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t was announced last week that Sound Publishing—which owns 36 daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and magazines in western Washington, as well as the Little Nickel—has acquired Seattle Weekly for an undisclosed price.

The paper was sold to Sound Publishing, whose parent company is Canadian newspaper mogul David Black’s Black Press Ltd. (see Don Ward’s “Betting on David Black,” July 16, 2008), by Voice Media Group—the ownership group that reached an agreement to assume control of Seattle Weekly in September as part of a separation from Village Voice Media Holdings and the controversial website Backpage.com.

Voice Media’s sale of SW, along with the sale of SF Weekly to the San Francisco Examiner—now owned by another Black subsidiary—helped finalize September’s buyout agreement.

Known for its stable of small, suburban community newspapers—like the Bellevue Reporter, the Port Orchard Independent, and the Bremerton Patriot—Sound Publishing’s decision to buy SW marks the company’s first foray into inner-city Seattle.

DAN CARINO

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A sale puts Seattle Weekly back under local ownership.

expressed concern about whether SW will maintain its identity under the new ownership. Stocker says SW’s sales staff has already begun to reassure advertisers that the paper has no plans to change its approach or editorial coverage.

“Owners who breathe the Advertisers aren’t the only people wonsame air we breathe—or, dering what the sale means for the future more accurately, get of SW. Readers and journalists who’ve soaked by the same rain— covered the sale since it was announced have raised similar concerns, given that are always going to have SP is known more for small, straight-laced a keener sense of what suburban publications than for alternative makes Seattle and the papers like SW, which has built its name Puget Sound region tick.” on award-winning long-form journalism and an edgy take on local politics, arts, and music. Sound Publishing president Gloria Fletcher and vice president of East Sound According to SW publisher Kenny Stocker, operations Josh O’Connor maintain that the opportunity to expand its reach and their company purchased SW for what it offer advertisers the chance to connect is, and say there are no plans to change the with readers throughout the region was paper’s focus. one of SP’s primary motivations behind the “Sound Publishing’s community daily deal. He says the move will have similar and weekly publications have a tremenpositive benefits for SW. “It’s going to give dous relationship us a much larger footwith their readers and print all over western PRINT IS GREAT, but if you advertisers, just like Washington, because want to read . . . the Seattle Weekly,” we’ll have the ability to about ministers who specialize in says Fletcher. “Cerbe a one-stop shop for same-sex weddings, check it out on The Daily Weekly. tainly the Weekly’s advertisers to reach the SEATTLEWEEKLY.COM/DAILYWEEKLY content choice is a bit whole marketplace,” different. It is edgy and says Stocker of what more politically and entertainment-based, the deal means for SW. but we value that difference and don’t have Despite the obvious business advanany plans to change it.” tages, Stocker says some advertisers have

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news» Adds O’Connor: “Simply put, the Seattle Weekly is a great urban publication that would be a valuable asset to any news organization. The thought of working with Seattle’s best music, food, arts, and entertainment writers is pretty exciting.

We have published two urban alternative weeklies in Vancouver and Victoria for the past 15 years, and are proud to add a similar publication to Sound Publishing. For us it’s about preserving print and online audiences by using our network efficiencies and being local. We recognize the value of the Seattle Weekly and what it brings to the urban community.”

The sale of SW marks a return to local ownership for a paper with long-standing ties to the community, but also a history of non-local owners. Founded by Seattleite David Brewster in 1976, SW was sold in 1997 to Stern Publishing, and then in 2000 to out-of-state Village Voice Media.

In 2006 Village Voice Media was in turn purchased by Phoenix’s New Times Media, which kept the Village Voice Media name.

“Owners who breathe the same air we breathe—or, more accurately, get soaked by the same rain—are always going to have a keener sense of what makes Seattle and the Puget Sound region tick,” says SW editorin-chief Mike Seely of his paper’s new owner. “They’re smart businesspeople.

And if they’re smart enough to let us maintain our creative voice, then this could be a happy marriage of perceived opposites. If Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones can sustain their sizzle, so can we.”

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Murray: Ban Assault Weapons

Even conservative TV host Bill O’Reilly questioned why assault weapons are necessary. another reason: its physical size. “In D.C. or Chicago, you’re close to other states,” he says. If bans were enacted there, anyone who wanted an assault rifle could just take a quick ride to Maryland or Indiana. At least from the Seattle area, however, “it’s basically 120 miles to another state,” Fascitelli says.

Murray agreed to be a sponsor last Tuesday, according to Fascitelli, who observes that gun control is probably a “great issue” for him as a mayoral candidate. The senator couldn’t be reached for comment.

Good thing for Murray that Alan Gottlieb won’t be voting in the Seattle mayoral race. Gottlieb, the head of Bellevue’s Second Amendment Foundation, tells SW that his group “would definitely fight” a state assault-weapons ban. Moreover, he opines, such a bill would be “DOA” because it would be “too extreme to pass in Washington state.”

Yet even conservative TV host Bill O’Reilly, far from a gun-control zealot, questioned Gottlieb recently about why assault weapons are necessary. Interviewing Gottlieb shortly after the Connecticut tragedy, O’Reilly said that he believed “We the people need to protect ourselves.” He said he would never go along with a ban on handguns. But as for military-style weapons, O’Reilly said, “I’m not sure we need that.”

Gottlieb insisted we do: “I like to point out that on national television, on the networks, we saw filmed footage of Korean merchants using these type of firearms on top of their rooftops during the L.A. riots so that their places of business weren’t looted and the arsonists didn’t burn their places down; they went across the street. We watched during Hurricane Andrew people using these kind of firearms in front of their homes to stop looting.” Gottlieb also said that assault weapons are used “in sport shooting very heavily.”

Does that really mean people need such weapons? Couldn’t they hunt with something else? Wouldn’t a regular rifle also deter looting? The legislature now gets a chance to answer these questions.

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There’s no question that guns are the topic of the day after the Sandy Hook massacre. Last week, Seattle and King County announced a gun buyback program. On Sunday, Washington CeaseFire held a march on Westlake Center. Most interesting of all, the group is pushing a state ban on assault weapons. The A-list legislator who committed to sponsoring the bill: Senate minority leader and Seattle mayoral hopeful Ed Murray.

Get ready for a knock-down, drag-out battle.

Of course, there’s been a lot of talk about reviving a national assault-weapons ban since the Connecticut tragedy. But Washington CeaseFire board president Ralph Fascitelli doesn’t hold out much hope for that under a Republican-controlled House. Apparently, neither did New York Governor Andrew Cuomo; on Tuesday, New York’s legislature passed an assaultweapons ban.

Fascitelli says the bill his group is pushing would be more effective than the federal ban passed by Congress in 1994, which expired 10 years later due to a sunset clause. The federal ban outlawed specific models of guns, and wasn’t comprehensive.

“The ban we’re talking about would be feature-specific,” Fascitelli says. “It would

ban anything with a detachable clip that has more than 10 bullets.”

Such guns allow for rapid firing of multiple bullets, making them the weapons frequently used in mass shootings, as at Sandy Hook. Shooter Adam Lanza used a Bushmaster AR-15 with clips that carried 30 rounds. Connecticut has an assaultweapons ban, but it doesn’t include the AR-15 because of technicalities. The proposed Washington ban would.

Fascitelli contends the proposed ban would be effective in Washington for

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BY ELLIS E. CONKLIN • PHOTOS BY KEVIN P. CASEY

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arly-morning fog loiters beneath the snow-smothered mountains that loom above the Skykomish Valley hamlet of Gold Bar. Soon it will lift and vanish, and the ashen skies will turn wintry blue. On a peaceful mid-December morn, the town Christmas tree is going up beneath the green-roofed gazebo kitty-corner from the faux–log cabin city hall. Breakfast lights begin to flicker on inside old yellowy farm houses with wraparound porches. The pizza cook at Rico’s flaps his arms to beat back the chill as he arrives to prepare for his lunchtime shift. few French fries short of a happy meal.”

“I don’t know why people keep saying I have mental-health issues,” says Block, “because I don’t, and I never have.”

“The gods must have it in for Gold Bar,” observes city councilwoman Elizabeth LaZella, who likens this brawling backwater to a “Harper Valley PTA.” It is a town, she adds, straight out of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

Chuck Lie, who served on the city council in 2010 and 2011, offers a more refined assessment: “I used to e-mail Mayor Joe Beavers after leaving a council meeting, and I’d write, ‘Well, Joe, another Fellini-esque evening.’ ” Indeed, the squirrels hide their nuts in Gold Bar. With a well-earned reputation for savage commentary, the Sky Valley Chronicle summed up the town’s surly sensibilities in a July 2012 article entitled “Goin’ Down in Gold Bar”: “For several years, ever since the contentious Crystal Hill-as-mayor days in Gold Bar, there’s been a strange, dark, cancerous mass of venomous antimatter bubbling up in the weird undertow of Gold Bar’s civic life. There are those in Gold Bar—seemingly perpetually angry people who drool snake venom on cue who aren’t satisfied unless they’re launching

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Mayor Joe Beavers considers Anne Block and her sharp-tongued blog to be a disruptive force.

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Down the road, a clutch of pensioners wearing baseball caps from their days as truckers are nursing bottomless cups of coffee at the Mountain View Diner, whose walls are cluttered with cheaply framed covers of The Saturday Evening Post. It is an ironic decor choice, for this restless burg scattered along a mile-long stretch of Highway 2 is nothing like the contented slices of Americana depicted in Norman Rockwell’s illustrations.

Gold Bar, pop. 2,071, is one quarrelsome place.

Spreading mean-spirited gossip is a blood sport here, but Gold Bar’s frictions go well beyond that. Residents and elected officials openly slander one another. The former mayor, Crystal Hill, has been called an “adulteress.” The town’s feisty and muchfeared watchdog, Anne Block, has in her cantankerous Gold Bar Reporter blog compared this Cascade foothills community to “a religious fundamentalist town in Iran,” and has referred to local officials as “evil people,” “promiscuous,” and “wife-beaters.”

An ex-city councilman allegedly called Block a “Jewish bitch,” a crudity repeated often

by Block’s detractors. Moreover, longtime resident Dorothy Croshaw says Block’s “a wacko,” and a rival online publication, the Sky Valley Chronicle, has written that she’s “a

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lawsuits or banging out so many publicrecords requests that it costs Gold Bar tens of thousands of dollars it does not have—that seem to just love that foaming-at-the-mouth, Mel Gibson-as-Antichrist approach to civic life and politics.”

Snake venom aside, Gold Bar is in turmoil.

Consider: • With an annual operating budget of just over $525,000, the town is barreling toward bankruptcy, and may have to decide soon whether relinquishing its status as an independent municipality is its only option.

Why? From having to foot crushing legal bills, estimated at between $350,000 and $400,000 over the past three years, to fend off six lawsuits, six petitions to recall elected officials, and three complaints with the state Public Disclosure Commission. All have been brought by Block and her two compatriots, Susan Forbes and Joan Amenn. (At this time, all suits, petitions, and complaints have either been dismissed or are pending.)

• Since 2009, more than 400 publicdisclosure requests, seeking thousands of e-mails penned by city officials, also have been brought by Block and her cohorts, all of whom are convinced that the city is hiding correspondence to cover up past scandals.

• In November, Gold Bar voters overwhelmingly rejected a tax levy, by a nearly 60-to-40 margin, that would have covered its legal bills for one year. Homeowners were asked to pay an extra $11 per month on their property tax bill.

• Last summer, city treasurer Laura Kelly resigned after a hidden camera caught her allegedly stuffing $395 into envelopes. Kelly told a sheriff’s office deputy that she had borrowed the money to pay a personal bill and was returning it.

• On top of all this, riled residents still cluck like mad hens about the water inspector who was canned, nearly four years ago, for using his city-issued gas card for personal use and for allegedly tampering with the city’s wells. He proceeded to walk away with a $10,000 settlement after he sued for wrongful termination.

Then there’s the strange saga of the $450,000 missing from city coffers. On Oct. 9, 2012, Oregon City police arrested Christopher McKelvey, 26, and Heather Otnes, 28, in an Oregon City shopping mall parking lot.

They found meth and other drugs in their car, and both had outstanding warrants for identity theft, recounts Oregon City police spokesman Lt. Jim Band. Later that day, police received what proved to be a serendipitous call from the Rivershore Hotel, where the pair had stayed the night before—presumably enjoying more than the view of the Willamette River.

The duo left behind various drug paraphernalia. When police arrived, they discovered various bank receipts and other financial records, which would eventually lead to the realization that over several months, $450,000 had been systematically hacked from Gold Bar’s Bank of America account in Sultan. More than half the money has been recovered. The two have not been formally charged, and an FBI investigation continues, says Band.

