If you don’t already know, Smash Putt is the intricately explosive mini-golf extravaganza that’s delighted lucky Seattle attendees for a good couple of years. (Think miniature golf as played in The Road Warrior, and you’ll be close.) The latest iteration is subtitled 2012: Final Apocalypse! and promises “new high jinks and mechanized madness,” complete with scratch ’n’ sniff technology and gravity defiance alongside the beloved golf ball cannons. Crucial bonus: There is a full bar. (Smash Putt Sodo Fairways, 2724 Sixth Ave S, www.smashputt.com, 3 pm–midnight, $11–$15.50, 21+)
David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest... More by David Schmader
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