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Newsflash: the DDPP Seattle Chapter has not been disbanded, just put on hold while loverly "den momma" Kelly Wiggins ran off to get married! Now she is back, and has her things in order, and the first re-installment of the girls-only, no-holds-barred dance workout class is scheduled for tomorrow night at Fremont Abbey Arts Center. The rules of the class are simple--"No boys, no booze, no judgment"--and what’s left over is a 90-minute open-floor dance class (of sorts) with the DJ spinning and the lights turned low.

FOLK MUSIC GREATNESS: National touring folk music artist Tracy Grammer is in town tonight at the Fremont Abbey, making a rare Seattle appearance with Seattlest's own folk sensation Kim Ruehl. Grammer's touring for her award wining album Flower Of Avalon, and even Joan Baez speaks her praise: "Tracy Grammer is a brilliant artist and unique individual. Her voice is distinctive, as is her mastery over the instruments she plays.”

• Dan at bigasscity (the blog has returned, thankfully, to its original title) has found Seattle's most embarrassing condo project. "Escala is the love child of pathological excess," he says.
• Seattle MetBlogs sent a representative to see Mount Eerie at the Fremont Abbey last weekend, and Josh's thoughtful report is in: "Description and structural unpredictability aside, the really certain thing is that however it turns out, it will be its own kind of beautiful."
• Beacon Hill Blog turned us on to a new blog, BeHi Bonsai; we now have an excellent resource for pictures of weird shrubbery in that neighborhood. So far, this is our favorite.

VINYL IS SO IN RIGHT NOW: DJs, music collectors, and music lovers of all sorts who also happen to own a record player should consider heading down to the powerhouse Big Dig Record Show in Eastlake tonight. You'll probably score some great deals on the vinyl you've been lusting after, and in the process you'll get the opportunity to meet (and get drunk with) fellow collectors. The truly picky passionate will need to pay an extra chunk of change to get in the doors at 3 p.m. for the best chance of finding that rare EP you can't even get on eBay. There's an official afterparty, too, featuring the Emerald City Soul Club and Mr Supreme, legendary Seattle dj and record collector extraordinaire.

The recession, layoffs....What? I can't hear you, my Walkman's too loud! Tonight we're going to rewind to 1989 at the 90-minute dance jam known Dance Dance Party Party. Founded in 2006 by a couple New York City gals seeking the sweet spot between the health club and the dance club, DDPP has caught on around the nation with the simple credo: "No boys, no booze, no judgment."

Kim is off to the Fremont Abbey tonight to catch one of PDX's finest singer-songwriters, Laura Gibson, in action. She will spend the rest of the weekend napping, baking, and watching movies. Sunday night, she'll emerge from her lair for Jenny Owen Youngs at the High Dive.