Arts & Entertainment

The Gig Harbor Film Festival is Thursday through Sunday, while the Chuseok Festival is Saturday at Skansie Brothers Park.

‘Man or Mountain,’ which debuts this week at the Gig Harbor Film Festival, imagines the final moments of Harry R. Truman, the 83-year-old man who refused to leave Mount St. Helens.

“The Big Cheese,” a documentary about American cheesemongers, leads off next week’s Gig Harbor Film Festival.

The anthology, compiled by Drienie Hattingh of Gig Harbor, includes reflections on life along and in the Salish Sea.

An absolutely packed weekend is ahead, with the Open Studio Tour, Fish Bowl, the USA SUP National Championships and more.

The annual film festival is Sept. 24 through 27. Here are some of the independent movies you can see.

The fall farmers market will continue from 4 to 7 p.m. on the remaining Tuesdays in September outside B’s Bagels on Uddenberg Lane.

Friday is the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania.

There are some family outings you do because they’re new, some because they’re nearby and some because the kids have been asking approximately 47 times. Our family goes to Wild Waves Theme & Water Park in Federal Way for the third reason. And also because our annual summer trip there with our Seattle friends is

Also: A Fall Farmers Market starts on Tuesday, Sept. 8, on Uddenberg Lane near B’s Bagels.