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LEFT BEHIND

BY ELLIS E. CONKLIN | How

conservative is Tom Burgess? And will voters believe it when he denies it?

Plus: Seattle’s plan for the future; drum circles under fire; and Rule vs. Rule.

11 SUMMER GUIDE 2015

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BY NICOLE SPRINKLE | How Judy

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BY DUSTY HENRY | Young but already

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Last week, Seattle-based illustrator, historian, and comic artist Seth Goodkind provided readers with an illustrated history of Pacific Northwest cults. “An apparent paradise of both penitent and celebratory climate, the Northwest hosts a tenacious diversity of believers willing to glob onto charismatic figures who claim to be direct or unique conduits of esoteric knowledge,” Goodkind wrote before drawing his way through the histories of the Love Israel Family, Ramtha, and the Creffield Cult. In response, readers provided their own histories:

came along after I-502 claiming to support sick people and breaking all sorts of rules and regulations because “it’s not illegal.” Those are the people you should blame for this. This new law is an attempt to regulate the dispensaries and provide more health and legal safeguards for “poor, sick people.”

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Whenever girlfriends and I were broke, we’d say there was always the Lusty Lady. Sometimes we really meant it. Miss Indigo Blue worked there for a bit.

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I-502/5052 is the reason I recently ended over 20 years of financial support to the ACLU. In fact, I’m having an ACLU card BBQ at my house next weekend. You’re invited to attend and bring your ACLU card too. RSVP. Please. I’m expecting beaucoup like-minded souls. phantasma, via seattleweekly.com

My favorite of all-time clever phrases they were known for posting outside was “OB1 Disrobee” when Star Wars hit the theaters again sometime in the ’90s. Used to catch the bus right in front to go back home to the West Side.

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Meanwhile, Casey Jaywork looked deeper into Mayor Ed Murray’s effort to crack down on medicalmarijuana dispensaries in Seattle, which could shut down as many as 59 storefronts within the city.

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Rick Anderson chronicled the latest twist in the tale of the Lusty Lady, the First Avenue strip club, famous for its raunchy marquee, that refused to Don’t forget the Seventh Elect Church in Spirisuccumb to developers. “In a city where new develtual Israel of Ballard! (See opment effortlessly bulldozes Send your thoughts on your 7/7/93 article.) The last history, [the building owner] of them died out a few years passed up millions of dollars this week’s issue to ago, and the last property because . . . investors wanted to letters@seattleweekly.com tear down the Lusty building became a city park. Back in the 1930s, there was a state to make room for their . . . Four Supreme Court case arising from the probate of Seasons hotel and condo tower,” Anderson wrote. the founder’s estate. He had gotten everybody However, as Anderson reported, the building has to deed real estate to him personally, with the finally been sold to developers, who will turn it into understanding it belonged to the church. When a boutique hotel. Readers mourned: he died, his personal representative claimed it all (properties all over the western U.S. and Canada) What a shame—at least that place had character. as property of the estate. The estate lost the arguSeattle is such a crap town for adult entertainment, but supposedly the original articles for the ment; the nudity Nazis have made it so girls can church corporation provided the properties would make better money showing their boobs at a go to his heirs if it ever stopped being a church. bikini espresso than dance at a strip club. That, They didn’t reproduce—so it was only a matter of combined with the moratoriums every city in time, I suppose. By the way, I disagree with your this state has against nudity, leads to the impossicharacterization of Mars Hill as a “cult.” bility of opening a club where one wasn’t before, which means the existing clubs are awful and John Sullivan, via Facebook have no incentive to improve. thebriang, via seattleweekly.com Ain’t no party like a Ramtha party ’cause a Ramtha party don’t stop.

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sidized preschool.] That’s not some conservative agenda. We’re one of the few cities in the country to fully fund Nurse-Family Partnership [a community health program that pairs a registered nurse with a new mom early in a pregnancy]. That’s not a conservative agenda.

I pushed for the city’s sick-leave law [enacted in 2012] and for doubling [the 2011 voterapproved $235 million] Families and Education Levy. That’s not a conservative agenda.”

Raised in a strict Republican family on Capitol Hill, both parents ardent fundamentalists, Burgess was in his 30s before his allegiances veered to the Democratic Party. He attributes his leftward transformation to the work he did after leaving the Seattle Police Department in 1978, when he traveled to 30 nations as an anti-poverty volunteer for the Christian humanitarian organization World Concern.

How does the veteran Seattle City Councilman prove to progressives that he’s not the conservative they say he is?

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t was inevitable, it seems, that in the twilight of his political career, Councilman Tim Burgess would face a serious challenge from the left. The city’s dyed-in-thewool liberals have long been wary of Burgess.

They still harp on the ordinance he introduced five years ago to crack down on aggressive panhandlers. Others remain irked that he supported the repeal of the $25 employee head tax in 2009, or that he put the kibosh on allowing public financing of city council elections to go on the 2014 ballot. Some Democrats can’t even get past the fact that Burgess contributed to John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2000, even though Burgess explained that he did so because of the smear campaign George W. Bush’s operatives were waging against the Arizona Republican in South Carolina.

Back in May 2013, as Burgess was planning to file his candidacy papers to run for Seattle mayor, the King County Democrats’ endorsement committee, representing all 17 legislative districts in the county, gave their tentative support prior to the August primary to Mayor Mike McGinn, then-state senator Ed Murray, Councilman Bruce Harrell, and ex-councilman Peter Steinbrueck. Burgess didn’t make the cut. “We are concerned that he doesn’t share our Democratic values,” committee chairman Michael Maddux (now a candidate in the District 4 race against incumbent Councilwoman Jean Godden) said at the time. Stung by the committee’s rejection, Burgess dropped out of the race.

Today, Burgess is running in the at-large Position 8 council seat, which like the other at-large position carries a two-year term before its transition to four years in 2017. It is the most expensive of the nine council races. Through April, nearly $260,000 was raised by the six contenders, and the number could reach in the neighborhood of a half-million by the time the Aug. 4 primary rolls around. The contest, in which the top two vote-getters will be on the November ballot, is being watched closely as a barometer of just how dramatic the council’s makeover will look by year’s end. Sally Clark, Nick Licata, and Tom Rasmussen all decided not to seek another term, while Godden is thought to be extremely vulnerable. If voters hand Burgess his pink slip, that could mean five new council members.

Burgess, though, is feeling confident.

“I’m very comfortable in my political skin. I’m not worried about labels,” the 66-year-old Council president says with a chuckle over coffee and a bagel last week at a Starbucks on upper Queen Anne, where Burgess lives. “For me [this election] is a win-win situation. As my wife said, ‘If we lose, we win—’cause we’re free.’ ” But he doesn’t plan to lose. From the beginning of the year through April he raised nearly $150,000, and says he picked up another $35,000 in May. He has the endorsement of Mayor Murray and other “progressive leaders,” as it reads

Above: Tim Burgess makes a case. Left: Grant and Roderick.

on his glossy full-color campaign brochure. He doesn’t appear troubled that he failed in recent weeks to win over four legislative district Democrats groups, who have given their blessings to Burgess’ two formidable opponents: former Tenants Union director Jon Grant and local indie rocker John Roderick.

The onetime Long Winters frontman, Roderick, in particular, has made his presence known.

In April, he raised $55,600 to Burgess’ $33,200 and bagged endorsements from ex-Mayor McGinn and the local Sierra Club chapter. (Also in the race is John Persak, a longshoreman who has raised a respectable $23,000, and two virtual unknowns: psychic reader and photographer David Trotter and Alex Tsimerman, whose chief claim to fame is being repeatedly kicked out of Council meetings for calling members Nazis.)

Roderick and Grant believe Burgess has made a calculated decision to tack left, fearing he could be swept aside by a tide of progressive voters, just as Kshama Sawant tapped into their disillusionment with City Hall to oust incumbent Councilman Richard Conlin two years ago.

“Tim has moved to the left personally and politically throughout his careers, and that is

admirable,” Roderick tells Seattle Weekly. “But this election is becoming a political referendum on whether he is progressive enough for Seattle’s future.”

Grant, who has raised $28,000 and is staking his candidacy on appealing to disaffected renters, offers a harsher assessment: “It is pretty clear that Tim Burgess is trying to tilt left in the last year of his eight years [on the Council] in order to make up for his very conservative voting record.” As proof, Grant cited the two renter-protection measures that Burgess unfurled last month: one requiring business owners to give renters 90 days’ notice for so-called “no-fault” evictions, and another that would require some apartment-building owners to give the city and Seattle Housing Authority advance notice when they plan to sell the building.

Grant also says that Burgess’ recent blog post arguing for a state income tax also demonstrates his latest incarnation, designed to appease progressives—and that “I believe Tim Burgess is out of step with the progressive values of our city.”

Burgess bristles when informed of Grant’s criti-

cal comments. “That’s political bunk. I’ve been talking about an income tax for years,” Burgess says, truthfully. He goes on: “We’re going to open up universal pre-K in September. [Murray has called Burgess “the godfather of pre-K” for being the primary architect of Prop. 1B, the $58 million property tax levy voters approved in November 2014 to fund a four-year pilot program of sub-

“This election is becoming a political referendum on whether he is progressive enough for Seattle’s future.”

Burgess, who supported the phased-in $15 minimum wage and wrote the city’s wage-theft law to protect workers from dishonest employers, is clearly rankled by the well-worn narrative that he’s pro-business, in the pockets of developers, and more concerned with meeting the needs of downtown interests than of the broader community. “I have a strong record of social justice,” he says. “It bugs me, this misrepresentation. I’ve been consistent through the years. My political philosophy is grounded in what moves the needle and improves lives.”

The Councilman is aware that his opponents will try throughout the campaign to make him play defense, though Burgess is happy to oblige if need be. He says he had good reasons for not wanting to put public financing on the ballot.

First, says Burgess, voters nixed the measure in 2013; second, still another 2014 initiative asking voters for more money risked jeopardizing support for his signature issue, a public pre-K program.

As for his 2009 vote to repeal the employee head tax (adopted in 2006 to raise money for transportation improvements), Burgess says it would have made economic recovery from the Great Recession even more difficult for the city.

“I hear people say, ‘Tim is pro-business,’ and I say, ‘Yep, I love jobs.’ ” Asked whether he senses a “throw-therascals-out” mood building among the electorate, Burgess says, “There is some anger out there, mainly in some places, like Ballard, where single-family homes are located within multifamily zones. Yes, we’re having lots of growing pains. But at the same time, the city is booming. We’re creating tens of thousands of new jobs.”

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Futurevision: Seattle 2035

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An old-school hippie-vs.-homeowner throwdown on Lake Union.

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hrough June 18, the Department of Planning & Development is seeking public comment on its Comprehensive Plan, “Seattle 2035,” which aims to plot where Seattle’s housing, land use, transportation, environment, utilities, capital facilities, parks, neighborhoods, and social and racial and equity will be in 20 years. Following public comment, the mayor will release a final version of the Plan this fall.

As detailed as it is, UW Professor of Urban Design and Planning Don Miller says it will likely be proven too conservative. “These are only a couple of examples of very large changes that we can only partly anticipate with accuracy, but that are highly likely, and not convincingly addressed by the Plan,” he said. “It’s my guess that largely avoiding them is politically the easier course.”

With that said, here’s a quick look at the Plan as it addresses some of Seattle’s most pressing issues:

Bongo Wars

Housing Affordable housing, or lack

thereof, is among the key issues discussed in the Comprehensive Plan.

Seattle rents have risen particularly fast in the past decade—33 percent since 2000 for a one-bedroom apartment, compared to a much smaller 17 percent increase in the rest of King County. Ways the Plan will address housing issues include using a broad range of public funds to “develop housing and services for marginalized populations” and incorporating affordable housing “where new Urban Villages are created or substantially expanded.”

Equity Under any growth scenario, the

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which path is taken, the inevitable growth—an estimated 120,000 people and 115,000 jobs—will have several negative effects. Poorer air and water quality can be expected, as well as increased noise pollution and general congestion. The plan also suggests a larger population will lead to a higher demand for medical services, increased capacities in schools, electrical energy, and citywide utilities. Some of these, fortunately, can be remedied. For example, policy makers can work with Seattle Public Schools to renovate and expand schools in or near urban villages, the plan recommends. E

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n Thursday nights, from 7:30 to 10, a corner of Gas Works Park becomes something out of a Tom Robbins novel.

A drum circle pounds out hypnotizing rhythms that repeat and fold into each other.

Around the clutch of drummers, a makeshift carnival of jugglers, fiddle players, and flamespinners make what they will with the pounding din. As the evening progresses, everything starts to feel more visceral, and primordial yelps and howls begin to pour out over Lake Union.

Na’tan Collins is the closest thing this weekly ritual has to a leader, even though he insists he’s nothing of the sort. “This is because of me, but it’s not of me,” he says over the sound of about 15 drummers gathered last week beneath the awning of the old boiler house, the steel pipe of which one woman raps with a drumstick to keep the beat. Collins has on a Bob Marley tunic in the Rastafarian tri-colors and wears his hair in a neat ponytail. He says this “long-running hippie gathering” has been going five years, becoming the “most-membered drum circle in Seattle history.”

Eager to tell the drum circle’s story, he guides me to a strip of grass just outside the pavilion where the drummers are set up. He begins picking up pieces of litter—scraps of paper and small broken chunks of plastic. “Every week we go through here, literally on our hands and knees, and pick up this trash,” holding his hand up, palm full. “We don’t want our children playing in this. That’s why the police in this area like us.” He also notes that conspicuous drug or alcohol use aren’t allowed in the area, and the air is indeed notably bereft of marijuana odor.

Soon after this public-service spiel, he is running around like a mad kindergarten teacher, handing out plastic percussion instruments to

people who’ve wandered into the area out of curiosity, giving quick tutorials on how newcomers can join in with the drumming.

Later, Brian Clayton, a 25-year-old drummer built like a football player wearing long basketball shorts, marvels at the scene. “I see this growing,” he says with mirthful eyes. “It’s all accepting. It allows full, creative outlet in a very gentrified city.”

How did he come to join? “A few years ago I was looking for a new social circle in Seattle, and came across the Seattle Mind Travelers meetup,” he says, referring to a community that focuses on expanding consciousness through shamanic techniques and “plant medicine.” “That led me to this.”

And the beat went on.

Later in the evening, Kathy Frasier stands on her condo balcony in Eastlake and looks into the waning June light over Lake Union. Thuds of bongos course through the air, and once in a while the glint of a fireball being twirled by a “spinner” can be seen across the water.

“Isn’t it wicked?” she says. “This is Thursday night in Eastlake. Two and a half hours. Imagine trying to entertain, sleep, enjoy the quiet outside air . . . At its worst, it’s louder than anything else we hear from Gas Works.”

If the scene in the park evokes Robbins, then the scene in Eastlake Thursday nights evokes Wallace Stegner’s All the Little Live Things, which follows a retired book editor as he copes with squatting hippies doing sound experiments on his property.

Stegner is sympathetic to the editor, who is just looking for a little peace and quiet. (Stegner is thought to have based the story on his own conflicts with his writing student at Stanford, the Merry Prankster Ken Kesey.) But as the editor finds, no

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report states, “access to opportunity for marginalized populations . . . will continue to be unevenly distributed.” In other words, the racial and social disparities that now exist in Seattle aren’t going away anytime soon. But policy makers can make some difference. The plan suggests four possible growth alternatives: to continue current trends, to guide growth to urban centers, to guide growth to urban villages near light rail, or to guide growth to urban villages near transit. Each alternative, according to the plan, causes some displacement of marginalized populations (read: gentrification). However, the latter two have a higher potential “for displacement of marginalized populations.”

Drumming in Gas Works Park can be heard clearly across Lake Union in Eastlake.

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matter how obnoxious young people making new noises are, it’s nearly impossible to complain about it without coming off as a fuddy-duddy.

People in Eastlake incensed by the drumming noise are learning much the same lesson.

“I’m just getting beat to heck on this,” says Jules James, another Eastlake resident who took to Facebook a few weeks ago to try to organize neighborhood opposition to the Thursday-night drum circle. “People always equate noise pollution with freedom of speech.”

The Facebook conversation, which is yielding lots of support for the drummers, gave birth to perhaps the most Seattle sentence ever written, penned

by James in response to a houseboat owner’s defense of the bongo players: “I appreciate your appreciation of the acoustic diversity of the Lake.”

He started an online group on Meetup.com to get the word out about Thursday-night drumming, and has started a business out of it, Seattle Handdrummers (seattlehanddrummers.com).

Collins believes that whatever conflict exists with neighbors is a matter of misunderstanding, not noise. “These people in the houseboat, at first they complained, but then they came over and it changed everything. They come drum with us now,” he says.

By the letter of the law, the Gas Works drum circle does violate Seattle’s noise ordinance.

While they are careful to stop drumming at 10 p.m. sharp, when “unreasonable noise” becomes illegal in Seattle, the ordinance also prohibits “repetitive or continuous sounds.” The drumming certainly is that: Both sides comment on how hand drumming’s trance-like quality affects them at a very deep level, but to very different ends.

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Drummers find their groove in Gas Works.

But it didn’t bring about anything like a resolution. So things seem to just be boiling over instead.

Back at Frasier’s condo, she mentions that her husband actually left to go see what it’s like at Gas Works. When I note that I’d received a text from a photographer at the drum circle saying that someone from Eastlake had just “started a fight” with the drummers, she says she doesn’t think that was her husband.

“It’s almost gotten to that,” she allows. “You want combat. You want to go over there and tell them you have just trampled all over my rights, my pleasure.”

But as it turns out, it was her husband, Buddy Frasier, who confronted the drummers. When he gets home, he’s still fairly exercised by the confrontation. “I just went over there and told them they were showing a blatant disregard for anybody around them,” Buddy says, more to his wife than me. “It’s total chaos. There’s no leader.

Nobody knows what’s going on.”

By Collins’ own telling, the Gas Works drum

circle was actually born out of another neighborhood conflict, in Alki Point. “I was actually doing Wednesday-night drumming here and Thursday-night drumming in Alki,” he says.

“But there are condos above the Irish bar there, and one—one—lady complained about the noise, and we were shut down. So I told everyone to just start coming to Gas Works instead.”

hope you look this up—that has effects on the mind,” Collins says. “It synchronizes the hemispheres.”

“It’s illegal according to a noise ordinance that has been very well-crafted,” counters James, who owns Lake Union Mail and has his own lakefacing balcony. “It’s incessant noise.”

But James is measured in terms of what he wants done. He’s emphatic that police shouldn’t have to be the ones to enforce the noise code.

They have bigger problems than a group of people making music, he says.

His solution is to have the Parks Department enforce the noise ordinance instead. But the Parks Department says it doesn’t do enforcement; it only refers complaints to the police.

David Takimi, of the Parks Department, said last week that parks staff and police have been in “direct contact” with the drummers and “repeatedly explained the law to them.”

For their part, the Frasiers say they’d be satisfied if the drummers cut their sessions from two and a half hours to one, “plus a little time to warm up.”

But Collins doesn’t seem to be in a mood for compromise, and thinks the neighbors who are complaining are far in the minority. “Everywhere we go, there’s a needle in the haystack, somebody who turns their nose to it and tries to get us shut down,” he says. “One man tries to throw a rock at an army.

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nlike any other book she’s written, Ann Rule has mastered the full inside angle in her latest true-crime adventure. She loves to tell family secrets, and this time she knows them intimately.

“Although I love my son Andrew Rule (Andy), he has become a source of extreme stress for me when it comes to his constant requests for money,” she writes.

She could call it The Strangers Beside Me if she hadn’t used a variation of that title for a book about her former co-worker, Ted Bundy. Plotted out in courtroom papers, this Rule story

BY RICK ANDERSON is about her own kin, in particular the case of son Andy.

Although he has heart problems, “he gets the same salary his siblings do, he has a job,” she writes in longhand for a King County Superior Court declaration. “I pay for Andy’s medical insurance, his car insurance and $1000 a month for his apartment. And yet he still calls me and asks for more money.”

The author of 30 New York Times bestsellers today writes from a wheelchair she’s used since breaking a hip in 2013. Testing in March this year also indicated Rule, 84, has cognitive impairment. A court-appointed guardian ad litem is now watching over her financial interests.

“Her health is frail,” Leslie Rule writes me in an e-mail. She is one of Ann’s two daughters, and also an author. “And there have been times when certain illnesses struck where she was temporarily incapacitated and hospitalized. As you can imagine, she has received hundreds of calls from the media and has decided she does not want to comment publicly.”

But Ann is telling the story publicly, in her own words, through court declarations. And as in many Rule true-crime sagas, there will be a surprise twist near the end. “Andy should not be coming to my house,” which adjoins the home of her other son Michael in Normandy Park, she writes. “He should not call me for extra money! I, too, have congestive heart failure and pulmonary hypertension.”

She continues for another page about 54-yearold Andy Stack Rule. (Andy Stack was the male

nom de plume Ann first wrote under for True Detective in the ’70s when female bylines were unpopular.) “To Andy,” she says, “I’m just one big money sign, The Bank of Ann/Mom whom he thinks will never run out of cash.”

Partially at the urging of Michael, Ann sought a restraining order against Andrew in January. “For many years,” Michael says, picking up the story, “Andy has talked and intimidated my mother into giving him money. Andy has gambling and substance-abuse issues that he cannot control, and frightens the family and many people . . . he’s a ‘large man’ [6´1˝, 260 pounds].”

Andy receives $5,000 a month from his mother, but always needs more. In April he asked her for $12,000 to buy a new truck, writes Michael, who assisted his mother with finances.

Here, Ann’s caregiver Barb Thompson joins the narrative. Andy, when he needs cash, “begins working on her tender, giving personality and when that doesn’t work he continues to call relentlessly and then he gets verbally abusive,” she writes. Someone ought to prosecute Andy for elder abuse and financial exploitation, she adds.

Ann Rule got her restraining order the next month, February. Andy could not call or come within 1,000 feet of her home. Yet he did so a month later, and was arrested. During a chat with police, he admitted to spending thousands on horses and strip clubs.

About that time, Glenn Scott, Ann’s son-inlaw, entered the story, contacting prosecutors.

Like the caregiver, he feared Ann was being criminally ripped off.

Investigators then joined the storyline. They began asking questions and going through records. In addition to his monthly stipend, Andy had gotten an additional $23,000 from his mother over the past six months.

In April, an ending seemed near: Andy was charged with first-degree theft. He pleaded not guilty. Then that surprise twist: Son Michael was also charged with first-degree theft. He pleaded not guilty, too.

One investigator, Social Security Special Agent Todd Salter, wrote chapter and verse about Michael. Ann told him Michael “often goes into rages, where he throws things across the room and sweeps a counter clean with his arm.” Investigators figured he allegedly authored $50,000 in checks, forging his mother’s name, while he and his wife were receiving $9,000 monthly from Ann. Investigators found Ann’s financial papers, check books, and credit cards in the sons’ homes.

“The fraud loss amount in this case is expected to rise as additional records are received and reviewed,” Salter concluded.

The family crime drama slowed Ann down.

“I have had a miserable day, trying to say ‘No’ [to Andy] and finally succeeding,” she writes in a diary-like court entry.” But I got no writing done.”

Since then, thumbs up, says daughter Leslie: “She hasn’t stopped writing.” Maybe this crime tale will even make the book she’s working on— her autobiography. E

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Guide to the Season

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ummer, of course, is a time for ice cream. It’s a time for fires on the beach and picnics in the park. It’s a time for baseball and backyard barbecues. In short, it is a time for good, old-fashioned all-American fun. But it is also a time to get weird—especially in the great Pacific Northwest, where opportunities abound to shed your inhibitions (and sometimes your clothing) and to get out of your comfort zone.

This edition of Seattle Weekly’s Summer Guide is devoted to that impulse. Inside these pages our reporters will give you the tools to do something different this summer.

Perhaps you would like to let the summer sun shine on your bare bum, or maybe you’d prefer a night paddling the Sound in search of a mysterious glow. We’ve got you covered. If you’ve been thinking about looking up our great state’s mystic landmarks, you are in luck. Need instructions on cooking and consuming an entire beast with your own hands? It’s in here.

Want to get really high and commune with the all-encompassing dread-beauty of the city, but can’t find the perfect spot to start your journey? Look no further. It’s all here, along with some of that normal stuff, too. You’ve been warned.

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Nude by Northwest An exposé on our region’s “natural” history.

By Kelton Sears

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Ever since American nudist culture was started

in 1929 in New York by three German immigrant Nacktkultur enthusiasts, nudists in this country have been fighting to convince the uptight powers-that-be that nudity is totally

normal, natural, and healthy. Lahey tells me that tonight the vice president of AANR will be meeting with the Spokane City Council to advocate against a last-minute addition to a bill targeting bikini baristas that would make “mere nudity” a crime. Throughout history, nudists have repeatedly been forced to contest accusations of eroticism, sexual perversion, and indecency, despite the movement’s documented origins in recreation and health.

As Brian Hoffman details in his new history of American nudism, Naked, doctors in the movement’s early days proclaimed that “heliotherapy,” the medical term for nude sunbathing, was destined to become a crux of modern medicine. Early psychologists praised the normative effects they claimed nudism had on sexuality—positing that the more one sees a naked body in such a benign social context, the less likely one is to succumb to sexual perversion. As you might imagine, the scientific literature proved quite controversial, and fell flat in many a court case.

It’s no surprise that the nascent American version of the German Nacktcultur movement caught on in the Northwest, given the area’s roots in anti-industrialization, socialism, vegetarianism, natural healing, land reform, co-operative ownership models, environmentalism, and social progressivism—values that still define our region today.

Even before organized American nudist culture at large began on the East Coast at the end of the ’20s, the Northwest was running its own notable naked social experiments. In 1915, pioneering Seattle photographer Imogen Cunningham became one of the first women to shoot pictures of a naked man. Her striking black-and-white portraits featuring her nude husband posing as a mystic faun on top of Mount Rainier caused an outright scandal in Seattle after they were published in The Town Crier, a local arty newspaper. “I was condemned . . . they called me an immoral woman,” she remembers in the 1988 documentary Portrait of Imogen. “Now people seem to pay for them and buy them and like to look at them.”

The year Cunningham’s photos came out, one James Ditty, now known as the father of modern-day Bellevue, had made his first move at urbanizing the then-untouched Eastside with his intentional art colony Beaux Arts.

