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Seattle special? It’s the water, and we’ll show you how to enjoy it: dining with your dog, savoring shellfish, touring water fountains, dodging the Ducks, drinking with longshoremen, and exploring naval history. Our huge events calendar follows: to-dos for nearly every day until September.

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ou’re Nicole Westbrook walking downtown. You’re Justin Ferrari driving down a street. You’re Joe Albanese or Drew Keriakedes sitting in a cafe. You’re Gloria Leonidas in a parking lot. You’re living, then suddenly dead. What is the cause of random violence, guns or gangs? Last Wednesday, the answer became Ian L. Stawicki. He shot six people he saw as his enemies, killing five, then got on his knees as police approached and, pulling the trigger one last time, surrendered more gun control, America’s eternal arguhimself to hell. It was a day of mass murder ment over the need for more laws versus followed by the mayor’s call to pass more enforcing those we already have. The practice laws to control guns. Yet he and the police in the wake of crime waves is to study statischief had already announced a crackdown on tics and narrow timelines to determine the weapons, which did nothing to stop Stawicki, cause. More murders this year than last year, who left home last week with two guns and more in a few days than in a few months. the rage to use them. There you go: More people are dying because It’s too easy to look at six deaths in one they’re being shot more often. day, and 15 others since January 1, and say it’s The city gives in to futile hysteria, some just guns and not their users. Stawicki was calling for an end to guns, othalready feared at the little cafe ers arming themselves, the he filled with gunfire, and family rest threatening to move to the members say he was breaking suburbs—as if they’re safer (see down mentally. “We could see Lakewood, Wash., Nov. 29, 2009). this coming,” his brother told Public urgency seems to spike The Seattle Times. especially when the victims are People saw Kyle Huff comwhite. Gang violence—when ing, too. He stalked the teens blacks, Asians, and Latinos are who he felt had shut him out of shooting and being shot—is our their circle. He armed himself Afghanistan. and wrote a suicide note to his The gun is the method. The twin brother. Then he went to a cause is something more comparty on Capitol Hill in 2006 and more plex: families, relationships, killed six people and wounded online the u.S. Supreme mental illness—nothing you can two others before shooting Court will rule this pass a law against. There are himself when confronted by a month on legislation that forces police to more guns and more people in cop. A city report on the shootscrutinize Latinos, Seattle than in 1994, but that was ings revealed Huff thought he both immigrants and a scary town then: 69 people was “defending society from the citizens. president Barack obama has were murdered. Last year, in promiscuous rave culture that deported 1.5 million comparably sized Baltimore, he perceived as dangerous and people, and 41 states almost 200 were slain. evil,” adding “It is not unusual are attempting to limit the voting rights Asked at a press conference, for a mass killer to focus his own of young people and “Mayor, what is going on?”, disenchantment upon a group minorities. in “Crossing Mike McGinn had no answer. the Line,” Village Voice of people, and suggest that mass Media is offering viewNot even he seemed to realize murder is the right thing, the points and artwork to he was still in charge of one of noble thing, a duty to squash the honor the passing of the american dream. the safest big cities in America. enemy.” this collection can As thoughtful as that report RICK ANDERSON be found online at was, it got lost in the clamor for » Continued on page 9 seattleweekly.com

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Prior to taking the lives of five innocent people before ending his own, Ian Stawicki was mad, but not quite mad enough. He punched out his brother and broke his girlfriend’s nose. His wild-eyed anger scared people. His father thought he was “crazy.” But under state law he couldn’t be forcibly committed. Yet he could legally carry a gun, and owned six of them. Stawicki was permitted to do so under the state’s “shall issue” law, which says that officials must award concealed-weapons permits to anyone who meets the standards, even if police think the applicant is dangerous. Seattle, mostly going it alone on the gun-control front, keeps running into the state’s “preemption” law. As RCW 9.41.290 puts it, “the state of Washington hereby fully occupies and preempts the entire field of firearms regulation. Local laws that are inconsistent with, more restrictive than, or exceed the requirements of state law shall not be enacted, regardless of the nature of the code.” Thus Seattle can’t even outlaw guns in parks, for example, since the rest of the state doesn’t. As Washington CeaseFire leader Ralph Fascitelli says, “The state law of preemption is also preventing the city from banning semi-automatic assault weapons similar to the ones that killed young Aaron Sullivan of Leschi a few years back, as well as a Seattle police officer on Halloween night in 2009.” The truth is, he says, “There is little the city can do to reduce gun violence as long as our elected state officials continue to cave in to the extremist gun-rights agenda.” He accuses House Speaker Frank Chopp (D-Seattle) of saying he’s for change but never pushing for it, failing to close that much-loathed gun-show loophole that aids the free flow of cheap handguns. More police patrols will not make a difference, adds Fascitelli. “The only way to stem gun violence is to reduce the flow of guns into Seattle, and that requires bold action in Olympia so elected officials in Seattle can take the necessary steps. Until that change takes place, city officials are virtually powerless to stop the bloodshed.” RICK ANDERSON E

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Last week, the mayor of a community stricken by gun violence, fear, and grief spoke eloquently and passionately before a large crowd of Seattleites. He reassured them, instilled them with confidence, and moved them to action. Unfortunately, that mayor wasn’t Mike McGinn. Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, N.J., spoke at the Washington State Democratic Convention in Seattle on Friday night. While Seattle, rocked by an unprecedented string of lethal shootings, may have felt foreboding for a week, that’s the status quo in Newark. Yet Booker shows up at the scene of every homicide, comforts every victim’s family, has lived next door to his city’s least fortunate, and backs truly innovative policing tactics—all while maintaining that Newark stands on the precipice of a better tomorrow. McGinn introduced Booker the other night, the political equivalent of Rick Astley opening for Springsteen. Astley’s music is fun while you’re high, but insufficient when you’re down. That’s McGinn, a man who ran for office banking on the opportunity to deal with issues like transit, urban planning, and nightlife—not blood in the streets. As his unsteady responses to both the Department of Justice’s probe into his police department’s brutish behavior and last week’s shootings have proven, he’s simply not wired to deal with the heavy shit you sign up for when you put your name atop a municipal ballot, to say nothing of when you get elected. Even George W. Bush was able to comfort a grieving nation after 9/11. The gun violence that has plagued Seattle in 2012 is in no way McGinn’s fault, and it is unreasonable to expect him to come up with a bulletproof plan to combat it. As long as personal handgun ownership is a right afforded the vast majority of Americans, certain idiots are going to abuse that right, often to grisly ends. But it is reasonable to expect a city’s leader to take a dazed citizenry under his wing like a parent or a coach and convince them that everything’s gonna be OK. Yet instead of a father figure, McGinn comes off like the know-it-all uncle who bitches about the brand of merlot at his estranged cousin’s wake. Take away the nettlesome task of ensuring public safety, and how’s McGinn, now two and a half years into a four-year term, doing? On transit, he’s gotten pummeled twice at the ballot box, once while breaking a campaign promise and attempting to block the downtown tunnel, and again while trying to pass

a roads-and-transit package on the backs of the motorists he openly deplores. On urban planning, he’s been the pawn of developers, proposing increased density for quiet patches of neighborhoods which already teem with retail and foot traffic. And on nightlife, minutes before Ian Stawicki claimed his first innocent victim, the State Liquor Control Board torpedoed McGinn’s Nightlife Initiative by denying Seattle’s petition to do away with the mandatory 2 a.m. last call at bars. Stawicki’s horrific crimes instantly rendered McGinn’s push for the liberation of tequila unimportant. And the mayor’s meek reaction to those crimes revealed a man either not up to the job or simply uninterested in dealing with its grimmer aspects. MIKE SEELY

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On the Waterfront What makes summer in Seattle special? With a tip of the hat to Olympia beer, it’s the water (and if you want to throw in mountains too, Rainier’s got them covered). Here, unlike just about anywhere else in America, it’s hard not to have a view of the sea, and shoreline property is so overabundant that you’re liable to find the occasional dilapidated waterfront rambler with waves lapping at its crawl space, begging for a billionaire to give it the facelift it deserves. Counting on Seattle to deliver cloudless 80-degree days with any sort of consistency is a fool’s errand, so rather than tell you what beach to lay out on and not get a tan, our Summer Guide focuses on an active waterfront: where longshoremen like to drink (in Ballard and Tacoma), King County’s dog-friendliest lakefront business district (Kirkland), pedestrian-propelled downtown waterfront and fountain tours (because fountains are technically waterfront too), and, of course, Bremerton—aka “the Pearl of the Peninsula.” We’d tell you to get wet, but the water, like the weather, is typically too cold. Yet that has its upside too: Here, shellfish can be consumed year-round, so naturally we list the best ways to suck ’em down. Hence, you should appreciate Seattle’s summer for what it is, and take solace in the fact that you won’t be spending too many days pounding a dirty 30 of Busch in 95-degree heat as the tumbleweeds roll by. That’s what Soap Lake’s for. MIKE SEELY

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If your dog becomes restless, you can easily persuade him to behave by sharing your gyro. Hector’s (112 Lake St. S., 425-827-4811). This beloved neighborhood establishment has been serving gussied-up variations on comfort food and stiff drinks since 1975. But what makes it really awesome is that the unpretentious staff will take your order for a croque-madame and a Bloody Mary at 2 p.m., followed by your request for a side of bacon for your dog, without ever rolling their eyes. In fact, it’s more than likely you’ll be asked if Pinky wants a bowl of water, too. E food@seattleweekly.com

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ome summer, no pastime is more enjoyable than soaking up the rays while slurping down a mojito or six. But in Seattle, dog owners are often forced to choose between abandoning their pet or their social life. Kirkland doesn’t make you choose. Its downtown waterfront boasts several bars and restaurants that not only allow pets, but dote on them. Here are half a dozen: the Slip (80 Kirkland Ave., 425-739-0033). The sign outside this Kirkland institution reads: “Must enjoy Kirkland sunsets, beachfront frolicking, dogs, margaritas, and awesome burgers.” And the folks running the place adhere strictly to these rules, hosting as many golden retrievers as college kids on both their ground and upperlevel patios, located mere steps from Lake Washington. Bonus: Well drinks are $2 (!) from 3–6 p.m. daily. Beach Cafe (1170 Carillon Point, 425889-0303). This waterfront bar not only hosts happy hour twice a day, but an event called Yappier Hour (5–7 p.m. every Wednesday through September) that caters specifically to pet owners and encourages them to show off their canine companions and socialize with fellow dog lovers over drinks. A word of caution: Avoid wearing white, as you never know when an overexcited dog will knock over a glass of red wine. olive you (89 Kirkland Ave., 425-2501555). On a pleasant afternoon, expect to wait at least 15 minutes for outdoor seating at this charming restaurant. But it’s well worth it: Olive You serves Mediterranean-inspired

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Shell Game

Four tasty reasons to be thankful for perpetually cold water. By Naomi Bishop

urrounded by water, Seattle is convenient for many things: scenic views, pleasure boating, commercial shipping, and easy access to world-class shellfish. The geoduck that goes for a small fortune in China starts right here on our beaches, and not only is it fresher, it’s a heck of a lot cheaper. So this summer, don’t forget to enjoy the water’s tastiest treats. If you’re not sure how, worry not—we’ve got the four best ways to stuff yourself with shellfish: Choose your chum at sea Garden. From the outside, you might assume the International District’s sea Garden (509 Seventh Ave. S., 623-2100) was a run-of-themill Cantonese restaurant. A quick peek inside the door will teach you otherwise. Geoducks, in their full phallic glory, hang out in a pristine tank in the entryway. Next to them are large, fresh Dungeness crab, as well as spot prawns in another tank, if they’re in season. The crowds of people in the dining room digging into cooked versions of these creatures, up to their elbows in sauce, will smile and nod you into the room—but not before you’ve picked out your favorite critters from the tank. The specials are a great place to start; dishes like crab with black-bean sauce and salt-and-pepper prawns are designed to let the seafood command the stage. But even among the more ordinary menu items, like the always-mysterious chow mein, you’ll find whole prawns, expertly cooked and still full of sweetness from the sea. Now in its third decade in a neighborhood filled with Chinese restaurants, Sea Garden has shown that Seattle won’t stop sitting down to fresh shellfish. pay homage to Taylor shellfish’s shrine of the sea. No food mecca would be complete without its temple. In Seattle, that’s Melrose Market, an architectural ode to all things edible and local: meat, cheese, wine, restaurants, and Taylor shellfish (1521 Melrose Ave., 501-4321). Much more than a store, it’s a place for shellfish aficionados of all types to hang out, sip wine, slurp oysters, browse bivalves, crack crab, and gawk at geoduck. Freshly shucked oysters come out of the makeshift kitchen (a table and a few sinks) on rustic trays. Staff members add to the rusticity, filling the small room with loud calls of “a dozen Virginicas” or “two dozen Shigokus.” All the seating is at tall cocktail tables and around wooden counters, and somehow it all fits. Even though it hugs the side of Capitol Hill, far from the saltwater-scented breezes of the waterfront, Taylor feels like a stroll on the beach and a shellfish picnic.

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save money at shuckers’ and Elliott’s happy hours. Forget skipping oysters in months without an R: We’re in Washington, where the water never warms up. Thus we’ve got the gift of year-round oyster happy hours. Most famously, Elliott’s oyster house (Pier 56, 1201 Alaskan Way, 623-4340) draws tourist crowds to its progressive oyster happy hour. Starting at 75 cents at 3 p.m., the cost per oyster rises each hour until 6 p.m. The views are pretty and the air is salty, authenticating the oyster experience. For less experience and more oyster, however, true aficionados should get themselves to shuckers (411 University St., 621-1984). It offers five fewer hours of happiness: 3–5 p.m. weekdays only, not easy to make if you work. But unlike Elliott’s, with a single option, Shuckers puts its entire oyster menu on special at happy hour: nine or more salty selections, and a staff perfectly trained to know them all. Frequent farmers markets for fish instead of fennel. The Northwest’s local shellfish bounty might not be sprouting up next to your spring rhubarb, but it certainly isn’t out of place at any of Seattle’s weekly farmers markets. While farmers from the north, east, and south bring goods harvested from the soil, those from the west bear waterbased fare. And with the near-year-round availability of clams, mussels, geoducks, oysters, and crabs, there’s no shortage of options. Strolling any market will present a cornucopia of local goods to go with your shellfish: a few leeks, some white wine, perhaps bacon to throw in with the mussels, with crusty bread to sop up the sauce. Find goods at puget Beach shellfish at the West Seattle Market (44th Avenue Southwest and Southwest Alaska Street, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Sun. until July) and at the hama hama oyster Company at the U District Market (University Way Northeast and Northeast 50th Street, 9 a.m.–2 p.m. Sat., year-round) and Ballard Market (Ballard Avenue Northwest and 22nd Avenue Northwest, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Sun., year-round). E

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hoenix or Dubai, we can understand. Anyplace hot and inhospitable treasures its water supply. Fountains and watered gardens have been a symbol of luxury and culture since Babylon and beyond. Then, with the Industrial Revolution, every modern city began pumping water up and over its monuments: Rome and London are filled with damp war heroes and Renaissance seraphim, pennies clogging their drains. Here in Seattle, the habit came late. Our mercantile founders built sawmills, not frivolous displays of public art. And yet the fountain fetish eventually took hold, especially during our booming postwar years. Anyone remember the Nellie Cornish Memorial Fountains, at the west end of the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge? Opening with the bridge in 1963, they were turned off a decade later, then ran fitfully from ’89 to ’96.

Olympic Sculpture Park in 2002 and voted the city’s ugliest statue in an informal SW poll two summers back. It’s a little pederast-y for our tastes, but it’s an easy rendezvous point before walking through the OSP proper. (“Meet me at the naked dude reaching for the naked boy . . . uh, just call me instead.”) Up on Capitol Hill are examples of fountain-think new and old. Below the new (2005) lid of Cal Anderson Park lies the old Lincoln Reservoir, which used to contain a single geyser. Today, a volcano-like peak gurgles gently into a sluiceway and wider basin—very suitable for wading, though

Too bad you can’t water-ski in Cal Anderson’s reservoir.

barely ankle-deep—designed by San Francisco artist Doug Hollis. Its nicely rounded shoulders are a perfect perch for reading or people-watching. Walk east, and the Olmsted brothers’ Volunteer Park contains a meager water spout in the reservoir dismally bounded by a chain-link fence. The new trumps the old: Modern fountain design is always interactive, and allows us to get our feet or hands wet. Also designed by the Olmsteds (for the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition), today’s Drumheller Fountain on the UW campus was originally called Geyser Basin, and some still call it Frosh Pond. The jets

The sodden, shrieking throng.

were added in ’61, a gift of the late Joseph Drumheller, a Spokane businessman and UW regent. Whether the jets are throbbing or not (vandalism and maintenance have been problematic), it enjoys one of the best vistas in the city, with Mount Rainier rising to the south. Even though architects often employ the prosaic term “water feature” (because mere fountains are old-fashioned), progressive designers like our own Kathryn Gustafson are turning water on its side, if you will, and underfoot. McCaw Hall’s courtyard promenade coats the pavement with a thin, elegant sheen. Sadly, however, it rarely runs—partly out of slip-and-fall concerns. Gustafson also designed the indoor/outdoor creek descending down through the new City Hall. It was supposed to run aboveground through a park on the west side of Fourth Avenue, though the recession has delayed such plans. It’s fortunate that they saved George Tsutakawa’s Fountain of Wisdom from the old downtown library. Now sited on Fourth below the new Rem Koolhaas edifice, it’s a cheeky rebuttal to the modernist icon, an organic sprout based on the Japanese obo—a cairn of rounded stones left by travelers—that also recalls the postwar visual vocabulary of Brancusi, Jim Flora, and The Jetsons. In Pioneer Square, at Second Avenue South and South Main Street, the Masao Kinoshita– designed Waterfall Garden Park (it’s locked at night) is a 1977 bequest of the Annie E. Casey Foundation—she the widow of a UPS co-founder. The cloistered 22-foot cascade is an artificial/natural hybrid, a Zen compound behind bars. If Pioneer Square ever gains new office workers and residents —in the promised North Lot development, perhaps—more Seattleites might make use of this overlooked garden. E bmiller@seattleweekly.com

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Duck Dodge Why Ride a Duck when a pair of shoes will do? by Gavin borcherT he weather for a walking tour, this May morning, is like we’d ordered it off a menu: brilliant sunshine and about 65 degrees, not too warm for the two-and-a-quarter-hour hike ahead of us. Jake Schlack, proprietor and upbeat conductor of Seattle Free Walking Tours, stands in Victor Steinbrueck Park with Don and Kathy, 50ish, from Maryland. With his business partner Nathan Haslip, Jake launched SFWT just this spring, inspired by the similar walking tours in European cities he discovered on his honeymoon. They run (entirely on donation, $15 suggested) daily—except legal holidays—at 11 a.m. (See seattlefree walkingtours.org.) Jake says about 75 percent of his walkers are from overseas, and some days as many as 30 show up. It’s just us four today, though, and we head through Pike Place Market. Our

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first stop is the “original” Starbucks (it isn’t really, Jake confides), with the since-phasedout bare-bosom logo. Even more distracting than mermaid boobs is the scent of chocolate and cinnamon rolls from a nearby storefront. We head through Post Alley, named for its yard-high hitching posts, relics of Seattle’s horsedrawn past. We stop at a produce booth for pear slices and one-liners from Claudia—”fresh fruit, fresher personality”—and cross over to pasta maker Pappardelle’s for a taste of chocolate linguini. Jake is well equipped with Market historical anecdotes and tourist info, like its 1907 founding and 1960s rescue from an urban-renewal project. (Imagine how ugly that proposed office/condo space would be today.) We enjoy smoked salmon from the Pike Place Fish Company—you know them as the fishthrowers—then head down to the Gum Wall, America’s most revolting tourist attraction. There are no samples, unfortunately, at Pike Pub & Brewery, but something even better: an animated overview of the art and history of beer making from the lean and voluble Abil Bradshaw. The brewery specializes in British and Belgian ales, producing around 9,500 barrels a year, she says, speaking with proselytizing fervor of yeasts and malts. We head up the Harbor Steps to First Avenue, where Seattle Art Museum’s Hammering Man stands (he hammers every day but Labor Day), then traipse down First to Pioneer Square. Schoolkids in blue sweaters and plaid skirts overhear Jake’s stories of Chief Sealth, Henry Yesler and Skid Road, the stolen Tlingit totem pole, and the fire of 1889,

which resulted in the neighborhood’s beautiful stone and brick buildings. It’s difficult to resist butting in, though, and I can’t help but make a mental list of what Jake doesn’t mention: the iron pergola flattened by a truck in 2001, the departure of Elliott Bay Books, the very visible Columbia Center, for years the West Coast’s tallest building (though he does of course mention the former titleholder, Smith Tower). The story of the Japanese internment during World War II (did you know 9,600 King County residents were sent to an “assembly center” at what is now the Puyallup fairgrounds?) sombers the mood as we stroll back to the waterfront. Don and Kathy are impressed by the view of Alki and the ferry to Bainbridge, and the prospect of a jaunt on the water couldn’t be more inviting than right now, with Elliott Bay sparkling in the sun. Dodging joggers by the dozens on Alaskan Way and stopping at the Seattle Aquarium’s anemone-laden outdoor tank, we’re regaled with Seattle history: showman Ivar Haglund and his public pranks; John Nordstrom, who made a bundle in the Gold Rush and wisely switched from prospecting to outfitting prospective prospectors; the Mercer Girls, shipped in to ease the fledgling city’s woman shortage; the Beatles, staying at the Edgewater and fishing out the window of their room. Jake points out the Pier 57 site of the new Ferris wheel, now just a sprawling set of legs but growing by the day. At Broad Street he introduces the Olympic Sculpture Park, starting with the backstory

An animated Abil Bradshaw at Pike Pub & Brewery.

of the naked man/naked boy statue that was turned into a fountain to hide the latter (see “All Wet,” page 16). The Park’s tidy lawn and bay view makes a cooling rest spot after a long walk, and here Jake bids us farewell. (The tour does not end at Steinbrueck Park where it began, so plan accordingly.) His travelogue is more informative and better exercise than a Duck ride, and we didn’t have to sing “YMCA” once. E gborchert@seattleweekly.com

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in a widely reported 1965 comment, “For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there.” By then, Congress had bought his claim that our ships had been attacked, and the war was on. It relentlessly expanded under Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger until collapsing under the weight of 58,000 U.S. body bags. It ended with our abrupt abandonment of Saigon by helicopter in 1975, and has been over since for everyone but those who fought in it. You can ponder all this heavy political shelling as you wander out from the souvenirstocked museum store and down the ramps to tour the Turner Joy’s decks, passageways, galleys, and gun turrets for a $12 admission cost (free for anyone in uniform). Fully loaded, the sleek boat weighed in at 4,000 tons with a crew of 17 officers and 175 enlisted. It was steamturbine powered and armed with three 5-inch 54-caliber guns and two torpedo launchers. In

President Lyndon Johnson called the attack “deliberate” and “unprovoked.” He should have added “imaginary.” 1964, after firing off 700 rounds in the South China Sea at enemy shore structures, one of her guns developed a dangerous hang-fire; attempting to clear the muzzle, three men were INSERT killed when the shell exploded. Decommissioned in 1982, the ship was LOCATION donated by the Navy to the Bremerton asso& PHONE ciation in 1990, and—restored to her wartime appearance—put on display in 1991. It’s also available for reunions, memorial services, and assorted ceremonies, and has a special program available for groups who want to book the ship overnight—perhaps to imagine, much as LBJ did, what it could be like to be attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. E

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our ride back into history begins at the Seattle ferry dock and ends 50 minutes later as you glide into Bremerton’s harbor. There on your right is the Vietnam War. You may remember it: the war to end all unnecessary wars (until Iraq). It is embodied in all 418 feet of the USS Turner Joy, a Navy destroyer built and launched in Seattle in 1958, serving honorably in the Pacific and less honorably in the Gulf of Tonkin, now retired and open for public visits at its Bremerton waterfront moorage. The Bremerton Historic Ships Association, in recounting the Turner Joy’s war record— shelling and being shelled, earning nine battle stars—fortunately does not skip the chapter on the destroyer’s questionable role in starting Vietnam. That came on an August night in 1964, when the Turner Joy and the USS Maddox were supposedly attacked in the gulf by North Vietnamese gunboats. “Whether or not the North Vietnamese attacked the two ships . . . remains a mystery,” the association acknowledges on its website. “Only they know for sure. It could well have been that bad weather and the freakish radar conditions for which the Gulf of Tonkin is famous caused radar echoes to appear on Turner Joy’s screen and prompted her captain and crew to take defensive action in consideration of the events two days earlier.” But the association is much too diplomatic. To obtain Congress’ approval to widen the war, President Lyndon Johnson called the attack “deliberate” and “unprovoked.” He should have added “imaginary.” American ships’ radar crews had indeed misinterpreted strange nighttime weather conditions as incoming artillery and engaged in battle with a nonexistent enemy. “I had the best seat in the house to watch that event,” Navy Cmdr. James Stockdale recalled in a 1994 interview with Media Beat, “and our destroyers were just shooting at phantom targets—there were no PT boats there . . . There was nothing there but black water and American firepower.” As Johnson would later privately concede

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bleed into this grittier-than-normal part of Tacoma like Commencement Bay bleeds into the land that surrounds it. After work, these men want a drink. And some of the most tried-and-true land at the Poodle Dog’s Pup Room to find it. The Pup Room is an institution. It doesn’t draw young longshoremen, full of spunk and tribal tattoos. It draws the vestiges. The old-timers. The haggard, alcoholic faces you think of when picturing longshoremen in a town like Tacoma. The dark wood paneling, rows of Monarch-brand booze, and complimentary The Pup Room peanuts give the Pup Room an unassuming isn’t on the vibe. The aging woman in the Hawaiian water, it’s of shirt behind the bar, whom Poodle Dog the water. employees call “Mama,” pours well drinks that burn your nose hairs. A group of five, covering their tab with paychecks earned in towering nearly everyone says the same thing when prodded: lifts, loading huge container ships, or navigating rumOld-school Port of Tacoma guys can consistently be bling semis through the faded industrial landscape found drinking at the Pup Room. In Fife. that surrounds us, sits at the right of the bar. There’s The Port of Tacoma and all its rails and massive a fireplace in the wall behind them, below a sign cargo-hauling sea vessels sits between Fife and proclaiming “It’s Miller Time!” Tacoma proper, not unlike a taint. It’s a place better Tonight’s conversation, audible throughout the left unseen by anyone aside from those paid a living wage to venture there. Each day, shifts of weary men small room, swings from tips on beating speeding MATT DRISCOLL

t was on the wrong side of the water—in Fife, of all places—but the sign stuck to the door of the Poodle Dog’s Pup Room told the story: “We Support ILWU.” That stands for International Longshore and Warehouse Union, and judging by the graying, beaten-looking men supporting themselves against the bar like they couldn’t stand up otherwise, the sign was no mistake. The goal was to uncover where Port of Tacoma blue-collars seek refuge for an after-work buzz, presumably somewhere near the water. It’s not as easy as one might have expected: Several tips lead to boarded-up windows and empty parking lots, while some assumptions prove flat-out wrong. But

“The fishermen are a dying breed right now,” says Chelsea Osterhaut, the barkeep working a recent Tuesday afternoon shift. “But when they’re here, they make their presence known. They will drink any other customer under the table. They can be a handful, but you love ’em, ’cause they’re funny and real.” A number of Ballard watering holes are still frequented by fishermen (crabbers reportedly prefer the Lock and Keel), but for pure authenticity and atmosphere, it’s tough to top The Sloop (2830 N.W. Market St., 782-3330, theslooptavern.com). Kittycorner to the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks at the west end of Market Street, the bar has a mural of an angler in rain gear painted on the side of the building. Inside are pull tabs, pool tables, sports on the TV, and “Sloopersize” liter mugs of beer—typically filled with

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tickets to how old Jerry Lee Lewis’ cousin was when he married her. (For the record, 13.) One of the men goes by the name Big Al. Still another wears a white T-shirt with a multicolored salmon on it. To be safe, I ask Mama if she knows where oldtime Port of Tacoma longshoremen go for a drink after work—on the off-chance there’s somewhere else . . . somewhere not in Fife. “Some of them come here,” she tells me. “Is there anywhere else?” “I don’t know,” Mama says dryly while delivering another drink. “I’m always here.” Three stools down, the conversation turns to Seattleites. “They’re all worried about bike paths and shit,” one man says. “They’re all tree-huggers,” says another. “I love trees, don’t get me wrong. I got one I hang my fucking boots on when I come home.” The men get a big laugh out of this, while Mama makes sure everyone has enough to drink before sliding out for a cigarette. E mdriscoll@seattleweekly.com THE PUP ROOM AT THE POODLE DOG 1522 54th Ave. E., Fife, 253-922-6161, poodledogfife.com.

