Y’ALL BE SURE TO ATTEND our glorious MISCosity Breakdown live event, this Friday evening (7-9:30) at the spiffy Rendezvous, Second Avenue north of Bell Street. At least five writers from the print MISC will appear; there’s also some odd video and music plus some other unannounced surprises.

TWO OF THE TENTPOLES of Seattle’s anti-youth culture have suddenly collapsed after almost two decades’ worth of litigation. Ex-City Attorney Mark Sidran’s anti-postering law was thrown out by a judge; band flyers started reappearing on light poles the very next day (though the 50 “Fuck Mark Sidran” posters someone put up were systematically removed by someone else).

And the nefarious Teen Dance Ordinance, which essentially shut down all-ages music shows in Seattle in 1985, was finally replaced by a far less restrictive law. Just don’t look for any immediate explosion of open-to-under-21s gigs. Some bars have already been hosting no-booze, all-ages matinee and early-evening shows (under recently relaxed state Liquor Board regulations). Despite the daily papers’ renewed teen-bashing editorials, the clubs aren’t making significant profits on these shows. Nonprofit all-ages promoters (the Paradox Theater, the Vera Project) rely heavily on volunteer help and monetary donations (the latter of which are darned hard to come by in the current economy).

HERE’S SOME MORE CAPITOL HILL BLOCK PARTY images from a few weeks back, that of several baseball-backstop climbers and one clever stilt walker viewing Sleater-Kinney for free.

A FEW WEEKENDS LATER, the Bite of Seattle hosted one of the most bizarre cover bands I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen a lot of bizarre cover bands). The members of “Grunge: A Tribute to the Seattle Sound” seemed to know the ridiculousness of their premise, going as far as to introduce Alice in Chains’s “Man in a Box” with a rousing cheer: “This next one’s for all the kids to dance to!” The group appears regularly at Doc Maynard’s in Pioneer Square, where the audiences might or might not get the irony.

AT AUGUST’S FIRST THURSDAY ART WALK, painter Jessica McCourt found out her exhibit at Bud’s Jazz Records didn’t make the newspaper listings. So she did her own leafleting, dressed up as one of the characters from her show “Saints, Sinners, and Monkeys.”