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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 , 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).

Seattlest's wine guy, Ronald, kicks off the weekend by hosting a $75, 5-course, 5-wine wine dinner Friday at Portfolio, the dining room of the Art Institute's culinary academy. (Note: 20 percent discount to Seattlest readers; call 206-239-2363 for reservations.) Saturday night will find him, Barolo in hand, at Mitchelli's for a farewell toast to the venerable "Trat," closing later this month after 32 years in Pioneer Square.

JUST LIKE CLOCKWORK: This is your best bet for smooth grooving local hiphop this weekend. Clockwork probably make you very happy, but Macklemore is guaranteed to do so; his live show is unstoppably entertaining and his songs are both thoughtful and hilarious. This is his first show in town since July, people. Plus, XPerience might sing and Candidt might do "VooDoo." All of those prospects in combination are absolutely worth the rainy drive to Nectar.

The Seattle SuperSonics played their first regular season game 41 years ago today, on October 13, 1967, against the San Francisco Warriors. They lost by 28 points. Happy Anniversary, Oklahoma Sonics! And may we be the eleventy-billionth blogger to say an official goodbye.

Sub Pop wasn't the only iconic local business to celebrate a big anniversary this week. Archie McPhee's—the one-stop shop for all things rubber chicken, bacon, and fun-related—celebrated 25 years of business yesterday. The quintessential Seattle store marked the occasion with a sidewalk sale and a serenade from a few of Seattle's own Rat City Roller Girls. Here's to another 25 years of devil duckies, wind-up librarians, yodeling pickles, and whatever wonderful impish toys those crazy kids come up with next. We hope it's just as successful and fun as the first 25.

HistoryLink.org turned a spritely 10 years old yesterday. In Internet Time that must be like turning 100 years old: an impressive accomplishment in any case. Happiest Birthday to you!

Five years later, it still feels strange and distant; Iraq is still mired in violence--though we argue about whether it's on the wane or the rise--and yet the degree to which it touches on our daily lives seems to have to do more with politics than with the real world consequences of war. Most Americans are so safely distanced from the fighting that we can't wrap our heads around what it's actually like for those of our countrymen whose loved ones are patrolling the streets of Baghdad in body armor as we sit here, comfortably reading about it on a computer screen, let alone what it must be like to be there, as a soldier, or even worse, as an Iraqi.