As Seattle journalist, and former Seattle Weekly editor, Knute Berger notes in his local history series Roots of Tomorrow: Urbanism in Our

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hen I met Karen Lahey at the top of a long, winding dirt road in Issaquah an hour ago, she was wearing a muumuu and butterfly-patterned Crocs. But right now, neither of us are wearing anything.

“I’m a fat woman,” Lahey tells me in her sweet, crackling voice as we climb into a Jacuzzi together. “I was a lot fatter, 70 pounds more than I am now. Nobody cared then, nobody cares now. People took me for who I was in the nudist community. That’s very freeing.”

The hot tub jets suddenly kick in. I can feel them shooting past my bare ass. I must admit, it is quite freeing.

“If you go to what we nudists like to call a ‘prude beach’ or a ‘textile beach’ and you are a bigger person wearing a tight bathing suit, you’re more likely to be stared at or made fun of than if you go to a nude beach. We’re about acceptance,” Lahey continues. It’s a sentiment echoed in a pamphlet she later hands me called “Nude Recreation from a Woman’s Perspective.” “People will come with mastectomies, nobody cares. There are trans guests who come here to this park. Nobody cares. I came to nudism because nudists tend to be some of the most honest, open people—they’ve literally got nothing to hide.”

You wouldn’t know it on first glance, but Lahey, an adorable senior who programs computers by day, is the president of the Northwest chapter of the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR)—the largest and oldest nudist organization in the country. Since its inception in 1931 (when it was known by the slightly more ambiguous name American Sunbathing Association), AANR has organized and overseen nudist camps nationwide, working to educate the public on nudism and fighting for the legal rights of nudists.

The AANR camp we’re currently in, the Tiger Mountain Family Nudist Park, is just as unsuspecting as Lahey. There’s a pool, a sauna, a firepit, a volleyball court, a tennis court, a children’s playground, a large grassy lawn, an open kitchen, nine or 10 very normal-looking houses, a few tents, some RV’s, and a community center (the doors of which bear floral Lisa Frank–style signs with “Party!” printed on them). On nice weekends, Lahey tells me, hundreds of outof-town guests fill the scenic Tiger Mountain nudist camp—the nearest camp of its kind to Seattle. If there weren’t stray copies of AANR’s official newspaper The Bulletin lying around, filled with images of smiling naked people holding fishing poles, standing around grills, and wearing leis, this would look like any other park. That’s kind of the point.

Karen Lahey oversees the Northwest tradition of gettin’ nekkid.

Blood, one of the most controversial tenants of Beaux Arts was a Christian “yoga cult” that practiced nudism on the colony grounds.

But the Northwest didn’t see its first full-blown nudist colony until 1933—the woodsy “Hesperian Society,” now known as the Squaw Mountain Ranch, located just outside Estacada, Ore. Inspired by a Portland showing of the famous faux-documentary/ nudist exploitation film Elysia: Valley of the Nude, a group of interested Oregonians met to discuss starting their own version of the exotic camps they saw on the silver screen. After organizing through the American Sunbathing Association, the group purchased land and made it a reality—capturing the ogle-happy imagination of local newspapers. In a 1937 copy of The Oregonian provided by AANR-NW historian Mike Parker, a shirtless, staunch man in a wide-brimmed hat can be seen guarding the gates, “HESPERIA” spelled out in wood on an arch above him in classic campy Timbertoes style. Sandwiched between a photo of two naked men playing ukelele and harmonica and a young bare-butted girl standing watch on a stump with a dog, the caption reads:

“The visitor to Hesperia finds himself startled, for a few minutes, at the absolute lack of clothing on men, women, and children. In a surprisingly short amount of time this nudity becomes casual; and the visitor finds himself listening, with considerable conviction, to the arguments that 100 per cent sunshine aids the building of a strong body. General atmosphere is that of a conventional outdoor summer camp.”

Not long after Hesperia formed, the Tiger Mountain Family Nudist Park in Issaquah (which only recently changed its name from the original “Fraternity Snoqualmie”) was born in 1937. Due to its location just down the road from Poo Poo Point, one of King County’s most popular hang-gliding spots, lots of unsuspecting aerialists have accidentally landed in the park at peak hours, making for a very tantalizing touchdown.

“They are always so apologetic—‘Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry!’ ” Lahey tells me. “As if we care if anyone sees us naked!”

One of the biggest challenges nude camps and colonies face on a nationwide level is attracting young people. Wearing nothing but boat shoes, a Bluetooth headset, and a phone attached to an armband, Tiger Mountain treasurer and membership manager Tom Kinter tells me about the new discounted $5 youth entrance

fee for day-campers 34 and under. “With any organization, if you don’t bring in the youth, it will die,” he says grimly.

The average age of Tiger Mountain’s ebbing and flowing 300-person membership is 54.

Part of the problem might be that the nudist movement’s advocacy has been too successful.

In Seattle, public nudity is perfectly legal as long as it’s not “indecent.”

“You can be lewd without being nude, and vice versa,” Lahey says. “If someone asks you to put your clothes on, you put your clothes on.” As told in the 2012 documentary Beyond Naked, which tracks the personal journey of four first-time-naked Fremont Solstice Parade bikers, that annual Seattle event has, somewhat accidentally, normalized public nudity in the city. Brian Nichols, the first naked Fremont Solstice biker, didn’t set out to make a political statement when he staged his initial unauthorized ride in 1992 as a prank. Over the next six years, the prank started to steal the limelight from the actual parade, resulting in the first naked Fremont biker arrests in ’98, which set off a debate between the Fremont Arts Council and the public about Seattle’s vague nudity laws.

Last month, Solstice parade founder Peter Toms, who initially opposed the bikers, gave a speech at Ignite Seattle, titled “Naked in the Street,” on his now-enthusiastic support of the bikers, who he claims have turned the parade into “an amazing experiment” and an “exuberant display of self-expression.” He ended the speech by stripping naked and running off the stage.

Today nudists can enjoy Seattle and its natural beauty publicly through a number of avenues. Denny Blaine Park on Lake Washington Boulevard has become a queer- and nude-

“You can be lewd without being nude, and vice versa.

If someone asks you to put your clothes on, you put your clothes on.”

ksears@seattleweekly.com

The city’s parks have a lot to offer pot smokers. Here are the best bets and suggested strains.

By Casey Jaywork

José Rizal Park

Named after the Filipino revolutionary, José Rizal Park boasts an overlook that is the closest thing to a God’s-eye view of Seattle you can get without renting a helicopter. Beyond the lush, green dog park and bike trail below, the city erupts from the serpentine swirls of highway into a pyramid of skyscrapers centered around Columbia Tower.

We recommend trying the Chernobyl strain as you meditate on all the apocalypti—the Alaskan Way Viaduct, explosive oil trains, rising oceans— which menace this vista.

Discovery Park

Follow the gravel pathways from the parking lot to the woodline, then travel a muddy network of pathways and creaking wooden stairs to the gray shores of Elliott Bay. A bracing wind carries the smell of salt water; on a sunny day the waves glimmer and wink as though on fire.

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The Arboretum

The floating walkways that connect the Arboretum proper with Foster and Marsh Islands are basically a real-life version of the Channelwood Age in Myst, with creaky wooden platforms zigzagging through flurries of lily pads.

For an environment as surreal as the Arboretum’s floating walkways, we recommend the uplifting and energizing Amnesia strain— though given its name, you may want to write your name and address on your arm before partaking.

Gas Works Park

Rolling green hills wrapped around the carcasses of yesteryear’s industrial magic, Gas Works is an artifact of historical Seattle. At its center, a huge nipple of grass and earth yearns skyward, beckoning kite-flyers, sightseers, and eco-eroticists alike. A line of fuzzy pine trees hems the park off from Wallingford and the Burke-Gilman Trail, leaving parkgoers to gaze across Lake Washington as seaplanes land or take off against a backdrop of downtown’s skyscrapersnge.

For Gas Works’ historical atmosphere and wide-open view, we recommend Jesus OG. Recline atop the nipple with a dank body high while your mind, clear as a freshly washed window, takes in the vista. E

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friendly haven full of sunbathers and skinny dippers during the summer. Although their reputations are less pronounced than Denny Blaine’s, Magnuson Beach and stretches of Lake Washington are also generally considered nude-friendly. Naked hiking has gained popularity in the region, too; a number of Northwest-specific nude-hiking forums have cropped up in the past decade to help organize outings. On a larger scale, S.L.U.G.S. (Sun Lovers Under Grey Skies), an AANR affiliate, has provided an outlet for active naturists, organizing naked outdoorsy trips to Orcas Island, Cascade Range trails, local hot springs, and mountain lakes. Thanks to Seattle’s Jacob Gabriel and Mark Storey, the first Saturday of May is now recognized as World Naked Gardening Day. Tiger Mountain Family Nudist Park hosts an annual Bare Buns Fun Run 5K, as well as the August concert series Nudestock.

As Lahey and I exit the hot tub, I ask her if she’s ever gotten pushback for her nudeenthusiasm.

“Before you come out the first time, you’re afraid everyone is going to be really negative or judgmental about it, but they’re not,” she tells me, throwing her towel over her shoulders and gazing out at the fog-covered forest in the distance.

“Now go tell all your friends about us! The more the merrier.” E

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Go With the Glow

Bioluminescent plankton is everywhere. Here’s how to find it.

By Sara Bernard

Above the clouds, Naturally.

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June 13th, 2-6 Naked Spring Thing “A groovy, jazzy, funky, naked kind of thing” Musical lineup: Eric “Two Scoops” Moore, and “Champagne Sunday” July 12th, 11am Bare Buns Fun Run ~ West Register by 5/1 for $25, $30 afterward.

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Photo ID required for admittance, kids welcome with parents.

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think my obsession started back in college, when a roommate who’d spent a semester in Costa Rica first described the glowing emerald footprints she could make on the beach. Or maybe it was when another friend mentioned the time off the coast of Vieques, Puerto Rico, when rivers of liquid sapphire trailed his boat like so many emptied glow sticks. Regardless, I often find myself sucked into lengthy Google image searches for “bioluminescence” and “bioluminescent plankton,” ogling gallery after gallery of glittering coastlines, roiling electric-blue waves, and kayaks bathed in turquoise auras.

Although I’ve traveled to plenty of places across the globe where ocean bioluminescence is supposedly prevalent (India, Nicaragua, Panama), I’ve still never seen it. And the maddening truth is I absolutely should have, because as otherworldly as it seems, bioluminescence is all over the dang place—including Puget Sound.

“Bioluminescence is really interesting, but it’s not a unique thing,” says Jason Gunter, co-owner of Discovery Sea Kayaks, an outfitter in Friday Harbor that has been leading nighttime bioluminescence tours in the San Juan Islands for the past few years. “It happens in pretty much all oceanic bodies of water—and also on land. There are even mushrooms that bioluminesce.”

For all the biolumiphiles like me out there, heads up: Summer is the best time to see bioluminescence in the Seattle area, and not just because warm weather makes for more comfortable paddling. It’s because all that additional daylight feeds the microscopic marine plants that then feed the single-celled organisms most responsible for the Sound’s green glow. Gunter says he chooses to lead nighttime tours in the summer, therefore, because although technically the creatures are in the water year-round, “We want it to be more than just noticeable.”

The minuscule reason for the season is a species of dinoflagellate called Noctiluca scintillans, a name

partially derived from the Latin term for “night light.” The glow, some scientists theorize, is a sort of defense mechanism—when the organism is agitated, the sudden flash of light might confuse predators. Admirers are more likely to be inspired, hence its many poetic names, including “sea sparkle,” “sea ghost,” and “fire of the sea.” A Puget Sound–based blogger once found bioluminescence in his sailboat’s toilet and quipped, “It appeared I was pissing magic.”

So if you, like me, are dying to see this stuff in its full, glowing glory, a nighttime tour might be your best bet. Gunter says Discovery Sea Kayaks’ three-to-four-hour, $125 dollar bioluminescent tours are already almost sold out this summer, partly because the times when bioluminescence is most visible are limited. As with stargazing, you’re not going to see half as much when there’s a full moon. Also, windy days can lead to lackluster nights, because Noctiluca lights up when the water moves and the chemical reaction that causes the light doesn’t happen again immediately afterward. Still, schedules can change and sometimes the high Noctiluca season can extend through September.

Other outfitters lead nighttime bioluminescence tours, too, including the Community Boating Center in Bellingham ($65 per person for three hours) and Salmon Bay Paddle in Ballard ($79 per person for two-hour stand-up paddleboard tours on Shilshole Bay).

And if you just want to go check it out yourself, you definitely can: Seek still, moonless nights, especially after warm, windless days, and tuck into a cove or protected bay somewhere. Hidden Cove Park on Bainbridge Island puts on a good show, I’m told, as do Liberty Bay, near Poulsbo, and Vashon Island’s Quartermaster Harbor.

“When you first start seeing it, before it gets

really dark, it looks like someone dumped a bucket of glitter in the water,” says Gunter, whose tours always start around sunset. But later, in the inky blackness, “that glitter becomes more of a light emittance. Sometimes a seal will swim under the boat and create a long, green streak.

Or a three-inch-long fish—you’ll be paddling by, and it’ll dart away like a little shooting star.”

I mentioned all this to a friend who’s from Bainbridge, and she spoke with infuriating nonchalance about her experience with glow-in-thedark water. “It’s great for dock jumping,” she said.

“You can make angels.”

“Wait, angels? You mean like snow angels, but in the water? So you’re waving your arms up and down and it’s glowing green all around you?”

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whole town of Newhalem is owned by Seattle City Light and serves as the source of nearly all our city’s electricity. Constructed of recycled switching-plant materials that look like they came from a sci-fi novel, this Romanesque monument honors the town’s historic role as a literal energy font for the region. While you’re here, make sure to check out the nearby Skagit River hydroelectric plant—the Art Deco architecture and the lightning bolts painted on its steampunk-style interior look straight out of a level of Bioshock.

Also, uh, check out the gorgeous Cascade mountains. Duh.

Avalanche Ghost Town

The former town of Wellington in northeastern King County In 1910, one of the worst avalanches in U.S. history decimated the town of Wellington. An obscene amount of snow fell during a nine-day blizzard (11 feet on the worst day alone). The subsequent avalanche killed 96 people on a train that was knocked 150 feet down a valley. Even crazier: The avalanche was triggered by a lightning strike and slid unimpeded down the hill into the train depot thanks to a recent forest fire.

Oof. The tragedy and lingering bad reputation led to Wellington’s abandonment in 1929. And then—get this—the whole damn town burned down. You can visit the charred, desolate remains of Wellington, where all sorts of strange artifacts and structures still stand, via the Iron Goat Trail.

You could spend your summer seeing all the typical sights like Mt. Rainier and Lake Chelan— but you probably won’t find buried treasure or uncover clandestine illuminati secrets there. If you are true of heart and thirst for some heroic journeys now that the sun is out, equip your bow and arrow and follow this map to Washington state’s most mythic locales to fulfill your freaky Northwest destiny.

Rialto Beach in La Push If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, well, you can probably see it here.

Strewn across the stomping grounds of the Quileute (whose folklore posits the tribe was descended from wolves) are the spectral, pale remains of hundreds of sunbleached, skeletal trees. The spooky tableaux of all these gaunt, pointy timbers stems from the coast’s gusty ocean storms, which uproot the poor cedars and pines, rip them bare of their green foliage, and belch their naked, dead bodies onto the beach.

Is that white mist just the heavy fog? Or the spiteful ghosts of trees-past, back for revenge?!

Afterglow Vista Mausoleum

Roche Harbor on San Juan Island John S. McMillin was a lime mineral tycoon as well as a methodist and a Freemason—all of which came together nicely in the construction

Mima Mounds

Mima Mounds Natural Area near Littlerock Nobody knows for sure what created this enormous prairie, which from above looks like an enormous sheet of earthen bubble wrap.

The evenly spaced grassy bumps, six feet tall and 30 feet wide, in southwestern Washington were initially suspected to be Native American burial sites, but there are no remains inside any of them. Some people think they were caused by gophers. Others think they are

Ape Canyon

The southeast shoulder of Mount St. Helens In July 1924, a group of five Mount St. Helens miners claim they were attacked by a gang of hairy “ape men.” Miner Fred Beck and his friend said they were heading to town from the mountain to find a dentist to alleviate a toothache when they came across a mysterious ape man and shot at it with a rifle. In retaliation, that night a mob of angry ape creatures climbed on the roof of the men’s cabin, charged the door, and tossed large rocks at them for hours on end. At one point, Beck claimed, one of the creatures reached through a window and grabbed an ax hanging on the wall. The story took Seattle and Portland newspapers by storm, becoming one of the first and most famous Bigfoot accounts and earning the locale the name Ape Canyon.

Moral of the story: Don’t shoot at any hairy stuff you happen to see on this hike; just wave nicely and move along.

Temple of Power

The town of Newhalem in the north Cascades There’s a reason this strange Tesla-esque monument carries such a charged name: The

Hisey Dinosaur Park

The town of Granger in Yakima Valley In 1994, the tiny town of Granger decided to boost tourism, thinking, “Hey, why not build a bunch of life-sized dinosaur statues?”

And that’s exactly what they did. Some 20 years later, around 30 giant dinosaurs, cobbled together out of chicken wire, cement, and steel, roam through the town. Also, the public toilet facilities are built to resemble small volcanoes. They apparently used to emit smoke from the top to mimic eruption . . . but locals report the smoke functionality is busted for now. Ah, well. There’s still a floating plesiosaurus in the paddleboat pond, so you can’t really complain.

Blue Lake Rhino Cave

Just south of Dry Falls in Coulee City Some 15 million years ago, one sad-bastard rhino got engulfed in molten magma in a volcanic eruption. After ages of basalt cooled around its carcass, a distinctly rhino-shaped cave formed in the face of a rock that looms over the Blue Lake. This one is for the truly adventurous only, as it takes a bit of kayaking and a 200-foot climb to get there—but there are plenty of pictures of small children sitting in the cave, so you’ll probably be fine. Well, unless another volcano erupts, and 15 million years later your body becomes the Blue Lake Human Cave. E

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of the insane, elven-looking family mausoleum built after his death in 1936. Located in the middle of a heavily forested portion of the local cemetery, seven Roman pillars (one purposefully broken) circle around an elevated limestone platform with a large stone table in the center. The carved chairs surrounding the table contain the McMillin family ashes. The mausoleum is full of Masonic encrypted symbology, the meaning of which has been lost to time— but scholars do know that the number of steps leading up to the structure holds significance.

The first flight of three represents the three ages of man, the second set of five represents the five senses, and the third flight of seven represents the seven days of the week. Perhaps you can sleuth out the rest of the coded secrets hidden within—or at the very least re-enact your favorite Fellowship of the Ring scene here.

a freak side effect of earthquake shockwaves, or potentially the result of ancient glacier melts. A few suggest UFO’s caused them. Just make sure to blast the Black Eyed Peas’ “My Humps” as you traverse this bizarre landscape.

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Walking the Market

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Sampling the first cherries and peaches of the season.

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hese days the opening of farmersmarket season almost feels like a holiday unto itself. Instead of wreaths and holly or chocolate bunnies and tulips come ripe stone fruits, thick stalks of red rhubarb, pretty peas, and myriad lettuces—most of them found at the many outdoor markets all over Seattle that open this month. With the season comes chefs using that bounty on menus put together based on what they find at their fingertips. And so I wondered what it’s like to take in this summertime splendor through the eyes of the many restaurant chefs planning to use it in special market menus, and how they quickly conceptualize and cook a meal from ingredients they find.

I chose as my guide Shane Ryan from Matt’s in the Market—in part because he’s one of the best chefs in the city, and also because I knew he’d be shopping Pike Place and I figured he’d have some unique insights into that year-round, most heavily tread market of all. Here’s how our morning went down.

I meet Shane at the restaurant at 10 a.m. on a

Saturday. He’s a few minutes late because he worked until 1:30 a.m. the night before. But the restaurant is already buzzing as staffers prepare to open for 11:30 lunch. When he arrives, surprisingly bright-eyed, he grabs a bag and we leave the restaurant, heading past the famous Pike Place Fish guys down the hall to the elevator. We come out on the back side, on Western Avenue, because, as Ryan points out, “This side of the market is totally forgotten, and you can avoid all the tourists.” We start at two of the city’s best-kept culinary secrets, The Spanish Table and The Paris Grocery—both veritable oases of Spanish and French delicacies.

At The Spanish Table, we marvel at the outstanding cookbook collection before we move to the cheese section. “This is where I get into trouble, because it’s too much fun,” he laughs pointing to a cow and sheep cheese, “but softer”: Cana de Oveja and Cana de Cabra, which he uses on a charcuterie board or crumbled on greens.” Then he holds up a jar of Piparras, pick-

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Ryan’s market-inspired dish.

We leave and walk up the back stairs to the front

side of the market. “Can we skip DeLaurenti?”

Ryan asks, only because it’s so well-known and smack at the main entrance. Instead we head down the cobblestone main street. “You must walk in the street if you want to save time,” he says as we dodge cars and pedestrians, rather than taking to the crowded sidewalks or the covered market.We make our way to Le Panier, where he drops off a check for the baguettes that Matt’s uses in its banh mi sandwiches. The intoxicating smell of baking bread hits us as we continue down the street, passing Piroshky Piroshky, which Ryan says is “where you want to be at 9 a.m. before you start your shopping.”

In the Mexican Grocery, Ryan tells me that the tortillas here, though packaged like other commercial ones, “are pressed, the real deal.” He buys

Right across from Frank’s, in the covered part of the market, is another produce stand, Mama Melina’s, that sells mostly organic. Both are owned by the same people, I learn, and the Mama Melina’s crew knows Ryan too. We look at the big bunches of garlic scapes. “Thanks, chef ! You make a garlic-scape pesto before?” shouts the worker as we head off.

“No man, I’m scared!” Ryan jibes back. The guy rattles off the ingredients as we turn the corner and head toward the middle of the covered market to City Seafood, which Ryan buys from “in a pinch” and whom he trusts because they use the same purveyors he does.

“I recognize those clams,” Ryan says, “and that’s all Washington smelt; their run just started. The halibut is likely from Alaska. Lou Piniella still orders his crab from here and has it shipped to Florida.” He notices my silence.“You don’t know baseball, do you?” he chuckles, and tells me that Piniella was the Mariners’ manager for 10 years.

He also mentions that City Seafood is cheaper than Pike Place Fish Co., home of the tourist fish toss, though he says that the latter’s product is “totally sustainable.” When we hit their stand, he points out the labels which tell exactly where the seafood comes from and whether it’s been frozen or not. “What up, dog?” yells one of the fishmongers.

Ryan tells me that today is the first day of the Copper River salmon season. The famed fish is $25 a pound here, $21 at City Seafood. I ask him if the Copper is really all it’s purported to be. “It depends,” he says. “Last year, Washington salmon had better flavor than Copper. The year before, Oregon’s was better.”

He’s more excited about the spot prawns.

“They’re fresh and legit. It was opening season last week. You want to get them here.” We pass the salmon collars. “I love the way you touch those collars,” Ryan teases the fishmongers.

“I wish you would touch my collar like that.”

Hoots of laughter follow. One of them offers us some smoked salmon. “It’d be rude to not want it,” Ryan says to him. “Yeah, you don’t want to be that guy just standing there.”

Two hours later, I’m with Ryan in Matt’s tiny, narrow kitchen where every few minutes someone calls out “Behind you!” Ryan somehow manages to set up a tiny station with a portable butane gas range. A huge plate of white corona beans sits precariously on the edge of a nearby counter. A basin beside us is filled with a broken-down pig, snout and all. Right here, right now, Ryan is going to whip together a meal before me, with ingredients mostly inspired by our market walk—a challenge he’ll face this summer at his “Planes, Trains, and Traveling Chefs” suppers.

It starts with sunflower oil with the right sizzle, just beginning to smoke in the pan. In go two beautiful, big scallops, which Ryan tells me you must “move constantly” as they sear.

A few minutes later, each side has that golden brown, caramelized goodness. In another pan, he’s-heating up some “faro grits” he made:

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toasted faro, blended until they looked like corn grits. He adds some milk and a bit of honey and tosses in some chopped garlic scapes and a pinch of salt. The scallops are plated atop the creamy, sweet grits.

Then he grabs a handful of pork from the basin and places that on the scallop. Next comes a plastic container of Rainier cherries—ones that weren’t quite sweet enough yet. Until they come into full season, they’re floating in a sugar/ water mixture. He plucks one for each scallop.

Finally comes a garnish of sea bean (crunchy, naturally salty, and totally in season) and the finishing touch of a Bing cherry/Cabernet relish.

The result is truly brilliant; truly delectable. I ask if he really didn’t think of this in advance, and he swears to me he didn’t. I believe him because, well, he always shoots from the hip—and because he’s that good. This is the magic I was looking for—the inspiration from a market walk.

As we say our goodbyes and I thank him for the tour, I remember those baby guavas. “Hey, let me know how they taste,” I call out.

“Oh, they’re going to suck!” he yells back. “I knew it when he said they weren’t ripe yet.” E

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led peppers that a guy named Medhi jars—“the best if you’re not going to make your own.” I gawk at a massive 4´ x 4´ paella pan, and Ryan jokes, “A few people can crawl up in there.” He shows me a spice mix from Villa Jerada, “a local guy who grinds smoked paprika for us.”

Next door, at The Paris Grocery, we gravitate again to the cheeses; he suggests the tiny crotons (“perfect for two”) roasted whole for five minutes. “Croton is fun.” Then we both stare quizzically at a whole iberico pork leg hanging in the refrigerated section with a price tag of $1,077. In his usual blunt way, Ryan calls out to the staffer, “Have you ever actually sold one of these?”

Apparently, yes—to companies throwing parties.

There are also tubs of duck fat for sale, and Kerrygold butter, advertised as “instant snail butter.”

I ask Ryan why Kerrygold for snails. He shrugs: “It’s Irish, like me, so I don’t know.”

Our last stop on Western is at World Spice Merchants, where, Ryan tells me, they make a special chili mix and a chorizo blend just for Matt’s. He points to a glass container of dried roses amid the gallimaufry of spices. “Where else are you going to find that?” Then he lifts the lid of a container with the Syrian chili Aleppo and points out black cardamom, which he tells me is darker in flavor than green, and which he uses on meats. Amid the dozens of garam masalas, he calls out the kashmiri types. “They’re the best. It’s great sprinkled on eggs, over yogurt, or to finish a dish.”

12 fresh tamales for his cooks (“for staff meal”) and a tub of green salsa.

