Feeling lucky? Well, here’s an easy way to enter to win Two FREE Tickets to the 8th Annual Poverty Bay Wine Festival, coming to the Landmark Event Center March 2 – 4!

Simply text message the word ‘dmrotary‘ to 90210 and you’ll automatically be entered into the drawing.

The Des Moines Rotary Club is presenting this annual fun fundraiser, and guests will enjoy live music and great food while tasting wines from 20 Northwest wineries.

The festival kicks off on Friday, March 2 at 5:00 p.m. The fun continues on Saturday and Sunday, with more wine tasting, food, and live music.

Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at Corky Cellars in Des Moines (206-824-9462) or at www.dmrotary.org.

All proceeds fund the service projects of the Des Moines Rotary Club, including college scholarships, grants to local schools, safety and recreation programs for children, yard projects for elderly residents, support for the local food bank and the homeless, and projects to assist needy people as far away as South Africa and the Philippines.

HOURS:

• Friday: 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
• Saturday: 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
• ?Sunday: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM

MUSIC:

• Uncle Ernie – Friday, 6:30-9:30
• All Stars No Stripes – Saturday, 3:30-6:30
• Ambience – Sunday, noon-2:00
• Stephanie Porter – Sunday, 2:30-4:30

For more information, please visit www.dmrotary.org.

BTB Advertiser and Friends of the Blog The Tin Theater’s FREE monthly Wine Tasting Event will be this Thursday, Jan. 19, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Wine Tastings are a regular feature at the Tin Theater, and are held the third Thursday of every month.

The Tin Theater is located at 923 SW 152nd Street, just west of the Tin Room Bar.

Here’s what will be uncorked:

GRUET BRUT NV
Made in New Mexico the wine is crisp and full-bodied, which has developed rich complexity and a fine mousse. The allure of toasty finish from 24 months on triage is a compliment the sophisticated green apple and citrus like fruit flavors. A truly fine value, and yes, it is from New Mexico. $14

CHARLES SMITH VINO PINOT GRIGIO 2010
100% Pinot Grigio from the Evergreen vineyard. The wine is fermented and aged in 100% stainless steel. This wine shimmers, glistening pale straw nectar. Terroir driven. Think mineral and stone. Bosc pear , Washington apple, orange zest and honeysuckle.

An excellent northwest take on an Italian classic. $10

CHARLES AND CHARLES 2010 RED BLEND
This wine is a collaboration between Charles Smith of K Vintners and Charles Bieler of Three Thieves. A blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon and 50% Syrah, the wine is dark, almost black,with a brooding nose of blackberry, cranberry, tobacco and sweet oak.

The fruit carries through the palate where you find great texture, soft tannins and a long finish.

The Cabernet was raised in French oak while the Syrah was fermented and aged in stainless steel. $9

CHARLES SMITH 2009 CHATEAU SMITH CABERNET SAUVIGNON
Made from 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Petit Verdot and 6% Syrah. Fermented in stainless steel and aged in French oak before bottling. Savory and supple. Flavors of cassis, dark berries and pipe tobacco coat the palate for a long and satisfying finish. $16

ALLEGRINI PALAZZO DELLA TORRE 2008
From the Veneto region of Italy this wine is a blend of 70% Corvina, 25% Rondinella and 5% Sangiovese. A smooth, full-bodied cru made in an innovative ripasso style.

After harvest the grapes from the Palazzo Della Torre vineyard follow 2 different paths:

70% of the grapes are vinified immediately and the remaining 30% are left to dry until the end of December. Then the fresh wine made at harvest is blended with the fermenting juice

from the dried grapes initiating a second fermentation and rendering a more highly concentrated and complex wine.The winery affectionately refers to the wine as “baby Amarone.”

Deep ruby in color, brimming with notes of dark, dried cherries, blackberries and hints of

Dates and mocha. $19

SEE YOU THIS THURSDAY!

BTB Advertiser Highline Athletic Club will be presenting “It’s Time – Let’s Move!” this Saturday, Jan. 21st, and would like to invite all B-Town Blog Readers to attend this Open House event for FREE.

This is a group fitness event featuring motivating music, supportive instructors and achievable results in an inspiring group environment. Featured classes will include:

• Group Centergy:
• 8:00am-9:00am
• Group Ride:
• 8:00am-9:00am
• Total Body Conditioning:
• 8:00am – 9:00am
• Group Power
• 9:00am – 10:00am

Group Centergy is an experience a fusion of yoga and Pilates movements in Group Centergy:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Group Power uses simple, athletic movements such as squats, lunges, presses and curls to strengthen all major muscles:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Indoor cycling keeps you ahead of the pack as you climb hills, spin and race over varied terrain during Group Ride:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Total Body Conditioning uses muscular endurance exercises, sport specific training and drills to develop and increase your fitness.

