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At long last, Republicans—a few influential ones, anyway—are freeing themselves from the yoke of Grover Norquist. Remarkably, after more than a quarter-century of kowtowing, a handful of prominent GOP renegades, such as Sens. Lindsey Graham and Saxby Chambliss and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, are saying they are willing to break their sacred no-tax (not now, not ever) pledge with Norquist.

Indeed, the walls are cracking. The sweet smell of mutiny is in the air. The deserting dummies may soon need a new ventriloquist.

Last week, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni offered this provocative assessment: “Someday someone will write a dark history— a farce, really—of how [Norquist] managed to bring nearly all of the Republican Party to heel, compelling legislator upon legislator to lash themselves to his no-new-taxes pledge. Until then we’ll have to content ourselves with his misfortune over the last few days. No sooner had a nation digested its turkey than his goose began to be cooked. The spreading rebellion in the Republican ranks was manifest on the post-Thanksgiving Sunday talk shows.”

A shameless self-promoter, the 56-year-old president of Americans for Tax Reform began his pledge drive in 1986, conning so many Republican lawmakers that the antitax oath became a veritable GOP rite of passage. But now that Norquist’s stranglehold on the Republican Party appears to have loosened, we wondered

With Norquist’s stranglehold loosened, we wondered what Eyman must be thinking.

If charter schools have a roadblock to starting up locally, it’s State Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn. After voters narrowly approved a charter-school initiative, Dorn announced that he was likely to sue over a provision in the measure that would establish a commission to oversee the new schools. His beef: The initiative puts the commission in the governor’s office rather than his.

Is this merely a power grab by Dorn?

Speaking with Seattle Weekly, he insists it isn’t. Nor, he says, is he just trying to stop charter schools, which he has supported in the past. Rather, Dorn says he’s merely trying to uphold the state constitution, which puts his office in charge of public schools. What most people didn’t realize when they voted for Initiative 1240, he maintains, is that the the charter-school commission would not only bypass his office, it would create a whole new and “separate school system” devoted only to this one type of public education. This would lead to “chaos,” he continues, because “there would be confusion” over who was responsible for what.

Maybe or maybe not. The focus of the charter-school commission seems quite clear: charter schools.

But Dorn does raise some interesting side points. This new commission is estimated to cost $3 million over the next five years in staffing and related costs—to oversee just eight new schools a year (at most). In contrast, Dorn’s office spends roughly $8 million annually to oversee the “core functions” (not including specialized services) of approximately 2,200 schools. So there’s a potential waste of taxpayer money at issue, as 1240 opponents said all along.

Secondly, Dorn points out that his is an elected office, and local school-board members are also elected. The nine members of the new charter-school commission, however, are to be appointed: three by the governor, three by the president of the state Senate, and three by the speaker of the state House of Representatives.

So you could argue that the charterschool system will be less democratic, although there is a way of getting around this. The initiative empowers local school boards, as well as the commission, to authorize and monitor charter schools.

The Washington State School Directors’ Association is in fact taking the “position that charter schools should only be authorized under locally elected school boards,” according to a release sent by the association.

Dorn says he’s not likely to file suit until after the election results are certified on December 6. He also has a meeting with the state attorney general’s office next week to talk over legalities.

If he does file suit—and win—he envisions a couple of outcomes. The commission could simply move into his office. Or the court might just strike down the entire law. NINA SHAPIRO E

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what Washington state’s most prolific anti-tax crusader, Tim Eyman, must be thinking.

“He didn’t put a gun to their heads, that resonates with me,” Eyman said of Norquist. “I commiserate with him. I mean, he’s an activist, and I think it’s pretty pathetic that a bunch of politicians who broke their promise are attacking an activist.” Eyman added that peer pressure, the desire to please, is a key factor of the desertion in the ranks, “and it is amazing to me how they are getting pats on the back for breaking their promise not to raise taxes.”

Fresh from his victory on I-1185, in which Washington voters decided by a landslide to continue to require the state legislature to get a two-thirds majority vote to raise taxes, Eyman said he’s not at all worried about any potential local fallout from Norquist’s fall from grace.

“My wife told me a long time ago to stress over things you have control over,” mused Eyman.

“And I have zero control over what is going on in Washington, D.C. That’s just a spectator sport there. Here it’s a participatory sport—and I think the electorate is really solid on holding down taxes.

“I’m not worried.” ELLIS E. CONKLIN

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he year was 1992. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and their power-chord cohorts had made Seattle’s music scene the coolest on the planet. Microsoft stood on the vanguard of technological innovation, with the gilding of startups soon to follow. The Husky football team had just won a national championship, and the Sonics were the hottest ticket in town. Almost Live had gone national on Comedy Central, and a newspaper columnist named Dan Savage had shoved gay life out of park bathrooms and into the streets.

Hence, times were plenty heady when Cameron Crowe threw gas on Seattle’s fire with the September 1992 release of the film Singles. Crowe, a former rock journalist whose biggest cinematic splash came with Fast Times at Ridgemont High, was not exactly an interloper: He was married to Nancy Wilson of Heart, the pioneering Seattle sister act which presaged grunge. He shot the city lovingly. It didn’t just happen to be where Crowe decided to set his film; it was a character. Crowe cast Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament, and Stone Gossard in bit roles, featured Soundgarden and Alice in Chains live (and shirtless) in clubs like Re-bar and the Crocodile, staged intense conversations at the Virginia Inn and Gas Works Park, and transformed the OK Hotel into a coffee shop where the main characters either worked or hung out.

Singles, for as much as it—and its obscenely successful soundtrack—came to represent Seattle’s zeitgeist moment, was not a film about Seattle. Its selfinvolved characters and lightweight story line could have been set anywhere, its edges smoothed and buffed to the point of sterility. Crowe’s Seattle is devoid of gays (on Capitol Hill!), crime, drugs (on Capitol Hill!), and ethnic minorities (with the exception of a Xavier McDaniel cameo). People occasionally drink to excess, but never smoke; all the women are redheads; and nobody ends up alone in the end. If word broke that Singles served as the secret inspiration for Friends, it should surprise no one, as Crowe’s film is essentially a 100-minute ensemble sitcom.

But that’s not to say that Hollywood failed to capture Seattle’s misty genesis. It just didn’t do so in 1992.

Released three years before Singles, The Fabulous Baker Boys depicted a Seattle that was damp, dark, and unlikely to attract Californians—or even Michiganders. It featured a pair of piano-playing brothers, portrayed by real-life siblings

Twenty years after Singles’ debut, a look back at the best movie about the Seattle music scene ever made.

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yra Sedgwick’s mouth is enormous—distractingly so. As with Dolly Parton’s breasts or Hugh Acheson’s unibrow, Sedgwick’s jumbo jaw distracts from her talents. When Sedgwick brushes her teeth during a pre-coital scene in Singles, you feel bad for the toothbrush.

Sedgwick also suffers from a Hollywood-specific disorder known as Dreyfuss Syndrome. Named for Richard Dreyfuss, it occurs when an actor appears as though he or she is 40 years old, no matter how old he or she actually is. When Singles was released, Sedgwick was 27—yet she looked 40. She’s 47 now, and she still looks 40. When she’s 60, she’ll look to be about 40. Only when she’s underground might she finally look her age. What’s a blessing for Sedgwick now was, for Singles, a curse.

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Jeff and Beau Bridges, forced to take on a female vocalist (Michelle Pfeiffer) to stay viable in the town’s hotel-lounge circuit.

The Bakers play standards like “Feelings” and “My Funny Valentine,” hardly anyone’s idea of cutting-edge repertoire.

Yet when it comes to which film better represents the roots of modern-day Seattle and the growing pains it’s suffered two decades on, Susie Diamond and the ivory-ticklers are far grungier than Citizen Dick.

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Floating Bridges » From page 9 Dwelling on Sedgwick’s looks might seem shallow, but cinema is a visual art. And if Sedgwick doesn’t appear to be a 20-something Seattleite, the film’s legitimacy is dealt a severe blow, as she and Campbell Scott, a city transportation planner who plays Sedgwick’s love interest, are the closest things Singles has to leads.

Both native New Yorkers, Sedgwick and Scott bring far too much verve to their interactions, as if whether or not world peace will be attained hinges on their enunciation of every word. Scott’s intensity has been employed shrewdly in black comedies like Roger Dodger, but casting him in a film of Singles’ buoyancy was perilously misguided.

He’s Patton’s son, for fuck’s sake.

The dynamic between Sedgwick and Scott also suffers from Crowe’s inability to write dialogue that might come out of an actual human mouth. “If I had a personal conversation with God, I would ask him to create this girl,” Scott says to a table of friends at the peak of his infatuation, shortly after he arrives unannounced at Sedgwick’s doorstep with the line “I was just nowhere near your neighborhood”—a line repeated later by Sedgwick, as Crowe hustles to neatly tie a bow around every relationship in the film. Later, when Sedgwick, an environmental advocate, comes back from an Alaskan expedition, the pair decides to just be friends. “Let’s be the first people in history to say it and really mean

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it,” says Scott. In a Crowe script, the whole world’s a snappy love song, with Jerry Maguire’s “You complete me” representing either the zenith or nadir of such sentimentality, depending on one’s tolerance for sap.

Aside from an awful Paul Westerberg song (“Dyslexic Heart”), Singles’ soundtrack was a critical and commercial tour de force which outshone the film. Ever the musicologist, Crowe’s movies seem more like excuses to cobble together a killer mixtape than to produce a cohesive work of cinema. (Nowhere was this more painfully evident than in the aimless Elizabethtown, which served no greater purpose than to let Orlando Bloom take an introspective road trip while listening to a ton of Tom Petty.)

When Time, cutting against the critical grain, wrote “Singles may aspire to be a Big Chill from Seattle, but it is really a fizzled St. Elmo’s Fire with rowdier music,” they had it dead right.

Crowe is like a pastry chef who chose the profession simply to make shitty cookies to dunk in the milk he’s always loved.

Amazingly, Matt Dillon gives far and away Singles’ most compelling performance, even though he’s cast as the ultimate grunge-era cliché, a long-haired rocker named Cliff with a soul patch and four jobs. In fact, he’s more believable as a rock star than the real-life rock stars who play his bandmates in Citizen Dick.

Vedder and Gossard acquit themselves just fine, but Ament, tasked with coaxing Dillon away from the lips of Bridget Fonda (a tall order,

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granted), may never live down his infamously wooden delivery of the line “Cliff, while we’re young.” Crowe’s decision to cram his film with local hard-rock luminaries might have been well-intentioned, but to cast them in such a trifle of a movie did nothing to help their street cred, which, in Pearl Jam’s case especially, was constantly being called into question.

Throughout, Singles possesses an unfortunate obsession with gadgetry—namely garage-door openers, answering machines, and wristwatches capable of storing heaps of data. That all these gizmos have essentially been vanquished by the smartphone is fitting, as, at best, Crowe’s film stands as a frivolous time capsule of a city that, for a moment, qualified as America’s sweetheart.

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he Fabulous Baker Boys opens with Jack Baker (Jeff Bridges) putting on a tuxedo in a woman’s apartment above Captain’s Vine Street Landing (now Black Bottle) in Belltown. The woman’s still in bed, naked. The sun is peeking above the water, but the water’s to the west; it is not sunrise when the pair awaken, but sunset. The woman remarks that he keeps funny hours, to which Jack replies that he holds down a “funny job.” She more asks if she’ll see online him again. “No,” he Want to recreate Jack Baker’s bizarrely answers. She then circuitous walk to tells him he looks his gig or Debbie Hunt’s ferocious ride like a creep before to her date? Check out admitting that he has seattleweekly.com/ “great hands.” dailyweekly for point-by-point maps, For his funny and be sure to wear job, Jack must walk good shoes. from Belltown to a midtown hotel—a mile and change. The route he takes, however, is comically circuitous (a similarly roundabout route is traveled by the character Debbie Hunt in Singles). In succession, he’s shown walking by the Union Gospel Mission in Pioneer Square, the First Avenue Dejà Vu near Pike Place Market, a music store in the Denny Regrade, Il Bistro, an empty Pike Place arcade, the waterfront Ivar’s, and finally into the door of what looks to be the Sixth Avenue Hilton in the nick of time for

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a steady gig playing standards alongside his brother, Frank (Beau Bridges).

Frank has a wife and two kids, and lives in the suburbs. His brother is clearly the more talented pianist, but Frank is the duo’s rock, booking performances and managing finances. Onstage, Frank indulges the crowd with stale banter while Jack says little, a cigarette perpetually lodged between his lips.

After the show, while collecting their cash from a slimy lounge manager named Lloyd who makes it clear that they’ve just played their last gig (for the time being), Lloyd tells Jack, “If you want to smoke onstage, put on a pair of sunglasses and go play with the niggers on State Street.”

Their next gig is at a hotel tiki bar, where the patrons are more interested in watching basketball than the Bakers. The brothers have been playing together professionally for 15 years— twice that if adolescent exploits are taken into account. When they’re given their walking papers by the tiki bar’s owner, he tells Frank, “You’re class. People today, they don’t know class if it walks up and grabs them by the balls.”

On the drive home, Frank raises the specter of hiring a vocalist. “Two pianos isn’t enough anymore,” he tells his brother.

To which Jack replies, “It never was.”

Unlike Crowe’s perpetually romantic dialogue, the exchanges between the Bakers feel real; they bicker like brothers. There are instances when it’s plainly evident that they care for each other, but, more often, they can’t stand being together. They’re co-dependent, artistically frustrated, and—at least in Jack’s case—chock full of angst, a trait critical to the rise of grunge. And yet you won’t find a trace of it in Singles.

After the Bakers try out three dozen lackluster girls, Susie Diamond (Pfeiffer) shows up an hour and a half late. Frank wants to reject her for her lack of punctuality, but Jack prevails upon him to let her sing, pleading “What have we got to lose?”

Susie is cocky, a hot mess. Asked if she has any entertainment experience, she volunteers that she’s worked as a high-end escort for Nobody’s ever this cheerful in this fabulously moody film.

several years. She aces her tryout and, despite Frank’s reservations, joins the act.

While she’s been hired to mimic torch singers of yore, Susie is every bit the rock star. After forking over a wad of ones to Frank after her first performance—tips are verboten, per the elder Baker’s overbearing code—she throws her too-tight heels at the man she calls “egghead” and makes it clear that she wants equal billing on the Bakers’ lobby sandwich board.

Frank obliges, and it’s soon abundantly clear that Susie is the reason the Bakers are again in demand, even in Lloyd’s lounge.

Huddling in what looks to be the Cloud Room, Susie suggests capitalizing on their reclaimed stature by demanding a cut of the bar.

“Mel Tormé doesn’t get a cut of the bar,” replies an incredulous Frank.

“Maybe he never asked,” Susie counters.

“It’s not the way we play the game,” says Frank.

“The game is changing,” interjects Jack.

Soon the trio sets off in Frank’s station wagon to play a long New Year’s weekend at a luxurious resort, where it’s revealed that Susie has never encountered a kiwi. In the middle of their first night—the night before their first performance—she awakens Frank by playing jump jazz at top volume. A masseur she’s summoned to her room accidentally knocks on the Bakers’ door. “Over here, gorgeous,” says Susie as a haggard Frank looks at her disapprovingly in the hallway.

In spite of the sleep deprivation, their first show is a success, leading to a champagnefueled celebration back in their adjoining suites. Here, Frank gushes about his brother’s talents as a musician and dancer. “From this night forward, our lives will never be the same,” he exclaims.

Before retiring, Frank takes Susie for a spin around the balcony before beckoning Jack to do the same. “I think your little brother prefers to dance alone,” says Susie, who soon finds herself in Jack’s arms, lamenting how she’s lost her chaperone.

After the next night’s gig, Frank is summoned back to Seattle to tend to his son, who’s been injured in a bicycle accident, leaving Jack and Susie to play the final set alone.

During the performance, Susie gyrates atop Jack’s piano during “Makin’ Whoopee.” And after midnight, that’s precisely what they do.

From that night forward, their lives will never be the same, but not in a way Frank—and certainly not Crowe—could have imagined.

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f it doesn’t end well, it’s got to end badly, right? A day or two after they have sex, Jack and Susie are seated across a diner table from Frank, both wearing sunglasses. Susie informs Frank that they skipped “Feelings” the night he was away, which infuriates him. Jack then tells his brother to “loosen the leash.”

Later that evening, while attempting to track down Jack, Susie finds him playing in a pickup instrumental trio in a jazz club called Henry’s on Post Alley—presumably the “State Street” Lloyd referred to earlier. She heads back to Jack’s apartment and waits by his door. There, they fuck again.

The next morning, Susie informs Jack that she’s been offered steady work singing catfood jingles, which would force her to leave the act. “Take it” is Jack’s advice, but Susie is torn. “I don’t want to leave you guys with an empty mike.”

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Floating Bridges » From page 10 “There’s always another girl,” replies Jack.

After her last performance with the brothers, she snaps. “You don’t give a fuck, do you, about anything?” she asks Jack.

“We fucked twice, that’s it,” he coldly replies. “Once the sweat dries up, you don’t know shit about me.”

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Jack can only begin to realize his full potential when the net’s pulled out from under him. He’s left with nothing but his craft to liberate himself.

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at Henry’s, providing her the opportunity to volunteer that she spotted him “dusting off [his] dreams” in the course of branding him as a coward.

“I didn’t know whores were so philosophical,” Jack shoots back.

“At least my brother’s not my pimp,” says Susie, getting the last word in.

As pimps go, Frank does the equivalent of sending Jack to the corner of Aurora and 130th in the snow by booking a 3 a.m. charity telethon appearance on a public-access station. Jack explodes on-air (not that anyone’s watching) and beats the crap out of his brother after Frank sarcastically chides him for being “so hip, so cool, so sure he’s better than everyone else.”

Soon Jack is back at Henry’s, where he accepts an offer to play every Tuesday and Thursday. Showing up in his brother’s garage, he breaks the news to Frank, who clearly sees it coming. Jack then appears in front of Susie’s apartment in the morning as she’s heading out to her jingle job.

“So did you find yourself another girl?” she asks him.

“I didn’t look,” Jack replies. “Am I gonna see you again?”

“What do you think?” says Susie.

“Yeah, I think I’m gonna see you,” responds Jack.

“Intuition.”

Had Crowe helmed this film, Susie and Jack would have embraced wildly in the middle of the street and perhaps made a beeline

for the Justice of the Peace. But life’s often more ambiguous and disappointing than that. The dynamic among the Bakers and Susie is infinitely truer than anything in Singles, where the closest Citizen Dick gets to communion is watching a documentary on bees together while presumably stoned (we don’t know, because Crowe just says no).

While Frank is the weak link musically, his struggle to maintain a career in the arts while ensuring his family’s security is one many a musician—irrespective of genre—has had to grapple with. Susie, who’s never held a 9-to-5, jumps at the opportunity to shore up her footing, while Jack can only begin to realize his full potential when the net’s pulled out from under him. He’s left with nothing but his craft to liberate himself: often the scariest of places from which genius—and fame—emerges.

That Jack’s seated on a piano bench instead of wielding a Stratocaster is beside the point.

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he year is 2012. Seattle’s signature sound is either Caucasian rap or Crosby, Stills, & Nashville beardfolk. Soundgarden just reunited, and Pearl Jam’s still going strong. Microsoft is a bureaucratic megalith consistently chastised for its inability to innovate. For the Husky football team, mediocrity is an achievement. The Sonics are now playing in Oklahoma City, with a doofus mayor and Lilliputian hedge-fund manager trying to revive the team’s corpse down in SoDo. Almost Live is long gone, although, as with pro basketball, a reanimation effort is afoot. And Dan Savage is a monogamish dad, hoping to be afflicted with Dreyfuss Syndrome.

