If you have any taste for paranoid kitsch, you’ve probably
already seen a few drug-scare films from the ’50s and ’60s. But this 16
mm selection, organized by archivist-impresario Dennis Nyback as
part of his Summer of Love Film Festival, is the cream of the crop.
After you’re done gaping at “LSD babies,” Nyback will screen a spot-on
drug-scare parody made by Matt Groening and friends while they
were still high-school students in Portland. Aww! (Grand Illusion, 1403 NE 50th St, 523-3935. 7 pm,
$4–$8.)

Annie Wagner is The Stranger's former film editor. She was born and raised in Capitol Hill, but has since lived in such far-flung locales as Phoenix, AZ, Charlottesville, VA, and Wedgwood. After graduating...