Bigfoot Book Festival, Dog Costume Parade & Best Burger in Redmond This Week

Welcome to Best of Redmond! Redmond's twice-weekly newsletter and podcast about all the amazing things happening in Redmond for the next seven days!📚 Missed the Sold-Out Stuart Gibbs Night? He'll Be at Saturday's Free Book FestivalMore than 50 children's authors and illustrators, one building, and it's free to get in. The 4th annual Bigfoot Kids' Book Festival, hosted by Brick & Mortar Books, is this weekend on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Redmond Senior & Community Center downtown. The lineup includes Stuart Gibbs, Jerry Craft, Kazu Kibuishi, Brandon Mull and Ben Clanton, with book signings, panels and activities for babies through teens. Gibbs' ticketed event at the bookstore Friday already sold out, so Saturday is your shot. The full author list is in the show notes and in the newsletter.🐾 Your Dog Already Has a Costume. Friday It Gets a Parade.Your dog already has a costume. On Friday, it finally gets a parade. Bark in the Park: Howloween runs from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Farrel-McWhirter Park out on Redmond Road, with an after-hours stroll through the Barnyard, a trick-or-treat hunt, sniff spots and a farm-themed selfie station for you and your pup. Dogs stay on leash, and the costume parade loops the Barnyard at 5 p.m. It's free, the city lists it for ages 18 and up, and they ask you to register ahead. The registration link is in the show notes and in the newsletter.🎬 What Happens When Librarians End Up in the Book-Ban Fight? Find Out WednesdayA few years ago, school and public librarians ended up in the middle of the fight over which books kids get to read. On Wednesday, the Redmond Library is screening The Librarians, a Sundance documentary about that fight in Texas, Florida and other states, for Banned Books Week. A panel follows with teacher-librarian Gavin Downing, who stopped a ban at his school, Unusual Chickens author Kelly Jones, and KCLS selection librarian Brenna Shanks. Doors open at 5:15 p.m., the film starts at 5:30 and the panel at 7, in the library's Meeting Room downtown. It's free, no registration, first-come seating.🎵 Nobody Talks in These Movies, but the Band Plays the Whole TimeA silent movie up on the screen, live musicians playing along as it rolls, and a host keeping the night moving. This weekend on Saturday, SoulFood CoffeeHouse on Redmond Way is screening silent films with a live musical score, hosted by master of ceremonies Victor Ego, from 7 to 10 p.m. SoulFood hasn't posted which films are on the bill or whether there's a cover, so check their events page before you head over. Grab a coffee, find a seat, and let the band do the talking. The event link is in the show notes and in the newsletter.🏗️ Teens Already Pitched Their Teen Center. Thursday, It's Your Turn.Redmond already asked teens what they want in a new teen center. On Thursday, it's everybody else's turn. The City of Redmond's Teen Center Project Community Visioning Session runs from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Red Oak Community Room at the Redmond Senior & Community Center. It's free and open to anyone, and there's free childcare for kids 3 to 12 for people attending the meeting. Everything shared will go to the design-build team once the city picks one, so ideas raised now are there from day one. Project details are in the show notes and in the newsletter.🥕 Only Four Saturdays Left at the Redmond Saturday MarketThe Redmond Saturday Market has four Saturdays left this season, and this weekend is one of them. It runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday in the Overlake Christian Church parking lot on Willows Road, with 45-plus vendors selling produce, eggs, honey, flowers, baked goods and prepared food. Dogs are welcome, EBT is accepted, and parking in the lots next door is free. The season wraps up October 31, so if you've been meaning to go, the window is closing. Grab a bag and go.🕰️ Redmond History MinuteAnna Clise lived at Willowmoor Farm, the land that's now Marymoor Park. In 1907, she founded what major institution? A, the University of Washington. B, Seattle Children's Hospital. C, the Redmond Public Library. Or D, the Eastside YMCA. Stick around, the answer's at the end.🔮 Redmond Rumor Mill: A Real Tea House Near Redmond Town Center?Word is a high-end tea house is being quietly developed near Redmond Town Center. Not bubble tea, and not a coffee chain's matcha. Think gongfu ceremony, single-origin teas and private tastings. The couple behind it apparently spent two years sourcing directly from farms in Yunnan and Taiwan. None of this is confirmed. We don't have a name, an address or an opening date. So here's the question: would you book a private tea tasting, or just want a quiet place to sit with a good pot? If you've got a guess or have heard something, head to our Facebook page at facebook.com/BestOfRedmond and drop it in the Redmond Rumor Mill Guesses post.🗳️ Your Picks: Best Burger in RedmondAnd while you're at our Facebook page, find the Your Picks post and answer this question... We want to know what you think the best burger is.📻 Don't Miss the PodcastIf you enjoyed this podcast, you're gonna love the companion newsletter. Find it at bestofredmond.com.🎯 History Minute AnswerThe answer is B, Seattle Children's Hospital. The funny one was D, the Eastside YMCA, which is the wrong kind of community service. In 1898, Anna and James Clise's five-year-old son Willis died of inflammatory rheumatism, and Anna was devastated that the whole Northwest had so little medical care for children. In 1907, she gathered 23 of her wealthy Seattle friends, each put in $20, and they launched Children's Orthopedic Hospital, the first pediatric hospital in the Northwest. It promised to take any child, whatever their race, religion or ability to pay. Today it's Seattle Children's, and it started with a grieving mother on a Redmond farm.