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that has changed over the years. Located a few blocks north of the Deep Sea Fishermen’s Union office on Ballard Avenue, its walls are dotted with framed pictures of fishing vessels— including a black-and-white shot of Dragland and his boat, dated 1957—and the drinks are strong and cheap. As at other old-school Ballard bars, there’s a bell to signal when a patron decides to buy a round for everybody. Marsha Erickson, a bartender at The Smoke Shop for 33 years, says once upon a time the house drink of choice was “Norwegian champagne”—vodka and Coke, no ice. Guys would “six-pack” each other, she recalls, by ordering half a dozen drinks all lined up in a row. “They drank from 6 in the mornin’ till 2 at night, or until they passed out,” Erickson says. “They’d drink and fight and armwrestle. The kids these days couldn’t hold a candle to ’em. Not a candle.” Down the street at Hattie’s Hat (5231 Ballard Ave. N.W., 784-0175, hatties-hat.com), a Ballard Avenue institution since 1904, the original wooden bar is pocked with marks left over from the era when fishermen would hang heavy hooks above their stools to claim spots. Hattie’s used to be open 24 hours, with a drinking hiatus from 2 to 6 a.m., but when the commercial-fishing industry began to flounder, the bar scaled back to a regular 3 p.m.–2 a.m. schedule on weekdays.

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orky Dragland tells a story about how he once snuck out his trawler, the Roma, in Alaska two days before fishing season officially started and got caught in a storm with 79-mph gales. Perched atop a barstool, the grizzled 80-year-old slurps bourbon and water through a thick pink straw, closes his eyes, strokes the patch of gray hair on his throat, and remembers the near-death experience like it happened yesterday. “I had the ride of my life—oh boy, that was lots of fun,” Dragland says gleefully, with a faint Norwegian accent that turns his Ws into Vs. “You know, you got to be real smart to own a boat. Either that or real stupid.” Bellied up to the bar at the Ballard Smoke Shop, Dragland is a living, breathing, heavydrinking embodiment of what Ballard used to be. Now a veritable retail and restaurant utopia with a hip new condo development on seemingly every other block, the neighborhood was formerly the domain of fishermen, crabbers, and dock workers. The roughnecks are still around, tipping back shots of whiskey and schooners of Rainier, but only if you know where to find them. The Smoke Shop (5439 Ballard Ave. N.W., 784-6611) is a good place to start. Lighting up indoors was outlawed in Washington in 2005, but that’s about the only thing about this dive

Rainier. “Rainier is Ballard tap water,” says Katie Lucas, a longtime Sloop bartender. “That to me is drinkin’ like a fisherman, ’cause them boys was raised on it.” The Sloop sells T-shirts with the slogan “Ballard: A sleepy little drinking village with a condo problem.” Katie says the neighborhood’s gentrification has made Friday and Dragland is a Saturday “amateur living, breathing, night” at the bar, heavy-drinking but she can’t comembodiment of what plain too much: The Ballard used to be. condo-dwellers are still paying customers, even if they don’t tip quite as generously as the seamen. Back at the Smoke Shop, Dragland, who plays his accordion on Sunday mornings at the Ballard Farmers Market, explains why he has no complaints about the Ballard real-estate boom. He eventually quit fishing, finding more lucrative work as a machinist. Decades ago, he purchased a duplex a few blocks away from The Smoke Shop, and its prime location near Market Street has made his property value skyrocket in recent years. “It’s worth a million dollars,” Dragland says excitedly. “Before I’m dead it could be worth $2 million. It’s zoned for six stories!” Ironically enough, the biggest catch of the old fisherman’s life could turn out to be a future condo development. E

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16–17 Bell St. Pier Rendezvous/Classic Weekend A Classic Yacht Association display of 50 vessels, some available for boarding, plus a vintage automobile and hydroplane display. Bell Harbor Marina, classicyacht.org 16–17 Burien Wild Strawberry Festival A carnival, strawberry-jam break-dance battle, music, performances, and vendors. Burien Town Square Park, wildstrawberryfestival.org • 16–17 Fremont Fair A weekend to put into practice Fremont’s motto “Delibertus Quirkus,” or the Freedom to be Peculiar. Festivities include the highly anticipated Solstice Parade. Downtown Fremont, fremontfair.org 16–24 Seattle Erotic Art Festival World-class art and creative expression in many forms are sure to delight your senses, including a gallery, dazzling performances, interactive installations, an erotic shortfilm exhibit, and some striking people-watching opportunities. Dance after hours to Seattle’s top DJs. Fremont Studios, seattleerotic.org 16–Aug. 20 Mary Olson Farm Visit the restored 67-acre 19th-century farm. auburn, wrvmuseum.org 16–Sept. 30 Henry Moses Aquatic Center This outdoor pool will keep you cool with lap swims, public sessions, and water-walking. Henry Moses Aquatic Center, rentonwa.gov • 16–Sept. 30 In Ruin: Architectural Photographs From the Permanent Collection Feast your eyes on the creations that explore issues of memory and the picturesque through a selection of historical and contemporary photographs spanning more than a century. Henry Art Gallery, henryart.org 17 Front Street Car Show Spend a fun-filled Father’s Day viewing classic cars from across the state. With live music, family activities, a trophy and award ceremony with MC Lance Lambert, and an afternoon cruise. Downtown Issaquah, www.fendersonfrontstreet.com 17 Storm vs. Minnesota Lynx Watch our beloved women’s team battle the defending WNBA champions. KeyArena, wnba.com/storm. • 19 Scissor Sisters Dance the night away to glam rock and nu-disco spawned from the nightlife of New York. The Paramount, stgpresents.org 20 Anthony Swofford Just after the success of his military memoir Jarhead (later a movie), he examines the lit life in Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir. Town Hall, townhallseattle.org • 21 The B–52s The park is bound to be jumping when their hit “Love Shack” makes its obligatory appearance. Marymoor Park, ticketmaster.com 21 Jean Zimmerman The author discusses the release of her latest, The Orphan Master. Elliott Bay Book Co., elliottbaybook.com • 21 Subhankar Banerjee The local photographer, whose images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge captured international attention, talks about his passions. Presented by Seattle Arts & Lectures. Town Hall, lectures.org • 21–23 Seattle Symphony The season closes with Berlioz’s borderline-nuts cantata/opera/ something The Damnation of Faust. Benaroya Hall, seattlesymphony.org 21–23, 28–30 LOVE Spectrum Dance Theater presents contemporary work by artistic director Donald Byrd, set to Britten’s Cello Suites (played

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22–23 Seattle Men’s Chorus For “Sing Out,” the audience will help choose the repertory. McCaw Hall, flyinghouse.org 22–24 Redmond Town Center Arts Festival Around 100 artist booths, onstage art demos, workshops, music, food vendors, and a sidewalk sale. Redmond Town Center, www.redmond towncenter.com 22–28 Beyond the Black Rainbow This avant-garde reconsideration of the Reagan era is promised to be a mashup of Kubrick, Argento, and Cronenberg. Grand Illusion Cinema, grand illusioncinema.org • 22–July 5 The Films of Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki and other masters of Japanese anime are represented. SIFF Cinema Uptown, siff.net 23 Beach to Chowder Run/Walk Walk or run a 5K/10K race and celebrate with chowder at the end. Bolstad Beach, beachtochowder.com • 23 Capitol Hill Pride Festival The rainbow flag extends five blocks down Broadway, from East John Street to Roy Street. seattlechatclub.org 23 Nickelback Featuring Bush, Seether, and My Darkest Days. Tacoma Dome, ticketmaster.com 23 Paradiso Experience 12 hours of music on three stages while surrounded by larger-than-life amusement-park rides, high-flying bungee trapeze aerialists, fire-breathing dragons, carnivalstyle games, trampoline acrobats, crowd-surfing Oompa Loompas, and much more. Gorge Amphitheatre, livenation.com • 23 Rat City Rollergirls Pushing, shoving, and battling, all on roller skates. Emerald City Skatesaphrenics will take on Rat City’s Rain of Terror, followed by the Bay Area Derby Girls (BAD) vs. Rat City’s All–Star Team. KeyArena, ratcityrollergirls.com

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23 Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon Join 28,000 of your closest running buddies for this 26.2-mile block party, featuring live local bands and spirited cheer teams every mile. Seattle Center, runrocknroll.competitor.com 23–24 Bellevue Strawberry Festival Take in the historical and agricultural displays and enjoy face-painting, fresh berries, a shortcake-eating contest, music, and classic cars. Crossroads Park, bellevuestrawberryfestival.org 23–24 Shoreline Arts Festival Take a gander at visual and performing arts and and browse a talented artist marketplace. Shoreline Conference Center, shorelinearts.net 23–24 Vashon Island Garden Tour Tour five gardens with music and gardening seminars. Vashon Island, vashonalliedarts.org 23–Sept. 3 Seattle Beaches Start summer with a splash when lifeguards come on duty at Matthews, Madison, Mount Baker, Seward Park, and West Green Lake beaches. Free beginning swimming lessons available for kids 6 and under. seattle.gov 24 Beacon Rocks! Free outdoor familyfriendly performances by Beacon Hill musicians. Beacon Hill Station, rockit–space.org/ beacon–rocks.html 24 Green Lake Open Water Swim Swim in any style across the half-mile straight course or the one-mile oval course. Green Lake Park, seattle.gov • 24 Seattle Pridefest The country’s largest free pride festival. Celebrate the LGBT community with a parade and festival, replete with beer and music. Seattle Center (and other locations), seattlepridefest.org 24 Skandia Midsommarfest Dance the afternoon away and watch pros perform music and dance numbers. Saint Edwards State Park, skandia–folkdance.org 24 St. Mary’s International Festival Partake in music, entertainment, and games from traditions from around the world. St. Mary’s Parish, stmarysseattle.org 24 Storm vs. Washington Mystics See which “Washington” team reigns supreme. KeyArena, wnba.com/storm 24–Sept. 30 Summer Sunday Chef Demos Learn a recipe from an area chef using locally grown produce every Sunday from noon to 2 p.m. Pike Place Market, pikeplacemarket.org 26 Foster the People Pump up your kicks and get ready to dance to indie-pop sounds. WaMu Theater. wamutheater.com • 26 Kirsten Grind Why is Kerry Killinger not in jail? Ask this Wall Street Journal reporter and author of The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual—The Biggest Bank Failure in American History. Town Hall, townhallseattle.org 27 Leo Kottke The famed guitarist is joined by ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro. Woodland Park Zoo, zoo.org/zootunes 28 Tasting Flight Wine Event Enjoy delicious wine in the Woodland Park Zoo’s picturesque North Meadow. Woodland Park Zoo, zoo.org 28–29 The Matrix Live: Film in Concert Ne-Yo, Trinity, and Morpheus may not make an appearance, but the live music is sure to be spectacular. Benaroya Hall, seattlesymphony.org 28–30 Mariners vs. Boston Red Sox Clear your schedule and watch the M’s take on the Sox. Safeco Field, seattle.mariners.mlb.com • 29 Aziz Ansari The Parks and Recreation star will have you laughing out loud. The Paramount, stgpresents.org 29–July 1 SummerFest This ever-popular family festival includes a three-on-three basketball

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largest in the area is the Washington Brewers Festival, which is coming up on Father’s Day weekend, June 15-17. After seven years at Saint Edwards Park in Kenmore, the festival moves to a new venue this year at Marymoor Park in Redmond. The new location is more centrally located, with easier access to bus routes, and has more room to handle the expected 15,000+ guests. The festival will feature more than 200 beers from more than 60 breweries and offers a fun atmosphere for all types of beer drinkers. For many families, this event has become an annual tradition to celebrate dad (and his love of beer). The Friday night session is 21+ and will have special beers available only that night, while Saturday and Sunday are open to families. In addition to beer, the festival will feature live music, a brewer’s kegtoss competition, root-beer garden, kids area, craft booths, wine and cider tasting, and food trucks. Another annual favorite is the Seattle International Beer Festival, which features great beers from around the world, as well as from our own backyard. This year the event will be held at Seattle Center’s Fisher Pavilion, July 6-8. It moves from its old location at the Mural Amphitheater, which was too small for peak times during past events. They will have twice the space this year, so hopefully some of the crowds will be thinned out. SIB focuses on pouring the best beers they can get their hands on, and they do a great job of including beers you might not find at any other beer festival in the country. Many of the offerings are tastes from expensive bottles, which gives attendees the chance to try some truly special beers without emptying their wallets for an entire bottle. My favorite beer from last year was a 2009 Russian Imperial Stout from Stone Brewing, aged in Elijah Craig bourbon barrels; just one example of the outstanding beers you might find this year. Entry is $25 in advance ($30 at the gate) and includes a glass and 10 beer tickets. Beers may cost from one to seven tickets per 4 oz. pour, depending on how expensive that particular beer was for the organizers to buy; there have typically been more than 50 beers costing just one ticket at past events. Additional tickets cost $1 each. Whatever your plans are for the summer, make sure to include some locally brewed Washington craft beer in your plans. With so many outstanding breweries around these days, exploring the different selections is quite the adventure in itself. Geoff Kaiser thoroughly enjoys researching the Seattle beer scene. Visit his website at Seattlebeernews.com

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h, summer. Whether you look forward to the sun and relative warmth we get here in Seattle or you are one of those programmer types who rarely see the light of day regardless of the season, this time of year offers some great seasonal beers, exciting events, and fun excursions outside of the city. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, many people hightail it out of town to hit the trails, rivers, and parks. I like to hike, and in my opinion half the fun is grabbing a beer somewhere afterward. No matter what direction you are headed outside of Seattle, you’ll find somewhere with good beer to reward yourself. Some of the closest excursions are out along the I-90 corridor toward Snoqualmie Pass. After you’ve hiked up and down Mt. Si or Rattlesnake Ridge, head back towards Snoqualmie Falls and stop by the Snoqualmie Falls Brewing taproom. You’ll find a selection of sandwiches and pizza, as well as their full lineup of beers, including their current seasonal offering and some specialty beers that don’t leave the taproom. Mt. Rainier National Park is a popular destination for both outdoors enthusiasts and tourists. After your adventure, if you drive back through the north exit of the park, don’t miss stopping by Elk Head Brewing Company in Buckley. I can’t blame you if you’ve never heard of them, because locals don’t let their beer make it too far out of the brewery. On the few times I have stopped in, the tasting room has been packed with friendly people drinking pints and filling growlers. And when I say friendly, I mean very friendly. One guy we talked to about snowshoeing wanted to give us his phone number so we could meet up for an excursion some time. There is no food, but you’ll find some great beers, including unique offerings like a beer made with five kinds of chili peppers, and another brewed with handpicked chanterelle mushrooms. If you’re headed up north on Highway 2 toward popular destinations like Wallace Falls and Mt. Index, Fred’s Rivertown Alehouse in Snohomish is at the top of my list for refueling. The varied menu of entrées and sandwiches will fill you up, while the tap list will have you wanting to stick around for a while. They have more than 30 taps of well-chosen beers, including offerings from north Puget Sound breweries such as American Brewing in Edmonds and Big E Brewery in Lynnwood. If you’ve never been, historic downtown Snohomish is quite a nice place to visit. There are frequent beer festivals in the Puget Sound area throughout the year, but it is the outdoor summer beer festivals that many of us look forward to the most. The

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» from page 29 tournament, a 5K run, a public market, and two live performance stages. Fort Steilacoom Park, lakewoodparksandrec.com 29–July 1 Taste of Tacoma Thirty-two restaurants and 20 food companies line up to tickle Tacoma’s taste buds. The “Taste Wine and Jazz Garden” offers wine from 10 wineries, live jazz, a comedy club, and four music stages. Point Defiance Park, tasteoftacoma.com • 29–Aug. 23 35mm: The Celluloid Dream No digital prints here for repertory titles including The Graduate and The Long Day Closes. Northwest Film Forum, nwfilmforum.org 30 Greenwood Car Show Hundreds of classic, antique, and modern cars on display. Greenwood Avenue North, greenwoodcarshow.com 30 Jetty Jam The board-sports festival offers stand-up paddleboard and kiteboard racing, demos, exhibits, and clinics for all ages and abilities. Jetty Island, urbansurf.com 30–July 1 Festival Sundiata This celebration of African and African-American culture includes music on three stages and a car show. Seattle Center, festivalsundiata.org 30–July 1 Gig Harbor Garden Tour This selfguided event showcases seven area gardens. Dinner, an auction, and guest speakers round out the day. Downtown Gig Harbor, gigharborgardentour.com • 30–July 4 Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival Boat lovers from far and wide come to see visiting vessels. Free public boat rides, toyboat building, and demonstrations are available. Center for Wooden Boats, cwb.org/2012festival • 30–Sept. 2 Olympic Music Festival Chamber-music favorites, from Mozart to Sousa, each Saturday and Sunday; pull up a hay bale in the barn or spread out on the lawn. Quilcene, Wash., olympicmusicfestival.org 30–Sept. 16 Colman Pool Scheduled to open after major reconstruction, this outdoor saltwater pool is a Seattle summer favorite. Colman Pool, seattle.gov/parks • 30–Nov. 25 International Conversation Photography Awards Exhibit More than 75 conservation-focused photos by amateurs and professionals were selected from categories such as Wildlife, Landscape, Underwater, and Community at Risk. Winning photographers will be announced on opening day and will speak about their work, photographic techniques, and passion for conservation. Burke Museum, burkemuseum.org

4 Grand Old Fourth Celebration A street fair, parade, and fireworks help ring in Independence Day. Bainbridge Island, bainbridgechamber.com 5 Dancing ’Til Dusk A real dance floor and live and DJed music, free in various Seattle parks. danceforjoy.biz 6 DJ Rekha With special guests DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid. Neptune Theatre, stgpresents.org 6 The Amazing Spider-Man The saga continues as Andrew Garfield replaces Tobey Maguire. Opens wide. • 6 The Imposter This SIFF documentary tells of a French-Algerian teen who convinces a grieving Texas family he’s their lost son. SIFF Film Center, siff.net

6 The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue w/Donald Fagen Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs round out the bill. Better bring some crackers for the cheese. Chateau Ste. Michelle, ticketmaster.com 6–8 Seattle International Beer Festival More than 200 rare beers from 16 countries. Seattle Center, seattlebeerfest.com 7 Pioneer Square Fire Festival Displays by Last Resort Fire Department, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, and others, with treasured antique police cars and fire trucks. Occidental Square Park, Seafair.com 7 Seafair Pirates Landing Ring in the start of Seafair with the traditional pirate landing, plus music

and good eats. Alki Beach Park, seafairpirates.org 7 Wallingford Seafair Kiddies Parade & Street Fair Pony rides, face painters, and more. Wallingford Avenue North between 44th & 45th, seafair.com 8 The Gaslight Anthem Enjoy the lush sounds of this popular indie band. The Crocodile, stgpresents.org 9 Silent Movie Mondays Piccadilly is screened with live organ accompaniment. The Paramount, stgpresents.org 10–Aug. 14 Shoreline Noon Concert Series Live performances at various parks. shorelinewa. gov/parks

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• 2–29 Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival Twelve concerts, pre-concert recitals, and more. Contemporary offerings include music by Marc-André Hamelin, Adam Neiman, John Adams, and Gary Kulesha. Benaroya Recital Hall, seattlechambermusic.org 3 k.d. lang and The Siss Boom Bang The sultry crooner hits Seattle as part of her “Sing It Loud” tour. Woodland Park Zoo, zoo.org/zoo tunes 3 Mayhem Festival with Slipknot, Slayer, Motörhead, Anthrax Thrash all night long at this mega-metal fest. White River Ampitheatre, livenation.com 3–10 100% Off: A Recession–Era Romance Local filmmaker Shaun Scott debuts a feature. Grand Illusion Cinema, grandillusioncinema.org • 4 Family 4th at Lake Union Food, games, and more lead up to the big fireworks show. Get there early to stake out your turf. Gas Works Park, family4th.org

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includes seven stages of entertainment to aid your digestion. Seattle Center, comcastbiteof seattle.com 20–22 Sequim Lavender Festival Farm tours, vendor booths, and purple mist as far as the eye can see. Sequim, Wash., lavenderfestival.com 20–26 ByDesign Graphic artists, font designers, and ad mavens are celebrated on film. Northwest Film Forum, nwfilmforum.org 21 Earth, Wind & Fire Soulful since 1969. Maryhill Winery & Amphitheater, maryhillwinery. com/concerts 21 Florence and the Machine The neo glam– rocker shares the bill with The Walkmen. White River Amphitheater, livenation.com

21 Summer Beer Taste With music, food, and a canine-welcoming atmosphere provided by Barking Dog Alehouse. Phinney Neighborhood Center, phinneycenter.org 21–22 Seattle Bon Odori This Japanese Buddhist festival celebrates the lives of deceased family members and friends with traditional music and dance. Seattle Buddhist Temple, seattlebetsuin.org. 21–22 Vashon Island Strawberry Festival Includes a parade, classic car show, and live music. Be sure to check out the Saturday-night street dancing. Downtown Vashon Island, vashonchamber.com

