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Seattle Weekly is seeking friendly, fun-loving and out-going social superstars to join our street team, the Outsiders. Promote Seattle Weekly while attending the best events in town, including music, art and theatre events, happy hours, festivals and more. Expand your horizons and meet lots of new people—all while working part-time, flexible hours. Interested? Email your resume to jlevy@seattleweekly.com. No phone calls please.

Contests

Macklemore, One Be Lo, Blu

& The Physics at Chop Suey May 25th!

Muppet Show: The Complete Third Season

On DVD May 20!

Offical Seattle Weekly Contest Rules

Sponsored Events

Corteo by Cirque du Soleil

Opens Thursday, April 24 to Sunday, May 18
King County's Marymoor Park
$38.50-$210 / All Ages
Get more info at seattleweekly.com/corteo.

SAM After Hours

Seattle Art Museum
Call 206.654.3100 for Locations.

Art for All (First Thursdays) June 5
Hans York: Combining jazz, folk and classical European styles, Hans York blends unique and familiar sounds.
All day free admission / All Ages / 6-8pm / Brotman Forum

SAM Remix (First Fridays) June 6
Kick off the summer at this special Remix at the Olympic Sculpture Park! DJ Kid Hops teams with Sun Tzu Sounds for this dance-until-dusk party, followed by an electrifying screening of Baz Luhman's Moulin Rouge (2001).

Tickets are $5 for the general public; free for SAM members. Tickets will be sold on-site the day of the event (cash only). To reserve your space in advance, please call the SAM Box Office at 206.654.3121.
$5 / 21+ / 6 - Midnight / Olympic Sculpture Park

SAM Word (Second Thursdays) June 12
Writer-in-residence Roberto Ascalon curates this summer evening of creative wordsmithing.
Free with museum admission / All Ages / 8-9pm / South Hall

Art of Jazz (Second Thursdays) July 10
The Hadley Caliman Quartet delivers cool jazz, straight up and soulful.
Free with museum admission / All Ages / 5:30-7:30p / Brotman Forum

Gay Bingo

South Lake Union Naval Reserve Building
$200 Table for 8-10 / 21+ / 6pm Doors, 7pm Bingo

Lifelong AIDS Alliance brings us the 15th season of Gay Bingo! Invite your friends to join you on the second Saturday of each month, January through June. Youll be in the company of more than 750 people who come to the South Lake Union Naval Reserve Building for this long-running, must-see event.

If you're celebrating a special event or just want to be pampered like royalty, be sure to reserve a table in the Queens For A Day section!

Saturday, June 14
Big Gay Prom Bingo: Where everyone's a king or queen

Seattle Cheese Festival

Friday, May 16 – Sunday, May 18
Pike Place Market (parking & directions)
FREE, seminars are varying prices / All Ages / 10am – 5pm

The Seattle Cheese Festival will return for the fourth year! As artisanal cheese production grows, so does the festival! Come taste more than 200 cheeses from local and international producers along the cobblestone street of Pike Place Market. The Seattle Cheese Festival is the first of its kind on the West Coast with artisanal cheese at center stage. Seminars are also available.

Ten Grands

Saturday, May 17, 2008
Benaroya Hall
$36 - $120 / All Ages / 7pm

TEN GRANDS features ten well-known pianists on one stage with ten grand pianos! An enchanting and inspirational evening of music at the Benaroya Hall May 17th, 2008! Ten Grands and the Snowman Foundation are proud to partner with PONCHO to promote the performing arts and make them accessible to all throughout Washington State.

Join TOM GRANT (N.W.'s Jazz Cat), MICHAEL ALLEN HARRISON (composer, producer, adult-contemporary recording artist), DAVID LANZ (Internationally known New Age Artist), MICHAEL KAESHAMMER (Canada's Boogie Woogie Sensation), JANICE SCROGGINS (Blues Legend) REGINA YEA (Classical Master) MICHAEL LEE (13 year old classical child prodigy), DEEMS TSUTAKAWA (Smooth Jazz) JOHN NILSEN (Pop dynamo), BOGEY VUJKOV (legendary Jazz Stylist), at this one of a kind event!

Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com or 206.292.ARTS

Major Sponsors and promoters include: RBC Dain Rauscher, Sherman Clay, Seattle Weekly, PONCHO, ZINO Society, Seattle Youth Symphony, Rainier Club, Steinway and Sons

Seattle International Film Festival

Thursday, May 22 – Sunday, June 15
Various Locations
Tickets: 5/8 supporters, 5/11 general public / All Ages

The 34th Seattle International Film Festival kicks off on Thursday, May 22 with the premiere of "Battle in Seattle," a gripping dramatization of events that rocked the world when Seattle was host to the World Trade Organization. The evening unfolds at Seattle Center's McCaw Hall with a red carpet welcome for expected guests and stars of the film Charlize Theron and Martin Henderson, as well as director Stuart Townsend. A fabulous gala party will follow with live entertainment, and complimentary champagne cocktails and hors d'oeuvres.

Enter to win a pair of Gala tickets and all-Festival passes here.

The full Festival schedule will be announced on May 8. Seattle Weekly Green Card is proud to sponsor Planet Cinema. Details also coming May 8!

Children's Ride 13

Sunday, June 29
Qwest Field, Seattle to White River Amphitheater, Auburn
$70 and up / Ages / Here's the Schedule

Thirteen years ago, 100 motorcycles gathered to participate in the first Children's Ride. The event was a success raising $13,000 for Children's Hospital. In 2007, CR 12 raised more than $680,000 for Children's Hospital. Children's Ride has now become one of the top five guild fundraisers for Children's Hospital, as well as one of the largest charity motorcycle events in the Pacific Northwest.

This year Children's Ride has a new destination! The traditional WSP escorted ride starting from Qwest Field in Seattle will end at the White River Amphitheater (WRA) in Auburn for the first annual Rock ‘n Ride Concert! Join Paul Yaffe and Keith Wong for a great day of riding, music, food and vendors.

To Do List

Friday, May 16

Bike to Work Day
We need Bike to Work Day for the same reason we need Mother’s Day, or ... More>>
City Hall, Fri., May 16, 7:30am

Clinic, Shearwater
Clinic bears an unfortunate, much-mentioned resemblance to the Beatles—... More>>
Neumo's, Fri., May 16, 8:00pm, $13 adv

Nas, D. Black, Grynch, DJ Nphared
How will Nas top his declaration that a nuclear winter had smothered hip-ho... More>>
Showbox SODO, Fri., May 16, 8:30pm, $37.40 adv./$40

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