SPORTS
No, I can’t believe I’m becoming a Sounders FC fan, either, but there you have it. They’re playing D.C. United at Qwest Field on Wednesday, June 17. Read the rather amusing yahoo we’ve got covering Ljungberg and Co. but don’t tell him I sent you.

THEATER
Poetry in motion: Creator/performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph promises his multi-genre, multi-media The Break/s: A Mixtape for the Stage is “the best elements of hip-hop culture distilled in theatrical form.” Come back to this blog after Thursday’s opening night to see if I agree.

I’ve never been a huge fan of Rent, which runs through June 21, but I’m willing to admit I’m in the minority. And original cast member Adam Pascal, who’s returned with Anthony Rapp, sort of won me over.

CLASSICAL & MORE
My most particular classical music buff friends have been saying nice things about the Lake Union Civic Orchestra so I’ll probably be at Town Hall on Friday.

Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra salutes the West Coast big band jazz of pianist Stan Kenton (who worked with two of my favorite singers, Anita O’Day and June Christy) on Saturday and Sunday.

CONCERTS
Neumos celebrates its 5th anniversary on Thursday welcoming The Helio Sequence, who further foster the ‘80s rock resurgence with woozy but propulsive angst from the suburbs of Portland. (You’d have angst, too, if you were from the suburbs of Portland. Hillsboro kid here.)

FILM
Starting Friday, the Harvard Exit claims two films fresh from SIFF: Every Little Step, the popular Chorus Line-revival documentary, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro, a beautifully shot, interesting film that goes bonkers and kicks in with dream ballets and a “surprise” revelation that even Faye Dunaway saw coming after she got slapped around by Nicholson in Chinatown. But the cast, including crazy-ass Vincent Gallo and especially Y tu mamá también’s earthy, delicious Mariel Verdú, is solid—young Alden Ehrenreich is a pup to pet, too. Anyway, Coppola’s a good talker.

Meryl Streep in that crackpot but mind-bogglingly successful Mamma Mia! hits the screen in Saturday’s Magnuson Outdoor Series, which is basically the launch party for this summer’s Fremont Outdoor Cinema except it’s in Magnuson Park. Whatever medieval hallucinogen Meryl appears to have ingested while making that movie needs to be kept away from me.

SPECIAL EVENTS
The weather forecast is good, which means hordes of funksters getting their freak on during the weekend-long Fremont Fair and Solstice Parade.

Juneteenth sparks a celebration at the Northwest African American Museum, which is now offering a limited number of $25 (as opposed to $45) tickets to a day that includes music, a museum tour (worth the trip), and dinner. And you get the glorious pleasure of whooping it up over Texas having to eat its Stetson back in 1865 when slavery was finally abolished there.