Wednesday, August 25th

• Get summery and lo-fi and bored with Wavves @ Neumo’s
• Rufus Wainwright gives one Lulu of a performance @ the Paramount
• It’s your chance to boat around with the World Affairs Council @ Lake Union
• Grammy Award-winning guitarist Lee Ritenour and collaborator pianist Dave Grusin are making the sweet jazz music (through August 29) @ Jazz Alley

Thursday, August 26th

• Say goodbye to Carly Nicklaus (The Catch, United State of Electronica), whose off-to-NYC bash is @ Havana

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Pee Wee’s Big Adventure will be screened in Cal Anderson as part of Saturday’s Seattle Bike-In

• Dancer/choreographer Asimina Chremos begins a series of performances for audiences of one @ Gallery 1412
• Mobile City, a kick-off party-on-wheels for the Capitol Hill Summer Sale, goes down from 6 to 9 @ the BofA parking lot at Broadway & Thomas
• No, we haven’t said enough about this series already: it’s your last night of Vincent Moon music movie goodness @ Northwest Film Forum

Friday, August 27th

• Check out the final Blonde But Not Forgotten flick with a young tomboy Jodie Foster in Candleshoe @ Cal Anderson
• Yet another sure-to-be fashionable night when SAM Remix takes the party outdoors @ Olympic Sculpture Park
• Dreamy troubadour James Apollo brings his dark and melancholy sounds @ Vermillion
• KEXP Concerts at the Mural series closes with Mt. St. Helen’s Vietnam Band, The Head and the Heart, & Yuni in Taxco @ Seattle Center
• Vince Mira joins the Dusty 45s for what should be a lively-ass night @ the Triple Door
• Around a Small Mountain is “a short, late minor gem” from Jacques Rivette, that’s “as transporting and graceful as a ride in a balloon” so go see it @ the Northwest Film Forum

Saturday, August 28th

• It’s a little bit of everything–food, shopping, costume contest, movie, family fun, and more–@ Chinatown-ID Night Market
• Another opportunity to go totally ’80s, with Crowded House @ Chateau Ste Michelle Winery
• Put on a helmet and ride over to the 5th Annual Bike-In, screening Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure @ Cal Anderson
• It’s a Cave Singers show in a secret location under the stars, care of JanSport. Only the first 100 people get on the bus somewhere @ Capitol Hill
• If you don’t go for the Japanese horror classic Hausu, how about Breakfast at Tiffany’s, both playing this weekend @ Central Cinema

Sunday, August 29th

• There’s a Bumps & Babies fair (a boutique and consignment sale from 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.), cash only @ the Roosevelt Ale House parking lot (8824 Roosevelt Way NE in Maple Leaf)
• You just can’t go wrong with a lovely summer night and Vampire Weekend, Beach House, and the Dum Dum Girls @ Marymoor
• Or a lovely summer night and Herbie Hancock @ Woodland Park Zoo
• It’s the last day of the UW School of Music‘s piano sale (call 206-616-3456) @ UW Music Building
• Celebrate what would’ve been Michael Jackson’s 52nd birthday with a ten-piece indie-jazz-Afrobeat band led by Ben Darwish @ Tractor

Monday, August 30th

• The Seattle Public Library system is closed for a whole week beginning today.
• San Francisco’s The Kinsey Sicks present an evening of politics, TMI, social criticism, and nasty, nasty proclivities in four-part harmony@ the Triple Door
• You only have a few days left to catch Looking for Eric, Ken Loach’s middle-aged soccer (aka football) fan comedy @ the Northwest Film Forum

Tuesday, August 31st

• Quincy Jones presents Cuban piano sensation The Alfonso Rodriguez Trio @ Jazz Alley
• There’s no better reason to get multi-culti lounge-y than Stereo Total @ Chop Suey
• The Speakeasy Series visit Los Angeles, with DJ Supreme LA Rock providing the soundtrack to showings of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard and Robert Altman’s The Player @ the Triple Door