Yet much of Gold Bar’s tumult involves overblown transgressions, petty slights, and

Gold Bar made its bones as a mining town.

jealousies, rather than the specter of bankruptcy, the hacking scam, or even potential extinction. To more deeply understand it, one might turn to a poem, “The Shoelace,” which Charles Bukowski published in 1972: “Death he’s ready for, or murder, incest, robbery, fire, flood . . . No, it’s the continuing series of small tragedies that send a man to the madhouse . . . not the death of his love but a shoelace that snaps with no time left.”

In Gold Bar, the shoelace that snapped was an e-mail then-Mayor Crystal Hill fired off to Anne Block in 2008 after Block demanded that Hill stop bringing her two young children to council meetings.

Block, who is hard of hearing, said the kids were unruly and that she couldn’t make out what was being said. “They were bouncing off the walls,” remembers Block, “just beating the crap out of each other.” In a sternly written missive, she implored Hill to get a babysitter and stop asking the city clerk to check on them. Things escalated, with each woman accusing the other of being neglectful mothers. On it went.

Then, remembers Mayor Beavers (a councilman at the time), the game-changing e-mail was dispatched.

“You are pathetic,” wrote a fed-up Hill to Block, followed by the coup de grâce, “Fuck you.”

“That,” says Beavers, “was a very, very costly e-mail.”

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he bar at Prospector’s Steak & Ale is not a place people come to get sloshed. Rather, amid the warm wash of conversation, locals belly up on weathered stools to chat about the passing day.

On a late December afternoon, as the sun dips below the mountains, the half-empty watering hole falls suddenly silent when a reporter nursing a soft drink inquires about Anne Block. Startled, the bartender asks, “Sir, are you sure you don’t want anything stronger than that? Maybe a Black Velvet?

“Everyone is afraid of her,” the barkeep continues. “I’ve never seen her, but people have come in here with her picture, and I say, ‘I don’t want to know her.’ All I know is she takes real pleasure in destroying the city—all

because of someone who is not even the mayor anymore.”

“Crystal Hill, you mean?” asks the reporter.

“Yes, and you cannot use my name, do you understand? I do not want to get involved in this.”

At the Haircut Store, 79-year-old barber Mike Moore has been shearing heads since he opened the shop on Highway 2 back in 1961.

“I know the city does a lot of goofy things, but they ought to just give her [Anne Block] what she’s asking for and get it over with,” says Moore. “Anne’s been groping for things that took place back when Crystal was mayor. It’s all pretty goofy. I’ll be surprised if Joe [Beavers] doesn’t have a nervous breakdown.”

Nearby, Chris Andres, owner of Christy’s Salon, says of Block: “She’s been to court on these suits, and she keeps losing—and it’s no cost to her, but the city has to pick up the tab.

You know, 40 years ago, we’d have run her out of town.”

Not everyone shares this antipathy for the irrepressible Block. A number of residents applaud her as a conscientious citizen activist who is holding city officials’ feet to the fire.

Still, they are wary of crediting her watchdog activities, at least on the record.

In line at the Gold Bar Market, a local, asking to be identified only as Kevin, says, “This place has got a lot of weird secrets and she’s digging into them, which is good.” His companion, a stocky man with both arms tattooed from wrist to shoulder, agrees: “Yeah, Gold Bar needs to have someone out there sticking it to these guys.”

Gold Bar’s rancorous history dates to its very beginnings. The town sprang to life in the late 19th century as a prospectors’ camp where, legend has it, a miner named Boyce found shimmering specks of gold on a Skykomish River gravel bar—and the town’s name was born.

In the early 1890s, as a bustling bivouac for the Great Northern Railway, antiChinese sentiments grew so heated that at one point—after a shooting incident inflamed already-simmering tensions between white workers and dollar-a-day “coolie” laborers—a construction engineer is said to have slipped some Chinese out of town in quickly constructed coffins to save their lives.

Throughout its existence, Gold Bar has lurched from good times to bad, the bad seemingly plucked from an installment of A Series of Unfortunate Events. In the 1920s, the

“He started to not trust Crystal. There Great Northern moved its roundhouse to Skywere constant lies,” recounts Block. “I komish and the Gold Bar Lumber Company remember once she said she had dinner with mill closed. Around that time, devastating the governor, and she hadn’t.” fires destroyed the Croft Hotel at the corner Block, too, began to take an active interof First and Railroad Avenues, and many surest in Gold Bar politics, and after opening an rounding homes and businesses went up in employment-law practice in nearby Monroe, smoke. In 1933, the high school closed for started going to meetings. lack of students; Gold Bar’s kids have gone She agrees that the babysitting row with to Sultan High ever since. And in the 1950s, Hill was a real bone of contention, and that trains stopped using the depot. the mayor’s “Fuck you” e-mail was the match Over the past couple of decades, however, that lit the fire. But “the the town has prospered clincher,” she says, came due to a number of young families who’ve Block says her life has when word spread that Hill had fired moved to Gold Bar to been threatened and that Mayor water inspector Karl enjoy its rugged, widedead animals have been Majerle for, in Block’s open beauty and experience small-town livleft near her doorstep. words, “sabotaging our water supply.” ing—though local jobs On July 31, 2008, Hill are as rare as the shiny sent Majerle a notice of termination, informspeck of gold the miner Boyce spotted on ing him that he “had used his petro credit the Sky River gravel bar. Most working-age card for personal use” and that he’d “delibresidents commute: On weekday mornings, erately disabled the City’s water system” by Highway 2 is thick with motorists heading to turning off “every valve [and] electronic comMonroe and the big cities beyond. ponent . . . for the main water well.”

“We love our little town,” concludes the Then-councilmember Lie says it took three anxious bartender at Prospector’s. “Believe days to get the water flowing normally again. it or not, we used to be pretty normal. You Though no one was without water, Lie says know, with people pretty much going about the reservoir grew dangerously low—not a their business.” fortuitous happening during fire season.

That is, until Block came to town.

Block, meanwhile, says Hill should have reported the water-well tampering to police. nne Block blew into Gold Bar Block also claimed, and still does, that Hill like a hot wind in 2006, and this was having an affair with Majerle, and that it madcap Mayberry hasn’t been the was Hill who, “behind closed doors,” recomsame since. mended that the city pay him off after she A fast-talking, tightly wound woman with fired him in order to conceal their sexual pale blue eyes and a bright current of blonde relationship. hair, Block grew up in Massachusetts, the “That’s just crazy,” counters Hill. “You child of a libertarian Jewish postal worker know, she’s threatened to publish that I have and a Catholic mother, a committed Green STDs if I don’t admit to her claims about this Party member. “And I am an atheist, and affair.” proud of it,” says the 45-year-old Block.

“A complete fabrication,” confirms Beavers.

On a gray, drizzly morning earlier this Whatever the case, it was the water-well month, Block could be found at her Old Town incident—and Block’s lingering disdain for Monroe law office. Just back from Florida, Hill—that triggered her almost-fanatical she’s dressed in post-vacation casual attire: public-disclosure onslaught. In the aftermath jeans and a black “St. Pete Beach” sweatshirt. of Majerle’s firing, Block sought access to Pictures of her grown daughter adorn the every e-mail Hill and the water inspector had white stucco walls. On her desk is a Maria exchanged. Since then, Block has accused Cantwell campaign button and a “Women for Hill of everything from illicit affairs to extorObama” sticker. tion to hiding public records—all of which has A self-described “old lefty,” Block recalls found its way into the Gold Bar Reporter, the childhood Christmas mornings spent feeding website she began in August 2009 because the poor; doorbelling for Ted Kennedy durshe believed the town had become a hotbed ing his 1976 Senate re-election campaign; the frequent dinnertime discourse that invariably of corruption.

Particularly galling to Block was the turned to politics. “My parents taught me that $10,000 settlement Majerle received. “He you could be more effective on the outside was fired for cause, and yet the city paid him than on the inside.” off because that’s what Crystal wanted,” says In her final year at Cooley Law School in Block.

Lansing, Mich., Block decided to fly to SeatCounters Hill: “Yes, Karl was fired for tle, along with her partner, Noel Frederick. cause, but when he filed suit against the city “We’re outdoor enthusiasts, and so we for wrongful termination, we decided, rather came west to hike. We went to the Cascades than have a costly legal battle, to pay out and Mount Rainier, where I remember Noel saying one day on the mountain, ‘This is para- his severance package, which was around $10,000. We paid $5,000 and our insurance dise. This is where I want to be.’ ” paid $5,000.” (Majerle did not respond to It was a particularly enchanting hike into phone messages seeking comment.)

Wallace Falls State Park that led them at last Continues Block: “Her personal business to purchase a home in a Gold Bar subdivision is one thing, but when she’s using public with a clear mountain view and a backyard money to cover up her affair with Karl, that’s hot tub. For a while they both commuted to another thing. I just wanted Hill to release Seattle—Block to a job as a claims adjuster the records, that’s all. And now I want Joe for the U.S. Department of Labor, Frederick Beavers to stop withholding records. I want to an engineering firm. Soon Frederick got full transparency and open government, and involved in Gold Bar’s civic affairs, regularly you don’t have that in Gold Bar.” attending council meetings and volunteering to serve on the city’s planning commission. » CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

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become the town pariah. “I don’t know what they’re trying to hide, but it has become outright hateful. People are calling her a lunatic, and all she wants is full public disclosure,” says Forbes, who has twice run unsuccessfully for city council.

“I’m not the most liked person in this town, either,” Forbes goes on. “I don’t answer the phone anymore if I don’t know who it is.”

Then, in a whisper, Forbes says, “A lot of this, you know, started with Crystal.”

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he Gold Bar Reporter is a no-holdsbarred account of what goes on at t is extraordinary, the amount of time and City Hall. Many of its posts update energy that has been devoted to Crystal residents on what progress, if any, Hill. A onetime single mom who eked Block is making in getting the city to comply out a living as a part-time paralegal, she’s with her public-disclosure requests. long gone from Gold Bar, having moved to Mayor Beavers says the blog is a disruptive Duvall after resigning her $300-a-month force. Still, it has unearthed some compelling mayoral position. Still, three-and-a-half years news, most spectacularly last September durremoved, Hill remains a lightning rod. ing the re-election campaign of Snohomish An attractive, dark-haired woman, Hill County Executive Aaron Reardon. In a post was barely 25 when she was elected mayor titled “Reardon’s deck of cards loaded with in 2006—by four votes. “This was the biggest jokers and criminals,” Block accused Rearthing that ever happened in her life,” Noel don of using taxpayer money for a trip “with Frederick says scornfully. “She got involved his mistress, a former Snohomish County with all these boards and commissions, but employee.” she was incompetent. She was very PalinA month later, the employee, a well-tanned esque.” bodybuilder named Tamara Dutton, came “She stirred up a lot of controversy,” fumes forward to admit that she had in fact romped Councilmember LaZella, nearly spitting out about the country with Reardon, and was her words at her Gold Bar home, located on intimately involved with the county’s top gun. a comely country lane and surrounded by Reardon spokesman Christopher Schwarzen a rock wall. Asked for specifics, she eagerly said the county executive would have no claims, “Well, she went to Bubba’s [Roadcomment about the current chaos in Gold house] in Sultan and got drunk and was flashBar—or about Anne Block. ing her boobs. Yeah, she was an all-round bad Block filed a recall petition against Rearmayor. She was always screaming at people.” don in June 2012, accusing him of breaking During the interview, her husband tries sevstate campaign laws by using public money eral times to interject with additional detail, for fundraising and lobbying during his 2011 but each time LaZella yells, “Shut up, Mike! re-election effort. She continues the recall He’s not talking to you. I’m on the council, push, despite a setback on Aug. 8, 2012, when you’re not.” a Skagit County judge dismissed the case on At a Starbucks in Kirkland, where Chuck a technicality, saying her petition was flawed Lie works as a geologist, the nine-year Gold because Block had Bar resident says of Hill, failed to sign paperwork “They are on a path of “She was real attracunder oath alleging that tive, real flirtatious. Joe Reardon had engaged in destruction that will make Beavers once told me Gold Bar a haven for meth that when she walked misconduct.

Meanwhile, Block houses and pedophiles.” into a meeting where says her life has been Aaron Reardon was at, threatened and that that Reardon popped a dead animals have been left near her doorwoody.” (“I don’t know how to answer that step. That’s one reason she no longer attends question,” responds Brian Parry, a top aide to council meetings. She also claims she’s been Reardon, when asked about the alleged erecsubjected to illegal background checks by tion. “Do you have any other questions?”)

John Pennington, the director of Snohomish Block has no use for Reardon, and even County’s Department of Emergency Manless for Hill. In the Gold Bar Reporter on Nov. agement, who married Crystal Hill several 23, 2008, under the headline “Crystal Hill years ago.