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10–Aug. 28 Kirkland Summer Children’s Concerts Kid-friendly tunes. Various waterfront locations, kirklandsummerconcerts.org 10–Aug. 29 Sounds of Summer Concerts Free outdoor performances. Kent Station, kentstation.com 11–15 Arlington Fly–In Airshows, antique aircraft, and more. Arlington Airport, arlingtonflyin.org • 11–Aug. 26 Intiman Theatre Festival The beleaguered theater survives to present Romeo and Juliet, Hedda Gabler, Miracle!, and Dirty Story. Intiman Theatre, intiman.org 11–Sept. 21 Out to Lunch Concert Series Opening with Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers at Columbia Center. Various venues, downtownseattle.com 11–Oct. 28 Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection Some 200 pieces of furniture are featured, all plain and simple. Bellevue Arts Museum, bellevuearts.org • 12–14 Seattle Symphony Playing Holst’s The Planets, Ligeti, and Strauss to projected HD images of our solar system. Benaroya Hall, seattlesymphony.org 12–Aug. 30 Summer at SAM Live music, food trucks, Zumba, and yoga keep the park hopping this summer. Thursdays and Saturdays, seattleart museum.org/getout 13 Slash The Guns N’ Roses guitar man shreds his axe with Miles Kennedy and the Conspirators. The Paramount, stgpresents.org 13–14 Dance This Young performers partner with professional choreographers for multicultural dance. The Moore, stgpresents.org 13–28 Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society Half fairy/half mortal Strephon wreaks havoc on Parliament in G&S’s political sendup. Seattle Repertory Theatre, pattersong.org 14 The Beach Boys 50th Anniversary Tour Breezy surf-pop from the group’s surviving members. Chateau Ste. Michelle, ticketmaster.com 14 Ray Davies The Kinks frontman performs with special guests The 88. The Neptune, stgpresents.org • 14 Frye Art Museum Reopening After its big redo, the First Hill institution celebrates with various activities and the same old collection. fryemuseum.org 14 Gig Harbor Wine & Food Festival Tasting tents represent more than 25 wineries, breweries, and restaurants. Harbor History Museum, gigharborhistoricwaterfront.org 14–Oct. 7 The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl The Henry encroaches on the EMP’s turf. Henry Art Gallery, henryart.org 15 Lyle Lovett & His Large Band Chateau Ste. Michelle, ticketmaster.com 16 Silent Movie Mondays An organist provides live accompaniment to L’argent. The Paramount, stgpresents.org 17–20 People in a Position to Know Olympia’s Mike Dixon will press new vinyl records in the museum’s entry alcove. Henry Art Gallery, henryart.org 18 American Idol Live Catch all the drama live onstage. KeyArena, ticketmaster.com • 18 Sounders vs. Chelsea It may have been a “friendly,” but last summer’s 7-0 loss to Manchester United still stung. Let’s hope the Rave Green presents more of a challenge to this year’s UEFA Champions League winners, Chelsea FC. CenturyLink Field, soundersfc.com 18 Meghan McCain and Michael Ian Black The pundit (daughter of the Arizona senator) and the comedian team up for “A Love Letter to Freedom.” Town Hall, townhallseattle.org

18 Out to Lunch Concert Series Pianist Jovino Santos Neto. Bank of America Plaza, downtown seattle.com 19 Ziggy Marley Jam to the reggae of the Marley legacy. Woodland Park Zoo, zoo.org/zootunes 20 The Dark Knight Rises Christian Bale returns as Batman. Opens wide. 20 Out to Lunch Concert Series The Comatose Brothers. Bank of America Plaza, downtown seattle.com • 20–22 Capitol Hill Block Party Rock out to more than 100 featured artists and bands, including Neko Case, the Lumineers, Grimes, and Diplo. Capitol Hill, capitolhillblockparty.com • 20–22 Bite of Seattle The city’s fave food fest

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If you’re like me, the soundtrack to your life changes with the seasons. I’m the type of SADstricken moper who sludges through the winter months sighing, listening to a lot of Nirvana and Joy Division, and looking out the window to see if I should dress for rain, snow, a light drizzle, hail, slush, clouds, or just not leave the house. Then the sky starts getting lighter and bluer, walking outside stops ruining my hair and making my dog stink, the switch from hot toddies in a heated room to cold beers on patios in the sun can be made, and outdoor concerts become feasible. In a city like Seattle, getting through winter can be like war, and the coming of summer is a happy and hallowed event, one that deserves celebratory music. That doesn’t mean you have to box up all your dark and heavy records once June hits: The music you really love is going to sound good year-round, like the black-clad bands that Eric Grandy profiles in this month’s “Summer Goths” cover story. There will still be summer nights when I’ll put on Bleach. But there’s something to be said about a summer anthem, a song that lightens your heart and makes you feel as easy and relaxed as a long day in July. There are summer-appropriate songs I come back to every year, from George Harrison’s “Awaiting on You All” to Neon Indian’s “Deadbeat Summer.” This year I’ve got a bunch of new ones to add to my playlist, good and bubbly songs like Pure Bathing Culture’s “Lucky One,” Kimbra’s “Cameo Lover,” Oberhofer’s “Cruisin’ FDR,” and Beat Connection’s latest, “The Palace Garden, 4am.” The best of these songs will last through the fall, and maybe even be able to perk me up every now and then come winter. —Erin K. Thompson

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he weather is getting good, just in time for one of America’s favorite pastimes: the good ol’ road trip. Here are my favorites:

1. North on I-97 from Cle Elum to Cashmere: First of all, driving north or south

means no sun in the eyes. Going north on 97 transmits you from a western-Washington chill to the warmth of the high desert. Try the Liberty Cafe for the locals and the caffeine.

2. Highway 2 west from Dry Falls to Waterville: One of the

best straightaways in the state. Haul ass for about 40 miles! Make sure you get your cop-radar-detector thing working, though.

Pass via the west side of Whidbey Island: I’ve heard that Seattle has the most

boats per capita of any American city. Get yourself a small craft and a VHF radio, and grow a pair. This route is dangerous when the weather picks up . . . and make sure you have a full tank of gas, especially when you get to the eddies of Deception Pass. You wouldn’t want to get sucked down one of those. 6. My house to Safeco Field: Yeah, well, even though the Mariners have stunk it up pretty good this season, Safeco is still the best place to see a baseball game in the world.

7. Spirit Lake Highway to Mt. St. Helens: If you ever get a chance, just get off

the damn I-5 down there and head east. 8. North Cascades Highway: Yes, it is that good. Get off at Ross Dam and see what socialism, er, Roosevelt’s Federal Works Program, did for us!

9. Lady of the Lake ferry from Chelan to Stehekin: No roads

go to Stehekin, one of the very last places in Washington that has kept its no-Walmart rule. Untouched by larger commerce in a big way, and an awe-inspiring scenic trip.

3. The drive from my house to Slim’s Last Chance on First Avenue in Georgetown: Anytime

is a good time for chili and beer (well, I don’t drink personally . . . but you get the idea). 4. The Vashon Island Loop: If you are in the city and want to get out real fast on your motorcycle, just get on the Fauntleroy Ferry from West Seattle and ride straight off into the country. Epic for such a short distance away. 5. The Ballard Locks to Deception

10. Incoming flights to Sea-Tac

(technically not a “drive”): The view on any flight into Sea-Tac is one of the best ever. Mt. Rainier, Puget Sound, downtown, floating bridges, boats, and all those lakes make Seattle the best city in the world to touch down in. E askduff@seattleweekly.com

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Editor’s note: For this month’s column, singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash—who performs at the Woodland Park Zoo on August 29—submitted three pressing situations for our columnist to mitigate. Here are his responses: Cash: The Porta-Potties. I am at the point of giving up playing summer festivals entirely because of this. How does a woman, i.e., me, play lucrative summer festivals without exploding her bladder? P-Ps not an option. Roderick: There is no situation where

Porta-Potties are not an assault to a person’s dignity. They are literally a windowless plastic house for one, poised over a foundation of pee and poo and barf, roasting in the hot sun. Now that you mention it, it’s a shockingly pathetic state of affairs that in this age of private space rocketry, our human discharges are so inelegantly mishandled. Leaving aside the fact that a performer of

your stature should probably just go behind the curtains, a la Marie Antoinette, and then gesture to the promoters with a wave of your Japanese fan, I’m going to propose that the first inventor to perfect a “Personal Sanitary Waste Incinerator, Privacy Curtain, and Trucker Grooming Station” name it in your honor. Until that time, may I humbly suggest that you have earned the right to be a little more demanding. You are ROSANNE CASH, and although I know you don’t like to be a diva, I think that demanding proper rest facilities is well on this side of being high-maintenance. Requisition one of those busy-looking twerps driving around in a golf cart and tell him to take you, without delay, to the nicest restroom on the premises. I did exactly that at Bonnaroo one year, and got driven to a bathroom I never wanted to leave. Scented candles! Potpourri bowl! Two sinks! There is just such a “best

Oysters. The general rule is: Never eat shellfish in a state that doesn’t touch the ocean, so the tour routing will have a few days off between Galveston and San Diego, and again between Vancouver and Halifax. But imagine how great you’ll feel taking the stage every night with a tummy full of raw oysters. Nothing gets me in the music-making spirit faster than oysters, oysters, oysters! I can tell you’re dubious, thinking “Aren’t oysters the province of hoity-toity fancy-pantses?” Well, what about FRIED OYSTERS!? Think how energized you’ll be after a month of eating fried oysters. They are practically the perfect food. Let me know how the shows go. How many bare-chested women does it take in the audience before they cause a natural disaster?

The number of bare-chested women sufficient to cause a natural disaster varies, depending on a few other factors. For instance, a Van Halen concert at the L.A. Palladium in the summer of 1978 was recorded as having more than 800 pairs of exposed bosoms with no significant

aftereffects, despite being located almost directly over the San Andreas fault. On the other hand, that same summer a single woman breast-feeding in the lobby of an Anne Murray concert in Edmonton, Alberta, was indirectly credited with enabling, for almost 11 days afterward, people in Nova Scotia to talk to whales. So you see, although we ought not be too quick to point the finger of responsibility at mammaries that have slipped their lacy bounds, we also cannot rule them out as the cause of disaster. I imagine that a Rosanne Cash concert could support four to six pairs of exposed audience breasts without tempting fate, although some of your bandmates may momentarily lose track of the “one,” but if that many naked boobs appeared at a Sufjan Stevens concert, I would brace local hospitals for an epidemic of virgin births and ecstatic crying. Lady Gaga exposes her breasts onstage every night and nothing happens beyond a slight uptick in the number of unicorn throw pillows sold at neighboring Targets, whereas one glimpse of a Courtney Love breast puts your entire family at elevated risk for Lyme disease. These are just some of the documented cases. I’m at a loss to explain the phenomenon, but I don’t take any chances, which is why I wear a bike helmet when I perform. E John Roderick is the singer and songwriter responsible for the Long Winters. jroderick@seattleweekly.com

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t first glance, the watercolors of Seattle artist Stacey Rozich look like scenes from a psychedelic, gonzo fairy tale. Mischievous-looking beasts in traditional Eastern European regalia and colorful folk masks smoke joints, dance, even dismember each other. Bold, primary colors, geometric patterns, and organic brushstrokes fill the spaces in between. But look again, and deeper musical themes emerge. Rozich’s images, inspired by her Croatian folk heritage, can be seen on the album covers of Earth’s Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light and The Curious Mystery’s We Creeling. In her painting “Jam Band,” an anthropomorphic tiger strums a balalaika while another beast shrouded in hair pulls a vinyl copy of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours from its sleeve. In “Ode to Tito,” a personal commission for local experimental musician Tito Ramsey, a band of masked animals strut around playing lutes. But the haunted characters Rozich contributed last year to Fleet Foxes’ stop-motion animated video for “The Shrine/An Argument”—an Odyssean folk narrative featuring a carnivorous antelope— fixed the visual artist’s arresting images within the indie-music scene. The video has received nearly 400,000 views online. “The rewarding part of working on the video was being able to collaborate with [Fleet Foxes lead singer Robin Pecknold’s older brother and director/animator] Sean Pecknold and [Seattle filmmaker] Britta Johnson, both of whom brought my work to life,” Rozich reflects during a phone call to her Capitol Hill apartment. “And the album and song HOLLYANNE S. FABER

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Mischievous-looking beasts in traditional Eastern European regalia smoke joints, dance, even dismember each other. are so great—the perfect soundtrack to score this short film/music video. The challenging part was that it took many, many weeks and months to bring this narrative to life, all spent in a windowless, hot studio in Portland. We could all get pretty loopy in the wee hours, but the work always got done.” Later this summer, in a special installation, Rozich and Laurie Kearney, who curates Capitol Hill’s Ghost Gallery, will exhibit Rozich’s designs to the Capitol Hill Block Party’s music-loving masses. They’re still discussing details, and whether the installation

Creature creator Stacey Rozich.

will take shape at a specific site or appear as “different installations at multiple locations,” Rozich explains, “but the project will incorporate large-scale reproductions of figures that could potentially outfit the stage.” On such a scale, Rozich’s Sendak-style monsters and folk-tale-inspired creatures could take the CHBP to the next level, ushering in a collaborative arts-and-music element seen at other festivals like Bumbershoot or All Tomorrow’s Parties, which curates art, film, stand-up, and spoken-word together with music. (This year, the CHBP is welcoming other art-based additions to the lineup, including a video contest aimed at amateur filmmakers). Rozich is also planning the cover art for the debut full-length of one of her closest friends, local singer/songwriter Kaylee Cole. “I’m definitely doing the art for Kaylee’s record,” Rozich said at one of the singer’s recent shows, and among their ideas is the possibility of including paper-doll cutouts in the album insert. “We’ve already tossed around a few concepts, and we just have to pick one.” But Rozich is pacing herself with a steady workload this summer. Not only is she one of two recipients of the 2012 Cornish Neddy— a distinction enhanced by an unrestricted $25,000 grant—she’s also prepping for an upcoming solo show in Chicago and a trip to Eastern Europe to study the region’s superstitions and folk traditions. “It’s my first time to Croatia and Eastern Europe; I went to Western Europe about 10 years ago when I was a teenager, but I didn’t really appreciate it,” she says. “This is going to be a completely different experience, now [that] I am older and oh-somuch wiser. I’m anticipating a bit of a culture shock, which I am very much welcoming.” E gelliott@seattleweekly.com

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feature» MorE suMMEr Goths Four more groups of gloom-and-doom. Crypts

a military-grade meat grinder churning up gothindustrial noise, a witchhouse atmosphere, and the lithe, louche, provocative antics of ex-these arms are snakes frontman steve snere. (seattle rock’s old guard will recall Crypts as the band that actually did something punk at EMP’s Nevermind anniversary tribute night last september, instead of just rotely patting Kurt’s hallowed corpse on the back.) Live, snere writhes and flails, while bandmates Bryce Brown and nick Bartoletti man an abrasive array of synthesizers, drum machines, and visual projections. also playing the Capitol hill Block Party this summer, and recently signed with L.a. label/management company sargent house, Crypts just finished recording a debut full-length with go-to seattle producer Erik Blood (shabazz Palaces, stephanie).

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eattle is in the grip of a minor goth renaissance. Last month, Second Sight, the monthly party thrown by occult-inspired clothing line Actual Pain, celebrated its first anniversary with a series of shows that included the Seattle debut of UK ambient noise duo Demdike Stare and a sold-out show by Brooklyn darkwavers Light Asylum. In Pioneer Square, new funeral-themed antiques and oddities shop The Belfry is doing a brisk business in human skulls, coffins, taxidermy, Victorian medical equipment, and religious paraphernalia. And then there’s our current crop of dark and gloomy bands—acts like Haunted Horses, Crypts, Grave Babies, and Nightmare Asylum—not as big or as broadly appealing as our folk-rockers or hip-hop stars, maybe, but every bit as bubbling in the underground.

“I feel like we’re free to do anything we want musically, and not have to worry about people ‘getting it.’ ” There’s just one problem: summer. Most of the year, Seattle’s cold and perpetually low-lit clime is an ideal catalyst for dark music. Unscientifically speaking, it’s the same reason that black metal comes from Scandinavia while reggae comes from Jamaica. Summertime, though, can bring a thwarting blast of sunshine and unusually long days. It’s a hard time to be wearing all black (as has been memorably documented in the blog

“Goths in Hot Weather”). Luckily, if you’re set on feeling grim this summer, plenty of local bands can help you draw the proverbial blinds against the impending bright times. If you ask them, drums-and-guitar duo Haunted Horses will tell you they’re not goth. “The music may carry dark themes,” allows guitarist/vocalist Colin Dawson. “But I could never classify it as goth.” Last month, though, on drummer/vocalist Mike Pelly’s 27th birthday, he and Dawson, 28, played a ferocious set of dark, droning rock at Black Lodge, beneath a black pentagram on the wall, their faces goofily corpse-painted and with Pelly wearing an Actual Pain tank top. They may not be card-carrying members at exclusive goth club the Mercury, but they fit the new profile: They make dark music that’s not rigidly beholden to a goth uniform; that bears its aesthetic signifiers as much tongue-in-cheek as in dead seriousness; and that, most important, totally kills. If you were a reductive clod, you’d call it “hipster goth.” Haunted Horses formed in 2010, after Pelly and Dawson—longtime friends and neighbors, and musical collaborators since high school—relocated to Seattle from Sherman Oaks, Calif., which they both describe as a suburban wasteland stripped of a oncevibrant DIY music scene. In Seattle, they found a much more supportive atmosphere. “Seattle has the most creative and diverse music scene I have ever experienced,” says Dawson. “It’s hard not to go to a show and walk away inspired and ready to write more.” “Agreed,” adds Pelly. “I feel like we’re free to do anything we want musically, and not have to worry about people ‘getting it.’ ”

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Whether Seattle gets it or not, that sense of freedom has resulted in some of the most scouring and intense punk-rock sounds to come out of our city in years. Pelly pounds out impressively rapid, hard-hitting drum rolls and cymbal clatter, while Dawson wrenches from his guitar all kinds of noise: metallic skronk, feedback squeals, shuddering drones, and low-oscillating loops. Both provide blurry, echoing vocals. Live, Dawson spends a fair amount of time hunched over a loop station and other pedals, feeding signals into a trio of speaker cabinets (the band supplies their own PA system for total control over their sound). Their songs lurch from dark grooves to explosive bursts of percussion and noise to droning, druggy vocal chants. On first listen, you might hear the best traits of N.Y./L.A. band Liars in their sound, but while Haunted Horses admire that band’s “unpredictability as musicians,” they rattle off a litany of other bands that have influenced them, from UK experimentalists This Heat and krautrockers Faust (which, OK, duh) to ambient electronic artists Tycho and Ulrich Schnauss (less duh). This summer, the band is playing the Capitol Hill Block Party, planning a fulllength album, and looking forward to an East Coast tour. If we’re lucky, their spectacular noise will spook Seattle through the darker months ahead and for some time to come. E music@seattleweekly.com Haunted Horses With Rose Windows, Stickers, Monogamy Party. Comet Tavern, 922 E. Pike St., 322-9272. $8. 9 p.m. Sat., June 23.

the title of Grave Babies’ recently released hardly art EP Gothdammit may be tongue-incheek, but it’s telling. the seattle four-piece make a kind of terminally morose scuzz-punk— all monotone moaning, blown-out distortion, and zombie surf-guitar riffs. their music video for the EP’s ingratiating opener “Fuck off” is a similarly lo-fi occult affair, consisting of grainy tV footage of candles, hands working a ouija board, and a black-clad goth girl performing some sort of ritual. Like the work of similarly surf/goth-infatuated dude Wavves, there’s some serious pop sensibility underneath Grave Babies’ fuzz and static.

King Dude

When he’s not heading up actual Pain, thomas Cowgill makes hollowed-out, slow-crawling acoustic ballads as King Dude. Call him the Man in Even More Black. Cowgill sings in a voice that varies from a baritone to a reedy higher register, most often settling on an appealing croak in between. he couches it in acoustic guitars given plenty of cavernous space in which to reverberate and make noise. It’s not always easy to dredge the words out the wash, but safe to say that Cowgill’s songs exhibit some dark, bottomless-pit vibes.

Nightmare Fortress

the first thing you see at a nightmare Fortress show are flashing towers of lights—green, purple, blue, red—then fog, and somewhere in there the black silhouette of singer alicia amiri and bandmates Colin Roper (Cobra high), Cassidy Gonzales (sleepy Eyes of Death), and Blair Field. Musically, you might hear shadows of Zola Jesus in nightmare Fortress’ goth vocal operatics, steam-spitting synths, and hydraulic-stomping drum-machine beats. their recent EP Until the Air Runs Out was, according to the band, “composed in a basement without windows” and “inspired by the history of electronic music and the future of pagan ritual.” Eric Grandy E

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It’s June 2012, and Seattle Sounds Like . . . Lemolo releases The Kaleidoscope on July 3.

Case+Ctrl, Case+Ctrl (out now, self-released,

caseandctrl.bandcamp.com): This debut mixes Chris Cornell’s yarl, Radiohead’s ambient sound, and Billy Corgan’s guitar tone for a post-rock layer cake perfect for fans of heavy ’90s rock. JULIA MULLEN GORDON

Chastity Belt, Fuck Chastity Belt (out

now, self-released, chastity-belt.bandcamp.com): The four songs on this debut EP (produced by fellow garage denizens Dude York, of whom the all-girl Chastity Belt could easily be the female counterpart) pair the stripped-down punk-funk aesthetic of C.O.C.O. with the direct, at times risqué, lyrical charms of Be Your Own Pet. JMG

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LOCAL RELEASES Azure Shift, “I Can” (out now, self-released,

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azureshift.weebly.com): These guys like Alice in Chains. A LOT! CHRIS KORNELIS

Ball of Wax, Volume 28 (out now, self-

released, ballofwax.org): Levi Fuller’s BoW compilations are always stellar, but he may find it hard to top himself after this edition— booty-shakin’ tracks of the electro variety (including new projects from Josh Morrison and Robb Benson) that flow together like your favorite summer playlist. MA’CHELL DUMA

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BattleCry Melody, Vanquish (out now,

self-released, battlecrymelody.com): If the Bloodhound Gang were virgins, they’d sound

Yeah, every release

like BattleCry Melody. Not that these funky white-boy rappers should be taken home to your mother. Quite the contrary. However, somehow, this acoustic guitar–fused hip-hop is oddly satisfying and genuine. JOE WILLIAMS Beat Connection, The Palace Garden (6/19,

Tender Age, beatconnection.tumblr.com): Solidifying Beat Connection’s shift from hazy, hypnagogic house duo to an electropop four-piece in the vein of Cut Copy or Delorean is a smart move, maybe, but The Palace Garden is still more promising than fulfilling. ERIC GRANDY

Jherek Bischoff, Composed (out now, Brassland, jherekbischoff.bandcamp.com): With its buttery layers of unpredictable melodies, listeners to Bischoff’s first solo EP will swoon. Initially composing his songs on ukulele,

*In each issue, we review every release from local bands and labels scheduled for the coming month. We fully expect a few releases to slip through the cracks. So each issue will also include anything we missed in previous issues, or that had been released in the interim. Send releases and reminders to reverbreviews@seattleweekly.com.

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Bischoff then recorded one instrument at a time, spawning his visionary and inventive orchestral harmonies. KATHERINE MCKEON

Blooper, Go Away (out now, selfreleased, blooper.bandcamp.com): You’d never guess this EP was recorded during January’s weeklong snowpocalypse; its jangly, fuzzed-out garage-pop tunes are irresistibly catchy and primed for the coming summer months. ANDREW GOSPE

Boy Fruit, Demonology (out now, Debacle Records, debaclerecords.com): Murky, clattering instrumental hip-hop that aims to reference both Dilla and Black Dice— and which damn near succeeds at such lofty goals with its weird grooves, glitchy rhythms, and free-roaming float. EG Noel Brass, Jr., Future Noir Soundtracks (out

now, Tropical Metropolis, noelbrassjr.band camp.com): The Afrocop bandleader puts forth some hazy atmospheres here, with warbling synthesizers, lingering piano notes, and slathered-on mood in lieu of giddy-up. Best experienced as a soundtrack, although the plot is left to your imagination. TODD HAMM

Brandi Carlile, Bear Creek (out now,

Columbia Records, brandicarlile.com):

Clam Hamr, Womb Service (out now,

self-released, reverbnation.com/clamhamr): This Seattle rock trio’s debut boasts one of the best titles, and perhaps the best ultrasound cut-and-paste artwork, you’ll ever see. Though the punk gets poppy at times, they ride the waves like punks (the good kind) rather than popsters, and have a killer time doing it. TH

C-Leb and the Kettleblack, The Kettle (out

now, self-released, c-lebsounds.com): These gentlemen take a very Austin approach to C&W, melding the rougher elements of twang (occasionally with modern electronics) to make music perfect for tossing back a whiskey shot floating in Rainier. MDL Crybaby comp (6/16, self-released,

crybabystudios.com): Capitol Hill practice space/recording studio Crybaby knocks on its tenants’ doors to assemble this comp; highlights include scuzz punks Stickers and Haunted Horses, melancholic acts Sad Faces and Sam Miller, and the Royal Eyes’ Smiths-descended “17 Hours.” EG

Danny the Street, Prom Is King (out now, self-released, dannythestreet.bandcamp. com): Featuring former members of Man Plus, this new project from songwriter Jared Mills (Noddy) deals in darker, more straightforward rock textures. On occasion, like the last minute or so of “Since October,” the music comes regrettably close to sounding like Nickelback. AG Davidson Hart Kingsbery, 2 Horses (6/26,

Fin Records, finrecords.com): Songs of heartache (“Eyes of Green”) and heavy drinking (“NyQuil and Wine”) are tailored for Kingsbery’s raspy croon. A reverb-washed, rootsrock guitar keeps things good and country.

