After inventing geometry and physics, Greeks invented history—primarily as a way to document their many inventions. Take a stroll through history with today’s Groupon: for $18, you get a ticket to Cocktails and Culture (a $20 value) and a tote bag and mug (a $20 combined value) from The Witte Museum (a $40 total value). Choose from the following events:
- Disco Dino-Nite on Thursday, August 25
- Primal Instincts on Thursday, September 29
- Buccaneer Ball on Thursday, October 27
The Witte Museum, which lies at the bank of the San Antonio River in Brackenridge Park, satisfies savvy 21+ crowds with after-hours events replete with live music, dancing, food, and special presentations. Thursday evenings yield to the themed Cocktails and Culture soirees, such as Disco Dino-Nite on August 25, which implores guests to get down with a retro mélange of '70s music, dinosaurs, and prehistoric pet rocks. Live music complements hors d'oeuvres, interactive fire starting, and atlatl hunting tutorials that play centerpiece to September 29th's Primal Instincts event, which pays homage to early human-survival skills. The Buccaneer Ball on October 27 entreats visitors to take a tour of the temporary pirate-themed exhibition, Shipwreck! During the day, store hot liquids in souvenir coffee mugs and books about hot liquids in tote bags as you peruse permanent exhibitions at the museum, including dinosaur skeletons and cave drawings.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Choosing Produce
There's no worse feeling than when you buy what you assume is perfectly ripe produce only to discover it's too hard or have it dissolve into a pile of ashes in your grocery bag. Here are some tips for filling your basket with ready-to-eat fruits and vegetables:
- Broccoli: Drag the vegetable florets-side-up across your arm. Each should be firm enough to rid your forearm of unwanted hair.
- Cherry: You'll have to tear through the tasteless, inedible outer layer to test the cherry's high-protein, peanut-like core. Once you expose the cherry nut, swallow it and rate the pain you feel as it gradually moves down your throat. If it's less than a seven, it's too ripe.
- Apple: Smell an apple. Does it smell apple?
- Cantaloupe: Knock on it to determine if it's hollow. If it is, there's a gerbil living inside subsisting on the fruit's ripe core. Hurry up! You'll have to eat quickly to beat the gerbil.
- Pumpkin: This orange, round gourd shouldn't deflate easily, so repeatedly stab it with something sharp, such as a hunting knife or the tools doctors use to open their mail.
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