Pennington BEWARE!!!”, Block wrote, “Over To that end, Block has asked Snohomish the last three years we’ve read thousands of County, under the Public Records Act, for all e-mail records which confirm that Crystal e-mails sent or received by Pennington which Hill and Sno Co Director were e-mailing ‘mug have been directed to city officials in Gold Bar shots.’ . . . Two words that describe Crystal or have mentioned Block’s name.

Hill Pennington: liar and deceptive.”

“We’ve furnished her thousands of John Pennington declined comment when e-mails,” says Jason Cummings, Snohomish reached at his office at Snohomish County County’s chief civil deputy attorney, “but she Emergency Management. But then, refercontinues to believe there are more.” ring to Block, he volunteered, “We’ve been As for the threats, Block elaborates, “I’ve through hell with this woman. We want her been told to watch my back, and that if I out of our lives. This woman scares us. She don’t stop filing these public-records requests scares me.” that ‘I’d better pack up and move.’ One time Block recently hired private investigaI came out to find on my steps a rat with its tor Neil Harrison, of P.S.I. Investigations, head cut off.” who says he’s tasked with finding out if Her Gold Bar Reporter partner and friend Hill, while mayor, was having an affair with Susan Forbes, who makes a point of taping all Majerle, the water inspector. Prior to that, council meetings and posting them on Youin July 2009—five months before her term Tube, says it is grossly unfair that Block has was to expire—an overwrought Hill abruptly

resigned her post as Gold Bar’s mayor, citing relentless harassment via the Internet from an unknown person.

That person, Hill now says, is Anne Block.

“But really,” she adds, “I can’t talk about it any longer. I’m done with all that.”

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“I ask Joan [Ammen], Anne [Block], and Susan [Forbes] to leave my family alone,” he said at the meeting. “If people talk bad about me, I will take action . . . As of today, the rules change a little bit.”

Wright is aware that he’s been fingered as the architect of the “Jewish bitch” slur aimed at Block, a charge he vigorously denies. “That is untrue. I have never said that. My mom is Jewish,” says Wright.

Still, he has nothing but disdain for Block.

“Watch out for her—she will come at you with daggers,” he says. “She’s off her rocker.”

Then he adds, “I believe every citizen has the right to make a public-records request, but there comes a point when you are abusing that right.” As for his criminal record, Wright explains, “Yeah, I made some mistakes when I was younger, but I never, ever struck a

woman . . . I’m happily married now.”

Wright’s council seat, meanwhile, remains vacant. “No one wants to be on the [fivemember] council anymore. No one,” says Croshaw.

As for Block, the blistering criticisms and insults she’s endured for years have left her with thicker skin, but also reservations and doubts. Asked if she intends to stay on in Gold Bar in light of everything, she replies, “That’s a good question.”

It’s a question that disillusioned excouncilman Lie has also pondered.

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iving into his taco salad at La Hacienda, Beavers, Gold Bar’s snowyhaired mayor, is unapologetic about not turning over every e-mail Block and her fellow bloggers have asked for.

“It is not the role of the city to peek into people’s bedrooms,” begins the 69-year-old Beavers, a smooth-talking Texas transplant and retired mechanical engineer who moved to Gold Bar in 2006. “This is all about destroying Crystal Hill. It’s a personal vendetta, nothing more. She keeps looking for more e-mails between Crystal and Karl, and they don’t exist.”

Beavers says he’s already turned over more than 27,000 e-mails that Block & co. have demanded, but he’s holding back on releasing additional messages, which he estimates number about 3,000. They are off limits, he argues, because they’re personal and do not pertain to government business.

Flicking crumbs from his red fleece jacket, Beavers says the city will survive the final days of December, but 2013 looks bleak. “Our reserves are gone, and our property-tax revenues [which equal 35 percent of the town’s operating budget] are way down,” he says.

As for the missing $450,000, Beavers says the money began to disappear in small amounts in the middle of last May, and that no one in the city noticed the data breach until sometime in July. The good news, he adds, is that nearly $283,000 has been recovered.

Beavers glowers when he speaks of Block.

“To shit in your own nest the way she has is outrageous,” he grouses. “If we go bankrupt, it will mean less police protection that we’ll be able to afford from Snohomish County.”

Then, with the sort of bombastic overstatement commonplace in Gold Bar, the mayor adds, “They [Block and her two blogging companions] are on a path of destruction that will make Gold Bar a haven for meth houses and pedophiles.”

Finishing his lunch, Beavers confides, “You know, Gold Bar has a history of eating its mayors. We had one who called it the worst year of her life, and another one who had someone threaten to shoot her.”

Dorothy Croshaw, who knows the lay of the land as well as anyone, understands Beavers’ pessimism. “You couldn’t pay me enough money to be mayor of this town,” she says over coffee at the Mountain View Diner.

She moved to Gold Bar “as a new bride” in the early 1960s, back when the town boasted just 500 residents. Now 81, Croshaw spent 12 years as a councilmember, and for the past year has served as a volunteer on Gold Bar’s finance committee. Hence, she knows firsthand the town’s financial woes.

“We are a year away from complete bankruptcy, and Anne is bankrupting this city.

These suits are killing us, and she knows it, and the only winners are the attorneys,” opines Croshaw. “Citizens are sick of it. They don’t even show up at the meetings anymore.

And Anne, of course, never shows up, because someone would kill her. So she sends the others [Forbes and Amenn]. These women have way too much free time, I’ll tell you that.”

One evening last October, councilman

Chris Wright announced his resignation from the council just minutes into the meeting. He broke the news “to audible gasps from the audience,” reported The Monroe Monitor.

After taking a seat in the chamber, Wright asked to make a comment now that he was just a citizen. Wrote Monitor editor Polly Keary: “He then demanded that three people who have been intensely critical of the city as well as accusatory toward him desist.”

Wright was referring to the Gold Bar Reporter’s dredged-up accounts of a misdemeanor domestic-violence offense in May 2006 of which he was found guilty. (The Everett Herald mentioned it along with a DUI and another misdemeanor assault charge from 1993 in a story published Oct. 22, 2009, when Wright was running for the Gold Bar city council against Forbes.)

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Contemporary dance training has branched out from the old-school models of modern versus ballet class, but there aren’t too many performers who get ready for a show by learning how to butcher a lamb. Carrie Ahern has certainly spent her time in the dance studio, but for Borrowed Prey, her new work investigating “our relationship to the animals most of us consume,” she actually apprenticed herself to a meat-cutter. In our food-obsessed culture, with its emphasis on knowing the people who produce what we eat, Ahern steps behind the counter in a real butcher shop, turning muscle into meat. (Performances run Thurs.–Sun. through Jan. 27.)

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“Wherever you come near the human race, there’s layers and layers of nonsense,” says

the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder’s quietly subversive Our Town. Thanks to innumerable school productions over 75 years, the Pulitzer Prize winner’s sparse, simple staging is as immediately recognizable as a renaissance pietà or the Golden Arches. Two ladders representing the windows through which George Gibbs and Emily Webb speak to each other. Side-by-side kitchens in which their families experience the everyday. A flock of tombstones on which the dead talk of the living.

Like youth, Wilder’s plays are often wasted on the young. Hit and Run Theater Company states as its goal to go beyond the typical “hearts and flowers” take on Our Town to something darker, as Wilder intended. Since this isn’t a school production, adults play the adult roles, and we feel the mortal tinge more directly. However, as we revisit two ordinary families in the small New Hampshire town of Grover’s Corners, the first two acts are ritualized, if not exactly dark.

Seattle Rep veteran Gordon Coffey wryly plays the Stage Manager, punctuating his commentary with an array of eye rolls, squints, and open-mouthed guffaws.

Charissa J. Adams and Kevin Pugsley are enchanting—spontaneously and permeably alive as Emily and George. (Their authenticity helps redeem the tentative, canned quality of some other performances.) Directed by Arne Zaslove, the key scenes hold their own against the Century Ballroom’s drawbacks, which include stumble-inducing risers and ambient din from the dance hall next door.

Nobody will be immune to Emily’s wrenching protestations against the unnatural tide of marriage that will rip her from kin and deliver her to life’s next stage (and then its final destination).

Wilder’s anthropological sensibility makes such social transitions as primal as National Geographic. Yet soon after her betrothal, Emily remembers nothing of it. “Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?” she famously asks. They will, at least in theory, after seeing this serviceable production. MARGARET FRIEDMAN E stage@seattleweekly.com

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Things this hit show’s creators—Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez—hate: received wisdom, Disney plasticity, Johnnie Cochran, and condescension from anyone anywhere on the politico-religious spectrum. Things they love: production numbers.

(For all the potshots South Park’s Stone and Parker, and their comic rival, Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane, have taken at one another, they share a taste for old-school Broadway razzle-dazzle.) Their Tony-winning musical follows two fresh-faced Mormons, dorky, porky Elder Cunningham (Christopher John O’Neill) and square-jawed, self-adoring Elder Price (Mark Evans), on their first mission to Uganda. Discovering that his confabulated Mormon myths draw converts even more effectively than the ones in his titular Book, Cunningham wreaks havoc in the village.

The comic conceit of having nerdy Mormon boys (a mini-chorus of other missionaries in the village) act reeeeeeally super-hyper-ultra gay is spread pretty thin.

Fortunately, the early showstopper “Hasa Diga Eebowai” (a blithely cruel send-up of The Lion King’s “Hakuna Matata”), which references clitoral circumcision and infant rape, gives the satire teeth. For most of the evening, the combination of perky tunes (by Lopez), jazz hands, and verbal atrocities keeps the show bouncing along expertly.

Then Book takes off to a new, exhilarating, hilariously profane dimension when the Ugandans reinterpret, in a show-within-ashow, all that Cunningham has taught them.

Credit goes to Parker, Lopez, and Stone for creating a big, glitzy fun-fest that will be absolutely untouchable by any high-school drama department. It would be interesting to know how much future income they’ll lose for each repetition of the line “Fuck you, God.” No wonder a full-page ad at the center staple of Book’s program, for the 5th Avenue’s upcoming Music Man, reassures scandalized audiences that “Our dirtiest word is Shipoopie!” GAVIN BORCHERT

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Stranded by a snowstorm within one guesthouse are the young couple who own the business, four single guests, one stranger who happened upon the house, and one detective. Eight inhabitants; one murderer; and one nameless target—but how many will get hit in the crossfire? 425.392.2202. $44-$63 (youth and senior discounts available). www.ghostlighttheatricals.org

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ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery January 23 - February 16

A middle-aged Liverpool housewife is transformed by a surprise holiday in the Greek islands. Named among the most influential post-war British plays by the Victoria and Albert Museum, this award-winning comedy stars Footlight Award winner Heather Hawkins. 206.938.0339. $12-$34.50. www.artswest.org

THE UNDERSTUDY Seattle Public Theater January 25 - February 17

Art and commerce collide in Theresa Rebeck’s play about an overpaid action movie star who turns an undiscovered Kafka play into a Broadway hit. Things then implode when an embittered and idealistic understudy arrives for rehearsal and discovers the stage manager is his ex-fiancée. 206.524.1300. $18-$30. www.seattlepublictheater.org

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AMERICAN BUFFALO Seattle Repertory Theatre On stage now - February 3

During one long day in a run-down junk shop, three men of great ambition and low morals plan a heist of a customer’s valuable coin collection. When the con goes awry, it’s every man for himself. This fast paced drama is all aggression and testosterone, with characters wielding words like weapons to intimidate, cajole and manipulate each other. 206.443.2222. $20-$65. www.seattlerep.org

NOVEL WORKSHOP SERIES Meany Studio Theatre at UW January 17 - 20

Book-It Repertory Theatre is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming great literature into great theatre through simple and sensitive production and to inspiring its audiences to read. Join them for the fourth annual collaboration with the UW School of Drama in a series that explores potential adaptations for future main stage productions on the Book-It stage. 206.543.4880. $10. www.book-it.org/about/artistic-development

FOLLOW YOU EVERYWHERE – A MEMOIR, GROWING UP AND COMING OUT IN TEXAS The DownStage Theatre January 25 - 27

Comedian Georgia Ragsdale explores her Texas roots in a quirky, poignant childhood to coming-of-age theatrical memoir. Set in suburban Houston in the 1960’s and 1970’s, she travels through a world of unusual characters and events, illuminated with to-the-point stories and movement pieces set to the sound track of the times. A simple story, elegantly and economically told in an intimate, theatrical setting – from the heart, direct, truthful and compelling. followyoueverywhere@gmail.com. $12.50 G.A. www.brownpapertickets.com/event/308764

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Village Theatre On stage now - February 24

Stranded by a snowstorm within one guesthouse are the young couple who own the business, four single guests, one stranger who happened upon the house, and one detective. Eight inhabitants; one murderer; and one nameless target—but how many will get hit in the crossfire? 425.392.2202. $44-$63 (youth and senior discounts available). www.villagetheatre.org

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Seattle Opera - McCaw Hall Playing now - January 26

A uniquely Italian retelling of the ultimate rags-to-riches story from Rossini, the composer of “The Barber of Seville.”

