nationwide initiative welcomes all identifying female individuals to explore the outdoors, foster adventure and celebrate achievement in overcoming barriers. Whether a seasoned explorer or a newbie, this event promises community, inspiration, and lasting bonds.
The cost is free, but a lift ticket is still necessary. Thanks to a partnership with Alta Ski Area, the first 20 registrants can secure discounted lift tickets at $135. Remember, this offer is first-come, first-served at the event morning with registration proof.
REGISTER
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Wasatch Back Student Art Exhibition Opening @ Kimball Art Center Friday, March 8 from 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Marvel at the works of students from K-12 across Summit and Wasatch counties, all exploring the theme of change. Enjoy art activities, art kits for the first 100 guests, a collaborative mural, and crafting 3D cameras from cardboard.
This 2024 exhibition, alongside "Under Construction" featuring Lewis Baltz’s Park City portfolio and Rodrigo Valenzuela’s work, prompts students to reflect on change in our communities and the natural world. It's a unique opportunity to view imaginative and thoughtful art from young local talents.
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Dang Shades Presents Roller Derby @ Woodward Saturday, March 9, from 12:00 PM -2:00 PM
Get ready for a unique snowboarding event designed for fun and creativity across all ages and abilities. Inspired by Chris Beresford's vision of snowboarding as a freestyle art form, this gathering focuses on community and innovation, with runs taking place on rollers. Prepare for a day filled with snowboarding, community bonding, and plenty of giveaways from Dang. Experience snowboarding with a new twist at the Roller Derby – no roller skates needed, just your board and a sense of adventure!
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Aliens Abducted My Parents, And Now I Feel Kinda Left Out @ Park City Film Saturday, March 9 @ 4:00 PM
Itsy Levan is devastated by her parents’ decision to leave the city and buy a fixer-upper in the middle of nowhere. Her life seems over until she meets her space-obsessed neighbor Calvin Kipler, who believes that his parents were abducted by aliens 10 years ago on the night Jesper’s comet was seen. Itsy sees this as her chance to get into a New York City journalism program by writing an exposé on Calvin, but she ends up discovering much more than what’s on the other end of the comet’s tail.
2023 Sundance Film Festival premiere. Part of the Family Film Fest Series with Park City Library. Admission and popcorn are free!
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MUSIC THIS WEEK
Go to KEPT CURRENT MUSIC for show times, tickets, and future concerts.
3/6 moe. @ Egyptian Theatre
3/6 Boogarins x Levitation Room @ The Stateroom
3/6 Jeff Dunham Still Not Canceled @ Maverik Center
3/6 DJ Juggy @ Downstairs
3/6 Christine Baird & Morgen Call Duo @ The Spur
3/7 Bruce Music @ Corner Store Pub & Grill
3/7 Matthew Bashaw @ Silver Star Cafe
3/7 moe. @ Egyptian Theatre
3/7 DJ Dolph @ Downstairs
3/7 Adri Vee & Dueling Pianos @ The Spur
3/8 Whitney Laurent @ Canyons Village
3/8 Megan Blue @ Snowbasin
3/8 Angie Petty (solo) @ Après Pendry
3/8 Take Five Jazz Trio @ Silver Star Cafe
3/8 Mister Sister @ Dejoria Center - State Road Tavern
3/8 Young Dubliners @ The Depot
3/8 Dancing with The Stars Live @ The Eccles Theatre -Delta Hall - (SLC)
3/8 Ryan Beatty @ The Complex
3/8 moe. @ Egyptian Theatre
3/8 Mija @ The Cabin
3/8 Pompe n’Honey @ Sundance
3/8 Margo Cilker @ The Stateroom
3/8 Beat Sessions w/ Scooter & Lavelle @ Downstairs
3/8 TJ Gurn & High Octane @ The Spur
3/9 Encore @ Eccles Theater - Delta Hall (SLC)
3/9 DJ Bently @ Canyons Village
3/9 Cory Mon @ Snowbasin
3/9 Ryan Innes @ Après Pendy
3/9 Red Rock Hot Club @ Silver Star Cafe
3/9 Clash of the Classics @ The Depot
3/9 Body Traffic @ Park City Institute
3/9 moe. @ Egyptian Theatre
3/9 Triggers n’ Slips @ Sundance
3/9 LANY @ Delta Center
3/9 Albert Cummings @ The Stateroom
3/9 The Swinging Lights @ The Notch
3/9 DJ Hurricane @ The Cabin
3/9 Treaty Oak Revival @ The Complex
3/9 DJ Scooter @ Downstairs
3/9 Scott Foster & Steven Bosco Band @ The Spur
3/10 Nate Robinson Solo @ Sundance
3/10 Che Zuro @ Snowbasin
3/10 Mister Sister Trio @ Après Pendry
3/10 moe. @ Egyptian Theatre
3/10 Steven Bosco & Dueling Pianos @ The Spur
3/10 DJ Dirty Dave @ Downstairs
3/11 Ari Abdul & Isabel Larosa @ The Complex
3/11 Mia x Ally @ The Stateroom
3/11 Jon O & Daniel Torriente @ The Spur
3/11 Grouplove @ The Depot
3/12 Twin Temple @ The Depot
3/12 Alro Parks @ The Complex
3/12 Matt Frey & Brennan Hansen Duo @ The Spur
3/12 G.Love & Special Sauce @ The Stateroom
3/13 Rick Montgomery @ The Depot
3/13 Torniall with Dharius @ The Complex
3/13 Steven Bosco & R&R’s Dueling Guitars
3/13 DJ Juggy @ Downstairs
ARTS & CULTURE
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Puppy Snuggle Lounge @ The Pendry Saturday, March 9, from 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Puppy Hangout at The Pendry with Nuzzles & Co. - Hey, who can resist puppy snuggles? Drop by The Pendry where they're teaming up with Nuzzles & Co. for a session with some adorable rescue pups. It's a win-win: you get a dose of puppy love and the little guys get to socialize. Thinking about adopting? You might just meet your new best friend! After hanging out with the pups, why not grab a s'more and head over to Aprés Pendry for a cocktail and some live tunes? Sounds like the perfect way to kick off your evening!
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Dancing With The Stars Live @ Eccles Theatre (SLC) Friday, March 8, @ 3:30 PM & 8:00 PM
The latest tour will showcase beloved professional dancers from the hit TV series, dazzling audiences with new routines and iconic TV showstoppers. Experience the thrill, athleticism, and artistry of the show's ballroom live with performances by stars like Brandon Armstrong, Rylee Arnold, and more. Don't miss Season 32's fan favorite, Harry Jowsey, lighting up Eccles Theater. Tickets are close to selling out so get to it!
GET TICKETS
Luminar & Fujifilm Photo Walk in Deer Creek Reservoir Saturday, March 9, from 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Join the Luminar & Fujifilm North America Photo Walk, a collaboration with local photographer, Benjamin Theurer. This free event is part of nearly 50 across the U.S. this March. Embrace photography with other enthusiasts, explore our hidden gems, and gain insights from Skylum and Fujifilm experts. Connect, learn, and see your world through a new lens with this unique mini-adventure. Don't miss out on this celebration of photography and community spirit.
RSVP
Nina Tichava: “Unfurl” @ Gallery MAR Friday, March 8, from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PMDelve into Nina Tichava's latest solo exhibition, "Unfurl," featuring fresh works from New Mexico. Witness her vibrant compositions unravel, revealing layers of color and form. Experience the essence of growth and discovery in her art, a testament to the beauty of letting go. Enjoy live music and refreshments.RESERVE
Painting Workshop @ Coalville Library Thursday, March 7, @ 6:00 PMIn a relaxed and enjoyable setting, local artist Amber Louder leads a beginner-friendly watercolor class using Let's Make Art tutorials. Geared towards teens and adults, art supplies are provided. RSVP @ 435-336-3070.
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Kirtan Maha Shivaratri Celebration @ The Shop Friday, March 8, from 7:00 PM 11:00 PM
Join the community for a soul-stirring journey into the heart of devotion as Maha Shivaratri is celebrated with a special Kirtan event. This auspicious occasion honors Shiva, embodying supreme consciousness and compassion. It symbolizes the union of Shiva and Shakti, the cosmic dance of creation and destruction, and the awakening of inner consciousness. COST: $40 no registration required.
The Power of Friendships with NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg Wednesday, March 6, @ 2:00 PM VIA ZOOMJoin Nina Totenberg for a chat about her book "Dinners With Ruth," a heartwarming memoir of her 50-year friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This intimate event promises insights into their inspiring journey, celebrating the power of female friendships in shaping careers and lives. REGISTER
Park City Institute: Bodytraffic Thursday, March 9, @ 7:30 PM
BODYTRAFFIC, born in the creative hub of Los Angeles, ignites global audiences with its love for dance. Founded in 2007 by Tina Finkelman Berkett, it champions contemporary dance, educates, and sparks change. Embracing diverse voices, it commissions renowned choreographers like Kyle Abraham, fostering vibrant, innovative performances worldwide.
GET TICKETS
The Wright Brothers and Their Flying Machines lecture given by Dorian DeMaio Wednesday, March 13, from 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Join Dorian DeMaio for a lecture titled "The Wright Brothers and Their Flying Machines". Delve into the complex story of the Wright Brothers' innovative journey to achieve manned flight, dispelling common misconceptions and highlighting their pioneering spirit.
2079 Sidewinder Drive
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Oscar Party @ Park City Film Saturday, March 9, from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
You can strut the red carpet, indulge in drinks and bites from Done to Your Taste, partake in Oscar trivia with prizes, and bid in a silent auction. Tickets: $50 / $40 for PC Film members, includes entry to the 7PM Documentary Shorts screening.
Documentary Shorts Screening (140 min) – Rated PG/PG-13
2024 Oscar Nominated Shorts @ Park City Film Friday, March 8 -10, Fri/Sat at 7:00 PM / Sun at 6:00 PM
For the 19th year running, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. Featuring Animated, Live Action, and Documentary categories, it's your chance to predict the winners and get ahead in your Oscar pool! Join audiences worldwide for this perennial hit and experience this year's top shorts.
GET TICKETS
This Is Where I Learned Not To Sleep@ Park City Film Thursday, March 7, @ 7:00 PM
The documentary follows decorated Nashville cop Mark Wynn on a quest for justice and healing. Wrestling with his own violent past, Wynn works to reform decades of domestic violence mishandling within law enforcement. Through personal reflection and police training sessions, he confronts systemic failures and challenges men to stand up against violence.
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Red, White & Snow March 7 - 9 Red, White & Snow Event in Park City: The premier wine, culinary, and ski event, Red, White & Snow is back for a weekend-long celebration, benefiting the National Ability Center. For 20 years, this event has united top chefs and winemakers, showcasing exquisite culinary delights and fine wines. It's more than just a gastronomic and oenophilic experience; it's a community of food and wine enthusiasts dedicated to changing lives and promoting inclusive outdoor recreation for all.
Many of the wine dinners are sold out, but you can still join the slopeside splendor of Wine on the Mountain at the St. Regis. A perfect mix of skiing, sipping, and savoring awaits, with a vintage ski vibe and a costume contest that'll add flair to your après-ski. Taste the vintners' best in an unforgettable alpine setting.GET TICKETS
FOOD & DRINK
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Dos Olas Specials
I am always looking for food that is delicious but doesn't break the bank - which you know, is hard to find.
The cantina bar at Dos Olas keeps the winter warm with favorites like $4 street tacos on Taco Tuesdays and $12 nachos on Nacho Normal Wednesdays. You can catch all the big games on numerous big screens, indoors or out, while exploring the state's largest selections of tequila & mezcal.
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Northern France vs. Southern France: Fox School of Wine Friday, March 8, from 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM There are 8 spots left as of this writing, so jump on it!
Wine Tasting Duel with Professor Olivier Perronet at Fox School of Wine: While there's no declared winner, you'll explore each region's distinct characteristics and flavors. This event features five approachable, under-$40 hidden gem wines, complete with stories, history, and food pairing ideas. Test your palate with the Blind Tasting Challenge. Discover your favorite in this fun-filled, educational wine journey.
Enhance your wine tasting experience with delicious Charcuterie Platters, available for purchase from our friends at Park City Dessert. Must be ordered at least 1 day in advance.
New Location: They are now located at the Treasure Mountain Inn - Crescent Room.
WINE TASTING
CHARCUTERIE
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Après at the Goldener Hirsch Daily 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
If you are looking for a spot to après, Goldener Hirsch invites locals to swing on by to toast the day's adventures. Steps from the lifts, this Austrian-inspired chalet offers epicurean delights by the fire on a snug patio. Enjoy a bubbly champagne, indulge in signature fondue, savor the gourmet Goldener hot chocolate, or bite into a housemade Bavarian pretzel amidst festive vibes. No reservations required.
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Yurt Dinners @ Solider Hollow March & April
Venture into the starlit forest of Soldier Hollow for a unique evening snowshoe adventure, leading to a cozy yurt. Awaiting guests is a private, fine dining experience, featuring a four-course meal by an intimate fire. Savor the winter season with s’mores by the fire or cherish warmth inside the yurt with loved ones.
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Drinks with 64 Reykjavik Distillery @ Sundance Resort Friday, March 8, from 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Spotlighting 64 REYKJAVIC DISTILLERY, Owl Bar hosts Joe Spiegal, Brennivin's importer from Iceland. Savor an evening of unique craft cocktails and conversations with the distiller. The distillery's secrets, rumored to be from an elf named Benedikt, include natural infusions and sustainable, locally sourced ingredients, adding a mystical depth to their flavors. Skál to the mysterious elf lore! Entry is complimentary, unfortunately, the drinks are not - it's Utah!