Seattle is no longer America’s sweetheart.

Instead, it sneers with envy at Portland, which has inspired its own IFC sketch-comedy show and is clearly where up-and-coming Northwest musicians prefer to call home nowadays. There, the roses are in bloom, the possibilities endless. Here, it might be time to head back to State Street and improvise, because what have we got to lose? E mseely@seattleweekly.com

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Oh, James!) The globe-trotting franchise also visits the Alps and Sardinia, where Bond encounters his nemesis, a kind of evil Aristotle Onassis/Jacques Cousteau figure who pushes clunky buttons on what looks to be a TRS-80 computer. One of Bond’s own gadgets is a Seiko digital watch that prints ticker-tape messages. The epaulets on his wide-lapeled polyester sport jacket are also emblems of their time—and John Barry’s famous musical theme even gets a disco update. Sacrilege, maybe, but you can dance to it. (Festival runs Fri.– Sun.) SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., 324-9996, siff.net. $5–$7.

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When Calvin Trillin was forced for health reasons to cancel his Seattle reading a year ago, the race to the White House was still gathering steam. The delay had its benefits, as he’s now completed Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse (Random House, $16). His poems, mostly rhymed couplets, are chronological. After a 2008 prelude (“In stories from the capital we read/ That now the GOP was close to dead”), we march through the long, eventful Republican primaries (“No longer was it fair to introduce/Michele [Bachmann] as ‘Sarah Palin minus moose’ ”) all the way to the debates and Election Day, which the final poem celebrates. There are prose interludes, too, as when Callista Gingrich hilariously tries to convince Newt she’s not dying of dengue fever—even as her husband is looking for a younger, non-dying wife number four. As a veteran writer for The New Yorker and beyond, Trillin has an eye for colorful scoundrels and buffoons; Romney and Obama are actually the book’s palest figures (one has no

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Raised in a part-Polynesian military family, young local photographer Mario Lemafa grew up all over the place: Hawaii, California, Oregon, and here. In his first solo show, itinerancies , he tests the old Thomas Wolfe adage about going home again. Lurking like a stranger, camera in hand, he shoots all the places he’s lived in the past decade: Yesler Terrace, military housing, and cheap courtyard apartments that ring leaf-filled pools. (He presently resides in Black Diamond.) During this holiday season, when families ritually gather at table and hearth, it’s worth remembering how home is a provisional notion—a place we create with those near to us. Some of Lemafa’s companion videos will be fictive vignettes in which the artist returns to haunt his old homestead, perhaps like a ghost of Christmas past. (Through Dec. 28.) Gallery4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Place S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 296-7580, 4culture.org. Free. Opening reception: 6–8 p.m. BRIAN MILLER

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family party, but it’s really only been an American holiday tradition since the 1950s, when George Balanchine staged a complete production for the New York City Ballet.

Since then, though, it’s become a mainstay of repertories everywhere, bringing in the widest audiences, from once-a-year family outings to devoted balletomanes. Pacific Northwest Ballet’s production, with choreography

by Kent Stowell and those sets by Maurice Sendak (seen on bus ads and billboards all over town), pulls out just about every theatrical trick in the book, mixes them with some nonstop dancing, and wraps it all up in Tchaikovsky’s beautiful score. If Nutcracker is your holiday tradition, you’ll be in good company here. (Through Dec. 29.) McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St. (Seattle Center), 441-2424. pnb.org. $25–$130. 7:30 p.m. SANDRA KURTZ

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There are friendly clowns and scary clowns, puppets of the Sesame Street variety and those ominously operated by Kyle Loven. In his somber new one-man show Loss Machine , Loven says he’ll be performing behind a kind of box that represents a lost city—like a smaller stage analogue to Atlantis or Eldorado. He describes the enclosure as “a combination of a Rube Goldberg–esque machine and Louise Nevelson boxes. I refer to it as a structure, a series of openings or smaller viewing portals.” Through them, he’ll manipulate various puppets that convey more a mood than a story. “The show is focusing on the emotional journey of loss,” he explains. “There isn’t a main character. It’s about multiple characters sharing a single emotional arc.”

Nor is there any dialogue in the roughly hour-long production. “It’s more nonverbal storytelling.” The city/box is meant to look old and decayed, as if made from unearthed artifacts, he says. “I do a lot of shopping in antique stores and Value Village and online.

Some stuff I find in the street.” Unlike Loven’s past performances (including in the Northwest New Works Festival), he says, “This is the first time that I’m stepping into the darkness and not being a live part of the show. My hand is a character; the idea is that I’m just a manipulator.”

(Through Mon., Dec. 10.) On the Boards, 100 W. Roy St., 217-9886, ontheboards.org. $20. 8 p.m. BRIAN MILLER

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The Weekly Wire » FROM PAGE 13 poetry to him, the other too much). Instead it’s Bachmann, Gingrich, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, and company who most amuse the author. (In another prose pause, Santorum tells his kids of the Wii console, “It is Satan’s tool and is thus unclean to the touch.”) The Tea Party just makes Trillin irate, and Bill Clinton makes him nostalgic (see: colorful scoundrels, above). After Clinton’s rousing convention oratory, writes Trillin of Obama’s follow-up: “Upstaged? Well, yes, but by a speech with flair/And not by Eastwood and an empty chair.” Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., 652-4255, townhallseattle. org. $5. 7:30 p.m. BRIAN MILLER

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slight. Where are Paul Hayden Kirk, Roland Terry, and Paul Thiry? Still, despite such omissions, this handsome Canadian-made documentary survey is like an issue of Dwell put to film, with guaranteed appeal for aficionados of shelter mags and real-estate porn. And we do see Frank Lloyd Wright’s Brandes House over in Sammamish among other iconic structures of the past century, from L.A. to the Bay

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Suyama says we have to “pull back and live with less things.” Does that mean smaller budgets? Don’t count on it. But we can still dream.

(Through Thurs.) Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., 829-7863, nwfilmforum.org. $6–$10.

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MADRONA/SPECTRUM DANCE STUDIO, 800 LAKE WASHINGTON BLVD., 325-4161, SPECTRUMDANCE.ORG. $5–$25.

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There’s an embrace in each of the three works Donald Byrd has programmed for Spectrum’s fall show, but they exist in very different worlds. The evening begins with a valentine and ends with a threat, with a highfashion strut in the middle.

Crispin Spaeth debuted Only You in 2010, and she’s continued to polish the work, so its gentle qualities really glow. A series of duets and trios, where partners slip in and out of relationships, Only You belies its title, but there’s no real jeal-

McLynn is armed against alien invasion.

ousy involved. The dance opens with a slowly swaying duet, and continues with that sense of ease, no matter who’s onstage with whom.

That kind of playfulness is light-years away from the world of Olivier Wevers’ new Back, Sack and Crack. His cast strides through the space with a kind of grim sophistication, men and women all teetering on sky-high heels.

While some of the figures he uses—the outcast who yearns for acceptance, the disdainful beauty who literally steps on others—are far from unique, he’s continuing to develop his skills as a craftsman, taking movement and shaping it into larger dance structures. He goes a long way toward freshening familiar dance stereotypes.

Byrd outlines the work like a debate, with statements and rebuttals, but it feels closer to a military parlay.

Byrd is celebrating 10 years as Spectrum’s artistic director, and he’s spent that time developing a high-intensity repertory and a group of performers to match. Dancer Jade Solomon Curtis put her finger on it when she said that Byrd’s work is like a statement written all in capital letters. His new piece, A Meeting Place, seems based in the same kind of political curiosity that animated his 2008 A Chekhovian Resolution, which concerned Israeli/Palestinian relations. Two cadres of dancers, complete with cargo pants and machine guns, share the space with the kind of uneasy tension that could lead to disaster.

Byrd outlines the work like a debate, with statements and rebuttals, but it feels closer to a military parlay, with slashing arms and fast footwork for weapons. The Renaissance dance music gives the work a sense of perpetual motion, while the orchestration—for ud and lute, played by Münir Beken and August Denhard—underlines the cultural differences suggested onstage. As always, Byrd has made a work that challenges the dancers and the audience, physically and intellectually. SANDRA KURTZ E stage@seattleweekly.com

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From flying saucers in Roswell, New Mexico to Glenn Beck’s chalkboard, conspiracy theories offer an illusion of mastery over the chaotic, the frightening, and the unknown. Believing that because the streets are deserted, your neighbors must have been abducted by aliens can feel more compelling than the more banal and plausible explanation that everyone’s home playing on their computers.

Hot off a memorable Seattle Public Theater performance as a phlegmatic shop owner in Tracy Letts’ dramedy Superior Donuts, Kevin McKeon wrote and stars in this new one-act comic thriller. He plays the likewise phlegmatic Roy (career not mentioned), who comes home to find estranged ex-stepdaughter Lacey (Meg McLynn) in black-op duds, armed with a gun.

McLynn is utterly convincing as a paranoid, hyper, ex-druggie drama queen, all sunken eye sockets and siren’s distress signals. While she is all freak-out all the time, the script gives Roy a broader palette of moods, from skeptical to placating to conciliatory. (However, the affable, ponytailed McKeon relies mostly on his vertical brow furrows to convey emotions.) Her friend, Lacey tearfully relates, has disappeared after an Exorcist-like bout of indigestion, and it’s looking like an alien plot. Some details of story and behavior don’t quite jibe: There’s supposedly a contagion issue, yet Roy doesn’t seem viscerally fearful of infection. Still, as in most sci-fi, getting hung up on details imperils your good time, so try not to.

Happily for us, into the narrative gridlock shambles Blaine (Robert Kriley), Roy’s neighbor. Blessed with a straight flush of comic endowments (including pendulous eye bags and tufty, upswept eyebrows), Kriley’s Blaine amusingly contributes his encyclopedic knowledge of sci-fi movies to the search for truth. His Hollywood-fueled theories can be hackneyed (citing the loss of individuality, the burden of freedom, “maybe we secretly want to be brain-dead,” etc.), but other observations ring topical. Ritalin he calls “frontal lobotomy in a tablet,” and he makes the valid point that we’ve developed collective cultural PTSD from a variety of modern traumas. From the Holocaust to al-Qaida, trusting folk have repeatedly been caught unaware. With that insight, the exhausted trio settles in to watch a video . . . and finally learns the truth about what’s going on. MARGARET FRIEDMAN

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CIRQUE D’ESPIONNAGE SANCA Youth Performance Company’s winter show takes a spy theme. School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts, 674 S. Orcas St., 6524433, sancaseattle.org. $10–$20. 7 p.m. Fri., Dec. 7, 3 & 7 p.m. Sat., Dec. 8, 3 & 7 p.m., 3 p.m. Sun., Dec. 9.

IT’S YOUR WONDERFUL LIFE What if you had never been born? Wing-It improvises your life story, Capra-style.

Wing-It Productions, 5510 University Way N.E., 781-3879, wingitproductions.com. $12–$15. Opens Dec. 6. 8 p.m.

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JOSE GONZALES TRIO In this benefit for Strawberry Theatre Workshop, this jazz trio plays Vince Guaraldi’s classic score for A Charlie Brown Christmas. Rainier Chapter of the D.A.R., 800 E. Roy St., 800-838-3006, strawshop.org. $10–$30. 8 p.m. Tues., Dec. 11.

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THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS Santa considers hanging it up in Sean Griffin’s play. TPS Theatre 4, Seattle Center, Center House, 4th floor, 800-838-3006, pokeybaby productions.org. $10. Preview Dec. 6, opens Dec. 7. 8 p.m.

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OEDIPUS EL REY eSe Teatro transfers Sophocles to the California prison system. ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., 2927676, acttheatre.org. $15–$20. Previews Dec. 5–6, opens Dec. 7. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.–Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Dec. 16.

OVER THE RAINBOW Live Girls!’ cabaret-and-auction fundraiser. Annex Theatre, 1100 E. Pike St., 800-838-3006, brownpapertickets.com. $10. 7 p.m. Sun., Dec. 9.

OWEN MEANY’S CHRISTMAS PAGEANT Book-It’s holiday favorite. Center House Theatre, Seattle Center, 2160833. $23–$45. Preview Dec. 6, opens Dec. 7.

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SPAM*O*RAMA The Pork Filled Players’ annual holiday sketch show. Theater Off Jackson, 409 Seventh Ave. S., 800-838-3006, porkfilled.com. $6–$8. 8 p.m. Mon., Dec. 10.

SPIN THE BOTTLE Annex Theatre’s late-night variety show features “J-pop kabuki,” “morose smut,” and much more.

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BABES IN TOYLAND Not Victor Herbert’s musical, but Angela Rinaldi-Gribas’, presented by Variety Plus.

Meydenbauer Center, 11100 N.E. Sixth St., Bellevue, varietyplus.org. $12. 4 & 7 p.m. Sat., Dec. 8.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL As ACT stages A Christmas Carol for the 37th time, the warm holiday sentiment follows nicely on the recent election results. Think how different we’d be feeling if Romney and Ryan had prevailed.

Scrooge would be a private-equity tycoon whose capitalgains taxes are cut to zero. With Obamacare repealed on Day One, crippled little Tiny Tim would never get that operation he needs. But wait . . . it’s all only a dream. Obama won, and Scrooge—played in alternating performances

by R. Hamilton Wright and Jeff Steitzer—turns out to be a closet liberal! BRIAN MILLER ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., 292-7676. $27–$55. Runs near daily through Dec. 30; see acttheatre.org for exact schedule.

THE DINA MARTINA CHRISTMAS SHOW The incomparable entertaineress is back with an all-new show and Chris Jeffries on the keyboard. Re-bar, 1114 Howell St., 800-838-3006. $20–$25. Runs Thurs.–Sun. to start, oftener as the holidays approach; see brownpapertickets.com for exact schedule. Ends Dec. 31.

THE DRUNKEN CITY Adam Bock’s play follows three brides-to-be on a pub crawl. Raisbeck Performance Hall, 2015 Boren Ave., cornish.edu. $5–$10. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Fri., also 2 p.m. Dec. 8. Ends Dec. 8.

ELF: THE MUSICAL This adaptation of the hit movie follows Buddy, a homo sapien raised as one of Santa’s elves.

When he discovers his identity, he sets off to find his father and remind us all about the true meaning of Christmas. 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Ave., 625-1900. $15–$75. See 5thavenue.org for exact schedule. Ends Dec. 21.

FALLEN ANGELS A 1925 Noel Coward comedy about two married women who discover they’re having separate affairs with the same man. Theater Schmeater, 1500 Summit Ave., 324-5801, schmeater.org. $15–$23. 8 p.m.

Thurs.–Sat. Ends Dec. 15.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Based on Sholem Aleichem’s stories of imperiled shtetl life in Czarist Russia, this musical mines themes that resonate with any culture struggling against modernization. As Tevye’s daughters get with the times, slipping away from his control like sand running through his fingers, so also is his familiar patch of earth yanked from beneath him. MARGARET FRIEDMAN Village Theatre, 303 Front St. N., Issaquah, 425-392-1942. $22–$63.

Runs Wed.–Sun. plus some Tues.; see villagetheatre.org for exact schedule. Ends Dec. 30, then moves to Everett Performing Arts Center Jan. 4–27.

HAM FOR THE HOLIDAYS: HAM-AGEDDON The annual sketch/music campfest from Dos Fallopia (Lisa Koch & Peggy Platt). Theater Off Jackson, 409 Seventh Ave. S., 800-838-3006, heylisa.com. $15–$35. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sun., 3 p.m. Sat.–Sun. Ends Dec. 30.

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A(N IMPROVISED) CHRISTMAS CAROL Charles Dickens’ holiday perennial gets the Mad Libs treatment, with the Unexpected Productions improv team taking your audience suggestions. During a recent show, this meant that a newly divorced Bob Cratchit is laboring at Ebenezer Scrooge’s gynecology factory, while Tiny Tim sits home with a debilitating case of Restless Leg Syndrome.

Scrooge meanwhile resides on a houseboat, where he nurses a pretty serious weed habit. Over at ACT, the straight version of A Christmas Carol is now in its 37th year, but this Choose Your Own Adventure-style show is a holiday tradition in its own right, first performed in 1985—a practiced and funny rebuttal to the usual Yuletide redemption tale. Two casts perform on alternating nights.

During my visit, Tim Tracey’s Scrooge imparted just the right amount of contempt as that moody, tightly wound, walking heart attack of a man. Portraying the three ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future, Michael Bils vies for your attention with finely executed comic relief. TERRA SULLIVAN Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, 587-2414, unexpectedproductions.org. $5–$15.

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VICTOR HUGO ZAYAS: GRID Friesen Abmeyer Fine Art December 6 - January 27

While born in Mexico, Victor Hugo Zayas has been making his mark on the Los Angeles art scene over the past 30 years. His works can be found in the collections of the Orange County Museum of Art and numerous museums in Mexico. This is his first solo exhibition in Seattle.

206.628.9501. Free.

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Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris at the Seattle Art Museum Downtown features more than 130 artworks by 75 pioneering women artists from 1909 to 2007 offering a fresh perspective on a history of modern and contemporary art (thru Jan 13, 2013). In response to Elles:Pompidou, also on view is Elles: SAM—Singular Works

by Seminal Women Artists, a series of works by women in SAM’s modern and contemporary galleries (thru Feb 17, 2013). Open Tuesday-Sunday with special $3 off pricing on Thursday and Friday nights from 5-9pm. Buy online today!

206.654.3100. $12-$23.

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CIRQUE D’ESPIONNAGE School of Acrobatics & New Circus Arts (SANCA) December 7 - 9

The School of Acrobatics & New Circus Arts Youth Performance Company presents their annual winter show, Cirque d’Espionnage. The circus theater production features acrobatics, tight wire, unicycle, aerial art, and juggling. Prepare to be astounded by feats of incredible strength, balance and flexibility! 206.652.4433. $10-$15 in advance; $15-$20 at the door.

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BABY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE Benaroya Hall Playing now - December 22

A south-of-the-border holiday romp! With their unique blend of song, dance, and campy comedy, Seattle’s OTHER holiday tradition, Seattle Men’s Chorus, heats things up this season with Baby, It’s Cold Outside, featuring television superstar, Ana Gasteyer on opening weekend! Call for tickets: 206.388.1400. $25+.

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Village Theatre On stage now - December 30

This multi-award-winning musical has danced its way into the hearts of people all over the world for nearly 50 years.

As Tevye tries to hold onto his religion, his Russian-Jewish customs, and his five daughters, he knows that “without tradition, our lives would be as shaky as a fiddler on the roof.” Resplendent with some of the most beloved and timeless songs in musical theatre, Fiddler on the Roof is filled with laughter, warmth, and inspiration for the whole family. 425.392.2202. $28-$63.

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Kirkland Performance Center Thursday, December 13

A singer-songwriter of searching candor and an electric bassist of mesmerizing skill, the 10-time Grammy nominee brings to KPC her inspiring and creative reinvention of classics made famous by Nina Simone. 7:30pm.

425.893.9900. $30.

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Jeff Tyzik leads the Seattle Symphony and special guests in the perfect collection of seasonal favorites, served up with plenty of wit and warmth for the whole family.

206.215.4747. $19-$82.

