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Bridge Over Busy Waters

With boating season in full swing, the Fremont Bridge frustrates motorists to no end.

But Joe Grande and his operators are trained to keep it cool.

BY ELLIS E. CONKLIN

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Last week, after 28 years at the station, KUOW staple Steve Scher abruptly resigned. The former Weekday host took to Facebook to assure listeners that leaving KUOW was something he’d been “thinking about a long time,” and that his plan is to give “an honest attempt at the writer’s life.” Naturally, Scher’s decision inspired a flood of reaction online: “Writing is a good thing— I’m sure you have much more to say, contribute Steve!” —Peter Steinbrueck, via Facebook “I’m sorry to say that Steve Scher drove me away from KUOW years ago. He was a public radio caricature of himself.” —Ryan Packer, via Twitter “Good Luck and Happy Trails. You will be missed.” —Essex Porter, via Twitter “Good fucking riddance.” —Anthony Scott, via Facebook

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he Mariners haven’t had a decent offense in a decade, and this year is no different. Previous managers tried to fix the problem. But Lloyd McClendon has wisely turned it into the team’s identity.

“We’re not an ideal powerhouse,” McClendon said last week. “We’ve got a BB gun—we dodge the bullets and shoot ’em between the eyes.”

Last Sunday’s win against

BY SETH KOLLOEN Tampa Bay was right out of the 2014 Mariner playbook. Felix Hernandez pitched the game of his life, shutting out the Rays and striking out a career-high 15. But the Mariners didn’t score either. Then, in the 9th, with two outs, two strikes, and nobody on, punchless shortstop Brad Miller lined a triple into the rightfield corner. One batter later, Endy Chavez reached for a fastball that was six inches outside and squirted a grounder through the infield to score Miller with the winning run. The Rays never knew what hit ’em.

McClendon’s predecessors were amateur psychologists who attempted to brew offensive success out of mind games and motivational speaking. McClendon is more of a realist. Asked last week why he had struggling rookie Stefen Romero batting fourth in the order, McClendon replied: “Somebody’s gotta hit there. I don’t have Bonds, so it’s gonna be Romero.”

Asked why prospect Nick Franklin was being sent down to the minors, McClendon said, “This is not a country club. You have to have positive results here.”

In his search for positive results, McClendon tried 56 different batting orders in the season’s first 62 games. He’s started 10 different outfielders this season. And, somehow, it’s working.

The Mariners started June with six wins in seven games and, at press time, hold the second of the American League’s two Wild Card spots.

The BB-gun approach is only sporadically successful—despite the old canard about “pitching and defense win championships,” most World Series winners possess elite offenses. It has been done, though—the shining example being the 1988 Los Angeles Dodgers, who won a World Series averaging just 3.88 runs per game.

McClendon’s thrown out a challenge not just to his team but to Mariner fans everywhere: Instead of bitching about the team’s offense, accept and love it. This is the team we’ve got, and there is something endearing about it: Stefen Romero playing the role of Barry Bonds, Endy Chavez reaching for bad-ball singles, Brad “Crazy Legs” Miller tearing around the bases on the rare occasions that he hits the ball. For better or worse, these are your Seattle Mariners. E

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patience,” says Grande. “Just because I push the button that triggers the red light, that doesn’t mean traffic will stop. You got to do your own visuals, check on the cameras that are right up there—see them?—that give you pictures of under and around the bridge. Yeah, and sometimes the bridge will stick open, usually because of an electrical problem.

The longest one that I know of on the Fremont Bridge was around 43 or 45 minutes.”

Grande says the old bridge will be repainted later this year, the same blue and orange that Fremont Fair-goers chose back in 1984. “It’ll probably take a couple a months or so, but it needs it.”

Watching the bridge recline, he expounds, “We don’t get the jumpers like we used to, you know, the ones who’ll make the jump to cool off on a summer day.

When they did jump, we prayed they’d take a good shower. God knows what’s in that Above: SDOT bridge crew chief Joe Grande oversees the country’s busiest drawbridge. Inset: The Fremont Bridge tallies one of the first water. Some of them, I remember, would of its 652,444 openings. find a spot in the girders and ride the bridge up. Better than an E-ticket, I guess, but hey, bridges for SDOT, Grande says with a wink, “Bridge operators are probably the best-read people that’s kind of dangerous.”

Later he playfully asks, “How many pigeons in the country. They read an awful lot of books.” did we catch today?” Indeed, the critters are And, he adds, “It may get boring, but you a nuisance. They can wreak havoc with the know, you have a four-corner office with winmachinery, gum up the works, says Grande— dows all around. But if you want to get a beautihence the classical music. ful sunset, you want to be on Ballard Bridge.”

“Come on, let’s go under the bridge,” he comOperators work a straight eight-hour shift—no mands. Down several flights of very narrow breaks, no meals, and no one had better leave the stairs, we emerge in semi-darkness. The bridge tower, even during those rush-hour hiatuses, other than to administer daily grease jobs to the rack bars shudders from the rumble of cars above. “See and fittings, gears, and bearings, many of which are where the greasing has been done? You got to do it every day. See that—it’s like a giant shock original parts and have never been replaced. absorber. Amazing, huh?

“We had one that would sneak out for a sand“OK, now listen. Do you hear the music? wich or something and not tell anyone,” Grande That’s coming from the radios we’ve put in here. recalls, “but he’s no longer working here.”

The towers are staffed 16 hours every day, from They’re tuned to classical music. We started this three months ago. They say the pigeons hate it, 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.; after that, a call-out operator and it will get rid of them. I don’t know, maybe it shuttles among the bridges to open them for will. We’ll see.” E late- and wee-hour boat traffic.

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t your next cocktail party, when talk turns to Seattle’s drawbridges, as it inevitably will, you might mention that the Fremont Bridge, since its christening on a warm mid-June morning 97 years ago, has as of last week traveled up and down 652,444 times. When they beg for more, their minds blown by your span of knowledge, let it spill that the double-leaf bascule bridge spreads its wings for marine traffic an average of 35 times a day, opening at an angle of 74 degrees from horizontal, and that the average length of time the bridge is in an upward position is 4.9 minutes. On a Seafair Sunday, the most hectic day of the year, the bridge will rise 34 times during an eight-hour period—about every 14 minutes— creating maddening gridlock while pleasure craft, a mere 30 feet below, gingerly make their way (taunting us, it seems) under the structure.

On a recent afternoon, Joe Grande, the Seattle Department of Transportation’s bridge crew chief for 15 years, gazes down on the brackish waters of the Ship Canal. He’s in the control room, a rectangular nook the size of a small college dorm room, perched 25 feet above the most frequently opened drawbridge in the country, built in 1917 at a cost of $410,000. Traffic on the waterway is light this day: a few kayakers skittering toward Puget Sound, a sailboat with a striped red- andblue spinnaker, a trudging fishing charter the color of clay.

A ruddy-faced 65-year-old with steel-blue eyes and a thatch of graying hair, Grande concedes that bridge openings try the patience of many a motorist. “We’ll get that hand gesture,” he says with a smile. “We just ignore them. That’s part of the training, to ignore them. Anyway, we have a lot of water here, so what are you going to do? This is just one of the things that make Seattle Seattle.”

Besides, federal law stipulates that marine traffic is allowed the right of way. The U.S. Coast Guard makes the rules, and—aside from the rush-hour periods on weekdays from 7 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m., when the bridge remains closed to all boaters and commercial fishing vessels—a solitary sailor takes precedence over a poor, harried schmuck in a Subaru, even if traffic is backed up from here to eternity.

“If I got someone laying on his back with a toothpick in his mouth and they call in for an opening, I got to open the bridge for them,” notes Grande. “I can hold them for 10 minutes, but then we got to open the bridge.”

Asked if things don’t get a trifle monotonous and downright dull for the 20 bridge operators who man the Ballard, Spokane, and Fremont

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Montgomery’s fortunes have spoiled as well.

In 2009, he was arrested on charges of passing $1 million in bad checks on the Las Vegas strip.

That same year he filed for bankruptcy, listing debts of $12 million.

Like I said, long stories. The latest one appeared last week in Phoenix New Times. At 2,200 words, this one was headlined “Joe Arpaio’s Investigating Federal Judge G. Murray Snow, DOJ, Sources Say, and Using a Seattle Scammer to Do It.” According to writer Stephen Lemons, Montgomery has devised some sort of computerassisted program to help Maricopa County’s insufferable Sheriff Joe find out who is conspiring against him, which, in Arpaio’s mind, is almost everyone.

In this instance it’s supposed to be the Justice Department, which sued the sheriff, as well as Judge Snow, who had ordered Arpaio to end his department’s illegal Latino-profiling practice. It’s one of many costly actions

by Arpaio, who at age 81 is showing Dennis Montgomery signs of senility with his endless investigation into President Obama’s birth certificate. Complicating the Sheriff ’s legal problems, one of his deputies recently committed suicide, leaving behind piles of evidence from those profiling stops that appears to be illegally withheld.

According to Lemons, Arpaio has been sending deputies north to confer with Montgomery on how best to expose the supposed judicial conspiracy against Arpaio. When Lemons asked why his men were sent to Seattle, the sheriff would only say, “I dunno, maybe they like the weather up there, or the snow crab.”

What did Montgomery have to say? That’s why I was knocking on his door that April afternoon. I was helping New Times with their story, seeking comment from Montgomery. I also wanted to ask about those other stories, if I got the chance.

He suddenly appeared on the walkway behind me, a stocky, gray-haired man holding a cell phone. I introduced myself.

“I really don’t wanna talk to you,” Montgomery said.

“OK, about Phoenix . . . ” I began.

“No comment,” Montgomery shot back.

“Arizona . . . ” I said.

“No comment.”

“Have you done any work for Joe Arpaio?” I asked as he began to move off.

“I, I, I have no comment,” Montgomery said, then walked away. “I’ll call you later. I’ll think about it.”

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hen I knocked on the door of Dennis Montgomery’s Yarrow Point mansion around noon, several large dogs began howling inside. I could hear them barking and sliding on the hardwood floors of the $2 million home in the Eastside enclave, a neighbor to Hunts Point, Medina, and the rest of the Bill Gates Wonderland.

Montgomery had lost the home to bankruptcy, but his attorney bought it for $20,000 from the court and apparently allows Montgomery to live there. Montgomery is also suing his lender, a bank he claims failed to properly record his mortgage payments.

If that

BY RICK ANDERSON sounds like a long story, well, most of Montgomery’s are.

Take the one that appeared in Playboy four years ago. It runs about 6,000 words and is headlined “The Man Who Conned the Pentagon.”

That happened a couple years after 9/11, when Montgomery, then chief technology officer and part owner of Nevada software company eTreppid, made millions selling spy programs to the U.S. He persuaded Homeland Security, the CIA, the Air Force, and the White House that his software could decode secret messages to terrorists embedded in Al Jazeera Media Network broadcasts.

As officials belatedly discovered, “The communications Montgomery said he was decrypting apparently didn’t exist,” wrote investigative reporter Aram Roston, even though the U.S. at one point in 2003 went to Code Orange, Homeland Security’s second-highest terror-alert stage, on the basis of Montgomery’s questionable data.

Montgomery obtained other federal contracts as well, claiming his software could automatically identify weapons in video streams. But Playboy reported, based on FBI reports, that Montgomery rigged such findings. One former employee told agents he helped fake 40 demonstrations.

Not that accusations of being a con man seem to have bothered Montgomery (his own attorney referred to him as a “con artist”). On his Twitter account—though dormant for over a year—he uses the Playboy story and headline as his graphic backdrop.

Montgomery bailed from eTreppid, got involved in a political fight (accusing Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons of taking a bribe, which proved untrue), and discovered a new benefactor, Edra Blixseth, wife of billionaire developer Tim Blixseth. The couple who founded the exclusive Montana resort, Yellowstone Club, ended up backing him along with investor and former presidential candidate Jack Kemp. Montgomery formed a new company he ultimately called BLXware. That provided him with the kind of money you need to drive a $70,000 Porsche Cayenne GTS and, in one day at a California casino, lose $422,000.

The Blixseths moved to Medina in 2007 and divorced in 2008, and Edra filed for bankruptcy in 2009. Onetime billionaire Tim has since filed too, and last month was trying to head off the sale of his $8 million Medina home. He’s immersed in Yellowstone Club lawsuits and was recently ordered to pay creditors $41 million.

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Changing the Climate

A scientist by profession, Jess Spear is going full-blown political to challenge Frank Chopp for his 43rd District seat.

We sat down with her to talk solar, Sagan, and strategy.

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Jess Spear announced her intentions on Wednesday, May 21.

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climate scientist specializing in paleoceanography, Jess Spear was one of the chief organizers of Kshama Sawant’s victorious socialist City Council campaign and the subsequent 15Now campaign, which resulted in the new $15 minimum wage recently signed into law by Mayor Murray. Then last month, she announced that she is running against Speaker of the House Frank Chopp for the 43rd District seat of the State House. Naturally, we had some questions.

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Jess Spear: Like a lot of young people, I saw things wrong with the world that didn’t seem too hard to fix. But when you are young, you’re called an idealist. People say “This is the way the world works.” And a lot of young people are sort of beaten down by hearing that from older people, but I never accepted that.

When I was in college I picked up a book by Carl Sagan called Billions and Billions, and in there was an essay on global warming that was a real call to action for me. I decided I was going to go to graduate school [at the University of South Florida] and get a degree in climate science.

The more you learn about what’s happening, the more radical one becomes. Year after year, there’s more and more data showing that past predictions are quite conservative, and that what’s coming is coming faster than we expected it to. As a paleoceanographer [for the U.S. Geological Survey and Burke Museum], I thought, “My research is adding to the body of knowledge, but is this really enough? I keep generating all this data, but if that’s not really showing policy-makers what’s necessary to stop this, then what do we do?”

You mentioned solar roadways in your campaign announcement speech—is that the main green-energy infrastructure project you would put on the docket if you were elected?

No, I mentioned solar roadways in that it’s a new technology, and there’s new technology coming out all the time. I talked about solar roadways in that that’s an amazing new invention I’d just heard of that could be implemented. But we don’t need new technology like that to move to 100 percent renewable energy in Washington.

Why don’t we have solar panels everywhere?

Why don’t we have more windmills in eastern Washington? Why aren’t we moving toward that? That technology is being held back, and we should ask ourselves “Why?” There are two things holding it back: One, nobody on a policy level is advocating for these things. We can’t just stop pipelines. We can’t just stop coal terminals. What are we doing to move forward?

Two, the capitalist system we live under is centered around the production of what makes the most money, not “What products do humans need, and how can we make those in an environmentally sustainable way?” Thinking about that in terms of climate change—fossil-fuel infrastructure has had billions invested into it, and it creates billions in profits. So in the logic of the system itself, there’s really nothing to incentivize them to go any other direction. The new regulations just announced by the Obama administration are a step in the right direction, but they are a baby step considering what we need.

People were so excited about Obama’s carbon-emissions cap because the president

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n&c Changing the Climate » FROM PAGE 12 simply did something about the issue. It’s funny seeing that from Washington state, where we have this reputation as being a leader in the climate-change issue. Inslee is rated one of the greenest governors we have—

[quiet laughter]

See, you’re laughing. It’s true, though; it seems like we as a state could be doing a lot more.

This supposedly “greenest governor ever” is calling for a panel of people to come together for “market solutions,” which is code for “incentivizing business to do what’s right.” We need to advocate for and organize around really bold advances in renewable energy.

What I have is a proven track record in organizing ordinary people to get involved in the political process, and really pressure elected officials to do what’s best for them.

The biggest global model for that right now seems to be Germany. Have you looked at their model for that?

Yes! They decided to shut down their nuclear reactors in the wake of Fukushima, and needed to replace that energy production, so they really ramped up their solar production. They were quickly able to reach an excess of required energy for the country. How quickly did it take to get that done? Just a few years. [But] the German model is not something we should follow in terms of how to fund renewable-energy expansion. Working people should not have to pay for this through increases in electricity rates or through taxes. The wealthy corporations and super-wealthy individuals must be taxed to pay for it. Just closing the tax loopholes in Washington state would generate about $6 billion a year in extra revenue.

What would you say to people who criticize your lack of “political chops,” if you will, especially against a 20-year political veteran like Frank Chopp?

Yes—I lack experience in giving Boeing $8 billion handouts, and sitting in rooms with corporations and working out how we can smooth out a deal where they get to pay nothing, and derail regulations on our environment. What I have is a proven track record in organizing ordinary people to get involved in the political process, and really pressure elected officials to do what’s best for them and the environment that sustains our society. I helped elect the first socialist City Council member in 100 years, and six months later we got a $15 minimum wage, a campaign I also helped organize.

When you envision Seattle decades in the future, what does it look like to you?

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The prospect of missing out on even the briefest of sunbreaks can fill us all with a type of guilt unique to the Pacific Northwest. But what to do when there is such an abundance of sun, as the meteorologists are promising this summer?

That’s the question this Summer Guide exists to answer. Whatever you choose to pursue from these pages—water-park adventures, picnic pleasures, or renaissance-faire fantasy—we promise to leave you sun-kissed and guilt-free.

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e were at the bottom of our third water slide when the excitement began to take hold.

“This is the best day I’ve ever had in my life,” my 7-year-old daughter turned and said to me, unprompted and with the sincerity only a first-grader can exude.

It was beautiful, a moment completely devoid of cynicism.

And I didn’t question the youthful display of pristine naivete.

I resisted asking, “What about when your baby brother was born?” or simply pointing out that, “No, dear, in the grand More than half a million people are drawn to Wild Waves, scheme of things, this trip to and its wave pool, each year.

Wild Waves is not the greatest thing that has ever happened they’re actually not. The $21 family locker rental to you.” fee also seems like a new-economy idea, but it’s Instead, I just accepted the statement in the not. But for our 7-year-old, none of this really moment for what it was: a ringing endorsement matters. The call of the 500,000-gallon wave from the little person who is the reason for all pool and the allure of the 16 water attractions are the day’s sun burns, mediocre chicken strips, and powerful and overriding. Whatever impressions exorbitant locker rental fees. of Wild Waves she has is forming on the spot— Sometimes we drive by Wild Waves on and by all outward indications, they’re good ones.

Interstate 5 when passing through Federal Way. “You hop into this floaty thing and then ride Like clockwork, my daughter’s eyes light up in a river and get sprayed with lots of water,” she the moment a glimmer of the park’s towering says to my wife after we drag ourselves out of water slides and promised adventure become the Konga River ride. “First it’s slow, then it gets visible. Equally predictable, my wife and I fill faster. My favorite part is when you get sprayed with a potent mix of bourgeois superiority and with the water.” dread. We know a trip to Wild Waves—which Ah, the innocence of youth. Or is it sage perwelcomes more than half a million visitors each spective? year—would make our daughter shiver with To my daughter’s delight, we get sprayed by excitement, but the thought of actually heading water for nearly seven full hours during our day out to the park scares the shit out of us. We’re at Wild Waves, from every imaginable direcnot really Wild Waves people, you know? tion. The giant “Pirate’s Hook” head, part of The last Saturday of May was different, the Pirate’s Cove children’s activity area, dumps however, and not just because of the unseason200 gallons every 10 minutes on us alone. And ably warm temperatures. Years of promises and while I might be tempted to give in to the more “Someday”s had brought us to this—we were cynical observations there for the taking—like going to Wild Waves, as a family, come hell or the expense of it all, or how the doe-eyed teenhigh wave-pool water. age girl behind the counter at the hot-dog and After parking the car, I took a moment to burger stand (one of the 800 to 900 high-school reflect. This was not my first trip to Wild Waves, or college-age kids employed by the park) looked but it was my first in nearly 20 years. That’s a stupid and overdramatic point to make, of course, thoroughly overmatched on this first busy day of the year—the smile plastered on our daughter’s but it’s true, and speaks to my expectations going face makes these things hard to concentrate on in. I have memories of Wild Waves, forged durfor long. The number of kids currently pissing in ing countless summer days at the park growing the wave pool becomes irrelevant in the unadulup. I see eyes bloodshot with chlorine. I see natuterated youthful glow of the moment. rally tan lifeguards snapping gum and ruling over “Do you want to go one more time?” I ask our water slides. I see Mom smoking a cigarette and daughter after being spit out of a curling yellow reading a Sue Grafton novel on a faded folding tube slide and into the approaching evening. beach chair.

Weary, dripping families are already anticipating We’re somewhere near the rentable VIP “villa the park’s closure and headed for the gates. cabanas” when I realize Wild Waves has changed “Yes! Yes! Yes!” she replies predictably. substantially in the past two decades. Some of Slinging the big yellow inner tube over my the rides I remember are long gone, as I should shoulder for one more go, it dawns on me: expect. But while things like the villa cabanas— Maybe we are Wild Waves people. which accommodate four people, including botIt could probably be worse. E tled water and a meal, for a fee of $195 to $250, depending on the time of year—feel very new, mdriscoll@seattleweekly.com

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In Seattle, we’re like that Star Trek planet that only gets to cut loose during ‘Festival,’ the big crazy orgy that comes once every solar cycle. We dream about summer. I’m thinking about summer right now. I’m thinking about brown grass and blackberries. I’m thinking about that one week when all the stores run out of box fans. I’m picturing myself sitting on a patio somewhere on a loooong summer evening, making fun of the idiots who own boats but also kind of jealous.

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on’t be a chump this summer and blow all your cash on trips up the Space Needle and $10 couture icecream cones. What’s wrong with you? Didn’t your parents raise you to be frugal and adventurous?! Lucky for you, if there’s one city that’s designed for adventurous frugality, it’s Seattle, Washington. Here we present the best secret tidbits for hacking your Seattle summer without spending all your money or looking like a total shoobie.

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you have a valid library card. Just go to the website (spl.org/library-collection/museum-pass), reserve a date, and voila—free tickets to the EMP, the Seattle Art Museum, the Aquarium, the Burke Museum . . . the list goes on.

Rip musicians off in person instead of on the Internet. Don’t feel bad, but we know you torrented the hell out of that summer playlist you’ve been bumping on your car stereo. This summer, why not step up your game and steal from musicians in person? Thanks to the Downtown Seattle Association’s “Out to Lunch” concert series, you can do just that! From July 9 to Sept. 5, every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday a different band will play a completely free outdoor concert somewhere downtown starting at noon. The March Fourth Marching Band, Kris Orlowski, and Hey Marseilles are just a few of the artists waiting for you to pay them absolutely nothing for entertainment.

Check out the full schedule at downtownseattle.com/Summer/otl.php. (For more free music this summer, see “Freedom Rock,” page 44.)

Eat french fries for free. By this point, after boating, looking at salmon, going to every museum in Seattle, and seeing three concerts a week, you are probably going to be really hungry.

Up on Capitol Hill at Pike Street Fish Fry (925 E. Pike St.), the glorious deep-frying angels there celebrate something called “Free Fry Friday.” Every third Friday of the month from 5 to 7 p.m. you can line up for a free boat of what People called some of the best fries in the country. If you have two crisp dollar bills, you can wash down all those free award-winning fries with a pint of New Belgium beer, which is like Pabst Blue Ribbon, except better in every way.

You ate fries, now go to the Frye.

One of Seattle’s best museums is free every single day. The Frye (704 Terry Ave.) hosts a permanent collection of beautiful gold-framed European art, arranged in comically dense fashion on the wall that will make you feel way more cultured than you really are. The museum also hosts a rotating series of more contemporary shows, like this summer’s “Your Feast Has Ended” ( June 14– Sept. 14), in which three Seattle artists explore the union between ancient myth and modernity as a means of social commentary on today’s exploitative, rootless culture. It’ll be a great cerebral way to round out your low-cost pilfering of all Seattle has to offer. E

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which you can do by heading down to the UW Waterfront Activities Center (3924 Montlake Blvd. N.E.) and renting an adorable canoe or rowboat for $9/hour on weekdays and $11/hour on weekends. Take that sucker out on Union Bay or paddle your way through the waters of the nearby Arboretum. But if it’s Sunday, forget about all that and just head to the Center for Wooden Boats (1010 Valley St.), where a skipper will take you out on Lake Union for free aboard all sorts of woody maritime seacraft.

