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sons. This is commonly done by traditional he Secretary of State’s office on crossbreeding, but it could also be done by Thursday received signatures for genetic engineering. an initiative that would require “Well, you know, I’m not a scientist,” genetically modified foods to be McManus responds. “I work in media. Those labeled. Not a bad idea, on the face of it. The kinds of questions I’ll have to defer to later more consumers know about what they’re in the campaign.” But, to delve into the issue buying, the better, right? further than McManus apparently has, even Unfortunately, there’s not much consumer some GMOs that sound scary education going on in the nascent might not be.

I-522 campaign, which Ünlü works in the area doesn’t even seem to of genetically modiunderstand what fied microbes, some GMOs are. of which are used Here’s the for food producdefinition on tion. An enzyme the campaign called rennet, website: “GMO for instance, is foods, also used to make known as many kinds of genetically cheeses. The engineered problem with foods, are crenatural rennet ated by taking is that it comes DNA from one from the stomspecies and ach of a baby cow. forcing it into That makes obtainother unrelated ing it difficult, not to species—mixing mention objectionable plant, animal, bacteDAN CARINO to those concerned with rial, and viral genes in animal welfare. So years ago, combinations that cannot Ünlü explains, scientists began to occur in nature and are experimenproduce rennet in the laboratory by cloning tal.” the enzyme in a bacteria—E. coli, to be preTalking to SW, initiative sponsor Chris cise. Obviously, nothing is more dangerous McManus, an advertising executive and for human consumption than some varietvegan from Tacoma, elaborates: “To put it in ies of E. coli, but Ünlü insists this variety is brass tacks, GMOs are something that you perfectly safe. In fact, most cheese is now don’t see in nature: bluejays mating with made from rennet cloned in this way. Ünlü mockingbirds, dogs mating with cats.” calls this procedure a “wonderful” use of It’s a description obviously designed to genetic-modification technology that not play into fears that GMOs are some kind only responds to animal-rights concerns, but of Frankenstein science, a notion that once also allows for cheap mass production of an prompted a group of foolish young environimportant enzyme. mental activists to firebomb the University of And that’s the thing about genetic modifiWashington’s Center for Urban Horticulture. cation. The technology is not inherently bad or The fact is, though, that GMOs aren’t good. It’s all in how you use it. Is it sometimes necessarily the result of mixing DNA from used in problematic ways? Absolutely. Most “unrelated” species. Gülhan Ünlü, a profesfamously, agribusiness sor at the School of often creates herbicideFood Science operated resistant crops through jointly by Washington PRINT IS GREAT, but if you genetic modification, State University and want to see the latest dash-cam and there is some evithe University of Idaho, video to land the SPD in hot water, go to The Daily Weekly. dence that this has led to explains that genetic SEATTLEWEEKLY.COM/DAILYWEEKLY greater use of herbicides modification could in farming. involve combining The public should know more about the desirable traits from different varieties of the pros and cons of genetic engineering, given same species. how ubiquitous it has become. However, what Take wheat, she says. One variety might people need to know—the precise way the techwithstand extreme temperatures or carry a nology has been used in a given food and any natural resistance to insects. Another might relevant concerns—can’t really fit on a label. yield a big harvest. You can insert the gene responsible for one trait into the DNA of a NINA SHAPIRO strain that has proved valuable for other rea» CONTINUED ON PAGE 9

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Bagging Up Free Speech

Nearly six years after six activists were arrested during a series of demonstrations at the Port of Tacoma protesting the shipment of Stryker vehicles to Iraq, a lawsuit claiming their constitutional rights were violated has reached the courtroom.

With the ACLU of Washington providing legal counsel, the lawsuit, McCarthy v.

Barrett, argues that the City of Tacoma and specific members of its police force violated protesters’ rights to free speech and assembly by unlawfully arresting protesters, instituting restrictions on bags in “designated protest zones,” using excessive force, video-recording protesters’ faces, and running checks on license-plate numbers—all in a concerted effort to dissuade protesters from raising hell. The civil trial began on Monday.

The lawsuit zeroes in on the blanket nobag policy that police enforced, which the ACLU said prohibited anyone from carrying backpacks or large bags into “designated protest zones.”

On Sunday the ACLU released a media statement, written by legal director Sarah Dunne, saying that the protesters believe the policy was meant to “discourage protesters from exercising their free-speech rights. The location of the protests was an industrial area, far removed from stores that could provide protesters with supplies such as food and water needed during the hours-long protests . . . The right to protest peacefully is a time-honored right in our democratic society. Tacoma police sought to stop peaceful demonstrations at the Port and interfered with people’s rights to dissent from the actions of government.”

The defendants in the case—17 specific members of the Tacoma police department, including Chief Don Ramsdell—disagree.

In court documents, the defendants paint a picture of the protests far different from the one described by plaintiffs. The City argues that the restriction on bags was instituted as a safety measure for all involved, and no civil rights were violated in the process.

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Forty years and thousands of games later, Steve Kelley went to another sporting event Thursday night. He loved it. But, 40 years and millions of words later, he then had to write about it. And there’s the rub. “The idea of writing newspaper stuff doesn’t thrill me anymore,” he says.

No one in Royal Brougham Pavilion— named for one of America’s longest-serving sportswriters—knew that Kelley was writing one of his final columns. Unlike Brougham, who died on the job at age 84, Kelley thinks the thrill is gone at 63. He tells us he’ll leave behind his Seattle Times column at the end of this month.

We asked him why. “Well, I got into a fight with my boss and hit him over the head with one of our Pulitzers,” Kelley said.

Joke. He was just trying to pump up the story a bit, the truth being awfully prosaic.

He says he simply told Executive Editor Dave Boardman that “I just kind of want to disappear. Thirty-one years here, 40 years as a sportswriter—I just want to do something else.”

The repetition of sporting events had something to do with it: the loopy Groundhog Day effect of look-alike games and legions of coaches and players droning on about “execution” and “taking it one game at a time.”

“I find myself at a lot more games thinking, ‘I’ve written this story 411 times now.

Isn’t that enough?’ ” says Kelley, who came to the Times in 1982 from The Oregonian after earlier newspaper stops in Olympia, Centralia, and Pennsylvania. “It’s more and more a challenge to find a different way to write it.”

But also give credit to his detractors—anyone who writes for a living has them—for driving him out. “The reader comments section, it’s a free-for-all,” Kelley says. “The level of discourse has become so inane and nasty. And it’s not just at the Times, it’s ESPN, everywhere—people, anonymous people, take shots at the story, writers, each other.

Whatever you’ve achieved in that story gets drowned out by this chorus of idiots.”

Like a lot of career newspaper writers, Kelley doesn’t have a lot in the bank. But his wife, who works full-time, backed his decision to semi-retire. He’ll continue as a volunteer coach at Shorewood High and teaching writing to Seattle fourth graders. He also has a book and some film ideas he’s working on.

His farewell column is set for January 31 or thereabouts. Kelley wrote an unintentional preview of it for The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists, recounting moments with Willie Mays, Sandy Koufax, and Michael Jordan, to name a few, noting: “I’m old, and the only advantage I can see in my 60th year is that, as sports fan and sportswriter, I was lucky to have witnessed many great moments and almost all of the great modern athletes.”

Yet, “If I have a choice, I won’t write a

farewell column,” he said on Friday. A friend of his from the San Francisco Chronicle recently wrote a heartfelt good-bye and got strafed by readers, aka the idiot chorus.

Kelley would likely recall similar deep sentiments, such as the memorable time that then-Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren—after hearing Kelley complain about having a bad day with his grade-school writing class— offered to drop in for a chat with them.

“Fifty kids in a circle, with Mike sitting in a big rocking chair, talking about sports and life. He was unbelievable. Of all the great events I’ve covered, that’s the one I remember most,” says Kelley. “I’d rather just walk away with that memory untarnished.”

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efore you feel sorry for anybody in this story, meet Jared Bright. And remember your first impression, because he’s eventully going to call himself a serf.

For the moment, he’s just a guy you’re about to get jealous of. That’s because he’s 38 years old, and industry sources say he’s worth about $2 million.

Between his ordinary upbringing in Ketchikan, Alaska, and the day Bright invested in his fishing boat, there was no winning lottery ticket, no trust fund. He’s just a fisherman; been one for 21 years. And lucky for him, he happens to be good at it. If he can keep the bearded men in the embroidered shirts out of his game, he’s going to be even better.

But before we get into the bearded men, get rid of the image of the Gorton’s fisherman. Forget the fish sticks, the wooden captain’s wheel, and that wholesome picture of the guy on the yellow box. Instead, put yourself on one side of the Whole Foods fish counter, a chunk of halibut in the middle—price tag: $28 a pound—and think of Bright as the guy on the other

side, the guy who’s going to get it to you. Think six feet two inches of lean muscle, pierced ears, and an auburn mug and sideburns, dressed in black North Face and talking like 10 cups of coffee while texting on a smartphone.

This is your fisherman. You are as likely to see him driving around West Seattle in his Smart Car as out on the open ocean. And if you thought The Deadliest Catch was wild, the game he plays to bring you this latest item in white-tablecloth seafood is even weirder.

There’s no captain’s wheel in this industry. Hasn’t been in a while, if there ever really was. The oddball universe that is halibut fishing, a fish that two decades ago cost $3.99 a pound and came in a hideous frozen brick, is more a game of floating Monopoly.

Guys like Jared Bright vie for control of the industry’s lower rungs, the only rungs that seem to be left. Simply put, they’re renters. They don’t own the halibut, not even when it lands in their boats. The fish are instead the property of a generation

of wealthy owners, most of whom did nothing more than fish in the right place at the right time to get a stake.

Their ownership rights came courtesy of the federal government. At the time, it was a good idea. In ways, it still is. But it’s created what amounts to a feudal system over a natural resource.

It’s a system, called catch shares, that the government and environmental groups will tell you is the best thing to happen to fish since catch limits. But fishermen in the halibut and black-cod industry—the first in the country to live with the bizarre realities of these new policies—have weathered its real consequences, outcomes that fly in the face of more official, rosy portrayals. Outcomes like absentee landlords, brokers and bankers, fish quota that costs more than your house, and a new generation of people cluttering their hulls, demanding sandwiches.

It’s getting hard for young fishermen like Bright to stay in

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alibut is a tough business. As fishing goes, it’s child’s play, but it makes the typical 40 hours of desk jockeying look like a spa retreat.

Halibut is mostly caught in that great swath of frigid water east of Canada and in the Gulf of Alaska. Some halibut—the toughto-find kind—is fished farther west in the Aleutian Islands and north on the Bering Sea, the roughest, meanest place man ever leaned over a rail and vomited.

The job of catching the foodie favorite and its companion, black cod, requires a certain kind of mind and body. Both fish are typically caught long-lining, a type of fishing that translates into baiting hundreds of hooks on 9,000-plus feet of line, then hauling in the “strings” of catch. String is a funny word for it, fishing jargon that belies the heft of the haul. At least 1,250 hooks full of fish can sit on each string, and on average each fish weighs about as much as a fifth-grader. But owing to the sheer tedium of standing 18 hours a day baiting hook after hook, fishing halibut lacks the glory to attract its own reality TV show and an ever-present film crew, now accoutrements to the crab industry.

Blake Painter, a 33-year-old fisherman from Oregon, describes halibut season as a thing he grew up loving and now hates. “I dread longlining season, just because it’s so repetitive,” he says. These days he wakes up in the morning with his hands clamped closed and pain screaming up to his elbows, an ailment fishermen refer to as “the claw.” He needs surgeries for carpal tunnel syndrome, and his shoulders and back have also fared poorly.

Painter grins and shrugs: occupational hazards. Like the time he pitched a hook through his hand, or filleted a finger like a hot-dog roll to escape donating an arm to a gadget known as a crucifier, an injury he contained with a paper towel, black tape, a glove, and more fishing.

But there are good days in fishing. When the water is calm, the sun is shining, and the fish are biting; when whales aren’t cleaning your strings like shish kebabs—this is a good business.

“When fishing is good, you’re making money quick. It’s not uncommon to make $1,000 a day,” says Painter. During a particularly good run two years ago, he earned $50,000 in less than 72 hours.

But there’s something even he won’t do to get those fish: He won’t take walk-ons.

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alk-ons are fish owners who walk onto a boat while other fishermen do the fishing.

They’re a byproduct of the ownership rights birthed in 1995, when the business of making fish into private property was the government’s—and environmental groups’—answer to a lot of things that were going wrong in halibut and black cod. Bright was in high school then, back when anybody could get in on fishing it. He got his start as a

crewman at 17, fishing halibut.

“What I always liked about fishing was you could make a bunch of money and then go fuck off,” says Bright.