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GABRIEL KAHANE WITH ROB MOOSE

Kirkland Performance Center Thursday, December 6

Singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer, Gabriel Kahane, comes to KPC to play from his latest album, Where are the Arms - a suite of 11 smart songs that weave in, out and between pop, rock and classical, covering a broad range of emotions. Having collaborated and performed with the likes of Sufjan Stevens, Loudon Wainwright III, and former Nickel Creek front-man Chris Thile, Kahane will be joined by frequent collaborator Rob Moose (Bon Iver, Beth Orton, The National). Brooklyn-based Elizabeth and the Catapult opens.

7:30pm. 425.893.9900. $18.

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Fabric designer, Akiko, mixes American and Japanese cultures in a variety of scenes in her collection: Flower Garden. The vibrant 11”x14” framed paintings are showing at US Bank on Broadway through January 31, 2013.

206.328.3173. $250-$600.

Geek out with Book-It! At long last, Book-It delves into the world of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Comic Books, and Graphic Novels in Volume III of Circumbendibus. Join in an unabashed celebration of all things Geek that brings entirely new worlds and literary media to life onstage. 206.216.0833. $10.

December 28 & 29

Barry Manilow stars in, PANDORA Unforgettable Moments of Love on Ice. Performing more than 20 of his greatest hits LIVE on stage while Olympic medalists skate on ice. One night only, taped for an NBC audience, with Nancy Kerrigan, Ben Agosto, Elvis Stojko and more!

253.856.6999. $49.50-$125.

Sinner Saint Burlesque presents: REVOLUTION. This narrative cabaret is a forcible overthrow of repressive sexual ideology that will teach you the art of erotic resistance. Come and establish your own liberated libidinal governance. Libertease & justice for all! 9pm every Thursday. 206.223.1333. $15.

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arts»Performance INSPECTING CAROL Daniel Sullivan’s quirky comedy

riffs on ACT’s rival Dickens production. Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Center, 443-2222. Runs 7:30 p.m. Wed.– Sun. plus lots of matinees; see seattlerep.org for exact schedule. Ends Dec. 23.

REALLY ROSIE Maurice Sendak’s characters come to life, with music by Carole King. Youth Theatre Northwest, 8805 S.E. 40th St., Mercer Island, 232-4145 x109, youththeatre. org. $10. 7 p.m. Thurs.–Fri., 2 p.m. Sat.–Sun. Ends Dec. 16.

ROSEBUD: THE LIVES OF ORSON WELLES The Paradise Theatre School presents Mark Jenkins’ play about the acclaimed auteur. West of Lenin, 203 N. 36th St., theparadisetheatreschool.org, westoflenin.com. $20. 8 p.m.

Thurs.–Sat. Ends Dec. 15.

SCROOGE: THE MUSICAL Dickens, with Leslie Bricusse’s score. Seattle Musical Theatre, 7400 Sand Point Way N.E. # 101N, 363-2809, seattlemusicaltheatre.org. $35–$40. 7:30 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 2 p.m. Sun., plus 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Dec. 6.

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screenings, installations, book clubs, parties, and conversations featuring leading contemporary dance artists of the Pacific Northwest . . . [focusing] on experiments in change and continuity through the time-based arts of dance and cinema.” See velocitydancecenter.org for complete info, including Next Dance Cinema on Mon., Dec. 10 at Northwest Film Forum. Velocity Dance Center, 1621 12th Ave., 325-8773. Ends Dec. 10.

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kid-friendly abridgement. ARC Dance, 9250 14th Ave. N.W., 352-0798, arcdance.org. $10–$15. 7 p.m. Fri., Dec. 7, 2 & 7 p.m. Sat., Dec. 8, 2 & 5 p.m. Sun., Dec. 9.

NEW MOVES Check out the up-and-comers of dance in these performances by Cornish students. Broadway Performance Hall, 1625 Broadway, cornish.edu. $3–$5.

8 p.m. Fri., Dec. 7, 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., Dec. 8.

CAMBALACHE Capoeira, dance performances, live music and more. Union Cultural Center, 803 S. King St., gabriela condrea.com. $10. 6 p.m. Sat., Dec. 8.

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Vivian Little’s choreography for the Hans Christian Andersen tale. Shorecrest Performing Arts Center, 15343 25th Ave. N.E., 633-0812 x3, dancefremont.com. $15. 2 & 7:30 p.m. Sat., Dec. 8, 2 p.m. Sun., Dec. 9.

KALEIDOSCOPE DANCE COMPANY “Gift of Dance” is their holiday offering. Shorewood High School, 17300 Fremont Ave. N., 363-7281, creativedance.org. $6–$9.

3 p.m. Sun., Dec. 9.

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UW BANDS Music by Bolcom, Wagner, and more. Meany Hall, UW campus, 543-4880, music.washington.edu. $10–$15. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Dec. 6.

SEATTLE SYMPHONY: HOLIDAY POPS Led by newly appointed pops conductor Jeff Tyzik. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., 215-4747, seattlesymphony.org. $19–$105.

7:30 p.m. Thurs., Dec. 6, 8 p.m. Fri., Dec. 7, 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., Dec. 8, 2 p.m. Sun., Dec. 9.

UW SYMPHONY Bartok, Brahms, and Saint-Saens.

Meany Hall, UW campus, 543-4880, music.washington.edu. $10–$15. 7:30 p.m. Fri., Dec. 7.

THE ESOTERICS Frank Ferko’s settings of poems by Hildegard of Bingen. At First Lutheran Church of Richmond Beach, 18354 Eighth Ave. N.W., Shoreline, 7 p.m. Fri., Dec. 7; St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, 732 18th Ave. E., 8 p.m.

Sat., Dec. 8; and Holy Rosary Catholic Church, 4142 42nd Ave. S.W., 2 p.m. Sun., Dec. 9. $10–$20. theesoterics.org.

A FESTIVAL OF LESSONS AND CAROLS The Northwest Boychoir’s annual tour opens Dec. 7, with nine performances through Dec. 23. See nwchoirs.org for full info.

SEATTLE CHORAL COMPANY “A Cathedral Christmas” includes music from their new CD. Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1245 Tenth Ave. E., 800-838-3006, seattlechoral company.org. $10–$27. 8 p.m. Fri., Dec. 7–Sat., Dec. 8.

TALLIS SCHOLARS One of the world’s preeminent vocal ensembles. They’ll sing Lassus, Part, and more. Blessed Sacrament Church, 5050 Eighth Ave. N.E., 323-9415, tudor choir.org. $25–$50. 8 p.m. Fri., Dec. 7.

METROPOLITAN OPERA AT THE MOVIES On Dec. 8 at 10 a.m., Verdi’s elegant Un ballo in maschera (repeated Jan. 9). On Dec. 19 at 6:30 p.m., Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito. $24. See metopera.org for participating theaters.

TIME MEDICINE An octet by master improviser Eyvind Kang, with Stuart Dempster and others. Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave. Free. 3 p.m. Sat., Dec. 8.

GARFIELD ORCHESTRA A sing-along Messiah. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard St. $6–$12. 7:30 p.m.

Sat., Dec. 8.

CASCADIAN CHORALE The premiere of a carol by Greg Bartholomew. At St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 8398 N.E. 12th St., Medina, 7 p.m. Sat., Dec. 8, and Lake Washington United Methodist Church, 7525 132nd Ave. N.E., Kirkland, 3 p.m. Sun., Dec. 9. $12–$17. cascadianchorale.org.

SEATTLE PRO MUSICA “Weihnachten: a German Christmas.” At Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., 7:30 p.m. Sat., Dec. 8; and Bastyr University Chapel, 14500 Juanita Drive N.E., Kenmore, 3 & 7:30 p.m. Sat., Dec. 15. seattlepromusica.org.

FILIPINO-AMERICAN SOCIETY CHOIR Holiday music, with a sing-along and soup. Filipino Community Center, 5740 Martin Luther King Jr. Way S., fcseattle.org. $10 suggested donation. 6 p.m. Sun., Dec. 9.

KRIS KWAPIS & MAHAN ESFAHANI Italian music for baroque trumpet and harpsichord. Cornish College/ PONCHO Concert Hall, 710 E. Roy St., cornish.edu. $10–$20.

7 p.m. Sun., Dec. 9.

SEATTLE MEN’S CHORUS On their holiday extravagaynza, music evoking warmer climes. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., 388-1400, flyinghouse.org. $27–$77. 7:30 p.m.

Sun., Dec. 9 and five more performances through Dec. 22.

YEFIM BRONFMAN Haydn, Brahms, and Prokofiev sonatas from this top-notch pianist. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., 215-4747, seattlesymphony.org. $25–$119.

7:30 p.m. Mon., Dec. 10.

COMPOSER SPOTLIGHT Neal Meyer discusses his ongoing piano-improv project, Gradus: for Fux, Tesla, and Milo the Wrestler. Jack Straw Studios, 4261 Roosevelt Way N.E., jackstraw.org. Free. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Dec. 12.

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popular mashup of Dickens and Conan Doyle. Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St., 781-9707, taproottheatre.org. $22–$37. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat. Ends Dec. 29.

TEATRO ZINZANNI: RETURN TO PARADISE Their usual fare—a leisurely five-course dinner interspersed with songs, sophisticated circus acts, and audienceparticipation comedy—is given a World’s Fair theme, set right here in 1962 Seattle. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., 802-0015. $106 and up. Runs Thurs.–Sun. through Jan. 27; see dreams.zinzanni.org for exact schedule.

A TUNA CHRISTMAS Two actors play 22 characters in this comedy set in Tuna, Texas. Burien Little Theater, S.W. 146th St. and Fourth Ave. S.W., Des Moines, 242-5180, burienlittletheatre.org. $7–$20. 8 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Dec. 16.

UNCLE MIKE RUINS CHRISTMAS This crass and irreverent assault on Yuletide cheer takes all that is good and pure about the holidays—family, tradition, innocence— and violently crushes it under the stinky Timberland work boot of the night’s most unwanted houseguest, Uncle Mike. Upon entering the theater, audience members scribble down their favorite childhood holiday memories.

From those notes, Wing-It’s improv comedians concoct a Christmassy pageant of dick jokes, murder scenes, alcoholic outbursts, and child-marriage scenarios. Mike Murphy returns as the beyond-burly, cantankerous Uncle Mike; he’s joined by familiar funny faces including Mandy Price and Graham Downing. Skits range from hits to flat misses, often striving for for the degenerate quality of an Artie Lange or Dave Attell tale. Some succeed; others land with the thud of a too-far Daniel Tosh-style rape joke.

(Case in point: a pretty graphic elf molestation scene, perpetrated by a coked-up Santa, during a recent Saturday performance.) But there’s some balm to the depravity from the wide-eyed sing-alongs of the Mistle-Tones, an acoustic guitar comedy duo that opens some Uncle Mike shows.

TERRA SULLIVAN Wing-It Productions, 5510 University Way N.E., 781-3879, wingitpresents.com. $12–$15.

Midnight:30 Sat. Ends Dec. 22.

THE WINTER WONDERETTES Celebrate Christmas 1968 with this girl group. ArtsWest, 4711 California Ave. S.W., 938-0339, artswest.org. $17–$36.50. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sat., 3 p.m. Sun., plus 3 p.m. Sat., Dec. 15, 22, 29. Ends Dec. 30.

THE WIZARD OF OZ As that much-forwarded meme has it, a woman travels to a foreign land and kills the first person she sees, then teams up with three strangers to kill some more. Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Center, 441-3322. $20–$36. Runs Thurs.–Sun., plus Wed. over the holidays; see sct.org for exact schedule. Ends Jan. 6.

THE WOMAN IN THE WALL Pacific Play Company premieres Daniel Tarker’s play about a 50-year-old Seattle mystery. Annex Theatre, 1100 E. Pike St., pacificplay company.com. $5–$15. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. plus Mon., Dec. 10. Ends Dec. 15.

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Kandinsky and his Blue Rider period. Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave., 622-9250, fryemuseum.org. $10–$15. Thurs., Dec. 6, 7 p.m. aRcade launch PaRty The latest issue of the venerable local art and design journal is celebrated.

Q, 1426 Broadway, qcapitolhill.com. $20. Fri., Dec. 7, 5:30–7:30 p.m. baM’s FRee FiRst FRiday Strapped for cash?

BAM offers free admission every first Friday of the month. Here’s your chance to check out the museum’s current exhibits of fiber and textile art, traditional Japanese bamboo weaving, and cut-paper works by local artist Nikki McClure. Bellevue Arts Museum, 510 Bellevue Way N.E., 425-519-0770, bellevuearts.org.

Free. Fri., Dec. 7, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. boxisM This group show contemplates the myriad boxes used in modern society, starting with an iconic unit: a pizza delivery container. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Artist reception: 6:30–8:30 p.m. Sun., Dec. 9. Gallery 110, 110 Third Ave. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 624-9336, gallery110.com. Opens Dec. 6.

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contains artifacts from a very peculiar stay. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Soil Gallery, 112 Third Ave. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 264-8061, soilart. org. Opens Dec. 6. Wed.– Sat., noon–5 p.m. Through Dec. 31.

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Huckins’ work contrasts traditional portraiture with today’s Twitter culture. Wood photo-documents female nudes in confined spaces. Also showing: In Costume, sculpture by George Rodriguez that refers to matador costumes and old barrels. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Foster/White Gallery, 220 Third Ave. S., 622-2833, fosterwhite.com. Tues.–Sat., 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Through Dec. 24.

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In the college library/art gallery, the work of 10 visiting artists is on display. Opening reception: 1–4 p.m. Wed., Dec. 5. Highline Community College, 2400 S. 240th St., Des Moines, 878-3710, highline.edu. Through Dec. 31.

Michael kenna The local photographer, whose work is currently on display at TAM, signs his book In France. G. Gibson Gallery, 300 S. Washington St. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 587-4033, ggibsongallery. com. Thurs., Dec. 6, 6–8 p.m.

MaRio leMaFa SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 13. chRis MaynaRd He delicately slices and rearranges bird feathers in small shadowboxes in his show Featherfolio. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m.

Zeitgeist Art and Coffee, 171 S. Jackson St., 583-0497, zeitgeistcoffee.com. Dec. 6–Jan. 2.

RichaRd MoRhous The local artist creates brightly illustrated city scenes of New York and Seattle in Line Paintings. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Lisa Harris Gallery, 1922 Pike Place, 443-3315, lisaharrisgallery. com. Opens Dec. 6. Mon.–Sat., 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Through Dec. 30.

PictuRe PeRFect Seven artists present paintings, prints, and mixed-media artwork that prompt us to consider how we interact with the wild and woolly.

Opening reception, Fri., Dec. 14, 6–10 p.m. Bherd Studios, 8537 Greenwood Ave. N., 234-8348, bherd clothing.com. Opens Dec. 6. Wed.–Fri., noon–6 p.m.

Through Dec. 21.

PoRtal In the Vachon Gallery, Harmony Arnold, Marc Kenison (aka Waxie Moon), Wes Hurley, Greg Bowers, and Kevin Deisz have collaborated on this installation, which bears the subtitle “An Intimate Exchange in Four Parts.” Opening reception 5–8 p.m. Fri., Dec. 7. Second and final viewing on Saturday. Seattle University, 901 12th Ave., 296-6000, seattleu.edu. Fri., Dec. 7, 5–8 p.m.; Sat., Dec. 8, 2–8 p.m. selections A celebration of 20 years in business, Selections includes new work from gallery artists in all media. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Patricia Rovzar Gallery, 1225 Second Ave., 223-0273, rovzar gallery.com. Opens Dec. 6. Mon.–Fri., 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

Through Dec. 29. shiFt oF PeRsPective Curated from an open call for submissions to respond to the theme of “Shift,” this group show examines the nearly concluded year of 2012. First Thursday reception, 5–8 p.m. Shift Collaborative Studio, 306 S. Washington St. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 547-1215, shiftstudio.org. Opens Dec. 8. Sat., Sun., noon–5 p.m. Through Dec. 29.

30 day aRt challenge The exhibition features artwork from more than 100 artists, who created 30 works of art in 30 days. All the artwork is available for purchase during First Thursday, from 6–11 p.m. Tashiro Kaplan Lofts, 115 Prefontaine Place S., 30DayArtChallenge.com. Thurs., Dec. 6. tReasuRes oF the noRthwest coast Nikki McClure’s intricately cut-paper works, Bill Holm’s oil painting, and a new mask from master carver Duane Pasco are just a few of the artists and pieces displayed in this group show. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Stonington Gallery, 119 S. Jackson St., 405-4040, stonington gallery.com. Opens Dec. 6. Mon.–Fri., 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.; Sun., noon–5 p.m. Through Jan. 23. teRRy tuRRell Modestly scaled figures (animal, avian, and human) are constructed from wood, tin, and other media. He also includes elaborately surfaced narrative paintings in Hindsight. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Grover/Thurston Gallery, 319 Third Ave. S., 2230816, groverthurston.com. Tues.–Sat., 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

Through Dec. 21. wallingFoRd aRt walk Participating venues and galleries include Stu Stu Studios, Fuel Coffee, Julia’s Restaurant, and Oasis Art Gallery. See wallingfordartwalk.org for full roster of attractions.

Wed., Dec. 5, 6–9 p.m. anthony scott wateRs He considers suicide and other unhappy topics in the drawings collected in The Little Book of Pain. Opening reception coincides with Georgetown Art Attack, 6–9 p.m. Sat., Dec. 8. Gallery hours by appointment. Krab Jab Studio, 5628 Airport Way S., 715-8593, krabjabstudio.com. Dec. 8–Jan. 3. woRking aRtist tRust Pat Bako, Lana Blinderman, Nichole DeMent, and others are featured in this group show. First Thursday reception: 6–8 p.m. Tashiro Kaplan Building, 310 S. Washington St., 223-1160, tklofts.com. Opens Dec. 6. Wed.–Sat., noon–5 p.m.

Through Dec. 27. victoR hugo Zayas The Mexican painter exhibits his bold, expressionistic canvases. First Thursday reception, 5–8 p.m. Friesen Abmeyer Fine Art, 1210 Second Ave., 628-9501, friesenabmeyer.com. Opens Dec. 6. Tues.–Sat., 11 a.m.–5:30 p.m.; Sun., noon–5 p.m.

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Several gallery artists iPhone/andRoid aPP are represented with FoR moRe eventS oR viSit diverse works for sale. seattleweekly.com First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Core Gallery, 117 Prefontaine Place S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 467-4444, coregallery.org. Wed.–Sat., noon–6 p.m.

Through Dec. 22. elles: PlatFoRM Debra Baxter, Jaq Chartier, Lauren Grossman, Patte Loper, Kelly Mark, Melissa Pokorny, and Ariana Page Russell create works in response to the big show at SAM. First Thursday reception 6–8 p.m. Platform Gallery, 114 Third Ave. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 323-2808, platformgallery.com. Sat., 11 a.m.– 5 p.m.; Wed.–Fri., 11 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Through Dec. 15.

FReMont aRt walk Venues include Activspace, Fremont Brewing Co., 509 Winery and Tasting Room, Caffé Vita, and Fremont Abbey. (See fremontfirstfriday. com for participating artists.) Fri., Dec. 7, 6–9 p.m. david FRench Out of the Blue presents his new sculptural work, much of it wrought from found, refurnished wood. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Linda Hodges Gallery, 316 First Ave. S., 624-3034, linda hodgesgallery.com. Dec. 6–29. geoRgetown aRt attack The December edition features many excellent shopping opportunities, including group show Little Bits and Pieces at All City Coffee, Don DeLeva’s White Collar Hero series of paintings at Calamity Jane’s, and an open house of all the studios at Equinox Studios. See georgetownartattack. com for other venues and events. Afterward, you’re encouraged to continue the evening at any number of watering holes along Airport Way, including Jules Maes and 9 Lb. Hammer. Free. Sat., Dec. 8, 6–9 p.m. elaine hanowell She shows wooden animal figures and other sculpture in Dog, Monkey, Crow.