Eyeball some sockeye. You might be disappointed after your boat ride that you didn’t manage to see any fish. This is supposedly Salmon City, so where the hell are they? Head over to the Ballard Locks (3015 N.W. 54th St.) and all will be revealed. Get your pervy aquatic voyeurism on at the park’s wonderful underwater fish ladder viewing area, which between midJune and October is full of salmon migrating upstream to spawn, and then immediately die.

But don’t be sad! All the kiddos that hatch from those eggs the old salmon blow up there also use the same locks to begin their life journey out to Puget Sound and beyond. As Elton John once said, “It’s the circle of life.”

Never pay for museum tickets. Since time immemorial, libraries have been giving out books for free so your broke ass doesn’t have to pay to get cultured. Seattle Public Library decided to one-up that tradition by handing out tickets to a million museums for free, as long as

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’ve never lost a game; I just ran out of time.”

Michael Jordan once said that about playing basketball. Trouble is, if you’re anything like me, the feeling is quite the opposite: I lost the game a long time ago, and there have been double-zeros on the clock for more years than I care to remember. And it’s sad, really; mostly because it doesn’t have to be this way. Many still chase athletic glory—adults who, despite daunting work, social, and family responsibilities, find interesting ways to feel the burn of competitive passion.

Here, as inspiration to all of us, are four examples of how they do it.

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The first thing one needs to understand about underwater hockey—other than that it actually exists—is that playing it requires a very particular skill.

“Underwater hockey is a breath-holding sport,” Patrick Carboneau, the founder of the Seahammers, Seattle’s underwater hockey club, says succinctly. And he should know; Carboneau’s been pushing a lead puck across the bottoms of pools with a curved little stick for more than 25 years. The team he started in Seattle has won three U.S. National Underwater Hockey Championships. Today, he says, the “club is thriving.”

But you don’t have to be a seasoned vet like Carboneau to join the Seahammers. Played by teams of three working to push the puck into the opponent’s goal—diving up and down for air and equipped with a snorkel, Speedos, and flippers— the Seahammers take nearly all comers. As long as you’re physically mature, a good swimmer, and over 16, Carboneau invites you to get in on the action. The Seahammers will even provide the equipment.

“Due to the nature of the water and the rules of the sport, women can compete well against men much larger than themselves,” Carboneau says. “The sport attracts adventurous, interesting people.” Who can hold their breath.

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Marked fisherfolk. those inspired fresh mountain air. Whose by mesmerizing vistas, over 400 miles flowylaughter. single track, perfect day ends with delicious food andofhearty This is world-class fly fishing, inspiring community events, concerts your place. Summer in Sun Valley. Where no matter what it is you andyou’ll so much seek, findmore. it here.It’s a destination so authentic and vivid, whatever it is you seek, you’ll find it here.

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Bocce

Of all the adult rec-league opportunities listed, bocce, at this point, is easily the most mainstream. That says something about the rediscovery of a game traditionally played by round white Italian men in light sweaters. These days, bars have bocce courts, Seattle has multiple leagues, and bocce players are everywhere.

Here’s the key to the revival: Bocce, which dates back to the Roman Empire and involves players or teams tossing eight bocce balls toward a pallino (or target) to see who comes closest, can be ridiculously fun. Played on a prime summer night, bocce provides the perfect combination of socialization and lazy competition. Anyone can play, and most everyone enjoys it. Underdog Seattle’s website promises “fun-loving spirit nights,” and if the photos are accurate, lots of ironic headbands and real smiles are to be expected.

Underdog Seattle’s sanctioned adult co-ed bocce leagues play at the Woodland Park Lawn Bowling Club in Greenlake, Wednesday and Thursday nights starting June 11. Sign-up information and more is available online at underdogseattle.com. Latesummer co-ed leagues kick off July 23.

Feminist Karate

Sensei Joanne Factor teaches karate exactly like you’d expect it to be taught.

Except, you know, it’s feminist karate.

“In a perfect world, feminist karate and karate would be identical,” Factor says of Seattle’s Feminist Karate Union, which dates back to a 1971 self-defense class for women taught at the UW. These days the school operates as a Central District nonprofit (“for women and children, taught

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» FROM PAGE 22 by women” ). “The world is not yet perfect,” Factor continues. “Women are still greatly underrepresented in karate schools.”

That’s where senseis like Factor and chief instructor Aleeta Van Petten, who’s been at the Feminist Karate Union since 1980, come in. And what their unique, supportive instruction ends up looking like is karate minus the misogyny.

Martial arts and self-defense training become a path to self-betterment—physically, spiritually, and emotionally. Factor’s online bio reveals that joining the Union helped her to develop “a new sort of awareness of connections between body and mind.”

“People join for a variety of reasons. Some want to work on the meditative aspect of training. Others are looking for a practice that includes a mind/body connection.”

“People join for a variety of reasons,” she says.

“Some want to work on the meditative aspect of training. Others are looking for a practice that includes a mind/body connection. Some want to learn self-defense, most want to get more fit. . . . We are providing a venue for women to more comfortably step forward and try a really cool activity.”

The Feminist Karate Union is offering a Karate 101 beginner’s program for women and teen girls (over age 13) beginning Thurs., July 10. Registration and price info is available online at feministkarateunion.org. Children can register for classes the first week of each month.

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Cornhole

As incredible as it may sound, a game many people know from Husky football tailgate parties can be an even bigger part of your life.

It’s called cornhole, and don’t take it lightly.

Let the American Cornhole Association provide a detailed description: “Cornhole or corn toss is similar to horseshoes except you use wooden boxes called cornhole platforms and corn bags instead of horseshoes and metal stakes. . . . It has been said that the game originated in Germany in the 14th century, and then was rediscovered in the hills of Kentucky over 100 years later.”

One can only imagine the excitement in the hills of Kentucky the day throwing a beanbag into a hole was “rediscovered.” And, locally, one can only imagine the excitement at Underdog Seattle headquarters when the outfit decided to add a cornhole league to its more traditional adult rec-league lineup of softball, flag football, bowling, and bocce. With spots in its five-week summer league filling fast, now’s the time for you to take cornhole to the next level in your life.

Starting June 19, Underdog Seattle’s co-ed summer cornhole league will meet Thursdays at Westlake Park. Each team is guaranteed two 30-minute matches per night for four weeks, with a playoff scheduled for week five. Team sign-ups and more information is available at seattleunderdog.com. E

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What I think I should go do [in the summer] and what I actually get to do are two different things, because I have to work so often this time of year. This summer is nice because I’m working on writing projects, so they don’t require me to be somewhere at a specific time. I just went camping at Shi Shi Beach in the northwest corner of the state. It’s so beautiful there, beach camping, and you literally feel like you are on the edge of the world. Also, my friend has a family place on the Yakima River, and a tradition we’ve started is to go out there and raft down the river.

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Similarly, with a book, the physical setting one chooses in which to savor the rich pleasures of an engaging read should not be underestimated. Being Ken Kesey illuminates stretched out by a trout Occidental Park. stream, for example, may enhance the raw power and brilliant simplicity of west on Route 66 toward more broken dreams in a Hemingway novel, just as sipping a mint julep California. on a sun-washed deck can surely augment the Like the deep blue Lake Crescent that shimliterary bliss of following the high-spirited Scarmers beneath the majestic Olympic mountains, lett O’Hara and the roguish Rhett Butler in Gone James Salter’s Light Years casts a spell. It is a With the Wind. You get the idea. hypnotic read, a moving reflection on marriage In hopes of raising to new heights the sheer and parenthood, solitude, and the beauty that enjoyment of your summer reading, we have surrounds us. And a cabin on Lake Crescent is paired some great books with suggested places to the place to spend a languorous day or two inhalbest experience them. ing Salter’s magic.

One must absorb the sights and sounds of While the epic tale of Captain Ahab’s voyage Pioneer Square’s Occidental Park in all its madin pursuit of a whale he calls Moby Dick is your cap splendor to fully appreciate Ken Kesey’s One literary ticket to a long ferry ride to the San Juans, consider a park bench under a shady tree outside Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and the irrepressthe King County Courthouse to celebrate that ible mental-hospital inmate Randle McMurphy heroic pillar of righteousness, the immortal attordoing battle with power-crazed Nurse Ratched. ney Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Big Nurse: “Mister McMurphy, the purpose of this meeting is therapy. Group therapy.” McMurA leisurely sun-swept afternoon on a beach at phy: “Yeah, yeah, the hell with that crap. The Alki Point, a bucket of pink champagne on ice at World Series is goin’ on right now and that’s the ready, is how we recommend you take in the therapy also!” sprawling house on prosperous Long Island, the If you find yourself heading for Deception endless party, and the big shot that is Roaring Pass, make sure to tuck a copy of Lord of the Twenties millionaire Jay Gatsby, whom we know, of course, as The Great Gatsby. “So we beat on, Flies into your picnic basket. This is the place— this gorgeous, unworldly strait that separates boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly Whidbey Island from Fidalgo Island—to focus into the past.” one’s full attention on the planeload of young There are a number of no-brainers on our list boys marooned on a tropical island, who, when as well. For instance, there are few better ways to forced to fend for themselves, became two warappreciate The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ring tribes. Poor Piggy. than in the back of a rowboat taking a slow float Closer to home, Queen Anne Avenue—pick down the Ship Canal while your partner does a coffee house of your choosing—is where you the paddling, just as The History of the Decline want to be to read Maria Semple’s darkly comeand Fall of the Roman Empire is best served at dic put-down of Seattle and its denizens. You Snoqualmie Falls, the Woodland Park Zoo is the see, the Bernadette in Where’d You Go, Bernaappropriate venue for Orwell’s Animal Farm, and Seattle Center’s International Fountain makes an dette? lives in a humongous, moldy Queen Anne ideal backdrop for Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. craftsman. Our favorite laugh-out-loud line, on Seattle drivers: “If someone is at a five-way As for Jack Kerouac’s culture-changing On stoplight and, growing old while they’re waiting the Road, a book that Time magazine editor-atfor the lights to cycle through, and finally, finally large Richard Lacayo once called “the book that it’s time to go, you know what they do? They launched a thousand trips,” gas up the jalopy, start, then put on their brakes in the middle of round up some buddies, and hit the road. Jack. the intersection. You’re hoping they lost a half a And with your dog-eared copy of this hyperkisandwich under their seat and are digging for it, netic tapestry of a novel, starring Benzedrinebut no. They’re just slowing down because, hey, it fueled Dean Moriarty, head on up to the North is an intersection.” Don’t spill your latte.

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While chefs are known to favor the hot line, hearty chilled plates from appetizers to entrées can be found beyond the raw bar. As temperatures rise outdoors, a few summer dishes at local restaurants evade the flame, and stand as great options to fill up on and eat well on the toastiest days.

Cold noodles are popular at London Plane’s lamb.

U:Don (4515 University Way N.E.), a Japanese noodle station where that enjoying udon cold is the ideal way to savor the options are plentiful and the noodles made its texture and flavors. When putting this theory from scratch. Among the cold offerings, the to the test, be prepared to slurp. oroshi udon—served with a dashi-shoyu broth and topped with grated daikon, fresh grated London Plane (300 Occidental Ave. S.) ginger, sliced green onions, and a lemon wedge is the Pioneer Square stop where customers for squeezing—is cooling, zingy, and savory. can pick up prepared salads, spreads, freshly Grab a tray, select your items, and walk to the baked breads, and food items to go, along with end of the counter to place your order. While a selection of flowers, artful housewares, and waiting, watch noodles being made quickly cookbooks. But after its expansion and buildand deliberate over additional toppings or an out, the larger London Plane (sister restaurant accompanying onigiri (rice ball). Many believe to neighboring wine bar the Little London

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Plane), with a kitchen and food space, is ideal for a quiet sit-down lunch. The obvious choice is the leg of lamb, sliced to order and served with tzatziki. Choose also from unique spreads, like beet hummus or a caramelized cauliflower, caper, and anchovy spread. A tasting of all the spreads comes with bread and crackers. Here, portions are sold by weight, and one can choose to try more or less of one item, though deciding will not prove easy.

Before cracking open the menu at Bellevue’s Sichuan restaurant Spiced (1299 156th Ave. N.E., #135, Bellevue), visit the deli case and pick from an array of cold cuts, including thinly sliced pig ears, chicken gizzards, and pork tongue piled generously high. If these chilled options seem too adventurous for starters, stick to the tangy vinegar marinated cucumbers, or the shredded potato salad with chilies that will give its mashed, butter-rich counterpart a run for its money. Starting a meal cold at Spiced whets the palate for subsequent heat-packed dishes, like chili-laced hot pots or water-boiled fish (in which, despite its name, chili oil takes the place of water).

Brimmer & Heeltap (425 N.W. Market St.) opened in the former Le Gourmand space early this year, introducing a fresh approach to neighborhood bistros: comfort food made light and creative, with a lean toward the unexpected from chef Mike Whisenhunt. Brimmer & Heeltap’s chilled Dungeness crab trifle has Dungeness crab meat set in a flavored gelatin with pickled leeks and chives, and is layered with toasted brioche soaked in refreshing gin-

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Seattle chefs suggest perfect picnic pick-ups.

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uring the summer months, trying to snag a perfect outdoor spot at a restaurant (with water views, preferably) can be one big headache.

So instead of fighting your city brethren for a sunny seat, pack your own picnic. With all the great food retailers and some of our favorite restaurants’ housemade products, you can take fine summer dining anywhere. No lines, no reservations, no hassle—just pick the place and set out your righteous spread.

We’ve helped you do the work by asking local chefs to create baskets for a variety of occasions.

Follow these suggestions, or cherry-pick ideas. If a specific place to buy items is not called out, go to your favorite local grocery or specialty store.

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From Zoi Antonitsas, executive chef at Westward. Who better than the chef who presides over one of Seattle’s best seafood spots—view included— to weigh in on this basket?

• Fried chicken.

• A loaf of Columbia City Bread fresh from Columbia City Bakery [editor’s note: I like their walnut levain].

• A wheel of Dinah’s Cheese (this Vashon Island Kurtwood Farms cheese is available all over the city, in places like DeLaurenti, Metropolitan Market, PCC Natural Markets, and Whole Foods).

• Fried chickpeas (at Westward, they fry theirs with chiles, fenugreek, and sea salt).

• Smoked clam dip and potato chips (dip and chips available at Westward’s sister grocery, Little Gull, or check out local seafood shops).

• A couple cans of Matiz sardines.

• Wine: Triennes Rosé, Greek asyrtiko, and txakoli are all delicious and perfect for a day outside.

• Coconut water.

• Iced coffee.

“The day before I’d go to Ezell’s and get some fried chicken and refrigerate it overnight. Cold fried chicken is a must for me in a picnic basket (don’t forget the hot sauce!). From the grocery store, [get] coconut water, a big bottle of Talking Rain bubbly water, bunched radishes, and seasonal fruit (cherries, stone fruit, etc). From home: strong iced coffee with cream and sugar. I make it the day before, freeze it in a big Mason jar (not too full as it will expand!), and then pack it in the cooler. Stays cold all day.” —Zoi Antonitsas

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From Joe Rieke at Ballard Annex Oyster House.

It seemed right to go to a restaurant with the most well-known aphrodisiac in its name for our romantic basket. Here’s what Rieke suggests for lovers in the wild: • I hit up the deli section, hard [no pun intended, thinks editor]: olives, pickles, artichokes—basically just build an antipasti at the olive bar; even the lower-end grocery stores have these now. Pair that with a couple strong cheeses like a Stilton or a Humboldt fog, spreadable types.

• Get a crusty baguette, a jar of stone-ground mustard, and a couple apples and make yourself tiny sandwiches.

• As far as meat, smoked salmon is king. It’s strong, flavorful, and you don’t have to really keep it cold; it’s not going to get weird if it gets too warm. Either that or grab a rotisserie chicken, some olive oil, and a lemon, and steal a couple salt and pepper packets from the deli condiment section. Pull and dress your chicken as needed, and make and feed your partner little bites.

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Notes on Drinkin’ and Smokin’ Notes on Drinkin’ and Smokin’ If your picnic plans involve alcohol and/or pot, you’ll need to be conscious of park rangers and police officers, obviously, since both substances are illegal to consume in public. For pot, a citation structure was recently put in place in Washington: A first offense gets a warning, a second allows police to fine you $27 (which is probably less than the cost of all those yummy treats in your picnic basket). While Sgt. Sean Whitcomb of the Seattle Police Department’s Public Affairs Unit says “It’s not a first-time-free kind of deal,” he adds that “There’s no ticket-writing campaign” and “The spirit of the law is voluntary compliance. That’s what we’re after, and if there’s an opportunity for leniency, that’s preferred.” How do the officers know if you’re a first-time offender or not? There’s no database, so it’s up to them (who patrol mainly on foot and bike) to remember who’s who in their patrol areas. E

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• Quinoa tabouli salad with cherry tomatoes, cucumber, garbanzo beans, and mint.

• Tomme-style cheese and a baguette from The Calf & Kid. • Fresh seasonal fruit from the Columbia City farmers market (Wednesday) or from any other local farmers markets; my go-to is peaches and cherries.

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“My ‘getting some’ picnic is all about the snacks. A picnic is an investment in time, otherwise you’re just eating sandwiches on a bench.

The most important thing I find is a good picnic knife—something large, rustic, and not easily wielded. I’ve got a stout Finnish seal-skinning knife someone gave me years ago that I use as a utility knife at work and keep on my person most of the time. There is something pleasant about slicing yourself an apple and smearing some cheese with what is most definitively the wrong tool. Eat off the bags your food came in, and feel free to swig from the bottle if you need to.

A picnic should be a little unsophisticated, and ‘roughing’ it a little bit definitely lends a hand to the pastoral mood.” —Joe Rieke

“I make a quinoa tabouli packed full of cherry tomatoes, cucumber, garbanzo beans, and mint—I’d either whip up a batch at home or grab some from the cafe before heading to Melrose Market to get some hard tomme-style cheese and a baguette from The Calf & Kid. I’ve always got a kitchen full of summer fruit (my favorites are cherries and peaches) from whichever farmers market I’ve made it to that week (Columbia City, Madrona, and Broadway are my go-to’s), so I’d add some ripe fruit in for a healthy dessert. Lastly, some whole-grain granola bars from VPC to give us a last bit of energy for the bike home, and some Rachel’s Ginger Beer to keep us hydrated!” —Ericka Burke E

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Today it’s one of the two and a half functioning songs on Mark Davison’s “Nichols Electronics” music box, mounted on the dashboard of his 1977 DJ-5 ice-cream truck.

“We’ve got ‘Greensleeves,’ ‘Home on the Range,’ and this thing,” he says. A shrill four-second loop of broken carnival music starts repeating over and over. “Pretty terrible, right?” Davison says, quickly switching it back to “Greensleeves.”

As the tune’s pleasant Elizabethan whimsy returns, 40 yards away we spot an adorable child on a bicycle. The clarion call of icy goodness resonating from our truck suddenly registers in the child’s brain. His bike rolls to a complete stop.

Paralyzed, the child stares back.

“Hello, there!” Davison waves at the child in his upbeat, cartoonish voice.

In a fit of passion, the child suddenly tosses his bicycle to the ground, runs across the street, and pounds on the door of his home, screaming for the deliverance of his mother and three crisp dollar bills.

“It’s funny,” Davison says. “Kids on bikes always decide to dump them and go on foot when they see me. You’d think it’d be faster to ride home to get money.”

Davison, a kind-faced, white-bearded man with a hearty chuckle, has collected an impressive catalog of astute observations on the psychology of children and their families over the six summers he’s operated Chillz, his Kirkland-based ice-cream-truck empire (he owns other trucks and several stands) with the motto “Be Safe, Have Fun, Eat Ice Cream.”

“If kids don’t know anything, they get Spongebob,” he says, gesturing to one of the four Pop-

sicle varieties printed on his yellow shirt. “The flavor is terrible; Spider Man is a bit better. Older folks usually get fudge pops. If dads ever get anything, without fail it’s the Snickers bar. Teenage boys tend to get Choco Tacos—they think the name is funny or something. Little girls like watermelon pops. When it’s cooler outside, people like ice cream more—when it’s warmer out, they tend to go for popsicles,” Davison says.

“Kids on bikes always decide to dump them and go on foot when they see me. You’d think it’d be faster to ride home to get money.”

This man’s life w ork is making children very happy. A year after getting into the summer icecream-truck business, Davison also tacked on the coveted and lucrative title of “Mall Santa.” Children, recognizing Davison’s jolly facial features, often ask him if he’s Santa. “Now do you think Santa would actually leave the North Pole in the summer to go around selling ice cream?” he always tells them.

Beneath the jingles and cute clamoring children, the ice-cream-truck business can get deceptively intense. Fighting for turf is a real struggle—other ice-cream men we reached out to for this piece refused a ride-along, fearing we would disclose their routes to parasitic, enterprising imposters.

One day, Davison discovered that a man with a nearly identical ice-cream truck had “bombed” a popular apartment complex on his well-established Kirkland neighborhood route. The children mistook the imposter for one of Davison’s drivers, and ran out in droves. They were quickly

disheartened that the man was charging dollars more than Davison, and only stocked about half of the items advertised on his truck.

“I call them ‘ice-cream gypsies,’ ” Davison says. “They come and steal the kids from the best spots on your routes, and disappoint them with their price-gouging. When I came back to the apartment complex, the kids and their parents were all mad at me for raising prices! I had to convince them that this guy wasn’t [one of my guys].”

Kids know Davison. They know exactly what time he will drive by their homes, and talk to him like a family member.

“One of the most interesting parts of driving the same route for six years is seeing things change,” Davison says. “I’ve seen so much development in these neighborhoods, so many families come and go. I’ve known some of these kids since I started the job. It’s incredible to watch them grow up.”

We pull up to one house where the whole family—Mom, Dad, and two brothers—are waiting at the front of their driveway with money in hand. Davison tells me he’s been delivering ice cream to the younger boy since he was born. Today he is wearing two plastic 12th Man necklaces.

“Hello, there!” Davison waves. “Well, look at that—are you the 12th Man? Or, well, you’ve got two—looks like you’re the 24th Man!” “Um, I’m actually 6½ years old,” the boy says.

“Who is that in the back with you?”

“We’ve got a reporter following me today to find out what it’s like to be the ice-cream man,” Davison says.

“One day I want to be the ice-cream man like you,” the boy tells Davison. “I just got a Jeep like yours, except it’s small and kid-sized so I don’t think I can fit any ice cream in it yet.” E

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Here in the Pacific Northwest, summer’s clear skies provide ample opportunity to see the cosmos with very little expertise and only the most basic equipment. As a matter of fact, you can grab a decent set of binoculars at a yard sale or on Craigslist for $20–$30 and go gazing. But where offers the best possible view?

Rumor has it one of the best locations in the state to view space is near Neah Bay on Hobuck Public Beach in the Makah Indian Reservation. Directly to the south you could also camp out on Shi Shi Beach for a magnificent show, but those locations will take more than a couple hours to reach. For a great spot a little closer to home, check out Lake Goodwin in Marysville.

Street lights are the urban stargazer’s biggest problem. But there are still places within the city limits where basic constellations are visible, and on clear nights, the galaxy. The key is to find spots that naturally block the bright lights of the big city. The parking lot of the dog park in Magnuson is just such a spot; trees block lights on one side and the hill blocks them from the other.

The stargazer also benefits from diligence.

Identifying all kinds of celestial bodies gets easier and easier the more sessions spent outside. A pro tip: If extended gazing is the plan, buy a blow-up raft with armrests. Now lying in a field or in the backyard all night searching the sky with binoculars won’t result in achy arms.

Enjoying the stars doesn’t have to be a solo experience; there are several groups to join, including the Seattle Astronomical Society, the Boeing Employees Astronomical Society, and the Friends of Galileo Astronomy Club, where wellversed enthusiasts can explain everything there is to know about gazing. If those groups seem a little intimidating, you can instead join “Nerds Night Out,” the members of which considers themselves “Seattle’s urban guerilla astronomers.”

There’s even an opportunity to combine music and astronomy on July 24–26 at Artist Home’s Timber Music Festival in Tolt-McDonald Park (another fabulous place for star-searching all summer long), where UW astronomy professor Dr. Oliver Frasier will lead a gazing event on the mainstage field. Long after the music has ended, the bands will cede the stage to the real stars: the stars. E

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ow can a ridiculously “busy” and overstimulated life be combated? Stand still, look up, and marvel at the night sky. It’s so easy to lose sight of how humankind fits into the bigger picture, the Earth just a tiny speck among billions of other objects.