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Fire & Ice @ McHenry Beach March 9-10, from 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Nestled mid-mountain by Silver Lake Lodge, Moët Hennessy, will build a 15-foot ice bar, and feature exclusive drinks from Whispering Angel, Belvedere Vodka, and Woodinville Bourbon. Get instagram ready with an 8-foot-tall rosé bottle ice sculpture, indulge in top culinary delights, and warm up by wood-burning fire. With live DJ music, cornhole, brand giveaways, and comfy seating, it's set to be a memorable affair. Open only to guests 21 and up.
March Green Drinks w/Recycle Utah @ fulFILLed Tuesday, March 12, from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Besides the cocktails and appetizers, this event is all about plastic! Hear insights from Kimberly Flores of fulFILLed, on tackling microplastics with easy swaps, and dive into discussions with Mike Luers, from Snyderville Basin Water Reclamation District on microplastics, nanoplastics, and microrubber. Busing or carpooling is encouraged. If you don't know about this store, check it out. It's got some cool stuff and doing good things to help keep Park City sustainable. COST: FREE
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SPORTS
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BMW IBU World Cup Biathlon @ Soldier Hollow March 8 - 10
Witness top global athletes in world cup action. It's been five years since Soldier Hollow last hosted a World Cup biathlon competition so don't miss this! Free Admission.
- Mar 8: Men's 4x7.5KM Relay at 12:25 PM, Women's 7.5KM Sprint at 3:00 PM.
- Mar 9: Women's 4x6KM Relay at 12:25 PM, Men's 10KM Sprint at 3:00 PM.
- Mar 10: Women's 10KM Pursuit at 10:00 AM, Men's 12.5KM Pursuit at 11:50 AM.
Wasatch Citizens Series @ White Pine Farm Saturday, March 9, 10:00 AM
Skate right up into the WCS series, Utah's top racing event for citizens! Races kick off with the youngest competitors leading, followed by the Open and Age Group Masters. The courses and venues may shift with the snow and logistics. This is a non-fluro event. REGISTER
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Women's Ski & Ride Weekend @ Park City Mountain March 8 - 10
Get ready for a weekend of empowering ski and ride clinics for all skill levels, including, backcountry avalanche safety, beginners confidence skills, terrain park freestyle, aprés events, and more!
- Weekend Highlights
- Après with athletes and film screenings
- Mini Jam and live music
- Partner activations with Helly Hansen, Toyota, and Nature Valley
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The Art of Dancing: Learn to Social Dance / Learn to Ballroom Dance March 5 - April 30
Social Dance Series: From West Coast Swing to Hustle: Inspired by "Dancing with the Stars"? Want to shine on the dance floor at any social event? Join this dance series and learn how to move confidently with any partner. Whether it's weddings, parties, clubs, or concerts, this curriculum covers West Coast Swing, Hustle, Nightclub 2-Step, and more contemporary styles. No partner or experience needed. Enjoy discounts when registering with a friend. Get ready to transform your dance skills and meet new people in a fun, welcoming environment. COST: $150-$180
Tuesdays: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Social Dance Tuesdays: 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Ballroom DanceREGISTER
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Town Series @ Utah Olympic Park Friday, March 8, check in 5:00 PM / Race 6:00 PM
Join the Town Series at UOP, featuring downhill and SkiMo races with separate timings. Open to all, recommended for intermediate level and up. COED teams required for awards. Training opportunities available.REGISTER
Nordica Connect Tour @ Deer Valley Friday, March 8, from 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Carve out a day for skiing and camaraderie with the Nordica women's team. Begin with coffee and a swag bag, move on to group skiing in pre-assigned groups, and experience ski swaps to test the latest Nordica skis. Savor a slopeside lunch, an afternoon ski session, and cap off with a vibrant après party including snacks, music, and a raffle. REGISTER
FAMILY FUN
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Family Art Saturday: Biocrust Sculpture @ Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Saturday, March 9, between 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Biocrust, (a.k.a.biological soil crust) is a vital ecosystem in arid areas. Drawing from Jorge Rojas & Dr. Sasha Reed's "The Biocrust Project," this free event invites families to craft biocrust sculptures with clay and tissue paper. Drop in anytime between 1-4 pm, for creative fun for all ages.
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Family Mindful Yoga with Randi Jo @ The Shop Saturday, March 9, from 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Randi Jo’s Yoga & Mindfulness for Kids classes foster exploration of body, heart, and mind. Children develop patience, imagination, focus, flexibility, balance, and strength. Through exercises and breath work, they learn to adapt their energy levels and adopt important life skills. No need to register, just show up!
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SheJumps Get the Girls Out! @ Alta Saturday, March 9, from 8:30 AM - 4:45 PM
Celebrate International Women's Day with SheJumps' Get the Girls Out! This nationwide initiative welcomes all identifying female individuals to explore the outdoors, foster adventure and celebrate achievement in overcoming barriers. Whether a seasoned explorer or a newbie, this event promises community, inspiration, and lasting bonds.
The cost is free, but a lift ticket is still necessary. Thanks to a partnership with Alta Ski Area, the first 20 registrants can secure discounted lift tickets at $135. Remember, this offer is first-come, first-served at the event morning with registration proof.
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Wasatch Back Student Art Exhibition Opening @ Kimball Art Center Friday, March 8 from 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Marvel at the works of students from K-12 across Summit and Wasatch counties, all exploring the theme of change. Enjoy art activities, art kits for the first 100 guests, a collaborative mural, and crafting 3D cameras from cardboard.
This 2024 exhibition, alongside "Under Construction" featuring Lewis Baltz’s Park City portfolio and Rodrigo Valenzuela’s work, prompts students to reflect on change in our communities and the natural world. It's a unique opportunity to view imaginative and thoughtful art from young local talents.
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Dang Shades Presents Roller Derby @ Woodward Saturday, March 9, from 12:00 PM -2:00 PM
Get ready for a unique snowboarding event designed for fun and creativity across all ages and abilities. Inspired by Chris Beresford's vision of snowboarding as a freestyle art form, this gathering focuses on community and innovation, with runs taking place on rollers. Prepare for a day filled with snowboarding, community bonding, and plenty of giveaways from Dang. Experience snowboarding with a new twist at the Roller Derby – no roller skates needed, just your board and a sense of adventure!
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Aliens Abducted My Parents, And Now I Feel Kinda Left Out @ Park City Film Saturday, March 9 @ 4:00 PM
Itsy Levan is devastated by her parents’ decision to leave the city and buy a fixer-upper in the middle of nowhere. Her life seems over until she meets her space-obsessed neighbor Calvin Kipler, who believes that his parents were abducted by aliens 10 years ago on the night Jesper’s comet was seen. Itsy sees this as her chance to get into a New York City journalism program by writing an exposé on Calvin, but she ends up discovering much more than what’s on the other end of the comet’s tail.
2023 Sundance Film Festival premiere. Part of the Family Film Fest Series with Park City Library. Admission and popcorn are free!
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MUSIC THIS WEEK
Go to KEPT CURRENT MUSIC for show times, tickets, and future concerts.
3/6 moe. @ Egyptian Theatre
3/6 Boogarins x Levitation Room @ The Stateroom
3/6 Jeff Dunham Still Not Canceled @ Maverik Center
3/6 DJ Juggy @ Downstairs
3/6 Christine Baird & Morgen Call Duo @ The Spur
3/7 Bruce Music @ Corner Store Pub & Grill
3/7 Matthew Bashaw @ Silver Star Cafe
3/7 moe. @ Egyptian Theatre
3/7 DJ Dolph @ Downstairs
3/7 Adri Vee & Dueling Pianos @ The Spur
3/8 Whitney Laurent @ Canyons Village
3/8 Megan Blue @ Snowbasin
3/8 Angie Petty (solo) @ Après Pendry
3/8 Take Five Jazz Trio @ Silver Star Cafe
3/8 Mister Sister @ Dejoria Center - State Road Tavern
3/8 Young Dubliners @ The Depot
3/8 Dancing with The Stars Live @ The Eccles Theatre -Delta Hall - (SLC)
3/8 Ryan Beatty @ The Complex
3/8 moe. @ Egyptian Theatre
3/8 Mija @ The Cabin
3/8 Pompe n’Honey @ Sundance
3/8 Margo Cilker @ The Stateroom
3/8 Beat Sessions w/ Scooter & Lavelle @ Downstairs
3/8 TJ Gurn & High Octane @ The Spur
3/9 Encore @ Eccles Theater - Delta Hall (SLC)
3/9 DJ Bently @ Canyons Village
3/9 Cory Mon @ Snowbasin
3/9 Ryan Innes @ Après Pendy
3/9 Red Rock Hot Club @ Silver Star Cafe
3/9 Clash of the Classics @ The Depot
3/9 Body Traffic @ Park City Institute
3/9 moe. @ Egyptian Theatre
3/9 Triggers n’ Slips @ Sundance
3/9 LANY @ Delta Center
3/9 Albert Cummings @ The Stateroom
3/9 The Swinging Lights @ The Notch
3/9 DJ Hurricane @ The Cabin
3/9 Treaty Oak Revival @ The Complex
3/9 DJ Scooter @ Downstairs
3/9 Scott Foster & Steven Bosco Band @ The Spur
3/10 Nate Robinson Solo @ Sundance
3/10 Che Zuro @ Snowbasin
3/10 Mister Sister Trio @ Après Pendry
3/10 moe. @ Egyptian Theatre
3/10 Steven Bosco & Dueling Pianos @ The Spur
3/10 DJ Dirty Dave @ Downstairs
3/11 Ari Abdul & Isabel Larosa @ The Complex
3/11 Mia x Ally @ The Stateroom
3/11 Jon O & Daniel Torriente @ The Spur
3/11 Grouplove @ The Depot
3/12 Twin Temple @ The Depot
3/12 Alro Parks @ The Complex
3/12 Matt Frey & Brennan Hansen Duo @ The Spur
3/12 G.Love & Special Sauce @ The Stateroom
3/13 Rick Montgomery @ The Depot
3/13 Torniall with Dharius @ The Complex
3/13 Steven Bosco & R&R’s Dueling Guitars
3/13 DJ Juggy @ Downstairs
ARTS & CULTURE
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Puppy Snuggle Lounge @ The Pendry Saturday, March 9, from 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Puppy Hangout at The Pendry with Nuzzles & Co. - Hey, who can resist puppy snuggles? Drop by The Pendry where they're teaming up with Nuzzles & Co. for a session with some adorable rescue pups. It's a win-win: you get a dose of puppy love and the little guys get to socialize. Thinking about adopting? You might just meet your new best friend! After hanging out with the pups, why not grab a s'more and head over to Aprés Pendry for a cocktail and some live tunes? Sounds like the perfect way to kick off your evening!
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Dancing With The Stars Live @ Eccles Theatre (SLC) Friday, March 8, @ 3:30 PM & 8:00 PM
The latest tour will showcase beloved professional dancers from the hit TV series, dazzling audiences with new routines and iconic TV showstoppers. Experience the thrill, athleticism, and artistry of the show's ballroom live with performances by stars like Brandon Armstrong, Rylee Arnold, and more. Don't miss Season 32's fan favorite, Harry Jowsey, lighting up Eccles Theater. Tickets are close to selling out so get to it!
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Luminar & Fujifilm Photo Walk in Deer Creek Reservoir Saturday, March 9, from 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Join the Luminar & Fujifilm North America Photo Walk, a collaboration with local photographer, Benjamin Theurer. This free event is part of nearly 50 across the U.S. this March. Embrace photography with other enthusiasts, explore our hidden gems, and gain insights from Skylum and Fujifilm experts. Connect, learn, and see your world through a new lens with this unique mini-adventure. Don't miss out on this celebration of photography and community spirit.
RSVP
Nina Tichava: “Unfurl” @ Gallery MAR Friday, March 8, from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PMDelve into Nina Tichava's latest solo exhibition, "Unfurl," featuring fresh works from New Mexico. Witness her vibrant compositions unravel, revealing layers of color and form. Experience the essence of growth and discovery in her art, a testament to the beauty of letting go. Enjoy live music and refreshments.RESERVE
Painting Workshop @ Coalville Library Thursday, March 7, @ 6:00 PMIn a relaxed and enjoyable setting, local artist Amber Louder leads a beginner-friendly watercolor class using Let's Make Art tutorials. Geared towards teens and adults, art supplies are provided. RSVP @ 435-336-3070.
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Kirtan Maha Shivaratri Celebration @ The Shop Friday, March 8, from 7:00 PM 11:00 PM
Join the community for a soul-stirring journey into the heart of devotion as Maha Shivaratri is celebrated with a special Kirtan event. This auspicious occasion honors Shiva, embodying supreme consciousness and compassion. It symbolizes the union of Shiva and Shakti, the cosmic dance of creation and destruction, and the awakening of inner consciousness. COST: $40 no registration required.
The Power of Friendships with NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg Wednesday, March 6, @ 2:00 PM VIA ZOOMJoin Nina Totenberg for a chat about her book "Dinners With Ruth," a heartwarming memoir of her 50-year friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This intimate event promises insights into their inspiring journey, celebrating the power of female friendships in shaping careers and lives. REGISTER
Park City Institute: Bodytraffic Thursday, March 9, @ 7:30 PM
BODYTRAFFIC, born in the creative hub of Los Angeles, ignites global audiences with its love for dance. Founded in 2007 by Tina Finkelman Berkett, it champions contemporary dance, educates, and sparks change. Embracing diverse voices, it commissions renowned choreographers like Kyle Abraham, fostering vibrant, innovative performances worldwide.