First Thursday reception, 5–8 p.m. ArtXchange, 512 First Ave. S., 839-0377, artxchange.org. Opens Dec. 6.

Tues.–Sat., 11 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Through Jan. 26.

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A highly improvised fictional exposé in search of the elusive heart and soul of hipster nihilism, The Comedy stars alt-comic superstar Tim Heidecker as Swanson, a trust-funded 35-year-old hanging out in Brooklyn, fucking around, and waiting for his sickly dad to die. The title is ironic, or maybe “ironic”—writer/director Rick Alverson’s third feature is basically a shock drama. Its sensibility is a hybrid of the awkward conceptualism associated with Heidecker and co-star Eric Wareheim (TV’s Tim and Eric) and the brand of another of the film’s players, James Murphy, figurehead of blue-chip hipster auto-critics LCD Soundsystem. Alverson’s film takes the form of a kind of glacially paced, shaky-cam art project that the dude-bros it depicts might bike over the bridge to catch, if for no other reason than to tell chicks they’ve seen it.

Heidecker makes a much more convincing 21st-century Arthur than Russell Brand.

Chubby, bearded, beer-soaked, bedecked in novelty sunglasses and shorts, Swanson lives on a boat—because he’s floating, get it?—and runs with a crew of dudes who approach life as a starting point for real-world improv comedy. Cab drivers are repeatedly fucked with. Swanson defends Hitler mid-flirtation, and the girl still goes home with him. The gang takes an ironic field trip to a church followed by dive-bar whiskeys. There’s not a false note in the film, but I wonder if decades from now, The Comedy might function as a sincere snapshot—its intended satire might be too dry, too implied, to survive the passage of time. KARINA LONGWORTH

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RUNS FRI., DEC. 7–THURS., DEC. 13 AT NORTHWEST FILM FORUM. NOT RATED. 61 MINUTES.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul is an acquired taste. Either you go for his slow, dreamy, ghost-haunted Thai dramas or you don’t.

Yet even those who hailed Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) may find this short, dull divertimento lacking.

In a hotel looking over the swollen Mekong River to Laos, a young couple meets and flirts on the veranda. The girl’s mother may be a 600-year-old cannibalistic “Pob ghost.” The guy appears to be an old friend of Weerasethakul, who appears during interview scenes, which gives Mekong Hotel an almost documentary feel—like a notebook the director is using to sketch out different ideas. Scenes aren’t really acted so much as rehearsed in quotation marks; and Weerasethakul refers in the press notes to having rehearsed a past project, never filmed, in the same location. The taint of the past infects the present: The Pob ghost may transmit her bloody appetite to others, and there are allusions to violence and ethnic conflict in this contested border region. Reincarnation is discussed more as a punishment than a reprieve from suffering. Meanwhile, the film is relentlessly scored with Spanish guitar by an old pal of the director’s, whom he visits with far too

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much indulgence. Will the young couple get together? Weerasethakul isn’t interested in such questions. Present concerns will be swept away by the impassive river. No matter what we mortals request, says the Pob ghost mom, “The water’s not listening.”

(Weerasethakul’s recent short film Sakda will also be screened.) BRIAN MILLER

North Seas Texas OPENS FRI., DEC. 7 AT HARVARD EXIT. NOT RATED. 96 MINUTES.

Recently, popular films about gay characters have started moving beyond the overarching plot about society’s acceptance of sexual identity and the tricky navigability of a heteronormative world to instead just tell stories about people who aren’t straight. This is a good and commendable development, because didacticism sucks ass and kills stories, as clearly demonstrated by Ayn Rand. North Sea Texas immediately dispenses with the idea that the audience needs to learn some damn thing, opening with a charming and funny sequence in which a 6-year-old Pim dresses up in his mom’s old beauty-pageant sash and tiara and poses in front of a mirror. The teenage Pim, played by Jelle Florizoone, falls in love and has his first romantic experience—and his first big heartbreak—with the boy who lives next door. Pim’s problems are small, individual, and completely universal: the escape and pleasure of artistic endeavor; connecting with another person at a deep, human level; learning to accept the shortcomings of his mother, Yvette (Eva van der Gucht), the accordionplaying former beauty queen. Director Bavo Defurne fills the frame with warm, bright color and the lovely austerity of the Belgian seaside, angling for a soulful, slightly hyperreal comedy rather than the pursuit of a political agenda or a boring awareness-raising endeavor. CHRIS PACKHAM E film@seattleweekly.com

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If you live in Seattle, you’ve probably managed to kick its bajillion stereotypes to the curb.

Sure, it’s gray and gloomy for months on end, but it’s also one of the most beautiful, lush, vibrant cities in the country. Seattleites may wear more fleece and flannel than the national average, but it doesn’t mean we can’t make a fashion statement. And despite the belief that we still listen to grunge 24/7, our dynamic music scene is constantly evolving and producing headline-grabbing performers like Fleet Foxes, the Head and the Heart, Macklemore and Shabazz Palaces. We all have our reasons why we love the Emerald City.

As we wax poetic on the merits of shopping local in this holiday gift guide, it only seems appropriate to share why I love Seattle. I could list hundreds of reasons why I call the Pacific Northwest home, but here are ten.

1. SHOWING OFF: The first place I take a visitor from out of town is Ray’s Boathouse, a restaurant in Ballard. The views of seals playing, Puget Sound, and snow-capped Olympic Mountains from the upstairs deck are pretty spectacular. Plus, you see working fishing boats returning to Salmon Bay with their catch, so the seafood is about as fresh as it gets.

3. NATURE: If I want a nature fix, I go to the Cascade Mountains. Mount Si is a decent sixmile hike, which takes folks through multiple ecosystems to its 4,167-foot peak. It scores extra points for being dog-friendly.

4. URBAN PARKS: For a moment of Zen, I can hide away at Fremont Peak Park. This postage-stamp-size community park on a residential stretch offers panoramic views of Ballard, the bridge, and Salmon Bay. It’s one of my favorite places to watch the sun set.

5. COFFEE: When I need a caffeine fix, I head to Lighthouse Roasters. This tiny neighborhood coffee shop has been roasting beans in vintage machines since 1995 and makes the best mocha I’ve had in Seattle. I brew their “Lighthouse Blend” with a French press at home daily, but regularly visit the shop for its perfect foam and unpretentious baristas.

6. DRINKING AGAIN: When I’m feeling cash-strapped I take advantage of Seattle’s twice-daily happy hours. There’s absolutely no reason to not eat and drink well in the Emerald City. Early happy hour is mostly standard across the board, typically with deep discounts on food and booze. Late-night happy hour usually lures imbibers with cheap food deals.

7. MUSEUMS: Seattle’s best museum, in my opinion, is the Museum of History & Industry, and man, am I excited for the grand opening on December 29 at their new location in Lake Union Park. I’m a nerd for time and place facts, and this museum chronicles 150 years of Seattle’s history. If I had to rate a favorite museum based on its gift shop, Seattle Art Museum (SAM) takes the retail win, hands down. The pottery, jewelry, and knit goods are well worth maxxing out your credit card.

8. OUTDOOR ACTIVITES: My favorite jogging/walking route is around Green Lake. I rollerblade, walk my dog, or dish with my girlfriends on its 2.8-mile loop. During the summer, you can swim in the lake. In cooler months, I grab a pre-stroll Mexican hot chocolate at Chocolati Café near Stroud Avenue North.

9. DAY TRIPS: Just outside Seattle, you can visit Whidbey Island. It’s a quick ferry trip from Mukilteo, and the island is the perfect day-trip getaway with wineries (Whidbey Island Winery is quite good), local Penn Cove mussels (in Coupeville), and Deception Pass State Park (35 miles of trails). Remarkable bridges make me weak in the knees, and the arched version at Deception Pass is a suspended, two-lane stunner.

10. NEARBY WEEKEND GETAWAYS: In the winter, I love to visit the San Juan Islands.

Sure, the off-season weather may be moody and gray, but most of the tourists have gone home, hotel rates drop, restaurant reservations are a snap to secure, and wildlife is more abundant. Book a cabin at Doe Bay Resort on Orcas Island and take advantage of the hot springs overlooking Otter Cove.

What do YOU love about Seattle? Send me a tweet at @charynpfeuffer with the hashtag #SeattleWeekly and I’ll re-tweet my favorite hometown pride shout-outs.

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2. DRINKING: When I crave a bloody mary I always go to Matt’s in The Market. This second-story restaurant and bar right across from the throngs of tourists at Pike Place Market epitomizes Pacific Northwest cuisine and sensibilities. Their bloody mary pays homage to the region’s Scandinavian heritage by subbing Aquavit for vodka.

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We stock more than 695 healthy foods and 1500 carefully selected supplies for dogs and cats. So this holiday season, whether you’re facing a vexing problem with your car or dog or just looking for the perfect gift, we can help you find a great solution.

AJ Power Paintings Recently, we fell hard and fast for AJ Power’s paintings on exhibit at Lighthouse Roasters in Fremont. We love his whimsical interpretations of South African birds, flora, fauna and Big Five game animals, influenced by the artist’s stint working in West Africa with the Peace Corps. On occasion, Power will host workshops out of his Ballard studio.

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Roq La Rue Gallery Since 1998, Roq La Rue has played a major part in the local Lowbrow/Pop Surrealism art scene. They’ve helped launch emerging artists, as well as exhibit an eclectic mix of established artists throughout the year. From December 5–31, Femke Hiemstra and Ryan Heshka will be showing their work at the Belltown gallery. Browse their inventory of represented artists’ work online or in-person.

Other gift options include a great selection of really cool art books.

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HOLIDAY SEASON EVENTS Now - December 24: Reindeer Festival One of Seattle’s favorite free holiday outings: You can view two reindeer — Dasher and Blitzen — at Swanson’s Nursery (feedings at 10am and 4pm). Curley the camel will also be on hand for entertaining hijinks. And Swanson’s elves have created an amazing and unique miniature storybook scene surrounding the awesome Great Ballard Railway model train tracks. See if you can spot the whimsical surprises. Two trains run every day, keeping kids entertained. Santa is also there, as well as plenty of holiday shopping opportunities.

Swanson’s Nursery, 9701 15th Ave. NW, 206-782-2543, www.swansonsnursery.com.

December 8: Ballard ArtWalk Ballard has been spotlighting local artists and businesses with its Second Saturday ArtWalk since 1998. Pick up one-of-a-kind gifts for those on your list while supporting independent artists and retailers. 6-9pm. For information on participating venues and artists, visit ballardartwalk.blogspot.com and ballardartwalk.blogspot.com/p/map.html for a handy map, including participating galleries, studios and restaurants.

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Every person has the buying power to make an impact on their community, and everyone from small children to small business owners can learn something from this entertaining and enlightening read. (Createspace, 2012) The Elliott Bay Book Company 1521 10th Ave., 206-624-6600 elliottbaybook.com $9.95

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December 14: Ballard Knitters for the Homeless Learn to knit, or step up your current skills. Bring yarn and needles if you have them — and some to share with those who don’t, if you can. Jody Grage is leading this group for anyone who would enjoy getting together monthly to knit simple hats and scarves for community members who do not have a warm home this winter. 7-9pm. For more information, contact Jody Grage at jodytgrage@gmail.com or call 206-718-1529. At Aster Coffee Lounge, 5615 24th Ave. NW.

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PCC Natural Markets Nine Puget Sound-area locations pccnaturalmarkets.com $5.59 and up

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clothing • gifts • jewelery 905 E Pike St • Seattle • 206-324-4092 www.indeedretailtherapy.com

Holiday Flavors: Pumpkin Gingersnap Eggnog Spiced Apple Pie

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PARTY & Banquet rooms COCKTAILS - 17 Beers on Tap FREE DELIVERY

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CAPITOL HILL Hipsters flock to this always-lively neighborhood just a stone’s throw from downtown for its famed bars, cafes and nightlife. And because Capitol Hill is the most densely populated neighborhood in the city, it plays out in our city’s retail favor with its diversity of small, locally owned shops and boutiques. Whether you want to buy something old (funky thrift shops reign supreme), something new, something swanky or something easy on the pocket, you will find it here. Hoof around the hill and discover a handful of different shopping areas, from Melrose Market, Broadway, the Pike/Pine corridor, to 15th Ave.

Give the Gift of Balboa Wine this Season!

1/2 price shipping of 6 bottles or more Free shipping on a full case 4169 Peppers Bridge Road Walla Walla, WA (509) 529-0461 • info@balboawinery.com

HOLIDAY SEASON EVENTS December 9: HoliGAYS wine & cocktails Poco’s annual party returns with a twist. From 3-6pm, your $20 gets you eight tastes from a great lineup of red and sparkling wines. Then, you decide whose team you’re on — Team Red or Team Sparkle. If you buy one or more bottles, they’ll throw in a cocktail for you made by their scratch bartenders, who’ll demonstrate how you’ll be able to do more with your new purchase than just pour it into a glass.

POCO wine + spirits, 1408 E. Pine St., www.pocowineandspirits.com December 11: Kinky Crafting The gals at BUST Magazine are back again, this time using their craft savvy to add a sexy twist to Babeland’s seasonal décor, and they are in need of your help. Put on your best holiday sweater and swing over for an ornament-making session to deck out their holiday bush.

Arrive early, because the first 10 attendees will receive gift bags with toys and a copy of BUST’s latest issue. Festivities start at 7pm.

Babeland, 707 East Pike St., 206-328-2914, babeland.com, holidaybush.eventbrite.com

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Markdowns on bikes, accessories & gear at both locations!

Arm Warmers 1007 NE BOAT STREET (206) 547-4491

Designed and fashioned by athletes for athletes, Oiselle is the official apparel sponsor of Christy Turlington’s foundation, Every Mother Counts, a charity dedicated to providing awareness for maternal health.

For the female athletes on your list, consider a pair of Oiselle’s sleek arm warmers. They’ll keep your fave gal pal’s arms warm, whether she’s out for a run or walking the dog. Plus, reflective graphics step up the nighttime safety factor.

West Seattle Runner 3727 California Ave. SW, #2A, 206-938-0545 westseattlerunner.com $32

BIKE RENTALS BUY • SELL • TRADE • CONSIGN “Seattle’s Used Bike Shop”

1109 N 35TH STREET (206) 397-4286 recycledcycles.com Mon-Fri 10am-7pm Sat-Sun 10am-6pm

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Little Black Dresses Inspired by mid-century vintage designs, Lisa Vian Hunter’s Madison Park boutique, Vian Hunter House of Fashion, showcases her chic collections as well as custom clothing. Hunter was a contestant on NBC’s Fashion Star, which debuted this past spring.

Although her “Trudy” dress was picked up

by Macy’s and promptly sold out before the episode even aired, the designer still rules the world of Little Black Dresses with her glam, retro fashions.

Vian Hunter House of Fashion 2814 E. Madison St., 206-860-5030 vianhunter.com prices vary

Coupon code: 40522 Valid in stores and on babeland.com.

Holiday gift guides and specials! www.babeland.com/giftguides

babeland.com Sex toys for a passionate world.

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December 22: Buy Last-Minute Local at Bizzare Bazaar At the 5th annual Bizarre Bazaar, you’ll find unique and funky wares for to fill those lastminute holiday shopping needs. BizBaz features gifts to fit many budget levels — jewelry made out of hardware, sexy men’s underwear, shower art, survival bracelets, badge bling, delicious Pacific Northwest-sourced snacks, not-your-mama’s wall art, playful and ecoconscious clothes, and much more. BONUS: Enjoy a well-stocked mimosa bar whilst you shop! Come early and bring cash. 11am-4pm at The Erickson Theatre, 1524 Harvard Ave.

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Sexy Obsidian Bra If he gives you the gift of lingerie, it’s probably because he thinks you’re drop-dead sexy. What you do from there is strictly up to you. Although we covet pretty much every piece at Bellefleur, we especially love the Obsidian line of sexy skivvies. The perfect accent to your holiday party dresses, this bra (and available matching panty) create a sexy shape with a unique mix of colors beyond your basic black bra.

Bellefleur 3504 Fremont Place N., 206-545-0222 bellefleurlingerie.com $90, $56 for matching panties

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SAVINGS! Gifts for every cyclist on your list!

Lights from $9.99 Fenders from $14.99 Jerseys from $20.99

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5030 ROOSEVELT WAY NE SEATTLE, WA 98105 (206) 524-8554 www.scarecrow.com SUN.-THURS. 11am-10pm FRI. & SAT. 11am-11pm

Free UBER Towncar Ride Who needs the hassle of holiday driving, much less having to keep tabs on your eggnog intake? Forget parking or waiting for a cab, Uber makes it super-easy to get around Seattle with just the tap of an app. Uber fares are all-inclusive — no need to tip, no exchange of cash or card is necessary. Let Uber be your on-call holiday designated driver. All you have to do is download the app and enter the promo code SEATTLEWEEKLY or sign up at uber.com/go/SEATTLEWEEKLY and your 1st ride in Seattle is FREE up to $50. Expires 12/30/12.

NEW RELEASES

FREE RENTAL with every new Blu-ray or DVD purchase For a full list of new releases, visit scarecrow.com

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES DVD $22.95 Blu-ray $29.95

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

DVD $22.95 Blu-ray $29.95

BRAZIL: Criterion Collection New on Blu-ray $37.95

FINDING NEMO

Blu-ray/DVD set $29.95 3D Blu-ray $37.95

Indulge-Your-Fantasies Kit If you’re looking for some of the toys inspired by the hugely successful erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey, this kit is for you. Told from the perspective of a young woman being introduced to the pleasures of BDSM by an older man, the novel and its themes of power play are inspiring readers to try on a little kink of their own. The kit includes the novel Fifty Shades of Grey, Etherea Cuffs, Kandi Kisses vibrator, Luna Beads kegel balls, and Spank Me Powder.

Babeland 707 E. Pike St., 206-328-2914 babeland.com $184

MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: XXV

Four film set DVD $42.95

DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY DVD $29.95 Blu-ray $39.95

Criterion Collection SALE $3 OFF Blu-rays & DVDs $29.95 or less $5 OFF Blu-rays & DVDs $34.95 or more

Largest selection of Criterion titles in Seattle Rosemary’s Baby DVD $21.95 Blu $26.95 Yojimbo/Sanjuro DVD or Blu $44.95 Excludes Sale items * See store for sale details * Sale ends 1/6/2013

Coffee & more at Scarecrow Video Open Monday through Friday 7am-6pm Saturday & Sunday 9am-6pm

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Do you have a live music lover on your shopping list? They’ll love a gift card to The Triple Door. Its intimate setting, cocktail service, and Asian menu from next-door Wild Ginger make it a hip sit-down dinner club venue for catching live national acts like Maceo Parker and Hot Tuna. For happy hour and local acts, check out Musicquarium Lounge, which is like an equally classy little sister.

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Come enjoy the taste of the Old Country at our newly remodeled store at Pike Place Market!

Hat design by MULUK

“I do all my shopping at Boston Street”

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PIKE PLACE MARKET There are few one-stop shopping destinations in Seattle that bring me such complete and total joy as Pike Place Market. It sustains my home-chef habits with local foo stuffs, provides the perfect backdrop to showcase Seattle for first-time visitors, and is my favorite stop to sip and nosh. I’ve also been turned on to more than a few local artisans selling their handcrafted, made-with-oodles-oflove wares here. My advice: Plan a day at Pike Place Market on your holiday retail itinerary. Stock up on all your edible entertaining needs, snag some one-of-a-kind gifts and treat yourself to lunch or happy hour while you’re there. Just be sure to stop and sniff the flowers at the many festive stalls along the way.