Here in the city, Seattle’s light pollution tends to mask the beauty that lies in that inky blackness above, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to see.

It’s easy to wax poetic about the night sky, because stargazing is a poetic thing. It’s a crime how little most know about the space we live in, and even worse, how little people take note of it.

During the Northridge blackout in L.A. in ’94, local observatories and emergency response were inundated by calls from residents who could see a strange silvery cloud in the sky. Some were worried the cloud had caused the blackouts; turns out it was the Milky Way.

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Fantasy Unlimited

Make your Game of Thrones dream come true. Join the Ren Faire.

Renaissance faires are also benefiting from the ever-increasing “geek chic” phenomenon.

As Forsyth points out, “The stigma of dorkiness that used to be attached to faires has become somewhat a thing of the past,” adding that the attendees are a diverse group. Yet Hague notes that while public awareness of fantasy worlds has increased, many people still “don’t know that there’s probably one right in their backyard and further, all over the Pacific Northwest!” But not to fret—it’s never too late to join in on the fun.

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likes to “mix in a few curves,” noting that GWF has a few “Roman soldiers who got caught in an elf ’s spell and are stuck in Elizabeth’s court.”

Fantasy elements like elves and fairies, and modern technology, were once frowned upon, but over time have been welcomed. Longtime faire performer and vendor Ammie Hague, aka Fairy

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Princess Lolly, points out that although some faires can be “very persnickety” about the color of a vendor or performer’s garb (clothing colors were tied to class) “or if your breeches have a zipper,” nowadays they are primarily concerned with putting on a terrific performance, which sometimes includes ahistorical flaming lances. In the end, faires want to offer attendees a great experience, and if that means adding a bit of fairy dust, so be it.

This open attitude creates a more inviting and inclusive atmosphere for those who were turned off by the old puritanism or who might be new to the scene—especially new fantasy fans who became ren-curious after getting sucked into popular fantasy culture like Lord of the Rings or GOT. Amy Forsyth, Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire’s entertainment and creative director, has noticed an increase in attendance paralleling the increasing popularity of fantasy pop culture. She adds that it’s fun to see children dressed up as characters “excited to interact with our cast and crew” and that “it’s great to see them engaging in active entertainment and play, rather than just passive entertainment like television.”

Ren and Where

The Bonney Lake Fantasy Faire, Bonney Lake, Wash., bonneylakefantasyfaire.com. June 21–22.

Ye Merrie Greenwood Faire, Richland, Wash., yemerriegreenwoodfaire.org. June 28–29.

Northwest Renaissance Festival, Nine Miles Falls, Wash., nwrf.net. July 5–27.

Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire,

Bonney Lake, Wash., washingtonfaire.com. Sat.– Sun., Aug. 2–17.

The Spokane Renaissance Faire, Spokane, theguild2010.org/spokanerenaissancefaire.html.

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Camlann Medieval Village, Carnation, Wash., camlann.org. Sat.–Sun., May–Sept.

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veryone seems to be in love with fantasy these days. Nerd and pop-culture fiends alike are glued to their TV’s, watching the Lannister/Stark/Tyrell drama unfold on Game of Thrones. Social media is filled with pop quizzes asking “Which House/ Character Are You?” There are sites devoted to GOT costume porn, highlighting the intricate details of each costume, as well as the occasional “authentic” GOT recipe and menu plan.

It’s fun to watch the drama unfold on TV and exclaim your fandom online, but you can do better—you can actually spend a day in a fantasy realm. Imagine immersing yourself in a world filled with knightly duels, beautiful costumes, town gossip, and high nobility, all just a car ride away. I’m talking, of course, about the renaissance faire.

Washington’s not-so-secret nerd culture has thrived for generations, yet the geeky haven of the renaissance faire is an area left unexplored by many. Long before the comic-cons and tech startups, Washington’s ren-faire culture offered fantasy geeks a place to connect.

Washington’s first renaissance faire, Ye Merrie Greenwood Faire (GWF), was founded by Californian transplant Marjorie Kunigisky and fellow ren-faire fan Dick Bagwell. Kunigisky caught the bug in the 1970s after attending the Renaissance Pleasure Faire in Agoura, Calif., the very first in the U.S. However, after moving to Washington, she quickly discovered that she had to travel to Southern California for a dose of ren culture, since the Northwest offered nothing like it. In 1979, Kunigisky started planning with the help of friends, family, and fellow faire lovers; in 1986, GWF was formed and has been thriving ever since, along with an ever-growing ren-faire culture that blooms in the summer months.

Over the years, more festivals have popped up around the Northwest, seven in Washington alone—and that’s not counting the pirate festivals. Kunigisky tells me there’s “interbreeding” between the fantasy and pirate communities, so the two often overlap at festivals. This mixture has helped bring new life to the renaissance scene. Although Kunigisky says she likes to keep GWF “as close to the 1580s as possible,” she also

For first-time attendees, the veterans have a few wise tips. One, bring water. You’re going to be outside in the beautiful summer weather, so make sure you stay hydrated between goblets of mead. Two, wear sunblock. Yes, we like to soak up those rare rays when we can, but our days of darkness often mean we’re easy to burn. Three, enjoy yourself. As Kunigisky and Forsyth both affirm, take your time, soak up the atmosphere, and don’t be afraid to join in. You can toast, with turkey leg and mead in hand, your beloved GOT characters who have passed, and relish the fact that you can drink and be merrie safely in the confines of our own fantasy realm, where Martin can’t hurt you. E

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going strong. The Neptune, stgpresents.org • 12 The Parlor Live The comedy club, originally established at Lincoln Square, opens a second venue on our side of the lake. Appearing through Saturday, TV comic Kivi Rogers helps celebrate the grand opening at 1522 Sixth Ave. (between Pike and Pine). The Parlor Live, parlor

June • 11 The Milk Carton Kids The Grammy-

nominated duo continues to mine folk-rock traditions. With Tom Brosseau. The Neptune,

stgpresents.org 11–12 Mariners vs. Yankees Come boo the pinstriped millionaires! Safeco Field, seattle. mariners.mlb.com 11–15 Wynne Greenwood: Notes on Tracy + The Plastics This queer feminist artist presents

a video archive from a past multimedia project in which she performed as all three members of an electro-punk band using video projections of herself. Henry Art Gallery, henryart.org • 11–29 Passing Strange The Tony-winning 2006 autobiographical rock musical by Stew, about a black musician finding his identity in Europe, gets a local staging. LeRoy Bell from The X Factor stars. ACT Theatre, acttheatre.org

live.com 13 Next Step A celebration of new talent and

works choreographed by Pacific Northwest Ballet company dancers. McCaw Hall, pnb.org • 13 Ida Fresh from the festival, this black-andwhite drama is set in ’60s Poland, when the recent effects of war—and feelings about the Jews—are still strongly felt. Made by the Anglo-Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski (Last Resort, My Summer of Love). SIFF Cinema Uptown, siff.net 13 The Low Cost of “Good Jobs” The Good Jobs Strategy’s authors Zeynep Ton and Richard Galanti discuss how Americans don’t have to make less than a living wage. Town Hall, town

Lyle Lovett brings his Large band to Woodinville on July 18.

• 11–July 13 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon’s comic-book-

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themed novel is dramatized; we’ll review it next week. Book-It Repertory Theatre, book-it.org 11–Sept. 21 When Sparks Fly Mad science meets culinary excess in TZZ’s latest cabaret show. Teatro ZinZanni, zinzanni.com 12 Justin Hayward Musician, songwriter, and former guitarist for the Moody Blues, he’s still

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13 Allen Stone From Chewelah, Wash., this

musician describes himself as a “hippie with soul.” Chateau Ste. Michelle, ste-michelle.com 13 How to Train Your Dragon 2 Hiccup and his friends return as young adults, facing new dragons and challenges. Opens wide 13 22 Jump Street Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill go undercover at college. Opens wide 13–14 Mecum Collector Car Auction Over 600 vehicles, hubcaps shined. CenturyLink Field,

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games, carnival attractions, shopping, sideshows, food, and music. Plus those fabulous power-tool races. Georgetown, georgetowncarnival.com 14 Petrushka Olympic Ballet Theater visits from Edmonds to perform this classical favorite.

Benaroya Hall, olympicballet.com 14–15 Black Arts Festival Food, live music,

and workshops in dance and traditional drumming. Seattle Center, festivalsundiata.org • 14–Sept. 21 The Unicorn Incorporated

Curtis R. Barnes will attend the opening of this show, representing six decades (!) of work from the local artist and activist. Running concurrently is Your Feast Has Ended: Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, Nicholas Galanin, and Nep Sidhu. All three artists, born in the ’70s, will be in attendance. AlleyBarnes is a local; Galanin is Tlingit Alaskan; and Sihu hails from the U.K. Frye Art Museum, fryemuseum.org 14–Oct. 31 You Are Hear Local sound artist/

seattleartmuseum.org 15 Michael Bolton C’mon, give the man a

chance. He’s paid his dues and mocked himself on SNL. Here’s hoping he sings “Captain Jack Sparrow.” Snoqualmie Casino, snocasino.com 16 Daniel Drezner He’ll discuss The System Worked: How the World Stopped Another Great Depression. Town Hall 16 Swing Time Cascadia Big Band and Sandbox Radio perform a ’40s-style omnibus radio broadcast. ACT Theatre • 16–July 24 National Theatre Live SIFF’s popular stage broadcasts, streamed in HD, actually begin with the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Henry IV, Part 1. Continuing through the summer are King Lear, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Henry IV, Part 2 (again from the RSC), and A Small Family Business.

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ing from the 1990s avant-garde jazz scene in New York, the groove-heavy trio is augmented

by John Scofield. Woodland Park Zoo, zoo.org/ zootunes 18 Community Idea Lab Five experts offer

tech-based solutions to create a better city, and audience members will vote on the winning idea. The roster of panelists isn’t final, but will include Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, Maud Daudon of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, and GeekWire’s John Cook. Town Hall 18 Alex Tizon The former Seattle Times-man returns to town with his Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self. Elliott Bay Book Co., elliott

baybook.com 19 Karen Finneyfrock Her new YA novel is Starbird Murphy and the World Outside. Richard Hugo House, hugohouse.org 19 & 21 Seattle Symphony Musically, Stravin-

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Riccardo Tesi & Banditaliana Banda Kakana • Eliza Gilkyson Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar Josh White Jr. • Howlin’ Brothers and many more!

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sky’s first pathbreaking ballet scores—The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring—form a grand gateway into the 20th century. Benaroya

Hall, seattlesymphony.org • 19–22 Maceo Parker The legendary sax player

made his bones working with James Brown and Parliament. Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley

• 19–Sept. 7 Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: The Mythic and the Mystical SAM goes

totally native with this showcase of postwar pioneers Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson. Seattle Art Museum,

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polymath Trimpin creates a long-term installation, which includes headphones and listening stations. While at the OSP, also visit Sol LeWitt’s Seven Cubes With Color Ink Washes Superimposed up in the PACCAR Pavilion (on view until next spring). Olympic Sculpture Park,

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concerts.com 17 Aneesh Chopra: Fostering Open Government A discussion on moving toward a more “tech-savvy” government. Town Hall 17–18 Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo The renowned guitarists perform together. Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley • 18 Medeski, Scofield, Martin, & Wood Hail-

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festival and smarting that your must-see titles were sold out? Here’s your second chance. Final schedule still pending. SIFF Cinema Uptown 13–15 Boney James This saxophonist will serenade you with contemporary jazz. Dimitriou’s

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h. Another year, another national boxing match over whether or not it’s OK to co-opt Native American culture and imagery (short answer: It’s not).

While most of this year’s action occurred in the other Washington (with continued furor over the Redskins football mascot) and down in Oklahoma (where the governor’s daughter posing in a native headdress damn near caused the Flaming Lips to Seafair Indian Days Pow Wow break up), in our neck of the woods there were—as always—a few incidents Powwows as they exist now are relatively of tribal garb worn by some very white people at new. While Native American cultures go back Sasquatch!, and there’s no telling what kind of millennia, Roberts says powwows as they exist nonsense the Paradiso Festival will produce. today began to take form within the last 100 But there is good news amid all this chicanery. years, and incorporate traditions from tribes You, as soon as next weekend, can both revel in across the country. The dances, for example, are the awesomeness that is American Indian culture borrowed from tribes from Canada to Oklaand respect it at the same time. How, you ask? By homa. “Seattle to Florida, you’ll pretty much see going to a powwow! Summer is powwow season, the same format,” Roberts says. and it’s already well underway across WashingDon’t call traditional outfits “costumes.” The ton. Seattle Weekly got together with Pendleton, traditional garb worn by dancers and drummers Oregon’s Jim Roberts, a member of the Standing is a “costume” to the same extent that what a Rock Sioux tribe and the founder of powwowsoldier wears when he goes off to war is a “costime.com, to give newbies a rundown on what tume.” “Regalia” is the preferred term of many powwows are all about and how they can make Native Americans. the most of their visit.

Be a good guest. While everyone is welcome to a powwow, there are basic courtesies to show Powwows aren’t religious. In most Native the hosts, just as if you were a guest in someAmerican cultures, everything is considered one’s home. Follow customs, stand when the sacred. However, powwows themselves generally crowd is asked to stand, and don’t put feathers aren’t spiritual ceremonies. “Powwows are more on your head and dance around. “If [visitors] or less a secular tradition,” Roberts says. “It’s not start to put on some of the regalia themselves, like you’re coming to a sun dance.” Sacred gathit’s like a black person seeing a white person erings like sun dances aren’t open to the public, put on minstrel [wear],” Roberts says. “You but folks should not feel as if they’re crashing wouldn’t go around Mexican people yelling the party when they attend a powwow. “Anyone ‘Arriba! Arriba!’ ” Roberts says that if you go coming to a powwow is welcome to be there,” to the same powwow long enough and get to Roberts says. know people, you may find yourself invited to Powwows are celebrations. Many powwows participate in some dances, but in that respect are held to honor a specific event or group. For patience is a virtue. example, on June 20–22 the Muckleshoot Tribe will host a powwow honoring veterans, and in Eat lots of frybread. Frybread is the staple July a powwow encouraging sobriety. Beyond of the powwow diet. While often you have the that, they are a time for friends and family to option to make it a full-on “Indian Taco” with get together and enjoy each other’s company. ground beef and lettuce, for my money a piece of Powwows “are a good doorway to see what we frybread with a healthy dose of honey and powdo when we relax,” Roberts says. “It’s a social dered sugar is about as good as it gets. gathering for us.”

Powwows are competitions. Although there Some Nearby Powwows are “traditional” powwows that don’t include (by no means comprehensive!) prize money, most powwows feature men and Muckleshoot Veteran’s Powwow, June women competing for purses that can get quite 20–22, Muckleshoot Powwow Grounds, Auburn. hefty at large gatherings. There are many difFree. muckleshoot.nsn.us/community/muckleferent kinds of dances, but the grass dance and shoot-powwow.aspx fancy dance tend to be the most popular. Still, Seafair Pow Wow, July 18–20, Daybreak Star each style has its own allure, and are almost Indian Cultural Center, Seattle. Free on Fri., $5 always accompanied by live drummers and singSat.–Sun. unitedindians.org/powwow ers. Not to be missed are the grand entries of the Stillaguamish Tribe’s Festival of the River and powwows, when all the dancers parade into the Powwow, Aug. 9–10, River Meadows County arena for a spectacular show. “Grand entries tend Park, Arlington. Free. festivaloftheriver.com E to be fairly majestic,” Roberts says. music@seattleweekly.com

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filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky was recently celebrated in the documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune.

His bizarre, early-’70s creations El Topo and The Holy Mountain just played the GI. And now at age 85, he takes another journey into the cinematic realm of his imagination. Grand Illusion, grandillusioncinema.org 21 Savannah Fuentes Flamenco Her local

company is touring the Northwest with a fullblooded, foot-stomping program called La Luna Nueva. UW Ethnic Cultural Center, savannah fuentes.com • 21 Kevin Smith The director of Clerks and

other slacker film favorites, Smith is also a witty and ever-opinionated host of podcasts, and an intrepid blogger. Tonight he joins Edumacation Andy in a comic consideration of all things science. That show follows his appearance with Jason Mewes, reprising their Jay and Silent Bob characters (same venue, earlier show time).

The Triple Door, thetripledoor.net • 21 Seattle7Writers Book Club Brunch Here’s

a chance to meet and mingle with a gaggle of prominent local scribes: Daniel James Brown (The Boys in the Boat), Garth Stein, Erica Bauermeister, Carol Cassella, Megan Chance, Laurie Frankel, Kristin Hannah, Jennie Shortridge, Rebecca Wells, and Susan Wiggs. Mount Baker

Community Club, Seattle7Writers.org 21 Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon Don’t worry, there’s

also a half if you feel like running only 13.1 miles. With inspirational oldies from the Presidents of the United States of America and Sir Mix-A-Lot. Beware the traffic snarls. Seattle

Center, runrocknroll.competitor.com/seattle • 21–22 There Once Was a Man Ricki Mason,

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23–25 Mariners vs. Red Sox More reasons to hate Boston. Safeco Field 24 Indigo Girls This folk-rock duo formed in 1985, but the two met in elementary school!

Benaroya Hall 24 Gavin DeGraw We don’t want him to be

anything other than what he’s been trying to be lately. With Matt Nathanson and Mary Lambert. Marymoor Park, marymoorconcerts.com 24 Rodney Crowell In April, the veteran country songwriter released Tarpaper Sky, a collection backed by the band of his biggest commercial success, 1988’s Diamonds and Dirt. The Triple Door 24 Worse Than Tigers An unhappy couple must face themselves, and a man-eating tiger, in this staged reading of Mark Chrisler’s play-inprogress. ACT Theatre 24 Town Music The Joshua Roman-curated concert series presents soprano Mary Mackenzie performing music by Schoenberg and Roman himself. Town Hall • 24–July 30 The Magnificent Andersons This Tuesday/Wednesday series salutes the unlikely duo of Wes Anderson and Paul Thomas Anderson. Twelve titles include Boogie Nights and The Royal Tenenbaums. SIFF Film Center • 25 DEVO Dedicated to the memory of original member Robert Casale, this is a rare chance to see the group perform Hardcore Devo, the group’s experimental music created from 1974–77. The Neptune 25 Lily King Her new novel, Euphoria, is set in New Guinea. Elliott Bay Book Co. 25 Gauthier, Gilkyson, Miles—Three Women & the Truth Tour Three highly accomplished

singer/songwriters—Mary Gauthier, Lynn Miles, and Eliza Gilkyson—team up to tell it like it is.

aka Lou Henry Hoover, puts a personal spin on the image of men in current society with this new work. Lou is a husband, a father, and apparently also a cockroach, perhaps doing time as Gregor Samsa. SK Re-bar, kittenandlou.com • 22 Merle Haggard The legendary country outlaw, master of the Bakersfield sound, enjoys top-shelf support from Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell. We’re not really sure who’s heading the bill, and it hardly matters. Buy your tickets early. Chateau Ste. Michelle 22 Alexi Zentner & Jennifer Murphy Their new novels are, respectively, The Lobster Kings and I Love You More. Urban Waite (The Carrion Birds) will also give a preview from his next novel, to be published in October. Richard Hugo

The Triple Door 25–28 Serious Play: The 18th Seattle International Festival of Improv Troupes from as far

going strong, pulling no punches, and taking no prisoners. Snoqualmie Casino

the headliner is anyone’s guess; these two Texasborn songwriters are equally humorous and ver-

House • 22 Joan Rivers The comedy legend is still

afield as Hungary and Japan gather to make it up as they go along. Unexpected Productions’

Market Theater, unexpectedproductions.org 26 The Wicker Man No, not the Nicolas Cage

remake (“Not the bees!”), but the 1973 Brithorror original, with Scottish pagans and naked fertility rituals. Ark Lodge Cinemas, arklodge

cinemas.com • 26 Bobcat Goldthwait He appears with his

new Sasquatch-hunting movie, Willow Creek, and the Robin Williams-starring satire World’s Greatest Dad (2009), an underrated black comedy that also played the festival. SIFF Cinema

Uptown • 26-27 Bob Schneider and Hayes Carll Who’s

satile. The Triple Door

• 26–July 26 Fabrice Monteiro The photographer specializes in joyous beach scenes from all over the globe in Gorean Summer. M.I.A Gallery,

m-i-a-gallery.com 26 Ethan Bortnick: The Power of Music With

special guest Damian McGinty and featuring the Seattle Girls’ Choir. The Neptune 26 Robyn is (still) here. With Röyksopp.

Marymoor Park • 26 Tom Robbins His pseudo-memoir is

Tibetan Peach Pie. See page 59 for Roger Downey’s take on the erstwhile SW contributor and author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Town Hall 26 Yukari Iwatani Kane He’ll discuss his new Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs. Town Hall 26 Yngwie Malmsteen He sure does play a lot of notes, really fast, on his guitar. With Bumblefoot, Uli Jon Roth, Gary Hoey Gary, Douglas Band, TD Clarke. Showbox 26–29 Brian McKnight Still as sexy and sultry as he was in the ’90s. Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley 27 Transformers 4: Age of Extinction More giant car-robots, or whatever they are, this time sharing the screen with Mark Wahlberg.

(Really?) Opens wide • 27 Los Angeles Ballet Led by former PNB dancers Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary, the company is bringing a pair of works: August Bournonville’s romantic-era classic La Sylphide and George Balanchine’s neoclassical masterwork Serenade. Made around 100 years apart, they are both landmark works of their moment and excellent examples of their styles. SK McCaw

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival

The Vogue Series

Hall, ticketmaster.com 27 Michael Franti & Spearhead swing through

Redmond on The Soulshine Tour. With SOJA, Brett Dennen, Trevor Hall. Marymoor Park • 27–28 Seattle Symphony Excerpts from Danny Elfman’s moody, off-kilter film scores (Edward Scissorhands, etc.) enhanced by visuals from director Tim Burton’s original artwork.

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Benaroya Hall, seattlesymphony.org 27–28 Paradiso Festival Bassnectar, Zedd,

Tue. June 24

Above & Beyond, Krewella, and a host of others promise to “transform the environment” with their trancey EDM. Just, please, forget the Molly this year. Gorge Amphitheatre, paradiso festival.com 27–July 3 Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case The Chi-

nese dissident and artist is profiled in the second such documentary in recent years. Northwest

Film Forum 28 Town Green Day of Service: Just Garden Project Volunteers work to bring new life to low-

Showbox • 28 Cher If only this was the Girls Just

Wanna Have Fun tour. The Goddess of Pop returns with special guest Cyndi Lauper.

KeyArena, keyarena.com 28 Vans Warped Tour This annual hard-rock

fest features Watsky, Bayside, Mayday Parade, 3OH!3, The Maine, and many more. White River

Amphitheater, vanswarpedtour.com 28 Iranian Festival Celebrate Iranian culture

with food, games, visual arts, and live performances. Seattle Center, iaca-seattle.org

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Bobby McFerrin “spirityouall” Sun. June 22 - @ The Orpheum

An Evening with Cassandra Wilson Sun. June 29

MEDESKI SCOFIELD MARTIN & WOOD Fri. June 20 Sat. June 21 HIROMI: THE TRIO PROJECT An Evening with Arturo Sandoval

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income residents in the Mount Baker area by planting gardens. townhallseattle.org 28 John Legend This R&B/hip-hop singer/ songwriter has won nine Grammys. The hunk, the myth, the legend. Chateau Ste. Michelle 28 Jean Kwok Her latest is Mambo in Chinatown. Elliott Bay Book Co. • 28 Peter Murphy The ex-Bauhaus frontman has a new one, Lion. With Ringo Deathstar. The

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Georgetown Carnival, downtown Georgetown, Sat., June 14. With Jack Endino’s Earthworm, Mark Pickerel, Ancient Warlocks, Evening Bell and more across three stages.

More information and set times at georgetown merchants.org.

Concerts at Bell Street Park, Bell Street between Second and Third Avenues. Concerts begin at 6:30 p.m. the second Friday of the month. June 13: Big World Breaks; July 11: Smokey Brights; Aug. 8: Pure Bathing Culture; Sept. 12: Benjamin Verdoes.