GET TICKETS
The Wright Brothers and Their Flying Machines lecture given by Dorian DeMaio Wednesday, March 13, from 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Join Dorian DeMaio for a lecture titled "The Wright Brothers and Their Flying Machines". Delve into the complex story of the Wright Brothers' innovative journey to achieve manned flight, dispelling common misconceptions and highlighting their pioneering spirit.
2079 Sidewinder Drive
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Oscar Party @ Park City Film Saturday, March 9, from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
You can strut the red carpet, indulge in drinks and bites from Done to Your Taste, partake in Oscar trivia with prizes, and bid in a silent auction. Tickets: $50 / $40 for PC Film members, includes entry to the 7PM Documentary Shorts screening.
Documentary Shorts Screening (140 min) – Rated PG/PG-13
- Island in Between (S. Leo Chiang), Taiwan, USA / 20 mins / 2023
- Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó (Sean Wang), USA / 16 mins / 2023
- The ABCs of Book Banning (Sheila Nevins), USA / 27 mins / 2023
- The Barber of Little Rock (John Hoffman, Christine Turner), USA / 35 mins / 2023
- The Last Repair Shop (Kris Bowers, Ben Proudfoot), USA / 39 mins / 2023
2024 Oscar Nominated Shorts @ Park City Film Friday, March 8 -10, Fri/Sat at 7:00 PM / Sun at 6:00 PM
For the 19th year running, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. Featuring Animated, Live Action, and Documentary categories, it's your chance to predict the winners and get ahead in your Oscar pool! Join audiences worldwide for this perennial hit and experience this year's top shorts.
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This Is Where I Learned Not To Sleep@ Park City Film Thursday, March 7, @ 7:00 PM
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2024.03.01 17:29 stressycat Sarah Snook Dorian Gray Tickets Today
Hey, so I’ve got two tickets (Gallery section £20 each) for the Dorian Gray play today at 7:30pm in London Haymarket Theatre. Unfortunately my partner is fallen ill so we can’t go. I got them on Today Tix, it’s such a steal for the price. Would anyone fancy them?
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2024.03.01 00:33 generalpao Things to do in Houston this weekend - February 29th - March 3rd
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FRIDAY - 50 Cent @ NRG Stadium @ 6:45PM
SATURDAY - Hardy @ NRG Stadium @ 2:45PM
SUNDAY - Cornejo @ NRG Stadium @ 2:45PM
Ongoing - Carnival @ NRG Park See the rodeo from the 130-feet ferris wheel, enjoy carnival rides and games, taste the best traditional foods, and take advantage of unique shopping opportunities!
Ongoing - Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo History Exhibit @ The Heritage Society at Sam Houston Park This exhibit represents the cowboy spirit across Houston’s main heritages and is a big part of Houston history during Rodeo season.
Candlelight: A Tribute to 2CELLOS in Concert @ The Bell Tower on 34th @ 6:30PM / 8:45PM Hear hits from Coldplay, Green Day, The Police, Ed Sheeran, and many more brilliantly performed by Listeso String Quartet.
Enanitos Verdes @ House of Blues @ 7PM
TALK @ White Oak Music Hall @ 7PM With Zinadelphia
The Moss @ White Oak Music Hall @ 7PM With Susannah Joffe
The Milk Carton Kids @ Last Concert Cafe @ 8PM With Andrew Combs
The Third Mind ft. Dave Alvin @ The Heights Theater @ 8PM
HE$H @ Stereo Live @ 10PM
Vader @ Scout Bar @ 7:30PM
Fortune Feimster Comedy Show @ Smart Financial Centre @ 7:30PM Affable, charismatic and one of a kind, Fortune Feimster brings her best comedy for a night in Houston.
Candlelight: A Tribute to Rihanna in Concert @ Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church @ 6:30PM Listeso String Quartet performs the best of Rihanna’s repertoire in a unique classical interpretation.
Candlelight: A Tribute to Taylor Swift in Concert @ Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church @ 8:45PM Taylor Swift’s biggest hits performed in a classical program under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Dom Dolla @ Bayou Music Center @ 9PM
Blue October @ 713 Music Hall @ 8PM
Bebop Bounty Big Band @ House of Blues @ 7PM
Futurebirds + The Nude Party @ White Oak Music Hall @ 7PM
Mitch Rowland @ The Heights Theater @ 8PM With Harris Harper
GRAVEDGR @ Stereo Live @ 10PM
October London @ Warehouse Live @ 7PM
The Green @ Last Concert Cafe @ 8PM With Mike Love
Texas Hippie Coalition @ Scout Bar @ 7:30PM
SaberCats vs Utah Warriors @ SaberCats Stadium @ 7PM
First Saturday Arts Market @ Houston Heights @ 11AM Visit Houston’s original monthly outdoor arts event!
Ongoing - Saturday Stargazing @ George Observatory in Needville
Coffee and Cars @ POST @ 8AM Come out and enjoy an amazing display of machines at POST!
HTown Market @ POST @ 11AM Shop from over 100's vendors including artists, boutiques, sneakers, vintage clothing, jewelry, candles, craftsman, flowers, skincare, food & treats, a live DJ and more.
‘Barbie’ Screening @ Discovery Green @ 7PM
Bill Maher Comedy Show @ The Hobby Center @ 8PM A pioneer in political comedy, Bill Maher brings his newest ‘The WTF Tour’ to Houston.
Drum Tao @ The Grand Opera House @ 8PM With unique costumes and stage set-ups, the international sensation Drum Tao takes viewers on a journey to Japan’s ancient world of drumming and martial arts.
‘Meeting on Mount Olympus’ Circus Performance @ MATCH @ 12PM / 2:30PM With this magical introduction to Greek mythology, the show tell the stories of the mythical Gods and Monsters of Greek mythology, shown through aerial arts, dance, singing, and storytelling.
Dancing With The Stars Live @ Smart Financial Centre @ 8PM Following its sold-out success last year, this brand-new high-energy production features your favorite DWTS pros and special guest stars!
Blue October @ 713 Music Hall @ 8PM
Shrek Rave @ House of Blues @ 9PM
Magic City Hippies @ White Oak Music Hall @ 7PM With The Palms & Josh Fudge
Bynx @ Stereo Live @ 10PM
JVNA @ Warehouse Live @ 10PM
The Union Underground @ Scout Bar @ 8PM
Little Artists @ MFAH @ 1PM Families are invited to join an exciting art adventure that includes storybook circle, making art projects in the studio, and guided tour of the galleries.
Kid-Friendly: ‘Stuart Little’ Play @ MATCH @ 12:40 / 3:30PM Main Street Theater presents the endearing classic about a mouse named Stuart Little who is born into an ordinary New York family.
Jazzy Sundays in the Park @ Emancipation Park @ 5PM Catch live jazz bands playing classic jazz, blues, zydeco, and celebrate the rich tradition of jazz in Houston.
John Crist Stand Up @ Smart Financial Centre @ 7PM
Kevin James Stand Up @ Bayou Music Center @ 8PM
Jenny Lewis @ House of Blues @ 7PM
Chelsea Wolfe @ White Oak Music Hall @ 7PM
Elephant Gym @ White Oak Music Hall @ 7PM
Dorian Electra @ Warehouse Live @ 7PM
All weekend - Jay Pharoah Stand Up @ Houston Improv
All weekend - Cirque du Soleil: Corteo @ Toyota Center Cirque du Soleil’s latest production is a unique show where tragedy meets wisdom and reality blends with magic.
All weekend - ‘At Last: A Tribute to Etta James’ Concert @ Jones Hall Celebrate the soulful songs and timeless style of the one and only Etta James in this special tribute concert.
All weekend - ‘Cinderella’ Ballet @ Brown Theater LAST CHANCE - Set to Prokofiev’s classic score with spectacular set and costume design, Stanton Welch’s unique production brings the story into modern times, with a twist to suit the 21st century.
All weekend - ‘Stranger Sings! The Parody’ Musical @ Art Factory Art Factory introduces a side-splitting rendition of the hit Netflix series, bringing its comically 'upside-down' perspective center stage and embracing the nostalgic glory of the 1980s!
All weekend - ‘Gypsy’ Musical @ Stageworks Theatre Considered one of Broadway’s all-time triumphs, this musical tells the story of ambitious showbiz mother Gypsy Rose who treks her two daughters across the country in a cheeky, musical Vaudeville act.
All weekend - ‘The Nerd’ Play @ Alley Theatre From a time before cell phones, this side-splitting comedy by Larry Shue (‘The Foreigner’) is one of the funniest plays ever written.
All weekend - ‘It Is Magic’ Play @ MATCH LAST CHANCE - Chaos, mystery, and magic ensue in this latest The Catastrophic Theatre production.
All weekend - ‘Laughs in Spanish’ Play @ Stages Repertory Theatre Stylish and vibrant, this play offers a light-hearted look at the struggles many Latinas go through to gain entry into cultural and artistic spaces that have historically excluded them.
All weekend - ‘Sister’s Irish Catechism’ Comedy Play @ Stages Repertory Theatre Everyone’s favorite sassy nun Denise Fennell leads a brand new catechism class as audience members become her students in this highly improvised, hilarious show.
All weekend - ‘Twelfth Night’ Play @ UH Quintero Theatre ‘Twelfth Night’ is a rousing contemporary musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy about mistaken identity and self-discovery.
All weekend - ‘Fefu and Her Friends’ Play @ UH Studio 208 ‘Fefu and Her Friends’ is a landmark in feminist theatre and an American avant-garde classic.
Ongoing - Sloomoo Exhibition @ Marq E Entertainment Center Immerse yourself in the joy of sensory play with Sloomoo Institute’s colorful world of never-ending, hand-crafted slime, yummy scents, and soothing ASMR delights.
Ongoing - Winter Colorland @ Houston Color Factory Enjoy Color Factory's glimmering winter wonderland as they have decked out its immersive exhibition rooms for the winter season.
Ongoing - ‘Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism’ Exhibition @ MFAH NEW - The exhibition presents, for the first time in the United States, the origins and legacy of fauvism through paintings, drawings, and watercolors by Henri Matisse and André Derain.
Ongoing - ‘Multiplicity: Blackness In Contemporary American Collage’ Exhibition @ MFAH Collage works by multiple generations of living artists examine concepts such as cultural hybridity, gender fluidity, historical memory, and notions of beauty and power.
Ongoing - ‘Crowning the North: Silver Treasures from Bergen, Norway’ Exhibition @ MFAH Featuring over 200 objects, this exhibition provides an exceptional look at Nordic history and aesthetics across centuries as Bergen stood at the intersection of global trade, taste, and fashion.
Ongoing - ‘Six Scenes From Our Future’ Exhibition @ CAMHThis exhibition challenges the traditional ways of presenting art by offering unexpected pairings and debating the entrenched hierarchies between the fine arts and design.
Ongoing - ‘This Way: A Houston Group Show’ Exhibition @ CAMH The exhibition showcases new work from Black artists who are invited to examine innovative ways of storytelling of their legacy and heritage of Houston Freedmen’s Town.
Ongoing - ‘Janet Sobel: All-Over’ Exhibition @ Menil See the pioneering work of Janet Sobel and her ‘All-Over’ abstract expressionist painting technique which inspired generations of artists, including Jackson Pollock.
Ongoing - ‘Chryssa & New York’ Exhibition @ Menil Greek-born artist Chryssa’s pioneering works combined industrial processes and traditional sculpture-making to create monumental art pieces that respond to our urban, everyday environments.
Ongoing - ‘Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign Us’ Exhibition @ Moody Center for the Arts Kahraman’s first solo exhibition features works informed by the artist’s Iraqi-Kurdish heritage and experience as a refugee while highlighting her research-driven practice.
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THURSDAY - For King + Country @ NRG Stadium @ 6:45PMFRIDAY - 50 Cent @ NRG Stadium @ 6:45PM
SATURDAY - Hardy @ NRG Stadium @ 2:45PM
SUNDAY - Cornejo @ NRG Stadium @ 2:45PM
Ongoing - Carnival @ NRG Park See the rodeo from the 130-feet ferris wheel, enjoy carnival rides and games, taste the best traditional foods, and take advantage of unique shopping opportunities!
Ongoing - Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo History Exhibit @ The Heritage Society at Sam Houston Park This exhibit represents the cowboy spirit across Houston’s main heritages and is a big part of Houston history during Rodeo season.
THURSDAY - FEBRUARY 29th
Ben Jackson Stand Up @ Houston Improv @ 7:30PMCandlelight: A Tribute to 2CELLOS in Concert @ The Bell Tower on 34th @ 6:30PM / 8:45PM Hear hits from Coldplay, Green Day, The Police, Ed Sheeran, and many more brilliantly performed by Listeso String Quartet.
Enanitos Verdes @ House of Blues @ 7PM
TALK @ White Oak Music Hall @ 7PM With Zinadelphia
The Moss @ White Oak Music Hall @ 7PM With Susannah Joffe
The Milk Carton Kids @ Last Concert Cafe @ 8PM With Andrew Combs
The Third Mind ft. Dave Alvin @ The Heights Theater @ 8PM
HE$H @ Stereo Live @ 10PM
Vader @ Scout Bar @ 7:30PM
FRIDAY - MARCH 1st
Playdate @ MFAH @ 11:30AM Through play and experimentation in programs like MFAH Playdate, toddlers have their first experience with art.Fortune Feimster Comedy Show @ Smart Financial Centre @ 7:30PM Affable, charismatic and one of a kind, Fortune Feimster brings her best comedy for a night in Houston.