This is your invitation to join us Jan. 21st and sample all the fantastic benefits of exercising with a group. Recent studies done on group exercise find individuals are more inclined to stick with a program and put forth a better effort because of the group dynamic. The supervision and support offered in a class is a huge motivator. This is true not only for a person new to exercise but for seasoned veterans of the weight room and cardio equipment.

“It’s Time – Let’s Move!” sends an all-important message. It’s time to improve, empower and inspire! Highline Athletic Club and our team of dedicated fitness instructors are here for you. Our goal is to assist and encourage you as you reach toward your fitness goals.

Check out a trailer links that are included in this invitation of each class format, then come try a class for yourself. There is no time like the present. “It’s Time – Let’s Move!” Saturday, January 21st classes begin at 8:00am.

It’s a great time to join Highline Athletic Club who is currently offering zero enrollment fees through January 31st 2012. Month to month memberships available! Group classes are included in membership lots of fun.

If you want additional membership information please email: membershipservices@highlineathleticclub.com.

Highline Athletic Club is located at:

125 South 156th Street
Burien WA

Phone: 206-246-9000

Web: www.highlineathleticclub.com

Gold Medalists, local high-school instrumentalists who have achieved outstanding levels of proficiency (including several from the Burien area), will perform with the Orchestra; these include:

• Martin Obrero, clarinet, Global Connections High School
• Eden Ghirmai, flute, Mt. Rainier High School
• Stephanie Anderson, trumpet, Highline High School
• Kirk Cieszkiewicz, French Horn, Highline High School.

These four students will play with the Orchestra on the first piece of the program, Weber’s Overture to Der Freischütz.

Here’s some more info:

• Eric Garcia, conductor Seattle Symphony
• Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

Free Community Concerts are supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. This support allows the Seattle Symphony to collaborate with the City of Seattle and  local schools to provide cultural and educational opportunities for the entire community.

The Highline Performing Arts Center is located at 401 South 152nd Street, next to Highline High School.

Burien Little Theatre wants our Readers to know that, as a holiday gift to the audience, they will be hosting free radio-show-style staged readings of the popular family-friendly comedy “A Christmas Story,” written by Philip Grecian at 2 p.m. on two Saturdays – Dec. 3 and Dec. 10. 

“A Christmas Story” is based on humorist Jean Shepherd’s very funny memoir of growing up in the Midwest in the 1940s. The script is also based on the motion picture of the same name produced by Turner Entertainment Co. in 1983, distributed by Warner Brothers, and written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark.

The story follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case to his mother, his teacher and even the Santa Claus at Goldblatt’s Department Store. The consistent response:  ”You’ll shoot your eye out.” All of the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family’s temperamental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; Ralphie’s father winning a lamp shaped like a woman’s leg in a net stocking; Ralphie’s fantasy scenarios and more.

Audience members are encouraged to bringing nonperishable food items for the theater’s food drive. Donated food will go to a local food bank.
Seating is first-come, first-served. Contact the theater in advance to arrange accommodations for wheelchairs and similar issues. For information, go online to www.burienlittletheatre.org or call the ticket office at 206-242-5180.

THE CAST
Under the direction of Rochelle Flynn, the show features the diverse acting talents of:

• Kevin Boze (The Old Man, Santa)
• Jeffrey Cavanaugh (Narrator, The Cowboy, The Tree Lot Owner, The Delivery Man, The Voice of a Neighbor)
• Susan Echols-Orton (Miss Shields, Black Bart, Depatment Store Voice, Radio Announcer)
• Michael Johnson (Schwartz, Desperado One)
• Ben Nelson (Randy, Flick, Desperado Two)
• Katt Powers (Esther Jane Alberry, Scut Farkas)
• Grace Reamer (Mother)
• Lucian Smith (Ralphie Parker)
• Plus Shelley Brittingham creating live sound effects

ABOUT BURIEN LITTLE THEATRE
Exciting live theater has been a tradition in Burien since 1955. Incorporated in 1980, Burien Little Theatre (BLT) has been a leading producer of quality live theater serving residents of the Seattle and south Puget Sound areas.