We then start backtracking, eventually hitting Frank’s Quality Produce on the corner. “What up, Shane?” shouts one of the fruit guys.

“Touch me if you know me! You look fabulous,” Ryan yells back while he motions towards Italian summer truffles.

“They’re $400 a pound, but look.” Ryan throws one on the scale. It’s a fraction of a pound, “only $40.”

Then his eyes pounce on a box of tiny green fruits: Super Sexy Sweet Guavas, according to the sign. “What’s up with these?” he asks 27-year Manager Mike Paul. “I’m taking one.”

“They’re baby guavas. They need to ripen still,” Paul replies.

I point at the apricots, which look lovely but, as I say to Paul, “Are fresh apricots really ever any good?

“Yeah, they can be mealy,” he acknowledges, to which Ryan exclaims: “Anything mealy you just want to punch in the face.”

Frank slices open a white peach, one of my favorites. They’re just getting sweet, and that floral note is right there. Ryan turns my attention toward the heirloom tomatoes. Currently they’re from Mexico, he tells me, pointing at the label.

In two weeks, they’ll be from California. In September, they’ll be from Washington. Ditto for the cherries. “You need to read those labels,” he says.

He also points out that if you talk to these guys the way he does, honestly and directly, they’ll steer you away from the stuff that’s not good, that’s out of season. Ryan buys wholesale from Frank’s, but will often come down here to see what’s new.

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Eating the Islands Choose your summer San Juan getaway based on your palate.

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hen deciding which of the San Juan Islands to visit in the summer, questions typically run the gamut from “Which has the best hiking?” to “How long does it take to get there?” But when, last year, Blaine Wetzel of The Willows Inn on Lummi Island won the title of James Beard “Rising Star Chef,” suddenly our sleepy neighboring islands gained a new reason to visit—the food. The accolades for the Inn and other island restaurants have continued since. So if you’re planning to visit, you might do well to first figure out where you want to dine.

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The Forest Sanctuary Over on San Juan Island, you’ll want to forgo the view provided by the restaurants at Friday Harbor and instead dine in the shaded woods of The Duck Soup Inn. This tucked-away gourmand haven has been written up by all the major national food and travel magazines, for good reason. The exquisitely prepared food, starting with a killer sourdough bread and anchovy spread, also speaks of the bounty of the environment, particularly since chef Kyle Nicholson is a passionate forager, hauling in ingredients from sea and land, including kelp and sea beans, as well as native berries, nettles, and edible flowers.

A dish like wild nettle pancakes with farmer’s cheese, spring asparagus, fennel, and fresh morels perfectly sums up his style. 50 Duck Soup Lane,

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he grew up. Formerly part of the punk-rock scene and a vegan, he’s now a serious carnivore. His tasting menus are much more affordable at $65 a head, and he also offers an a la carte menu. As to what you’ll eat, it’s totally dependent on the day; what they catch, what’s ready for the picking. 460 Main

The Punk-Rock Chef Not to be outdone, Orcas Island’s Jay Blackington was nominated for the James Beard “Rising Star Chef ” award this year. Self-taught, he cooks at his 2-year-old restaurant, Hogstone’s Wood Oven, and raises his own livestock and grows his own veggies and fishes and clams, all on the island where

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Lopez Island

The Rustic Garden Lopez Island may not have a superstar restaurant, but the eating is still good. Vita’s Wildly Delicious Cafe is a truly unique farmhouse “deli,” housed in a red, barnlike structure with a lovely garden to dine in. There is an eclectic wine selection; the food is sourced locally; and bread is provided by Barnal Bakery, also on the island.

Favorites here include shrimp cakes, mac ’n’ brie, gazpacho, and lime-coriander chicken skewers.

Unlike most of the other island hot spots, this one is very family-friendly. 77 Lopez Road, Lopez

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Pig of the Party

also utilizes the China box when he and friends roast pigs. “For us, the tradition has been once a year in August, on my wife’s birthday,” Liang says, adding that he enjoys roasting because it’s “always a crowd-pleaser, especially the moment you pull it out of the box.” He and a buddy went in on a box together.

You can acquire the contraption a number of ways. Buying it new is obviously the most reliable, and will cost you $275–$1,200 online. (An electric spit will set you back at least $200 as well.) Occasionally, though, you can find a used China box on Craigslist or eBay, and sometimes people advertise the option to rent one.

Everything you need to know to host your own roast.

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Pick your pig. So where do you get the actual animal? One local spot, offering live animals, is Keep It Simple Farms in Redmond, which focuses on organic harvesting methods. Assistant manager Elizabeth Mayer says they have a pregnant sow who will be having piglets soon. “Once they are available for sale, they’ll likely be $150,” she says.

At Heritage Meats in Rochester, Wash., you can buy pre-butchered and butchered products.

In fact, this is where Navarre buys his pigs.

Another option is Vashon’s Farmstead Meatsmith, which offers classes in slaughter, butchery, curing, cooking, and roasting. “Poultry, lambs, goats, rabbits, and pigs are killed on their turf with strategies particular to the dignity of each species,” says owner Brandon Sheard.

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ig roasts have existed since cave people knew about pigs—or thereabouts. But today they’re gaining in popularity, especially in summer. Stew Navarre is something of an expert when it comes to going whole hog. The Bell + Whete executive chef started roasting pigs with his father in Houston and he currently hosts regular roasts Sundays throughout the summer months for $26 per person. Their 60-pound pigs serve about 50 dinners. “We like doing Game of Thrones-style feasts,” he says. But if you’re keen to roast your own, Navarre (and a few other folks) offer these tips.

Pick your method. There are three main ways to

roast a pig: the traditionally primal pit dig cooked over hot coals; the hand or mechanically operated spit, and the caja China, or China box, an aboveground pressure cooker/roasting oven. All three have their charm and usefulness, but for the sake of efficiency Navarre prefers the China box.

In fact, he sees no reason to cook a pig any other way. “I don’t want to dig a hole in my yard,” he says. “Plus, it takes eight hours to cook that way as opposed to, say, five. The China box cooks the perfect pig every time—like Uncle Ben’s rice.”

Amateur pig roaster Kuo-Yu Liang, who lives in Seattle’s Maple Leaf neighborhood, says he

Roast your pig. But now the important part: What are some flavorful ways to cook it? Navarre says he is a fan of brining a whole pig for a day.

“We do a 10-percent brine: 10 pounds of water per pound of salt. We get the pig on Friday and brine it for 24 hours, and make a marinade we inject the pig with. It really helps keep everything moist.”

On the side, Navarre says, he serves asparagus and small potatoes “the size of a quarter” tossed in salt water. He roasts the drippings with whole peppers to make a housemade harissa hot sauce.

The best thing about the China box, though, is its ease. “Follow directions—they come with the box and they’re very simple,” Navarre says. “If you don’t keep the coals right consistently, you’re going to burn or undercook. Oh, and don’t open the lid. But they’ve got it figured out—every time I’ve screwed one of these up, it’s because I haven’t followed directions.” E

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How Not to Roast a Pig: or, Yes, I’m Still Married

By Daniel Person

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eing a romantic, I decided that on the day of my wedding, I’d roast a whole pig for dinner. For 100 guests. Having never roasted an animal before in my life.

This bad idea began the day before, when I sent my Jewish brother-in-law to pick up the swine and the spit to roast it on. With one look at the spit, the pig merchant saw the animal we’d bought was too long. No problem. He hacked off its head and gave it to my brother-inlaw in a separate bag. We wrapped it in tinfoil and put it on the barbecue to cook separately.

On the day of the wedding, I woke up at 4 a.m. and got cooking. Joining me was my soon-to-be father-in-law. As the August predawn molted into a beautiful morning, we sat back and kept the coals going. The pig fat had a tendency to drip and start little grease fires in the coal bed, which we best managed by splashing beer on the flames. Despite our prudence, we forgot about the head. As we enjoyed our morning, the grease from the head pooled in the tinfoil. And then it blew. No one was eating the head that day.

After the ceremony, dinnertime came and the pork was served. I didn’t detect any audible retching, and none of our thank-you letters afterward were returned with “deceased” written on them.

So I guess you could call it a success. If nothing else, it gave me a new perspective on things, which is: Food truly is the center of family. So when it comes time to bring your loved ones together, there’s no better way to celebrate than hiring a caterer. E dperson@seattleweekly.com

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Dear Memories

A watery remembrance of the Aqua Follies.

by Gavin Borchert

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wim Aces Arrive in Seattle,” reads the headline above a photo in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Wednesday, August 1, 1956. “While two girls strum ukuleles,” the caption reads, “several other members of the 1956 Aqua Follies cast listen happily following their arrival at Union Station Tuesday.” They do indeed look happy, each and every woman in the photo bearing an ear-toear, Ipana-polished grin of the kind women stopped wearing around 1964.

That the women of the company—divided into 24 “Aqua Dears” and 24 “Aqua Darlings”— were arriving by train from Detroit, the caption does not mention. But I know it, because one was my aunt Devera Warcup (née Borchert).

The final destination for these women was the Green Lake Aqua Theatre. Only a vestige of that structure, built along the south shore of Green Lake, remains today, the concrete seating area recalling an ancient Athenian ruin. But back when my aunt arrived, it was a mammoth venue (“5,000 perfect seats!” boasts one newspaper ad) that in 1950 began hosting the Aqua Follies, a Ziegfeld-style revue of comedy, music, and elaborately choreographed waterborne production numbers that was once a highlight of the annual Seafair celebrations.

That summer of 1956 marked the Follies’ glamorous apex; the competition from the building of Seattle Center for the World’s Fair in 1962, plus ever-problematic weather that, prior to climate change, meant fairly frequent rainy August days, killed off the Follies in 1964. (A 1969 Led Zeppelin show was the Aqua Theatre’s last major entertainment event.)

At 19 a sophomore on the swim team at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., Aunt Devera was recruited as a Dear to perform first at Minneapolis’ Aquatennial celebrations. “It will be well to remember that the girls who dive and swim . . . are called Aqua Dears and the girls who dance and sing and walk down the stairs in big hats are called Aqua Darlings,” the P-I helpfully clarifies.

She joined Olympic swimming and diving champions Ann Curtis, Vicki Draves, and Bruce Harlan, who performed between the four waterballet production numbers, each of which was set to crowd-pleasing hits played by a live orchestra and vocalists—“music that was making its way around the country at the time,” my aunt recalls.

In 1956 the performers included “tenor Burt Hanson, who does his usual workmanlike job,” said John Voorhees, who reviewed the Follies’

August 1 opening night in the next day’s P-I, and “Evelyn Eraci, soprano, who is at her best when singing songs as far removed from opera as possible.” Wow, what a bitch!

Two towers flanked the stage and the pool for the diving exhibitions, which included comic diving routines by Orwin Harvey and “The Diving Maniacs.” Curtis’ two appearances offered “something of an essay on the development of swimming styles,” reported the Times’ Louis R. Guzzo, and “a demonstration of one of the smoothest forms to be seen in the water.”

But the most impressive number, the P-I and The Seattle Times agreed, was “Aqua Paris,” which featured “a floating replica of the Eiffel Tower bearing scores of lights,” Guzzo gushed.

“At its base floats a circle of giant roses, manipulated by the Aqua Dears” to the strains of “La vie en rose.” “On stage a large crystal ball hanging in a lighted archway glitters in the reflections provided by the tower and pinpointed spotlights”—which must have been enchanting on a Seattle summer night, just after the sun sank behind the Olympic Mountains.

“I remember the kid who had to bring out the

Warcup (front row, second from left) and a legion of Aqua Dears.

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Eiffel Tower under water,” Devera says, pointing out that synchronized swimming today is more exacting due to underwater cameras, a POV the Green Lake audiences never saw, of course. “We were perfect above [the surface], but not getting from point A to point B,” she says of the Aqua Dears’ execution. “You’d see the headdresses and the arm movements, and occasionally we’d kick a leg up. We always started the routines at the side of the pool . . . we would be in a line, and dive in one at a time like a wave.” Since I know you’re wondering, Devera assures us that “The swimsuits were very proper.”

The Follies’ two-week run was hectic, with performances at 8:15 each night (tickets $2–$3.50) and not an abundance of free time, especially to take in the city’s nightlife, though Devera does fondly remember visits to the Ballard Locks and the Bon Marché. “We did rehearse at noon . . . we weren’t out mingling with the people at the show,” she says. “You’d finish at maybe 11:30 at night, and it was cold . . . we had these ugly brown sweatsuits” to change into after the show. “You’d just go home and go to bed,” which for the Dears and Darlings was a UW sorority house.

Though the girls were housed, they weren’t boarded, and the Follies wasn’t exactly a way for the performers to put themselves through school. “We bought our own meals . . . I don’t know that I came home with any money in particular,” Devera recalls. “It wasn’t a matter of making money—it was a matter of just being able to do this.” E

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Mileage 29 Appeal This is a folksy establishment, mostly

Out-of-Town Art Safari Summer is the time for exploring cultural centers beyond Seattle’s snobby, parochial borders.

By Brian Miller

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Tacoma Art Museum’s new Haub Collection wing.

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hen people complain to me that museumgoing is wrong for summer, I always respond with the same argument: air conditioning. Which SAM has, true. But summer is also the time for road trips, and there are several arts destinations worth visiting during your statewide travels. Here’s a primer.

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Mileage 8.6 (nautical miles by ferry), then 0.3 stat-

ute miles by foot from the dock Appeal BIMA is the new kid on the block, with a

handsome design by Matthew Coates that debuted in 2013. Eclectic shows often feature island artists like Caroline Cooley Browne and Horst Gottschalk.

Extra Incentive to Visit The ferry ride itself.

Bellevue Arts Museum

Mileage 12 Appeal Diverse, accessible programing, which

currently includes pins and brooches collected by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, furniture and housewares, and whimsical little creations by Seattle metalsmith Jana Brevick.

Extra Incentive to Visit One-stop convenience.

Whatcom Museum

Mileage 89 Appeal Regional focus, currently including owl

dedicated to the farming and civic history of Auburn, like MOHAI. But rotating through are some oddball exhibitions like Service Ink: Veterans’ Tattoos and Their Stories (opening June 24).

Extra Incentives to Visit Strawberries, fruit stands, and nearby casino gambling for those inclined.

and woodpecker photos by Seattle’s Paul Bannick; figurative art and landscapes by Bellingham’s Tom Sherwood; and a group show juried by Scott Lawrimore of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery.

Extra Incentives to Visit Bellingham (especially Fairhaven) has some real charm.

Schack Art Center, Everett

Maryhill Museum of Art

currently including photos by James Arrabito, sculpture by Verena Schwippert, an exhibit of garden art, and a schedule of hands-on demos and activities.

Extra Incentive to Visit It’s a relatively new (2011) and bustling space, part of the effort to revitalize Everett’s old downtown core.

Quaker community and concrete mansion built

by Sam Hill), the remote setting, and exhibits you won’t find elsewhere—including Indian art from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum..

Extra Incentives to Visit The spectacular view into the Columbia River Gorge, nearby windsurfing, plus all the wineries.

Mileage 29 Appeal A very practical and Northwest orientation,

Tacoma Art Museum

Mileage 34 Appeal A fresh addition to the building by Tom

Kundig, which includes the new Haub wing of Old West art; and the forthcoming (June 20) show by Seattle native Roger Shimomura, always a favorite.

Extra Incentives to Visit The Chihuly-filled Museum of Glass, the Washington State History Museum, and the LeMay-America’s Car Museum.

Pilchuck Glass School

Mileage 53 Appeal Although this is basically a school for glass

artists, the annual open house (July 12, $20–$35)

Mileage 223 Appeal The bizarre history of the place (a failed

Spokane Valley Heritage Museum

Mileage 279 Appeal Not the art so much as the history, with a

current show dating back to 1800. And there are some unlikely visiting exhibits, like satellites and NASA gizmos on loan from the Smithsonian; and a planned August show linking artifacts from Hanford to the end of WWII. Another planned show: the history of I-90. You don’t get that in Seattle.

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Everyday I’m Yodelin’ You’ll come for a taste of Bavarian culture. You’ll leave with so much more. From the outdoor adventures to the indoor festivities, it’s the perfect place for an escape from the everyday.

is a great reason to tour the grounds, watch demos, meet the artists, and enjoy live music and food.

Extra Incentive to Visit It makes a great art-loop itinerary stop between Everett and Bellingham.

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In An Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology, written by Amber Case and illustrated by Maggie Wauklyn, we are shown the transformation of humans and technology.

This concept, when really thought through, could be considered terrifying. However, in An Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology, the transformation is shown as if through the eyes of a child, which makes it both an easy read and extremely intuitive.

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sk any working stage actor about the modern pitfalls of their trade, and they’ll likely provide the same, singular answer: cell phones. Portable phones weren’t always an issue in the theater, of course. But there were still distractions. Like most all the arts, dramatic performance descended from an open-air tradition of storytelling where the actors were at the mercy of the elements. The performing arts moved indoors at a certain point, but every summer brings the atavistic exception—theater al fresco, Shakespeare in the park, and a host of distractions.

Who will be braving the slings and arrows this summer? Seattle’s oldest outdoor theater operation is Shakespeare in the Park, now operating under the GreenStage umbrella. This year’s productions, running July 10 to Aug. 15 in city parks, will be Much Ado About Nothing and The Two Noble Kinsmen. Additionally, the Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival (July 11–12 in Volunteer Park) will also include productions by Theater Schmeater and Wooden O—the latter being the summer offshoot of Seattle Shakespeare Company, this season performing As You Like It and Henry IV Part 1 in local parks from July 9 to August 9.

We asked Seattle Shakes for some recollections of outdoor performance hazards and recoveries.

Artistic director George Mount recalls, “I was chased off the stage by a dog while playing Romeo.”

On another occasion, he remembers, “We were doing Macbeth one summer (in Walla Walla, actually), and during the witches’ scene, bats started flying around—eating a nearby swarm of bugs, of course—and behind the stage, way in the distance, a lightning storm broke out.”

From the Wooden O archives, we also learn of a time The Taming of the Shrew was interrupted by a pet rabbit. “At very inopportune moments,” says David Quicksall, “the bunny kept running onto the stage and was part of the action, and the little kid had to run up on stage to corral her bunny.”

And finally this near-catastrophe two summers ago during The Tempest, relayed by company member Jeff Fickes: “A family sitting in the back of the audience created a makeshift fondue pot—propping a pot on some gathered rocks over a tea light candle.

During Act 3, Scene 3, this caught their blanket on fire. They quickly noticed the flames and put it out with some water. They were very embarrassed. ...

Everything was fine—just their blanket a bit burnt.

It did not disrupt the show.”

That last sentiment is key: The show must go on.

That’s the mantra for all outdoor theater, even if a firetruck should arrive with siren blaring to extinguish a raging blanket fire. E

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SoYou Want to Be a Busker?

It takes a lot more than putting out a hat and singing a song.

By Daniel Person

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ou’ve probably heard the story, or seen the video, of worldrenowned violinist Joshua Bell busking in the Washington, D.C., subway (it happened back in 2007, so it’s had some time to percolate in the Internet content heap). Bell, whom people pay hundreds of dollars to hear perform in concert halls, played for 47 minutes and made about $32. The conclusion many have reached from this story is that the average subway-riding American is a dolt who doesn’t recognize good music when he hears it. The conclusion others have come to is that Joshua Bell was a shitty busker.

“No one, I repeat no one, can stand on a street corner and watch the twenties roll in just by playing amazing music,” local rootsmusic promoter Devon Leger wrote on his blog Hearth Music a few years ago. “Nope, Ben Fisher you have to connect with your audience, plays the hits. and connect with an audience that’s moving rapidly past you.”

By Leger’s reckoning, to make it as a busker, So there you have it—everything you need to you need to be less like Joshua Bell and more like know about busking in Seattle. Almost. Here are a Ben Fisher. Fisher busked in Seattle for six years, couple extra tips. typically in 90-minute sets that for a while left his voice in shreds as he hollered to be heard.

Know your place!

In January, Fisher relocated to Jerusalem, so you Some corners are more competitive than othwon’t hear him belting out Dylan covers on Seattle ers. In some cases, buskers have established an streetcorners this summer. But now that he’s gone, ad-hoc system of sharing time, and can be seen we thought he might be willing to share some of switching out with each other in front of the stahis hard-earned secrets of busking success. diums and other high-traffic areas. Joe Bernstein, proprietor of Joe’s Grilled Gourmet Dogs in SW: What are the best areas to hit?

Fisher: There were three spots where I played: The front of CenturyLink field, remembers watching a “very grumpy” Three-Fingered Jack kick people bus tunnels, the Ave in the U District, and the farmoff his corner when they tried to busk there. ers markets. The farmers markets were by the far the When Jack, a guitar player, couldn’t make a game, best. Of them, Ballard was my favorite. The markets he’d let Joe know and tell him to whom he gave are busiest in the mornings; I found that getting the go-ahead to play in his stead. there around 10 was always a good time to shoot for.

“He died two years ago and nobody has taken Are there any particular songs that you his spot,” Bernstein said, chalking that up to the always play, either for entertainment value or respect musicians have for each other’s corners. because they get people dropping money?

Meanwhile, Pike Place Market and Seattle “Folsom Prison Blues” was always a big hit.

City Parks have official busker programs. To busk There was a toddler who used to come to the at Pike Place, you’ll need to buy a $30 busker farmers market who would squeal, “Johnny Cash!” permit, and can only play at one of 13 designated when she saw me. You get tired of playing the areas. No horns, percussion, or amplified instrusame thing all the time, though. Justin Townes ments allowed. To become part of the Parks proEarle has a style that lends itself to busking, and I gram, you need to audition, though it’s legal for used to incorporate quite a few of his. I’d get tired anyone to perform acoustic music at city parks. of a batch and then listen to another record of his, learn the words, and start playing all of those ones. No matter what, take some time to figure out the rhythm of a place before playing there.

Financially speaking, is there any use playing

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original material?

If you have upbeat original songs, by all means play them while you’re busking! My original music is slower, sadder, quieter. I would throw in just one song of my own while busking, a more lively one. It was well-received, generally, so I kept playing it.

Care to tell us how much you could make on a good 90-minute session?

A good session would be $100-plus; average was $30–$60, I’d say.

Thanks, Ben!

Know your place in history!

Some of Seattle’s great artists have been buskers. Some, like Edward Scott “Tuba Man” McMichael, gained their fame on the streets.

Others, like Brandi Carlile, have used Seattle’s passersby as incubators for bigger and better things. Whichever path you choose, remember that it’s a hallowed tradition you are maintaining.

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In Search of Silence

A quest for quiet summer spaces in a noise-filled city.

By Ellis E. Conklin

In Parsons Garden, the trees provide a buffer from the cruel, clanking world.

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quility. Bring a sandwich and take a seat at one of the cafe-style tables. Come listen to the sound of nothing, to the exquisite sound of soundlessness, save only the perfect white noise that comes with the constant thrash of water.

Summertime and the living ain’t particularly easy at Golden Gardens (8498 Seaview Place N.W.). It gets crowded, you see, real crowded.

It is a simple place of quietude, an unassuming getaway to pause and reflect, far from the wrecking ball.

No surprise there. The 87-acre park, perched on the banks of Puget Sound, is stunningly gorgeous, with breathtaking views of the Olympic Mountains. But when the sun shines, the place fills fast with the beach crowd, volleyball players, picnickers hovering around shelters and fire pits, and naturalists converging at low tide to point out crabs and sea urchins. So here’s the secret— and don’t tell anyone. Head to the park’s northernmost point. Here lie the wetlands, an oasis of calm, with lovely ponds rife with ducks and turtles and birds of every stripe. Breathe deep, and surrender to its peaceful beauty.

It is easy to take for granted, but the International Fountain (smack in the middle of the Seattle Center), this all-but-forgotten relic of the 1962 World’s Fair, is a marvel of shimmering white light and water in motion. What a captivating contraption it is, complete with four “super shooters” that each spray 66 gallons of water over 120 feet into the air, 137 mist nozzles, 77 fleurs-de-lis, and 56 microshooters. So then, you may wonder, how does one achieve a state of quiet bliss amid the sounds of mechanical geysers and squealing children who flock to this enormous sprinkler? Close your eyes, that’s the key.

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t is incessant, without end. Jackhammers ripping up Seattle’s streets, and the mad swinging cranes, and buses, so many buses now, belching and blustering down overwrought byways drenched in the thrum and drum of high-density development. Clamorous car alarms and howling hobos on downtown corners, ear-rending ringtones and ambulance sirens screaming like banshees in the night. The steady tintinnabulation of noise, noise, noise, this senseassaulting pollutant, as hypnotic as it is toxic. It makes us crave “lucid stillness,” as T.S. Eliot put it, or the solemn hush of a graveyard.

We must, though, do our best to escape its enslavement. Gandhi once wrote that with the sweetness of recuperative silence “the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.”

This summer, let us choose peace over pandemonium, crystal clearness over clutter and chaos, and seek places that the poet Keats softly chimed are as “silent as the shadows.”

It is easy to overlook Parsons Garden (Seventh Avenue West & West Highland Drive), this hidden gem tucked neatly away atop Queen Anne Hill. Located kitty-corner from Marshall Park, which offers spectacular vistas of ferries and cruise ships poking their way across Elliott Bay, this small unassuming park is a refreshing refuge from the hurly-burly of city life. It is a simple place of quietude, an unassuming getaway to pause and reflect, far from the wrecking ball, the torment of traffic, and the ever-rising sea of tourists. Here are flowers and birdsong, a short trail to stroll, and a few benches to sit a spell under shady trees and read of Walden Pond.

The rushing, gladdening gush of falling water—how sweet the sound. It enlivens, rejuvenates. It cools the soul. Waterfall Park (219 Second Ave. S.) is a secluded little slice of serenity, featuring a 22-foot waterfall that rumble-tumbles down huge roughhewn rocks in the midst of Pioneer Square. Once the site of the first United Parcel Service headquarters in Seattle, this watery haven, completed in August 1978, beckons those who seek a moment of tran-

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MUSIC (POP) June

(most likely) good weed. With Dirty Heads, Stick Figure.

Marymoor Park • 6–9 MACEO PARKER This cat knows how to bring in the funk after getting his start with James Brown’s band. Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley 7 RISE AGAINST Melodic hardcore at its most raucous.