Candlelight: A Tribute to Rihanna in Concert @ Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church @ 6:30PM Listeso String Quartet performs the best of Rihanna’s repertoire in a unique classical interpretation.
Candlelight: A Tribute to Taylor Swift in Concert @ Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church @ 8:45PM Taylor Swift’s biggest hits performed in a classical program under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Dom Dolla @ Bayou Music Center @ 9PM
Blue October @ 713 Music Hall @ 8PM
Bebop Bounty Big Band @ House of Blues @ 7PM
Futurebirds + The Nude Party @ White Oak Music Hall @ 7PM
Mitch Rowland @ The Heights Theater @ 8PM With Harris Harper
GRAVEDGR @ Stereo Live @ 10PM
October London @ Warehouse Live @ 7PM
The Green @ Last Concert Cafe @ 8PM With Mike Love
Texas Hippie Coalition @ Scout Bar @ 7:30PM
SATURDAY - MARCH 2nd
Dynamo vs NY Red Bulls @ Shell Energy Stadium @ 7:30PMSaberCats vs Utah Warriors @ SaberCats Stadium @ 7PM
First Saturday Arts Market @ Houston Heights @ 11AM Visit Houston’s original monthly outdoor arts event!
Ongoing - Saturday Stargazing @ George Observatory in Needville
Coffee and Cars @ POST @ 8AM Come out and enjoy an amazing display of machines at POST!
HTown Market @ POST @ 11AM Shop from over 100's vendors including artists, boutiques, sneakers, vintage clothing, jewelry, candles, craftsman, flowers, skincare, food & treats, a live DJ and more.
‘Barbie’ Screening @ Discovery Green @ 7PM
Bill Maher Comedy Show @ The Hobby Center @ 8PM A pioneer in political comedy, Bill Maher brings his newest ‘The WTF Tour’ to Houston.
Drum Tao @ The Grand Opera House @ 8PM With unique costumes and stage set-ups, the international sensation Drum Tao takes viewers on a journey to Japan’s ancient world of drumming and martial arts.
‘Meeting on Mount Olympus’ Circus Performance @ MATCH @ 12PM / 2:30PM With this magical introduction to Greek mythology, the show tell the stories of the mythical Gods and Monsters of Greek mythology, shown through aerial arts, dance, singing, and storytelling.
Dancing With The Stars Live @ Smart Financial Centre @ 8PM Following its sold-out success last year, this brand-new high-energy production features your favorite DWTS pros and special guest stars!
Blue October @ 713 Music Hall @ 8PM
Shrek Rave @ House of Blues @ 9PM
Magic City Hippies @ White Oak Music Hall @ 7PM With The Palms & Josh Fudge
Bynx @ Stereo Live @ 10PM
JVNA @ Warehouse Live @ 10PM
The Union Underground @ Scout Bar @ 8PM
SUNDAY - MARCH 3rd
Blackwood Farmers Market @ POST @ 2PM Shop, taste, and support fellow Texan makers and organizations working towards the city’s green future.Little Artists @ MFAH @ 1PM Families are invited to join an exciting art adventure that includes storybook circle, making art projects in the studio, and guided tour of the galleries.
Kid-Friendly: ‘Stuart Little’ Play @ MATCH @ 12:40 / 3:30PM Main Street Theater presents the endearing classic about a mouse named Stuart Little who is born into an ordinary New York family.
Jazzy Sundays in the Park @ Emancipation Park @ 5PM Catch live jazz bands playing classic jazz, blues, zydeco, and celebrate the rich tradition of jazz in Houston.
John Crist Stand Up @ Smart Financial Centre @ 7PM
Kevin James Stand Up @ Bayou Music Center @ 8PM
Jenny Lewis @ House of Blues @ 7PM
Chelsea Wolfe @ White Oak Music Hall @ 7PM
Elephant Gym @ White Oak Music Hall @ 7PM
Dorian Electra @ Warehouse Live @ 7PM
All Weekend
FRIDAY & SUNDAY - 2024 Oscar-Nominated Short Films Screenings @ MFAH MFAH presents its annual selection of Oscar-nominated live-action and documentary shorts you always wish you’d seen come Oscar night.All weekend - Jay Pharoah Stand Up @ Houston Improv
All weekend - Cirque du Soleil: Corteo @ Toyota Center Cirque du Soleil’s latest production is a unique show where tragedy meets wisdom and reality blends with magic.
All weekend - ‘At Last: A Tribute to Etta James’ Concert @ Jones Hall Celebrate the soulful songs and timeless style of the one and only Etta James in this special tribute concert.
All weekend - ‘Cinderella’ Ballet @ Brown Theater LAST CHANCE - Set to Prokofiev’s classic score with spectacular set and costume design, Stanton Welch’s unique production brings the story into modern times, with a twist to suit the 21st century.
All weekend - ‘Stranger Sings! The Parody’ Musical @ Art Factory Art Factory introduces a side-splitting rendition of the hit Netflix series, bringing its comically 'upside-down' perspective center stage and embracing the nostalgic glory of the 1980s!
All weekend - ‘Gypsy’ Musical @ Stageworks Theatre Considered one of Broadway’s all-time triumphs, this musical tells the story of ambitious showbiz mother Gypsy Rose who treks her two daughters across the country in a cheeky, musical Vaudeville act.
All weekend - ‘The Nerd’ Play @ Alley Theatre From a time before cell phones, this side-splitting comedy by Larry Shue (‘The Foreigner’) is one of the funniest plays ever written.
All weekend - ‘It Is Magic’ Play @ MATCH LAST CHANCE - Chaos, mystery, and magic ensue in this latest The Catastrophic Theatre production.
All weekend - ‘Laughs in Spanish’ Play @ Stages Repertory Theatre Stylish and vibrant, this play offers a light-hearted look at the struggles many Latinas go through to gain entry into cultural and artistic spaces that have historically excluded them.
All weekend - ‘Sister’s Irish Catechism’ Comedy Play @ Stages Repertory Theatre Everyone’s favorite sassy nun Denise Fennell leads a brand new catechism class as audience members become her students in this highly improvised, hilarious show.
All weekend - ‘Twelfth Night’ Play @ UH Quintero Theatre ‘Twelfth Night’ is a rousing contemporary musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy about mistaken identity and self-discovery.
All weekend - ‘Fefu and Her Friends’ Play @ UH Studio 208 ‘Fefu and Her Friends’ is a landmark in feminist theatre and an American avant-garde classic.
Ongoing Special Events and Museum Exhibitions
Ongoing - The Rink: Rolling @ Discovery Green This spring, Discovery Green visitors can enjoy roller-skating fun at Houston’s only outdoor roller rink.Ongoing - Sloomoo Exhibition @ Marq E Entertainment Center Immerse yourself in the joy of sensory play with Sloomoo Institute’s colorful world of never-ending, hand-crafted slime, yummy scents, and soothing ASMR delights.
Ongoing - Winter Colorland @ Houston Color Factory Enjoy Color Factory's glimmering winter wonderland as they have decked out its immersive exhibition rooms for the winter season.
Ongoing - ‘Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism’ Exhibition @ MFAH NEW - The exhibition presents, for the first time in the United States, the origins and legacy of fauvism through paintings, drawings, and watercolors by Henri Matisse and André Derain.
Ongoing - ‘Multiplicity: Blackness In Contemporary American Collage’ Exhibition @ MFAH Collage works by multiple generations of living artists examine concepts such as cultural hybridity, gender fluidity, historical memory, and notions of beauty and power.
Ongoing - ‘Crowning the North: Silver Treasures from Bergen, Norway’ Exhibition @ MFAH Featuring over 200 objects, this exhibition provides an exceptional look at Nordic history and aesthetics across centuries as Bergen stood at the intersection of global trade, taste, and fashion.
Ongoing - ‘Six Scenes From Our Future’ Exhibition @ CAMHThis exhibition challenges the traditional ways of presenting art by offering unexpected pairings and debating the entrenched hierarchies between the fine arts and design.
Ongoing - ‘This Way: A Houston Group Show’ Exhibition @ CAMH The exhibition showcases new work from Black artists who are invited to examine innovative ways of storytelling of their legacy and heritage of Houston Freedmen’s Town.
Ongoing - ‘Janet Sobel: All-Over’ Exhibition @ Menil See the pioneering work of Janet Sobel and her ‘All-Over’ abstract expressionist painting technique which inspired generations of artists, including Jackson Pollock.
Ongoing - ‘Chryssa & New York’ Exhibition @ Menil Greek-born artist Chryssa’s pioneering works combined industrial processes and traditional sculpture-making to create monumental art pieces that respond to our urban, everyday environments.
Ongoing - ‘Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign Us’ Exhibition @ Moody Center for the Arts Kahraman’s first solo exhibition features works informed by the artist’s Iraqi-Kurdish heritage and experience as a refugee while highlighting her research-driven practice.
2024.02.29 03:01 TristramXen Art by Dorian Cleavenger
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2024.02.24 22:28 TristramXen Art by Dorian Cleavenger
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2024.02.22 13:34 Gznork26 [FN] Fairy Dust — Story 3 of a series
“Fairy Dust” (Story 3 in a series that began here)
by P. Orin Zack
(01/17/2011)
“’Guardian angel’, my eye,” Alluis Benoit said sharply. “It’s self-interest, pure and simple.”
Ben’s traveling companion smiled wryly, but didn’t shift his gaze from ‘Dream Lady’, Edward McCarten’s 1922 sculpture of an angel sprinkling the sand of dreams over two sleeping children. “I used to live nearby,” he said. “Sunday mornings, I’d get up early and walk along the lakefront from Belmont Harbor down here to the Lincoln Park Zoo. One day, I came across a big chalk Ziggy cartoon. ‘If we’re here to help other people’, the little guy wanted to know, ‘what are other people here for?’”
“Now you’ve lost me, Bob.”
Robert Verdun glanced at the Primate House. “This sculpture was put here for a reason,” he said. “The parks department may disagree, but I think it’s our dreams that set us apart from the animals, even more than our genes. Everyone has dreams, Ben. Face it. That protester you hassled outside the abortion clinic was there because she feels just as strongly that a fetus is a person as you do that it’s not. Turning that conviction into accepted fact is her dream, and she acts on it every day. So in a warped kind of way, she’s acting as a guardian angel to people you don’t believe even exist. My point, Ben, is that none of us is here simply to play out the whims of whatever being has decided to look out for us.”
“But that’s just it. My so-called guardian angel is me – a part of me that I’m not consciously aware of, sure, but it’s still me.”
The two men had taken the Chicago Transit bus north from the Loop after stowing their luggage from the Greyhound in a locker. Bob’s planned trip to D.C. had been sidetracked by a cell call he got while they were stopped in St. Louis. All Ben knew was that his new friend had gotten a lead on something, and that he needed to meet someone on the near north side. That’s how they’d ended up near the clinic on Lasalle. And after the confrontation, a walk in the park just seemed like the right thing to do.
“I am humbled at the depth of your understanding.”
Ben flashed a pained smirk.
“I’m serious. Really. The idea that god is just a part of ourselves that we’re not consciously aware of is something that most people never even consider. Even folks who see the divine in all things tend to draw a line, to deny their connection to it by staring blindly into the gulf that separates us mere mortals from the ineffable. When, as you say, it’s really just a matter of us not being aware of it.”
“Are you done yet?”
“Ben,” he said as he turned to leave the park, “I really have to thank you for that. You’ve really made my day. You have.”
Unsure whether Bob was mocking him, Ben shrugged his shoulders and skipped a few times to catch up with him. He was still in a bit of a funk when they turned onto Clark and saw a long line of people standing along the far-side sidewalk, chatting with one another. Curious, they crossed the street and approached a man in a blue work shirt who was watching the cars go by.
“End of the line’s over there,” he said amiably, pointing southward, towards the city.
Ben stepped back and sighted along the line. There were roughly fifty people behind him. “I see. What are you all waiting for? Is there a show or something?”
The man shook his head. “You could call it that, I suppose. They opened a satellite Unemployment office in a vacant storefront – real estate office I think -- to handle the overflow and keep all us unsightly folks off the downtown streets. I think someone in City Hall figured having so many unemployed people around was bad for business or some such. Of course all they ever do is give you a song and dance, so, yeah, it is kind of a show. It’s something to do, anyway.”
“If you don’t mind me asking,” Bob said, “what was it you used to do? I mean before you lost your job or whatever. From the shirt and the look of your hands, I was guessing you were a mechanic.”
He grinned. “No. Cars are my hobby, though. Well, they were when I could afford it. For now, all I can do is look. Anyway, I was an engineer until someone realized I’d been an engineer for so long that my hair was beginning to turn. We all knew it was age discrimination, but the Monkeys in Business Attire— “ he caught himself and chuckled “—the MBAs, I mean, have high-priced lawyers to camouflage it for them.”
Bob extended his hand. “Thanks. I appreciate your honesty.”
While they shook hands, the man tilted his head slightly. “And you two? What’s your story?”
“Me?” Ben said. “Well I was one of the high-fliers. I made two sizeable stacks of coin on the strength of some memories I shouldn’t have been born with, and then lost ‘em both to bad judgment. After I trashed my ride on I-70 yesterday, a Kansas state trooper stopped a Greyhound for me to leave the state on. Bob here’s been my meal ticket since then.” He peered at Bob briefly. “Which reminds me. We’ve got to do something about that. It’s starting to creep me out.”
