During this bumbershoot weekend we're setting up a half pipe in the Funhouse parking lot plus we're doing 3 shows that are benefits for the Marginal Way Skate Park.

http://www.marginalwayskatepark.org/

the ramp should be finished by Friday, and Friday afternoon from 3pm to 9pm the ramp will be all ages.
on Sat/Sun/Mon the ramp will be 21+ w/ a parking lot beer garden open from noon until???

good times, folks.
good times!

This weekend's listings for the Funhouse are here. Saturday Night is Davila 666!

Borgore
"Womanizer"
www.myspace.com/borgore

Fight!

Tonight is the sad, sweet end of all that, and Fridays at Re-Bar henceforward shall be sadly Rizless. Riz-free. Sans-The Riz. He’s going off to do other things. His new husband maybe. Who knows.

A tragedy!

Come tonight, then, to Re-Bar, and mourn with me. It’s going to be packed. There’s a $7 cover, spinning begins circa 10 PM, apparently right after Garfunkle and Oats. At Re-Bar (1114 Howell).

Also!

Sometimes people like to drink and dance, sometimes they like to drink and cry, sometimes they like to drink and sit on their butts and watch stuff. Hilarious stuff! And if you enjoy some nice sitting down, and drinking, and watching funny stuff, Open Circle Theatre is a very good place to be late, late, LATE tonight too (and/or tomorrow), because there’s a cash bar, and a FUNNY SHOW.

It’s a revue/reworking of Growing Pains, the horrible 80s sitcom that wasn’t funny at all, really, except maybe ironically, and that produced the brain-dead reborn x-tian freak that is Kirk Cameron. A bunch of boys in dresses (and others) will be resurrecting it live, onstage, for your ironic and most drinky-drinky pleasure, and making it actually, you know, funny. (Staring Gary Zinter of Bus Stop fame!) They say it is “not to be missed”, and I’m inclined to agree. Tickets are also $7 at the door, show starts at 11 PM, OCT is at 2222 2nd Ave (quite impossible to forget), tonight and tomorrow. And since we’re both doing Riz’s goodbye thingy tonight, I’ll see you there tomorrow night. Okay? Okay.

Tonight!

Rat City Rollergirls After-bout Party @ Funhouse!

DJs Verse & Barbarella are throwing down beats at the Funhouse after the Rat City Rollergirls at Key Arena!

Come join us for booze, beats, and dancing alongside kick-ass Rollergirls!!

DJs Verse (Josh Roberts) and Barbarella (Lisa Damm) are awesome, the Rollergirls (sexy!) kick ass, there is a $5 cover charge (cheap!), or it’s free with your Rat City Rollergirls ticket. Doors at 9PM. At The Funhouse (206 5th Avenue North—under the Monorail). Yes, also, tonight!

Carlotta's gang is back this month at Open Circle Theater before they take a break until the "holidaze". The crew is bringing their favorite musical guests, dusting off some of their best musical numbers from the past, as well as adding some new ones!

Not only is the show all music but it's also a retrospective of Wing Dings from over the years...Hits such as "Hard Knock Life", "Aquarius", "Xanadu", "Saturday Night Fever Medley", & even a song from "The Curse of Wolf Manor".

Guests include the wonderfully nearly naked Stranger's "Drunk of the Week" Jonathan Thompson, Rick Uselton, Ella Rose, Leonard Nimoy, Lonnie Anderson, Joyce DeWitt, and Courtney Love. The show also promises that each and every cast member will be completely naked by the end of the show!

The bar opens at 7PM (and you'll need it), the show starts at 10:30, the nakedness is probably illegal, and it's $7 at the door—or FREE. If, you know, you come naked. How much will YOU pay?

Open Circle Theater (2222 2nd Ave. Suite 222), in Belltown, just next door to "Shorties". Tonight!

It's brought to you by those beautiful queers that brought to you things like Hot Mess and so very much more, and it's a new thing, and you should check it out. DJs LA Kendall and Mathematix will be spinning. Drink specials, of course. $5 at the door.

Go. Have fun for me. I can't muster the emotional strength to leave the house just now...hee, HEE! OW!

The War Room (722 East Pike), doors at 9pm, tonight!

Know of a show or other nightlife that you think should be on Line-Out? Email mhickey at the stranger dot com.

Damn, I'm proud to be a Americun!

TONIGHT!

Yes, the event is actually called, "Amerika Fawk Yeah!!!" (with THREE exclamation points!!!), and it features one of my favorite DJs/Seattle nightlife fixtures, Fortune Kiki. What else does one need to know? (Besides that it's free, and the doors are at 9PM, and that Havana is at 1010 East Pike Street, naturally.)

Havana, TONIGHT!

A Drink For The Kids, the Vera Project’s annual 21+ benefit, includes six bar nights featuring beer and liquor specials benefitting the Vera Project and a grand finale benefit show. Visit any of the bars below and purchase a Stone Brewing Company beer and ask about liquor specials to support Vera:

July 5th at Cha Cha
July 6th at Hazelwood
July 7th at West 5
July 8th at Twilight Exit
July 9th at Linda’s
July 10th at Solo & Funhouse
July 11th at Neumos - Grand Finale Concert with Robin Pecknold, Throw Me the Statue

Update: Musical entertainment for this evening will be generously provided by Unnatural Helpers and Telepathic Liberation Army.

More information here.

It is a little mixer they are throwing called TGIF (you know, "Thank GLAAD It’s Friday"? of course.) that is aimed at something called “professionals”. “Young gay and lesbian” ones, specifically. And although I’m not exactly sure what this thing “professional” is, hey, whatever…BOOZE! No defamation! Me! PRIDE!

Please join us. You will be surely GLAAD you did, har har.

At PURR (1518 11 Avenue), $15, 7PM-to-9PM, tonight.

David Richie, who is dazzling, and DJ L.A. Kendal, who is off the fucking hizzle in general, invented it. (They also gave birth to the beautiful beast that was HotMess...R.I.P.) And as you can see, the event is billed as, um, "a multi-poly-omni art experiment". I'm not sure what that means exactly, but there's almost naked people in the picture. And music. And The BOoze. So, heeey. (Also, I have it on bad authority that this adorable creature is in town, and will be wandering the shadows at this event, too. I'm merely sayin'.)

These is some Hard Times, chile! Brave the wind! Get your gay on! TONIGHT!

War Room (722 East Pike), 9PM, $5.

This year marks her fourth centennial. Being four hundred years old, she is celebrating at The Crescent Tavern (1413 East Olive Way), which is singularly appropriate, and still smells like total ass. (Take care of it people—the charm is GONE!) Not that I'd ever insinuate that Jackie smells like ass, of course. Especially not on her birthday.

There's a Jackie Hell look-alike contest at midnight! The event goes from 9 PM-till-2 fucking AM!

Won't you join her?

Oh, and, um, Jackie Hell is totally completely biographied here, by the way. Ahem. Order it gift-wrapped!

Happy birthday, you hideous, glorious freak!