A walking tour acquaints you with the city around you, helping you avoid disaster during future scavenger hunts and upcoming bouts of amnesia. Today’s Groupon gets you two hours of steps closer: for $10, you get one ticket to the 2011 Historic Concordia Tour of Homes from Historic Concordia Neighbors Inc. (a $20 value). The tour starts at the former Concordia College and takes place on Saturday, June 18 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Entering its 21st year, the Historic Concordia Tour delights both local lore buffs and architecture admirers with a self-guided 12-home tour of one of Milwaukee’s most beloved neighborhoods. Dating back the 1850s, the Concordia neighborhood thrives with Victorian-era mansions that retain the drawing rooms, sitting rooms, and video-game saloons that were popular in the 19th century. Upon arrival at the Concordia College Gymnasium, visitors can wordlessly bid on locally fashioned arts and goods in a silent auction.
All tour attendees are entered in a door-prize drawing and two free-beer-tasting tents are strategically located along the tour to wet sandpapery tongues. Crossroads—a series of local-storefront art installations—gives history-walkers something aesthetic to gaze at other than the intricately styled homes and the overhead skywriters proposing marriages and reminding the mayor of his upcoming dentist appointment.
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The Groupon Guide to: Home DNA Tests
The science of genetics has come a long way since 1860, when Gregor Mendel accidentally discovered genes after some of his peas came to life and begged to be put out of their misery. Now, you can take your own at-home DNA test by swabbing the inside of your cheek and placing the sample in a clay oven overnight. Evaluate your results with the following criteria:
• If your salivary sample has dissipated by the next morning, it wasn't human DNA to begin with. Consult a veterinarian.
• If your sample has blossomed into tree-like foam, the number of branches corresponds to the number of times in your life you can ride in an airplane without crashing.
• If your sample has melted into a pool of chocolate-scented fluid, then you'll live to be 100! Or die within the next week, whichever comes first.
• If your sample begins speaking to you in the voice of your paternal grandfather, don't follow its advice. Its homespun, Depression-era wisdom won't help you in today's technodriven cyber-society.
• If your sample has hardened into an egg, crack it open. There's an emerald inside!
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