WEDNESDAY, JULY 201 2016: South Sound events + craft beer …
Monty Python + Firestone Walker = coconuts and rhinos
Comedy Open Mic + Stone IPAs = Ruination
Wine and blues + The Bruery = Mischief
Pumphouse + New Belgium = Fat Wild
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL QUOTE-ALONG
Few realizations resonate for the lifelong Python-head quite like the first time you overhear complete strangers incessantly quoting and requoting the Knights of Ni sequence. Talk about a moment of clarity. If you’re the kind of person who likes to put on your best bad British accent and throw our one-liners, or you’re the kind of person who makes eyes roll at parties by reciting lengthy passages from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (or even if you just like that one gimmick where the dudes run all over creation clomping coconut shells together and pretending to ride horses), you’re in for a treat. The Grand Cinema screens Monty Python and the Holy Grail at 1:45, 6:45 and 8:30 p.m. encouraging filmgoers to shout out their favorite quotes from the movie — a quote-along, if you will. Watch and quote along to your favorite lines, and if you are lucky enough to snag one, clip-clop-clap a pair of coconuts for added sound effect. Attend any screening and enter your ticket stub in a drawing for a chance to win a pair of tickets to see John Cleese and Eric Idle Live in Seattle this fall.
PREFUNK: The capture, killing, dismemberment, smuggling and sale of wild animals have major negative impacts on life on Earth — impacts that extend far beyond cruelty to individual animals or the extinction of species. Global wildlife crime, taken as a whole, destroys biodiversity, encourages corruption and disrespect for the rule of law, finances international crime syndicates and some armed insurgencies, and destabilizes entire nations and regions. The world’s five species of rhinos are at risk, largely from poaching for their horns. At the beginning of the 20th century, it is estimated that there were 500,000 rhinos across Africa and Asia. There may be as few as 29,000 today. The fine folks from Firestone Walker have teamed up with Drinking for Conservation to raise money for rhinos at 7 p.m. in the Parkway Tavern. Fiddy cents of all beverage sales will go to the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy for rhino conservation. Warren from Firestone Walker will bring some cool stuff to raffle and auction for donations. Remember kids … it’s for the Rhinos!
YOU’RE FUNNY
Standup comedy hasn’t evolved much since the glory days of ventriloquist and puppet. Every so often, there’s a Gallagher smashing watermelons or a musical funnyman like Jack Black, but for the most part, comedy is a dude on a stage with a microphone, plodding through a joke-punchline-new-joke routine. You’re funny. You need to change the course of comedy forever. At 8 p.m. the Tacoma Comedy Club opens its stage to the public for a comedy open mic. Explore the space.
PREFUNK: For nearly two decades, we’ve fallen hard for Stone Brewing Co.‘s hop-forward creations, from the style-defining IPA to Enjoy By, a drinkable lesson in why double IPAs should be consumed on the double. The Red Hot will offer a slew of the SoCal brewery’s latest and greatest, including RuinTen, RuinTen with orange & vanilla, Ruination 2.0, Go-To IPA and Mocha IPA, beginning at 5 p.m. The Stone schwag hits the floor at 7 p.m.
WINE AND BLUES
It’s been a long week already, and the weekend seems so far away. You need to wash away your Hump Day woes with some fine wines. Hell, bring the whole work crew to G. Donnalson’s for some tasty wine and blues. Beginning at 7:30 p.m., James Haye will deliver an evening of smooth and sultry blues guitar and vocals performing songs from his latest album, Hot Cat on a Tin Roof.
PREFUNK: Patrick Rue and brue-crue at The Bruery don’t brew the standard line up of pale ales, IPAs, porters or stouts that are common from most breweries. Instead, their year-round releases include Orchard White Belgian-style wit, Saison Rue Belgian/French-style farmhouse ale, Mischief hoppy Belgian-style golden strong ale, Rugbrod Danish-style rye ale and on and on. The Southern California also brews rare gems, and Engine House No. 9 has a bunch of them tonight. Beginning at 6 p.m., expect to drink The Bruery’s Bourbon Barrel Poterie, Chronology 12, 18 and 24, Mischief, Humulus Lager, Share this Coffee Imperial Stout, Tart of Darkness and the Jardier. To make the night even better, each time you order a special flight of the Chronology beers you will receive a Bruery etched glass (limited quantity available).
PUMPHOUSE
So you’ve got a wedding this summer, and you forgot to book the band. No problem. St. Louis has no shortage of cover bands that can play all the wedding-party hits without offending the patriarch who paid for the gig or making the bridal party frown because the tuxes don’t match. A bit of advice, check out Pumphouse at 7 p.m. as part of the 2016 Music in the Park Concert Series at Sylvester Park in downtown Olympia. Pumphouse is an Olympia-based rock band that draws from the sock-hop days of the ’50s all the way up to the bar rock of the 21st century. They could be your special band for your special day.
PREFUNK: New Belgium Brewing has come a long way since founders Jeff Lebesch and Kim Jordan first started cranking out beers in 1991. According to the Brewers Association, as of 2015 the brewery was the fourth-largest craft brewery in the United States based on beer sales volume, and the brewery has expanded beyond Fort Collins to North Carolina. Tonight, New Belgium Brewing and Northwest Beerwerks are teaming up to celebrate the brewery’s 25th anniversary by pouring several different versions of the brewery’s iconic Fat Tire Amber Ale brewed with five other breweries around the country — Allagash, Firestone Walker, Hopworks Urban Brewery, Rhinegeist and Avery. At 6 p.m., you may drink Fat Funk, Fat Hoppy, Fat Sour Apple, Fat Pale and Fat Wild.