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reviews» » FROM PAGE 10 D.evolution.Aires, Cestui Que Vie (6/19, selfreleased, devolutionaires.com): It’s hard to pin a style on this Seattle trio’s second album, but maybe that’s the point. An eclectic group of influences emerge, from groovy, fuzzy rock (“Ladder Clan”) to Hendrix as interpreted by the Minutemen (“Your Sacrifice”) to psychedelic blues (“Devil”). The playing is solid, but there’s no through line. DL Ben Fisher, Roanoke EP (out now, benfisher.

bandcamp.com): In this five-song follow-up to last year’s debut, Heavy Boots & Underwoods, singer/songwriter/busker Fisher leans on the folk canon of the ’60s with another set of carefully finger-picked, plaintive ballads. GE

Fly Moon Royalty, Dimensions (out now,

Sportn’ Life, flymoonroyalty.bandcamp.com): At their best, FMR is a hip soul duo that conjures images of sunny days and summer dresses. Unfortunately, aside from top-notch jam “The Birthday Song,” this five-song EP slips on its uneven moods, and Action Jackson’s rhymes can’t keep up with his high level of production. TH

Fox and the Law, “Feel So Blue” (out now,

self-released, foxandthelaw.com): The first

single from the garage-rockers’ forthcoming Scarlet Fever isn’t particularly novel, but it carves out a happy medium between the sludgy blues and up-tempo punk of the band’s earlier work while sticking fast to their garage-rock ethos. AG

Fox and the Law, “Something Bad”

(out now, self-released, foxandthelaw. com): On the other hand, the second single, based around a Black Keys–worthy descending blues riff and some snarling vocals from frontman Guy Keltner, might be the best song of the band’s still-brief career. AG

Gavin Guss, “Riga in the Fall” b/w “Place

in France” (out now, Fin Records, finrecords. com): A longtime local purveyor of precious indie pop, Guss has a voice so pretty and melodic he actually pulls off a cover of the naughty “Place in France” (yes, the song from your childhood in which the ladies wear no pants). Strangely appealing songs one could liken to Elliott Smith on overdrive. MDL

The Hive Dwellers, Hewn From the

Wilderness (6/12, K Records, krecs. com): Calvin Johnson’s latest with the Hive Dwellers is some of the funnest, friendliest, and most spirited ramshackle indie pop he’s done since Beat Happening—high praise around these parts. EG

Irukandji: Physics of Fusion, Awakening (out now, self-released, irukandjimusic.com): “Fusion” is an appropriate word to describe this eight-piece band’s reggae- and funkinfused hip-hop, which features impressive vocals and rhymes from dual vocalists Sola and Phoenix. AG Dylan Jakobsen, Tell Everything (6/16, self-released, myspace.com/dylanjakobsen): Even if soft, acoustic-driven pop-rock isn’t your thing, don’t be so quick to write off Dylan Jakobsen. Yes, the lyrics are about finding love, losing love, and unrequited love, but there’s something honest and inspiring in his approach. JW Keyboard Kid, Digital Blunts (out now, Mezzanine Records, keyboardkid206. bandcamp.com): This limited-edition cassette, released at the Lil B show in April (and on Bandcamp), is a collection of typically cloudy, 8-bit-inflected beats from the Seattlebased producer. EG Killer Canary, I Am My Own Molecule (out

now, Hollow Giant Records, killercanary. net): This full-length debut is easily digestible pop-punk with some generically catchy vocal hooks from the band’s most unusual element, drummer and lead singer Zak Andree. AG

Kladruby Gold, To the Terminal (out now, self-released, kladrubygold.com): This band is depressed and a tad confused. The singer is practically begging for guidance on To the Terminal—part “I have a cousin in Texas” and part funk-soul-folk-rock—while the rest of the band prays nobody notices. JW Lazer Kitty, Ruins (6/8, self-released,

facebook.com/lazerkitty): Instrumental jams are a tough racket, but “improvisational space-rock trio” Lazer Kitty do a fair job here, equally concerned with meandering orbits and propulsive liftoffs— background music, maybe, but pleasant enough at that. EG

(out now, Out for Stardom, facebook.com/freshespresso) This rap duo began 2012 on a sudden, unexplained hiatus, dropping out of a headlining New Year’s Eve show while MC/producer/keyboardist P-Smoov decamped to his native Michigan for a breather. On Bossalona opener “Green Windows,” they return with fellow MC Rik Rude “in search of a rebirth” and Smoov “reincarnated with my pupils dilated,” and whatever problems sidelined them some months ago feel wholly conquered here. Smoov and Rude’s raps are as tight and attitude-packed as ever, and Smoov’s productions are his best yet, ditching the clubby electro of previous cuts in favor of a more traditional but also more effective rap sound, marked by triumphant horns, smartly flipped samples, and some credibly rattling beats. For anyone who wrote these guys off as mere party-rap jokers, Bossalona is Fresh Espresso running things with serious focus. Whatever they’ve been doing this year, it’s worked. EG

Logic Probe, Full Glitz (6/11, Pleasure

Boat Records, soundcloud.com/ pleasureboatrecords): This local duo has been making dark, downbeat electronic tracks since 1998—long before even your Gramma had Ableton—and the IDMinflected Full Glitz feels like the result of years well spent in the lab. EG

Ali Marcus, Americana Hotel (6/22,

Turtle Rock Records, facebook.com/ ali.marcus): Local songbird Marcus has that sweet, pure vocal style practically invented for alternative country. Her strongest asset, however, is her storytelling ability, which

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Lemolo, The Kaleidoscope (7/3, selfreleased, lemolomusic.com): With this highly anticipated full-length debut, this dream-pop duo has established itself among the town’s most promising up-and-comers. As good as these melodies are, it’s obvious these ladies are just getting warmed up. CK

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released, mars-upial.bandcamp.com): This anonymous producer’s four-song EP falls into the nebulous realm of IDM, featuring glitchy beats and thick smears of synthesizer and sounding like a less-nuanced version of Four Tet. AG Joy Mills, Trick of the Eye, (out now, self-

released, joymills.com): Trick of the Eye rings with an unhurried cadence, rich in lyrical imagery and twangy pedal steel. Mills’ earthy tones softly attune bassist Tom Parker’s subtle harmonies to her own. GE

The Nightcaps, Crowd Control (6/15,

self-released, myspace.com/3rdegreemc): Not to be confused with the ’90s Seattle lounge act, this rap duo’s sophomore album features slick, sample-heavy production from a full staff of promising locals. The chanted choruses and MC Eddy Obitek’s overanimated delivery take away from many of the songs, but fellow MC 3rdegree provides some witty lines and rights the ship a bit. TH

Nouela, Chants (6/12, The Control Group, facebook.com/nouelamusic): Formerly frontwoman of Seattle poprock band People Eating People, Nouela Johnston’s new album includes dark and moody tracks that highlight her heavily impassioned vocals and lyrics (“You ain’t no nice guy,” she keens repeatedly on “Joke Part II”) and her eloquent, classically trained piano playing. ERIN K. THOMPSON

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The Numbs, “Freaks Easy” (out now, Couple

Skate Records, soundcloud.com/coupleskate-records): Formerly half of Seattle noise duo U, Jeff Johnson’s solo debut as the Numbs plays like a heat-warped reggae record—sinister tropicalia that recalls Black Dice and Excepter. EG

Party Box , Space Fighter, We Heard the Future (out now, self-released, partybox.bandcamp.com): Gritty, raw, and poppy, Party Box is a slow-motion version of Kings of Leon eight years ago. From “Amelia” to “Pineapple Footsteps,” this is a local release not to miss. JW The Pharmacy, Josephine (out now, Seayou Records, seayou.bandcamp.com): A poppy, pretty sweet little EP from a band the freakin’ New Yorker called out as basically a scam to hang out in a van, party, and get girls coast to coast. So, uh, well done, guys. EG J. Pinder, Careless (out now, Fin Records, soundcloud.com/jpindermusic): Long a star in the making, and here running with premium-line producers like Jake One, Kuddie Fresh, Illmind, and Vitamin D, Seattle MC Pinder shows off his ability to lay down thoughtful verses and radio-ready

MT. ST. HELENS VIETNAM BAND Prehistory

(out now, Dead Oceans, soundcloud.com/ mshvb) Those who remember the glory days of 2008–09 will undoubtedly be excited for the return of Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, albeit in a slightly subdued form. The songs on this EP are mellower than their energetic-borderingon-frenetic 2009 debut and more in the dark, moody vein of 2010’s “misunderstood” (read: critically maligned) Where the Messengers Meet. But that’s not a bad thing. “Warm Bodies,” the EP’s single, is a somber acoustic ballad that explores the pain of human existence, while opener “Best Bet” displays the spark and swagger that made their first album so compelling. Singer Benjamin Verdoes’ versatile performance, at times ragged, at times sensitive and sad, completes the hypnotic overall effect. While the band’s music and vision is consistent across all three releases, the tide of critical opinion has been less kind. In 2008, reviewers loved their elaborate arrangements and complex, multipart song structures; in 2010, they were tired of them. Whether their songs will wear better critically in 2012 remains to be seen, but if you’re a fan of their previous releases, you’ll find something to love on Prehistory. JMG hooks. There are down moments (like the awful “Some Kinda Star”), but overall, Pinder comes on strong in his formal debut. TH Poor Moon, “Holiday” (out now, Sub Pop,

subpop.com): This teaser for the Fleet Foxes offshoot’s full-length debut is a lo-fi, Henry Mancini–esque nod to ’60s lounge that would be more appropriate for an episode of Mad Men than that horrible Decemberists song the show used a few seasons ago. Seriously, what were they thinking!?!?!? CK

Raz, “They’ll Speak” (out now, self-

released, reverbnation.com/razpy): Raz, aka Razpy, spills some powerful thought over a ruminating string backdrop that works beautifully. TH Recess Monkey, In Tents (6/19, Monkey

Mama, recessmonkeytown.com): If you’re a musically hip 7-year-old, you’re no longer stuck between a rock and a hard place. In Tents provides silly age-appropriate lyrics with more-than-tolerable melodies. Parents can forgo the earplugs; kids can still sing along. KM

Red Jacket Mine “Bellar & Bawl” b/w

“Grow Your Own” (out now, Fin Records, redjacketmine.net): Another shot of Big Star revivalism from some of the city’s finest apostles of ’70s pop. CK Clemm Rishad, “The Beginning” (out now, Sky Movement, soundcloud.com/clemm rishad): “The Beginning” is about reveling in accomplishment and at the same time understanding there’s a long road ahead. Tacoma’s

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Rishad fills in these raps with his usual calm over a pleasing soul-sampled beat. TH Sam Russell, The Water Balloon (out now, self-released, thebluemoonbible.com): Songwriter/guitarist Russell partners with backing band the Harborrats for an album whose genre-hopping—blues, ’60s rock, power pop, and adult-contemporary balladry, to name several—is proficient but disjointed. AG Scriptures, self-titled (out now, Trans-

linguistic Other, records.translinguistic other.com/scriptures): Scriptures feels like a 40-year trek through the desert (in a good way): parched, wandering instrumental rock, with guitar slides that sound like hawks diving. EG

Serial Hawk, Buried in the Gray (out now, self-released, serialhawk.com): Slow and heavy chromatic riffs blend the stoner rock of Kyuss with the Northwest sludge of bands like Tad and the Melvins. The EP’s closer, “Watch It Burn,” is so sludgy and sloweddown it may be unheadbangable. DAVE LAKE Tommy Simmons, Someway, Somehow (out

now, self-released, reverbnation.com/Tommy Simmons): Tracks that range from cocktail soul so mellow it would make Robin Thicke blush to John Mayer–esque secretary rock. Is this edgy or revolutionary? Nope. But it is radio-friendly and packaged to make major commercial waves. MDL

Slashed Tires, Assure (out now, Off

Tempo, offtempo.bandcamp.com): Guitarist/ producer Kenneth Piekarski’s solo project is a mixed bag of dub-influenced electronica

and barely listenable noise-rock sludge, with the best songs (dance track “Mull It Over”) sticking out noticeably from the melody-less majority. AG Steezie Nasa, “Art of War” ft. Nacho Picasso

(out now, Cloud Nice, cloudnice.com): Not the best of verses from two of Cloud Nice’s B.A.Y.B. MCs, but they prove effective at setting the atmosphere all dark and filling it with gloomy imagery to match. TH

Stephanie, Trill Bundles Vol. 1 & 2 (out

now, self-released, soundcloud.com/ poorstephanie): This collection of “new/old/ weird jams, deep thoughtz & demos” reimagines Stephanie’s moody post-punk as thizzed-out dub and awesomely shitty cloud-rap instrumentals. Sick stuff. EG

tongue-in-cheek pop-punk pastiche from a pair of dudes capable of much better (see 2011’s “Baby Don’t You Cry”). Hopefully their forthcoming LP, Funky Was the State of Affairs, is. CK

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released, reverbnation.com/thevonvettas): If it were possible for this band to carry around a portable stage at all times, it’d be a massive hit. Monster is exciting, robust, and pleasantly layered, but screams to be played in front of a crowd. JW Yuni in Taxco, Prizes (6/23, Havaii

Records, yuni.bandcamp.com): On their third album, the prolific quintet continues their voyage into a self-made jungle of jangly surf guitars, Kraut-y keyboard riffs, and dueling vocal lines. It’s a safari you’ll wish never ended. JMG

Beachwood Sparks, The Tarnished

Gold (6/26, Sub Pop, thecalmingseas.com): The standout track on this Los Angeles Americana band’s third full-length is the shimmering “Earl Jean”; the rest of the album recalls Simon & Garfunkel’s tranquil harmonies, but with considerably fewer memorable melodies. EKT

Children 18:3, On the Run (6/19, Tooth & Nail, children183.com): Falling somewhere in the region of Rise Against and the Ataris, On the Run is an energizing record of palm-muted guitar and poppy, upbeat drums. The standout, “Moment to Moment,” will have no problem becoming your new guilty pleasure. JW Fergus & Geronimo, “Roman Tick” (out

now, Hardly Art, hardlyart.com): Soft-core,

Jaill, Traps (6/12, Sub Pop, subpop.com): This Milwaukee trio’s second Sub Pop LP is full of sunny, slightly psyched garage pop, favoring clean electric guitars and acoustic strum and led by Vincent Kircher’s warbly but tuneful singing. EG

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It’s been seven long years, but pop music’s strangest and finest chanteuse is back with her fourth album of new material, The Idler Wheel . . . , whose full title is (déjà vu) too long to print in this blurb. The Paramount, 911 Pine

St., 877-784-4849. 8 p.m. $41.25–$56.25.

Sigur Rós WEDNESDAY, AUG. 8

The popular Reykjavík rock experimentalists recently released their fifth full-length, the electronically charged Valtari; tickets to

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Amy LaVere THURSDAY, JUNE 14

After fronting a punk band in Detroit, this vocalist and upright bass player brings a feisty style to her blues-inflected Americana. Her dulcet country twang is captured perfectly on 2011’s Stranger Me, produced by Craig Silvey, the knob-twister behind Arcade Fire’s Grammy-winning The Suburbs. With Shelby

Earl and Mark Pickerel. Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave. N.W., 784-4880. 9 p.m. $8.

Rodney Crowell & Mary Karr MONDAY, JUNE 18

Crowell has written songs for Johnny Cash and Tim McGraw, and has called Townes Van

Hobosexual, Hounds of the Wild Hunt, Pipsisewah, Country Lips, Big Wheel Stunt Show, The Rolling Stones, the Wayfinders. Slide Dog Race Track, 23311 70th Ave. N.W., Stanwood. Noon. $25–$35.

Ronnie Dunn SATURDAY, JULY 28

Half of pop country duo Brooks and Dunn (the team that brought you “Boot Scootin’ Boogie”), Ronnie Dunn went solo in 2011 and released a self-titled debut; hit single “Bleed Red” peaked at #10 on the Billboard country charts. I-5 Tacoma Showroom

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Steve Earle and the Dukes WEDNESDAY, AUG. 1

Earle’s long been known for a wide range of styles incorporating country, rock, and folk, but his two most recent releases, Townes and I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive, are soulful, mellow numbers that find the artist one step further toward a sound of his own. With Los Lobos. Woodland Park Zoo, 601 N. 59th St., 548-2500. 6 p.m. $28.

Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas SUNDAY, AUG. 5

The angel-voiced songbird brings her loyal band and contemporary bluegrass sound back to the Northwest in support of last year’s Paper Airplane. Maryhill Winery, 9774 Highway 14, Goldendale, 877-627-9445. 6 p.m. $45 and up.

Willie Nelson FRIDAY, SEPT. 7

The tireless troubadour and country icon clocked in four albums in 2011; at 79, still performing with the “family” band that includes his sister Bobbie, Nelson shows no signs of

stopping. Puyallup Fair & Events Center, 110 Ninth Ave. S.W., Puyallup, 253-841-5045. 8:30 p.m. $40.

Martina McBride WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12

McBride first shot to stardom opening for Garth Brooks in the early ’90s. On the heels of her 11th album, her career has outlasted many of her peers’, no doubt due to her soaring, melodic vocals, which never needed an image overhaul. Puyallup Fair & Events Center, 110 Ninth Ave. S.W., Puyallup, 253-841-5045. 7:30 p.m. $35 and up.

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Chickenfoot WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6

Since Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony weren’t invited on this summer’s Van Halen tour, the pair will take the road with Chickenfoot instead. For bonus points, try figure out which bald, sunglasses-wearing member is guitarist Joe Satriani and which is touring drummer Kenny Aronoff, filling in for the Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith. With Black Stone Cherry. WaMu Theater, 800 Occidental Ave S., 800-745-3000. 7:30 p.m. $45–$55.

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Thrice’s 2011 album Major/Minor is a minor masterpiece, and the Irvine, Calif., band has developed into one of today’s most exciting hard-rock acts. Though not breaking up, the band will go on indefinite hiatus after this tour, so see them now before it’s too late. With Animals as Leaders, O’Brother. Showbox

It’s hard to believe Maiden are still touring and playing huge venues, but here they are again, this time on their “Maiden England” tour. Based on the 1989 concert video of the same name, the show includes a set list and stage show from their 1988 “Seventh Tour of a Seventh Tour.” With Coheed &

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Screeching Weasel, the Queers SATURDAY, JULY 14

Bring your boxing gloves: Ben Weasel’s band quit on him mid-tour after he punched a pair of women following their SXSW show. He has since apologized and reformed the band, who will play El Corazon with the scene’s second-biggest Ramones-core act, the Queers. With the Piniellas . El Corazon,

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Bouncing Souls SUNDAY, JULY 22

New Jersey’s favorite pop-punk sons play songs from their ninth album, Comet, their first for new label Rise Records. They’ll by joined by the Menzingers, whose album On the Impossible Past is this year’s best punk record so far. With Luther. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8005. 7 p.m. $18.

Cambria. White River Amphitheater, 40601 Auburn-Enumclaw Rd., 360-825-6200. 7:30 p.m. $36–$81.

Dethklok, Lamb of God WEDNESDAY, AUG. 1

Dethklok, a fake death-metal band that became a real death-metal band to play the songs from the Metalocalpyse cartoon that birthed them, will tour with the equally heavy but more traditional metal sounds of Lamb of God, touring behind their latest album Resolution. With Gojira . WaMu Theater, 800 Occidental Ave. S., 800-745-3000. 6 p.m. $33 adv./$38 DOS.

KISS, Mötley Crüe SATURDAY, AUG. 18

They both love makeup and knee-high boots and pack more pyro than a dynamite salesman, so why not tour together and save money on props and costumes?

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The release party for their sophomore album, ANX—if it’s half as good as their first offering, Vessel, it’ll be one of the year’s best rap albums. With Sadistik, Mr. Hill. The Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave., 441-4618. 9 p.m. $10.

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One of the bright new lights in Southern rap, K.R.I.T. has built his buzz and potential into something palpable to enjoy. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9442. 8 p.m. $20.

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Def Jux/Ninja Tune instrumental hip-hop producer Blockhead headlines Drop, a night of beats, bass music, and more at LoFi—this month also featuring the smart, sampleheavy, head-nodding sounds of local duo The New Law. With NovaTRON and more. LoFi, 429 Eastlake Ave., 254-2824, thelofi.net. 9 p.m.

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Amid the drag queens and general fabulousness of Nark Magazine’s Gay Pride Party this year are a couple notable electronic acts: Cody Critcheloe’s trash-theater/electro-pop troupe SSION and JD Samson of Le Tigre and MEN. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9442. 8 p.m. $32.

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6 From Hiroshima to Hope The annual floating-lantern ceremony to promote peace, in memory of victims of war. Green Lake, wingluke. org/hiroshimatohope 6 KEXP Ninth Annual BBQ Mad Rad, Virgin Islands, Fool’s Gold, and others make up the bill; KEXP DJs host. Mural Amphitheater, seattle center.com 9–12 Doe Bay Fest The fifth annual indie and roots-music takeover has become wildly popular. Bands TBA. Orcas Island, doebayfest.com 9–12 Pierce County Fair Highlights include 4-H exhibits, bumper cars, and chicken racing. Graham, Wash., piercecountyfair.com 10 The Campaign Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis star in this spoof of American politics. Opens wide. • 10 South Lake Union Block Party This free fest includes a burger-grilling competition (with celebrity judges), food trucks, a Brave Horse Tavern beer garden, and cinema on the lawn. South Lake Union Discovery Center, slublockparty.com 10–11 Kirkland SummerFest Shakespeare in the park, live music, food trucks, and a wine and beer garden round out the delights. kirklandsummerfest.org 10–12 Auburn Good Ol’ Days Festival Includes a 5K fun run, a juried adult and youth art show, a model-boat and shipbuilders demo, and a classic car show. Auburn, auburngoodoldays.com 10–12 Seattle Tattoo Expo Hundreds gather to expose new talent and showcase fan favorites. Seattle Center, seattletattooexpo.com 10–12 Stillaguamish Festival of the River & Pow Wow Live music, wildlife demos, a salmon bake, and a storytelling tent highlight this alcohol- and drug-free festival. Free and open to the public. Arlington, festivaloftheriver.com 10–12 A Taste of Edmonds Celebrating its 30th birthday. America’s #1 Van Halen tribute band the Atomic Punks will play. Edmonds, ataste ofedmonds.org 11 Ready, Set, Go . . . Cook! Chefs from Palace Kitchen and Serafina compete to make an original dish using only fresh farmers market produce. University District Farmers Market, seattlefarmersmarkets.org 11 4-Corners BrewFest Celebrating suds from Georgetown Brewing, Brickyard Brewing, and more. Shoreline, 4-corners.org 11 Tukwila Kids’ Festival The band Recess Monkey performs at this action-packed family festival. Tukwila, tukwilawa.gov 11–25 Friends of North Bend Library Book Sale Adult and children’s books, CDs, DVDs, and more. Open during library hours. North Bend, kcls.org 12 Victorian Day The conservatory’s centennial celebration features a fundraising croquet tournament and prizes for best period costume. Volunteer Park, volunteerparkconservatory.org 12 Pilchuck Glass School Open House Once a year, Pilchuck opens its doors for hot-glass demonstrations and docent and gallery tours, accompanied by live music and concessions. Stanwood, pilchuck.com 16 Picnic & Barrel Auction Mingle with Washington winemakers, enjoy lawn games and gourmet picnic food, and bid on limited-release wines. Chateau Ste. Michelle, auctionofwashingtonwines.org 16–19 Dog Show The Olympic Kennel Club hosts this annual event, with competitions in obedience, agility, and showmanship. Enumclaw, enumclawexpocenter.org 16–Sept. 3 World Championship of Sand

food vendors, volleyball (careful where you spike!), and live music. Issaquah, fraternity snoqualmie.com 25–26 Tibet Fest Exploring the roots of Tibet through art, performance, and more. Seattle Center, seattlecenter.com 25–26 Slow Food and Roots Music Festival Promoting locally grown food and sustainable agriculture with a beer and wine garden, multiple music stages, wholesome fair food, and more. Stanwood, slowrootsfestival.com 25–26 Tacoma Maritime Fest Free harbor-boat tours, a beer garden, train rides, and entertainment. maritimefest.org 25–26 Art in the Garden Viewers wandering

the grounds encounter a treasure hunt of sorts, with garden art and sculpture tucked along paths and artists on hand to discuss their work. Bellevue, bellevuebotanical.org 25–26 Ride Around Puget Sound This 170mile weekend ride crosses the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, paved trails, and scenic back roads. Tacoma, rapsodybikeride.com 26 Alki Beach 5K Walk & Run Raise money and awareness for women battling breast cancer. alkibeachrun.com 26 Afrolatino Festival Seattle Salsa, merengue, Latin jazz, reggae, and cumbia, plus Mexican, Cuban, Colombian, and Peruvian food. Magnuson Park, afrolatinofestival.org

Labor Day Weekend 1 Blues for Food Fest This all-day, all-ages fundraiser for Seattle organizations that feed the hungry features local food vendors, live music, children’s gardening projects, and a pie auction. Magnuson Park, bluesforfood fest.org • 1–3 Bumbershoot Comedy, dance, visual arts, theater, and film on multiple stages. Headliners include Jane’s Addiction, Tony Bennett, Heartless Bastards, and Wanda Jackson. Seattle Center, bumbershoot.org E

