The Stranger Suggests
September 28 - October 5
'Evil Dead' with Bruce Campbell
(FILM/HILARITY) Only a fool would miss the great Bruce Campbell introducing a showing of Evil Dead, the film that launched his impressive mandible into the cult stratosphere. The screening is just icing on the Campbell cake, however, as beforehand the actor will be answering questions and signing copies of his new book, Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way, at Scarecrow Video. If you're smart, you'll attend both. (Screening at the Neptune, 1303 NE 45th, 781-5755. 11:30 pm, $8; book signing at Scarecrow Video, 5030 Roosevelt Way NE, 524-8554. 6 pm, free.)
Four Tet
(LAPTOP WIZARDRY) English producer Four Tet (Kieran Hebden) puts on the least boring laptop shows I've ever seen. He's the rare composer who can create music that's both adventurous and profoundly joyous, and he gets funkier than ever on the new Everything Ecstatic, his fourth and best album. (Neumo's, 925 E Pike St, 709-9467. 8 pm, $13 adv/$15 DOS, 21+.)
Vitamin D
(HIPHOP) Vitamin D is Seattle's top hiphop producer, making beats for both national cats (such as Gift of Gab, De La Soul, and 50 Cent) and local heads (like the Boom Bap Project, Silent Lambs Project, and Choklate—who'll be performing with him tonight). Vitamin D is now finishing his solo record, but if you can find his magnificent 1997 mix Do the Math, you'll have the blueprint for the present creative expansion of Seattle's hiphop scene. (Nectar, 412 N 36th St, 632-2020. 10 pm, $6, 21+.)
Smoke-Out on Teletubby Hill
(GREEN CELEBRATION) The "officially unofficial" inauguration of Capitol Hill's Cal Anderson Park is today at 4:20 p.m. Stoners plan to climb "the park's only hill—made of foam, soil, and sod—and celebrate by smoking some pot." Prizes are promised to those who arrive dressed as Tinky Winky, in honor of the hill's resemblance to Teletubbyland. Tip: Tuck a copy of Seattle's law declaring pot busts the city's lowest law enforcement priority—find it at sensibleseattle.org—into your red magic bag. (Cal Anderson Park, 1635 11th Ave. 4:20 pm, free.)
Franz Ferdinand
(MUSIC) You Could Have It So Much Better is an apt title for the Scottish dandies' cocksure sophomore release. Here they dally in blunt come-ons, entertain punk tangents, and proffer romantic piano balladry—for frontman Alex Kapranos's leading lady, the Fiery Furnaces' Eleanor Friedberger. Really, it's tough getting it too much better than this. (Paramount, 911 Pine St, 467-5510. 7:30 pm, $30 adv/$35 DOS, all ages. Also Oct 2.)
'Starball'
(THEATER) John Kaufmann shines when he doesn't know what's going to happen next. Starball, which he and Dan Dennis have performed in planetariums from Chicago to Spain, is a sparkling goulash of astronomy, music, and choreographed chaos. I once saw a version with a sing-along about a criminal with a 21-inch neck and a pool boy in a toy store—and those were the audience's ideas. (Smith Planetarium, Pacific Science Center, 200 Second Ave N, 352-1777. Fri–Sat at 10 pm, Sun at 8 pm, $12–$17.)
Fiery Furnaces
(MUSIC) America's fabbest brother-sister rock combo traffics in baroque melodic flourishes, irresistible hooks, and more tantalizing surprises per track than most groups muster per album. Even if the new, grandma-featuring Rehearsing My Choir doesn't reach the vertiginous art-pop heights of their previous work, Fiery Furnaces still radiate an intense heat live. (Neumo's, 925 E Pike St, 709-9467. 8 pm, $15, all ages.)
Terror-oke with Terra Hymen
(CLUB NIGHT) For years, the Crescent Tavern has patiently watched far fancier queer bars rise and fall. A new day has dawned for the Crescent, and although her face is still grubby, undying irony and karaoke have transformed her into the belle of the big gay ball at last. Most nights are packed karaoke carnivals of fresh queerdom, and Tuesday's Terror-oke with DJ "Terra Hymen" is the very best of them all. (Crescent Tavern, 1413 E Olive Way, 720-8188. 9 pm, free, 21+.)
'Showgirls'
(CINEMATIC DISASTER FOR A GOOD CAUSE) One horrible tragedy deserves another—that's why tonight at the Triple Door I'm hosting a one-night-only encore screening of Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven's accidentally hilarious cinematic disaster, with live annotation by yours truly and profits going to the Red Cross for victims of Hurricane Katrina. (The Triple Door, 216 Union St, 838-4333. Doors at 6 pm, show at 7:30 pm, $12 adv/$15 DOS, 18+.)
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