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Giant Sand, Chad Van Gaalen Triple Door Mainstage	Sun., October 12, 7:30pm	Downtown	Music
It's been about 25 years since Tucson, Arizona singer/multi-instrumentalist Howe Gelb slapped his Giant Sand moniker on a piece of vinyl and launched a career of atmospheric, sun-baked, Neil Young-inspired roots-rock, one that's delivered nearly two dozen high-quality recordings and directly... More >>

Ill Bill, Sean Price, Grayskul, Onry Ozzborn & the Gigantics, DJ Redheadone El Corazon	Sun., October 12, 7:00pm	Eastlake & South Lake Union	Music
Ill Bill grabbed the title of his new release The Hour of Reprisal from a Slayer song, and then devoted a track to a rhyming timeline of the group's career. Add cameo appearances from Killswitch Engage singer Howard Jones, Bad Brains and Soulfly growler Max Cavalera, and raprock-phobes might... More >>

David Macaulay Seattle Central Library	Sun., October 12, 2:00pm	Downtown	Books & Authors
Ever wanted to know how you pass kidney stones? Of course you did. In The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body, Macaulay answers all those questions and more about anatomy. Previously the author of The Way Things Work, he brings a similarly analytical bent to our basic plumbing,... More >>

Seattle Seahawks versus Green Bay Packers Qwest Field	Sun., October 12, 1:15pm	SoDo	Sports
In some cars, you have to put all your weight on the gas pedal just to keep up with traffic. In others, a light tap will place you in the fast lane. Qwest Field is in that second category. State-of-the-art acoustic design maximizes the noise that rabid Seahawks fans already generate in... More >>

Men in Dance Broadway Performance Hall	Every week Sunday from Sun., October 5 until Sun., October 12, 2:00pm	Capitol Hill	Dance
As a guy who can’t dance, I tend to be envious of those who can. Which means that the performers at the Men in Dance festival should make me positively lizard-green. But when a program includes this many great artists, drawn from practically every dance company in town (and beyond),... More >>

Sprocket Society Secret Sunday Matinee Northwest Film Forum	Every week Sunday from Sun., August 31 until Sun., November 23, 12:00pm	Capitol Hill	Local Film/Arthouse Family Events
Shorts and various cartoons will precede serial episodes of Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe. The 1940 series stars Buster Crabbe and Dale Arden, and is certainly kid-friendly and not too scary for younger viewers. (Perhaps Olympian Michael Phelps could take the role from Crabbe, himself a... More >>

Don’t You Fucking Look at Me: Surveillance in the 21st Century 911 Seattle Media Arts Center	Daily from Fri., September 12 until Fri., October 31	Eastlake & South Lake Union	Art Exhibitions
We’ve got red-light cams at traffic intersections (unless Tim Eyman stops them), and some argue the police should also use video surveillance to clean up Victor Steinbrueck Park and Third and Pine. So it’s a good time to visit Don’t You Fucking Look at Me: Surveillance in the... More >>

All the King's Men Intiman Theater	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., October 3 until Sat., November 8	Queen Anne	Theater
Since regional theaters generally choose their plays more than a year in advance, it’s rare to find so much topicality so close to Election Day. But Intiman surely knew that the fall of 2008 was going to be all about politics, so having All the King’s Men conclude its five-year... More >>

Anatomy of a Murder Grand Illusion	Daily from Fri., October 10 until Thu., October 16, 8:00pm	University District	Local Film/Arthouse
James Stewart defends the innocent again in this oft-overrated 1959 Otto Preminger legal drama, which continues to catch audiences napping with its frank testimony about rape and human sexuality. That boldness of approach--combined with a fresh score by Duke Ellington and electrifying... More >>

John Grade: Disintegration, Sculpture through Landscape Bellevue Arts Museum	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Tue., August 26 until Sun., November 30	Bellevue	Art Exhibitions
A slot canyon has appeared at the Bellevue Arts Museum, but instead of water-smoothed stone, the interior of this narrow passageway by John Grade is dressed in a coat of goat hair, softening the rounded, convex forms. It might be dark as you make your way inside, and you might experience a bit... More >>

Christian French: Work in a Capitol Hill Storefront Broadway East and East John Street	Daily from Wed., September 24 until Fri., October 31	Capitol Hill	Art Exhibitions
A shaggy, faux-fur couch, a pair of dancing dresses, and a video seen through a foot-wide cardboard tube now appear in several vacant storefronts just north of Broadway and John. This block is slated for demolition to make way for the Capitol Hill Sound Transit Station, but until then, art will... More >>

Arctic Wings: Miracle of Migration Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., October 1 until Wed., December 31	University District	Art Exhibitions
Sarah Palin must not have many bird houses in the backyard of her Alaska governor’s mansion. After all, the veep nominee is all about drilling in ANWR, which, as seven contributing photographers show us in “Arctic Wings: Miracle of Migration” (through Dec. 31), is a temporary... More >>

