Our music critics have already chosen the 21 best concerts in Seattle this week, but now it's our arts and culture critics' turn to pick the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—from the Firestone Walker Beer Dinner to An Evening with Ken Burns, and from Write On! Ghosts of Seattle Past to Mystery Science Theater 3000 Live! See them all below, and find even more events on our complete Things To Do calendar.

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MONDAY

COMMUNITY

How Can Seattle Grow More Public Space?
How can Seattle maintain its beautiful outdoor areas as the city grows and densifies? A panel made up of Georgetown University's Urban and Regional Planning Program Director (Uwe Brandes), the CEO of Seattle Public Utilities (Mami Hara), and the Seattle Parks Foundation's Thatcher Bailey will share insights. Posey Guener from KUOW will moderate.

FOOD & DRINK

Wine Dinner with Syncline
Lark restaurant and vintners Poppie and James Mantone of Syncline Winery are pairing up to bring the city a "delicious exploration" of wine and cuisine. Chef John Sundstrom is putting together a menu specifically designed to pair with the winery's Rhone-style blends.

PERFORMANCE

After Hours—Summer of Sondheim: Jessica Skerritt
As part of a series of recitals of the complex and catchy music of Stephen Sondheim, hear Eric Ankrim, Jessica Skerritt, and Justin Huertas, plus special guest Rheanna Atendido, interpret their favorite works from the composer and lyricist's repertoire.

Cthulhu: The Musical
If you have any appetite for horror at all, you probably know a little about H.P. Lovecraft and his most enduring brain-spawn: Cthulhu, the Great Old One who lures men's minds to madness from his lair deep under the sea. Oregon's Puppeteers for Fears troupe puts a music and marionette spin on the 1929 short story that introduced the Elder God to the cowering world.

READINGS & TALKS

Rachel Khong: Goodbye, Vitamin
Rachel Khong has two very good, very different books out right now. One is called All About Eggs, which is a funny and informative cookbook about the only life-giver that's also a top-tier party snack. The book is a collaboration with the editors of Lucky Peach, so there is a ton of other great non-Khong writing and illustration inside. Her other book is a novel called Goodbye, Vitamin, which is about a down-and-out thirtysomething who gets dumped by her fiancé and returns to her childhood home, where she must care for her ailing father. He's got Alzheimer's disease, and he doesn't want to admit it, and there are lots of vegetable metaphors and humor and sadness. Khong is definitely a writer to keep your eye on. RICH SMITH

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY

PERFORMANCE

MAP's Night Off: feed\back
The NowHereThis ensemble will use the stage design of the sci-fi play Greensward to create a new, improvised story.

MONDAY-SATURDAY

ART

For the '99 & the 2000s: A Reflection of C.R.E.A.M.
Trill Effect (a trio comprised of Seattle-area artists A.O. Hamer, Kamari Bright, and Blu the Baqi) will present this multi-disciplinary art exhibit at Martyr Sauce, a unique and innovative gallery space created by the inimitable Tariqa Waters. Look forward to new (but nostalgia-filled) visual art works by Hamer, a short film by Bright, and live performance pieces by Blu the Baqi. By appointment only.
Closes next Tuesday.

MONDAY & THURSDAY-SUNDAY

PERFORMANCE

Hoodoo Love
Sound Theatre Company has teamed up with the Hansberry Project to bring Katori Hall's Hoodoo Love to the Seattle stage for the first time. Working closely with the all-powerful Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Lynn Nottage, Hall debuted this paean to Depression-era voodoo love in New York City to rave reviews. "It's about Memphis music. When you drink the water in Memphis, blues comes out," Hall said in an interview with the Paris Review. All that music finds its way into the rich, lyrical language that drives Hall's play. Directed by rising star Malika Oyetimein. RICH SMITH

Mud (Barro)
Queer Cuban American playwright Maria Irene Fornés's play Mud (Barro), about three penniless people who depend on each other to survive yet are caught in a disturbing love triangle, will be presented in the former INS building, now the Inscape Arts Building which houses the Slate Theater. A special Spanish-language translation by director Rose Cano will be presented on Saturday.

