LIVE MUSIC: If you're looking to start your weekend a day early, why not head to the Showbox Downtown for Minus the Bear. Fresh off the hottness of Coachella, the band's back in town to rock you hard. 8 p.m. // Showbox Downtown // $17.50 adv, $20 dos // all ages ART & WINE: Personally, we can think of no better pairing than art and wine, when it comes to nights out. The Frye will......

We finally made the (arduous!) four-block trek down to the Frye to check out "Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands." The exhibit highlights the last 20 years of Cole's work, heavy on the mixed media sculptures he's famous for. Cole takes ratty, disposable, everyday domestic objects and transforms them into pristine pieces that mimic symbols from South Asian and African art: scorched ironing boards become Domestic Shields, detached gas pump nozzles arc up from the......

Wednesday, October 18 >>>EMP, 6pm. First The Police's Andy Summers gets interviewed by EMP Senior Curator, Jasen Emmons. Then he signs his book, One Train Later: A Memoir. You need tickets to stand in the "Don't Stand So Close To Me" book-signing line, available with purchase of the book from University Book Store. Andy will sign one piece of memorabilia per copy of his book. Did we mention he has a book out? $5......

To the right is a picture of a llama named Bravo, which we chose because Seattle Opera's BRAVO! Club has 477 members and they would not all fit in a photo. Also, we like llamas. Wednesday night, BRAVO! took over the Frye Art Museum (which is the kind of thing they do) to give themselves a private birthday party, though they didn't have any cake that we could see. There were hors d'oeuvres and......

What's Seattlest doing this weekend? What isn't Seattlest doing this weekend? Disconsolate about Rainier Beach losing in the state tournament last night, Seth doesn't know if he can even face the world. If he does, it will be to see star Husky gymnast Kelly McDonald in her final college meet. Sunday he thanks God for being seemingly invisible to the opposite sex, because he has no girlfriend to drag him to an Oscar party. Matt......

This weekend, Seattlest will be representing at a high school basketball game, a chamber music concert, a church in Burien, and Alderwood Babies-R-Us, respectively. For the full 411, see below. Audrey's watching HBO's happy-go-lucky AIDS film. Tomorrow, she'll evince her newly-found concern for third-world poverty and disease by going Christmas shopping downtown. Sunday afternoon, find her at the Triple Door, having successfully weaselled her way into the KEXP event with Morcheeba. Sunday morning, most Seattlests......

We at Seattlest keep a running list of "Things We Mean To Check Out" going at all times. But in this ever-changing world in which we live in, time sometimes runs out. "Why didn't someone remind us?" we wail, petulantly. So we're going to take our personal tragedy and pay it forward, but in a good way. So, please note that the RetroFuturistic Universe of NSK at the Frye Art Museum closes this Sunday. Sunday!......

If you're anything like Seattlest (and we know you are), when you first saw that a Mark Ryden exhibition was coming to the Frye you 1) got excited, 2) emailed your friends, and 3) tried to remember to schedule a reminder for yourself on your calendar/PDA/phone/napkin before your mind wandered off to the next subject. Who knew you'd see something shiny just then? Well Seattlest must have gotten your email because while examining a bruise......