Point Break Live!
(100% PURE ADRENALINE!) "You gonna jump or jerk off?" Penned and produced by the implausibly inspired folks at the Northwest Film Forum (including Jaime Keeling, Jamie Hook, and Zack Carlson), Point Break Live! is the world premiere theatrical adaptation of 1991's silver-screen magnum opus Point Break. Gunfire, skydiving, surfing, armed robbery, survival kits, skydiving again, and a rotating cast of Keanus make up what is bound to be the greatest dramatic disaster of all time--and how are you going to miss that?!?! EXXXTREME!!! (Little Theatre, 610 19th Ave E, 329-2629. $10-$12. Thurs-Sun at 8 pm. Through Aug 10. ) ZAC PENNINGTON
FRIDAY
Pulp Vixens
(THEATER) In advance of their upcoming gig at the lesbianist place on earth--not Home Depot, but the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival--local comedy heroines Pulp Vixens bring their lesbian-love-triangle-murder-mystery-on-a-train comedy, Derailed Desires, to Re-bar for a two-night return engagement. For bar-theater fans, here's a night of sharp, brainy camp polished to a high sheen. For women who like women, here's a rare opportunity to hang out with other lesbians outside of the Wildrose, Storm games, and group therapy. (Pulp Vixens at Re-bar, 1114 Howell St, 723-1945. $12. Sat-Sun Aug 2-3 at 8 pm. ) DAVID SCHMADER
SATURDAY
Ardent Labor
(ART) The theme of this group show is effort, and its totem is the sennimbari sash: a piece of cloth--made for a Japanese soldier, by his mother--with a thousand stitches on it, each stitch made by a different person. This is the kind of gesture that in the wrong hands could go woo-woo and completely flat, but with Mandy Greer and Juniper Shuey behind it, it is entirely promising (Greer, in her pat-rack confection assemblages, has logged a few thousand stitches herself). With work by Laura and Lawrence MacCary, Diana Falchuk, Shio Kusaka, Paul Margolis, Peter Mundwiler, Jessie Skidmore, and the curators. (Opening reception Sat Aug 2, 7-10 pm, SOIL Gallery, 1317 E Pine St, 264-8061. Through Aug 24. ) EMILY HALL
SUNDAY
Elvismania
(TOTAL CRAPSHOOT) I don't know what the hell this whole Elvismania thing is all about, but I figure it's at least worth mentioning because three days of Elvis worshippers taking over a Canadian town from sunup to sundown is one bizarre event. At Elvismania, you've got your Elvis Sunday gospel show, your Elvis tribute competitions, your Elvis-inspired art, your Elvis-inspired fashion and car shows, an Elvis fucking parade down the main street of Cloverdale--home to that crappy show Smallville--and a ton of Elvis fanatics who can't give up the ghost that the King is dead. It's Elvis-freakin'-palooza, emphasis on the freak, and it happens August 2, 3, and 4 in Cloverdale, BC--a mere two hours away, according to MapQuest. (Go to www.elvismania.ca for details. ) JENNIFER MAERZ
MONDAY
'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind'
(SECOND CHANCE) For those who missed George Clooney's great directorial debut upon its initial release (which is to say, the bulk of you), Miramax is giving you a second shot, and you would be severely unwise to screw up and miss it again. Based on former Gong Show host Chuck Barris' decidedly wack autobiography (wherein he claims to have been a CIA hit man during his TV years), Confessions was written for the screen by Charlie Kaufman and... well... Clooney, Barris, Kaufman--what more needs to be said? Perhaps this: It's brilliant. (See Stranger Movie Times, pg 85. ) BRADLEY STEINBACHER
TUESDAY
Vikter Duplaix
(DJ) Like the great King Britt, the great Vikter Duplaix is from Philadelphia; also like Britt, Duplaix is an eclectic, globally oriented DJ and producer. He has worked with a number of the more forward-thinking American soul singers and rappers (Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Common, D'Angelo, the Roots), and is also connected with European broken-beat crews like Jazzanova, 4hero, and so on. Expect from his set nothing but the best that the world of electronic dance music has to offer. Most importantly, the show is for free. (Chop Suey, 1325 E Madison St, 324-8000, 9 pm, free. ) CHARLES MUDEDE
WEDNESDAY
Library Tour with Stokley Towles
(GUIDED INSTALLATION ART) For six months, writer/performer Stokley Towles has devoted his famously obsessive attention to the world of the public library, enlisting the aid of countless librarians to compile this two-part art project. Part #1 is a collection of found oddities, from "hot beach reads" (books returned with sand in the pages) to lonely losers (books that have never, ever been checked out). Part #2 is Towles' 30-minute performance--a lecture on the hidden workings of the Central Public Library's circulatory system, from the Dewey decimal system to the questions librarians have been asked the most. (Temporary Central Library, 800 Pike St, Aug 5-16. Reading room installation open 11 am-4 pm. Performances at 12:15 pm. ) DAVID SCHMADER