MONDAY-SUNDAY

ART

The Sodo Track
Curator Gage Hamilton and 4Culture have organized this art piece in the middle of your morning commute—whether you walk through the neighborhood or take bus or light rail, you can absorb a series of murals by local and international artists (described as "an imaginative raceway of art in motion") in a busy city setting. The first eight murals (painted last summer) are on the east side of 5th Avenue between Stadium Station and Sodo Station. Artists started work on this summer's installment at 10 am on July 24th, between Massachusetts Street and South Spokane Street. Artists and young people from Urban ArtWorks will lead a tour of the in-progress project on July 27.

TUESDAY

ART

The Art & Science of Dreaming: A Workshop
Learn dream science and examine your dreams for insight into your problems in a surreal setting: Neon Saltwater's Unvirtual show. Share your subconscious fireworks among other enthusiasts of REM.
This workshop is currently at capacity.

FOOD & DRINK

Chow Down 2017
Head to Columbia City for Chow Down, a one-night food and beverage sampling event where participants try a wide variety of bites from an array of restaurants and breweries in Hillman City and Columbia City. Here's how it works: guests purchase a "passport" for $50, and this grants them access all night to over 20 locations along Rainier Avenue. 100% of the proceeds will go towards the Rainier Valley Food Bank, which provides food assistance to low-income residents in Southeast Seattle, with a focus on families, seniors, individuals with disabilities and those without stable living situations.

Firestone Walker Beer Dinner
Famous San Diego/San Francisco beer bar Toronado has a Seattle location, tucked away on a quiet corner in north Seattle, and they're quietly doing a pretty cool little beer pairing dinner with a fellow California beer star, Firestone Walker. For $75, you get six beers, three courses, and "the very handsome David Walker." It's true, he's quite the silver fox. Anyway, while Firestone Walker is getting real big and popular, but they still do some pretty weird, fun beers. Like their wild fermented series, which includes the Krieky Bones sour cherry wild ale, which Toronado chef Joey Sandberg made into a sorbet for dessert. He also made a helluva Scotch egg, which is the most delightfully sinful delight to ever grace an appetizer menu, in my humble opinion. For those unfamiliar with the artery-clogging masterpiece, a Scotch egg is a hard cooked egg cased in ground meat, battered, and fried to crisp perfection. This one gets a coat of garlic sausage, and comes on a chop summer salad with house-aged beer vinaigrette. Here for a good time, not a long time, right? TOBIAS COUGHLIN-BOGUE

Tour de Foie
The chefs at Quinn's Pub have been busy. They've just returned from the prestigious James Beard House for their "Tour de Foie," which sounds a lot more fun and delicious than the other, more well-known Tour. Less competitive exercise and more fatty duck; yes please. Now, you can see what exactly they've been up to as the "Tour de Foie" continues, specifically through a multi-course dinner centered around foie gras from the Hudson Valley. The five-course menu will feature alcoholic pairings with each course, selected by Quinn's bar team. The dinner will also include a discussion from Jack Mancino of Hudson Valley Foie Gras, who will be onsite to talk about the farm and its products.
Currently at capacity.

READINGS & TALKS

Anastacia Reneé Tolbert and Friends: Forget It
This is the book launch for Black Radish's Forget It, one of three Anastacia Reneé titles due for publication this summer. If you haven't seen Reneé at a reading around town in the last year or so, you haven't been going to readings around town. She's everywhere, either performing her dramatic, multi-persona poems from one of those three books, or starring in her ever-developing solo show, 9 Ounces. She's swept up tons of local and national awards and residencies recently, and for good reason: her poems are smart and powerful, her delivery is varied and compelling, and she's got great style. RICH SMITH

An Evening with Ken Burns
Super-famous documentarian Ken Burns is known for his lengthy and straightforward takes on history. Today, he will join with filmmaking partner Lynn Novick (who worked on projects including The War, The Civil War, and Jazz) to present their latest work: The Vietnam War. They'll screen an hour of the new documentary, then speak in a panel moderated by Enrique Cerna featuring guests including Karl Marlantes, author of Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War and What It Is Like to Go to War.

Food and Story: Joong
Tay & Val (described as "veteran storytellers, filmmakers, and community activators") will pair up with food anthropologist Maxine Chan to teach you about joong, a Chinese rice dumpling—also known as zongzi—as well as the history of Chinese American food in the ID.

RESISTANCE & SOLIDARITY

Flights & Rights
Drink beer once again with ACLU activists. For this edition of the series pairing rights education with brews, deputy director Michele Storms will share the latest news on police reform, both locally and widely, while Fremont Brewing offers a tasting. The organizers add, "Police accountability has always been at the heart of the ACLU's work, and the endemic killing of black people, including Charleena Lyles right here in Seattle, demands we push even harder and mobilize together to end the needless killing."

