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ayor Mike McGinn is selling his proposal for a vastly taller South Lake Union with the lure of affordable housing. Under the plan, aired at a hearing last week, Paul Allen’s Vulcan would get to build three 24-story towers in exchange for donating an acre of land that could be used for affordable housing and other public benefits. Vulcan, or any other developer, working on additional projects in the area would also have to chip in for affordable housing if they wanted to build extra-high. We’re skeptical of how sweet a deal this is for one reason: A lot of “affordable” housing isn’t all that affordable. By city guidelines, a one-bedroom renting for $1,320 a month would count as affordable. What makes this all the stranger is that in “That’s a fair concern,” Foster allows. But September, the average Seattle-area rent was he says the affordability levels in the South only $1,103, according to a Dupre + Scott Lake Union plan are consistent with prior survey, and that reflected recent rent hikes developer incentive plans passed by the City attributed to landlords gaining the upper hand. Council—plans meant to “work in tandem” How can “affordable” housing be more with city levy money funding the creation of expensive than the going rate? Chalk it up to housing for the poor. bureaucratic math, which figures that people Even if you have the same ideas about can pay 30 percent of their income on rent. affordability that the city does, you still might There’s also the highly politicized question wonder whether the South Lake Union plan of whom affordable housing is targeting. is a good deal. Former Nonprofits trying to councilmember Peter serve the truly needy Steinbrueck, a consuloften have in mind Print is great, but if you want to read . . . tant for a neighborhood people earning 30 to 60 about the growing movement to let coalition opposing the percent of the median Texas secede, go to The Daily Weekly. plan, says he’s taken a income. SEATTLEWEEKLY.COM/DAILYWEEKLY look at the amount of But the concept of money the city estiaffordable housing has mates will be funneled to affordable housing: become expansive over the years as munici$45 million over 25 years (which Foster says palities worked to adopt regulations that includes the value of the land Vulcan would developers could live with. In the South Lake donate). An architect by training, Steinbrueck Union proposal, most affordable apartments did a rough calculation of how many units are aimed at people making 80 percent of he thought could be built for that figure, and the median income (roughly $49,000 for an came up with 300. individual), according to Marshall Foster, Compare that, he says, to the 12,000 marketcity-planning director at the Department of rate units the plan will produce. “These are Planning and Development. Affordable congoing to be in luxury towers with expensive dos and houses would be for people making rents,” he says. Now consider the redevelopa full 100 percent of the median ($62,000 for ment pressure that all those new luxury units an individual). will put on the neighborhood, resulting in the That’s why John Fox of the Displacement teardown of existing affordable housing. Coalition calls the purported public benefit Any way you slice it, the neighborhood of the South Lake Union plan “baloney.” He is headed one way, and it’s not toward says the “affordable” units generated won’t affordability. NINA SHAPIRO be within the reach even of average “working people,” never mind the “low-income.” » Continued on page 9

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Does anybody think that the passage of I-502 is the last word on marijuana policy in this state? If so, think again. As discussed after the election, the feds have yet to reveal what they intend to do. But the legislature, too, could still tinker significantly with the new law. After his convincing victory over challenger Joel Hussey, State Rep. Roger Goodman says he’s prepared to take on pot in the coming session. Goodman is an interesting figure. For many years a champion of legalization, he has also argued for controls. Most recently he raised eyebrows among pot activists by telling The Seattle Times, for its exposé on the Wild West culture of dispensaries, that “we need to overregulate” the industry and become more permissive over time. So we asked Goodman if he still believes in overregulation, whatever that means. He says he does, and gives an example. “I’ve gotten into some hot water over this,” he says, “but I believe that cannabis should not be allowed in the passenger compartment of a vehicle.” By that he means the body of a car. “Put it in the trunk!” he says. He says it’s a matter of public safety to make sure that drivers neither smoke pot nor get a secondhand high. But on a more vital point regarding stoned driving, he’s thinking about trying to work some leeway into the rules set by I-502.

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For more than three years, Port Townsend put a lot of time and money into a plan to christen a passenger-only ferry to Seattle. In 2010, the city was awarded a $1.3 million federal grant, and—for a while, anyway—hope sprang eternal that perhaps it might be possible for the city to build its own boat capable of carrying 49 passengers and making the scenic run to Seattle in 70 minutes. But financial realities proved to be a cruel mistress. The plan simply didn’t pencil out. “We had two potential operators look at it, and they didn’t see how they could do it without losing their shirts,” Larry Crockett, executive director of the Port of Port Townsend, told The Daily Weekly. Two key factors doomed the walk-on ferry: First, it was going to cost a lot more than $1.3 million to build a suitable boat. Crockett figures the price tag was closer to $2.5 million. And second, to make a successful go of it and realize even a minimal profit, it would require at least two sailings to Seattle per day, with each averaging about 39 passengers. “We estimated we would get only half of that. I mean, we only have 9,000 people here, and there’s just 26,000 in Jefferson County,” said Crockett. The Port, however, did consider acquiring the Spirit of Kingston, which hasn’t been in use since Kingston passenger service came to an end in September. The Spirit, which currently languishes in the Kingston Marina, carried 149 passengers—about one-third of what the Port determined to be the optimum passenger load—and was not considered fuel-efficient. So after deliberation, the Port Commission recently decided to throw in the towel, voting 3-0 to give up the passengeronly ferry and return the federal grant. “This is not to say we won’t try again in the future,” said Crockett. “But now is not the time to pursue this any further.” Crockett added that most people in the community “think we made the right decision.” Still, there is disappointment among the city’s business leaders. “We don’t want to lose this energy,” Heather Dudley Nollette, president of a local business-advocacy group, told the Peninsula Daily News. “We should come up with solutions to help bring visitors to Port Townsend so they can come here and enjoy what we’ve created.” ELLIS CONKLIN E

