Due to a technical mishap, this post dematerialized at some point in the last 24 hours. Our web geniuses have resurrected it for us and the promotions department has agreed to extend the deadline until 10:00 am tomorrow.

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All you have to do is tweet a photo of what you'll wear to Satellite if you win these free tickets, and you just might get them! Your tweet should include the hashtag #SatelliteParty so we can find it. If you already have a pair of general admission tickets and you win the contest, you will win free upgrades to VIP. If you don't have a ticket at all, you will win a pair of general admission tickets.

Find out a bunch more about the party right here. The programming in the VIP room (not mentioned in the page that link takes you to) will include short talks by past Geniuses Lynn Shelton, Lead Pencil Studio, Cody Rivers Show, Lesley Hazleton, and Heather McHugh. Hot damn!

Tweet your pics now! We'll choose the best by 10:00 am tomorrow. Remember to tag #SatelliteParty and to make your Twitter account public, so we can see it. If you want to get your tickets the normal way, to support the Genius Awards, Shunpike, and the arts, we'd be very grateful.

Shaun, who says, "Gotta be in it to win it," which is also true of the party itself. Get in it!

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We interrupt Slog silence to bring you this very important announcement!

Have you ever spent a Saturday night at the top of the Space Needle, drinking fine booze, talking about art, and dancing to soul music with people who read books? No? Well, that is all about to change. On March 31, at 8 p.m., we are invading the Space Needle. This is going to be one of those invasions where we tell them first. The event is called Satellite, and it's a benefit for the Stranger Genius Awards and Shunpike. In other words, a benefit for the arts.

But it's not one of those insanely expensive benefits—tickets are only $35, VIP tickets $75, and half the proceeds go to the Genius Foundation, which is the nonprofit that gives out $5,000 Stranger Genius grants to five local artists every year—an artist, a filmmaker, a theater-maker, a writer, and a musician. It's a no-strings-attached wad of cash honoring the talented freaks who shape the cultural landscape of this city. To keep getting better at this mission, Genius partnered in 2010 with Shunpike, whose work includes that art-in-empty-storefronts thing that really ought to exist in every empty storefront everywhere.

“Events like this aren’t just about the money raised in the room,” says Executive Director of Shunpike, Andy Fife. “It’s about the future of philanthropy in the arts in this city. We need to democratize the philanthropic landscape here to make it more accessible and appealing to young artists, donors, and leaders.”

Tickets are on sale now. Just click on these letters. A $35 ticket gets you hors d'oeuvres, two stiff drinks (cash bar thereafter), and four hours of fun, art, and dancing at the top of the Space Needle, with Emerald City Soul Club and J-Justice spinning (as well as the Space Needle itself). A $75 VIP ticket gets you all that plus unlimited drinks in the Cosmonauts Lounge, on a separate floor, with talks and performances by past Stranger Geniuses (to be announced later this week), as well as music by Zeke Keeble and Robert Deeble. Oh, and a swag bag filled with $120 worth of stuff.

The party goes from 8 pm until midnight. See you at Satellite!

Kelly O's photos of this year's Geniuses are really, really great—but we could only fit six in the paper. Here's a slideshow of all 15.

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• Lesley Hazleton, author of books on the lives of Mary, Jezebel, and, now, Muhammad—walking on water in Seattle.

The Stranger Genius Awards Party is tomorrow night at the Moore Theatre, with live music by Wheedle's Groove and Wild Orchid Children and DJ sets by OC Notes and Emerald City Soul Club. Tickets—$7—are here.

Get to it here.

The Genius Awards party is Friday, September 16, at the Moore. Find out more about the Stranger Genius Awards, the party, and how to donate to these annual $5,000 arts grants for five Seattle artists here.

It's one of the most wonderful times of the year, when the critics of The Stranger are allowed to cease their critiques and traffic in pure celebration: The Stranger Genius Awards, wherein five art-makers whose existence makes Seattle a greater place are given $5000 each (no application process, no strings attached). The geniuses are then celebrated by the entire city at the Genius Awards Party, when the citizens of this art-loving city pack into the Moore Theater for a night of boozy mingling, mashing in the balcony, and live music.

On board for this year's party are the legendary soul collective Wheedle's Groove and the genre-fucking psycho pop collective Wild Orchid Children, along with DJ sets by OC Notes and the Emerald City Soul Club. Tickets are a mere $7 and are available here. It will be a glorious night.

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• This is what happens to you at the Genius Party. This shot's from last year.

Yesterday, out in the sun, I read 2006 Literature Genius Jonathan Raban's descriptions of Seattle in Driving Home (coming out soon). He calls the Space Needle the black-velvet Jesus on the living-room wall of Seattle. And he says the only way to see the skyline is from the ferry:

The wind was blowing out of the south and a lumpy sea was running. Seattle, five miles off now, was a sweep of light, like a spontaneous bloom of luminous plankton in the water, a phosphorescent city. It had a watery depth and brilliance—a great floating exhibition of glowing silver office towers and glowing amber streets.

You are going to come party for this great floating exhibition, right? Can we talk fashion, then? I am considering something made in 1983 of teal satin and beads. Should I be talked out of this?

The date is Friday, September 16, place is the Moore, DJ sets are by Emerald City Soul Club and OCNotes, and live music is by Wild Orchid Children and Wheedle's Groove. Tickets are a holy $7, and everything you could ever want to know about Genius is here.

• COURTESY LEAD PENCIL STUDIO (THE ARTISTS)
• All of the lights.

Susie Lee had her first LA opening last weekend—including a tabletop sculpture that burns tiny pieces of pencil lead when you text its phone number. Once you text it, it has your number, and it gets mad if you don't pay attention to it.

And Wynne Greenwood turned her LA dealer's gallery into a women's spa, with videos substituted for pools of relaxing water; Bam Bam Flintstone was involved.

There are now NINE YEARS of Stranger Geniuses, and they will rock your world.

Come celebrate them with us—plus with live music from Wheedle's Groove and Wild Orchid Children, and DJ sets by Emerald City Soul Club and OCNotes—on Friday September 16 at the Moore. Doors at 9; tickets are $7.

More info, or to donate to the Genius cause, here.

Read more from Bethany Jean Clement on last year and this year's winners of Genius in Music, and how they may or may not relate to the New Yorker, HERE.

• This woman makes a mean William Burroughs. Ask her to do a selection for you at the party. Seriously.

And now YOUR PARTY is being planned in The Stranger's war room. Save the date: Friday night, September 16, at the Moore. Tickets are for sale here.

For 7 bucks, you get performances by Wheedle's Groove (Seattle music royalty in the flesh, people), Wild Orchid Children ("supercharged forces of nature"), dancing to the beats of DJs Emerald City Soul Club and OCNotes, and the opportunity to shake hands with these frickin' characters.

As for me, I'm shopping for the most spectacular dress I can find, and I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE THESE PEOPLE:

Donate to the Genius cause here.