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Sculpting Top artists in museum-quality sand sculpting show off at the largest competition of its kind in North America. Federal Way, sandchamps.com 17–19 Celebrate Shoreline Free, old-fashioned fun, including sand-castle building, a parade, and a skate competition. Shoreline, cityofshoreline.com 17–19 Flute Quest Workshops, concerts, and a silent auction celebrate and honor the Native American flute. Saltwater State Park, Des Moines, flutequest.com 17–19 Snoqualmie Railroad Days Train rides and parades celebrate Snoqualmie’s history as a railroad and logging town. Snoqualmie, railroaddays.com 17–19 Taste of Music Vendors, libations, and multiple stages of live blues. Snohomish, tasteofmusic.org 17–23 Splinters In this new surfing drama, shot in Papua New Guinea, local athletes compete in a wave-riding competition. Northwest Film Forum, nwfilmforum.org 18 Indigenous Cultures Day Celebrate Native American traditions. Seattle Center, seattle center.com 18 Foss Cup Model Tugboat Competition Participants compete in barge-handling and salvage events that test their models’ capabilities. Bellevue, shipmodelers.com 18 Taste of Main Desserts, fine cuisine, wine tastings, and giveaways highlight this benefit for the Children’s Response Center. Bellevue, tasteof mainbellevue.com • 18–19 Viking Days A Swedish pancake breakfast, a traditional salmon barbecue, and real-life Vikings celebrate Seattle’s Scandinavian heritage. Nordic Heritage Musuem, nordicmuseum.org 19 Pasado’s Bark at Marymoor Park Join fellow animal lovers for the second annual fundraiser for rescued animals. Marymoor Velodrome, pasadosafehaven.org • 23–Sept. 3 Evergreen State Fair Agricultural displays, auto races, and a carnival and rodeo are just some of the fun. Monroe, ever greenfair.org 24 Computer Error: The Worst CGI in Movie History This 90-minute compilation reel comes to us from our friends at The Alamo Drafthouse. Grand Illusion Cinema, grandillusioncinema.org 24 Great Day of Play Families who value recreation, fitness, and making “play” part of the daily routine will enjoy this. Redmond, redmond.gov/play 24 Hit and Run From the producer of The Wedding Crashers comes this action comedy about a former getaway driver and his girlfriend who enter the witness-protection program. Opens wide. 25 Duwamish River Festival Free food, raffles, live music, and educational booths help promote river cleanup and community health. Waterway Park, duwamishcleanup.org 25 Downtown Renton Art Walk & Antique Walk Discover downtown Renton with photography and arts displays, live music, artist meetand-greets, dance, and more. artsunlimited.org 25 Health Point Family 5K Walk/Run As part of Bothell’s Riverfest, this family event promotes health and wellness. Bothell, active.com 25 Run-A-Muk A 5K walk/run and 10K run keep things moving during Mukilteo’s Lighthouse Festival. Mukilteo, mukilteolighthousefestival.org 25 Battle of Britain Hurricane and Spitfire aircraft soar across the skies during their annual maintenance flights. Everett, flyingheritage.com 25 The Goddess Festival This fundraiser for three nonprofits benefiting youth, seniors, and families includes live music from Fly Moon Royalty and Annie Jantzer, food, a beer garden, and more. Woodland Park, goddessfestival.info 25 Nudestock A clothing-optional fest (or “nude rock and blues experience”) with

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Unless you’re a neuroscientist, it’s the anecdotes of feathery misbehavior that are most enjoyable in Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans (Free

Press, $25). This is the second corvid book from locals John Marzluff (author and UW professor) and Tony Angell (illustrator). Their first, 2005’s In the Company of Crows and Ravens, clearly prompted a flood of odd crow stories from readers, which Marzluff now augments with CT scans, serotonin levels, neural mapping, and so forth. But here’s what you remember (and wish were on YouTube): Up in the North Cascades, one bird systematically strips the rubber from windshield wipers on parked cars. In Montana in the ’60s, a gifted mimic drove dogs crazy by squawking “Here, boy! Here, boy!”, drawing a pack of confused mutts. On Puget Sound, crows plan in advance by placing mussel shells to be cracked open by cars driving off ferries. And everywhere crows are observed, they have a penchant for play— sledding on snow and sliding down rooftops, for instance. And yes, some of those videos are starting to show up on YouTube. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., 652-4255, townhallseattle.org. $5. 7:30 p.m. (Also: Third Place, 7 p.m. Mon., June 11.) BRIAN MILLER

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Like Father, Unlike Son

Red River (1948) is a frontier epic, the sweep-

ing tale of a journey that can’t be made and the story of a son forced to battle the father he loves. Montgomery Clift had his breakout role opposite cowboy icon John Wayne, playing the adopted son of the self-made cattle baron, and the clash of acting styles is electric. Iconic elder statesman Wayne wears his character like buckskin, dominating the screen. Yet upstart Method actor Clift matches him with burning intensity. Director Howard Hawks’ measured style leans more to Wayne: He seems to let the characters take the story along with them. Yet behind that easy pace, a tale of madness, betrayal, and vengeance simmers beneath the harsh sun. “I never knew the big sonofabitch could act,” director John Ford famously said of Wayne’s performance. True, but the real revelation was Clift; his internalized, psychologically driven approach arguably pushed Wayne to reach for colors he’d never brought to a role before. Red River is the first of three Clift titles being screened for Gay Pride Month, followed by From Here to Eternity (June 15) and Wild River (June 22). Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., 654-3121, seattleartmuseum.org. $20–$23 series, $8 individual. 7:30 p.m. SEAN AXMAKER

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Jacqueline Goss is an experimental filmmaker whose shorts employ free-ranging associations, 2-D digital graphics, and apposite tidbits to create funny, distinctly personal miniature histories of ambitious mapping projects. The Observers, her lean 67-minute, 16mm first feature, is composed of a year in the life at the heart of another such endeavor: the weather observatory atop Mount Washington, N.H., famed for its vortexlike winds. The location can only be determined through context clues, for no audible dialogue is spoken onscreen in this solitary film. Sectioned into ice-rimmed winter and summer shifts, this diptych “stars” two female caretakers/climatologists—though, only incidental protagonists, they freely wander in and out of frame. In the downtime, of which there is much, they may

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Call it bobby-sox noir? The 1968 Pretty Poison begins as a kind of Billy Liar or The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, with Anthony Perkins portraying a mentally unstable young man released from the loony bin to play spy games like a big kid in an adult world. While he’s not entirely harmless (a vindictive streak leads to a little industrial sabotage), he’s an innocent compared to his new highschool sweetie. Tuesday Weld comes on as all blonde bounce and wide-eyed excitability, but behind her schoolgirl smile is a cagey, bored girl finding an outlet for her dark imagination. “The world is no place for fantasies,” his probation officer warns Dennis, and Sue Ann is the biggest fantasy of all. There’s a feral edge to Weld’s teenage femme fatale, while Perkins grounds the dark satire with a quiet heartbreak and disillusionment. (The real world is far more cruel than his made-up Cold War conspiracies.) Director Noel Black underplays the more caustic edges of Lorenzo Semple Jr.’s script, even as he foregrounds the poison pouring—quite literally—through this pretty little town. (Through Thurs.) Grand Illusion, 1403 N.E. 50th St., 523-3935, grandillusioncinema.org. $5–$8. 7 & 9 p.m. SEAN AXMAKER

practice tying knots, tooting recorders, or trying to open a mysterious code-locked briefcase by process of elimination, before they just as mysteriously rebury it under a cairn. At some moments, the tedium loosens you to melt into the landscape, and you swear you can hear the moss on the rocks start talking. (Six other titles in the N-E-X D-O-C-S series run Fri.–Thurs.) Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., 267-5380, nwfilmforum.org. $6–$10. 8 p.m. NICK PINKERTON

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Fond Farewells

Pacific Northwest Ballet’s season-ending encore program is always a fun evening, made of exciting bits and pieces from prior shows. But it has a sober side as well, since it’s often the last hurrah for dancers leaving the company. This year the attrition list is relatively short, but the losses will be substantial. Abby Relic has made much of the opportunities she’s had as a corps member, whether as a wide-eyed Red Riding Hood in Sleeping Beauty or one of the passionate ensemble in Vespers. As a principal dancer, Lucien Postlewaite has put his stamp on most of the works in the current repertory. He’ll leave a significant dent in the roster by joining the Ballet de Monte Carlo this summer, but before he goes, we can see him once more in two works by Balanchine: an excerpt from Prodigal Son, which really launched his career here, and Apollo, which he only started performing this spring. From a callow youth to a young god, it’s been a pleasure to see Postlewaite’s development, and it’s sad that we won’t be able to continue to watch his growth. McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St. (Seattle Center), 441-2424, pnb.org. $30–$175. 6:30 p.m. SANDRA KURTZ

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choreographer Tahni Holt. Her two dancers (Lucy Yim and Robert Tyree) will perform a duet augmented by stacks of cardboard boxes, the empty emblems of our relentless consumption. Yet they’re vessels for the imagination, too. Remember how much enjoyment you got as a kid playing with those brown cardboard containers? You could hide in them, climb on them, cut holes in the sides and wear them, and more. Parents saw only the dull contents and didn’t value the carton. But Holt surely remembers how humble boxes are an invitation to play, a void to fill. Emptiness becomes an asset. (Through June 17.) On the Boards, 100 W. Roy St., 217-9888, ontheboards. org. $14–$30. 8 p.m. BRIAN MILLER

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Marya Sea Kaminski wants to say something about violence. Or daddy issues. Or abuse. Or something. BY MARGARET FRIEDMAN

show about guns and violence is bound to attract controversy, but never more so than in the days following Ian Stawicki’s shooting rampage. Recall how after Columbine and 9/11, Hollywood delayed and re-edited several movies. Is it a sign of artistic courage or solipsism that Marya Sea Kaminski’s brutality-infused Riddled debuted as planned last weekend with nary a nod to the raw new context? Like most other aspects of the show, her motives are a muddle. Outside the mock “club” at Hugo House’s loading dock, your ID is is checked and you’re given a drink ticket and a safety pin. Inside, a ’30s-gangster type (Paul Budraitis) grimly wields an M1 carbine, which you’re encouraged to hold and fiddle with. Then it’s into the club (designed by L.B. Morse), not quite as sticky as the Comet or Re-bar, but trying. On the walls are graffiti and beer cans strung like bandoliers. Kaminski’s singer (simply “The Woman”) shares a tiny stage with a band calling itself Bonnie Clyde (actually Landlord’s Daughter, which plays a separate set after her show). Always an intense performer, Kaminski has feline eyes, heavily outlined, that seem to glow from behind. Her singer tells a story, interspersed with musical numbers, of an abusive, gun-loving, survivalist father and a damaging childhood under his roof. Then there’s the firearms-glorifying Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow stuff, derived from the singer’s poring over a stolen library book as a girl. There’s also a silent figure called “The Man” (Budraitis, masterfully emotionless), who represents a panoply of menacing male figures, but mainly a no-good lover and a cop. What comes through here is the singer’s Stockholm Syndrome fascination with her physically abusive pa and her residual interest in guns and violence. Layered on top of Riddled are hurt-girl citations from Sylvia Plath’s poem Daddy and a musical chorus that goes “No yes no good bad right no wrong.” This is not an evening of moral clarity or dramatic closure. It feels as if Kaminski shot her laptop, and the words— sometimes poetic—came bleeding out. Absent a coherent or credible script, Riddled depends completely on the talented Kaminski’s performance. From her outsized Electra two years ago at Seattle Shakes to her recent hilarious turn in the Rep’s Clybourne Park as a racist’s deaf, pregnant ELLA ORDONA

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Kaminski, flanked by Landlord’s Daughter, sets violence to a rock score.

wife, she’s usually a high-watt stage presence. Here she excels at storytelling and impersonation—of her parents as well as Parker and Barrow—and makes plenty of contact with the band and audience. However, when singing, she lacks the abandon of a real rocker. And though Kaminski has a broad range of expression, she falls back too often on her electric grin (a charming tic or a psychopath’s tell?), which undermines the singer’s dark stories. Having previously directed Kaminski at the Rep in Clybourne Park and 2007’s My Name Is Rachel Corrie, Braden Abraham keeps the pace lively and the mood rotating, occasionally to bizarre and confusing effect. The band is good, with some divine violin work by by Alma García and Christy Mooers, and Kaminski skillfully manipulates her lovely singing voice from dulcet highs to terrifying, guttural squawks and growls. Oh, and about those safety pins. We’re supposed to use them at the end of the show to prick red balloons and simulate the gunfire that mows the singer down. Perhaps wisely for this nebulous project, Kaminski the author is coy about any autobiographical components. (Did her father really beat a puppy to death?) Bonnie and Clyde wasn’t a factual account either, though it happens to be a great movie. Riddled misses that mark, and Kaminski never makes clear what targets she’s aiming for. E stage@seattleweekly.com RIDDLED Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave., 322-7030, hugohouse.org. $15–$20. 8 p.m. Fri.–Sat. Ends June 23.

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the genre, with the songs of Green Day. The Paramount, 911 Pine St., 877-784-4849, stgpresents.org. $25 and up. 7:30 p.m. Wed., June 6–Thurs., June 7; 8 p.m. Fri., June 8; 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., June 9; 1 & 6:30 p.m. Sun., June 10. AS YOU LIKE IT More cross-dressing in the Forest of Arden. Center House Theatre, Seattle Center, 733-8222. $15–$40. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.–Sat., plus weekends; see seattleshakespeare.org for schedule. Ends June 24. CAFÉ NORDO’S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES Tour “The World’s Most Elusive Culinary Museum” and savor five courses plus wine. Washington Hall, 153 14th Ave., 800-838-3006, cafenordo.com. $60–$80. Runs 7:30 p.m. Thurs. & Sun., 8 p.m. Fri.–Sat. Ends June 23. THE CURSE OF MALIBU TIDES Fantastic.Z’s murder mystery set backstage at a soap opera. JewelBox/Rendezvous, 2322 Second Ave., jewelbox theater.com. $15–$17. 7 p.m. Wed. Ends June 27. ENCHANTED TALES Gillian Jorgensen’s new take on fairy tales of foreign lands. Youth Theatre Northwest, 8805 S.E. 40th St., Mercer Island, 232-4145. See youth theatre.org for schedule and ticket info. Ends June 10. ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE Playwright Joe Orton’s work requires a firm grasp of English dialects; only when these are solidly in place can a comedy about homicidal class warfare support Orton’s vicious satire. Otherwise it’s an evening of three acts and the occasional can’tmiss joke. KEVIN PHINNEY Theater Schmeater, 1500 Summit Ave., 800-838-3006, schmeater.org. $15–$23. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. Ends June 16. GAUNTLET An “interactive video-game comedy.” Wing-It Productions, 5510 University Way N.E., 781-3879, wingit presents.com. $10–$14. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Fri. Ends June 22. LEAVING IOWA A typical American family road trip is packaged into comedy. Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St., 781-9707, taproottheatre.org. $15–$37. 7:30 p.m. Wed.– Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat. Ends June 16. THE PRODUCERS Richard Gray and Brian Earp star in Mel Brooks’ blockbuster. Village Theatre, 303 Front St. N., Issaquah, 425-392-2202. $22–$62. See villagetheatre. org for exact schedule. Ends July 1. RIDDLED SEE REVIEW, PAGE 48. SHEAR MADNESS A comic whodunit set in a salon. The Moore, 1932 Second Ave., 877-784-4849. $40. Runs

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Highlights include a tribute to Seattle choreographer Mary Sheldon Scott, 7:30 p.m. Wed.; the “Art on the Fly” series of outdoor events along the South Lake Union Trolley route, noon–6 p.m. Sat.; and Saturday’s “Sanity Cafe,” a late-night cabaret premiering a trio of works. SANDRA KURTZ Raisbeck Performance Hall, 2015 Boren Ave., 800-838-3006. $15–$50. See seattleidf.org for full schedule. Ends June 10. ARTE ETERNO: FLAMENCO EN VIVO Traditional music and dance from a troupe led by Savannah Fuentes. Columbia City Theater, 4918 Rainier Ave. S., 800-8383006, savannahfuentes.com. $20. 8 p.m. Thurs., June 7. NW NEW WORKS FESTIVAL SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 47. GANSANGO MUSIC & DANCE Seattle-based choreographer/dancer Etienne Cakpo presents traditional dance and music from Benin. Ethnic Cultural Center/Theatre, 3931 Brooklyn Ave. N.E., 800-838-3006, brownpapertickets.com. $20. 7:30 p.m. Fri., June 8, 3 p.m. Sat., June 9. COPPÉLIA Pacific Northwest Ballet’s production of Coppélia, with one of ballet’s most beautiful scores (by Léo Delibes), is full of complex, tricky dancing, restaged from its 19th-century roots by Balanchine in 1974. (Look for PNB director Peter Boal as one of three dancers portraying the doctor.) SANDRA KURTZ McCaw Hall, Seattle Center, 4412424. $28–$168. See pnb.org for schedule. Ends June 10. CORNISH JUNIOR DANCE COMPANY A wide variety of new works by Steve Casteel, Christine Juarez, and many others. Erickson Theatre Off Broadway, 1524 Harvard Ave., cornish.edu. $12–$16. 3 & 7:30 p.m. Sat., June 9, 3 p.m. Sun., June 10. PNB ENCORE PROGRAM SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 47.

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• SEATTLE SYMPHONY Leonidas Kavakos solos in

Korngold’s irresistible Violin Concerto; Jesus LopezCobos also conducts Rimsky-Korsakov, Strauss, and Turina. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., 215-4747, seattlesymphony.org. $17–$110. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., June 7, 8 p.m. Sat., June 9, 2 p.m. Sun., June 10. DIVERSE HARMONY James Taylor and more from this gay/straight youth chorus. Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, 104 17th Ave. S., 800-838-3006, diverse harmony.org. $12–$15. 7:30 p.m. Fri., June 8–Sat., June 9. DUBB NUBB & SHENANDOAH DAVIS The former’s three singing sisters from St. Louis, the latter’s a ragtime pianist. Gallery 1412, 1412 18th Ave. E., gallery1412.org. $5–$15. 8 p.m. Fri., June 8. SEATTLE SYMPHONY CHAMBER MUSIC Music by Dutilleux, played by SSO musicians and pianist Cristina Valdes. Benaroya Recital Hall, Third Ave. and Union St., 215-4747, seattlesymphony.org. $35. 8 p.m. Fri., June 8. SEATTLE CHORAL COMPANY Rachmaninoff’s Vespers (aka “All-Night Vigil”). Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1245 Tenth Ave. E., 800-838-3006, seattlechoralcompany. org. $10–$27. 8 p.m. Fri., June 8–Sat., June 9. SEATTLE SYMPHONY Ludovic Morlot conducts Ives, Mozart, and more on this “Discover Music” family concert. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., 215-4747, seattlesymphony.org. $15–$20. 11 a.m. Sat., June 9. NORTHWEST CHAMBER CHORUS “The Elements” includes music from Monteverdi to Lauridsen. Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church, 7500 Greenwood Ave. N., 523-1196, northwestchamberchorus.org. $12–$22. 7:30 p.m. Sat., June 9, 3 p.m. Sun., June 10.

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maybe they’re only giant to other, smaller snails not made of yarn. Regardless, at the Prospect Street entrance to the park (on 15th Ave.), artists Monika Dalkin and AnnMarie Peterson will deploy dozens of the adorable little gastropods. Since “removal of snails for personal collection is encouraged,” this sounds like a great morning activity for small kids. But get there early; these slugs will go fast! Volunteer Park, 1247 15th Ave. E., 684-4555, seattle.gov. Sat., June 9, 9 a.m. ELIZABETH BACHMAN Out for a Walk presents her photographs taken during hikes around the Northwest, usually with dogs. First Thursday reception 6–8 p.m. Call for regular hours. Revolution Books, 89 S. Washington St., 325-7415, revolutionbookssea.org. June 7–July 31. BALLARD ARTWALK Every second Saturday, Ballard’s galleries stay open late for their monthly artwalk. Peek into venues including Ambach & Rice, 20Twenty, and many others. 5–9 p.m. Sat., June 9. LORETTA BENNETT Bennett is an Alabama-based fifth– generation quilter who employs hand-stitching in the traditional Gee’s Bend style. Note First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m., and artist talk Sat., June 9 at noon. Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave. S., 624-0770, gregkucera. com. Tues.–Sat., 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Through June 30. BRONZE AGE This group exhibition features a range of works in bronze, including abstract and figurative studies, created through Pratt’s Sculpture Program. With Lee Campbell, Mark Dahn, Allen Emhoff, Jeanne Marie Ferraro, and others. Opening reception First Thursday, 5–8 p.m. Pratt Gallery at Tashiro Kaplan Studios, 312 S. Washington St., Ste. 1A, 328-2200, pratt.org. Opens June 7. Wed.–Sat., noon–5 p.m. Through June 30.

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and phenomenology through words, images, pattern, and vibrant colors in textured, abstract paintings. Note First Thursday opening reception, 6–8 p.m. James Harris Gallery, 312 Second Ave. S., 903-6220, jamesharris gallery.com. Opens June 7. Thurs.–Sat., 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Through July 7. MARITA DINGUS & MAR GOMAN Dingus creates art from castoff materials. Goman works in a variety of media, including collage and sculpture. Reception Sun., June 10, 2–4 p.m. Francine Seders Gallery, 6701 Greenwood Ave. N., 782-0355. Opens June 8. Tues.–Sat., 11 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sun., 1–5 p.m. Through July 8. DXARTS BFA SHOW Students at the UW’s Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media present a temporary exhibition at the Fremont Fab Lab (102 N.W. 36th St.) Friday’s opening reception begins at 6 p.m. June 8–10, noon–6 p.m. GEORGETOWN ART ATTACK The June edition features work by Adrien Miller, Brian White, Mary Tudor, David Mazak, Roxanne Fawcett, Janet S. Crawley, Keli Sim DeRitis, and others at venues including Bella Vitale, the Georgetown Arts and Cultural Center, and the Georgetown Trailer Park Mall. Tonight also, look for the ever-popular power-tool races. See georgetownart attack.com. 6–9 p.m. Sat., June 9. KERSTIN GRAUDINS & ELLEN HOCHBERG After the end of a seven-year relationship, Graudins re-evaluates her life in this series of Day-Glo screen prints embellished with hand-painted flourishes. In Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, Hochberg looks at conservative attempts to deny women reproductive health care. Note First Thursday opening reception, 5–8 p.m. Shift Collaborative Studio, 306 S. Washington St. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 547-1215, shiftstudio.org. Opens June 8. Fri.–Sat., noon–5 p.m. Through June 30. MEG HOLGATE In the paintings of Blueprint, she examines identity as tied to a location. Also on view: Lost, watercolors by Alexandra Becker-Black. Note First Thursday opening reception, 5–8 p.m. Friesen Abmeyer Fine Art, 1210 Second Ave., 628-9501, friesenabmeyer. com. Opens June 7, Tues.–Sat., 11 a.m.–5:30 p.m.; Sun., noon–5 p.m. Through June 30.

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MAD WOMEN Including photography from Paula Tade

and paintings by David Von DerLinn, this group show draws inspiration from ’50s and ’60s pop culture and the TV show Mad Men. Note opening night party Fri., June 8, 6–10 p.m. Tasty, 7513 Greenwood Ave. N., 706-3020, shoptastyart.com. Opens June 8. Tues.–Sat., 11 a.m.– 7 p.m.; Sun., noon–5 p.m. Through July 10. ROBERT MCCAULEY In a series of new paintings, McCauley renders pictures of uncertain times for endangered species, with portraits of animals and wildlife pleading for a viewer’s attention. Through June 30. Note First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Linda Hodges Gallery, 316 First Ave. S., 624-3034, lindahodgesgallery. com. Opens June 7. Tues.–Fri., 10:30 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sat., 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Through June 30. MOHAI CLOSING PARTY Paul Thiry’s original 1952 design for the museum was greatly compromised, and its entrance reversed, with the construction of the Evergreen Point Bridge a decade later. Now the bridge is to be widened and the building leveled, and MOHAI will move to the renovated old armory in Lake Union Park (scheduled to reopen in December). Celebrate at Wednesday’s free party (with cash bar), and note free museum admission on Thursday. Museum of History and Industry, 2700 24th Ave. E., 324-1126, seattlehistory.org. Wed., June 6, 5–7 p.m.; Thurs., June 7, 10 a.m.–8 p.m. JOHN RANDALL NELSON He paints birds and other natural forms. Note artist reception First Thursday, 6–8 p.m. Grover/Thurston Gallery, 319 Third Ave. S., 223-0816, groverthurston.com. Opens June 7. Tues.–Sat., 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Through June 30. NEW MEMBERS’ SHOW Featuring video, textiles, sculpture, collage, and painting from Seth Damm, Paul Komada, Amanda Manitach, Serrah Russell, and Allyce Wood, five of SOIL’s newest members. Also on view: Margaret Meehan’s The Pugilist, photographs, drawings, and installations evoking empathy for otherness. Note First Thursday opening, 6–9 p.m. Soil Gallery, 112 Third Ave. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 264-8061, soilart.org. Wed.–Sat., noon–5 p.m. Through June 30. ALEXANDER PETROV Following in the Reflected Light of the Moon features grim, sometimes erotic surrealist portraits. Also on view, work by Seiko Tachibana, Seiichi

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Hiroshima, and Kaoru Saito. Note First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Davidson Galleries, 313 Occidental Ave. S., 624-1324, davidsongalleries.com/home.php. Opens June 7. Tues.–Sat., 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Through June 30. JIM PIRIE In That Which We Have Wrought, he renders urban landscapes through abstract oil paintings. Note First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Gallery 110, 110 Third Ave. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 624-9336, gallery110. com. Opens June 7. Wed.–Sat., noon–5 p.m. Through June 30. PUSH This group photo show features work by Judy Allen, Paul Berger, Rebecca Cummins, Keith Carter, Linda Connor, Ellen Garvens, Eirik Johnson, Heidi Kirkpatrick, Laura McPhee, Andrea Modica, Jenny Rifle, and Rafael Soldi. First Thursday reception 6–8 p.m. G. Gibson Gallery, 300 S. Washington St. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 587-4033, ggibsongallery.com. Wed.–Sat., 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Through July 7. MARK REDISKE Incantations of Light depicts the shades of color captured in clouds, sunsets, oceans, and the Earth. First Thursday reception 6–8 p.m. Foster/ White Gallery, 220 Third Ave. S., 622-2833, fosterwhite. com. Opens June 7. Tues.–Sat., 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Through June 30. NATALIE SCHMIDT DOTZAUER The prints in Quaint repeat patterns and motifs from rural life, some intentionally corny, some suggesting current economic hardship. First Thursday reception 5–8 p.m. Punch Gallery, 119 Prefontaine Place S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 621-1945, punchgallery.org. Opens June 7. Thurs.–Sat., noon–5 p.m. Through June 30. STEINUNN THÓRARINSDÓTTIR The Icelandic sculptor is featured in two concurrent exhibitions. Westlake Park hosts the sprawling Borders, 26 life-size human figures made of aluminum and cast iron. Borders, at the Nordic Heritage Museum, features Thórarinsdóttir’s smaller figures and photographs of the 2011 New York City Borders exhibition. Note 5 p.m. opening ceremony June 6 at Westlake Park and Nordic Heritage Museum reception later that day from 6–8 p.m. Nordic Heritage Museum, 3014 N.W. 67th St., 789-5707, nordicmuseum. org. Tues.–Sat., 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; Sun., noon–4 p.m. Through Aug. 28.