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As critics of the initiative pointed out again and again, it contains a DUI provision that would result in an automatic conviction for drivers found with 5 nanograms of active THC in their bloodstream. Medicalmarijuana patients complained that, given their heavy use of the drug, their THC level would almost always exceed that limit. Goodman, who says he’d like to hold a series of hearings on impaired driving, favors enacting a special “protection” for patients that would hold them to a different standard. Law enforcement would have to show the results not only of a blood test, but of a “separate evaluation” to determine whether a patient’s driving was impaired. I-502’s critics may also be heartened to learn that Goodman says he wants to address the initiative’s lack of a home-grow provision. “At the moment, home production is illegal,” he says—a situation he’d like to change, while drafting rules to ensure people grow only small amounts at home. In his suburban 45th District, which stretches from Kirkland to the Snoqualmie Valley, he says he’s always hearing

about larger “grow houses at the end of culde-sacs, and everybody complains about it.” In the pre-502 landscape, Goodman would have faced an uphill battle for his more lenient proposals. There’s a reason marijuana legalization happened by initiative, not legislative action. But 502 dramatically alters the scene. Asked what the legislative landscape around pot is now likely to be, Goodman says “It’s really hard to tell.” Among other things, he points out, there’s a new governor in the mix. Governor-elect Jay Inslee said repeatedly during the campaign that he opposed I-502. While he indicated last week that he would carry out the will of the people, it’s anybody’s guess how he would react to loosening the rules even further. NINA SHAPIRO W W W . U LY S S E - N A R D I N . C O M

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But the ruined birthday party was the last straw. Davis called the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, the primary regional entity responsible for dealing with air pollution. He lodged a complaint against Cedar Grove and asked how many other local residents had done the same. “I found out there were hundreds and hundreds of complaints,” he says. Indeed, that same year, a staggering 830 people had complained to PSCAA about an oppressive odor emanating from Cedar Grove. (Since the facility opened in 2004, more than 2,500 complaints have been filed with the agency, which is governed by a number of counties, including King and Snohomish.) Davis was so fired up after hearing about the complaints that he started a petition calling for government action, organized a community meeting, and launched a group called Citizens for Cedar Grove’s a Smell-Free Snohomish County. Everett plant Unlike many citizen activists, Davis sits just accross does not play the role of a grouchy Union Slough outsider. Marysville officials, includfrom Marysville. ing Mayor Jon Nehring, agree that the smell is insufferable, that Cedar Grove is the problem, and that regulators need to put a stop to it. But that’s not such an easy proposition, largely because Cedar Grove has consistently and aggressively denied that it is stinking up the region. In fact, the company has blamed

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t hadn’t been easy for Mike Davis to get his father to his home in Marysville. Living in Sisters, Oregon, the elder Davis didn’t like to travel, even for a 70th-birthday party his son wanted to throw him. But Davis managed to lure his dad up by using the grandkids as bait. Some 15 members of the family gathered on Davis’ deck, which overlooks a lush backyard replete with a miniature pond and recirculating waterfall. It was a warm March day in 2010. Davis walked outside to start grilling steaks, looked around, and noticed something was wrong. “My dad looked like he was going to puke,” Davis recalls. A strong smell had invaded his yard, one Davis likens to the odor of “rotting food.” It was so overpowering that the rest of his family fled indoors. Davis did his grilling and then joined them. “That was the day I decided I needed to do some investigating,” Davis says. He already thought he knew the malodorous culprit: the Cedar Grove composting facility in North Everett, which sits just across Union Slough from Marysville on a marshy bit of land known as Smith Island. Davis had on previous occasions noticed a foul scent lingering near his house, and drove the roughly three-and-a-half miles to Cedar Grove in an attempt to track it down. There, amid towering brown compost mounds that look like flattened mountains, he says he caught whiffs of the same smell.

a host of other entities for the problem, starting with its chief critic, the city of Marysville. In August, Cedar Grove filed suit against the city, claiming that officials are withholding public records related to a “public-relations campaign aimed at spreading disinformation about Cedar Grove, including the false allegation that Cedar Grove was the primary source of odors in the Marysville area.” This alleged smear campaign, the suit claims, is aimed at diverting attention from the real stinker: the city’s own wastewater-treatment plant. The suit also names Davis as a pawn in this purported cover-up. Both the city and Davis deny those charges. “It’s a total fabrication,” Davis says. His anger stoked even further, he is taking the odor war to a new level. He and others in his group have retained two out-of-town lawyers to look into a suit against Cedar Grove. The attorneys, Todd Hageman of St. Louis and Zak Johnson of Jacksonville, Fla., have frequently worked together on odor-nuisance lawsuits against waste-management facilities, although this is their first case involving a composting site. Hageman says he already has 50 would-be plaintiffs. What’s more, Hageman and Johnson are handling another potential suit against Cedar Grove, this one by people who live near a second plant that the company runs in Maple Valley. Residents there have been complaining about the smell for more than a decade, and now some 50 of them have indicated an interest in taking legal action, according to Hageman. The acrimony is all the more incredible considering the beneficent image Cedar Grove maintains. Composting is one of the touchstones of environmentalism, hailed as the next wave after recycling for reducing landfill waste and turning trash into gold, or rather, green—a product that literally nurtures the earth. And Cedar Grove is not only the region’s best-known composting company—for many years the exclusive contractor of its kind for Seattle and many other municipalities—but one of the country’s largest, processing 350,000 tons of waste a year at its two local facilities. Garbage Gone Green is the title of a video about Cedar Grove on the website of a nonprofit called Climate Solutions. “Big picture, we’re doing enormous things for the environment,” says Cedar Grove soil specialist Jami Burke in the video. Government officials across the region have bought in to that message—big-time. In fact, it was Seattle’s push to start composting that prompted the Banchero family, onetime operators of a prominent conventional waste-disposal company called Rabanco, to found Cedar Grove in 1989, as company president Steve Banchero explains in the video. Seattle, like other municipalities, has steadily ramped up its composting program, which began by collecting yard waste. In 2005, the city started encouraging people to put vegetable scraps into their big, green composting bins. Four years later, it green-lit all kinds of food waste, including meat and dairy, and increased collection from semiweekly to weekly. On the first day of the latest initiative, über-liberal Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman had Seattle City Councilmember Richard Conlin on to talk about how this step would help create more “green jobs” and foster goals like “sustainability,” “social justice,” and “community.” But it was Seattle’s 2009 expansion— along with Cedar Grove’s simultaneous entry into the commercial food-waste business, which has the company collecting compostable materials from grocery stores and restaurants— that many Cedar Grove neighbors blame for the onset of the odor problem. Conlin doesn’t offer an opinion on that, saying that the stench is “not something we’ve spent a lot of time on”

