Ark Lodge Cinemas breaks its routine of showing first-run blockbusters in a charming neighborhood movie house with a special one-night-only screening of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, David Lynch’s contentious brain-twister of 1992. Conceived as a prequel to the TV series, Fire captures the last days of Laura Palmer and remains aggressively baffling. Nevertheless, it is two bracing hours of unadulterated Lynch, here served up with thematically apt coffee and pie. “Chugalug, Donna!” (Ark Lodge Cinemas, 4816 Rainier Ave S, arklodgecinemas.com, coffee and pie party 7 pm/film 8 pm, $11)
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