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Al Green Emerald Queen Casino	Fri., September 5, 8:30pm	Tacoma	Music
At one point during his interview with writer Matt Rogers, published in issue number 28 of Wax Poetics magazine, Al Green asks the hapless reporter, "Do I act normal to you?" Rogers provides a safe, if slippery, answer. But those who read the accompanying Q&A with The Roots drummer/mastermind... More >>

Kirkland Outdoor Movies Kirkland Friday Night Market at Juanita Beach	Fri., September 5	Kirkland	Local Film/Arthouse Family Events
You can never go wrong adapting a story by Dick King-Smith, one of England’s finest writers for children. Drawing on just about every tough and tender rite-of-passage fairy tale worth its salt, The Water Horse (2007) stars Alex Etel as Angus, a Scottish boy who picks up a strange egg that... More >>

Polvo, Trans Am Neumos	Fri., September 5, 8:00pm	Madison Valley & Madison Park	Music
Fashioning the arty noise of Sonic Youth, the dynamic knottiness of Slint and the tense fury of Hüsker Dü and a litany of early Dischord acts into a sound uniquely their own, North Carolina foursome Polvo helped define and influence indie-rock (and subset math-rock) via their initial... More >>

Tad Carpenter Bluebottle Art Gallery & Store	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Tue., September 2 until Sat., September 20, 12:00pm	Capitol Hill	Art Exhibitions
Illustrator and designer Tad Carpenter describes his work as being “modern, with a bit of Saturday morning cartoons mixed in.” He also cites Pixar, Maurice Sendak, and Richard Scarry as influences, so it makes sense that it’s the sort of stuff both children and adults can enjoy.... More >>

Bull Durham Central Cinema	Daily from Wed., September 3 until Sat., September 6, 7:00pm more dates/times	Capitol Hill	Sports Local Film/Arthouse
Twenty years after Ron Shelton's hugely likable baseball comedy came out, Kevin Costner can't catch a break with Swing Vote, Susan Sarandon has an Oscar, Tim Robbins and she have a family (plus his own steady work), and the only problem is that baseball, let alone baseball movies, hardly seem... More >>

Destry Rides Again Grand Illusion	Daily from Fri., September 5 until Thu., September 11	University District	Local Film/Arthouse
Yes, this is the one with Marlene Dietrich as the saloon singer in the Old West (famously parodied by Madeline Kahn in Blazing Saddles), and it’ll work for you or not work for you for precisely that reason. Jimmy Stewart plays the lawman committed to bringing order to a lawless... 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 >>

Dan Clowes Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., August 29 until Tue., October 7, 6:00pm	Georgetown	Art Exhibitions
Maybe, for a certain kind of reader, it took the presence of Scarlett Johansson in the movie version of Ghost World to bring the quiet, meditative art of Dan Clowes to a wider audience. Since then, he and director Terry Zwigoff collaborated on Art School Confidential, and now comes Ghost World:... 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 >>

Artist Collective: Toy Gallery 110	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., September 3 until Sat., September 27, 12:00pm	Pioneer Square	Art Exhibitions
As a girl, photographer Grace Weston played alone in her bedroom, devising life stories for people she’d made out of pipe cleaners. “One of my brothers had just died, and the other was very sick,” she recalls. “I felt very isolated. At the same time, I didn’t want to... More >>

Mark Takamichi Miller Howard House	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., August 29 until Sun., September 28, 10:30am	Downtown	Art Exhibitions
Most people go to Costco for groceries and a year’s supply of toilet paper. Mark Takamichi Miller goes for inspiration. Back in the day, he discovered it was possible to buy other people’s snapshots from the photo booth at Costco. So he bought some and painted their subjects. And... 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 >>

Puyallup Fair Puyallup Fairgrounds	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., September 5 until Sun., September 21, 10:00am	Washington State	Family Events
Everyone knows that monkey/human interaction is comedy gold (see Bedtime for Bonzo and Ed, starring Matt LeBlanc at his finest). You can catch your own case of simian fever at the Puyallup Fair (through Sept. 21). At the show “Wild About Monkeys” (daily at 1, 3, and 5 p.m.), watch a... More >>

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Everett Events Center	Daily from Thu., September 4 until Sun., September 7, 7:30pm	Everett	Family Events
Like vanilla ice cream with a splash of Tabasco, or Barbie with a mohawk, the 138th edition of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus adds some edge to a nostalgic childhood favorite. Yes, the century-old formula still satisfies all big-top expectations. Elephants—check.... More >>

Still Life Redux: Vik Muniz at SAM Seattle Art Museum	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., August 6 until Sat., September 6	Downtown	Art Exhibitions
A large-scale photograph by Brazilian-born NYC artist Vik Muniz (b. 1961) replicates the painting Still Life With Fruits and Vegetables by Spanish painter Juan Sanchez Catan (dated 1602). A small image of the original oil hangs next to the giant photograph, in what is a sort of modern annex to... More >>

Liz Tran: Recent Works Some Space	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., September 4 until Sat., September 27, 9:00am	Pioneer Square	Art Exhibitions
Mixed-media painter Liz Tran often stared at the cherry tree withering away outside her Central District home while working on her newest print series. The artist believes that this collection (on display through September 27) could be a memorial to its once-fertile state. She applied liberal... More >>

Stronghold University of Washington Campus	Daily	University District	Art Exhibitions
The original UW campus downtown was once covered with old-growth timber, as was its present location when the school moved north in 1895. Now, as that institution continues its inexorable sprawl south of Pacific Street toward Portage Bay, New York artist Brian Tolle reminds us of that arboreal... More >>

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Cal Kinnear Elliott Bay Book Co.	Fri., September 5, 7:30pm	Pioneer Square	Poetry/Spoken Word Books & Authors

Cricket McRae Third Place Books	Fri., September 5, 7:00pm	North Seattle	Books & Authors

Seattle Composers' Salon Good Shepherd Center	Fri., September 5, 8:00pm	Wallingford	Classical/Opera

A Gatherin Storm, When Giants Fall (CD release) Skylark Cafe & Club	Fri., September 5, 9:00pm	South Park	Music

Live Girls! Cabaret Live Girls! Theater	Fri., September 5, 8:00pm	Ballard	Cabaret/Burlesque/Variety

Roy Zimmerman & Betsy Salkind Kirkland Performance Center	Fri., September 5, 8:00pm	Kirkland	Comedy

All American Playboys, Hard Money Saints, Demoni Slim's Last Chance Chili Shack & Watering Hole	Fri., September 5, 8:00pm	SoDo	Music