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So we meet a Brooklyn dork, a divorced Washington, D.C., attorney, and a couple of good-looking visitors from Utah. Candid interviews are intercut with volleyball games, scenes back home, and Duck Beach house parties—it’s The Real World meets eHarmony, interesting for the first 45 minutes, at which point you realize there will be no sex or apostasy. The four Mormons profiled are nice, sometimes funny and self-aware, but none dare confess to the camera any doubts—if they have them—about the church and its bizarrely restrictive marriage scheme. Virgins until marriage? Marriage until death . . . and beyond? (Animation explains how married couples end up ruling planets for eternity.) The only notable voice here belongs to a skeptical Mormon social worker—and he was too smart, evidently, to visit the beach or be profiled himself. Without any dissenters or sinners, Duck Beach lacks drama. It simply documents polite, unquestioning people who’ll get exactly what they deserve in life. And if they’re lucky, a divorce. BRIAN MILLER (Also Egyptian, 11 a.m. Sat., June 9.)

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Lurid allegations of child sexual abuse are irresistible to filmmakers. (Already at SIFF, we’ve seen Guilty, Polisse, and Coming Home, and Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt just wowed them at Cannes.) Jan Hrˇebejk’s Innocence takes a sneaky, indirect approach to the accused party: Tomás (Ondrej Vetchý), a respected orthopedic surgeon with a complicated family life. In his household are an elderly parent, a teen daughter, his wife, her mentally disabled son from a prior marriage, and a sister-in-law. And his wife’s ex is a cop Hynek Cermák as the unhappy cop in Innocence.

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who investigates sex crimes. Tomás, handsome and prosperous, has it all; the cop, an old friend whose wife Tomás stole, has nothing but his miserable case files. Of course he’s assigned to investigate when 14-year-old patient Olinka (Anna Linhartová) says she had consensual sex with her doctor (the Czech age of consent is 15). But we know Olinka has been sending him obsessive e-mails. And though we see him rebuff her, she insists that “Tomás loves me and I love him.” In outline, after the doctor’s arrest, Innocence is a wrong-man thriller, and it’s very good at that level. But where it’s truly superior is in the slow dissection of Dr. Kotva’s household—like a detective story written by Chekhov. No spoilers, but Anna Geislerová is excellent as the frustrated sister-in-law Lída, a children’s clown at the hospital with nothing but sadness in her heart. BRIAN MILLER (Also 4 p.m. Fri., June 8.)

This ambivalent documentary by Finland’s Sonja Lindén is so slickly shot and assembled that, if you stripped the (mostly) antitechnology sentiments from the audio track, it could be repurposed as a Microsoft Bing ad. The images look like stock footage, and narrator Lindén is herself a very photogenic mother and tech skeptic. Should she limit her kids’ screen time? Are they—and all of us—estranged from nature and our fellow man? “I have the world at my fingertips,” says Lindén. “Why is it then that I don’t feel free?” She sets out to interview a variety of experts, from futurist to New Age tree-hugger, and film eerie scenes of our wired world. Robots milk cows, a solitary logger operates a tree harvester that looks like NASA equipment, a stroke victim miraculously sends e-mails, and our electronic trash ends up being harvested in giant bales of copper and plastic. By surveying so many opinions, Lindén never develops a fundamental argument to convince us (or not) to turn off our PCs and smartphones. All the random musings made me think of Terrence Malick wandering the aisles of Best Buy; Five Star Existence has more than its share of stale, commonplace complaints about our always-on society. Still, it’s undeniably topical, pushing some of the same buttons that Mike Daisey’s The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs and Annie Leonard’s The Story of Stuff did. BRIAN MILLER (Also Kirkland, 1 p.m. Sun., June 10.)

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Two friends, raised in the West Bank, now living in London, reunite after some years when Inam (Nataly Attiya) shows up at the door of Lara (Clara Khoury). The latter has a lovely home and the husband and child she always wanted, but still uses booze as a crutch; Inam’s recent past is shadowier. (Her crutch is sex.) Jonathan Sagall’s film slowly unveils two mysteries: what Inam means by popping up now; and, through extensive flashbacks, the complications of their shared history. (A third minimystery is whose memories are closer to the actual truth.) That’s all I can tell you; Sagall lets his tale unspool so elegantly (stealing savory tidbits from Fatal Attraction and The Usual Suspects with very British sangfroid), and Khoury and Attiya play their push/pull relationship

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Another movie spawned from the pages (sort of ) of The Stranger! So naturally Seattle Weekly must hate it! Not so. Phil Campbell wrote a book (Zioncheck for President) about his getting booted from The Stranger and subsequently running the insurgent city-council campaign of monorail fanatic Grant Cogswell way back in 2001. His opponent was incumbent Richard McIver (played by Cedric the Entertainer with affronted dignity), though other elements of the story have been embellished for the screen. In the Don Quixote role of Cogswell, Joel David Moore keeps a well-balanced lid on his character’s mania and altruism. The monorail was a stupid idea (in 1962, 2001, and today), but Cogswell’s despair about this city’s poisonous traffic is heartfelt; he’s ridiculous and admirable at the same time. As the Sancho Panza straight man, Jason Biggs is surprisingly effective—a washout in one career, uncertain about the next, with an impatient girlfriend (Lauren Ambrose) waiting at home. In a way, Seattle is the worst market for this comedy by Stephen Gyllenhaal (Jake and Maggie’s dad, a TV veteran), since we all know the political outcome. But Gyllenhaal makes the monorail’s lost cause such spunky fun that you’re glad to buy the ticket. Then, when the movie’s over, we’ll get back in our cars and be stuck in traffic again. Down in Mexico City, where he’s now running a bookstore, Cogswell should be having a good laugh at that. BRIAN MILLER E

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The prolific Hong Sang-soo’s 12th film begins with Sungjoon (Yu Jun-sang), a former film director now retired to a professorship at a provincial school, returning for a visit to Seoul, his former home. Failing to connect with a friend, Sungjoon instead gets embarrassingly blotto and drops in unannounced on an exgirlfriend, Kyungjin (Kim Bo-kyung). He tearfully confesses to his dismal loneliness without her, stays the night, and leaves the next morning without betraying even a trace of the prior evening’s vulnerability. Sungjoon goes out drinking on the three nights that follow, now with his friend Youngho (Kim Sangjoong) and Youngho’s pretty colleague Boram (Song Sun-mi). They frequent an otherwise empty bar where the proprietress, Yejeon, bears a Xeroxlike resemblance to Kyungjin and, soon enough, falls into bed with Sungjoon as well. (Bo-kyung plays the double role.) The name of Yejeon’s bar is translated as “Novel,” an ironic pun, for there is little novelty to the schedule of Sungjoon and his circle, so little progress between their evenings that they could almost be shuffled into any order. Conversational cues are reheated like leftovers. Each night, Sungjoon plays the same piece on the piano and silently takes melancholy text messages from Kyungjin. Sungjoon and friends are mostly beer drinkers, but the cumulative effect of Day is closer to a night with Soju: You empty the bottle and think it has affected you not at all . . . right until it’s time to stand up and head home. NICK PINKERTON

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find the fugitive young lovers. Moonrise takes the form of old-fashioned preteen literature, but, as in everything made by Wes Anderson, does so knowingly. The escape Sam engineers for the pair is dangerous and crazy, but it’s also a way for the boy—an orphan on the verge of being dumped by his foster family—to exercise control, and to show off to a receptive audience. Suzy doesn’t have it so bad at home, but Sam’s flattering gaze gives her something she isn’t getting, and now won’t easily be able to live without. This utopian romance is thrown into relief by the adults’ quiet despair. Lonely even—or particularly—when not alone, the grown-ups have long ago given up on the possibility of transformative love. Their melancholy situates Anderson’s fantasy in reality. KARINA LONGWORTH

Oslo, August 31st OPENS FRI., JUNE 8 AT SUNDANCE CINEMAS. NOT RATED. 96 MINUTES.

As an actor, Anders Danielsen Lie has a frail, almost birdlike quality. He’s like some creature plucked too soon from the nest, all skinny, pink, and trembling. Only here his character, Anders, has emerged from drug rehab to interview for a job at a literary magazine. Asked about the long recent gap in his resume, Anders halts and hesitates to explain—he doesn’t want to embarrass the editor by being truthful. With its oneday time frame, Oslo puts its hero on a journey both through the city and his own past. Stills and voice-overs recount happier times from a variety of Oslo dwellers; Anders is just one man, but his trip is also a synecdoche for all of us trying to remember the good things in life— the reasons for living. Visiting friends who’ve settled into family and career, eavesdropping in cafes and the park, Anders is surrounded by ordinary, happy “morons” whom he may actually envy. “I’m a spoiled brat who fucked up,” he tells a friend; and the movie’s first scenes make his despair quite evident. Danielsen Lie previously appeared in director Joachim Trier’s Reprise, and this film is no less intelligent and compact. It’s based on an old novel by a French writer of the 1930s, with alcoholism changed to drug addiction, but the self-loathing remains the same. Anders may be smarter and more self-aware than your average junkie, but Trier has assigned himself a very narrow story with a harsh, predictable coda that hits you with a slap. BRIAN MILLER

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It’s 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky coast of a fictional New England isle. Twelveyear-old Sam (Jared Gilman), a scrawny outcast, disappears from the Khaki Scout camp, leaving behind a “resignation” letter for scoutmaster Randy Ward (Edward Norton). Suzy (Kara Hayward)—a just-pubescent bad seed— also disappears from her own home, her distracted lawyer parents (Frances McDormand and Bill Murray) initially none the wiser. Soon enough, Suzy’s mom finds a box of “intimate” correspondence between the two kids—who met once the previous summer—suggesting they have run away together. Aided by what remains of Ward’s troop (“It’s a chance to do some first-class scouting!”), the grown-ups, including Bruce Willis’ policeman, mobilize to

How much longer must we wait for a vehicle worthy of Jane Fonda, whose past few roles are just shy of elder abuse? Three generations of fine actresses are squandered in this incompetently structured film, which pits hippies against squares with the usual wearying results. This head-hammering, clash-ofvalues family-healing dramedy makes sure to literalize all its uplifting messages; gentle admonitions about “letting go” are immediately followed by a bright yellow balloon’s release into a cerulean sky. Reeling from her husband’s demand for a divorce, pinched Manhattan lawyer Diane (Catherine Keener) drives to Woodstock with her two teenaged children for a reprieve at the home of her earth-goddess

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mother, Grace (Jane Fonda). Diane, appalled by Mom’s pot-growing and free-loving, hasn’t spoken to Grace in 20 years; her children, Whitman-quoting vegan Zoe (Elizabeth Olsen) and twerpy aspiring filmmaker Jake (Nat Wolff ), are meeting their batik-dress-wearing granny for the first time. Written by first-timers Joseph Muszynski and Christina Mengert and directed by old-timer Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy), PL&M chucks specific characterization and conflict for countless clichés (both visual and oral), pop-psych bromides (“I promised myself I would never enable her again,” Diane says after she bails Grace out of jail for weed-dealing), and semi-topical headlines (Chace Crawford’s butcher of organic meats lectures on GMOs). MELISSA ANDERSON

Prometheus OPENS FRI., JUNE 8 AT CINERAMA AND OTHER THEATERS. RATED R. 124 MINUTES.

Prone to shallow ponderousness, Prometheus assumes the air of a blockbuster-with-brains that links the genesis and ultimate fate of mankind to a galactic quest for the mysterious beings archaeologist Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) calls the “Engineers” because “they engineered us.” But it works best when it steps back from contemplating the cosmos to enter the domain of flesh-and-blood and hereditary terror. A few set pieces here will find a place of honor among aficionados of body horror and all things clammy and viscous; gyno-phallic cave creatures and a scene of self-administered surgery will stain the memory long after significant-sounding bits of dialogue like “That being said, doesn’t everyone want their parents dead?” have gone. The script, by Jon Spaihts and Lost’s Damon Lindelof, originated as a prequel to Alien, director Ridley Scott’s first hit, before developing into its present spin-off form. Rather than setting out, as scriptwriter Dan O’Bannon did with the original, to build the ultimate creature feature, these gimcrack philosophers have loosely sown Prometheus with Big Themes in the hope that one might perchance take root. Scott is swinging for the fences here—at 74, perhaps looking for a career-capping legacy film to tackle life, the universe, and everything—but his gifts have coarsened considerably over the past decade. NICK PINKERTON

Prometheus: Michael Fassbender’s cyborg is suitably uncanny.

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With deadpan impatience/intelligence, Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation) plays Darius, an intern at Seattle magazine sent to the Olympic Peninsula to help write a snarky takedown of some poor schmuck who thinks he’s invented a time machine. Only the sad, lonely Kenneth (Mark Duplass, now a regular visitor to Northwest indies) isn’t quite so pitiful as he first seems. Working as a grocerystore clerk, driving a rusty old Datsun, and possibly paranoid about government agents monitoring him, Kenneth turns out to be a melancholy, time-obsessed, kindred soul to Darius. She’s fixated on a family tragedy in her past, and Kenneth seems equally unhappy with the present. There’s something way back that he wants to fix—unless that something lies in his own head. Directed by Colin Trevorrow, Safety has a sweet, larky spirit of adventure, as if the Hardy Boys had wandered into an episode of The X-Files. Darius and Kenneth heist equipment, are pursued by ominous feds, and go running through the rainforest for reasons not always important. They’re a pair of escapists; meanwhile, Darius’ boss (Jake Johnson) and fellow intern (Karan Soni) are also seeking a kind of Brigadoon by the beach. Time travel may be this comedy’s hook, but the three discontented visitors find liberation by traveling away from the city and their old identities. As the more stuck and ridiculed Kenneth, Duplass brings just the the right tinge of pathos to his mad-scientist role. While Safety capers through the now with comic assurance, it’s always weighted by memory and regret. And Plaza, a bright young thing of the moment, possesses a gravity beyond her years. BRIAN MILLER E film@seattleweekly.com

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made this a tart-tongued sleeper back in 1988, adapting Christopher Hampton’s hit play with all its French aristocratic nastiness intact. Glenn Close, John Malkovich, and Michelle Pfeiffer make nice work of the script. Keanu Reeves and Uma Thurman adequately fill lesser roles. (R) Central Cinema, $6-$8, Fri., June 8, 8 p.m. DOGMA Unlike his breakthrough Clerks, Kevin Smith’s 1999 Dogma actually has a plot, and a good thing, too. Because without it Dogma would quickly grind to a halt, sunk to its wheel wells in sinuous, interminable talk. That talk ranges to subjects including the ultimate meaning of life, the nature of God, and immanentizing the eschaton. More crucial in keeping the film from falling into selfreflexive monologue are Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as the two exiled angels whose longing for heaven leads them into contact with Alan Rickman (as the Angel of the Annunciation), Linda Fiorentino (as the reluctant abortion-clinic-volunteer recipient of his message from above), and Chris Rock (as a 13th apostle). As always, Smith himself is on hand as Silent Bob—who fortunately doesn’t live up to his name. His dogma amounts to: “This is the universe. We’re all stuck here. Nobody gets a break, not even God. Get used to it. Go, thou, and party.” Call for showtimes. (R) ROGER DOWNEY Central Cinema, $6-$8, June 8-13. I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER In this 1997 thriller, teens played by Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jennifer Love Hewitt realize that their hit-and-run accident wasn’t free of consequences. The victim comes after them with a big, nasty hook. Call for showtimes. (R) Central Cinema, $6-$8, Through June 6. JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS Greek mythology is considerably enlivened by the special-effects work of Ray Harryhausen in this family-friendly flick from 1963. (G) Central Cinema, $6-$8, Wed., June 6, 7 p.m. MUSIC-CRAFT Blondie, The Cure and The Clash are captured in three short concert films. (NR) Northwest Film Forum, $6-$10, Fri., June 8, 10 p.m.

ebrate its 50th anniversary with a free Wednesday-night series touching upon topics like organic farming, music, beekeeping, clean water, Sputnik, and Woody Guthrie. See siff.net for full schedule and details. (NR) SIFF Film Center, Free, Wednesdays, 7 p.m. Through July 18. THE OBSERVERS SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 47. OPEN SCREENING Local filmmakers screen and discuss their final and rough-cut shorts. Greg Gould is emcee. Under 10 minutes, please, and on DVD. (NR) Seattle Film Institute, 1709 23rd Ave., 4387, seattlefilminstitute.com, $2, Second Sunday of every month, 7 p.m. OVERBOARD Durable Hollywood couple Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell have evident, enjoyable chemistry in this princess-out-of-water comedy from 1987. She’s the spoiled heiress with amnesia; he’s the blue-collar guy forced to shelter her. Garry Marshall directs. Call for showtimes. (G) Central Cinema, $6-$8, June 8-10. PRETTY POISON SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 47. RED RIVER SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 47. THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY The late Donna Summer appears in this 1978 musical drama set in an L.A. club. In support, though not singing, look for Jeff Goldblum and Debra Winger. Besides Summer, Cameo, The Commodores, and The Village People perform some of their disco hits. (PG) Northwest Film Forum, $6-$10, Sat., June 9, 10 p.m.; Sun., June 10, 10 p.m.

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May remade as a spoonable pudding. This is how Pacific Northwesterners ought to eat on a sunny 60-degree day. I was steered to the flan by a server visibly alarmed that a surrogate had taken my appetizer order; the stand-in presumably took pity because nobody had approached me during the first 15 minutes I was seated at the compact kitchen bar. Sure that I’d be unable to stomach much else after a half-dozen baked oysters blanketed in a frothy sabayon, the truant server ventured that the flan, sold as a side dish, might complete my meal. Knowing it wouldn’t, I asked for a vegetable plate on which the flan appears. It wasn’t the first time at Marché (unrelated to the French bistro also named Marché that Daisley Gordon opened in Pike Place Market last year) that I’d seen servers mismeasure guest appetites. On an earlier visit, when I was dining with three people—a six-foot-tall woman, an accomplished snowboarder, and a visiting Swede—a server confidently endorsed the small shellfish platter, assuring us that three oysters, a pair of crab claws, and a half-dozen shrimp would suffice for an all-table starter. Later, he flinched when we hungrily ordered all four desserts he described, volunteering to ask the kitchen whether it was possible to get a half-sized cookie tray. Unlike so many restaurants run by chefs infatuated with ingredients, Marché is not a hothouse for gorging. Although the restaurant is still wrestling with opening issues, it excels at a kind of chambray-and-Top-Siders refinement. Not every dish is as tasty as the whip of pea vines and morels, but—to a plate—they’re exceedingly tasteful. Guests are well-advised to be the flan, and arrive in a dainty, featherweight frame of mind. And

since reservations are very nearly compulsory at Marché, giving guests plenty of time to plot their at-meal moods, it wouldn’t hurt to cultivate some patience, too: The rhythm of dinner here is determined by the servers’ aptitude, not the diners’ desires. Bainbridge Island has a smaller pool of seasoned servers from which to draw than Seattle, and the young crew’s inexperience shows. Overwhelmed by the restaurant’s instant popularity, the servers haven’t yet had a chance to learn how long it takes the oven steamer to turn out dense, oblong rolls (“17 all day!” cried a server at the kitchen window, indicating exactly how many guests were currently bread-deprived) or familiarize themselves with the wine list. A server who took an order for port trotted back to the table to say the bar didn’t stock any ports, but he’d poured a glass of sauternes to accompany a chocolate torte, which is tantamount to putting two alpha gorillas in the same cage. Back-of-the-house staffers are also on the wrong end of the learning curve in a few critical areas. The kitchen is equipped with a wood-fired grill that usually runs on applewood, and cooks accustomed to turning dials are still figuring out how to adjust times and temperatures by the log. In the meantime, every grilled dish is a gamble. Marché’s salmon is impeccably sourced from Lummi Island Wild, a reef-netting co-op, but the pincushion of fish—presented with a lump of rhubarb gratinee—was unevenly cooked. The meat of a steak frites preparation picked up an attractive crust on the grill, but it was overdone and underseasoned, with all the salt allotted for the plate seemingly ending up on the thickly cut fries. The kitchen’s also furnished with an immersion circulator and a sous vide water oven that simplifies the preparation of a lovely salade Lyonnaise. In classical fashion, a perfectly poached egg is perched on rough frisée leaves touched with mustard and scattered with crisp croutons and smoky lardons.

