Weekend Highlights for Aug. 28-31

While you're kicking back this Labor Day weekend, Ryan Henry Ward will be out creating murals. He's well into his mission of painting 50 murals around Seattle; by now, there's probably one or two near you. If you have time between barbecues this weekend, see if you can't get a picture of one of those murals. Send it to us and we'll post it to the photo gallery for your neighborhood.

The Overnight Desk
Learn how to Bumbershoot
Our nightlife blogger shows you how to fill three days with music, art, theater and funnel cake.
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Table & Contents
Enjoy brunch at a local bar
El Chupacabra and Tigertail now serve weekend brunch -- the perfect antidote to the cocktails they served the night before.
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Entertainment
Watch WSU crush Oklahoma State
The Cougars take on the Cowboys at Qwest Field. We'll just see who brings the thunder, you hoop-stealing hayseeds.
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Minding the Store
Reunite with 'Project Runway' alumni
Former "Runway" contestants Nick Verreos and Sweet P host the IMAGINE! Design Expo, a showcase for design students, this Friday in Tukwila.
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Restaurants
Try the inspirational cuisine of Olivar
Chef Phillipe Thomelin has taken an allegedly "cursed" spot in Capitol Hill's Loveless Building and enlivened it with the very soul of Spain.
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Music & Nightlife
Skate and slam at the Funhouse
Flee Bumbershoot for an evening of skateboarding and skull-splitting punk. Proceeds benefit Marginal Way Skate Park.
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More in NWsource
Daniel Clowes visits Fantagraphics to talk about "Ghost World."

Wholly agreeable-sounding country-rock outfit Gin Betty plays Neumos.

Everything old is new wave again: Dig on the synthesizer sound of Freezepop.

Powerhouse acts from Los Angeles meet the local guard at the Asian Hip-Hop Summit Tour.

Beyond the weekend
Two veterans of Seattle's fringe theater scene, Mike Daisey and Reggie Watts, pool their considerable resources to explain the meaning of existence in "Frequently Asked Questions," Wednesday, Sept. 3 at Town Hall. If these guys can't make sense of it all, we're basically screwed.

On the following evening, the circus comes to town. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, to be precise. The RB and BBC is an American institution and the first hit you get when you Google the word "circus," so you probably already know what to expect. Just pack up the kids and head to the Everett Events Center.

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