Clever staging and colorful costumes highlight this new-toSeattle production. 206.389.7676. $25-$215. www.seattleopera.org

ANDRE FERIANTE - WORDS OF LOVE Benaroya Hall February 14

For this special 15th anniversary Valentine’s Day Concert, Words of Love, Andre will perform pieces from his new Beatles album, Beatles Masquerade. He always delivers a musical mix of fiery flamenco, classical guitar standards and spoken poetry set to his original compositions. Tickets are $40 and on sale now through the Benaroya Hall Box Office 206.215.4747 or online at www.benaroyahall.org www.andreferiante.com/bhallflyer

DANCE WHIM W’HIM: CRAVE MORE Seattle Center Playhouse January 18 - 20

Sex. Drugs. Alcohol. Seattle’s hottest contemporary dance company opens its fourth season with four dance premieres. Drawing inspiration from Scottish youth clubbing, guest choreographer, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, unveils CRAVE, as well as Before/After. Wever’s work, The Sofa, will stage its Seattle debut, and More comes to the Playhouse stage for the first time. This season features new company dancers as well as the return of Lucien Postlewaite (currently with Ballet des Monte Carlo) in January’s performances. 800.838.3006. $25-$30. www.whimwhim.org

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AMERICAN BUFFALO SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 15.

•BOOK-IT @ UW The theater company and the UW drama

department collaborate on workshopping Book-It-style adaptations of four novels. Meany Studio Theater, UW campus, drama.uw.edu. $10. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 17– Sat., Jan. 19, 2 p.m. Sun., Jan. 20.

DAVID ALAN GRIER SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 15.

HAMLET Ghost Light Theatricals gender-swaps it. The Ballard Underground, 2220 N.W. Market St., ghostlight theatricals.org. $12–$15. Preview Jan. 17, opens Jan. 18. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.–Sat., plus 2 p.m. Sun., Jan. 20 and 7:30 p.m. Mon., Jan. 28. Ends Feb. 2.

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH The titular transgender of the 1998 off-Broadway musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch has become the equivalent of Tosca or Norma for ersatz alt-culture icons—a way to prove their pipes and test their mettle as the ultimate diva.

Any actor who’s deft with gender games, and every drag queen who can actually sing, wants to star in this John Cameron Mitchell/Stephen Trask cult classic, a Rocky Horror Show for the new century (and also a 2001 movie). Through dark comic monologues and songs backed by a surly band, despairing East German lounge singer Hedwig regales us with her tale of a botched sex-change operation and, by the end of the evening, becomes whole again in body and soul with a magnificent cry for “Midnight Radio” (a kind of punk-pop “Vissi d’arte”). No argument here that Jerick Hoffer, the Hedwig of this Balagan/STG co-production, has paid his dues—the Cornish-trained drag performer (aka Jinkx Monsoon) recently played Moritz in Balagan’s Spring Awakening and Angel in Rent at the 5th Avenue. (He also claimed a spot on RuPaul’s Drag Race, which resumes January 28 on the Logo channel.)

Hoffer is guided here by director Ian Bell, a local pro who’s got the off-kilter comedy thing down cold. STEVE WIECKING The Moore, 1932 Second Ave., 877-784-4849, balagantheatre.org. $17.50–$32.50. Preview Jan. 16, opens Jan. 17. Runs Wed.–Sun.; see stgpresents.org for exact schedule. Ends Jan. 27.

THE MOUSETRAP Agatha Christie’s mystery set in a snowbound cabin. Village Theatre, 303 Front St. N., Issaquah, 425-392-2202. $22–$63. Preview Jan. 16, opens Jan. 17. Runs Wed.–Sun.; see villagetheatre.org for exact schedule. Ends Feb. 24 (then runs in Everett March 1–24).

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Saxophone Quartet, flutist/storyteller Paul Wagner, visual artist Aric Mayer, and others collaborate on this multimedia/oral-history performance. Chapel Performance Space, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., 789-1939. $5–$15. 8 p.m. Fri., Jan. 18–Sat., Jan. 19.

ONE-ACT FEST An omnibus presented by Northwest Actors Lab. Bainbridge Performing Arts, 200 Madison Ave. N., Bainbridge Island, 842-8569, bainbridge performingarts.org. $15–$20. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 17– Sat., Jan. 19, 3 p.m. Sat., Jan. 19–Sun., Jan. 20.

THE SEAGULL Chekhov, in a production nine months in the making. ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., 292-7676. $15–$35. Previews Jan. 22–24, opens Jan. 25. Runs Thurs.–Sun.; see acttheatre.org for exact schedule.

Ends Feb. 10.

SHIRLEY VALENTINE Heather Hawkins plays the working-class Liverpool housewife who finds romance in Greece. ArtsWest, 4711 California Ave. S.W., 938-0339, artswest.org. $10–$34.50. Preview Jan. 22, opens Jan. 23. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sat., plus 3 p.m. Sun. Jan. 27 & Feb. 3. Ends Feb. 16.

THREE SONGS SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 15.

UNDO Holly Arsenault’s new play about a very public divorce. Annex Theatre, 1100 E. Pike St., 728-0933, annextheatre.org. $5–$20. Opens Jan. 18. 8 p.m. Thurs.– Sat. Ends Feb. 16.

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AUSTEN TRANSLATION Jet City Improv comes up with

a new “novel” each night, based on your suggestions.

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 SEE REVIEW, PAGE 17.

BYE BYE BIRDIE If ever there were a timeless concept for a musical, it’s satirizing teen-idol-mania. (Bye Bye Bieber.) The show also works as a pure period piece, too. What will Broadway Bound Children’s Theatre do with it? Broadway Performance Hall, 1625 Broadway, 800-838-3006, broadwaybound.org. $15–$17.50. 7 p.m.

Thurs.–Sun., also 2 p.m. Jan. 19 & 20. Ends Jan. 20.

A DOLL’S HOUSE Director Russ Banham eases the reins on Ibsen’s 1879 masterpiece and whips up fresh interest with Sean Patrick Taylor’s colloquial new rendering in this affably exaggerated, whimsy-tinged production. As Nora, the diminutive Jennifer Sue Johnson flits like a hummingbird, often playing the part for broad comedy, Lucille Ball–style: manic, narcissistic, bigger than life. 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. Michael Patten—Seattle

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(Well, a cast of 20.) Harpsichordist Luc Beauséjour (pictured) will anchor the changing ensembles in his SCMS debut. Come to think of it, I believe the harpsichord itself, the traditional keyboard instrument for baroque music, is making its SCMS debut. Beauséjour is also playing a recital all by himself (6:30 p.m. Fri., Jan. 25), featuring music

by Couperin, Rameau, and Scarlatti, the inventive and expressive peak of the instrument’s repertory. Other highlights of the six Festival concerts: Steve Reich’s musical memoir Different Trains for string quartet and electronics; Shostakovich’s gnarly but elegiac 1975 Viola Sonata, his last work; Bartok’s visceral Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion with the Seattle Symphony’s first-rate timpanist, Michael Crusoe; and a number of works by Benjamin Britten to mark his upcoming centennial. Benaroya Recital Hall, Third Avenue and Union Street, 283-8808. Single tickets $10–$45. Jan. 18–20 and 24–26; see seattle chambermusic.org for exact schedule.

theater’s go-to stiff guy—portrays Torvald as a lurching oaf alternately chastising and cooing in the same condescending key. This capable adaptation isn’t screamingly topical or modern, but it serves Ibsen well.

MARGARET FRIEDMAN Center House Theatre, Seattle Center, 733-8222. $22–$45. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sat., plus more weekend shows; see seattleshakespeare.org for exact schedule. Ends Jan. 27.

JALOPIES “A group of retirement-home residents 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.

OUR TOWN SEE REVIEW, PAGE 17.

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.

UBIQUITOUS THEY Mark Siano directs this sketchcomedy show. 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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• CARRIE CABEEN SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 15.

•UWCATHERINE DANCE Dance students perform Stravinsky’s Rite of

Spring in the first of several events this spring marking the pathbreaking work’s centennial. Meany Hall, UW campus, 543-4880, dance.washington.edu. $10–$20.

7:30 p.m. Fri., Jan. 18–Sat., Jan. 19.

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Sean Patrick Taylor Directed by Russ Banham

January 2–27

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Must Close Jan 27

METROPOLITAN OPERA AT THE MOVIES: Opera

performances live in HD. On Jan. 16 at 6:30 p.m., an encore of Verdi’s Aida. On Jan. 19 at 10 a.m., Joyce DiDonato starts as Donizetti’s doomed Maria Stuarda (encored Feb. 6). On Jan. 23 at 6:30 p.m., an encore of Berlioz’s epic Greek tale Les Troyens. See metopera. org for participating theaters. $24.

LA CENERENTOLA SEE REVIEW, PAGE 17.

SEATTLE SYMPHONY With jazz trumpeter Chris Botti.

Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., 215-4747, seattle symphony.org. $41–$112. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 17.

TRIO DE KOONING New music, primarily Dutch and American, for string trio. Cornish College/PONCHO Concert Hall, 710 E. Roy 800-838-3006, cornish.edu. $10–$20. 8 p.m. Fri., Jan. 18.

SEATTLE SYMPHONY Music by Handel, Rameau, and others follows a 6:30 p.m. wine tasting each night ($10 for four pours). Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., 2154747, seattlesymphony.org. $19–$76. 8 p.m. Fri., Jan. 18–Sat., Jan. 19.

SEATTLE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY SEE EAR SUPPLY, LEFT. Fri., Jan. 18 6:30 p.m. recital: Schumann’s Davidsbundlertänze. 7:30 p.m. concert: Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorak. Sat., Jan. 19 6:30 p.m. recital: Beethoven’s “Appassionata” Sonata. 7:30 p.m. concert: Schumann, Beethoven, Britten, and Steve Reich’s Different Trains. Sun., Jan. 20 2 p.m. recital: Shostakovich’s Viola Sonata. 3 p.m. concert: Bartok (including the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion) and Brahms. Benaroya Recital Hall, Third Ave. and Union St., 283-8808, seattlechambermusic.org. Single tickets $25–$45.

SEATTLE FRENCH BAROQUE FESTIVAL Music from the court of Louis XIV for guitar, gamba, and more.

Christ Episcopal Church, 4548 Brooklyn Ave., 633-1611, salishseafestival.org. $15–$25. 7:30 p.m. Sat., Jan. 19.

AUBURN SYMPHONY Brahms, Mozart, and Kodaly’s “Peacock” Variations. Auburn Performing Arts Center, 700 E. Main St., Auburn, 253-887-7777, auburn symphony.org. $10–$34. 7:30 p.m. Sat., Jan. 19, 2:30 p.m.

Sun., Jan. 20.

PUBLIC OPERA Vocal favorites in a dinner setting. Hilton Bellevue, 300 112th Ave. S.E., Bellevue, 425-455-1300, publicopera.com. $35. 6 p.m. Sun., Jan. 20.

EIGHTH BLACKBIRD This acclaimed new-music group plays Reich, Glass, Ligeti, and more. Kirkland Performance Center, 350 Kirkland Ave., Kirkland, 425893-9900, kpcenter.org. $40. 7:30 p.m. Tues., Jan. 22.

VANCOUVER SYMPHONY Bramwell Tovey conducts Grieg, Prokofiev, and Edward Top’s Totem. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., 215-4747, seattlesymphony.org. $19–$112. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Jan. 23.

Tickets: 206-733-8222 www.seattleshakespeare.org

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Nancy Unger: American Women in Environmental History (1/16) Jana Mohr Lone: Raising a Philosophical Child (1/17) Neil Shubin: The Universe Within (1/17) Oliver Burkeman: The Positive Power of Negative Thinking (1/21)

Free Inauguration Day Viewing Party (1/21) Planned Parenthood: Sarah Weddington: 40 Years of Choice (1/22)

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Over the years, the Seattle Chamber Music Society, in either its summer or winter festivals, has almost never included any pre-1750 music. That Seattle has such a big early-music scene is both an argument for this programming strategy (why play music other local ensembles already cover expertly?) and against it (there’s an eager fan base). So it was startling to see, in the Winter Festival lineup for the next two weekends, a whole concert of nothing but Bach’s six “Brandenburg” concertos (7 p.m.

Thurs., Jan. 24). His most popular orchestral works, they’re seldom heard consecutively, since he composed each one for a different combination of players, requiring a cast of thousands.