Reduce, Reuse, Revolting » fRom page 11 given that it doesn’t affect Seattle, and that “most new technologies have issues they need to work through.” However, as PSCAA executive director Craig Kenworthy says: “We as a region got ahead of ourselves. We wanted to have this great goal of recycling waste without understanding how that might work or what the consequences might be.”

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n the summer of 2010, PSCAA had gotten such a tidal wave of complaints about Cedar Grove that it sent inspectors to “literally camp out in Marysville,” says supervising inspector Mario Pedroza. It was a frustrating experience, he recalls. They could smell an odor all right, but holding Cedar Grove responsible was another matter. PSCAA’s self-imposed protocol is strict. Inspectors can’t issue violations unless there has been a citizen’s complaint. And then they have to smell the offending odor themselves at the exact spot that the citizen did. “I could Sitting in her living room one evening, drive through the odor en route to the comfacing the woods-lined deck, the 71-year-old plainant,” Pedroza says. “But if by the time I discloses one reason she’s so irate: About six got there it was gone, there is no violation.” years ago, Schimke was diagnosed with HodgAlthough Davis and other residents say the kin’s lymphoma. She says the nighttime smells odor can stick around interminably, inspectors frequently arrived on the scene too late to catch would aggravate the nausea she felt from the cancer, which is now in remission. “I’d start a whiff. Wind often gusts over the flatlands gagging and gagging,” she says. She kept a between Everett and Marysville, giving the odor peculiar properties. “It moves like a river,” bucket by the bed for when she threw up. Far worse, she blames the fumes for giving Pedroza explains. “There are distinct edges to her the disease. “I can’t prove it,” she allows, it. You can step in it and out of it. A slight shift before stating her suspicions have been raised in the wind, and that odor’s going to move.” by a spate of cancer in the neighborhood. For the same reason, even if inspectors But Lynne Carpenter-Boggs, a professor of did smell the offending odor at one location, sustainable and organic agriculture at Washthey often couldn’t track down the source. ington State University, says she “can’t think Still, by the end of 2010, PSCAA’s odor detecof anything” about composting that would tives had issued two violations against Cedar be “cancer-causing.” The worst disease she’s Grove. And that was just from complaints heard of related to the industry is “farmer’s in Marysville. Around the same time, the agency hit the composting company with 15 violations for its Maple “We as a region got ahead of ourselves. Valley plant. We wanted to have this great goal of That plant was Cedar recycling waste without understanding Grove’s first composting how that might work or what the facility, started in 1989. Not much later, local consequences might be.” residents started noticing a foul smell. Sharon lung,” a fungal infection that she says is very Schimke is one of them. difficult to treat. However, “there are very In 1967, Schimke and her husband Gary few cases,” she says, and those usually afflict built a ranch home in a woodsy part of uninpeople who work directly with compost. corporated King County that straddles the Hageman, the lawyer from St. Louis, also borders of Renton, Issaquah, and Maple doesn’t know of any link between composting Valley. It was still a somewhat rural location facilities and cancer. Instead, he rattles off an then, as evidenced by the pig farm about a array of less-severe health effects: “nausea mile away, across a long stretch of trees that to the point where people throw up, burning faced the couple’s back deck. eyes, itching throats, headaches.” It was the pig farm that Cedar Grove bought Such ill effects are what a group of approxifor its first composting plant. By 1992, Schimke mately 20 residents around the Maple Valley started calling both PSCAA and Cedar Grove facility cited when in 1997, presaging litigation to complain about fumes that were infiltrating now in the works, they filed a class-action suit her bedroom window, which she liked to keep against Cedar Grove. They claimed that the open while she slept. Sometimes the smell was “fumes and gases” coming from Cedar Grove so strong, she says, that it woke her up and were the reason for their health problems and caused her stomach to churn. were generally interfering with the “enjoyment “It’s horrendous. It’s about as rotten as can of their property.” Cedar Grove settled the be. You’d think you were in the middle of a suit in 1999, paying the citizens $500,000 and swamp,” Schimke says. She says PSCAA told allowing them to collect nearly $9 million from her to “call every single night, if necessary,” the company’s insurance policies. and so she did, sometimes leaving messages Schimke was not among the plaintiffs, but at 2 or 3 in the morning. She reckons she’s says she got a $3,400 payout from the suit filed 100 complaints in all.

as a member of the aggrieved class. Others, depending on how badly they’d been affected, got tens of thousands of dollars. More important, Schimke says, the odor began to abate. But she asserts it came back with a vengeance after a few years, something she too attributes to the onset of food-waste composting programs. So she started filing more complaints. One September morning in 2009, she called PSCAA to report a smell that nauseated her as she went outside to collect her newspaper. The environs around the Maple Valley plant are less windy than those near the facility up north, so odors create a steadier and more incriminating path. PSCAA inspector Rick Hess came to Schimke’s home, smelled what he later called on a violation notice a “sweet ripe silage odor,” and tracked the smell to Cedar Grove. By the end of 2010, Cedar Grove was looking at $169,000 in fines for violations in both Maple Valley and Everett. Characteristically, the company appealed to the state Pollution Control Hearings Board. The case was a watershed. Before the board were a litany of complaints from residents on opposite sides of the Puget Sound region who described a very similar smell and shared a belief that Cedar Grove was the cause. Like Davis and Schimke, they complained of feeling trapped in their home and literally getting sick from the smell. One Renton resident, Jeremy Brown, was an environmental-science teacher who often used compost. Yet even he said this smell was so overpowering that he couldn’t walk in his garden or play outside with his children. Also before the board was Cedar Grove’s claim that those complaints, and PSCAA’s subsequent investigations, were not based on “scientific” evidence. Backing up the company was the testimony of an air-quality scientist named Kirk Winges, who opined to the board that inspectors really should be sent to an “odor school” so that their findings would be “verifiable, repeatable, objective, and qualitative.” None of PSCAA’s inspectors had been to such a school. Yet the board sided with the judgment of those inspectors, whom it said “had a great deal of experience.” It found Cedar Grove guilty of all 17 violations. While the board

