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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Showbox at the Market	Sun., September 7, 8:00pm	Downtown	Music
Live bands don't come much cooler than Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – the trio's all cigarettes and swagger and dark clothes and loud, grimy, moody riffs and rhythms, owing to their collective love of the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Velvet Underground and the Stones. The band's still touring... More >>

Ghost of Kyle Bradford, Dark Circles, Ross Beamish Sunset Tavern	Sun., September 7, 9:00pm	Ballard	Music
One of the newer local acts I've been following with keen interest in recent months is Ghost of Kyle Bradford, a.k.a. dude-with-acoustic-guitar Kyle Hawkins. It's the vocal delivery that does it for me: Hawkins possesses a rough, husky whisper that's neither pretty, nor grating, but is simply... More >>

The Dead Science (CD release), Past Lives, Talbot Tagora Neumos	Sun., September 7, 8:00pm	Madison Valley & Madison Park	Music
Music writing, as a form, loves classifications: X band sounds like X other band, and thus belongs in X genre. However, in the eight years that they've been around, the Dead Science have refused to be put in a particular box – including Seattle's indie-rock shaped one. At one time or... More >>

Olympic Music Festival Olympic Music Festival	Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sat., June 28 until Sun., September 7, 2:00pm	Washington State	Classical/Opera
Three works in the chamber-music repertory are guaranteed standing ovations, whenever and wherever they’re played, thanks to their hurtling, whizbang endings: Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” quartet, Beethoven’s quartet Op. 59 No. 3, and the rollicking, Gypsy-flavored... More >>

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Everett Events Center	Daily from Thu., September 4 until Sun., September 7, 7:30pm	Everett	Family Events
Like vanilla ice cream with a splash of Tabasco, or Barbie with a mohawk, the 138th edition of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus adds some edge to a nostalgic childhood favorite. Yes, the century-old formula still satisfies all big-top expectations. Elephants—check.... More >>

Tad Carpenter Bluebottle Art Gallery & Store	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Tue., September 2 until Sat., September 20, 12:00pm	Capitol Hill	Art Exhibitions
Illustrator and designer Tad Carpenter describes his work as being “modern, with a bit of Saturday morning cartoons mixed in.” He also cites Pixar, Maurice Sendak, and Richard Scarry as influences, so it makes sense that it’s the sort of stuff both children and adults can enjoy.... More >>

Destry Rides Again Grand Illusion	Daily from Fri., September 5 until Thu., September 11	University District	Local Film/Arthouse
Yes, this is the one with Marlene Dietrich as the saloon singer in the Old West (famously parodied by Madeline Kahn in Blazing Saddles), and it’ll work for you or not work for you for precisely that reason. Jimmy Stewart plays the lawman committed to bringing order to a lawless... 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 >>

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 >>

“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 >>

Artist Collective: Toy Gallery 110	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., September 3 until Sat., September 27, 12:00pm	Pioneer Square	Art Exhibitions
As a girl, photographer Grace Weston played alone in her bedroom, devising life stories for people she’d made out of pipe cleaners. “One of my brothers had just died, and the other was very sick,” she recalls. “I felt very isolated. At the same time, I didn’t want to... More >>

Hansi Singh: “Mantidae” Joe Bar	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sun., September 7 until Tue., September 30, 8:30am	Capitol Hill	Art Exhibitions
“I thought it’d be neat to have these huge insects staring at you while you eat,” explains Fremont artist Hansi Singh about her praying mantises hovering at Joe Bar. “Mantidae” (through September 30) features her hand-knitted, foot-long wool bugs crawling across the... More >>

Music of Africa Hidmo Eritrean Cuisine	Every week Sunday, 8:00pm	Central District	Music
Every Sunday night at Hidmo Eritrean Cuisine, a rotating roster of artists perform music from a different part of the African continent. The first time I went, four drummers pounded out Taranga rhythms, a Senegalese drumming style executed on tall Sabar drums. The four drummers played sitting... 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 >>

Puyallup Fair Puyallup Fairgrounds	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., September 5 until Sun., September 21, 10:00am	Washington State	Family Events
Everyone knows that monkey/human interaction is comedy gold (see Bedtime for Bonzo and Ed, starring Matt LeBlanc at his finest). You can catch your own case of simian fever at the Puyallup Fair (through Sept. 21). At the show “Wild About Monkeys” (daily at 1, 3, and 5 p.m.), watch a... 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 >>

More Events

2008 Houseboat Tour Various locations	Sun., September 7, 12:00pm	Downtown	Tours/Landmarks

Greg Bear Third Place Books	Sun., September 7, 5:30pm	North Seattle	Books & Authors

Poetry in the Park Victor Steinbrueck Park	Sun., September 7, 4:00pm	Pike Place Market	Poetry/Spoken Word Books & Authors

Mary Woodward Eagle Harbor Book Co.	Sun., September 7, 3:00pm	Bainbridge Island	Books & Authors

Steve Daniels Wedgwood Presbyterian Church	Sun., September 7, 7:30pm	Ravenna & Wedgwood	Classical/Opera

Afrissippi Triple Door Mainstage	Sun., September 7, 7:30pm	Downtown	Music

Alela Diane, Laura Gibson, Barton Carroll Tractor Tavern	Sun., September 7, 9:00pm	Ballard	Music

Carmine Appice's SLAMM!! El Corazon	Sun., September 7, 8:00pm	Eastlake & South Lake Union	Music