The engineer laughed heartily. “Chill, man. We all need a hand at one time or another.”
“Speaking of which,” Bob said, “where do we catch the bus downtown?”
The bus stop was just past the entrance to the satellite UI office, so they headed there slowly, exchanging greetings and the odd comment with some of the people they passed. At one point, Ben looked over at his new friend and frowned. “Something’s been bothering me. What is it that you do, anyway? Who was that you went to see on Division Street, a drug connection?”
Bob looked pained. “I suppose you could call it an addiction, but it’s not what you think. I own a store in Denver, Context Antiques and Collectibles. It started as a geeky obsession, really. You see, I’d bought a sculpture called ‘The Laughing Unicorn’ at ChiCon 4 -- the Chicago World Science Fiction Convention in 1982. Some years later, I discovered that Darlene Coltrain’s sculpture had been mentioned in Gordon Dickson’s 1984 novel, ‘The Final Encyclopedia’. So, of course I had to find a signed first edition, so I could display them together. You’d be amazed at what paired items like that fetch at auction. Anyway, that call I got in St. Louis was from an old friend here. He said he knew who had the last of those little sculptures she’d made. And well, since we were nearby, I told him to hold the news until I arrived.”
Ben stopped dead in front of the entrance and stared at him. “You’re an antiques dealer? That’s hilarious. I’d always thought that was too stuffy for words, but when you put it that way it sounds more like a scavenger hunt. I mean, really. Think about it. For TV geeks, you could pair a shooting script for Rod Serling’s Night Gallery with the painting that went with it. Or for movie fans, maybe a first edition of ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey’ and the painting used in the film. Or—.”
At that moment, the doors flew open and a woman stumbled into him. Hot on her heels were a man in high dudgeon with an ID badge clipped to his vest, and a blue-suited security guard. While Ben was turning to see what had hit him in the back, the woman, trim-looking and about thirty-five, planted her feet and defiantly faced the one with the badge.
“I’ve told you before, Ms. Strumble,” he said loudly, “you don’t qualify for unemployment compensation. That was true downtown, and it’s true here, too. So please, do us all a favor and leave.”
She glanced at the knot of people who had stepped out of the line to prevent a scuffle, and then back at the man. “As far as I’m concerned, Mr. Jenkins, getting paid for being out of work is nothing but a scheme to keep unemployed workers docile. But that’s not what I came down here for anyway, which you would have known if you’d bothered to let me speak before you and your goon rushed me out the door.”
“Uh huh. Well, with an attitude like that, you’re not going to get any kind of help here at all. Good-bye!” He looked around at the people who had moved to intervene, shook his head in annoyance, and went back inside.
While she was catching her breath, Bob stepped closer. “What was all that about, Ms… Strumble is it?”
She nodded. “Kaylee.”
“Were you serious about unemployment being a scheme?”
“As a heart attack. You only qualify for unemployment if you’d been working as an employee. That’s a pretty good disincentive to starting a business right there, since most of them fail anyway. Better to keep your head down and not make waves.”
Several onlookers voiced their support.
“If you start a business, like I did,” she continued, “you’re not only risking everything against failure, you’re cutting your own hole through the social safety net. Go bankrupt — which is what happened to me — and you’re a pariah. Your time in business is a giant black hole in your resume, a time away from whatever you did before, and that’s all the reason HR drones need to cull your pitch for rejoining the workforce.”
“Well,” Ben said unsteadily, “what are you going to do now?”
“I don’t know. I need to think.”
“In that case,” Bob said, with a hint of a come-on in his voice, “why don’t you join us for some coffee. There’s a shop across the way. I’m buying.”
Over coffee, Kaylee told them about her business, a handcrafts company that sold the sort of things that Ben had spent most of his life disparaging: tools for meditation and divination, the very same self-exploration that he’d ignored in favor of the future memories he’d grown to depend on. It was an uncomfortable juxtaposition, but it spurred him to relate the rollercoaster of success and failure that he’d just be thrown off of. And finally, Bob filled her in on the geeky obsessions that his oddball business catered to.
“So your business grew out of a hobby?” she asked.
“Yeah. I hear that happens a lot.”
“Hmmm,” she said, swirling the last of her coffee. She studied the barista’s rack of flavorings behind the counter, and then turned to look out the window. “That line-up of people over there is like a primordial stew for building businesses out of.”
“They what?” Ben was lost.
“Yeah. The only thing they knew about one another when they arrived was that they’re all looking for work. But look at what’s happening.”
Bob studied the scene for a moment. “They’re talking?”
“Exactly. And by doing that, they’re finding out little bits and pieces about one another. Since they’re strangers, it’s probably nothing too personal. But maybe they’re chatting about their hobbies.”
“Like that engineer we spoke to,” Ben said, brightening. “He said he worked on cars when he could afford to.”
“Sure. Lots of people have hobbies. Some of them may even own some pretty pricey equipment, too: a programmer who dabbles in machine embroidery, or a receptionist with a penchant for making fine jewelry. Maybe even a mechanical genius that just needs some time in a well-equipped shop to build that gadget she’s always dreaming about.”
She paused, and scanned the line-up. “Each of them only has a part of what it takes to turn it into a profitable business. What they’re missing is the talent pool to flesh out that business, and the inspiration to do it. And yet, they may be within twenty yards of those missing people right this very minute.”
Bob had been nodding for a while, and now broke out in a wide grin. “Hell. Why not? There’s nothing to lose. Let’s give it a try. Come on!”
When they returned, the blue-shirted engineer that Bob and Ben had spoken with earlier was second in line outside the door. “Hey,” he said, as they approached, “weren’t you two looking for the bus stop a while ago?” When he recognized the woman, he smiled graciously and extended his hand. “I’m Jason. And I’ve gotta say, that was great, what you did back there. The line’s been buzzing about you ever since.”
They clasped hands, but did not shake. She studied his face for a moment, and then said, “Kaylee.”
“So what can I do for you? I don’t have much time, though. They’ll be coming out for the next few people in a couple of minutes.”
“We have a proposition for you. If this works, it could change a lot of people’s lives for the better.”
“Shoot.”
“I’m told that you’re an engineer, but that your real passion is cars. So, would I be right in assuming that you have a well-equipped shop sitting idle for a lack of money?”
Jason nodded. “Sure. I’ve got a full set of tools and supplies, even a lift, but I had to part with the cars to pay my bills. Why?”
“Well, I’m betting that somewhere on this line, there’s someone with an idea for building something, but nowhere to build it, and nothing to build it with. I figure if we start putting pieces like that together, we can turn a lot of this labor force into profitable businesses. And even if we don’t find that mechanical genius, talking the idea up might turn an idle embroidery machine into the means for an unemployed graphic designer to create salable patches, or who knows what.”
The door opened, and a staffer blithely said, “The next three people can come in now.”
Jason turned to look at him, and then back at Kaylee. Smiling, he said, “No thanks. I won’t be needing your help today.”
“Great!” Bob said as Jason stepped from the line.
“Okay, then. Looking at this as an engineering problem, the core asset for each team has to be the owner of the physical plant. In my case, that’s the shop. But as you pointed out, it could also be a hobbyist’s embroidery machine, a jewelry-making set-up, or hell, even a software development suite. Does that sound right to you?”
Kaylee was ecstatic. “Exactly. So we start by polling the line for people with the means and the inclination, but not the talent or skill.”
“Then, once we have those,” Bob added happily, “we start asking around for anyone with the talent or skill, but not the means. And we put those people together.”
“Yes,” Jason said. “At that point, what’s missing is the support structure, the people whose job is to keep the wheels greased, the office managers. If we can get that much organized, the rest will take care of itself. Well, except for the bugaboo that always kept me from making a go at business: sales and marketing.”
“Don’t worry about that yet,” Bob assured him. “I can fix that in post.”
Ben, who’d been looking back and forth among them in increasing distress, finally had to speak. “Wait, wait, wait.”
Kaylee raised her splayed right hand towards him. “Is there something wrong?”
“Not wrong, exactly. But there’s something I’ve got to say.”
“Okay.”
“Well, it’s like this. I’ve… I’ve spent years following what I thought was a completely laid-out plan for my life. I lived from one vagrant memory of the future to the next, always knowing that as long as those memories turned real, I wasn’t really taking any risks. And it worked; well it did until yesterday. The thing is, I never really dreamed of doing something, never really took a chance that maybe I could succeed at anything.”
He stopped to look down the line of people they were about to approach, shuddered, and shook his head slowly.
“But you,” he said, gesturing unsteadily at Kaylee, “you’re like, just the opposite. You took a chance at opening that handcrafts business, without a clue about whether you’d succeed, or if you’d fall off a cliff. And now you’re planning to entice a lot of these people here into taking the same kind of risk. But what if they fail? What if there’s no point to even trying? I mean, the idea of pairing someone with a fancy sewing machine with someone who’s a good designer is just nuts! It couldn’t possibly work. If it did, people would be lashing up like that all over the place, and I tell you, I just don’t see that happening all that much. So what makes you think you have the right to get people to take risks like that? If they fail, it won’t hurt you, will it? I just don’t know.”
Kaylee touched his arm, and he relaxed a bit. “I understand where you’re coming from, Ben. Really, I do. I went through panics worse than that before opening my store. But then I realized that I could only fall as far as I could climb. And if I didn’t try at all, I’d never find out if I could succeed, if I could make a dream come real. We’re not going to force anyone to do anything here. All we’re going to do is suggest possibilities. Everyone gets to decide whether to take a risk on the dream we sprinkle over him. But first we have to suggest the dream. What they do with it is up to them. Okay?”
“I suppose. But if it’s all the same to you, I think I’ll just wait here, and let you three sprinkle the fairy dust.”
Bob, Kaylee and Jason spread out and started chatting up the line of unemployed Chicagoans. Their inquiries sparked further exchanges among the people who didn’t have the first ingredient. A few minutes later, three people stepped slightly out of line. The trio’s schmoozing had identified two of them; the third, however, was a product of the idea they’d planted. Now it was time for phase two. Bob, Kaylee and Jason each joined one of the trio, and together they started another round, only this time asking if anyone either had the talent to make use of the equipment, or knew someone who did, and who might be interested in taking a chance on using it.
By the time they were finished, another six people had been let into the Unemployment Insurance office, two of the three original candidates had found a match, and several other people had offered their services for such things as writing, website design and of course office manager. Quite a number of people decided to pack it in for the day rather than wait on the sidewalk any longer. So when the UI worker next peeked out to round up some more clients, the only person still near the doorway was Ben.
“Where’d everyone go?” she asked.
“They’re off chasing their dreams, I think.”
“What?”
Ben pointed at Kaylee, Bob and Jason, who were heading back towards the door. “Ask them.”
The UI worker scrambled back inside. A moment later, the guy with the vest returned. “What’s going on here, Ms. Strumble? What have you done? Are you interfering with the operation of a government agency?”
She looked at him gravely for a few seconds, and then broke into a sly grin. “Why, yes. Yes I am, Mr. Jenkins. I don’t think a lot of those people will be populating your kind of dreams much longer. I’ve given them back a taste for their own.”
THE END
Copyright 2011 by P. Orin Zack
[To be continued in "Outlier"]
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by P. Orin Zack
(01/17/2011)
“’Guardian angel’, my eye,” Alluis Benoit said sharply. “It’s self-interest, pure and simple.”
Ben’s traveling companion smiled wryly, but didn’t shift his gaze from ‘Dream Lady’, Edward McCarten’s 1922 sculpture of an angel sprinkling the sand of dreams over two sleeping children. “I used to live nearby,” he said. “Sunday mornings, I’d get up early and walk along the lakefront from Belmont Harbor down here to the Lincoln Park Zoo. One day, I came across a big chalk Ziggy cartoon. ‘If we’re here to help other people’, the little guy wanted to know, ‘what are other people here for?’”
“Now you’ve lost me, Bob.”
Robert Verdun glanced at the Primate House. “This sculpture was put here for a reason,” he said. “The parks department may disagree, but I think it’s our dreams that set us apart from the animals, even more than our genes. Everyone has dreams, Ben. Face it. That protester you hassled outside the abortion clinic was there because she feels just as strongly that a fetus is a person as you do that it’s not. Turning that conviction into accepted fact is her dream, and she acts on it every day. So in a warped kind of way, she’s acting as a guardian angel to people you don’t believe even exist. My point, Ben, is that none of us is here simply to play out the whims of whatever being has decided to look out for us.”
“But that’s just it. My so-called guardian angel is me – a part of me that I’m not consciously aware of, sure, but it’s still me.”
The two men had taken the Chicago Transit bus north from the Loop after stowing their luggage from the Greyhound in a locker. Bob’s planned trip to D.C. had been sidetracked by a cell call he got while they were stopped in St. Louis. All Ben knew was that his new friend had gotten a lead on something, and that he needed to meet someone on the near north side. That’s how they’d ended up near the clinic on Lasalle. And after the confrontation, a walk in the park just seemed like the right thing to do.
“I am humbled at the depth of your understanding.”
Ben flashed a pained smirk.
“I’m serious. Really. The idea that god is just a part of ourselves that we’re not consciously aware of is something that most people never even consider. Even folks who see the divine in all things tend to draw a line, to deny their connection to it by staring blindly into the gulf that separates us mere mortals from the ineffable. When, as you say, it’s really just a matter of us not being aware of it.”
“Are you done yet?”
“Ben,” he said as he turned to leave the park, “I really have to thank you for that. You’ve really made my day. You have.”