lowered the associated fines by $50,000 in recognition of facility modifications Cedar Grove had made to control odors, the state body nevertheless called the company’s transgressions “serious” and “ongoing and repetitive.” “Well, finally,” Marysville’s Mayor Nehring says Cedar Grove’s critics thought. But Cedar Grove threatened to appeal up the ladder to Superior Court. Unexpectedly, PSCAA settled with the company. Cedar Grove would not pay the fines as such. Rather, PSCAA would use the money for an “odor study” in the Everett and Marysville areas. “This is an entity that has consistently pointed the finger at a number of other people for a long time and denied that it was a source of the problem,” PSCAA’s Kenworthy explains. This study, he suggests, should prove who’s causing the problem once and for all. Not only that, but if the problem is Cedar Grove, the study should help identify what part of the operations is to blame and what could be done to fix it. “It’s more complicated than it might seem,” Kenworthy says of the composting process. Should he order Cedar Grove to “throttle down on volume” or stop taking food waste? Those are possibilities, but whatever he does, he needs the study’s findings to build a case that can stand up in court. Why? Because, as Kenworthy explains, “I have to assume, based on the past, that Cedar Grove will appeal.”

n the 1980s, Seattle had to rethink what it was doing with its garbage, Councilmember Conlin recalls. The city was obliged to close its own two landfills in the Kent area due to ecological concerns, including a methane leak so bad that Conlin says the gas was getting into neighbors’ basements. Even if the city’s landfills hadn’t had that problem, it couldn’t have used them forever. That’s the thing about landfills, says WSU’s Carpenter-Boggs: They fill up, and then you either have to build a new facility or find another one elsewhere. Seattle chose the latter option, rerouting its trash to a landfill in Arlington, Oregon. But transportation and disposal costs are expensive, Conlin says. So Seattle turned to recycling as a way to minimize what it sent to the landfill. What’s more, he says, the idea of using waste “productively” held great allure. “Reduce, reuse, recycle” became the mantra in Seattle, and everywhere else. The city set a goal of recycling 60 percent of all the waste it produced. Propelled by a burst of enthusiasm, Seattle’s recycling rate grew to 45 percent by 1995, but then started a years-long dip as “programs and participants grew a bit complacent,” according to Seattle Public Utilities spokesperson Brett Stav. “So what else is there?” Conlin says city officials asked. “We looked at what was left in the waste stream and found two main components: organics and construction debris.” Organics they could work with. Hence, the city’s push for composting was born. Across the nation, cities were making similar decisions. Among composting’s many boosters is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which on its website lists a hosts of eco-friendly attributes: promoting “higher yields of agricultural crops,” reducing the “need for chemical fertilizers,” even

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Composting companies generally work hard to alleviate smell, adds WSU’s CarpenterBoggs. They mix up, or “turn,” the decomposing matter after a certain number of days to facilitating “reforestation, wetlands restolet air flow through. They also employ fans ration, and habitat revitalization.” Many and pipes to push in more air, and install individuals proudly complied with such programs, and composting bins have become biological filters that absorb foul-smelling compounds. And some companies have built synonymous with environmental virtue. walls around their entire operation, despite But more than a decade of experience with the significant cost. composting on a large scale has revealed But Carpenter-Boggs says all those methods something, says Carpenter-Boggs: “It doesn’t may not be entirely effective, in part because always work.” “there’s at least one point in the process where In Utah in May, a number of companies [odor] probably cannot be controlled”—i.e., filed suit against a public composting facility when trucks are unloading just-collected run by the Timpanogos Special Service Disbatches of meat scraps, yard clippings, and trict, asking for $425 million in damages for overripe produce. “It’s just as if a garbage truck what the suit says is lost business caused by passed by,” she explains. The degree to which the stench. And in Thurston County, a composting company called Silver Springs Organ- composting companies meet community stanics shut down for about a year following long- dards depends in large part on the community, she continues. If there is “zero tolerance” for standing odor complaints from surrounding odor, she says, then maybe a facility in that residents and “huge fines” from the Olympic place just isn’t possible. Region Clean Air Agency, according to the On a sunny October day in Marysville’s agency’s executive director, Fran McNair. The small commercial district, a collection of facility reopened this month with a vastly boutiques and nuts-and-bolts stores just up upgraded facility. the road from Cedar Grove, tolerance can be Because of such issues, the Department found. “I don’t understand what the big issue of Ecology plans to conduct its own study of is, personally,” says Darlene Scott, proprietor odor problems around composting facilities, of Carr’s Hardware. Of all the people griping, including Cedar Grove’s plant in Everett, she asks: “Have these people never mowed according to Peter Christiansen, a manager their lawn before?” based in the department’s Bellevue office. Marja Oosterwyk comes out of the kitchen The department has also released a new set of Dutch Bakery, declares all her relatives of proposed rules for the industry that would “nursery people,” and dismisses the fuss with hold it responsible for controlling noxious a few sentences. “I love my flower beds. I smells. want my compost. I’m not going to make a big It’s no surprise that composting facilities are deal out of it,” she says of the odor. “It’s not having such problems, says Seana Davidson, going to smell like bacon and eggs.” a University of Washington engineering But what is no big deal to Scott and Oosterprofessor who has studied composting. wyk is the bane of Vicki Miniken’s existence. Decomposition of natural matter is a weeksShe usually leaves open the door to her store, long affair that relies upon microorganisms The Vintage Violet, and some days it literally that feed upon proteins and nutrients in the feels as if all the fresh air has been sucked out. material, she explains. As the organisms eat “It’s like you want to take a breath of air and away, they also consume oxygen. When oxygen there isn’t any,” she says. “It’ll be a solid two, is gone, the organisms’ metabolism changes, three hours, and it won’t go away. It’s horand they release chemical compounds that are, rible, just horrible. I’ll get customers from out in Davidson’s words, “fairly stinky.” of town and they’ll all ask, ‘What’s that smell?’ ” “I love my flower beds. I want my At her home, three miles compost. I’m not going to make a big away, she says, the odor be just as bad. On those deal out of it. It’s not going to smell can days, she’ll open the car like bacon and eggs.” door as she pulls in and think, “Oh, God.” She’ll walk inside and shut the doors. “The smell needs That shift into what experts call an “anaerto stop, but how do you know who needs to obic” state happens even more quickly with stop it?” she adds. While many people blame food waste, which is especially nutrient-rich, Cedar Grove, she says some also speculate sending the organisms into a feeding and about a topsoil company located on Smith oxygen-consuming frenzy, Davidson says. Island. Her attitude, she says, is “Prove it.” So Her explanation suggests that Marysville and she’s open to the idea of a study. Maple Valley residents might be right when But many of her neighbors aren’t. they blame Cedar Grove’s expansion into On July 24, Kenworthy and other PSCAA food waste, although company officials say such waste typically contains a lot more pizza staffers presented their plan for a study at a meeting in Marysville. Compliance manager boxes than rotting meat. Steve Van Slyke started off with a fairly techThat’s likely not the entire explanation, nical presentation on odors, why they smell however. As Seattle Public Utilities soliddifferent to different people, how they can be waste director Tim Croll points out, the measured, and so on. He didn’t get far. complaints about Cedar Grove started long “Have you ever sat out here on the flats?” before the onset of food-waste composting programs. Davidson reasons that even piles of a bespectacled, gray-haired man interrupted Van Slyke to ask. yard waste, given the volume companies are The engineer paused, looking a little flusdealing with, are at risk for smells. “Deep in tered. “I don’t sit out there,” he admitted. those larger piles you’re going to get anaero“Well, you should,” the questioner said, bic pockets,” she says. If grass or leaves are causing the audience to erupt in laughter. He wet, all the worse. They become a dense proceeded to tell Van Slyke and his boss that mush, leaving little room for air.

