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Seattle’s gentle rail system is increasing! On Friday morning, a ribbon-cutting ceremony will formally open the brand new Lynnwood extension of the 1 Line, including 8.5 miles of rail and 4 new stations. Stick round (or return on the brand new rail!) for an evening market celebration the place dwell performances, meals distributors, arts and crafts cubicles, video games, and extra shall be arrange across the Lynnwood station. A commemorative map will encourage guests to take a look at every new station alongside the extension, the place over 350 organizations are collaborating within the opening day festivities. I am hoping to get my fingers on a plushie of Sound Transit’s lovely mascot Boop. SL
(Lynnwood Metropolis Middle Station, free)
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The Seattle waterfront has been underneath development for…some time. This fourth annual Waterfront Block Occasion is being introduced as a milestone on the street to its grand opening in 2025—fingers crossed! Celebrations will sprawl throughout Olympic Sculpture Park, Pier 62, Occidental Sq., and the waterfront with dwell music, drum line and dance performances, jellyfish lantern making, and eats from native distributors together with Moe Vegan and Ma & Pops. SL
(Pier 62, Downtown, free)
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This “blindfolded” cinema sequence is strictly what it feels like—simply present up and put together to be titillated by no matter pops up on display. Alternatives to be fully stunned by a movie do not come alongside fairly often, so strive it out as a reminder that there are nonetheless mysteries to uncover on this planet. Or perhaps you will hate it. Who is aware of! That is the enjoyable of the entire shebang. Go forth, swap off your mind, and let the enigma reveal itself. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, free)
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Seattle Parks and Recreation presents this summer time sequence of much-loved movie screenings underneath the celebs, with pre-movie actions kicking off round 6 or 7 pm and every movie starting at nightfall. The sequence continues this week with Jurassic Park, a movies that each delighted and scared the hell out of me as a baby, screening at Freeway Park. LC
(Freeway Park, Downtown, free)
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After an eight-year hiatus attributed to author’s block, Portland-based indie-folk outfit Blind Pilot is lastly again with new music. Their fourth album, Within the Shadow of the Holy Mountain, incorporates sudden devices like synth, trumpet, vibraphone, and clarinet. The band will cease by Straightforward Road for a free in-store efficiency earlier than heading out to the Gorge to open for the Dave Matthews Band. AV
(Straightforward Road Data, Junction, free)
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The beloved Seattle trio Wimps will convey their infectious model of slacker-rock and pop-punk to the Kraken Bar & Lounge in honor of their new album Metropolis Lights. The band is understood for his or her relatable little ditties and the brand new album is not any exception. If tracks like “By no means Depart the Home,” “Rut,” and “Lonely” make you are feeling seen, you are not alone! Do not miss opening units from punk bands Evening Court docket and SPELLS. AV
(The Kraken Bar & Lounge, Roosevelt, $10)
PARTIES & NIGHTLIFE
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If it seems like I have never slept in weeks, that is that me espresso. Significantly, my mind has had each track from Sabrina Carpenter’s Brief n’ Candy on replay for the reason that album’s launch final week—I am dropping my thoughts! This Friday, congregate with fellow Sabrina stans at this flirty pop evening enjoying her hits together with songs from different of-the-moment pop girlies like Madison Beer, Ariana Grande, Camila Cabello, Doja Cat, and extra. AV
(Excessive Dive, Fremont, $15)
READINGS & TALKS
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They’re odd, however like, in a great way. And it seems the avant-garde drag diva, legendary cackler, and “genuine weirdo” Yvie Oddly can be a author. All About Yvie: Into the Oddity provides “an intimate and in-depth look” into the lifetime of the RuPaul’s Drag Race season 11 winner, beginning with their childhood and shifting by way of journeys of self-discovery in gender and sexual expression. I would count on nothing lower than candid tea-spilling from the alien-glam powerhouse. Oddly shall be joined by popular culture YouTuber and former Stranger employees author Matt Baume, creator of the 2023 tome Honey, I am Homo! Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Tradition. LC
(Elliott Bay E book Firm, Capitol Hill, free)
SHOPPING
