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Three Ways Paul Schell Changed Seattle

Ben Goldsmith has plenty of anecdotal evidence that people of color are underrepresented in juries, but now he’s after the data to prove it. BY VERNAL COLEMAN

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n 2012, a 69-year-old black man killed a younger white man during an altercation. At trial, King County prosecutors argued that Lovett Chambers fatally shot Michael Hood without provocation outside a West Seattle bar. But Chambers’ defense team, which included Ben Goldsmith, an eight-year veteran of the Public Defenders Association Division, gave another account of the shooting. They argued instead that Chambers killed the 35-year-old after Hood and another man, Jonathan Vause, shouted racial epithets and threatened Chambers with a shovel. Chambers shot Hood to protect himself from bodily harm, says Goldsmith. The jury ultimately disagreed. In April, Chambers was convicted of manslaughter. According to Goldsmith, there were no African-Americans on the jury. And for him, that verdict remains frustrating. “It’s impossible for me to believe that if Mr. Vause was black and Mr. Chambers was white that this jury would have come out with the same outcome,” says Goldsmith. This wasn’t the first time Goldsmith felt he had witnessed injustice at the hands of a skewed jury, but it was the one that moved him to volunteer for a difficult task: to prove that people of color are underrepresented at jury trials in King County. Starting this month, Goldsmith, an assistant supervisor at the Public Defender Association Division, and as many as 15 other PDA attorneys will begin filing “declarations” documenting the racial makeup of each group of jury pools during trial proceedings at King County Superior Court. The declarations will be entered into the official trial record and the results compiled at some later date, Goldsmith says. King County court administrators do not take account of the demographics of who is sent a jury-duty summons, or who ultimately shows up to serve. They’re not alone. A spokesperson for the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts says the state does not currently track that information either. Nor are administrators currently aware of any county or municipal court system in the state that does. This is a significant lapse, says Goldsmith, referring to requirements that jurors are selected from a “fair cross section” of the community. Anita Khandelwal, supervisor of the Public Defender Association’s Racial Disparity Project, agrees with him. “The system is supposed to work where you have all of that perspective of a community in the room, and the fact that we don’t seem to be getting some of that perspective at trials is a challenge,” she says.

aul Schell, Seattle’s 50th mayor, has left behind the city he loved. The much-maligned political leader passed away Sunday, July 27, at age 76. Fairly or not, Seattleites will always remember Schell as the mayor who botched the WTO meetings, or slept through the Mardi Gras fiasco, or bore the brunt of Omari Garrett’s bullhorn. But Schell also left his mark as a developer and visionary. On that note, here’s a look at three things Schell changed about Seattle—whether he meant to or not.

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initiative to amass this data. “We want to make sure that the folks that are going to show up and serve on a jury reflect the norms of our community, ” he says. Still, the department has no plans to make the jury declarations mandatory for attorneys across its four divisions. Asked for comment on the jury diversity issues and Goldsmith’s effort, the office of King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg released a statement saying that “The jury acts as the conscience of the community and does so best when it reflects the composition of the community. We are happy to work with the court on efforts to increase the participation of our citizens in this important civic duty.” Two representatives from that office attended a meeting with Goldsmith, Khandelwal, and other public defenders Monday morning to discuss methods for capturing data and addressing the issue of minority representation on juries. Following the meeting, a preliminary agreement was reached. Pending final approval by a panel of King County judges, the agreement could mandate that court administrators gather the info directly from those who report for jury duty. While encouraged, both Khandelwal and Goldsmith say the agreement represents the beginning of a long process. The declarations, Goldsmith says, are “just a first step.” E

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On Monday political blogger David Goldstein posted audio at his HorsesAss.org website in which NRA representative Brian Judy can purportedly be heard spouting ahistorical gibberish comparing Washington’s universal background checks initiative, I-594, to Nazi Germany while dissing billionaire Nick Hanauer, who’s Jewish, for his support of the measure. Naturally, the Internet responded. “It is deeply offensive for anyone to suggest that Jewish supporters of gun violence prevention have ‘forgotten’ the history of our people.” —The Jewish “The tone, message, and Federation of Seattle, via press release “I’m disappointed, but not surprised.” —Nick Hanauer, via PubliCola implications of Mr. Judy’s comments . . . cross a line of civic discourse.” —State Rep. Reuven Carlyle, via Facebook

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The power of PR Since taking office in January, Mayor Ed Murray has scheduled roughly 38 press conferences, according to his press secretary. And that’s no accident. Much like his predecessor Mike McGinn, and Greg Nickels before that, he knows how important it is to establish a narrative of vision and accomplishment with the public. It’s part of being a good politician—and in many ways Schell’s failings made this crystalclear. “Paul, I think, thought if you just got the work done, the rest would take care of itself,” Byers offered. “[Schell] was not a politician that came in with a mind-set of looking after his image.” In other words, the back-patting mayoral press conferences we’re forced to sit through today are, in some ways, Schell’s doing.

Protests As history books will note, Schell’s administration came off the rails during the WTO protests of 1999— largely remembered for Seattle cops cordoning off downtown like a war zone and using tear gas on hippies in turtle costumes. The chaos was a PR disaster that reverberated for years—yet led to improvements in the way police respond to protests today, including the now-annual May Day bottle-throwing and trash-burning. As Byers says of the WTO riots, the Schell administration was caught “very offguard” by the brouhaha. That’s not something that’s likely to happen again. E

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Even if Goldsmith and Khandelwal are correct, it is difficult to know what changes can or should be made to increase diversity in jury pools. The complicated process of recruiting a jury pool is by design at least somewhat colorblind, and also extraordinarily difficult. To build a pool of trial jurors, King County administrators draw from lists of registered voters, as well as from the group of county residents who have state driver’s licenses and identification cards. According to a spokeswoman for the King County Court Administrator’s Office, names are drawn from the database at random by a computer program. King County mails 114,000 jury summons annually. At no point in the process is the racial makeup of that list accounted for, administrators say. In the end, the average monthly response rate to those summons hovers between 30 and 35 percent. For Dave Chapman, the interim head of the recently formed King County Department of Public Defense, that number isn’t high enough. “From my perspective, 35 percent is very low for civic duty,” he says. This issue hasn’t gone unnoticed by others in the legal community. A 2000 Board for Judicial Administration report called for efforts to “increase participation in jury service by sectors of society that traditionally have not participated fully.” Chapman says that the Department of Public Defense is generally supportive of Goldsmith’s

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Any list of Schell’s accomplishments has to start with brick and mortar. The former mayor gets credit for implementing neighborhood development plans and for our fancy downtown library. Before becoming mayor, Schell had a heavy hand in the redevelopment of Pike Place, and he played a similar role as Port Commissioner. “Someday, somebody’s going to turn around and look at all those buildings ... and say, ‘Wow, this was a really good time in terms of the public infrastructure,’ ” Tom Byers, who served as a deputy mayor under Schell, recently told Seattle Weekly.

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Lessons for the Seahawks From the Sonics

ere’s a fun game: See if you can tell which of the following quotes is Russell Wilson speaking at Seahawks training camp last week, and which is John Johnson speaking at Sonics training camp 35 years ago. a) “It’s a new year and it’s a new beginning. I think the difference is everybody BY SETH KOLLOEN has felt winning before. They know how to get there.” b) “We know what it takes to get there. We have to put everything in its proper perspective and go out and do it.” Then as now, a local sports team started training camp with the goal of defending a championship. Then as now, smart athletes were asked a dumb question—”Do you think you can win the championship again?” Then as now, they came up with nearly the same meaningless answer. (Wilson’s is a, Johnson’s is b.) But the 1979–80 Sonics didn’t repeat. Why? Bad drafting. The Sonics had two top-10 picks that year, but they used them on James Bailey and Vinnie Johnson. Both played sparingly, and neither was with the Sonics more than three seasons. With that kind of draft capital, the Sonics should either have traded for a player who could have improved their existing roster—as the Seahawks did last season by trading their firstround pick for Percy Harvin—or packaged the picks for a higher, future draft pick. Instead they got the worst of both worlds: two players who were neither good enough to contribute right away nor developmental prospects. Bad personnel management. The Sonics allowed one of basketball’s best backcourts to slip away over money and personalities. Dennis Johnson and Lenny Wilkens didn’t get along, so Johnson was traded to Phoenix for Paul Westphal. Johnson played 10 more years and won two more championships. Westphal played just 36 games as a Sonic. The Sonics couldn’t agree with Gus Williams on a contract extension, so he held out an entire season before signing a long-term deal. The Seahawks, on the other hand. have methodically locked up their core players, from trash-talkers like Richard Sherman to quiet assassins like Kam Chancellor. Bad luck. As it turned out, the only pick in the 1979 draft that mattered was the first overall pick, which the Lakers used to take Magic Johnson. As long as Johnson was in the league, the Sonics never finished ahead of the Lakers in the Pacific Division, and lost five consecutive playoff series to them. The Seahawks have similarly bad luck, playing in the NFL’s toughest division. They managed to slip past San Francisco last year; will they be able to again? Sikma first uttered the dreaded phrase “We’re rebuilding” just 16 months after the Sonics’ ’79 championship. They weren’t yet, but would be by 1984, when the team’s starting backcourt was Gerald Henderson and Al Wood. It took another decade, and a completely different roster, before the Sonics were elite again. E

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Melissa Bowerman, the daughter-in-law of late Nike co-founder and former Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman, was accused last week of having sex with a 17-year-old member of her Madras High School track team in eastern Oregon. Officials have not yet fully detailed the accusations. But Oregon State Police say in a news release that they were tipped off that Bowerman “was involved in an inappropriate relationship with a juvenile male.” She was being held on suspicion of sexual abuse, luring a minor, and online sexual corruption of a child. Bowerman, who was 37 when she married 70-yearold Jon Bowerman, Bill’s son, six years ago, had coached the Madras track team for two years with her husband. “I still love her and still will,” Jon told The Oregonian, “no matter how this thing turns out.” He supported her two years ago as well, when she caused a community stir by attending a prom at another high school where she coached, escorting a member of her track team. She said she went because the boy needed a date. They danced close for a couple songs, but mostly talked about his studies, she explained. But she and her husband were both dismissed as coaches. Said one official, “All I will say for the record is that there is way more to that story than just a date to the prom.” Though he supports her, hubby Jon now suggests the awkward prom date might have been what educators call a teachable moment. As he put it last week, “We all should have learned from that.” E

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Take two recent cases. One, a 43-year-old female prep track coach married to a 76-year-old man, first came under community suspicion because she took one of her teen athletes to the prom, no less. The other, a 25-year-old teacher, after a school assembly kissed, groped, and then had sex with her teen student in the classroom. Not exactly clandestine encounters. Even Mary Kay was leery enough to climb into the back seat of a discreetly parked car and steam up the windows. The sex-in-the-classroom teacher was Meredith Powell of Tacoma, who pleaded guilty last week to rape of a child, 17, and to sexually texting or sending nude photos to two other students, 14 and 16. Apparently she thought she was being cautious. When she had sex with one of her Lincoln High teens, she warned him, “This stays between us.” And it likely did—for about as long as it takes to speed-dial a buddy and say, “Dude, you’re not gonna believe this!” The major tipoff in that case? The girlfriend of one of the boys became suspicious because he suddenly began to like school a whole lot.

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Letourneau, seen here in 2009 with her husband/victim Vili Fualaau, bounced back from her crime.

As Pierce County deputy prosecutor Heather Demaine writes in court papers, “He decided to tell his girlfriend about the texts, as she felt ‘something fishy’ was going on because he was going to [Powell’s math] class almost every day.” Remorseful, Powell apologized to a girlfriend of one of the boys, who then told school officials. The cops were called, and the boys told all. “During his interview,” Demaine reports, “[one teen] disclosed the following: The defendant is his teacher. They sent texts to each other, and she sent him pictures of her naked in a bathtub. [The teen went to her classroom where] the defendant kissed [the teen] and he touched her buttocks and breasts. The defendant touched [the teen’s] chest under his shirt and performed oral sex on him. [The teen] digitally penetrated the defendant.” Powell, who faces up to a five-year prison term, seemed embarrassed in court last week. “She was going through a difficult time in her personal life,” her attorney said, “and obviously made a lot of bad choices, regrettable choices.”