you don’t need a study to figure out what was causing the smell. You just need to use your nose and it will lead you straight to Cedar Grove—a theme that was repeated again and again by residents and city officials. “You go out to a chicken farm, you know it’s a chicken farm,” said Marysville City Councilmember Steve Muller. “You don’t need technical data.” To argue otherwise, he and others present said, was a stalling tactic, on the part of both Cedar Grove and the regulatory agency. “It’s your job to do something about it, damn it,” Muller said. “So do your job!” A couple of months later, in a City Hall conference room, Nehring elaborates on why many locals are so enraged. He harkens back to the summer of 2010, when PSCAA staffers held another meeting with a roomful of residents fed up with the smell. “Here’s what you need to do,” Nehring says the staffers told them. “You need to call and call and call.” If the agency could get enough complaints and subsequent violations, it could take action. “So that’s what we did,” Nehring says. City officials helped get the word out that when residents smelled something, they should alert PSCAA. That was the summer PSCAA had inspectors camped out in town, and issued two violations. But rather than see any resolution to the problem, the mayor says, residents now have to wait more than a year for the outcome of a study. The mayor and other city officials oppose the study for another reason as well. PSCAA has hired a Canadian company called Odotech to provide electronic odor-measuring devices, called “e-noses,” that will be placed throughout Everett and Marysville. Odotech is a contractor of Cedar Grove, which uses

Cedar grove’s compost piles are covered in a fabric called gore, of outerwear fame.

e-noses in an attempt to monitor itself. In the eyes of Nehring and other city officials, the study is thus bound to be biased, an impression furthered by Cedar Grove’s enthusiastic support for the study, which it portrays as a more scientific way of apportioning blame. Indeed, Cedar Grove hired signature-gatherers this summer to go door-to-door in Marysville with a petition calling for the city to back the study. Kenworthy, in his Seattle office, concedes that he’d rather use a company unaffiliated with Cedar Grove. But Odotech simply had the best technology to offer, he says. And he stresses, “This is our study.” PSCAA, not Odotech, will interpret the data. What’s more, Kenworthy says that if preliminary data indicates what the problem is, “we won’t wait until the end of the study,” but request that changes be made immediately.

edar Grove’s Everett manager, Lawrence Klein, and several other company officials gather on a recent morning to give a tour of their 26-acre facility, reached via a long access road that takes you deep into Smith Island. It’s a funny area, both industrial and semi-wild; a variety of birds flock to the slough that hugs the island’s northern shore, and a nature trail winds through grasslands located just outside Cedar Grove’s perimeter. Only when you drive up to the modest office building—a glorified trailer—do you see the full extent of Cedar Grove’s operation. The flattened brown mountains are but the finished product. Also onsite are multiple rows of what look like long tubes, each covered with a sturdy, greenish-tan material that resembles raincoat fabric.

