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Each Friday this summer season, beginning July 26 via August 23, the Seattle Middle is internet hosting outside film screenings on the Mural Amphitheatre. Convey your blankets or low-back garden chairs for The Princess Bride, The whole lot In all places All at As soon as, Dune (1984), The Coloration Purple (2023), and my private spotlight, Singles. Watching Matt Dillon’s grunge frontman character Cliff Poncier clarify the fictional tune “Contact Me I’m Dick” to a music journalist whereas Alice in Chains play at a fictional nightclub on a 40-foot display beneath the House Needle? Doesn’t get far more Seattle than that. STRANGER ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR MEGAN SELING
(Mural Amphitheatre, Uptown, free)
PARTIES & NIGHTLIFE
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Chong the Nomad (aka Alda Agustiano) is a Seattle-based digital music producer and DJ who creates atmospheric sounds which have gained consideration from audiences and critics alike. Over the previous few years, she’s opened for Demise Cab For Cutie, contributed to Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings soundtrack, co-produced Wafia’s 2020 single “Choose Me,” and launched her debut full-length album DO WE MAKE OF THIS. She’ll soundtrack this world membership music dance occasion alongside fellow selectors Calico, Boxy Match, and Mimi Zima. AV
(Kremwerk, Downtown, $5-$15)
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I need to confess, I’ve by no means eaten a Dick’s hamburger—sacrilegious for a born-and-raised Seattleite, I do know! Nonetheless, I’ve spent many late nights within the Dick’s Drive-In parking zone consuming french fries, a strawberry milkshake, and a aspect of sizzling fudge for dinner. The long-running Seattle quick meals chain will have fun its seventieth anniversary this Friday with a flashy automotive present, picture sales space, face portray, swag pop-up, reminiscence sales space, and reside music. Do not miss performances from jazz guitarist Leif Totusek, indie-R&B duo Aline & Wes, dreamy indie rock outfit La Fonda, and Redmond rockers the Sliding Eights. AV
(Dick’s Drive-In, Kent, free)
COMEDY
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Kayla Brown and Dan Hurwitz, creators of the “award-eligible” mockumentary That is Spinal Damage, return to host this bimonthly showcase of native humorous people with disabilities, which is able to quickly head to Bumbershoot. The jokester troupe has been performing in and round Seattle since 2018, with a rotating solid every time. This month’s performances embrace dance by Gemini Thee Stone, “non-journalist” Michael Bellevue’s investigation into Canadian customs, and laughs from native faves Cheri Hardman, Gretta Gimp, and Danny Anderson. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, $7-$14)
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Head to Chinatown for a day devoted to Asian and Pacific Islander tradition, that includes two levels of reside music from native and nationwide AANHPI artists, tasty meals vehicles, a beer backyard, automotive present, and extra. Positioned on King Avenue beneath I-5, the fest seeks to show the paved panorama right into a cultural oasis. Many distributors will pop up on the block occasion, however the occasion supplies the proper alternative to assist neighborhood companies as effectively. Afterward, wander over to Hing Hay Park for a screening of The Donut King as a part of the Seattle Asian American Movie Pageant’s C-ID Summer time Cinema programming. SL
(InterImCDA Parking Lot, Chinatown-Worldwide District, free)
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C-ID Summer time Cinema, the Seattle Asian American Movie Pageant’s free, family-friendly outside film sequence, returns to Hing Hay Park. You’ll discover reside music, face portray, and popcorn earlier than the film every week. Remember to seize some scrumptious Asian meals from surrounding C-ID companies earlier than or after the screening. Convey a chair or a blanket and prepare for some enjoyable movies! SL
(Hing Hay Park, Chinatown-Worldwide District, free)
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Who higher to advise you on what to look at this summer season than Scarecrow Video, the bodily media mainstay group with a video assortment that exceeds 130,000 titles?! They know what they’re speaking about, individuals. Their movie sequence, co-organized with the Maple Leaf Group Council, will serve up screenings on a “Girls (and Women) Saving the Day” theme this 12 months. The sequence continues with Greta Gerwig’s fairly pink cultural sensation Barbie at Maple Leaf Reservoir Park on August 17. Moviegoers can pop up early to arrange their chairs and blankets, seize beers, and take some guesses at trivia. LC