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ex with the teacher is risky business—if you’re the teacher. You’ll lose your job, your career, and likely your freedom. Then again, after prison, you could always go on to stardom, as Mary Kay Letourneau did. Aside from movies and TV shows about her life, the mother of four and her once-12-year-old victim, Vili Fualaau, went on to host “Hot Teacher Night” parties at Seattle nightclubs. But you should have a BY RICK ANDERSON postprison plan, because the odds are, as a teacher or coach, you’re going to get caught, particularly if you’re female. If anyone is going to brag about a sexual conquest, it’s a randy teenage boy who just bagged his biology instructor. Besides, he’s considered the victim. He may, as do a lot of youths, harbor a libidinous mature-woman fantasy as he listens to Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher” and seeks schoolroom porn on the web. But, as the experts tell us, a teacher affair poses unexpected psychological and social repercussions for teens. Still, there’s a lot at stake for the teacher as well. Nevertheless, more than a few are willing to go for it—and sometimes not too brightly.

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An expanded Monsoon opened last week with doubled capacity and a new bar. Eric and Sophie Banh’s Capitol Hill restaurant added 800 square feet, 40 seats (nine of them at the bar), and a chilledseafood section in the menu.

BY MEGAN HILL

Funded by a unique dinner series, kids push their palates— and learn a little something about salmon guts.

The old Emmer & Rye space on Queen Anne has a confirmed new occupant, according to the Queen Anne View. Nana’s Mexican Restaurant will open in early August with “traditional Mexican food with accents of American fare. We will be working with family-handed-down recipes and new food concepts.” Taylor Shellfish has expanded again, this time to Pioneer Square. Their newest location serves geoducks, mussels, clams, and oysters, plus wine and beer. E morningfoodnews@gmail.com

TheWeeklyDish Hash With Two French “Mother Sauces”

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for the fish toss. Only two are brave enough to try it. Jarr shows them how to hold their hands to grasp the slippery fish. Then a fishmonger gives him what looks to be about a 20-pounder, probably around a third the size of the girl who’s going to catch it. We all crowd together as Jarr counts to three and shouts “TT for Becky!” to which we and the rest of the market crowd yell back “TT for Becky!” From about 8 feet, he tosses her the silvery-skinned fish, and we all cheer as she just barely manages to cradle it. Though I’ve seen this ritual umpteen times, rolling my eyes as I try to squeeze past tourists, witnessing it through a child’s exhilaration is completely different—and makes me realize how lucky we are to have such a great resource right at our fingertips. The burgeoning lobster tails, the rows of misshapen oyster shells, the glistening scales of fish—it all looks especially lovely today, like an aquatic jewel case worthy of fantastical mermaids. After all the kids have cycled through the three stations, we meet to sit and eat the meal we’ve prepared together. Brower has a buffet lined up, and everyone grabs a plate, a roll, a beautiful piece of lettuce, a topping of delicious homemade tartar sauce with chopped pickles and dill, a freshly cooked salmon burger, and a side of salad with local blueberries. Again, I’m surprised at how all the kids gobble up the food. I had my doubts at the start; I’ve seen enough picky eaters to be skeptical of pairing salmon burgers and tweens. But other than the kid who can’t stand fish (he eats some salad, along with some fruit his counselor got him from the market), everyone is digging them.

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I’ve been meaning to go to the Stumbling Goat Bistro in Phinney Ridge for a long time,

but somehow my plans seem to always get jettisoned at the last minute. Not so this weekend. After braving the Capitol Hill Block Party crowds Friday night, staying out later—and having a drink too many more—than my normal constitution smiles upon, a hearty brunch on Saturday morning was in order. I started with their freshly made tayberry donut—not greasy, sugared gently, and filled with the sweet-sour fruit that is a literal cross between a blackberry and a raspberry. A delicious, civilized donut. Then I moved on to savory with their vegetarian hash topped with a duck egg, which I quickly made into a carnivore’s dish with the addition of their demi-glace, that brown, silky sauce that’s one part of the classic five French “mother sauces”: sauce espagnole. Basically veal stock thickened with a roux, it’s decadent and coats the mouth with its luxurious heft. As if that weren’t enough, I took them up on their suggestion to add to it another mother sauce, hollandaise. So what makes it vegetarian? Chanterelles, peas, potatoes, cherry tomatoes, and squash. It’s sophisticated despite its outlandishness. Kind of like the Block Party . . . or not. E NICOLE SPRINKLE

explaining what you’d like to do in your community that’s aligned with the Foundation’s goals of teaching kids to eat healthy. No money exchanges hands. The Foundation doesn’t fund your project; it just allows you to use their name and logo and share resources with other ambassadors in a closed online community. “The real goal and mission of this program seems to be getting kids in general excited about cooking and food, real food. So if you live in an area where the school lunches are terrible, that could become your mission. The way I tackled it is to get kids to the Market, and cooking—and getting them making something they may not experience at home,” says Owens. She’s been reaching out to groups like the YMCA and local schools to find willing participants. Though they may eventually try to bring in underprivileged kids, right now the focus is on all kids—because, as she reminds me, “even wealthy kids can eat crappy food.” Based on what I’m seeing and hearing, they seem to be reaching their goal. As a Pike Place Fish worker hands the kids some smoked salmon to try, I’m shocked at how quickly my daughter eats hers up. She’d never do that if I asked her to try it. She even goes in for seconds. But then there’s the boy who’s telling his friends he doesn’t like fish. He says his mom makes it at home. I ask him how she prepares it. “Fried,” he answers. His friends keep ribbing him to try it. Finally he gives in. He accepts a piece and I watch him go green. A minute later he’s throwing up in a trash can, his counselor next to him. “I told you all I didn’t like fish,” he says. I chuckle to myself. But, hey, at least he tried it. The group of girls I’m with is getting ready

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see that . . . ” “The boys are going to be really freaked out by this!” So goes the banter among several 9- to 11-year old girls from the Mercer Island chapter of the Boys and Girls Club. They are gathered in the Pike Place Market Atrium Kitchen, where each is busy scooping orange flesh with a spoon from along the spine of a cleaned salmon set before them, tail still on. Helping the gaggle of girls with the task is Peppa Brower, wife of chef Dre Neeley of Café Presse, who is going to cook salmon burgers once the kids are finished with their prep work. Outside the kitchen, another group of kids is huddled at a table listening to Morgan Bond, a scientist from the University of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Science who specializes in salmon, talk about everything from how the fish gets its reddish-pink color to the way the female beats her tail against the river bottom until she makes a hole large enough to bury her eggs in. A third group is outside at Pike Place Fish, where the fishmongers show them different species of salmon, fillet a fish in front of them, and, yes, even allow them a chance to catch a whopping fish. I’ve come with my 7-year-old daughter to observe the “Seasons of Seafood,” a new dining and educational series put together by Bryan Jarr, former co-owner of Madison Park Conservatory and co-author of In the Kitchen With the Pike Place Fish Guys: 100 Recipes and Tips from the World-Famous Crew of Pike Place Fish. The twopart experience includes a daytime event for kids and a dinner that night for adults cooked by a Seattle chef, also at The Atrium Kitchen. Scheduled to coincide with a particular type of seafood during its natural release time—coho salmon now, albacore tuna on August 5—the cost of the dinner ($80—$90 for three to four courses with wine) funds the program for the kids. Though the fish-market guys, the chefs, and the scientists donate their time, the Atrium space (for the day and evening event) and the lunch and dinner ingredients need to be paid for. “The [program] with the kids is to really show them the process from start to finish—from where the fish is sold to making their own meal out of it,” says Jarr, who teamed with Stephanie Owens, a former events planner at Microsoft who recently became a local ambassador for the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation. “The dinner series part is really to take some of the best of the Northwest seafood and let a great Northwest chef do what he or she wants with it.” Becoming an ambassador isn’t as hard as you’d think—you simply submit an application

Ethan Stowell was set to open his ultra-pricey Noyer behind Red Cow in Madrona, but he announced he’s now looking for an alternative location, reports Eater Seattle. “It’s not good enough,” Stowell says of the space.

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ow, the spine is so cool!” “Eww, we found a gut!” “It’s a living thing, not like it’s a surprise that you would

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food&drink» » SCHOOL OF FISH PAGE 15 I talk to Bond a bit about his work. It’s fascinating. He’s currently studying a subset of salmon that doesn’t end up back in its home stream after being barged through the dams. While barging is ultimately designed to help the salmon survive the perilous dams, it can essentially interrupt their memory so they end up lost—which may then affect their survival rate. But I’m not the only one who learned some-

thing. On the car ride home, my daughter rattles off salmon trivia: how the eggs get their color, why the fish die at the end of their trip home. Bond did his job well.

I ask Jarr about the coolest thing he’s seen from the kids. “A lot of them say they want to grow up and get a job at Pike Place Fish, though I’m not sure they get what that entails,” he jokes. “But, really, it’s just that wow factor. Everything they’re soaking in and their reaction to it. When I did the cooking station, I told them to jump in with their parents and help. We used to learn to cook with our families, not from cooking shows. That’s an important part that you don’t realize until you get older.” He’s right. I think about all the summer days spent helping my grandmother pick crabmeat from shells and foraging for berries. Being close to that food source—that was priceless.

Though I can’t make it to that night’s dinner with the adults, I check in with Jarr by phone the next day. The dinner, which featured salmon preparations paired with rosés, didn’t sell out, but word is getting out. To cover costs—and maybe even pay the servers a little—he needs to get about 60 diners. The August 5 albacore tuna lunch and dinner will feature food from chef Taichi Kitamura of Sushi Kappo Tamura—and maybe some sake cocktails. October’s is with chef Zoi Antonitsas from Westward. At less than $100, it seems a small price to eat local seafood prepared by pros—and perhaps teach a kid something about fish guts.

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s I contemplated the list of nearly 30 glass-pour wines, I felt like I was standing at the edge of a vast and largely unexplored continent. Not the world of wine, but Seattle’s possibilities as a wine city. Witnessing the success of Walden, a brand-new wine pop-up housed in the hip and stylized Little Uncle space in Pioneer Square, all I could think about was what lay in the future for Puget BY ZACH GEBALLE Sound oenophiles. That Luke Wholers, his wife Trinie ThaiParker, and their friend Emily Smith could have success with such an ambitious idea pleases me no end. The list is short on familiar wines, long on obscure, unique, and challenging ones. They spared no expense on the glasses, supplying hand-blown Zaltos from Austria for each pour. Despite their seeming fragility, Wholers assured me they’re actually quite a bit more durable than most other high-end stemware. The selection skews heavily toward the kind of esoteric wines that wine geeks like me thrill to. Small-production European wines? Check. Funky, oxidized whites from a fringe California producer? Check. Grand cru Alsatian riesling? Check! Seeing all those on the same list was exciting, even if the general population might still gravitate to chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon. Granted, those grapes did make an appearance, though in styles that might not be as familiar to most drinkers. Wholers, though, seems confident his efforts will find an audience. Of course, the pop-up model removes some of the danger: He’s not betting a lease, merely whatever rent he pays for the two nights per week he takes over Little Uncle. It’s a venue particularly well-suited to being a wine bar: The subterranean setting seems fitting, and the larger space seems to shrink at night, focusing attention on the bar. But even with that aesthetic appeal, it’s an ambitious concept: no beverages besides wine; minimal food beyond Thai-Parker’s excellent pies; and, in some cases, a price point that most Seattleites don’t associate with glass-pour wine. While I think Wholers has the chops and the product to pull it off, I think it’d be wise to minimize the risk for the time being. What remains to be seen is whether Walden forms part of a new generation of Seattle wine bars. There’s certainly a hope within the wine community here that as Seattle continues to grow and create plenty of high-paying jobs, the city can support more adventurous (and expensive) wine programs—an ephemeral popup, a restaurant devoted solely to Portuguese or Greek wines, or something else altogether. It’ll be yet another step along the road toward Seattle becoming a true world-class wine city, and I for one can hardly wait. E

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Twin Peaks at 25

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David Lynch’s TV show lasted only two seasons. Why does it haunt us still? BY MARK RAHNER

THURSDAY, JULY 31

This weekend’s Twin Peaks Fest is sold out.