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When husbands Daniel and Ismael Calderón first began their joyful Latinx, POC, and LGBTQ+ pop-up market Aquí Mercado in spring 2023 to have a good time the opening of their pictures studio Aquí, it was imagined to be a one-time incidence, however the couple rapidly realized Seattle had a real starvation for the sort of neighborhood spirit and hospitality. Now, it is blossomed right into a thriving month-to-month occasion with distributors promoting all the pieces from flash tattoos to concha plushies to spicy sweet. This block get together, hosted in partnership with Pals of Waterfront Park and the DSA, is the final mercado of the summer time and can function over 45 Latin/POC/LGBTQ+ distributors, classic items, tasty meals, artwork, a youngsters’ space, DJ tunes from La Mala Noche, conventional Mexican and Latine dances with a queer spin from the native troupe Danza Monarcas, and performances from drag queen Melody Lush Volt Paradisco. (Psst: In the event you’re a fan of Aquí Mercado’s festive vibes, remember to additionally take a look at Daniel and Ismael’s forthcoming espresso store and market Bonito Café y Mercadito, opening September 14 on Capitol Hill.) JB
(Occidental Sq., Pioneer Sq., free)
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Alki Seashore Pleasure is celebrating its tenth yr at Alki Seashore Park by the bathhouse and throughout from Harry’s, and it’s only a massive homosexual seaside get together replete with music, queens, swimming, and dancing, clearly. Cease by the close by eating places on Alki Avenue for “Pleasure reductions,” or convey your personal grill and have a cookout on the seaside. There are a couple of hearth pits on the park too, however they’re first come, first served. In the event you don’t really feel like driving, you’ll be able to take the Elliott Bay Water Taxi from downtown out to Alki Level, then hop on the free five-minute shuttle to the seaside, which is all the time an excellent Seattley deal with. STRANGER CONTRIBUTOR MEG VAN HUYGEN
(Alki Seashore, Alki, free)
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The Wallingford location of the enduring Trinidadian-Caribbean establishment Pam’s Kitchen will have a good time the anniversary of Trinidad and Tobago’s independence from the UK with a festive day filled with energetic soca and calypso music and loads of food and drinks specials, together with doubles, peanut punch, sea moss, free pholourie (fried, spiced cut up pea and flour dough balls), and extra. JB
(Pam’s Kitchen, Wallingford)
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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 removing and relocation to suppose critically about public house and human relationships. You may already be acquainted with his work: Jordan’s multimedia sculpture andimgonnamisseverybody is the centerpiece of the AIDS Memorial Pathway in Capitol Hill. LC
(Veronica, Mount Baker, free; by appointment)
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Northwest African American Museum’s annual Freedom Day provides free admission to the cultural house yearly in order that guests can “broaden their data, understanding, and pleasure of the histories, arts, and cultures of individuals of African descent.” The occasion is a no brainer for households or of us with a free Sunday on their fingers: This yr’s Freedom Day will embrace dwell musical performances, a traditional automobile exhibition, face portray, and extra, however do not miss the chance to duck into the museum’s galleries for Emmett and Mamie-Until Mobley: Let the World See. LC
(Northwest African American Museum, Central District, free)
GEEK & GAMING
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In the event you did not shell out for a PAX badge however need to be a part of the gamer-mania sweeping town this weekend, cease by the Seattle Indies Expo (SIX) as an alternative. The PNW-focused occasion showcases 25 thrilling new video games made by our local people of indie builders (I am notably intrigued by the lovely Want Upon A Llama and chaotic CHAIRS). Ask them questions, make new pals, and help the nonprofit’s mission of offering inclusive and accessible areas for people pursuing sport growth as a passion or profession. SL
(Motif Seattle, Pike Pine Retail Core, free)
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Pasadena-based energy pop undertaking Diners’ most up-to-date album DOMINO was made for summertime. Launched final August, the album evokes the sunny season with popsicle-sweet hooks, beachy guitars, and lyrics about childhood reminiscences. They’re going to swing by way of city to help the album alongside dreamy pop outfit Pitschouse and jazzy artwork pop band 129,600. AV
(Black Lodge, South Lake Union, $15-$18)
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Though his dying of AIDS-related sickness in ’94 lower his life and profession criminally quick, Derek Jarman’s revolutionary directorial type despatched shockwaves by way of the queer cinema canon that also reverberate now. Trendy administrators utilizing avant-garde aesthetics, poetic sensuality, and experimental storytelling strategies like Andrew Haigh, Xavier Dolan, and Luca Guadagnino have Jarman to thank—I mentioned what I mentioned. Jarman’s gutsy, myth-drenched movies will make your September extra vivid and romantic, with screenings of the homoerotic Roman Empire-set Sebastiane (full with a Brian Eno rating), the writhing, indignant AIDS disaster epistle The Backyard (that includes Tilda Swinton), and BLUE, Jarman’s ultimate work, wherein the director “fills the display with blue—nonetheless and unyielding for an hour and nineteen minutes.” LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, $12.50)
EXHIBIT
