Wednesday, September 1
- Turtle Island Quartet performs a suite of four Jimi Hendrix pieces (taken from Electric Ladyland) @ the Triple Door
- FREE: It’s TV Dinner night, with four episodes of The Golden Girls @ Central Cinema
- Just two more nights of the un-pc animation extravaganza @ Grand Illusion
Thursday, September 2
- It’s first Thursday, and among other showings, Joe Vollan has an exhibition of his “surreal, steam-punk landscapes inhabited by skeletal figures, animals and robots” @ Flatcolor Gallery
- Cyndi Lauper thinks you’re beautiful, like a rainbow, so go see her on her Memphis Blues tour @ Zoo Tunes
- The not-for-children puppet show Frankenocchio ends its run on Saturday @ Seattle University’s Lee Center for the Arts
- Hopefully it won’t be during The Kora Band’s lunchtime afro-jazz concert @ City Hall
The running of the nerds at PAX past, care of Penny Arcade
Friday, September 3
- “Your arm’s off!” Be warned, it’s a Monty Python & the Holy Grail quote-along @ Central Cinema
- You also have your choice of Pasolini’s Mamma Roma (with Anna Magnani) or Wheedle’s Groove (chronicling “Seattle’s oft-overlooked history as a hotbed of soul music”) @ the Northwest Film Forum
- The Bumbershoot visual arts free preview allows you to check out the art before the crowds descend. It follows the afternoon Mayor’s Arts Awards ceremony, and the exhibits feature an improvisational jamming robot! @ Seattle Center
- Roll the twelve-sided die to get a +3 on agility at PAX through Sunday @ Convention Center
- The Tango Lesson doesn’t sound like a very good movie, but we’ll take any excuse to hit up the new free Friday night dance film series @ Century Ballroom
Saturday, September 4
- Bumbershoot tips off with Bob Dylan, Neko Case, The Decemberists, Ozomatli, Solomon Burke, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Jamie Lidell, The Raveonettes, Civil Twilight, Atlas Sound, and more @ Seattle Center
- A mystery Warp Recording Artist (there’s only one booked for the fest and his name kind of rhymes with riddle) is headlining a Bumbershoot afterparty @ the Crocodile
- It’s the best of the worst videos with Everything is Terrible live and in-person @ Central Cinema
Sunday, September 5
- Bumbershoot keeps right on going with Weezer, Hole, Rise Against, LMFAO, Billy Bragg, The Dandy Warhols, Motion City Soundtrack, Ra Ra Riot, The Bouncing Souls, Crash Kings, Horse Feathers, and more @ Seattle Center
- You can never quarantine the past, but you can see a reunited Pavement @ the Paramount
- Today it’s the artist’s reception for the 6th annual Onyx Fine Arts Exhibit, celebrating the work of Northwest African American artists, ongoing through September 29 @ Art/Not Terminal Gallery (The Subterranean Room)
Monday, September 6
- Bumbershoot’s happy ending finally arrives with Jenny & Johnny (Jenny Lewis & Johnathan Rice), The Thermals, The English Beat, Booker T., Surfer Blood, Japandroids, Anvil, Baroness, Meat Puppets, The Whigs, The Moondoggies, The Clientele, and more @ Seattle Center
- And there’s the official post-Bumbershoot show with Surfer Blood and Dead Confederate @ the Hard Rock
- Or the non-official Bumbershoot after-party with Coliseum, Heiress, and Burning Love @ the Funhouse
- If you’re not Bumbershooting, catch some free music with this month’s edition of The Rumble, featuring Detroit duo Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. [stream their EP] and Mesita @ Havana
Tuesday, September 7
- Issac Delgado sings timba (“sometimes called Cuban salsa”) @ the Triple Door
- It’s the first six nights of “funky swamp rock” with Dr. John and the Lower 911 @ Jazz Alley
- Opening reception for the multimedia Merce Cunningham retrospective, Cunningham in the Northwest (through October 22) @ Cornish Main Gallery