Rock ’n’ Roll Seattle Marathon & 1/2 Marathon, Sat., June 21. Sir Mix-A-Lot and the

Presidents of the United States of America coheadline the post-race party at Seattle Center.

PUSA, 11:00 a.m.; Sir Mix-a-Lot, 12:30 p.m.

Fremont Fair’s Waterfront Stage, downtown Fremont. Sat., June 21-Sun., June 22. Sat., June 21: 11 a.m. Environmental Encroachment; 12:20 p.m. Milonga; 1:50 p.m. The Quick & Easy Boys; 4:20 p.m. Juno What?!; 5:40 p.m.

Funky 2 Death; 7 p.m. The Staxx Brothers.

Sun., June 22: 11 a.m. Moongrass; 12:20 p.m.

Br’er Rabbit; 1:40 p.m. Blake Noble; 3 p.m.

True Spokes; 4:40 p.m. Publish the Quest.

Out to Lunch Concert Series. Three concerts a week, noon–1:30 p.m., across downtown Seattle, July 9–Sept. 5. Our favorite picks follow; full schedule at downtownseattle.com.

Thurs., July 10: Industrial Revelation at City Hall; Fri., July 11: Naomi Wachira at Federal Courthouse; Fri., July 18: Portland Cello Project at Occidental Square; Wed., Aug. 13: Kris Orlowski at Two Union Square; Thurs., Aug. 14: The Horde and the Harem at City Hall; Fri.,

Aug. 15: The Dusty 45s at Harbor Steps; Fri., Aug. 22: The Maldives at Occidental Square; Wed., Aug. 27: LeRoy Bell and his Only Friends at Harbor Steps; Wed., Sept. 3: Clinton Fearon & the Boogie Brown Band at Bell Street Park; Fri., Sept. 5: Hey Marseilles at Freeway Park.

West Seattle Summer Fest, West Seattle Junction, Fri., July 11–Sun., July 13. Fri., July 11: 2 p.m. Squirrel Butter; 3 p.m. Rat City Brass; 4 p.m. Sweet Jesus; 5 p.m. Killer Ghost; 6 p.m. Magic Mirrors; 7 p.m. Country Lips; 8 p.m. Hobosexual; 9 p.m. Yada Yada Blues Band. Sat., July 12: 12 p.m. Two Story Zori; 1 p.m. Sundae + Mr Goessel; 2 p.m. Fysah and the Soul Acoustic; 3 p.m. Vaudville Etiquette; 4 p.m. Charms; 5 p.m. The Fabulous Downey Brothers; 6 p.m. Spinning Whips; 7 p.m. Dude York; 7:40 p.m. Vox Mod; 8 p.m. The Moondoggies; 9 p.m. Vox Mod; 9:30 p.m. The Helio Sequence. Sun., July 13: 3 p.m. Carrie Akre; 4 p.m. Stag; 5 p.m. The Darci Carlson Band; 6 p.m. The Foghorns; 7 p.m. Billy Dwayne and the Creepers.

Ballard Seafood Fest, Ballard Street Main Stage, Sat., July 12–Sun., July 13. Fest starts at 11 a.m., music set times follow: Sat., July 12: 1 p.m. Vaudeville Etiquette; 2:30 p.m. Goodbye Heart; 4 p.m. The Flavr Blue; 5:30 p.m. You Me & Apollo; 7 p.m. Polyrhythmics; 8:30 p.m. Eldridge Gravy and The Court Supreme.

Sun., July 13: noon, the Swearengens; 1:30 p.m.

Ravenna Woods; 3 p.m. Brent Amaker and The Rodeo; 4:30 p.m. Fruition; 6 p.m. Sallie Ford.

KEXP and Seattle Center’s Concerts at the Mural Amphitheatre. This annual sum-

mer concert series is always rocking, though as of press time the lineup is still TBD. But who cares? With past performances from Dinosaur Jr., Deep Sea Diver, and Mudhoney, you know it’s going to be good. Starts 5:30 p.m., Fri., Aug. 1, 8, 15, and 22. E

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summer guide • CALENDAR 28 Documentation in the Field Join Portland artists Daniela Molnar and Lisa Schonberg for an outdoor workshop that will include drawing, note-taking, field recording, and music composition. Discovery Park, henryart.org • 28–29 Seattle PrideFest 2014 On Saturday, a street festival and Family Day at Cal Anderson Park; on Sunday, the parade and Seattle Center rally. With George Takei! seattlepridefest.org • 28–29 Seattle Retro Gaming Expo A chance for gamers to network IRL. Washington State

Convention Center, seattleretro.org 28–Sept. 7 Olympic Music Festival Chambermusic favorites in a repurposed barn. Quilcene, Wash., olympicmusicfestival.org 29 Heartbreak Tour of Seattle Michelle

Peñaloza leads participants to locations throughout Seattle where love has been dashed on the shoals. henryart.org 29 Steve Winwood The golden-throated ’60s survivor samples his catalog of hits. Chateau Ste. Michelle 30 Robert Bryce He’s written Smaller Faster

Lighter Cheaper Denser: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong. Town Hall

July 1 Kraftwerk A 3-D concert, electronic sound

paintings, and music experimentation from the German godfathers of EDM. The Paramount • 1 Heart Seattle’s favorite rocker sisters continue their 40-year career. Marymoor Park 1 Kij Johnson Her new fantasy tome is At the Mouth of the River of Bees. University Book

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2 Django Wexler The Shadow Throne: Book Two of the Shadow Campaigns is the local author’s follow-up to his fantasy tome The Thousand Names. University Book Store 2 Begin Again From the director of Once, another music-themed romance, this time starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo. Opens

played from this sad, unlawful chapter of American history—most by untrained artists, but a few by professionals (including Ruth Asawa, Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani, Chiura Obata, and Henry Sugimoto). Bellevue Arts Museum,

post-punk supergroup returns from Down Under on the heels of its latest, Push the Sky Away. The Paramount 2 Gregg Allman One of the original members of the Allman Brothers, he’s ever the “Ramblin’ Man.” Woodland Park Zoo, zoo.org/zootunes 2–3 Freedom Fantasia Strippers and cabaret artists prove their patriotism with red, white, and blue pasties. The Triple Door • 3 First Thursday Art Walk The nation’s oldest such event, with all the Pioneer Square galleries open late. firstthursdayseattle.com 3 Roger Hodgson The British songwriter was a member of Supertramp. Snoqualmie Casino 3 Future The Honest Tour, with Special Guests: Rico Love, Que. The Neptune

Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, and other stalwarts of the postwar scene are included. Bellevue Arts

wide • 2 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds The bad-ass

3–Aug. 2 Ryan Molenkamp & Piper Snow

Snow creates cartoonish little ceramic figures— colorful, elongated, better versions of ourselves.

Molenkamp paints fantastical landscapes. Linda

Hodges Gallery, lindahodgesgallery.com 3–Aug. 30 John Buck & Ross Beecher Palmer

Buck shows new wooden surrealist sculptures.

Palmer creates intricate quilted designs. Greg

Kucera Gallery, gregkucera.com • 3–Oct. 12 The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese-American Internment Camps, 1942–1946 Some 120 objects are dis-

bellevuearts.org 3–Oct. 12 Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation Warhol,

Museum 4 Korengal Journalist Sebastian Junger goes

back to Afghanistan, the locale for his prior war doc Restrepo. Theater pending 4 Lee Fields & the Expressions With special guests Fly Moon Royalty. The Neptune 4 Naturalization Ceremony Over 500 freshlyminted U.S. citizens, from countries around the world, celebrate their new homeland. Seattle Center, ethnicheritagecouncil.org 4 Family 4th at Lake Union Stake out your

viewing area early with a beach blanket, then wait for the sun to set before the big fireworks show. Gas Works Park, family4th.org 4 Yves Saint Laurent The late French designer’s life is dramatized during the ’50s, as he seeks to balance love (men) and fashion (women). SIFF Cinema Uptown • 4–10 A Hard Day’s Night The Beatles classic,

so full of comedy and cheek, turns 50 with a new digital restoration. SIFF Film Center 5 Kool & the Gang Like we need to tell you, their hits include “Celebration” and “Jungle Boogie,” all great for dancing. Snoqualmie Casino 5 Commander Cody With his Lost Planet Airmen, the bandleader brings his boogie-

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Roger Shimomura’s Mistaken Identities: for Dorothea Lange, at BAM.

woogie swing party to The Triple Door.

• 5 Sharon Van Etten A gifted American songwriter with haunting vocals and an everbreaking heart. With Courtney Barnett, Jana Hunter (Lower Dens). The Neptune 5–6 Steely Dan Walter Becker and Donald Fagen play radio staples including “Reelin’ in the Years” and “Hey Nineteen.” Marymoor Park • 5–10 Dr. Strangelove The greatest movie satire of the Cold War is 50 years old, and Stanley Kubrick’s classic is being screened from a new 35mm print, made from a 4K digital restoration.

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5–Sept. 7 Ken Price Spanning the ’70s through the ’90s, the recently deceased L.A. artist is represented in Inside/Outside by colorful vernacular prints, many of them meant to illustrate the poetry of Charles Bukowski. Henry Art Gallery • 6 Carolina Chocolate Drops The Grammywinning string band shares the bill with The Del McCoury Band. Woodland Park Zoo • 6 Dwight Yoakam At 57, his luscious yodel and country charm still haven’t lost their twang.

performs his one-man autobiographical show, in song and monologue. ACT Theatre • 10–Aug. 10 Wooden O Seattle Shakespeare Co. will perform al fresco stagings, actually without benefit of a stage, of Julius Caesar and Two Gentlemen of Verona in various Seattle parks and

Snoqualmie Casino • 6 New Order Peter Hook has departed, Ber-

Paramount 7 Larry Correia Monster Hunter Nemesis continues his popular fantasy series. University Book Store • 7 Michael Waldman The NYU law professor

debunks the NRA and recent Supreme Court decisions in his very convincing legal history The Second Amendment: A Biography. Town Hall 7 Boz Scaggs He made his name with the Steve Miller Band, but the blue-eyed soul and gritty hits like “Lido Shuffle” he cranked out in his solo career garnered him lasting fame.

Benaroya Hall, seattlesymphony.org 7–11 Masterpieces of Polish Cinema Martin

Scorsese helped select this traveling archival program, which includes Andrzej Wajda’s 1972 The Wedding. Northwest Film Forum 7–Aug. 2 Seattle Chamber Music Festival

Saint-Saëns, Rachmaninoff, and Schubert kick off four weeks of concerts. Benaroya Recital Hall,

seattlechambermusic.org 8 Ian McDonald Empress of the Sun is his sci-fi tome about parallel universes. University Book Store 8 Mary Chapin Carpenter Lucinda Williams

wrote one of her biggest hits, “Passionate Kisses,” a song she’ll likely perform tonight along with her own self-penned tunes like “Down at the Twist and Shout” and “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her.” Benaroya Hall 8–13 We Will Rock You This traveling jukebox musical is built around the greatest hits of Queen, meaning karaoke standards like “We Are the Champions” and “Bohemian Rhapsody.” 5th Avenue Theatre, 5thavenue.org 9 Frank Fairfield An old-timey revivalist

(Seattle U.), facebook.com/yellowfishfestival 9–Aug. 16 Jane Eyre—The Musical Return to

Thornfield Hall, courtesy of Paul Gordon’s music and lyrics. Taproot Theatre, taproottheatre.org 10 Xavier Rudd Australia’s answer to Jack Johnson, his latest is Spirit Bird. With Ash Grunwald. The Neptune 10 Jesus Christ Superstar Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1969 rock opera is on a national stadium tour, with Brandon Boyd (Incubus) as Judas Iscariot and English TV idol Ben Forster as Jesus. KeyArena 10 Slightly Stoopid They bring their reggaerock fusion (and dreadlocked, pot smoking fans).

With Stephen “Ragga” Marley. Marymoor Park 10–20 Hands Solo Pianoman Victor Janusz

Ruby Lewis in We Will Rock You.

open-air venues. seattleshakespeare.org 10–Aug. 21 Evening Concerts Sly Mr. Y, Tumbao, Rain City Riff Raff, Emily McIntoch, and more. Marina Park, kirklandsummer concerts.org • 10–Aug. 28 Magnuson Park Outdoor Movies The Thursday-night series will include

Grease, Gravity, Sixteen Candles, and Ghostbusters.

Games, food trucks, and other fun stuff precede the screenings. And you can go swimming. Magnuson Park, epiceap.com • 10–Aug. 28 Summer at SAM Seattle Kokon

Taiko and Kate Wallich dance, Stephen Antupit leads a tour of the Sol LeWitt installation, and various parties and musical events are also scheduled. Be sure to see the big white head, Echo, by Jaume Plensa, a permanent addition to the OSP. Olympic Sculpture Park 11 Happy Together Tour with the Turtles Flo

& Eddie play with a handful of their contemporaries. Expect much singing along. With Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, Mark Farner from Grand Funk Railroad, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, and Chuck Negron from Three Dog Night.

Snoqualmie Casino 11 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes James

Franco is out, Gary Oldman is in, and the monkeys are still in charge. Opens wide 11 Jungle Party Food, drinks, and a silent auction benefit the zoo. Woodland Park Zoo, zoo. org 11—12 Seattle Symphony: Pixar in Concert

Music and clips from Pixar’s 13 feature films.

Benaroya Hall • 11–12 DANCE This Some kids go to summer

camp and make a lanyard; this group of young dancers studies with a variety of professional teachers and choreographers and winds up onstage, creating a performance that threatens to blow the roof off the theater. SK The Moore 11–17 Razing the Bar Fresh from SIFF, this local doc celebrates the culture, music, and patrons of the Funhouse, the old punk-rock venue near Seattle Center. Grand Illusion 11–17 The Internet’s Own Boy Reddit cofounder and Internet activist Aaron Swartz was prosecuted by the feds, then committed suicide.

This is his sad story. Northwest Film Forum Celebrating their 60th anniversary with The Mikado, the Victorian duo’s most popular operetta. Seattle Repertory Theatre, pattersong.org 11–Aug. 16 GreenStage Shakespeare in various area parks, namely Othello and Love’s Labours Lost. greenstage.org • 12 Georgetown Art Attack The once-

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hawking banjo and fiddle tunes last heard on 1930s radio. The Triple Door • 9–Aug. 2 Durational Arts Festival A performance that lasts at least an hour, but not longer than two days—these are the only real criteria for this collection of time-based art works. The rest is up to a rotating cast (including Gender Tender, Mark Haim, Babette Pendleton McGeady, and Molly Sides) that will come and go for almost a month. Alice Gosti directs. SK Hedreen Gallery

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summer guide • CALENDAR » FROM PAGE 47 industrial neighborhood goes a little crazy, with live music, open studios, crafts, and late hours at Fantagraphics, Krab Jab, Georgetown Stables, LxWxH Gallery, and other venues. Plus all those great bars. Georgetown, georgetownartattack.

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promote their new album Hebrews. With the Front Bottoms, the So So Glos, You Blew It!

• 18 Lyle Lovett & His Large Band His latest is Release Me, featuring backup vocals from the likes of k.d. lang and Sara Watkins. Chateau Ste.

Showbox 19 Agro-a-Go-Go Joanna Lepore leads par-

Michelle 18 Jupiter Ascending From the Wachowskis,

ticipants on a garden-centric bike tour through the Beacon Hill Neighborhood Greenway. Cal

badly in need of a hit after Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas, this futuristic fantasy stars Mila Kunis as a warrior seeking her destiny. One small point in

Anderson Park, henryart.org 19 Cheech & Chong The iconic comedy duo

can now smoke their weed legally. With War.

is sold out, as usual, and you may already have secured your entry. If not, get up at seven and follow the stragglers to the south end of Lake Washington to share in the cheers. UW campus,

Marymoor Park • 19 Sounders vs. Tottenham Hotspur

Hardcore Sounders fans like to grumble about exhibition matches like this (The risk of injury!

Cups, not friendlies!). But they always show up.

cascade.org 12 Polish Festival Food, music, dance, and culture workshops are featured. Seattle Center, polishfestivalseattle.org 12 Melody Nelson “We take our inspira-

Bellevue Arts Museum • 12–Aug. 30 Fremont Outdoor Movies The

(mostly) Saturday-night series will include The Royal Tenenbaums, Dazed & Confused, Office Space, and The Big Lebowski. Some events are 21-and-over, meaning booze. Downtown

Fremont, fremontoutdoormovies.com • 13 Sounders vs. Timbers In 2012, their

first MLS season, the Sounders’ bitterest rivals kinda sucked. Last year they were . . . let’s just say improved (the wounds are still raw). This season?

Well, it looks like 2013 was a fluke, and they’re back to their rightful place at the bottom half of the table. (As of press time, anyway.) Century-

Link Field, soundersfc.com 13 Bill Engvall The popular touring comic wears his dad jeans proudly. Snoqualmie Casino 14–15 The Fixx The ’80s New Wave rockers

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Ste. Michelle • 17 Tori Amos Now 50, the feminist icon’s

piano-driven arrangements still move audiences young and old. She visits Seattle on the Unrepentant Geraldines tour. The Paramount • 17 Tedeschi Trucks Band Grammy-awardwinning blues-rock fronted by wife/husband duo Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, rooted in soulful vocals and slick licks. With the Wood Brothers. Marymoor Park • 17 The Go-Gos With some original members still playing, they lead an ’80s bill including Patty Smyth and Scandal, Martha Davis and the Motels, Cutting Crew, and Naked Eyes. Chateau Ste. Michelle 17 Cheap Trick They’re still going strong,

despite being heavily featured in 2006’s John Tucker Must Die. Snoqualmie Casino 17–19 The Danger Zone This burlesque Archer takeoff may be as close as you’ll ever get to seeing Jessica Walter naked. Don’t even pretend you’re not curious. sailorstclaire.com

• 25–26 Strictly Seattle Velocity Dance Center started this summer workshop to bring local dancers together with local choreographers, but somehow the word leaked out—and now we’ve got dancers from all over the country showing up. The session-closing performances (with choreography from Byron Carr, Pat Graney, Jody Kuehner, KT Niehoff, Bennyroyce Royon, Shannon Stewart, and Rosa Vissers) are as warm as the last night at sleepaway camp. SK Broadway

the movie’s favor: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, from Belle.

Opens wide 18 Garek Druss His live performance will

sonically guide you across the UW campus, from the Henry to the Computer Science building.

Henry Art Gallery • Modest Mouse Isaac Brock and company

have reportedly been working with Outkast’s Big Boi on some long-awaited new material. The Showbox • 18 The Hold Steady Craig Finn offers yet

more West Coast blue-collar rock with Teeth Dreams. With Cheap Girls. The Neptune

ists are represented with photos and videos.

Running concurrently is more video art from Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello; and the group show With Hidden Noise, really a sonic exhibit, featuring Taylor Deupree and Stephen Vitiello, Jennie C. Jones, Pauline Oliveros, Andrea Parkins, Steve Peters, Steve Roden, and Michael J. Schumacher. Henry Art

Performance Hall, velocitydancecenter.org

Gallery 19–Dec. 7 Chen Shaoxiong: Ink. History.

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• 25–27 BAM ARTSfair Over 300 artists, artisans, and craftspeople will show their work at this annual event, begun in 1947. Bellevue Square

cles 100 years of history in 150 ink drawings. In a separate installation, he draws recreated news events culled from the Internet. Seattle Asian

and Bellevue Arts Museum, bellevuearts.org

• 25–27 Capitol Hill Block Party The annual arts and music three-day hipster takeover features headliners Matt & Kim, Spoon, Chromeo, The Budos Band, Dum Dum Girls, The War on Drugs, and A$ap Rocky, along with regional acts like The Julie Ruin, Childbirth, TacocaT, Pony Time, Sol, Beat Connection, Wimps, and Odesza. Capitol Hill, capitolhillblockparty.com 25–31 Cannibal Spanish director Manuel Martín Cuenca is said to have made an artful drama out of a sensational subject. We’ll see.

Art Museum, seattleartmuseum.org 21 The Polyphonic Spree Now numbering

about 22 members, the Texas musical collective most recently recorded Yes, It’s True. With Sarah Jaffe. The Triple Door 22 Lynn Sherr She reads from Sally Ride: The Book of Mormon returns to the Paramount.

18–20 Anacortes Unknown Music Series 4

Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Mount Eerie, and others perform at this DIY-inspired music and arts festival organized by indie producer Phil Elverum.

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25–31 The Pleasures of Being Out of Step

Various venues, anacortesunknown.com • 18–20 Bite of Seattle Swarms of hungry

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are soliciting fans as to which of their hits should be played. Remember “One Thing Leads to Another”? The Triple Door 15 Theo Pauline Nestor The local author shares from her guide Writing Is My Drink: A Writer’s Story of Finding Her Voice (and a Guide to How You Can, Too). University Book Store 16 Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band Expect him to sample the Beatles rich catalog, plus some of his own larky, music-hall style tunes. Chateau

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tion from anime, classic role-playing video games, quiet prayer, and Spinoza,” says this local dance company. Members include Britta Peterson, Jan Trambauer, Kince De Vera, and Dylan Ward. Velocity Dance Center, velocity

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ological hero, with John Hurt, Ian McShane, and other Brits providing classy support. Unfortunately, Brett Ratner directs, so don’t expect Game of Thrones. Opens wide • 25 Boyhood Richard Linklater’s 12-yearsin-the making drama is one of the best films this year, in which he follows a kid from youth to college, with Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette playing the lad’s parents. Harvard Exit, landmark

visitors will converge to eat, drink, and hear live music. Two-way Mercer now makes it easier to get there. Seattle Center, biteofseattle.com 18–21 The International 2014 Dota 2 Championship A chance for gamers to flex their

geek muscles for a chance to win $2.8 million.

KeyArena 18–24 As It Is in Heaven Radio evangelists and

sexual repression figure in this new indie, set in the South. Northwest Film Forum 18–Aug. 17 An Evening of One-Acts This periodic series presents works by Steve Martin, Sam Shepard, and Woody Allen. R. Hamilton Wright directs them all, with proven stage talent you’ve seen during the prior season. ACT Theatre 19 Goo Goo Dolls These rock veterans found commercial success for their single, “Iris.” With the Plain White T’s. Chateau Ste. Michelle 19 Bryan Lee O’Malley Previously the creator of the Scott Pilgrim comics, he’s now written and drawn Seconds: A Graphic Novel. Town Hall 19 Shipwreck Festival One giant community garage sale. Downtown Anacortes, shipwreck

fest.org 19 Northwest Mahler Festival Orchestra play-

ers around the region gather to play Mahler (the Symphony no. 4) and Wagner. St. Mark’s Cathe-

dral, nwmahlerfestival.org.

19 Say Anything The emo heroes return to

America’s First Woman in Space. Town Hall 22–25 American Collectors and the Museums

A lecture featuring art historian Rebecca Albiani, examining the genus of American collections.

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• 22–Aug. 10 The Book of Mormon The tour-

ing production of the Broadway smash, from the creators of South Park, is back for a second visit, sure to sell out. The Paramount 24 Bret Michaels Glam-metal hero, and our personal favorite bandana-clad reality-TV lovecompetition host. Snoqualmie Casino 24 Seattle Phonographers Union An improvised live performance using unprocessed field recordings. Henry Art Gallery 24 David Rose Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things is his new cultural-studies book. University Book Store

25 Hercules Dwayne Johnson plays the myth-

Still writing at 88, the jazz-loving journalist Nat Hentoff, for decades associated with the Village Voice, is celebrated in this new documentary.

