You've already read our picks for the best things to do from home this week Like List (like SassyBlack's Online Dance Party Past Event Like List on Friday and a virtual concert with the Kareem Past Event Like List Kandi World Orchestra Past Event Like List on Sunday), so now we're mixing it up with some recommendations for IRL, socially distanced ways to spend your weekend, including in-person events and some more general suggestions that we don't usually get the chance to gush over. See them all below, from the Hot Machines Art Show Past Event Like List at Fantagraphics to State Parks Free Days Past Event Like List , and from the Tacoma Art Museum Reopening Past Event Like List to Nightmare on Wall Street Past Event Like List . Plus, you can always check out our complete in-person and streaming calendars for even more options, our directory of places accepting in-person visits, or our guides to the best movies to stream this weekend Like List . and where to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day Like List .

VISUAL ART

This is a great weekend to pay a visit to Fantagraphics Like List , the retail outpost of the local publisher that’s “home to the world's greatest cartoonists,” for many reasons. First of all, it’s supposed to rain, and Georgetown’s industrial vista will provide excellent fodder for your moody daydreams. More importantly, the bookstore has unearthed a whole spread of Halloween-appropriate offerings, like Simon Hanselmann’s Megahex, along with other favorites in the Meg, Mogg, & Owl series, plus Terror Train And Other Stories, by the former editor of Mad Magazine, Al Feldstein. Plus, the Hot Machines Past Event Like List art show is opening on Saturday with enough delicious risographs and indie comix creators to sate your appetite until Short Run (hopefully) returns in 2021. While you're in the neighborhood, stop by studio e for the closing weekend of Gillian Theobald's Night Music Past Event Like List , or make an appointment ahead of time to see Robert Pruitt's Guest Minister Past Event Like List at Oxbow for a mini Georgetown Art Attack Remind Like List -style outing. Maybe you'll grab some fresh hop beers from Jellyfish Brewing and/or order some comfort food from Cookie’s Country Chicken for pickup before cozying up at home with your newfangled reading material, eh? 

The Stranger’s resident comic book expert Matt Baume also has some great recommendations newly on deck at Phoenix Comics & Games, including Eleanor Crewes’s debut graphic novel The Times I Knew I Was Gay. “A wonderful memoir, it began as a zine that Crewes stitched by hand and delivered to comic shops on her bike,” writes Baume. “It’s not hard to see why it took off: It’s a funny, confessional reflection on moments in the author's life when she confronted and struggled with identity, from having complex feelings about Willow on Buffy; to her awkward attempts at dating boys who liked the same anime she did; to coming out of the closet four or five times before it really stuck. It is an intensely relatable and at times eye-opening portrait of befuddling queerness, given additional intimacy by Crewes’ sketchy pencil art and the book’s wonderfully rough paper.” Also on the list is Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology, Jerry Craft’s Class Act, (the sequel to his award-winning New Kid), and more. 

Other weekend events worth noting:

Tacoma Art Museum Reopening
Having been closed for in-person visits since March 13, the Tacoma Art Museum is the newest venue to join the list of newly reopened Seattle museums Like List (along with the Wing Luke Like List , which also opened this week). TAM plans to welcome back 50 guests at a time for a "nearly contactless experience." In addition to cleaning surfaces between visits, the space has implemented an additional air purification technology system. Guests are asked to wear masks and keep six feet apart along guided pathways. TAM's Art Studio, café, and hands-on gallery interactives will be unavailable, as will access to the lockers and coat check. As for what to see, exhibitions like Immigrant Artists and the American West are on extended view.
Past Event Like List Tacoma Art Museum (all weekend)

The Great Seattle Arts Adventure Past Event Like List
Using the mobile app Goose Chase, this all-ages, arts-based scavenger hunt hosted by the Seattle Shakespeare Company allows you to complete challenges for the chance to win prizes without straying too far from home.
Wherever you are (all weekend)

Greenwood Outdoor Art Walk
Past Event Like List Stroll under the canopies along Piper's Lane (just West of the Greenwood Art Collective) taking in original paintings, illustrations, photography, and jewelry for sale from local artists.
Greenwood Art Collective (Friday)

Sensebellum Past Event Like List
The Bellingham-based "experience" Sensebellum features interactive science-y art, 3D projection mapping, intricate lighting systems, and renderings of the natural world.
Periodic: A Pop-Up Shop (South Lake Union, all weekend)