(Maple Leaf Reservoir Park, Northeast Seattle, free)
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It is 2015, and within the aftermath of a devastating nuclear battle, some superpowered synthetic intelligence (that completely did not exist in 2015, however droop your disbelief) has been tasked with rebuilding humanity. NBD, proper? Predictably, the androids flip evil and corral people into shell-shocked cities the place anarchy reigns supreme. The “final fertile girl” takes it from there. This type of direct-to-VHS mayhem is par for the course at VHS Uber Alles, the place three bucks will land you a ticket to a hush-hush flick that you have in all probability by no means heard of, anyway. The screening sequence is all the time supplied at an ultra-low value aligned with the so-bad-it’s-good high quality of its programming. (That is what makes it enjoyable.) LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, $3)
FOOD & DRINK
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Cease at a sales space in Hing Hay Park to choose up a menu, then stroll via Chinatown-Worldwide District trying out $4, $6, and $8 meals specials and retail objects at taking part native companies. July’s lineup contains engaging bites like bento bins from Onibaba, hen wings from Phnom Penh Noodle Home, dumplings and chilly noodles from Szechuan Noodle Bowl, Swiss roll slices and almond cookies from Cake Home, and ube halaya, pandan cheesecake slices, and halo-halo gentle serve from Hood Well-known—what extra do you want? Plus, buy some cute restricted version CID stickers, which embrace designs just like the Japantown streetcar and the Hing Hay Park pagoda, to assist assist the nonprofit Chinatown-Worldwide District Enterprise Enchancment Space. JB
(Hing Hay Park, Chinatown-Worldwide District)
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Shock: The beloved Chinatown-Worldwide District establishment Chu Minh Tofu and Vegan Deli will host the official grand opening of this spinoff serving bánh mì and Vietnamese espresso in Beacon Hill! A peek on the menu reveals choices like spicy tofu bánh mì, jackfruit salad, egg rolls, purple curry, coconut juice, and peanut sticky rice. Go forth with this data and get your self a frugal but flavorful lunch. JB
(Chu Minh Sandwiches and Espresso, Beacon Hill)
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Rock out for a very good trigger as an eclectic lineup of PNW artists raises cash for Cocoon Home, a company serving homeless and at-risk youth in Snohomish County. Everett-based exhausting rock band Counterproductive will take the stage alongside Tacoma punk band Drivers, alt-rock quartet Love So Deep, and Seattle rockers the Toolsmen. AV
(Vera Undertaking, Uptown, $13.39)
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When you’ve been dwelling beneath a rock, the web has declared it to be “brat summer season.” However, for these of us who’ve worshipped Charli XCX since her “Increase Clap” days, it is bittersweet to see so many new passengers on the bandwagon. Hopefully, within the spirit of Charli and Lorde’s squashed feud, followers new and previous can “work it out on the remix,” dancing collectively to songs from her iconic profession. AV
(Nectar, Fremont, $15)
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Is not it time you had been beguiled? Titillated? Sizzling across the collar?? In case your reply falls someplace between “Ummm, yeah, I assume,” and “PLEASE!”, I’ve your answer: Bookstore Romance Day, which Third Place Books will have fun on August 17. Discover all of the hunky, sweaty, bodice-ripping tomes your coronary heart wishes on curated shows, rating 20% off all romance titles, and meet-cute with fellow romantics. (Die-hard followers ought to contemplate becoming a member of the shop’s Radical Romantics e-book membership.) LC
(Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, free)
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Cease by KEXP’s gathering house for a day of BIPOC-led and community-oriented visible and efficiency artwork from ACES, the Artists of Coloration Expo & Symposium. The ten-hour occasion provides loads of time to take a look at works on show from over 150 artists and watch twenty quick movies screening over at Vera Undertaking. Yow will discover new decor on the artwork market, try free workshops, and catch reside music from native artists together with Shelby Natasha and Arami Walker. Within the courtyard, the semi-ambiguous “Cypher” showcase guarantees artist talks from creators working in mediums reminiscent of portray, literature, and sculpture. SL
(KEXP, Uptown, free)