Unsure whether Bob was mocking him, Ben shrugged his shoulders and skipped a few times to catch up with him. He was still in a bit of a funk when they turned onto Clark and saw a long line of people standing along the far-side sidewalk, chatting with one another. Curious, they crossed the street and approached a man in a blue work shirt who was watching the cars go by.
“End of the line’s over there,” he said amiably, pointing southward, towards the city.
Ben stepped back and sighted along the line. There were roughly fifty people behind him. “I see. What are you all waiting for? Is there a show or something?”
The man shook his head. “You could call it that, I suppose. They opened a satellite Unemployment office in a vacant storefront – real estate office I think -- to handle the overflow and keep all us unsightly folks off the downtown streets. I think someone in City Hall figured having so many unemployed people around was bad for business or some such. Of course all they ever do is give you a song and dance, so, yeah, it is kind of a show. It’s something to do, anyway.”
“If you don’t mind me asking,” Bob said, “what was it you used to do? I mean before you lost your job or whatever. From the shirt and the look of your hands, I was guessing you were a mechanic.”
He grinned. “No. Cars are my hobby, though. Well, they were when I could afford it. For now, all I can do is look. Anyway, I was an engineer until someone realized I’d been an engineer for so long that my hair was beginning to turn. We all knew it was age discrimination, but the Monkeys in Business Attire— “ he caught himself and chuckled “—the MBAs, I mean, have high-priced lawyers to camouflage it for them.”
Bob extended his hand. “Thanks. I appreciate your honesty.”
While they shook hands, the man tilted his head slightly. “And you two? What’s your story?”
“Me?” Ben said. “Well I was one of the high-fliers. I made two sizeable stacks of coin on the strength of some memories I shouldn’t have been born with, and then lost ‘em both to bad judgment. After I trashed my ride on I-70 yesterday, a Kansas state trooper stopped a Greyhound for me to leave the state on. Bob here’s been my meal ticket since then.” He peered at Bob briefly. “Which reminds me. We’ve got to do something about that. It’s starting to creep me out.”
The engineer laughed heartily. “Chill, man. We all need a hand at one time or another.”
“Speaking of which,” Bob said, “where do we catch the bus downtown?”
The bus stop was just past the entrance to the satellite UI office, so they headed there slowly, exchanging greetings and the odd comment with some of the people they passed. At one point, Ben looked over at his new friend and frowned. “Something’s been bothering me. What is it that you do, anyway? Who was that you went to see on Division Street, a drug connection?”
Bob looked pained. “I suppose you could call it an addiction, but it’s not what you think. I own a store in Denver, Context Antiques and Collectibles. It started as a geeky obsession, really. You see, I’d bought a sculpture called ‘The Laughing Unicorn’ at ChiCon 4 -- the Chicago World Science Fiction Convention in 1982. Some years later, I discovered that Darlene Coltrain’s sculpture had been mentioned in Gordon Dickson’s 1984 novel, ‘The Final Encyclopedia’. So, of course I had to find a signed first edition, so I could display them together. You’d be amazed at what paired items like that fetch at auction. Anyway, that call I got in St. Louis was from an old friend here. He said he knew who had the last of those little sculptures she’d made. And well, since we were nearby, I told him to hold the news until I arrived.”
Ben stopped dead in front of the entrance and stared at him. “You’re an antiques dealer? That’s hilarious. I’d always thought that was too stuffy for words, but when you put it that way it sounds more like a scavenger hunt. I mean, really. Think about it. For TV geeks, you could pair a shooting script for Rod Serling’s Night Gallery with the painting that went with it. Or for movie fans, maybe a first edition of ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey’ and the painting used in the film. Or—.”
At that moment, the doors flew open and a woman stumbled into him. Hot on her heels were a man in high dudgeon with an ID badge clipped to his vest, and a blue-suited security guard. While Ben was turning to see what had hit him in the back, the woman, trim-looking and about thirty-five, planted her feet and defiantly faced the one with the badge.
“I’ve told you before, Ms. Strumble,” he said loudly, “you don’t qualify for unemployment compensation. That was true downtown, and it’s true here, too. So please, do us all a favor and leave.”
She glanced at the knot of people who had stepped out of the line to prevent a scuffle, and then back at the man. “As far as I’m concerned, Mr. Jenkins, getting paid for being out of work is nothing but a scheme to keep unemployed workers docile. But that’s not what I came down here for anyway, which you would have known if you’d bothered to let me speak before you and your goon rushed me out the door.”
“Uh huh. Well, with an attitude like that, you’re not going to get any kind of help here at all. Good-bye!” He looked around at the people who had moved to intervene, shook his head in annoyance, and went back inside.
While she was catching her breath, Bob stepped closer. “What was all that about, Ms… Strumble is it?”
She nodded. “Kaylee.”
“Were you serious about unemployment being a scheme?”
“As a heart attack. You only qualify for unemployment if you’d been working as an employee. That’s a pretty good disincentive to starting a business right there, since most of them fail anyway. Better to keep your head down and not make waves.”
Several onlookers voiced their support.
“If you start a business, like I did,” she continued, “you’re not only risking everything against failure, you’re cutting your own hole through the social safety net. Go bankrupt — which is what happened to me — and you’re a pariah. Your time in business is a giant black hole in your resume, a time away from whatever you did before, and that’s all the reason HR drones need to cull your pitch for rejoining the workforce.”
“Well,” Ben said unsteadily, “what are you going to do now?”
“I don’t know. I need to think.”
“In that case,” Bob said, with a hint of a come-on in his voice, “why don’t you join us for some coffee. There’s a shop across the way. I’m buying.”
Over coffee, Kaylee told them about her business, a handcrafts company that sold the sort of things that Ben had spent most of his life disparaging: tools for meditation and divination, the very same self-exploration that he’d ignored in favor of the future memories he’d grown to depend on. It was an uncomfortable juxtaposition, but it spurred him to relate the rollercoaster of success and failure that he’d just be thrown off of. And finally, Bob filled her in on the geeky obsessions that his oddball business catered to.
“So your business grew out of a hobby?” she asked.
“Yeah. I hear that happens a lot.”
“Hmmm,” she said, swirling the last of her coffee. She studied the barista’s rack of flavorings behind the counter, and then turned to look out the window. “That line-up of people over there is like a primordial stew for building businesses out of.”
“They what?” Ben was lost.
“Yeah. The only thing they knew about one another when they arrived was that they’re all looking for work. But look at what’s happening.”
Bob studied the scene for a moment. “They’re talking?”
“Exactly. And by doing that, they’re finding out little bits and pieces about one another. Since they’re strangers, it’s probably nothing too personal. But maybe they’re chatting about their hobbies.”
“Like that engineer we spoke to,” Ben said, brightening. “He said he worked on cars when he could afford to.”
“Sure. Lots of people have hobbies. Some of them may even own some pretty pricey equipment, too: a programmer who dabbles in machine embroidery, or a receptionist with a penchant for making fine jewelry. Maybe even a mechanical genius that just needs some time in a well-equipped shop to build that gadget she’s always dreaming about.”
She paused, and scanned the line-up. “Each of them only has a part of what it takes to turn it into a profitable business. What they’re missing is the talent pool to flesh out that business, and the inspiration to do it. And yet, they may be within twenty yards of those missing people right this very minute.”
Bob had been nodding for a while, and now broke out in a wide grin. “Hell. Why not? There’s nothing to lose. Let’s give it a try. Come on!”
When they returned, the blue-shirted engineer that Bob and Ben had spoken with earlier was second in line outside the door. “Hey,” he said, as they approached, “weren’t you two looking for the bus stop a while ago?” When he recognized the woman, he smiled graciously and extended his hand. “I’m Jason. And I’ve gotta say, that was great, what you did back there. The line’s been buzzing about you ever since.”
They clasped hands, but did not shake. She studied his face for a moment, and then said, “Kaylee.”
“So what can I do for you? I don’t have much time, though. They’ll be coming out for the next few people in a couple of minutes.”
“We have a proposition for you. If this works, it could change a lot of people’s lives for the better.”
“Shoot.”
“I’m told that you’re an engineer, but that your real passion is cars. So, would I be right in assuming that you have a well-equipped shop sitting idle for a lack of money?”
Jason nodded. “Sure. I’ve got a full set of tools and supplies, even a lift, but I had to part with the cars to pay my bills. Why?”
“Well, I’m betting that somewhere on this line, there’s someone with an idea for building something, but nowhere to build it, and nothing to build it with. I figure if we start putting pieces like that together, we can turn a lot of this labor force into profitable businesses. And even if we don’t find that mechanical genius, talking the idea up might turn an idle embroidery machine into the means for an unemployed graphic designer to create salable patches, or who knows what.”
The door opened, and a staffer blithely said, “The next three people can come in now.”
Jason turned to look at him, and then back at Kaylee. Smiling, he said, “No thanks. I won’t be needing your help today.”
“Great!” Bob said as Jason stepped from the line.
“Okay, then. Looking at this as an engineering problem, the core asset for each team has to be the owner of the physical plant. In my case, that’s the shop. But as you pointed out, it could also be a hobbyist’s embroidery machine, a jewelry-making set-up, or hell, even a software development suite. Does that sound right to you?”
Kaylee was ecstatic. “Exactly. So we start by polling the line for people with the means and the inclination, but not the talent or skill.”
“Then, once we have those,” Bob added happily, “we start asking around for anyone with the talent or skill, but not the means. And we put those people together.”
“Yes,” Jason said. “At that point, what’s missing is the support structure, the people whose job is to keep the wheels greased, the office managers. If we can get that much organized, the rest will take care of itself. Well, except for the bugaboo that always kept me from making a go at business: sales and marketing.”
“Don’t worry about that yet,” Bob assured him. “I can fix that in post.”
Ben, who’d been looking back and forth among them in increasing distress, finally had to speak. “Wait, wait, wait.”
Kaylee raised her splayed right hand towards him. “Is there something wrong?”
“Not wrong, exactly. But there’s something I’ve got to say.”
“Okay.”
“Well, it’s like this. I’ve… I’ve spent years following what I thought was a completely laid-out plan for my life. I lived from one vagrant memory of the future to the next, always knowing that as long as those memories turned real, I wasn’t really taking any risks. And it worked; well it did until yesterday. The thing is, I never really dreamed of doing something, never really took a chance that maybe I could succeed at anything.”
He stopped to look down the line of people they were about to approach, shuddered, and shook his head slowly.
“But you,” he said, gesturing unsteadily at Kaylee, “you’re like, just the opposite. You took a chance at opening that handcrafts business, without a clue about whether you’d succeed, or if you’d fall off a cliff. And now you’re planning to entice a lot of these people here into taking the same kind of risk. But what if they fail? What if there’s no point to even trying? I mean, the idea of pairing someone with a fancy sewing machine with someone who’s a good designer is just nuts! It couldn’t possibly work. If it did, people would be lashing up like that all over the place, and I tell you, I just don’t see that happening all that much. So what makes you think you have the right to get people to take risks like that? If they fail, it won’t hurt you, will it? I just don’t know.”
Kaylee touched his arm, and he relaxed a bit. “I understand where you’re coming from, Ben. Really, I do. I went through panics worse than that before opening my store. But then I realized that I could only fall as far as I could climb. And if I didn’t try at all, I’d never find out if I could succeed, if I could make a dream come real. We’re not going to force anyone to do anything here. All we’re going to do is suggest possibilities. Everyone gets to decide whether to take a risk on the dream we sprinkle over him. But first we have to suggest the dream. What they do with it is up to them. Okay?”
“I suppose. But if it’s all the same to you, I think I’ll just wait here, and let you three sprinkle the fairy dust.”
Bob, Kaylee and Jason spread out and started chatting up the line of unemployed Chicagoans. Their inquiries sparked further exchanges among the people who didn’t have the first ingredient. A few minutes later, three people stepped slightly out of line. The trio’s schmoozing had identified two of them; the third, however, was a product of the idea they’d planted. Now it was time for phase two. Bob, Kaylee and Jason each joined one of the trio, and together they started another round, only this time asking if anyone either had the talent to make use of the equipment, or knew someone who did, and who might be interested in taking a chance on using it.
By the time they were finished, another six people had been let into the Unemployment Insurance office, two of the three original candidates had found a match, and several other people had offered their services for such things as writing, website design and of course office manager. Quite a number of people decided to pack it in for the day rather than wait on the sidewalk any longer. So when the UI worker next peeked out to round up some more clients, the only person still near the doorway was Ben.
“Where’d everyone go?” she asked.
“They’re off chasing their dreams, I think.”
“What?”
Ben pointed at Kaylee, Bob and Jason, who were heading back towards the door. “Ask them.”
The UI worker scrambled back inside. A moment later, the guy with the vest returned. “What’s going on here, Ms. Strumble? What have you done? Are you interfering with the operation of a government agency?”
She looked at him gravely for a few seconds, and then broke into a sly grin. “Why, yes. Yes I am, Mr. Jenkins. I don’t think a lot of those people will be populating your kind of dreams much longer. I’ve given them back a taste for their own.”
THE END
Copyright 2011 by P. Orin Zack
[To be continued in "Outlier"]
2024.02.19 23:01 PlainJaneWriting [A4A] Seduced by a Dragon in Disguise [Fantasy][fluff][romantic][dragon speaker][bard listener][shifter speaker] [seduction][willing listener][possessive][clear consent][spicy][polite fade to black][this dragon is hot for art and hot for you][truly unnecessary amounts of world building][M4A][F4A]
Summary: You have been invited to perform at the home of the infamously powerful and wealthy merchant known only as the Patron of Coin. As a bard more used to performing on street corners and in taverns, the Patron’s uh, patronage would be your ticket to a dramatically better standard of living - if you can figure out why the Patron has singled you out and what they want from you.