With Killswitch Engage, letlive. Showbox SoDo

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from the prolific Canadian DJ and producer. With Tommy Kruise. Neumos, neumos.com 10–11 SUFJAN STEVENS Be prepared to have all the feels. With Helado Negro. The Paramount, stgpresents.org • 13 GEORGETOWN CARNIVAL Four music stages, one sideshow stage, more than 25 bands, power-tool races, beer gardens, the Georgetown Art Attack, spontaneous spectacles, and more await you in Seattle’s historic industrial arts corridor. georgetownmerchants.org 13 TODD RUNDGREN The artist formerly known as Liv Tyler’s biological father returns to Seattle after six years. Crocodile, thecrocodile.com 16 PURITY RING The electronic music duo continues to captivate with hooky melodies and danceable grooves.

With BRAIDS, Born Gold. Showbox SoDo, showbox presents.com 16–17 FRED HERSCH TRIO All they need is a piano, a bass, and some drums. Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley, jazzalley.com 17 STEVEN WILSON Not only is he a singer, songwriter, and record producer, he also has an English accent.

The Moore, stgpresents.org 17 THE DONKEYS So music, much indie. With Extra Classic. Sunset Tavern, sunsettavern.com 17 INGRID MICHAELSON This indie-pop princess is back with her fifth studio album, Lights Out. With Jukebox the Ghost, Greg Holden. The Paramount, stgpresents.org 18 GOATWHORE More likely than not, you’ll feel purged afterward. And hoarse. With Black Breath, Ringworm, Theories. Crocodile 18–21 HONK! FEST WEST So. Many. Horns. If the bellowing wails of tubas, trombones, and trumpets make your heart go pitter-patter, Honk!’s street brass-band extravaganza is the place to be. Various venues, honkfestwest.com • 19 SMASH MOUTH, Toad the Wet Sprocket, and Tonic are taking Chateau Ste. Michelle by storm. Chateau Amphitheatre, ste-michelle.com 19 MEWITHOUTYOU What began as a side project has now waded five albums in, with a sixth to release this year. Crocodile 19 THE DOOBIE BROTHERS Zoo Tunes welcomes the band that’s sold more than 30 million albums. Woodland Park Zoo, zoo.org/zootunes • 19 DEATH GRIPS The experimental hip-hop group is completely nuts, but we love them. Showbox 20 KUBE 93 SUMMER JAM This year’s lineup includes T.I., Tech N9ne, E-40, and Sam Lachow. White River Amphitheatre, kube93.com 20 DE LA SOUL The legendary hip-hop group, which got its start in 1989, is working on its first studio album in 11 years. With Brother From Another. EMP Museum, empmuseum.org 21 LENKA Remember that song, “The Show”? Hear it live! Barboza, thebarboza.com 24 CALVIN LOVE If you love catchy choruses and experimental beats, you’ll love this guy! With Jacco Gardner. Sunset Tavern 25 ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY It’s jazz, it’s instrumental, and it’s hella smooth. Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley 25–27 THE PACK Are Frank, Dean, and Sammy back?

Unfortunately not, but this tribute might make you think they are. Snoqualmie Casino, snocasino.com 27 EYELIDS (ft. members of Guided by Voices/ Decemberists/Malkmus-Jicks) The band may only be two years old, but these guys are no rookies on the psychedelic scene. With Phantom Limbs, Wimps.

Barboza, thebarboza.com • 27 WILLIE NELSON & FAMILY Laced with country, folk, and jazz, this night out with The Family is one you don’t want to miss. With Alison Krauss, Union Station, Jerry Douglas. Marymoor Park, marymoorconcerts.com • 27 GIRL TROUBLE These guys are not only noisy garage-rockers, but also good ol’ Washingtonians.

With Tom Price Desert Classic, Burien. Slim’s Last Chance, slimslastchance.com 27 TYSEN Just a couple of dudes trying to make some emo tunes. With From Aphony, Reach for the Sky, CAARGO. El Corazon, elcorazonseattle.com 27 KENNY CHESNEY The country megastar has recorded 11 albums; his most recent was released just last year. With Jason Aldean. WaMu Theater, wamutheaterseattle.com • 28 THE B-52S Why go to the “love shack” when you can head over to ZooTunes to see this legendary band perform? Woodland Park Zoo 29 ROB THOMAS The critically acclaimed singer/songwriter continues his run. With American Authors, Vinyl Station. The Paramount

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1 SUB POP COVER NIGHT Hobosexual, Ravenna

Woods, Prom Queen, and others cover Sub Pop favorites Nirvana, Mudhoney, and Soundgarden. Neumos

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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• 10 RYAN HEMSWORTH Ambient electronic music

Matilda the Musical, at the 5th Avenue Theatre.

1 TYLER, THE CREATOR is a rapper and producer who

likes to tell it like it is—in his music and his personal life. With Taco. Showbox SoDo 3 MUSTARD PLUG is a ska punk group whose goal is simple: to lighten people up. With Regional Faction, Dead Bars, The Kings. El Corazon 7 PORCELAIN RAFT’s cover of Nirvana’s “Come as You Are” will change your life. Barboza • 8 WEEED will satisfy all your cosmic, otherworldly desires. With Ancient River, Powers, Sun Thieves.

Sunset Tavern 9 THE GRISWOLDS The kind of stuff you’ll want to play on a cross-country road trip. Crocodile 9–SEPT. 4 OUT TO LUNCH CONCERT SERIES All kinds of music all over downtown, Thursdays and Fridays at noon. downtownseattle.com 10–12 BONEY JAMES He knows his damn way around the saxophone. Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley

• 11 AN EVENING WITH LYLE LOVETT AND HIS LARGE BAND The veteran Texan offers originals and

interpretations of the American songbook. Chateau Amphitheatre 12 INDIGO GIRLS This folk-rock duo will perform classics as well as songs from their new album, Beauty Queen Sister. Woodland Park Zoo 13 DAVID GRAY AND AMOS LEE are here to folk things up! Marymoor Park 13 HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS You’ll want to cut your wrists and black your eyes if you miss this show. With Autumn to Ashes, Sleepwave, Extinction A.D. Neumos 14–15 BASSEKOU KOUYATE AND NGONI The Maliborn musician is a ngoni genius through and through.

Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley 15 ONE DIRECTION Calling all Directioners! Although Zayn has departed, the rest of the boys will continue to win hearts. WaMu Theater • 16 THE DECEMBERISTS The Portland-based fivepiece is back with more eclectic folk-pop tunes. With Calexico. Marymoor Park 17 THE ATARIS Since their breakthrough album, So Long Astoria, they have only gained more and more momentum. El Corazon 17 CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH It’s been a decade since their self-titled debut, and these indie-rockers are venturing through North America to celebrate.

Crocodile 19 RUSH The Canadian rock band has been at it since 1968 (!!!) and displays no signs of slowing anytime soon. KeyArena, keyarena.com

• 21 AN EVENING WITH MORRISSEY Every brood-

ing teenager’s wet dream! Benaroya Hall, stgpresents. org • 21 MELISSA ETHERIDGE AND BLONDIE No need to come to their window, just come out to ZooTunes to see these legendary ladies. Woodland Park Zoo 21–22 CATHERINE RUSSELL This contemporary jazz and blues singer has SOUL. Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley

22 THIRD EYE BLIND AND DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL Enjoy some loud acoustic rock from

these two powerhouses. Marymoor Park

22 JANE’S ADDICTION Commonly regarded as a pio-

neer of alternative music, this California three-piece uses doses of funk and metal in their distinct sound.

Showbox SoDo • 23 JOHN PIZZARELLI QUARTET The famed guitarist and singer has a way with Tin Pan Alley classics.

Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley 23 JAZMARAE BEEBE She fuses bits and pieces of different genres to present you with a style 100 percent her own. With Scarlet Parke, Heather Thomas. Sunset Tavern • 23 SAY ANYTHING This lineup is what pop-punk girls’ dreams are made of. With Modern Baseball, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Hard Girls. Showbox 24 MÖTLEY CRÜE Glam it up and bring your hair, hair, hair. Tacoma Dome, tacomadome.org • 24–26 CAPITOL HILL BLOCK PARTY The dense Seattle neighborhood gets even denser as huge acts like Jamie XX, Father John Misty, Ratatat, and Deafheaven transform Pike/Pine into a weekend-long all-out rave. capitolhillblockparty.com 26 BARENAKED LADIES The Canadian rockers embark on a 20-date tour with a fresh new single, “Say What You Want.” With Violent Femmes, Colin Hay (Men at Work). Marymoor Park 27 KEB’ MO’ Fresh from his 12th album, he brings more than 20 years of jazz experience to the stage.

Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley 28 DANZIG Come see this American heavy-metal band along with Pennywise and Cancer Bats. Showbox SoDo 30–AUG. 2 PONCHO SANCHEZ This Grammy-winning conguero performs with his Latin Jazz Band. Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley

August

5 MICHAEL MCDONALD Only a fool would believe

that a show from this Grammy Award winner would be anything less than a hit. Snoqualmie Casino

Whether you’re a joker, a smoker, or a midnight toker, the space cowboy plays your AOR faves. Chateau Amphitheatre 8 VANS WARPED TOUR never disappoints with more than 70 bands on nine stages. White River Amphitheater, vanswarpedtour.com 8 TAYLOR SWIFT The “Shake It Off” singer is indeed shaking it off on her world tour. With Vance Joy. CenturyLink Field, centurylinkfield.com 9 ZIGGY MARLEY In the mood for some reggae? Come see Marley at ZooTunes. Woodland Park Zoo 10 WALK THE MOON Hailing from Cincinnati, these guys went through quite a few lineup changes before finding the perfect sound. With Milky Chance.

Marymoor Park • 11 WILCO Some call them alt-rock, some alt-country.

Come find out what you’d classify them as. With Jenny Lewis. Marymoor Park 11 GEORGE EZRA The Hertford-raised, bluesy-voiced 21-year-old is one of pop’s most-talked-about new artists. The Paramount 12 KELLY CLARKSON She started by commanding the stage of American Idol, but this pop powerhouse now commands stadiums. KeyArena 13–16 MANHATTAN TRANSFER This Grammy Award– winning jazz/pop foursome has earned its spot in the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley 15 1-2-3-4 It would be impossible not to have a blast with a Ramones Tribute band. The Funhouse 19 KENNY LOGGINS Best known for his hit soundtracks for Footloose and Danger Zone, he takes the ZooTunes stage. Woodland Park Zoo 20–23 STANLEY CLARKE BAND Join bassist Clarke and his jazz ensemble. Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley 25 AMERICAN IDOL LIVE The most successful music competition show in history is coming to the Emerald City—who will get kicked off next? McCaw Hall 28 PETER FRAMPTON AND CHEAP TRICK Calling all dads! And granddads! This is a no-brainer. Marymoor Park • 29 AN EVENING WITH RANDY NEWMAN Kids may know him for his many endeavors with Disney, including the Toy Story franchise, but he is so much more.

Chateau Amphitheatre 29 ROCKY VOTOLATO With Dave Hause and Chris Farren. Crocodile 29–30 SUBLIME WITH ROME With meticulously cadenced rhymes and delicious reggae grooves, it’s safe to say this band is hard to resist. With Rebelution, Pepper, Mickey Avalon. Marymoor Park

September

3 DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES These easy-listening

’80s rockers have sold more albums than any other male duo. The Paramount • 5–7 BUMBERSHOOT This year’s lineup includes Chance the Rapper, Flying Lotus, Faith No More, the Melvins, Ellie Goulding, Hozier, Brandon Flowers, and Neko Case. And of course there will be comedy, literary events, visual arts, food, drink, and more. A Seattle staple since 1971. Seattle Center, bumbershoot.org

STAGE June

–28 THREESOME A couple attempts to solve their

relationship issues with sex, and politics, in this new play by local writer Yussef El Guindi. ACT Theatre, acttheatre.org 10–29 DIRTY A bored investment banker decides to pursue a career in “ethical porn” in this recent work by Andrew Hinderacker, staged by Washington Ensemble Theatre. ACT Theatre, washingtonensemble.org 10–JULY 3 SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE The Kurt Vonnegut novel is adapted and directed by Josh Aaseng. Book-It Repertory Theatre, book-it.org 11–13 LIL DUVAL From the films Scary Movie 5 and Highway. Parlor Live Seattle, parlorlive.com 11–13 JESSIMAE PELUSO According to The Huffington Post, Peluso is one of the funniest comics to follow on Twitter. Parlor Live Bellevue, parlorlive.com 11–SEPT. 13 THE RETURN OF CHAOS Witness the ultimate showdown between good and evil as the superheroes of Puget Sound protect Seattle’s greatest landmarks. Teatro Zinzanni, zinzanni.com • 12–14 NW NEW WORKS FESTIVAL Performances by emerging local artists in theater, dance, and music.

On the Boards, ontheboards.org 17 DANA CARVEY, along with Dennis Miller and Kevin Nealon, is leading a Saturday Night Live reunion tour of sorts. tacomadome.org

18–20 GINA YASHERE A sensation in the UK, Yashere is

taking the U.S. by storm, too, finishing in the top 10 on NBC’s Last Comic Standing. Parlor Live Seattle 19–20 NORM MACDONALD According to Comedy Central, this SNL veteran is one of the “100 greatest stand-ups of all time.” Parlor Live Bellevue

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BY KELLY FROH The third installment of Froh’s “The

Cheapest S.O.B.’s” mini-comic series about her stingy grandparents. On the Boards • 25–26 EDDIE IZZARD His Force Majeure tour will sell out fast. The Paramount 25–28 1776 An all-female version of the musical tale of American independence. Seattle Musical Theatre in Magnuson Park, seattlemusicaltheatre.org 26–27 THE DAN BAND Led by Dan Finnerty, this cult act is known for appearances in The Hangover and Old School. Parlor Live Seattle 26–28 FOLLOW YOU EVERYWHERE Georgia Ragsdale’s solo stage show describes coming out in Houston in the ’70s. 12th Avenue Arts 26 & 28 EMERGE: 7 WOMEN, 7 STOOLS Listen to the unique stories of seven very different ladies; a housewife, a grandmother, a college student, an abused woman, a hustler, a cancer survivor, and a mistress. Benaroya Hall • 28 HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH End Seattle Pride Week the right way with a local staging of the Tony-winning hit. Crocodile

July

2–3 REX NAVARRETE A Filipino-American comic,

Navarrete draws humor from family and life. Parlor Live Bellevue 6–8 JEFF DYE Raised right here in Seattle, Dye returns home with two MTV shows and a third-place title from NBC’s Last Comic Standing under his belt. Parlor Live Bellevue 8–31 BILLY ELLIOT A young boy gives up boxing and picks up ballet in this Tony Award–winning musical scored by Elton John. Village Theatre (Everett), villagetheatre.org • 8–AUG. 2 WICKED The hit musical is back on tour, recounting the tale of Oz before Dorothy entered the scene. The Paramount 8–AUG. 15 GODSPELL Stephen (Wicked) Schwartz’s gospel musical is reset in Pike Place Market. Taproot Theatre, taproottheatre.org • 9–AUG. 9 WOODEN O/SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK Free outdoor productions of As You Like It and

Henry IV, Part 1 in parks throughout Puget Sound. seattleshakespeare.org

9–26 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM TEENS!

August

6–8 DONNELL RAWLINGS You’ve seen him on the

wildly popular Chappelle’s Show playing Ashy Larry and filling in for Dave; now see him live. Parlor Live Seattle

and Kai seek adventure in this new steampunk Western. 12th Avenue Arts 16–23 PIPPIN The winner of four Tony Awards, this 2013 revival of the 1972 musical promises laughs, tears, and astounding acrobatics. The Paramount 18 GODDESS OF MERCY Three friends living in New York City navigate social, corporate, and personal responsibility. ACT Theatre • 18–SEPT. 6 MATILDA THE MUSICAL Based on the children’s classic by Roald Dahl, with music by Tim Minchin. 5th Avenue Theatre 20–22 TOMMY DAVIDSON Best known for his In Living Color days. Parlor Live Bellevue, parlorlive.com

September

3–5 ALONZO BODDEN The winner of Last Comic

Standing’s third season will tickle funny bones. Parlor Live Bellevue

DANCE June

• 12–27 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL Throughout South Lake Union, discover

contemporary dance from all over the world and Seattle. seattleidf.org 13 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET SCHOOL Watch as students from varying levels of ballet instruction perform what they’ve learned in this 34th annual event.

McCaw Hall • 19–21 MOUTH TO MOUTH Performer and choreographer Danielle Agami slid through Seattle a couple of summers ago, presented a fascinating work that dissected a long-term relationship, and taught a series of popular workshops on improvisational technique.

But then she was off to L.A. to develop her work and her company Ate9. She’s now back for a visit, and has brought her dancers. She’ll share a slice of her program with local dance maker Matt Drews—both of them specialize in highly kinetic work. SANDRA KURTZ Velocity Founder’s Theater, velocitydancecenter.org

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• 1–3 FREEDOM FANTASIA If you’re looking for a fab-

ulous way to celebrate our nation’s birthday, this burlesque revue should fit the bill. Tongues planted firmly in cheek, the cast applies their considerable skills to choreography as sophisticated as it is witty. And after all, when you look at the Statue of Liberty, don’t you wonder what she has on underneath? SK Triple Door

2 DANCEGARDEN: A CELEBRATION OF WORLD MUSIC & DANCE Gansango Music & Dance per-

forms. The Neptune

• 8–AUG. 5 YELLOW FISH DURATIONAL ART FESTIVAL In a world where we are encouraged to do

more things in less time, durational performance art is a chance to slow down that heady pace and consider just one thing for as long as it takes to look. Producer Alice Gosti sets very few rules for this festival: Work should last at least an hour but less than two days.

Audience members are free to come and go as they wish; beyond that, it’s all up in the air. SK Hedreen Gallery, gostia.com 9 DANCING WITH THE STARS: LIVE! See your favorites from the ABC competition show. McCaw Hall • 10–11 DANCE THIS! Every summer the presenters at Seattle Theater Group turn their attention to the next generation with this youth dance showcase—they bring together student dancers from across the city, from all kinds of styles and genres, and mix them up in the studio together, so that the hip-hop kids learn the czardas, the swing dancers practice Cambodian court ballet, and they all rock along with bhangra—then they put them onstage. SK The Moore • 16–18, 23–25 ARC DANCE ARC Dance does a hard thing very well: presenting young ballet dancers at the point where they are just ready to become professional. Director Marie Chong has continued to commission and make work that will show these artists at their best, while giving them all the challenges they need.

SK Seattle Repertory Theatre, arcdance.org • 19 BUTOH IN THE GARDEN A key element of this 20th-century Japanese dance form is its connection with nature, so it makes perfect sense to watch Joan Laage and Diego Pinon, two excellent butoh practitioners, dance in a garden. Part of the Seattle Butoh Festival offerings. SK Kubota Garden, daipanbutoh.com • 24–25 STRICTLY SEATTLE This annual workshop is like summer camp for grown-up dancers, but the performances are far from a campfire skit. After studying with some of the best dance artists Seattle has to offer, they’ll present new work by those choreographers.

This year’s roster includes Anna Connor, Pat Graney, Zoe Scofield, and Kate Wallich, all of whom have major works coming out next season. SK Broadway Performance Hall, velocitydancecenter.org

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Faeries! A love potion! All the makings of a good Shakespeare play. Bainbridge Performing Arts, bainbridgeperformingarts.org • 9–AUG. 2 GREASE It’s the one that you want. 5th Avenue Theatre, 5thavenue.org 10–AUG. 1 THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY Sibling actors are forced to perform in front of a hostile audience after being abandoned by their troupe. New City Theater, civicrep.org 10–AUG. 15 GREENSTAGE The Two Noble Kinsmen and Much Ado About Nothing are performed in area parks, plus stripped-down versions of Macbeth and The Two Gentlemen of Verona in smaller venues. greenstage.org • 10–SEPT. 27 INTIMAN THEATRE FESTIVAL Three plays: Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending, Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour, and a new dramedy set at the real-life 2008 Gay Softball World Series, called John Baxter Is a Switch Hitter. Cornish Playhouse, intiman.org • 16–17 JIM GAFFIGAN Prior to debuting his selftitled television show on TV Land and Comedy Central, Gaffigan is completing his Contagious tour. McCaw Hall 16–18 SELF-TITLED The Metronome Society presents new short plays inspired by music. The Rendezvous 16–19 MARLON WAYANS Wazzup! The youngest Wayans sibling brings his comedy tour. Parlor Live Seattle 17–AUG. 16 HOLD THESE TRUTHS A UW student challenges the WWII internment of JapaneseAmericans in this one-man show. ACT Theatre, acttheatre.org 24–AUG. 9 DANCE LIKE A MAN Lata struggles between tradition and youthful rebellion as her parents are about to meet the man she wants to marry. ACT Theatre • 30–AUG. 1 GREG PROOPS Best known for his appearances on the ’90s improv TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, he always draws a crowd. Parlor Live Seattle

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Performances by highly regarded artists as a part of the Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation. Broadway Performance Hall

August

2 MOVE LIVE ON TOUR Siblings Derek and Julianne

Hough (also from Dancing With the Stars) star in their own dance production. Benaroya Hall

CLASSICAL June

18–20 SEATTLE SYMPHONY Restoring Gerard

Schwarz’ tradition of ending the concert season with Mahler, specifically his immense Symphony no. 3.

Benaroya Hall 20 SEATTLE REPERTORY JAZZ ORCHESTRA Music from Charles Mingus’ Let My Children Hear Music.

Benaroya Hall 20 LAKE UNION CIVIC ORCHESTRA The Rach 3, plus a new work by conductor Christophe Chagnard. Meany Hall, luco.org 20 SEATTLE MEN’S CHORUS/SEATTLE WOMEN’S CHORUS Their annual joint family concert. McCaw

Hall, flyinghouse.org

24 SEATTLE SYMPHONY Music by John Williams at

Marymoor Park. seattlesymphony.org

• 26–27 SEATTLE SYMPHONY Fantasia, with the

music played live. Benaroya Hall

• 27–SEPT. 13 OLYMPIC MUSIC FESTIVAL Chamber

music in a rustic barn. Quilcene, Wash., olympicmusic festival.org

July

• 2–18 ICICLE CREEK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

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Six concerts, opening with eminence grise pianist Gilbert Kalish playing Ives’ “Concord” Sonata. Icicle Creek Center for the Arts, Leavenworth, icicle.org

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• 6–AUG. 1 SEATTLE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

The annual feast: pairs of concerts each Mon., Wed., & Fri., this year also broadcast outside to Columbia, Volunteer, and Freeway Parks. Benaroya Hall, seattle chambermusic.org 8 SEATTLE SYMPHONY March of the Penguins, with the music played live. Benaroya Hall 8–29 THE MET: LIVE IN HD Well, not quite live; these are encore screenings of faves from past seasons.

Various theaters, fathomevents.com 10–11 SEATTLE SYMPHONY Music from the game Final Fantasy. Benaroya Hall • 10–11 SEATTLE GILBERT AND SULLIVAN SOCIETY Their annual production, The Pirates

of Penzance, probably won’t generate the same racial controversy that The Mikado did last summer.

Probably. pattersong.org • 8–22 SEATTLE OPERA It’s Israelites vs. Babylonians in Nabucco, the 28-year-old Verdi’s first hit; as usual, love complicates matters. McCaw Hall, seattleopera. org • 21–23 SEATTLE OPERA Set during World War II, the premiere of Jack Perla’s An American Dream explores the lives of two Puget Sound women: a JapaneseAmerican facing internment and a German-Jewish immigrant. McCaw Hall

MOVIES June

11, 18, 25 RICK MORANIS FILM SERIES Celebrate

your favorite nebbish comedian with special screenings of Ghostbusters, Little Shop of Horrors, and Spaceballs. Greenwood Branch Library, spl.org 12 JURASSIC WORLD The fourth entry of the Jurassic Park series is sure to bring more scares, but most important, more dinosaurs. And Lake Stevens’ own Chris Pratt stars. Opens wide • 12 ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL Two high-school filmmakers befriend a girl with cancer and decide to make a film for her. It’s funnier than it sounds; the film was a favorite at SIFF. Opens wide 19 DARK PLACES stars Charlize Theron and is based on the mystery novel by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl).

Opens wide 19 DOPE Fresh from SIFF, this ’90s-set hip-hop comedy has a trio of L.A. teens discover a bag of designer drugs. Wacky complications ensue in this Sundance darling. Opens wide • 19 INSIDE OUT Amy Poehler and Bill Hader lend their voices to the new animated adventure from Pixar.

Opens wide • 19 THE WOLFPACK Crystal Moselle directs this documentary about seven children who were confined and home-schooled in their New York City apartment.

They’re obsessed with movies, and this is an amazing movie. Seven Gables, landmarktheatres.com 26 FRESH DRESSED A new documentary charts the intertwined history of hip-hop and fashion. Northwest Film Forum, nwfilmforum.org 26 A LITTLE CHAOS Romance and gardening in the court of King Louis XIV? Sure, why not. Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, and Stanley Tucci star. Theaters TBD 26 SUNSHINE SUPERMAN Extreme athletes known as BASE jumpers leap off cliffs with cameras attached to their helmets. SIFF, siff.net 26 TED 2 Seth MacFarlane is back as Ted, a brazen teddy bear come to life who is ready for bigger and better shenanigans. In the recent Entourage, Mark Wahlberg said he’d make 20 more sequels. So be warned. Opens wide 26 MAX Director Boaz Yakin tells the story of a military dog, deployed in Afghanistan and later adopted by the U.S. family of his late handler. Opens wide

July

1 TERMINATOR: GENISYS Jam-packed with alternate

timelines, terminator guardians, and intense fights, this is sure to be the quintessential summer action film.

Opens wide 1 MAGIC MIKE XXL PSA: Channing Tatum still has a six-pack! Opens wide 3 ONE CUT, ONE LIFE Documentary filmmaker Ed Pincus chronicles his battle with terminal disease.

Grand Illusion, grandillusioncinema.org • 9–AUG. 27 MAGNUSON PARK OUTDOOR MOVIES Pack a sandwich and catch some of

your favorite flicks (Crazy, Stupid, Love; Big Hero 6; Zoolander; 10 Things I Hate About You Up; Guardians of the Galaxy; The Princess Bride) while taking breaks to stargaze. With food trucks, games, and music.

Magnuson Park, moviesatmagnuson.com • 9–AUG. 27 MOONLIGHT CINEMA This outdoor series includes titles like Dazed and Confused, We’re the Millers, and Jurassic Park, with live music, food from Stella Fiore Wood Fired Pizza and Dante’s Inferno, and good beer. Redhook Brewery, redhook.com

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL

BadmarmarDANCE at the Seattle International Dance Festival.