But by the time he became a partner in his own boat in 2008, a fiberglass Delta aptly named The Obsession, those days were over.

The federal program intended to make halibut and black cod more valuable, safer to fish, and spare it from inevitable extinction had taken hold. In what was blandly dubbed the Individual Fishing Quota Halibut and Sablefish Program—or IFQ for short—the feds sized up the fishery, diced it up into pieces like pie, and gave boat owners with a history of fishing it a slice. Those slices are today worth a combined $245 million, and many of the people who received them became, quite literally, instant millionaires. Their wealth is derived from a simple shift of ownership from the public trust to them, accomplished, after years of meetings, with a stack of paper and a few brisk pen strokes. It was a move that created basic inequities in a system that has yet to right itself.

Those owners, the ones who were gifted the shares at the outset of the program’s launch, own that fish now—or, more specifically, they own the rights to catch a certain amount each year. The program is designed to make them eventually sell that quota as they get older and stop fishing. And it’s intended to land those shares in the hands of young fishermen, as no one is supposed to be able to purchase quota unless they can prove 150 days or more of commercial fishing experience. But the sad truth is that few of those initial quota holders let go of their shares. They’re too valuable an asset to sell.

And for the next generation—who have to buy quota rather than receive it from the government—catch shares are expensive, an investment on par with buying real estate in a volatile market.

The result is that about half the halibut caught in 2011 was dragged out of the sea by guys who leased quota from these owners.

Legally, the first generation of quota owners are allowed to hire a skipper, like Painter or Bright, and lease them the right to fish for their shares. That means whenever Painter and Bright go fishing, they not only provide the boat, pay the crew, and take the risk on

Jared Bright is said to be worth about $2 million. But he’s not the one gaming the catch-share system.

the sea—they also pay rent to their fishing landlords, who sit at home and collect a check.

The rent used to be about 50 percent of the value of the fish, worth up to $7.14 a pound at the docks in 2011, to the owner. The deal has earned the owners nicknames like “slipper skippers” and “mailbox fishermen.” Greedy as the practice can be, it’s permissible, the government’s way of making the new program look and act like the old one, in which

“If you talk to enough people, you’re going to run into a lot of stories about guys laying in their bunk doing absolutely nothing.” seasoned fishermen traditionally hired skippers to helm their boats as they aged out.

Yet as the quota era of fishing has taken hold, the stealthier and more opportunistic practice of walking on has become a trend that stalks a fine line of legality. Those who bought quota after January 1995 aren’t allowed to lease. They are supposed to sell as they retire instead, encouraged to do so by a “boots on deck” rule that says they have to be on the boat while their quota is fished, unless they own the boat, or at least 20 percent of it.

The idea was to transition the fishery away from leasing over time. But while the goal of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council—one of eight regional councils the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uses to implement fish management— was that quota owners actively participate in fishing their quota, they set no requirement that those owners actually lay their hands on fishing gear. That loophole let a leasing culture sink deep hooks into the halibut fishery.

There are a few exceptions. Some walk-ons

still fish alongside their skippers and crew.

Others are young crewmen who buy quota as a guarantee of finding work, or bought a little but can’t afford a boat. And some are fishing widows. But the remainder are visitors, industry retirees, tourists, or investors. They don’t fish. They simply walk on the boat, climb below deck, and entertain themselves while others do the work.

“This last fella that I leased, he was in his 80s,” says Painter. “He would come on board, read four or five books and watch movies, and that was about it. He doesn’t come outside.”

But the lure of catching someone else’s quota hasn’t been enough for Painter to stay in the walk-on business. “When I’m catching somebody’s fish for, say 40 percent, and we’ve got a fairly good-sized, comfortable boat, good equipment, good food . . . it’s hard for them to stay with me at 40,” he says, because other skippers are constantly offering to catch fish at lower rates. The pressure of a declining cut caused Painter to concentrate on gray cod, only fishing his father’s quota, and leaving the business of walk-ons to guys like Jared Bright.

Bright makes the bulk of his money in other fisheries—a diehard who rarely takes time off, he participates in six of them—but he fishes halibut and black cod between shorter seasons for favorites like salmon and gray cod, where fishing is still a sport, there’s no landlord, and being good at it is directly tied to his earnings.

“Halibut and black-cod fishing is sharecropping,” he says, explaining why it’s only a sideshow in his fishing repertoire. When he does fish halibut and black cod, he fishes walk-ons.

“If you talk to enough people, you’re going to run into a lot of stories about guys laying in their bunk doing absolutely nothing. And that’s just, I mean, it’s just the way it is. This guy owns quota, he comes out, he lays in his bunk. You’re out there working, and he opens the galley door and says, ‘Hey, will you come in and make me a sandwich?’ ” Bright says. “It is frustrating, I guess, if you let it get to you.”

He did once, then quit. But it was November, at the end of the season. And by the time the next one started he was back to fishing walk-ons again, and right in time to compete with those guys in embroidered shirts.

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ostly unknown in the states outside Alaska and Oregon, the Old Believers are a sea-savvy religious sect that lives in four unique communities around Homer, Alaska.

They are also an easy population to spot: colorful embroidery is a hallmark of their culture.

You can see them Sundays, beautifully adorned in garments stitched by matriarchs.

The women wear long dresses. Men don’t shave their beards. When those men take to the seas, though, they do it in the same nononsense rain gear that dominates the decks of the gulf. And lately, they’ve become a powerful force in the long-lining industry.

Old Believers are descendants of the religiously persecuted. Their forebears broke away from the former Russian Orthodox Church in the 17th century, refusing to accept reforms meant to realign it with the more modern Greek church. They fled to northern Russia and Siberia to escape punishments for resistance that included being imprisoned and burned alive. Though formally welcomed

reputation for catching fish, for coming home safe, and for never having burned anybody along the way. This race to the bottom in pricing negates that. He’s bothered by the undercutting, greed, and calls to his walk-ons from other skippers, offering to do more for less.

It hurts everyone, he says. He doesn’t believe the argument that quota owners would catch fish for themselves if they can’t find someone to catch it cheap.

As fishermen grope for an edge on the Old Believers, some sell their speed, professionalism, and safety features to keep lease rates up.

Increasingly, though, they also tout luxury amenities, catering to walk-ons who simply won’t fish.

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he long-lining season starts in March, a time of year that typically begins with checking lines and hooks in preparation for the tedious job of baiting. But in the past few years, it’s also had another opener: the brightly colored fliers that solicit quota owners to walk on, advertising big-screen TVs, massive DVD collections, quality grub, staterooms, showers, saunas, and hot tubs.

Thanks to an online list of quota-share owners, finding them isn’t tough. Nearly 80 percent have addresses in Alaska, while the remainder dwell around the U.S.—a substantial chunk of those from Washington state.

Vern Crane, a 38-year-old boat owner from Yakutat, Alaska, says amenities are a lure in hooking such owners, “especially

“I try to keep the boat as nice as I can. And that’s really all I’ve got, because I can’t beat the Russians’ rate.” with older people that don’t want to sleep in the bunks with a bunch of 21-year-old boys. I try to keep the boat as nice as I can.

And that’s really all I’ve got, because I can’t beat the Russians’ rate.”

His 58-foot steel seiner and long-liner, Viking Spirit, has a washer and dryer, and is a member of a Sitka co-op that helps him get top pricing on fish. He lets his walk-ons lounge in the stateroom and, as an avid moose hunter, supplies them with meat they can’t get elsewhere.

In Yakutat Bay, it’s a business model that works. The bay is sidled up against the town of Yakutat, a former fur-trading and mining outpost inaccessible by road and surrounded by parks and preserves, including Glacier Bay National Park. Nearly a third of Yakutat’s 656 current residents have commercial fishing permits. More important to walk-ons, the town also has daily jet service.

That convenience combines with the bay’s supremely easy fishing to make Crane’s business a high-end, boutique version of long-lining. He can take walk-ons out in a day and get their fish caught by the next.

Crane sometimes brings more than one walk-on aboard at a time, not worrying about the occasionally prickly dynamic that develops below deck.

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back to Russian society in 1905, many eventually fled to China during the Russian Revolution to escape military duty and food shortages. By the 1950s, communism put them on the move again. Many laid down roots in Brazil. Others later landed in secluded communities on the Kenai Peninsula in the 1960s, where their observation of some 40 holidays a year has since kept them out of regular jobs and steered them into the fishing and boatbuilding businesses.

That’s true for Nicholas Yakunin, who has fished for 42 years. His own life has cut a path that traces the history of his people. The 57-year-old was born in China, immigrated to Brazil as an infant, then moved to Alaska’s Nikolaevsk community at 14. With a lyrical Russian accent, he describes how his first forays on the ocean started a year later when he and his brother built their own boat, then learned to read nautical charts by drifting away from shore and reconciling the lines with what they found.

“At first the idea was to try to live a subsistence type of life,” says Yakunin, who notes Old Believers came to Alaska for the isolation, finding their traditions were too quickly eroded in Brazil. Instead, he says, they found it difficult to raise crops, or even dairy cows.

The men tried the canneries and construction for work, and a few landed in a boat-building shop in Homer. They learned the trade, and since then, Old Believers’ signature boats have dominated the Homer fleet.

These are the boats now running the Blake Painters of the world out of the walk-on industry.

In the past decades, Old Believers have deftly moved into long-lining, an industry where their geography, skill, and traditions have combined to make them nearly unbeatable in competition for walk-ons and leases.

Their business model, often running familycentric fishing operations that rely more on kinship than wages to attract crew, is one that for several years has allowed them to undercut the 50-50 lease rate pursued by the likes of Jared Bright. Their boat-building skills also eliminate boat mortgages, and their typically small boats consume less fuel.

They also benefit from simple proximity: They are closer to the Gulf of Alaska than much of their competition.

The result? Old Believers pay rents as high as 75 percent to quota owners. They’re still able to make money, sometimes inching up profits by involving sons and nephews, brothers and cousins—crew that can work for less.

“There’s some degree of prejudice against them because they can pay their son less than the boat that’s parked next door that is not a family operation and actually has to hire someone,” says Doug Bowen, who brokers quota and permits at Alaska Boats & Permits in Homer.

Yakunin, who typically pays about 65 percent rent to quota owners, says sometimes the rates are so competitive that even he can’t compete, given his smallest boat is about 18 feet longer than many. “If you provide the product for less money, people will go there,” he calmly reasons.

But mention Old Believers to other skippers and crew, and they get feisty very quickly.

“Why are the Russians fishing for 25 percent? Why would you do that?” wonders Bright. In 21 years of fishing, his business was built on hard work and handshakes, on a

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“I have a few that have bought quota just because they have money, and they are absolutely not fishermen. These guys don’t even know how to tie a bowline,” says Crane. “I’ve had a guy tell me, ‘Look, I’ve got a tee time on Wednesday, and I don’t want to miss it at the country club, so we need to hurry up and get these fish caught so I can get on the jet and get down there because my golf game starts.’ It’s really hard to go catch fish and be back exactly when the guy says, with no leeway. It can be tough. And the guys that don’t fish for a living are especially a pain about that.”

Alexus Kwachka calls these the “downstream effects of baron lordships.” His cynicism is hard-earned. A commercial fisherman from Kodiak, Kwachka serves on the advisory panel for the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and has watched lease rates climb steadily in a similar program for crab, where the vast majority of wealth has shifted to absentee owners.

“The real story is that you see the inheritors of a public resource that are extracting the rents from the resource. It’s unbelievable,” he says. While the ownership programs were supposed to make the fishery better, and have in some ways, “What we’ve done is we’ve created these barons that are just sitting back, getting these returns on something that they were given,” he adds.

Many people still make a business of fishing halibut, says Kwachka, who adds that the push for catch shares, mostly driven by a need to preserve declining fish stocks, isn’t all bad. But he thinks policymakers have forgotten to take stock of their negative social impacts, instead touting success stories before hurrying on to remake the next fishery. Egged on by NOAA, which made implementing catch shares a national policy in 2010, and by environmental groups focused primarily on the impacts to fish health, catch shares already control about half of the value of federal fisheries.

Another six are being considered nationally, while dozens more fisheries are considered either overfished or have a notably low population, making them ripe for catch-share consideration. Catch shares are also being adopted in state-managed fisheries.

The Environmental Defense Fund, which declined to comment for this story, is the nation’s largest supporter of catch shares, pumping millions into research, lobbying, a catch share design center, and an interactive game meant to teach people about the failures of the fishery management tools of old. Other environmental groups, including The Nature Conservancy, have since joined that effort, ultimately building a language around catch shares that makes ownership rights synonymous with good stewardship.