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26 Seafair Torchlight Parade Celebrate with a footrace, floats, clowns, pirates, and beauty queens. Seattle Center, seafair.com 26 Friendship Trail Paddles in hand, participants go in search of musical acts hidden in the arboretum. Lake Washington Arboretum, henryart.org

26 Festival of Jazz Featured are Manhattan Transfer, Spyro Gyra, Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin, and Jessy J. Chateau Ste. Michelle • 26–Aug. 23 Movies at the Mural The Saturday-night series features The Princess Bride, Gravity, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Great Gatsby, and Star Trek Into Darkness. Seattle Center, seattlecenter.com/moviesatthemural

27 Loverboy Everybody’s working for this weekend, or so say the ’80s Canadian rock stars.

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• 27 Chris Isaak His cool, Bay Area charisma

tune 1 Foreigner and Styx Come sail away on a wave of nostalgia. Marymoor Park 1–2 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Hey,

what’s Leatherface up to? He’s turning 40, in fact, in Tobe Hooper’s wildly influential horror flick. SIFF Film Center 1–3 Seafair Weekend Hydroplane Races

Bring your sunscreen and earplugs, plus lots of beer. Now would also be a good time to own a boat, so you can tie up next to the logboom. Gen-

chicken-fried. There’s still music and camping, but this fest brings together today’s hottest country stars, like Tim McGraw, Lady Antebellum, Eli Young Band, and lots more. The Gorge 1–7 Bogart Fest The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not are screened. Grand Illusion • 1–22 Concerts at the Mural Presented by KEXP Seattle Center, these free, family-friendly concerts are always relaxing and fun (great beer garden, too). Final schedule pending at press time. Mural Amphitheatre, seattlecenter.com 2 The Voice Tour Past stars and this season’s finalists show you what they’ve got. With Tessanne Chin, Jacquie Lee, Will Champlin, Dia Frampton, Christina Grimmie, Jake Worthington, Jake Barker, Josh Kaufman, and Kristen Merlin. Marymoor Park • 2 Art of the City Art Street Fair Hey! The Tashiro Kaplan Building, so integral to the city’s visual-arts scene, turns 10 years old! To celebrate,

of the TMNT film series starring Megan Fox, Johnny Knoxville, and Whoopi Goldberg. Sure, why not? Opens wide 8–9 Seattle Street Food Festival More than 65 vendors will sate you. Capitol Hill, seattlest

foodfest.com 8-11 Summer Meltdown Hosted by Blake

Lewis, Darrington’s 13th annual music and camping features Ayron Jones and the Way, Shook Twins, The Dip, Thione Diop, and many others. Whitehorse Mountain Amphitheater,

summermeltdown.com 8–14 Elena Petra Costa’s acclaimed doc follows

two Brazilian sisters to New York, one following the other by 20 years. Grand Illusion 9 ZZ Top This blues-tinged rock group is still performing together after more than 40 years.

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dozen more gallery artists reject figurative art and embrace color. Linda Hodges Gallery • 8 Lady Gaga The shock-pop princess makes up her cancelled Seattle date tonight, as part of her Art Pop tour. KeyArena 8 Burkholder Local director Taylor Phinney’s sequel to Old Goats, again featuring a non-professional cast of Bainbridge Island retirees. SIFF

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7 Seattle Opera: International Wagner Competition Eight singers, backed by full orchestra, vie for honors in this thrilling showcase. McCaw Hall, seattleopera.org 7–30 Real Abstract Peter Gross and at least a

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the Tashiro Kaplan Building, Roq La Rue, James Harris, Greg Kucera, and all the other Pioneer Square galleries. Occidental Park will also be full of artists and vendors. firstthursdayseattle.com • 7 Jay Farrar A veteran member of Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, he recently recorded One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Music From Kerouac’s Big Sur. The Triple Door

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31 Dance Innovators in Performance The Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation brings an incredible slice of the alt-dance world to town as faculty members. But even if you’re not going to show up at class, you can still see them in this showcase program. SK Broadway Performance

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hit “Love Song,” and continues to examine the theme of love on her latest, the two-time Grammy nominated, The Blessed Unrest. With Lucius, Hannah Georgas. Marymoor Park 5 Ivan Doig The veteran local writer shares from his latest Montana-set novel, Sweet Thunder. University Book Store 6 Taj Mahal Trio The veteran bluesman is joined by John Hiatt. Woodland Park Zoo 6 Imelda May The Dublin-born singer/songwriter incorporates the bodhran—an Irish hand drum—into her spirited rockabilly and blues.

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Hall, seattleopera.org 10 Deep Purple Originally a prog-rock band,

Deep Purple changed their sound and became a pioneer of heavy metal. Snoqualmie Casino • 10 Broken Bells The superduo of Brian Burton (Danger Mouse) and James Mercer (the Shins) recently dropped its second album, After the Disco, the follow-up to 2010’s wildly successful self-titled release. The Moore 11–12 Arctic Monkeys They never took off like the Strokes, but this English indie-rock band makes you instantly cooler upon listening. The Paramount 12 Counting Crows Grab your baggiest

sweater, dreadlock your hair, and party like it’s 1996. With Toad the Wet Sprocket, of course.

Marymoor Park • 12–Sept. 21 Intiman Theatre Festival The

company is staging Tony Kushner’s massive Angels in America, all seven hours of it, in two parts. Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center,

intiman.org 13 Lynyrd Skynyrd The only concert where it’s

appropriate to yell “Freebird!” and break up with your significant other. Snoqualmie Casino 13 Ray LaMontagne This singer/songwriter has been compared to the likes of Otis Redding, Van Morrison, and Nick Drake. Marymoor Park • 13–14 The English Beat Dave Wakeling is the only original member of the beloved English ska band, which boasts an array of irresistible dance hits, including “Save It for Later” and “Mirror in the Bathroom.” The Triple Door 14 Huey Lewis & The News “The Power of Love”? The power of perseverance is more like it.

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tinues. Is it too soon to be dreaming of the Super Bowl? CenturyLink Field, seahawks.com • 15 The One I Love One of our favorites from SIFF, it stars Elisabeth Moss and Mark Duplass as a bickering L.A. couple who go to the world’s most bizarre couples therapy retreat. It’s like two Edward Albee characters trapped in an enchanted Williams-Sonoma catalog. Theater TBA 15 The Expendables 3 Wesley Snipes, Antonio Banderas, Mel Gibson, and Harrison Ford join the cast of this geezer action franchise. Expect Viagra jokes. Opens wide 15 The Giver Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep star in this film adaptation of Lois Lowry’s sci-fi novel. Opens wide • 15–17 Hempfest All hail the mighty cannabis plant! Pot being legal in our state, expect plenty of open-air smoking amid the T-shirt stands, music stages, and temporary tattoo parlors. South entrance at Olympic Sculpture Park. North entrance at the Amgen bridge. Parking is scarce, so expect extreme congestion. Myrtle Edward Park, hempfest.org 15–17 Ballroom With a Twist It’s a mashup:

Winners from Dancing With the Stars (including those dreamy, moody Chmerkovskiy brothers!

Swoon! ) appear with winners from American Idol.

5th Avenue Theatre 16 Beer, BBQ, & Bourbon Festival What more

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Seattle Center 17 BrasilFest Celebrate Brazilian culture with

traditional food and entertainment, including rhythmic musical performances that highlight

the drums. Seattle Center, brasilfest.com

17 Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Aka Troy Andrews, Trombone Shorty is a trombone and trumpet player extraordinaire with soul to spare. With Galactic. Woodland Park Zoo 19–20 Icicle Creek New Play Festival Allison Narver will direct The Change Room by Carly Mensch. Steven Dietz is both writer and director of Bloomsday, inspired by the life of James Joyce.

ACT Theatre 20 LeAnn Rimes This country and pop super-

star rose to fame at age 13 and is still going strong with her latest, Spitfire. Snoqualmie

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culture junkie is married to Giovanni Ribisi’s sister, Gina! Marymoor Park 20–21 Pink Martini Zootunes just wouldn’t be the same without this Portland nu-jazz group’s annual appearance. With China Forbes, Storm Large. Woodland Park Zoo 22 Seahawks vs. Bears Look for tailgating parties beforehand in parking lots all around Pioneer Square. CenturyLink Field 22 To Be Takei Everybody’s favorite Star Trek actor/gay icon, George Takei cuts a jolly path through comic-book conventions, the Howard Stern show, Twitter, and more. The man cannot be stopped, and this doc celebrates his outspoken drive. SIFF Film Center 22 Gypsy Kings This tour celebrates the band’s 25 years together. Chateau Ste. Michelle 22 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller have taken their time— nine years—to produce a sequel. Look for Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Lady Gaga (!) among the noir-scape. Opens wide 22 If I Stay Chloë Grace Moretz stars in the film adaptation of this popular YA book. Opens wide • 22–24 Seattle International Beerfest Three days of rare and exotic beers from countries around the globe. Also lots of men in kilts and Tevas. Seattle Center, seattlebeerfest.com 23 Earth, Wind, & Fire The funk-rock group will reprise hits like “Shining Star” and “After the Love Has Gone.” Chateau Ste. Michelle 23 American Idol Live! See season 13’s finalists, all 10 of them, live in concert. Marymoor Park 24 Peter Frampton’s Guitar Circus He keeps it alive. Featuring Buddy Guy. Chateau Ste. Michelle 24 Ziggy Marley He’s touring behind his new album, Fly Rasta. Woodland Park Zoo 25 The Eagles “Take It Easy,” “Hotel Califor-

nia,” “Lyin’ Eyes”: take your pick, the Eagles are a living jukebox of their own hits. Tacoma Dome,

tacomadome.org 29 The Congress Robin Wright Penn plays

a kind of Hollywood analogue to herself in this bizarre though touching sci-fi fantasy, rendered mostly in animation after our heroine signs a very special contract. SIFF Cinema Uptown 29 The Loft Labor Day is traditionally the deadest moviegoing weekend of the year, so why not see the second remake of a Belgian thriller about five dude-bros who rent a loft for their hook-ups—which inevitably leads to murder?

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Mariners game or just hanging out on a patio with friends, it isn’t hard to find an excuse for a beer this time of year. Not that you really need an excuse…

Beer on the Bike Path

Some people might suggest that drinking and bicycling is a bad idea. But, if you are smart about it there is no reason why you can’t stop for a beer at a worthy spot in the middle of your summer ride. The first thing you should keep in mind is moderation; stick to lower alcohol beers and don’t have more than you can handle. If you typically drink 9% imperial IPAs, you might want to scale it back if planning on getting back on your bike. Most breweries offer something lighter; styles I’d look for on a tap list during a ride would include a German-style Kolsch, golden ales, pilsners and light saisons.

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We are lucky enough to have quite a few bike paths in the Seattle area, and several of these come equipped with breweries or bars right off the trail. Redhook is one of the most popular destinations for those making the ride out to Woodinville on the Burke-Gilman trail. While it is certainly a great spot, it can also get pretty busy in there on a summer weekend. Another option is to head to 192 Brewing in Kenmore.

Located right on the trail about a block before it crosses 73rd Ave NE, their Lake Trail Taproom is a perfect place to stop. They have a huge beer garden where you can spread out and rest with a pint, sometimes with live music in the background. They don’t seem to have their own beers on tap very frequently, but they always have a solid selection of guest taps from local breweries pouring.

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Alki Beach in West Seattle is another popular biking destination, and the patio at Marination Ma Kai can’t be beat for a beer and lunch.

With a stellar view of downtown Seattle out across Elliott Bay, the picnic tables and chairs can fill up quickly at this sunny spot. But, the Hawaiian-Korean fusion menu and local tap list make the risk of a wait worth it. They have eight beers on tap, including the mk Special Bitter from Stoup Brewing in Ballard, which is made especially for Marination.

Sometime later this summer, you may see me riding my bike down the Elliott Bay Trail on the way to Interbay fairly often. Holy Mountain Brewing is hoping to be open in August at 1421 Elliott Ave W just south of the Magnolia Bridge. The bike path runs close to the brewery,

making it a great place to stop for a pint. They won’t be doing the typical lineup that you find at most breweries opening around town. They plan to focus on farmhouse ales (saisons), lagers, barrel-aged beers and more. They will not have a flagship beer lineup, and they will instead focus on a seasonal rotation. You can certainly expect to find some low ABV sessionable beers in their lineup.

If you are heading toward Fremont or Ballard on the Burke-Gilman trail, you can’t go wrong with a stop at the Urban Beer Garden at Fremont Brewing. Located just off the trail at Woodland Park Ave and N 34th St, they recently took over the locaentire building of the loca tion they’ve been at since opening in 2009. That parkmeans the entire park ing lot is now theirs and they are able to double the outdoor patio space they have for picnic tables and tents, where you can find locals, families, bicyclists, tourists and more enjoying one of the best beer lineups in town. Their 5.2% ABV Summer Ale is one of my favorite things about summer in Seattle. But, they also rotate special releases that you won’t see anywhere else along with other beers in their core lineup, like the 4.5% ABV Wandering Wheat.

Washington Brewers Festival

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 largest in the area is the Washington Brewers Festival, which will take place this upcoming weekend ( June 13-15) at Marymoor Park in Redmond.

The festival will feature more than 300 beers from 88 Washington breweries and offers a fun atmosphere for all types of beer drinkers. For many families this event has become an annual tradition to celebrate Father’s Day (yeah, it’s this Sunday). 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 the beer, the festival will feature live music, a brewer’s keg toss competition, root beer garden, kid’s area, craft booths, wine and cider tasting, and food trucks.

Cheers to what looks to be another great summer of drinking beer in Seattle!

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Joe Ray talks about his enchanted year on Lummi Island writing a cookbook with The Willows Inn’s hot-shot chef.

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SW: So how did writing an article for a newspaper turn into a year living on the island and collaborating with Wetzel on a cookbook?

Why did you decide to move there?

Look, I’m sitting on my porch right now and there are three bald eagles coming at me, a garden overflowing, it’s like a bonanza of food. Also, it’s not the kind of thing you can phone in. The recipes are long and complex enough as they are.

So when you’re there, it’s fantastic because I can watch a technique. It really helped, so that when I’m writing the recipe I can explain it well. I’d shadow one chef on one dish all day long.

Seattle’s original Top Pot location will have a new neighbor this summer. According to Capitol Hill Seattle, Single Shot will be a “food-driven bar” with a focus on produce “spiked with ingredients like bottarga, caviar, and offal.”

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Did you ever feel like you were in the way, or annoying the chefs while they worked?

When I first got there, I’d just help out in the kitchen to get a sense of how things worked.

I’d cooked before—worked in kitchens right out of college as a prep cook, from cheap diners in New Hampshire (where I’m from) to a fancy pan-Asian place in San Francisco. So I can function in a kitchen and be helpful or stay out of the way, depending. And what happens is the better I get, the more comfortable I am to say [to a chef ], “You’ve got to tell me about this again.” Sometimes I have to slow them down. That year gave me a cushion, a chance to develop rapport.

Were you involved in other aspects of the restaurant, like the farming and fishing?

For several months, I spent every Wednesday morning working on the farm for a few hours with Mary Von Krusenstiern. She’s this local rock-star farmer that Blaine brought on. All that stuff in Dan Barber’s new book [The Third Plate], the stuff where they talk about caring for the soil, she’s been doing that for years.

What about the famous Lummi Island reef fishing?

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I’d been out reef netting, and then did it again last fall for The Willows. It’s amazing, the way the fish appear . . . this gorgeous mirage that emerges up from the water to the space between the two reef boats. It’s beautiful and quiet, and if you’re paying attention you can tell something’s about to happen, and then everything happens all at once. When they’re having a good day, it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen. It’s also one of the most humane ways of fishing. It’s just one of the many goofy advantages Blaine has at his disposal here; the salmon down the street, the island lamb. You take that and combine it with his talent . . .

You’ve been a journalist for years, but this is your first cookbook. What were the challenges in writing in this form?

The learning curve was like hitting a wall in the beginning. I’ve written some recipes for stories, but most of these recipes have subrecipes as part of it. But I went out right away and got The Recipe Writer’s Handbook, and have highlights everywhere. In the beginning my second drafts were as difficult to get through as the first drafts.

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BY NICOLE SPRINKLE I spent most of last weekend in Columbia City: brunch at Geraldine’s one day, and over at Island Soul the next. Though I’m from the South and have a soft spot for Southern food, I don’t seek it out that often. But throwing caution to the wind, I ordered the chicken & buttermilk waffle. I’m glad I did. The chicken was, in fact, half of a Cornish game hen, with a very flaky (not greasy) skin; the waffle was thick and fluffy, and seemingly seasoned with cinnamon or some other baking spice. Very subtly, though. Inquiries about it weren’t so helpful. The waitress didn’t know; she just said the owner had recently made some adjustments to it. I loved the big chunks of watermelon that came with it all. When you’re eating all that heavy food, it’s nice to get a sizeable portion of something light and refreshing to cut it. Though the meal didn’t come with grits, I had to order a side of them. Again, great choice. These grits were loaded with cheese and pimiento (which gives it that Texan queso flavor that I adore), and while they were ultra-creamy, the texture of the corn was still appropriately toothsome. E

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Ray: I kept coming back. My wife is from Vancouver and I have family in Seattle. When I did, I’d check in to see what Blaine was up to . . . what kind of magazine stories I could get. I’d spent 10 years in Europe writing about restaurants like elBulli, and it was very apparent to me that he was going in that direction.

Then I realized that if I’m doing this stuff so much, there’s a book in it. So in early 2012, I pitched it to him and got him on board. We had built a good rapport over the last couple years, and I’d watched him evolve, take the reins, and train his staff.

Ethan Stowell Restaurants now has a booth at the Wallingford Farmers Market, held each Wednesday. Every week a chef from a Stowell restaurant will be on hand, selling seasonal noshes using local produce available at the market. The Ethan Stowell Restaurants Facebook page will announce each week’s chef.

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xactly one year ago, award-winning journalist Joe Ray and his wife moved from New York to Lummi Island and rented a woodworker’s home. They didn’t come just for the island’s beauty and the change of pace; they came because two years prior, Ray had gotten word that “the chef ” from noma, the Copenhagen restaurant that’s been ranked the best in the world, was coming to take over The Willows Inn. Ray, who’s reported on food for much of his career, seriously doubted that René Redzepi, noma’s owner and chef, would be packing up shop in Europe and relocating to a sleepy island in the Pacific Northwest. He was right—partly.

Redzepi wasn’t coming, but his chef di partie, Blaine Wetzel (born in Olympia), was. Ray knew this was momentous, quickly hopped on the story, and became the first reporter to cover the guy who last month was named the 2014 James Beard “Rising Star Chef ” of the Year.

Since then, Wetzel and the food utopia he’s created at The Willows Inn have been written about in just about every food magazine known to culinary man, as well as in travel and lifestyle magazines. Several articles later, Ray and Wetzel decided to write a cookbook chronicling the Inn’s recipes and stories, forthcoming from Running Press in September 2015.

To do so meant Ray was moving in for a year.

We caught up with Ray, enjoying his last few months on Lummi before he looks for a home in Seattle, to talk about his magical year at The Willows Inn.

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He had a pretty clear idea about everything.

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Coming into it, sure, I thought about the age gap. There’s 13 or 14 years that separate us. That moment you meet him and he’s got that boyish look and is so humble, but he moves into the kitchen and he has more experience than many chefs. He’s got the chops, so you don’t really think about that in the kitchen. Plus, the book’s divided into stories and recipes, and stories are what I know how to do. He trusted me on that side of it.

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So what’s next for you when you move to Seattle this fall?

I’ve had this perfect reintroduction to the Pacific Northwest. I’m looking for a new way to keep writing about it and being involved in it. Working in a restaurant, maybe, but it would have to be a very specific kind of role . . . working in a test kitchen, for a restaurant group, more cookbooks.

You know those six-word memoirs that Smith magazine does? Give me six words to sum up life at The Willows Inn.

A year on the island. Perfect.

After I finished talking to Ray, a picture popped up on my phone from him of rustic shoreline framed by low hills and trees. The accompanying text: “This isn’t the photo for the story, but thought you’d like to see the view on my bike ride to the inn.”

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little interest. When you’re slammed, the person ordering a draft or bottled beer provides a welcome respite from timeconsuming and challenging mixed drinks. At slower times, they generally get their needs met simply and quietly.

As such, beer and cocktails tend to operate in different orbits. Generally, when beer and spirits have mixed in the past, it’s either

BY ZACH GEBALLE been in the classic “beer and a shot” format or as drop shots (also known as boilermakers), in which a shot of liquor is dropped into a beer, with predictable results.

Yet some enterprising bartenders have discovered that mixing beer and spirits can do more than just get you drunk quicker; it can create a unique drink. Beer’s richness, texture, and flavor can provide an interesting canvas upon which to splash a few bursts of color in the form of a spirit or two.

My first experience with a beer cocktail was at Solo Bar in lower Queen Anne. There I had a surprisingly delicious combination of Campari and an IPA from Two Beers Brewing. An IPA’s hoppy bitterness is usually a turn-off for me (as many readers might recall), but in this case the Campari’s sweet and herbal notes gave that hoppiness a depth and complexity that the beer alone lacked.

In fact, a beer cocktail can be a great way to experiment with stronger or strangely flavored spirits: I’ve been able to introduce friends to green Chartreuse (mixed with a witbier), Campari (with an IPA), and even Fernet Branca (with a stout). In each case, the beer and the spirit share at least one similar flavor, and the combination allows the spirit to broaden and mellow, as opposed to when it’s drunk on its own or with other distilled spirits.

But you don’t have to get quite that daring: I’ve had great success spicing up the traditional michelada—a blend of Mexican beer, tomato juice, lime juice, fresh chilis, and onions—with a splash of mezcal. Its smokiness plays very nicely with the spice and the tartness.

Perhaps my favorite recent discovery was that you can make something akin to beer sangria (or a fortified shandy, if you’d rather). Belgian beers make for a nice base, but I think even a simple lager or pilsner could work as well. I’ve been adding cut-up apples, stone fruits, and fresh strawberries, then about an ounce of brandy per serving. It’s a strange yet captivating drink: fruity but dry, refreshing yet a bit potent. I’m really looking forward to trying it at barbecues and picnics this summer.

Of course for most beer drinkers, the thought of adding anything to beer is tantamount to sacrilege, and for most bartenders beer exists in its own little world; but you might find that opening that world to spirits for a change is well worth the occasional sneer or confused look. E

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Outrageously Ordinary

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

The story of that encounter is the real beginning of Robbins’ spiritual and artistic odyssey, and of his real and lasting impact on the town he lived in.

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material for Robbins’ peculiar genius. After an extended riff on how his first (and still bestknown) work—Another Roadside Attraction— came to be written in 1971, soon after moving to La Conner, Tibetan Peach Pie returns to routine memoir mode, chronicling the author’s travels, friendships, and amours, with intermittent interruptions for “and then I wrote . . . ” reminiscences of books like Still Life With Woodpecker (1980) and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. (That one we excerpted in 1976, in the third issue of The Weekly, with the author on the cover and a long profile inside, written by yours truly.)

There are some high points along the way, like his interview with the FBI investigating the Unabomber, but by and large Robbins seems to find the road as long and laborious as the reader does.

With this command performance in the can, now age 81, Robbins has paid his insatiable fans the last tribute they can demand of him. If you need to hear him live again, by all means attend his Town Hall appearance later this month, sure to sell out. But you can hear the man loud and clear, any time you like, just by picking up one of his books. E

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“Summertime,” meet summertime. But why the name change for this touring production? Why is this revival no longer called Porgy and Bess, as it was when it premiered in 1935 by George and Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward (who wrote the source novel and a subsequent play with his wife Stampley (center) as Porgy.

Dorothy)? Suzan-Lori Parks and Diane Paulus earned a Tony two years ago for their abridgement—er, ahem, adaptation, cough cough—of a busy stage extravaganza that originally ran four hours (one reason it was seldom performed; it took a whole lot of union actors to fill Catfish Row). Dialogue replaces recitative, much of the orchestral score is gone (but none of the songs, obvs), and Catfish Row is more implied than built out with expensive sets. What was originally “an American folk opera” (per George Gershwin) is now a slenderized popular musical. When this show took form at Boston’s American Repertory Theater, with the full permission and expected future profit of the Gershwin estate, it got some harsh criticism from high quarters. No less a figure than Stephen Sondheim accused the producers of having “disdain” for the original by creating character backstories and adding a happy ending.

He wrote in a letter to the Times, “Ms. Paulus says that in the opera you don’t get to know the characters as people. Putting it kindly, that’s willful ignorance. These characters are as vivid as any ever created for the musical theater.” He argued for tragic operatic archetypes, but the Parks/Paulus version proved quite popular with audiences.