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Stephanie Syjuco’s artworks have been objects of my obsession in artwork college—the Manila-born conceptual artist typically attracts from archives, museums, and library collections to craft disruptive responses to colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, and warfare. It’s going to enchantment to you when you’re a nerd for analysis and good politics. In Stephanie Syjuco: After/Photos, the artist considers the digicam, describing it as a “expertise of imperialism that data and creates racialized American histories.” The exhibition’s reconstructed archival images, movies, and installations heart the US occupation of the Philippines, American colonization abroad, and the troubling ideology of Manifest Future. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, free, Friday–Sunday)
FESTIVALS
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Since its beginnings within the 1800s because the Snohomish County Honest, the Evergreen State Honest (to not be confused with the bigger Washington State Honest) has been a house for livestock and agricultural displays. It nonetheless has these issues, however has additionally added points of interest like monster truck and NASCAR races, a rodeo, meals stands, carnival video games, and different fashionable honest trappings. Because you’re already there, shell out slightly further to see Martina McBride or Flo Rida carry out. SL
(Evergreen State Fairgrounds, Monroe, $13-$70, Friday–Monday)
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The American Style Movie Archive, aka the “world’s solely nonprofit archive and movie distributor devoted to preserving and defending the best style movies of all time,” celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this yr, which implies it is time so that you can plop your butt in a seat for among the weirdest exploitation filmmaking, discovered footage feasts, underground trash artwork, and riot grrrl flicks conceivable. AGFA makes rescuing forgotten options look simple—their archives home over six thousand 35mm movie prints. In partnership with One thing Bizarre Video and AGFA, SIFF will display some strong choices from the gathering. Anticipate all the pieces from The Zodiac Killer, a ’71 flick “made to seize the real-life Zodiac Killer, however as an alternative ship[ing]…outrageous and compelling ‘tabloid horror,'” to John Cassavetes movies, Sarah Jacobson’s punk-inflected DIY movies, and the world’s first discovered footage horror. LC
(SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Capitol Hill, $14.50-$15.50)
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Channing Tatum looks like unlikely casting for the function of a suspicious tech billionaire, however Blink Twice—Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut—makes courageous decisions, I suppose. The flick follows a cocktail waitress who falls for Slater King (performed by Tatum) at a gala. When she joins him on a non-public island, unusual occurrences deepen her questions round King and the island itself. In the event you’re into Knives Out or White Lotus, it’s going to probably enchantment. Plus, Kravitz stories that the movie is “primarily based on a real story,” however maybe not in the best way you’d count on—Blink Twice illustrates the “infinite obstacles girls typically face within the leisure trade, notably in relation to the ability dynamics with their male colleagues.” LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, $14.50-$19.50, Friday–Monday)
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New German Cinema grasp Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s rebellious type blends Rococo mystique and masculine burlesque in Querelle, a lush adaptation of Jean Genet’s homoerotic melodrama Querelle of Brest. The director’s barbed swan track, launched posthumously after his sudden dying at age 37, tells the story of a French sailor whose go to to a port brothel results in homicide, corruption, and queer explorations. Genet’s showy romanticism has impressed quite a few creators through the years, and creator Navid Sinaki is now counted amongst these ranks—his debut novel, Medusa of the Roses, follows queer lovers in modern-day Tehran. Seize a duplicate of the ebook at this launch, which is able to embrace a screening of Querelle. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, $7-$14, Friday–Sunday)
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If you are going to see a film, see a fucking film. Like, say, Akira Kurosawa’s all-time traditional Seven Samurai (1954), one of many most interesting journey tales (and dramas, and romances, and comedies, and motion flicks…) ever placed on movie. SIFF Cinema Egyptian’s bought all three-plus hours of this may’t-miss film on the massive display in a 4K restoration. PORTLAND MERCURY CONTRIBUTOR ERIK HENRIKSEN
(SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Capitol Hill, $14.50-$15.50, Sunday–Monday)
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Catherine Breillat’s filmmaking strategy could be very, nicely, French—she typically seeks to light up the taboo in provocative explorations of want, 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 Excellent Love) and Janus Movies’ 35mm print of my favourite Breillat, the abrupt and rattling 2001 movie Fats Lady. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, Friday–Monday)