Forget about it. Lynch filmed a good deal of Twin Peaks in North Bend. He even premiered Fire Walk With Me there in 1992. The festival began

They’ll meet again? Lee with MacLachlan.

the following year, and it draws fans from around the world (for more info: twinpeaksfest.com). With attendance capped at around 200, this is no Comic-Con. Twin Peaks Fest features trivia and costume contests, a bus tour that takes fans to filming sites, and a replica of the Black Lodge. This year’s celebrity guests include Sherilyn Fenn (Audrey), Jen Lynch (David’s daughter, who wrote the bestselling 1990 Secret Diary of Laura Palmer), Chris Mulkey (Hank Jennings), James Marshall (Hurley), and Connie Woods (“The New Girl at One-Eyed Jack’s”). “Very few shows pass the test of time like Twin Peaks,” says festival organizer Rob Lindley. “The fans are still passionate about the show. Netflix has introduced a new generation of fans.” A superfan himself, Lindley attended the premiere of “The Missing Pieces”—the new footage in the Blu-ray set—at a Los Angeles theater. “I personally felt it was never going to happen, but it has, and it is incredible,” he says of the bonus material. “I remember watching the final episode when it aired in ’91,” says festival volunteer Josh Eisenstadt, “when Laura Palmer says, ‘I’ll see you again in 25 years,’ and feeling this supernatural sensation flood over me, like a future message from the universe. The 25th anniversary timing is poignant because of that for me personally—almost like a supernatural force predicted that even though the show wouldn’t last, its legacy would endure and everyone would reunite one day.” Steve Lange didn’t so much hear a future message from the universe as see a listing on a website. A commenter at Welcome to Twin Peaks (welcometotwinpeaks.com) wished a fan would buy the Palmer house and turn it into a museum. News of the Seattle fan’s Kickstarter campaign to buy the house—listed at $600,000—has now gone viral, popping up on The Huffington Post, People, and The Nerdist.

The big, white four-bedroom house was a filming location for the TV series and movie. Lange is a caterer who moonlights as an actor and director. (He also helps organize Seattle’s big Crypticon horror convention each spring.) He wants to turn the house into a shrine to the show, as well as a B&B/event space. Why? “Basically, because I feared that no one else would,” Lange tells me. “Even though I knew it was a tremendous long shot, I felt I owed it to the show I loved so much to give it a chance. Twin Peaks had a small hand in my move to Seattle a decade ago.” Is there enough fan support for a Twin Peaks museum? “Well, according to our pledges so far, no,” Lange admits. As of this writing, his crowd-funding attempt had only raised about $11,000 of its $600,000 goal (the campaign ends Sunday). “There is still a lot of passion for Twin Peaks,” says Lange. ‘’The continuing success of the Twin Peaks Fest is proof of that. I just think the Palmer House might be too large an endeavor to fund through crowdsourcing.” What accounts for the lingering Twin Peaks passion, sort of a quarter-century later? There has never been a show quite like it. An excellent vehicle for harnessing Lynch’s weirdness. A soap opera with an extremely dark side. The beautiful setting in our backyard. A tantalizing mystery with a paranormal angle. Angelo Badalamenti’s hauntingly cool score. Audrey’s sweaters. But, taking a cue from Lynch, you just don’t explain some things. E

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TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., 654-3121, seattleartmuseum.org. $6–$8. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., July 31.

ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., 292-7660, act theatre.org. $20 and up. 7:30 p.m. BRIAN MILLER

Kimoko Yoshida Yoshida’s 2010 The Mao Bride (Red Guard Blue holding the Little Red Book).

Is there anything worse than a wedding? Watching from the pews, all of us in uncomfortable suits and dresses. It’s always so hot. The service is always so long. And the poor bride and groom have to keep smiling and smiling and smiling like they’re actually enjoying themselves instead of performing. And a wedding is above all a performance, a kind of theater. That’s the spirit in which to understand Yoshida’s self-portrait series something blue, in which she dresses and photographs herself in the nuptial costumes of various traditions. Something like Cindy Sherman, with elaborate makeup, props, and lighting, Yoshida styles herself as a bride from (exaggerated) cultures as disparate as Communist China and West Africa. These characters never look exactly happy about their fate; they display the discomfort of being posed and presented to the public for approval. These brides are commodities being examined for flaws, for any sign of noncompliance or dissent. Yoshida, who won’t attend the

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tery may be the closest Lynch ever comes to revisiting Twin Peaks (something he told me in a 2007 interview that he’d never do). That the 10-disc package is not on regular-format DVD is pissing off some fans. But hey, it’s not coming out on VHS, either. Twin Peaks’ last iteration on DVD was 2007’s “Definitive Gold Box Edition.” Well . . . The Entire Mystery is, uh, more definitive. It includes both seasons of the TV series, as well as the underrated and seriously fucking unsettling 1992 movie, a prequel of sorts to the TV series. Its most coveted feature: 90 minutes of deleted and extended scenes from that movie. Look for #theentiremystery on Twitter and you’ll find an endless procession of fans dropping little Log Ladies because they either want this box set or because they just got it. And amid Marvel movies and George R.R. Martin driving fans hysterical at last weekend’s massive San Diego Comic-Con, an Entire Mystery presentation featuring Kimmy Robertson (aka Lucy Moran) drew a standing-room-only crowd. As of press time, I haven’t received a review copy. Goddamn it.

This 2007 play by Jeanne Sakata dramatizes the story of UW student Gordon Hirabayashi, who in 1942 was one of the very few Japanese-Americans to correctly call their World War II internment illegal and seek legal redress. He resisted peacefully, turned himself in to the FBI, sued, and the Supreme Court ruled against him, 9-0. Four decades later, he famously had his second day in court, and his conviction was overturned. After the war, with a Ph.D. earned at the UW, Hirabayashi ended up a professor in Vancouver, B.C.; he was bestowed a Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama five months after his 2012 death. In this one-man touring production, performed locally for the first time, Hirabayashi is portrayed by Joel de la Fuente. Los Angeles playwright/actress Sakata will deliver remarks following the weekend shows, which might also inspire you to see BAM’s ongoing The Art of Gaman, which exhibits the arts and crafts created in those notorious internment camps where Hirabayashi spent the war. (Through Sun.)

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f you have an urge for pie and coffee, you may be thinking a) I always have an urge for pie and/or coffee (they’re delicious), or b) Twin Peaks is in the air again. Both are correct. It’s sort of the show’s 25th anniversary, and several events are coalescing this week. More lusted after than Laura Palmer in the Bang Bang Bar, Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery arrives on Blu-ray (Paramount, $135). The annual Twin Peaks Fest runs Friday through Sunday in North Bend. Seattle Art Museum is screening 1992’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me on Thursday. And a freakishly obsessed local guy—I mean superfan—is reaching the end of his Kickstarter effort to buy the actual Palmer House in Everett so he can turn it into a Twin Peaks museum/B&B. I say “sort of ” the 25th anniversary because David Lynch’s bizarre, iconic TV series, set in a fictional Northwest town of 51,201 residents, debuted in 1990 and was cancelled in 1991 after only 30 episodes. It pretty much ran out of gas after ABC suits made Lynch reveal the murderer. But it was in the fictional year of 1989 that murder victim Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) whispered to Agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), “I’ll see you again in 25 years.” So here we are. The fictional date of Laura’s whispered promise was March 26 (the episode date was June 10, 1991), commemorated this spring by various Twin Peaks marathons worldwide.

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Stop Making Sense

Jonathan Demme’s 1984 Talking Heads concert movie isn’t just a live recording of memorable performances by a trailblazing American band then hitting its stride. It is an unparalleled film experience, thanks to Demme (The Silence of the

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One man discovers America’s triumphs and confronts its failures.

To Have and Have Not

Joel de la Fuente (Hemlock Grove) as Gordon Hirabayashi © Lia Chang

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Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart were first and fatefully paired in this very loose 1944 adaptation of the Hemingway novel, about gun-runners in the Caribbean during World War II. But really the two stars were trioed, if you will, with director Howard Hawks, who gave their screen romance— which led to off-screen romance and marriage— exactly the right kind of sultry, matter-of-fact equality. Bacall’s Slim was the Hawksian ideal of a woman: smart, sexy, independent, nobody’s passive prize or possession. And Bogart’s taste in women was shaped, as was that of most ’40s filmgoers, by the Hawksian stamp. Not yet 20, in her first screen role, Bacall instantly became an icon of strong, self-confident womanhood, a dame who gave as good as she got. Many have commented that the source novel was freely tailored to resemble

Casablanca—an influence here just as much as THHN later influenced Key Largo. The genius of the studio system is to find and repeat formulas, to create fixed movie-star personae that can be transported easily from one picture to the next. Both Hollywood veterans, Hawks and Bogie knew how to work that system, how to build on their past successes. Part of what makes THHN so much fun is the appreciation these two older men—Bogie by 25 years, sorry—show for this new brand of Hollywood heroine, this new template. Without her, you couldn’t have Angelina Jolie today. (Also starring Bogie and Bacall, Hawks’ The Big Sleep opens Sat.; the two films alternate through Wed.) Grand Illusion, 1403 N.E. 50th St., 523-3935, grandillusioncinema.org. $5–$8. 8 p.m. BRIAN MILLER

SATURDAY, AUG. 2

TK Art of the City Art Street Fair

Hooray! The TK Building (aka the Tashiro Kaplan Building) is 10 years old! Created as a colony of artist work-live studios and exhibition spaces by Cathryn Vandenbrink and her cohort a decade ago, the triangular warren has become an institution among Pioneer Square galleries and art lovers (originally drawn by Linda Farris and Greg Kucera, the area’s first pioneers).

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Lambs, Philadelphia, etc.), who rightfully receives equal billing with Talking Heads. The film—being shown in celebration of its 30th anniversary—can be viewed as a sort of musical evolution, starting with David Byrne famously playing “Psycho Killer” to the sole accompaniment of a boombox (though this apparent nod to the band’s scrappier punk roots is pure showmanship; the backing track was actually coming from the mixing board). The concert progresses and the band, literally, builds behind Byrne as they play songs from Speaking in Tongues, the album that broke Talking Heads into the mainstream with “Burning Down the House”—and unexpectedly onto the dance charts with beat-driven songs like “Life During Wartime,” proving that, yes, this is in fact a disco. Plus there’s a Tom Tom Club song; the band’s rousing rendition of Al Green’s “Take Me to the River”; and, yes, you get to see Byrne in that big white suit, even bigger on the big screen. (Through Sun.)

The happy couple.

Vandenbrink’s nonprofit ArtSpace bought the near-empty surplus building from King County, which had acquired it during the ’90s for the bus tunnel. Back in 2004 there were concerns about displacement and gentrification, some justified, but the TK Building has since proven a bulwark against neighborhood decline, anchoring the monthly First Thursday Art Walk. Today, all the TK’s studios and galleries will be open, from G. Gibson to Soil, and the surrounding streets will be full of staged performances, craft vendors, live music, food trucks, artist demos, and more. Bring your kids (as on any First Thursday); this is a gathering not for art snobs but art enthusiasts. Matters of taste and critical distance can wait for another time. This is a day of deserved community celebration. Tashiro Kaplan Building, 115 Prefontaine Pl. S., StreetFair.TKLofts.com. Free. 11 a.m.–9 p.m. BRIAN MILLER E

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adjoining apartments clash in Scotto Moore’s screwball comedy. Annex Theatre, 1100 E. Pike St., 7280933, annextheatre.org. $5–$20. Opens Aug. 1. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. plus Mon., Aug. 11. Ends Aug. 30.

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Ensweiler (below) and Anderson in Riverside Drive.

Space-themed burlesque, star-ring (see what I did there?) Bolt Action, Alexa Perplexa, and many others. STARTIN G JewelBox Theater at the Rendezvous, 2322 Second Ave., 800-838-3006, brownpapertickets.com, scarlett ohairdye.com. $12–$25. 8 p.m. Sat., Aug. 2. THE EDGE Bainbridge Island’s own improv troupe. Bainbridge Performing Arts, 200 Madison Ave. N., Bainbridge Island, 842-8569, bainbridgeperforming arts.org. $12–$16. 7:30 p.m. Sat., Aug. 2. HOLD THESE TRUTHS SEE THE PICK LIST, PAGE 17. SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK Armitage Shanks hosts an evening of folk tales and performance art in the form of dance, music, belly dance, burlesque, and aerial. Theatre Off Jackson, 409 Seventh Ave. S., 340-1049. $15–$25. 9 p.m. Sat., Aug. 2. SPIN THE BOTTLE The August edition of Annex Theatre’s late-night variety show (N.B.: not on Friday this month) includes “orgasmic storytelling,” “nuntastic smut,” “whirling hoops on gyrating hips,” and much more. Annex Theatre, 1100 E. Pike St., 728-0933, annextheatre.org. $5–$10. 11 p.m. Sat., Aug. 2. THE WEDDING SINGER A musical version of the 1985set Adam Sandler vehicle. Renton Civic Theatre, 507 S. Third St., Renton, 425-226-5529, rentoncivictheatre. org. $15. Opens Aug. 1. 8 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Aug. 10.