The fabric is Gore, made by the same company that produces Gore-Tex, of outerwear fame. According to Klein, the material “allows breathability” but traps odors as the materials underneath—the stuff collected from compost bins, but ground and mixed with wood chips in a precise “recipe” that maximizes microorganisms—turn into compost. He calls the Gore system the “latest and best technology,” one that Cedar Grove learned about in Europe as it was preparing to open its second facility. All of the Everett facility uses the Gore system, whereas the Maple Valley plant uses a hodgepodge of different technologies. (It started as an open-air operation, then added an indoor component and eventually incorporated Gore.) Klein and his bosses contend that the high-tech fabric is “98 percent effective for odor mitigation.” And the Everett manager explains that its system relies not just on the fabric, but on sensors that will trigger fans if the oxygen level of the piles drops below a certain point. Cedar Grove can’t cover everything all the time, though. The process of building a pile takes about three-and-a-half hours, Klein says, and only when fully built is a pile covered. It used to be, too, that the facility didn’t cover the “third phase” row of piles (in each of three phases, piles sit for a certain length of time and are then turned). In response to all the complaints, Cedar Grove started using Gore in the third phase about a year ago. The company also added a front to its “tipping building,” where trucks drive in and dump waste on the floor. Most recently, this fall Cedar Grove added a building to house the

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culprit as well as Cedar Grove, and the county paid $16.5 million as its share of the settlement. Yet Kevin Kiernan, assistant director of the county’s solid-waste division, says that the landfill has dramatically changed its operations. Today, six inches of topsoil cover garbage to suppress smells, according to Kiernan. He also calls the energy-producing program a “tightly controlled operation” that siphons gas through pipes and burns off “odor-causing constituents” with a “high-temperature flare.” In the Everett area, Bartlett finds other entities to blame for complaints, everything from a wood-chip operation on the other end of Smith Island to the tideland itself—450 acres of “dying vegetation,” as he calls it. It’s not that Bartlett holds Cedar Grove completely blameless; rather, he says, “We believe we’re part of the problem. We don’t think we’re all of the problem.” He may have a point: Even Carpenter-Boggs, who recognizes the problems composting companies can cause, says they’re “sort of an easy target.” Often, though, it sounds as though Cedar Grove thinks it is but a very small part of the problem. Cedar Grove decided to do its own inspections in 2010. It hired a company called Environmental Reporting, Monitoring and Solutions (ERMAS), and encouraged local residents to call its contractor when they smelled something. ERMAS trained its employees to use an “odor wheel” that took inspiration from “refined” wine-tasting adjectives, according to a presentation later submitted to Snohomish County officials. ERMAS’ odor wheel included “dank basement,” “wet tea bag,” and “sour pipe tobacco.” In addition to investigating complaints, ERMAS inspectors were charged with

writing daily reports on what they smelled and how the wind was blowing, data that the company then used to analyze complaints that separately came in to PSCAA. In a report on the Everett facility at the end of that year, Cedar Grove’s contractor determined that the composting company was responsible for almost none of the odors in the area. Instead, the report blamed such entities as the topsoil company on Smith Island, a landfill on the nearby Tulalip Indian Reservation that has been capped for decades, and Marysville’s sewage-treatment plant, which ERMAS called the “largest single odor source”—a charge later repeated in Cedar Grove’s lawsuit against the city. Dead animals, skunks, and open garbage cans also came in for blame. The report earned Cedar Grove the enmity of the Tulalips, who didn’t care for the finger pointed in their direction. “Cedar Grove took the approach that they were going to just attack,” says Steve Gobin, general manager of Quil Ceda Village on the Tulalip Reservation. “For me, it’s personal.” To illustrate why, he hops into his truck and drives to his home, situated on 260 feet of waterfront along the slough, where he used to fly-fish almost every day before or after work. Because of the smell, he no longer does. Nehring says the presentation also served as a “breaking point” for many Marysville citizens.

n a recent day, Nehring and his public-works director, Kevin Nielsen, offer a somewhat stealthy olfactory tour of the area. Nielsen takes his personal car rather than his city one so as not to be recognized by Cedar Grove.

The first stop, though, is the sewagetreatment plant. The heart of the facility is a big lagoon where the wastewater, after it has been oxidized and colonized by excrementeating bugs, collects before further treatment. Despite its function, the lagoon is a tranquil site. Birds hover over it, just as they do over the slough right across the road. At City Hall and on the ride over, Nielsen and Nehring expound upon why they believe the facility is not to blame for the local stench. For one thing, the problem has arisen only in recent years, while the sewage plant has been around for roughly 50. For another, while they concede that the facility gives off a slight earthy smell at times, they say it’s different from what Nehring calls “the very specific odor” that has been plaguing the region. In contrast to the multitude of complaints about Cedar Grove, only eight people have complained to PSCAA about the Marysville facility since 2001. Yet after Nielsen parks the car at the plant and gets out, he immediately sniffs something. “Remember that smell,” he says. It’s the same sweet, putrid smell everybody talks about—one he and the mayor say is coming not from the plant in front of them but from Cedar Grove, just across the slough. The smell does seem to disappear as you walk closer to the lagoon. On the trail of the odor, they hop into the car and drive to Cedar Grove. On the nature trail just outside the composting compound, they breathe in and smell nothing but the marshy air. If the smell started here, it has blown away. For the next few hours at least, Marysville will be able to breathe. E nshapiro@seattleweekly.com

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share his interest—OK, obsession. Combining popular history and memoir in a wry, sort of Sarah Vowell-ish way (only less deadpan and more one-linery, and even funnier), the Jeopardy! champ and occasional SW contributor gives us the stories behind the map-illiteracy crisis (“43% of college freshmen can’t find Canada” and all that media kerfuffle); high-dollar map dealers; the Library of Congress’ Geography and Map Division and its 8,500 cabinets of maps; those who, like 14-year-old Benjamin Salman of Queen Anne, draw maps of selfinvented, astonishingly detailed fantasy worlds; various clubs of travel completists whose journeys are checklist-driven (striving to visit, say, the highest points in each of the 50 states); “road geeks” who can tell you everything you’d ever want to know about the U.S. Interstate system; and the Google Earth project and its ultimate goal: visually cataloging the planet’s entire surface on the scale 1 square centimeter = 1 pixel. Jennings explains the phenomenon of geocaching, and that Geocaching.com, the global game’s Internet epicenter, is headquartered in Fremont. Perfect—where more than in Seattle do enthusiasms for technology and the outdoors overlap? Wide World Books & Maps, 4411a Wallingford Ave. N., 634-3453, wideworldtravelstore.com. Free. 7:30 p.m. GAVIN BORCHERT

