Fasten your seatbelts! It’s time once again for some Seattle Pride! (Photo: TSB Flickr pool member shadowplay)
Wednesday
- Closing night of Circus Syzygy‘s Just Add Water @ SANCA
- It’s nice out, so head Out to Lunch to see seminal ska band The English Beat @ Westlake Park
- Just a couple days left of lo-fi lowbrow auteur Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers @ Northwest Film Forum
- Making out on the beach leads to (spoiler alert) Pearl Harbor in From Here to Eternity @ Grand Illusion
- Geopolitical analyst and journalist Gwynne Dyer prophesies doom in Climate Wars @ Town Hall
Thursday
- Seattle Symphony closes its season with a Bernstein celebration (Chichester Psalms, The Age of Anxiety) featuring Misha Dichter, pianist (Thurs-Sun) @ Benaroya Hall
- FREE: If you liked the Intiman’s The Thin Space, you might want to catch travel writer William Dalrymple talking about his book Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
- Clay Shirky talks about your cognitive surplus @ Town Hall
- Concrete Blonde, it turns out, is still in existence @ Showbox
- As previously mentioned, Wild Summer Nights kicks off @ the Bravern
- The term “singer-songwriter” doesn’t even begin to cover Sally Seltmann, despite the fact that she wrote the song “1234” for Feist. It’s the pop songstress’s first Seattle show in three years (and the first under her own name, rather than moniker New Buffalo) @ High Dive
Friday
- Parks & Rec‘s Aziz Ansari makes all the people laugh @ the Moore Theatre
- Rachel Randall’s RandAll Dance Troupe performs @ Lo-fi
- The recipient of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Rae Armantrout, reads from Versed @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
- Cocorosie does their quirky sister act @ Showbox
- NO COVER: “Elsa Nilsson Quartet are an improvisational groove quartet playing Deathjazz like Vikings who got sick of the cold and fled to Brazil” @ the Triple Door Musicquarium
- Mudhoney brings grunge to the great outdoors @ Olympic Sculpture Park
- To kick off Pride Weekend, get a free Po Dogs deep-fried danger dog blessed by Sylvia O’Stayformore at the fourth annual Hot Dog Blessing @ the Bottleneck
Saturday
- Voices Rising celebrates Pride with Nedra Johnson, Kevin Simmonds, Crystal Ybarra, and Imani Sims @ Hugo House
- It’s the annual Triple Sip, a pricey, winey benefit for KEXP @ Triple Door
- Celebrate the tenth birthday of a great local venue all weekend long @ The Sunset
- Dum Dum Girls go fuzzed-out lo-fi with Crocodiles and Past Lives @ High Dive
- Best Worst Movie runs for another week, but this is your last chance to see the doc along with its subject, the wonderfully terrible Troll 2 @ Central Cinema
- Also on the terrible movie tip, Birdemic plays its second of two midnight showings @ the Egyptian
- House of Hands brings the Pride party outside in the sure-to-be fabulous parking lot @ Havana
“Two lesbians in a fountain…” Love that song. Did we mention it’s Pride weekend yet? (Photo: Thanks again, shadowplay)
Sunday
- Stay gold, it’s the last day for Bobby Caldwell with The Pony Boy Orchestra @ Jazz Alley
- Three Imaginary Girls throw a listening party with the new Carissa’s Wierd and Femurs albums, not to mention the arts and crafts @ Neptune Coffee
- Go over the rainbow @ Seattle Pride Parade
Monday
- Seattle author Mishna Wolff reads from her memoir I’m Down @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
- Indie rapper Cage returns to Seattle @ Nectar
Tuesday
- Poet and Hugo teacher Elizabeth Austen (good name!) reads from her first chapbook The Girl Who Goes Alone at a book release party @ Hugo House
- Meshell Ndegeocello presents a night of Gil Scott-Heron covers @ Triple Door
- Femi Kuti & the Positive Force bring their version of Fela’s afrobeat to Seattle @ Showbox
What a perfect song Concrete Blonde turned out that one time. One other semi-good song, and that’s it. Too bad, I thought they might have turned into something.