Goodbye, September, it’s been nice.
And hello Autumn proper. There can be no doubt now, we’re into fall in a big way.
But, although the weather is getting colder and the days are getting shorter, that doesn’t mean the fun is any less round the Rock.
There’s plenty to do on Bainbridge for those willing to don a sweater and perhaps get a little damp this weekend.
Here are our Best Bets.
First up, all weekend long, the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art is hosting a local screening of the 22nd Annual Manhattan ShortFilm Festival.
Film-goers at BIMA will unite with over 100,000 cineastes from around the globe for the event, locally hosted by TJ Faddis.
View a curated collection of short films from around the world — and you’ll be the judge. You will be given a voting card and brochure to enable you to vote for your favorite film and favorite actor.
Winning filmmakers will receive cash and/or filmmaking equipment to further their talent.
This program runs approximately three hours hours with an intermission at the 1-hour mark, light appetizers provided and beverages available for purchase.
Advance tickets are recommended, as some showtimes sell out.
Available showtimes include 3:30 and 7 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Visit www.biartmuseum.org to learn more and purchase.
The Bainbridge Island Fire Department will host a public open house at the recently rebuilt Station 22 from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.
All are welcome to attend and check out the new facility and chat with firefighters and commissioners.
The station is located at 7934 NE Bucklin Hill Road, adjacent to the American Legion.
Visit www.bifd.org to learn more.
Seattle-based vintage-style country music rockers Country Lips are set to return to Lynwood’s Treehouse Café at 8 p.m. Friday.
Tickets, $20 for general admission (seating is limited), are on sale via www.treehousebainbridge.com.
The seven-man ensemble, in the words of American Standard Time, “formed years ago in Seattle around a shared ethos of booze, badassery and countrified rock-and-roll in the tradition of George Jones, Johnny Cash and the Flying Burrito Brothers.”
Their old school-inspired stylings have earned similarly rave reviews far and wide, including Seattle Weekly.
“Many, many years before the likes of Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, and Blake Shelton donned 10-gallon hats and began crooning about blue jeans and cheesy romance, country was the genre of choice for drunkards, rebels, and rockers,” one review lamented. “Seattle’s own Country Lips pay homage to that proud tradition, cranking out debauched ballads with slurred-speech choruses that would make Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard proud.”
Alexandra Horowitz will visit Eagle Harbor Book Company at 3 p.m. Sunday to discus her newest book, released earlier this month, “Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond.”
The event is free and open to the public.
As Horowitz considers the current culture of dogdom, she reveals the odd, surprising and contradictory ways we live with dogs. We celebrate their individuality, but breed them for sameness. Despite our deep emotional relationships with dogs, legally they are property to be bought, sold, abandoned, or euthanized as we wish. Even the way we speak to our dogs is at once perplexing and delightful.
The Oprah Magazine said it was, “an incredible journey into the olfactory world of man’s best friend.” And the New York Times Book Review said it “causes one’s dog-loving heart to flutter with astonishment and gratitude.”
Horowitz is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller “Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know,” and “On Looking: A Walker’s Guide to the Art of Observation.”
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