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Dub Trio, Black Cobra, Middle Class Rut, Witchburn El Corazon	Mon., December 1, 7:00pm	Eastlake & South Lake Union	Music
Three session and touring musicians extraordinaire (guitarist DP Holmes, bassist Stu Brooks and drummer Joe Tomino) -- musicians who've collectively worked with the likes of Tupac Shakur, Mike Patton, 50 Cent, Mos Def, and scads of others -- comprise Brooklyn instrumental outfit Dub Trio, which... More >>

Jon Meacham Town Hall	Mon., December 1, 7:30pm	Downtown	Books & Authors Politics/Activism
Before Reagan chopping wood or Bush clearing brush, there was the original American populist, President Andrew Jackson (1829-1837). No patrician, no Yankee, no Beltway insider (this before the Beltway), he's the rough-hewn subject of American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. Meacham, a... More >>

Metallica Key Arena	Mon., December 1, 7:00pm	Queen Anne	Music
In 1983, while most bands produced prom-friendly albums (danceable mid-tempo hard rock songs, inevitable power ballads, all slathered in hormones and Aqua Net), Metallica had the best rock-n-roll response: Kill ’em All. Punk in speed and energy, heavy metal in technique and tone, Kill... More >>

Wu-Tang Clan Showbox SODO	Mon., December 1, 7:00pm	SoDo	Music
It’s hard to believe the Staten Island-based Wu-Tang Clan crash-landed onto planet hip-hop with its debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), well over a decade ago. At the time, the (roughly) 10-member outfit of outsized personalities with a penchant for incorporating kung-fu flicks... More >>

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Grand Illusion	Daily from Mon., December 1 until Thu., December 4, 6:00pm more dates/times	University District	Local Film/Arthouse
He is tall, skinny, earnest. His ears might stick out too much. He’s not a Washington insider. But he is courageous, principled, determined to bring change to our nation’s capital. Sound familiar? Subject of a four-film retrospective (through Dec. 25), James Stewart stars as an... More >>

Michael Wang: Faces of Global Health Antioch University	Daily from Mon., November 24 until Sun., December 21	Belltown	Art Exhibitions
Mike Wang was done with photography. But when a temp agency placed him as an office assistant with PATH, a Seattle-based nonprofit for worldwide public healthcare, Wang rediscovered his passion for photography—shooting people in need rather than models and album art. Now Wang’s images... 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 >>

Counterbalance Park Counterbalance Park	Daily from Wed., November 26 until Fri., December 4	Queen Anne	Art Exhibitions
When the little park designed by Murase Associates opened at the corner of Queen Anne and Roy this July, I was not impressed. The unloved, gravel-covered site had previously been scraped of its gas station (with pollution still beneath) and sat on a highly trafficked and confusing intersection... More >>

Jenny Heishman: Water Mover Ernst Park	Daily	Fremont	Art Exhibitions Family Events
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 >>

I-5 Colonnade I-5 Colonnade	Daily	Eastlake & South Lake Union	Family Events Sports
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 >>

Doris Totten Chase: Changing Form Kerry Park	Daily from Mon., November 17 until Fri., December 25	Queen Anne	Art Exhibitions
The most popular viewpoint in the city is often a bore for kids. Whenever I walk up to Kerry Park, on the south prow of Queen Anne Hill, shutterbugs, wedding parties, and sightseers are intent on the panoramic view. Watch what the children do, however, when they squirm free of parental grasp or... More >>

Bridge Between Cultures King Street Center	Daily from Wed., October 15 until Wed., October 13	International District	Art Exhibitions
With coal cars and commuter trains rumbling beneath, the Weller Street Overpass connecting the ID to King Street Station isn’t a place where pedestrians tend to linger. Racing across Fourth Avenue South from offices at Amazon.com to catch the last Sound Transit train home, their haste is... More >>

Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and the Tangerine SIFF Cinema	Daily from Fri., November 28 until Wed., December 3, 7:30pm	Queen Anne	Local Film/Arthouse
Perhaps a benefit of its epic gestation—much of the original footage dates back to ’93—this documentary biography of nonagenarian sculptor Louise Bourgeois nicely distinguishes itself from a current theatrical epidemic of stultifyingly admiring life-of-the-artist docs. Bourgeois,... 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 >>

Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq Odegaard Undergraduate Library, UW campus	Daily from Fri., November 14 until Sat., December 6	University District	Art Exhibitions
With our history-making election and economic crisis dominating the headlines, Iraq has slipped from most of our minds. But once you see the 60 photographs in “Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq” (continuing through Dec. 6), that won’t be a problem.... 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 >>

Black Sun Seattle Asian Art Museum	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday	Capitol Hill	Art Exhibitions
As the most touched, caressed, and fondled piece of public art in Seattle, I would nominate Black Sun, installed at the old SAM (now SAAM) on Capitol Hill back in 1969. Hard to remember now, but American-born sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) was once considered a rather daring modernist,... More >>

DuPen Fountain Seattle Center	Daily	Queen Anne	Art Exhibitions
Seattle Center is in upheaval. The Sonics have gone to Oklahoma, KeyArena is struggling to find new events to fill the revenue gap, Memorial Stadium is crumbling, the Fun Forest will soon close, and the ongoing Century 21 makeover plan is gonna take a whole lot of money to implement. But in... More >>

James Stewart Retropsective Grand Illusion	Daily from Fri., November 21 until Thu., December 25, 9:00pm more dates/times	University District	Local Film/Arthouse
Written by Moss Hart and George S. Kauffman, the stage hit You Can't Take It With You was adapted by Frank Capra in 1938. Stewart tries, with not total success, to anchor the crazy family spinning around him. Capra also introduces a bit more Depression-era politics than Broadway audiences would... More >>

Wade Kavanaugh’s Regrade Suyama Space	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Wed., October 1 until Fri., December 12	Belltown	Art Exhibitions
Belltown’s Suyama Space is situated on a plot of land unearthed by rushing water. Sixteen million cubic yards of soil were blasted from Denny Hill in the early 1900s—the city planners’ big idea to create a thriving business district in what came to be known as the Denny Regrade.... More >>

The Wall of Death University Bridge	Daily	Eastlake & South Lake Union	Art Exhibitions
Installed in 1993, The Wall of Death may occupy, after the Fremont Troll, the worst site for public art in Seattle. It’s only visible to those on the Burke-Gilman Trail and UW students and staffers traversing down to the Portage Bay side of campus. It gets almost no sun, and even less... 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 >>

Cris Bruch: DMFA University of Washington Campus	Daily from Wed., October 29 until Thu., October 1	University District	Art Exhibitions
You have to kick aside the fallen leaves to find a small marker identifying the Department of Forensic Morphology Annex, a four-year-old installation just south of the UW Law School. Students scurry by to their classes, seemingly oblivious (or accustomed) to the stainless-steel blob, which... More >>

David Entrikin: Outsiders The Upstairs Gallery	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., September 24 until Sat., January 31	Ballard	Art Exhibitions
David Entrikin’s hobby is photography. And his subject matter—the homeless—is so often photographed by pros that supermodels must be getting jealous. Forgive me, then, that when I first heard of Entrikin’s show “Outsiders” (on view through Nov. 14), I dismissed it... More >>

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Soul City Mondays with Circle of Fire War Room	Every week Monday, 9:00pm	Capitol Hill