And, irony of ironies, it beat out a revival of Sondheim’s Follies to win its Tony. Nathaniel Stampley plays crippled Porgy; Alicia Hall Moran is his faithful Bess. (Previews Wed. & Thurs., opens Fri. Runs through June 29.) 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Ave. 625-1900, 5thavenue.org. $39.25 and up. 8 p.m. BRIAN MILLER THURSDAY, JUNE 12

Coming Out All Over: Queer Film Style

Pride Month is being celebrated by several cinematic tributes at venues around town. SAM is screening two Rock Hudson movies, Written on the Wind and All That Heaven Allows, Wednesday and Friday this week. Central Cinema has a “Totally Gay Sing-Along” on June 26, followed

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the visual arts in the late ’60s and ’70s, and part of the credit for the efflorescence has to go to Robbins. It takes several players to field an arts “scene”: artists to make the stuff; a public to consume it; and—explaining, encouraging, appreciating, and condemning—voices to make the whole absurd procedure seem important, meaningful. Robbins, almost on his own, supplied such a voice.

He didn’t restrict his voice to the pages of the Times, either. He collaborated with artists to produce events which shook staid artistic Seattle to its foundations. He hit the streets in person, playing Gandalf to a band of merry pranksters drawn from an increasingly visible and raucous social underground.

For me, most memorable by far was his role as broadcaster on KRAB-FM during the late ’60s. Like untold hundreds, thousands of others, I was dealing with the social turmoils of the time, working a straight job (campus cop) by day, by night experimenting with drugs and

Sadly, the life behind that career is not ideal

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is the same thing that keeps you going in one of Robbins’ novels: the endlessly antic imagination of the writer. Robbins’ subjects can be pedestrian, but they are constantly buoyed by verbal prestidigitation that works on readers like the bubbles in champagne, teasing and urging them to engage their own imaginations in the game.

At its best it’s heady stuff, and even at its most banal it’s infectious, giddy-making. Robbins is king of the sidewinder simile, the mixologist’s metaphor. No other popular writer of our time depends as he does on pure verbal dazzle, or delivers as reliably on the deal.

That word-juggler’s dexterity must be native to Robbins’ soul, because it was already copiously on view in early art reviews for The Seattle Times in the ’60s. But it was ratified, reinforced by the writer’s encounter with LSD, which he regards as the most important event in his life.

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Robbins in 1999 . . . and on our cover in 1976.

hanging out at Eagles Auditorium (now impeccably respectable again as ACT Theatre).

On his weekly Sunday-evening show, Robbins again played the interlocutor of the psychedelic vaudeville, playing the music you couldn’t hear elsewhere—Big Brother, the Doors, Country Joe, Jefferson Airplane—and talking about . . . oh, everything: repression and liberation, war and peace, drugs good and bad, the sheer stuffiness of Seattle, all in that gently querulous drawl he brought to town with him from Blowin’ Rock.

(By what seems miraculous serendipity, just one of those three-hour musico-philosophical marathons survives, and can be listened to in its entirety in the KRAB web archives at krab.fm/ KRAB-Notes-From-The-Underground-WithTom-Robbins.html.)

By the time the storm broke over Seattle— before the spring of the Duvall Piano Drop clogged the backroads of King County with intrepid would-be counterculturalists, before the 1968 Sky River Rock Festival pioneered the outdoor music fad, before the war came home at last to the campuses and streets of America— Robbins had left KRAB and was well launched into his new career as novelist, though neither he nor his admirers yet had the least idea just how long and fruitful that career would be.

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s a general rule, writers shouldn’t write memoirs. Action types should write memoirs; they have lives to recall and justify. Writer writers—novelists above all—live in their heads, transforming their puny little lives into marvels of imaginative revenge on reality. A novelist writing a memoir is like a magician coming out onstage and giving away every single trick in the box. Aw, we say, is that all there was to it?

OK, that said, Tom Robbins’ new memoir Tibetan Peach Pie (Ecco, $27.99) has a lot more going for it than your typical fictioneer’s life record, where a dispute with your publisher over royalties is the equivalent of World War II. Robbins’ novels are not reprocessed from real life; they are more like annotated daydreams, in which events and characters are contemplated and commented on like a mediocre TV movie, and made touching and magical in the process.

Still, a memoir is a memoir, and Robbins dutifully fills the reader in on what it was like growing up in the seasonal mountain resort community of Blowing Rock, North Carolina—six months out of the year Hicksville, the other six a resort community to the very welloff citizens of where and where, fleeing the heat of the coastal Southland.

It turns out that life in Blowing Rock was not all that engaging, even for a dreamy boy like Robbins. The same has to be said for the dreamy boy’s later youth and young manhood.

In fact, the story doesn’t begin to get engaging until about page 107 (of 363), when, for no good reason he can remember, Robbins moves to another hick burg, Seattle, in 1962; and even then I suspect readers dwelling elsewhere in our fair land will begin wondering when something—anything—of more than casual interest is going to happen.

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Garrison Keillor

We may never get a full-fledged memoir from Keillor; he seems to relish too much blurring the line between his own life (boyhood in Anoka, Minn., radio host, writer) and that of “Gary” Keillor, who grew up in his fictional Lake Wobegon. But the introspective preface and closing essay in his new omnibus, The Keillor Reader (Viking, $27.95), are the closest he’s come. As with any career-overview anthology, there are omissions to regret here; I’d have loved to have more of his early, almost Pythonesque, satires and surrealist sketches. (He mentions “Local Family Keeps Son Happy,” the first ultra-short story of his that The New Yorker accepted, in 1970, but bafflingly doesn’t include it.) Excerpts from several of his novels are here—which he did not pass up the opportunity to rewrite, presumably so that they’d stand better on their own as short stories, though I’m not so sure they’re improved. But my favorite piece in the Reader is “College Days,” a paean to public education from his gracefully infuriated 2004 polemic, Homegrown Democrat, about his early-’60s stint at the University of Minnesota. Read it and be inspired—and, bearing in mind the destruction Republicans have striven to wreak on the concepts “public” and “education,” a little righteously pissed off, too.

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Jodorowsky, now 85, had remarkable success on the midnight-movie circuit with these two titles (in 1970 and ’73). The hippies and the druggies loved their trippy audacity, which the Village Voice pegged as spaghetti Westerns on peyote. Such acclaim led Jodorowsky to a French-financed adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, which he’d never read (but again: the same subtext of drugs and magical transformation). Much money was spent, the movie was never shot, which effectively ended Jodorowsky’s filmmaking career . . . until, wait, his triumphant return to Cannes last year with The Dance of Reality, which plays the GI next week. The latter sounds to be a great deal more polished, through still as strange and hallucinatory as El Topo—in which the director plays a gunfighter and mystic. The Holy Mountain I’ve never been able to sit through; there are some arresting tableaux and startling juxtapositions, but the whole ecstatic-religious allegorical scheme falls into the guess-youhad-to-be-there (and on the right drugs) spirit of the period. But if you see both this week, consider your homework done early for The Dance of Reality, which I can’t wait to watch. (Through Thurs.) Grand Illusion,

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The lineup for the second weekend is equally rich; however, you won’t be able to see anything I just described, since none of the programs repeat. That too is the point of the fest: to introduce as much new work as possible. For that reason, I look forward to seeing Amy O’Neal, who continues to reconfigure hip-hop dance in an intense solo; and Erin Pike, who’ll explore female stereotypes in theater, as expressed through their stage directions; and David Schmader, whose new monologue We All Can See Your Lips Move promises to devour itself.

PNW New Works Festival ON THE BOARDS, 100 W. ROY ST., 217-9886, ONTHEBOARDS.ORG. $14. 8 P.M. FRI., 5 & 8 P.M. SAT., 8 P.M. SUN. ENDS JUNE 14.

On the Boards has been producing this festival for 31 years, and every time there’s something you could never predict. Which is the point, but it still makes our eyebrows shoot up and our jaws drop when we see it.

Opening weekend’s contenders for “Who would have thought of that?” include Sarah Rudinoff ’s snappy observation that, on Facebook, “Everyone is having a cocktail. You never see them paying a bill.” Then there’s ilvs strauss’ mild-mannered imitation of a sea cucumber giving birth in a wonderful costume fashioned from a red sleeping bag. In the final tableau of dancer Linda Austin’s Hummingbird, she balances on top of a cat’s scratching post with a tablet computer glowing on her head, tooting on a pair of noisemakers. Zac Pennington shoves his microphone down Allie Hankins’ pants, then sings into her crotch.

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Some works have a seriously spooky aspect.

Kyle Loven is already disturbing as a Morsecode transcriber in Ham Sandwich, but then his world falls apart, and he’s reduced to using bread to record his messages. Finding a surveillance camera in the light fixture just makes it worse.

Anna Conner turns her camera on the viewer in YOURS, but don’t kiss me when her dancers exit the stage, leaving the audience grateful that the camera is pointing at someone else. The Pendleton House and Rainbow Fletcher both explore dark corners in their choreography—literally so for Pendleton House, where dancers spend long chunks of time in the near-dark, only to blind us with reflected light when they pass through a beam. Fletcher’s dancers appear in balaclava masks; her visceral movement style and deft use of stage patterns was a disorienting contrast to the anonymity of the masked performance.

PThe Price ACT THEATRE, 700 UNION ST., 292-7676, ACTTHEATRE.ORG. $20 AND UP. RUNS TUES.–SUN. ENDS JUNE 22.

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Overshadowed by his prior hits (Death of a Salesman, etc.), Arthur Miller’s psychologically astute mid-career (1968) drama is finding new fans through recent revivals around the country, including ACT’s deeply satisfying one, sensitively steered by Victor Pappas. Its themes feel bespoke for today: the emotional fallout from economic distress; the fear of one’s own idealism; the need to self-actualize (no one else will do it for you); and the life-shaping rationalizations we invent to justify our past misjudgments. Four great performances in a well-wrought, timely story make this a production you should go out of your way to see.

The gist: Policeman Victor (Charles Leggett) and surgeon Walter (Peter Lohnes) converge in their childhood bedroom after many years to dispose of their Depressionwrecked parents’ belongings, aided by elderly Jewish furniture dealer Mr. Solomon (Peter Silbert). A thankfully far cry from Hoarders, the stuff on Robert Dahlstrom’s maze-like set reflects twin yearnings for conformity and individuality: bourgeois “Spanish Jacobean” musthaves sprinkled with science projects and kooky fad Victrola records. The task of appraising the jumble prompts long-overdue stock-taking for the long-estranged brothers. Each sees the past through an entirely distinct lens, with Victor’s good-sport-whose-patience-is-wearing-thin wife Esther (Anne Allgood) rounding out the play’s Rashomon-esque trifocal vision.

Leggett wears Victor’s life vanquishment quietly, in the slack of his face, the melt of his shoulders. He was the “good” son, who sacrificed his schooling to support his father while Walter took off and never looked back. Victor’s summation of his father’s failure to recover from the Depression—“Some men don’t bounce”—applies the more aptly to himself. By contrast, Lohnes brings jaunty energy to his scenes—energy fracked from Walter’s permitting himself to experience life’s highest highs and lowest depths, rather than hewing to the middle. It’s a difficult, morally ambiguous role, which he manages masterfully. Meanwhile, Esther’s admiration and disgust ping-pongs between the men, reflecting the audience’s uncertainty about whose actions and values are more virtuous.

And what, you might ask, about the antiques dealer? Fasten your borscht belts for some A-game shtick from Silbert, returning to ACT after a 14-year absence. His delectable Solomon waxes chatty, feigns dudgeon, nibbles an egg, cadges salt for the egg, grabs his own face like a homicidal starfish, praises the lady,

mimes rolling out the royal carpet, etc. He’s the wise, mythical nudge who catalyzes the inevitable blowout between brothers and has the last laugh—though not how you might think.

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Homophonic Of the three Old Master composers whose sexual preference has been speculated on in recent years, the case for Beethoven is the least convincing, positing sexual tension in his strained relationship with his nephew Karl. The Handel argument is circumstantial

BY GAVIN BORCHERT but persuasive, based on the social circles he frequented as a young man in Italy and the fact that, as Seattle keyboardist Byron Schenkman once put it, “he spent his life in showbiz,” concentrating on opera quite successfully for much of his career.

As for Schubert: Given what we know of his life and the lives of his closest friends—while acknowledging the problem of mapping a contemporary identity onto a 200-year-old culture— which conclusion is more plausible: that his primary emotional attraction was toward men, or toward women? I say the former. Is this proof?

Of course not; you can’t prove a preference. But music-historical consensus has moved him from the hetero to the homo column. (Certainly no one any longer regards it as an offense to raise the issue?)

The obvious follow-up question, this being Pride Month: What does it matter? Should we think about his music, or hear it or play it, any differently? Schenkman, for one, says it’s made a difference to him—not as regards any aspect of the music itself, but in his relationship to it: “I grew up thinking that I was fundamentally dif-

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THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY

TEWAZ CORNISH PLAYHOUSE AT SEATTLE CENTER, CABIRI.ORG. $20–$35. 7:30 P.M. FRI.–SUN. ENDS JUNE 14.

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THE CABIRI: TEWAZ SEE REVIEW, THIS PAGE. DIANA OF DOBSON’S Cicely Hamilton’s 1908 English

comedy about a class-jumping young heroine during the Edwardian period. Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St., 7819707, taproottheatre.org. $15–$40. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat. Ends June 14.

FUNNY GIRL In the starring role of this revival, Sarah Rose Davis has to be exhaustively gawked up by her costumers to match the song “If a Girl Isn’t Pretty.” But by the time the show reaches “I’m the Greatest Star,” Davis owns the part. Good, because Funny Girl is a show that lives and dies on its Brice. Even the primary plot points of the vaudevillian’s fictionalized biography are mere vehicles to truck the audience toward the next song-anddance spectacular. DANIEL NASH Village Theatre, 303 Front St. N., Issaquah, 425-392-2202. $30–$65. Runs Wed.– Sun.; see villagetheatre.org for exact schedule. Ends July 6. (Runs in Everett July 11–Aug. 3.)

THE HUNCHBACK OF SEVILLE The premiere of Charise Castro Smith’s 1504-set romp. The Little Theatre, 608 19th Ave. E., 325-5105, washingtonensemble.org. $15–$20. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.–Mon. Ends June 30.

THE LISBON TRAVIATA Art imitates life in Terrence McNally’s play about opera obsessives. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave., 800-838-3006, theatre22.org. 8 p.m.

Thurs.–Sat., plus 2:30 p.m. Sat., June 21 & 28 and 8 p.m.

Mon., June 23. Ends June 28.

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman’s 1982 hit toys affectionately with two of America’s enduring infatuations: cheesy monster movies and jukebox pop. Appropriately, this ACT/5th Avenue co-production cranks the fun dial up to 11. KEVIN PHINNEY ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., 292-7676. $20–$50.

See acttheatre.org for exact schedule. Ends June 15.

LOVE IN THE TIME OF ZOMBIES Damian Trasler’s play examines marriage in a post-social-media apocalypse.

Ballard Underground, 2200 Market St., vagabondalley. com. $10–$14. 10 p.m. Sat. Ends June 28.

LUST & MARRIAGE Eleanor O’Brien’s solo show “examines cultural beliefs around monogamy, monotony, jealousy, and polyamory.” Theatre Off Jackson, 409 Seventh Ave. S., dancenakedproductions.com. $10–$18. 8 p.m.

Thurs.–Sat. Ends June 14.

THE PRICE SEE REVIEW, PAGE 62.

A SMALL FIRE Emily (Teri Lazzara) runs a construction business and has a cowed husband, John (Gordon Carpenter), and an exasperated adult daughter, Jenny (Sara Coates), who’s about to wed, at home. Then the indomitable Emily is struck by a degenerative disease, and suddenly shit gets real. Adam Bock’s affecting 2011

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JENNA NAND New City Theatre, 1404 18th Ave., 800-8383006, soundtheatrecompany.org. $15–$25. 8 p.m. Thurs.– Sat. plus Mon., June 16. Ends June 21.

TEATRO ZINZANNI: WHEN SPARKS FLY Maestro Voronin headlines this mad-scientist-themed show. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., 802-0015. $99 and up. Runs Thurs.–Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni.com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 21.

TERRE HAUTE In Edmund White’s 2006 drama, prisoner Harrison (Robert Bergin) is a young “redneck” who served in the first Gulf War. Interviewer James (Norman Newkirk) is an aging intellectual blue-blood—obvious stand-ins for mass murderer Timothy McVeigh and writer Gore Vidal. In the play’s most intimate moments, we get insight into the minds of two idiosyncratic characters, and some moving performances. MARK BAUMGARTEN ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., 292-7676. $15–$25. Runs Thurs.– Sun.; see acttheatre.org for exact schedule. Ends June 15.

THEATER SCHMEATER’S GALA SCHMALA Opening their new space with an evening of new short works. The Schmee, 2125 Third Ave., 800-838-3006, schmeater.org. $18–$25. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. Ends June 14.

TO THE NAKED EYE Innocence or dirtiness—what does nakedness mean? A half-dozen comic shorts try to find out. Cornish Playhouse, Seattle Center, playwrightstheatre.org. $20–$25. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. plus Mon., June 16. (Thursdays are clothing-optional.) Ends June 28.

URINETOWN A musical fable about a town in which “It’s a Privilege to Pee.” Renton Civic Theatre, 507 S. Third St., Renton, 425-226-5529, rentoncivictheatre.org. $20–$25. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends June 21.

THE WHO’S TOMMY The rock opera gets a “steampunk make-over.” Seattle Musical Theatre, 7120 62nd Ave. N.E., 800-838-3006, seattlemusicaltheatre.org. $30–$40. 7:30 p.m.

Thurs.–Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends June 15.

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from PNB School’s Professional Division, 7:30 p.m. Fri., June 13 ($5–$20), and students from the PNB School, 2 & 7 p.m. Sat., June 14 ($25–$70). 441-2424, pnb.org.

Schubert: Anders als die Andern?

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL

Performances by troupes from Seattle and all over the world; see SeattleIDF.org for full lineup, schedule, and South Lake Union venues including Raisbeck Hall, 2015 Boren Ave. June 13–22.

NORTHWEST NEW WORKS SEE REVIEW, PAGE 62.

Classical, Etc.

SYMPHONY Three sides of Vienna: Strauss’ •SEATTLE Emperor Waltz, Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto, and

Brahms’ Second. (It’s good to see conductor Ludovic Morlot taking Strauss seriously as concert fare.)

Benaroya Hall, Third Ave. & Union St., 215-4747, seattle symphony.org. $19 and up. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., June 12, 8 p.m.

Sat., June 14, 2 p.m. Sun., June 15.

LAKE UNION CIVIC ORCHESTRA Beethoven’s Fourth, plus new work by Lowell Liebermann and music director Christophe Chagnard. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth St., 343LUCO, luco.org. $13–$18. 7:30 p.m. Fri., June 13.

SEATTLE MODERN ORCHESTRA Three works, by Earle Brown, Franco Donatoni, and UW composer Joël-François Durand, that revisit, repurpose, or comment on earlier works. Chapel Performance Space, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., seattlemodernorchestra.com. $10–$20.

8 p.m. Fri., June 13.

SEATTLE MEN’S CHORUS Reviving Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s one-act opera For a Look or a Touch, based on the true-life story of two gay lovers during the Third Reich. The Paramount, 911 Pine St., 877-784-4849, seattlemenschorus.org. $25–$55. 8 p.m. Sat., June 14.

NORTHWEST CHAMBER CHORUS “Vices & Virtues” explores the topic through music from Monteverdi to Bernstein. Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church, 7500 Greenwood Ave. N., 523-1196, northwestchamberchorus. org. $12–$22. 3 p.m. Sun., June 14.

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The Cabiri’s shows have always been ambitious combinations of intensely physical dance theater and mysterious, mythology-based narrative. They want to blow your socks off while teaching you a lesson about the foundational stories of civilization. But this time out, it looks as if they’ve bitten off more than they can chew.

The story in TEWAZ reaches back to preGenesis descriptions of angels and demons, at a time when gods and humans existed together on Earth. It’s rich material for theater, but tricky to keep straight, even with the detailed description in the playbill. Artistic director John Murphy shows us an incredible plethora of characters: humans who hunt as leopards, loping across the stage on all four limbs; angels hanging from the ceiling on silks and trapezes; one priestess who could’ve been Ruth St. Denis in D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance; and another who looks like Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. They all perform a complicated mix of dance, gymnastics, martial arts, and aerial choreography— much of it highly skilled work.

With all these elements in play, TEWAZ seems overwhelmed by the sheer size of its tale. Even factoring in opening-night jitters, there were gaps in the narrative and cracks in the technical flow. Some individual scenes are astonishing, especially the aerial battles and the tumbling hunters pursuing a yak, but transitions need to be tightened up. The story either needs to be simplified or narrated more closely.

The Cabiri’s mytho-acrobatic performance style does fit these stories of gods and humans: When we see a demon on a bungee snatch up a cowering villager, we’re right in the middle of those cave-art times. But we expect a great deal from special effects in these 3-D days; and if you’re going to present yourself as a pocket version of Cirque du Soleil, you’ve set your bar high. Maybe too high. TEWAZ is the first chapter in the Tea Trilogy, which the Cabiri will continue the next couple of years. By the time we get to Book Two, they should be further along on all fronts. SANDRA KURTZ E

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A stage adaptation of Michael Chabon’s 1939-set novel.

Center Theatre at the Armory, Seattle Center, 216-0833.

Opens June 11. 6 p.m. Wed.–Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. (N.B.: The show runs five hours with three breaks.) Ends July 13.

THE AMAZING ACRO-CATS From skateboarding to ballbalancing, a festival of felines. Theatre4, Seattle Center Armory, circuscats.com. $24. Opens June 12. 8 p.m.

Thurs.–Fri., 5 & 8 p.m. Sat., 2 & 5 p.m. Sun. Ends June 22.

BELLTOWN BURLESQUE REVUE “Where We Came From,” a look at burlesque history, stars The Shanghai Pearl, Tamara the Trapeze Lady, Jesus la Pinga, and many others. Re-Bar, 1114 Howell St., 800-838-3006, purpledevil productions.com. $13–$40. 7:30 p.m. Sat., June 14.

ECLECTIC THEATER ONE ACT PLAY FESTIVAL New work by Bob De Dea, Oneda Harris, Louise Penberthy, and many others. Eclectic Theater, 1214 10th Ave. $10– $12. 7 p.m. Fri., June 13–Sat., June 14.

THE GERSHWINS’ PORGY AND BESS SEE THE PICK LIST, PAGE 59.

INFINITY BOX Playwrights and scientists from UW’s Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering team up for new short plays on the theme “The Question of Being Human: Prosthetics and Neural Enhancements.” Ethnic Cultural Theatre, 3940 Brooklyn Ave. N.E., infinitybox.org. $5–$10.

7:30 p.m. Fri., June 13–Sat., June 14; 2 p.m. Sun., June 15.

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION In this 14/48 “Theater Anonymous” project, Agatha Christie’s courtroom mystery extends to the casting: No actor knows who else is in the show, each one rehearsing only with the director until performance time. PONCHO Concert Hall, Cornish College 710 E. Roy St., the1448projects.org. $20–$25. 8 p.m. Sat, June 14.

WRITERS GROUP SHOWCASE Readings of eight worksin-progress by Seattle Rep’s resident Writers Group.

PONCHO Forum, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Center, seattlerep.org. Free. Opens June 13. 7:30 p.m.

Fri.–Sat., 4 p.m. Sat.–Sun. Ends June 22.

ferent from just about everybody else, including the composers I most admired. I feel happier and more at ease playing Schubert’s music knowing that he might have struggled with (and hopefully also enjoyed) some of the same feelings I have had.” He’ll play the “Trout” Quintet and the “Arpeggione” Sonata, plus a trio by Schubert’s contemporary Johann Nepomuk Hummel, on the final concert in his “Byron Schenkman and Friends” series. Benaroya Recital Hall, Third Ave. & Union St., 215-4747, byronschenkman. com. $10–$42. 7 p.m. Sun., June 15.

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Openings & Events ARTCADE Vintage arcade consoles are strewn across

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the gallery floor with video game art accompanying them. Reception during Capitol Hill Blitz! Art Walk: 5 p.m.-12 a.m. Vermillion, 1508 11th Ave., 709-9797, vermillionseattle.com. On view through June.

