The irrepressible Amelia Reeber, one of the choreographers presenting new work at Velocity Dance Center’s Strictly Seattle this Friday and Saturday. Photo by Tim Summers.
Thursday, July 29th
- Let’s Do It Again!: Another Night of Sex Worker Made Media is pretty much what it sounds like @ Northwest Film Forum
- The U.S. Senior Open tees off at the ass-crack of dawn @ Sahalee Country Club
- Quote along with Anchorman @ Central Cinema
- Now that Vitaminwater Social Club has finally vacated the premises, things can get back to normal, with City Arts‘ Off Hours reading series, in which writers present new works @ Sole Repair
- For one night only, Elvis hasn’t left the building, thanks to the screening of some never-before-seen footage from 1972 in Elvis on Tour @ Pacific Place
- Toad the Wet Sprocket (still a band!) transport you back to 1991 via nostalgia; openers Hey Marseilles take you around the world via smile-inducing videos and maximalist orchestral pop @ the Moore
- Check out some short films care of Pacific Northwest filmmakers in Tall Beers, Short Shorts @ Re-bar
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Friday, July 30th
- Human Prop’s Summer Invasion is closing down after this Friday’s performance @ Odd Duck/Eclectic Theatre
- Strictly Seattle, Velocity’s annual summer dance festival, opens for three performances starting Friday @ Velocity Dance Center
- Her Mother Was Imagination, a new work by local playwright Elizabeth Heffron, opens @ Annex Theatre
- Meet up with Austin indie film hellraisers Bob Ray and Chad Holt when they screen Total Badass with CrashToons @ Central Cinema
- It’s “Women of Inspiration” Night when the WNBA-leading Storm play Chicago @ KeyArena.
- The Yellow Wood continues its critically praised run @ the Center House Theatre
- Neumos, Chop Suey, The Morgue, and The Comet get taken over all weekend by metal/punk/hardcore mini-fest @ Hunting Parties
- The summer edition of 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theatre Fest opens @ Theatre off Jackson
Saturday, July 31st
- The Balagan Theatre‘s Greetings from Styx! finishes its theatre-in-the-park run in Queen Anne @ David Rodgers Park
- It’s another concert in their summer series, this time with Jackson Browne @ Maryhill Winery
- The power of the double rainbow helped them get their gear back; see Phosphorescent, with Fleet Fox J. Tillman @ the Crocodile
- Ask the Ages brings together musicians from the jazz, classical, rock, and multi-culti worlds @ Good Shepherd Center
- You might have brought a ticket to see Neko, Carl, Cousin Catherine, and Dan, but arrive at the first of two New Pornographers shows early enough not to miss the sunny psych of the Dodos (and Imaad Wasif) @ the Showbox
- Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde opens @ Seattle Opera
Sunday, August 1st
- GreenStage’s Romeo and Juliet visits West Seattle for a performance in the park @ Camp Long
- As previously mentioned, New Pornographers play their second of two shows @ the Showbox
- Watch Tilth’s Maria Hines take on Iron Chef Morimoto on the flat-screen @ the Bottleneck
- It’s your last night to catch the concert doc of Montreal: Family Nouveau @ Northwest Film Forum
Monday, August 2nd
- New Voices 9 is here! Contemporary Classics brings their revue of songs from brand-spanking new musicals to the stage @ ACT Theatre
- Gary Shteyngart follows in Miranda July’s footsteps and heads to a rock club for his reading, joined onstage by Paul Constant and Orkestar Zirkonium @ the Sunset Tavern
- Local indies Exohxo, Kids & Animals, and Quiet Ones @ the Crocodile
- It’s the first Monday of the month, so that means another edition of The Rumble, this time with See Me River and Rumspringa @ Havana
Tuesday, August 3rd
- If you haven’t already torrented or pre-ordered, visit your friendly neighborhood record store to pick up a copy of the Suburbs, the much anticipated Arcade Fire album.
- Seattle native Michael Byers reads from his novel Percival’s Planet, about how Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
- The ZZK label presents a night of Latin urban beats (Tremor, El Romolon, Chancha Via Circuito and El G, with special guest Darwin) @ the Crocodile
- SIFF and Remy-Cointreau host the Speakeasy Series: “Miami,” this time featuring Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot, with subtitles on and music from the Eduardo Mendonça Trio @ the Triple Door
