Top of today’s highlight list is our area’s biggest party of the year, which starts at 10 am – West Seattle Summer Fest in The Junction! We’re reporting live again this year from the midst of it all – the information booth at California/Alaska. Quick links first:

SUMMER FEST MUSIC SCHEDULE – here (first band, Squirrel Butter at 2 pm)
SUMMER FEST VENDOR LIST – here
SUMMER FEST VENDOR MAP – here (by number, per the list)
SUMMER FEST GREENLIFE SCHEDULE – here
SUMMER FEST COMMUNITY TENT SCHEDULE – here (scroll down)
SUMMER FEST BUS REROUTES – here

Other highlights for the day/night:

COLMAN POOL CLOSED … but this time it’s scheduled; no public swimming events today and tomorrow because of a swim meet.

WADING POOLS/SPRAY PARK SCHEDULE … Lincoln Park (11 am-8 pm), EC Hughes, Hiawatha wading pools are open today, along with Highland Park spraypark (11 am-8 pm). Addresses are here.

LOW-LOW TIDE: -2.8 at 10:35 am; volunteer beach naturalists are out at Lincoln and Constellation Parks, 9:30 am-1:30 pm.

WORDS, WRITERS, WEST SEATTLE: The author-appearance series presented by the Southwest Seattle Historical Society at Barnes and Noble/Westwood Village continues today with Harold Taw and Elizabeth Austen: – here’s their video invitation, produced by Mark Jaroslaw for SWSHS:

Full details on the SWSHS website. 5-7 pm. (2600 SW Barton)

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK: Greenstage‘s Backyard Bard series presents “All’s Well That Ends Well” at High Point Commons Park, 7 pm. (Lanham/Morgan/Sylvan)

NIGHTLIFE: Summer Fest music rocks on into the night. But other areas of West Seattle have live music tonight too – see the listings on our calendar.