The Birdcage @ Alki Beach

Miami comes to Alki Beach 🦤

📸: The Birdcage

There are a few summer rituals I try to do each year to ward off post-summertime sadness in Seattle:

🏖️ Going to a beach (preferably one with more sand than rocks)

 🥳 Getting sweaty at a block party (it’s not summer until you’ve partied on hot pavement)

📽️ And catching an outdoor movie at sunset

August is the peak month to watch outdoor movies in Seattle, with series like Movies at the Mural (ft. LabyrinthShang-Chi, and others this year), U District Summer Movies by the Bay (ft. water-themed movies like Whale Rider and Moana), and Three Dollar Bill Cinema’s OUTdoor Cinema Program. (OUTdoor, cuz it’s gay.) Three Dollar Bill will show one of this summer’s funniest offerings, a free screening of The Birdcage on Alki Beach, on August 14th. This 26-year-old film about a gay couple in Miami, one a cabaret owner and the other a drag queen, holds up thanks to top-shelf performances from Nathan Lane and Robin Williams.

Seattle is a film town, and Three Dollar Bill Cinema is one of its leading film organizations. The LGBTQ+ focused group is most known for its annual Seattle Queer Film Festival (held in October) and Translations, Seattle’s Transgender Film Festival (usually in May). But it also has year-round film programming, like this popular annual outdoor series. This year, the series visits three spots: Elsom Cellars (D.E.B.S. on July 9), Jimi Hendrix Park (Purple Rain on August 28), and this draggy time on Alki Beach.

Author

Chase Burns

Chase Burns is The Ticket’s editor. As a reporter, he’s covered everything from gay luchadores to chemical weapons to Isabella Rossellini’s favorite pets. Right now he’s really into the fruit sandwiches at Baiten in Capitol Hill.