Jenny Heishman: Water Mover Ernst Park	Daily	Fremont	Family Events Art Exhibitions
Unbuilt lots, even sloped blackberry patches sitting on unstable soil, are fast disappearing in Seattle. Particularly in Fremont, where townhouses sprout like mushrooms, any real-estate resistance is appreciated. Sitting next to the Fremont Branch Library, A.B. Ernst Park was completed four... More >>

The Exiles Northwest Film Forum	Daily from Fri., October 10 until Thu., October 16, 7:00pm more dates/times	Capitol Hill	Local Film/Arthouse
This forgotten 1961 indie is set largely in L.A.’s working-class Bunker Hill district, since razed for office towers. It’s a lost film in a lost neighborhood full of lost people; you can’t get much more forlorn than that. Shot over three years without location sound by Kent... More >>

Jim Woodring Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., October 11 until Wed., November 5	Georgetown	Books & Authors Art Exhibitions
Not all of us can embrace the steampunk movement, not if it means wooden computers and carrying our flash drives on gold watch chains, though Paul DiFilippo might argue otherwise. The Rhode Island writer of Cosmocopia (Payseur & Schmidt, $65) will appear with local artist Jim Woodring to... More >>

"Empire" Frye Art Museum	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., September 20 until Sun., January 4	Downtown	Art Exhibitions
As the U.S. occupation of Iraq drags on, as the inflamed Arab Middle East continues to assign that loaded word—occupation—to the Israeli-controlled West Bank territories, the Frye’s new show “Empire” (through Jan. 4) is timely. It runs in tandem with “Napoleon on... More >>

Gaze: Vision, Desire, and Difference in the Frye Collections Frye Art Museum	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sun., August 31 until Sun., January 4, 10:00am	Downtown	Art Exhibitions
Timothy Lowly’s large-scale portrait Temma on Earth shows his young daughter, physically and mentally disabled since birth, lying helpless in the dirt. Most haunting is the expression on her face: mouth gaping open and blank eyes staring at something—or is it nothing?—that we... More >>

Richard Misrach: On the Beach Henry Art Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., October 10 until Sun., January 18	University District	Art Exhibitions
Bay Area photographer Richard Misrach is best known for his decades-long Desert Cantos series, which deals with the vastness and scale of the American West. The environment is a political construct for him, something humans shape by their choices and policies. This new traveling show of 20... More >>

I-5 Colonnade I-5 Colonnade	Daily	Eastlake & South Lake Union	Sports Family Events
Sure, Seattle’s a pretty good cycling town. It’s got bicycle commuters, über-rich guys on road bikes worth more than cars, Critical Mass, gangs of Cap Hill fixie riders, and nude cyclists in Fremont. But until now the scene just hasn’t been complete. The full-suspension set,... More >>

Michael Heizer’s Adjacent, Against, Upon Myrtle Edwards Park	Daily	Downtown	Art Exhibitions
Since opening last year, the Olympic Sculpture Park has somehow eclipsed and subsumed the identity of Myrtle Edwards Park, which was established (with a different name) back in 1964, when SAM was still a small institution confined to Capitol Hill. The narrow old shoreline park was renamed in... More >>

Geoff McFetridge: The Mind Olympic Sculpture Park	Daily from Tue., April 29 until Tue., March 31	Belltown	Art Exhibitions
Better known for his design work for Nike, Burton Snowboards, and Marc Jacobs, the L.A.–based artist Geoff McFetridge has taken over the PACCAR Pavilion with a graphically strong installation. The Mind encompasses the entire sloped-ceiling space, with a crowd of line-drawn faces papering... More >>

Saint Heaven Francis J Gaudette Theatre	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., September 17 until Sun., October 26	Issaquah	Theater
Thom Rivers (Alan Snyder) is a young doctor who left his old Kentucky home after a childhood of paternal neglect. Fast forward to the opening scene in 1957, where Thom’s physician father has died, leaving the poor townfolk of Saint Heaven without any medical care for miles. They beseech... More >>

Black Sun Seattle Asian Art Museum	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday	Capitol Hill	Art Exhibitions
As the most touched, caressed, and fondled piece of public art in Seattle, I would nominate Black Sun, installed at the old SAM (now SAAM) on Capitol Hill back in 1969. Hard to remember now, but American-born sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) was once considered a rather daring modernist,... More >>

DuPen Fountain Seattle Center	Daily	Queen Anne	Art Exhibitions
Seattle Center is in upheaval. The Sonics have gone to Oklahoma, KeyArena is struggling to find new events to fill the revenue gap, Memorial Stadium is crumbling, the Fun Forest will soon close, and the ongoing Century 21 makeover plan is gonna take a whole lot of money to implement. But in... More >>

Shakespeare on Film SIFF Cinema	Daily from Fri., October 10 until Wed., October 15	Queen Anne	Local Film/Arthouse
Stephanie Shine, George Mount, and other members of the Seattle Shakespeare Company will provide introductions for these seven film adaptations (plus one documentary). Titles range from vintage, like Orson Welles' 1948 Macbeth, to more recent, such as Baz Luhrmann's 1996 Romeo + Juliet, which... More >>