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HOLIDAY SEASON EVENTS Now – December 17: Holiday Giving Tree While shopping at Pike Place Market this holiday season, stop by and fulfill a wish or two from our Giving Trees, which will be decorated with lights and holiday wishes from low-income of the Pike Place Market community. Visit the trees located in the Market’s DownUnder (near Hands of the World) or the Market Atrium in the Economy Building.

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December 6 and 13: Post Alley Wine Hop Join The Tasting Room for their weekly $4-a-glass pour menu. Each Thursday, the staff will select four wines that “speak to them” to be featured on the Wine Hop menu from 5-7pm.

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Shoe and Accessories If someone on your lists is looking for comfortable yet fashionable shoes, like La Canadienne, Born, Merrell and Keen, they’ll love a gift card to The Woolly Mammoth. The small shop on “The Ave” is well-stocked with fashion-forward, functional footwear that won’t break ankles. Or your budget. Validated parking is available at any UDPA lot.

The Woolly Mammoth 4303 University Way, 206-632-3254 woollymammothshoes.com gift cards available in any amount

Plus goodies from other great local businesses like...

Chi-Chi 12-Strand Necklace In 2008, James Minola and Chelsea Green began to design and produce a line of in-house products called Grain. Created as sustainably as possible in the Pacific Northwest or in collaboration with artisan communities in Guatemala, their best-selling item to date has been a recyclable shower curtain that does not off-gas. Although we think this is really cool, we’re guessing that most people don’t put shower curtains on their holiday wish list. Instead, we recommend Grain’s Chi-Chi necklace named after the famous Chichicastenango Market, known by many as the most colorful market in North America.

Grain 206-965-9302, graindesign.com $152

Top Ten Toys Central Co-op Fremont Brewing University Book Store Alchemy Goods ...and many more!

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For the glassware enthusiast, check out these bike-themed glasses at Butter Home. We love the simplicity of the screen-printed design and sturdiness of the vessel. Perfect for kicking back a pint with friends, because everyone knows that beer and bikes make for an awesome gift.

Butter Home 1531 Melrose Ave., 206-623-2626 butterhomeseattle.com $12 each or two for $22

Erickson Longboards’ gorgeous handmade longboards, crafted from fallen trees and reclaimed hardwood, are geared for a long, smooth ride. They offer a slick alternative to driving while still being kind to the environment. They also turn the longboard scraps into super-cool cutting boards and butcher blocks.

Call for locations or to set an appointment, 206-659-7105 ericksonlongboards.com $299

Pampering Package

Having a hot tub an awesome backyard addition living in the precipitation-prone Pacific Northwest. For those with hot-tubwishes, but limited by space constraints or budgets, there’s a solution — Hot Tub Boats.

Year-round, rain or shine, you can gather five of your besties, put on a bathing suit and soak your way around Lake Union and Portage Bay. Boats are also available for overnight rentals and purchase.

Hot Tub Boats 2520 Westlake Ave. N, 206-747-4362 hottubboats.com $139/hour and up

For the serial spa-goer on your list, Gene Juarez Salon & Spa has an ahh-mazing assortment of gifts. For the gal who never misses a mani, give the “You Deserve Pampering” package, which includes a 60-minute Tranquility Massage, Petite Facial with choice of Skin Care Masque, Classic Manicure and Petite Pedicure. Check their website for holiday offers starting at $75, which can be purchased at any salon location or online.

Gene Juarez Salons & Spas genejuarez.com $225, gift cards available in any amount

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Be Eco-Friendly and Shop Consignment!

(206) 523-8838 • www.altstadtinteriors.com Store Hours: Tues-Sat. 12-6pm and Sun 12-5

2618 Ne 55th St. • Just North of the University Village

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UNIVERSITY DISTRICT AND U VILLAGE If you are looking for a blend of locally owned shops intermixed with smaller boutique brands, head over to the University District.

Here, shoppers can meander the area for quirky purchases, like secondhand thrifted clothes, gargoyles (yes!), obscure movie titles and other “accessories.” Or spend the day perusing dozens of wonderful shops and hitting the many holiday-themed events at the open-air University Village (umbrellas provided).

HOLIDAY SEASON EVENTS Now – December 24: Visit Santa (pets too!)

Get your picture taken with Santa in his very own cabin (located near Fran’s Chocolates in U Village). Through December 13: Mon-Sat 10am-8pm & Sun 10am-7pm. December 14-23: 9am-9pm daily. On Mondays, bring your pet for a picture with Santa and 10% of sales will benefit the Seattle Humane Society. Please note that Santa takes a break from 2-3pm each day. Visit uvillage.com/santa for more info.

December 8: U District Farmers Market Wreath Making Produced by the Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance, the U District Farmers Market operates on Saturdays from 9am-2pm in the south lot of the University Heights Community Center located at 5031 University Way NE. On December 8, from 10am to 2pm, the Seattle Parks Department will donate piles of evergreen branches and clippings for your wreath and other swag-making pleasure. Free fun for all ages.

Every Saturday in December: Very Merry Saturdays at Madewell Stop by Madewell at U Village from 1-4pm every Saturday in December for fun in-store festivities, including a complimentary braid bar and Madewell manicures. www.madewell.com.

Now – December 19: Winter Wishes at U Village Donate a gift to a kid in need. Visit the Winter Wish trees outside of Bryn Walker and Headlines Salon to pick a tag off the tree and purchase a gift for a child in need this holiday season. Gifts benefit families from Boyer Children’s Clinic, Childhaven, Children’s Home Society, Compass Housing Alliance (HomeStep), Friends of Youth, Sand Point Family Housing, University District Food Bank, Wallingford Boys & Girls Club and YouthCare. Unwrapped gifts should be dropped off in the gift box no later than Wednesday, Dec. 19.

Sterling Silver Fortune Cookie Jewelry Featured at University Village, Bellevue Square and Pacific Place

4303 University Wy NE Seattle 98105 206-632-3254 And remember we always validate parking for all UDPA parking lots.

December 12: Menorah Lighting Celebrate at the U Village’s annual Hanukkah gathering. The fun is complete with klezmer music by the KlezKidz and dreidels and Hanukkah gelt for the kids. The Menorah Lighting takes place in the pavilion outside of The North Face and Mrs. Cook’s. 6pm.

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Doggie Day Care Pass Doggie day care provides the best of both worlds for dogs and owners alike. Owners with busy lives can get a guilt-free day away from an unsupervised pooch suffering from separation anxiety, barking all day or digging in the yard. Dogs can have a fun-filled day of play, socializing and exercising with other four-legged friends. Canines come home tired, calm and relaxed, owners are happy, everyone wins.

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Mugs Retrofit Home stocks all sorts of cool home furnishings and accessories, but sometimes a custom sofa or rug just isn’t suitable for everyone on your holiday list. Instead, we steer toward the mod shop’s books, candles, clocks, toys and tsotchkes, like this Kings Road Redux Mug made by Northwesterner, Rosanna Bowles. We love the luxe Baroque embellishments, like crowns emblazoned in 24k gold. Four asssorted low modern baroque mugs in a gift box.

Retrofit Home 1103 East Pike St., 206-568-4663 retrofithome.com $49.95

Vintage Books Arundel Books carries a truly diverse stock of used and rare books specializing in art, photography, architecture, design, and literature including original editions.

Shoppers at Arundel Books this year have been asking for everything from Charles Bukowski to high-end photography books to leather-bound first editions by Charles Dickens - which is timely because they just so happen to have a huge stock of vintage Dickens right now...

Arundel Books 214 First Avenue S, 206-624-4442 arundelbookstores.com prices vary

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Letters from Wishing Rock is the first novel in the Wishing Rock series by local author Pam Stucky. What would happen if everyone in town lived in the same building? Ruby Parker is about to find out. Online dating, a group trip to Scotland, a discussion about dogwinkles, a fateful hoedown, and friendships old and new, all interspersed with recipes from some of the town’s best cooks, make Wishing Rock come alive in this delightful and insightful look at life, love, relationships, and community.

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Unique Natural Gifts

Jewelry • Body Care • Sweets Housewares • Books • Clothing Candles • Incense and more

December 1– 8, 2012 Hours vary. Visit WholeHealth.BastyrCenter.net for details.

The Bastyr Dispensary at Bastyr Center for Natural Health 3670 Stone Way N., Seattle • 206.834.4114

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Every Pacific Northwesterner knows the secret to winter-weather success lies in layering. Built for aerobic activities, Outdoor Research’s Centifuge Jacket features wind and weather-resistant hard-faced fleece on the front, but a breathable fleece on the back and underarms. The combo creates a perfect balance to maintain a comfortable experience whatever the activity. Available for men and women.

Outdoor Research 2203 1st Ave. S, 206-971-1496 outdoorresearch.com $125

From school to sleepovers, Dabbawalla backpacks will kit even the most roughand-tumble of kids in style. Simple designs pop with colorful monkeys, cats, flowers, and crayons, while an eco-sponge neoprene exterior keeps bags safe from dirt, spills and stains. This Seattle-based company employs sewing workers who earn fair wages in safe working conditions and does business with companies who support this commitment.

Clover Toys 5333 Ballard Ave. NW, 206-782-0715 clovertoys.com $40

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Cousins and business partners, Erica Nelson-Sheehan and Dustin Nelson feature hand-picked jewelry and accessory artists, focusing on one-of-a-kind pieces. They also design the boutique’s private collection, which includes fabulously androgynous handmade silk and wool vests inspired by a men’s tuxedo waistcoat from the early 1900s.

Nothing screams sexy on a woman quite like a tailored menswear piece that accentuates all the right curves.

Hitchcock Madrona 1406 34th Ave., 206-838-7173 hitchcockmadrona.com $385

Step up onto a custom-engineered bike and ride as hard as you dare. Each workout lasts 45 or 60 minutes and includes climbs and descents, while working arms with weighted bars. Stadium-style seating makes every spot a good one, while in-house DJs keep adrenaline pumping with their unique mix of music. Looking for a new workout in the New Year? This indoor cycling class will make your standard issue spinning class seem pretty tame. Bellevue location, too.

Flywheel Sports 224 Westlake Ave. N, 206-402-4819 flywheelsports.com $25 and up

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Fresh Handcrafted Rotating Kebab Meats Locally Baked Turkish-German Style Flatbread House-Made Sauces and Fresh Produce Come down and have a döner Pioneer Square Mon-Tues: 11am - 4pm Wed-Sat: 11am - 7pm (206) 838 0339 221 1st Ave S Seattle, WA 98104 South Lake Union Mon-Fri 11am - 9pm Sat 11am - 9pm (206) 838 5032 428 Westlake Ave N Seattle, WA 98109

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HOLIDAY SEASON EVENTS December 6: Dogs on Parade, Howliday Style Come see the Howliday Style Dog Parade and Tree Lighting in Occidental Park on Thursday, Dec. 6 starting at 5pm where one costumed dog will be honored as Pioneer Square Dog of the Year. Register your dog for the costume contest and parade at dogsonparade2.eventbrite.com.

December 6: Pioneer Square Artwalk Find the perfect handmade gifts by visiting the Pioneer Square Artwalk. Bonus – Between 5 and 10pm you can park for free in three Pioneer Square parking lots – Frye Parking Garage at 117 3rd Ave S., Pioneer Square Garage at 74 S. Jackson St., or Merrill Place Garage at 72 S. King St. Simply visit a restaurant, gallery, store, or go to Milepost 31 at 211 1st Ave. S. before 8pm to receive a voucher and hand it to the parking attendant when exiting the garage.

December 31: Underworld New Year’s Eve Party Ring in the New Year with a special Underworld New Year’s Eve champagne party hosted by the world-famous Underground Tour, an adults-only stroll through the old red-light district of the abandoned underground city that was Seattle’s birthplace. A lust-filled version of the Underground Tour, the Underworld Tour is seamier, raunchier and totally inappropriate! After the tour, you’ll join in the countdown to midnight with a champagne toast in a beautifully restored 19th-century saloon, Doc Maynard’s Public House, on Pioneer Park in Pioneer Square. A $25 / 21+ admission. Price includes a cocktail, plus glass of champagne at midnight. Purchase advance tickets online at vwww.undergroundtour.com, by phone at 206682-4646, or at the ticket booth at 608 1st Ave.

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In addition to her stylish finds, we love that owner Lisa Clinton, also fosters kitties as part of her mission to support the Seattle Animal Shelter.

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all manner of holiday cartoons and shorts. Featured are Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, animator Norman McLaren, and Laurel and Hardy as door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen. (NR) Grand Illusion, $5-$8, Sat., Dec. 8, 7 p.m.

Coast modern SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 13. dennis nybaCk’s Christmas speCial: He shows cinematic curios from Christmases past. Not for the kids. (NR) Grand Illusion, $5-$8, Fri., Dec. 7, 9 p.m. the Festival oF the arChives SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 13. the Found Footage Festival Curators Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett will introduce their traveling show of odd cinematic discoveries. Subjects include the instructional video Ferret Fun & Fundamentals, old classroom movies, and exercise videos like The Sexy Treadmill Workout. (NR) Central Cinema, $11, Wed., Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m.; Thu., Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m.

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are screened. Remember when Chevy Chase was reasonably amusing? Call for showtimes. (PG-13) Central Cinema, $6-$8, Dec. 7-10. home movie day Local citizens show their family movies and discuss the fate of old film formats. The event coincides with this week’s national conference of the Association of Moving Image Archivists here in Seattle. Some archivists will likely be on hand. See homemovieday.com for more details. (NR) Northwest Film Forum, Free, Sat., Dec. 8, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

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smartly contoured to fit just more than two hours of screen time by Sir Tom Stoppard, directed by Joe Wright. As always, wife and young mother, Anna (Keira Knightley) falls madly for a Russian officer, Vronsky (powder-puffed Aaron Taylor-Johnson). The first of this match’s tragic consequences is Vronsky’s jilting of Princess Kitty (Alicia Vikander) who, in the B story, is courted by the surly, shy, and awkward Levin (Domhnall Green). Levin is the bosom friend of Anna’s philandering brother, Oblonsky (Matthew Macfadyen)—prey to the same governing passions as his sister and to none of the social and legal reproach.

Knightley’s emotions come through with a gasping immediacy, and Jude Law deserves special notice as Anna’s cuckolded husband. (NR) Nick Pinkerton Seven Gables, Lincoln Square argo Ben Affleck’s third directorial effort begins with the November 4, 1979, attack on the U.S. embassy in Tehran. While 52 Americans are held hostage, six embassy workers manage to escape, ultimately hiding out at the home of Canadian ambassador (Victor Garber). Determined to smuggle the houseguests out of Iran by disguising them as a film crew on a location scout, CIA exfiltration expert Tony Mendez (Affleck) enlists the help of John Chambers (John Goodman), a movie makeup artist, and Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin), an old-school producer. Between hokey wisecracks ribbing industry idiocy, the trio seizes on a dusty script for a Star Wars rip-off called Argo. Affleck’s movie doesn’t reflect who we are now so much as it argues for what Hollywood can be. It’s a love letter from Affleck to the industry that made him, shunned him, and loves nothing more than to be loved. (R) Karina Longworth Alderwood 16, SIFF Cinema Uptown, Varsity, Lincoln Square, Meridian, Cinebarre, Thornton Place barrymore Anyone even slightly versed in Hollywood lore and history knows that the scandals that make TMZ twitter are child’s play compared to those of Hollywood’s early yesteryears, and that the template for bad-boy behavior was carved by the late John Barrymore. In writer-director Erik Canuel’s Barrymore, based on William Luce’s play, Christopher Plummer re-creates his Tony-winning performance as the OG charming louse in his booze-addled final days. Blessed with a script that is witty, insightful to the workings of the narcissistic Hollywood psyche, and often wonderfully bitchy, the film is also a wistful look at faded dreams and opportunities lost due to both the vagaries of the business and self-sabotage.

The balance is impressively struck between bawdy humor and elegiac riffs, with Plummer doing surgically precise pirouettes that spin his Barrymore from breezy quips to dark emotional free fall and then back again.

(NR) Ernest Hardy SIFF Film Center Chasing iCe Jeff Orlowski’s beautiful yet sobering documentary visits the world’s rapidly melting ice caps. His guide is James Balog, a renowned nature photographer who has become obsessed with documenting the staggering speed with which the icebergs of Greenland, Iceland, and Alaska are crumbling into the sea. Orlowski films as Balog and a small team of young scientists go on a mad mission to embed dozens of time-lapse cameras into the rock walls above various ice fields. Those cameras take one image every hour, and when Balog and his team, known as the “Extreme Ice Survey,” assemble the footage, they discover that glacier fields the size of Lower Manhattan are receding at an astonishing rate. (NR) Chuck Wilson Egyptian Cloud atlas This gargantuan new movie, based on David Mitchell’s 2004 novel, took two Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer to direct. Cloud Atlas contains six parallel narratives. Each story comes in and out of view regularly, like figures in a carousel. The same voices and faces—that is, actors—recur in different roles along the timeline. Jim Sturgess dons epicanthic folds and Kyle MacLachlan’s hair in Neo Korea; Halle Berry wears whiteface as the wife of WWII–era Jim Broadbent, etc. It’s tempting to pull for a formally ambitious, queer-friendly, R-rated blockbuster that uses the word “amanuensis” and seems designed to drag viewers into uncomfortable new idioms. There is, however, a viewing experience to consider. Each segment feels like like an extended trailer for itself.

Maybe this incompletion is purposeful, but it’s a problem when what’s invariably elided or taken for granted is the very human connection and commiseration that is supposedly the most vital force in the universe. (R) Nick Pinkerton Sundance Cinemas, 12, Oak Tree, Meridian

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Frank Capra’s 1946 It’s a Wonderful Life. Banks are failing. People are losing t h i S co d e their homes. Veterans are to download the FRee returning from a bloody war Seattle weekly abroad. Families are falling iPhone/andRoid aPP apart. And all these stresses FoR moRe Film oR viSit converge during the holiseattleweekly.com days, when there may not even be enough money in the household to buy any presents. Sound familiar? In the GI’s 42nd-annual screening of this seasonal classic, the distressed town of Bedford Falls could today be Anytown, USA. And beleaguered banker James Stewart could be any small businessman struggling to remain solvent amid our current financial crisis. If It’s a Wonderful Life is arguably the best Christmas movie ever made, that’s because it’s certainly one of the most depressing Christmas movies ever made. Our suicidal hero is given a future vision—courtesy of an angel (Henry Travers)—of bankruptcy, death, poverty, and evil, unfettered capitalism (hello, Lionel Barrymore).