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It’s that time of year again. Yet as ACT prepares to stage A Christmas Carol for the 37th time, the warm holiday sentiment follows nicely on the recent election results. Think how different we’d be feeling if Romney and Ryan had prevailed. In a swift rewrite of the Charles Dickens story, Scrooge would be a privateequity tycoon whose capital-gains taxes are cut to zero. This “job creator” would merrily outsource Bob Cratchit’s position to India, paying rupees on the dollar. He’d mine coal and drill oil wells in our backyards, then pour the toxic byproducts into our streams (now that the EPA has been abolished). With Obamacare repealed on Day One, crippled little Tiny Tim would never get that operation he needs. Forget about abortion (now illegal in all the red states). Contraception? Birth-control pills turn women into whores! Those who couldn’t pay their mortgages would be shipped off to debtors’ prison where they belong. Oh, and voting rights? Show me your official ID card, available for a mere $10,000 at the convenient state registrar’s office in Prosser. (No, there’s no bus, nor any public transportation; parking provided for Bugattis only.) Corporations are people, my friend! But wait . . . it’s all only a dream. Obama won, and Scrooge—played in alternating performances by R. Hamilton Wright and Jeff Steitzer—turns out to be a closet liberal! “God bless us, every one!” indeed. (Previews begin tonight; opens Sunday; runs through Dec. 30.) ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., 292-7676, acttheatre.org. $27–$55. 7 p.m. BRIAN MILLER

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Here come the winter holidays, parents, and what are you going to do with your children? How many screaming Wii sessions must you endure before locking the brats in the closet and starting cocktail hour at noon? Thankfully, Seattle Center’s annual Winterfest offers many family activities—the ice rink (in Fisher Pavilion) foremost among them. Inside the Armory, there’s a model railroad to steer through a snowy village. There, too, the Seattle Youth Symphony will perform today at 12:30 p.m. Upcoming events include ice carving, music from the Seattle Men’s Chorus and (separately) the Garfield High School Jazz Band, a celebration of Mexican holiday traditions, caroling, and more. And when you and the kids are finally sated with eggnog, holiday cheer, and fake snow, don’t forget Pacific Science Center’s ongoing King Tut exhibit and IMAX presentation of Skyfall and EMP’s vintage Rolling Stones photos and leather-jacket display. They may not be wintery, but at least they’re indoors. (Through Jan. 6.) Seattle Center, 684-7200, seattlecenter.com. Fees vary (many cash-only). 11 a.m.–10 p.m. BRIAN MILLER

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British journalist Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare at Goats) was once invited to the estate of the late Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), who spent the second half of his life in England. There, at the behest of Kubrick’s widow, Ronson began searching through the director’s storage boxes for a 2008 documentary, only to discover that the boxes contained still more boxes, and the archives were such an obsessive labyrinth of notes, ephemera, and just plain weirdness that Kubrick couldn’t be condensed or digested. (Ronson later wrote about the experience in The Guardian, a piece contained in his new collection Lost at Sea.) All of which is a roundabout way of addressing 2001: A Space Odyssey, which likewise resists synopsis or explanation. It’s a mystery about a mystery that only expands— unlike, say, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, which gradually diminishes in depth. (Spoiler! Christ was an alien! And his buddies are pissed about that whole crucifixion thing!) Released in 1968, Kubrick’s sci-fi quest was immediately labeled a trip movie and embraced by baby boomers, even if few actually dropped acid at the screenings. Four decades later, whether you believe Keir Dullea’s astronaut has been transmogrified into the Star-Child or not, 2001 is a fitting memorial to its director, as aloof and majestic as the big, black monolith standing sentinel on the moon. Egyptian, 801 E. Pine St., 781-5755, landmarktheatres.com. $8.25. Midnight. (Repeats Sat.) BRIAN MILLER

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Ah—gratuitous nudity, graphic sex, toilet humor, and pervasive cynicism. Balagan’s homegrown take on the hit puppet musical is perfectly timed for the holidays. The Tony Award–winning 2003 show is a foul-mouthed lampoon of Sesame Street and The Electric Company, stripped of all nutritional/educational content and targeted at a generation that grew up in front of the TV. You’ll be either aghast or amused as all those childhood lessons and dewy-eyed PBS promises of a brighter tomorrow are gleefully trashed. For starters, your degree is worthless (“What Do You Do With a B.A. in English?”), there’s no such thing as a colorblind society (“Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist”), and peaceful coexistence is a myth (“The more you love someone,” one song opines, “the more you want to kill them”).

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Lopez and Jeff Marx; Jeff Whitty wrote the book). Years ago in Vegas, we took my 70something mother-in-law to Avenue Q, not really knowing what to expect. We knew it wasn’t for kids, but did she? At first, she sat stonily with jaw clenched. But when I looked more closely, her eyes were twinkling with delight. She was forcing herself not to laugh, because well-mannered ladies aren’t supposed to go in for such bawdy fare. Avenue Q will defy you not to like it. And it will win. KEVIN PHINNEY

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There’s the kind of laughter at a comedy club where you’ve gone “to have fun,” as if it’s the blue-plate special. Then there’s the kind that comes with no expectations at a whack attack like The Habit. Its five male performers ooze cleverness and timing in some 30 short vignettes (some linked, some freestanding). The sketches’ premises are only casually funny, but like sprinting downhill, the keenest fun is the sheer tumble of it—how rapidly the comedic constellations form, collapse, and re-form. There’s seldom a nanosecond to ponder what just happened before hurtling off to some new realm of the ridiculous. Jeff Schell and a cabal of fellow UW grads founded the local troupe in the mid-’90s. After forays in L.A. and New York and auditions for HBO and Comedy Central, the group disbanded until last year’s Seattle reunion show—which now looks to be an annual holiday tradition. Courtroom: Prosecutor expounds, defender objects, stenographer “Judy” (Luke Thayer in red track suit and long wig) reads aloud . . . and somehow the scene kills. Later, a nearly identical setup in a hospital . . . again, it kills, building on its earlier rhythm. The script cuts straight to the absurd “templatization” of modern life. Rinse. Repeat. FAST! The world’s worst joketeller (again, Thayer) periodically tells the same terrible joke, which vaults him to the height of stardom. His apotheosis is kitschy hilarity, as long as you don’t overcontemplate. Wisely, the team doesn’t let you. (John Osebold, Mark Siano, and David Swidler complete the quintet.) The Habit branches out to battlefields, game shows, Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, terrorists, Einstein, and cell-phone patty-cake. It’s the closest thing in Seattle to Second City, and we’re already looking forward to The Habit’s 2013 return engagement. MARGARET FRIEDMAN E stage@seattleweekly.com