Reasoning that fishermen with an ownership stake would logically invest in the health of the fish, they promote ownership rights as naturally leading to healthier conditions, and a stable supply of fish worth more money. The claim that catch shares produce better outcomes for fish has proven true more often than not, and they do lead to a steady, fresh supply of fish. But catch shares benefit one class of fishermen, not all of them. And absentee ownership, high lease rates, and ballooning costs of

“We’ve created these barons that are just sitting back, getting these returns on something that they were given.”

entry are among the problems that have emerged.

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cotrust, a nonprofit foundation in Oregon that marries environmental goals with social equity and economic well-being, is among a few agencies urging more attention to the social fallout that follows catch-share programs.

“Catch shares have some serious issues that are hard to deal with, but are important to deal with,” says Ed Backus, the organization’s vice president of fisheries.

In 2010, Ecotrust convened a national expert panel to draft recommendations for how communities could benefit from implementing catch-share systems. A year later, after reviewing every catch share in the nation, the panel’s primary recommendation was that NOAA spell out how it would be accountable to fishing communities and revise catch shares if they eroded the tie between those places and their fishing cultures, or led to negative economic effects—something they thought national law required. Ecotrust has also launched its own nonprofit trust to help communities fund quota acquisitions by locally based groups. But speaking about the social inequities of such programs has had its drawbacks in an environmental community that mostly promotes them, especially when the latest head of NOAA is a catch-share proponent and a former board director for the Environmental Defense Fund.

Backus says he’s been branded a catchshare opponent for urging reforms. Seth Macinko, a former commercial fisherman and now a researcher and assistant professor in the Department of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island, has studied catch shares for 20 years. He has been similarly criticized for suggesting a rather obvious but unpopular solution: that the government lease fishing rights in federal fisheries, not give them away. “I’m very disappointed that the American environmental movement is either supporting, or just ignoring, the privatization of public resources. I don’t think you’d be seeing this if we were talking about privatizing the public parks.” The fact that the federal fisheries are supposed to belong to Americans has been lost in catch-share designs, says Kwachka, who adds: “Why the hell did we do this?”

Eighteen years ago, there were several good reasons.

Halibut fishing is cold, hard work, but lacks the TV-ready sex appeal of Alaskan crab.

Norm Pillen, a 51-year-old Washingtonian who started fishing halibut in a skiff in 1974, remembers too well when the sea was so jammed with boats and fishermen that the government only opened the halibut season for a day to control the carnage each year.

“It got so crazy,” he recalls. “There were so many people doing it and so much gear in the water and so much wastage and so much lost gear. And top of the issue was lost lives. I have many friends that didn’t survive those openings over the years. Mostly because when you have a 24-hour opening, you’re obligated to go if you wanted to pay for your investment, and guys took a lot of risk.”

Dubbed the derby days, a tsunami could have hit the water and fishermen would have still rushed to sea. Pillen remembers his own boat rolling in a derby, the weight of the catch shifting to the side of the boat on rough water, and waves reaching over the bow, smashing windows as crewmen scrambled to move the fish and right the vessel.

The outcome of such a season was similarly hellish. Millions of pounds of fish would land on the dock all at once, piling in totes while processors worked furiously to keep up.

The condition of such fish was mostly unappetizing, many poorly preserved by boats that hadn’t carried ice, opting to maximize space for catch instead.

“It ended up putting a lot of pretty poor quality product on the market,” says Pillen.

Halibut hit the stores in frozen and annual spurts, a bottom-barrel fish compared to today’s juicy halibut steaks. Fishermen, for their risk, were paid up to 80 cents a pound for it.

Since 1995, the season has been lengthened to more than eight months, allowing fishermen to only go fishing when it’s safe. They have time to take better care of the product, boosting the entire industry’s value from $150 million in 1995 to $245 million in 2008, the last time anybody checked.

Jared Bright says he doesn’t mind being a renter in an economy this robust. He says he has no hard feelings about quota owners, and he means it. Though his cut of every $28 pound of halibut is only 62 cents, his income from halibut and black cod still makes up

what most urban land-dwellers would think of as a solid wage.

But Bright is unusual in that he aggressively invested in a boat and gear to capitalize on the most profitable fisheries. His combined income lets him afford a house in Petersburg, Alaska, and a condo in Seattle.

He’s also an investor in a shipyard—Piston and Rudder Service, Inc., in Petersburg—and in Silver Bay Seafoods, a fishermen-owned seafood processor with facilities in three Alaskan ports. He’ll likely inherit quota in the next rationalized fishery: He has an extensive fishing history in gray cod, which is all it will take to earn quota if catch shares ever take hold. And maybe when he’s older, he says, he’ll live in Arizona and become a walk-on.

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essie Gharrett is the data manager of the Restricted Access Management program at the National Marine Fisheries Service, a division of NOAA. RAM manages the halibut and blackcod programs for the federal agency under the oversight of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC).

Among other things, RAM supplies an endless stream of data about the performance of fisheries in the North Pacific. Positive outcomes have included better safety for fishermen, a stabilized market, and rising value of the fish. The economic and social challenges weren’t all foreseen, however. In addition to creating the problem with walk-ons, the system has caused some other unintended consequences. Most notably, many rural tribal areas have seen their fishing histories evaporate as quota shares migrate to larger, more affluent fishing towns. Not understanding the challenges of buying them back, tribal members sold quota in lean times and have since been unable to reacquire it. The hiredskipper provision has also been abused by quota owners who fudge their ownership in boats to avoid fishing.

“The reason the council insisted on that is they didn’t want landlord tenants, a feudal system,” says Gharrett. “They wanted the people who had the quota to materially participate in the fishery. That was the basic intent.

They either want the individuals on board, or they want the companies to maintain some kind of capital investment and risk.”

The NPFMC has drafted a new rule that requires boat owners to show ownership of at least 20 percent of a boat for 12 months before they’re eligible to hire a skipper. It is also pursuing a rule that would disallow hired skippers for any quota acquired after Feb. 12, 2010, taming a trend by initial owners to roll profits into new quota purchases rather than pay capital gains. Councilmember Dan Hull sees this as an even more pressing issue than walk-ons.

“We’ve had letters and testimony from people who are not only no longer active fishermen, but they have decided that they would use the IFQ program as an investment vehicle for all their other funds,” says Hull. “And this

person wanted to be able to continue to invest other funds and use the hired-skipper privileges. It was a better deal than being in the stock market.”

He anticipates those types of investors will scatter as the general economy recovers, and stock options look good again. Meanwhile, those issues have combined with the rising value of the fishery to make it hard for new entrants to buy into long-lining fisheries.

Another challenge: Though catch shares are supposed to better the fish stock, halibut hasn’t fared well so far, causing the value of each quota unit to drop annually for years, making it a very unstable buy for anyone who has to borrow money to get it.

Nick Versteeg took out a loan to buy quota in 2008, only to watch his quota drop in value every year since. Still, his ownership share helps him land crew jobs, which he needs to make his payments. For crewmen who don’t own boats or shares but opt to spend their careers on deck, the current wealth of the industry masks an otherwise declining trend in wages. First mate Kit Durnil says he doesn’t want the financial risks of boat ownership or the headaches of operating a vessel, but he’s worried that the wage trend is being ignored.

“When the wages started going down, the price of fish has trended on going up,” he says. “Even though their wages might be going down and the pie is sliced in a different direction and somebody else has their fingers in it, it doesn’t get as noticed, and that’s why it gets accepted.”

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ared Caulfield was 8 years old when the halibut and black-cod catch share took hold. Raised in Klamath Falls, Oregon, he was hours from the nearest fishing town in a landscape known more for its geothermal reserves than for surface water. He doesn’t remember a time when the pie was sliced any differently than

“When the wages started going down, the price of fish has trended on going up.”

quota owners—including a sizable fleet from Seattle—have chosen to do to counteract the industry’s increasing greed.

Hubbard says many quota owners aren’t tuned in to serious questions about how young people will get into the industry when it comes time for them to take over. There is only one small union to represent this new generation, she says, and it’s in Seattle, too far to represent the mostly Alaskan crews.

There are no standards to resolve disputes or wage claims, either. Many crewmen simply aren’t aware of how their options for entry— and pay—have changed.

“This is what they do, this is what they know, and there is no expanding them beyond their cubicle on the deck,” says Hubbard. “What is our succession plan for the industry?”

She wants boundaries and regulations.

She wants a percentage of quota to be set aside for a pool for qualifying, serious, first-generation owners. And she wants quota owners who hang onto their quota the longest to contribute the most to that pool.

Lacking interest from the young, however, the tough job of revising the program will be up to the industry’s current owners.

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it was in 2010. That’s the year when, after introducing himself to Blake Painter, he got an offer to work a halibut and black-cod season in Alaska. It was a saving grace for the then-23-year-old, who at the time was staring down a layoff as a wildfire fighter and a $25,000 debt for a teaching degree that bought him no job prospects.

His first season paid for his college bills, and he’s since made an average wage of $60,000 a year. And while Caulfield is aware that someone else owns the quota he’s fishing, he says he doesn’t quite know how they got it, or how the numbers shake out.

“I am thankful that I actually have that job, and am able to have a cut of that,” he says.

That mind-set, one in which crewmen can’t envision the top of an industry they won’t climb, worries quota owners like Rhonda Hubbard, who sees crews making just enough money to be content with a deck job, but not enough to invest in quota or a boat, particularly as lease fees take a larger and larger chunk.

“This is a conundrum for me too,” she says. She grew up fishing. Met her husband that way. They have a direct-market fishing operation based in Seward, Alaska, a boat with a processor on board, and work hard to treat their crews fairly. When it comes time to divest, she’d like to do it in ways that don’t make deep pockets deeper. But finding a buyer will be tough.

“I’m not about taking this to the grave,” she says. “For us to sell our portfolio, we’d have to sell it to a high-financed group of people. I’d like to see somebody grow into the profession.”

Hubbard is among a few quota owners who have lobbied to close the loopholes in hiring skippers. And neither she nor her husband charges a lease fee for quota that’s already paid for, something a minority of

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et designer Craig Wollam renders the eponymous house in Henrik Ibsen’s revolutionary 1879 masterpiece as a delicate, robin’s-eggblue façade thrusting toward the audience like the bosom of a lady in too-high heels. It evokes the empathy Ibsen had for women of his society, who, corseted and caged, sang for their suppers in the homes of their husbands. Banned in some places, subdued with meeker story elements in others, A Doll’s House met some of the same social controls that bind its famous heroine, Nora Helmer.

Today, however, director Russ Banham eases the reins and whips up some fresh interest with a colloquial new rendering by local translator Sean Patrick Taylor. The Helmer household breaks like an egg in this affably exaggerated, whimsy-tinged production.

Long-married Nora (Jennifer Sue Johnson) and Torvald (Michael Patten) have had some lean years, but things are about to change with his promotion to VP of his bank. When Nora’s childhood friend Kristine (Betsy Schwartz) turns up at Christmas and gently implies that Nora’s a sheltered brat, Nora discloses that she saved Torvald’s life by secretly borrowing funds to take him to Italy to recover from a life-threatening illness.

That she did so by forging her late father’s signature has exposed her to blackmail by the lender, Torvald’s employee Krogstad (Peter Dylan O’Connor). The twin male tyrannies of Torvald’s patronizing criticisms (he calls her a “fritterbird,” among many other derogatory bird names) and Krogstad’s menacing demands for advancement push Nora into the famous corner from which the only endurable exit is the door.

As Nora, the diminutive Johnson flits like a hummingbird, trembling with eagerto-please energy. She often plays Nora for broad comedy, Lucille Ball–style: manic, narcissistic, bigger than life. (She even unwittingly whacks people with her huge blond braid while flouncing away from them.) This somewhat irritating interpretation—Nora as ditz—makes her subsequent awakening all the more humiliating, as she confronts a lifetime’s worth of defense mechanisms. However, Johnson can’t quite manage to sell Nora’s hypersexualized reactions to eating bonbons (these moments look suspiciously like the orgasms she simulated as Mrs. Givings in ACT’s In the Next Room two years back).

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portrays Torvald as a lurching oaf alternately chastising and cooing in the same condescending key. Still, he somehow finally elicits sympathy for Torvald’s moral blindness, a product more of his culture than of his intentions. Ibsen was far ahead of his contemporaries in rendering plausible characters with both good and bad in them—exemplified by Schwartz’s and O’Connor’s nuanced, naturalistic performances. Schwartz physically conveys the toll of Kristina’s subsistence jobs; she’s too exhausted for extracurricular gamesmanship. O’Connor brings a quiet dignity—along with a bumper crop of facial hair—to the play’s often overdone “villain.” Other worthy regulars from Seattle Shakespeare Company include George Mount as the superfluous, terminally ill Dr. Rank and Jody McCoy as the Helmers’ nanny, who recalls what it was like to give up her child.

