(Image: Oola)

Funny thing about regret is you end up regretting the things you didn’t do more than the things you did. Happy weekend.

Thursday, October 6

• Oola open house. Capitol Hill’s first (legally) operating craft distillery since prohibition invites you to visit their new 14th and Union home — and enjoy a taste of their Hill-made spirits:

We would like to invite you all to join us at Oola Distillery on Thursday, October 6th from 5pm to 8pm for our official open house. You will be able to sample our newly released Vodka and Gin as well as take a peak around the tasting room and distillery. In addition, you will be some of the first to be able to purchase a bottle to take home. So please join us at Oola Distillery on Thursday, October 6th from 5pm to 8pm. 

• “Treasures” wine tasting at 12th and Olive Wine
• J Strecker Wine Selections tasting at Vino Verite
• Balancing Western and Holistic Medicine Lectures at PolyClinic First Hill
• Swedish Fall Heart Lecture Series
• Me Talk Funny Someday: A Book Launch & Reading at Hugo House
• Gay City’s The Meet Market at the Lobby Bar
• The Weir previews at Odd Duck Studio
• “An evening of festive spirit instore here as Seattle writer and Elliott Bay friend Kathleen Flinn, whose enduringly endearing The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry has been going into readers’ hands since its 2007 publication, is now followed by her much-awaited new book, The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Ten Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks (Viking). 
• Occupy Seattle General Assembly at Westlake. 6:30p

Friday, October 7

• Moon, Sun & Fire with Rod Stryker at 8 Limbs Yoga
• Remaking The Metropolis at Northwest Film Forum

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• Throwbacks Northwest’s 3 Year Anniversary Sale
• Author Christopher Phillips at Elliott Bay Book Co.
• Simple Measures: Cello Divas at Town Hall
• “A crew from Port Townsend’s ReCyclery will be riding from Port Townsend to Seattle to catch opening night of ‘The Jacket,’ a play by Nanda playing at Broadway Performance Hall at Pine and Broadway.”

  More on The Jacket:

Teeming with juggling, acrobatics and martial arts, “THE JACKET” combines comedy and irreverent pop-culture references for an entirely original performance.The show features a cutting edge cinematic soundtrack, as well as tightly integrated video projections and digital animations – all the while borrowing from circus, vaudeville, and classic western theater traditions.

• Seattle Erotic Art Festival presents: La Figa Cafe Party! at FRED Wildlife Refuge
• Laudanum at the Highline

Saturday, October 8

• 13th Ave’s St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral hosts the 2011 Taste of Old Russia:
  

  From Noon to 5, Saturday and Sunday. Sample exotic foods from Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistant. Taste authentic beers, wines and vodka’s. Buy take-home meals. and more…

• Great Seattle Fire Day at Montlake’s MOHAI
• Posse in store performance at Spin Cycle
• Dhwani: An Evening with the Celestial Bansuri & Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia at Town Hall
• Century Ballroom’s weekly indoor flea market
• October Central District Art Walk
• Three Days for Choice: Oct 8, Madison Planned Parenthood
• Med Reds and Olive Oil! at 12th and Olive Wine
• Kate Endle and Caspar Babypants at Elliott Bay Book Co’s weekly children’s storytime
• Josh Yiu speaking on “Capturing the ‘West’ with Ink and Brush: Chinese Landscape Painting of Europe and America” at Seattle Asian Art Museum
• The Canterbury celebrates 35 years on 15th Ave E. All weekend.
• City Council candidates forum at Squire Park community council
• Follies du Monde at Odd Fellows West Hall

The world famous producer, Sidney Sazerac (Mark Siano) seeks the premier exotic, exciting, enthralling new dance act to bring to the World’s Exhibition of 1935! He’ll search the world, seeing acts from China to Africa to Antarctica. But…will he find that one special girl who’ll steal his heart? Sister Kate is an all-female performance troupe based out of Seattle, Washington. Composed of 10 lovely ladies, Sister Kate specializes in vintage dances of the jazz era. Sister Kate’s repertoire includes the Charleston, Vintage Blues and Burlesque, and tributes to the Cotton Club, Busby Berkeley and USO shows of World War II.

(Image: Sister Kate )

Sunday, October 9

• Capitol Hill electronics recycling event at St. Joe’s
• Cancer Sucks! Your Sex Life Doesn’t Have To at Babeland
• Broadway farmers market, 11-3
• Kicks for Breast Cancer Seattle U Soccer vs Hawaii
• Early Music Discovery: Season Premiere at Town Hall
• CD Forum — Isabel Wilkerson: ‘The Warmth of Other Suns’ at Town Hall
• Hangover Market at the Comet

Monday, October 10

• Golds Gym Food Drive begins
• Poet Ben Lerner at Elliott Bay
• Cake vs. Pie at Vermillion

More than two dozen bakers across Seattle are tweaking their recipes and ‘mitting up’ for the biggest baking showdown this city has ever seen – Jenise Silva’s Cake vs. Pie: The Ultimate Rematch. The action goes down this coming Monday, October 10 from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. at Vermillion in Capitol Hill. The bakers will be going head to head – cake vs. pie – and at the end of the night one baked good will stand victorious and hopefully put the age old debate to rest: which is better, cake or pie? The bakers will be competing for not only bragging rights but also for more than a baker’s dozen worth of fabulous prizes from Bob’s Red Mill, Metropolitan Grill, Oddfellows Cafe, The Pink Door, Methia Gordon, Grumpy Pie, Kate Lebo, Bella Cupcake Couture, Joey Veltkamp, Dawn Cerny, Diem Chau and Rosalie Bahmer.    

Tuesday, October 11

• Jubilee’s 14th Annual Benefit Breakfast
• Tag Sale and Readings by Heather Christle, Zachary Schomburg & Kary Wayson at Hugo House