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Don Hertzfeldt Grand Illusion	Mon., October 6, 7:00pm more dates/times	University District	Local Film/Arthouse
When I think of the animation of Don Hertzfeldt, stick figures with uncontrollable anal bleeding come to mind. His somewhat childish line work (think: belligerently talking amoebas on spindly legs) is coupled with a very dark sense of humor. In his Oscar-nominated 2000 Rejected, a guy who dares... More >>

Ian Rankin Seattle Mystery Bookshop	Mon., October 6, 12:00pm	Pioneer Square	Books & Authors
John Rebus is tired. He’s 60, divorced, his only child living far away, too fond of smoking and drinking, eight days away from retirement from the job he loves, the job that defines him. Fortunately, a dissident Russian poet gets bludgeoned to death on the streets of Edinburgh, which sets... More >>

Overkill, Warbringer, Epicurean, H.M.P., Hatefist El Corazon	Mon., October 6, 7:00pm	Eastlake & South Lake Union	Music
Shredders, rejoice! Some 28 years after first forming, New Jersey quintet Overkill remains 100-percent true to the old-school thrash-metal that one-time labelmates Metallica abandoned long ago, and Anthrax feebly tries to maintain despite hiring a new lead singer every other week. Not that... 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 >>

Blood Simple Central Cinema	Daily from Thu., October 2 until Thu., October 9, 7:00pm more dates/times	Capitol Hill	Local Film/Arthouse
The Coen brothers’ 1984 Texas noir remains one of the best indie films of the ’80s for its wickedly funny take on infidelity, murder, misplaced trust, and mutual suspicion (to say nothing of the knife-impaled hand). This is their slightly tweaked 2000 version that is actually a tiny... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

David Entrikin: Outsiders The Upstairs Gallery	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., September 24 until Fri., November 14	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

Jim Knapp Orchestra Seattle Drum School	Mon., October 6, 8:00pm	North Seattle	Classical/Opera

Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile Benaroya Hall	Mon., October 6, 7:30pm	Downtown	Classical/Opera

The Two Watsons Kirkland Performance Center	Mon., October 6, 7:30pm	Kirkland	Theater

Grudge Rock! feat. Android Hero vs. Steel Tigers of Death Re-bar	Mon., October 6, 9:00pm	Downtown	Music Club Events

IDOLS, the Drip, Abandoned Fetus, As Dead As Oren Studio Seven	Mon., October 6, 7:00pm	SoDo	Music

Keoki Kahumoku, Herb Ohta Jr. Triple Door Mainstage	Mon., October 6, 7:30pm	Downtown	Music

Little Teeth, guests Funhouse	Mon., October 6, 9:30pm	Eastlake & South Lake Union	Music