Inspired by an acquaintance of Ibsen’s who was banished by her family after similarly lying to save her husband, A Doll’s House is still one of the most frequently performed plays in the world. Women may now vote and study and smoke and wear pants, but that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped bending themselves to please men or suppressing their own desires. (I won’t mention Rihanna and Chris Brown . . . no, on second thought I will.) This capable adaptation isn’t screamingly topical or modern, but it serves Ibsen well. As the dollhouse walls evaporate at the play’s end, we’re reminded of the two ways in which an egg can break— a fatal fall from the nest, or the hatching of new life. E stage@seattleweekly.com A DOLL’S HOUSE Center House Theatre, 305 Harrison St., 733-8222, seattleshakespeare.org. $22–$45.

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AMERICAN BUFFALO Three men in a junk shop plan a

heist. Naturally, since this is David Mamet, everything goes completely smoothly and according to plan.

Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Center, 443-2222. $12–$80. Previews begin Jan. 11; opens Jan. 16. Runs Tues.–Sun. with some Wed., Sat., & Sun. matinees; see seattlerep.org for exact schedule. Ends Feb. 3.

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES Seattle Public Theater’s Youth Program presents an adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s novel. Seattle Public Theater at the Bathhouse, 7312 W. Green Lake Ave. N., 524-1300, seattlepublictheater.org. Donation. 7 p.m. Fri., Jan. 11, 2 & 7 p.m. Sat., Jan. 12, 2 p.m. Sun., Jan. 13.

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Wing-It Productions, 5510 University Way N.E., 7813879, jetcityimprov.com. $12–$15. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Fri., Jan. 3–18 and Jan. 31–Feb. 8.

THE BOOK OF MORMON Trey Parker and Matt Stone (South Park) joined Robert Lopez (Avenue Q) for this popularly and critically acclaimed sendup. The Paramount, 911 Pine St., 877-STG-4TIX. $45 and up.

Runs daily except Mon. through Jan. 20; see stg presents.org for exact schedule.

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fight their building’s heartless new owners” in Mark Cherniack’s play. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave., jalopies@hotmail.com. $14. 7:30 p.m. Fri.–Sat. plus 2 p.m. Sun., Jan. 20. Ends Jan. 20.

MAD SCIENTISTS: THE IMPROV Another improv evening from the prolific Unexpected factory. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, 587-2414, unexpectedproductions.org. $5–$15. 8:30 p.m. Fri.–Sat. Ends Feb. 2.

PIGGYBACK Improv preceded by, and based on, a stand-up comedy set. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, 587-2414, unexpected productions.org. $5. 8:30 p.m. Sun. Ends Feb. 24.

SLEEPING BEAUTY AND THE PEA If you ever wondered what the groundling experience was like in Shakespeare’s time—yelling back at the cast as though their characters were speaking to you, sitting on the floor—then Hale’s Palladium may be the place to find out. In this family-friendly production by the Fremont Players, such interaction is the coin of the realm, and a section of the front is allotted for ground-sitters (mostly kids). British pantomime shows (“pantos”) are traditionally performed around Christmas, with stock characters, music, cross-dressing, slapstick, buffoonery, light sexual innuendo, and variations on recognizable stories and fairy tales. Our guide to Sleeping Beauty is good fairy Esmeralda (Simon Neale), whose rotten sister Formica (Debbie Tully) wants to be fairy to the royal house of Montague. Her ambitions thwarted, Formica puts the King’s daughter, Princess Perpetua (Lindsay Erika Crain) to sleep. Twenty-one years later, lonely Prince Rudy (Katy Webber) commands Pea (Candace Reiter) to awaken Perpetua. Rudy’s hillbilly-highness mother Queen Bobbie-Jo (Flora McGill) demands a test to prove Perpetua’s royal blood. In the barn-like Palladium, large gestures are necessary to conquer the poor acoustics, but it’s never hard to follow the thin but endearing plot, even under the rowdiest circumstances. As at a sporting event, the audience is half the show. MARGARET FRIEDMAN., Hale’s Palladium, 4301 Leary Way N.W., 800-838-3006, brownpapertickets.com. $6–$12. 4 & 7:30 p.m. Sat., 1 & 4 p.m. Sun. Ends Jan. 13.

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.

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post-classical (Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto in G Minor) and neo-classical (Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite) favorites. Jun Markl conducts. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., 215-4747, seattlesymphony.org. $19–$122. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 10, 8 p.m. Sat., Jan. 12.

ANZANGA AFRICAN MARIMBA ENSEMBLE No music is simultaneously more mellow and more energizing than that of marimba bands like this Seattlebased group. Bainbridge Performing Arts, 200 Madison Ave. N., Bainbridge Island, 842-8569, bainbridge performingarts.org. $8–$12. 7:30 p.m. Fri., Jan. 11.

BAROQUE NORTHWEST Music from the baroque/ renaissance cusp, with flutist Kim Pineda and lutenist August Denhard. Trinity Episcopal Church, 609 Eighth 920-3822, earlymusicguild.org. $10–$25. 7:30 p.m. Sat., Jan. 12.

SEATTLE OPERA La Cenerentola is Cinderella, basically, but a la Rossini, with a dash of commedia dell’arte.

McCaw Hall, Seattle Center, 389-7676, seattleopera.org. $25 and up. Opens Jan. 12. 7:30 p.m. Wed. & Sat., 2 p.m.

Sun., plus 7:30 p.m. Fri., Jan 25. Ends Jan. 26.

CAPPELLA ROMANA Rachmaninoff’s 1910 Divine Liturgy. Holy Rosary Church, 4139 42nd Ave. S.W., 800-494-8497, cappellaromana.org. $27 and up. 8 p.m.

Sat., Jan. 12.

BPA CHAMBER MUSIC American composers (Copland, Schickele, Still) and much more. Bainbridge Performing Arts, 200 Madison Ave. N., Bainbridge Island, 842-8569, bainbridgeperformingarts.org. $12–$16. 3 p.m. Sun., Jan. 13.

SEATTLE YOUTH SYMPHONY Wagner (with soprano Adina Aaron), Chabrier, and Shostakovich’s Fifth. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., 362-2300, syso. org. $15–$40. 3 p.m. Sun., Jan. 13.

METROPOLITAN OPERA AT THE MOVIES This week’s broadcast is an encore of Verdi’s Aida. See metopera.org for participating theaters. $24. 6:30 p.m.

Wed., Jan. 16.

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BYE BYE BIRDIE If ever there were a timeless concept for a musical, it’s satirizing teen-idol-mania. (Bye Bye T H I S CO D E Bieber.) The show also works TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE as a pure period piece, too.

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FOR MORE EVENTS OR VISIT Broadway Performance Hall, seattleweekly.com 1625 Broadway, 800-8383006, broadwaybound.org. $15–$17.50. Opens Jan. 11. 7 p.m. Thurs.–Sun., also 2 p.m. Jan. 13, 19, 20. Ends Jan. 20.

MASTER DEBATERS Comics face tough questions in this battle of quick wits. JewelBox/Rendezvous, 2322 Second Ave., 800-838-3006, brownpapertickets.com. $10. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 10.

OUR TOWN Arne Zaslove (who is busy these days) directs Thornton Wilder’s classic for his new Hit and Run Theater Company. Century Ballroom & Cafe, 915 E. Pine St., 285-2881, brownpapertickets.com. $15–$18.

Opens Jan. 11. 7:30 p.m. Fri.–Sat. Ends Jan. 19.

SHOW & TELL Improv based on a cast member’s personal areas of expertise. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, unexpectedproductions.org. $7. Opens Jan. 10. 8:30 p.m. Thurs. Ends Feb. 7.

SOMETHING AS BIG AS THIS A workshop performance of Asa Somers’ rock musical based on a truelife murder case in NYC. Balagan Theatre, 1117 E. Pike St., balagantheatre.org. $10. 8 p.m. Mon., Jan. 14.

THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE Magic from Louie Foxx. Egan’s Ballard Jam House, 1707 N.W. Market St., ballard jamhouse.com. $10. 7 p.m. Wed., Jan. 16.

UBIQUITOUS THEY Mark Siano (himself pretty ubiquitous) directs this sketch-comedy show. Opens Jan. 11. Seattle Creative Arts Center, 2601 N.W. Market St., 800-838-3006, ubiquitousthey.com. $12. 8 p.m. Fri.–Sat. Ends Jan. 26.

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Openings & Events • BELLTOWN ART WALK Every second Friday of the

month, the neighborhood galleries (including Roq La Rue, NorthWest Woodworkers Gallery, Form/Space Atelier, Art/Not Terminal Gallery, and others) and non-galleries (Cyclops, Black Bottle, Bedlam Coffee, etc.) extend their hours so you can check out work by local artists. See belltownartwalk.net for details. 6 p.m. Fri., Jan. 11.

CELEBRATION! This group show features 69 member artists from the greater Puget Sound region. Opening reception, 11 a.m. Thurs., Jan. 10. Women Painters of Washington Gallery, 701 Fifth Ave. (Suite 310), 624-0543, womenpainters.com. Mon.–Fri., 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Through Feb. 22.

COMPLEX THREADS Advanced student works from the Gail Harker Center for Creative Arts, which uses experimental materials to push the boundaries of contemporary textiles, are shown. Opening reception, 5–8 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 10. Schack Art Center, 2921 Hoyt Ave., Everett, 425-257-8380, schack.org. Opens Jan. 10. Mon.–Fri., 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sun., noon–5 p.m. Through Feb. 16.

GEORGETOWN ART ATTACK The January edition features Xavier Lopez’s Bad Boy paintings at Calamity Jane’s, a group show (Little Bits and Pieces) at All City Coffee, illustrator Raven Mimura at Krab Jab Studio, cartoon artist Jim Woodring at Fantagraphics, and much more. Afterward, you’re encouraged to continue the evening at Jules Maes, 9 Lb. Hammer, and anyplace else you care to bend an elbow. 6–9 p.m. Sat., Jan. 12.

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The Minimalists: 2012 Holiday Happiness Tour (1/10) SU: Ray Suarez: The Politics of Faith in America (1/11)

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9/11 Truth Seattle: Barbara Honegger: ‘Behind the Smoke Curtain’ (1/12) James Owen Weatherall: The Physics of Wall Street (or: Predicting the Unpredictable) (1/14) Nancy Unger: American Women in Environmental History (1/16)

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Forlorn Landscapes

Photographer Adam Satushek has been traveling to some pretty bleak places to collect the halfdozen images in his new show afield. These are scenes written by man, shaped and deformed by industry. Rusty old tractors litter the land. Smokestacks and radar dishes pierce the dull sky.

Even then, nature fights back, the sand eroding and swallowing a forgotten highway. Weeds menace a desolate parking lot.

There’s a tension between what we’ve “reclaimed”—in the parlance of Western settlers—and the new rural desuetude. Times change, people move to the cities, and these forlorn lots lose their value—empty farmhouses above, fracking below. Trained at the UW, now based in Colorado, Satushek shows a kinship with fellow Northwesterner Eirik Johnson, focusing on postindustrial locales far outside our affluent green

tures from the award-winning polymath artist pay homage to the audio art of John Cage and Conlon Nancarrow. Opening reception, 6-8 p.m Tues., Jan. 15.

Winston Wachter Fine Art, 203 Dexter Ave. N., 6525855, winstonwachter.com. Opens Jan. 15. Mon.–Sat., 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Through Feb. 28.

XAVIER LOPEZ His surrealist pop art is shown. Artist’s reception, 6–8 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 10. Five Fish Bistro, 410 Broadway Ave. E., 325-7000, fivefishbistro.com. Opens Jan. 10. Mon.–Sun., noon–9 p.m. Through March 4.

CHRIS MAYNARD Many of the molted supplies used

by Maynard in Feathers’ Second Flight come from zoos and private aviaries. Artist reception, 6–9 p.m.

Thurs., Jan. 10. Row House Cafe, 1170 Republican St., 682-7632, rowhousecafe.com. Sat.–Sun., 9 a.m.–3 p.m.; Mon.–Fri., 7 a.m.–9 p.m. Through Jan. 20.

CAMERON MCPERSON Reliquiae features his sculpture, paintings, and a site-specific installation. Opening reception, 6–9 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 10. Rare Medium, 1321 E. Pine St., 913-7538, raremediumseattle.com. Opens Jan. 10. Wed.–Sat., 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Through March 3.

OSCILLATE In this illumination-themed group show, Briar Bates, Doug Bell, Michele Boland and others use LEDs, a suit of lights, and even a weather map to dazzle your eyes. Opening reception, 6–10 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 10.