RACHID BOUHAMIDI Fanfare for the Area Man collects the Los Angeles artist’s colorful, busy paintings.

Opening reception, Thurs., June 12, 6-9 p.m. Blindfold Gallery, 1718 E. Olive Way, 328-5100, blindfoldgallery.com. Through July 5.

ALLI CURTIS The Decay of an American Dream captures photos of homes and businesses after foreclosure and bankruptcy in wake of the financial crisis. Opening reception Fri., June 13, 6-9 p.m. A/NT Gallery, 2045 Westlake Ave., 233-0680, antgallery. org. Through June 29.

MARC DOMBROSKY Who throws their sister to the wolves under the bus? takes a collection of unrelated items, and attempts to forge momentary, fragmentary narratives by placing them all in the gallery in new, unexpected contexts. Opening reception Thurs., June 12, 6-8 p.m. Platform Gallery, 114 Third Ave. S (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 323-2808, platformgallery.com. Free. Through July 26 CHERI O’BRIEN Dog Stories is exactly what it sounds like–a multimedia series featuring reverent renderings of all sorts of canines. Opening reception Thurs., June 12, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Jeffrey Moose Gallery, 1333 Fith Ave., 467-6951, jeffreymoosegallery.com. Through Aug. 16.

I HEART COMIC ART An art show of local indie comic artists, with art on sale and live music from Lucas Morais of Astral Twins. Opening reception Thurs., June 12, 5-8 p.m. Caffe Vita, 1005 E. Pike St., 7094440, caffevita.com. Through June 30.

PORTRAITS OF PRIDE In celebration of Pride Month, self portraits from LGBTQ and allied artists inclduing Amy C. Abadilla, Cody Blomberg, Andrew Caldwell, Dale Davis, McCade Dolan, Scott Dunn, Stephen Eaker, Juan Franco, Elise Koncsek, Nan Leiter, Mario Lemafa, and others. Opening reception Thurs., June 12, 6-9 p.m. Gay City Health Project, 517 E. Pike St., 860-6969, gaycity.org. Through July 7.

KATE PROTAGE AND DAN HAWKINS Urban Explorers showcases the work of two adventurous artists who thrive on journey’s through the wilds of the city. Protage takes pictures of the city at night, and then recreates them as oil paintings. Hawkins, who has ventured in urban ruins and decaying buildings across the world, documenting them on photographic film. Opening reception Thurs., June 12, 6-8 p.m. SAM Gallery, 1300 First Ave., 654-3121, seattleartmuseum.org. Free. Through July 20.

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sented by some five decades of work in The Unicorn Incorporated. An artist, illustrator, muralist, and community advocate, he co-created the Omowale Mural at Medgar Evers Pool in 1972, a very visible manifestation of the flowering of African-American artists during that era. Then, controversially the mural was destroyed in 1995, but some its design elements will be on view during this big career retrospective, his first. Three artists are represented in Your Feast Has Ended: Seattle’s Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes (son of Curtis R. Barnes), Sitka’s Nicholas Galanin, and Nep Sidhu, a Briton now based in Canada. According to the Frye’s manifesto, the three will “offer a visual cogitation exploring continuum, identity, ritual, and adornment and signal that natural, cultural and human resources have been appropriated, exploited, suppressed, depleted, or eradicated.” Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave., 622-9250, fryemuseum.org.

Free. Opens Sat., June 14. 11 a.m-5 p.m. Through mid-September.

CAIT WILLIS The “glitch” paintings in her Catastrophe Museum are based on the writings of J.G. Ballard, resulting in messy “white noise” paintings. Opening reception Thurs., June 12, 5-9 p.m. Ghost Gallery, 504 E. Denny Way, 832-6063, ghostgalleryart.com.

Through July 7.

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AT YOUR SERVICE Ariel Brice, Gésine Hackenberg,

Molly Hatch, Giselle Hicks, Garth Johnson, Niki Johnson, Sue Johnson, Emily Loehle, Caroline Slotte, and Amelia Toelke mess with crockery and other tokens of the domestic table. Bellevue Arts Museum, 510 Bellevue Way N.E., 425-519-0770, bellevuearts.org, $8-$10, Tues.-Sun., 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Through Sept. 21.

HOWARD BARLOW Bite presents an array of mutated

looking sculptures with teeth and bone dangling in grotesque fashion. Punch Gallery, 119 Prefontaine Pl. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 621-1945, punchgallery.org. Through June 5.

DANISH MODERN: DESIGN FOR LIVING A survey of modern style Danish furniture from 1950-60. Nordic Heritage Museum, 3014 N.W. 67th St., Seattle, 7895707, nordicmuseum.org, $8, Tues.-Sun., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Through Aug. 31.

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Performing as Candied Calamari, the local duo will be “engaging in sacramental action in a futuristic landscape.” In the back space: Julie Alpert’s Look-Alikes, a drawing series based on a pair of identical lamps.

SOIL Gallery, 112 Third Ave. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), soilart.org. Through June 28.

DECO JAPAN This is a somewhat unusual traveling show in that it comes from a single private collection: that of Florida’s Robert and Mary Levenson. The specificity and period (1920–1945) are also unusual.

Among the roughly 200 items on view—prints, furniture, jewelry, etc.—we won’t be seeing the usual quaint cherry-blossom references to Japan’s hermetic past. The country opened itself late, at gunpoint, to the West, and industrialized quite rapidly. By the ’20s, there was in the big cities a full awareness of Hollywood movies, European fashions, and streamlined design trends. Even if women didn’t vote, they knew about Louise Brooks and her fellow flappers.

We may think that, particularly during the ’30s, the country was concerned with militarism and colonial expansion, but these objects reveal the leisure time and sometime frivolity of the period. For an urbane class of pleasure-seekers, necessarily moneyed, these were boom times. The luxe life meant imitating the West to a degree, yet there are also many traces of Japan’s ancient culture within these modern accessories. Think of the sybarites during the Edo period, for instance, and the women depicted here look more familiar—even if they wear cocktail dresses instead of kimonos. BRIAN MILLER Seattle Asian Art Museum, 1400 E. Prospect St. (Volunteer Park), Seattle, 654-3100, seattleartmuseum.org. $5-$7, Weds.-Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Through Oct. 19.

ANNE FENTON Recent winner of the Brink Award, the local artist shows two new videos, stencil art, and handmade fibrous objects. Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave. N.E., Seattle, 543-2280, henryart.org, $6-$10, Weds., Sat., Sun., 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Thurs., Fri., 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Through June 15.

JENNY FILLIUS Her affection for repurposing castoff tin is on display in Stay on the Sunny Side, in which the metalworker forges art pieces out of old toys, containers, and more. Gallery4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Pl. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 2967580, galleries.4culture.org. Through June 5.

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origami as an art form around the globe from its origins all the way up to today. Bellevue Arts Museum, Through Sept. 21.

ZARIA FORMAN AND RENA BASS FORMAN A mother and daughter show two separate series centered around the effects of climate change—one through pastel drawings, and one through photography. Winston Wächter Fine Art, 203 Dexter Ave. N. 652-5855, seattle.winstonwachter.com Through July 17.

LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER Born in the declining Rust Belt town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, Frazier’s images have mostly been black-and-white studies of her kin, lending dignity to loved ones struggling with underemployment, disease, and fractured families. She began taking photographs as a teenager during the ’90s, in part as a rebuttal of the historical images of Braddock that showed only its white faces. Born by a River comprises two sections and eras. In the hallway leading to the Knight/Lawrence Gallery, we see about two dozen black-and-white images of her family, often with Frazier posing among them. Look at us, Frazier is saying; this is how we live. The main gallery contains seven large color aerial views of Braddock, taken last year from a helicopter hovering over The Bottom, the neighborhood where Frazier was raised.

There’s a startling micro/macro effect as we pull up high to these impersonal views. Frazier’s family, and others like it, disappear. All we see are scrapped lots and empty fields. The people are conspicuously missing. B.R.M. Seattle Art Museum, $12.50-$19.50, Weds., Fri.-Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Through June 22.

DAVID FRENCH He displays new paintings. Also on view: work by Susan Bennerstrom. Linda Hodges Gallery, 316 First Ave. S., 624-3034, lindahodgesgallery.com. Through June 28.

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Stripes: Sculpture in Paintings. Traver Gallery, 110 Union St., 587-6501, travergallery.com. Through June 28.

STEVE GAWRONSKI AND SCOTT MAYBERRY

Gawronksi’s scultpure series explores the word “dig,” while Mayberry’s acrylic paintings delve into the interplay of technology and nature. Core Gallery, 117 Prefontaine Pl. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 467-4444, coregallery.org. Through June 29.

AARON HABA From Camano Island, he uses boatbuilding techniques for the creations of Vessel.

Method Gallery, 106 Third Ave. S., (Tashiro Kaplan Building), Through June 28.

ANDY KEHOE AND REDD WALITZK Andy Kehoe’s beautiful paintings depict dark forest landscapes inhabited by a zoo of fantastical mystic creatures.

Redd Walitzki’s work has a similar sylvan vibe, opting for brighter colors and a focus on woodland nymphs. Roq La Rue Gallery, 532 First Ave. S., 374-8977, roqlarue.com. Through June 5.

ROBERT MARCHESSAULT His Forest for the Trees is a series of realistic oil paintings of trees against stark skylines. Foster/White Gallery, 220 Third Ave. S., 622-2833, fosterwhite.com. Through July 2.

ALEXANDER PETROV AND KURT KEMP A collection of Russian painter Petrov’s surreal works alongside Kemp’s equally as bizarre paper collages.

Davidson Galleries, 313 Occidental Ave. S., 6247684, davidsongalleries.com. Through June 28.

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Beijing, Liu went back to his emptied-out old village after three decades away, finding stagnation and defeat among his former cronies. The young people have fled to the coast, where the money is.

Back in Jincheng, prospects and hopes are things of the past. There he took photos and made sketches for the paintings of Hometown Boy. There’s nothing explicitly political here, yet the paintings read like a socioeconomic portrait of China’s old inland Rust Belt.

These are somewhat sad, desultory scenes. Liu isn’t a political artist like Ai Weiwei. He works within the system but is certainly aware of its constraints and discontents, which surely swirl into Hometown Boy’s palette of oils. B.R.M. Seattle Asian Art Museum, through June 29.

SKYSPACE James Turrell’ Skyspace stands on two concrete pillars in the Henry’s erstwhile sculpture courtyard. On the exterior, thousands of LED fixtures under the structure’s frosted glass skin create slowly shifting colors, making the pavilion a spectacular piece of public art every night. Inside, the ellipse of sky seen through the chamber’s ceiling suddenly appears to be very, very close, a thin membrane bulging into the room. Wispy bits of cirrus clouds passing by appear to be features on the slowly rotating surface of a luminous, egg-shaped blue planet suspended just overhead. Emerging from the Skyspace, I find the night wind and the light in the clouds come to me through freshly awakened senses. A dreamy, happy feeling follows me home like the moon outside my car window. DAVID STOESZ Henry Art Gallery WAN QUINGLI In Inked, by the San Francisco-based Chinese artist, traditional calligraphy and line drawings have been tweaked to comment upon the modern world. They’re whimsical but rather obvious (actual mouse meets computer mouse, etc.), too gentle for satire. Seattle Asian Art Museum, Through June 29.

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this case, there will be no swelling orchestra or actors striding onstage. McMahon’s curtains announce nothing but themselves. Divvying up the space is the spectacle; the set, if you will, constitutes the entire show. Every night is opening night in a production that will run longer than any of Seattle’s summer theatricals. Hold your applause; there’s no one there to hear it but you. Suyama Space, 2324 Second Ave., 256-0809, suyamaspace.org.

Free. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Mon.–Fri. Ends Aug. 15.

a garage. Yet for his new CASCADE, New York artist Ian McMahon has mostly blocked those clerestories with drapery that’s actually solid plaster. There are portals held open like stage curtains on the east-west axis; once you’re inside the rectangular enclosure, it’s much darker. At the opening reception last month, people seemed eager—on a late spring evening—to herd along the gallery walls, where the sun still crept through. There, too, as if backstage, is the wooden scaffolding McMahon used to install the thing. The dimming effect inside is familiar from theater: When the lights go down, it’s time to hush, turn off cell phones, and unwrap cough drops. The scene was more festive and noisy at CASCADE ’s unveiling, but there was the same sense of a threshold, of a boundary between realms. In

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member of the member of the Swinomish and Tulalip tribes tribe, is traveling to Indian reservations around the photograph all the 562 officially recognized tribes.

There she makes dignified portraits and conducts audio interviews. This is a selection of about 50 images made during the last two years. Tacoma Art Museum, 1701 Pacific Ave., 253-272-4258, tacomaartmuseum.org, $8-$10, Weds.-Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Through Oct. 5.

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TOM ROB SMITH His Euro-thriller The Farm concerns mental illness and family secrets. Smith’s prior bestseller Child 44 will be released as a movie this fall, starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and Gary Oldman.

University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., 634-3400, bookstore.washington.edu. Wed., June 11, 7 p.m.

MICHAEL FALEY, ROMINA MIKA AND JUDITH SKILLMAN Daley has translated the poetry from

Lucia Gazzino’s Alter Mundus (The Other World). Mika will read some verses in their original Italian. The local Skillman shares from Broken Lines-The Art & Craft of Poetry and The Phoenix: New and Selected Poems 2007 to 2013. Elliott Bay Book Co., Thurs., June 12, 7 p.m.

JACK HART Skookum Summer is a debut novel, set on Hood Canal in 1981, where a disgraced newspaper reporter stumbles onto a murder mystery. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way N.E., 366-3333, thirdplacebooks.com. Thurs., June 12, 7 p.m.

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TONY BRASUNAS Spiritual awakening is the subject of his Double Happiness. Third Place Books, Fri., June 13, 6:30 p.m.

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SUSAN CARR The Ballad of Desiree is a road novel that explores love and young motherhood. Third Place Books, Sat., June 14. 7 p.m.

EMERALD CITY AUTHOR EVENT Three dozen international authors sign and sell their works. The Red Lion, 1415 Fifth Ave., 855-515-1144, facebook.com/ EmeraldCityAuthorEvent. Free. Sat., June 14. 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

LITERACY COUNCIL OF SEATTLE Thousands of books are on sale. Proceeds benefit local literacy programs. 8500 14th Ave. N.W., 233-9720, literacyseattle.org. Sat., June 14. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

TONY ANGELL J. Fenwick Landsdowne is an overview of the life and works of the Canadian naturalist, as considered by the local artist Angell. Elliott Bay Book Co., Sat., June 14. 2 p.m.

LISA SEE Her novel China Dolls is set in 1938 San Francisco, where young Chinese-American women work in a nightclub. Their friendship is tested, however, by the oncoming war. Elliott Bay Book Co., Sat., June 14. 7 p.m.

GREG VAN EEKHOUT California Bones concerns a heist in futuristic Los Angeles. University Book Store, Sat., June 14. 3 p.m.

BILL HILLMAN He reads from his coming-of-age novel, set in Chicago, The Old Neighborhood. The Station, 2533 16th Ave. S., 453-4892. Sun., June 15, 6 p.m.

DANIEL W. DREZNER He discusses his The System Worked: How the World Stopped Another Great Depression, about the 2008 global financial crisis.

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ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE This essayist tries his hand at poetry in Evolution of the Genus Iris: Poems. (Also appears 7 p.m. Tues., June 17 at Eagle Harbor Books on Bainbridge Island.) Elliott Bay Book Co., Mon., June 16, 7 p.m.

ANEESH CHOPRA He discusses Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government. Town Hall, $5. Tues., June 17. 7:30 p.m.

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the hormones and serotonin flowed freely, our favorite tunes of youth were wired into our synapses forever. That’s why it’s such a shock to hear a favorite old song, be it “Creep” or “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” and wonder, Holy shit, how did I get so old?!? That’s the dilemma for Seattle music writer Ellie (Toni Collette), 40-ish and sleeping with men too young for her, clinging to print in the Internet age, keeping her CDs when the rest of the world has moved on to Spotify and the cloud.

Ellie’s old boyfriend, presumed a suicide in Snoqualmie Falls, wears a very Cobainesque halo. He’s been gone 10 years, which places Ellie in an indeterminate post-grunge limbo.

The music may have died; music journalism is certainly dying (cue an old stack of The Rocket Ellie uses for research); and her love life is nearly DOA. Directed by local filmmaker Megan Griffiths (The Off Hours, Eden), Lucky Them is a lightweight, inoffensive formula picture that borrows Seattle as a scenic backdrop; you could say the same about Nora Ephron’s Sleepless in Seattle, only that film brought a lot more writing talent to our city. Here, the writer is Connecticut journalist/actress Emily Wachtel, and she’ll have to write a few dozen more screenplays before filling even one of Ephron’s pumps. This one limps along like it’s got several pages missing, or was stapled in the wrong order.

Ellie goes in search of her mythic lost Matthew, aided by a dorky dilettante of a documentary filmmaker (Thomas Haden Church) and urged by her gruff editor (Oliver Platt), on a retrospective quest that’s clearly intended to help her move on, as they say. That Ellie needs

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We will address the C-word right away: Gia Coppola is the granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola, niece of Sofia, cousin of Nicolas Cage, etc. Just 25 when she wrote and directed Palo Alto, this newest member of the filmmaking famiglia has opted for safe material for her debut: This one’s solidly in the high-schoolangst genre. Watching this humdrum movie, I couldn’t help but wish she’d followed her grandfather’s route and chosen to cut her teeth on something less pretentious and meaningful— you know, like a down-’n’-dirty horror picture.

Perhaps such a project would summon a little more oomph. (Pause here for a fond memory of Dementia 13, directed by the youthful F.F.C. in 1963 at the behest of Roger Corman.)

Palo Alto is adapted from a book of short stories by the apparently inexhaustible James Franco, who also plays a supporting role in a handful of scenes as a sleepily lecherous soccer coach whose focus of attention is a confused 16-year-old named April (Emma Roberts).

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The boredom is understandable. This is California ennui born of an overabundance of privilege and living space, captured in a manner that Franco as creepy coach.

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the French-Canadian film Seducing Dr. Lewis, seen at SIFF ‘04 and written by Ken Scott. He’s becoming an industry at this kind of thing: His fertility-clinic comedy Starbuck had its recent Hollywood remake as a Vince Vaughn vehicle, Delivery Man. What we have here is some real Northern exposure: A dying Canadian harbor town will see its only shot at landing a new factory shrivel away unless a full-time doctor settles there.

The local fishing industry’s broken, but the movie mostly blames government regulation, not overfishing. By hook and crook, they get a young M.D. (Taylor Kitsch) to take a month’s residency; now every townsperson must connive to convince the guy this is the only place to live.

(One good gag: They keep leaving $5 bills lying about for the doc to find—because who doesn’t love free money?) The town is, unfortunately, called Tickle Point. At this level of relentless sugar candy, it could hardly be anything else.

Director Don (Last Night) McKellar’s participation, given his previously dark-hued comedy output, suggests a surrender to wholesomeness.

I’m sorry to say that the great Brendan Gleeson is the leader of the Tickle Point conspiracy, supported by Canadian legend Gordon Pinsent (Away From Her) in the Wilford Brimley crusty-curmudgeon role. Kitsch comes off rather well; he looks far more relaxed here than in the blockbuster haze of John Carter and Battleship, perhaps because he isn’t shamelessly twinkling at every turn.

The French-language original was just as overbearing. Of that one, I wrote, “[It] needs a dash of brine to put it in the Local Hero category,” and seeing this version just confirms how wonderfully 1983’s Local Hero carried insight and beauty beneath its whimsy. But something else relegates Grand Seduction to truly annoying status. The promised factory will be built by a petrochemical corporation, which demands a

Collette’s journalist goes digging into her own archives.

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Gleeson and Kitsch, sailing on a sea of cute.

After the calamity of World War II, your family exterminated by the Nazis (or their minions), how important would it be to reclaim your Jewish identity? That’s the question for Anna, 18, who’s soon to take her vows as a Catholic nun in early-’60s Poland. Now early-’60s Poland is not a place you want to be. The Anglo-Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski (Last Resort, My Summer of Love) films his black-and-white drama in the boxy, old-fashioned Academy ratio, like some Soviet-era newsreel. You can’t smell it, but the negative seems to have been developed in a bath of vodka, urine, and cow shit. And that’s the dominant impression of the outside world for virginal Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) when she’s sent to visit her unknown aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza), a drunken former Communist prosecutor who’ll fuck any man she fancies. Beyond the convent walls, the world is a sorry place; and it only contains more sad tales.

Anna, she discovers, is a Jew—an orphan delivered to the church as an infant during the war, birth name Ida. Wanda insists they find their family homestead, and a desultory road trip ensues. The surly peasants won’t talk to them; Wanda smashes their car; and Anna’s too shy to flirt with a handsome, hitchhiking sax player (Dawid Ogrodnik) who invites them to a gig. (His god is Coltrane, a far different cat than Christ.)

From The Pawnbroker to Schindler’s List, the canon of Holocaust movies has been fairly well exhausted at this point. Pawlikowski doesn’t dwell on the familiar bones or atrocities; instead, he shadows two women—Wanda being the more interesting character—with different approaches to the past. Wanda’s the former resistance fighter scarred by the war. Anna’s the new generation who’ll hear the Beatles on shortwave radio. But will that—and Coltrane— be enough to sustain a life behind the Iron Curtain?

The usual Holocaust tales celebrate endurance or escape. Ida suggests something simpler and deeper about survival and European history in general. Sometimes you just can’t come to terms with the past. And why should Anna, so sheltered, be forced into such reckoning? (Wanda’s eyes, always open, admit only sorrow.) Pawlikowski and his co-writer, English playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz, poke at the pit graves and pieties of the Cold War era and find an unlikely sort of strength for their heroine: the courage to turn her back. BRIAN MILLER

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During the SIFF screening I attended for The Grand Seduction, the audience was chortling and sighing at all the right moments. The picture went over so big it had me worrying that some people might think this is the sort of movie you should see at a film festival. It’s not. For all its super-nice intentions, attractive players, and right-thinking messages, this thing might’ve come out of a can. It is, literally, from formula: an English-language remake of

to let go of the past and the whole bathroomsex-with-rockers thing is nicely crystalized in a reaction shot from the ever-redoubtable Collette. Ellie and her new boy toy (Ryan Eggold) are discussing Matthew’s music. I was a huge fan, he tells her, in eighth grade. The camera cuts to Collette, whose eyes reel like the spinning numbers on an adding machine. If the filmmaker, Charlie, is ridiculously uncool (admitting “I hate music”), at least he’s age-appropriate.

And he’s got money. Ellie may not say as much, but a franker assessment of where her life is heading is what a better writer—meaning Wachtel or her surrogate—needed to tease out of this story. Failing that, Griffiths does an adequate job with the script handed her. BRIAN

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Sci-fi, like real estate and society in general, is headed in two unequal directions. Tom Cruise’s Edge of Tomorrow cost some $175 million. This modest sleeper from William Eubank, previously the director of 2011’s Love, is a more thrifty, handmade affair—The Blair Witch Project gone to Area 51. Three brainy MIT students are driving west to Cal Tech when they decide to investigate some sort of Internet hacker/ troll named Nomad. Bad idea. Their leader, Nic (Aussie TV actor Brenton Thwaites of Home and Away), wakes up in an underground government bunker—a rotary-dial relic of the Cold War, it seems, suggesting both Lost and The Twilight Zone.

Nic is a bit of a prick, the kind of 2,400-score SAT savant who immediately begins to question his quarantine or captivity or whatever it is that brings him under the solemn scrutiny of Dr. Damon (Laurence Fishburne), leader of “the transition team,” who never removes his ominous clean suit. It takes about 30 minutes to reach this underground facility and about another 30 to regain the surface, where further surprises await. (I preferred the suspenseful first hour, before the big story jolts.) Eubank sets up a puzzle for us to solve, even as Nic is trying to decipher a different mystery. He questions Dr. Damon’s scientific methods while we begin to doubt Nic’s sanity. Is that really his buddy Jonah (Beau Knapp) speaking to him through the air ducts—or a paranoid voice from his own head? Nic’s girlfriend Haley (Olivia Cooke) is no help, spending half the movie strapped to a gurney, which results in an amusingly slow escape scene: one patient wheeling another down endless, dingy corridors. Nic’s determined problem-solving is more concrete than The Signal’s philosophical detour into Plato’s cave. Certain knots in this story cannot be unsnarled.

