Do this tonight:
Everything is Terrible! is a traveling freakshow of out-of-context video shorts, recorded from old VHS tapes and displayed on projection screens at bars and indie cinemas across the country. There’s a video of Ernie Hudson delivering a soliloquy about Pokemon, for example, and a cringworthy child from Branson, Missouri singing off-key tributes to the Lord in sparkly cowboy pants. Many of the videos involve Jesus, and most have plenty of what-the-hell moments, along with generous creative editing to triple-underline how awful it all is.
It’s just about the most fun thing you can watch that isn’t sports, especially with a beer or two in hand. Luckily, you can knock a couple back at the Central Cinema, Everything is Terrible!’s Seattle stop.
Tonight at 7 pm, at Central Cinema (1411 21st Ave). Tickets are $6. All ages.
Also of interest:
The second of five town hall meetings to promote Mayor Mike McGinn’s Seattle Youth and Families Initiative, aimed at “eliminating the racial disparities in education, child care, children’s health and the criminal justice system,” is happening tonight at Northgate Elementary School.
The first installment, in Southeast Seattle, was packed with parents, kids, and neighbors who wanted to improve school accountability, close the achievement gap between poor (black) and wealthy (white) schools, and reduce the high-school dropout rate.
Tonight, from 7 to 8:30 pm, at Northgate Elementary School (11725 1st Ave NE).
Do this tomorrow:
Jarrod Gorbel, from Brooklyn, and Fences (Chris Mansfield), from Seattle, are both tattooed barroom balladeers who sound alternately like recovering addicts grateful to be alive or incurably love-ridden sadsacks waiting forlornly for death. They are formerly-bad dudes with salvaged hearts who seem to be brimming with sad stories.
The songs are rough-edged and confessional in a basic way, but that’s the appeal. The show is at Vera, and although the ideal setting for this show would be at a scruffy bar like the Comet, or even in Pioneer Square, any excuse to support the Vera Project is a good one.
Tomorrow at 7:30 pm at The Vera Project (Warren Avenue N & Republican Street), $10 advance, $11 door.
Seattle Public Libraries is starting its month-long “conversation series,” to gather input on library services, which SPL will use to revise its strategic plan. It’s an open-house format, which means you can drop in any time during the scheduled meeting time.
Today from noon to 2 pm, at the Central Library (1000 4th Avenue), and tomorrow from 6 to 8 pm at the SPL Northgate Branch (10548 Fifth Ave NE)
