Arts & Events: July 2009 Archives

"MilitaryBase_120scan" by Seattle Flickr Pool user kjten22.

Tres Tristes Tigres @ Freehold Theatre. Trinidad Martinez founded Magpai Production Group in Hamburg, Germany in 1998, but has made Seattle home for the last several years. She was one of the dancers in Pat Graney's much talked about House of Mind last December, and is now presenting three solo pieces developed with company members. (Fri. 8 p.m., through July 18. 2222 Second Ave., Suite 200; tix $15.)

Though the now-infamous Jim Rose Circus got its start in Seattle in the early Nineties (Rose still owns a house south of the city in which he periodically resides), it's been quite a while since Rose brought his sideshow revival through town for a performance. The last record we could find of a show was from 1999. We asked Rose when he was last here to perform, who thought about it for a minute before replying, "Fuck, I don't remember, man."

ADORABLE: The Fourth of July is a great excuse for you to eat, so why should it be any different for the adorable little critters down at Woodland Park Zoo? Today and tomorrow are the "Red, White and Zoo" days at Woodland Park, when all the animals get to have a picnic lunch with watermelon, corn on the cob, and popsicles. And be adorable! The fun's actually started already today (see here for the schedule of which animals get fed when), but if you hurry, you can make the noon otter feeding, which would really make your day, because otters rock. 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. // Woodland Park Zoo // N. 55th St. & Phinney Ave N. // $16.50 adults/$11 3-12/under 3 free!

"Bainbridge Island - Mirrors and Echoes in Eagle Harbor" by Mantis of Destiny, from the Seattlest Flickr Pool

Surprisingly, there are still tickets available for the Dirty Projectors show this Friday. We say "surprisingly," because Dave Longstreth's band was already critically acclaimed before new release Bitte Orca earned their best reviews yet and even some early talk of it being the best album of the year.

NOLLYWOOD!: Since the weather's perfect, contrarians will want to shoebox themselves inside the U District's tiny Grand Illusion Theatre to catch a documentary about Nigeria's burgeoning B-movie film industry. Nollywood Babylon, which Film Threat calls "Irresistible," is about to close, and you don't want to make a liar of Film Threat, do you? No, you do not. Also it's a Canadian documentary, and it's Canada Day. If that doesn't get you there, we throw our hands up.