Can't Miss It: Thursday
QUEER AS...: Northwest Film Forum and Three Dollar Bill Cinema have gotten together for a new series running all April on Thursdays at the Forum: God Save the Queens, a four-week retrospective on British queer cinema. Tonight, it's The Leather Boys, a 1964 biker movie about gay romance amongst working class Brits. Originally commissioned as a novel about a "Romeo and Romeo in the South London suburbs," the story was substantially tamed down for filming, but still violated the Hollywood Production Code (it was one of the earliest films to be screened in the U.S. despite that fact).
7 p.m. // 1515 12th Ave. // $10
OLD: Seattle institution the Blue Moon is turning 75 this year. No shit! And they're celebrating Blue Moon style. First off, their happy hour is rolling back the clock, if not three-quarters of a century then pretty far nevertheless: Miller High Life schooners for $.75 and pints for $1.30. Not too shabby, we have to say. They're kicking off the festivities tonight with a hefty rock line-up, including prog-rockers Wah Wah Exit Wound, with The Luna Moth and Emerald, and a not-so-secret appearance by Nox Lords. And this is all right after Slog Happy Hour, so show up early to spit in Fnarf's face and you can dodge the cover! Just one request on our part: Lay off ECB. Seriously. Not cool.
9 p.m. // 712 NE 45th St. // $5, 21+
GREEN-ISH: We might be prejudiced against author Doug Fine on account of the fact his book is called Farewell, My Subaru: An Experiment in Local Living. See, we hate Subaru drivers...especially people in Outbacks, which are really popular here. They are seriously the worst drivers on earth. It's like they're magnetically attracted to our car; driving near one is to flirt with death. But Fine has, admittedly, forsaken his beloved Subaru, not in an effort to improve his driving, per se, but rather in an experiment to live locally and greenly in the decidedly un-green (in color) American Southwest. Hopefully his book points out how absurdly hard that is and how often it doesn't make up for the fact that policy in this country is almost tailored to destroy the environment, putting to lie the idea that personal choice amounts to a hill of beans in the face of the corporate rape of the earth. But we don't know that it does, we haven't read the book.
7:30 p.m. // Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave. // $5
CAN MISS IT?: Just so it be said, you could head down to the Tacoma Dome to catch Freakshow McNasty and her Touring Band of Whores (i.e., Britney Spears and the Pussycat Dolls), but we don't recommend it. Seriously. Just...don't. We're not even going to hyperlink you ticket info. You'll have to Google that yourselves. And then it'll be in your search history. And that's like impossible to get rid of if you're using Explorer. People will know...then what are you going to say?