• 10 AMY The sad rise and fall of English pop diva Amy

Winehouse is related entirely through old footage and interviews, expertly assembled by Asif Kapadia (Senna). Theater TBD • 10 CARTEL LAND An acclaimed new documentary looks at citizen militia movements in Arizona and Mexico, both battling drug smugglers. Theater TBD 10 THE GALLOWS Ooh, another teen found-footage movie! Opens wide 10 MINIONS For lovers of the Despicable Me franchise, here comes a prequel/spinoff of our favorite li’l yellow dudes. Opens wide 10 10,000KM A couple in a long-distance relationship (Los Angeles/Barcelona) tries to maintain a connection when technology begins to fail them. Opens wide • 10–AUG. 29 FREMONT OUTDOOR CINEMA This favorite al fresco film series opens with a free screening of Elf. Following titles include Ghostbusters, The Big Lebowski (of course), South Park, and Anchor Man. Most evenings (usually Saturdays, occasionally Fridays) are ticketed, some are 21-and-over. Downtown Fremont, fremontoutdoormovies.com 17 ANT-MAN Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas star in this comic superhero movie. Opens wide 17 MR. HOLMES An aging and retired Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen) tends to his bees at his seaside farmhouse, until a neighbor boy discovers his secret. This was popular at SIFF. Opens wide • 17 A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE The latest deadpan, uncategorizable

comedy from Sweden’s Roy Andersson. Northwest Film Forum 17 THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT A psychological thriller based on the famous 1971 study in which students playing prison guards were easily encouraged into torturing their mock prisoners. Opens wide • 17 TRAINWRECK Amy is her name, and promiscuity is her game . . . that is, until she begins to fall in love.

With Bill Hader. Opens wide 24 DO I SOUND GAY? This doc examines the phenomenon of “gay voice” and the efforts of some men to hide it. Dan Savage appears. Northwest Film Forum 24 SOUTHPAW Jake Gyllenhaal beefs up for this sports drama about a boxer. Antoine Fuqua, of Training Day, directs. Opens wide 24 PIXELS Chris Columbus directs this sci-fi action film starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James, in which aliens send real-life video-game characters (PacMan and Donkey Kong) to take over Earth. Game on?

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24 PAPER TOWNS Adapted from a John Green (The

Fault in Our Stars) book about teenagers failing to imagine each other complexly. Starring Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne. Opens wide 24 IRRATIONAL MAN Despite our feelings about its creator, this new Woody Allen movie (starring Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, and Parker Posey) looks pretty good. Theater pending • 25–AUG. 22 MOVIES AT THE MURAL This year’s lineup includes Goonies, Selma, Into the Woods, and more. Bring your picnic blanket and stake out your turf early on the small Mural Amphitheater lawn. Seattle Center, seattlecenter.com 31 COURT In this legal drama from India, a folk singer is accused of causing a man to commit suicide with his sad music. Northwest Film Forum 31 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE ROGUE NATION Tom Cruise returns for more adventures as Ethan Hunt, battling baddies and running away from explosions.

Opens wide 31 SELF/LESS Ben Kingsley plays a man who has his consciousness transferred into Ryan Reynolds’ hot body. Thankfully this is a sci-fi thriller, not a dumb comedy. Opens wide 31 VACATION A reboot of the classic Vacation films.

Ed Helms plays a grown-up Rusty Griswold, who tries to follow in the heedless footsteps of his father Clark (Chevy Chase, reprising his ’80s role). Opens wide

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7 FANTASTIC FOUR When a teleportation experiment

gone wrong gives four (fantastic) young scientists superhuman abilities, they must use their newfound powers to conquer evil. Opens wide 7 MASTERMINDS What do you get when a bored night guard is influenced by his crush? One of the largest bank heists in history. Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) directs an A-list cast including Kristen Wiig, Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, and Jason Sudeikis. Opens wide 7 RICKI AND THE FLASH Diablo Cody (Juno) wrote this film about a rock musician (Meryl Streep) who returns home to make things right long after leaving everything behind to follow her music dreams. Opens wide • 7 SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE From Aardman Animations (creator of Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit), this new adventure follows a rogue sheep on his very Ferris Bueller day off. Opens wide

14 THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. A new spy-fi film from

Guy Ritchie based on the 1960s television series. It’s set in the same Cold War period and stars Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer. Opens wide 14 STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON Not a documentary, this is the origin story of legendary L.A. hip-hop crew N.W.A. Opens wide 14 UNDERDOGS This animated film follows a shy boy named Jake who is a talented foosball player, yet he must save his town from being turned into a sports stadium. Opens wide 21 AMERICAN ULTRA Jesse Eisenberg stars as a stoner (secretly a lethal spy), who gets entangled with Kristen Stewart. Oh, and Eisenberg’s character is also marked for death in this Pineapple Express–sounding comedy. Opens wide 21 LEARNING TO DRIVE Based on a New Yorker article written by Katha Pollitt, a successful book editor (Patricia Clarkson) starts taking driving lessons after a divorce. No surprise that she falls for her teacher (Ben Kingsley). Opens wide 21 SINISTER 2 Your typical supernatural horror-film sequel. Opens wide 21 HITMAN: AGENT 47 Based on the Hitman video game (also filmed), this sequel follows an assassin known as Agent 47. Duh. Opens wide 28 REGRESSION This hybrid American/Spanish thriller, which involves sexual abuse and amnesia, stars Emma Watson and Ethan Hawke. It’s directed by Alejandro Amenábar, who did well with The Sea Inside and Open Your Eyes. Open wide 28 WAR ROOM On what is traditionally the weakest moviegoing weekend of the year, this is a faith-based drama about a couple contemplating divorce. We’re guessing prayer will save their marriage. Open wide

September

2 NO ESCAPE Lake Bell and Owen Wilson play a couple

caught up in a foreign coup; Pierce Brosnan helps them somehow. Opens wide 2 A WALK IN THE WOODS Based on the memoir by Bill Bryson about a man (Robert Redford) who returns to the U.S. after 20 years in England and decides to hike the Appalachian Trail with an old friend (Nick Nolte).

With Emma Thompson. Opens wide 4 BREAK POINT Jeremy Sisto and Adam DeVine play two estranged brothers who try their luck at a Grand Slam tennis tournament. Not to be confused with the Point Break remake, which sounds much better. Opens wide

VISUAL ARTS June

13–TBD WHAT’S UP, DOC? Celebrate the iconic work

of animation artist Chuck Jones, who brought Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote, and the Roadrunner to life. The open-ended exhibit features over 125 original sketches and drawings and 23 of his animated films. EMP Museum • 18–21 POP-UP ART Putt! Fore! Use the free clubs, golf balls, and score cards at TAM and play 10 artistdesigned putt-putt holes. Tacoma Art Muesum, tacomaartmuseum.org • 18–SEPT. 7 DISGUISE: MASKS AND GLOBAL AFRICAN ART Contemporary African artists and

those of African descent explore the evolution of the mask and forms of disguise. Seattle Art Museum, seattleartmuseum.org 19–AUG. 15 DWELL Drawings, paintings, and photos by Gala Bent, Julie Blackmon, Susanna Bluhm, and Linda Connor on themes of architecture. G. Gibson Gallery, ggibsongallery.com.

• 20–SEPT. 13 ROGER SHIMOMURA The Seattlenative artist (now based in Kansas) combines Pop and comic-book imagery with his own biographical experiences. Tacoma Art Museum • 20–SEPT. 27 MARTIN CREED Viewers will navigate a sea of silver balloons while considering the location and physical construct of art in Work No. 360: Half the air in a given space. Henry Art Gallery, henryart.org

July

• 2 (OR 9) FIRST THURSDAY ART WALK Warning:

The July edition is usually bumped forward past the Fourth of July holiday. All downtown and Pioneer Square galleries have opening receptions, most with artists in attendance. pioneersquare.org 2 RAVEN SKYRIVER Puget Sound’s marine life is rendered in glass in Intertidal. Stonington Gallery, stoningtongallery.com 2–AUG. 29 WILL ROBINSON The Northwest-native stone sculptor presents new work at his annual summer exhibition. Foster/White Gallery, fosterwhite.com 3 BOB STOCKSDALE & KAY SEKIMACHI The married couple presents In the Realm of Nature, where they examine the parallels in each other’s work over the past 50 years. Bellevue Arts Museum, bellevuearts.org

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The Last Breath is a multichannel video installation examining the complex relationship between artist and creation. Henry Art Gallery 18 PERFUME WORKSHOP Saskia Wilson-Brown, founder of the Institute for Art and Olfaction, will talk to attendees about the significance of scent and help them make their own concoctions to take home. Henry Art Gallery • 24–26 BAM ARTSFAIR More than 300 artists from around the country will gather throughout Bellevue Square and BAM to showcase their arts and crafts.

Plus music and food. bellevuearts.org 30–AUG. 2 SEATTLE ART FAIR Whether you’re an experienced collector or a lover of art, check out all the best art the Pacific Northwest has to offer in one spot. CenturyLink Field Event Center, seattle artfair.com

August

Mon-Fri: 9am-7pm Saturday: 9am-6pm Sunday: 12pm-5pm

• 6 FIRST THURSDAY ART WALK All the downtown

and Pioneer Square galleries open new shows, with artists in attendance. pioneersquare.org

18–21 LEATHERWORKING BASICS: WALLETS AND TOTES Students will learn how to braid, dye, stamp,

design, and prep a medium leather tote. Frye Art Museum, fryemuseum.org • 21 SAM REMIX Boogie down to the OSP for an evening of art, dancing, food, booze, and music. Olympic Sculpture Park, seattleartmuseum.org

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Monsters, and The Game of Love and Death feature star-crossed lovers, haunting pasts, and clairvoyant teenagers. University Bookstore, bookstore. washington.edu • 11 JUDY BLUME Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret . . . no, actually it’s Blume talking about her life’s work with Nancy Pearl. Presented by Seattle Arts & Lectures. Town Hall, lectures.org 11 PAOLO BACIGALUPI The future looks dim (and dry) in The Water Knife, a dystopian thriller about a world destroyed by drought. University Bookstore 11 WOODY WHEELER Look Up!: Birds and Other Natural Wonders Just Outside Your Window is a collection of nature essays that provides the necessary tools and inspiration to explore the outdoors in never-beforeseen ways. University Bookstore 12 LISA SHANNON Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen is about a woman torn between her life in America and her family in Congo, who must find her place in a dangerous world. Town Hall, townhall seattle.org 13 TERRY BROOKS The Darkling Child is the third installment in the Shannara series, but also serves as a thrilling stand-alone novel. University Bookstore 14 ARDETH DE VREIS Old Dog Haven: Every Old Dog Has a Story to Tell tells the true stories of elderly rescue dogs cared for by Old Dog Haven, a western Washington nonprofit to which all proceeds go.

University Bookstore 14 DEBORAH HARKNESS Her bestselling trilogy comes to a close in the finale, Book of Life. Third Place Books, thirdplacebooks.com 15 DAVID TUCKER Geology Underfoot in Western Washington relates the geological wonders of the Pacific Northwest through vignettes and vibrant illustrations. University Bookstore 16 JENNIFER BROZEK AND KRISTI CHARISH

Chimera Incarnate is the fourth and final volume of the Karen Wilson Chronicles. Owl and the Japanese Circus is the tale of Alix (otherwise known as Owl) and her quest into the hidden supernatural world. University Bookstore 19 SHERRI SCHETTLER Her memoir is Spiritual Blackmail: My Journey Through a Catholic Cult.

University Bookstore • 20 JAMES LONGHURST A must for all two-wheel commuters. He discusses his book, Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road, and its pavement implications. Seattle Central Library, spl.org.

20 SARAH OCKLER, CARLY ANNE WEST, DEB CALETTI, KIMBERLY DERTING, & JUSTINA CHEN will be on hand to talk about writing YA

novels and sign their latest books: The Summer of Chasing Mermaids, The Bargaining, The Last Forever, The Replaced, and Blind Spot for Boys. University Bookstore 23 ANDY DUNCAN This science-fiction writer will talk about his genre and current projects before signing copies of Wakulla Springs. University Bookstore

23 BRIAN J. ROBERTSON He’s author of Holacracy:

The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World. University Bookstore 24 ALL THE LETTERS IN THE RAINBOW The LGBTQ Writers Pride Month Showcase features Seattle poets Sarah Galvin, Matthew Schnirman, and others. Venue pending 24 KENTARO TOYAMA Author of Geek Heresy, he’ll discuss his idea that despite advanced technology, human problems must be met with human solutions.

University Bookstore • 24 STEPHEN WITT How Music Got Free explores the state of the music industry, piracy, and the rising dominance of digital media consumption. Town Hall 25 E.C. MURRAY The goatherd-turned-writing professor shares from her memoir A Long Way From Paris.

University Bookstore 26 ANNABEL SMITH Whiskey & Charlie is all about rivalry and redemption. University Bookstore 27 RAZIEL REID When Everything Feels Like the Movies is about a gay teen who is bullied at school, wears his mom’s high heels, and imagines his life as a movie.

University Bookstore 27 CAROLA DUNN She signs Superfluous Women, the 22nd installment in this series set in the ’20s. Seattle Mystery Bookshop, seattlemystery.com 30 INGRID THOFT She signs her new book, Brutality.

Seattle Mystery Bookshop 30 EILEEN GUNN Her latest book, Questionable Practices, takes the reader through 17 short stories in a range of genres. University Bookstore

July

6 MARY DORIA RUSSELL In conversation with Nancy

Pearl, she’ll discuss her latest historical-fiction story, Epitaph, centered around Tombstone’s Wyatt Earp.

University Bookstore 7 TOBIAS BUCKELL discusses his latest, Hurricane Fever. University Bookstore 7 ROGER HOBBS’ new book, Vanishing Games, involves a bag of sapphires, heists, and murder! Seattle Mystery Bookshop 8 NINA ANSARY The author of Jewels of Allah will lead a discussion on her book, followed by a signing.

University Bookstore 9 TARA AUSTEN WEAVER The author of the awardwinning blog Tea and Cookies brings us her latest book, Orchard House. University Bookstore 9 DON WINSLOW signs his new book, The Cartel.

Seattle Mystery Bookshop 9 MARK VANHOENACKER The columnist, pilot, and author of Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot will discuss his book. University Bookstore 9 MICHAEL FERTIK discusses The Reputation Economy: How to Optimize Your Digital Footprint in a World Where Reputation Is Your Most Valuable Asset.

Town Hall 11 MIKE LAWSON Joe is a tough-as-nails bodyguard in House Rivals. Seattle Mystery Bookshop 14 NUALA O’CONNOR: HOW TECHNOLOGY IMPACTS CIVIL LIBERTIES The former Amazon pri-

vacy lawyer and author discusses how we can remain plugged-in while also retaining our basic privacy and security rights. Town Hall 14 CONNIE WILLIS Join this science-fiction writer for a reading and signing of her newest tome, The Best of Connie Willis. University Bookstore 15 DEBRENA JACKSON GANDY is committed to helping men and women improve their marriages through her book, The Love Lies. University Bookstore 21 NALO HOPKINSON Falling in Love With Hominids is the sci-fi/fantasy writer’s latest. University Bookstore 30 JENNY MILCHMAN As Night Falls is the latest mystery from this young writer. Seattle Mystery Bookshop

August

1 KEVIN O’BRIEN signs his latest, No One Needs to

Know. Seattle Mystery Bookshop

• 5 JEFF HOBBS The Short and Tragic Life of Robert

Peace is the sad, true story of a young AfricanAmerican man who leaves the slums of Newark for Yale. University Bookstore 25 RICHARD KADREY James Stark confronts death in Killing Pretty. Seattle Mystery Bookshop

FOOD & DRINK June

• 18 & AUG. 20 SEATTLE’S BEST DAMN HAPPY HOUR Modest, right? Deals on specialty cocktails,

good food, and a chance to play giant Scrabble and giant Jenga. Seattle Center Armory, seattlecenter.com/ happyhour 19–21 WASHINGTON BREWERS FESTIVAL Toast Dad on Father’s Day Weekend, if you’re over 21, at the Washington Beer Commission’s 10th annual festival, offering more than 400 brews from 105 local breweries.

Marymoor Park, washingtonbeer.com

July

1–2 RED, WHITE & ZOO Celebrate the Fourth of July

with star-shaped popsicles, watermelon, and corn on the cob at this picnic event. Woodland Park Zoo 3–5 LAKE UNION WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL A weekend celebration of varnish, sandpaper, and sails. With food and other family activities. Center for Wooden Boats, cwb.org.

4 JBLM FREEDOM FEST Joint Base Lewis-McChord will be open to the public all day with aerial demonstrations, live entertainment, car shows, carnival rides, military displays, and, when night hits, an epic fireworks show. jblmmwr.com

10–12 & 18–19 DAY OUT WITH THOMAS: THE CELEBRATION TOUR 2015 Open to all little conduc-

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Untitled, Egungun Series, by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, at SAM’s Disguise exhibit.

20–21 BURIEN WILD STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL Not

only will there be strawberries aplenty, but car shows, touch-a-truck, chili cookoffs, live entertainment, and tons of food vendors. Burien Town Square Park, burienstrawberryfestival.org 26 SIPFEST IN SNOQUALMIE Take in the sights of downtown Snoqualmie while you enjoy food, beer, and wine with your souvenir tasting glass, all to benefit charity. Railroad Community Park 27 CREATING A HOMEMADE SUMMER AMARO

Amy Pennington, author of Urban Pantry: Tips and Recipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable, and Seasonal Kitchen, presents the second in a two-part series on how to grow your own garden for summer cocktails.

If you didn’t attend the first class, don’t worry—they’ll have supplies on hand. Henry Art Gallery

July

• 7–10 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL BEERFEST The

name says it all; hundreds of brews will be on tap.

Plus food and live music. 21 and over. Seattle Center, seattlebeerfest.com 11 NIGHT MARKET Take to the streets of Chinatown late-night and enjoy more than 30 local food trucks, an international market, and lots of dancing. cidbia.org 11–12 DRAGON FEST $2 FOOD WALK Head to the ID for the pan-Asian American Dragon Fest and enjoy all the food you can eat for just $2. cidbia.org • 17–19 BITE OF SEATTLE With beer and wine gardens, food demonstrations, 50-plus local restaurants, and 30-plus food-product companies, who could resist?

Seattle Center, biteofseattle.com 24 TASTING FLIGHT WINE Try some of the finest boutique wines in the Northwest at this after-hours, adultsonly event. Woodland Park Zoo, zoo.org

Experience all the best mobile food Seattle has to offer, all in one place. South Lake Union, seattlefoodfest.com

FAMILY & OUTDOORS June

13 SHOP THE FRIENDSHOP POP-UP This shop will

vend pre-owned paperback and children’s books for $1, with added benefits for members. Broadview Branch Library, spl.org 13 PRIDE PICNIC Bring the whole family to the Pride Picnic, where $1 will get you lunch, and stick around for family-friendly events like a box-car derby.

Volunteer Park, seattlepride.org 13 ROCK ’N’ ROLL SEATTLE Run a full or halfmarathon and get rewarded with a headlining show by Mudhoney. Seattle Center, runrocknroll.com 13–14 WORLD OCEAN WEEKEND Join the Seattle Aquarium to learn how to be a hero to the planet by helping keep our oceans clean. There’ll be lots of ocean-themed games and activities for the little ones. seattleaquarium.org

Head to any Washington State Park for free admission without a Discover Pass—the perfect excuse for a hike, picnic, or day at the beach. discoverpass. wa.gov • 17 ERIC LEE-MÄDER June 15–21 is National Pollinator Week, and author Lee-Mäder will inform us what we can do to help bring back the bees.

Town Hall 18 MARINERS BREWERY NIGHT A pregame event in the Outside Corner, with local brewers and a Mariners bottle opener available. Safeco Field, seattle.mariners.mlb.com • 19–21 FREMONT SOLSTICE FAIR All the fun things you’ve grown to rely on: the parade, music from bands like the Presidents of the United States of America, the naked bike contingent, and a vast and eclectic craft market. Ooh, and the fooood! fremont fair.org 20 SEATTLE PET EXPO Bring your dog, cat, bird, fish, or lizard, along with their current immunization record, for a fun-filled day of talent and costume contests, shopping, and demonstrations. Washington State Convention Center, seattlepetexpo.com

24–26 HELLO KITTY’S SUPERCUTE FRIENDSHIP FESTIVAL Um, are all my dreams coming true? Hello

Kitty and Co. (My Melody, Badtz-Maru, Keroppi, etc.) will appear in multistage live performances. Think of all the collectibles! ShoWare Center, showarecenter. com 25 SEAFAIR TORCHLIGHT PARADE The Fourth Avenue route will be packed with clowns, bands, pirates, and balloons—arrive early for the best curbside positions. seafair.com 31 BUZZING BLUEBERRIES Little ones get the opportunity to learn about bees and their critical role in pollinating blueberries before heading to the fields to pick their own to take home. (Berries, that is, not bees.)

Lake Hills Greenbelt Ranger Station, bellevuewa.gov

and earplugs for an action-packed weekend filled with hydroplane races and an airshow with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels. seafair.com

August

• 7 SLU BLOCK PARTY Live music from Massy

Ferguson, Tomo Nakayama, Kithkin, and others, plus food (I hope they have those twisty potato sticks) and art. South Lake Union, slublockparty.com 8 ASIAN WILDLIFE CONSERVATION DAY Spend the day learning about what can be done to help endangered animals—face-painting and crafts included.

Woodland Park Zoo, zoo.org 9 OBLITERIDE Bring the whole family out for this bicycle trek around Lake Union to raise funds for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Party at the finish line. obliteride.org 14 SEAHAWKS VS. BRONCOS Hawks season is almost upon us—come out for the first preseason game. CenturyLink Field, seahawks.com 14 KIDS DAY AT BOTHELL FARMERS MARKET

Bring the little ones out for the March of the Veggies Parade, arts and crafts, face painting, pony and train rides, and special kids’ vendor booths. country villagebothell.com 15–16 DUWAMISH REVEALED A colorful celebration of water along the river featuring the Rainier Vista Khmer Dance Group, the UW Khmer Students Association, and more. South Park, duwamishrevealed.com 22–NOV. 15 TITANOBOA: MONSTER SNAKE Meet the 48-foot-long fossil—er, replica of a monster Colombian snake. Burke Museum, burkemuseum.org 23 MARINERS SALUTE TO KIDS DAY All kids 14 and under will receive a Mariners backpack and be given the opportunity to run the bases after the game with valid admission. Safeco Field, seattle.mariners.mlb.com 27–SEPT. 7 EVERGREEN STATE FAIR This fair is the largest single attraction in Snohomish County, with auto races, petting zoos, carnival games, rodeos, and concerts—not to mention all that fair fare. evergreenfair.org • 30 SEATTLE SOUNDERS VS. PORTLAND TIMBERS One of the team’s full-stadium matches

(which last year drew, on average, 55,000) is against their bitterest rivals—who as of press time are having a pretty wretched season. Should be a beat-down!

CenturyLink Field, soundersfc.com E

21 KEXP FATHER’S DAY KIDS’ DANCE PARTY

Dads who are still rockin’ and their little ones can enjoy break-dancing by Vicious Puppies Crew, crafts, pizza dough-throwing, and music spun by DJs Riz and Darek Mazzone. EMP Museum 21 GO SKATEBOARDING DAY Wear your shoelace as a belt, blow a kiss at your Ryan Sheckler shrine, and go skate! Presented by Skate Like a Girl. Seattle Center, skatelikeagirl.com • 21–AUG. 30 BICYCLE SUNDAYS A four-mile stretch of Lake Washington Boulevard (between Mount Baker Beach and Seward Park) will be closed to motorists, so cyclists and families can enjoy the road in safety. seattle.gov 27 SEAFAIR PIRATES LANDING Watch as the hordes of salty seadogs storm Alki Beach to search for treasure. There’ll be lots of entertainment and activities for even the youngest pirates. Alki Beach, seafair.com 27–28 MIDSOMER FESTIVAL Join the Lord of Camlann at the Camlann Medieval Village for an afternoon of knightly combat, theatre, puppetry, arts and crafts, and live entertainment. camlann.org 27–28 SLUG FEST Get to know the yellow-greenish banana slug and stay for all manner of slug games, crafts, and even slug tattoos. Free w/admission to the park. Northwest Trek, nwtrek.org 27–28 URBAN CRAFT UPRISING Artisans and makers of every stripe converge to sell their wares.

Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, urbancraftuprising. com 28 TEA PARTY What better way to spend a Sunday than with free tea and crumpets? Bring your little prince or princess for a lovely outing at this nonprofit cafe. Queen Bee Cafe, queenbeecafe.com • 28 PRIDEFEST Let your flag fly with pride. Expect the classic parade floats (down Fourth Avenue), dykes on bikes, and just all-around good vibes.

Seattle Center and other locations, seattlepride.org

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August

• 15 & 26 SEATTLE STREET FOOD FESTIVAL

13 & AUG. 25 NATIONAL GET OUTDOORS DAY

tors: Join Thomas the Tank Engine and Sir Topham Hatt on a 25-minute train ride jam-packed with train-themed activities and crafts. Northwest Railway Museum, thomas.trainmuseum.org 11 OBLITERIDE KIDS’ RIDE This easy bike ride is ideal for children ages 3–13. It begins at Mercerdale Park with a one-mile ride down to Sunset and back to support the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Mercerdale Park, obliteride.org • 17–19 SEQUIM LAVENDER FESTIVAL Frolic in lavender fields, then enjoy a lavender-flavored cocktail while listening to live music. Sequim, lavenderfestival.com 18 SHIPWRECK FESTIVAL If ye be searchin’ for treasure, this event is for you—dozens of citizens sell their wares in a garage-style sale with lots of food vendors to keep ye hearty crew fed. Anacortes, shipwreckfest.org

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BY JASON PRICE

Omega Ouzeri expands the Greek culinary lexicon on Capitol Hill, with delicious results.

It’s that time of year again when we start thinking about June-uary and anticipate the start of summer. And with it come events celebrating our brief season here in the Pacific Northwest—including Sunset Supper at Pike Place Market. The 20th annual fete will be held on August 14 from 7:30–11 p.m., and the market will host over 1,400 guests and 90-plus restaurants, wineries, and breweries offering a host of goodies. Early-bird tickets are available for $125 at brownpapertickets.com.