TUESDAY-SUNDAY

PERFORMANCE

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time became significant for capturing the point-of-view of a young man with an undefined form of high-functioning autism. More than just a book about autism, it put readers inside the unique mind of its main character, Christopher Boone. I was eager to see if the play could capture the same empathetic experience as the book. The answer, it turns out, is yes. The stage adaptation of Mark Haddon’s novel (written by Simon Stephens and directed by Marianne Elliott) relies heavily on its unique set to achieve this. Through a combination of flashing lights, LEDs, projections, loud noises, fog, voiceover and interpretive dance, the set design and choreography work together to replicate the frequent terror and disorientation of being locked inside a mind that is easily overwhelmed with stimuli. Curious Incident is an intense and often uncomfortable glimpse into the mind of a young man living with a poorly-understood disorder. It is a play about how difficult it can be to connect to other people and to make sense of the world around us—even for people without any kind of disability at all. ANTHONY DERRICK

Fun Home
As the books and theater writer at The Stranger, it's impossible for me to overstate how excited I am to see Fun Home in Seattle this week. The graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, which Lisa Kron based her Tony Award–winning show on, kills me. Part of that excitement is nervousness, though. The reason I like the graphic novel so much is because of all the subtle literary connections Bechdel makes between her life and the books she came up with, came out with, and related to her father's death. Will those subtleties translate to the stage, or will the stage transform the nature of those subtleties, or does FIVE Tonys mean none of this matters? Jessica Fu, The Stranger's erstwhile social-media manager, put me at ease. She saw the show in New York and reported back thusly: "I cried during and after! And then the next morning." Better bring a box of tissues. RICH SMITH

WEDNESDAY

COMMUNITY

Commission for People with disAbilities 2017 Inclusion Jubilee
This community gathering, hosted by one of the Seattle Rights Civil Commissions, is an occasion to honor disability rights activists and allies—Deborah Witmer and Representative Nicole Macri will receive Inclusion Awards—and listen to a panel of local leaders and thinkers Kassiane Asasumasum (also the Keynote Speaker), ChrisTiana ObeySumner, Ijeoma Oluo, Noah Seidel, and Emerson Sekins. The night's theme is" No Human is Disposable."

FOOD & DRINK

Behind the Bottle with Rajat Parr
Join RN74 and award-winning Willamette Valley winery Evening Land Vineyards for a five-course wine dinner. The evening will also include master sommelier Rajat Parr, who is a wine educator and winner of multiple James Beard Awards. Dishes include salmon mi cuit barigoule with Chardonnay "Seven Springs," Eola-Amity Hills 2013 and 2014, and roasted chicken ballontine.

Tour de France
"Let's talk about suffering," they say. "Let's talk about the most grueling event in sport. And then, let's talk about what we love at Bar Ferdinand. Wine and bike racing!" The Tour de France is an amazing, impressive triumph of the human will. It is also incredibly boring to watch, at times. Booze helps, of course. Perhaps my one fond memory from visiting my misogynist womanizer of a grandpa in North Carolina was watching the tour while guzzling Coors Light and cheap white wine. Seriously, the man cried when Ernest Hemingway died. Anyway, Bar Ferdinand is one of Seattle's very best wine bars, they're serving true champagne to celebrate the final stage of the race, and it's gonna be about as lit as a bike-racing viewing party gets. TOBIAS COUGHLIN-BOGUE

QUEER

Pleasure to the People: Stories of QTPOC Sex & Love
Planned Parenthood, Hugo House, and Gay City are jointly sponsoring a storytelling celebration for Pride of Color, in which QTPOC people will share their experiences of love, sex, health, and care. These speakers will include some super-talented and prominent local figures, like Imani Sims and Storme Webber. Partake in light bites and good feelings of community.

READINGS & TALKS

From Stars to Beer
Ever heard of astroseismology? After UW postdoc Dr. Meredith Rawls's talk, entitled "Weighing Stars with Starquakes," you'll have a new favorite badass-sounding scientific field. Trevor Dorn-Wallenstein will also give a lecture, "An Unbeerlievable Tale," which explains how stars make beer. We have no idea how that works, but we're sure it'll all be made clear, so you can come away with new facts to amaze your friends. Bring lawn chairs if you like.

WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY

ART

Inye Wokoma: An Elegant Utility
Using everyday artifacts from his grandfather’s life—a catcher’s mask, family photographs, legal ledgers, and old magazines—artist and filmmaker Inye Wokoma has created a poignant sanctuary at the Northwest African American Museum for the enduring legacy of an African American family’s daily life in Seattle’s (now almost completely gentrified) Central District. Wokoma’s work explores the complex space where ancestry, identity, and displacement meet—his piece at the Frye Art Museum last fall, This Is Who We Are, imagined a ritual where his ancestors are introduced to ancestral Duwamish tribal members. Now, with An Elegant Utility, Wokoma becomes the artist-as-ethnographer, gracefully recontextualizing his personal and family history into the larger context of structural racism, redlining, and the story of African Americans in Seattle. AMBER CORTES
Closes Sunday.

THURSDAY

ART

Kinetic Empathy: A Gallery Talk with Johanna Gosse
If you haven't seen Doris Totten Chase's Changing Forms yet, or you want to gain deeper insight into her early CGI video art, follow art historian Joanna Gosse "in a roving gallery conversation" about the artist's themes of "gender, form, and interdisciplinary experimentation."

FILM

Celebrating Cary Grant
Once again, SAM will spend the summer celebrating the devilish charms of Cary Grant. This week, they're playing I Was a Male War Bride, in which Grant plays a French captain who falls in love with an American lieutenant and goes to farcical lengths to return to the States with her after the war.

SIFFsational Summer Series
SIFF will present a series of double features on Thursdays this summer. Celebrate nostalgia and escape to an air-conditioned movie theater while you revisit old favorites and cult classics. This Thursday pairs the Orwell-on-angel-dust Terry Gilliam satire Brazil with the gritty yet eccentric LA sci-fi classic Repo Man.

FOOD & DRINK

An Evening with David Walker
Join The Pine Box for an evening with David Walker, co-founder of Firestone Walker Brewing Co. There will be "barrel-aged rarities" alongside old favorites: 2015 Krieky Bones, Sour Opal, Walkers Reserve, Bravo 30 Year, Nitro Merlin, and more.

PERFORMANCE

Nights at the Neptune
The Neptune will lend its stage to speakers, dancers, and artists who address the most urgent social and race issues of our time. This week, it's the International Girl Gang Expo's turn to shine: Women artists from up and down the Western hemisphere will showcase their musical chops. Blossom, who hails from Portland and has roots in Trinidad and Tobago, will unfurl her lush soul voice; Lay, an empowerment-focused "fashion killa" from Sao Paulo, will rap; and the DJs of Weed.Women.Wifi—Toya B, J-Nasty, Kenya Ku$h, and Stoney Space will fill up the theater with their best selections.

READINGS & TALKS

Inara Verzemnieks
Pushcart Prize and Rona Jaffe Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Inara Verzemnieks will read from her new memoir, Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe, about her grandmother and great-aunt's 50-year separation after World War II and Verzemnieks's own pilgrimage back to her ancestral home in Latvia.

Write On! Ghosts of Seattle Past
One of the founding members of Seattle's Black Panther chapter, Elmer Dixon, will kick off this celebration of Ghosts of Seattle Past, a people's history of the city's forgotten places published by Chin Music Press. Dixon is an incredible storyteller, and those who want to learn about Seattle's olden times, and urbanists who want to learn to think about displacement in a way that respects and includes the histories of this city's fading black and brown neighborhoods, would do well to come to this chat. RICH SMITH

THURSDAY & SATURDAY

ART

Forward: Origin Stories
In this grand game of artistic telephone, a visual artist and twelve writers will transform a series of postcards with words and geometric forms. After the results are exhibited, they'll be passed on to a second group of collaborators for next year.

THURSDAY-SATURDAY

ART

Gretchen Bennett
Gretchen Bennett is a Seattle-based artist whose work in gently rendered colored pencil on paper captures the essential essences of objects, memories, and ideas. For her first solo show at Bridge Productions, she has been making both large-scale and tiny drawings of the things in her life as seen from a certain position. These are fragments of images made special through the investment of attention. The place of pop culture and nostalgia in our shared memories are recurring themes in her work, as is a quiet reverence toward the everyday. EMILY POTHAST
Closes Saturday.