MYTHUNDERSTANDINGS Amy Denio, the Tipton

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arts»Visual Arts Openings & Events DEBORAH ASCHHEIM Trained at the UW and today

based in L.A., she presents Threshold, a large plastic urban diorama (lit by LEDs) intended to address “the way that cities and buildings and landscapes are haunted by memory.” Opening reception, 5–7 p.m. Fri., Jan. 18. Suyama Space, 2324 Second Ave., 256-0809, suyamapetersondeguchi.com/art. Opens Jan. 21.

Mon.–Fri., 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Through April 12.

CORNISH DESIGN FACULTY EXHIBITION This biennial show features drawings, paintings, photos, and more. In the Alumni Gallery, the parallel Cornish Staff Exhibition includes work by Corby Baker, Zac Boetes, and Dawn Cerny. Opening reception, 5–8 p.m. Fri., Jan. 18. Closing reception, 5–7 p.m. Fri., March 8. Cornish

Alumni Gallery, 1000 Lenora St., 726-5011, cornish.edu.

Mon.–Fri., 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Through March 8.

EYE ON PHOTOGRAPHY Satya Curcio, Tony Ise, Karen Messick, and Bob Venezia show their lens work.

Opening reception, 5–8 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 17. Madison Art Collective, 2703 E. Madison St., 324-4742, baasart gallery.com. Opens Jan. 17. Mon.–Sat., 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

Through Feb. 28.

THE IMPRESSION OF AMUNDSEN: ROALD AMUNDSEN’S SOUTH POLE EXPEDITION 1910– 1912 Contemporary Norwegian artists Tore Hansen,

Ulf Nilsen, and Håvard Vikhagen draw inspiration from the famous polar explorer and his recently published journal of the 1910–12 South Pole expedition. Nordic Heritage Museum, 3014 N.W. 67th St., 789-5707, nordicmuseum.org. $4–$6. Opens Jan. 18. Tues.–Sat., 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; Sun., noon–4 p.m. Through March 3.

LUMINATION Original works from resident artists in a

variety of media are presented. Reception, 5–8 p.m.

Thurs., Jan. 17. Gallery North, 508 Main St., Edmonds, 425-774-0946, gallery–north.com. Sat., 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; Sun., noon–6 p.m. Through Jan. 31.

THREE EXHIBITIONS, ONE VENUE More than a dozen artists associated with Seward Park Clay Studio show their ceramics in a new space at SDC. Opening reception, 6–9 p.m. Thurs., Jan 17. Seattle Design Center, 5701 Sixth Ave. S., 762-1200, seattledesigncenter.com.

Jan. 17–Feb. 28.

THE STARS ARE MADE FROM LOVE & BEAUTY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE JOURNALS OF JOE RENO, PAINTER Presented by CoCA, this book-

release party honors the veteran Northwest painter, whose journals were edited by David Francis. Note reading at 7 p.m. Seattle Design Center, 5701 Sixth Ave.

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(UN)STUCK: MIXED MEDIA COLLAGE In the Main Gallery, see new collages by Dianne Bradley, Christian Gollub and Lita Kenyon. The Guest Gallery presents Sumi–e: East Meets West, featuring local painters who work in that Asian idiom. Opening reception, 5–8 p.m. Sat., Jan. 19. Columbia City Gallery, 4864 Rainier Ave. S., 760–9834, columbiacitygallery.com. Opens Jan. 19. Sat.–Sun., 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; Wed.–Fri., noon–8 p.m.

Through March 3.

Ongoing

AUBRY KAE ANDERSEN In Illustrious Characters,

she shows bright new figurative works in a variety of media. Andersen’s vivid mixed-media paintings are presented. Also showing: Year Twenty Four, a group show by the Gallery Board of Directors in the Subterranean Room. Art/Not Terminal Gallery, 2045 Westlake Ave., 233-0680, antgallery.org. Wed.–Sat., 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Sun., noon–5 p.m. Through Jan. 29.

RYAN ARAGON & ALLYCE WOOD Wood draws intricate, small nature scenes in Plantbodies: Indicators and Reactors. Joining her is Aragon, who creates sculpture with found objects including toilet seats and insulin syringe caps. Also showing: Knit N’ Paintin’, Paul Komada’s works in yarn and watercolor. Soil Gallery, 112 Third Ave. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 264-8061, soilart.org. Wed.–Sat., noon–5 p.m. Through Feb. 2.

BAD ART? Over 1,000 pieces of folk art are featured in this visiting exhibition from the Backlund & Håkansson Collection in Sweden. Most are nature scenes painted on sections of birch trees. Nordic Heritage Museum, 3014 N.W. 67th St., 789-5707, nordicmuseum.org. $4–$6.

Tues.–Sat., 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; Sun., noon–4 p.m. Through March 3.

MK BARR She shows vivid works in glass. Blowing Sands Glass Studio, 5805 14th Ave. N.W., 783-5314, blowingsands.com. Sat., 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; Sun., noon–5 p.m.; Tues.–Fri., 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Through Feb. 6.

JUSTIN COLT BECKMAN In Mason Dixon, he looks back to the Civil War with an immersive installation featuring (fake) campfires, ersatz vintage photos, and an entire magic-lantern show depicting the surrender of CSA General Robert E. Lee (it takes about four minutes to watch, and it’s worth it). The effect is like a Ken Burns Civil War documentary reimagined as a Monty Python cartoon, equal parts nostalgia and absurdism.

The whimsy is a welcome antidote to the high-mindedness of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. Punch Gallery, 119 Prefontaine Place S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 621-1945, punchgallery.org. Thurs.–Sat., noon–5 p.m.

Through Feb. 2.

BODY LANGUAGE Marsha Burns, Kim Frohsin, Phillip Levine, and a dozen others examine the human form in a variety of media. Prographica, 3419 E. Denny Way, 322-3851, prographicadrawings.com. Wed.–Sat., 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Through Jan. 26.

BOBBIE BURGERS In Eternalism, the Canadian artist paints bright floral scenes. Also on view: photo-derived abstract works by Jeri Eisenberg and quilts by Luke Haynes. Foster/White Gallery, 220 Third Ave. S., 6222833, fosterwhite.com. Tues.–Sat., 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

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Chambers’ show Selah features big, black-and-white geometric compositions. Calderón exhibits photos of musicians, including Ray Charles and Quincy Jones.

Francine Seders Gallery, 6701 Greenwood Ave. N., 782-0355, sedersgallery.com. Tues.–Sat., 11 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sun., 1–5 p.m. Through Jan. 27.

COCA 23RD ANNUAL EXHIBITION Seattle Design Center hosts CoCA Georgetown for an an exhibition with Isabella Leary, Aaliyah Gupta, Kathy Liao, and others presenting entries ranging from fiber to painting, photography, video, installation, sound, sculpture, and more in this show juried by Portland-based artist MK Guth. Seattle Design Center, 5701 Sixth Ave. S., 7621200, seattledesigncenter.com. Mon.–Fri., 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

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COLLECTED STORIES: BOOKS BY LAURIE ANDERSON The performance artist and new-music

pioneer details her longstanding interest in storytelling, drawing, and technology. On view will be a selection of books produced over the last 40 years, which highlight diverse aspects of her career. Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave. N.E., 543-2280, henryart.org. $6–$10. Thurs.– Fri., 11 a.m.–9 p.m.; Wed., Sat., Sun., 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

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halo. Hugh Jackman is no less noble in Les Mis. And while Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings) and Denzel Washington (Flight) start with flaws, they march inexorably toward redemption.

This leaves no room for Jack Black’s mincing murderer in Bernie or Denis Lavant’s one-man freak show in Holy Motors or Sean Penn’s Goth-rocker Nazi hunter in This Must Be the Place or Matthew McConaughey’s Killer Joe? The same holds for actresses: Where is the place for Rachel Weisz’s adulteress in The Deep Blue Sea or Nicole Kidman’s slut in The Paperboy? The acting categories ought to be divided into heroes and villains; otherwise Oscar night becomes smothered in selfcongratulatory virtue.

Now let’s correct what we might call the Streep/De Niro Conundrum—the problem of the overdue. Let me propose a rule that a certain cumulative number of lifetime nominations automatically gets you an award, e.g., Silver Linings’ Robert De Niro (seven lifetime nominations, but now three decades past his Raging Bull prize) and Skyfall cinematographer Roger Deakins (10 nominations, never a win).

I will arbitrarily set the number at five. Amy Adams, one more and you’re golden.

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The Academy’s failure to recognize Matthew McConaughey in Magic Mike, meaning we’ll be deprived of a televised musical striptease number with Channing Tatum. E bmiller@seattleweekly.com THE 85TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS ABC, 4 p.m. Sun., Feb. 24.

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or film geeks, if there’s one thing better than watching the Oscars, it’s bitching about the Oscars—a hallowed ritual now greatly enhanced

by Twitter and the Web. Next month, when the awards are bestowed, laptops and smartphones will be buzzing with irate comments. And last Thursday’s nominations have already provided plenty of ammo for our ire and indignation.

After curating their precious top-10 lists with such care, critics wail, “Why didn’t they listen to me?” The fanboys grouse: Where was Looper, The Hobbit, or Skyfall—and what about The Master? Even if the final nine entries in the Oscar derby aren’t entirely objectionable, it’s fun to object. That’s why there’s more mock outrage about the Oscar noms than at a Senate confirmation hearing.

Where to begin? Let’s start with the math.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently expanded the Best Picture field to a possible 10, while Best Director remains locked at five. This means that while their Argo, Django Unchained, Les Misérables, and Zero Dark Thirty got the nod, respectively, Ben Affleck, Quentin Tarantino, Tom Hooper, and Kathryn Bigelow got the snub. (The twofers were David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook, Ang Lee for Life of Pi, Steven Spielberg for Lincoln, Michael Haneke for Amour, and Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild.)

Bigelow, whose hunt-for-bin Laden thriller topped many critics’ polls and 10-best lists, is the biggest casualty. Sure, she previously won for The Hurt Locker, but Zero Dark Thirty is a much larger enterprise—compressing about a decade of painstaking U.S. intelligence work into 157 thrilling minutes. (By contrast, Lincoln was eight minutes shorter, but felt a decade longer.) And while I have many reservations about Tarantino’s haute-trash approach to slavery, Django Unchained is in every sense a director’s movie; you couldn’t imagine anyone else making it.

The solution? Director and picture should be a combined category: Vote for one, and the other is automatically nominated. Two statues are awarded, and no one gets overlooked.

Then there are the morality issues. Because Academy members tend to be established, older figures (hence the disaster with online voting), they reward what they know and honor the uplifting. Slavery was bad (Lincoln, Django); religious pluralism is good (Life of Pi); love makes old age or mental illness bearable (Amour, Silver Linings); Anne Hathaway sure can sing (Les Mis); and how about Alan Arkin and John Goodman in Argo? Hollywood patriots helped free the hostages in Iran!

As a result, unvarnished heroes and heroines generally rule the acting categories. While Daniel Day-Lewis is magisterial in Lincoln, he also benefits from the historical/presidential

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Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film RUNS FRI., JAN. 18–THURS, JAN. 24 AT GRAND ILLUSION. NOT RATED. 82 MINUTES.

There are two movies struggling against each other in this affectionate, intimate documentary by Pip Chodorov. One is the titular subject: underground and avantgarde filmmakers from the ’20s through the ’70s, stopping short of video and never mentioning YouTube. The other is Chodorov’s youth, allowed to run wild by artist/hippie parents in the ’60s and ’70s, chronicled by wonderful home movies. Some of this color footage has a marvelously mottled and decayed quality, the image broken into multicolored tiles. The family dog peed on the storage box, Chodorov explains. “I thought it looked cool.”

Cool also was his father, Stephen Chodorov, who explains how he once hosted a TV show that showcased the likes of Ken Jacobs, Stan Brakhage, and Peter Kubelka.

These artists were apparently also friends of the Chodorov family, and most of the interviews in Free Radicals appear to have been culled from the non-dog-pee boxes in the basement. None are recent, all are friendly, and they form less a timeline than a series of random, nostalgic recollections of the good old American avant-garde. An experimental filmmaker himself (who shows us his darkroom), Pip Chodorov is a deferential student to his elders—maybe too much so. He treats everyone like his favorite uncle, allowing them to kvetch about never making a living but never considering why, until Warhol, experimental film “was surprisingly separate from the art world” (in the words of Michael Snow). And while indulging the ageless, irrepressible Jonas Mekas (who founded Anthology Film Archives in New York), young Chodorov never analyzes why that downtown scene faded in the ’80s.