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“Agatha Christie meets Roger Corman” in this mystery sendup, set on a movie set in 1958. Theater Schmeater, 2125 Third Ave., 800-838-3006, schmeater. org. $18–$25. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. Ends Aug. 16. BARN SHOW Creepy farm tales, invented by Blood Ensemble and staged in an actual Marysville barn. (They’ll bus you there; see bloodensemble.org for details.) $30–$35. 8 p.m. Sat., Aug. 2–Sun., Aug. 3. THE BOOK OF MORMON The touring production of the Broadway smash, from the creators of South Park, is back for a second visit, sure to sell out. The Paramount, 911 Pine St., 877-STG-4TIX. $45–$160. Runs Tues.–Sun.; see stgpresents.org for exact schedule. Ends Aug. 10. GREENSTAGE Othello, Love’s Labours Lost, All’s Well That Ends Well, and The Comedy of Errors in various area parks through Aug. 16, all free. See greenstage. org for full schedule. JANE EYRE—THE MUSICAL Musical theater has had some success with neglected orphans (Annie, Oliver!), so an adaptation of Jane Eyre was probably inevitable. Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel is, after all, one of the earliest female coming-of-age tales ever told. This show, created by Paul Gordon and John Caird, premiered on Broadway 14 years ago, and it might sound like a slog. Quite the opposite. Directed by Karen Lund, Taproot’s production moves quickly and seamlessly through Jane’s early tale of woe. The show focuses on our heroine’s middle period, after Jane is hired to work as a governess at the pleasure of apparent bachelor Edward Fairfax Rochester. Art Anderson’s Rochester is a manifold pleasure to behold. He sings well, commands the stage, and mugs with assurance. Unfortunately the same can’t be said for Jessica Spencer’s uneven performance as the grown Jane. (Abi Brittle plays defiant 10-year-old Jane.) Too often her Jane seems bewildered and lost in her moral and spiritual upheaval; it’s difficult to see the spark that draws Rochester. Even so, in the song “Painting Her Portrait,” Spencer gives a jaw-dropping performance, the seeds sown during Jane’s abusive childhood coming to fruition in a moving and frightening episode of self-doubt. MARK BAUMGARTEN Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St., 781-9707, taproot theatre.org. $15–$40. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat. Ends Aug. 16.

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A confident cast, savvy direction by R. Hamilton Wright, and superior staging and effects boost this comely production beyond the generically titled sum of its parts. It could have been called Cranks, after the quixotic oddballs at the center of each of three uniquely American comedies. Luckily, each endearing crackpot churns his own flavor of crazy butter. In Steve Martin’s Patter for the Floating Lady, a loquacious magician (David Foubert) attempts to charm (literally) his glamorous assistant ( Jessica Skerritt) into loving him again, until her id—a hilariously malevolent cabaret entertainer played by Hana Lass—sets him straight. Martin Christoffel’s glitzy yet austere set captures the tinny hollowness of Vegas illusions. Woody Allen’s Riverside Drive raises the stakes when Crank #2, a charismatic street person (a fantastic Eric Ray Anderson) who selfcharacterizes as “an original, like Stravinsky, or ketchup,” corners a neurotic writer—Chris Ensweiler, uncannily channeling you-know-who— rehearsing to break up with his mistress. The very funny script depends on the skilled actors’ commitment to sell the implausible plot, which they do. Skerritt takes one for the team, pushing the thankless Mighty Aphrodite-like mistress role to the far reaches of caricature, as required to make the story work. The Unseen Hand, by Sam Shepard, takes place on the fringe of nowhere, where we find Crank #3, Blue Morphan (a jovial Anderson), inertly “cruising” the sagebrush in a magnificent rust-calicoed jalopy. It’s played on the most ambitious of the three sets, mostly occupied by the vast island of marooned car and detritus, backed by silhouettes of oil rigs against an open Western sky. The preposterous story involves the return of Blue’s two brothers from at least one other time period, and the arrival of a creature named Willy from another galaxy. Lass manages to make Willy’s copious exposition about the civil war on his planet entertaining through top-notch physical comedy and clowning skills; otherwise it would have been excruciating. The show goes all-out on lighting (by Rick Paulsen) and meteorological effects as the universe colludes in Blue’s hallucinatory trip. Although I am not crazy about this particular play, I don’t expect to ever see a better production of it.

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to show up at class, you can still see them perform. velocitydancecenter.org. Thurs., July 31 “Dance Innovators in Performance.” Broadway Performance Hall, 1625 Broadway. $12–$18. 8 p.m. Fri., Aug. 1 Michael Schumacher performs in the opening event of “All Rise,” a site-specific series at 1250 Denny Way. Free. 7 p.m. Sat., Aug. 2 “The Gathering.” Velocity Dance Center, 1621 12th Ave. $12–$18. 7 p.m.

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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. WISE GUYS Jet City Improv salutes mob movies. Historic University Theater, 5510 University Way N.E., jetcity improv.com. $12–$15. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Fri. Ends Aug. 22. WOODEN O Again Seattle Shakespeare Company is committed to free outdoor productions of the Bard, and this summer’s offerings are The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Julius Caesar. For the former, director David Quicksall creates a milieu defined by greaser youths in denim and leather, jukeboxes, Coca-Cola, bowling, and anything that fits the tastes of midcentury America. Proteus (Jason Marr) and Valentine (Conner Neddersen) are best buds who spend their days joyriding through Verona. Proteus is in love with hula hoop-skirted Julia (Angelica Duncan). Fate splits the two friends as Valentine goes to serve in the court of the Duke of Milan (Jim Gall) and falls for his daughter Silvia. What ensues is a comedy of plotting, conniving, scheming, and cross-dressing, plus a clownish servant and his stoic dog. It’s a quirky, retro take on what some consider to be Shakespeare’s first play—and perhaps his weakest. Call it an experiment or rough draft; regardless, it’s still enjoyable. IRFAN SHARIFF As for Julius Caesar, directed by Vanessa Miller, this will be an all-female production, with Therese Diekhans as the doomed overreaching tyrant, Suzanne Bouchard as Brutus, and Amy Thone as Cassius. BRIAN MILLER Performance locations through Aug. 10 include Volunteer Park, Seattle Center, Lynnwood, Sammamish, Edmonds, and Des Moines; see seattleshakespeare.org for full schedule.

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at 7 p.m., concerts at 8. Benaroya Recital Hall, Third Ave. & Union St., 283-8808, seattlechambermusic.org. Single tickets $48. Wed., July 30 At 7 p.m., a free outdoor concert (Mozart and Beethoven quintets) in Volunteer Park. Fri., Aug. 1 Recital: Adam Neiman plays Rachmaninoff preludes. Concert: Beethoven, Taneyev, and Brahms. Sat., Aug. 2 Recital: a Brahms viola sonata. Concert: The festival closes with Mozart, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky’s sweeping piano trio. MARK HILLIARD WILSON Spanish music from several centuries for classical guitar. St. John United Lutheran Church, 5515 Phinney Ave. N., stjohnunited. org. Donation. 7 p.m. Thurs., July 31. THE MIKADO The recently controversial Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, restyled in the flavor of contemporary Tokyo, presented by Seattle Public Theater’s Youth Program. Bathhouse Theater on Green Lake, 7312 W. Green Lake Dr. N., 524-1300, seattlepublic theater.org. Free. 7 p.m. Fri., Aug. 1–Sat., Aug. 2, 2 p.m. Sun., Aug. 3. OLYMPIC MUSIC FESTIVAL Chamber-music favorites in a repurposed barn, 2 p.m. each Sat. & Sun. through Sept. 7. Next up, music by Bach and by one of his most devoted musical mentor-ees, Mendelssohn. Quilcene, Wash., 360-732-4800, olympicmusicfestival.org. $18–$33. TRIO PARDALOTE Their continuing Shostakovich quartet series goes a bit farther afield this time. The 11th, from 1966, is joined with Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Vashon Allied Arts Blue Heron Center, 19704 Vashon Hwy. S.W., Vashon, 463-5131, vashon alliedarts.org, triopardalote.com. $5–$20. 7:30 p.m. Sun., Aug. 3. B Y G AV I N B O R C H E R T

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Breaks (A Kate Daniels Novel). University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., 634-3400, bookstore.washington.edu. 7 p.m. Wed., July 30 MIRA JACOB Her debut novel, praised by Gary Shteyngart, is The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., 624-6600, elliottbaybook.com. 7 p.m. Wed., July 30 LORALEE LEAVITT Road Tripping: A Parent’s Guide to Planning and Surviving the Annual Car Trip is her new travel guide. University Book Store (Bellevue), 990 102nd Ave. N.E., 425-462-4500, bookstore.washington.edu. 6 p.m. Thurs., July 31 WALLACE J. NICHOLS His self-help guide is Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do. University Book Store, 7 p.m. Thurs., July 31 PRAJWAL PARAJULY The Nepali-Indian writer shares from his story collection, The Gurkha’s Daughter. Elliott Bay, 7 p.m. Thurs., July 31 JENNIFER J. CHOW Author of The 228 Legacy, she gives a talk titled ”Stories & Culture: Literature Affects How We and Others Think About Us.” Miller Community Center, 330 19th Ave E. 7 p.m. Fri., Aug. 1 DEBORAH HARKNESS She closes out a fantasy series with The Book of Life: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy). University Book Store, 7 p.m. Fri., Aug. 1 NANCY PEARL She leads a discussion of the Montanaset novel The Girls From the Five Great Valleys by Elizabeth Savage. University Book Store, 7:30 p.m. Fri., Aug. 1 EDEN REIN She’ll discuss her self-help book The Hero Within. Parkplace Books (Kirkland), 348 Parkplace Ctr., 425-828-6546, parkplacebookskirkland.com. 2 p.m. Sat., Aug. 2 GREG RUCKA His new thriller is Bravo, again featuring Jad Bell. Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 117 Cherry St., 587-5737, seattlemystery.com. Noon, Sat., Aug. 2 YOUNG ADULT/NEW ADULT NW SUMMER BOOK TOUR On hand will be S.L. Whyte, T.M. Franklin, A.O.

Peart, Martina Dalton, and Fabio Bueno. Eagle Harbor Books, 157 Winslow Way E. (Bainbridge Island), 842-5332, eagleharborbooks.com. 3 p.m. Sun., Aug. 3 AMY BLOOM WWII is the backdrop for her homefront coming-of-age tale of two sisters, called Lucky Us. Seattle Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., 386-4636, spl.org. 7 p.m. Mon., Aug. 4 JOSHUA FIELDS MILLBURN & RYAN NICODEMUS

THE GREAT WHITE DISCONNECT: WHITE PRIVILEGE AND HIP-HOP This free lecture led by

local rapper OCnotes considers the ways hip-hop has been appropriated and repackaged. Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave., 622-9250, fryemuseum.org. 7 p.m. Thurs., July 31.

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oriented Summer Field Studies series, artist Molly Mac leads tagalongs on a weekend trip to the Grand Coulee Dam with site-specific video works along the way. The tour convenes and departs from the museum lobby. Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave. N.E., 543-2280, henryart.org. $5-$10. 10 a.m. Sat., Aug. 2. JEON YANG-BAE A fashion show featuring outfits made out of Korean Hanji paper, dyed and brushed with ink. Surprisingly, the clothes are washable. Seattle Asian Art Museum, 1400 E. Prospect St., 654-3100, seattleartmuseum.org. $5-$7. 7-9 p.m. Weds., Jul. 30. CURT LABITZKE Men and Women collects recent work from the Chair of the UW Printmaking program. Opening reception, 6-8 p.m. Fri., Aug. 1. The Island Gallery, 400 Winslow Way E. (Bainbridge), theislandgallery.com. Through Aug. 31. THE RESURGENCE OF SHAMEN Maikoiyo AlleyBarnes, Nicholas Galanin, and Nep Sidhu, the artists behind the Frye’s Your Feast Has Ended, discuss the role of the male shaman throughout history in this free lecture. Frye Art Museum, free, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Sat., Aug. 2. VIBRATIONS 2014 Cairo’s yearly summer arts and music festival in the park returns with a healthy lineup of artists, showcasing installations from Aidan Fitzgerald, Derek Erdman, Frank Correa, JD Banke, MKNZ, and others. Volunteer Park, 1247 15th Ave. E, templeofcairo.com. Free. 2-10 p.m. Sun., Aug. 3,

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reveals its sad starting point: Arts & Crafts From the Japanese-American Internment Camps, 1942–1946. Over 120 objects are on view, many of them humble wood carvings, furniture, even toys made from scrap items at Minidoka or Manzanar. The more polished drawings come from professional artists like Ruth Asawa, Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani, Chiura Obata, and Henry Sugimoto. Some of the more touching items— like a samurai figurine made from wood scraps, shells, and bottle caps—come from family collections, not museums. Bellevue Arts Museum, 510 Bellevue Way N.E., 425-519-0770, bellevuearts.org, $8-$10, Tues.-Sun., 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Through Oct. 12. JOHN BUCK Wow. A carousel of history comes to Pioneer Square in Buck’s two massive, moving wooden machines (plus woodblock prints and bas relief carvings). The two central installations are Burrowed Time and Cat’s Cradle, both of them enormous, intricate meditations on colonialism, cartography, myth, and the golden age of discovery. Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave. S., 624-0770, gregkucera.com. 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends Aug. 23. CHEN SHAOXIONG The contemporary Chinese artist shows new video works and their source drawings in the exhibit Ink. History. Media, which is inspired by historical photos of major events from 1909-2009. Seattle Asian Art Museum, $5-$7. Weds.-Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Through Oct. 19. DANISH MODERN: DESIGN FOR LIVING A survey of modern style Danish furniture from 1950-60. Nordic Heritage Museum, 3014 N.W. 67th St., 789-5707, nordicmuseum.org, $8, Tues.-Sun., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Through Aug. 31. BARBARA DE PIRRO & KATIE MILLER They show separate sculpture and video works harnassed by the German notion of Vorfreude, translating as “the joyful anticipation of future pleasures.” Method, 103 Third Ave. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), methodgallery. com. Through Aug. 23.