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Feel free to change around suggested SFX, omit, or to create your own soundscape. Always okay to gender swap, change pronouns, change names and titles, etc. Please no other major changes to the dialogue/story unless you ask first!
Script begins:
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SFX: The last closing notes of a song from a solo musician (harp/ lyre/ guitar)
SFX: A genteel round of applause, suggesting a small, intimate audience.
“Bravo, bravo! Ladies and gentlemen, the Sparrow! (as the applause fades) My dear friends, thank you for gracing my humble home with your presence. I’m so glad we could share this very special evening together. (claps hands) Some refreshments, to see you home!”
SFX: Party noises rise in the background; chiming glasses, the low hum of conversation.
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(suddenly much closer to the listener) “I hope you aren’t trying to sneak away without saying good night.”
...
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to startle you. I wanted to find you so that I might convey my personal appreciation.”
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“No, my dear bard, the honor is mine that you grace my house with your talents. I have a certain reputation to uphold, expectations to meet around these little soirees. My guests demand the new, the interesting, the next big thing. Your performance this evening has not disappointed them, or me.
“I know it’s late, but there is a matter I hoped to discuss with you this evening. A commission of sorts, one might say. And another matter, of a more personal nature. I must see my guests out, but I hope you’ll stay and join me for a nightcap?”
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“Wonderful. Bernard here will see you to my private library where you can refresh yourself. Bernard, don’t let our guest get away.”
SFX: party sounds fade out.
:time skip
SFX: Library room tone comes up: crackle of a fireplace.
SFX: metallic chimes - as if from a singing bowl or a tuning fork - as the listener curiously taps upon a strange contraption they’ve found on display...
(suddenly right behind you) “Ah, you’ve found the orrery!”
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(laughing) “I’m so sorry, my dear Sparrow. I can’t seem to stop taking you by surprise. I suppose I do move rather quietly. Old habits. I hope I haven’t kept you waiting so long that you’d forgotten all about me?”
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“Such a smooth talker, even by a bard’s standards.”
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“Yes, this contraption you’ve found is my orrery. I must admit, I’d never thought to use it as a musical instrument before. Trust a bard to make music from anything.”
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“No, few people have seen it’s like. You’ve heard of the great inventor, Anna of Nandemas, yes?
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“Oh, it’s more than her design. It’s her work. Still working as flawlessly as the day she put it in m- ah. In the hands of my house.”
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(closer) “What do I use it for? Let me show you. If I may just borrow your hand?” (so very close as the speaker takes the listener’s hand, whispers in their ear) “Don’t worry, I’ll take good care of it. Here now. Slide your fingers here, along the base. There, you feel that? Press that switch and...”
SFX: Ka-click. The whirr of a clockwork machine spinning itself up.
“And there we are.”
SFX: The clockwork machine
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“That’s exactly right. It’s the movement of the heavens about our planet. The rose gold orb with the sapphires is Ramos, the silver and the white gold are Shima and Dita respectively. All playing out for us on my library table.”
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“Hide it away in a vault? I could never! This isn’t mere coin or soulless bars of metal. This is a masterwork. Its very nature demands that it be seen, showcased, admired. And I’ve always believed it’s a sin to use something against its nature.”
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“Oh, you must go! Nandemas is full of wonders. A very mathematical people. I find it fascinating to compare their work to that of the geometric patterns of Vessi; the same ideas developed in such different ways. You’ve seen the Temple to Ruh, of course?”
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“You haven’t been to Vessi either?”
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“Never - ? You can’t mean that literally. You’ve never been outside this city?”
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“It does astonish me, Sparrow. I listen to your songs and I hear such a sense of style, of musical complexity hidden in simple chords, far outside the bounds of what anyone else in this city is doing. And your lyrics! So far beyond your years, how you cut right to the heart of a feeling. Right to the heart of a truth.”
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“I am not being too kind. I am being accurate in my assessment of your talents. You’re not insulting my taste, are you?”
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“Good. ... No, I’m not disappointed. I’m excited. I must admit, I was wondering if the whole street-born, voice of the people, bit was a put-on. But it’s not, is it? You aren’t some music student playing a character. You really are a natural talent guided by nothing but your own genius.”
...
“Bah. You cannot compare yourself as you are now to Anna at the height of her training and abilities. No, no, I think you must travel as soon as you can. You need exposure, to bring your work to the world and to bring the world to you. You must start in Pelton, and learn the Dorian scale - oh, I cannot wait to hear an augmented fourth in a Sparrow song-!”
...
“Take your leave? You can’t leave, we’re just getting - Oh. Oh dear, I see I’ve gotten rather ahead of myself. I do come on a bit strong sometimes.”
...
“Alright. Far too strong. Apologies. Of course you may leave, Sparrow, if that is what you wish.
“But.
“May I beg your indulgence for five more minutes? There is the matter of the commission, and that other personal thing. But first, there’s something in my gallery I’d very much like to show you.”
...
“Marvelous. Please, this way, bard.”
...
SFX: Fade out library sound
:Time skip
SFX: Fade in gallery soundscape (footsteps, a bit more echo)
...
“You see, I am, by nature, an acquisitive personality.”
...
“Are you teasing me, Sparrow? You’d better look out. I do appreciate a bit of cheek. Yes, fine, it’s very obvious that I like collecting things. I have something of a taste, perhaps one might say, a hunger for beauty. My gallery is where I keep the very best prizes.”
SFX: doors opening.
...!!!...
“Well, there are a few sculptures, but yes. It’s mostly jewelry. I’ve never cared as much for oils and watercolor. Pigments fade, canvas cracks. But these...”
SFX of the clink of jewelry as the speaker runs their fingers through a set.
“Precious metals and gems, made even more precious by the hands that shaped them into art. Like a song, these are works that last through time.
“This parure is done in the traditional River People style, the stones a mix of shapes to suggest leaves on a vine, curling about the wearer’s neck and arms. It practically looks alive, don’t you think?
“The tiara, over here. From a Vessite artisan - seed pearls and pure Jadite beads in ten shades of red, woven on platinum wires to create that astonishing architectural effect. Almost hypnotic, isn’t it?
“Oh but this. The necklace. This is what I wanted to show you.
“That pink stone in the center is one of the largest diamonds in the world. I happened to be there on the day it was pulled from the earth. But it didn’t sing until I brought it to the jeweler to the queen of the phoenixes. They told me it would take them months to do such a stone justice. I engaged them for three years. When I returned, they had created this: the perfect cut to show off that star, set in this asymmetrical cascade of arthurite stones, that hide the sculptural element.”
...
“What sculptural element indeed. A clever little trick from the jeweler. You see, arthurite changes color when heated by the touch of warm skin. It’s invisible now, where it sits on cold velvet. Someone has to be wearing it to reveal the mystery. So. Let’s get this on you.”
...!...
“What an interesting protest, my dear bard. It is certainly not too fine for you. In fact, I insist. Just a few seconds, Sparrow. Don’t you want to see the secret the phoenix jeweler hid?”
...
“Good. Let me loosen your shirt collar a bit here to make space. It needs the warmth of your skin.”
SFX: fabric rustle
“Oh, you are quite warm to the touch, aren’t you? Mm, and getting warmer by the second. That blush is adorable.”
...
“Don’t hide your face, bard. You teased me, you’ll see I can tease right back.”
SFX: the clink of jewelry as the speaker lifts it.
“Let’s get this properly settled around your neck... I’ll center that stone right here, just beneath the hollow of your throat... There now. Come to the mirror, my dear, right here. Now, open your eyes.”
...
“Uh uh! Hands down. Don’t touch. You’ve nothing to be shy about. It looks amazing on you. I knew it would. Straighten your shoulders and squint your eyes a bit as the arthurite warms to you... There. Can you see it?”
...!...
“Exactly right, clever bard. It’s a dragon, curved around the neck and plunging down to capture the pink diamond in its jaws. Cheeky phoenix. I didn’t even realize what they’d done until I was far away. I’d have tipped them more.”
...
“Why was that cheeky? Ah, I’m sorry, I’ve been too slow in coming to the point. Cheeky because it reveals the truth.
(voice drops, a more gutteral tone) “I am a dragon.”
...!...
SFX: the squeak of footsteps, the rustle of cloth as the listener panics and bolts, the speaker grabs them.
“Ah, ah, ah. Don’t run. Think. I didn’t invite you into my house and drape you in jewels to eat you, my wild little Sparrow. Breathe for me...
“There, now.
“Good.
“It seems once again, I must apologize for startling you. Frankly, I didn’t expect you to believe me quite so fast. Did I give something away?”
...
“My footfalls were too quiet...? ... Oh, yes, that makes sense. Some people have a certain natural resistance to illusion magics. You and your gift for truth - you can sense it, can’t you? That corner of the eye feeling, that something isn’t quite right with my size. And of course it would be the sound that you are sensitive to...”
...
“Sparrow, are you all right? ... Oh dear. Let’s get you a little air.”
SFX: Fade out gallery soundscape
SFX: Fade in nighttime garden sounds (crickets, the gentle splash of a fountain, the crunch of gravel underfoot.)
“Here, the bower has the most comfortable seat in the garden. Let’s get these pillows behind your back... Now. Ask me your questions.”
...
(amused) “Ask me one at a time!”
...
“Well, as the poet said, we’re only mostly dead. Those of us dragons clever enough to adapt to the new human societies - well, I can’t speak for any dragon but myself but I personally am doing quite all right. It was actually that hunger for beauty that saved me from the fate of my less temperate kin.”
...
“It is no secret that my kind has certain acquisitive urges. As that urge develops, so too does the instinct to specialize. To fixate on a particular theme as we shape our hoard. And it turns out great works of art and beauty are rather scarce on the ground - many were the raids in my younger days that left me with nothing but stacks of oily coin and plain goods I cared naught for. As I grew older and more cunning, I mastered transmogrification and used it to scout ahead into the towns and caravans I planned to rob. And on one of those trips, a little artificer caught me staring in the window of his shop and challenged me to buy something or leave. I was stung. I pointed to the most expensive thing in the window, a silver lockbox set with emeralds, and asked if he had it larger and in blue. He said the words that changed my life - “I’ve got the stones if you’ve got the dough, friend. Half commission up front and you can pick it up in a week.””
“I nearly fell over on the spot. I was awash in coin and bullion I cared not for, and this blessed man had just given me the alchemical recipe to transform it to the thing I desired most in all the world.
“It... was an odd feeling, the first time I opened my fist and willingly let slip a part of my hoard, small as that purse was. But oh, when my little artificer put that sapphire lockbox in my hands...
“I spent more and more time as in my humanoid forms. My hoard grew exponentially - a word I learned from my new human friends. I discovered entire genres of beautiful things that racked me with joy - intangible things I’d never dreamed of as a young reptile raising myself in a cave. Literature. Mathematics. Music. The international banking system and a little thing called Compound Interest.
“When the new breed of dragon hunters arose and came looking for me, my lair was long empty and there was no great beast to be found. There was only a prosperous titan of commerce, with impressive financial reserves, an opulent home, and a perfectly respectable mania for art collecting. Now the beauty walks itself to my doorstep and offers itself up, with so many would-be friends courting my attention and my money with gifts, suggestions, and tips on this new sculptor or that new painter.
“But I must confess, Sparrow. The hunt is still what gives me the most pleasure in life. And when I find someone like you, a raw and uncut gem emerging from the most unlikely cracks in the earth, I must make my investment and see what kind of great work I receive back.”
...
“You’re shivering. May I put my arms around you?”
...
(into the listener’s ear) “This is my commission, Sparrow. Travel wherever you like, train and study anything you want. I will fund you now and give you letters of credit to draw more when you need. In return, you will perform your songs around the world, let them spread. And, a year and a day after you leave this city, you will come back to me here, and you will sing me something beautiful and true.”
...
“Anything you like. I find I get my most interesting results when I leave it to the artist’s discretion.”
...
“We’ll get to the other thing. First, my commission. Do you accept my terms?”
...
“Wonderful. Bernard will make the arrangements in the morning, put together some maps, names, other resources. You may leave as soon as you desire.”
...
“Now that our business is settled, yes, there is that other personal matter to discuss.”
SFX: a kiss, gentle and undemanding
...
“I told you I have a taste for beauty. And you, bard, with those clever hands and expressive eyes and this warm, soft skin... I have bargained for my song. Now, I would have you too. For as long as you will have me.”
...
“Oh, my sweet Sparrow. I told you, it’s a sin to use something against their nature. Do you think I don’t know a wild bird when I see one? I will not cage you. You may leave as soon as you wish. But for tonight, yes. If you will have me, my free little bird, let me possess you tonight, before you fly away from me in the morning.”
...oh yeah, listener is into it...
SFX: another kiss, more intense
(getting more feral by the minute) “Good... So good... Tilt back your head. Let me have the hollow of your throat.”
SFX: kisses along the throat.
“Ah... You taste divine.”
SFX: a rustle of cloth and a thump as the listener and speaker fall back into the pillows.
“Now, Sparrow. Tell me everything you like.”
Fade out.
_________
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Feel free to change around suggested SFX, omit, or to create your own soundscape. Always okay to gender swap, change pronouns, change names and titles, etc. Please no other major changes to the dialogue/story unless you ask first!
Script begins:
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SFX: The last closing notes of a song from a solo musician (harp/ lyre/ guitar)
SFX: A genteel round of applause, suggesting a small, intimate audience.