Vermillion, 1508 11th Ave., 709-9797, vermillionseattle. com. Opens Jan. 10. Tues.–Thurs., Sun., 4 p.m.–midnight; Fri.–Sat., 4 p.m.–1:30 a.m. Through Feb. 8.

REVISION Brian Allen, John Blalock, Tracy Cilona, and others from the PCNW faculty show their recent photography. Artists’ reception, 6–8 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 10. Also note talks by Eirik Johnson and Jenny Riffle (5–6 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 10) and by Colleen Woolpert, Bill Finger, and Nichole DeMent (6–8 p.m. Mon., Jan. 14), both ticketed at $8–$10. Photo Center NW, 900 12th Ave., 720-7222, pcnw.org. $8–$10. Mon.–Thurs., 11 a.m.–10 p.m.; Fri.–Sun., noon–8 p.m. Through Jan. 28.

WEST SEATTLE ART WALK Venues showcase local art every second Thursday, including Youngstown Cultural Arts Center and ArtsWest. Details: west seattleartwalk.blogspot.com. 6–9 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 10.

CARLETTA CARRINGTON WILSON Her book of the bound honors “unheard voices of the enslaved” with small sculptural objects and embellished books.

Artist talk, 7–9 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 10. Northwest African American Museum, 2300 S. Massachusetts St., 5186000, naamnw.org. Sat.–Sun., noon–4 p.m.; Wed. & Fri., 11 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; Thurs., 11 a.m.–7 p.m. Through March 10.

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Joey Bates, Claire Cowie, Justin Gibbens, and others explore topics including science fiction, theater, fantasy, and dystopian projection. Opening reception, 5–7 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 10. SAM Gallery, 1220 Third Ave., 3431101, seattleartmuseum.org. Opens Jan. 10. Tues.–Sat., 10:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Through Feb. 9.

KIRKLAND ART WALK Howard/Mandville and other downtown galleries are represented at this free monthly event. 6–9 p.m. Sat., Jan. 12.

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no one left to ask. Platform Gallery, 114 Third Ave. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 323-2808, platform gallery.com. Free. 11 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Wed.–Fri. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Sat. Ends Feb. 9.

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Gangster Squad OPENS FRI., JAN. 11 AT GUILD 45TH AND OTHER THEATERS. RATED R. 113 MINUTES.

Nana RUNS FRI., JAN. 11-THURS., JAN. 17 AT NORTHWEST FILM FORUM. NOT RATED. 68 MINUTES.

runs bare, does she think of it as food. Her prattling speech may hint at prior strife between her parents, or it may signal nothing at all.

Reminiscent of the 2004 Japanese film Nobody Knows and, more recently, On the Sly (also seen at NWFF), Nana illustrates the extent to which children live in self-made, half-imaginary worlds of their own. The indefatigable Nana finally becomes both author and protagonist of her storybook adventure. (Massadian will attend and introduce Friday’s and Saturday’s screenings.) BRIAN MILLER

Rust and Bone OPENS FRI., JAN. 11 AT HARVARD EXIT. RATED R. 120 MINUTES.

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one must have a heart of stone to watch Jacques Audiard’s outrageous melodrama without laughing. Loosely adapted from two works in Craig Davidson’s 2005 short-story collection of the same name, Rust and Bone finds Audiard returning to the overdetermined characters and swift redemption of the bafflingly lauded A Prophet (2009).

Where the earlier movie centered on the samesex environment of men behind bars, Rust and Bone encompasses man, woman, child—even animal—in peril, bleeding and healing in sunny resort towns. As the film opens, Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) and his anemic-looking 5-yearold son, Sam (Armand Verdure), are traveling to Antibes to stay with Ali’s grocery-clerk sister, Anna (Corinne Masiero). Father and child’s penury is underscored by Ali’s foraging of halfeaten sandwiches during their train trip. Ali meets Stéphanie (Marion Cotillard), a whale trainer who becomes a double amputee after a freak accident at the marine-mammal park where she works. The calamity occurs during her orca-choreographed routine to Katy Perry’s “Firework”; “shoot across the sky-y-y” is heard underwater as blood oozes from Stéphanie’s shapely gams. That the bodies of its leads (and even its secondary characters: Ali’s sister is a stoop-shouldered, gray-faced lumpen) carry the narrative excess and outlandishness of Rust and Bone highlights just how much Audiard uses the corporeal as shorthand. Ali and Stéphanie evince little sense of interior lives or background; they are ciphers in service to shopworn ideas about suffering and deliverance. MELISSA ANDERSON E

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Actress Kelyna Lecomte has the rare gift of never being boring—probably because she’s 4.

For much of this near-wordless French drama

by Valérie Massadian, we simply watch little Nana gather firewood, talk to her toys, take a bath, read from her storybook—or listen to the same morbid folktale read by her frazzled mother, when her mother’s around. The two set out from Grandfather’s pig farm to a nearby cottage in the woods, for reasons unsaid. Days pass in loving isolation, though the film occasionally cuts back to the farm where swine are being raised for slaughter. (Nana’s long opening scene may upset some vegans and PETA types.) With the film split in half by an event not fully explained at the end, Nana becomes something of a survival tale, in which its tiny heroine proves resourceful if not fully aware of her situation. Raised on a farm, Nana is accustomed to death; it’s just another fact she incorporates into the sing-song narration of her daily activities. When she finds a rabbit killed in a snare, she takes it home first as a pet—stroking the soft fur. Only later, when the refrigerator

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Originally slated to open in September 2012, Gangster Squad was delayed when the movie-theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, suddenly made a scene of gunfire in Grauman’s Chinese Theatre “inappropriate.” But released any time, the movie would be a crime against cinematic sensibility. As Gangster Squad opens, boss Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) is the snake in the West Coast Eden of prosperous Los Angeles circa 1949.

LAPD Sergeant John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) is offered the chance to put together an unofficial unit to bust up Cohen’s rackets.

The only other squad member given a story line to himself is Ryan Gosling’s Sergeant Jerry Wooters, who takes up with Cohen’s arm candy (Emma Stone); this gives Gosling an occasion to ply his shy-heartthrob trade, the sheepish boy showing off his cantaloupe biceps. It would be the film’s silliest performance were it not for Penn donning a pound of putty to play Cohen—his smushed mug would suit a Dick Tracy villain. All the usual cop-opera conceits—“duty,” “badge of honor,” “fraternity”—get trotted out, but only the pummeling violence stirs director Ruben Fleischer’s interest. Gangster Squad caroms from crime to retaliation, from tommy-gun assassination to a power drill through the head to a pistol-whipping, every bloodletting hyped by Steve Jablonsky’s score or peppy period tunes counterpoised for ironic effect.

In reducing the great themes of the Warner Bros. crime-film legacy to a series of bases to be rounded, Gangster Squad desecrates the symbols of the movies it alleges to pay homage to. NICK PINKERTON

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Shot in black-and-white, opening with a Gershwin montage, the movie is romantic and wistful, generous and mature. And significantly, it’s Hemingway’s teen who proves wisest in the end. The 1975 Love and Death (Sun.-Thurs.) makes a mockery of Tolstoy and all the other Russian writers that Allen loves. Call for showtimes. (PG-13) Grand Illusion, $5-$8, Through Jan. 17.

BATMAN RETURNS Michael Keaton reprises his caped role to lesser effect in this 1992 followup, also directed

by Tim Burton. Michelle Pfeiffer makes for a very sultry and effective Catwoman. (PG-13) Central Cinema, $6-$8, Jan. 11-15, 9:30 p.m.

CRASH CINEMA Local filmmakers show their three-minute shorts, all created in one day. Program sponsored

by NWFF and SIFF. (NR) Northwest Film Forum, $3-$5, Sat., Jan. 12, 5:30 p.m.

KISS ME DEADLY The classic 1955 film noir Kiss Me Deadly is, in some ways, the end of the genre’s cycle.

In one movie, Robert Aldrich’s adaptation of the Mickey Spillane novel looks back to the tough-guy L.A. private eye tradition of Chandler and Hammett and forward to the atomic age. What’s “the great whatsit” in the box that everybody, including Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker), is looking for? And why do so many corpses pile up along the way? Well, it has something to do with the Manhattan Project, although even that doesn’t explain what country the vaguely European Dr. Soberin represents. “How civilized this Earth used to be,” he says. Not any more, doc. Mike slaps and slugs and kills his way to the box—and he’s the hero of a picture almost entirely lacking in sympathetic characters.

Cloris Leachman makes her film debut running barefoot down a highway, and it’s not an opening you’ll forget.

(NR) BRIAN MILLER Central Cinema, $6-$8, Wed., Jan. 9, 7 & 9:30 p.m.

THE MONSTER SQUAD From 1987, this fright comedy has a pair of teens battling Dracula and company. (PG13) Egyptian, $8.25, Fri., Jan. 11, 11:59 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 12, 11:59 p.m.

MOVIE NIGHT DJs Jon Francois and Nik Gilmore set new music to old movies. (NR) Northwest Film Forum, $6-$10, Fri., Jan. 11, 8 p.m.; Fri., Feb. 15, 8 p.m.

SEARCH AND RESCUE Various shorts and archival oddities are screened, including something called I Am My Own Groin. (NR) Northwest Film Forum, $6-$10, Thu., Jan. 10, 8 p.m.

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Total program length is about two hours. (NR) Grand Illusion, $5-$8, Saturdays, 2 p.m. Through March 23.

STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN Let’s just go out on a limb here and say that, in an otherwise mediocre spin-off movie series from a TV show that is way too fondly remembered by sci-fi geeks with way too much time on their hands, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is the best of the batch. And the best thing about this 1982 space opera is unquestionably Ricardo Montalban’s suitably operatic Khan: cruel, vain, grandiose, and gleefully, gloatingly theatrical in his evil.

Like the old Hollywood pro that he is (having begun his screen career four decades earlier, which then continued for years at MGM), Montalban recognizes that villainy needs to be played to the hilt—and then right over the hilt and up the forearm when possible.

It’s possible to forget—preferable to forget, really—the presence of Shatner, Nimoy and their dull crew and just bask in Montalban’s malevolent glory. (PG) BRIAN MILLER Central Cinema, $6-$8, Jan. 11-15, 7 p.m.

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Knightley’s emotions come through with a gasping immediacy, and Jude Law deserves special notice as Anna’s cuckolded husband. (NR) Nick Pinkerton Sundance Cinemas, others 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 is a love letter to the industry that made him, shunned him, and loves nothing more than to be loved. (R) Karina Longworth Varsity, Oak Tree, Meridian, others BARBARA Set in East Germany in 1980, Christian Petzold’s superb Cold War thriller is made even more vivid by its subtle overlay of the golden-era “woman’s picture,” the woman in question being Dr. Barbara Wolff, brilliantly played by Nina Hoss. Yet Petzold intricately retools genre rather than slavishly adheres to it. We first see Barbara—lean, rigid, remote—stepping off a bus a mere minute before beginning her new job at a provincial pediatric hospital. (She’s been sent to the boonies as punishment for applying for an exit visa.) Watching her are Stasi agent Klaus (Rainer Bock) and André (Ronald Zehrfeld), the hospital’s burly head physician. Tense and impeccably plotted, Barbara builds to an act of enormous sacrifice that links our heroine to the great maternal altruists of ‘30s and ‘40s cinema whose names also served as film titles (Stella Dallas, Mildred Pierce). (NR) Melissa Anderson SIFF Cinema Uptown DJANGO UNCHAINED In Quentin Tarantino’s blood-spattered historical tent show, set in antebellum Dixieland, Jamie Foxx stars as the captured runaway slave Django. He’s given his freedom by an unlikely savior: a German-American bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) who trains Django to become his partner.

Together, they make their way toward a sprawling Mississippi plantation known as Candyland, where Django’s wife (Kerry Washington) is owned by a brutal, foppish master (Leonardo DiCaprio), abetted by his old house slave (the astonishing Samuel L. Jackson).

Wagnerian hellfire ensues, though Tarantino’s true reference point is a century of Hollywood cinema’s failure to engage with the ugly realities of the “peculiar institution,” from Gone With the Wind to Spielberg’s Lincoln. Like all of the best pop art, Django Unchained is both seriously entertaining and seriously thoughtful, rattling the cage of race in America onscreen and off. (R) Scott Foundas SIFF Cinema Uptown, Varsity Lincoln Square, Bainbridge, Meridian, Cinebarre, Thornton Place, Kirkland Parkplace, others THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Peter Jackson has returned to J.R.R. Tolkien to make three more films based on The Hobbit, the slender 1937 volume in which the author first deployed his Middleearth mythology. And this first installment feels like much ado about not very much, dragging its hairy feet for nearly an hour before settings out on the “unexpected journey,” in which the dandyish hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) joins forces with a band of warrior dwarfs to help recapture their ancestral homeland from the claws of a fire-breathing dragon.