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They radically simplify their lives in Everything That Remains, a life guide/manifesto. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way N.E., 366-3333, thirdplacebooks. com. 7 p.m. Mon., Aug. 4 ROBIN HOBB She charts more magical adventures in Fool’s Assassin. University Book Store, 7 p.m. Mon., Aug. 4 IVAN DOIG The veteran local writer shares from his latest Montana-set novel, Sweet Thunder. University Book Store, 5:30 p.m. Tues., Aug. 5 CARRIE LA SEUR From Montana, the writer also sets her novel The Home Place in that state, where family interests collide. Elliott Bay, 7 p.m. Tues., Aug. 5 SEAN DAVIS The Iraq War veteran and artist shares from his memoir The Wax Bullet War. Ravenna Third Place, 6500 20th Ave. N.E., 523-0210, ravennathirdplace.com. 6:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 6 BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS He shares from his road chronicle Travels With Casey: My Journey Through Our Dog-Crazy Country. Elliott Bay, 7 p.m. Wed., Aug. 6 DAN RICHARDS He’s the children’s author of The Problem with Not Being Scared of Monsters. Third Place, 7 p.m. Wed., Aug. 6 MARK EPSTEIN He’ll discuss The Trauma of Everyday Life: A Guide to Inner Peace. University Book Store, 7 p.m. Thurs., Aug. 7 BRIAN & JAN HERBERT Local author Brian Herbert (son of Frank Dune Herbert) has written a futuristic satire, The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma, which takes the form of a totalitarian manifesto. His wife sets her eco-thriller Ocean: The Ocean Cycle Omnibus in the year 2024. Eagle Harbor, 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Aug. 7 JACK STRAW WRITERS Contributors to the latest anthology are Raul Sanchez, Margot Kahn, Gigi Rosenberg, and Kristen Millares Young. University Book Store, 7 p.m. Thurs., Aug. 7

who in Seattle’s booming underground comix scene? Its best and brightest are selling their wares on the cheap at this up-and-coming comics market. Push/ Pull Studio Gallery, 8537 Greenwood Ave. N., facebook.com/exterminatorcity. Free. 11 a.m.- 5 p.m. Sun., Aug. 3,

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It’s probably unfair for a former track runner to judge this movie by the standards of his sport, but I’m going to anyway. Filmed around Seattle, this routine sports melodrama is weak on athletics and no stronger on story. There’s a swift but troubled teen (Kelly Blatz) being raised by a single mother (Kim Basinger); his older brother (Cam Gigandet) is a tattooed ex-con; and living next door is a cranky old alcoholic (Richard Jenkins) who used to coach record-breaking milers. The kid needs to win a scholarship to Berkeley to follow his crush (Analeigh Tipton), and the coach needs redemption. On your mark, set, go! Lap one: The hackneyed script and stereotypical characters put director Charles-Olivier Michaud at an immediate disadvantage. The movie falls to the back of a pack of superior running pictures like Pre and Chariots of Fire. Blatz, a bland and vaguely LaBeouffian TV actor, is too blocky for the role. And Basinger, the most intriguing casting choice here, just stands around looking haggard and sad, with nothing to say, eloquent in her character’s resignation. At 440 yards, we’re already in last place. Lap two: But wait, here comes Jenkins! Oscar-nominated for The Visitor, he’s a go-to character actor with decades of experience and a little running background himself. (Recall his FBI agent on acid in Flirting With Disaster: “You can’t catch the wind!”) And that girl Tipton, of Lucy and Warm Bodies, has a gawky, saucer-eyed charm: Audrey Hepburn meets Illeana Douglas. The movie pulls back into the pack at the half-mile mark.

sidekick Groot (voiced, to limited but potent effect, by Vin Diesel) is a tree-like creature also concocted by computer. Rounding out the quintet is Drax (humorous pro wrestler Dave Bautista), a muscle-bound convict whose inability to understand irony is the source of many good gags. The movie has lots of action and 3-D effects. They are well-executed, if that is important to you. But director James Gunn (Super) understands that getting character right—and keeping the story’s goals simple—can create a momentum machine, the kind of movie in which one scene keeps tipping giddily over into the next. Guardians isn’t great, exactly— Gunn’s fondness for an oldies soundtrack feels warmed-over, and one wishes we got to enjoy the villains more—but it comes as close as this kind of thing can to creating explosive moments of delight. Perhaps the powerful gizmo could tip the balance of the universe

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The giant apparatus required to create a 21st-century comic-book/ sci-fi/action movie is expensive and unwieldy. Little wonder so many of these behemoths eventually collapse under their own weight, content to destroy a city while laboriously setting up the next installment in the franchise. Even the good stuff—Robert Downey Jr.’s antic presence in the first Iron Man, or the cheeky political thrust of Captain America: The Winter Soldier—must make way for grim destruction. Therefore, give thanks to the Marvel gods for Guardians of the Galaxy. If you’ve ever had to suppress a giggle at the sight of Thor’s mighty hammer, this movie will provide a refreshing palate-cleanser. First, understand that the Guardians of the Galaxy tag is something of a joke here; this is a painfully fallible batch of outer-space quasi-heroes. Their leader is an Earthling, Peter Quill (Lake Stevens native Chris Pratt, from Parks and Recreation, an inspired choice), who calls himself “SpaceLord” even though nobody else does. In order to retrieve a powerful matter-dissolving gizmo, he has to align himself with a selection of Marvel Comics castoffs, who will—in their own zany way—end up guarding the galaxy. There’s green-skinned Gamora (Zoe Saldana, changing hues from Avatar), adopted daughter of galactic villain Thanos. Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper) is a CGI rodent-y mutant with leadership qualities; his

and destroy the civilization of the good guys (Glenn Close and John C. Reilly are on their side), but Gunn and his cast understand that the interplay among the quirky Guardians is what matters. The next Avengers movie already looks silly by comparison. ROBERT HORTON

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It’s a bit of a shock to see Dennis Hopper show up, suave and healthy, as a source in this long-gestating documentary about the maverick Los Angeles artist Llyn Foulkes. He and Hopper ran in the same avant-garde ’60s circles along with Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, and company. Some of those artists prospered, but Foulkes dropped out of the gallery scene for decades, becoming a curio musician who performed his Dixieland-meets-Weimar cabaret music on The Tonight Show as a novelty act, like Tiny Tim. But Hopper is now dead and deserving of his own documentary, while Foulkes was doggedly and sympathetically followed for seven years (to age 77) by filmmakers Tamar Halpern and Chris Quilty. I wish I could report their faith was more well-placed. Various curators and peers testify to Foulkes’ young talent, but his landscape and political/historical tendencies make him seem revanchist even today. He missed the boat on conceptualism or Pop, stubbornly changed course when any painting series proved popular, then spent futile decades cutting up and reworking a few large assemblages-on-plywood, the paint heaped high for depth, animal carcasses and even TV sets appended into the textured tableaux. “Political art” is what he calls his work, much of it an angry, even macabre reaction to corporate might—symbolized by Mickey Mouse—and the desecration of the American frontier. Perhaps because that art hasn’t sold too well, Halpern and Quilty focus more on the man than his oeuvre. Foulkes is like some old cowboy sage in a Sam Shepard play, both rueful and wise about his past misbehaviors toward ex-wives, tastemakers, and gallery owners. “I coulda played the game . . . ” he begins; then, like one of his paintings, he abruptly edits the thought: “Nah, I couldn’t have played the game.” One Man Band is an engrossing if overlong portrait of an overlooked artist. Still, some artists remain overlooked for a reason. And for all their determined effort to rescue Foulkes from obscurity, Halpern and Quilty had to leave the final happy coda for the press notes, after they completed filming: Foulkes finally sells one of his big works, 20 years in the making, to Brad Pitt. Dennis Hopper would’ve smiled at that. BRIAN MILLER

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Michel Gondry’s capacity for imagining wacky designs and adorable contraptions is so boundless he makes Santa’s elves look like dull-witted slackers. The French director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Be Kind Rewind is on some kind of perpetual adolescent overdrive, his brain inventing new bits of business as though nobody’d ever asked him to be normal. In his best films, this can be charming. In Mood Indigo, it results in a fun opening half-hour followed by an increasingly tiresome hour of hyperactivity. (This is a truncated 94-minute cut of the 131-minute European release.) Gondry’s source novel, L’Écume des jours, is by Boris Vian, a big mid-century cult figure in France but little appreciated in the States. We meet a young man named Colin (Romain Duris) whose wealth allows him to fritter away the days with his multifaceted advisor/manservant Nicolas (Omar Sy, from The Intouchables) and a talking mouse. Colin invents things, such as a piano that mixes cocktails based on the melody being played. His best friend is Chick (Gad Emaleh), an obsessive fan of the famous philosopher JeanSol Partre. Yes, you read that right. Colin meets the right girl in Chloé (Audrey Tautou, not so far from her old Amélie stomping grounds). They fly above Paris in a mechanical cloud and perform a dance that makes their limbs stretch out to Plastic Man-esque proportions. Such bliss cannot last, and Chloé soon contracts an illness that involves a water lily growing inside her lung. If you could isolate this film’s scenes, looking at Mood Indigo would be highly enjoyable. Colin’s contraptions are fun. I liked the mouse. Tautou and Duris—he’s the wolfish leading man also lately seen in Chinese Puzzle—are cute. There’s a rainstorm that falls in half the screen, so one character gets wet while the other stays dry. It all comes at you lickety-split; and for the record, we should note that perhaps the full-length version catches an appropriate rhythm that this cut doesn’t. No kidding, Gondry is a kind of wizard. Nobody does a four-minute music video with as much magical inventiveness, but there’s a vast miscalculation here about how this amount of whimsy wears over time. Wes Anderson is positively grave by comparison. ROBERT HORTON E

Chaplin and Keaton. (NR) BRIAN MILLER Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., 654-3121, seattleartmuseum. org. $8 individual, $42-$45 series. 7:30 p.m. Thurs. Ends. Aug. 14. FREMONT OUTDOOR CINEMA It’s 1976 all over again in Richard Linklater’s 1993 pot-hazed high-school confidential Dazed and Confused. Yet beneath the cannabis clouds there’s surprising insight into the inner lives of slackers, stoners, and jocks. Throughout, Linklater’s laid-back observational style reveals all the longing, languor, and half-understood notions of self that define what it means to be 18. And you can’t beat Aerosmith’s “Sweet Emotion.” Keep your (red) eyes peeled for Parker Posey, Ben Affleck, Nicky Katt (The Limey), Joey Adams (Chasing Amy), a young Wiley Wiggins (Waking Life), and Matthew McConaughey, whose muscle-car Romeo