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Envisioning the expertise of an “alternate-dimensional life as a closeted (slash) ex-gay evangelist,” Christopher Paul Jordan’s THE END transforms the gallery house right into a “queer comic-tract” within the type of African American illustrator Fred Carter. (Unfamiliar? Learn extra about Carter’s zany, ultra-religious comics right here.) Jordan, a Tacoma-based artist, salvages textiles and considers elimination and relocation to suppose critically about public house and human relationships. You would possibly already be accustomed to his work: Jordan’s multimedia sculpture andimgonnamisseverybody is the centerpiece of the AIDS Memorial Pathway in Capitol Hill. LC
(Veronica, Mount Baker, free)
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Skål Beer Corridor and the NW Viking Alliance’s first annual city faire options an outside native vendor market and several other themed actions. The “Viking Triathlon” will kick off round 5 pm, difficult contestants to eat pickled herring, then take a shot of aquavit, and eventually play an undisclosed “sport of ability.” Viking costume is inspired, and in case you’re so inclined (or have had sufficient pints of mead), you possibly can strut your stuff on the beer corridor runway for the possibility to be proclaimed greatest dressed within the Viking Garb Contest. SL
(Skål Beer Corridor, Ballard, free)
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There’s actually nothing just like the dreamy, emotional territories of director Fritz Lang to make you neglect your Sunday scaries. You would possibly’ve already seen the German Expressionist filmmaker’s sci-fi masterwork Metropolis, which Roger Ebert referred to as “one of many nice achievements of the silent period,” however this Sunday afternoon screening sequence introduces viewers to his different gold-standard movies. On August 18, the Beacon will display Scarlet Avenue, Lang’s psychosexual noir that was deliciously “banned in a number of US jurisdictions as indecent and immoral.” LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, $12.50)
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Ellensburg-born singer-songwriter Star Anna will have fun the discharge of her first album in eight years, Love & Intercourse & Worry Of Demise, with a free, all-ages efficiency at Straightforward Avenue. In contrast to her beforehand launched acoustic works, the brand new albumroars with plugged-in guitars that evoke PJ Harvey and Brandi Carlile. AV
(Straightforward Avenue Information, Junction, free)
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Present your assist for over 20 regional makers (together with painter Bailey Crabtree, the eco-friendly Sugarcane Magnificence, and plant hanger aficionados Petal + Vine, amongst others) at this beachside occasion, which affords the bonus of a stunning summer-approved view. LC
(Alki Seashore, Alki, free)
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Japantown’s annual celebration affords a week-long schedule of actions the place native outlets, galleries, eating places, and cultural organizations present slightly further spirit with food and drinks specials, particular gross sales, pop-ups, and extra. Try performances throughout particular visiting hours at Chiyo’s Backyard, and keep after darkish on Saturday to catch C-ID Summer time Cinema’s screening of The Donut King, a documentary about Cambodian refugee and SoCal donut entrepreneur Ted Ngoy. Professional tip: include an urge for food, the ultimate C-ID Meals Stroll of the summer season will even be taking place this Saturday. SL
(Varied areas, Japantown, free, Friday–Sunday)
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Deliberate as a part of town’s ongoing effort to “re-energize Belltown and welcome individuals again downtown,” the Belltown Mural Pageant is a first-rate alternative to see one thing that we will nearly all agree is fairly cool: Creatives turning ugly clean partitions into huge artworks. 13 native artists will paint all through the week, however guests can do greater than stare at their work—blissful hours, movie screenings, gallery reveals, strolling excursions, and avenue concert events will brighten up the scene and improve your probabilities of assembly fellow art-loving people. LC
(Varied areas, Belltown, free, Friday–Sunday)
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In honor of its twentieth anniversary as a beloved volunteer-operated nonprofit cinema, Grand Phantasm has screened a few of its favourite movies celebrating “important anniversaries” all year long. They will proceed the development with Kung Fu Hustle in 35mm. The Stephen Chow flick additionally celebrates its twentieth anniversary this 12 months, so now’s nearly as good a time as ever to meet up with two wannabe Shanghai gangsters and the retired kung fu masters who swoop in to avoid wasting their asses. “Chow, maybe the primary motion star and filmmaker to be as influenced by basic cartoons as by the karate-chop balletics of human motion, directs like a gonzo fusion of Tarantino and Tex Avery,” Leisure Weekly writes. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, $9-$12, Friday & Sunday)