It goes without saying that all of this is executed at an exceptional level of craft. The movie feels like self-conscious monument art—and it’s all too unclear whether that monument is to Tolkien or to Jackson himself. (PG-13) Scott Foundas Sundance, Ark Lodge Cinemas, Bainbridge, Lincoln Square, Majestic Bay, Cinebarre, Pacific Place, Thornton Place, Sundance, Cinerama, others HOLY MOTORS Leos Carax’s Holy Motors stars the simian, sinewy Denis Lavant as Oscar, who inhabits nearly a dozen different personas over the course of a day. Steered through the streets of Paris in a white stretch limo by Céline (Edith Scob), Oscar consults a dossier for the particulars of his next “appointment.”

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plant life—the width, translucence, and frizzle of each crunchy weed clearly not determined by an efficient agribusiness. Topped with yellow curlicues of calamari and garnished with a biting sesame-rice vinaigrette, the salad is a tasty celebration of oceanic diversity. A Manhattan fish chowder dutifully stocked with a thickly-diced mirepoix has an attractive tomato zing. And a tart Key lime pie with a sturdy crust and biscotti with rich lemon curd are fine ways to end any meal.

The flip-flop has incited its share of double-takes from regulars unprepared to encounter their memories in mirror image.

Yet too many of the highfalutin dishes— including a single crab cake, knitted with tarragon, singed at its edges, and sold for the eye-popping price of $17.25—falter. Sometimes the fixings were the problem: A bland tuna carpaccio wasn’t improved by a dousing of olive oil and a heap of shredded basil big as a racquetball, nor was there any discernible reason to combine mashed potatoes and mandarin orange segments on a plate anchored by an unimaginative slab of of mahi.

Other dishes suffered from sins of omission: A Caesar salad was served without dressing, and grilled sturgeon paired with French-fried onions and split Brussels sprouts was desperately under-seasoned.

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o if it’s a fancy fish dinner you’re chasing, Coastal Kitchen might not be incredibly useful. But it’s plenty handy for eaters in other situations.

Are you cheap? The offending crab cake aside, there’s a slew of deals on the restaurant’s daytime menu, including an unlisted half portion of huevos rancheros for $5.25. These are Anglo rancheros, griddled up with orange cheddar cheese and mild salsa, but the sunnyside up egg is perfectly prepared.

Are you hungover? Coastal Kitchen’s burger doesn’t have the exterior crust that’s critical to burger greatness, but it drips as a patty should, and comes topped with an egg, cheddar cheese and a bookmark-like flap of Hempler bacon.

Exuberantly crisped hash browns complete the cure. Coastal Kitchen also makes defensible fish-and-chips, with vivid-tasting cod wearing a good-fitting coat of clean fry.

Are you hosting a motley group of eaters?

Coastal Kitchen’s conservative menu is broad enough to handle most dining hang-ups, and servers are keen to address any unanticipated dilemmas. Service is assertively casual here— one server repeatedly referred to my party as “you dames”—but it’s also thorough and polite.

Hardy is often on the floor, and servers care more about what their guests need than who’s getting tipped by whom. Thankfully, that’s a value which wasn’t lost in the shuffle of new flooring planks and oyster trays. E hraskin@seattleweekly.com COASTAL KITCHEN 429 15th Ave. E., 322-1145, coastalkitchen seattle.com. 8 a.m.-midnight Mon.-Sun.

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f the food writers on your latest gift list were honest about their holiday wishes, they’d have asked you for a bunch of new adjectives, as there are only so many ways to say “moist.” The thesaurus suggests dampish, dank, and wettish, but you try explaining to a restaurant owner why you used one of those words to describe his signature chocolate cake.

And it’s not just dishes which present a cliché trap: Restaurants are forever lovely, charming, sleek, trendy, ambitious, and successful.

So here’s to Coastal Kitchen, the graybeard of Capitol Hill dining, for suggesting an adjective which rarely surfaces in restaurant discussions: handy.

Opened in 1992 under the auspices of the then-fledgling Chow Foods empire, Coastal Kitchen went to co-owner Jeremy Hardy three years ago when his partnership with Peter Levy dissolved. In September, Hardy— who also retained control of tiny Mioposto in Mount Baker (Levy kept The Hi-Life, 5 Spot and Endolyne Joe’s)—closed the restaurant for a month-long remodel which sounded prosaic even in press releases. Upgrades included “the integration of a private dining room into the main dining room,” leveled flooring in the kitchen, and new bamboo floors in the dining room. More noticeable, the cocktail bar was moved to the opposite side of the front room to make way for a gleaming, marble-topped oysThe potential for romance is slightly higher ter bar that curves around the open kitchen. at the new oyster bar, which nightly offers The flip-flop has incited its share of double$1.25 oysters between 10 p.m. and midnight. takes from regulars unprepared to encounter But few of its seats were taken on my three their memories in mirror image, but guests visits, perhaps because the bar curves very seem mostly sanguine about the change—parclose to the perpetually opening front door. ticularly once they realize they can still order During cold spells, oyster eaters are more bacon and eggs for supper. apt to congregate at the cocktail bar; it offers Although the addition of the oyster bar a menu of drinks to match the restaurant’s and installation of Poppy vet Jason Jones as regional theme, which changes three times executive chef indicate grander aspirations for a year. Coastal Kitchen is now in a Sicilian Coastal Kitchen, the redone restaurant isn’t phase, so bartenders are pouring cocktails likely to make a culinary splash on a block that with Italian associations, including achingly this past year welcomed Ethan Stowell’s Rione sweet Vespers and tarted-up Negronis overXIII and Heather Earnhardt’s The Wandering whelmed by fruity peach bitters. Perhaps Goose. The new floor and Naked Roys on the it’s better to save your cocktail cravings for a half-shell are nice touches, but the kitchen will nightcap at nearby Liberty, and here drink a have to resolve basic cooking issues if it wants Georgetown pilsner or Proletariat syrah, both to make a serious run at on tap. dining-destination status.

As for the oysters, they’re Yet that may not come cleanly shucked and prop» PRICE GUIDE SEAWEED SALAD ................. $7.50 as bad news to longtime erly served atop fields of BARNYARD BURGER ...........$13.25 Coastal Kitchen fans, who ice. But the bivalves repreTUNA CARPACCIO ...............$12.25 MAHI ........................................$26.25 will be relieved to know sent the apex of elegance STURGEON ........................... $27.25 their favorite restaurant’s at a restaurant which often utilitarian appeal is intact. seems inexplicably befuddled by seafood. Asked about a special, our server assured us that the oastal Kitchen is initially reminisopah came from Alaska, which would require cent of an unmoored Cracker Bara very wayward opah. She later corrected rel, with eaters of all ages sharing comfy booths. The split-level dining herself, but there was no undoing what the kitchen had done to the tropical fish. Badly room is big and boisterous, though never so overcooked, the opah was tough and flavornoisy that Aunt Sadie would have trouble hearing dining companions across the wooden table. less.

There are a few highlights on the dinner She’d also likely approve of the lighting scheme, menu. A seaweed salad with chilled calamari designed to facilitate chores like cutting up a is a Medusa head of scraggly green and purple chicken breast for your kids.

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Reuben has enough meat for about nine of its kind, plus piles of kraut and just the right amount of sweet dressing and tangy cheese. Grab a stack of napkins, roll up your sleeves, and get to eating. Roxy’s Reuben is impossible to eat without dropping half of it on your shirt, so wear something that goes well with Thousand Island. And get something to drink with that sandwich—there’s a full bar, and mimosas and peach bellinis are $2. $

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CHEN’S VILLAGE 544 Elliott Ave. W., 281-8838. It’s no

surprise this Chinese restaurant is still going strong, despite its shabby exterior and sparsely filled parking lot. While some restaurants spend money glamming up their image, Chen’s does brisk takeout business dishing up meals that don’t taste like they’ve been sitting under a heat lamp all afternoon. It features mirror-lined walls, pool tables, and a bar serving $2 Bud for happy hour.

The only thing that’s missing is karaoke. On the menu, the Dinner for Two is perfect for couples unable to make a decision from the never-ending options Chen’s offers.

The meal comes with two egg rolls, a choice of soup (either Hot & Sour or Egg Flower), a heaping plate of broccoli beef, and sweet & sour pork—all served with jasmine rice for $21.95. If you choose to dine in, you’ll be treated to an unlimited supply of green tea. $

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1177. Since Prohibition, those lucky bastards who live in Richmond Beach have had the perfect tavern: the Cabin.

It has television sets tuned to sports and classic rock on the jukebox. It’s in the middle of nowhere, yet not too far from anywhere. It has cheap and filling food, Black Butte porter, a massive patio, and aesthetic imperfections so mind-bogglingly unique that they turn into charm. The

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fact that its proprietors haven’t bothered with flattening the sloped floor by the bar hasn’t been a deterrent, nor has the fact that it’s become a favorite stop on the Harley-Davidson circuit. $ CLAIRE’S PANTRY 12360 Lake City Way N.E., 365-4542.

Housed in the ground floor of a Lake City Way office building, Claire’s is the sort of place where Elks, Lions, and Eagles meet over Manhattans and clam chowder to determine who’s going to don the Santa suit at the orphanage this Christmas, and slices of pie are a de rigueur postscript to every meal. $

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COPACABANA 1520½ Pike Place, 622-6359. The Bolivian

food at this little cafe is so good that former Mariner Omar Vizquel valiantly tried to get Copacabana’s recipe for sopa de camarones and picante de pollo after being traded to Cleveland in 1993. But the owners keep the family secrets, well, in the family. One recipe you may want to go to the altar for (any available Copacabana cousins?) is the tres leches, a white cake covered in cream. Only the view out the window can rival its lusciousness. $$ THE MEXICAN GROCERY 1914 Pike Place, 441-1147.

Tamales are the biggest reason people head to the Mexican Grocery. The price alone grabs your attention: a paper-wrapped fat nugget of meat in a thin layer of masa for under two bucks. But one bite of any of the three varieties focuses your attention on greater matters than price—the pork filling is merely darn good, while the chunky beef is better than most homemade, and the chicken, finely chopped and hotly spicy, is flat-out delectable. Vegetarians like the Mexican Grocery, too. $ ZAINA 108 Cherry St., 624-5687. Be ready to stand in line at lunch, because this Pioneer Square eatery, with Middle Eastern music blasting, fills up quickly with fans of the falafel, shawarma, and hummus sandwiches. What began at a small shop in northeast Seattle has become a downtown office-worker favorite. (A second shop is on Pine St.) Though owned by a Palestinian couple, Zaina uses the heavy Greek-style pita, rather than the thinner Arabic kind, to better stand up to the fillings and sauces.

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The Watering Hole: The Wilde Rover, 111 Central Way, 425-822-8940, KIRKLAND The Atmosphere: Since opening its doors in 2006, the Wilde Rover has become known as the neighborhood Irish pub in Kirkland.

Nestled in the heart of downtown, the seemingly small restaurant has a surprisingly roomy interior. The bar sits in the center of a spacious area to the left, which opens onto a back deck overlooking the waterfront, and there’s a separate dining section on the right for customers seeking a quieter atmosphere.

When my friend and I arrived at 10 on a Wednesday night, a trivia competition was just wrapping up, and by the time we ordered a drink the previously packed bar was almost empty, save for a few groups of college students home for the holidays.

The Barkeep: Nick Sabin started working at the Wilde Rover after he graduated from Boise State two years ago. He was a server for six months before being promoted to bartender, and says he likes mixing cocktails and pulling pints much better than serving food.

Despite leaving BSU behind, Sabin’s backward hat and sneakers make him look a lot like a college bro.

The Drink: Sabin may look like he’s straight out of college, but he mixes sophis-

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ticated cocktails. Asked to make whatever he chooses, he opts for a French 75. Gin, muddled lemon, and bitters are combined in a shaker, then strained into a martini glass and topped with champagne. Asked if he drinks this himself, Sabin shakes his head. “This is more work than I’m willing to do for myself,” he said. “Usually I drink Jameson.”

