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Terry Tempest Williams Benaroya Hall	Tue., October 7, 7:30pm	Downtown	Politics/Activism Books & Authors
Finding Beauty in a Broken World is the latest work from the noted ecology writer and environmentalist. She's hosted by Seattle Arts & Lectures. Tickets and info: www.lectures.org and 621-2230. BRIAN MILLER More >>

Liz Phair Showbox at the Market	Tue., October 7, 8:00pm	Downtown	Music
Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville is, hands down, one of the most awesome albums of all time. Seriously, how kick-ass do you have to be to pull off a song-for-song response to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street? It’s hard to believe, but 15 years have passed since Phair made her brutally... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Blood Simple Central Cinema	Daily from Thu., October 2 until Thu., October 9, 7:00pm more dates/times	Capitol Hill	Local Film/Arthouse
The Coen brothers’ 1984 Texas noir remains one of the best indie films of the ’80s for its wickedly funny take on infidelity, murder, misplaced trust, and mutual suspicion (to say nothing of the knife-impaled hand). This is their slightly tweaked 2000 version that is actually a tiny... 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 >>

"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 >>

Julie Blackmon: Domestic Vacations G. Gibson Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., September 11 until Sat., October 11, 11:00am	Pioneer Square	Art Exhibitions
Despite growing up in a place where it sometimes snows in June, I never once had the pleasure of a snow day in my adolescence. Instead I stared out the classroom windows picturing the snowball fights, sledding, and freedom that are undoubtedly part of such a magical day. So when I saw Julie... 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 >>

Innovation and Imagination SAM Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., September 18 until Sat., October 11	Downtown	Art Exhibitions
A strange and colorful apartment building is opened to your prying eyes. Inside are cartoonish figures—faceless humans and fantastic-looking creatures. This is Future Creature Sleeps, a digital print on canvas by Eunjung Hwang, hung in the window for your voyeurism. In Hwang’s crowded... 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 >>

Wade Kavanaugh’s Regrade Suyama Space	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Wed., October 1 until Fri., December 12	Belltown	Art Exhibitions
Belltown’s Suyama Space is situated on a plot of land unearthed by rushing water. Sixteen million cubic yards of soil were blasted from Denny Hill in the early 1900s—the city planners’ big idea to create a thriving business district in what came to be known as the Denny Regrade.... More >>

The Wall of Death University Bridge	Daily	Eastlake & South Lake Union	Art Exhibitions
Installed in 1993, The Wall of Death may occupy, after the Fremont Troll, the worst site for public art in Seattle. It’s only visible to those on the Burke-Gilman Trail and UW students and staffers traversing down to the Portage Bay side of campus. It gets almost no sun, and even less... 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 >>

David Entrikin: Outsiders The Upstairs Gallery	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., September 24 until Fri., November 14	Ballard	Art Exhibitions
David Entrikin’s hobby is photography. And his subject matter—the homeless—is so often photographed by pros that supermodels must be getting jealous. Forgive me, then, that when I first heard of Entrikin’s show “Outsiders” (on view through Nov. 14), I dismissed it... More >>

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