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COMEDYโ€”Kickstand Comedy Space may have been pushed out of its jaunty basement location, but one of its best stand-up showcases, Earthquake Hurricane, lives on upstairs at Velo Cult. Drink fancy beer surrounded by bikes, while Alex Falcone, Bri Pruett, Curtis Cook, and Anthony Lopez invite even more funny people over? Yes please! MEGAN BURBANKVelo Cult, […]

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FILMโ€”Who’s ready to watch shit blow up?! The fifth movie in the Mission: Difficult But Not Really Impossible franchise will have you spazzing out over car chases, airplane stunts, and death-defying carryings-on. Tiny action star Tom Cruise, together with Simon Pegg and director Christopher McQuarrie, pretty much guarantee a wham-bam good time in Mission: Impossibleโ€”Rogue […]

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RIGSKETBALLโ€”Sometimes in life you have to improvise. That’s how Rigsketballโ€”a sport resembling basketball played off a touring band’s vanโ€”came to be, and my has it flourished. The annual three-on-three tournament and mini-music festival features the talents of bands like Orquestra Pacifico Tropical, Hustle and Drone, Talkative, and more on both “court” and stage. MARJORIE SKINNERw/Thanks, […]

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MUSICโ€”Brooklyn guitar maestros Ratatat just dropped their first album in five years! People you should automatically tune out: anyone griping that the group hasn’t “progressed” enough in that time. People you should listen to: Ratatat, which is kicking out great swells of danceable happiness as always, and any scalper who can give you tickets to […]

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This Week’s Style Events: Edward Jeffrey Kriksciun at Nationale, Summer Markdowns Abound, & A Mega Warehouse Sale

—Summer markdowns everywhere, including updated further deals at Woonwinkel and Machus, just for starters. —Here’s one way to announce an artist residency. Nationale has this to say about Edward Jeffry Kriksciun’s show, on view now through August 3: “Just because things are no longer like they used to be and your friends have moved away […]

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FILMโ€”In 1979, upstart director Ridley Scott treated B-movie tropes with fluid grace and ruthless skill in Alien; the result isn’t just one of the prettiest movies ever made, it’s also one of the scariest. See it at the Laurelhurstโ€”and look forward to next week, when they’ll have James Cameron’s smash-bang follow-up, Aliens. ERIK HENRIKSENLaurelhurst Theater, […]

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While Sleeping Stay Awake by Sons of HunsMUSICโ€”Loveable metal/stoner rock band Sons of Huns get thrashy on their sophomore album, While Sleeping Stay Awake, a righteous slab of heavy riffing and power-rawk. Tonight’s the local heroes’ record release show, so get ready to blow out those ears and bang that head. NED LANNAMANNw/Diesto, Old Kingdom; […]

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