“Bravo, bravo! Ladies and gentlemen, the Sparrow! (as the applause fades) My dear friends, thank you for gracing my humble home with your presence. I’m so glad we could share this very special evening together. (claps hands) Some refreshments, to see you home!”
SFX: Party noises rise in the background; chiming glasses, the low hum of conversation.
...
(suddenly much closer to the listener) “I hope you aren’t trying to sneak away without saying good night.”
...
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to startle you. I wanted to find you so that I might convey my personal appreciation.”
...
“No, my dear bard, the honor is mine that you grace my house with your talents. I have a certain reputation to uphold, expectations to meet around these little soirees. My guests demand the new, the interesting, the next big thing. Your performance this evening has not disappointed them, or me.
“I know it’s late, but there is a matter I hoped to discuss with you this evening. A commission of sorts, one might say. And another matter, of a more personal nature. I must see my guests out, but I hope you’ll stay and join me for a nightcap?”
...
“Wonderful. Bernard here will see you to my private library where you can refresh yourself. Bernard, don’t let our guest get away.”
SFX: party sounds fade out.
:time skip
SFX: Library room tone comes up: crackle of a fireplace.
SFX: metallic chimes - as if from a singing bowl or a tuning fork - as the listener curiously taps upon a strange contraption they’ve found on display...
(suddenly right behind you) “Ah, you’ve found the orrery!”
...
(laughing) “I’m so sorry, my dear Sparrow. I can’t seem to stop taking you by surprise. I suppose I do move rather quietly. Old habits. I hope I haven’t kept you waiting so long that you’d forgotten all about me?”
...
“Such a smooth talker, even by a bard’s standards.”
...
“Yes, this contraption you’ve found is my orrery. I must admit, I’d never thought to use it as a musical instrument before. Trust a bard to make music from anything.”
...
“No, few people have seen it’s like. You’ve heard of the great inventor, Anna of Nandemas, yes?
...
“Oh, it’s more than her design. It’s her work. Still working as flawlessly as the day she put it in m- ah. In the hands of my house.”
...
(closer) “What do I use it for? Let me show you. If I may just borrow your hand?” (so very close as the speaker takes the listener’s hand, whispers in their ear) “Don’t worry, I’ll take good care of it. Here now. Slide your fingers here, along the base. There, you feel that? Press that switch and...”
SFX: Ka-click. The whirr of a clockwork machine spinning itself up.
“And there we are.”
SFX: The clockwork machine
...
“That’s exactly right. It’s the movement of the heavens about our planet. The rose gold orb with the sapphires is Ramos, the silver and the white gold are Shima and Dita respectively. All playing out for us on my library table.”
...
“Hide it away in a vault? I could never! This isn’t mere coin or soulless bars of metal. This is a masterwork. Its very nature demands that it be seen, showcased, admired. And I’ve always believed it’s a sin to use something against its nature.”
...
“Oh, you must go! Nandemas is full of wonders. A very mathematical people. I find it fascinating to compare their work to that of the geometric patterns of Vessi; the same ideas developed in such different ways. You’ve seen the Temple to Ruh, of course?”
...
“You haven’t been to Vessi either?”
...
“Never - ? You can’t mean that literally. You’ve never been outside this city?”
...
“It does astonish me, Sparrow. I listen to your songs and I hear such a sense of style, of musical complexity hidden in simple chords, far outside the bounds of what anyone else in this city is doing. And your lyrics! So far beyond your years, how you cut right to the heart of a feeling. Right to the heart of a truth.”
...
“I am not being too kind. I am being accurate in my assessment of your talents. You’re not insulting my taste, are you?”
...
“Good. ... No, I’m not disappointed. I’m excited. I must admit, I was wondering if the whole street-born, voice of the people, bit was a put-on. But it’s not, is it? You aren’t some music student playing a character. You really are a natural talent guided by nothing but your own genius.”
...
“Bah. You cannot compare yourself as you are now to Anna at the height of her training and abilities. No, no, I think you must travel as soon as you can. You need exposure, to bring your work to the world and to bring the world to you. You must start in Pelton, and learn the Dorian scale - oh, I cannot wait to hear an augmented fourth in a Sparrow song-!”
...
“Take your leave? You can’t leave, we’re just getting - Oh. Oh dear, I see I’ve gotten rather ahead of myself. I do come on a bit strong sometimes.”
...
“Alright. Far too strong. Apologies. Of course you may leave, Sparrow, if that is what you wish.
“But.
“May I beg your indulgence for five more minutes? There is the matter of the commission, and that other personal thing. But first, there’s something in my gallery I’d very much like to show you.”
...
“Marvelous. Please, this way, bard.”
...
SFX: Fade out library sound
:Time skip
SFX: Fade in gallery soundscape (footsteps, a bit more echo)
...
“You see, I am, by nature, an acquisitive personality.”
...
“Are you teasing me, Sparrow? You’d better look out. I do appreciate a bit of cheek. Yes, fine, it’s very obvious that I like collecting things. I have something of a taste, perhaps one might say, a hunger for beauty. My gallery is where I keep the very best prizes.”
SFX: doors opening.
...!!!...
“Well, there are a few sculptures, but yes. It’s mostly jewelry. I’ve never cared as much for oils and watercolor. Pigments fade, canvas cracks. But these...”
SFX of the clink of jewelry as the speaker runs their fingers through a set.
“Precious metals and gems, made even more precious by the hands that shaped them into art. Like a song, these are works that last through time.
“This parure is done in the traditional River People style, the stones a mix of shapes to suggest leaves on a vine, curling about the wearer’s neck and arms. It practically looks alive, don’t you think?
“The tiara, over here. From a Vessite artisan - seed pearls and pure Jadite beads in ten shades of red, woven on platinum wires to create that astonishing architectural effect. Almost hypnotic, isn’t it?
“Oh but this. The necklace. This is what I wanted to show you.
“That pink stone in the center is one of the largest diamonds in the world. I happened to be there on the day it was pulled from the earth. But it didn’t sing until I brought it to the jeweler to the queen of the phoenixes. They told me it would take them months to do such a stone justice. I engaged them for three years. When I returned, they had created this: the perfect cut to show off that star, set in this asymmetrical cascade of arthurite stones, that hide the sculptural element.”
...
“What sculptural element indeed. A clever little trick from the jeweler. You see, arthurite changes color when heated by the touch of warm skin. It’s invisible now, where it sits on cold velvet. Someone has to be wearing it to reveal the mystery. So. Let’s get this on you.”
...!...
“What an interesting protest, my dear bard. It is certainly not too fine for you. In fact, I insist. Just a few seconds, Sparrow. Don’t you want to see the secret the phoenix jeweler hid?”
...
“Good. Let me loosen your shirt collar a bit here to make space. It needs the warmth of your skin.”
SFX: fabric rustle
“Oh, you are quite warm to the touch, aren’t you? Mm, and getting warmer by the second. That blush is adorable.”
...
“Don’t hide your face, bard. You teased me, you’ll see I can tease right back.”
SFX: the clink of jewelry as the speaker lifts it.
“Let’s get this properly settled around your neck... I’ll center that stone right here, just beneath the hollow of your throat... There now. Come to the mirror, my dear, right here. Now, open your eyes.”
...
“Uh uh! Hands down. Don’t touch. You’ve nothing to be shy about. It looks amazing on you. I knew it would. Straighten your shoulders and squint your eyes a bit as the arthurite warms to you... There. Can you see it?”
...!...
“Exactly right, clever bard. It’s a dragon, curved around the neck and plunging down to capture the pink diamond in its jaws. Cheeky phoenix. I didn’t even realize what they’d done until I was far away. I’d have tipped them more.”
...
“Why was that cheeky? Ah, I’m sorry, I’ve been too slow in coming to the point. Cheeky because it reveals the truth.
(voice drops, a more gutteral tone) “I am a dragon.”
...!...
SFX: the squeak of footsteps, the rustle of cloth as the listener panics and bolts, the speaker grabs them.
“Ah, ah, ah. Don’t run. Think. I didn’t invite you into my house and drape you in jewels to eat you, my wild little Sparrow. Breathe for me...
“There, now.
“Good.
“It seems once again, I must apologize for startling you. Frankly, I didn’t expect you to believe me quite so fast. Did I give something away?”
...
“My footfalls were too quiet...? ... Oh, yes, that makes sense. Some people have a certain natural resistance to illusion magics. You and your gift for truth - you can sense it, can’t you? That corner of the eye feeling, that something isn’t quite right with my size. And of course it would be the sound that you are sensitive to...”
...
“Sparrow, are you all right? ... Oh dear. Let’s get you a little air.”
SFX: Fade out gallery soundscape
SFX: Fade in nighttime garden sounds (crickets, the gentle splash of a fountain, the crunch of gravel underfoot.)
“Here, the bower has the most comfortable seat in the garden. Let’s get these pillows behind your back... Now. Ask me your questions.”
...
(amused) “Ask me one at a time!”
...
“Well, as the poet said, we’re only mostly dead. Those of us dragons clever enough to adapt to the new human societies - well, I can’t speak for any dragon but myself but I personally am doing quite all right. It was actually that hunger for beauty that saved me from the fate of my less temperate kin.”
...
“It is no secret that my kind has certain acquisitive urges. As that urge develops, so too does the instinct to specialize. To fixate on a particular theme as we shape our hoard. And it turns out great works of art and beauty are rather scarce on the ground - many were the raids in my younger days that left me with nothing but stacks of oily coin and plain goods I cared naught for. As I grew older and more cunning, I mastered transmogrification and used it to scout ahead into the towns and caravans I planned to rob. And on one of those trips, a little artificer caught me staring in the window of his shop and challenged me to buy something or leave. I was stung. I pointed to the most expensive thing in the window, a silver lockbox set with emeralds, and asked if he had it larger and in blue. He said the words that changed my life - “I’ve got the stones if you’ve got the dough, friend. Half commission up front and you can pick it up in a week.””
“I nearly fell over on the spot. I was awash in coin and bullion I cared not for, and this blessed man had just given me the alchemical recipe to transform it to the thing I desired most in all the world.
“It... was an odd feeling, the first time I opened my fist and willingly let slip a part of my hoard, small as that purse was. But oh, when my little artificer put that sapphire lockbox in my hands...
“I spent more and more time as in my humanoid forms. My hoard grew exponentially - a word I learned from my new human friends. I discovered entire genres of beautiful things that racked me with joy - intangible things I’d never dreamed of as a young reptile raising myself in a cave. Literature. Mathematics. Music. The international banking system and a little thing called Compound Interest.
“When the new breed of dragon hunters arose and came looking for me, my lair was long empty and there was no great beast to be found. There was only a prosperous titan of commerce, with impressive financial reserves, an opulent home, and a perfectly respectable mania for art collecting. Now the beauty walks itself to my doorstep and offers itself up, with so many would-be friends courting my attention and my money with gifts, suggestions, and tips on this new sculptor or that new painter.
“But I must confess, Sparrow. The hunt is still what gives me the most pleasure in life. And when I find someone like you, a raw and uncut gem emerging from the most unlikely cracks in the earth, I must make my investment and see what kind of great work I receive back.”
...
“You’re shivering. May I put my arms around you?”
...
(into the listener’s ear) “This is my commission, Sparrow. Travel wherever you like, train and study anything you want. I will fund you now and give you letters of credit to draw more when you need. In return, you will perform your songs around the world, let them spread. And, a year and a day after you leave this city, you will come back to me here, and you will sing me something beautiful and true.”
...
“Anything you like. I find I get my most interesting results when I leave it to the artist’s discretion.”
...
“We’ll get to the other thing. First, my commission. Do you accept my terms?”
...
“Wonderful. Bernard will make the arrangements in the morning, put together some maps, names, other resources. You may leave as soon as you desire.”
...
“Now that our business is settled, yes, there is that other personal matter to discuss.”
SFX: a kiss, gentle and undemanding
...
“I told you I have a taste for beauty. And you, bard, with those clever hands and expressive eyes and this warm, soft skin... I have bargained for my song. Now, I would have you too. For as long as you will have me.”
...
“Oh, my sweet Sparrow. I told you, it’s a sin to use something against their nature. Do you think I don’t know a wild bird when I see one? I will not cage you. You may leave as soon as you wish. But for tonight, yes. If you will have me, my free little bird, let me possess you tonight, before you fly away from me in the morning.”
...oh yeah, listener is into it...
SFX: another kiss, more intense
(getting more feral by the minute) “Good... So good... Tilt back your head. Let me have the hollow of your throat.”
SFX: kisses along the throat.
“Ah... You taste divine.”
SFX: a rustle of cloth and a thump as the listener and speaker fall back into the pillows.
“Now, Sparrow. Tell me everything you like.”
Fade out.
_________
2024.02.16 23:22 Civil-Shock-2289 Sort RSS items by date published
 | Hello there everyone, submitted by Civil-Shock-2289 to shortcuts [link] [comments] I have a shortcut that I’m working on that seems to refuse to sort a list of RSS items by the date that they were published. The shortcut is a simple one, it gets the 8 latest news articles published to BBC News and then displays those items in a list. Based on the selection it then asks ChatGPT to display a summary of the article and displays the output. Then it loops. The problem I am facing is that the list doesn’t sort the items from latest first to oldest last. In fact the order seems to be completely random unless I am missing something completely… Attached is a screenshot of the generated list in question. Here is a link to the shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/c7d8bf7a336b482a8aea7e6245e55e5c Can anyone help please! |