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Originally published Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 5:30 AM
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Short List: Gauguin at SAM and a grouchy Valentine's event
Seattle Times short list of staffers' picks: "Gauguin and Polynesia" show at Seattle Art Museum and a Valentine's party for grouches at Silver Lake Winery in Woodinville.
Art
'Flowers and Cats'
Something Paul Gauguin pined for in the tropics was a good old-fashioned English garden. He grew a plot of nontropical blooms in his little corner of Tahiti, and the painting he made of a vase of back-home flowers — and of two cats — is a personal moment amid the hothouse-hued "Gauguin and Polynesia" show at Seattle Art Museum (through April 29).
Melissa Davis,
Weekend Plus editor
Party
'I Hate Valentine's Day!'
For the grouchy single set who finds Feb. 14 intolerable, I present the "I Hate Valentine's Day!"- themed event at Silver Lake Winery in Woodinville on Tuesday, with $4 wine and "broken-heart" cupcakes and other complimentary snacks. The winery will show the films "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" and "27 Dresses." 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, 15029 Woodinville-Redmond Road, Woodinville (425-485-2437 or www.silverlakewinery.com).
Tan Vinh, Seattle Times staff writer
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