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Saturday, July 12, 2008

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Zach Plague at Richard Hugo House

Plague is the author of a self-described "typo/graphic novel" titled boring boring boring boring boring boring boring, just released by Featherproof Books. Besides featuring some gorgeous design, boring7 starts out with one couple's endangered anti-love affair and ends with art terrorism. Along the way, there are sex drugs, an "art patriarch" named The Platypus, and a punk named Punk. Also reading will be Kevin Sampsell of Future Tense Publishing and Jay Ponteri, editor of M Review, making this a huge-ass, small-press hootenanny. (Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030. 7 pm, free.)

PAUL CONSTANT

Nostalgia

Sub Pop Turns 20 at Marymoor Park

This weekend's 20th-anniversary blowout for mega-indie label Sub Pop includes a lot of great shows, but today's lineup is arguably the best, with reunions from Scottish twee punks the Vaselines and Canadian indie hermits Eric's Trip, as well as sets from rising Seattle stars Fleet Foxes, awesome Allentown ranters Pissed Jeans, New Zealand's adorable Flight of the Conchords, and many more acts from the label's stacked, storied roster. All in the legendary birthplace of "grunge™": Redmond, Washington. (Marymoor Park, 6046 W Lake Sammamish Pkwy NE, Redmond, www.subpop.com. Noon, $35, all ages.)

ERIC GRANDY
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