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As if we needed another reason to drink in SoDo, Two Beers Brewing and Seattle Cider Company are opening The Woods, their new tasting room, at 4660 Ohio Ave. S. This Saturday, June 13, marks the 2,800-square-foot facility’s grand opening. Enjoyment awaits thirsty patrons with 24 taps, bar games (including pool, darts, and shuffleboard), space for projection films, and room for more than 150 people indoors and on the arbor-covered patio.

PHOTOS BY JOANNA KRESGE

Top: A blue and white palette dominates. Bottom: a carrot salad with pistachio butter; zucchini fritters with feta, mint, and scallions.

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Waffles and wings at Nate’s.

BY ALANA AL-HATLANI

Besides the mezes, the restaurant offers three

entrée-portioned dishes for $23 and up: lamb shoulder, tuna, and whole-grilled branzino. I opted for the slow-roasted lamb over slightly soupy lentils and served with—wait for it—tzatziki. The lamb itself was ho-hum, a little overcooked and underseasoned; this is one case when the yogurt was much needed. (The same dish, more or less, over at Westward is considerably better.)

Dessert on one visit was a semolina cake with chunks of hibiscus-poached rhubarb (I appreciated getting actual sizable bites of rhubarb, which so often is just incorporated into a sauce), topped with a citrus yogurt. It was solid, though it doesn’t hold a candle to their Greek rice pudding. Impossibly creamy, it has slices of preserved orange floating in it, which you drag through the pudding with a spoon, resisting the urge to eat the sweet, citrusy condiment whole.

Also unique at Omega Ouzeri: its expansive Greek wine and spirit list, divided by region, with wines from Macedonia, Attica, Peloponnisos, and elsewhere, plus half a dozen ouzos and cocktails using Greek liquors such as rakomelo and mastiha. To help novices (like me) navigate the myriad choices, a glossary explains the various grapes and regions. I’m looking forward to diving into it on my next visit—as well as more of the inspired dishes at this much-needed Greek standout. E

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OMEGA OUZERI 1529 14th Ave., 257-4515, omegaouzeri.com. 4–10 p.m. daily.

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to the brightly flavored salad. I’d buy it jarred if I could and smear it over bread. A special on one of my visits, three tail-on Gulf shrimp served on a bed of taramasalata (a Greek condiment made of cod roe mixed with bread crumbs, lemon juice, and olive oil) was creamy and briny, and enlivened the milder-tasting shrimp. To make it more springlike, the dish is served with a slaw of onions and fennel. Tiny pieces of fried potato throughout bring crunch, and triangles of pita bread allow you to sop up every last mouthful of the taramasalata.

Soutzoukakia—grilled meatballs, according to the menu, though they look more like sausages— are simple but tasty, with an assist from a thick tomato jam and a dollop of tzatziki. Ktopoulo sharas, one of the larger portions, consists of Draper Valley farm chicken served in skewer-like pieces.

The chicken is juicy and very oregano-forward; despite that, it needed some salt. It too is served with tzatziki and pita. (My daughter made little sandwiches out of them.) Nettle pies, tsouknida pita, have crisp dough like the fritters, but are filled with nettles, shallots, scallions, garlic, and lemon.

Again, salt was shy, though I relished the distinctive taste of the summery, vegetal nettles. Their fava santorini—the closest you’ll get to a hummus plate here—is a dip of fava beans dotted with red onion and capers and drizzled with lemon and olive oil. It was one of my least favorite dishes though; pasty in texture and bland.

Some items I didn’t get to try include the dolmathes (stuffed grape leaves), grilled octopus, and a Greek salad—I’m curious to how they interpret these mainstays.

Little is better than walking into a sushi bar and saying the word omakase, followed by a journey through the mind of a chef that can be a stunning culinary experience. This is what chef Taichi Kitamura hopes to achieve with his summer seven-course omakase menu at Sushi Kappo Tamura—to feature, among other items, steamed local live spot prawns, shigoku oysters, and five pieces of prime nigiri of the day. The menu is $100 and reservations are encouraged. E

Nate’s Wings and Waffles is tucked inside residential Rainier Beach, near Seattle’s southern Renton border. Inside, basketball jerseys are framed on the walls and TVs play ESPN’s coverage of the latest games. The aesthetics are not surprising, as the owner is former Clippers point guard Nate Robinson.

After squeezing into a tiny table in the crowded restaurant, I ordered the Sunday daily special: a cornbread waffle with jalapeños topped with a lime crema, to which I added a half-pound side of breaded wings. The waffle, fluffy and tender in the middle but crispy on the outside, was a slightly sweet compliment to the smoky paprika and salt-coated wings—and I dipped the latter into a sweet tomatobased chipotle (the variety of sauces to choose from includes classic buffalo or coconut jalapeño lime).

While Rainier Beach is not known for its food, these golden-brown, two-inch-thick waffles and smoky wings are worth the trip south. E food@seattleweekly.com

SEATTLE WEEKLY • JU NE 10 — 16, 2015

e’re no strangers to Greek food via the supermarket: Greek yogurt, hummus, and olive oil are abundant in almost everyone’s life these days. Yet truly Greek restaurants—good ones—are woefully limited here in Seattle. One reason is that, as with so many ethnic cuisines, there’s often a dumbing-down for the Western palate. While that mind-set is being challenged voraciously in the Asian food scene, Greek food has been wide open for a refresh.

This is where Omega Ouzeri comes in.

While most Greek restaurants tend toward the dark, rustic taverna look—not completely without its charms, but rather predictable and a bit too kitschy—this Capitol Hill establishment takes you instead to the bright and sunny Greek isles with its soaring ceilings, cobalt and white palette, and a massive pale-blue mural on its central wall depicting mermaids at sea, octopuses hanging to dry, and a steep hill leading from the ocean to staggered village homes on a mountain precipice. There’s a long, lovely blue-and-white-tiled bar at the back next to the open kitchen, which looks like a great spot to dine as well. These days, while every new restaurant seems to have the same sparse industrial look, often with even the exact same chairs and stools, I’m gleeful entering a space that obviously shows real thought behind the design.

The food here reflects a more modern sensibility as well. While there’s plenty of tzatziki (yogurt sauce with dill) to go around, the delicious small plates (mezes) don’t rely on it alone for flavor. There are no kebobs or moussaka or most of the other tired staples we’ve come to associate with Greek food. There’s grilled halloumi, yes, but glazed with grape pesto and petimezi—a thick grape syrup from Crete, similar to molasses but milder. And speaking of petimezi, that’s another distinguishing factor at Omega: They actually use lots of unfamiliar Greek words, which the servers are more than happy to elucidate. While it can make ordering a tad challenging, it’s nice to be taken out of your comfort zone and engage with a knowledgeable staff.

It’s easy to make a meal of the mezes here—reasonably priced in the $8–$12 range and generously portioned. You can add a few slightly larger plates for $12–$15 to the mix as well. Here’s a sampling of what I tried among them. Kolokithokeftedes are zucchini fritters (four of them)—so crispy and not at all greasy, and the filling of feta, mint, and scallions allows each of those ingredients to emerge.

They almost make the garlic aioli served with them moot. When you’re tempted to skip the aioli, you know they’re doing something right.

Good luck finding a salata karoto (carrot salad) on more traditional Greek menus.

This one, a rainbow-colored heap of julienned heirloom carrots, radicchio, and bitter greens, is dressed with a sharp, lemony vinegar, studded with cubes of feta, and served atop a decadent pistachio butter, so good you might come back for it alone. Nutty and creamy, it’s a perfect foil

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time of year. For those of us that live here, why would you want to leave?

Make your trips to visit family and other parts of the country some other time. This is the season to grab a seat at one of the many patios across town and enjoy a refreshing beer made for summer.

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Fremont Brewing might have both the most popular seasonal beer in Seattle and the most popular patio to enjoy it on. The Fremont Summer Ale is a model of simplicity and efficiency.

This refreshing, 5.2% alcohol by volume (ABV) pale ale features high quality tworow pale malt and flavorful Amarillo hops. Other than a clean yeast strain and water, that’s it. The result of this simple recipe is a citrusy, hopforward beer that is perfect for just about any summer situation: a 20-oz glass at a Mariners game, a couple 12-oz cans stashed in your pack on a backpacking trek or an afternoon session on their expansive patio.

Located in the brewery’s Urban Beer Garden near the heart of Fremont, it can be a tough place to snag a seat on a sunny day. But it’s well worth the effort. Make sure to check out the

beer selections on both the west and east sides of the tap room, as different options are available at each.

The fact that Ballard has more breweries (10 total, with the recent opening of Lucky Envelope) than any other neighborhood in Seattle should not be a surprise to anyone at this point. But, with the addition of three new outdoor spaces ready just in time for summer, it also might be the best place in town to find that coveted al fresco drinking spot. Reuben’s Brews recently moved into a new, larger brewery and taproom just a few blocks south of their original space (which they are keeping as a pilot brewery and space for barrel storage). The new digs include a patio, where you can enjoy one of the beers from their 24 taps.

Not too far away from Reuben’s, Stoup Brewing also has a new outdoor area. Since opening in 2013, the owners have been planning to build out a beer garden on the large, elevated space on the west side of the brewery. The sizable addition includes some picnic tables, Adirondack chairs and standing room. Stoup plans to feature a few seasonal beers perfect for the beer garden, including a single Continued on page 40

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hop pale ale using Azacca hops and a Berliner Weisse, which is a tart, low ABV German-style ale. Peddler Brewing immediately added one of the largest outdoor drinking spaces in town when they opened their beer garden back in May. Located right behind the brewery, it can hold up to 400 people, and a separate bar outside will pour the brewery’s four most popular beers. With the addition of the beer garden, Peddler now also has room to feature rotating food trucks as well.

Post-Hike Drinking I am not ashamed to admit that one of my favorite parts about heading out for a hike is enjoying a well-earned beer afterward. With so many different hiking areas within driving distance of Seattle, you can combine a day hike with a visit to some of Washington’s unique local breweries & pubs.

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Some of the most popular hikes in the state are interspersed along the I-90 corridor between Seattle and Snoqualmie Pass. If you’re headed that way, the taproom at Snoqualmie Falls Brewing is a popular destination for beer & food after a day on the trail. In addition to their standard beers that you might recognize from distribution in Seattle, the taproom offers some small-batch Brewer’s Choice beers that you will only find there. If you’re headed further [Which direction?] on I-90, a stop

at Dru Bru would be a fine idea.

Located right up at Snoqualmie Pass, this small brewery focuses on German and Belgian-inspired ales, along with the typical hop-forward IPAs and pale ales. The taproom is open yearround, so this would be a great place to keep in mind for ski season as well.

Going to North Cascades National Park for a summer excursion? If so, a stop at Birdsview Brewing is a must.

Located on the North Cascades Highway in Concrete, WA, it’s a perfect pit-stop for lunch and to fill up a growler at the Birdsview taproom. They also have a large outdoor area and often feature live music for special events.

If Mt. Rainier National Park is your destination, Elkhead Brewing in Buckley is a worthy diversion on your way home. Popular with locals and passersby alike, you’ll find an eclectic crowd packed into the taproom tucked into an industrial location.

The Liberty Cap IPA is a solid choice, but they have a wide variety of styles pouring from their 12 taps.

They’re generous with the beer tastes, so don’t hesitate to try a few before committing to a pint.

Cheers to another fabulous Seattle summer, and may you enjoy plenty of great beer throughout the season!

Geoff Kaiser enjoys “researching” the Seattle beer scene. You can visit his website at http://seattlebeernews.com.

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Why Judy Blume matters so much to those of us who came of age before the Internet, cell phones, and the Kardashians.

BY NICOLE SPRINKLE

You’ve most likely heard his name, but may not know exactly who he is. That’s because Minchin is a total sleeper who is quietly taking over the world. The Australian musician, songwriter, composer, comedian, writer, and actor has gained a large following, beginning with his solo shows in Melbourne. Minchin’s musical/comedy style is part real talk, part wacky, and part sentimental, which is what made him the perfect candidate to compose the score for the stage adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda (which plays the 5th Avenue Aug. 18–Sept. 6). The gig has gained the self-described “rock-’n’-roll nerd” a lot of cred.

He’s now working on a stage musical adaptation of Groundhog Day and a DreamWorks Animation film called Larrikins. A busy man, Minchin performs live only occasionally these days, so this is a show you won’t want to miss. The Moore,

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There was sex-ed in middle school (in some cases not until high school), awkwardly taught by a PE teacher. Many tweens—a term we didn’t have then—were simply handed a pamphlet that explained bodies and intercourse and everything that went along with it in dry, encyclopedic style.

These pamphlets were often given by mothers with a bashful, unwelcoming “Let me know if you have questions.” Which instead made inquiries something to be avoided at all costs.

And so there was Blume—a fearless woman who not only got the physical and emotional awkwardness of puberty, but was able to channel the very real thoughts and voices of the kids going through it. Today I think her real skill was to capture how silly and unrelatable children considered adults to be. Blume’s characters knew that most grown-ups didn’t have a clue, that it was up to kids and their friends to get the scoop. In establishing that truth, she made a pact with all us moody teens and tweens. We trusted her implicitly with our messy bodies and feelings. She was one of us, despite her age. (Born in ’38, Blume began publishing after the ebb of the baby boom.)

Blume was willing to take on taboos via characters who were oddballs and misfits, no matter their social status. The beautiful heroine of Deenie (1973) is popular, and the object of the cutest boy’s affections, yet she suffers from scoliosis and wears a back brace. As she deals with that uncommon challenge, she’s also going through the very regular motions of teenage-dom, masturbating quietly and fearfully in her room.

The 1974 Blubber, whose protagonist is taunted for her weight, is a masterful depiction of bullying, decades ahead of its time. Predictably, Blume was criticized for her unflinching honesty. Her defense: “I was determined to write the truth about the school-bus culture in the language of

that culture. Some adults are bothered by the language and the cruelty, but the kids get it.”

She knew her readers. In her 1975 Forever . . . , the raciest of her books for young adults (often read furtively at the library), a teenage girl has sexual relations for the first time. It’s explicit, but it’s also a delicate, sweet love story. And there was a practical lesson: If you’re going to shed your virginity, better to do it with a nice guy than a jerk.

Even in Blume’s children’s books there’s a unvar-

nished dedication to reality, subtle yet unyielding. Sex isn’t present yet, but there are notions of class and imperfect families. And though the publishing world has changed (in part because of Blume), I still struggle to find books for my 8-year-old that honestly address blended families or single parenthood. Reading Blume to my child today, I’m struck by how effortlessly she presents divorce as just a regular part of life.

I’m also dismayed by how few children’s-book authors carry that torch; how it’s easier—and commercially safer—for them to preach and be didactic. Maybe that’s because the cultural tide has turned since Blume’s heyday: Nothing is secret anymore; everything is available online. You can’t have nostalgia without innocence—which, any modern parent will tell you, is being whittled down by technology to ever-shorter increments.

That’s why I’ll be at Town Hall tomorrow, tattered copy of Deenie or Tiger Eyes in hand, as my remembered 12-year-old self: a girl who knew nothing until Blume told me the way things were. E

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Minchin has a lot on his plate.

Jon Morris

Those raised during our current age of Bat-, Spider-, and Iron Man blockbusters might think that cape and tights were always a proven path to success. Morris shows otherwise with his very witty, well-illustrated The League of Regrettable Superheroes (Quirk, $24.95). Soon after the 1938 debut of Superman, the four-color comics market was glutted with crime-fighting prototypes—many of whom proved to be Edsels (er, Zunes). The local cartoonist and writer started commemorating those failed crusaders on his Gone & Forgotten blog; this collection represents a sad and sorry lot indeed. Would you tremble at a giant disembodied eyeball? Would you quaver at the sight of Doll Man (his power, yes, is to shrink)? Or cower from the pill-popping Hormone Man? Or cringe at the cheerful smile of The Clown? Or flee from the sugary might of Captain Tootsie (a tie-in to the candy)? Every superhero needs a gimmick, and gimmicks were soon depleted during the golden age of cartoon crimefighters. (The Red Bee actually used trained bees to sting his adversaries!)

By the ’70s, Morris finds product placements rampant and cultural cues almost totally exhausted. Holo Man was created to help sell play-along records. And the late-disco-era Skateman lasted only one issue (like many of this brethren). Of this vengeful Vietnam vet, Morris

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But that is precisely how Gen X girls grew up.

We watched lighthearted sitcoms, where maybe occasionally on a show like The Facts of Life we might get a tiny bit of information to help us make sense of our complex hormonal state. I recall Square Pegs, Sarah Jessica Parker’s TV acting debut, as a breath of fresh air in my teen years. John Hughes, too, was a game-changer, but even that felt a bit too little, too late. The saucy arrival of Madonna was a shock.

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y friends and I—all grown women—are going to see Judy Blume at Town Hall tomorrow as she promotes her new novel for adults, In the Unlikely Event (Knopf, $27.95). But let’s be clear: We’re not attending as women, but as kids, teenagers really, and we’re rooting for the success of her new book even as we harbor hopes that she’ll talk about the ones we grew up on. The giddiness and nostalgia that we’re all experiencing is akin to the way one feels going to, say, a rock concert by a beloved band—because Blume truly is a rock star, and a pioneer, of young-adult literature.

Ask friends for their favorite Blume book, and you’ll get a variety of replies. Says one, “Adore her!

She took me through adolescence from Tales to Are You There and Tiger Eyes to Forever . . . , which really opened my eyes and taught me a whole new meaning for the word ‘laid.’ ” And another, “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret may have been the first book that I read and reread and reread.

Setting me up for a lifetime of rereading books that I love.” And another, “Oh, and I love her because she is female-positive and fearless when it comes to writing about sex and relationships.”

Almost everyone will mention Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, the book that helped millions of girls on the precipice of puberty deal with their first period and first bra—or the lack thereof among more early-maturing friends.

Published in 1970, it’s been in print ever since, sometimes passed from mother to daughter.

Would that book be so pivotal if it were published today? Perhaps not, which brings me to the crux of Blume’s adulation—her enduring fandom among those now in their 30s and 40s. Is it possible that we needed Blume more in the ’70s and ’80s than we do now? I debated that issue with a 40-something mom recently, and we concluded that tweens and teens today are bombarded with images and voices of sexuality. Miley Cyrus twerking. Meghan Trainor rapping about boys liking more booty to hold at night. The Kardashians exposing voluptuous female bodies (and transgendered ones).

And the culture has shifted to a more progressive approach to talking about tough issues. Parents are no longer prudish about sex, especially now that girls can get vaccinated for HPV at age 11. It’s a less innocent time than when Blume started publishing in ’69. The fear of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases has made it unthinkable to simply wait and let your kid figure it all out on their own.

FRIDAY, JUNE 12

St. Judy.

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Chungking Express

From 1994, Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express was his breakthrough film in the U.S. It’s a haunting, dreamy, MTV-influenced meditation on lost love and missed connections, filmed in a dizzying, neon-lit variety of styles. (Cinematographer Chris Doyle does amazing work.) Two distinct stories concern two lovelorn cops who frequent the same snack bar. One falls for a wigwearing femme fatale (Brigitte Lin); the other (Tony Leung) is amusingly stalked by impetuous Faye Wong. The movie’s impressionistic tone is furthered by great music, as Dinah Washington croons “What a Diff ’rence a Day Makes.”

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writes, “Skateman also had the honor of being one of the few street-level vigilantes in the history of comics to have taken justice into his own hands while wearing pristine white booty shorts.” Let’s see Robert Downey Jr. try to squeeze into those. Morris and other local cartoonists will be showing their work tonight during the Phinneywood Art Walk.

Indeed, Wong is more concerned with time and its poignant passage than simple storytelling.

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David McCullough

In 1906, Wilbur and Orville Wright traveled to Paris in hopes of finding a buyer for their Flyer III—the third iteration of the flying machine they’d engineered in their Dayton, Ohio, bicycle shop over the previous five years. Both middleaged bachelors by then, it was the farthest either had ever been from home, and their clerical Protestant father wrote in a letter that he was concerned of the temptations they would face in gay Catholic Paris. Worry not, Orville responded.

“We have been in a lot of the big churches and haven’t got drunk yet.” It’s tempting to consider the Wright brothers’ Clorox-clean reputations in the American psyche as a product of patriotic myth-making—akin to Washington and the cherry tree. Yet in McCullough’s The Wright Brothers (Simon & Schuster, $30), the inventive brothers truly are utterly bland and completely like-minded. This made them doubly brilliant as they exhausted themselves in the singular pursuit of developing the airplane.

The lack of anything approaching debauchery in their lives makes them difficult subjects for a modern author. (“Sex sells” is an axiom that goes out the window when your subjects are sexless.)

Still, 81-year-old master storyteller McCullough seems to be attracted to American characters who are sober, Christian, and extraordinary. ( John Adams wasn’t given to drink, either.) McCullough shows no sign of waning in his craft, presenting a brisk and detailed account of not only the Wrights’ journey to becoming first in flight, but also the more difficult task of getting the credit they felt they were due for their amazing inventions. For years they were dogged by skeptics, paranoid that someone might steal their ideas. Thus their secrecy only perpetuated rumors they were frauds. If the two were prey to any vice, it was pride, making this a truly American tale. The Paramount, 911 Pine St., 877-784-4849, stgpresents.org. Free. 2 p.m.

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for the 16 artists and companies in this annual On the Boards series—now in its 32nd year—is that their work is indeed new. For Seattle Irish Dance Company, that means looping the percussive rhythms of their footwork into a new soundscore. For Jessica Jobaris, it’s a new bag of toys for her controlled-chaos event. For performance artists Travis Clarke and Benjamin Kamino, it’s a new view of each other: They’ll see each other for the first time on opening night, having written and rehearsed their work without ever actually meeting. On the Boards, 100 W. Roy St., 217-9888, ontheboards.org. $14. 8 p.m. Fri., June 12, 5 & 8 p.m. Sat., June 13–Sun., June 14. SANDRA KURTZ SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL SEE THE PICK LIST, PAGE 42.

PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET Valedictory performances from PNB students. 7:30 p.m. Fri., June 12: premieres created by PNB Company dancers for Professional Division students ($15–$30). 2 & 7 p.m. Sat., June 13: Petipa’s Le Corsaire features students at all levels ($30–$70). McCaw Hall, Seattle Center, pnb.org.

INTERNATIONAL BALLET ACADEMY Their year-end student showcase. Meydenbauer Theatre, Bellevue, 800838-3006, intballetacademy.org. $15–$25. 2 p.m. Sat., June 13 & Sun., June 14.

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• INVERTED SPACE From UW’s new-music ensemble, violinist Luke Fitzpatrick and pianist Brooks Tran play Morton Feldman’s 75-minute For John Cage. Chapel Performance Space, 4649 Sunnyside Ave., N., invertedspaceensemble. com. $5–$15. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., June 11.

SEATTLE SYMPHONY The U.S. premiere of Julian Anderson’s Poem for violin and orchestra, with soloist Carolin Widmann, plus Beethoven and Brahms. Benaroya Hall, Third Ave. & Union St., 215-4747, seattlesymphony. org. $20–$120. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., June 11; 8 p.m. Sat., June 13; 2 p.m. Sun., June 14. Also, a one-hour “Untuxed” concert 7 p.m. Fri., June 12 ($17–$81; no Anderson).

COLLEEN, aka Cécile Schott, combines viola da gamba with electronic processing and singing. Seattle composer/ vocalist Hanna Benn opens. Chapel Performance Space, 4649 Sunnyside Ave., N., waywardmusic.org. $5–$15.

8 p.m. Sat., June 13.

SEATTLE CHORAL COMPANY Steve Dobrogosz’s genre-blending Mass, featuring jazz pianist William Chapman Nyaho, plus music by Donald Skirvin and Bob Chilcott. St. Mark’s Cathedral, 1245 10th Ave. E., 800-8383006, seattlechoralcompany.org. $25. 8 p.m. Sat., June 13.

NORTHWEST CHAMBER CHORUS Music by Byrd, Gibbons, and Elgar, plus spirituals and more. Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church, 7500 Greenwood Ave. N., 5231196, northwestchamberchorus.org. $12–$22. 7:30 p.m.

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Dean Whitlock’s Blume-esque look back at 1973 and the tragic pop star. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave., seattlestageright.org. $17.50–$22. Opens June 12. 7:30 p.m.

Thurs.–Sat. & Mon. Ends June 27.

BLACK & BLUE Maximilian Stockstill’s theater piece, featuring B-boy crew DogPound, is based on a real-life police-confrontation incident. The Neptune, 1303 N.E. 45th St., stgpresents.org. Free. 7 p.m. Thurs., June 11.

THE BOY FRIEND This musical offers a 1920s pastiche score and a French Riviera setting. Renton Civic Theatre, 507 S. Third St., Renton, 425-226-5529, rentoncivictheatre. org. $20–$25. Opens June 12. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri.– Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends June 27.

THE CONSTRUCTION ZONE ACT’s periodic new-works showcase. ACT, 700 Union St., 292-7676, acttheatre.org.

7 p.m. Tues., June 16.

THE DEVIL AND BILLY MARKHAM Jonah Weston performs Shel Silverstein’s solo show based on his epic poem. JewelBox Theatre at the Rendezvous, 2322 Second Ave., jonahweston.com. $10–$12. 7:30 p.m. Fri., June 12.

DIRTY A bored investment banker decides to pursue a career in “ethical porn” in this recent work by Andrew Hinderacker. ACT, 700 Union St., 292-7676, washington ensemble.org. $15–$30. Preview June 10, opens June 12.

7:30 p.m. Thurs.–Mon. Ends June 29.

ELECTRIC MAN A superhero spoof from comedy troupe Turbo Turkey. Burien Actors Theatre, 14501 Fourth Ave. S.W., Burien, 242-5180, burienactorstheatre.org. $10.

Opens June 12. 8 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends June 20.

EZID Aerial dance troupe The Cabiri’s new show explores mythology of the Yezidi people of Kurdistan through acrobatics, choreography, and puppetry. Cornish Playhouse, Seattle Center, 800-838-3006, cabiri.org. $20–$50. Opens June 12. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. Ends June 20.

THE ILLUSIONISTS Seven magicians gather for a spectacle-filled show. 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Ave., 625-1900, 5thavenue.org. $24 and up. 7:30 p.m. Tues., June 16–Thurs., June 18; 8 p.m. Fri., June 19; 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., June 20; 2 & 7 p.m. Sun., June 21.

MISDIRECTION Maritess Zurbano’s solo show about her life as a stage magician. Pocket Theater, 8312 Greenwood Ave. N., thepocket.org. $10–$14. 7:30 p.m. Sun., June 14.