Even his wife (Donna Reed) ends up a spinster in the alternative universe of Pottersville. Before the inevitable tear-swelling plot reversal, the movie is 100 percent grim. Yet amazingly, 66 years later, it preserves the power to inspire hope for better days ahead. Call for showtimes; no shows on Dec. 10, 12, and 17. (NR) BRIAN MILLER Grand Illusion, $5-$8, Dec. 7-27. it’s suCh a beautiFul day It made for a deceptively vital change of context when cult animator Don Hertzfeldt strung together four of his award-winning cartoons into the feature-length portmanteau It’s Such a Beautiful Day. Continuity is key to these shorts, which collectively create a heroic epic out of the violent hallucinatory memories and daydreams of Bill, a depressive and possibly fatally ill stick figure. In the short films Everything Is OK, I Am So Proud of You, and It’s Such a Beautiful Day, Bill’s attempts to process his pain and the inexplicable minutiae of his daily routine allow Hertzfeldt to examine both traumatizing fears of death and the absurd joy of life. Bill thinks about bacteria-infested crotches at the supermarket, sees a dead bird besieged by ants on the sidewalk, passes out with alarming regularity, and remembers the past lives of family members, like the younger, hook-handed brother who died chasing a seagull. And as Bizet, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, and Wagner swell on the

soundtrack, and Hertzfeldt’s omniscient but probably not omnipotent narrator lays out events, Bill’s life alternatively shrinks and expands to individual moments that collapse into one another. (NR) SIMON ABRAMS Northwest Film Forum, $6-$10, Fridays, 11 p.m. Through Dec. 14.

Johnny guitar Nicholas Ray plays havoc with Western conventions in this eccentric 1954 cult movie, which confronts Joan Crawford as poker-faced Vienna, owner of the plushest gambling saloon in the Arizona wilderness, and Mercedes McCambridge as her sexually frustrated spinster nemesis who leads a lynch mob. It’s memorable for Crawford’s hieratic performance and Ray’s neurotically charged direction.

And it’s screened as part of the Bad Movie Art series, a possibly unfair assessment. (NR) ELLIOTT STEIN Central Cinema, $6-$8, Mon., Dec. 10, 7 p.m. psyCho Theaters are still showing the amusing Hitchcock, about how the famed director came to make this 1960 shocker, which is always worth seeing again. And listening to again. As Anthony Perkins, dressed in his mother’s drag, surprises Janet Leigh in the shower with a carving knife, it’s the shrieking soundtrack and meticulous editing—of both sound and picture—that make you believe you’ve seen something you haven’t. The penetration of the blade is never shown, and the rest of the film relies on equally subtle suggestion. The taxidermy birds, beckoning swamp, and curiously empty rooms at the Bates Motel all hint at the proprietor’s unhinged state of mind. If Leigh’s flighty fugitive misses the signs, it may be because she’s preoccupied with her own guilt. Hitchcock pairs the two in a weird kind of seduction: She wants to confess, but can’t. He wants to caress, but can’t. There’s so much repression that violence, not sex, is the only release. Movie screens at midnight. (NR) BRIAN MILLER Egyptian, $8.25, Fri., Dec. 7; Sat., Dec. 8. pulp FiCtion We have just one question for you: How do we know which wallet belongs to Jules Winnfield? There’s no excuse for missing Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 Oscar-winner with its big talented cast and wonderfully elliptical storytelling. How can you go wrong with John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Amanda Plummer, and Harvey Keitel? (Try to ignore Maria de Medeiros, the film’s one weak spot.) See FathomEvents.com for other local theaters. (R) BRIAN MILLER Pacific Place, $15, Thu., Dec. 6, 7 p.m. sCreen style Four repertory titles are screened, each demonstrating the fashions of their era. On the bill are Rockers (1978), Passion of Anna (1969) , Purple Noon (1960), and Beau Travail (1999). (NR) Northwest Film Forum, $6-$10, Dec. 7-9, 9 p.m. valtari The lush, darkly beautiful Sigur Rós film INNI lingers in the psyche of those who experienced it.

Now, the Icelandic post-rock band’s music is set to creative filmmaking with the premiere of the Valtari film experiment, screening at the perfect environs of the Ritz Theater (where INNI premiered last year).

Sigur Rós gave a dozen filmmakers—including Ramin Bahrani, Alma Har’el, and John Cameron Mitchell—a modest budget to create whatever came into their heads while listening to songs from their sixth album, Valtari. This two-hour film bypasses the usual artisticapproval process and allow artists complete creative freedom. (NR) CYN COLLINS Northwest Film Forum, $6-$10, Dec. 7-9, 9 p.m. vhsXmas ii The mad geniuses at Scarecrow dust off some holiday oddities on their favorite old format.

Following at 11 p.m. is a separate program called The Subject Is Sex, which will feature more skin and fewer Christmas sweaters. (NR) Grand Illusion, $5-$8, Sat., Dec. 8, 9 p.m.

Wall street ConspiraCy Kristina Leigh Copeland’s new documentary examines the 2008 financial meltdown and how big banks got bailed out. (NR) Keystone Congregational Church, 5019 Keystone Place N., 6326021, keystoneseattle.org, Free, Fri., Dec. 7, 7 p.m.

Women in the shadoWs Yah, sure, you betcha.

Fargo, the Coen brothers’ 1996 double Oscar winner (for script and star Frances McDormand), is always a good occasion for a drink and meal (just finish your supper before the wood-chipper scene). The Coens imparted “a gentle touch on a vicious story,” William H. Macy later said, still grateful for the career-making “role I was born to play.” (Indeed, Fargo remains the best picture in the Coens’ mannered canon.) Macy’s dim but persistent Minnesota blackmailer is still a marvel of comic-malevolent invention, a perfect rival for McDormand’s cheery moral steel as the pregnant sheriff who tracks him down. (R) BRIAN MILLER Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., 654-3100, seattleartmuseum.org, $63-$68 (series), $8 (individual), Thu., Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m.

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gets the sense of a skilled craftsman who has learned everything he knows about the ‘hood not from firsthand experience but from going to the movies. And so it is that the daily routine of two street cops (Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña) includes encounters with drug-addled parents, a nightgown-clad black mother screaming “My babies! My babies!” in front of her burning house, and Latina gang girls who cackle as they kill. As social insight, End of Watch is useless, but as engrossing entertainment, it’s irresistible. (R) Chuck Wilson Oak Tree, Sundance Flight In this fine, melancholy character study, William “Whip” Whitaker (Denzel Washington) wakes after a bender and gets ready for work with a snort of coke. Then he swaggers into the cockpit of his passenger jet. When the plane goes into a sudden free fall, he improvises a miraculous plan that brings craft and passengers down more or less safely. Later, in order to hush up a medical report of Whip’s potent blood-alcohol level, Hugh Lang (Don Cheadle), is brought in to do damage control with union rep (Bruce Greenwood). Also “helping” is Whip’s dealer, played with dirtbag bonhomie by John Goodman. Calm and chaos commingle beautifully in the crash-landing set piece as handled by director Robert Zemeckis.

Zemeckis hasn’t lost his touch with actors; he coaches Washington into one of those rare performances that suggests much more than it shows. (R) Nick Pinkerton Alderwood 16, Meridian, Cinebarre, Thornton Place, Bainbridge, others hitChCoCk Early in Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock (played

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tinctive vocal cadence—the accent and heaviness of delivery, as if each word was rolled in bacon on its way out—is initially disarming, but the performance seems less convincingly human as the film wears on, failing to build on its first impression. Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh looks like Scarlett Johansson, and distractingly so. More painful are the attempts to transform Helen Mirren, the international gold standard of GILFs, into a dowdy woman-behind-the-man; her wig could not be shittier. (PG-13) Karina Longworth Guild 45th, Lincoln Square, Pacific Place killing them soFtly An adaptation of George V. Higgins’ 1974 novel Cogan’s Trade, Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly anatomizes a self-policing underground economy of junkies, killers, and administrators to indict a present-day mainstream world by suggesting that the criminal satellite economy and the “straight” superstructure are functionally the same.

It’s a movie that shows, and then tells, tells, and tells again, its vibrant conjuring of contemporary cynicism felled by Dominik’s lack of faith in his audience’s ability to connect thematic dots. The film is set in 2008, giving hit man Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt, on killer-cool autopilot) the chance to scoff at a Barack Obama speech evoking the American dream: “America isn’t a country; it’s just a business,” Cogan declares. Cogan enters half an hour in, after ex-con Frankie (Scoot McNairy) and his junkie prison buddy Russell (Ben Mendelsohn) have held up a poker game managed by Markie (Ray Liotta). Cogan is hired by a Mob administrator, played by Richard Jenkins, to orchestrate the killings necessary to restore confidence in the underground gambling economy. Cogan tries not to kill anyone he knows face to face (the resemblance of his policy of “killing them softly, from a distance” to drone warfare

is among the film’s few subtle allusions), so he insists on subcontracting a gunman from New York (James Gandolfini, who gives the film’s best performance as a man drowning in masculine/midlife crisis). (R) Karina Longworth Varsity, Factoria, Kirkland Parkplace, Lincoln Square, Meridian, Cinebarre, others a late Quartet In this affecting mixed bag of a movie, a string quartet’s future is thrown into question after the cellist (Christopher Walken) is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and the two married members’ relationship (Catherine Keener and Philip Seymour Hoffman) begins to unravel. Always stately, occasionally stuffy, Yaron Zilberman’s chamber drama expresses every real-world problem via musical metaphors and is prone to occasional bouts of grandiosity. This tonal back-and-forth is in some ways reflective of the group’s music but impedes us from getting a meaningful hold on what these people are feeling and why we should care. It’s something of a relief that little is actually resolved in Quartet; Zilberman is at his best when leaving narrative threads hanging rather than trying to tie them together. (R) Michael Nordine Crest liFe oF pi A stacked-deck theological inquiry filtered through a spectacular Titanic-by-way-of–Slumdog Millionaire narrative, this movie manages occasional spiritual wonder through its 3-D visuals but otherwise sinks like a stone. It’s no shock that Ang Lee brings to his high seas adventure graceful and refined aesthetics devoid of any unique signature or pressing emotion.

He’s made a slavish, proficient adaptation of Yann Martel’s 2001 novel. The story concerns the upbringing of Pi (newcomer Suraj Sharma) in India, his unbelievable experiences surviving a shipwreck aboard a life raft also occupied by a Bengal tiger, and his postrescue efforts to convince Japanese officials that his tale is true—a three-part structure that’s framed by the adult Pi (Irrfan Khan), recounting his tale to a nameless Writer (Rafe Spall). The story’s relentless articulation of its thematic aims proves a buzz kill, and the film spoonfeeds rather than enlightens. (PG-13) Nick Schager Bainbridge, Vashon, Sundance, Lynwood, Lincoln Square, Kirkland Parkplace, Cinebarre, Pacific Place, Thornton Place, others linColn Our 16th president becomes an almost 4-D character made flesh by Daniel Day-Lewis, arguably the best actor of his generation. The challenge for director Steven Spielberg is to square the Georgia white marble of the Lincoln Memorial with the fleshand-blood reality we can never really know—evoking the man without diminishing the leader. His other challenges include relating the complications and subtleties of political maneuvering, and the inherent suckiness of the biopic form. Spielberg solves that by lensing the portrait through a single event: the fight to pass the 13th Amendment. The film is studied and often somber, but it is also hugely entertaining, a bitchingly fun story of political gamesmanship, influence trading, patronage, cronyism, and outright bribery. This Lincoln is quietly ironic, an indulgent storyteller, a hugely charismatic leader. Day-Lewis is just crazy good. (PG-13) Chris Packham Alderwood 16, Guild 45th, Lynwood, Kirkland Parkplace, Lincoln Square, Pacific Place, Thornton Place, others looper Early in Rian Johnson’s thriller, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) sits at a diner and chats with his self from 30 years in the future (Bruce Willis), who tells him not to worry about the particulars of time travel. Looper is more intent on the moral implications of a charged situation grounded in character, and it turns both Joes loose to make their own life-altering choices. Thrilling in its deft juggling of complex narrative elements, utterly clear in its presentation and unfolding with what feels like serious moral purpose, Looper favors the human scale over abstract philosophizing or meta-cinematic frippery. For Johnson, the inveterate pasticheur, it qualifies as a significant step forward. (R) Andrew Schenker Crest, Admiral perks oF being a WallFloWer Perks, written and directed by Stephen Chbosky from his 1999 youngadult novel, is set in 1991. But period particulars seem secondary on Chbosky’s list of priorities. Charlie (Logan Lerman), a shy-fox 14-year-old with a history of depression, makes it through his freshman year by clinging to the alterna-clique spearheaded by Edie-esque Sam (Emma Watson) and her swish stepbrother Patrick (Ezra Miller). Charlie loves Sam, who is sorta spoken for by a boho college douche. Chbosky plays this CW serial stuff for maximum earnestness. And then comes the plot twist, which recasts the film’s plaintive portrait of Charlie’s free-floating anxiety and sexual weirdness as Not His Fault. (PG-13) Karina Longworth Varsity, Oak Tree a royal aFFair The way to a queen’s heart is through Rousseau in A Royal Affair, in which church and state oppression can’t, at least for a time, quell enlightenment urges. From prostitute trysts and physicianconducted crotch examinations to wild-stallion rides through the lush countryside, everything is eroticized in Nikolaj Arcel’s historical drama about the illicit affair between Caroline (Alicia Vikander)—sent from London to Denmark to marry bonkers King Christian

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Barney won’t talk about his pastrami. Eat it anyway.

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nyone with decent online research skills and a finely tuned GPS unit can track down the area’s most spectacular pastrami sandwich. Locating its creator is a considerably harder task.

Phones are especially smart at remembering phone numbers, so it’s been a decade or two since I’ve had a string of digits ingrained in my brain. But the small store of numbers I can dial instinctively now includes the number for Barney’s Pastrami Dip, the dogeared Everett sandwich shop that I pelted with unanswered calls for a week or two after being wowed by it.

I tried leaving enthusiastic messages. I tried leaving serious messages. I became so eager to learn about David Barney’s pastrami methods that I even tried interviewing him in a dream, which may also have included dancing pickles.

The real Barney finally picked up one day around noon, when he undoubtedly figured the caller wanted to place a to-go order. We arranged to talk later in the week, but when I placed my call at the appointed hour, I ended up talking to the restaurant’s generic voicen this country, pastrami is Jewish mail system again. Barney was hugely apolobarbecue: It’s beef that’s been brined, getic when I reached him that afternoon: “I seasoned, and smoked. But as David didn’t have your number,” he offered, reschedSax points out in his book Save the Deli, uling our phone chat for the following week. the closest thing the sandwich meat has to a He didn’t answer then either, so I once more definitive biography, there’s goose pastrami cornered him during lunch rush. “I missed in Romania and camel pastrami in Morocco. your call this morning by two and a half secAshkenazi immigrants who settled in New onds,” he said brightly. “I’m busy now.”

York City gravitated toward beef because catBarney firmly refused my requests to visit tle were plentiful on the Western plains, and him at the restaurant, suggesting I try his cell their kosher cuts were relatively affordable. phone at 7 p.m. on a Tuesday. “This won’t The cut most frequently given the pastrami take long,” I assured my dining companion treatment was the navel, which is found just when I ducked into a bathroom to make the about where you’d expect to find it. This belly call. I was back at the table in less than a meat is essentially cow bacon, and it’s no longer minute. This time Barney returned my call. as cheap as it was when every Schmulka, Abe, “Right now I’m in a meeting,” he explained. and Izzy was in the deli business. Pastrami Perhaps we might talk another day. Of course, purveyors devoted to the bottom line now subwe never did. stitute leaner cuts, which would have a better Although I probably should have been showing as roast beef, and artificially plump frustrated by Barney’s dodginess, it was halfscrawny navels with water, salt, and chemicals. way refreshing to encounter a food profesBut a few pastrami makers have managed sional who isn’t enthralled to survive by stressing traby his or her own yarn. ditional flavors—and skirt“Farm to table” is the most ing the tremendous costs » PRICE GUIDE PASTRAMI SANDWICH ����������� $8�95 basic narrative ruling associated with glatt kosher PEPSI ����������������������������������������������$1�39 the contemporary eating certification, the gold stanCOFFEE ����������������������������������������� $0�85 LAY’S CHIPS �������������������������������� $0�85 scene, but savvy chefs and dard for Jews who observe artisans have embellished dietary laws. These purveythe story line with heirors, who still individually loom pigs, craft slaughterhouses, and recipes rub navels with coriander, burnt sugar, and culled from musty antebellum mercantile mustard seed, are concentrated in big cities ledgers. Even food producers who have the with strong beef histories. To wit, in 2009 Barwherewithal to scorn manicured mustaches ney told the Everett Herald that his pastrami is and butchery tattoos know they have to sell cured and smoked in metro Chicago. a story, best told loudly and repeatedly in a There isn’t only one great pastrami supplier distinctive voice. But Barney, judging from his in Chicago, however, although Chicago Trihumble shop and on-phone demeanor, isn’t bune food reporter (and Seattle native) Kevin a pseudo-politician, bard, or stand-up comic.

Pang speculated that Barney might be buying He’s just a guy who sells pastrami. And the his meat from City Foods, which provides the pastrami is extraordinary. pastrami for Manny’s, a South Side institution

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where Barack Obama always gets the corned beef-and-potato pancake. Theodore Ordon, a San Franciscan who blogs as the Pastrami King (pastramiblog.blogspot.com), sized up Barney’s sandwiches online and suggested the meat might come from Vienna Beef, a 119-year-old outfit better known for its hot dogs. Although Vienna now sells primarily to supermarkets and

I became so eager to learn about David Barney’s pastrami methods that I even tried interviewing him in a dream.

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eated in the back corner of a squat strip mall that’s a more likely venue for a coin-and-stamp shop, Barney’s only outward marking is a curved awning with the restaurant’s name written in 1980s script. But Barney’s name is everywhere inside the counter-service storefront: Dozens of 8" x 10" glossies have been stamped with labels identifying the pictured stars as members of the Barney family, including Olivia Newton-Barney, Gen. George S. Barney, Marilyn Barney, and Humphrey Barney. Everything else in the room is strictly utilitarian: a wall-mounted bulletin board, thick with business cards pinned up by Shriners, realtors, and pawnbrokers; a fading color television; and round plastic picnic tables surrounded by mismatched plastic chairs.

Barney’s stocks hot dogs, tamales, and chili, but the folks who order them are probably

the same eaters who ask for chicken nuggets at Chinese restaurants. The line—usually long, always slow—is for the pastrami. “Hey, do you like pastrami?” a waiting customer said into his cell phone. “It’s a kind of meat.

Well, I’ll get you a pound, and if you don’t like it, I’ll eat it.”

Inexplicably, Barney offers every fathomable hot sauce for his sandwiches, and the tables are set with jars of pickled peppers. No matter how much you like spice, resist the urge to reach for it; even cheese is extraneous here. The only necessary condiment is Barney’s spicy mustard, which he liberally slathers on every chewy, crackly-crusted hoagie roll.

The thinly sliced pastrami at Barney’s is grapefruit-pink and mostly lean. Yet its flavor doesn’t suffer from the lack of visible fat: The phenomenally juicy meat is rife with black pepper, smoke, and brine, but tastes predominantly of good, rich beef. Steamed soft and spiced with garlic, the pastrami’s piled on in portions that appear manageable on first bite, but nearly always prove defeating.

You’ll likely go home with half a sandwich, which is just how Barney wants it. While you might leave lesser delis having had your ear bent about beef selection and curing methods, here you get pastrami. Yet Barney’s is a story you’re bound to keep telling, even if the proprietor won’t. E hraskin@seattleweekly.com BARNEY’S PASTRAMI DIP 5130 Evergreen Way, Suite 103, Everett, 425-259-9078. (No website.) Cash only.