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Seattle Parks and Recreation presents this summer season sequence of much-loved movie screenings beneath the celebrities, with pre-movie actions kicking off round 6 or 7 pm and every movie starting at nightfall. The sequence continues this weekend with Tornado on August 16 at Freeway Park (the ’96 unique, through which Philip Seymour Hoffman appears cool as hell) and the 2020 immigrant success story The Donut King on August 17 at Hing Hay Park. LC
(Varied areas, free, Friday–Saturday)
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Centering the rise and fall of the 5,000-year-old Palestinian city of Lyd, this documentary delves into the aftermath of the Nakba bloodbath and expulsion. When you’re nonetheless feeling slightly at the hours of darkness on Palestinian historical past, Lyd will allow you to brush up—the movie options “never-before-seen” archival footage and spotlights the once-thriving area’s gradual devastation on account of Israeli settlement. Within the phrases of Arielle Angel, the editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents, “The story of Lyd is the story of Palestine. The movie that bears its identify confronts the horrors of what’s, with out dropping sight of what could possibly be—an important train in political creativeness.” LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, $7-$14, Friday–Sunday)
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One fateful Christmas day within the 2010s, I popped in a VHS of the ’89 schlockfest Highway Home, and the remaining was historical past: I used to be instantly awestruck by Patrick Swayze’s Dalton, a peacekeeping bar bouncer with a Ph.D. whose proclivity for beating up corrupt henchmen lands him in a again alley of Hassle with a capital T. (Males, what’s stopping you from wanting like this?) The flick’s bought khaki slacks, monster vehicles, and contours that ChatGPT won’t ever conjure. It’s superior, and ducking into a chilly, darkish theater mid-August to look at somebody kick ass is rarely a nasty thought. LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, $12, Friday–Sunday)
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Catherine Breillat’s filmmaking strategy could be very, effectively, French—she usually seeks to light up the taboo in provocative explorations of need, violence, and ladies’s psychology. Grand Phantasm’s celebration of the controversy queen spans each decade of her directing profession, together with screenings of brand-new 4K restorations (A Actual Younger Lady, 36 Fillette, and GoodLove) and Janus Movies’ 35mm print of my favourite Breillat, the abrupt and rattling 2001 movie Fats Lady. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, Friday–Sunday)
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When you could not get sufficient of Li’l Woody’s Burger Month, through which the native fast-food chain affords new burger specials created in collaboration with native cooks every week, prepare for his or her Seafood Month. This model provides the Burger Month format a fishy spin, with unique sandwich creations impressed by the bounty of the ocean. This week’s chef specials is “The Coastal AKA Coast Type” (a smoked salmon patty, sharp white cheddar, arugula, and barbecue berry sauce on a Li’l Woody’s bun) from Jeremy Thunderbird of the Native Soul Delicacies meals truck (August 13-19). JB
(Li’l Woody’s, Capitol Hill, Friday–Sunday)
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Joyful rosé season to those that have fun! No matter your ideas on the ever-present blush beverage, it is exhausting to think about a drink higher fitted to summer season. All through the month, the farm-to-table pop-up-turned-restaurant Three Sacks Full will provide a weekly rotation of rosé specials by the glass, culminating in a particular rosé dinner on August 28. (Co-owner Matthew Curtis is a licensed sommelier, so you possibly can anticipate some well-curated picks.) JB
(Three Sacks Full, Roosevelt, $10-$14, Friday–Sunday)
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Prepare for the good, most scrumptious occasion of the summer season! The Stranger presents Slushie Week, which brings boozy, frozen, custom-made treats to the frugal and thirsty denizens of Seattle at simply $8 a pop August 12-18! Strive ’em all!!