SUMMER SPOTLIGHT NIGHT A preview of the 5th’s upcoming Grease (July 9–Aug. 2) and Matilda the Musical (Aug. 18–Sept. 6), with Matilda composer Tim Minchin on hand. 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Ave., 625-1900, 5thavenue.org. Free. 7 p.m. Thurs., June 11.

SEATTLE BOYLESQUE FESTIVAL Perfomers from France to Japan—plus locals, of course—re-examine, redefine, and thoroughly gender-fuck an art form. The Triple Door, 216 Union St., boylesquefestival.com. $25–$40. 7 & 10:30 p.m. Fri., June 12.

SEATTLE REP WRITERS GROUP SHOWCASE Readings of eight works in progress. Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Center, seattlerep.org. Free. Opens June 12. 7:30 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 4 p.m. Sat.–Sun. Ends June 21.

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE Three actors portray Billy Pilgrim in this adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s antiwar novel.

Center Theatre at the Armory, Seattle Center, 216-0833. $25. Previews June 10–11, opens June 12. Runs Tues.– Sun.; see book-it.org for exact schedule. Ends July 3.

TEATRO ZINZANNI: THE RETURN OF CHAOS In the ultimate showdown between good and evil, the superheroes of Puget Sound protect Seattle’s greatest landmarks.

Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., 802-0015. $99 and up.

Opens June 11. Runs Thurs.–Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni.com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 13.

THREESOME Two Egyptian-Americans indulge in the title activity, “raising issues of sexism, cultural identity, possession, and independence,” in Yussef El Guindi’s new play. ACT, 700 Union St., 292-7676, acttheatre.org. $20.

Preview June 10, opens June 11. 7:30 p.m. Tues.–Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 7 p.m. Sun., plus 2 p.m. some weekends & weekdays. Ends June 28.

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unflappable Jeeves.) Of course comedy is hard work, but should we see it, especially in Wodehouse? All the strenuousness here is on the surface: frenetic gesturing, mugging, and blocking, and laugh line after laugh line not trusted to land on its own, but somehow goosed or tweaked. GAVIN BORCHERT Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St., 781-9707, taproottheatre.org. $20–$40. 7:30 p.m. Wed.– Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat. Ends June 13.

MUD A small cabin set (co-designed by Nina Moser and director John Kazanjian) encubed in gossamer fabric cocoons the play’s impoverished central character Mae (infinitely expressive Mary Ewald), her socially inferior ex-lover Lloyd (Tim Gouran), and her new paramour, the slightly more worldly Henry (George Catalano). In 17 short scenes (totaling 65 minutes), three superb performers stream meticulous craft, up close and personal. Instead of a plot- or character-driven story, we see an affecting, tonally wide-ranging series of tableaux vivants that chronicle the indignities and desires of people living on the edge of subsistence. MARGARET FRIEDMAN New City Theater, 1406 18th Ave., 271-4430, newcitytheater.org. $15–$20. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. Ends June 13.

QUICKIES, VOLUME 16 Live Girls! Theater’s periodic short-plays-by-women festival. Annex Theatre, 1100 E. Pike St., lgtheater.org. $5–$20. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. plus Mon., June 15. Ends June 20.

WHAT IF Improv based on the Sliding Doors notion of the fateful choice that leads in two very different directions.

Jet City Improv, 5510 University Way N.E., jetcityimprov. org. $12–$15. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Fri. Ends June 19.

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KATRINA DEL MAR She explores women who break convention and do their own thing in Feral Women.

Opening reception: 6-9 p.m. Thurs., June 11. Twilight Gallery, 4306 S.W. Alaska St., 933-2444, twilightart. net. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. Ends July 25.

ARI FISH KOAN COMPOSITES is the fourth installment in her SPEAK AND SPELL series, where she explores the line between blame/confession, choice/ mandate, life/death. Opening reception Sat., June 13 during regular gallery hours. The Alice, 6007 12th Ave. S., thealicegallery.com. Noon-5 p.m. Sat. Ends July 18.

NORTHWEST FASHION ON THE RISE This talk is part of the GRAY Conversations: The Sorrento Sessions.

The discussion will focus on how local fashion (flannel shirts and long johns) went from being a joke to being highly sought-after and featured on the runwasy.

Sorrento Hotel, 900 Madison St., 622-6400, graymag. net. $10. 6 p.m. Thurs., June 11.

PLUS 1 GROUP SHOW This exhibition features gallery artists and their invited guests. Artist and guest pairings include Stacey Rozich/Matt Craven, Travis Louie/ Dorian Vallejo, and Amanda Manitach/Adam Mars.

Opening reception: 6-9 p.m. Fri., June 12. Roq La Rue Gallery, 532 First Ave. S., 374-8977, roqlarue.com.

Noon-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends July 2.

JAY WEST How the West Was One will feature the young New York painter’s expressive pop art that brings together opposites and clashing worlds.

Opening reception: 7-11 p.m. Fri., June 12. Sticks & Stones Gallery, 5402 22nd Ave. N.W., 257-5513, artsticksandstones.com. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. Ends Aug. 6.

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REBECCA WOODHOUSE ALLARD Her hand-carved

linoleum and rubber prints use text as a visual element.

Burien Arts Gallery, 826 S.W. 152nd St., 244-7808, burienarts.org. Noon-6 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Noon-4 p.m.

Sun. Ends June 28.

CHIHO AOSHIMA This is SAAM’s second exhibit by a contemporary young Japanese artist associated with Takashi Murakami. (The artist known as Mr. was the guy who recently filled a gallery with tsunami detritus.)

Aoshima is a woman, however, who ought to provide a different perspective on the oppressive sexism of most anime. In addition to 30-plus drawings and two large “dreamscapes,” her show Rebirth of the World will include new animated work, Takaamanohara (or The Plain of High Heaven), dealing with Shinto deities. In her typically colorful paintings, ethereal kawaii sprites roam in enchanted glades where the colors are anything but natural. Long, undulating hair mixes into the undgrowth and vines, suggesting deeper connections to the planet. There are cityscapes, too, as in her 2005 animation City Glow, where the towers rise like wormy, human-faced figures. The corporeal, architectural, and natural realms blur together in her work. Aoshima is a syncretist whose diverse subjects grow from the same spiritual undercurrent. BRIAN MILLER Seattle Asian Art Museum, 1400 E. Prospect St. (Volunteer Park), 654-3100, seattleartmuseum.org. $5-$9. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed., Fri.-Sun. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thurs.

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CHRISTOPHER BUENING Hunter<Gatherer explores memory and the process of becoming self-aware.

Gallery4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Pl. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), galleries.4culture.org. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Ends June 25.

ILSE BING An early user of the 35mm Leica hand-held camera, the German Bing (1889-1998) is known as a pioneering woman in European photography. Ilse Bing: Modern Photographer is a selection of her images, spanning the 1920s through 1950s. Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave. N.E. (UW campus), 543-2280, henryart.org. $6-$10. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wed., Sat., Sun. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Thurs.-Fri. Ends Oct. 11.

FRED BIRCHMAN AND CAROLYN KRIEG Birchman focuses on architecture and landscape in Reclamation Projects. Krieg shows equine photographs in Horses.

Prographica Gallery, 3419 E. Denny Way, 322-3851, prographicadrawings.com. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends June 20.

CALLIGRAPHIC ABSTRACTION A collection of 35 works in calligraphy spanning from Islamic to archaic Chinese to the contemporary writing system created

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ANDREE CARTER AND LORI SWARTZ In Carter’s collages, she obsessivley overlays a grid over original images. Swartz is a New Mexico artist who work in mixed media. Gallery I|M|A, 123 S. Jackson St., 6250055, galleryima.com. 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends June 27.

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS On display is work from five Vietnamese artists (Bao Ly III, Tu Duy, Bui Cong Khanh, and the Le Brothers), long associated with the gallery.

ArtXchange Gallery, 512 First Ave. S., 839-0377, artxchange.org. 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends July 31.

IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM 17 photographs of Cornish, its students, and founder Nellie Cornish, taken in 1935 by the pioneering Northwest photographer. Cornish College of the Arts, 1000 Lenora St., 726-5151, cornish.edu. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Ends June 30.

MICHAEL FERGUSON Life’s Little Dramas puts a whimsical and almost magical spin to small pleasures. 625 W. McGraw St., 285-4467, fountainheadgallery.com.

11 a.m.-6 p.m. Thurs.-Sun. Ends June 28.

BILL FINGER The local photographer specializes in tabletop tableaux scenes. Punch Gallery, 119 Prefontaine Pl. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 6211945, punchgallery.org. Noon-5 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. Ends June 27.

MICHAEL FINNEGAN Rhythm Sections and the Groove of Color is a collection of paintings that use color to express the artist’s interest in music. Method Gallery, 106 Third Ave. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 2238505, methodgallery.com. Noon-5 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Ends July 18.

PAM GALVANI locus depicts the artist’s search to find the intersection of making art and making meaning.

Shift Gallery, 312 S. Washington St. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), shiftgallery.org. Noon-5 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Ends June 27.

GROUP SHOW New work from gallery artists Robin Cass, Amie McNeel, Rachel Moore, Norwood Viviano, and Kait Rhoads. Traver Gallery, 110 Union St., 5876501, travergallery.com. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. Ends June 27.

JANE HAMMOND Back when people actually had mail and newspapers delivered to the home, every family had a crazy spinster aunt who sent you clippings—odd photos, stray headlines, random ads, etc.

And if she was particularly eccentric, she’d collage them together somehow. At a much higher level of art, the New York-based Hammond also appropriates found imagery in her recombinant photo tableaux; or, in her paintings, she’ll replicate the look of old charts, board games, or diagrams from the bygone days of print. Her show In the Mind’s Eye includes sophisticated mixed-media collages that include gold leaf and butterflies, but it’s the patently fake studio photos that most appeal. Background vistas and portrait sitters with nothing in common are forced into the same frame; but then, by virtue of that juxtaposition, you begin to question—or supply—the kinship among such disparate subjects. Pirates, parks, taxidermy, pin-up girls, zoo animals, and yard-sale detritus—all fit into what Hammond calls “the elasticity of meaning.”

BRIAN MILLER Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave. S., 624-0770, gregkucera.com. 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

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GAYLEN HANSEN AND RYAN WEATHERLY The veteran Eastern Washington painter typically portrays dogs, birds, and fish. Weatherly’s bold and expressionistic paintings will be displayed in the upstairs gallery. Linda Hodges Gallery, 316 First Ave. S. 624-3034, lindahodgesgallery.com. 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends June 27.

VICTORIA HAVEN The local artist turns wordsmith with her woodblock prints of text messages. The starkly monochromatic show is called They all stop walking. Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave., 6240770, gregkucera.com. 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tues.Sat. Ends June 27.

MARK WARREN JACQUES His new paintings in Looking at You - Looking at Me combine bold geometric colors and organic elements. Flatcolor Gallery, 77 S. Main St., 390-6537, flatcolor.com. Noon-6 p.m. Wed.Sat. Ends June 27.

MEG HOLGATE Portals is a collection of paintings that expresses both the tangible and the inexpressible.

Abmeyer + Wood Fine Art, 1210 Second Ave., 6289501, abmeyerwood.com. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Ends June 27.

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He has the power to make or break careers. He is quoted all over town. His editors despair of his latest negative notice. He is . . . the film critic.

This fantasy figure is the main character of a new film by Argentine director (and former critic) Hernán Guerschuny, and it’s a movie with only one comic idea. But it’s a fun idea: Although Victor Tellez (professorial grouch Rafael Spregelburd) loathes romantic comedies and regularly incinerates them in his newspaper reviews, he meets a woman, Sofia (Dolores Fonzi), who embodies all the bubbly, life-affirming qualities of the rom-com heroine—a stereotype now permanently fixed as the Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

Not only that, the movie we are watching begins to take on the style of the rom-com, complete with steals from When Harry Met Sally and Runaway Bride. Add some inside-baseball material about the fascinating, fascinating world of film critics, and The Film Critic has just enough to sustain its joke.

Heaven Knows What OPENS FRI., JUNE 12 AT NORTHWEST FILM FORUM AND SUNDANCE. RATED R. 94 MINUTES.

The remarkable story behind this rather grueling little New York indie almost swallows the film, itself a kind of re-enactment of its heroine’s prior—we hope—life on the streets as a homeless drug addict. In brief, filmmakers Benny and Josh Safdie (Daddy Longlegs) discovered the charismatic young Arielle Holmes, commissioned her to write a memoir they expanded into a script, then cast her as Harley. A trained actor, Caleb Landry Jones (Antiviral ), plays her nogood boyfriend Ilya; most all the Safdies’ other players were cast from the street.

Occasional passages of voiceover give the events here a diaristic quality; Harley’s account has a dazed detachment—a numbness from not only the drugs but a near-indifference to suffering. It’s as if she doesn’t expect anything good out of life beyond the minimum amount of money necessary to score, then the feeling of that score.

Everything superfluous has been stripped away, and there’s a kind of poetic economy to both the hustling and Harley’s own unschooled language. The film’s plotting and vérité look reflect that rawness. There is no story here beyond gritty life-inspired vignettes. We When Victor simply watch as (Spregelburd) Harley and her met Sofia (Fonzi). ilk beg, steal, score, lie to one another, quarrel, and forgive. They enact the noisy sort of street theater that causes us polite pedestrians to look away in embarrassment (whether on the Bowery on in Pioneer Square). Those people—they can’t be helped. We’ve all had that disdainful feeling, yet the Safdies don’t let us look away.

Heaven Knows What makes you think of Larry Clark’s Kids and—more on point—the great Seattle documentary Streetwise, whose central figure of Tiny Harley often recalls. Though surrounded by meanness (and Ilya is a particularly nasty, self-centered piece of work), Harley isn’t mean. She’s desperate, needy, malnourishedlooking, and sometimes almost feral. She clings to Ilya with the intensity of a starved pet that, against all reason, still expects to be fed and loved. This is not an artful film, and I hate the score (Debussy paraphrased on an ’80s Atari synth). Still, I have to commend its messy truthfulness and near-documentary DNA. Holmes is now clean and living in California, with a few acting jobs lined up. Without that nonfiction reassurance, Heaven Knows What would be unbearably bleak. BRIAN MILLER

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Guerschuny layers in the rom-com gestures—a slow track in on Victor’s face as he watches Sofia dance, for instance. (“Why am I seeing this in slow motion?” he asks himself, but the audience knows why, because we’ve seen these movies.) And yes, we can expect a scene of the hero running through city streets in the rain as violins swell on the soundtrack.

At one point Victor begins weeping while screening a shameless tearjerker, and is ridiculed throughout Buenos Aires for reviewing the movie with the phrase “Life is a passage filled with opportunities.” Has he gone soft?

An odd, mostly misfired subplot, about a vengeful young filmmaker who wants to strike back at Victor because of a negative review, doesn’t really come off. The movie’s best at wry humor, especially in the way Victor wrests control of the picture back to his own taste (the ending of The Film Critic is the sort he prefers).

He explains this to us in his voiceover—which is in French, not Spanish, because he likes movies narrated in French. (That’s a good movie joke.)

Compared to Adaptation, an incisive movie that also turns into the kind of formula its protagonist

hates, The Film Critic offers modest fun, and doesn’t leave much in its wake. But hey, don’t listen to me—you might laugh, you might cry, you might find it the feel-good laff riot of the summer. Life is a passage filled with opportunities, as I’ve often said. ROBERT HORTON

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Flaubert’s famous heroine is stupid in her actions, but those actions gain depth in the exquisite pages of his 1856 novel. The fallen woman was by that time already a familiar literary figure, with romance novels being sold to the educated women of the new bourgeoisie. But Flaubert set his novel out in the provinces before the Industrial Revolution. Emma, with a bit of convent schooling behind her, moves from the house of her father to her husband’s house in the slightly larger village of Yonville. Paris is but a dream for discontented Emma (Mia Wasikowska, of Tracks and Jane Eyre), its fashions and luxury goods available to her only via a solicitous local merchant (Rhys Ifans), his eyes occasionally flashing a mercenary glint at this credulous client. Debt will be her undoing, as much as her romantic delusions of love. Madame Bovary is partly a tragedy of shopping.

Although writer/director Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls) condenses some characters and plot, this is a faithful and fundamentally dull Madame Bovary. I had wondered, given the number of prior adaptations, if she wouldn’t kick it forward in time or take some liberties.

The coming comic paraphrase Gemma Bovery is actually better and livelier because it takes those liberties—moving Flaubert’s story to the present day, commenting on the original, and adding other women to the mix. This Emma, true to Flaubert, is isolated in a world of men. She has no power but her beauty; and she’ll never be treated as an equal by her bland husband (Henry Lloyd-Hughes) or selfish lovers (Ezra Miller and Logan Marshall-Green). She has no children, no companions, no besties to confide in.

More than once, Barthes dwells on Emma’s corset, which requires a servant’s fingers to bind and knot. In such a get-up, she can neither dress nor undress herself unaided. The symbolism is blunt, and Barthes also shows a different, crueler form of oppression when Emma’s physician husband, goaded by a colleague (Paul Giamatti), decides to surgically “correct” the village clubfoot.

Without anesthetic. This is progress so far as the men of Emma Bovary are concerned. As for medically treating female neuroses (what Emma calls “my nerves”), the late Victorians will invent certain devices to relieve their nether tensions.

Like Emma, this movie grasps at future, grander horizons beyond Yonville. BRIAN MILLER

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You get only fleeting views of Yves Saint Laurent (Gaspard Ulliel) sketching designs and perfecting his fashions on his models—no mannequins in his house, only living bodies—in Bertrand Bonello’s biopic. In fact, most of the familiar beats are either trimmed or completely snipped out of this languorous, luxurious film.

Bonello focuses on just a few years of Saint Laurent’s life: 1967 through 1975, the height of his success and influence in the fashion world.

There’s no backstory, no rising through the ranks, no breakthrough moment where he comes into his own. He’s already running his own fashion house when we jump into his life. He corresponds with Andy Warhol—“Age 33 and I feel 100,” he writes, “I have no life”—and makes the nightclub scene with a supermodel or two on his arm. He plays the part of a fashion celebrity without actually engaging in it. At least in public, he’s simply content to watch. Within his inner circle, he’s openly gay and brings a sense of style even to his hedonism.

The designer (Ulliel) in a pensive moment.

Saint Laurent is about image as much as fashion and aesthetics. Mirrors abound, and scenes play out in reflection. In a nightclub, Saint Laurent sits and smiles while watching the beautiful people sway and undulate on the dance floor.

He appreciates the graceful female form of these elegant young women; then his gaze shifts to the equally lovely men reflected in a mirror.

Bonello gives us glimpses of a complicated soul: Saint Laurent loves both Proust and thriftstore style (introduced to him by future collaborator Loulou de la Falaise, played by Léa Seydoux, from Blue Is the Warmest Color). He pops pills to work more hours, yet also enjoys decadent drug-fueled orgies with his sleazy playboy lover Jacques (Louis Garrel, like some sleek reincarnation of a Fassbinder lounge lizard).

It might seem as if Bonello is more interested in Saint Laurent’s personal life than his creative one, but the two are intertwined. This movie shows him absorbing the culture around him and reflecting it back in his designs. Beyond that, however, he’s something of a mystery, and Bonello offers no lessons or conclusions. In a culture of off-the-rack biographical dramas, Saint Laurent is fashionably enigmatic. SEAN AXMAKER E

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9 p.m. Fri.-Sat. THE BEST OF SIFF Many, many good titles are on offer from the just-concluded festival, not all of which we had time to see. Worth viewing are the Australian drama Charlie’s Country (with David Gulpilil), a restored 1948 The Red Shoes, and the droll Swedish comedy The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. Then there are some oddballs, like The Nightmare, a documentary about sleep disorders. And there are some late additions to the SIFF calendar: The Yes Men Are Revolting, the second documentary about the anti-corporate activists; and the bizarre 1981 folly Roar, made by Noel Marshall and starring his then-wife Tippi Hedren and stepdaughter Melanie Griffith alongside a bunch of lions and tigers. Hedren was mauled on the set. No surpise that she divorced Marshall soon thereafter. Most titles are running Fri.-Thurs. (NR) SIFF Cinema Uptown & SIFF Film Center, 324-9996. $7-$12. See siff.net for schedule.

LOSING GROUND Kathleen Collins’ somewhat lost and rediscovered drama from 1982 puts a marriage under the microsocope. We haven’t seen it yet, but our former colleagues at the Village Voice call it “loose and effervescent ... one of the finest [films] about a marriage between two ambitious members of the creative class.” (NR) Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., 267-5380. $6–$11. See nwfilmforum.org for exact schedule. Runs Fri., June 12-Sun. June 21 THE PHILADELPHIA STORY Katharine Hepburn stars with Cary Grant and the Oscar-winning Jimmy Stewart in George Cukor’s classic 1940 romantic comedy. Grant’s her past, Stewart’s her future, and Hepburn somehow makes her spoiled socialite character seem plausible despite all her stagebound ruminations on which kind of man will help her blossom as a woman. And she dives quite nicely, too. (G) Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave., 686-6684, central-cinema.com. $7-$9. 7 p.m. Fri.-Tues. & 3 p.m. Sat.-Sun. QUEER VISION 20/20 Bette Davis stars in the 1942 weepie melodrama Now, Voyager, in which our heroine battles her mother, juggles Paul Henreid and Claude Rains, and finally achieves what we today call empowerment. (NR) Northwest Film Forum, $6–$11. 7 p.m. happy hour, 8 p.m. movie. Thurs.

SHATFEST As in: William Shatner. Director William Grefe will introduce the 1974 Impulse, with Shatner starring as some kind of scuba diver/serial killer/ Bluebeard figure. Also promised are various Shatner shorts and ephemera, presented as a live “Thrillville Theater” stage show featuring Will and Monica Cortes Viharo. (NR) Central Cinema, $10-$12. 8 p.m.

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to bullying? Perhaps not the worst. (PG) DIANA M. LE Crest THE CONNECTION This French crime flick begins in 1975, so its world is already aware of The French Connection. The heroin trade is still going strong, and Marseille is awash in drug money, the corruption so pervasive a strong hand is needed to clean house. Enter Pierre Michel, a debonair but obsessive investigator. He’s embodied by Jean Dujardin, and here we have the key reason to navigate the film’s 135 minutes of standard-issue mayhem. The Oscar-winning actor from The Artist is a lively presence; with his mock-heroic face and graceful stride, he gives even the most clichéd scenes a spark. The Connection doesn’t really do anything new. The corrupt officials are ridiculously easy to spot, and the women are simpering stay-at-homes, despite Jimenez’s efforts to highlight the toll of this work on Michel’s domestic sphere. But as true-life crime sagas go, The Connection admittedly taps out a swift, violent rhythm, and the sunny locations conjure up a Mediterranean cesspool. (R) ROBERT HORTON Seven Gables ENTOURAGE Fervent TV fans of the HBO show (2004-11) may differ, but the Hollywood coterie of handsome actor, dumb brother, short manager, and chubby driver sometimes blurred together. (Yes, they’re again played by Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Kevin Connolly, and Jerry Ferrara, respectively.) Only Jeremy Piven’s cutthroat agent Ari, here promoted to studio boss, really stood out from the bromantic crowd. No matter how much Vince (Grenier) and his pals were chasing tail and pursuing Tinseltown dreams, Ari—then and now—is the sole interesting, conflicted character in the franchise. (You wonder why a cable spinoff hasn’t already been commissioned.) Still, this dumb, lazy reunion brings a smile to your face. Though $100 million is at risk with Vince directing and starring in a techno-apocalyptic treatment of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, we know Entourage will end in hugs, not tears. Leave it to ever-practical E (Connolly) to warn that, beyond the notion of a movie flopping or failing to bed the pretty girl, “We’re almost 35.” In other words, there’s still time for a sequel. (R) BRIAN MILLER Sundance, Pacific Place, Oak Tree, Kirkland, Lincoln Square, Cinebarre Mountlake, Bainbridge, others FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD Thomas Vinterberg’s new version of Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel collapses the action so the movie can trot in at 118 minutes. We’ve just established the impossible relationship between prideful-but-poor Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan) and sensible Gabriel Oak (Belgian rising star Matthias Schoenaerts) when she inherits her uncle’s estate, flirts with neighboring landowner William Boldwood (Michael Sheen), and falls under the spell of caddish soldier Francis Troy (Tom Sturridge). The melodrama that has room to breathe in the 170-minute 1967 adaptation of the story is so rushed here that it looks faintly ridiculous.

Maybe that was Vinterberg’s purpose; he was one of the Danish filmmakers whose Dogma credo—as embodied in The Celebration—was supposedly against this kind of old-fashioned material. The movie’s clumsiness is so desperate that Bathsheba is given a one-time-only burst of voiceover at the beginning of the film in order to plead ignorance about her supposedly mystifying name (no one has told her the Biblical reference?), as though preparing a 21st-century audience for something unfamiliar. (PG-13) R.H. Sundance, Ark Lodge, Kirkland, Bainbridge, others I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS Long-widowed Carol (Blythe Danner), once a singer, is now comfortably retired. Her bridge buddies (June Squibb, Rhea Perlman, Mary Kay Place) have moved to a retirement community, while Carol lives alone in her big empty house—terrorized by a rat and befriending the pool cleaner (Martin Starr). “There’s supposed to be something more,” she frets of the third act we all inevitably face. Carol’s gentle reawakening comes in the form of confident silver fox Bill (Sam Elliott, who else?), and I would be pleased to report that the very companionable Dreams has nothing more than post-menopausal romance on its mind. The senior matinee crowd—and this critic—would be content with a sunset marriage, yet screenwriters Marc Basch and Brett Haley (who directs) are determined to add a jolt of realism to the proceedings. The writing is sharper on the current Netflix elder-com Grace and Frankie, though I could see this whole likable Dreams cast doing guest shots on that show. (PG13) B.R.M. Guild 45th LOVE & MERCY During discreet periods in the ’60s and ’80s, the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson is portrayed

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as a young visionary (Paul Dano) and a fragile, terrified older man (John Cusack). Yet somehow Bill Pohlad’s biopic manages to capture a lot of history in those few years. Dano radiates a state of near-bliss as Wilson creates Pet Sounds with the greatest studio musicians in L.A.—subject of the recent doc The Wrecking Crew—in a studio he treats as an artistic playroom. Cusack doesn’t look much like Dano, but he has the same expression of sincerity and openness, trapped in the frail mind of an infantilized adult. Paul Giamatti’s sleazy, abusive shrink makes this Wilson a kind of psychological prisoner. But, thankfully, the film does have a kind of heroine: Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth Banks), who helps rescue the older Wilson from Dr. Landy and his many meds. Generous sampling from the Beach Boys catalogue indicates full cooperation from the Wilson family, and the film does have a certain inevitable march to redemption. Yet Love & Mercy shows Wilson’s demons and drives—how his creative freedom away from the band cost him the emotional support of his brothers. All of which makes the final harmony that much sweeter. (R) SEAN AXMAKER Sundance, Kirkland, Ark Lodge, Meridian, Lynwood (Bainbridge), Thornton Place, Lincoln Square, others MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Tom Hardy takes the title role in George Miller’s much-anticipated Mad Max reboot. The equally impressive Charlize Theron plays a buzzcut-wearing, one-handed turncoat named Furiosa. Though this movie makes me feel like driving fast through the desert, there’s no way I’d stop to offer either of them a ride. Regardless how thrilling the action in this near-constant chase movie, Max and Furiosa haven’t got anything interesting to say. Miller and his co-writers have some sort of dense desert mythology in mind, though the internecine conflict is hard to follow. The accents and engine noise make the dialogue and exposition mostly unintelligible, and I don’t think Miller really cares. Furiosa has liberated the five nubile wives of a masked Geezer of Oz, who with his marauders sets out in pursuit of Max and company. (One of the villain’s pasty-white minions, Nux, played by Nicholas Hoult, will eventually switch sides.)

