Like things weren’t busy enough for the CHS Calendar this Thursday — Seattle Department of Transportation scheduled not one but two streetcar open houses. Here’s more on the new streetcar information being talked about at the open houses. The day also includes multiple art events — more on Thursday night’s Blitz Capitol Hill art walk soon) — a community emergency preparedness meeting, an interesting benefit for the Olympia Newswire project and, a biggie, the noise variance hearing for Sound Transit’s application for 24-hour construction at the Broadway light rail site.

Thursday February 11 2010
11:30 AM – 01:00 PM	Streetcar Open House Meetings SDOT: Come to one of our community open houses to learn from city representatives about the proposed streetcar routes, provide feedback on which alignment… (more)
12:30 PM – 01:30 PM	Gage ArtTalk Series: Zhi Lin Classically trained realist artist Zhi Lin is noted for his monumental painting series Five Capital Punishments in China, a dramatized interpretation… (more)
04:00 PM – 07:00 PM	Streetcar Open House Meetings SDOT: Come to one of our community open houses to learn from city representatives about the proposed streetcar routes, provide feedback on which alignment… (more)
06:00 PM – 09:00 PM	Science With a Twist Join us for one of our most popular events of the year, the third annual Sultry Science! Enjoy drinks, aphrodisiac-inspired appetizers and music as you… (more)
06:00 PM – 10:00 PM	BFF: Excerpts From Friends of the Nib Vermillion’s February art show will exhibit the works of Seattle cartoonists. The artists will be revealing original sketches, drawings and prints for… (more)
06:00 PM – 08:00 PM	Olympia Newswire A Mid-Session Review at B&O The Olympia Newswire Presents: A Mid-Session Review/ Preview Thursday, February 11, 2010 Bar 41 @ B&O Espresso 204 Belmont Ave E (enter from Olive) Seattle… (more)
06:30 PM – 08:30 PM	Sound Transit Noise Variance Hearing Sound Transit’s Variance Request The Seattle Department of Planning and Development (DPD) has received an application from Sound Transit for a Major Public… (more)
07:00 PM – 09:00 PM	Emergency Preparedness Planning Meeting Capitol Hill Preparedness People (CHiPP) Neighborhood emergency preparedness planning meeting Thursday February 11th, 7-9pm Office Nomads 1617 Boylston… (more)
09:00 PM – 11:00 PM	Awesome Land: Women of Dirt Female downhill mountain bikers are the subject of this new documentary. Tammy Donahugh, Stephanie Nychka, and Cierra Smith are among the daring riders… (more)