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There is only one location to the movie: Locke’s BMW as he heads south through the night from Birmingham toward London—away from a critical job he is abandoning—to attend the birth of a child from a drunken one-night stand. Steven Knight’s Locke is essentially a radio play made into a movie. The camera moves up high to track Locke’s journey; there are some visual flourishes; but basically we’re listening to Hardy’s soft rumbling voice for 85 minutes. It’s a one-man dialogue, with calls to and from his wife and two sons, the hospital, his irate bosses, and a panicked Irish underling back at the job site. Locke keeps telling others, “Everything will be all right,” but he’s really trying to reassure himself against the existential void, the potential loss of job, family, and self-control. Hardy gives Locke a calm, steady self-assessment, a kind of lucid despair. He’s a guy forced to realize in one night that his life has no foundation. (R) B.R.M. SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., 324-9996, siff.net, $6-$11. 7 p.m. Mon. MOONLIGHT CINEMA Take my breath away. Tom Cruise stars as the cocksure fighter pilot in Top Gun, a very big hit from 1986. The volleyball scene with Val Kilmer adds camp appeal to its Reaganite muscle. (R) Redhook Ale Brewery, 14300 N.E. 145th St., Woodinville, 425-4201113. $5. Outdoor movie screens at dusk. Thursdays through Aug. 14. MOVIES AT MAGNUSON PARK Show me a woman between the ages of 28 and 35 who didn’t have a crush on Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling), the superfox dreamboat of John Hughes’ classic 1984 teen wish-fulfillment fantasy Sixteen Candles, and I’ll show you, well, a lesbian. Hughes, the man who would go on to make The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Weird Science, and just about every other great ’80s movie never remotely eligible for an Oscar, found his first and best muse in Molly Ringwald, the ordinary/extraordinary everygirl. Her pouty lips, gawky body, and frequent eyeball rolls—not the flawless, über-confident sexpot represented by Jake’s bitchy queen-bee girlfriend—truly captures the agony and ecstasy of being a teenager. The role of Samantha was a breakout for Ringwald, but Anthony Michael Hall, as the jittery, froggy-voiced captain of the geek squad, and John and Joan Cusack in two of their earliest roles, are just as much fun to watch. (R) LEAH GREENBLATT Magnuson Park, 7400 Sand Point Way N.E., moviesatmagnuson. com. $5. Thursdays. 7 p.m. MOVIES AT THE MURAL The magnificent Gravity, which earned director Alfonso Cuarón an Oscar, will probably here be presented in its 2-D iteration, which will diminish the spectacle. 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you share his surprise at finding a fresh start when he didn’t even know one was required. (NR) B.R.M. Central Cinema, $6-$8. 7 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 3 p.m. Sat./Sun., 7 p.m. Mon. Weds. A SUMMER’S TALE The movie of the summer in 1996 should have been A Summer’s Tale, a wise and bittersweet romance by then-septuagenarian filmmaker (and French New Wave co-founder) Eric Rohmer, who he died, in 2010, at 89. A would-be musician named Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud) who travels to the Brittany seaside for a summer break before his grown-up duties beckon. Three young women are in his mind: loquacious waitress Margot (Amanda Langlet), with whom he can talk about his problems; assertive singer Solene (Gwenaëlle Simon), ripe for a summer fling; and his quasi-girlfriend Lena (Aurelia Nolin), who’s supposed to be showing up any day now. The situation is far more nuanced than this romantic choice would suggest, and Gaspard faces long days of exploring and reassessing his attitudes about romance, most of which are charmingly in error. Nothing in the movie is glibly scenic, but the locations are beautifully and precisely captured. So is the shapelessness of youthful summer days, which could be why the movie lasts 114 minutes; if it moved quicker it might not get that drowsy quality right. And Rohmer, as always, has the touch when it comes to tracking the tiny shifts in intensity between people. The belated arrival of this neglected gem is an unusual pleasure—maybe even the movie of the summer. (NR) ROBERT HORTON SIFF Film Center (Seattle Center), 324-9996, siff.net. $6-$11. 6 & 8:30 p.m. Fri.-Weds. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE Tobe Hooper’s wildly influential and frightening grindhouse hit from 1974 has been given a new 4K digital restoration. The blood will be that much redder and Leatherface that much more scary. (NR) SIFF Cinema Uptown, $6-$11. 10:15 p.m. Fri.-Sun.

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John Carney again presents such an optimistic story, with all its dreamers, losers, opportunists—and original score—this time framed in Manhattan instead of Dublin. Keira Knightley is Greta, faithful girlfriend to up-and-coming rocker Dave Kohl (Adam Levine) and an aspiring songwriter herself. (Knightley performs her own songs, which bear some resemblance to Aimee Mann’s.) After Kohl scores a record deal, the pair moves to Manhattan, where he’s quickly seduced by the industry’s trappings. When Greta turns to fellow busker Steve (James Corden), he whisks her out to an open-mike night in the Village, where she’s discovered by down-on-his luck record exec Dan (Mark Ruffalo). Obviously we expect these two to connect, just as in Once. That film worked for me (and many others) because I could buy the central couple played by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (both of them real musicians). Begin Again feels more like something purchased in a SoHo boutique. Greta’s supposed thrift-store chic simply reads as Knightley being expensively styled as Annie Hall. While Carney is again peddling the notion that a musician with a dream can get discovered, the reality of “making it” in the music biz has everything to do with hard work—not simple luck, as is the case here. (R) GWENDOLYN ELLIOTT Guild 45th, Kirkland Parkplace, others BOYHOOD Richard Linklater’s Boyhood was shot in the director’s native Texas in short bursts over a 12-year period—Linklater knew the shape of the film, but would tweak its script as time marched on, incorporating topical issues and reacting to his performers. This means that unlike most movies, which remake the world and impose an order on it, Boyhood reacts to the world. Protagonist Mason (Ellar Coltrane), tracked from first grade to highschool graduation, is learning that life does not fit into the pleasing rise and fall of a three-act structure, but is doled out in unpredictable fits and starts. Linklater doesn’t reject melodrama so much as politely declines it, opting instead for little grace notes and revealing encounters. Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke are terrific as the parents, and Linklater’s daughter Lorelei is distinctive as Mason’s older sister. Other folks come and go, like people do. As we reach the final stages, there’s definitely a sense of rounding off the story, and a few appropriate nods toward lessons learned—the movie’s not as shapeless as it might seem. Let’s also appreciate how Linklater calls for us to reimagine how we might treat movies and childhood: less judgment, less organization, more daydreaming. (R) Harvard Exit, Sundance, Lincoln Square CHEF There is nothing wrong with food porn or the happy camaraderie of a restaurant kitchen. Nor can I fault writer/director/star Jon Favreau for making a midlife-crisis movie that lets slip his Hollywood complaints. The commercial pressures in directing formulaic blockbusters like Iron Man must surely be great, and film critics are surely

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and the staging of the sequence where Ian relocates Sofi (through a series of mystical coincidences) is technically accomplished. The title I Origins is, I fear, meant to be a pun on “eye,” which reduces the film’s metaphysical ideas to a glib play on words. So the movie has the title it deserves. (NR) R.H. Sundance, others A MOST WANTED MAN Directed by the very deliberate Dutch photographer-turned-filmmaker Anton Corbijn (Control, The American), this this adaptation of a lesser 2008 John le Carré novel will, I think, be remembered as the best among Philip Seymour Hoffman’s posthumous releases. In a post-9/11 world, he plays a rumpled Hamburg cop, Bachmann, with failures in his past, who’s charged with the dirty work of counter-terrorism. Crawling out of the Elbe, like a rat, is a Russian-Chechen Muslim we’ll come to know as Karpov. Bachmann and his squad (including Continental all-stars Daniel Brühl and Nina Hoss) follow Karpov intently without arresting him, hoping he’ll lead to bigger fish. His bosses are dubious; a separate, rival German intelligence agency interferes; and he’s even got to negotiate with the CIA—represented by Robin Wright—to allow Karpov room to roam. Rachel McAdams shows up as a naïve, sympathetic human-rights lawyer (riding a bike, of course). Will Karpov plant a bomb in the rush-hour subway or lead Bachmann to an important alQaida funding link? Related within a few days’ time and surveillance, that’s the essential plot. The recent Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was a much better movie as it evoked the old, analog Cold War; unreliable technology meant that human relationships, and betrayals, were paramount. Hoffman would’ve been a better fit in that bygone world of smoky negotiation and curdled compromise. (R) B.R.M. Seven Gables, Kirkland Parkplace, others SEX TAPE Despite the title, this marital comedy is a surprisingly tame affair, and fans expecting Jason Segel to again drop trou will be disappointed (and non-fans perhaps relieved). He and Cameron Diaz haven’t got the same antagonistic chemistry displayed in Bad Teacher (a sequel is said to be in the works). There’s not enough sex (though much talking about it), and the tape unspools too slowly. It takes 30 minutes for these tired, suburban parents to drunkenly film every position in The Joy of Sex (a weirdly out-of-date volume to be on their shelves). Not until the movie’s midpoint do they discover their video has accidentally been synced on a half-dozen iPads that Segel’s gifted away (to Diaz’s mom, her boss, friends, etc.). Anyone entering the theater already knows the plot, and that’s where Sex Tape ought to begin: with the frantic recovery effort. Apart from pacing, the pursuit becomes a journey into the heart of blandness. Not even a cokedup Rob Lowe, with Slayer blaring and tramp stamp on his back, can send the film into the wild adventure we want. Instead of an urgent screwball comedy, director Jake Kasdan and his writers keep steering the plot back to mundane marriage-counseling mode, as if we’re seriously concerned that bond will break—especially with two cute kids, who save their parents from an ominous porn magnate (cameo alert). Technology, not sex, is their real undoing. Segel wails that “nobody understands the cloud!,” and plenty of viewers will know the same shame. (R) B.R.M. Lincoln Square, others SNOWPIERCER Let me state that I have no factual basis for believing that a train would be able to stay in continuous motion across a globe-girdling circuit of track for almost two decades, nor that the people on board could sustain themselves and their brutal caste system under such circumstances. But for 124 minutes of loco-motion, I had no problem buying it all. That’s because director Bong Joon-ho, making his first English-language film, has gone whole hog in imagining this self-contained universe. The poor folk finally rebel—Captain America’s Chris Evans and Jamie Bell play their leaders—and stalk their way toward the godlike inventor of the supertrain, ensconced all the way up in the front. This heroic progress reveals food sources, a dance party, and some hilarious propaganda videos screened in a classroom. Each train car is a wacky surprise, fully designed and wittily detailed. (Various other characters are played by Ed Harris, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, and Song Kang-ho, star of Bong’s spirited monster movie The Host.) The progression is a little like passing through the color-coded rooms of The Masque of the Red Death, but peopled by refugees from Orwell. The political allegory would be ham-handed indeed if it were being served up in a more serious context, but the film’s zany pulp approach means Bong can get away with the baldness of the metaphor. Who needs plausibility anyway? (R) R.H. SIFF Cinema Uptown, Lynwood (Bainbridge)