Still the clips here are a treat, including Len Lye’s kinetic direct animation Free Radicals (the image scratched directly onto film stock that never passed through a camera). When we see, in 1973, Stan VanDerBeek creating primitive computer animation as a resident artist at MIT, we recognize it as the symbolic birth of Pixar. Again, Chodorov’s love for the old ways, and the old medium, blinds him to this connection.

(Note: A separate program of avant-garde shorts will be screened at 7 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 24.) BRIAN MILLER

Alexandrowicz sets the stage for his interviews.

The Law in These Parts RUNS FRI., JAN. 18–THURS., JAN. 24 AT NORTHWEST FILM FORUM. NOT RATED. 101 MINUTES.

History is written by the victors and laws by the occupiers. That’s the way it works in Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s intelligent but tedious doc about Israel’s administration of civil justice—by military judges—in the occupied West Bank after 1967. The film comprises several interviews with retired IDF lawyers who also created some laws in the occupied territories. It was by their rule, in military courts, that thousands of Palestinians have been held in “administrative arrest” (before actually doing anything) and given long, futile sentences for throwing stones at settlers and soldiers in the West Bank. (Killing and suicide bombs are another matter.) They also provided a legal foundation for seizing “dead land,” then turned into Israeli settlements, via a footnote in the legal code of the Ottoman Empire.

All but one of these judges seem satisfied by their work as Alexandrowicz cross-examines them in a highly theatrical setting.

Perhaps hoping to lend his dry subject some of Errol Morris’ eccentric visual presentation, Alexandrowicz films the judges in front of a green screen on which documentary footage of the occupation is projected. Then, as old case files are quoted and rehashed with the judges, there’s a third visual element in the constant subtitles (Hebrew to English) in the foreground. (Alexandrowicz also adds his own gratuitous commentary on the artifice of these staged hearings—more stuff for us to read.)

So: four decades of history, three simultaneous elements to watch, and The Law in These Parts buckles under the load.

If you care deeply about the subject, maybe you can follow Alexandrowicz’s thread. But if you do, your mind is already made up—so there’s really no point in watching. Those who consider the occupation illegal will detest the white-haired old judges (one in a wheelchair).

Those who agree that “Security comes before human rights,” per one judge, will scoff at Alexandrowicz’s soft liberal bias. His position is clear, even if the movie is a didactic chore to sit through. After about 90 minutes, he simply reads back to the judges a Palestinian prisoner’s account of torture, forced confession, and imprisonment. It’s a dramatic coup that would be well suited to the stage. But in real life, we know, the conflict drags on. One dull little movie won’t change anyone’s mind—or Ariel Sharon’s “facts on the ground.” BRIAN MILLER E film@seattleweekly.com

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theme for various short films being screened. Total program length is about two hours. (NR) Grand Illusion, 1403 N.E. 50th St., 523-3935, grandillusioncinema.org, $5-$8, Sat., 2 p.m. Through March 23.

SUPERMAN II/ROBOCOP 2 Sequels are the theme this month at Central Cinema, with Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder reprising their roles in the PG-rated Superman II (released in 1980). Following is the considerably more violent RoboCop 2, from 1990, in which actor Peter Weller returns, but not director Paul Verhoeven. (R) Central Cinema, $6-$8, Jan. 18-21, 7 & 9:45 p.m.

VIVA L’ITALIA SAM’s repertory series continues with Roberto Rossellini’s 1950 The Flowers of St. Francis, which takes an episodic and sometimes comic approach to the holy man’s life. (NR). Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., 654-3100, seattleartmuseum. org, $63-$68 series, $8 individual, Thurs., 7:30 p.m.

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smartly contoured to fit just more than two hours of screen time by Sir Tom Stoppard; Joe Wright directs.

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

The most immediately striking element is the selfconscious theatricality Wright’s staging. Thankfully, the men and women populating Wright’s little theater are something more than cutouts. Knightley’s emotions come through with a gasping immediacy, and Jude Law deserves special notice as Anna’s cuckolded husband. (NR) Nick Pinkerton Sundance, Meridian ARGO Ben Affleck’s third directorial effort begins with the November 4, 1979, attack on the U.S. embassy in Tehran. While 52 Americans are held hostage, six embassy workers manage to escape, ultimately hiding out at the home of Canadian ambassador (Victor Garber). Determined to smuggle the houseguests out of Iran by disguising them as a film crew on a location scout, CIA exfiltration expert Tony Mendez (Affleck) enlists the help of John Chambers (John Goodman), a movie makeup artist, and Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin), an old-school producer. Between hokey wisecracks ribbing industry idiocy, the trio seizes on a dusty script for a Star Wars rip-off called Argo. Affleck’s movie doesn’t reflect who we are now so much as it argues for what Hollywood can be. It’s a love letter from Affleck to the industry that made him, shunned him, and loves nothing more than to be loved. (R) Karina Longworth 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. Klaus and his state-security goons appear at Barbara’s doorstep or linger in parked cars outside her apartment building intermittently, just long enough so that their reign of terror sticks in the mind without overwhelming the movie.

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).

But unlike those martyrs, Barbara’s action is impelled not by masochism or self-abnegation but by a sense of duty both to herself and her vocation. (NR) Melissa Anderson SIFF Cinema Uptown

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Lundberg’s new documentary the Tibetan monk Garchen Triptrul Rinpoche—imprisoned for 20 years by Chinese authorities—will be followed by a Q&A with the director and Rinpoche himself. (NR) SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., 324-9996, siff.net, $15, Thu., Jan. 17, 7 p.m.

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KUNG FU GRINDHOUSE First up, from 1979, Skatetown, U.S.A. stars that dreamy Scott Baio in a roller-disco romance. Made the following year, Challenge of the Tiger has two CIA agents on the trail of “a supersterility drug.” 21 and over. (NR) Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave. N.W., 784-4880, sunsettavern.com, Free, Mon., Jan. 21, 6 p.m.

THE MIAMI CONNECTION Can we as a culture at last retire the idea that a movie can be so “bad” that it’s good? I ask while still pleasurably punch-drunk by this rediscovered 1987 junkster piece of uncut electro-pop chop-socky ridiculousness that is exactly what Purple Rain would have been if the Revolution traded Prince and much of their talent for black belts in tae kwon do and a commitment to bringing a message of peace to the world in between brutal martial arts street battles with a rival band of Orlando honkies. Absurd, yes, but director Richard Park and his game and guileless cast have the highest of spirits, and the nonsense bubbles like a bottle uncorked. Relish the loose, goofy dialogue, seemingly improvised, and the music, all anxious, rubbery bass snakes beneath fat slabs of synth. And the lyrics, especially in the hard rock, non–Dragon Sound tunes that underscore scenes of Miami Connection’s thin Miami connection, Dade County’s evil ninja motorcycle gang. Also choice are the fights, choreographed with imaginative elan. Each is appealingly sloppy, continually surprising, and never a bit believable—which is a serious clue as to why the very idea of “so bad it’s good” should have been chucked way back before Dragon Sound’s hexagonal digital drums went out of style. (R) ALAN SCHERSTUHL SIFF Cinema Uptown, $6-$11, Fri., Jan. 18, 10 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 19, 10 p.m.

MUSIC CRAFT: SARAH VAUGHAN Filmed for German TV, this hour-long concert movie features the great jazz vocalist performing songs including “Fly Me to the Moon” and “Didn’t We?” (NR) Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., 829-7863, nwfilmforum.org, $6-$10, Sat., Jan. 19, 8 p.m.

NORDIC LIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL Presented by the Nordic Heritage Museum, this weekend mini-fest will feature about a dozen titles. Opening night is Beyond (7 p.m. Fri.), starring Noomi Rapace (she of Prometheus and the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movies).

Set in ‘70s Sweden, the film has Rapace playing the daughter of an alcoholic mother now seeking forgiveness before she dies. Other worthwhile titles include the music doc Grandma Lo-Fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigridur Nielsdottir (4 p.m. Sat.) and Liv and Ingmar (12 p.m. Sat.) about the famous and fruitful collaboration between director Ingmar Bergman and actress Liv Ullman. See siff.net or nordicmuseum.org for full schedule and details. (NR) SIFF Film Center, 305 Harrison St. (Seattle Center), 324-9996, $8-$10 individual, $50-$55 series, Jan. 18-20.

RESERVOIR DOGS With his Django Unchained up for an Oscar, you can revisit Quentin Tarantino’s memorably violent, funny 1992 debut feature. The bungled robbery flick stars Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, and Steve Buscemi as the ever-complaining Mr. Pink. How and why their heist went wrong gradually unfolds in flashbacks as elliptical as QT’s hypercaffeinated dialogue. Movie screens at midnight. (R) BRIAN MILLER Egyptian, 805 E. Pine St., 720-4560, landmarktheatres. com, $8.25, Fri., Jan. 18; Sat., Jan. 19.

THE ROOM Tommy Wiseau’s dreadful 2003 vanity feature is screened for your snickering condescension. (R) Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave., 686-6684, centralcinema.com, $6-$8, Thu., Jan. 17, 8 p.m.

SEVEN Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt star in David Fincher’s dark, disturbing 1995 cop thriller. Pitt and the seen-it-all Freeman investigate a series of gory serial killings modeled on the seven deadly sins. (Yes, pretentious, we know.) Fincher fetishizes each crime scene like an Old Master painting rendered with effluvia and blood. But, no matter how hard Fincher tries, it’s just another serial killer flick. With Gwyneth Paltrow and

Kevin Spacey. (R) BRIAN MILLER Central Cinema, $6-$8, Wed., Jan. 16, 7 & 9:30 p.m.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC How do you solve a problem like Maria? Julie Andrews stars in this dazzling widescreen adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, filmed in 1965 and one of Hollywood’s biggest hits of the decade. Call for showtimes. (NR) Sundance Cinemas, 4500 9th Ave. NE, 633-0059, sundancecinemas.com, $10, Weds. Through Feb. 6.

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ppropriately enough for a restaurant named after a physics principle governing how work gets done, Joule doesn’t tarry. Even on very busy nights, the reborn restaurant’s open kitchen performs at rattling speed, a pace which grows increasingly welcome as diners take their measure of the meat-driven menu.

With the quality of the Korean-inspired food teeter-tottering from remarkable to regrettable—sometimes over the span of a single meal—the waits for summoned dishes become exercises in cautionary dread instead of eager anticipation. About that pork chop which the server touted as so extraordinary: Could it possibly be as tender and juicy as promised? Or, in the manner of the two most popular steak dishes, would it be undone by a meek sauce and overcooking so severe that the business of cutting and chewing might eventually trump attempts at conversation?

Such worries are wasted on the pork chop, its soft, Mary Kay–pink slices edged by the sooty char that’s the souvenir of time well spent on a grill. The excellent chop’s served with a dollop of sticky-sweet date molasses, but diners who dote on the meat’s comely salt crust will gravitate toward the Germanic slaw—a warren of wrinkly greens, apples, and mustard seeds—which completes the plate. Still, skepticism is understandable in the face of Joule’s Rachel Yang’s reimagined Joule frustrating knack for goofing up dishes which has a meatier focus. boast dreamy descriptions.

When chef/owners Rachel Yang and Seif for diners who were infatuated with the resChirchi last fall relocated their 5-year-old restaurant’s first incarnation. I ate at the original taurant from Wallingford, they took advantage Joule only once, so I don’t have a good point of the transition to recalibrate Joule’s menu in of comparison for the current one. But I count the casual, compact mode that’s helped make myself among Revel’s many fans, which probthe married couple’s second restaurant, Revel, ably elevated my expectations for Joule. It took a citywide favorite. Inspired by Revel’s sumthree bum visits before I was willing to conmertime whole-animal feasts, they thrust red cede the restaurant wasn’t meeting them. meat into the foreground, fashioning Joule as a Korean steakhouse of sorts. But here the meeting of fermented flavors and beef doesn’t few of the problems afflicting result in the banchan and tabletop grills which Joule—such as strips of bacon rule the Korean barbecue scene. Instead, Joule served stiff and cold from the features four shareable 8-ounce steaks and four refrigerator with only an underlyblack ceramic bowlfuls of vegetables which ing pool of chili oil, jalapeño slices, and diced faintly recall the French fries and creamed green onions to distinguish the appetizer from spinach served at American steak palaces. a desperate after-school snack—are positively Guests might complement their short rib or unique to the restaurant. But what’s interesttop sirloin with split stalks of Chinese broccoli ing about many of its overarching flaws is how cloaked with a slightly greasy walnut pesto, or clearly they summarize contemporary Seattle what the menu tantalizingly calls “blackened dining. Even in its failings, Joule is frightfully white mushroom, bitter up-to-date. green.” Unfortunately, the The menu—which uses » PRICE GUIDE mushrooms are blackened the word “pickled” five times, SHRIMP COCKTAIL ....................$9 in much the way your “smoked” twice, and “wild” STUFFED KIMCHI .......................$6 CREAMED SWISS CHARD ....... $9 house has been blackonce—isn’t the only mark of ROASTED POTATO .....................$9 ened when the insurance modernity at Joule, which SHORT RIB .................................. $18 COULOTTE .................................. $18 adjuster comes calling. shares the trendy Graham BURGER ....................................... $16 PORK CHOP .................................$17 It’s possible to string Baba–designed Fremont together a highly acceptCollective with The Whale able—perhaps even Wins. Loosely divided into great—meal at Joule on the right night. Yet a bar and dining room with butcher-block deviating from the correct ordering course is a tables pressed too close together, Joule is wallnear-guarantee of disappointment, and not just papered with a vintage floral pattern centered

a salty short rib. A sloppy shrimp cocktail whacked with ginger beer was compromised by unevenly peeled, undeveined shrimp.

