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Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson University Book Store	Sat., October 11, 1:00pm	University District	Books & Authors
Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq offers just that. Scenes from Najaf, Baghdad, and Basra are depicted on-the-fly and unauthorized by U.S. authorities. Images of death, combat, religious conflict, and ordinary life are part of this new coffee-table portrait of... More >>

Brent Amaker & the Rodeo, Panda & Angel, the Hands Admiral Theater	Sat., October 11, 8:00pm	West Seattle	Music
West Seattle isn't exactly one of the city's live music hubs (I know, I live there), but that's changing, and here's a big reason why: the Admiral Theater has begun scheduling live shows, to be held in a space that can fit up to 400 people. They're applying for a liquor license. And best of... More >>

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, Ruby Suns, DJ Righteous Trash, secret special guest Neumos	Sat., October 11, 8:00pm	Madison Valley & Madison Park	Music
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band came charging out of the gates surrounded by a cloud of self-made hype so thick and intoxicating that Seattle's music community got completely swept up in it before anyone even heard the band's music. Which was the idea (specifically, guitarist Benjamin Verdoes'... More >>

Weezer KeyArena	Sat., October 11, 7:30pm	Queen Anne	Music
Much like Aerosmith when the band was all on drugs, or Elton John when he was still bi, the general consensus is that Weezer reached its creative peak while Rivers Cuomo was at his all-time personal low. But the band has persevered, releasing its sixth album, Weezer (just call it “the red... 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 >>

Pulp Fiction Egyptian	Sat., October 11, 11:59pm	Capitol Hill	Local Film/Arthouse
We have just one question for you: How do we know which wallet belongs to Jules Winnfield? There’s no excuse for missing Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 Oscar-winner with its big talented cast and wonderfully elliptical storytelling. How can you go wrong with John Travolta, Samuel L.... 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 >>

Yoga Bitch Re-bar	Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., September 19 until Sat., October 11, 8:00pm	Downtown	Theater
Alternately side-splitting and stomach-curdling, writer/actress Suzanne Morrison’s autobiographical monologue is savagely funny. Narrating her decision to quit her job, drain her bank account, and put her relationship on hold while she trains as a yoga instructor in Bali, Yoga Bitch is the... 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 >>

Anatomy of a Murder Grand Illusion	Daily from Fri., October 10 until Thu., October 16, 8:00pm	University District	Local Film/Arthouse
James Stewart defends the innocent again in this oft-overrated 1959 Otto Preminger legal drama, which continues to catch audiences napping with its frank testimony about rape and human sexuality. That boldness of approach--combined with a fresh score by Duke Ellington and electrifying... 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 >>

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 >>

The Exiles Northwest Film Forum	Daily from Fri., October 10 until Thu., October 16, 7:00pm more dates/times	Capitol Hill	Local Film/Arthouse
This forgotten 1961 indie is set largely in L.A.’s working-class Bunker Hill district, since razed for office towers. It’s a lost film in a lost neighborhood full of lost people; you can’t get much more forlorn than that. Shot over three years without location sound by Kent... More >>

Jim Woodring Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., October 11 until Wed., November 5	Georgetown	Books & Authors Art Exhibitions
Not all of us can embrace the steampunk movement, not if it means wooden computers and carrying our flash drives on gold watch chains, though Paul DiFilippo might argue otherwise. The Rhode Island writer of Cosmocopia (Payseur & Schmidt, $65) will appear with local artist Jim Woodring to... 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 >>

Richard Misrach: On the Beach Henry Art Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., October 10 until Sun., January 18	University District	Art Exhibitions
Bay Area photographer Richard Misrach is best known for his decades-long Desert Cantos series, which deals with the vastness and scale of the American West. The environment is a political construct for him, something humans shape by their choices and policies. This new traveling show of 20... 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 >>

April Brimer: Portraits of Curiosity McLeod Residence	Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., October 9 until Sat., November 22	Belltown	Art Exhibitions
Looking at April Brimer’s portraits, you can’t help but wonder what is happening. Why is that girl’s popcorn flying out of its box? Does that foxy lady know there’s a fox under her bed? And who is that hunk in the sexy horn-rimmed glasses? Is it me? Unfortunately there... More >>

Men in Dance Broadway Performance Hall	Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., October 3 until Sun., October 12, 8:00pm more dates/times	Capitol Hill	Dance
As a guy who can’t dance, I tend to be envious of those who can. Which means that the performers at the Men in Dance festival should make me positively lizard-green. But when a program includes this many great artists, drawn from practically every dance company in town (and beyond),... 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 >>