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all assholes. Chef is the simple though overlong story of a chef getting his culinary and family mojo back, and my only real criticism—apart from the constant Twitter plugs—is that absolutely nothing stands in the way of that progress for chef Carl (Favreau). Dustin Hoffman barely registers as a villain (as Carl’s gently greedy “play the hits” boss, who goads him into quitting); Robert Downey Jr., as the prior ex of Carl’s ex (Sofia Vergara), briefly shadows the scene—but no, he’s only there to help. If you like endless scenes of chopping vegetables, salsa montages, and juicy supporting players (John Leguizamo, Bobby Cannavale, Amy Sedaris, Scarlett Johansson), Chef is an entirely agreeable dish. Just expect no salt. (R) B.R.M. Sundance, others CODE BLACK Bad doctors, in social settings, brag about their jobs. The good ones are less self-aggrandizing, so it’s not initially obvious how to approach Dr. Ryan McGarry’s five-year documentary study of the Los Angeles County Hospital ER where he and his fellow residents arduously trained. That these people are idealistic, hardworking, well-spoken, and rather photogenic shows some healthy self-regard, but McGarry’s lens is wider than that. He wants to say something about the current state of post-ACA healthcare in America. However, what that something is, much less its timeframe—starting before and finishing after Obamacare?—is never clearly established. We get personalities and anecdotes, but not much data, especially when it comes to costs. We watch some patients live and others die, the social safety net in action, our tax dollars at work. It’s controlled chaos, where physicians are permitted to improvise on the fly. Then, at some point during McGarry’s long project, a new hospital is built and new procedures are implemented. He and his colleagues complain about the paperwork, the constant computer data entry, the new distance from their patients. The younger physicians seem to favor a single-payer system, but that debate is past. Code Black is admirably focused as a tribute to a noble profession, but some political context and outside perspective would help McGarry’s diagnosis. (NR) B.R.M. Sundance EDGE OF TOMORROW Earth has been invaded by space aliens, and Europe is already lost. Though no combat veteran, Major Bill Cage (Tom Cruise) is thrust into a kind of second D-Day landing on the beaches of France, where he is promptly killed in battle. Yes, 15 minutes into the movie Tom Cruise is dead—but this presents no special problem for Edge of Tomorrow. In fact it’s crucial to the plot. The sci-fi hook of this movie, adapted from a novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, is that during his demise Cage absorbed alien blood that makes him time-jump back to the day before the invasion. He keeps getting killed, but each time he wakes up he learns a little more about how to fight the aliens and how to keep a heroic fellow combatant (Emily Blunt) alive. The further Cage gets in his progress, the more possible outcomes we see. It must be said here that Cruise plays this exactly right: You can see his exhaustion and impatience with certain scenes even when it’s our first time viewing them. Oh, yeah—he’s been here before. There’s absurdity built into this lunatic set-up, and director Doug Liman—he did the first Bourne picture—understands the humor of a guy who repeatedly gets killed for the good of mankind. (PG-13) R.H. Sundance, Admiral, others THE GRAND SEDUCTION 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 the French-Canadian film Seducing Dr. Lewis, seen at SIFF ’04 and written by Ken Scott. 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. 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. (PG-13) R.H. Sundance I ORIGINS Studying the evolutionary origins of the human eye, molecular biologist Ian Gray (Michael Pitt, from Last Days) and his gifted intern Karen (Brit Marling) do the lab work; meanwhile, the supremely rational Ian indulges in a whirlwind affair with exotic Sofi (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey). A drastic plot twist jumps us forward seven years, and once again the rationalists are forced to examine their atheistic beliefs—as they so often are in movies. Although I found all this to be fundamentally silly, I should say that writer/ director Mike Cahill is clearly a talented filmmaker. The hothouse world of super-focused scientists is convincing,

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Avett’s clunky attack can nail that emotion, if he just trusts the pop star’s arrangement. (Thankfully, he does.) As much as navel-gazing acoustic singer/songwriters may aim for this feeling in their compositions, there’s something about what Beyoncé does in this song that seems almost more authentic than folksinger authenticity. Avett is not the first folk or roots artist to seriously tackle this number. Los Angelesbased Americana chanteuse LP toted it around on her last tour, bringing houses down as she nailed the high notes in her trademark vibrato, strumming delicately on her tiny ukulele— an almost comical contrast, if it all didn’t sound so good. It’s not only “Halo” that translates easily, either. “XO” has a vibe that’s damn near Lumineers-esque, with the crowd sing-along in the background. Except, unlike with the Lumineers, the crowd is singing actual words that mean something—not just space-filling nonsense syllables that give the impression, when belted out in unison, that grander ideas are being expressed. Here again, Beyoncé exacts with simplicity a musical feat on which artists from a genre more traditionally considered “simple” have been missing the mark lately. As with her allegiance to feminist manifestos, Beyoncé sets herself apart as an artist above the rest. Call her powerful, savvy, sexy, or flawless; call her a force to be reckoned with. But, behind all the labels the public could place upon her, beyond the magazine covers and airbrushing and endless talking points, Beyoncé’s self-titled surprise release was a reminder that, like Dylan, she’s a creative powerhouse who refuses to be pinned down. If she stays true to her driving purpose and that authentic melodic wellspring, her music and its message will live in the modern folk canon for generations. E BEYONCÉ VIA INSTAGRAM.COM

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arlier this year, Beyoncé dropped a monster of a self-titled album on an unsuspecting world. Critics scrambled to catch up and form an intelligent opinion about what they had limited time to consider. Many reviewers were grasping at clickbait, struggling like television reporters trying to wrap their minds around a sudden uprising or act of war even as they report it. In musichistory terms, it was a Bob Dylan move by a woman who is about as impossible to define and understand as the guy who, once upon a time, turned the folk and rock worlds upside down. The idea that Beyoncé can step into Dylan’s shoes—and make them dance—isn’t much of a stretch. Beyoncé: Living folk icon. After all, Beyoncé has been Generation Y’s universal folk hero pretty much since her group Destiny’s Child burst on the scene with the middle-class feminist anthem “Bills Bills Bills” In music-history terms, it back in 1999. Ever since, middle-class feminism was a Bob Dylan move by has been a recurring theme in her music, present with as much urgency and command as equality a woman who is about as and understanding were in Dylan’s early work, or the recurrence of working-class angst in Bruce impossible to define and Springsteen’s career. In 2011, as conservative understand as the guy who, leaders geared up for the 2012 election—which gave the world expressions like “binders full once upon a time, turned of women” and “legitimate rape”—Beyoncé dropped “Run the World (Girls)” with a topithe folk and rock worlds cal precision typically eschewed by pop stars. It upside down. wasn’t the first or last time. Indeed, the persistence of her feminism (“Independent Women,” “Single Ladies,” “Pretty Hurts”) has held her at the fore of contempocrossed—and leans into a heart-wrenching first rary pop music as various versions of Miley and verse: “Remember those walls I built?/Well, Bieber have come and gone, usually in a haze of baby, they’re tumbling down . . . ” If the video’s drunk tweets and/or tacky racial misappropriadescription didn’t mention the songwriter and tion. All the while, Beyoncé, with her crazy talent title (Beyoncé, “Halo”), you might get to the and her purpose, has stood strong. Yet it’s not chorus before you realize it’s a tune by an artist only those qualities that make her a generational who’s about as different from his band, the Avett spokesperson—it’s her universality. Brothers, as possible. Avett’s vocals are so plain and everymanlike, it’s shocking to see him climb over the obstacle course of notes that Beyoncé’s In a video on YouTube, Seth Avett sits on a flawless voice pours out like so much water from New Orleans soundstage with cellist Joe Kwon. a glass. Yet those notes aren’t just showoff vocal He strums chunky chords on his acoustic guigymnastics; they carry emotional weight. Even tar—capo on the fourth fret, eyes closed, legs

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Opening for Stale Birth’s free improvisations, Seattle guitarist BILL HORIST could hedge toward the noise-y side of things for his set. But considering that no approach to music is beyond his reach—Horist’s as likely to work in jazz as avant-styles or acoustic-based music—anything and everything’s on the table. With Double Ganger. Lo-Fi, 429 Eastlake Ave. E., 254-2824, thelofi.net. 8 p.m. $7. 21 and up. DAVE CANTOR For most punk bands, doing an acoustic tour would seem odd. But X aren’t most punk bands. The Los Angeles quartet has always had a wider sonic palette than most of its contemporaries, serving up a rockabilly/punk hybrid that predated the alt-country tag by 20 years. All four original members will participate in tonight’s all-acoustic set. With Folk Uke. The Triple Door, 216 Union St., 8384333, thetripledoor.net. 8 p.m. $50 adv./$60 front row. Through Thurs. DAVE LAKE Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year or so (and I’m not bagging on rocks, but that seems pretty silly), you are probably familiar with one of the buzziest bands around, LAKE STREET DIVE. If you aren’t, then you should check them out right now. With a sound that covers everything from smoldering pop-soul to jazz that swings like nobody’s business to classic R&B and Brit rock, it’s no wonder people are falling in love with this band left and right. Its new album, Bad Self Portraits, is the good-time record of 2014 you deserve. Go treat yourself. With Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band. Woodland Park Zoo, 5500 Phinney Ave. N., 548-2688, zoo.org/ zootunes. 6 p.m. $25. All ages. BRIAN PALMER

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This has definitely been a good year for Baton Rouge rapper KEVIN GATES. He’s been named one of XXL’s 2014 Freshmen, topped many other critics’ lists, and has a major-label release in the works. Gates uses music to manage his depression, which spurred him to earn a degree in psychology while serving time. Hosted by Neema. With Chevy Woods, Tasman Holloway, DJ Swervewon. Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave., 441-4618, thecrocodile.com. 8 p.m. SOLD OUT. MICHAEL F. BERRY Scott Hansen’s ambient, minimalist pop expands on Awake, the fourth album from his group TYCHO, where synths recede to make room for shimmering, Edge-like guitar work and majestic post-rock. Hansen called it “the first true Tycho record,” and unlike previous releases, it was recorded with a three-piece band. With Christopher Willits. The Neptune. 9 p.m. $20. DL It seems these days that camping at festivals is almost a given. Makes sense; it’s a chance to get fully into the alternate reality that is a short, sweet summer filled with music. What makes PICKATHON stand out is that the experience doesn’t end when you leave; what happens instead is that your relationship with music shifts. In this rustic festival set on beautiful Pendarvis Farm just outside Portland—which many bands request to play at again and fans faithfully return to—you get to see some

Saturday, August 2

Inspired by a shared love of “what an acoustic guitar and a singer can bring to one’s ears,” friends and music lovers Paul Mauer and Jabi Shriki organized the first Olympia Acoustic Festival in 2012. After two successful years in the south Sound, the pair decided to branch out to a larger city and music community with the SEATTLE ACOUSTIC FESTIVAL, an all-day event featuring four performance spaces and a staggering lineup of more than 50 musicians. Go for the great bill featuring local acts and artists like Bradford Loomis, Whitney Monge, and Susy Sun, and definitely stick around for headliner Victoria Williams, the semi-reclusive singer/songwriter who’s been covered by everyone from Lou Reed to Lucinda Williams. With Marvin Etzioni, Walter SalasHumara, Aaron English, Cloud Person, Stephanie Anne Johnson, Tobias the Owl, Brenda Xu, Samantha Lynne, and many more. Inscape Arts Building, 815 Seattle Blvd. S., 458-2716, seattleacousticfest.com. 11 a.m. $10 adv./ $15 DOS. GWENDOLYN ELLIOTT On July 2, two crew buses belonging to the STYX AND FOREIGNER Soundtrack of Summer tour caught fire in Philadelphia (the result of a blazing guitar solo, perhaps)? Fortunately, the fire department put out the blaze and no one was injured. Afterward, the bands donated $10,000 to the PFD’s Widows’ Fund as a token of their gratitude. Maryhill Winery, 9774 Highway 14, Goldendale, Wash., 509-773-1976, maryhillwinery.com. 7 p.m. $59–$105. All ages. MFB STRFKR (DJ SET) The diversity of Miracle Mile, the latest album from this Portland electronic quartet, makes the band an obvious choice for a DJ set. Singles released thus far have ranged from synth-rock (“Atlantis”) to disco-tinged (“While I’m Alive”) and ’60s-esque poprock (“Beach Monster”). No doubt the band will bring that grab-bag attitude to its set. And glitter, hopefully. Neumos. 8 p.m. $15 adv. 21 and over. ACP Dry those tears, HOT BODIES IN MOTION fans. This isn’t a farewell show, just the last time the current lineup will perform together. The soulful rock quartet, which formed in 2010 and released Principle A last year, mentions “structural changes” on Facebook. The band doesn’t go into detail, but the same comment says the writing

