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Chase Family 4th Gas Works Park	Sat., July 4, 12:00pm-11:00pm	Fremont	Family Events Festivals Fourth of July
Although WaMu has collapsed in subprime shame, JPMorgan Chase has stepped in to sponsor what’s now being called the Chase Family 4th. This year’s daylong festival is not only free, but features all the essentials for a Fourth of July party: hotdogs, hamburgers, beer garden, and... More >>

Robert Armani Baltic Room	Sat., July 4, 9:00pm	Downtown	Music
Frantic Chi-town DJ Robert Armani spins pulsating techno jams all night long. More >>

Wind Cradle Seattle Central Community College	Daily	Capitol Hill	Art Art - Ongoings
Wind Cradle looks like six giant blades of grass, or the magnified cartoon facial hairs of a razor commercial. The thrill of the piece is seeing something so small and delicate rendered as a monument in stainless steel. But indestructible as it looks, fashion has conspired against Wind Cradle.... More >>

PCNW Thesis Exhibition Photographic Center Northwest	Fri., June 12, 6:00pm-8:00pm more dates/times	Capitol Hill	Art
Cheryl Hanna-Truscott spent over six years photographing women in the Washington Corrections Center’s prison nursery program, near Shelton, Wash. These women—most in their 20s and 30s—maintain custody of their children while completing sentences for crimes like auto theft and... More >>

Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival Center for Wooden Boats	Sat., July 4, 10:00am-6:00pm more dates/times	Eastlake & South Lake Union	Family Events Festivals
Since the Saturday Night Live “I’m on a boat” skit aired in February, I’ve wanted to get on a boat. But for those of us who lack the resources to spend the Fourth of July holiday floating idly amid the posh yachts in the San Juans or Côte d’Azur, there’s this... More >>

Target Practice Seattle Art Museum	Daily from Thu., June 25 until Sun., September 6, 10:00am-5:00pm	Downtown	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
SAM’s big summer show is awfully specific about its themes and dates: Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78. After the Abstract Expressionists got done gobbing on the paint, a new generation began scraping it off and, ultimately, probing through the picture frame. With nine... More >>

ÜberPortrait Bellevue Arts Museum	Daily from Tue., June 16 until Sun., October 18, 11:00am-5:00pm	Bellevue	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
Put an umlaut in the title, and any arts exhibition—or heavy metal band—automatically becomes more interesting. “ÜberPortrait” packages together three local and eight international artists to intentionally fractured effect. One decapitated head is the size of a Smart... More >>

The Taming of the Shrew Fremont Troll	Sat., July 11, 2:30pm more dates/times	Fremont	Theater
“Nobody loves a kvetch.”—Judy Blume, Wifey. Not so!, according to Shakespeare: If you can find a guy who’s desperate enough for her dough, anything is stomach-able. Under the benevolent gaze of the Fremont Troll (I kid you not), Balagan Theatre is aiming to stage Seattle... More >>

Buddha Belltown Buddha Belltown	Daily, 12:00pm	Belltown	Music
I celebrated my 23rd birthday by getting plastered, flailing about to Billy Idol, and then dumping my boyfriend of two years via text message. I woke up the next morning hungover, single, and thoroughly ashamed of myself. But that unpleasant experience hasn’t deterred me from frequenting... More >>

Seattle International Beerfest Seattle Center	Daily from Fri., July 3 until Sun., July 5, 12:00pm-10:00pm	Queen Anne	Festivals
It is the official Drink of Summer.©®™ (Or so SW now decrees.) Meaning, of course, beer, the subject of this weekend’s Seattle International Beerfest. Do you need more reason to celebrate it? Do you need more reason to drink it? Of course not—though the three-day fest... More >>

Andrew Wyeth Seattle Art Museum	Daily from Thu., June 25 until Sun., October 18, 5:00pm-9:00pm	Downtown	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) was once considered such an important American painter that his work was featured on the cover of Time (“Wyeth’s Stunning Secret”). But today, who reads Time magazine? And who cares for traditional figurative art? Back in 1986, Wyeth was already old and... More >>