The 3-D Fury Road is masterfully kinetic and often downright berserk, with endless amounts of sand, car parts, spears, harpoons, grenades, chainsaws, and fists being flung in your face . . . I mean Max’s face.

And, frankly, the more stuff being thrown in your face, the less time you have to worry about the plot holes or rushed heap of an ending. It’s a thrilling, exhausting picture. (R) B.R.M. Majestic Bay, Ark Lodge, Pacific Place, Thornton Place, Sundance, Kirkland, Lincoln Square, others PITCH PERFECT 2 Everything about this sequel is bigger. We’re talking Snoop Dogg subplot big. Green Bay Packers cameo big. Coachella-style competition big. And possibly better? Let’s just say I nearly cried.

Twice. It was comforting to come back to this world where nerdom is celebrated and young women are unapologetically being themselves—weirdos who love mainstream pop music. The film’s story is a recycled version of the 2012 hit: The disgraced Barden Bellas must come together to find their sound and regain good standing in the world of a capella. However, the film (directed by Elizabeth Banks) focuses more on the musical performances than it does story. These underdogs prove that girls really do run the world. (Yes, they perform Beyoncé!) And to paraphrase John Michael Higgins’ ammusingly sexist announcer, “This is what happens when you send girls to college.” (PG-13) D.M.L. Guild 45th, Meridian, Vashon, others SPY Melissa McCarthy’s enjoyable new star vehicle easily passes the Bechdel Test, and that’s a welcome relief during the summer blockbuster season.

Once we get the male CIA agent—Jude Law’s amusingly selfish prick—out of the way, Paul Feig’s spy spoof is almost entirely given over to women.

McCarthy plays CIA desk jockey Cooper, who has to talk her way past a skeptical boss (Allison Janney) before she can wing it to various European cities in pursuit of a sultry Slavic baddie (Rose Byrne), aided by her agency sidekick (English TV star Miranda Hart). Apart from disposable henchmen, this comedy hardly needs any dudes; yet Hollywood hedging strategies require some testosterone (cue Jason Statham, ably parodying himself). Feig wrote Spy to accommodate endless “alts,” those on-set alternative takes in which he whispers new lines to his very game cast. This not a bad thing, since the espionage template—guns, glamour, chases, private jets, double crosses, stolen nukes—is so familiar. We’ve all seen the same Bond movies, and Feig owes no

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Still, the irreverence is too slapdash. (R) B.R.M. Sundance, Kirkland, Pacific Place, Thornton Place, Lincoln Square, Majestic Bay, Big Picture, Bainbridge, others TOMORROWLAND In Brad Bird’s very muddled Disneyland-ride-inspired movie, we meet precocious Casey (Britt Robertson), one of those disgustingly positive, too-smart-for-her-own-good teenagers.

She’s trying to surreptitiously save a doomed NASA project that once employed her scientist father (Tim McGraw). Then, through a bit of magical hocuspocus, she’s invited to Tomorrowland, a futuristic utopia where she meets former boy genius Frank (George Clooney). Encouraged by the ageless sprite Athena (Raffey Cassidy), Frank and Casey try to save humanity from, well, “human savagery.” (This in the words of Hugh Laurie’s villain). So which side will prevail in this contest between optimism and the dark forces of poverty, climate change, environmental disaster, greed, and neglect? Well, did we mention this is a Disney movie? Bird, of The Incredibles, comes from the can-do camp; while co-writer Damon Lindelof (of Lost) is a darker sort of fellow. Tomorrowland posits that the looming end of the world—caused by our cynicism and defeatist attitude—can only be averted by our equally human capacity for dreaming and imagination. Accordingly, Hollywood … I mean Tomorrowland is a place for special people. And it’s our job as ticket buyers, er, normal people to privilege the chosen ones like Bird and Lindelof (no, wait, I mean Casey and Frank). Never mind the apocalypse, in other words, it’s summer blockbuster season. (PG) D.M.L. Bainbridge, Admiral, others WHILE WE’RE YOUNG In outline, this is a routine Gen-X midlife-crisis movie: documentary filmmaker Josh (Ben Stiller) and producer wife Cornelia (Naomi Watts) are stalled in careers and marriage. He can’t complete his weighty, unwatchable opus (something to do with geopolitics and a disheveled Chomskyian scholar; together they’ve IVF’d once for kids, failed, and are settling into a staid, childless rut. They need a shakeup, and it arrives in the form of a spontaneous, fun-loving Brooklyn couple half their age: would-be documentarian Jamie (Adam Driver) and wife Darby (Amanda Seyfried). Noah Baumbach’s lively, career-best comedy sends cynical Josh into unexpected bromance, and much of the movie’s charm lies in our being swept along, too. Is Josh deluded and ridiculous? Of course he is, and yet that’s not the movie’s real source of laughter and inspiration.

In denial about his fading eyesight and arthritis, Josh will discover that being foolish and confounded is good for the system, a tonic. If Jamie is a hustler, he’s also like a personal trainer—pushing his client (who forever picks up the lunch tab) into discomfort. Baumbach’s female characters aren’t so sharply drawn, though he provides nice supporting roles for Adam Horowitz (the Beastie Boys), as the only guy who can speak truth to Josh’s blind infatuation; and for Charles Grodin, who brings welcome, sour appeal as Josh’s disapproving father-in-law. (NR) B.R.M. Crest WOMAN IN GOLD The last time Helen Mirren went up against the Nazis, in The Debt, it was really no contest. So you will not be surprised to learn that the Austrian art thieves of the Third Reich fare no better against her Holocaust refugee Maria Altmann. Woman in Gold takes its title from the alternate, Nazi-supplied moniker for Gustav Klimt’s 1907 Portrait of Adele BlochBauer. Adele was Maria’s beloved aunt, and Maria became the plaintiff in a long-fought art-restitution case, begun in 1998, against the Austrian government. As Maria’s sidekick in this true-life-inspired tale, Ryan Reynolds plays the unseasoned young attorney Randy Schoenberg (forever judged against his genius forebear Arnold Schoenberg). This odd couple is obviously going to prevail against the stubborn, post-Waldheim Austrian establishment. As Maria says, “If they admit to one thing, they have to admit to it all.” Were the writing better, this would’ve made a good courtroom procedural (Elizabeth McGovern and Jonathan Pryce show up as judges), but director Simon Curtis (My Week With Marilyn) instead chooses to add copious flashbacks to the Anschluss era and Maria’s narrow escape from the Nazis. So while this is a serviceable star vehicle that depends on Mirren’s reliably purring V-12 engine, two other actresses play Maria at different ages—depriving us of the regular pleasure of her smackdowns upon poor Randy. (PG-13) B.R.M. Crest

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tracks. Satterwhite says people are shocked when they hear about his setup, not realizing such intricate sounds can come from so little.

“It’s all about originality. I don’t like to sound like anyone else,” he says.

Aside from sampling movies and lo-fi Rhodes pianos, Satterwhite says he’s also gone musique concréte on certain tracks—recording himself crumpling paper and shaking keys to get certain sounds. The approach plays well into his DIY aesthetic alongside the artwork he creates for his own tapes, typically abstract collages and illustrations.

BZKT’s music feels like a live feed of Satterwhite’s life. His relentless output and short tracks are quick snapshots of what’s going on with him at any given moment. He doesn’t like to stockpile beats, preferring to release tapes without promotion when he feels he’s got something worthwhile; in a particularly charming example, this April BZKT suddenly released L U V LOOPS, a beat tape Satterwhite recorded within a week of meeting a girl.

“Truest shit to drop,” he wrote in the album description on Bandcamp. “Lol nahh, girl I just met inspired this tape, hope ya’ll enjoy it!”

Shortly after, they began dating.

In a playful, recurring musical conceit, Satterwhite often samples modern chart-toppers like Drake and Jay Z, replacing their banger beats with amorphous jazz tones and sputtering drum tracks. In BZKT’s hands, Drake and The Weeknd’s sultry “Crew Love” ventures into Madlib territory on L U V LOOPS’ sumptuous “Krew_Luv.” Even Snoop Dogg’s inescapable “Drop It Like It’s Hot” gets a soulful second life with “P” on The Red Tape.

“It really came from the boredom of seeing people sample a lot of ’90s hip-hop tracks,” he

says. “I was just like, ‘You know what? A lot of people like Drake. Let me see what I can do with that and make it interesting.’ ” RAW.DATA is a continuation of these concepts.

Satterwhite says the tracks aren’t so much full songs, but more of those distinct “ little glimpse[s] of my life.” The title refers to the idea that thoughts and ideas are simply data; the tape “has to do with my mind,” he says. “I’m a real abstract person and all my inspiration, I like to combine it all together and put it out there.”

He even jumps on the mic for a few tracks, like on standout “Fxckdreemz.” Oddly, though, he doesn’t like to spit on his own production. The beat on “Fxckdreemz” comes from a Knxwledge tape. “I really can’t rap over my own beats,” he says. “I’m just so stuck on the instrumental itself, I’m just like, ‘I don’t want no rapper on it.’ ” The EP also sees Satterwhite playing with the length of his tracks. Thus far he’s kept BZKT tracks mostly in the one-minute range, but RAW. DATA ’s “She Likes Acid” is 2:17, his longest beat yet. (For perspective, BZKT’s March 2015 tape The Feels is about four minutes long total.)

RAW.DATA is not an endpoint for Satterwhite, just another step in his continual progress.

He’s already planning to release a collaboration with local producer Samurai Del this winter, and says he may release two or three more tapes between now and then. He’s also busy working as an illustrator and partner for the local clothing line The Club, which recently stocked their shirts and hats at Southcenter shop The Cool.

“I try to do everything, man, ’cause you only get one life to live,” Satterwhite says. “We’re all going to decay.” E

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eavy metal blasts through the speakers as Federal Way producer and rapper Donavan Satterwhite, aka BZKT, and I sit down at a table at Ballard’s King’s Hardware—an oddly fitting scene for such an eclectic artist. The waitress comes to to check IDs. She briefly teases Satterwhite, telling him he’s having a good hair day.

When she leaves, he marvels at the scenery, confessing he’s never actually been to a bar before.

It’s easy to forget Satterwhite is only 21. His prolific work ethic and lush hip-hop production suggests someone who’s spent a lifetime perfecting his craft. In the past six months alone he’s released three beat tapes, with another, RAW.DATA, coming out June 15 (see b-z-k-t.bandcamp.com).

Satterwhite has been pursuing music since he was 15, rapping under the name Burnt Bizkit, an homage to Virginia rap outfit Ill Bizkits. He says he started taking his music more seriously when he turned 18, completing his artistic transition last year by shortening his name to BZKT. Throughout his life he was exposed to soul and jazz, but he has a particular affection for Nirvana, calling “Heart Shaped Box” one of his favorite songs. “My inspiration is weird. It comes from pretty much anything musical,” he says.

Being turned on to producers like J Dilla and Flying Lotus, Satterwhite became fascinated with how they made their genre-bending tracks, and started to pursue beat-making on his own.

“Once I got the [Roland] SP-404, that changed my whole world,” he chimes in enthusiastically. The sampler is one part of Satterwhite’s minimalist setup—a Micro Korg keyboard, a microphone, and the music production program Ableton—that’s it. With these four simple components he’s recorded all his dense, complex

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e can’t shred like Eddie Van Halen or fingerpick like Chet Atkins, but Delta bluesman CeDell Davis’ guitar technique is just as pioneering. Determined to play after his right hand was stricken with polio as a 10-year-old living in Helena, Ark., Davis bought a right-handed guitar and flipped it, the way Jimi Hendrix later made famous.

Davis clawed the strings with two fingers on his left hand while using his right to wield one of his mother’s butter knives as a makeshift slide, fretting the strings over the top of the neck. The technique is a marvel to witness, creating the shrillness of metal on metal—slightly out-of-tune at times, but a fitting aesthetic for his gritty brand of Delta blues.

Now 89, Davis is no longer able to play guitar due to a 2005 stroke. But he can still sing, which he’s been doing in concert as often as possible thanks to a supportive group of musicians— including Barrett Martin, drummer for Ellensburg grunge stars Screaming Trees, who played on Davis’ last two albums and released them on his own Sunyata Records label.

Martin met Davis in 2001 via producer Joe Cripps, who asked him to help assemble a band for Davis’ LP When Lightnin’ Struck the Pine.

Martin’s group Tuatara, which also features R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, seemed like a logical choice since they’d backed up other singer/songwriters.

The group recorded the album in a bar in Denton, Texas, that was closed during the day but open to customers at night, providing a unique mix of live energy and studio polish. “It’s Delta blues,” says Martin, “so it’s a little bit raunchy. It has this deep-pocket groove that makes people dance. Part of the charm of that style is that it can sound a little raucous, like you’re in a juke joint.”

Martin was also a part of Davis’ just-released Last Man Standing, produced by Squirrel Nut Zippers singer/guitarist Jimbo Mathis, who also grew up in the South and who played in Buddy Guy’s band in the early 2000s. “I was surprised to see Jimbo playing with a knife on my new record,” Davis said. “It sounds pretty good.”

Davis’ upcoming Crocodile show, which was put together by Martin, will feature a bevy of local heavyweights, including Buck, Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, Van Conner of Screaming

Trees, Scott McCaughey of The Minus Five, and rising singer/guitarist Ayron Jones.

The assembled rockers will have to contend with a different playing style than they’re used to. “I had to teach my band how to play my songs right. They was mainly rock ’n’ roll when I first started with them, now they play CeDell Davis blues,” Davis says with a laugh.

Martin, a classically trained percussionist who first toured with Davis more than a dozen years ago, confirmed that playing with the blues legend can require a bit of adjustment. “We’ll start the song and vamp until he comes in,” he says. “He’ll also turn and kind of change, halfway through a phrase, so it’s not even the 12-bar Chicago blues that everybody’s used to. That’s not the way they do it in the Delta. The best analogy I can say is that it’s like a prizefighter. It’ll turn on a toe and snap it back, and you have to really be attentive to that.”

While Davis is in town, Martin hopes to record with him and many of the same players who will appear at the show—which is also being filmed for a documentary Martin is producing about the connection between Delta blues and grunge.

“I always felt that grunge was kind of workingman’s music for the proletariat,” he says. “It was loud and raucous in the same way that the blues was when it first started. It was music for nightclubs and house parties. The first gigs I played in Seattle were house parties.”

Though Sunday’s show is already sold out, Davis says he is happy simply to still be onstage at all. “I figured I would play music all my life,” he says. “I don’t feel like I’m that old. I used to have this dream when I was young, and I still have it every once in a while, that this real pretty woman is announcing my name, and I start playing on this big glass stage. My stepfather told me I was going to be a performer someday. I guess he was right after all.” E

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We make soundtracks for the cosmos.” Heavy stuff.

The group consists of Jason Jordan, Scot Porter (Vox Mod), and Kyle Porter (who founded the record label Unsound America). With bass, drums, and synth, the band creates intricate and far-out soundscapes that will, like, alter your mind, man. Come celebrate the release of their new album SPIES. With Skates!, Gems.

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It would take the space of this blurb three times over just to list all the musicians involved with IJI and their roles. The band’s name, pronounced “eehee,” has no obvious meaning; leader Zach Burba just liked how the word in lowercase forms an ellipsis. Its latest release, Whatever Will Happen (see review, this page), is the perfect summertime jam, full of happy, hippy-dippy pop songs. After 12 years of DIY, iji recorded this album at The Unknown in Anacortes and released it on the Conor Oberst co-founded label, Team Love Records.

Lo-fi or no-fi, iji’s sense of weirdness will still frick you up. With Dude York, Mommy Long Legs, Free Music.

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The Canadian electronic/dream pop duo PURITY RING released their second studio album, Another Eternity, back in February. Megan James’ sweet-as-candy vocals pair with Corin Roddick’s beats, which falter between crisp and dirty, to create a sonically rich experience. It’s the perfect soundtrack for summer evenings on the roof with your friends, drinking beer, eating pizza, and smoking a cig. It’s a Purity Ring thing.

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For the past eight years, Seattle’s Zach Burba has cultivated a following as a kind of outsider pop artist, recording under the moniker iji with a small army of musical kinfolk. He’s toured the country, playing in underground venues, houses, and gallery spaces—places where DIY musicians dwell, but that they rarely transcend.

That isn’t a criticism; iji comes from a scene that doesn’t suffer the trappings of careerism, which means that artists are able to stay in the pool longer, mingle with other musicians, and test numerous musical styles, rather than rush to market with a rough draft of a finished sound.

With Whatever Will Happen, iji’s 12th fulllength album, Burba and his collaborators—just the latest of 42 total collaborators since the band’s founding—are emerging from that DIY cloister and making a serious argument for a wider audience. The album marks iji’s first foray into a studio—The Unknown in Anacortes, a spiritual center of the Northwest’s DIY universe with strong ties to K Records—and its debut on New York’s Team Love Records (co-founded by former home-recording wunderkind Conor Oberst). Burba is ready for that larger stage, and one hopes that the world is ready for Burba.

There is no radical retooling here. The sound on Whatever Will Happen is a natural continuation of iji’s previous releases, a pastiche of soft rock and R&B mixed with some free jazz and experimentalism that recalls the work of Arthur Russell—with whom Burba shares a particular nasal lilt. But that experimentation takes a backseat to Burba’s considerable pop songcraft here. In the past, the songwriter has credited New Edition, Men at Work, and Kate Bush as inspirations, and while their influence is blanched here, the liberal attitude that might lead an artist to that diversity of influences is all over these recordings. Burba even sings about it. “Classic rock, R&B,” he croons on “Hard 2 Wait.” “The tender night you sang your songs for me.”

Whatever Will Happen is the product of a musician who either does not understand the dated concept of musical stratification, or just doesn’t care. The album is suffused with sounds that were too uncool for a previous generation, including bossa nova rhythms, sweeping strings, and luxurious saxophone solos. It is in the interplay of these elements—on “Cool Moves” and “Dark Session,” in particular— where Burba’s evolution from charming naif to sophisticated songsmith is clear, where a decade-plus of undisturbed experimentation pays off.

But the wide-eyed young man is still here as well, in lyrics seemingly written from the passenger seat of the tour van, breezy verses that map the American landscape while contemplating music, love, friendship and food.

The entire effort is delivered with such seeming ease, the hooks sounding almost automatic. And it might be. Burba presents a formula for his songcraft on the fittingly titled “Bound 2 Glory”—a sticky pop track with a tremendous guitar riff that belongs on any respectable summer playlist. “Little melody,” he sings, “stupid words full of stupid dreams.” E

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t’s no surprise that some of the people working to reform marijuana laws are a little out of the norm, shall we say. And with the era of Reefer Madness waning, it also makes sense that weed advocates and drugpolicy HIGHERGROUND reformBY MICHAEL A. STUSSER ers would begin to try new—some might even say wacky— approaches. Here are some personal favorites.

“I think South Dakota law at the very least should be consistent,” Newland said at a press conference. “If you’re going to put them in jail for a benign herb, they should be put in jail for alcohol and tobacco—the deadly drugs.”

The organization still needs to collect 13,000 signatures to place this on next year’s November ballot, though, according to the attorney general, the measure may be challenged in court on constitutional grounds. Regardless of whether it qualifies, it kinda makes ya think. Fair is fair.

BAN FARTS

SACRAMENTAL SMOKES

Hundreds of cities and municipalities in legal states have attempted to ban marijuana with various ordinances, but now there’s one related to the smell itself. The city of Pendleton, Ore., recently banned the odor of weed within the city limits.

To counter this ridiculous regulation, a man wrote the local paper, the East Oregonian, suggesting that if they are opposed to the aroma of ganja, they should also ban farts—as that dank cloud truly is offensive. “While farting may be legal in Oregon, many (including myself ) are offended by the flatulent stench,” wrote Peter Walters. “Too often, homeowners and businesses fail to contain farts to their property, forcing the rest of us to put up with the smell.

Some habitual farters argue that they need to fart for medical reasons, but that doesn’t mean my kids should have to smell their farts. The city council should stop looking the other way and pretending not to notice . . . I call on our city council to set aside all other work and address this problem.”

Recreational cannabis and its sweet—or stinky—scent are fully legal in Oregon beginning July 1. If a person complains about a marijuana odor coming from a person’s property in Pendleton, under the city ordinance, they can be fined $500. I suggest that he who smelt it may actually have dealt it.

BOOZE AND TOBACCO TOO

My favorite political strategy in the legalization movement comes from South Dakota, where an activist has proposed several initiatives to ban alcohol and tobacco, to make state policies “consistent” with the penalties related to cannabis. Bob Newland, of Consistent South Dakota, is hoping to put a measure before voters in 2016 that would make it illegal to transfer tobacco or tobacco paraphernalia from one person or one business to another. The second initiative bans the sale of any alcoholic beverage containing one percent or more ethyl alcohol. Breaking either of these laws would be a Class 1 misdemeanor, punishment of which is up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine—similar to the current laws for marijuana possession.

What started as a nasty attempt to refuse gay couples service in Indiana has been turned on its head, sowing the seeds of a new religious organization: the First Church of Cannabis. The state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act was supposedly BRIANN AC designed A to protect religion from government infringement. (There’s so much of that going around these days . . . ) Instead, in practice, it allowed business owners to refuse service to same-sex couples, such as a florist who wouldn’t make flower arrangements for a gay wedding and an Italian-restaurant owner who felt he couldn’t be a good Christian and deliver pizzas to homosexuals.

Seeing opportunity in a burning bush, Bill Levin decided his own fiery faith called upon him to fire up a fatty, and founded the First Church of Cannabis. As the new law requires the state government to have “a compelling interest” if it attempts to impose limits or curtail any religious practice, the Chronic Church is planning to hold services that will include the smoking of a particular holy herb to “light up” the sanctuary.

“This is what I live by, and I have more faith in this religion than any other,” said Levin (who also goes by the name Minister of Love). “This is my lifestyle. This is millions of people’s lifestyle.”

Levin not only preaches the healing powers of the cannabis plant, but says consuming ganja can rid the body of the poisons in processed foods and sugary soft drinks. (No need to preach, brother—I’m a convert!)

The church’s holy bionic is tax free, as last week, the IRS granted the organization taxexempt status. Even without a Sunday School or hall to hold services, the First Hemp Temple has built quite a following since its founding. A GoFundMe campaign has already raised more than $15,000. Levin, known to the church as Grand Poobah, plans to hold the first official service on July 1, the day the state’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act takes effect.

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Software Dvlpmnt Specialist (Seattle, WA) Dsign/dvlp customized enterprise paymnt solutions for wireless carriers. Interact w customers to define business reqs. Analyze 3rd party vendor product offering & construct interface integration dsign accordingly. Present interface specs to vendors & customers. Review code to ensure it meets SLAs & eng’g standards. Reqs: MS comp sci/electroneng’g + 1 yr exp w/ telecom rltd customer care & digital commerce mgmt sftw dvlpmnt or Bachelor’s comp sci/electroneng’g + 3 yrs’ exp w/ telecom rltd customer care & digital commerce mgmt sftwr dvlpmnt; Exp w/ Linux, Unix, EJB 3.0, Servlets, JSP, XSL, XSD, XSLT, JMX, XML, JAXB, REST, SOAP; Spring 3.2, Apache CXF, Apache Axis, Apache Tomcat, Hibernate, GWT; BEA Weblogic, Websphere, Java, SQL, MySQL, Oracle, Groovy, Python, C; Eclipse, IntelliJ Idea, Netbeans, Quality Center, XtraC, Perforce, Toad, SQL Plus, Visio, XML Spy, SOapUI, NX, Jira, Code Collaborator; PMD, Find Bugs, Wily, Cobertura, HP load runner, Apache JMeter, HP Fortify; Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Jprofiler, JMeter, & JVisualVM. Resumes: Amdocs Inc., careersta@amdocs.com; Ref: HR-0370 Zillow seeks Business Data Analyst for its Seattle, WA office. Analyze lge, complex datasets to drive actionable insights & recommend’s to impr our prod & optimize monetiz’n. Prov bus data analysis in areas of mktg & finance. Reqs. Bach’s deg in CS, Eng’g, finance, statistics or rel’d field + 5 yrs as SW Eng, Bus.Data Anlst/Bus Anlst or rltd, Reply to: Job # 1210-2015-0006-V.1301 2nd Ave., Fl 31, Seattle, WA 98101 or jobs@zillow.com

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Employment Computer/Technology IT/Software Development ServiceNow Inc, provider of enterprise IT cloud applications, has openings in Kirkland, WA for Software Development Engineer (3852): Design, test, and deploy scalable and reliable cloud computing applications; Sr Software Development Engineer (5149): Design, implement, test, and deploy scalable Cloud Computing applications; Software Development Engineer (3124): Analyze, design, implement, test, and deploy scalable Cloud Computing solutions as part of the Cloud Infrastructure Development team; Software Engineer - Quality (4559): Work with quality testing frameworks and tools to drive the quality of our products and services. Mail resume and reference job code to ServiceNow Inc Attn Global Mobility 3260 Jay St, Santa Clara, CA 95054

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