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Lebowski Fest, an annual global celebration of beer, bowling, White Russians, underachievers and anything else related to the 1998 Coen brothers cult film "The Big Lebowski," is coming to Milwaukee in June, it was announced Thursday.

Festivities will be held at Cathedral Square Park at Kilbourn Ave. and Jefferson St. and at AMF Lanes, 7505 W. Oklahoma Ave., West Allis.

There will be a free outdoor screening of the film on Friday June 22 starting at 5 p.m.

A VIP pass, including reserved seating and cocktail service, is available for $20. The movie will be preceded by musical performances.

A bowling party will be held Saturday, June 23, at AMF Lanes from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Admission is $25. A weekend pass that includes admission to the film, bowling and other events that have not yet been announced is $45.

Here is the festival's official website.

"The Big Lebowski" is the "Easy Rider" of kegling. It stars Jeff Bridges as an amiable, disheveled and easily distracted pot-smoking hangover from the 1960s known as The Dude, a human acid flashback whose favorite word is "man" and whose only traditional value is bowling.

The first festival was held in 2002 in Louisville, Ky. Subsequent fests have been held in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas, Austin, Texas, Seattle, London and Edinburgh. The Milwaukee event is sponsored by the East Town Association and the Pabst Theater Foundation.

Tickets go on sale at noon on March 2 at the Pabst and Riverside theater box offices, (414) 286-3663 and the Pabst website.