PERFORMANCE

American Archipelago
This looks like one hell of a collaboration: Holly Arsenault, Kelleen C. Blanchard, Tré Calhoun, Vincent Delaney, Brendan Healy, Maggie Lee, Sara Porkalob, and Seayoung Yim all contributed to the script of this Pony World Theatre production "a quaint little neighborhood called the United States of America." At a typical and symbolic American barbecue, neighbors from all parts of the country grill together while secret tensions begin to strain.

Betty Wetter Presents: It Gets Wetter
Betty Wetter, Seattle's up and coming "queen of wet dreams," will make her official solo show debut at this Timbre Room weekender, with special guests Cookie Couture and SMPbridgeport, and plenty of moisture to go around.

THURSDAY-SUNDAY

ART

Quota.
"What would you make if you felt none of the external and internal pressures that you normally face?" This is the question curators Satpreet Kahlon, Mel Carter, and Anisa Jackson asked a group of artists in varying mediums at different stages of their careers, including mario lemafa, Christopher Paul Jordan, and Sabella D’Souza. At the opening reception, a long line of people waiting to get in formed outside, many of whom were still in line when the gallery closed, while others were ushered in immediately based on their responses on a questionnaire. This invisible "quota" set the stage for a show that examines the inhibiting effect of expectations on artists. EMILY POTHAST
Closes Sunday.

PERFORMANCE

The Comedy of Errors
The tyrannical Duke in this production of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors (directed by David Gassner) bears a striking resemblance to our current commander-in-chief. "If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, your own handwriting would tell you what I think."

Pericles
Paul Constant wrote, "Pericles is so poorly written that, for centuries, Shakespeare scholars tried with all their nerdy might to deny he wrote it. Funny thing is, it was beloved in Shakespearean times because it's the Armageddon of Shakespeare plays, a title usually reserved for the oft-underappreciated Titus Andronicus. The first hour alone is packed with cheap-seat-pleasing thrills: shipwrecks, a jousting match for the hand of a princess, and buckets of scandal—the play opens with an incestuous relationship and, before everything is done, a murder plot is foiled by pirates, and someone gets sold into sex slavery." See Pericles performed outdoors at this event presented as part of Seattle Shakespeare's Wooden O summer series, which is also presenting Much Ado About Nothing.

Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act
Athol Fugard's 1974 play uses prose and verse in a nerve-flaying exploration of love and sex under a repressive, racist regime: apartheid in South Africa. A white woman librarian and a black school principal are discovered mid-tryst after being betrayed by a white neighbor. After their arrest, they frantically try to justify themselves and their "immorality" to the police.

FRIDAY

ART

A Collaboration to Benefit Joe B.
Joe BenVenuto doesn’t just build studio equipment. He’s also a glassblower and expert coldworker—the processes that don’t require heat, such as grinding, cutting, and polishing—whose skills have put him in the service of basically everyone in the Northwest glass community at some time or another. Oh, and he’s an accomplished artist in his own right, although he might be too humble to tell you about it. Last fall, BenVenuto was diagnosed with a rare, malignant brain tumor called an anaplastic astrocytoma. While there are treatments that can slow the growth of the cancer, there is no cure. As a result, the glass community is rallying around BenVenuto to help him cover the costs associated with his treatment—only a fraction of which is covered by his health insurance. EMILY POTHAST

COMMUNITY

Outdoor Project's Seattle Block Party
The nonprofit SheJumps helps girls and women experience the outdoors. You can help the beneficiaries of SheJumps by partying on the street with live music, food and drinks, and games. Take kids and dogs along with you: It's open to all.

READINGS & TALKS

A Celebration of Crysta Casey's Rules for Walking Out
Hugo House awardee Crysta Casey, who was mourned in her Seattle Times obituary as "one of the [Seattle poetry] community's most unpretentious poets," will be remembered with readings, a harp performance by Monica Schley, and an open mic.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY

COMEDY

Jim Breuer
Stand-up comedian, actor, musician, and radio host Jim Breuer (who you might recognize from Saturday Night Live, Chappelle's Show, and other popular programs, as well as the movie Half Baked) will spend the weekend telling jokes.