Burien Little Theatre is committed to being an entertainment leader by producing intriguing professional shows. The company’s mission is to treat audiences to productions of the highest artistic integrity that excite, engage and involve both the local and expanding theatrical communities in the Puget Sound region.

BLT is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) entity and operates on revenue from ticket sales, donations, grants, sponsorships and volunteers.

THEATER LOCATION

The Theater at the Annex to the Burien Community Center
14501 4th Ave SW
Burien, WA 98166
(206) 242-5180

The Annex to the Burien Community Center is located at the northwest corner of the intersection of 4th Ave SW And SW 146th Street in Burien, with the parking lot entrance on 4th.

Burien’s Genesis Global Spiritual Center will be holding a FREE “fun-filled holiday celebration for the entire family” at the Burien Community Center on Saturday, Dec. 10th.

“Enjoy a scrumptious meal accompanied by live holiday music,” reads a poster. “Every child gets a present…and there’s a cool craft area too!”

Holiday photos will also be taken with the guys from the world famous Pike Place Fish Market.

The event will run from 9 a.m. – Noon on Saturday, Dec. 10th. The Community Center is located at 14700 6th Ave SW.

New Advertiser HiLine Lanes wants our Readers to know that they’ll be holding a ‘Spooktacular’ Rock-n-Bowl Halloween Special from 10 p.m. – 2 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 31st, where you can bowl for FREE if you wear a Costume!

“Rock and Bowl to the music all evening,” reads a poster. “Win Free passes for Rock ’n’ Bowl or Dinner in our Restaurant!”

There will also be prizes for:

• Best Costume
• Best Couple
• Best Man
• Best Woman
• Best Boy
• Best Girl

Here are the details:

WHAT: Bowl for FREE in Costume at HiLine Lanes Halloween Night (Mon., Oct. 31).

WHEN: Monday, Oct. 31st from 10 p.m. – 2 a.m.

WHERE: HiLine Lanes, 15733 Ambaum Blvd SW, Burien, WA 98166 • (206) 244-2272 • www.hilinelanes.com

INFO: Won’t You Join Us at HiLine Lanes For A Spooktacular Halloween Special?

Wear your Halloween Costume and BOWL FOR FREE!

Unlimited Bowling – Shoe Rental Extra.

More info at their website, or Facebook Page, or call (206) 244-2272.

BTB Advertiser and Friends of the Blog The Tin Theater will be holding another FREE Wine Tasting Event inside the theater on Thursday, Oct. 20th, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Wine Tastings are a regular feature at the Tin Theater, and are held the third Thursday of every month.

The Tin Theater is located at 923 SW 152nd Street, just west of the Tin Room Bar.

Here are the wines that will be featured:

Skouras Moscofilero-Roditis White 2010
Roditis 70% , Moscofilero 30%
The color is bright white yellow, with green hues. The nose is complicated and the wine smells fresh flowers, hints of squashed blossoms and fruit aromas such as avocado. A relaxed pace and luxurious texture gives flavours of orange and lemon blossom and touches of jasmine and mint. In the aftertaste the acidity travels across the palate for a clean extended finish.

?Skouras Red St. George Cabernet Sauvignon 2010
Aghiorghitiko 90% Cabernet Sauvignon 10%
The color is brilliant, medium-deep violet with pink hues.?On the nose it is vivid and intense with aromas of black cherries, and blackberries with hints of plums, violets, and dried herbs. On the palate it has medium body, moderate acidity with smooth tannins, all in harmony. The aftertaste is moderate with a note of gentle anise seed.

Hestia’s carefully cultivated wine program is based on fruit from specific vineyard sites in several of the smaller sub-appellations located in the Columbia Valley AVA in Washington State. We have vigilantly selected each vineyard site to ensure that it allows us to deliver wines that express the best Washington State has to offer. Hestia Cellars has secured acreage from Andrews Ranch vineyard atop the northern slope of the Horse Heaven Hills, StoneTree vineyard located  off the Columbia River in the early ripening Wahluke Slope, Boushey vineyard in the Yakima Valley, Washington States’ oldest growing region, and Ambassador Vineyard in the prestigious Red Mountain AVA. Grapes from these vineyards are blended to create balanced and complex wines with unique layers of flavors and aromas.