(Varied areas, $8, Friday–Sunday)
OUTDOORS
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Due to the tireless efforts of numerous ecological stewards, Washington’s salmon inhabitants is slooooowly rebounding, and you may study all about how these humble fish assist our complete ecosystem at a family-friendly gathering by the Ballard Locks. Salmon could appear like slippery little weirdos, however their entire lives are fascinating quests rivaling these of essentially the most intrepid adventurers. And right here in Seattle, we’re lucky to have the ability to cheer them alongside on their journey—one which helps preserve numerous different species from dropping off the face of the Earth. The Salmon Journey gatherings are hosted by educated naturalists on Saturdays from July to September; you’ll learn to spot a spawning salmon, about their surprisingly epic exploits, and the merciless enemy threatening to wipe them out. (Stunning twist: It’s individuals!) FORMER STRANGER STAFF WRITER MATT BAUME
(Ballard Locks, Ballard, free, Saturday–Sunday)
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Throw in your old-timey feathered caps and get thee to a nunnery—or perhaps simply head outdoor for GreenStage’s always-free Shakespeare within the Park, which returns for its thirty sixth season this 12 months. They will provide up productions of the Bard’s Henry VI—Components Two and Three and acquainted rom-com Twelfth Night time, plus some scaled-back “Yard Bard” one-hour reveals, together with “downside play” All’s Effectively That Ends Effectively, at parks throughout Seattle. Peep their calendar for efficiency instances and areas. LC
(Varied areas, free, Friday–Saturday)
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I wasn’t beforehand accustomed to artist Andrea Dezsö’s work, however I’ve shortly develop into a fan: Dezsö’s detailed pochoir stenciling strategies, charming birch-carved designs, embroidered musings, and pyrovitreography reveal an artist who fears no medium. Her work additionally feels distinctly extra bouba than kiki. I am in love with the bizarre little guys populating her compositions, and I need to know all about their folktale-informed world, which additionally grapples with “girls’s roles, authoritarianism, household, ideological and societal affect on the person, relationships with nature, and the physique.” You will in all probability dig it, too. LC
(Traver Gallery, Downtown Seattle, free, Friday–Saturday)
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Little has been revealed about Seattle-based artist Claudia Fitch’s solo exhibition Fashions and Messengers, however I am already intrigued. The artist’s sensible, playful sculptural work is all the time a quizzical journey for the eyeballs, usually sourcing cultural narratives from pop and artwork historical past to daring, creative ends. I am excited to see what she’s give you this time—will she be working in bronze, ceramic, solid resin, or one other medium totally? (Fitch has additionally created fairly just a few of town’s public works; see in case you acknowledge any.) LC
(Greg Kucera Gallery, Pioneer Sq., free, Friday–Saturday)
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In Relaxation/Much less, Much less/Relaxation, Tacoma-born painter David Hytone renders difficult scenes in acrylic and on Okowara paper, a thick, fibrous Japanese handmade paper made from kozo and sulphite pulp. The solo exhibition feels rife with symbolism—titles like The Bureau of Hypnagogia Human Assets Division Would Like a Phrase and Three Seventeen AM within the Arms of Saint Dymphna really feel like glimpses into the artist’s dreamscape. “I’m within the intersection between specificity and approximation, notably how this relationship informs our notion of the world round us and the function reminiscence performs in that interface,” the artist defined in a current bio. That sense of interaction reveals itself in Relaxation/Much less, Much less/Relaxation; moments of heavy detailing are discovered amongst floating heads and abstracted varieties. LC
(Greg Kucera Gallery, Pioneer Sq., free, Friday–Saturday)
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Lino Tagliapietra: Maestro, Mentore welcomes the legendary Venetian glassblower, maestro Lino Tagliapietra, to exhibit works alongside his staff members, Nancy Callan, Jen Elek, John Kiley, Dante Marioni, and Dave Walters, for an exhibition that “inform[s] a narrative of creative mentorship and mutual reverence.” The staff’s sense of sample and angular varieties is dizzying to behold. LC
(Traver Gallery, Downtown, free, Friday–Saturday)
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As somebody who simply spent just a few weeks in japanese Oregon, the phrases “smoke season” elicit an all-too-familiar burn within the throat. Christian French’s Untitled (Exodus sequence), a brutal red-tinged and desolate {photograph} featured in SOIL’s new group exhibition Smoke Season, elicits an analogous somatic reminiscence. “The Anthropocene has develop into the Pyrocene,” the present supplies assert; I am intrigued by Tim Marsden’s fiery embroidery and janet galore’s Smoke Break, a three-minute video looped on a classic tv set put in within the gallery. LC
(SOIL, Pioneer Sq., free, Friday–Sunday)