The Verdict: I’m usually not a gin drinker, but the champagne and lemon masked the flavor enough to make the French 75 quite enjoyable. Yet I felt a little out of place sipping a sophisticated cocktail at this laid-back pub. Next time I’ll get there early enough to participate in trivia night and grab a Guinness instead. E food@seattleweekly.com

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5 SPOT 1502 Queen Anne Ave. N., 285-7768. The culinary

focus of this Americana tribute restaurant changes every three months, so don’t get too hooked on the chickenfried steak. But while the menu and decor sway with the season’s theme, the quality of the upscale diner fare at 5 Spot is remarkably consistent. While the burgers and ice cream sundaes make the most sense at lunchtime, Queen Anne residents’ adoration for the cheery restaurant is so intense that they queue for brunch, dinner and a seat at the circular bar. $$ PESO’S KITCHEN AND LOUNGE 605 Queen Anne Ave. N., 283-9353. While many of Peso’s patrons are busier feasting on the sexy singles opportunities than on the nuevo-Mexican fare, the Queen Anne mainstay doesn’t coast on atmosphere and well-mixed margaritas alone.

The crowd, heavy on the preternaturally tan post-Greek system contingent, goes for the carnitas (tender sautéed pork cubes in a sauce only Seattleites would deem spicy) and scrumptious grilled prawn fajitas, while the spicy ahi tuna and cucumber tostada is a perennial favorite. It ain’t down-home Gordito’s, and it’s certainly not the place to go for muy auténtico menudo, but Peso’s is sure to satisfy those who want a savory something to go with their cocktail. $$ THE SITTING ROOM 108 W. Roy St., 285-2830. Everything about this cozy spot encourages its patrons to slow down and smell the roses (or brie, organic Pinot Grigio, or free-range country paté). There’s no sit-down dinner, but the bar food, like the pace, is très European: hors d’oeuvres like Salumi salami and cornichons, or bruschetta topped with goat cheese, quince paste, and toasted pecans. Settle down with some European-style smoked salmon, a glass of red wine, and a novel, and expect not to be disturbed for hours. $ ZEEK’S PIZZA 419 Denny Way, 285-8646. This is pizza Seattle style, pillowy and chewy. You can get traditional topping combos, but Zeek’s specializes in agreeably off-the-wall items like broccoli and spinach (the Treehugger), peanut sauce (Thai One On), or heaps of feta, kalamata olives, and red onions (the Jimmie the

Greek). If you like jalapeños, that’s about all you’ll be able to taste on the Dragon, though it features pepperoni and sausage as well. Check out the website for bargain specials Monday through Wednesday. With five locations north of downtown and one in West Seattle, Zeek’s can deliver a hot pizza with ease. $

RAINIER VALLEY

SILVER FORK 3800 Rainier Ave. S., 721-5171. For more

than 20 years, Estella Potts has been operating the Silver Fork. And while the place might’ve already been a classic a generation ago, today it is damn near venerable—a simple, no-nonsense joint with soul and gospel music melting from the air and breakfasts done the way you dream of them when off on some bacon-and-eggsand-pancakes-and-waffles American idyll. The room certainly shows its age, and the morning crowds can be killer (there’s often a wait on the weekends), but the service is welcoming and sweet as honey, and the food makes any wait worthwhile. $

RAVENNA & WEDGWOOD

CHIANG’S GOURMET 7845 Lake City Way N.E., 527-8888.

This warm, lively Maple Leaf restaurant offers two menus: Chinese-American and traditional TaiwaneseSichuan. From the latter, a light, flavorful jellyfish appetizer has a crunchy texture recalling Japanese seaweed salad. Chiang’s also makes a splendid (and massive) seafood hot pot brimming with crab, mussels, whitefish, eel, button mushrooms, and Napa cabbage. One oddity to look out for: “tofu of strong odor,” golden cubes of musky-smelling tofu served with a soy-garlic sauce that cuts the smell. The restaurant fills up at weekend brunch for Taiwanese dim sum (sweet soy milk, crullers wrapped in rice noodles, steamed humbow stuffed with greens). $ DJAN’S 264 N.E. 45th St., 633-3526. You may think you’re walking into your grandmother’s house at Djan’s until you hit the dining room. Serene and white, it looks like a yoga studio. The menu features standard Thai dishes, with a few surprise hits like the crab rangoon (imitation crab slathered with rich cream cheese and wrapped in a crispy crepe) and Djan’s interpretation of yellow curry, mellow and savory rather than fiery and heavy. This is

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food&drink»Featured Eats Thai spa food, designed to comfort, not electrify. The restaurant’s regulars will forever be grateful for its choicest contribution to Thai-American cuisine: Djan’s fusion noodles, which combine pad thai ingredients with the tang and fragrance of pad kee mao sauce (and double the vegetables, of course). $ SPUD FISH & CHIPS 6860 E. Green Lake Way N., 5240565. Although it looks and feels a lot like a decommissioned laundromat, the Green Lake Spud is one of the best places in town to taste the Northwest. They have ling cod, halibut, salmon, oysters, prawns, clams, scallops, and baby shrimp, and, provided the fry guy isn’t feeling overly heavy-handed that day, they’re all done simply and crisply. The extra quarter or so that Spud asks in exchange for tartar sauce leaves you a little put off, but, hey, when in Rome . . . $ TASTE OF INDIA 5517 Roosevelt Way N.E., 528-1575. At Taste of India in the University District, the entryway overlooks the glassed-in kitchen, and the window right along the busy stove offers a fascinating view: little saucepans, filled with bubbling delights, competing for space over the flames; chunks of meats and fish threaded onto giant skewers for a quick plunge in the barrel-like tandoor oven; an older Indian man in a turban washing dishes, one by one. The menu is standard Indian: rich coconut curries, creamy masalas, fiery vindaloos, all of which are available with vegetables or your choice of meats. There’s a separate list of pure vegetarian options, including a Madras chili masala with crisp-cooked squash and peppers. $

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by its appeal the old-school way: a 1950s soundtrack; a no-nonsense, no-frills order-at-the-counter M.O.; a straightforward menu of burgers and fish; and a very generous pricing scheme. Take the King Lou burger: Tucked inside a sesame-seed bun that’s roughly as big as Rhode Island are three burger patties, a heaping pile of fried ham, some bacon slices, a pool of cheese, and that hard-to-define mess known as “the works.” Fries are of the hand-cut, slightly soggy variety. Throw in a medium drink, and the whole deal will only set you back $9.49, tax included.

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SOUTH PARK

MUY MACHO TAQUERIA 8515 14th Ave. S., 763-3484.

One of the first taco trucks in Seattle to graduate up, this under-the-radar taqueria in South Park is vividly adorned with murals and photos of Zapatista soldiers, and the menu sticks to basic south-of-the-border soul food, a fresh and hearty mix of Baja- and Guadalajarastyle selections. Traditional meals like the pozole and menudo provide homemade flavor, and the carnitas are supremely porky, but it’s the burritos, platters, and tortas that are destined to be the highlight of any visit. $

UNIVERSITY DISTRICT

BOOM NOODLE 2675 N.E. Village Lane, 525-2675. Boom

Noodle’s location in University Village, fittingly, looks like your college cafeteria as styled by Benetton, with vipergreen walls, bare lights, and long brown tables. As its decor suggests, the Japanese restaurant, owned by the same people who run Blue C Sushi, takes a deliberately fickle approach to authenticity. Whether floated in a beet broth, stir-fried with beef and chiles, or served as an ultra-traditional ramen, the noodles are often pleasant but not compelling. What’s great are the small plates, which reference Western creativity even as they pay homage to Eastern tradition: prawns coated in fine layers of phyllo dough, panko-coated potato croquettes doused heavily with curry; meltingly tender salmon tataki with a tart ponzu sauce, and über-classic thin-skinned pork gyoza.

The bar area is spacious and airy, and the happy hour here goes from a generous 3–7 p.m. every day. Most of the drink offerings are refreshing and pretty basic; the classics with an “Asian” twist—the cranberry-kazi is just a cosmo with ginger vodka, the shiso mojito is just that— a mojito with some shiso leaf crushed in. $$ BRATZ 4759 Brooklyn Ave. N.E., 523-1680. This half-hidden sausage stand, run by two German brothers, is the city’s best spot for Berliner currywurst, or brats with sweet curry ketchup. While the deep-fried schnitzel isn’t anything to reorder, the owners bake their soft pretzels to order, roast almonds in-house and stuff them into paper cones, and slowly braise the sharp tang out of their sauerkraut. Both the white and red brats come stuffed into fat little rolls, and their skin pops like a ripe apple when you bite into one. $

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Pressing Forward

Seattle’s enervated raw-juice scene is poised to perk up this month, thanks in part to nutrition-related New Year’s resolutions and a pair of partnerships between local juice pressers and fitness facilities.

Strawberry Moon, which yoga instructor Sean Dereck last year launched from the Haute Yoga studio in Queen Anne, recently started selling its products at Urban Yoga Spa. The juices will soon also be available at Yogabliss on Mercer Island, although Dereck stresses they aren’t only for yogis.

Last week, another pressing operation—Juicebox, which sells its juices at La Bête during the restaurant’s off-hours—set up a permanent cooler at Capitol Hill’s LAB5 Fitness. “It’s kind of a natural fit,” co-owner Brandin Myett explains. “Fitness and eating well—we kind of believe they go together.”

Although juice sales have held steady nationally, with orange-juice consumption dropping off significantly between 2006 and 2010, trend-watchers believe juice is on the brink of stardom. In 2011, Starbucks acquired Evolution Fresh, which operates four retail juice bars—three of which are located in Seattle—and supplies its cafes with fresh, coldpressed juices. And last year, Coca-Cola tried to wedge its way into the premium-juice market with its new Minute Maid Pure Squeezed line.

But juice still isn’t a preoccupation for health-

seekers outside of select markets. “You can’t turn a corner” in Los Angeles without bumping into a juice shop, says Dereck, who isn’t sure why it’s been much slower to catch on here: “I can’t wrap my head around it, because our city is so progressive in so many things.” The local yoga scene felt similarly stunted to Dereck when he moved here from L.A. in 2008. But “the yoga world has exploded” since, and he anticipates juice appreciation will follow.

Both Strawberry Moon and Juicebox offer extensive cleanse programs, which Dereck prides himself on customizing according to drinkers’ tastes.

“I don’t like to standardize the process,” he says. “If you don’t want parsley, but you still want to cleanse, you can write us.”

Dereck also cuts dark greens with citrus—an exception he makes to his local-sourcing principle—since lemons and limes help balance the hearty flavors of Washington-grown fennel and kale.“Eighty percent of something is better than 100 percent of nothing,” he says, adding that he hopes eventually to offer an all-local juice, which he likens to a blue-plate special.

What’s more, Strawberry Moon juices are packaged in glass bottles, and Dereck envisions expanding the company’s home-delivery service: “The way we used to do with milk, we’d like to do it with juice.” E hraskin@seattleweekly.com

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Bruce Pavitt co-founded Sub Pop, wrote the eBook on Nirvana, and loves spinning Carly Rae.

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So has Sub Pop—which celebrates its 25th anniversary this summer and includes hip-hop, punk, and folk-rock artists on its roster—maintained a unique, identifiable sonic fingerprint? To this end, Pavitt points to the label’s scrappy imprint Hardly Art, which is home to a stable of lo-fi garage rockers with psychedelic tendencies.

“You get to a certain age where you’re like, the real power of music is bringing people together.”

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band alongside Mudhoney and Tad at London’s Astoria Theater, a show that drew rave reviews for Nirvana—the New Musical Express proclaimed them to be “Sub Pop’s answer to the Beatles”— and the label.

According to Keith Cameron, a British music journalist who attended the show and wrote the foreword for the book, it helped boost the label’s profile “as an identifiable signifier of a specific strand of rock music.”

“My lens is, really, let’s examine the life of these groups prior to Nevermind, prior to when all the corporate money came into it,” Pavitt says of Experiencing Nirvana. “What you’re seeing is the network of hobbyists who’re creating art because that’s what they’re passionate about, not about cutting a business deal. Post-Nevermind, every band I talked to was all about the deal, all about getting the attorney and getting the killer deal. The culture completely changed, almost overnight. So to go back and review

Pavitt, on the road with a preNevermind Nirvana in 1989: Chad Channing and Krist Novoselic (lower left) and Kurt Cobain (lower right).

what it was like before bands knew that there was no chance, ever, that you’d blow up and have a huge career—it’d be, like, one in a million—I think it’s a really inspiring period in cultural history.”

“To me, Hardly Art is a network of hobbyists, and when you’re a network of hobbyists it’s not about making money, it’s just doing crazy stuff,” he says. “That draws me in. I think a lot of the material on Sub Pop is very good, and I’m really impressed with and amazed at how they can break artists, and I think they put out some of the best music of the 20th century as far as rock and pop music goes. But I have a real soft spot for Hardly Art right now because of that sense of whim.” E ckornelis@seattleweekly.com

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xperiencing Nirvana features Pavitt’s memories and photos from the eight days he spent with a road-weary Nirvana in Europe in 1989, five months after the band had released its Sub Pop debut, Bleach. In dozens of previously unseen photos, Pavitt captures a young, virtually unheard-of band onstage—but also sightseeing and loading its gear into vans, with little hint of the mania that lay ahead.

