On the List: September 29-October 5

Wednesday, September 29th

• According to The Stranger, Police Beat was created by geniuses, so go see it @ Northwest Film Forum
• Two free (with RSVP) events, care of Filter: The Maldives and Fences @ Chop Suey and It's Kind of a Funny Story @ the Guild
• Have a few decent days and nights with sorely-missed harmony-loving Brits The Futureheads @ the Croc
• An awesome band with rafter-rattling ambitions attracts enough fans to fill an cavernous concrete arena. Arcade Fire bring the Suburbs and Calexico to the masses @ Key Arena

Thursday, September 30th

• Gerard Schwarz conducts the Seattle Symphony through Dvorak's Seventh Symphony (and Debussy's Pelleas and Melisande Suite, program repeats Saturday) @ Benaroya Hall
• Time for a Heathers Quote-Along @ Central Cinema
• Local composer and chanteuse Ivory Smith has a regular Thursday night gig @ Vito's
• Another night in John Roderick's residency @ the Triple Door
• As impressive as Dirty Projectors' classically-trained globally influenced experimentalism sounds on record, it's even more jaw-dropping when performed @ Showbox

Friday, October 1st

• The Local Sightings Film Fest, spotlighting the work of local filmmakers, begins with film Bummer Summer and big opening night party (and runs through October 6) @ Northwest Film Forum
• Artist Home, The Tacoma Warehouse, and Sound on the Sound team up with a free show featuring some of the best emerging artists in the Northwest: Lemolo, Bryan John Appleby, Youth Rescue Mission, Kimo Muraki, Luke Stevens, and Kirsten and Travis @ Columbia City Theater
• Check out the art or just mingle @ the Henry Open House
• Double Yoko, featuring the inimitable Paris Hurley and Beth Fleenor, plays @ Good Shepherd Center
• It's a Salon!, the newest installation of the Cherdonna and Lou Show, opens @ Century Ballroom

Barbie Dream Hearse, care of SunBreak Flickr-er +Russ

Saturday, October 2nd

• Inconceivable! Five more showings of Princess Bride to enjoy @ Central Cinema
• A day of trying out tons of California extra-virgin olive oil with the New American Olive Oil workshop (followed by a signing and dinner) @ TASTE
• Get your fill of blues-indie rock with The Black Keys and Nicole Atkins @ the Paramount
• London-based The Boxer Rebellion have gone from unsigned band to the Billboard Top 200, as well as making soundtrack appearances all over movies and television. They play with fellow Englishmen, the stargazey Amusement Parks on Fire @ the Croc
• Sensitive, bookish people wearing scarves will be flocking to the now-with-tea-cakes Northwest Tea Festival (tomorrow, too) @ Seattle Center

Sunday, October 3rd

• Stokley Towles takes his quirkily engaging "Trash Talk": The Social Life of Garbage to the masses @ Town Hall
• It's the last night for jazz, blues, and gospel songstress Nancy Wilson @ Jazz Alley
• The Swedish giants from Dungen make mystical flute solos look butch @ Neumo's

Monday, October 4th

• Our Bumbershoot pals Surfer Blood are back, this time with The Drums @ Neumo's
• It's a singer-songwriter Monday in Ballard, as California troubadour Patrick Park plays with Grand Hallway's Tomo Nakayama and a solo acoustic version of Sea Wolf @ the Tractor
• Caribou are no longer playing the Showbox, so see their sunny ear-damaging mathtacular rock instead @ Chop Suey

Tuesday, October 5th

• Resolved! Publicola is hosting a debate on the notion of privatizing worker's compensation @ Town Hall
• Bay Area popsters A B & The Sea bring the summer back, along with equally sunny Jukebox the Ghost and Hooray for Earth @ High Dive
• The Klaxons end their three-year neo-rave hiatus with new album Surfing the Void @ Chop Suey