FOOD & DRINK
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The Bremerton Blackberry Pageant offers an awesome excuse to take a stunning ferry trip on what could also be our final “good” weekend. When you get to the berry bash, there will be dwell music, native distributors, and all the pieces “blackberry” you’ll be able to think about—All meals distributors are required to serve at the very least one blackberry-themed merchandise (and lemonade would not rely). Should-try objects embrace blackberry wine, blackberry sausage, and naturally, a slice of blackberry pie. SL
(Bremerton Boardwalk, free, Saturday–Monday)
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In the event you could not get sufficient of Li’l Woody’s Burger Month, wherein the native fast-food chain provides new burger specials created in collaboration with native cooks every week, prepare for his or her Seafood Month. This model offers the Burger Month format a fishy spin, with unique sandwich creations impressed by the bounty of the ocean. Do not miss the ultimate chef particular, the “LTD Version Burger” (sake-marinated black cod, cabbage, white miso aioli, and shredded lettuce on a Li’l Woody’s bun) from Keiji Tsukasaki of LTD Version Sushi. JB
(Li’l Woody’s, Friday–Monday)
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Comfortable rosé season to those that have a good time! No matter your ideas on the ever-present blush beverage, it is onerous to think about a drink higher fitted to summer time. 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’ll be able to count on some well-curated picks.) JB
(Three Sacks Full, Roosevelt, $10-$14, Friday–Saturday)
OUTDOORS
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Because of the tireless efforts of numerous ecological stewards, Washington’s salmon inhabitants is slooooowly rebounding, and you’ll be taught all about how these humble fish help our complete ecosystem at a family-friendly gathering by the Ballard Locks. Salmon could appear to be slippery little weirdos, however their complete 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 hold 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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I wasn’t beforehand acquainted with artist Andrea Dezsö’s work, however I’ve rapidly 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 may most likely dig it, too. LC
(Traver Gallery, Downtown, free, Friday–Saturday; closing)
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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 kinds is dizzying to behold. LC
(Traver Gallery, Downtown, free, Friday–Saturday; closing)
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Transnational, transdisciplinary artist-educator Zabia Avra Colovos is “a baby of Greek and Ethiopian origin” whose work goals to know the constellation of her lineage and transnational identification. Head to King Road Station for Luminous Being, a myth-inspired journey that spans a decade of the artist’s creative inquiries by way of multimedia set up, pictures, and sculpture. I am intrigued by the interaction of 2D and 3D works, which can even embrace movie projections and drawings rife with dream symbols, landscapes, and ceremonies. LC
(King Road Station, SoDo, free, Friday–Saturday)
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McClure is the type of one that will, say, wrap up an interview at her house on a breezy July day by suggesting a spontaneous dip within the sea. It was there, in that post-interview second, that it clicked. We grew to become a body of her art work. The water circling out from our our bodies, the daylight dancing throughout the floor of the ocean, the seal coming over to say hiya. You may really feel the magic your self this summer time at her career-spanning solo exhibit on the Bainbridge Island Museum of Artwork. The present, One thing Concerning the Sky & Different Wonderings, contains items starting from her very first artwork present in 1996 to her newest ebook, One thing Concerning the Sky. And, in true McClure type, she’s made slightly room for guests to soak in their very own creativity. STRANGER ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR MEGAN SELING
(Bainbridge Island Museum of Artwork, Winslow, free, Friday–Monday)
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As somebody who simply spent a couple of 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 the same 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–Saturday; closing)
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Zachary Schomburg, a Portland poet who “combines narrative strategies with surrealism to nice impact” (Stranger information editor Wealthy Smith) is my favourite type of particular person, insistent on creating in myriad mediums. And as an illustrator and painter, Schomburg’s work nonetheless feels knowledgeable by his writing apply. Cake, Palms, and Gentle, the artist’s first solo present at Koplin Del Rio, “leans into gentle and colour” with juicy, vivid compositions and nice titles. “Pity the Imply,” “Sorry Head,” and “Pawn Cake” are a few of my faves. LC
(Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Georgetown, free, Friday–Saturday)
