Your roundup of this week’s most widely-read, shared, and discussed stories.

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Seth Goodkind

• You have less than one month of summer left. What are you going to do with it? Christopher Frizzelle suggests taking a seaplane. Sydney Brownstone recommends going to the aquarium high. Rich Smith encourages you to bust up a rat scuffle in Cal Anderson Park. Dan Savage says to stay home. Here’s what the rest of The Stranger recommends for the last days of summer ‘16.

• Did you know that the Seattle Asian Art Museum is planning to expand into Volunteer Park? Chances are you did not. That's because the museum hasn’t been exactly forthcoming with the deets. Despite the secrecy around the plans, unhappy neighbors have already started a petition against it. Jen Graves has the story.

SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU, A sweet and schmaltzy presidential rom-com.
Southside With You, a sweet and schmaltzy presidential rom-com. PAT SCOLA, COURTESY OF MIRAMAX AND ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS

• Our film critics’ picks this week include Southside with You, the Obamas’s first date in the form of a hagiographic film, and Equity, a woman-centered movie that cuts right to the heart of American greed. Stranger Things To Do has details for both of those films, as well as the 20 other of this week’s best movie screenings in Seattle.

• For last-minute stragglers and for those whose rents just rose astronomically, Stranger Things To Do has the always-reliable Cheap and Easy listings. We have 77 weekend activities, all under $10.

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RAMON DOMPOR

• Meet Amanda Saab: She’s a social worker, a food blogger, a former MasterChef contestant, and she wants to invite you to talk about Islam over dinner. "Everything you probably think about me is false," Saab says. But rather than ignore those misconceptions, she wants to change them over food.

• Speaking of food. Seattle’s Cafe Nordo does dinner theater that you’ll want to avoid for now. Their rendition of The Glass Menagerie, according to Rich Smith, is as mediocre as the "Mississippi Pot Roast" they serve with it. Sorry, Tennessee Williams.

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• The Bumbershoot festival takes place next weekend. The lineup includes headliners Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, as well as DoNormaal and Chastity Belt. For details and the full schedule, we have a comprehensive Bumbershoot guide right here.

• If you want to avoid the crush of Bumbershoot, there’s plenty of concerts happening in Seattle next week. 26 of them are the cream of the concert crop. One of those is a performance by Ashanti and Ja Rule. Together. In 2016. Really.

Enjoy the sun this weekend.