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Met Picks: Capitol Hill Block Party, Vicci Martinez, 14/48: World’s Quickest Theater Festival

The top 10 things to see or do this weekend.

By Laura Dannen July 21, 2011

Photo: Courtesy Andrew Zaeh.

Vicci Martinez returns to old haunt the Triple Door on July 23.

CONCERT Tacoma’s fiery soul singer Vicci Martinez makes a triumphant return to the Triple Door on Saturday after a top-four finish on The Voice. Before the TV show ended, we asked her what’s really behind Cee Lo’s shades. July 23.

MUSIC FEST Capitol Hill Block Party is Bumbershoot for hipsters: three nights of music in the streets with national acts TV on the Radio, Ghostland Observatory, and Explosions in the Sky coheadlining. Expect 30,000 people to show up and a lineup full of local acts across five stages in the Pike/Pine corridor. July 22–24.

THEATER If you’re not at the Cap Hill Block Party, enjoy an equally frenzied time at 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theater Festival. The ladies take the stage this weekend, with 48 hours to write, design, rehearse, and perform 14 original ten-minute plays. Next weekend, the guys get their turn. July 22 & 23, 29 & 30.

The new stage musical of Disney’s Aladdin, directed and choreographed by The Book of Mormon’s Casey Nicholaw, is in its final week at 5th Avenue Theatre. The previews have been selling out like crazy since July 7, and once you see the opening dance number “Arabian Nights,” you’ll know why. Catch it before it heads to Broadway. Thru July 31.

FILM Before the British tabloids stood at the center of their own scandal, documentary Tabloid by Oscar winner Errol Morris shed light on the bizarre real-life story of a UK tabloid cover girl, former Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney. See it Guild 45th Theatre. Opens July 22.

In horror film Trollhunter, shaky cameras follow some of the tallest, ugliest, nastiest trolls to ever leave Epcot into the remote northern woods of Norway. People loved this flick at SIFF; lucky for us, Crest Theatre decided to screen it again. Opens July 22.

VISUAL ART Seattle artist Ginny Ruffner unveils a new kinetic sculpture at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel on Thursday. Also this weekend, documentary A Not So Still Life, about Ruffner’s miraculous recovery from a coma-inducing car accident at age 37, shows how far she’s come. It screens at SIFF. Film opens July 22.

Pop artist and satirist Derek Erdman (a regular contributor for The Stranger) blends sass and nostalgia in his latest exhibit Old Food, a collection of paintings of antiquated packaging and long-forgotten restaurant signs on display at Vermillion. Thru Aug 6.

DANCE ARC’s annual mixed repertory series Summer at the Center is at Seattle Rep Theatre, with a world premiere by the Foundry’s artistic director Alex Ketley, and choreography by ARC’s Betsy Cooper and Jason Ohlberg of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. July 21–23.

BOOZE Take a ferry across the Sound to the inaugural Bremerton Summer BrewFest on Saturday, with nearly 25 breweries pouring frosty beverages. July 23.

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