PERFORMANCE

Strictly Seattle Performances
In 2012, Brendan Kiley wrote that Strictly Seattle offers "performances from some of Seattle's most kick-ass dancers and choreographers," and five years later, his statement holds true. This year's edition will feature new works by local powerhouses Kate Wallich, Pat Graney, Alice Gosti, Mark Haim, Stephanie Liapis, Maya Soto, and Jaret Hughes, as well as films from KT Niehoff’s Film Track students, created as part of the Strictly Seattle adult dance intensive.

SATURDAY

FESTIVAL

Seafair Torchlight Parade
The nighttime Seafair Torchlight Parade, featuring more than 100 groups (from clowns and pirates to drill teams and equestrian units, plus giant helium balloons), will begin at Seattle Center and continue down 4th Avenue, while 150,000 people watch in person, and others watch the live broadcast on KIRO 7. Reserved seating is also available.

FOOD & DRINK

Ice Cream Social
Slurp up frozen treats from your favorite local ice cream shops and pop-ups, like SweetBumpas, SÜSU, and Seattle Pops.

Pork Red Chile Tamales Making Classes
Learn to make traditional, authentic red chile pork tamales at this class that will benefit El Centro de la Raza's Senior Nutrition & Wellness Program.

Summertime Sausage and Beer with Chuck Shin
Lost in the flood of summer beers that local breweries are hastening to put on the market? Chuck Shin of Chuck's Hop Shop will help you navigate your choices. He'll appear alongside chef Eric Stover, who'll share his expertise on sausage/beer pairings. Plus, you'll learn sausage preparation for home. This event includes tastes of beer and meat.

READINGS & TALKS

Fred F. Poyner IV
Fred F. Poyner IV doesn't just have an exquisite name; he's also an art historian and collections manager of the Nordic Heritage Museum, and he's just come out with the book Seattle Public Sculptors: Twelve Makers of Monuments, Memorials and Statuary, 1909-1962. Hear about creators of public art who contributed to Seattle's peculiar landscapes, from Gold Rush-era works to reliefs to World's Fair sculptures.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Live!
Back in the 1990s, before people watched teens play video games on Twitch for hours at a time every week, people watched a dude and his three robot frenemies ruthlessly mock B movies on Joel Hodgson's Mystery Science Theater 3000 television program. The show was full of slacker humor and dumb jokes, but no matter what, you could always walk away with a memorable snarky line. (To this day, I shout "I regret nothing" when speeding through yellow lights.) Now Hodgson is taking his show on its first national tour. Each night, the new host (comedian Jonah Heston) and the same robots will hurl slights at different features. First, they'll tackle the deliciously bad caveman movie Eegah!; the second show is a mystery surprise. Watch out for snakes. RICH SMITH

RESISTANCE & SOLIDARITY

A Benefit for Charleena Lyles
The King County NAACP, Not This Time, and the families of Charleena Lyles and Giovonn McDade will host a rally and benefit for Charleena, a victim of police shooting. Seahawk player Michael Bennett has been announced as one of the hosts.

SUNDAY

FOOD & DRINK

The Great American BBQ
Join Marjorie for its "Great American BBQ," which will feature all the classics and some more special stuff. From Chef Isaac Hutchins, taste the house grind cheeseburger. the caprese salad, tabbouleh, mac & cheese, thai sausage with papaya salad, baby back ribs, and more.

La Passeggiata al Bar del Corso
Campari is teaming up with Bar del Corso to offer La Passeggiata, "an early evening ritual in Italy where people come out to socialize, see and be seen, and indulge in an aperitivo and snacks before dinner." So happy hour, essentially. This one features cocktail specials made with the Campari suite of brands—Aperol, Campari, Cinzano 1757, and Frangelico—as well as light snacks and some local DJs spinning "1960s Italian pop, groovy instrumentals, and cocktail 45s." It is very obviously an event fueled by the liquor brand's not insignificant promo budget—"LIVE LIFE, DRINK ITALIAN" they urge you—but when said liquor brand is one half of the indisputable king of summer drinking, the Campari soda, that's totally fine. Somehow it just isn't summer until you've had one of those pale-red concoctions, preferably served with a long orange twist in an ice-cold glass. TOBIAS COUGHLIN-BOGUE

Switch Sundays featuring Mario Kart 8 Tournament & Game of Thrones
After watching the latest installment of Sexy Bloody Genealogy Mayhem aka Game of Thrones, play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the big screen with like-minded geeks. Get some practice, because the bar venue is promising future tournaments every other Sunday.

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