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As we were saying, there's a lot more at Bumbershoot besides the music. You've got the comedy, the literature, the theatre, the dance -- and the people-watching, the sideshows, the side sideshows: yesterday we ran into Craig and Victoria doing a violin-and-flamenco act behind a tent; they say they'll be back today, roaming around, so look for a swirl of red.

The Summer Fiction issue of the New Yorker showed up in the mail box yesterday and the Pacific Northwest (ok, Portland, really, but so what) is well represented. Miranda July, of Portland, has two pieces; one a short story called "Roy Spivey" and the other a recollection of summer movies called "Atlanta." It starts:

Our first taste of the 2007 Bumbershoot lineup leaves us hungry for so much more.

We're sure everyone and their mother are hard at work (pun fully intended) on homemade porn for the Stranger, but there's another amateur movie contest going on in town, and its deadline is already looming. The Northwest Film Forum is presenting the 8th Annual Local Sightings Film Festival this October, but entries must be postmarked by July 25th in order to be eligible. This gives you a little over one week to get your feature-length (>50 min.) or short film (<50 min.) shot, edited, and mailed off. We're sure that's more than enough time for any future Miranda July or Craig Brewer to create a masterwork. Check out the criteria here, as well as the submission form (there's no entry fee). If you've got some movie-making ideas but are lacking the means to do so, you're in luck: the NWFF rents cameras, sound and lighting gear, and editing equipment. So get to it!