• At the recent Totally '80s Sing-Along Encore to the Maxx! at Central Cinema, the final song/video was Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings," which was lifted from fatal sogginess by a couple of sing-along attendees: a man and woman who came together at the front of the house to perform a song-length interpretive dance, "with lifts and everything," says an eyewitness. "The whole crowd sat and watched, and when the dance ended, the applause was insane. Then—THEN—the man and woman parted ways and sat back down on opposite sides of the theater, suggesting THEY DID NOT KNOW EACH OTHER. It was magical, and that it was occurring at roughly the same time as the Aurora massacre makes it even more so."

• While The Stranger heartily endorses City of Seattle Proposition No. 1—fund Seattle Public Libraries, y'all!—it must be said that Stranger staff has very little confidence in the library administration to recognize the true value of Seattle Public Libraries. Marcellus Turner, our city librarian, pitched Prop 1 to the Stranger Election Control Board as a way to enhance the buildings, collections, and technologies of SPL and he never once, in 45 minutes, mentioned the importance of keeping trained librarians on staff or hiring more librarians. When the SECB asked Turner and Seattle Public Library board president Marie McCaffrey about this omission, they downplayed the necessity of librarians helping Seattleites sift through the overabundance of information available both in SPL and on the internet at large. It's the height of arrogance that SPL's upper administration doesn't believe librarians to be the most important part of the system they're entrusted to protect and serve.

• At Carkeek Park, a temporary sculpture was burned to the ground last week (Josho Somine's endearing, enterable tree made of cardboard). At Capitol Hill Block Party, a two-by-four segment of a sculpture was ripped off a fence and stolen (part of Meghan Trainor's Animus Carpentry). We know 2012's tough. But must you take it out on the art?

• A slew of lucky ducks got to attend a Top Chef event taping at Fisher Plaza on opening day of the Bite of Seattle, and every single one of these people was made to sign a confidentiality agreement about everything related to the show. But at least one tidbit slipped out: "It is fascinating how people who identify as 'foodies' dress when they know they're going to be looked at," said an eyewitness, citing a surplus of expensive sensible shoes and floral-print scarves.

• Holy crap! Defying the protests of Stranger reviewer Goldy—who called Kathie Lee Gifford's musical about megachurch pioneer Aimee Semple McPherson "an overlong, superficial disappointment"—the musical, once called Saving Aimee but now retitled Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, is going to Broadway. It opens in October at the Neil Simon Theater, and David Armstrong, artistic director of the 5th Avenue, will make his Broadway debut as its director. This is the fifth new musical in a decade to originate at the 5th Ave and migrate; when it comes to Broadway, Armstrong has a dowser's wand.