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Lake Dr. N., 522-4908. Come for the chowder, stay for the view. Since Green Lake is a freshwater pond, the maritime menu at Duke’s skews toward lighter fare. People like to eat outside, grazing on salads and IPAs so long as the weather’s above 60 degrees. But those salads are available with salmon, crab, and other varieties of seafood, so you can always pretend you’re within sight of Elliott Bay. Another benefit: the experienced bar staff, which makes Duke’s a good place for a first date. Depending on how you hit it off, you can sit down for dinner or flee to your car. $-$$

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that this region has one of the largest concentrations of coffee shops in the country, cafes are smart to surprise customers with something new and different. Fresh Flours does it by fusing a variety of standard pastry recipes with Japanese culinary traditions. Soft, fluffy kabocha muffins accent the flavor of Japanese pumpkin with pumpkin seeds and white chocolate. Azuki brioches marry butter-soft rolls with a filling of subtly sweet Japanese red beans. And don’t forget your coffee. $ LA CONASUPO 8532 Greenwood Ave. N., 782-0533. To get to the tables at this narrow, ramshackle market, you have to go back past the cowboy boots and the family-of-six cans of hominy to the “dining room”—a few tables covered in plastic tablecloths and a menu spelled out posterboard. The cooks do a few simple, homey dishes, the best of which are the sopes, tacos, and the quesadilla with tinga (chicken stewed with chipotles and onions). On Sundays, a post-church crowd descends on La Conasupo for barbacoa, lamb meat that has been wrapped in maguey leaves and slow-roasted. $

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MEHAK INDIAN CUISINE 12327 Roosevelt Way N.E.,

632-5307. This modest Punjabi restaurant in North Seattle is run by a couple who fuss over their customers as if they’re a band of in-laws who’ve just arrived after a six-hour road trip. The chefs’ skill with the tandoor is more sure when it comes to baking blistery, soft breads than (over-)roasting meats, but curries like rogan josh and mushroom matar are as honest and straightforward as the decor suggests. $

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DOME BURGER 111 Occidental Ave. S., 340-1457. Asian-

American owners? Check. Decent-yet-unspectacular burgers and teriyaki dishes? Check. McDonald’s-esque (meaning awesome) fries? Check. What separates Dome Burger form the plethora of Asian-owned burger/teriyaki joints is that it’s one of few area businesses to hold on to the Kingdome moniker in spite of the fact that the Dome’s long since imploded. So next time you find yourself dodging the colorful daytime denizens of Occidental Square, patronize Dome Burger in the name of historic preservation. $

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CAFFÈ ZINGARO 127 Mercer St., 352-2861. Spelling its

name Gypsy-style (Caffè Zingaro), this cute and convenient Lower Queen Anne coffee joint has quite the following from nearby artists. PNB, Seattle Rep, Intiman, McCaw Hall, and Teatro ZinZanni are all steps away, which means you may end up sharing your table or couch with a clown, ballerina, or thespian. (Don’t worry, they don’t bite.) If you’re pressed for time before a show, Caffè Zingaro is a great quick stop for a pastry with tea or coffee (the latter are also sold in bulk). It’s one of the few little spots in LQA that we wouldn’t mind increasing in size and menu. $ OLYMPIA PIZZA AND SPAGHETTI HOUSE 1500 Queen Anne Ave. N., 285-5550. This cozy eatery comes complete with takeout counter, comfortable seating and a small outdoor dining area. Their pizzas are thick, cheesy, Greek-style, and made to order, though there are 39 recommended combos. If you are superhuman, try the desserts, made with Oreos, ice cream, and lots of sinful sauces. $ SPORT RESTAURANT AND BAR 140 Fourth Ave. N., 404-7767. If you couldn’t guess from the name, Sport has more flat-screen TVs than strictly necessary and a menu limited to steaks, burgers, fries, and cracker-crust pizza. The juicy burgers feature Kobe-style beef from Idaho, and there’s almost as much meat in the bold, Texas-style chili. The bar is set up for serious drinking and gameviewing, but the restaurant proper is family-friendly. $

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Hoang Lan is everything a noodle house should be: tiny and marginally clean, with Vietnamese variety shows on the TV and a few families intent on vacuuming noodles out of bowls of red broth. It’s the house specialty, bun bo hue or Hue-style beef noodle soup, and it may be the best version you’ll taste outside Vietnam. You have to dump everything on the plate that comes with your order—shredded cabbage and bean sprouts, all of the

But not on weekend mornings, apparently: Lee recently suspended China Club’s Westernized brunch service. “We tried the brunch promotion, but it was not very successful,” Lee wrote in response to an e-mail asking for more details. “We are doing Dim Sum lunch instead. Thank you for calling. Please come try our Dim Sum.” China Club’s dim sum doesn’t include any pancakes—of either the scallion or syrup-drenched variety—but the menu features steamed lotus-seed buns, chicken feet, pan-fried turnip cakes, and barbecued-pork rice noodles. E hraskin@seattleweekly.com

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A family-run eatery like this beats a formulaic chain restaurant any day. Pasta is obviously a big deal at Piccolo’s mix-and-match—choose your own adventure with the different noodles and toppings. Piccolo’s pesto can be a little anemic in the basil sense, but triangles of soft, salty focaccia bread are great for soaking up the oil. Chicken Saltimbocca, a breast sautéed with artichokes, pancetta, and sage butter, is decently juicy. $$

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for a student budget, their combination dinners offer a generous plateful (soup, egg roll, BBQ pork, steamed rice, and any of a dozen or so entrees) for just $7.95. Not high cuisine, but solid diner fare when you’re in the mood for something quick on the Ave. $

547-4644. The appeal of this popular chain restaurant is that it uses fresh, high-quality ingredients. Really, how often can you say your burrito contains free-range chicken and organic beans? The limited menu, which focuses on tacos, fajitas, and burritos, attracts as many Mexican food junkies as it does health-conscious eaters. Of course, Chipotle doesn’t serve real Mexican food. But its devotees will tell you it doesn’t matter. $ COSTA’S 4559 University Way N.E., 633-2751. The closest thing to an honest, traditional diner in the U District (where there have been several ersatz imitators), Costa’s has held the same corner since 1975. The menu is Greek (duh), meaning tasty Baba Ganoush, salads, and hummus plates. Prices are within reach, and have stayed that way, for student budgets. While so many other businesses on the Ave have failed, Costa’s has made its modest formula work. And work well. $ PAM’S KITCHEN 5000 University Way N.E., 696-7010. Two words can easily describe Pam’s Kitchen: Caribbean spice (and lots of it). Their assortment of curried potatoes and meats are slow-cooked to perfection. Whether you choose chicken, beef, lamb, or goat to accompany your pan-fried roti (a type of Indian flatbread), all of the meal combos have a kick that will charm your palate. With two roti choices—the thin croissant-like paratha or the vegan, chickpea-stuffed dahlpuri—the handson dining experience at Pam’s is like one right out of Trinidad, and the homemade punches and house spirits serve as a sweet counter to the entrées. $ SHALIMAR 4214 University Way N.E., 633-3854. Shalimar’s open-faced sandwiches could just be the most exciting midday meal this side of the Pacific. The chicken tikka sandwich—fluffy nan topped with tandoor-baked chicken breast, veggies, garbanzo beans, tomatoes, and rice in a spiced buttermilk sauce—is simply amazing. The fish tikka sandwich accents cod with a creamy mango-lemon sauce; the “Shami” drizzles yogurtcucumber sauce over lentil-beef patties; and the aloo tikki features potato patties and spices in raita. $-$$ TOKYO GARDEN TERIYAKI 4337 University Way N.E., 632-2014. Thousands upon thousands of UW alums made it through college because of Tokyo Garden’s combination platters—heaping piles of chicken, beef, or pork teriyaki sandwiched next to sticky rice and cabbage salad, all for less then seven bucks. There’s also yakisoba, udon, tempura, and sushi, but the teriyaki is what the place does best. With mirrored walls and a few scant tables, it’s not cute or particularly cozy, but it has the friendly and familiar feel of a place where regulars drop in to gather sustenance. $ UNIVERSITY TERIYAKI 4108 University Way N.E., 632-5688. Three things make University Teriyaki stand out: 1. The sauce on its chicken has got more kick than most (there has to be a little Korean bean paste in there with the soy and sugar). 2. The place is clean and the food always tastes fresh. 3. The menu goes so far beyond gyoza and spicy chicken to include kimchi fried rice and jjah-jahng-myun, the black bean-sauce noodles that Korean kids love as much as American kids do mac ‘n’ cheese. This “Japanese” place may be the best Korean restaurant in the neighborhood. $

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CHOCOLATI CAFÉ 1716 N. 45th St., 633-7765. It’s easy to

spend hours at this warm and funky spot even if you’re not a chocoholic. If you are, try the hyper-rich European drinking chocolate; even you hard-core addicts may want to start with only a small cup. $ JHANJAY VEGETARIAN THAI CUISINE 1718 N. 45th St., 632-1484. In a city where Americanized Thai is everyone’s favorite cuisine and vegetarians run rampant, the existence of this veggie Thai restaurant is inevitable. What isn’t inevitable is that it’s so good. It’s designed to impress, with its gold-dusted burgundy walls, gleaming kitchen, and plastic-glove-wearing chefs. Each of the curries, salads, stir-fried dishes, and noodles comes packed with a confetti of crisp vegetables, enough to make the USDA “Eat Your Colors” campaign, as well as your choice of tofu, soy meat, or mushroom cake. Not surprisingly, you can order brown rice on the side. $ SUTRA 1605 N. 45th St., 547-1348. As you might deduce from its name, Sutra is a vegetarian restaurant—with its own garden and worm composting bins and communal tables arranged in a circle. Meals take the form of four-course prix-fixe dinners that change every couple of days, and sweet-natured chef Colin Patterson builds up his dishes by piling flavor on flavor, claiming the world’s pantry as his own. His knack for texture is spotty—undercooked vegetables can be a little hard to chew—but salads (say, mixed greens with grilled peaches and slivered chiles) and whole-grain desserts like a blueberry tart with graham crust and vanilla glaze come through on the restaurant’s promise of healthful, creative food in a serene setting. $$-$$$

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Last Saturday, the only Wayne’s World reference I caught while waiting to karaoke at the Boulevard Park sports bar of the same name was the bartender saying “exsqueeze me” to a server who got sassy with him. Aside from that, Wayne’s World the bar has no connection with the movies or the Saturday Night Live characters Mike Myers and Dana Carvey made iconic in the late ’80s and early ’90s. I was a little let down at first. The reason I wanted to go there to begin with was the name. I wasn’t expecting anything too extraordinary, like the bartenders being dressed up like Wayne and the waitresses as Garth or the stage furnished to replicate Wayne’s basement. But I did kind of hope it would be a fun comedy-themed bar with a few posters of classic movies from that era, like Tommy Boy and Billy Madison. Then the KJ showed up and played “Roni” by Bobby Brown, and all was forgiven. This Wayne’s World, originally known as Flight Path many years ago because of its close proximity to the Sea-Tac runway, was actually given that name as a tribute to film legend John Wayne. These days there’s nothing on the walls to commemorate him either, but the place was once a shrine to The Duke. When the original owners sold it, they took all the memorabilia. What’s left on the walls are a bunch of softball trophies and plaques to commemorate the winners of their darts tournaments. Darts is the real draw on Saturday nights. When my buddy Mochi and I arrived at 8:15 p.m., everyone was concentrated in the entrance side of the venue where the dartboards were, and that’s where they stayed. It was a diverse crowd of mostly men. The few females there did participate in

karaoke, but I never got to thrust my crotch and drop the “Schwing!” reference once. No one was worthy. We bellied up to the bar. Mochi’s friend Jimmy, who lived around the way, met us shortly after we got there. Knowing we’d be taking on the brunt of the opening rotations, we got into the tequila right away to loosen up. They didn’t have any good stuff, but the Sauza Gold did the trick. A couple of those followed by a Jäger shot to twist things up got me toasted immediately.The stage area and KJ station are in the back of the room. That’s also where the songbooks are located. When I saw that PCM Musiq ran the show, I knew this night would probably eventually get good. They’re one of the two outfits (the other is Karaoke Kellie) I encounter the most when reviewing south-end spots, and they have a great following. Hosting this night was an average-looking guy named Billy, stage name “Bill E3.” He didn’t have much to work with early on, but the DJ skills he displayed prior to the show were outstanding. Every cut he played as he set up was a singalong gem that got me more and more stoked to take the stage myself. We held down a fivesinger rotation until 10:30. No one was paying attention, but the sound was great. I sang Bob Seger’s “Rock and Roll Never Forgets” for the first time and it was pretty good . . . not! It was way out of my range. Mochi delivered, with great renditions of Elvis Costello’s “Alison” and “Amie” by Pure Prairie League. And Jimmy topped us both with a great random Dwight Yoakam song called “Little Ways.” E karaoke@seattleweekly.com WAYNE’S WORLD SPORTS BAR 1832 S. 120th St., 433-8658, BURIEN

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www.livelinks.com

theSandsOnline.com

Drink Happy Hour 3-6 daily $5 margaritas & wines $4 cocktails & drafts

Food Happy Hour 4-6 & 11pm-1am daily Food from $2 to $5

REAL MEXICAN FOOD. REAL MEXICAN GOOD. vivapoquitos.com | 11:30am - 2:00am Daily | 1000 E. Pike St. | 206.453.4216

SEASONAL Nigiri & Rolls

INCREASED PORTION

of each menu item

NEW MENU ITEMS a totaL of 140 items!

NEWLY ADDED Genki Sushi signature gourmet rolls

ONLY at Queen Anne Location

Extended hours for Queen Anne and Capitol Hill locations THU, FRI AND SAT – QUEEN ANNE STAYS OPEN UNTIL 2AM! THU, FRI AND SAT – CAPITOL HILL STAYS OPEN UNTIL 3AM! HOURS EXTENDED UNTIL NOVEMBER 3, 2012.

Free underground parking!

Queen Anne

500 Mercer St Seattle, WA 98109 206.453.3881

Sun-Wed 11am-9:30pm Thu-Sat 11am-2am

Factoria

3928 Factoria Sq Mall SE Bellevue, WA 98006 425.747.7330 Mon-Sun 11am-9:30pm

Capitol Hill

1620 Broadway Seattle, WA 98122 206-257-4418 Sun-Wed 11am-9:30pm Thu-Sat 11am-3am

Renton

365 S. Grady Way Renton, WA 98057 425.277.1050 Mon-Sun 11am-9:30pm

www.genkisushiusa.com

Tribal Tobaccoour Pricinglarge & The Largest Selectionof Of Explore selection Locally Produced Craft Spirits in the Puget Sound

locally produced craft spirits

WE’RE CLOSER THAN YOU THINK

DIRECTIONS: I-90 East bound take exit 27. Turn left (North). Follow North Bend Way around curve.

visit our website for specials >>>

I-90 West bound take exit 31 (North Bend) and follow the signs to the reservation.

STORE HOURS: Open 7 Days a Week | 7am–10pm Daily | Sundays too!

7500 SE North Bend Way | Snoqualmie WA 98065 | 425.888.3071

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SEATTLE WEEKLY’S

HAPPY HOUR GUIDE

2012

Belltown.........................................................10-15 Downtown ..................................................... 14-25 Eastlake ........................................................ 24-27 South Lake Union ............................................ 26-27 Capitol Hill ..................................................... 28-33 Queen Anne ...................................................34-35 Ballard ..........................................................36-39 Fremont ........................................................38-42 Wallingford........................................................ 43 University District................................................ 43 Greenwood ................................................... 44-45 Phinney Ridge ............................................... 44-45 Green Lake .................................................... 46-47 West Seattle ...................................................48-51 South Seattle.................................................. 50-51 Eastside ........................................................ 52-55 Tasting Rooms ................................................ 56-61 THIS GUIDE IS PRINTED ON:

KEY

HAPPY HOUR TIMES

DRINK SPECIALS

OUTDOOR SEATING

FOOD SPECIALS

SEATTLE WEEKLY HAPPY HOUR APP - (powered by GoTime) available now for download on Android, iTunes, and Blackberry (search “Happy Hours”). Let us guide you to the nearest happy place by showing you what specials are happening at any given moment and where to find them. App-less? You can still find your happy place at HappyHours.SeattleWeekly.com!

BELLTOWN The 5 Point Cafe

415 Cedar 206.448.9991 the5pointcafe.com

Mon-Fri 6-9a Mon-Fri 4-6p

Frontier Room

Tue-Fri 3-6:30p bar only Tue 6:30p-close Sat 2-5p

2203 1st Ave 206.956.7427 frontierroom.com

See Sound Lounge

115 Blanchard St (206) 374-3733 seesoundlounge.com

daily 9-10:30p

'Ohana

Mon-Tue 5-11:30p Wed-Thu 5-7p & 9-11:30p Fri 5-7p Sun 9-11:30p

2207 1st Ave 206.956.9329 ohanabelltown.com

Mamaâ€™s Mexican Kitchen

Mon-Sat 4-6:30p

2234 2nd Ave 206.728.6262 mamas.com

Lava Lounge

2226 2nd Ave 206.441.5660 mamas.com/lavalounge.htm

daily 3-7p Sun all day

happy hour 4pm-6pm and 10pm-close daily 20% off small plates & daily drink specials www.thecoterieroom.com 10

HAPPY HOUR MONDAY - FRIDAY FOOD & DRINK SPECIALS DAY!! TWICE A DAY

DRINKS

Domestic Drafts $2.00 Micro Drafts $3.00 Well Drinks $3.50

MORNING HAPPY HOUR 6aM – 9aM

2 Eggs, 2 Strips Bacon, Toast $3.50 Homemade Mini Doughnuts $2.50 Breakfast Sandwich $2.50 Breakfast Quesadilla $3.00 Bacon Cakes (mini pancakes with bacon!) $4.00

EVENING HAPPY HOUR 4PM – 6PM

Cheeseburger & Fries $2.50 Veggie Quesadilla $2.50 Deep Fried Cheese Curds $3.00 Chicken Fried Bacon $3.00 Chorizo Quesadilla $3.00 Soft Shell Taco $3.00

LOCATED IN SEATTLE’S HISTORIC TILIKUM PLACE PARK

415 Cedar Street

206.448.9991

Menu And More Info At: www.the5pointcafe.com

BELLTOWN Karma Lounge

Mon-Sat 4-7p

2318 2nd Ave 206.838.6018 karmaseattle.com

Shorty’s

daily 12-8p

2222A 2nd Ave 206.441.5449 shortydog.com

Pintxo

Tue-Sun 5-6p

2207 2nd Avenue 206.441.4042 pintxoseattle.com

HEATED DECK NOW OPEN!

STRAWBERRY SAKE MARGARITAS!

RESTAURANT

HAPPY HOUR MON & TUES ALL NIGHT WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY 5PM - 7PM LATE NIGHT HAPPY HOUR: SUN - THUR 9PM - 11:30PM

NEW HAPPY HOUR MENU! $3 SUSHI, SAKE BEER $3.99 PUPUS, SUSHI & HANDROLLS $4 COCKTAIL SPECIALS & WINE $15 SAKE MARGARITA PITCHERS!

Nightly Entertainment | Music, Dance, Karaoke & Special Events!

Seattle’s Best Island-Style Sushi

2207 1st Ave - BELLTOWN - 206.956.9329 - OHANABELLTOWN.COM

HAPPY HOUR

THURSDAYS BARTENDER’S SPECIAL TROPHY ROOM 8-CLOSE FRIDAY WELL SPECIAL TROPHY ROOM 4.30PM-8PM EVERY DAY 25C OFF BOTTLES OF RAINIER/ PBR AND CANS 4PM-8PM • PINBALL • • COCKTAILS • • FROSTY BEER • • TASTY HOT DOGS • • AVAILABLE FOR PARTIES •

2222 2ND AVENUE • SEATTLE • 206-441-5449 BETWEEN BELL AND BLANCHARD WWW.SHORTYDOG.COM

Three Great Belltown Hotspots

HAPPY HOUR $

TU ES -F RI 3- 6: 30

BAR ONLY: TUES 6:30-CLOSE

& SATURDAY 2-5PM

Bacon Wrapped Prawns • Mini BBQ Sandwiches Little Drummies • Uli’s Famous Hot Links St. Louis Ribs • Frontier Mac n’ Cheese

Frontier Room • 2203 1st Ave • (206) 956-7427 • www.frontierroom.com

SEAFOOD HAPPY HOUR 4:00-6:30 Mon-Fri Late Night Happy Hour Sun-Thur 10pm-2 am Food & Drink Specials $5 Cocktails & Wines

Queen City Grill • 2201 1st Ave • (206) 443-0975 • www.queencitygrill.com

HAPPY HOUR

ALL NIGHT TUE & WED-FRI 4:30-8PM

Drink Specials: $5 Bartender Margaritas - $5 Jack & Ginger $3 Sessions Lager - $3 Bud Light draft $5 Food Specials on Pizza, Bruchetta & Caprese - $5 Pool

Belltown Billiards • 90 Blanchard St • (206) 420-3146 • www.BelltownSeattle.com

belltown and downtown Mestizo Tequila Ultra Lounge 2313 First Ave 206.535.7985 mestizogroup.com

The Coterie Room

2137 2nd Avenue 206.956.8000 thecoterieroom.com

Cyclops Café & Lounge 2421 1st Ave 206.441.1677 cyclopsseattle.com

Tue-Sun 3-6p & 9-11p

daily 4-6p & 10p-close

Mon-Fri 3-6p Sun-Thu 11p-1a

Daily Cocktail and Beer Specials

Cocktails and Good Times 2209 2nd Avenue - Belltown

•

www.theupstairsseattle.com

Join us for

Happy Hour Monday – Friday 3pm to 6pm Great food and dr ink specials 600 Pine St. Pacific Place level 4

206.405.3400

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HAPPY HOUR 3 to 6p.m. and 9 to 11p.m. Tuesday - Sunday $3 Beers, $4 Wells, and $7 Premium Cocktails everyday Happy Hour food from $1.50 to $6 everyday Featured items: Taco Tuesdays- $.95 Margarita Thursdays- $3.95 Tecate Saturdays- $2.00

Wing Wednesdays- $.50 Michelada Fridays- $3.95 Mimosa Sundays - $3.95

Open from 11a.m. to 2a.m. (206) 535-7985 • 2313 First Ave • Seattle • www.mestizogroup.com 15

downtown Dragonfish

722 Pine St 206.467.7777 dragonfishcafe.com

Il Bistro

93 Pike St 206.682.3049 ilbistro.net

Mon 3p-1a daily 3-6p & 9p-1p

daily 5-6:30p Sun-Thu 10p-12a Fri-Sat 11p-1a

The Upstairs

2209 2nd Ave 206.441.4013 theupstairsseattle.com

daily 5-8p

HAPPY HOUR & A HALF! 5-6:30 pm every day with great food and drink specials Lounge open â€˜til 2am Our late night happy hour menu has 13 items under $5

93 Pike St. Seattle 206.682.3049 | ilbistro.net

Pike Place Market

HAPPY HOUR Daily 4-7pm

Late Night Happy Hour Daily 10pm-close

Serving Lunch Mon-Fri & Dinner Daily online reservations at nijosushi.com & opentable.com â€˘ (206)340-8880 large groups welcome (reservations requested for 10+) 83 Spring Street in Post Alley between Western & 1st

downtown Elephant & Castle 1415 5th Ave 206.624.9977 elephantcastle.com

Benihana

1200 5th Avenue 206.682.4686 benihana.com

The Triple Door 216 Union St 206.838.4333 thetripledoor.net

Lec천sho

89 University Street 206.623.2101 lecosho.com

Mexico Cantina y Cocina 600 Pine St Level 4 206.405.3400 eatatmexico.com

Fox Sports Grill

1522 6th Avenue 206.340.1369 foxsportsgrill.com

daily 3-6p & 10p-close

Mon-Thu 5-7:30p

in the sushi bar and lounge for dine-in only

daily 4-6p & late night

daily 3-6p Sun-Thu 10p-1a Fri-Sat 11p-1a

Mon-Fri 3-6p

Mon-Fri 4-7p daily 10p-close

downtown Noc Noc

1516 2nd Ave 206.223.1333 clubnocnoc.com

FX McRory’s

419 Occidental Ave S 206.623.4800 fxmcrorys.com

Queen City Grill

2201 1st Ave 206.443.0975 queencitygrill.com

Beverages Imported, Local, or Domestic Beer $4.50 Miller High Life $2.50 Well Drinks $4.50 House Chardonnay or Cabernet $4.50

Mon-Wed 5-9p Thu-Sun 3-9p

Mon-Fri 3-5:45p

Mon-Fri 4:30-6:30p

SMALL PLATES SLIDERS McRory’s Clam Chowder $3.50 Two sliders per order served with fries $4.95 Edamame $3.50 Calamari $4.50 Buffalo chicken, Kobe Burger Vegetarian Spring Rolls $3.50 Ale-Battered Cod, or Pulled Pork BBQ Three Oysters on Half Shell $3.50 Peel & Eat Prawns $4.50

16 drafts on tap!

Happy Hour Monday-Friday from 3pm–7pm

1/2 price drafts • 1/2 price well drinks • 1/2 price house wines • appetizer specials

Must be 18 and older after 10pm. Additional $2 activation fee required on new card purchases. Time play offer valid for video game play only - does not include photo, prize games or special attractions. Cannot be combined with other offers including in store bonus offers. Offers subject to change with or without notice.

WWW.GAMEWORKS.COM • 1511 7TH AVE • SEATTLE • 206.521.0952

A new Specialty Bar-Pizzeria in the heart of Belltown offering great cocktails and food. HAPPY HOUR

$3 Micro brews $1 Off specialty cocktails Wine bottles starting at $15 $4 Wells

Open to 9:00 PM

Bring this ad and get a complementary slice of pizza with any purchase over $10

(Valid during happy hour only and one coupon per person per day)

2228 Second Ave

206-448-2625

downtown Nijo

83 Spring St 206.388.4119 nijosushi.com

GameWorks

1511 7th Ave 206.521.0952 gameworks.com

Ivarâ€™s Acres of Clams

1001 Alaskan Way - Pier 54 206.624.6852 ivars.com

Maximilien

81 Pike St 206.682.7270 maximilienrestaurant.com

Tiki Bobâ€™s Cantina 166 South King St 206.382.8454 tikibobsseattle.com

Thai Ginger

600 Pine St # 406 206.749.9100 thaiginger.com

daily 4-7p & 10p-close

Mon-Fri 3-7p

Sun-Sat 3p-close

Mon-Fri 5-7p

Mon-Fri 3-8p

daily 3-6p 9p-close

HAPPY HOUR

Enjoy great specials on sake, beer, wine, specialty cocktails, select specialty rolls, Benihana Bites and select hand rolls Available Monday through Thursday, 5pm-7:30pm in the sushi bar and lounge for dine in only. Not available with any other promotion. 1200 5th Avenue, Downtown. 206-682-4686.

ISLAND TIME HAPPY HOUR! MONDAY-FRIDAY: 3p-8p $2.50 Appetizers $2.50 TallBoys $3 Wells $3.50 Micros

OPEN FOR LUNCH MONDAY-FRIDAY @ 11am Great Daily Specials! Going To The Game? Tiki’s is your Pre & Post: Mariners, Sounders FC, Seahawks & Husky Party HQ! Specials before every Game/Match

Tiki Bob’s Cantina • 166 S. King St. • Seattle • 98104 206.382.8454 • www.TikiBobsSeattle.com

Located directly across from C-Link Field... 7 minute walk to The Safe!

downtown and eastlake Serafina

2043 Eastlake Ave E 206.323.0807 serafinaseattle.com

Siam Thai Cuisine

1629 Eastlake Ave E 206.322.6174 siamthairestaurants.com

Cicchetti Kitchen + Bar 121 East Boston 206.859.4155 cicchettiseattle.com

Mon-Fri 4-6p

daily 3-6p & 9p-close

Tue-Fri 5-6:30p

BEER!