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Canadian trio A TRIBE CALLED RED brings a unique perspective to dance music, combining hip-hop and electronic music with elements of aboriginal music like chanting and percussion to make “powwow step,” most recently showcased on its latest, Nation II Nation. ATCR also created Electric Powwow, a monthly event featuring indigenous DJs, to further this eclectic sound. With Riz Rollins, J Justice. Barboza, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9951, thebarboza.com. 8 p.m. $15 adv. 21 and over. AZARIA C. PODPLESKY After five years of silence, classic-rock revivalists WOLFMOTHER returned this year with a surprise new album, New Crown, that was mostly panned by fans and critics. But that doesn’t mean the band’s out for good. Between stirring hits like “Joke & the Thief” and “Woman,” there are still plenty of hard-rock vibes to go around. With Electric Citizen. The Neptune, 1303 N.E. 45th St., 682-1414, stgpresents.com/neptune. 9 p.m. $25. All ages. DUSTY HENRY It’s hard to say which version of FOXYGEN will show up to any given performance. Will it be the band known to quarrel and bicker onstage? Or the one to throw down a set of raucous, transcendent R&B indie rock? Part of the excitement of seeing the band live is knowing it could be one of the worst or best shows you’ve ever seen. With Woods, Steve Gunn. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467, neumos.com. 8 p.m. $15 adv. 21 and over. DH

of the best music being made, all in a barn right next to the resident sheep. Pairing dusty Americana and edgy indie rock, the event has turned into one of Oregon’s most distinctive happenings. With an emphasis on sustainability and the environment, the event is plastic-free, partially solar-powered, and encourages alternative transportation to and from the venue via every mode of travel from cycling to carpooling. Here’s your chance to watch nationally renowned bands like The War on Drugs, Jolie Holland, Nickel Creek, and X, plus regional groups including Ural Thomas & The Pain and Blind Pilot, in the great outdoors, right next to your camping spot. Through Sunday. Pendarvis Farm, 16581 S.E. Hagen Rd., Happy Valley, Ore., pickathon.com. Music starts at 12:30 p.m. Fri. $95 and up. STIRLING MYLES Perhaps it’s all the natural scenery out here to feast your third eye on. Or maybe it’s the mushrooms? Whatever the cause, the Northwest’s psych scene is potent and growing in a million directions at once. In their infinite wisdom, the sages over at the Sunset Tavern have decided to gather the cream of the cosmic crop for the upcoming NORTHWEST PSYCH FEST, booking a lineup as deep as it is diverse. Spread out over two stacked days, festivalgoers can expect to get their minds expanded by the desert jams of Kingdom of the Holy Sun, the growling dungeon folk of Geist & The Sacred Ensemble, and the muscular, chugging riffs of Seattle vets Kinski. If that’s not enough, there will also be skronking saxophones, free-form drug-influenced improvisations, and sci-fi soundscapes. If all that doesn’t prompt you to evolve into the next level of consciousness, I’m not sure what will. Through Saturday. With Master Musicians of Bukkake, Fungal Abyss, Diminished Men, and more. Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave., 784-4880, sunsettavern.com. $12. 8 p.m. 21 and up. KELTON SEARS In June, LADY LAMB THE BEEKEEPER, aka Aly Spaltro, posted a video from a recording session on Instagram, confirming that her second studio album, the follow-up to last year’s Ripely Pine, is in the works. Based on this sneak peek, fans can expect lots of bluesy guitar riffs and soulful vocals on the Maine native’s next release. With the Sadies. Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave. N.W., 789-3599, tractortavern.com. 9 p.m. $15. 21 and over. ACP

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What happens when a bunch of technically astute, uncharismatic session musicians team up to form their own headlining act? TOTO, that’s what. Good luck naming a single band member, but with Toto it’s always been more about the pack than the wolf, as evidenced by the Caligulan sonic orgy that is “Africa.” Besides, when you’ve got MICHAEL MCDONALD in tow as your tourmate, the alpha-dog slot’s more than adequately accounted for. Tulalip Resort Casino, 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd, Marysville, 888-272-1111, tulalipcasino. com. 7 p.m. $35 and up. MIKE SEELY

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California native SARA BAREILLES emerged onto the pop scene with her debut album, Little Voice, and her hit single, “Love Song,” in 2007. Since then, she has garnered three Grammy nominations and released a critically acclaimed sophomore album, Kaleidoscope Heart, and another worldwide hit, “King of Anything.” With her latest, The Blessed Unrest, her music has transitioned from light coffee-shop fare to substantial, honest art. Here Bareilles shows off her warm and soulful voice as well as her powerful range on more lyrically and sonically

mature songs. With Lucius, Hannah Georgas. Marymoor Park, 6046 W. Lake Sammamish Pkwy., Redmond, 2053661, marymoorconcerts.com. 6:30 p.m. $39.50–$59.50. All ages. REUT ODINAK Judging a book by its cover or a band by its name is often illadvised, but with DIARRHEA PLANET, it’s pretty clear right away what listeners are getting into. The Nashville sextet’s latest album, I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams, is a sloppy, sweaty romp with anthemic guitar riffs that harken back to the attitude that “rock and roll will never die.” With Those Darlins, the Plastards. Tractor Tavern. 9 p.m. $12. 21 and over. DH Coming from a city with a rock lineage like Brooklyn’s carries a certain weight and set of expectations—and PARQUET COURTS does not disappoint. Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone has said of them, “They do for Nineties indie rock what Pavement did for Eighties indie rock.” It’s not just the band’s unique spin on garage rock that sets them apart, it’s also singer Andrew Savage’s purist commitment to the lo-fi and DIY approach. The band eschews things like social media, opting instead to spend time uploading mixtapes of its favorite bands to its website. We may be living in the digital age, but how ’90s is that? With Naomi Punk, Gag. The Vera Project, 305 Harrison St., 956-8372, theveraproject.com. 8 p.m. $12 adv. All ages. DIANA M. LE Send events to music@seattleweekly.com. See seattleweekly.com for more listings.

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Now in its second year, Carnation’s Timber! Music Festival didn’t slow down a bit. Produced by Seattle-based booking agency Artist Home, the three-day fest had the special warm-andfuzzy feeling that usually accompanies its events. By all accounts, attendees—from young, single hipsters to laid-back families—were all part of one big family and relaxed in a few fun-filled days of music, activities, delicious eats, and a few freebies (this year REI offered marshmallowroasting, sunglasses, and free Kleen Kanteen

water bottles for its members). The music was solid from beginning to end on Saturday, with jams from Everett sweethearts Fauna Shade, crazed rock anthems courtesy of Hounds of the Wild Hunt, and the mellow vibes of the Seattle Rock Orchestra. I even got to spend some quality time with Seattle pop darlings Tea Cozies. Here’s just a taste of the fun. Check out seattleweekly. com/reverb for more photos of yet another epic Timber! Fest. MORGEN SCHULER E

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This past weekend, Seattleites converged to partake of three days of indie bands, food trucks, and lots of alcohol. True to its name, Capitol Hill Block Party (CHBP) is less a festival and more a party that happens to include music. Shy Girls’ opening set on Friday set the tone. Vocalist Dan Vidmar crooned over soulful, throwback R&B beats both sultry and groove-oriented. Later, Seattle production duo ODESZA would take the dance vibes even further, mixing tracks back and forth. The set ended abruptly, however, when one of its laptops fell onstage. The weekend’s two A$APs (Ferg and Rocky) brought some of the Party’s most energetic and excitable performances, but each MC had his own misstep, too: Ferg’s entrance in a bulletproof vest to the sound of gunshots after a speech about gun control was in hilariously poor taste, while Rocky asking his DJ to blast “Smells Like Teen Spirit” while he yelled “Give it up for Nirvana!” was too pandering. But hearing Ferg’s “Shabba” twice in a weekend is a typically a good sign of heavy partying—and hella fun—at hand. And that it was, with acts like Star Slinger, Spoon, Angel Olsen, Manatee Commune, XXYYX, Chromeo, EMA, the Thermals, and many others providing an eclectic blend of everything from electro dance to blistering rock. Such sonic variety—not to mention the colorful crowd—culminated during The War on Drugs’ hazy, sweltering, guitar-fueled set. While half the crowd bobbed their heads and went into appropriate trances during the scorcher “Red Eyes,” the other half took selfies and pontificated on when A$AP Rocky would come onstage. Someone inflated a condom and tossed it around the crowd like a balloon—a fleeting moment capturing both the beauty and the absurdity that is the Capitol Hill Block Party. DUSTY HENRY E

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katiekatemusic.com) For an artist who’s openly struggled with self-confidence and the need to prove herself on the rap scene, Katie Kate’s second album tells a different story. It’s a narrative that seems to take and impart advice all on its own, a selfcontained manifesto to and for the artist herself—who, after months of shopping it unsuccessfully to labels, simply released it on her own. From the lyrics of the trap-beatamped second track “Canyon” (“Canyon’s calling you/Close your eyes and jump with me/I can hear her say, ‘Be brave, child, be brave’ ”), the rapper, aka Katherine Finn, leaps headfirst into these 10 songs, laying bare a range of fears, desires, and strange visions. Some of them reflect a period of intensely vivid dreams during which Nation was written, and the material shares similar spacey vibes with fellow Seattle-based avant-rapper Ishmael Butler. Also like Butler, Finn eschews conventional rap braggadocio for more obscure, soul-mining wordplay, a move that not only helps elevate and push the art form, but also reveals the full scope of her talent. A Cornish grad who can reportedly play roughly 15 instruments, Finn produced and wrote this album herself, with minimal contributions from friends like Nacho Picasso and Jarv D, who offer a certain street cred to “Persephone,” and live drumming from Trent Moorman, who adds to the album’s underlying spastic, frantic edge. Overall, this is Katie Kate’s baby: dark, strange, and often catchy as hell; even the album’s title implies a sense of selfautonomy. This is best heard on “Rushmore,” when she sings in a voice that’s both sweet and don’teven-try-to-fuck-with-me, “I change for no one.” As in the famous monument, there’s a real feeling of stoicism and resolve in those words. They’re ones she’s dug deep for, and now can rightly claim as her own. GWENDOLYN ELLIOTT

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Tracks, naomipunkmusicgroup.com) Despite all efforts to shroud itself in mystery, Olympia’s Naomi Punk keeps raising its profile. Its scorching 2012 debut record, The Feeling, was quickly picked up by Brooklyn indie label Captured Tracks, home to trending acts like DIIV and Mac Demarco. But the group’s jagged guitars and noise-heavy jams don’t have the friendly pop tone of many of its label-mates, making its music some of the least accessible out there. Many tracks bear names similar to those on The Feeling (“Linoleum Tryst” vs. “Linoleum Tryst #19”; “Eon of Love” vs. “Eon of Pain”), and as before, each fades into the next with clashing guitars and minimalist drums. Yet the band plays up such monotony as a strength; and while its guitar technique doesn’t vary much from track to track (aside from sanguine instrumental interludes like “Plastic World No. 6” and “Whirlpool of Anguish”), it all builds to a strangely therapeutic drone, culminating in the astounding eight-minute

closer, “Rodeo Trash Pit,” which combines all the previous relentless guitar chopping and thudding drums into a sweltering noise-rock anthem. Elsewhere, vocalist Travis Coster is hard to discern, obscured by layers of watery reverb and sputtered lyrics. When he finally elongates his phrases on the choruses of tracks like “Linoleum Tryst #19,” it feels like a well-earned revelation. (Sun., Aug. 3, Vibrations Festival, Volunteer Park) DUSTY HENRY The Pharmacy, Spells (Aug. 12, Old Flame

Records, thepharmacyband.com) Throughout its 12 years, The Pharmacy has experimented with just about every genre, from fuzzed-out punk to alt-rock. Now with Spells, the band’s fifth fulllength, the trio wades deeper into the psychedelic waters it dipped into on 2012’s Stoned & Alone. A quick listen, six of Spells’s 10 songs clock in at less than three minutes. Tracked live with producer Kyle Brunette (Night Beats), there’s a raw yet mellow energy to it. Some songs, like “Anna Bella,” play at a leisurely pace, while tracks like “Masten Lake Lagoon” pick up the tempo. And though the majority of Spells, written in a cabin in Big Sur and recorded in the basement of a used-car museum in Tacoma, is hazy in nature, there are a few surprises throughout—like the doo-wop-influenced vocals on the punky “Cool and Calm.” There’s a relaxed vibe to singer/guitarist Scottie Yoder’s voice, and drummer Brendhan Bowers and keyboardist Stefan Rubicz follow suit, letting the band’s easy rapport shine through. (Wed., July 30, Sunset Tavern) AZARIA C. PODPLESKY Shabazz Palaces, Lese Majesty (out now, Sub Pop,

shabazzpalaces.com) Palaceer Lazaro (aka Ishmael Butler) is a rapper unconcerned with being easily understood. Which isn’t to say he’s not communicating. For example, Lese Majesty—the second release (not including two mini-albums) from the avant-rap group Butler shares with Tendai Maraire—refers to a French phrase for antagonizing a sovereign power. That’s just the first and most obvious clue to his message here. To get the rest, you’ll need to sift through dense layers of obscure sampled dialogue, synthesizers, and Butler’s often abstracted vocals. As Lese Majesty is 18 tracks long, that may be difficult. This is a sprawling album that doubles down on its predecessor’s (2011’s Black Up) sonic eccentricities. But here Butler, Maraire, and cohort Erik Blood have opted for something quieter. The textures are there, just as on Shabazz’ previous albums, only now they’re more ambient. And if Lese Majesty is more successful at drawing you in, that’s due in no small part to Butler, who dials down the wordplay. There are no lyrical fireworks here, no density that could be described as a “triple entendre.” If you want a primer, there’s no better example than the following from “Solemn Swears”: “I’m very nice like Jerry Rice/I make ’em dance just at a glance.” It’s a simply constructed phrase set against a string of pops, whizzes, and bass drum fused into one beautifully cryptic whole. VERNAL COLEMAN E

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