Made in U.S.A. Northwest Film Forum	Daily from Fri., July 3 until Thu., July 9, 7:00pm more dates/times	Capitol Hill	Film Film - Art House Film - Events Film - Festivals
“You can fool the movie audience, but not me,” says Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 political noir Made in U.S.A. The film is self-reflexive as well as self-conscious: When characters—more than a few named for Godard’s pet movie personalities—speak, it’s... More >>

Orange Flower Water ACT Theatre	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., June 24 until Mon., July 20, 8:00pm more dates/times	Downtown	Theater
Craig Wright’s wrenching 70-minute immersion in infidelity is only New Century Theatre Company’s second offering. This minimalist production makes clear the breadth of the troupe’s ambition: The set consists of four chairs and a single bed between them. At first, Cathy (Jennifer... More >>

Yo! Son (hip-hop) with DJs DV-One, FourcolorZack, Scene War Room	Every week Saturday, 9:00pm	Capitol Hill	Music
You can always count on prominent local DJs DV-One, Fourcolorzack and Scene to hold down this dance party, but sometimes, you can catch guests like DJ Spinderella (of Salt 'n Pepa) as well. One of the best hip hop DJ nights in the city, hands down. More >>

Independence Day Egyptian	Sat., July 4, 11:59pm more dates/times	Capitol Hill	Film Film - Art House Film - Events Film - Repertory & Special Screenings
Will Smith defends the Earth against alien invaders in this 1996 special-effects smash. And, in the process, probably became the biggest movie star on Earth. Borrowing elements from just about every alien-invasion flick from the prior half century, Independence Day wins no points for... More >>

The Passage Burien Interim Art Space	Daily from Sat., January 24 until Thu., December 31	South King County	Art Family Events
Leaving aside the issue of grants and funding, maybe our current recession could be a good thing for the arts. Or at least for sites and venues owned by developers who can’t raise the money to raze or build on them. Look around Seattle, and you’ll see a lot of empty storefronts. Or as... More >>

Counterbalance Park Counterbalance Park	Daily	Queen Anne	Art
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 >>

Water Mover Ernst Park	Daily	Fremont	Art 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 >>

Ann Lislegaard: 2062 Henry Art Gallery	Daily from Sat., April 18 until Sun., August 23	University District	Art
The three computer-animation installations and accompanying three sound rooms by Danish artist Ann Lislegaard are presented as 2062, the year in which they might’ve been created. That future date reflects her inspiration from sci-fi writers Samuel R. Delany, Ursula K. Le Guin, and the... More >>

Changing Form Kerry Park	Daily	Queen Anne	Art
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	International District	Art
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 >>

Adjacent, Against, Upon Myrtle Edwards Park	Daily	Downtown	Art
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 >>

Vertebrae Safeco Plaza	Daily	Downtown	Art
Henry Moore has been dead for 22 years. The British sculptor (1898-1986) is not someone whose name you often hear these days. Once a progressive, modernist force, not a conceptualist or particularly clever, his legacy seems tied to the avant-garde innovations of the ’20s and ’30s,... More >>

Titus Kaphar Seattle Art Museum	Daily from Sat., April 4 until Sun., September 6	Downtown	Art
Race is always an awkward subject at the art museum. That’s a dilemma that 33-year-old African-American artist Titus Kaphar addresses squarely in his paintings. His “History in the Making” exhibit comes courtesy of the first Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Fellowship. During... More >>

Corin Hewitt Seattle Art Museum	Daily from Sat., April 4 until Sun., October 18	Downtown	Art
Two years ago, Corin Hewitt locked himself inside a cramped, cluttered room-within-a-gallery at Portland’s Small A Projects. He had a refrigerator, stove, groceries, various cooking implements, several cameras, and images of Native American baskets to copy (along with some Goodwill wicker... More >>