And eastlake and south lake union Tutta Bella

2200 Westlake Ave 206.624.4422 tuttabella.com

daily 3-6p

Ravish

Tue-Sat 5-7p

2956 Eastlake Ave E 206.913.2497 ravishoneastlake.com

Lunchbox Laboratory

1253 Thomas St 206.621.1090 lunchboxlaboratory.com

daily 3- 6p & 9p-close

DELICIOUS MENU | HAPPY HOUR SPECIALS | CATERING

HAPPY HOUR DAILY: 3PM - 6PM & 9PM - CLOSE FOOD $5-$7 | COCKTAILS $5 - $7 | BEER & WINE $3 - $5

1629 Eastlake Avenue East | Seattle | 206.322.6174 | www.siamthairestaurants.com 26

capitol hill Six Arms

300 E Pike St 206.223.1698 mcmenamins.com

DeLuxe Bar & Grill

625 Broadway E 206.324.9697 deluxebarandgrill.com

Juliaâ€™s

daily 3-6p & 10p-12a

daily 3- 6p & 10p-1a

300 Broadway E 206.860.1818 juliasrestaurantseattle.com

daily 2-6p Mon-Fri 9p-close

Via Tribunali

913 E Pike St 206.322.9234 viatribunali.net

daily 4-6p & 10p-close

Ayutthaya Thai

Sun-Thu 4-6p & 9p-1a Fri-Sat 4-6p & 9p-12a

727 E Pike St 206.324.8833 ayutthayathai.com

Piecoraâ€™s New York Pizza 1404 E Madison St 206.322.9411 piecoras.com

daily 3-5:30p

When where you live inspires what you do, we call that living life Alaskan. Watch the video

Brewer/Commercial Fisherman Michael King

Handcrafted in Juneau, Alaska 28

alaskanbeer.com

Restaurant and Bar 802 Bellevue Ave. www.labeteseattle.com Between Olive Way and Denny on Capitol Hill Reservations: (206) 329-4047

Happy Hour Monday-Friday from 5-6:30

•Half off Select Glass Pour Wines and Beers •$2 off Well Drinks • Lots of Plates to Share •One of the Best Burgers in Town

capitol hill La BĂŞte

1802 Bellevue Ave 206.329.4047 labeteseattle.com

Canterbury Ale & Eats 534 15th Ave E 206.322.3130

Unicorn

1118 E Pike St 206.325.6492 unicornseattle.com

8 oz. Burger Bar

daily 3-6p

daily until 6:30p

1401 Broadway 206.466.5989 8ozburgerbar.com

Mon-Thu 11:30a-11p closed Friday Sat-Sun 11:30a-12a

Poquitos

daily 3-6p drink specials 4-6p & food specials 11p-1a

1000 E. Pike St 206.453.4216 vivapoquitos.com

Dilettante Martini Bar 538 Broadway E 206.329.6463 dilettante.com

HAPPY HOUR 4pm - 6pm 9 - CLOSE $3 Drafts $4 Wells $4 House Red, White, or Rose $2 off Specialty Cocktails 727 East Pike Street Seattle, WA 98122 206.324.8833 www.ayutthayathai.com

Tue-Fri 5-6:30p

daily 5-7p

CELEBRATING

THE MOST ORIGINAL

REMIX

HOT & STICKI Our first two flavors, remixed in celebration of their 50th Anniversary.

THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY HOT & STICKI SHOT 1 part Stoli Hot 1 part Stoli Sticki™ Shake with ice and serve Garnish with a jalapeño ®

THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY BEE’S KNEES SHOT ® 2 parts Stoli Sticki™ ½ part lemon juice ½ part honey syrup Shake with ice and serve

THE MOST ORIGINAL

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capitol hill Pony

1221 E Madison St 206.324.2854 ponyseattle.com

Lucky 8

1407 14th Ave 206.328.0888 lucky8schinahouse.com

Liberty

517 15th Ave E 206.323.9898 libertybars.com

daily until 8p all night Wed

daily 4-6p & 10p-1a

daily 4-7p

PONY

patio

all nite wednesday! 1221 E Madison St Seattle WA 98122 (206) 324-2854

HAPPIER HOUR $3 TALL WELLS $1.50 BUSCH

$2.50 $1 OFF

BUD LITE MICROS

www.ponyseattle.com www.facebook.com/ponyseattle

1221 E MADISON ST ST

M E

E UNION ST

13TH AVE

www.ponyseattle.com f a c e b o o k . c o m / p o ny s e a t t l e

12TH AVE

bar

every d til 8:0 ay 0pm

& CHOCOLATE MARTINI BAR

5-7PM DAILY

6.50 martinis 3.50 wells 3.00 draft beer 4.00 house wine 4.00 house port

538 BROADWAY & MERCER

WWW.DILETTANTE.COM 206.329.6463

SELECT MENU ITEMS

QUEEN ANNE Pagliacci Pizzeria

550 Queen Anne Ave N 206.726.1717 pagliacci.com

McMenamins Queen Anne 200 Roy St 206.285.4722 mcmenamins.com

Via Tribunali

317 West Galer 206.264.7768 viatribunali.net

New York Pizza & Bar

500 Mercer St 206.913.2565 newyorkpizzaandbar.com

The Melting Pot 14 Mercer St 206.378.1208 meltingpot.com

daily 9-11pm

daily 3-6p & 10p-12a

Sun-Thu 5-6p Fri-Sat 5-6p & 10p-close daily 2-6p & 9p-close in both restaurant & bar

Mon-Fri 4:30p-6

SEATTLE WEEKLY HAPPY HOUR APP - (powered by GoTime) available now for download on Android, iTunes, and Blackberry (search â€œHappy Hoursâ€?). Let us guide you to the nearest happy place by showing you what specials are happening at any given moment and where to find them. App-less? You can still find your happy place at HappyHours.SeattleWeekly.com!

HAPPY HOUR Monday - Friday: 4:30pm to 6pm LADIES NIGHT THURSDAYS $20 Cheese, Salad & Chocolate Happy Hour Drink Prices All Night for Ladies In the Bar

BELLEVUE: Downtown (426) 646-2744 SEATTLE: Queen Anne (206) 378-1208 TACOMA: Downtown (253) 535-3939 •

• MELTINGPOT.COM

BALLARD BalMar

5449 Ballard Ave NW 206.297.0500 thebalmar.com

daily 5-7p & after 10p

Jolly Roger Taproom 1111 NW Ballard Way 206.782.6181 maritimebrewery.com

Louie’s Cuisine of China

Mon-Fri 3-6p

5100 15th Ave NW 206.782.8855 louiescuisine.com

Mon-Fri 3:30-6p

4B’s Ballard Grill & Alehouse 4300 Leary Way NW 206.782.9024 ballardgrill.com

Mon-Fri 11a-6p

Hazlewood

2311 NW Market St 206.783.0478

daily 4-7pm

The Waterwheel Lounge 7034 15th Ave NW 206.784.5701 thewaterwheellounge.com

daily 5-7p

Dining. Cocktails. Parties.

PATIO NOW OPEN! Ballard Loft Happy Hour!

Tuesday-Friday 4pm-7pm, Sunday & Monday 4pm-Close $1 Off Drafts, Bottles, Wells & Wine $5.50 Sliders, 1/4 Dog and App Specials

LATE NIGHT HH FOOD Tuesday-Friday 10pm-Midnight

NEW HAPPY HOUR FOOD

Rotating craft beer and Ballard’s largest selection of local and craft spirits. Happy Hour Food & Drink Specials 5 - 7pm Daily 5449 Ballard Ave NW | Seattle 98107 | 206.297.0500 www.thebalmar.com 36

Steamed Clams Baby Back Ribs Salmon Cakes

Check out our New Dinner Specials! 5105 Ballard Ave. NW Seattle, WA 98107 (206) 420-2737 | ballardloft.com

EAT. DRINK. BE HAPPY. Happy Hour Every Day 4-7 $1 off most drinks $1 off most food NW 56TH ST @ 17TH AVE NW

BALLARD

AMBERDENSEATTLE.COM

Fighting Crime. Reducing Fear. Building Community. Happy hour is 4â€“7pm daily 2 dollars off all specialty cocktails. 1 dollar off all other drinks. Open 4pm-2am Daily

Hazlewood

2311 NW Market Street, Ballard

BALLARD and FREMONT The Amber Den

daily 4-7p

1556 NW 56th St 206.783.0131 amberdenseattle.com

Zayda Buddy’s Pizza & Bar 5405 Leary Ave NW 206.783.7777 zaydabuddyspizza.com

Mon-Fri 3-6p & 10p-12a Sat & Sun 10a-3p

Ballard Loft

Tue-Fri 4-7p Sun-Mon 4p-close late night food daily 10p-12a

5105 Ballard Ave NW 206.420.2737 ballardloft.com

HAPPY HOUR 3-6 PM Monday - Friday $3 Pints $10 Pitchers Special Low Priced Menu Items Fresh food and brew made and served here in Ballard!

1111 NW Ballard Way • 206.782.6181

HOURS: 11am-11pm Mon-Thur 11am-Midnight Fri-Sat, Noon-9pm Sundays

25 Micros - Many Local

sushi

Happy Hour 4pm-6pm Daily $2 Beer $4 Sake $4 Appetizers $4.5 Sushi Rolls 3520 Fremont Ave. N. Seattle, WA 206.632.3430 www.chisofremont.com

‘s

BALLARD GRILL AND ALEHOUSE 4300 Leary Way (206)782-9024

HAPPY HOUR M-F 11am - 6pm

Free Pool - 6 Tables

HAPPY HOUR 5-7 Every Day 2 Domestics $2 Wells $3 imports $5 calls Mon-Fri Happy Hour food specials

Tuesday Bingo & Karaoke Wednesday Trivia Thursday - Saturday Karaoke Thursday is Ladies Night $5 calls Daily Food Specials Outdoor Deck & Summer outdoor play area 7034 15th Ave NW  Ballard 206-784-5701

HAPPY HOUR 4pm to 7pm Daily $3 Pints & $5 Appetizers

Happy Hour Mon-Fri 3:30 - 6:00 pm Dine In Only Full Appetizers - Half Price Well Drinks $3.75 Beers $3.00 $1 off per wine glass

5100 15th Avenue NW in Ballard

(206) 782-8855

Saturday & Sunday 10am to 2pm $4 Mimosas & Bloody Marys

Trivia Night Every Thursday at 8pm!

206-547-1417 460 North 36th Street in the Heart of Fremont

FREMONT Chiso

3520 Fremont Ave N 206.632.3430 chisofremont.com

Fremont Brewing Company 3409 Woodland Park Ave N 206.420.2407 fremontbrewing.com

daily 4-6p

Thu-Fri 4-8p Sat 12-8p Sun 12-6p

Brouwer’s Café

400 N 35th St 206.267.BIER (2437) brouwerscafe.blogspot.com

Norm’s Eatery & Alehouse 460 N 36th St 206.547.1417

Via Tribunali

daily 4-7p Sat-Sun 10a-2p

4303 Fremont Ave N 206.547.2144 viatribunali.net

daily 4-6p & 10p-close

Ballroom

daily 3-7p Sun 12-7p Sun-Thu 1p-1a (food)

456 N 36th St 206.634.2575 ballroomfremont.com

HAPPY HOUR DAILY BEFORE 6PM & AFTER 10PM $5 PIZZA $3 BEER $5 WELLS HOUSE WINE 1/2 CARAFE $8 40

daily 3-6p

HAPPY HOUR Mon-Sat 3-7PM | Sun 12-7PM

• • • •

$4 Taps $3 PBR $4 Wells $5 Wine

$4 Appetizers & Pizza Slices 1/2 Off Pool & $3 PBR (Sun, Mon, Tues All Day)

DJ's Thur-Sat After 9:30PM

Outdoor Bar Open for Summer Open 3pm-2am Daily w w w. b a l l ro o m f re m o n t . c o m

456 N 36th St • 206.634.2575 41

FREMONT Blue C Sushi

daily 4-7p in the bar Sun & Thu 4p-close

3411 Fremont Ave N 206.633.3411 bluecsushi.com

Ponti Seafood Grill

daily 4-6:30p & 9p-close Sun 4p-close

3014 3rd Ave N 206.284.3000 pontiseafoodgrill.com

Showa

701 N 36th St 206.388.3913 facebook.com/showafremont

daily 5-7p & 10-close

URBAN BEER GARDEN Thursday & Friday 4pm-8pm Saturday 12pm-8pm Sunday 12pm-6pm Kids and Dogs Welcome

Coming Soon: Open 7 Days with Outdoor Seating!

FREMONT BREWING COMPANY 3409 Woodland Park Ave North, Seattle, EARTH 206-420-2407 www.fremontbrewing.com

Join us for Happy Hour Seven Days a Week!

BLUE C SUSHI $1 off Draft Beer • $1 off House Wines $3.50 Wells • $6 Specialty Cocktails Small house sake $2.50 • Sushi Specials

Happy Hour Daily

$1 off beer, wine, and sake $3.50 well drinks $3.50 sapporo sake bombs $5.95 specialty cocktails plus happy hour menu

U DISTRICT and WALLINGFORD Ivar’s Salmon House 401 NE Northlake Way 206.632.0767 ivars.com

Murphy’s Pub

1928 N 45th St 206.634.2110 murphysseattle.com

Big Time Brewing Co. 4133 University Way NE 206.545.4509 bigtimebrewery.com

Tutta Bella

4411 Stone Way N 206.633.3800 tuttabella.com

Blue C Sushi

4601 26th Ave NE 206.525.4601 bluecsushi.com

Boom Noodle

2675 NE Village Lane 206.525.2675 boomnoodle.com

Sun-Sat 3p-close

daily 3-6:30p (drinks) Mon-Fri 3-6:30p & 10p-close (food)

daily 2-5p (except Fridays)

daily 3-6p

daily 4-7p in the bar Sun & Thu 4p-close

daily 3-6p Thu all night

Daily Drink Specials Po’Boy Special: Shot of Jim Beam + Tall Boy $5.50 Rolling Rock $2.50 Pints & $8 Pitcher HAPPY HOUR

Monday - Friday / 3-6:30pm $3.50 Micros Food Specials $1 off Imports & Wells

BEAUTIFUL OUTDOOR DECK SEATING 206-634-2110 | 1928 N. 45th St. in Wallingford | murphyseattle.com 43

GREENWOOD and PHINNEY ridge AND El Chupacabra

daily 4-6p & 10p-12a

6711 Greenwood Ave N 206.706.4889 facebook.com/bar.chupacabra

Bleacher’s Pub

8118 Greenwood Ave N 206.783.9919 bleacherspub.com

Cornuto Pizzeria

7404 Greenwood Ave 206.812.0416 cornutopizzeria.com

Mon-Thu 4-6p & 10p-12a Fri & Sat 10p-12a

daily 5-6p Sun-Thu 9-1p

Tim’s Tavern

Mon-Fri 4-7pm

602 N 105th St 206.789.9005 timstavernseattle.com

Sweet Lou’s Pub

820 NW 85th St 206.782.9690 sweetlouspub.com

daily 4-7p & 10p-midnight

’ r s e h c a e l B HAPPY HOUR 7 DAYS A WEEK!

$1 off Pints $2 off Pitchers Food Specials Now Showing All Sports Packages!

8118 Greenwood Ave. North Seattle WA 98103 206-783-9919 44

Your friendly neighborhood pub with amazingly good grub! Happy Hour: Monday-Friday, 4-7pm

3.75 Micro pints, 3.25 Wells 2.75 Rainier 16 oz pints $2 off pitchers & wine carafes

Karaoke 5 nights a week! Ladies Night 20% off on Tues. Industry Night 20% off on Wed.

Sunday (8pm): Open Mic / Monday (9pm): Trivia

HAPPY HOUR

Tim’s Tavern on 105th 602 N 105th, Seattle, WA 98133 (206) 789-9005 TimsTavernSeattle.com

7 days a week 4-7pm & 10pm-midnight Now serving lunch @ 11am and Weekend Brunch too! 820 NW 85th St • 206.782.9690

Happy Hour Everyday: 5pm - 6pm, Free Pizza Sun - Thur: 9pm -11pm, 9" Pizza for $5 Outdoor patio

Happy Hour Every Day 4-6pm & 10-midnight $1 off Wells & Microbrews

Killer Jukebox!

7404 Greenwood Ave Seattle, WA 98103 (206) 812-0416 • cornutopizzeria.com 45

GREEN LAKE Greenlake Bar & Grill

7200 E Green Lake Drive N 206.729.6179

daily 3- 6p & 9p-close

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Duck Island

7317 Aurora Ave 206.783.3360

Cake Envy

7900 E Greenlake Dr N 206.453.3337 cake-envy.com

daily 3-6p

daily 4-7p

24 Taps

“Aurora’s Finest” SEATTLE BEER NEWS “TOP 10 BEER SPOTS” PINBALL AND SHUFFLEBOARD NEW OUTDOOR SEATING! FIND US ON TWITTER & FACEBOOK EXTENSIVE BOTTLE LIST

HAPPY HOUR: 3-6PM DAILY HALF OFF APPETIZERS $1.50 PBR, $3 WELL DRINKS FOOD & DRINK SPECIALS

Monday: PB&J Night (Pabst, Bacon & Jameson) Wednesday: Taco Night

7317 Aurora Ave N (next door to Beth’s Cafe) • DuckIslandAleHouse.Blogspot.com

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WEST SEATTLE Tug Inn

daily 5-7p

2216 SW Orchard St 206.768.8852 tuginn.com

Talaricoâ€™s Pizzeria

daily 3-6p & 11p-1a

4718 California Ave SW 206.937.3463 talaricoswest.com

Beveridge Place Pub

Mon-Fri 2-6p Sat-Sun noon-6p

6413 California Ave SW 206.932.9906 beveridgeplacepub.com

El Chupacabra

daily 4-6p & 10p-12a

2620 Alki Ave SW 206.933.7345 facebook.com/bar.chupacabra

Bang Bar Thai Restaurant 4750 California Ave SW 206-935-8888 bangbarthai.com

daily 3-6p Fri-Sat 10p-close

Kokoras

6400 1/2 California Ave SW 206.913.0041 kokorasgreekgrill.com

Mon-Fri 4-6p

Happy Hour Every Day 4-6pm & 10-midnight $1 off Wells & Microbrews

Killer Jukebox! 2620 Alki Ave SW 206.933.7345 www.facebook.com/bar.chupacabra 48

HAPPY HOUR Everyday: 3pm-6pm Late Night: Fri-Sat: 10pm-Close Happy Hour only available at bar. All Martinis $5 / All House Wines $4 HOURS Sun-Thurs: 11am-10pm Fri & Sat: 11am-midnight We do catering and delivery every W day from 5pm-10pm. 4750 California A Avenue SW Seattle, Washington W W W W. B A N G B A R T H A I . C O M

WEST SEATTLE AND SOUTH SEATTLE Locol

7902 35th Ave SW 206.708.7725 locolseattle.com

daily 3-6p & 10p-2a

Tutta Bella

daily 3-6p

4918 Rainier Ave S 206.721.3501 tuttabella.com

Stellar Pizza

5513 Airport Way S 206.763.1660 stellarpizza.com

Tue-Sun 3-6p

A Small and Excellent Destination for Greek Specialties pizza, ale, and cocktails

HAPPY HOUR Monday - Friday 4-6PM Fantastic Food and Drink Specials!

Signature Specials Daily Great Gyros and Excellent Mediterranean Cuisine

Ta ke O u t / D i n e I n

HAPPY HOUR 3-6 PM!

5513 Airport Way S. Seattle • 763-1660

www.stellarpizza.com

6400½ California Ave SW, West Seattle Located at Morgan Junction 206.913.0041 • www.kokorasgreekgrill.com Mon-Fri 4-9, Sat 1-9, Sun 1-8

EASTSIDE .

SIP - Issaquah 1084 NE Park Drive 425.369.1181 siprestaurant.com

Mon-Fri 4-6p

at the wine bar & restaurant

Cafe Veloce - Kirkland 12514 120th Ave NE 425.814.2972 cafeveloce.com

Agave Cocina & Tequilas

Mon-Fri 11a-5p Sat-Sun 3-5p

Issaquah 425.369.8900 Redmond 425.881.8252 agaverest.com

daily 3-6:30p & 8:30p-close

Wilde Rover Irish Pub

daily 4-6p drink & food specials 10p-12a food specials only

111 Central Way - Kirkland 425.822.8940 wilderover.com Matts’ Rotisserie & Oyster Lounge

16551 NE 74th St, Redmond 425.376.0909 mattsrotisserie.com

Parlor Billiards & Spirits 700 Bellevue Way NE 425.289.7000 parlorcollection.com

Mon-Sat 3-6p & 9p-close Sun 11a-10p Sun-Mon 3p-close Tue-Fri 3-7p Tue-Wed 10p-12a

Kirkland, WA 98034

Best Washington Beer and Wine List $10 off every bottle of wine Monday - Friday (11am to 5pm) and Saturday - Sunday (3pm to 5pm)

Monday Night Wine Flights - 6 for $7 starting at 5pm 12514 120th Ave NE, Kirkland • 425-814-2972 • www.cafeveloce.com

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MONDAY MONDAY -- FRIDAY: FRIDAY: 4pm 4pm -- 6pm 6pm $3 $3 Off Off All All Small Small Plates Plates $5 $5 House House Spirits Spirits $7 $7 Featured Featured Martinis Martinis $7 $7 Featured Featured Wines Wines by by the the Glass Glass WINE WINE WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY 1/2 1/2 off off Bottles Bottles ($100 ($100 or or less) less) LADIES LADIES NIGHT NIGHT THURSDAY THURSDAY Live Live Music Music & & Happy Happy Hour Hour Drink Drink Prices Prices All All Night Night for for Ladies Ladies Join us for Outdoor Patio Dining! Summer Patio Dining! 1084 1084 NE Park Drive • 425.369.1181 • www.siprestaurant.com 53

EASTSIDE Wild Ginger - Bellevue 11020 NE 6th St. 425.495.8889 wildginger.net

daily 3-6p & late night

Tutta Bella

715 NW Gilman Blvd 425.391.6838 tuttabella.com

daily 3-6p

The Woodhouse Wine Estates

happy hour Thu 5-8p tasting room daily 12-5

15500 Woodinville Redmond Rd NE

425.527.0608

thewoodhousewineestates.com

BEST HAPPY HOUR ON THE EASTSIDE ISSAQUAH

1048 NE PARK DRIVE (425)369-8900

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tasting rooms Soft Tail Spirits

14356 Woodinville Redmond Rd

425.770.1158 softtailspirits.com

Batch 206 Distillery 1417 Elliot Ave W batch206.com

Piccola Wine

19501 144th Ave NE, Suite D-700 Woodinville, WA 98072 piccolawine.com

Fremont Mischief

132 N Canal St fremontmischief.com

Bainbridge Organic Distillers 9727 Coppertop Loop NE Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 bainbridgedistillers.com

Dry Fly Distilling

1003 E Trent Ave, Spokane, WA 509.489.2112 dryflydistilling.com

daily 12-5p

complimentary tastings

vodka made from WA apples and wine made from WA wine grapes

Wed-Fri 12-7p Sat & Sun 12-6p

complimentary tastings & enjoy direct purchase pricing on bottles

makers of Batch 206 Vodka and Counter Gin

Sat 12-6p, Sun 12-5p & every third Thu 4-7p

$5 tasting fee

WA wines in new user-friendly & eco-friendly tote

Wed-Sat 11a-6p Sun 11a-4p

complimentary tastings

handcrafted spirits John Jacob Rye Whiskey Mischief Whiskey, 8 yr Mischief Vodka and Gin

Mon-Fri 10a-5p Sat 10a-3p

complimentary tastings

tastings, tours, & sales

Mon-Fri 8a-5p Sat 10a-3p

complimentary tastings

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tasting rooms Bendistillery

19330 Pinehurst Rd Bend, OR 541.318.0200

Mark Ryan Winery

Woodinville: 14810 NE 154th St Bldg A-1 Walla Walla: 26 E Main St, Ste. 1 markryanwinery.com

Koenig Distillery & Winery

Caldwell, ID 208.455.8386 koenigdistilleryandwinery.com

Mon-Sat 11a-6p Sun 11a-4p

complimentary tastings & tours

open for tours, tastings & retail sales

Sun-Thu 12-5p Fri-Sat 12-6p

$10 tasting fee

tasting fee refunded with bottle purchase

Fri-Sun 12-5p

complimentary tastings

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WOODINVILLE | markryanwinery.com | WALLA WALLA

No Mixer Required Ask for Soft Tail, Award Winning, Gluten Free Vodka Available through Click Distributing 206-763-3200

softtailspirits.com

RANSOM WINES AND SPIRITS ARE AVAILABLE WHOLESALE THROUGH NOBLE WINES PHONE 206-326-5274 Old Tom Gin | Ransom Pinot Noir | Whippersnapper Whiskey | Small’s Gin | The Vodka

Ransom Spirits 23101 Houser Rd Sheridan, Oregon 97378 | 503-876-5022

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America’s Most Award W inning Craft Distillery www.ben distiller y.co m w ww. facebook .com/CraterLakeVo d ka And Gin 59

Two award-winning Northwest products using the finest local ingredients.

KOENIG DISTILLERY

Available for licensed bars. Contact (206) 763-3200.

Draft Beers Well Drinks House Wine

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Monday-Friday 4pm to 7pm 10pm to Close EVERYDAY

Absolut Martinis Fat Bastard Wines Sauza Blue Margaritas

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1522 6th Avenue Seattle, WA 98101 206-340-1369

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