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Wayne Johnson’s dining room looks like a typical hotel restaurant, which is presumably what the solo diners and name tag-wearing conference-goers who claimed tables on a recent weeknight thought they’d found. Their assumptions were tested by a string of bright, Mediterranean small plates showcasing fresh shellfish and local produce, including a paella thoughtfully sized for one. In addition to seasonal cuisine, Andaluca offers a respectable wine list, with 15 percent knocked off the price of every Washington wine bottle. $$$ BAGUETTE BOX 1203 Pine St., 332-0220. Just as sister restaurant Monsoon is no ordinary Vietnamese kitchen, Eric Banh’s sandwich shop is no ordinary sandwich shop. Served on (some say overly) crusty baguettes, specialties include the lemongrass skirt steak and the drunken chicken, deep-fried nuggets coated in a glossy, tangy sauce that makes chicken

lovers want to court-martial General Tso. Also on offer is an exceptional and fairly traditional tofu banh mi. Most sandwiches go for between five and eight bucks, leaving you flush enough to splurge on the truffled french fries. $ LIBRARY BISTRO & BOOKSTORE BAR 1007 First Ave., 624-3646. Less like a bookstore and more like some rich old guy’s library, the Bookstore is a fine place for a quiet lunch or a civilized drink after work.

Substantial burgers and fresh sole and chips are popular. When the weather permits, sidewalk seating offers a view of rich old (and young) guys (and women) going in and out of the Alexis. $ FIFTH AVENUE CAFE 1522 Fifth Ave., 621-7137. A pleasant little sandwich spot whose decor is a mix of Mediterranean faux-finishes and frozen yogurt signs.

While most of the fillings are standard (ham and cheese, turkey, roast beef, veggie, and a delectable chicken-walnut salad), the soft, hearty, baked-daily bread is not. A combo buys you a half sandwich—the size is nothing to pooh-pooh—plus a cup of soup and a chocolate-chip cookie. The house specialty: a creamy chicken dumpling soup with carrots, shredded chicken, and light, gnocchi-like dumplings bobbing around. $ THE GEORGIAN 411 University St. (in the Fairmont Olympic Hotel), 621-7889. What was called the Georgian Room is now just the Georgian, having undergone a paint job (seven shades of yellow) and a charge by the Fairmont Olympic to make the space and the menu more “accessible.” It’s nice that they’re not going to force a loaner tie on you at the door anymore, but what is and always will be great about the Georgian is the splendorous formality. The cuisine now concentrates on Northwest ingredients, with dishes like wild Alaskan salmon with warm potato and wild mushroom salad and Kobe beef filet with oxtail “braisage.” High tea, which is served daily at lunchtime, includes a pot of tea and a three-tiered silver tray of sweets and savories. $$$ MAXIMUS MINIMUS Location varies, 601-5510. Easily the most-recognized vehicle in town after the Ducks, this pig-shaped Airstream serves a small menu of pulled-pork sandwiches, slaws, chips, and drinks. All come in either mild (minimus) or spicy (maximus) ver-

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But the clearest prohibition may be located in the state’s food code, which bars commercial food producers from using any ingredients not approved for human consumption, such as marijuana. “It doesn’t appear that’s going to change,” Moyer says. Although the rules committee could recommend adjusting the code, it might be difficult to square those changes with food-safety concerns: Since pot remains illegal under federal law, there are no plans for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to inspect or approve marijuana-infused products.

Yet Holcomb says the provisions of I-502 permit the sale of marijuana-infused products at stand-alone, marijuana-only retail stores. “Right now, marijuana is not approved, so if that’s true, then we’ll see,” says Moyer, who, like all state employees, is waiting for the legal implications of the initiative to be sorted out. What’s definitely illegal is smoking a joint in a restaurant— even if the bud’s organic, locally grown, and presented with a sommelier’s blessing. E hraskin@seattleweekly.com

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Weed’s been a component of kitchen culture for so long that The New York Times took note of the phenomenon back in 2010, when a story attributed 21st-century dining trends such as Korean tacos and high-end poutine to chefs struck by the munchies. But cooking with cannabis has always been left to underground supper clubs, the unregulated medibles industry, and legalization advocates. And, according to authorities, that dynamic won’t change come Thursday.

“Delivery, which includes both sales and gifts, will remain a felony, with the sole exception being licensed entities who may sell marijuana in strict compliance with I-502,” explains Alison Holcomb, drug-policy director for the Washington ACLU. “So, no sales or gifts of marijuana-infused food items by restaurants.”

Although final rules pertaining to pot’s distribution and sale are still unsettled, I-502 explicitly states it’s unlawful to “consume a marijuana-infused product in view of the general public.” Restaurants are classified as public spaces, Washington Department of Health spokesperson Donn Moyer says. And while it’s

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First, show up an hour before opening (11 a.m. Tues.-Fri.).

Look, if you’re going to wait around, you may as well not be told they’re fresh out of meatballs when you step up.

Or wait for heavy rain on a day that’s not Friday, because people don’t like waiting in the rain. And when they don’t want to wait, they don’t eat at Salumi—which means that cold, dreary Wednesday is your day for an antipasto platter and a glass of wine. $ HO HO SEAFOOD RESTAURANT 653 S. Weller St., 382-9671. If you can stand to watch your potential seafood entree writhe around in a tank, then you’ll love Ho Ho. There’s usually a wait, but it’s soon forgotten with the advent of specials like garlic-and-pepper crab, crispy baked halibut, and a wonderful eggplant with a rich meat sauce. This menu offers novelties (the sea cucumber with duck feet hot pot) as well as the much-loved pot sticker. An exquisite appetizer called “rainbow stuffed crab claw” is a claw tip wrapped in gingery crab paté. Ho Ho’s chicken is the fried chicken of dreams, crisp and moist where it should be, with a sauce that’s spicy, teasing, even complex. Somewhere, General Tso is cheering. $

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N.E., 425-867-1082. Tropea features sturdy, bold sauces and a relaxed atmosphere. Of antipasti, high marks go to the cozze vongole, clams and mussels in a scampi sauce. The extensive menu includes a meaty spaghetti Bolognese, lasagna Tropeana, and a half-dozen specials; we loved the pollo Calabrese.

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Chef Bobby Moore has high ambitions for the place, noticeable even at lunch: His hamburgers are made with Kobe beef, his scallops dusted with hazelnuts.

Dinner is less distinctive, but you won’t find prawns sautéed in Grand Marnier just anywhere, and the pancetta-wrapped Alaskan halibut with cornbread pudding is very good. $$$ CHAN’S PLACE 14203 N.E. Woodinville-Duvall Road, 425-483-2223. This is Chinese for Americans: familiar faves and MSG (you can order without). For starters, try the beef skewers or the chicken broth chunked up with greens and prawns. For dinner, try the orange beef or the delicately sauced Emerald scallops. And don’t overlook the tasty General Tso’s chicken. $ THE HERBFARM 14590 N.E. 145th St., 425-485-5300.

The Herbfarm dominates national “best restaurant” lists for its seamless service and flawless execution. If you’re not put off by the profuse chintz in the dining room, your nine-course dinner, lovingly infused with local herbs, will leave you stunned.

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425-485-4658. The Butcher Shop Cafe offers quality ingredients and friendly service. The sausages are good, although the buns should have been warmed before being served. The shop also has a few readyto-eat items: whole rotisserie chickens, wings, Berkshire pork short ribs with barbecue sauce, and the like. For something specific, call ahead of time; The Butcher Shop is very casual about what’s available on any given day. They also do family-style dinners for six after closing hours, if coordinated beforehand. While not every meat available is hyperlocal, the business is small and the man who runs it very accommodating. $$

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Housed in the swanky Woodmark Hotel at Carillon Point, this restaurant and bar features a selection of 80-plus wines, fancy interpretations of comfort food (e.g. foie gras on French toast), and a spectacular view of Lake Washington. Behind the polished servers, muted colors, and classy views of Yarrow Bay are hints of whimsicality, backed by the eclectic “fusion” menu. For entrées, try the magnificent seafood stew or the proscuitto crusted scallops with porccini cream, mache, piquillo peppers, and manchego. The wine list is broad and deep, the dessert selection fine. $$$ BROWN BAG CAFE 12217 N.E. 116th St., 425-822-9462.

The Brown Bag only serves breakfast and lunch; maybe that’s because a single meal here leaves you no room for dinner. Freshly picked flowers and tattered tablecloths keep things charming and quaint.

This is a place to kick back while you devour homecooked hash browns and perhaps a tasty Mexican omelet filled with cheese, ground beef, and veggies and topped with sour cream. For lunch, the chicken San Antonio is a winner. When you have to undo your belt and the top button of your jeans, the name Brown Bag Cafe explains itself: You’ll probably need a bag for your leftovers. $ RISTORANTE PARADISO 120-A Park Lane, 425-8898601. Meals start with delicious rolls and continue with basic pasta dishes: simple and absolutely satisfying. The capellini al pomodoro fresco is one; it proves that fresh tomatoes are usually much better than ladles of tomato sauce. The rich pollo alla mia maniera is a chicken breast robustly stuffed with spinach, mozzarella, and prosciutto and covered

in a sweet marsala sauce. You’ll soon find yourself robustly stuffed as well. $ THE SLIP 80 Kirkland Ave., 425-739-0033. Think Red Mill Burgers, only with a full bar, near the beach. In addition to basic one-third-pound char-grilled burgers with whatever you want on them (like slathered with a signature wasabi mayo), they get creative with offbeat indulgences: Consider (but not for too long) the “peanut butter bacon burger,” which has a kind of Elvis appeal. For those who don’t eat beef, bacon, or peanut butter, the Slip offers an array of salads and soups and chicken, veggie, or seafood burger options, including a grilled patty of smoked salmon, onions, and capers. $

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Jonathan Coulton & John Roderick, One Christmas at a Time (out now, Roderick/Coulton): Featuring 10 original, loosely funky tracks, this is a must-have Christmas album for the McSweeney’s set. Frequently, the duo sounds like Junta-era Phish. That’s meant as a compliment. MIKE SEELY

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A Crime of Passion, Consume:Receive (out now, self-released, facebook.com/ acrimeofpassion): The type of recording metal bands spend their careers building toward, Consume:Receive is rich with intricate guitar solos, stop-and-go breakdowns, and spastic, bottomless vocals. JOE WILLIAMS

The Den Mothers, Oh Yes . . . This Rocks!! (out now, Reedco Records, candyvan1.bandcamp.com): “Lo-fi garage rock” doesn’t even begin to describe the Den Mothers. “Commies (Can’t Cross the Street)” and “Tramp Slut” are fast, raw, raspy, and offensive—a huge middle finger to the concept of music in general. JW Feverton, Apestrut (out now, self-released, feverton. com): A preview of sorts for an upcoming full-length, this three-song EP combines hip-hop, funk, and electronica into a whole that feels insubstantial despite the 10-piece band’s maximalist approach. The best cut here, sevenminute closer “Underneath My Skin,” shows that Feverton should stick to writing jams instead of singles. AG

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Fey Moth, White Blind (out now, selfreleased, feymoth.com): Every track on this synth-pop trio’s latest LP could be a single. Looping bass lines are layered with dreamy, hookladen melodies to create compulsively listenable tracks that will lodge in your head for days. Swirling synths add a dark, ambient quality that keeps White Blind from being straight-up pop and calls to mind Grimes’ latest album, Visions, but with less-wispy vocals. SARAH ELSON (Mon., Jan. 14, Chop Suey)

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LOCAL RELEASES Big Chocolate, The Red (12/4, self-released, soundcloud.com/big-chocolate): Recent SoCal/ Portland transplant Cameron Agron, aka Big Chocolate, plays right into the favor of any Skrillex/ Deadmau5 fan here, with big-ass drum tracks and CGI drops. TODD HAMM Bladaow, High Tek Lowlives (out now, selfreleased, bladaow.bandcamp.com): This threesong EP sounds mixed but not mastered (online anyway). Moreover, the instrumentals outplay the MCs, as their styles and deliveries are still developing. TH

Books on Fate, Memory (out now, Ephemerata Records, booksonfate.bandcamp.com): Sweeping New Wave synths nestle into dark pop-song structures reminiscent of Echo and the Bunnymen and The National. Tracks like “Carnival Lights” and “Asleep on the Phone” are dead ringers for the latter. GWENDOLYN ELLIOTT Captain Midnite, All This Will Fade (out now, self-released, captainmidnite.com): Productionheavy music has had quite a year in Seattle. Captain Midnite’s latest tracks vary in style, featuring guest stars like Georgia rapper Kyle Lucas and running the gambit from ambient to hip-hop. MA’CHELL DUMA LAVASSAR

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Sonny Bonoho, “Concubine Juicy” (out now, selfreleased, facebook.com/bonoho): Area freak Bonoho takes his oddball act to its logical end, blurting mainly nonsensical lyrics in a semi-coherent pattern. But the smashing MTK beat is a stylish rework of some classic soul, which makes the song worth a spin. TH

Caspar Babypants, I Found You! (12/18, Baby Pants Music, babypantsmusic.com): On his sixth full-length kids’ album, Chris Ballew enlists the help of friends like Rachel Flotard and John Richards for another set of catchy, cheery children’s tunes. GE (Sat., Dec. 8, Mount Baker Community Club)

Cascadia ’10, “Apophistry” (out now, selfreleased, cascadia10.bandcamp.com): This single from the Afrobeat ensemble is a team effort. The rhythm section rides out jazz-funk grooves, then gets out of the way to let the horns show off their soloing chops. It’s engaging, danceable, and—critical for an instrumental track—never boring. ANDREW GOSPE (Thurs., Dec. 6, Nectar Lounge)

Garage Voice, The Messenger (out now, selfreleased, garagevoice.com): This trio fuses bright guitar rock with churchy organs and gospel-inspired lyrics, with pristine and punchy results. The best track on this three-song EP is the crunchy opener, “Afflictions,” which quotes ominous lines from the book of Psalms in cascading, choral-style vocals. ERIN K. THOMPSON (Sat., Dec. 15, Barboza)

Certain Inertia, Wednesdays (out now, selfreleased, facebook.com/certaininertia): Pleasant but familiar hybrid of alt-country and jamtastic dad rock. MDL

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(out now, self-released, andrewnorsworthy.com) The sixth LP from this Anchorage-born Seattle transplant is a blues record, a departure from Norsworthy’s usual folk sound.

The experiment pays off, with traditional blues arrangements alongside more folkleaning fare like “Going to Brownsville” and “So Cold in China Blues,” the album’s delicate closer. The format allows Norsworthy to showcase his impressive guitar playing, which is accompanied only by his equally strong voice and some foot-tapping. If I have any complaint, it’s that the record grows a bit monotonous on the second half, though Gina Belliveau’s vocals on “New Future Blues” help to change things up. If Zach Braff ever makes a follow-up to Garden State, Norsworthy’s intimate material would be a welcome addition to its soundtrack.

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Blue Sky Black Death feat. Skull & Bones, “Casualties” (out now, self-released, bsbdmusic.com): Though these days every rapper who raps over an identifiable Blue Sky Black Death instrumental is likely to be compared to Nacho Picasso, rhyme duo Skull & Bones (Caz Greez and Bolo Nef) prove their worth by spitting some convincing nihilist bars. TH

Keyboard Kid’s new single, “Challenger,” is out now.

French Letters, Here There Be Serpents (1/1, self-released, frenchlettersmusic.com) Featuring Michael Crossley’s dirty drawl, long-playing tracks like “Cheapside” echo the vocal theatrics of Nick Cave or the sputtering lyrics of Craig Finn, unraveling with visceral spoken-word and spacey guitar solos. GE

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Gibraltar may look like a bunch of teachers in a summer band, but their edgy, twanged-up power pop is one of the best local debuts of the year. MDL (Sat., Dec., 8, Highline)

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The Glass Notes, As the Building Crumbles (out now, self-released, theglassnotes. com): Frontman Robb Benson’s expressive voice is this album’s highlight, particularly on songs like “Glass Notes,” on which he effortlessly transitions from the high end of his range into falsetto.

A slight twang hangs over the whole thing, making the album a kind of power-pop/Americana hybrid, like Soul Asylum as interpreted by the Jayhawks.

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Go El Grande Go, Number 3 (out now, selfreleased, goelgrandego.blogspot.com): For the very generous, songwriter John Goodfellow’s third album could pass as conceptual art, a sort of academic deconstruction of the folk song. But for the pragmatic, it’s practically unlistenable, and his melody-less, miked-way-too-close vocals need far more support than the sparse instrumentation provides. AG Horace Pickett, Anatomy (out now, selfreleased, horacepickett.com): This nerd-rock band has an affinity for 1980s New Wave, and their third LP is filled with quirky, angular songs that recall Devo above all, but also incorporate a broader range of influences. “Body Language” is a jazzy instrumental, and “Phantom of Dance” could be a B-side from the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack. DL The Interruption, Bowery Cowboys (out now, Reedco Records, candyvan1.bandcamp.com): Short and straight to the point (the four-song EP lasts all of six minutes), Bowery Cowboys sounds like a really out-of-tune Marcy Playground meshed with the idea of ambient lo-fi garage rock. JW Dylan Jakobsen, Long Way Home (12/28, self-released, dylanjakobsen.com): That Jakobsen’s music career started on Myspace is itself hardly interesting or unusual, but it makes the fact that he’s beginning to move beyond the Hot Topic crowd all the more salient. Long Way Home contains less wince-inducing balladry (except for “Everybody (I Need You),” which belongs on a One Tree Hill episode circa 2006) and more mature, surprisingly folksy pop songs like the harmonica-laced “Kids.” AG (Fri., Dec. 28, El Corazon) Jus’Tina, Live to Love (out now, self-released, reverbnation.com/justinamusic): This singer/songwriter’s powerfully robust and rich voice shines on tracks like “Everybody Wants to Be Loved” and “You Are Love,” which combine easy-listening, jazzy instrumentation with warm piano and vibrant synth. JW

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Keyboard Kid, “Challenger” (out now, Automation Records, automationrecords. bandcamp.com): The first edition of Automation Records’ digital-singles series is a serious win, as Keyboard Kid fills the channels with the chatter of artfully splayed blips and synthesizer beats that equal his most amazing piece to date. TH

Lanty Big, Cool Ass Beats Vol. 1 (out now, selfreleased, soundcloud.com/lantyxbig): This 30minute, free-flowing beat symphony draws samples from a huge variety of sources, though their presentation (mainly drum patterns and tempos) gets a little stale at times. Good for a skim. TH Legato Bebop, Proximity (out now, self-released, legatobebop.bandcamp.com): The new EP from Issaquah experimentalist Patrick John White runs the gamut from manic, eerie, haunted-house synth melodies (“Stray Dog Strut”) to calming, Zen-like tones (“Homes”) to the heart-swelling romanticism of the standout track, “Perpetual Love.” EKT Bruce Leroy, Leroy (out now, self-released, bruceleroymusic.bandcamp.com): Classic hard rhymes from Tacoma that come across strong

without the extravagant glam that has weighed down other lyricists in this vein (“No rims, no tints, no sub, ridin’ stock”). TH

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Luxe Canyon, Luxe Canyon (out now, self-released, luxecanyon.com): Brothers Kyle and Matt Nielsen’s eponymous debut is a strikingly well-produced, fundamentally sound electro-pop record with no element out of place—airy synth pads, mid-tempo beats, and occasionally vocodered vocals. It gains momentum as it progresses, culminating in the shimmering “Venus Finlandia,” as fine a dance track as you’ll hear in Seattle this year. AG

Nine50Nine, Hollow Bones (out now, Triple Props Records, nine50nine.com): As Nine50Nine, drummer Dave Krusen (Pearl Jam) and vocalist Ty Willman (Green Apple Quick Step) bring a hard edge to their brand of Southwestern country rock.

