The Stranger Suggests
September 6 - September 13
'The Museum Play'
(THEATER) The Museum Play's museum is of the natural-history variety and it's weird: The chairman of its board is a girl who was abandoned inside the museum and never left. Mastodon bones disappear, mounted butterflies rearrange themselves on the wall, and "the suggested donation is the contents of your wallet; the suggested donation is nonnegotiable." Some performers are better than others, but the play—which is really about lost lovers—is imaginative and strong. (Washington Ensemble Theatre, 608 19th Ave E, 800-838-3006. 8 pm, $10—$15.) BRENDAN KILEY
Old Fire House Anniversary
(MUSIC) For 14 years, Redmond's Old Fire House has brought great music, art, and more to the Eastside's all-ages community. Teenage members of Waxwing, Murder City Devils, Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Blood Brothers all once took the Fire House's makeshift stage sans tattoos and record contracts. Jawbreaker even played there. But let's not talk about it like it's over. Because with an unfaltering 14-year run behind them, the Old Fire House is celebrating its birthday tonight with the next crop of superstars in the making—Schoolyard Heroes, Akimbo, Mikaela's Fiend, and Patrol. (The Old Fire House, 16510 NE 79th St, Redmond, 425-556-2370. 8 pm, $7, all ages.)
HUMP! 2
(PARTY LIKE A PORN STAR) After two days of sold-out screenings—all of tonight's screenings are sold out, although if you hurry you might still be able to score tickets to the just-added show on Friday at 4 pm—amateur porn stars and the crowds who love them converge at Havana. The winner of the contest will be announced (prize includes $2,000 and a trip to Vegas). Plus, door prizes from Babeland and DJ Curtis spinning '70s porn music. (Havana, 1010 E Pike St, 323-2822, www.thestranger.com/hump for more info. 9 pm, free.)
Wooden Octopus Skull Pfestival
(MUSICK) Tonight concludes the second annual experimental-noise marathon known as Wooden Octopus Skull. Fest survivors will prostrate themselves before the devious drilling, droning, and Sturm und Dranging of sonic sadists Wolf Eyes, Double Leopards, Yellow Swans, Dead Machines, Hive Mind, and the Cherry Point. These performers are among the most refined practitioners of channeling misanthropy into nuanced slabs of cranium-scraping frequencies. Come get tethered and abattoired. (Conjuring Room, 2203 Utah Ave S, 545-2800. 8:30 pm, $18, all ages.)
'Lot's Tribe: Salt Witnesses'
(SCULPTURE) Tied-up, starving, suffering Iraqis made of salt and melting away before your eyes in the rain in a public square: not the Bush administration's idea of a good 9/11 memorial. Michael Magrath (who devised a salt-based material for casting his life-sized figures) and a team of helpers will deposit the sculptures (based on news photographs of Iraqi men and boys) in Occidental Square early this morning. Given there's rain, the Iraqis will begin to disintegrate. (Occidental Square, Occidental Ave S and S Main St, free.)
'Talk to Her'
(FILM) The movie never name-checks Morrissey, but it is about girlfriends in comas and the men who stand vigil over them. The women: a female matador (gored) and a young dancer (car accident). The men: Marco (a heartsick journalist) and Benigno (an obsessive mama's boy). The relationships are startlingly tempestuous, seeing as how half of each couple is unconscious—there are breakups, unexpected romances, violations of trust, and a funny, weirdly sexy film-within-a-film called The Incredible Shrinking Lover. (Harvard Exit. See Movie Times, page 84, for details.)
Nomeansno
(MUSIC) While Jane's Addiction are often cited as Gen-X's definitive gateway band—the band that turned classic rockers on to the alternative underground—Nomeansno performed that same essential service for many, particularly in the Northwest. The BC-based punks sound as vital as ever, having just recorded All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt, a joyfully abrasive record that exudes all the bass-buoyed brattiness and jazz-informed spazziness that has helped them maintain a cult following since the early '80s. (El Corazón, 109 Eastlake Ave E, 381-3094. 9 pm, $10 adv/$12 DOS, 21+.)
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