That long week culminated in LameFest UK, a Sub Pop showcase that featured the

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ver coffee at Capitol Hill’s Café Presse, Bruce Pavitt is beaming about a triumphant recent DJ gig.

“I raged it at the senior center,” he says, “and a bunch of 80-year-olds danced to my set.”

The co-founder of Sub Pop Records and author of the recent eBook Experiencing Nirvana, Pavitt lives a self-described hermit’s lifestyle on Orcas Island, but it’s not one of quiet solitude. He and his wife have three teenagers between the two of them, and he’s become a go-to party-starter thanks to his high-quality sound system, deep catalog, and willingness to take just about any gig. When the local senior center ordered up a big-band set, he obliged with some Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, and Frank Sinatra.

“I broke out of the ‘Indie is cool’ ghetto a long time ago,” he says. “I’m a musical omnivore, and I feel like I could literally go into any social situation and rock the house.”

He’s so confident, in fact, that he claims to have found a handful of songs that are guaranteed to fill the dance floor, regardless of the audience. “It doesn’t even matter how old they are,” says Pavitt, who long ago relinquished day-to-day duties with the seminal Seattle record label. “They could be 8 or 80. There are certain key popular songs where you know if you drop it, everybody will get on the floor no matter what. And I’m not going to mention those songs ’cause that’s my trade secret.”

That said, he lets one slip: Carly Rae Jepsen’s inescapable “Call Me Maybe.”

“Back when I was younger and I was more into punk culture, it was all about defining myself against popular culture,” he says. “But then you get to a certain age where you’re like, the real power of music is bringing people together. And when you’re DJing a set, you get to see that firsthand, because the whole goal is trying to get as many people on the dance floor as possible.”

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ep, here we go again. 2013 will undoubtedly have the same ups and downs as every year: politics, births, deaths, crime, celebration, war, recession and economic upturn, mega-mergers, and downsizing. The only real changes we can look forward to with no collateral damage are in arts and culture. So here for discussion are some artistic events I have experienced of late, or simply look forward to.

Wildhearts’ new record, via Pledge: The Wildhearts have been an English institution since the mid-’90s. They even had some success in Japan and Europe, but never quite made a big-enough mark in the U.S. to keep the band a viable business venture. Record companies have shied away from the Wildhearts, and the band had almost closed up shop. They decided to try a Pledge (pledgemusic.com) campaign to make one last record, asking their fans to help them raise $50,000; instead, the Wildhearts were overwhelmed with $400,000. They have recently made three new records; the first will be released this April. If you love good English rock ’n’ roll, give the new Wildhearts a shot.

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Hitlerland by Andrew Nagorski: Another WWII instant classic (read his The Greatest Battle). Nagorski illustrates the unlikely rise of the Third Reich through the eyes of American journalists who reported from Germany from 1921–41. It’s a fascinating and thoughtprovoking angle. Nagorski has become the ultimate WWII historian since the passing of Stephen Ambrose, and his writing will send you to the footnotes looking for more books on war (Nagorski’s reference material has now become my de facto reading list).

On deck: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan: The Seattle author who wrote the epic American Dust Bowl treatise The Worst Hard Time, Egan is one of those historical writers a guy like me simply can’t get enough of. E Duff McKagan is the founding bassist of Guns N’ Roses and the leader of Seattle’s Loaded. His column runs every Thursday on seattleweekly.com/reverb.

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Nearing the mind-boggling milestone of 50 years as a band, Robert “Kool” Bell and his Gang are the cognac to P-Funk’s cocaine. The Gang grooves, to be sure, but they’re smoother and less likely to cause you to overheat; even “Too Hot” is, fittingly, cool as a glass of sweet tea on a hundred-degree day. Roughly half of the songs you’re likely to hear at a given wedding reception, supermarket, or corporate holiday party are by Kool and the Gang.

They’ve provided the soundtrack of our lives; the least you can do is buy a ticket to see them at a casino, where you may well win the price of that ticket back at the roulette wheel.

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If Elvis Presley had lived long enough to celebrate his upcoming birthday, there’s no question he’d be the greatest living pop star on the planet. But stars like Elvis burn hot and fast, and history takes over once they’re gone, building legacies and legends that take on lives of their own. This is how it is with The King, who would have turned 78 on January 8th, and how his indelible mark on pop music still deeply resounds around the world.

With an army of impersonators, wannabes, and torch-bearers, it’s not like he’s deceased, he’s simply . . . transformed. The king is dead.

Long live the king. With Roy Kay Combo, Marti Brom, Petunia, Davidson Hart Kingsbery, Evan Foster, Steve Davis, Peterman Sisters, Liam Fitzgerald, Angelatini, Kelly Van Camp.

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discernible build-up routine (as on “Monolith”), they crush it with rare force. With Piano Piano, Levator. Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Avenue N.W., 784-4880. 7:30 p.m. $6. TODD HAMM

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After spending 2008 through 2011 nearly conChelsea Wolfe MONDAY, JANUARY 14 stantly in the public spotlight, Lady Gaga had something of a less exposed 2012. She kept This year, California goth folkie Chelsea Wolfe busy touring on the back of her second LP, released Unknown Rooms, an acoustic album 2011’s Born This Way, and focused on projects that stripped away a touch (a touch) of the terthat were a bit less splashy than her typically ror from her eponymous band’s 2011 full-length outrageous music videos and public appearApokalypsis, and left her sounding somber and ances: guesting on The Simpsons, appearing introspective, but never frail. As a whole, the on the cover of Vogue bearing a strange resemsinger/songwriter’s catalog is all dusty guitar blance to RuPaul, singing “Gimme Shelter” strings and creaky floorboards, and when she with the Rolling Stones breaks into a rocker like at the final show of their “Demons” or “Pale on 50th anniversary tour.

Pale,” it sounds like she’s Tune in to 97.3 KIRO FM (Only in Lady Gaga’s been sucked into the every Saturday at 7 p.m. world would duetting basement by the family to hear music editor Chris Kornelis on Seattle Sounds. with Mick Jagger count poltergeist. Her music can as a low-key event). But in come off a bit creepy, but 2013, look for Gaga mania in the best kind of way. to hit hard, again: after completing the last leg Plus, isn’t it more fun to see a live show with at of the Born This Way Ball tour, she will release least a mild fear factor? With King Dude. Triple a new record, ARTPOP, in the spring, accomDoor, 216 Union St., 838-4333. 7:30 p.m. $12 panied by a documentary shot by the polemiadv./$15 DOS. All ages. TODD HAMM

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Bravo, the television channel that brought us Top Chef and all of the Real Housewives, premiered a new show this past fall called LOLwork, a reality series that follows one of Seattle’s most successful businesses, the I Can Has Cheezburger? blog. In the latest episode, entitled “Lesbian Cat Wedding,” the staff plans a cat-themed wedding, complete with cat-shaped cake, for two women who are among the site’s biggest fans. One of the blushing brides is Irene Barber—and don’t call the LOLwork episode her 15 minutes of fame. Barber is the lovely voice behind one of Seattle’s most intriguing rock bands, Eighteen Individual Eyes. Last spring, the band released their Unnovae Nights LP, a dark, whirling dream of a record that boosts Barber’s place as one of the city’s most alluring vocalists, a much more notable accomplishment than any of those Real Housewives can boast of. With Slow Bird. Barboza, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 7 p.m. $8. ERIN K. THOMPSON

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You.May.Die.In.The.Desert is an instrumental rock band that doesn’t simply fill in the slow build-up template that defines many within the genre. Instead, they throw you right into the mix, with creative start and end points, and delicate interplay in between. The local three-piece sounds genuinely fascinated by the possibilities that each song presents, and sets out with a Swiss Army skill set and a painter’s eye at each track mark. The results are adventurous, and always intelligent, and when they do fall into a

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TRASHOLES The sole recorded output of this Gig Harbor guitar-and-drums duo is a four-track demo released last summer, whose songs sound lo-fi, slackery, and about as trashy as their name suggests. With Dungeon Science, Prism Tats, The Balloons. The Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave., 441-7416, thecrocodile.com. 8 p.m. $5.

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Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave. N.W., 789-3599, tractortavern.com. $6. 9 p.m.

CLOUD PERSON began as a name for Pete Jordan’s bedroom acoustic recordings, but the band has now evolved into a full-fledged folk group, accompanied live by cello and stand-up bass.

With Rebecca Johnston, Matt Marsan. Conor Byrne, 5140 Ballard Ave. N.W., 7843640, conorbyrnepub.com.

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With Charles Larson, Niku, DJ Introcut. Barboza, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9951, thebarboza.com. 8 p.m. $8.

SEAPONY This Hardly Art–signed dream-pop band finally realized its potential on last September’s Falling, in which they crystallized their sound and produced what is easily their strongest work to date. With Jay Arner, Cadet. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8005, chopsuey.com. 8 p.m. $10. All ages.

TH3RDZ Best known for his work with Onry Ozzborn in Grayskul, JFK teams up with fellow Seattle MCs Candidt and XP for this project, which has collaborated with Sonny Bonoho and Kuddie Fresh. With Big World Breaks, Riley Muhlerkar, Ariel Loud, Tudo Beleza, DJ Fresh 1. Nectar Lounge, 412 N. 36th St., 632-2020, nectarlounge.com. 8 p.m. $7 adv./$10 DOS.

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Juan Islands, the four bros who make up The Good Husbands produce ultra-positive, Macklemore-aping hip-hop. With My Dad Bruce, Eastern Sunz, Dontay.

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KRADDY A cofounder and former member of The Glitch Mob, an L.A. electro collective, Matthew Kratz makes beats that fall somewhere between instrumental hip-hop and industrial music. With Sean Majors. The Send events to music@seattleweekly.com See seattleweekly.com for full listings.

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QUIET ONES Brothers John, David, and Chris Totten started Quiet Ones in Tennessee, and the southern transplants’ most recent album is a covers compilation that features their versions of songs by Neil Young, R.E.M., and Guided by Voices. With Sam Russell & the Harborrats, Aaron Zig Band. Conor Byrne. 9 p.m. $8.

Saturday, Jan. 12 CLOROX GIRLS This Portland-by-way-of-Oakland three-piece writes high-concentration pop-punk songs. With Smokejumper, Loud Eyes, Night Nurse.

High Dive. 9 p.m. $8 adv./$10 DOS. DYSLEXIC A dual album-release party for headliner Dyslexic and opener Jay Bionic, the bill is a look into some below-the-radar local rap acts who might surprise you. With the Nightcappers. Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Avenue N.W., 784-4880, sunsettavern. com. 10 p.m. $6.

HOT BODIES IN MOTION The local blues rockers’ recent Principle A EP is their second studio release.

With The BGP, The New Limb. Neumos. 8 p.m. $10.

ORAN NA CAR Traditional, harmony-laden Scottish and Gaelic folk tunes are the focus of this local quintet. With Kyle Carey. Fremont Abbey, 4272 Fremont Ave. N., 414-8325, fremontabbey.com. 4 p.m. $12 adv./$15 DOS. All ages.

THEORETICS This rock/rap big band will provide ample funk to back your cocktails during instrumental sections with bits of rapping in between. Triple Door Musicquarium, 216 Union St., 838-4333, thetripledoor. net. 10 p.m. Free.

WINDOWPANE Though the tagline from their bio (“honest hard rock for the silent majority”) could double as the mission statement for Glenn Beck’s hypothetical house band, Windowpane’s grungy, hard-driving tunes are more Soundgarden than Ted Nugent. With Van Eps, Mechanism, Black Diamond, Jason Kerston, the Immortals. Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., 628-3151, showboxonline. com. 6:30 p.m. $12 adv./$16 DOS. All ages.

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GEOGRAPHER This San Francisco synth-rock group is touring behind its sophomore full-length, last year’s Myth. With ON AN ON. Barboza. 8 p.m. $10.

SIDEWINDER This playfully experimental quintet blends rock and soul influences with a groove-based take on jazz. Copper Gate, 6301 24th Ave. N.W., 706-3292, thecoppergate.com. 6 p.m. $5.

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BEAST OF THE SKY is a newly formed Capitol Hill metal band whose straight-ahead, thrashy songs sound like they’re just beginning to take shape. With Viking Funeral, Nordus. 2 Bit Saloon, 4818 17th Ave. N.W., 708-6917, the2bitsaloon.com. 9 p.m. $5.

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