The Stranger

With six years and three full-lengths under their collective belt, Seattle's Pretty Girls Make Graves are gracefully saying their goodbyes—they'll perform two farewell shows tonight, then be gone forever. So even if you haven't cared about 'em since Good Health, you should come to one of tonight's shows, 'cause that'll be your last chance to go crazy during "Speakers Push the Air." Until, of course, they reunite for the Capitol Hill Block Party 2012. (Neumo's, 925 E Pike St, 709-9467. 5 and 9 pm, $12 adv, all ages.) by Megan Seling

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Every year, a little more energy hums around this two-week performance party (four shows, two weeks, 16 acts) because it keeps getting better and better. The early show: Joe von Appen (a one-man flipbook who begins by directly wooing the front row: "I'm a mammal and I'm looking for something three-dimensional to call my own"), tEEth (tableaux, karaoke, angry stripping), and more. The late show: maika misumi (martial-arts dance), Implied Violence (punks, dandies, and German expressionism), the mellifluous marimba of Erin Jorgensen, and more. I can't wait. (On the Boards, 100 W Roy St, 217-9888. 5 and 8 pm, $14.) by Brendan Kiley

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Grand Illusion continues its Michael Haneke (Caché) retrospective with two brutal and fascinating features for the price of one. See the original Funny Games ahead of the upcoming remake with Naomi Watts, and catch a rare and timely screening of 1994's 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance, about the circumstances that draw various characters into a massacre perpetrated by a 19-year-old student in a Vienna bank. (Grand Illusion, 1403 NE 50th St, 523-3935. Funny Games at 7 pm, 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance at 9 pm, $5—$8.) by Annie Wagner

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Elise Richman is called a painter, but what she does is this: She sculpts paint into landscapes of stalactites and gives them frames. Every tiny, brightly colored peak is an accumulation of dozens of drops of paint. There's the applying, the waiting, the meticulous repeat. Each show is hundreds and hundreds of these little rainbowy formations. They aren't paintings, they're devotions. (Gallery 4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Pl S, 296-8674. 8:30 am—5 pm, free.) by Jen Graves

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Australian orch-pop sextet (I know, another one, right?) Architecture in Helsinki are equal parts twee band geekery—their two full-lengths feature cute and informative charts identifying which of many instruments are played on which songs—scrappy pop punk pogo, and unexpected bursts of funk. Their songs might be laden with classical instruments, but they're hardly heavy, demanding not so much studious listening as joyous dancing and singing along. (Neumo's, 925 E Pike St, 709-9467. 8 pm, $15, all ages.) by Eric Grandy

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Ostensibly a primer for wide-eyed and freshly minted art grads, this panel talk could transcend its particulars to yield insights about what goes on behind the scenes in the art world. The panelists, at least the ones I know—curator Jennifer Gately, artist Robert Yoder, and dealer Scott Lawrimore—aren't boring politees. They are big-minded, talkative, and experienced, and this is your chance to ask them what you want to know. (Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave NE, 543-2280. 7 pm, $5.) by Jen Graves

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