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OCnotes, Pre Future Post Modern Love Songs: aka AlienBootyBass (out now, selfreleased, ocnotes.net): OCnotes’ past few albums have been magically complete journeys void of any kind of trend-pandering or tainted pop aspirations—endlessly inventive rivers of sound to be swept away in—and PFPMLS is another engulfing edition. TH

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Prism Tats, Vacant & Impatient (out now, Whooping Crane Records, prismtats. bandcamp.com): This 7-inch comprises two fast tracks of dirty, trashy guitar pop with irresistibly catchy, driving choruses—“Vacant & Impatient” and “Haunt Me”—plus a bonus track, the earthy, mopey, and compelling “Know-It-All.” EKT

The Purrs, “Rotting on the Vine” b/w “You, the Medicine, and Me” (out now, Fin Records, soundcloud.com/fin-records): The first track on this veteran psych-pop outfit’s new 7-inch is cleverly caustic and self-deprecating (“I’d sell myself for anything/A couple pills/A diamond ring”) with twisting guitars and deft vocals; the B-side abruptly takes a slower, darker, and more somber turn. EKT Sebastian and the Deep Blue, Plastic Parts (out now, self-released, sebastianandthedeepblue.bandcamp.com): Genre-bending, feel-good, casino-party-band music that blends horns and dueling male/female vocals while dabbling in white soul, funk, and pop. MDL Wes Speight, Hackneyed (out now, selfreleased, wessp8.com): The common feature of Speight’s languid, arty alt-rock songs is darkness; he often sounds like a male version of Chan Marshall. Despite its title, the singer/songwriter’s latest is ambitious enough to be more interesting than much of what Seattle has to offer—though “The Old Man & the Sea,” an attempt at Tom Waits-ness, misses the mark. DL Static Producer, 1 (out now, self-released, staticproducer.bandcamp.com): If you strip away “Arrogance” (which is so uncomfortable that hearing it, it’s impossible not to smirk and click “Next”), tracks like “Bleed Our Bones” boast an interesting country/grunge mixture that’s original, if a tad overbearing. JW Swingset Showdown, Short Bus Ruckus (out now, self-released, swingsetshowdown.com): Nineteen goofy, piano-fueled tunes that are fun, but which pretty much hit the same note many, many, many times. MDL TBASA, Good, Good, Good (out now, selfreleased, tbasa.bandcamp.com): Even if TBASA sounds directionless at times on its fourth release, the group has wandered into a compelling sound—a space-rock/trip-hop hybrid that’s best when they dial up the beats on tracks like “Spree Killer” and “Mind Blown and Wiped Clean.” AG Thee Gene Rotten Fairies, “Craps 4 the Devil” b/w “Graveyard Tard” (out now, Reedco Records, candyvan1.bandcamp.com): This Auburn three-piece’s two-song 7-inch is lo-fi garage rock with vocals more spoken than sung. The A-side is a peppy song about the devil; the B-side is anchored by a surf-guitar riff and lyrics about a handicapped zombie. DL

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Theoretics, Plenty of Anything (out now, self-released, theoretics.bandcamp.com): The five-piece backing band does a decent lounge act, and they’ve added some promising electronic elements, but vocalists Chimaroke Abuachi and Mark Hoy add little to the mix. TH (Sun., Dec. 16, Neumos)

Mogwai’s remix album, A Wrenched Virile Lore, is out now.

Trip Like Animals, The Bubbleator Sessions (out now, Grumpy Old Bear, triplikeanimals.com): Built for the 1962 World’s Fair, the Bubbleator (Wikipedia it) was a Seattle Center fixture for two decades before being turned into a Des Moines greenhouse—and now a one-time recording studio for Trip Like Animals. Their latest EP is filled with riff-heavy psychedelic hard rock, with a vocalist who owes a debt to Layne Staley and songs that combine fuzzed-out guitars with Middle Eastern progressions. DL

Matt & Toby, Matt & Toby (out now, Tooth & Nail, facebook.com/MattandToby): The latest from Matt Carter and Toby Morrell (founding members of post-hardcore band Emery) shines with piano, acoustic guitar, and upbeat vocals. JW

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Various artists, Ball of Wax Audio Quarterly #30 (out now, self-released, ballofwax.org): Going themeless for the 30th edition, Levi Fuller compiles acoustic power pop from Proud Wonderful, a dark dance track from Sides, electro-rock from Electric Dylan, and many others, with eclectic yet solid results. MDL

Vox Mod, CAPSULE (Selected Transient Works 04-09) (out now, self-released, voxmod.bandcamp. com): Local electronic artist Vox Mod is the kind of sound junkie and professional eerie texturist who, through a good set of headphones, can properly creep you out. CAPSULE is a massive 22-track collection of lost pieces that will get under your skin.

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Mogwai, A Wrenched Virile Lore (out now, Sub Pop Records, subpop.com): A remix album of 10 stretched-out and reworked versions of songs from Mogwai’s 2011 Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will.

Highlights include RM Hubbert’s fragile mutation of “Mexican Grand Prix,” the zippy synths on The Soft Moon’s “San Pedro,” and the aqueous pulsations of Xander Harris’ “How to Be a Werewolf.” EKT

My Heart to Fear, Lost Between Brilliance and Insanity (out now, Solid State, facebook. com/myhearttofear): Lost is littered with clean, screaming vocals, eerie keyboard, and uplifting harmonies. Closer to the style of Atreyu before they sold their soul, tracks like “Blood Money” pound forward in a low, powerful, raspy voice you can feel in your chest. JW Schwarz, “Earthlink” (12/11, Automation Records, automationrecords.com): This Baltimore club DJ/producer provides the second recording in Automation’s Digital Singles Series. It’s a dark, hollowed-out angular dance track with elements of chiptune and electro-club that could succeed in the right late-night setting, but isn’t terribly accessible on a larger scale. TH E

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VALIS, Minds Through Space and Time (out now, Strange Earth Records, strangeearthrecords.com): With a psychedelic grunge sound (see “Tortured Times”), former Screaming Trees bassist Van Conner, his brother Patrick (guitar), and Matt Vandenberghe (drums) recall a time when threepiece bands rocked harder than modern groups four times their size. GE

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Did Bon Jovi Rock a Million Faces?

I’m not the only one asking.

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musician has plenty of time to ponder things—both big and small—when on the road. Case in point: We spent part of our most recent tour opening for Alice Cooper in the UK. On the tour bus one night, a question arose about Bon Jovi. In the song “Wanted Dead or Alive,” the claim is made that “I’ve seen a million faces, and I’ve rocked them all.” All? I have no doubt that Bon Jovi had played to a million people by the time “Wanted” was released on Slippery When Wet in 1986. But did they rock them all? Couldn’t it be that some dudes brought their girlfriends to the show and weren’t necessarily into the music of Bon Jovi? What about some parents? Or maybe some people just didn’t get rocked?

Hey, it’s happened to me. I’ve gone to gigs properly prepared to get rocked and it just didn’t happen for me.

I carried this conversation forward to one of Seattle’s illustrious and beloved indie-rock frontmen. He said his band had actually had this same Bon Jovi discussion. They even wondered if maybe they had played to “a million faces.” One thing they were sure about: They hadn’t rocked them all.

And what about me? I mean, in my whole career I have certainly played to a ton of faces (I’ll let you do the math), but, HELL, I was hammered for a couple of those years, and probably wasn’t concentrating on faces at all.

Besides, how can you see all the faces you play to, hammered or not?! Lights are in your eyes! It’s dark! You have shades on!

When you headline a smaller venue, with, say, 850 people, you can actually see all the faces. But even if all those people are there to see your band, and have spent their hardearned money to come and spend the evening with you, isn’t it possible a few of them were disappointed? I guess “I’ve seen 48,000 faces, and I rocked close to 41,000 of them” (a good damn percentage, by the way) is not so poetic.

Yep. These are the kinds of magnetic conversations bands have on the road. The rest of you may think we’re nuts. It is a tough thing for a wife or manager to suddenly come out on the road for a visit and see five grown men having a faux-intellectual conversation about something like this.

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Duff McKagan is the founding bassist of Guns N’ Roses and the leader of Seattle’s Loaded.

The War on Williamsburg

Taylor Swift and the end of indie exceptionalism.

By MiKe Seely

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ountry music is rarely difficult to comprehend. That’s among its many charms. But it also suffers from an inferiority complex—an unfounded one at that, in light of the genre’s enormous popularity. When Phil Lesh earnestly declares his affinity for Brad Paisley in The New Yorker, whatever war’s presumed to have been waged is over.

However, country music’s—all music’s, really—biggest star, Taylor Swift, won’t let it slide, going so far as to declare a veritable fatwa on indie sensibilities in The New York Times Magazine, where she chided an ex who had, among other noted character traits, “very eclectic, sophisticated taste” in music, particularly that which had been undiscovered by the masses.

There should be no shame in enjoying Eclecticism and sophistication are hence Taylor’s biggest records. coded as negative traits—so cool equaling not so cool—putting Swift in seeming lockSteven Hyden seizes upon the film as step with the anti-intellectual sentiment a means of declaring “the end of indie that’s led to the astonishing 21st-century exceptionalism.”

Bubbafication of the Republican Party.

Beating everyone to the funeral in Which would be an open-and-shut critique, September was the Washington, D.C., were it not for the fact that the eclectic and City Paper’s Justin Moyer, whose searing sophisticated have taken to trashing themessay “Our Band Could Be Your Band” selves of late. was subtitled “How the Brooklynization The issue of the Times in which Swift’s of music killed regional music scenes.” To Q&A appeared also ran an essay by Christy Moyer, technology, rootlessness, and the Wampole which articulately blasted ironic Williamsburg hive have inflicted real harm hipsterism as a cowardly persona. A repreon the ears and minds of America. Exposentative passage: sure to everything and the ensuing distilla“Throughout history, irony has served tion have led to a too-precious homogeniuseful purposes, like providing a rhetorical zation of indie rock, he concludes, longing outlet for unspoken societal tensions. But for the days when second-tier metropoour contemporary ironic mode is somehow lises were, in essence, cultural backwoods deeper; it has leaked from the realm of left to forge their own sound. rhetoric into life itself. This ironic ethos If Moyer, Hyden, Wampole, and Swift are can lead to a vacuity and vapidity of the right to proclaim—or at individual and collecleast openly pine for—the tive psyche. Historically, death of Williamsburg, vacuums eventually have Tune in to 97.3 KIRO FM an acceptable social corbeen filled by someevery Saturday at 7 p.m. rection will have been thing—more often than to hear music editor Chris Kornelis achieved. Locavores not, a hazardous someon Seattle Sounds. should be able to admit thing. Fundamentalists to liking KFC without are never ironists; dictafear of excommunication, just as a serious tors are never ironists; people who move music fan should be able to declare his love things in the political landscape, regardof Taylor Swift’s oeuvre without feeling the less of the sides they choose, are never need to qualify it as a guilty pleasure. But an ironists.” overcorrection—where sophistication and Where Wampole attempts to reason eclecticism are mocked willy-nilly—is somewith Williamsburg (the Brooklyn neighthing to be feared. In an America where borhood which has devolved into shortintellectual curiosity and the search for hand for the ironic hipster archetype), the underground artistic treasure are belittled, filmmakers behind The Comedy set out to you get John Kerry hunting geese. And obliterate it—even though they live there. that’s even more inauthentic and culturally Maybe they’ve grown disgusted and/ toxic than the most insufferable hipster. E or bored with themselves; after all, the hipster’s way out of such a cage would be mseely@seattleweekly.com to stage an act of grand self-deprecation.

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The eponymous album released by Kyle Thomas as King Tuff on Sub Pop Records this past May is already making appearances on early “Best of 2012” lists. Its appeal isn’t difficult to understand: King Tuff is equal parts ridiculous rock-and-roll humor (see the skull-faced bat holding a magic wand on the album’s cover, or the image evoked by self-deprecating lyrics like Astronautalis saTurday, december 8 “When I play my Stratocaster/Shooting these circles of sound/When I’m looking Jel is a legend, and one of the coolest lo-fi in the mirror/A creature so ugly and wild”) producers in the electronic/beat realm. and genuinely quality, potent garage-rock Sure, he’s merely opening tonight’s show, tunes. The stomping rolbut he alone makes lick of “Baby, Just Break” it worth the trip to is a highlight; so is the Seattle Center (him and Tune in to 97.3 KIRO FM amped-up howler of a maaaaybe the handevery Saturday at 7 p.m. to hear music editor Chris Kornelis single, “Bad Thing,” the spun cotton candy in the on Seattle Sounds. album’s best showcase Center House). Middle of Thomas’ brilliantly act Busdriver is a fairly whimpering wail of a voice. With White well-known genre-sloshing rapper/singer/ producer/weirdo whose coolest moments Fang, Dancer and Prancer. The Crocodile, come when he’s tweaking his beats onstage.

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Lastly, you will probably like Astronautalis All ages. ERIN K. THOMPSON if you are into Buck 65 or a comparable backpacking, spoken-word-style indie rapTom Waits Birthday Tribute Friday, december 7 per with a little charisma. Just get yourself some candy and get there early. Vera ProjTom Waits without cigarettes is like Tom Selleck without a ’stache. Waits’ voice is ect, 305 Harrison St., 956-8372. 8 p.m. $13. so gravelly that it sounds as though he’s All ages. TODD HAMM singing with a smoke lodged in his larynx. Which brings us to Seattle’s smoking Future saTurday, december 8 ban. Mostly, it’s a beautiful thing, saving countless dollars in dry-cleaning bills after Future’s origins reach back to OutKast’s nights spent in nicotine-clogged pubs.

Dungeon Family crew, but the Atlanta rapBut at a Tom Waits tribute show on Tom per trades in most of DF’s Southern soul for Waits’ birthday, a clear exception should the instant-gratification club fuel that ends be made: Patrons and performers should up sounding like a Young Jeezy/Big Sean be allowed—perhaps required—to smoke.

Slurpee®. If it seems disposable, there’s a Fittingly, tonight’s show is a fundraiser good possibility that’s a purposeful move. for the victims of the Cafe Racer shootFuture’s been known to guzzle codeine and ings, as the artsy U District outpost is the pull off mush-mouthed Scarface impressort of establishment Waits himself would sions (“Tony Montana”), do obvious mockfrequent. With the Bad Things, the Puddle reprises of Kanye West songs partially in

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Jamaican patois (“Turn On the Lights”), and so on, which leads one to believe that it’s all in good fun. None of this means that his music is any good, but if you don’t think too hard about it, you might fuck around and have a good time. Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., 628-3151. 7 p.m. $29.50 adv./$33 DOS. All ages. TODD HAMM

Mighty Diamonds saTurday, december 8

Few bands formed in the ’60s are still going strong. The Rolling Stones spring to mind, but Jagger and Richards are somehow preternaturally endowed with a selfpreserving physiology that continues to mystify modern science. On the other hand, the members of reggae troupe Mighty Dia-

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monds, with more than 40 albums to their name, have aged, but surely the laid-back rhythms of their Jamaican roots music— and yes, probably weed—have enabled their steady advance. What’s more, unlike contemporaries Burning Spear and Culture, Mighty Diamonds never made their music overly political, preferring the mellower sounds of their vocal harmonies. Since their best-known album, their 1976 debut Right Time, the original lineup of Tabby, Bunny, and Judge have carried on, unhurriedly.

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How to Dress well saTurday, december 8

Earlier this year on his blog, Tom Krell, the Colorado songwriter who records and performs as How to Dress Well, wrote that he wants to make songs that “help us get nearer to affects in a sweet way, like how one approaches an injured animal in the wild, or the way one chases after the memory of a dream: by approaching carefully, quietly, on its terms.” Krell’s latest album, September’s Total Loss, effectively combines the fragility one associates with dreams and the bare ferity of nature. In his diaphanous voice, Krell sings about selfdoubt, suicide, and subsuming emotional pain to the accompaniment of moody, sweeping keyboards and synths. Other tracks, like album highlights “& It Was U” and “Running Back” (which quotes the chorus of Ashanti’s 2002 #1 hit “Foolish”) feature rhythmic snaps and harmonies that recall the sensual R&B of Mariah Carey or Bobby Brown. It’s a freezingly gorgeous sound. With Beacon, USF. Barboza, Jesse lirolA

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backstory reads like the synopsis of the latest musician biopic. The difference, however, is that he never made it big, his career sidetracked by working-class struggles and ample bad luck. Now, at 64, Bradley is performing regularly; there’s even a documentary, Soul of America, that shares his story. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9442, neumos.com.

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WIDOWER Folk musician Kevin Large hasn’t released music as Widower in nearly four years, but his gorgeous new single “Oh Catherine, My Catherine,” from the upcoming Fool Moon, nicely atones for the hiatus. With Matt Hopper, J. Wong. Columbia City Theater, 4918 Rainier Ave. S., 723-0088, columbiacitytheater.com. 8 p.m. $10.

Friday, Dec. 7 ALLEN STONE Stone’s rapid, yearlong ascent from also-

ran soul singer to Paramount headliner—built on undeniable talent and heaping globs of sincerity—mimics the equally improbable and meteoric rise, two years ago, of fellow locals The Head and the Heart. Whether that’s a compliment or an insult is up to you, but it’s fair to say

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CAVE SINGERS These folky Seattle howlers hit the Showbox to romp, stomp, and boost bourbon sales with rising locals Poor Moon and Rose Windows. Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., 628-3151. 8 p.m. $18 adv./$20 DOS. DEVILS OF LOUDUN Sharing a name with an Aldous Huxley novel, this local group plays hyperactive, thrashy metal. With Onset the Shores, The Ludovico Treatment.

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THE MALDIVES Billed as “the unofficial Ballard Ave. Christmas party,” this two-night show features the leading lights, arguably, of Seattle’s country scene, the Maldives—whose Muscle on the Wing garnered positive local reviews, including one from SW’s editor-inchief Mike Seely. With the Moondoogies, Davidson Hart Kingsbery. Tractor Tavern. 9:30 p.m. $15 adv./$18 DOS.

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SUFJAN STEVENS It’s December, which means that this Sufjan performance will be Christmas songs only, including new material from his forthcoming holiday album Silver & Gold. With Sheila Saputo. The Neptune.

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THE SWORD The latest from this heavy-metal four-piece is October’s Apocryphon, the band’s first record for label Razor & Tie, which is best known for releasing all 23 Kidz Bop albums. With Gypsyhawk, American Sharks.

Neumos. 8 p.m. $15.

THE TRAGICALLY HIP Quietly reigning as one of Canada’s longest-tenured rock bands, the Hip are touring behind Now for Plan A, their 13th album. Showbox SoDo, 1700 First Ave. S., 652-0444, showboxonline.com.

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Sunday, Dec. 9 BOBBY JO VALENTINE This show commemorates the

release of Valentine’s new album Home, which, per his website, is filled with “optimistic, honest messages about hope and day-to-day struggles.” With Andy Kong.

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WAY SOUTH The 18-year collaboration of Jen Fox (vocals, bass) and Jim Srnec (guitar) shows in their rock group’s measured, fluid sound. With Kate Lynn Logan, Josephine Hobson. Skylark. 3 p.m. $5. All ages.

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YUNI IN TAXCO In June this garage-psych quintet released Prizes, its third exercise in experimental pop. With the Torn ACLs, the Groundblooms. Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave. N.W., 784-4880, sunset tavern.com. 7:12 p.m. $6.

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Wan Hua Foods, Inc. is accepting resumes for the following position in Seattle, WA: Accounting Production Manager.

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The YWCA of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County is seeking an Employment Specialist, Basic Food Employment and Training program. The BFET Employment Specialist will work with low income food stamp recipients to transition off food stamps by providing employment case management, job readiness skills, vocational training, and job placement.

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