FOOD & DRINK

SHOPPING

If you want to pour one out for Eddie Van Halen, pay your respects at your local record store. Even if you’ve never personally lit one up and sunk into the synthetic velvet upholstery in your parents’ basement with Van Halen’s “Runnin’ With the Devil” deafening your eardrums, you can’t argue that the ‘70s-bred rock band is a household name. Its frontman, Eddie Van Halen, died at 65 early this week following a battle with lung cancer. “Mr. Van Halen structured his solos the way Macy’s choreographs its Independence Day fireworks shows: shooting off rockets of sound that seemed to explode in a shower of light and color. His outpouring of riffs, runs and solos was hyperactive and athletic, joyous and wry, making deeper or darker emotions feel irrelevant,” wrote Jim Farber for the New York Times. This weekend, head to your nearest vinyl purveyor and scoop up one of his records, of which there are plenty at Easy Street Like List (West Seattle), Everyday Music Like List (Capitol Hill), Jive Time Like List (Fremont)—all of which are open for limited-capacity shopping—and probably anywhere else. 

Other weekend events worth noting:

SPASM South Park Swap Meet
Past Event Like List Support artists and small businesses in Seattle's South Park neighborhood at this in-person shopping event co-presented by the Punk Rock Flea Market. Be sure to wear a mask and keep your distance. Hand sanitizer will be available for all customers.
Big Top Curiosity Shop (South Park, Saturday)

Fremont Sunday Market Remind Like List
Every Sunday year-round, Fremont hosts their weekly market, featuring food, crafts, gifts, antiques, and more. It's been a Seattle tradition since 1990, and they're now reopen with COVID restrictions in mind.
Fremont (Sunday)

Witches Night Out 2020 Past Event Like List
Select businesses along downtown Enumclaw's main drag will offer special treats to anyone using a broom as transportation, wearing a pointy hat (and a mask, of course), and cackling with maniacal delight. Don't forget to bring canned food donations for the Enumclaw Food Bank to drop off at Seeders. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, witches are encouraged to decorate and their cars and parade down the street on wheels instead of on foot. 
Downtown Enumclaw (Saturday)

LAKEtoberfest and Urban Market at Dock & Drink Past Event Like List
Every weekend in October brings small businesses, artists, and other vendors around the Puget Sound together for an autumnal market and COVID-safe bacchanal on the Hyatt Regency's lakeside boardwalks.
Hyatt Regency (Renton, Saturday–Sunday)

SEASONAL

If you live for spooky season, you'll be glad to know that haunted houses aren't canceled Like List , and it's not too late to get tickets for the self-guided Georgetown Morgue Past Event Like List or Snohomish's drive-through Stalker Farms Past Event Like List for this weekend. If you're looking for something a little less intense, you can still get your seasonal fix at one of these fall festivals and pumpkin patches Like List , or get your hands on one of these fall cocktails Like List .

If you're excited about the Seahawks playing the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, we've also got a guide to where to watch the games, plus where to get takeout for the occasion Like List .

Also worth noting:

State Parks Free Days Past Event Like List
If you don't have a Discover Pass but you still want to take in Northwest wildlife during larch season, take advantage of free admission to state parks on special days throughout the year. This weekend, the parks will be free in honor of World Mental Health Day (and to make up for an originally scheduled spring day that was postponed due to COVID).
Various locations (Saturday)

FILM

If you haven't heard, drive-in movies are no longer relegated to the summer. Like List For seasonally appropriate movies, check out Hocus Pocus and Coco Past Event Like List at the Vasa Park Resort in Bellevue, or Casper and Poltergeist Remind Like List at the Blue Fox in Oak Harbor. The latest Hollywood movies can be found at Port Orchard's Rodeo Drive-In Remind Like List , where this weekend's options include On the Rocks with Bill Murray and Rashida Jones, the new horror flick Possessor, and Bill & Ted Face the Music, which is also playing at Shelton's Skyline Drive-In Past Event Like List along with Tenet. Tried-and-true classics can be found in Burien (Monster's Inc Past Event Like List on Friday only) and Port Townsend (Talladega Nights and Past Event Like List Step Brothers Past Event Like List ). Plus, don't forget to get your tickets to The Stranger's SLAY Drive-In Past Event Like List before they sell out!