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Knowing nothing else about the film Julie & Julia, aside from the fact that the screenplay is by the same person that wrote When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail, you could safely assume it’s a chick flick.

MY AVATAR: We're very fond of the internet and of books, and knowing you, you're fond of those things too. The Richard Hugo House's Literary Series comes to a close with an event tonight called My Avatar, featuring writers who explore identity, technology, and this beautiful wired world in which we live. The Maldives are playing, too, in case you missed them last weekend.

Take a break from harrowing five-year Iraq war retrospectives and political sex scandals to see the lovely Johanna Kunin and DC's These United States at the Sunset tonight! The first time we went to see Johanna Kunin, we left practically purring with satisfaction. We expect tonight to be no different.

We're by no means theatre majors, but we do loves to get out for some culture from time to time. Which is why this Thursday we're getting dolled up for the 5th Avenue Theatre's "MAME".

Ostensibly an adaptation of presents itself as a comic yet troubling exploration of madness and obsession. The sole female performer (Maggie Hoffman) enters the stage, with stunningly coiffured hair, clambers up a rope ladder, straps herself to the rigging so that she can dangle forward like the figurehead on a ship, and then delivers a weather report into a microphone. Within seconds, her voice quiets to barely audible whisper, swirling about the theatre, a seamless chain of meteorological observations and nautical coordinates delivered in hushed monotone. hissing from the microphone; then, in full voice, the declaration: "You're the only one who can't hear it."

magazine claims, "You can't swing a dead cat this time of year without hitting a Top 10 List." Never one to waste a perfectly good dead cat, we decided to take a swing and create a Top Random-Number Shows Seattlest Saw This Year. And now, without any further ado, here's how your favorite bloggers broke down the year:

In which The Showbox gives the live music-going people of Seattle a belated lump of coal:

No matter what Dane Cook's myspace page says, the Reverend Dr. Samuel McKinney, narrator of the gospel musical Black Nativity, is the only person you'll see on a Seattle stage this month who went to school with Martin Luther King, Jr. Our favorite part of this consistently entertaining show was watching 80-year-old McKinney--who also once met Langston Hughes, its author--tap his toes, silently sing along, and break into a smile during the solos by the Total Experience Gospel Choir.

RSVP is req'd.

We'd never seen the quotable George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House before; all we had to go on was the Intiman's postcard copy, which informed us that it is an "affectionate, Chekhovian portrait of England before the World War I."

Intiman's first-ever Richard III opened last Friday. 25 actors pack onto the company's intimate stage for the scheming, slander, and swordplay of Shakespeare's morality play. It runs through July 15. Tickets are $27 - $46, but if you're under 25, prove it and they'll sell you a ticket for $10 for any performance. $20 rush tickets (if any) go on sale 15 minutes before curtain time. [Box Office: 206-269-1900.]

Welcome to Intimania! The Intiman had its annual Gala last Saturday (more on that after the jump). On Sunday, Intiman's leadership, Bartlett Sher and Laura Penn, were in New York to collect Intiman's 2006 Regional Theater Tony. [Seattle Times, Seattle P-I] The Sher-directed Awake and Sing! took the Tony for best play revival. His Richard III opens at the Intiman this Friday.

Hey--so, are the Sonics really going to move?

Some minor Washington football tidbits this morning:

Tired of sitting around with your friends looking stupid? Of course you are! So get off your ass and check these shows out…

-Fans and admirers gathered at the grave of Bruce Lee on Sunday to honor what would have been his 65th birthday. There may be four or five residents of Seattle who still aren't aware that Bruce Lee is buried here. Now you know.

Seattlest attended SIFF's Screenwriters Salon at Hugo House last night. Seattlest is not a screenwriter, actually, but Lost was a repeat, and we thought perhaps we'd leave our cave for a bit.

Seattlest’s favorite local sculptor Charles Krafft will exhibit more of his trademark Sponeware at Belltown’s finest gallery tonight, along with an installation by concert poster legend Frank Kozik.

As previously alluded to, Seattlest is unabashed in our love for television. We tend to gravitate toward the good stuff, but we are by no means too highbrow to watch reality TV. Case(s) in point: the gloriously addictive trainwrecks known as Surreal Life 5 and Being Bobby Brown. For us, the viewing of such apocalypse-heralding fare is merely a spectator sport; that is to say, we've got no aspirations to be the castmember who actively works to alienate everyone in the house. While Seattlest is certainly not sociopathic enough to vie for a spot on a reality show, we cannot assume the same is true of our readership. For that reason, we feel the need to announce that America's Next Top Model will be holding auditions in Seattle next week.