But if I’m tough on Joule, it’s because the restaurant has the history, talent, vision, and community support needed to achieve culinary pre-eminence. Although the majority of Joule’s dishes are notably short on elegance and zip, there are flickers of hope beyond the pork chop.

The burger, served on a buoyant kaiser roll smeared with horseradish, is admirably beefy.

The mushrooms are blackened in much the way your house has been blackened when the insurance adjuster comes calling.

When the rice cakes are correctly crisped, it’s hard to resist their subtly spicy chorizo sauce.

The stuffed white kimchi, a kind of Asian en croute preparation with cabbage inside and out, is terrific. And the risotto— closer in consistency to congee—is an unheralded gem: Threaded with seaweed and topped with rings of pickled leeks, it’s sharp with Puget Sound flavors. All five dishes belong on your to-order list. At least for now, just don’t stray too far from it. E hraskin@seattleweekly.com JOULE 3506 Stone Way N., 632-5685, joulerestaurant.com.

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around elongated diamond rings arranged as an atomic symbol. The paper’s aquamarine hue is repeated in a neon-lit Korean jewelry-store sign which hangs over the busy bar.

Joule is always noisy, which adds to diners’ certainty that they’ll have a grand time.

I listened in as eaters at two different tables, neither of whom had previously patronized the new Joule, confidently raved to their guests about the wonderfulness in store. Since the room’s decibel level doesn’t preclude eavesdropping, I wouldn’t classify it as too loud, but I’d also expect servers to take note of the surrounding buzz when speaking. Perhaps the server on my first visit had a bad case of bronchitis, but he never apologized for whispering, even when my guests and I showily leaned forward with hands cupped around our ears.

Service on subsequent visits was similarly detached, although usually technically right.

The quiet server didn’t squawk when one of my guests asked him to replace a too-sweet cocktail. To that end, the cocktails I sampled were badly imbalanced, but the phenomenally good roasted-corn tea—a carryover from the first Joule—begs for a bourbon splash. And while there are no low-end bargains on the wine list, Yang and Chirchi deserve credit for the all–Pacific Northwest lineup.

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The Watering Hole: The Angry Beaver, 8412 Greenwood Ave N., 782-6044, GREENWOOD The Atmosphere: It’s a crying shame that not one of The Angry Beaver’s six flat-screens shows live hockey matches (after a four-month lockout, an abbreviated 48-game regular season will beign Jan. 19), but the Canadian-themed hockey bar is biding its time playing vintage matches on the NHL Network. Canadian flags and jerseys are pinned to the wall, dorm-room style, and it’s no surprise that the decor is accented with representations of the bar’s chuckle-inducing namesake: A trucker cap emblazoned with a beaver rests on a shelf above the bar while a ceramic beaver statuette sits nearby, and no fewer than five stuffed beavers are positioned in nooks and crannies around the room. There’s a separate seating area where kids are welcome until 7 p.m. (luckily, the stuffed animals are all out of reach), and every table has a perfect view of whatever game’s playing. On a recent afternoon, the TVs are on mute while staff and patrons unself-consciously mouth along to Aretha Franklin’s “Think.”

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Seattle weekly • JANUARY 16− 22, 2013

Wai Chow Eng, who introduced Chinese barbecue to Seattle and helped revitalize the International District when it was stuck in a mid-century slump, passed away on January 4 at age 83, nearly two months after a fall in his home.

A native of China’s Guangdong province, Eng opened Kau Kau downtown in 1959.

The ritzy Polynesian restaurant at Second and Seneca was a culinary salute to Eng’s grandfather and great-grandfather, who had briefly worked in Hawaii’s sugar-cane fields.

Although Eng had hoped to study accounting after graduating from Highline High School, where he’d enrolled after immigrating at age 17, the G.I. Bill which covered his tuition didn’t cover the support of the relatives who’d joined him in the U.S. “Once in a while, he may have regretted it, but he said everyone needs to eat,” Eng’s daughter Lynn Chang says. “Food is always important, especially in Chinese lives.”

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to eat Cantonese-style barbecue, the rotisserieroasted meats known as siu mi, they traveled to Vancouver, B.C. Realizing many of his countrymen were doing the same, in 1974 he opened Kau Kau BBQ Market & Restaurant in its current location near the corner of Maynard and King Streets. He recruited his brother to handle the cooking at the instantly popular spinoff, the city’s first Chinese-barbecue restaurant since World War II. Eng closed the first Kau Kau when the block was being redeveloped, but in 1978 purchased the former Leyte Hotel at South Jackson and Maynard, renovating it as the Far East Building.

He briefly ran a popular dim sum restaurant in the basement, giving it up to focus on other philanthropic and business activities.

In 2004, Eng sold Kau Kau BBQ Market & Restaurant to Chang and her husband Richard, a Boeing engineer. Richard Chang—whose restaurant experience was limited to college jobs, including a stint at Trader Vic’s—says his fatherin-law didn’t relinquish control readily. “It wasn’t easy at all,” he recalls. “The people had to get used to us. The cooks had to get used to us. And every day, [Eng] would come in at 10 o’clock and give me grief: ‘The barbecue was a little bit off

today. It was not perfect.’ He gave me grief for six or seven years.”

Seated alongside her husband, Lynn Chang interrupts with a laugh: “Maybe only three.”

“It was tough for me dealing with my fatherin-law,” says Richard Chang, who describes Eng as generous and foresighted, but also highly exacting. “The restaurant was easy.”

But the Changs inherited legions of loyal fans when they took over Kau Kau. They regularly sell barbecue to a businessman who visits Seattle every week and purchases enough pork to last until his next trip. “We have so many customers,” Richard Chang says.

“They move to New York, they move to Miami, and they still call us. They say ‘We can’t find anything like this anywhere in the U.S., even in San Francisco.’ ” In retirement, Eng kept an office at the Eng Suey Sun Plaza (815 S. Weller St.), the ID building he’d constructed in 1985 to house the Eng Family Association’s ancestral hall, and supported charitable projects in his home village of Toisan.

But after his wife, Sandra, died in 2011, his health deteriorated. He moved into an assisted-living facility two blocks from Kau Kau, where he would

join his daughter for tea and fortune cookies.

“All those years in restaurants, I don’t think I ever saw him eat a fortune cookie,” Lynn Chang says. “But he would eat cookies. He was catching up, because he’d take one for the road too.”

Richard Chang believes Eng’s legacy could blossom in the coming years, if his wife will allow him to pursue the expansion plans he long ago plotted. Chang envisions a “four corners” strategy, with Kau Kau barbecue markets located in Kent or Renton, in north Seattle, and on the Eastside. “I hope I can carry this on,” he says. “I always tell Lynn and she always stops me, but it’s always in the back of my mind. I’m going to try to convince her.”

Lynn Chang says her father was approached many times regarding franchising, but never hit upon the right scheme. Still, she thinks he would have approved of Chang’s idea.

“A little star,” Richard Chang says of the potential quartet of Kau Kaus. “That’s my dream.” E

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to watching play at Cafe Racer’s Sunday-night improv jazz jam.

Jacobson, petite, quiet, and stylish in a beaded scarf and dangling earrings, and Blackwell, laughing and lively, sit next to Cleveland in the booth at Racer. Both split their time among avant-garde jazz, folk, and orchestral projects. Cleveland says La Luz is the band she’s always wanted, for three main reasons: It’s surf-rock, it’s all-girl, and all the girls can play. “It just feels really awesome to me when I see women really kicking ass onstage,” she says. “A lot of times I hear bands [that just learned how to play] . . . and I’m like, ‘Man, I could never sound that raw.’ I’m kind of envious, almost. But I really did feel like there was sort of a lack of really awesome musician girl bands.”

La Luz played their first show last October at the Funhouse; despite their experienced backgrounds, all three girls remember it as “awkward,” “nervous,” and “the worst.”

“Abbey hit me in the head with her bass before we even started playing,” says Cleveland. “I had a gash in my head.”

Blackwell gasps. “Really? I didn’t know that!”

“It was a small gash,” Cleveland says. “I didn’t want to freak you out before we played.”

La Luz’s debut EP, Damp Face, was recorded inside the cinder-block laundry building of a Bothell trailer park, and is being reissued on cassette by Burger Records on February 5 (a two-song 7-inch with Portland’s Waterwing Records is also in the works).

The songs, particularly the instrumental title track, bear an obvious reference to the Northwest’s most famous surf purveyors, the Ventures—Cleveland’s electric guitar descends into woozy vibratos, the genre’s

Fresh-faced, fuzzy pop.

signature “wowwwoww” sound that was thought to be reminiscent of waves crashing against a beach. The sounds of Blackwell’s juddering bass, Jacobson’s Farfisaesque combo organ, and Li Pino’s gentle, straightforward drumming all enhance the music’s vintage aura. But it’s kept modern by Cleveland’s style of singing—an airy croon that belies her sonorous speaking voice, as her bandmates’ fawning backing vocals cascade behind her—and her existential lyrical matter. “When they told me/That I would die/I stared at the open page of Highlights,” she sings on “Clear Night Sky,” the EP’s most poignant song, “I wasn’t ready/ For the other side/Stretched out like an endless/Clear night sky.”

Cleveland, who has a degree in poetry from Chicago’s Columbia College, has a refined and touching way with words; their elegant effect combined with the band’s bright, listenable sound gives La Luz a resonant, easy appeal.

“I really wanted this band to be something that everyone could understand right away,” she says. “We’ve played at the Conor Byrne, and this girl I know, her mom was like, ‘I’ve been waiting to see you guys!’, and she was up front dancing the whole time,” says Cleveland. “So that to me—it sounds weird— but I feel like we’re doing something right if hipsters and parents are into it.” E LA LUZ With Yuni in Taxco, Invisible Shivers.

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he first time Shana Cleveland played an open-mike night at Cafe Racer, five years ago, she was trying to catch a guy’s eye. “I was super-nervous,” she recalls, sitting in a booth in Racer’s gaudy OBAMA (Official Bad Art Museum of Art) Room. Soft-spoken, with a slow, drawling voice, she’s bundled in layers of stripes—thin black and white lines on her T-shirt, thick rainbow ones on her sweater.

“I played a song, and Drew was like, ‘THAT WAS AMAZING!’ He was flipping out. I came here by myself, scared and trying to impress this guy, and he flipped out about me. Drew was the heart of this place.” She’s referring to Drew Keriakedes, a musician killed last May when a gunman opened fire inside the restaurant.

In the days after the shooting, Cleveland found herself haunted by a series of dark lyrics she’d written just before the tragedy: “As a boulder slowly gaining speed on down a hill/ In your path, nothing I can do” and “As sure as spring coats our little piece of land in green/ The turning earth takes all of what it brings.”

The songs became the impetus for a new surf-pop band called La Luz that she formed last August with three other girls. Cleveland’s psych-rock outfit, The Curious Mystery, had quietly broken up after six years, in part because she was ready to move on and try something she’d had in mind lately, a band that fused the music she loved best: ’60s garage rock and girl-group pop. Marian Li Pino, The Curious Mystery’s drummer, shared Cleveland’s vision; to flesh themselves out into a foursome, the two recruited bassist Abbey Blackwell and keyboardist Katie Jacobson, both of whom Cleveland was used

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What was your inspiration for writing the song? My inspiration

came as I was driving through Snoqualmie Pass, coming from my friend’s house in Spokane back to my apartment in Seattle. The image of the twisting and turning mountain roads stuck in my mind, and I really wanted to capture that feeling musically. There was just a lot of truth present in that circumstance that resonated with my life at that point.

What is the meaning behind it? This song was hard to write at first, because all I had was a strong image that I wanted to convey of driving through a mountain pass on my way home by myself. The song slowly took shape after a few more sessions working on it, and I realized how much this image reflected where I was at in life—this weird in-between place, looking the unknown in the face. Being 20 is a strange time of life, and there were a lot of rough things I was going through (and still am). The song was carefully crafted to reflect these things musically and lyrically.