??2009 Hestia Red
65% Syrah, 25% Petit Verdot, 5% Merlot, 5% Malbec –From Andrews Ranch, Stonetree and Boushey Vineyards. 20 months used French Oak. We normally release our Petit Verdot as a single varietal club wine but this year decided to blend the entire production into our Red. Super excited that we did. At 25% it bring an unbelievable amount of color, structure (acid/tannin) and big black and blue fruits to the finished product. Combined with Syrah the result is a big, inky wine with bright fruit notes of blackberry and blueberry framed with spice, vanilla and dark chocolate.

2008 Hestia Cabernet Sauvignon ?(90 pts WS)
90% Cabernet, 10% Petit Verdot – Single Vineyard, Andrews Ranch. 20 months used French oak.  This is a single vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, which received 90 points from The Wine Spectator, that tastes like Cabernet should taste, for less than $30.00 wholesale.  It’s a screaming deal. The extra year in the bottle has really allowed it to develop and the black currant and cedar notes jump out of the glass. A deft touch with the oak gives it a level of austerity and restraint that you don’t see a whole lot of in the current Washington Cab market. Tannins are really well integrated and the higher acid levels keep it fresh. We have approx 100 cases remaining.

2008 Hestia Syrah –  420 cases ?(92 pts WS)
97% Syrah, 3% Viognier – Stonetree and Andrews Ranch vineyards. 20 months used French oak.  I think it’s easy to talk about how crowded the Washington Syrah market is, how they just don’t sell, how the pricing structure is wrong, etc. I know it’s tough to sell Syrah in the summer. But now it’s fall. Prime time. Taste this wine. It’s brilliant purple, smells of blueberries, vanilla, spice, other things that are nice and coats the palate. It’s smoky and peppery and finishes with a distinctive meaty note.

Our Organizer friends at the upcoming Oct. 9th Burien Brat Trot (we’re Sponsors) want our Readers to know that another Sponsor that you may have heard of – Alaska Airlines – is giving away tickets for two to anywhere they fly (except Hawaii and Mexico), and to enter, all you have to do is:

Text BRAT to 44227 for a chance to win (message and data rates may apply)!

You can also now register online – here are the details:

5k Solo Race
The 5K race begins @ 1:00 PM (at the corner of 10th and 152nd)

• $35.00 registration (through 10/7 at 11:59 PM US/Pacific)
• $40.00 day of registration (available at the race only)

Short Course Race (about 1 mile)
The short course race begins @ 1:40 PM (at Lake Burien Park)

• $30.00 registration (through 10/7 at 11:59 PM US/Pacific)
• $35.00 day of registration (available at the race only)

Family Registration (4 or More People, Same Household)
Family rate available through 9/15. Family Registration opportunities exist for both the 5K and short course races.

• $100.00 for 4 family members, $10.00 each after fourth

Be an “Angel” Donor and Sponsor a Child (Sign up and Pay Now)
Each year during our school competitions we encounter families with children who would love to run but cannot afford the registration fee or do not have adequate shoes to run in. The Angel Donor funds will be matched with kids – either partial or full.

• $30 to sponsor a child
• $20 to sponsor running shoes for a child (through 10/7 at 11:59 PM US/Pacific)

Click here to register!

Here’s more info:

Sunday, October 9 will be a great day of German-style fun and exercise presented by the Tin Room Bar & Grill in Olde Burien!

The 5K race starts at 1:00 p.m. in the heart of Olde Burien and widely circles Lake Burien. The “Seize the Sausage” Family Race (about one mile) starts at Lake Burien Park at 1:40 p.m. Both events finish to cheering crowds right in the heart of Olde Burien where revelers can enjoy a day-long Oktoberfest style festival including brats, beer gardens, live entertainment and plenty of activities for kids! Costumes are encouraged!

The Brat Trot is a true community celebration – one that brings out the fun in all of us – and it also raises critical funds for two local non-profits:

Safe Kids King County South and Highline Schools Foundation for Excellence.

Thank you to our main event sponsors:

And just in case you missed it (or can’t get enough of it…), here’s our video of the first-ever Brat Trot “Flash Mob” held July 16th:

Click here to view the embedded video.

BTB Advertiser Pro Se University wants our Readers to know that they’re offering free 30-minute consultations with Attorney Marie White on Tuesday, Sept. 20th, to discuss family law issues.

Here are the details:

WHAT: Free 30-minute Family Law Consultations.

WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 20th (appointment necessary – see below for details).

WHERE: Pro Se’s offices are located at 415 SW 152nd Street in Burien.

INFO: To sign up for a free 30-minute appointment with Attorney Marie White to discuss your family law issue(s), click here or call 1-877-776-7310.

Pro Se University is located at 415 SW 152nd Street in Burien.