Visiting Seattle for SIFF, Eubank told me, “I wanted to make a movie about Area 51 that didn’t ever say it was about Area 51.”

(In fact, Jonah only suspects that’s where the trio is being held.) If anything, for his three rationalist heroes, Area 51 is more of a murky concept, a signifier of the realm where science breaks down, he says. “I think it still houses a lot of what-ifs. It’s very representative of the unknown and government secrets and weird tests.” Nic and company see in the place what they, having watched many sci-fi movies, expect to see. Dr. Damon merely reinforces that expectation, among other forms of covert assistance that he provides his three subjects.

If they’re his unwitting lab rats, so we are Eubank’s. BRIAN MILLER

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Today, it’s good to be Shep. He’s rich, largely retired, loved by everyone who, like he, somehow lived through the hedonism of that golden age. He can look back on past excess with the contentment and good karma of a life well-lived. Avuncular and incredibly well-connected in Hollywood, Gordon hobnobs with the Dalai Lama, Michael Douglas, Sylvester Stallone, Willie Nelson, and a host of other celebs. Myers harvests plenty of their A-list praise and logrolling for his friend, now 68, who relates his old debaucheries with only mild embarrassment; he’s lived long enough to laugh at shenanigans at the Playboy Mansion and on the chartered plane of his first and most loyal client, Alice Cooper. (Scenes of the two buddies playing golf—Cooper without fright makeup, dyed hair tucked neatly in his cap—suggest some sort of reality TV show.) As the accolades keep rolling in, however, and as we better appreciate Gordon’s gilded life, the doc becomes poshly self-congratulatory and repetitive. Winners, no matter now nice, become dull after they’ve won.

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It’s the louche, ’70s side of Gordon’s rise that we want to see—and that’s plainly the movie Myers wants to make. From Wayne Campbell to Austin Powers and even to, groan, the Love Guru, he’s always had a backward-looking reverence for his showbiz forebears—all those guests on the Johnny Carson show that he, growing up in suburban Canada, longed to join. Shrek has made him rich since his early-’90s success, though Myers here speaks on camera of “a very hard time” (alcoholism? divorce?) when Gordon sheltered him. This film is partly the repayment of a heartfelt karmic debt to Gordon, whom anyone watching would want to have as a friend (especially given his open-door policy toward Maui visitors). It’s also the outline for a script that, after Gordon’s death, Myers might eventually film—with more misbehavior and less serving tea to the Dalai Lama. BRIAN MILLER E

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MYSTIC PIZZA Take a trip back to 1988 with Julia Roberts and company in what was probably her breakthrough role. She’s charming, but so also are Annabeth Gish and Lili Taylor. (R) Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave., 686-6684, central-cinema.com. $6-$8. 7 p.m.

Fri.-Tues. & 3 p.m. Sat. & Sun. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS Jodie Foster earned an Oscar opposite Anthony Hopkins’ braniac killer in this 1991 thriller. Jonathan Demme directs the second, and likely best, of several Hannibal Lecter pictures. (R) Central Cinema, $6-$8. 9:30 p.m. Fri.-Weds.

SILENT MOVIE MONDAYS Organist Jim Riggs plays a live score for Show People, starring Marion Davies, with half of Hollywood dropping by for cameos. All programs include shorts and post-film discussions. (NR) The Paramount, 911 Pine St., 877-784-4849, stgpresents.org. $5-$10. 7 p.m. Mondays through June 30.

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the company Burt’s Bees, reclusive former entrepreneur Burt Shavitz is followed to his Maine retreat by filmmaker Jody Shapiro. See siff.net for showtimes.

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BORGMAN Fresh from the fest, directed by Alex van Warmerdam, this Dutch thriller has a malign stranger infiltrate and corrupt an affluent household (Or was it already corrupt?!?) It sounds like Renoir’s Boudu Saved from Drowning, only in reverse. (NR) SIFF Film Center (Seattle Center), $6-$11. 8:30 p.m. Fri.-Sun. WE ARE THE BEST! Unseen by us, but well received at SIFF, this is Swedish director Lukas Moodysson’s 1982-set adaptation of a graphic novel written by his wife, Coco Moodysson. Her story, based on her own experiences as a young punk rocker, relates how three 13-year-old girls come together and form a band.

Moodysson is previously the director of Show Me Love and Together, among other titles. See website for showtimes. (NR) Varsity, 4329 University Way N.E., 632-6412, landmarktheatres.com. $10.50.

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The late Hollywood icon is honored for Pride Month with two movies. First on Wednesday is Written on the Wind (1956), with Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, and Lauren Bacall. Set in the moneyed Texas oilpatch, this Douglas Sirk-directed melodrama has everyone unhappily in love with someone else. Class resentments seep in, too. On Friday is another grand Sirk

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Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche play wordsmith and picture-maker, respectively. Owen’s character, Jack Marcus, is about to get tossed from the faculty for his hungover manners and his declining commitment. Dina Delsanto (Binoche) is soured by her illness and suffering from creative block. That the film moves at all is due to veteran Aussie director Fred Schepisi’s ability to get a flow going. (PG-13) R.H. Harvard Exit Send events to film@seattleweekly.com See seattleweekly.com for full listings = Recommended

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Joey Ryan of Los Angeles folk group Milk Carton Kids weighs in on the benefits of being a duo.

If the Moondoggies could be said to have a secret weapon—a bop gun that makes the audience bounce and sway throughout the band’s epic jams—it is JON PONTRELLO, who officially joined the band during the making of its latest, and greatest, full-length, Adios, I’m a Ghost. Pontrello is now proffering his magic touch at Fremont Abbey, for which he’s put together a stellar songwriter’s night. The evening will be anchored by inimitable Portland songwriter and raconteur NICK JAINA, whose songs are very good but sometimes overshadowed by his between-song banter, a cocktail of witty and withering observations. Headlining will be STELTH ULVANG, who plays piano for folk-rock band the Lumineers when not writing his own inventive, rollicking, swaying songs about, among other things, springtime and Carl Sagan, and which recall, in a sense, Lou Reed. Opening the night will be multi-instrumentalist Pontrello himself, who will no doubt surprise you.

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Ryan: It’s very much like a marriage. It’s equal to the difference between being a single person and a married person, with all of the benefits and drawbacks that come from that. Compared to being a solo artist, personally I think it’s an enriching addition to one’s musical life. As compared to being in a larger band, I don’t have any reference.

How do you break a tie in a two-person group?

Somebody’s got to give in. We have a government shutdown every now and again. We’ve given ourselves each veto power over every decision, and you have to be responsible with veto power—you can’t just filibuster everything.

Do you ever worry that your partnership will end up like Wham!: Kenneth will become George Michael and you’ll end up Andrew Ridgeley?

I have thought about the ominous history of a lot of duos. There’s not that many of them that end

up on speaking terms after very long. The Everlys—and they were brothers—I think they had to get separate tour buses at the end. I’m pretty sure Paul [Simon] and Art [Garfunkel] are not buddies.

If it’s anything like the divorce rate, you’ve got about a 50-50 shot.

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How do you figure out who will sing melody and who will tackle harmony?

Usually it’s whoever’s voice sounds better singing each part. Sometimes it’s obscured even to us which is the melody and which is the harmony. We try and treat it less like a harmony line and more like a countermelody. Usually the vocals are blended in such a way that one is not a lot louder than the other, and they’re both composed to be able to survive on their own.

Can we do a rapid-fire duo round? How do you feel about Tenacious D?

I haven’t listened to them in a long time, but I used to watch their videos. Those guys are geniuses.

Black Keys?

I’ve never gotten familiar with their music.

Eurythmics?

I didn’t know that was a duo. I liked when their songs came on the radio.

Rodrigo y Gabriela?

I’m very impressed any time I see their performances.

Outkast?

I dig Outkast.

Hall & Oates?

Take it or leave it. They’re great songwriters, sure.

Daft Punk?

Their song from last year is atrocious and everybody lost their mind over it. It’s insensitive to say that because I know they are human beings, but I think they’re big enough that we can be honest about what we think. E

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f one is the loneliest number and three’s a crowd, then two is sublime, at least in musical terms. Just ask John and Paul, Mick and Keith, or recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Hall & Oates. Duos have been a part of rock’s history from the beginning, with the Everly Brothers and Simon & Garfunkel finding massive success in the ’50s and ’60s to recent chart-topping albums from the Black Keys and Daft Punk.

Indie duo Milk Carton Kids are also well aware of the power of two. Neither Kenneth Pattengale nor Joey Ryan had had much luck in the Los Angeles folk scene as solo performers, but after pairing up, their fortunes changed. The dapper duo gave away nearly 300,000 copies of their first two albums for free on their website, and in 2013 issued The Ash & Clay for acclaimed L.A. label Anti-. We caught up with Ryan to dive deeper into two-man bands, and to take his pulse on some duos that seemed to be less-obvious influences on the band than Simon & Garfunkel or Gillian Welch and David Rawlings.

In the incredible company of other contemporary composers such as Reich, Glass, Riley, and Pärt, YANN TIERSEN has proven himself one of the greatest arrangers of our time. Yet one element makes him stand out from his peers: his ability to further and modernize his sound. Moving on from the organic textures of piano, strings, and accordion he used in past works, Tiersen has taken up electric guitars and heavy percussion, venturing into post-rock territory. His most recent album, Infinity, continues to explore guitar-driven compositions that aren’t afraid to warp and go out of tune every once in a while. There’s a wonderful balance of darkness as

well as reverie within each song, making for quite an engaging listening experience. Artists can feel pressure to keep playing the sounds that have been the most successful, yet Tiersen has shed this weight with great ease. Having won our hearts with his amazing soundtrack for Amelie, he’s unabashedly on to what’s next. With No. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9442, neumos.com. 7 p.m. $20. STIRLING MYLES ROCKY VOTOLATO has been something of a solitary seeker since the breakup of his band Waxwing almost a decade ago, so often playing his weighty ballads alone with an acoustic guitar, and maybe a harmonica, to pin-drop-silent rock clubs. The isolation worked well for the singer, who put together a series of releases that displayed his talent for both muscular and tender song craft as well as devastating lyricism that excised his real-life problems, celebrated its joys, and tracked his autodidactic spiritual journey. Then a couple years ago, after releasing the yogi-inspired Television of Saints, Votolato discovered he couldn’t continue his journey alone. He briefly reunited his rock band and spent some time out of his own head, banging and blurting out songs from the past. This tour finds Rocky once again focused on his solo work, testing some new material with company; joining him will be a full band, including brother Cody on guitar, adding some texture to Rocky’s truths. With Lotte Kestner, Kevin Long. Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave. N.W., 789-3599. 9 p.m. $14. MARK BAUMGARTEN

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ust three days before playing a Sunday set at the Sasquatch! Music Festival last month, The Lonely Forest announced, via Facebook, that the show would be one of its last.

“It is with sadness that we announce to the world that The Lonely Forest is going on an indefinite hiatus,” the note read. “We’ve done many amazing things and met even more amazing people. The memories that we share with each other and our fans will never be forgotten.”

The note was signed by “Anthony, Braydn, Eric and John,” the four members who over the course of that near-decade had earned a local and national following with a bright, hopeful, anthemic kind of indie rock that had at its core conflict and a kind of darkness unique to the Pacific Northwest. The band’s high-energy performances helped it win the Sound Off ! under-21 band battle at the EMP in 2006. Not long after, the group was signed to a major label and taken under the wing of Death Cab for Cutie guitarist and noted producer Chris Walla.

These two developments, along with KEXP support from a deafening buzz in the Seattle music industry, signaled good things to come for the band.

But something went wrong along the way.

The title of the band’s fourth full-length, Adding Up the Wasted Hours, signaled distress for the workhorse outfit. The songs revealed a band struggling, vacillating between resignation and strident defiance. The nature of the struggle was never made clear, but the result has become unequivocal.

The Lonely Forest’s upcoming Bumbershoot appearance will be its final show. But its performance last Saturday, as part of the Catapult Music Series, was the band’s hometown farewell. Staged in an old warehouse on a dock at the end of the main drag in the small island town of Anacortes, it was little surprise that it sold out.

Anacortes’ rich musical culture was evident from the rest of the evening’s entertainment, which included three other bands with origins there, including ascendant pop act Cumulus. The town’s scene, anchored to the Pacific Northwest indie movement, played a major role in the story of K Records—and by extension Sub Pop, and, a bit further out, Nirvana.

Wearing a T-shirt from famed Anacortes’ record shop The Business, lead singer John Van Deusen paid tribute to that scene. He was in good company. Among the nearly 1,000 gathered were regional music heavyweights Phil Elverum, who performs as Mount Eerie, and Bret Lunsford, whose time as guitarist in the seminal Olympia band Beat Happening, and

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onetime ownership of The Business, has made him something of an Anacortes musical guru.

Both artists played a role in forming The Lonely Forest’s musicianship.

Also assembled were family members and friends; the very old at the periphery, the very young on their parents’ shoulders. A core of teenagers occupied the area immediately in front of the stage, a diverse group: Here were music geeks, jocks, dropouts, crewcuts, preppies, and partiers, all of whom had come to say farewell to a band they’d known for a decade.

It was no happy homecoming. There was no

clear anger or frustration onstage, just a palpable exhaustion that hung over a band that once crackled with so much energy. These were the young men that this community had sent out to conquer the world; and now here they were, back from a harrowing journey into the savage world of major record labels, discombobulated.

Yet the community rallied with support, at the end of the main drag, with the brilliant sunset outside, watching a band it loves tear itself apart.

“This is obviously bittersweet,” Van Deusen said a few songs into the set, “but there’s no other way I know how to do this.”

By the end, he was without words. “I don’t know what to say,” he said. “Usually I have a lot to say, but I just don’t know . . . ” At a loss, the band let its fans, friends, and family have the final word. After re-emerging for just one encore, the band tore into “We Sing in Time,” the song that years ago first launched the group. For the final chorus, Van Deusen turned the microphone to the crowd and let them sing it out: “In time the trees die and light will fade. But I hope for a new breath, a new life to take me away. In time.” E

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» FROM PAGE 72 been signed to Anti Records for some time—home to a roster of rebels including Tom Waits, a huge fan—and there’s a growing punk defiance in her catalog. In Sea, a collection of 11 new and daring compositions, Holland’s vocals plunge in and out of ambient noise and distorted guitar like a siren’s call bellowing from a stormy sea.

If it’s a swan song of sorts for her Escondida-era fans, best to let them swim back to shore. Where Holland’s heading looks to be a wild ride. With Jess Williamson.

The Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave., 441-4618, thecrocodile. com. 8 p.m. $15. All ages. GWENDOLYN ELLIOTT Phoenix-based four-piece THE REBEL SET features the usual guitar, drums, and bass, but it’s the inclusion of an organ (played by the band’s only female member, Katey Trowbridge) that adds an extra oomph to its sound—the B-52’s meets Link Wray meets the Buzzcocks. The band’s latest album, How to Make a Monster, a corelease by Silver Hornet and Burger Records, is appropriately named for its Frankenstein-esque approach to genre. The cover art looks heavily influenced by that of The Jam’s The Gift and other mod-revival bands, and the music is a fun fusion of ’60s surf rock, ’70s punk, and ’90s lo-fi, all seemingly rebelling against the technology of the digital age. (The group appears aware of this, as

it asks you to “make way for the new sound” in “New Rope.”) Each of the 12 tracks are short, sweet, and groovy, the shortest coming in at under two minutes, the longest at an even three—just enough time to bop around and get your heart rate up. It’s the perfect date show for punk-rock princesses and garage-band kings to slam-dance the night away. With Crazy Eyes, Webelos. Lo-fi, 429 Eastlake Ave., 254-2824, thelofi.net.

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Singer JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD’s career has taken her from her family’s bluegrass band to proper alt-countryartist status, complete with an endorsement from the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach. But with April’s Make My Head Sing . . . , which Mayfield co-produced with her bass player/husband Jesse Newport, it’s safe to say the Ohio native has found her comfort genre: grunge.

Though recorded in Nashville, the album—her third— does away with the Music City sheen and the twang of her previous releases, both produced by Auerbach.

This time the 24-year-old’s pure, haunting vocals and sharp lyrics cut through the sludge of thick guitar riffs on each track to create a dark, foreboding feel. Lead single “I Wanna Love You,” for example, seems innocent enough, until it’s revealed that the song is written

from a stalker’s perspective. It’s a significant shift from her past work, but a bold and empowered one. With Israel Nash. The Crocodile. 7 p.m. $15 adv. All ages.

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Tuesday, June 17

When was the last time you visited a dentist’s office?

If you’ve had a root canal or wisdom teeth pulled in the past 10 years, chances are you’ve heard “How to Save a Life” by THE FRAY playing over the soundsystem. The song managed to collect all the worst things about adult contemporary—cloying piano rock, airy mumblemouth vocals, vaguely Christian themes—and throw it into a bland Metamucil smoothie so easily digestible that the album of the same name went on to become the best-selling digital album of all time. But alas, this is not 2005; we live in 2014, and it would be unfair to dwell on The Fray’s past. Helios, its latest album, sounds like Coldplay, the Goo Goo Dolls, and Lion King–era Elton John all falling asleep together in a cavernous stadium. It’s no doubt playing in a dentist’s office near you. With Barcelona, Oh Honey. Marymoor Park, 6046 W. Lake Sammamish Pkwy., 205-3661, marymoorconcerts.com. 6:30 p.m. $44.50–$54.50. All ages.

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“Coffee black/Cigarette/Start this day/Like all the rest/ First thing in the morning that I do/Is start missing you.” With these words begins “Some Broken Hearts Never Mend,” echoing the sentiments of so many DON WILLIAMS songs, like “Amanda,” “I Believe in You,” and “You’re My Best Friend.” Neither a rambling, gambling outlaw or a pop-country square, Williams’ persona is unique. In fact, if country music were a game of love, Williams never learned how to play it, his straightforward, plaintive country ballads preferring plain talk over innuendo (like “Turn Out the Light and Love Me Tonight”). Standing 6˝1´ and stocky with a buttery-rich baritone, the crooner’s tender style earned him his lasting nickname, the “Gentle Giant.” Yet it was a title he fully embraced, and fans flocked to his steadfast brand of feel-good country love songs. He hasn’t stopped much along the way, cranking out releases through the ’70s into the ’90s, with a handful in the aughts. His latest, Reflections, finds the singer, now 74, ever steady and still in control of those smooth vocals. And his cover of Townes Van Zandt’s “I’ll Be Here in the Morning” finds him still singing about love. Snoqualmie Casino, 37500 S.E. North Bend Way, Snoqualmie, 425-888-1234, sno casino.com. 7 p.m. $30 and up. GE Send events to music@seattleweekly.com.

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of the park lately with a slew of hand-picked reissues and compilations you shouldn’t pass up. Read on for our reviews of a few exceptional titles; check lightintheattic.net for more about the roster; and don’t miss the first annual Light in the Attic Summer Spectacular, with Donnie & Joe Emerson, Alex Maas of the Black Angels, and Overton Berry of the Wheedle’s Groove series. Light in the Attic Warehouse, 913 N.W. 50th St. 3 p.m. Sat., July 12. Free.

Lewis, L’amour (digital and CD out now, vinyl out July 22) Today I fell in love. Randall Wulff, aka Lewis, in the cover art of this circa-1983 release, looks like James Spader as Steff in Pretty in Pink; his hair too blonde and too feathered, his barely-there chest hair both repulsive and erotic. According to liner notes, what little is known of the artist is that he lived posh, with a white convertible Mercedes and a devastatingly gorgeous girlfriend, and vanished soon after the album was released. Like so many LITA releases,

Wheedle’s Groove, Seattle Funk, Modern Soul,

and Boogie, Vol. II, 1972–1987 (digital, CD, and two-platter vinyl box set out now) Fifth in the Wheedle’s Groove series (which comprises the first compilation, Seattle’s Finest in Funk & Soul 1965–75; an original album; a limited-edition box set of 45s; and an award-winning documentary), this installment examines the Pacific Northwest funk and soul scene through an even wider lens, cutting a 15-year swath through the disco-flecked boogie pop of the ’70s to the synthed-up R & B of the late ’80s. Unlike the 10 years of music presented in Vol. 1—groove-laden, “Superfly”-like cuts—Vol. II chronicles the genre’s evolution through its incorporation of a new range of sounds and textures, like synthesizers and drum machines.

At one end of the spectrum, there’s the congadappled, Otis Redding-lite “Let’s Backtrack” (Cold, Bold, & Together, 1972); by 1987, Seattle soul sounds more like Septimus’ “Here I Go Again,” with its greasy-rock guitar solo and programmed drum-machine beats (though still flecked with congas). Then there’s a special ode to the “Kingdome” (1982), with a tonguein-cheek “Superbowl Shuffle” vibe, by former Mariners third baseman Lenny Randle and a crew of his “Ballplayers”—an apt entry point to discuss the volume’s larger appeal as a historical document, a funky time capsule of bygone Seattle. Back in the ’70s and ’80s, Seattle was decades away from being the dining destination and live-music capital it is today; in a recent essay, Knute Berger pegged the Emerald City back then as “a cold, gray way station on the road to hell.” Yet as each track is expounded on in the liner notes (by the featured acts themselves), listeners get a strong sense of the scene that was—one that, with each new addition to the Wheedle’s Groove catalog, appears to have inextinguishable soul. GWENDOLYN ELLIOTT E

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Donnie & Joe Emerson, Still Dreamin’ Wild: The Lost Recordings 1979–81 (Digital, CD, and vinyl out June 17) The unlikely saga that accompanied the 2012 reissue of Donnie and Joe Emerson’s wonderfully AM-ready Dreamin’ Wild went like this: Back in the late ’70s, thinking the kids were really onto something, their father mortgaged his Fruitland, Wash., farm to buy the boys professional recording equipment and build them a concert venue where they could play for fans. It all cost $100,000—and then most of the farm when the record didn’t sell and concerts didn’t materialize. Dreamin’ Wild was pure hope manifested on vinyl, and, rediscovered and re-released by Light in the Attic, it feels like listening to teenage optimism itself. If it represents a wild fantasy cooked up in a part of the state that makes Moses Lake seem cosmopolitan, the Emersons’ follow-up shows what happens when those fantasies start to falter. Still Dreamin’ is not a reissue, but a collection of tracks recorded from 1979 to 1981 that either didn’t make the cut for the first album or were intended for a later record that never came to be. It was a trying time for the brothers: One of their best friends, who sings backup on Dreamin’ Wild, died in a car crash; Donnie made a disillusioned foray into the L.A. music scene; and with the music business not going as planned, they had to make a difficult decision about whether to get a real job or continue to reach for the stars. Musically, Still Dreamin’ has Dreamin’ Wild ’s irrepressible, synth-pop optimism, but this time, some anguish peeks through the lyrics. Nothing serious— “Why do you ride the tide/That takes you away from me? . . . Tonight I cry a lover’s cry”—but still there’s an emotional depth that makes the album feel more substantial than its predecessor.

A few songs clock in at over four minutes, which gets trying given the music’s simplicity. But for the most part, Still Dreamin’ is as comfy and inviting as an afternoon snooze. DANIEL PERSON

Lewis’ story is cloaked in mystery and intrigue; to this day his whereabouts remain unknown.

The fact that he self-released L’Amour in Los Angeles, combined with using his handsome mug for artwork, hints at a superficial attempt at fame—but the album is “something else” entirely, revealing, upon multiple listens, a thoughtful and intelligent soul. A lovesick soul at that, as evidenced by song titles such as “I Thought the World of You,” “Things Just Happen That Way,” and my favorite, “Even Rainbows Turn Blue.” The sound is delicate and whisper-like, embodying none of the surf rock or sunscreened pop we associate with L.A. Soft washes of piano and guitar waft over Wulff ’s voice—a tone that’s mysterious and mesmerizing, just like his faroff look on the cover. It’s the perfect album for when you’re “in a mood” or just wanting to feel blue, yet it’s not something you can put on in the background to drown your sorrows. L’amour demands active, primary listening—preferably while laying on the ground, hands folded to your chest, looking up at the ceiling, lonely teardrop optional. DIANA M. LE

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