One of these things was the death of one of my friends in a hiking accident a few summers ago. This really shook my world, and was soon to be followed by my mother’s passing as well. This song and a lot of the album reflects a lot of change and difficult transitions. More than anything, this song reflects how unknown and scary the future is. I am still in that uncertain and scary time, as I am about to graduate and try to figure out my own vision for my life. That is why this song means a lot to me.

Favorite line?: “In the distant haze there’s something left to become/Still frightened by this place but I am brave enough.” Some of the language from this line is actually drawn from a podcast I listened to where this guy describes his journey through the Inside Passage after the death of his father, and how meaningful that journey was to him in that time of his life. I strongly shared that sentiment, and it fell perfectly into place as the last line in the song. E music@seattleweekly.com US ON ROOFS With BellaMaine, Nude Pop, Special Explosion.

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When Uncle Tupelo split in 1994, Jay Farrar went on to form alt-country fave Son Volt, and Jeff Tweedy did his thing with Wilco.

The two bands garnered fans far and wide— Wilco attracting more “adult alternative” listeners, Son Volt the indie ones—all while the frontmen simultaneously started a stable of esteemed side projects. So why the tribute to their short-lived ensemble? Because the punky, roots-rock group the two men formed in their early 20s begot a perennial creativity that nowadays wields a polished, consummate sheen. Back then, Uncle Tupelo steamed along with grit and soul; they were less-practiced and unrefined, and perhaps a bit more cool. With Transmissionary Six, Downpilot, the Swearengens, Ian Moore, Aaron Starkey & the Detasselers, Red Jacket Mine, Jaren Clifton, Fan Fiction, the Mangles, Kim Virant. Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave. N.W., 789-3599. 9 p.m. $8. GWENDOLYN ELLIOTT

Camp Lo Not to circle every rap-related conversation back around to Shabazz Palaces, but SP pulled Camp Lo’s Geechi Suede onstage a few years ago during their fantastic hometown concert debut at this very same venue, so it is entirely possible that Ish will be in the building to repay the favor. The show is part of the “Uptown Saturday Night 15-Year Anniversary Tour,” Camp Lo’s tribute to their 1997 debut album, a jazzy, loop-based, classy, brag-rap-laced New York rap classic (which, btw, contains a gleaming, old-school Ish verse on its seventh track, “Swing”). Lo MCs Suede and Sonny Cheeba can hold their own and should put on a fun show regardless of who shows up. With Graves33, Spekulation, DJ Marc Sense. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9442. 8 p.m. $15. TODD HAMM

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I’m so scared/So I sit and is gangsta rap, at the to hear music editor Chris Kornelis wait in my underwear”). other is “Girl, be mine” on Seattle Sounds.

This show should satisfy slow jamming. You might the mosh-pit-seeking expect the purveyors metalhead and the dance-happy Capitol Hillof both sounds to be at stark odds; instead billy just the same. With Argonaut, Princess, there exists a peculiar mutual-admiration

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society, in which polar opposites often guest on each other’s tracks. But it’s the rare artist who has dared fuse these divergent sounds, and few have done it as effectively as Layzie Bone of Cleveland’s Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.

Pepper in Layzie’s rapidity of rhyme, and you’ve got a chance to catch one of the more distinctive talents in R&B in a relatively intimate venue that had better have good ventilation on the night in question. With Tay Smallz, Mo Thugs Family, Richie Rich, Bing-X. Nectar Lounge, 412 N. 36th St., 6322020. 9 p.m. $15. MIKE SEELY

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On January 2, beloved local music merchandiser Easy Street Records brought down New Year highs with the news that they’d be closing their Queen Anne location after failing to reach a rent agreement with the building’s landlord. (Easy Street’s original West Seattle location will remain safely intact, having signed on for another 15 years.) For 12 years, they’ve curated the city’s best lineup of in-store performances. The store’s tiny raised stage against the back wall has boasted shows by everyone from Jurassic 5 and Robyn to Elvis Costello and Lou Reed. The opportunity to see artists of that caliber in such an intimate environment—for free—provided Seattle music fans with a huge number of special, unforgettable moments. Given its meaningful role in our music scene, it’s fitting that the Queen Anne location will say good-bye with a performance by one of the era’s most significant indie-rock bands, Yo La Tengo, who’ll play songs from their superb new 13th album, Fade. Easy Street Records, 20 Mercer St., 691-3279. 7 p.m. Free. All ages. ERIN K. THOMPSON

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The Swedish pop duo of Malin Dahlström and Gustaf Karlöf had a breakout 2012 after Sub Pop released their debut album, Instinct, which recently received a 2013 European Border Breakers Award, a prize that recognizes Europe’s best new music acts (previous honorees include Lykke Li, Mumford & Sons, and Adele). It’s easy to catch on to the appeal of an act as exciting and bold as Niki & The Dove— their music is coated with a glossy, futuristic, synthesizered sheen, underneath which skulks a feral jungle aura of tribal beats and Dahlström’s ecstatic vocals, calling up images of sleeping lions, soaring eagles, and the smell of violets and spruce trees in the midst of such impassioned lines as “I love the rhythm/The pounding of my heart.” It’s a wild, primal quality not often found in electro-pop. With Vacationer, Nightmare Fortress, DJ SH6RL6S6.

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NEZ LIGHTNING This recently formed group combines driving math-rock instrumentals with raucous punk enthusiasm. With the Apollos, Winnebago, Full Moon Radio. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8005, chop suey.com. 8 p.m. $5.

TRIBAL SEEDS This San Diego reggae/dub group puts a fresh-enough spin on the genre to keep things interesting, but still offers all the pot-packed dreadlock anthems you’d expect. With Stick Figure, The Maad T-Ray, The Approach. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 7099442, neumos.com. 7 p.m. $13. All ages.

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parent as to include the genre of music they play right in their name, but this local six-piece does: “Rebetika” is a blanket term that encompasses several varieties of Greek folk music. Triple Door. 6:30 p.m. $16. All ages.

SUM 41 These pop-punk icons are touring to commemorate the 10th anniversary of their platinum-selling sophomore album, 2002’s Does This Look Infected?

With Hunter Valentine, iamdynamite. Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., 628-3151, showboxonline.com.

8 p.m. $20 adv./$25 DOS. All ages.

Sunday, Jan. 20 THE FOGHORNS These locals’ most recent effort, 2011’s

To the Stars on the Wings of a Pig, was a Reverb favorite, and this rare all-ages show gives kids an opportunity to catch their heartfelt, country-tinged folk in person. With Casey Ruff & the Mayors of Ballard, Sincerely Val. Skylark. 3 p.m. $5. All ages.

NUMBERS On their June self-titled EP, this local progressive metal group blends electronic textures with metalcore breakdowns. With Reach for the Sky, Vessels, Lo There Do I See My Brother. Chop Suey.

7 p.m. $8. All ages.

WAYFARER is a standard-issue indie-folk/rock band in most ways but one: They play covers of ultra-tradi-

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Boulder, Colo., slam poet focuses on gender issues and LGBTQ rights. Flower Boy, her most recent album, is the second on which she sets her poems to original music.

With Tara Hardy. Fremont Abbey, 4272 Fremont Ave. N., 414-8325, fremontabbey.com. 7 p.m. $15–$20. All ages.

CHRIS EGER BAND If you feel like you’ve been listening to way too much Pitchfork-endorsed music of late and need an ear enema, Chris Eger’s brand of straightforward, bluesy rock will do the trick. With Rai, Old Growth. Nectar Lounge, 412 N. 36th St., 632-2020, nectarlounge.com. 8 p.m. $5.

TRAPT Best known for the 2002 single “Headstrong” (which is probably playing inside the Tacoma Dome as you read this), this California hard-rock act is touring behind the forthcoming Reborn, their sixth studio album and first without longtime drummer Aaron Montgomery.

With Acidic, Action Blast, Stoic FB, Says the Snake, IANA. El Corazon, 109 Eastlake Ave. E., 381-3094, elcorazonseattle.com. 7 p.m. $15 adv./$18 DOS. All ages.

WES SPEIGHT AND THE VISUAL DIALOG There are a great many blues-rock bands in Seattle these days, but the one led by songwriter Wes Speight (often stylized “Sp8”) is notable for its particularly gritty and gutty take on the genre. With Rainbows. Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave. N.W., 784-4880, sunsettavern.com.

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HOUNDS OF THE WILD HUNT were tabbed as an opener when Titus Andronicus played Neumos in November—a pairing that makes a lot of sense after listening to last year’s El Mago. Hounds’ songs aren’t as anthemic or razor-sharply witty as Titus’ (Local Business notwithstanding), but they’re similarly rough-edged and ragged. With Redwood Plan, Panama Gold. Sunset Tavern. 9 p.m. $8.

THE REDS This Bellingham garage-rock duo’s tunes are ultra-lo-fi and a little sloppy, but they’ll likely be a lot of fun live. With the Bitter Roots, the Phosphenes. Skylark, 3803 Delridge Way S.W., 935-2111, skylarkcafe.com. 8 p.m. $5.

SEX WITH STRANGERS Dancy Vancouver, B.C., rockers utilize multiple vocalists for a kooky brand of poprock that should mellow out the Comet for a night. With Ever So Android, 1-2-1-2. Comet Tavern, 922 E. Pike St., 322-9272, comettavern.com. 9 p.m. $7.

TEENAGE FANCLUB TRIBUTE NIGHT Members of SHiPS, A Breakthrough in Field Studies, and others team up to pay tribute to the influential Scottish rock band. JewelBox/Rendezvous, 2322 Second Ave., 441-5823, jewelboxtheater.com. 10 p.m. $8.

VAGABOND OPERA Part jazz ensemble, part cabaret revue, this eclectic act plays everything from tangos to swing to Balkan folk. Triple Door, 216 Union St., 838-4333, thetripledoor.net. 6 p.m. (all ages) & 9:30 p.m. (21 and over). $18 adv./$20 DOS.

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tor Anders Anderson, this 17-piece big band’s catalog ranges from ’30s swing to Michael Bublé. Tula’s, 2214 Second Ave., 443-4221, tulas.com. 7:30 p.m. $5.

RORY GANNON AND FRIENDS This Whidbey Island– born songwriter’s slide-guitar-heavy songs are equal parts melancholy and blues-inflected. Comet Tavern, 922 E. Pike St., 322-9272, comettavern.com. 9 p.m. $5.

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FALLING AWAKE This clearly hilarious Orange County rock group will hit Seattle as part of the “We’re in Town and Ur Daughters [sic] Down” tour, in anticipation of an EP to be released at the end of January. With the Dares. El Corazon. 7 p.m. $8 adv./$10 DOS. HI HO SILVER OH Songwriter Casey Trela fronts this Los Angeles three-piece, which makes bombastic, folk-tinged indie rock. With Charlyne Yi. Fremont Abbey.

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edical-marijuana farmers markets are an increasingly popular way to access cannabis in Washington. With thriving markets in White Center, Olympia, Tacoma, and Black Diamond, it’s clear that these events represent a win/win for patients who need good cannabis and for the growers who bring it to them. The competition among vendors tends to result in good prices, and the camaraderie gained by gathering in one space is not to be underestimated.

Tacoma’s newest such market, the Kush Kringle Market , does things a little differently. Upon entering the storefront on South Tacoma Way, the first thing I noticed was that nobody was checking patient paperwork and identification. It didn’t take much looking around to reveal that no cannabis or derivatives were being sold in the front room. Rather, vendors such as roach-paper artist Cliff Maynard and kiefbox manufacturer Myo (Mr. KeifBox) were selling their wares, and activists like Renae Ely were gathering petition signatures for imprisoned Montana medical-marijuana provider Chris Williams. A convivial, inclusive atmosphere absolutely suffuses the place: There are spots to sit down and talk, and some beautifully striking art by local painter Ted Haggerty (available for purchase) lends colorful culture.

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Windillynn’s, one of the first vendor tables I encountered, held some gorgeous Da Purps indica flowers. Their sparkly, crystalline trichomes, purple highlights, and sweet, skunky bouquet made them irresistible. Windillynn’s also had Da Purps cannacaps made from the same strain; these are bubble-hash-infused into organic virgin coconut oil, and help to control pain.

That was actually just one of two excellent purple strains I discovered. The other, Deep Purple, with even darker flowers and a skunkier aroma, was also available for $10 a gram. Unfortunately (take note, those of you considering becoming vendors here or at any cannabis farmers market), this vendor didn’t include a card, a label, or anything else that let me know from where I’d gotten these flowers. I was able to find out after the fact that the grower is a cancer survivor named Zach Hartford, and that I’m not alone in appreciating his excellent cannabis. E

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