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In his new neighborhood, recent grad Princeton (Heathcliff Saunders) discovers that people interact with magical felt creatures (controlled by cast members who may or may not be voicing their characters). In this purgatory, a parallel world to Sesame Street, Gary Coleman of Diff’rent Strokes (Rashawn Scott) has been reduced to being the building’s super after his parents absconded with all that Hollywood cash. Sharing the tenement are an aspiring comic (Danny Kam), his Asian fianceé Christmas Eve (Diana Huey), a closeted Republican and his straight roomie (Justin Huertas and Brian Lange), a hermetic monster addicted to the Internet (Robert Scherzer), and a kindergarten teaching assistant named Kate Monster (Kirsten deLohr Helland). In this blessedly musical romp, the songs move the scant love story along. Princeton falls for Lucy the Slut (Kate Jaeger), while Kate falls afoul of her teaching mentor Mrs. Thistletwat (Jaeger again) after a night of binge drinking and hot puppet sex. (Is there any other kind?) Director Eric Ankrim has polished the performances to a sparkling sheen, so that even when the show isn’t funny, it’s surprisingly tender and tuneful (thanks to composers Robert

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A singer-songwriter of searching candor and an electric bassist of mesmerizing skill, the 10-time Grammy nominee brings to KPC her inspiring and creative reinvention of classics made famous by Nina Simone. 7:30pm. 425.893.9900. $30.

Through music from around the globe, readings, and beautiful sets, Seattle women’s choir, Ancora, will explore several cultural calendar cycles (including the Mayan Apocalypse) and “lift the veil,” showing that 2012 is not about the world ending--it’s about the world changing. 206.372.8059. $15-$20.

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Barry Manilow stars in PANDORA Unforgettable Moments of Love on Ice. Performing more than 20 of his greatest hits LIVE on stage while Olympic medalists skate on ice. One night only, taped for an NBC audience, with Nancy Kerrigan, Ben Agosto, Elvis Stojko and more! 253.856.6999. $49.50-$125.

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Kirkland Performance Center Thursday, December 6

Singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer, Gabriel Kahane, comes to KPC to play from his latest album Where are the Arms - a suite of 11 smart songs that weave in, out and between pop, rock and classical, covering a broad range of emotions. Having collaborated and performed with the likes of Sufjan Stevens, Loudon Wainwright III, and former Nickel Creek front-man Chris Thile, Kahane will be joined by frequent collaborator Rob Moose (Bon Iver, Beth Orton, The National). Brooklyn-based Elizabeth and the Catapult opens. 7:30pm. 425.893.9900. $18.

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Kirkland Performance Center Thursday, December 13

HOLIDAY POPS Benaroya Hall December 6 – 9

Jeff Tyzik leads the Seattle Symphony and special guests in the perfect collection of seasonal favorites, served up with plenty of wit and warmth for the whole family. 206.215.4747. $19-$82.

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UNCLE BONSAI & C. LAVIN Kirkland Performance Center November 30 & December 1

Singer, songwriter, entertainer Christine Lavin and folkpop trio Uncle Bonsai deliver this year’s only Christmas, Hanukkah, Solstice, New Year’s concert with a grain of salt and a lot of laughter. With the spotlight on fresh, new holiday-themed songs along with those from their own repertoires Christine and Uncle Bonsai deliver an exuberant concert of songs you’ll never hear in an elevator. 8pm. 425.893.9900. $32.

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THEATER RETURN TO PARADISE Teatro Zinzanni October 5 - January 27

Blast off in Teatro ZinZanni’s time machine and travel back to hippest party of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair. Diva Gracie Hansen of Paradise ZinZanni cordially invites you back in time to an exclusive evening where Elvis Presley rocks the house, Jimi Hendrix jams with the band and Bruce Lee shows off all his moves. At this World’s Fair, the future is the past, love conquers science and the party never ends! 206.802.0015. $106 & up.

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Leo K. Theatre at Seattle Rep October 26 - December 2, 2012

In Tennessee Williams’ shattering classic, an aging Southern Belle longs for her youth and dreams of a better life for her children. Her restless son Tom—a would–be poet and the story’s narrator—gets swept up in his mother’s funny and heartbreaking schemes to find his painfully shy sister, Laura, a husband. Associate Artistic Director Braden Abraham brings an imaginative and intimate take on one of the most beautiful dramas in American theatre. 206.443.2222. $30-$55.

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DANCE NUTCRACKER McCaw Hall December 7 - 29

Praised by The New York Times as “original and exciting”, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s marvelously imagined Nutcracker production features over 200 dancers, gigantic moving sets designed by Maurice Sendak, a snowfall every performance, and Tchaikovsky’s beloved score performed by the PNB Orchestra. 206.441.2424. $25-$125.

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COMEDY COMEDY COMPETITION

Kirkland Performance Center Friday, November 23

Celebrating its 33rd year, Comedy Underground’s Seattle International Comedy Competition returns to KPC! Hundreds of comedians audition each year from around the country to compete; only thirty-two are chosen. This final round of competition at Kirkland Performance Center will feature five of the best comedians selected from previous qualifying rounds. 7:30pm. 425.893.9900. $27.

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BABY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE Benaroya Hall November 30 - December 22

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

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THE WINTER WONDERETTES Artswest Playhouse & Gallery November 23 - December 30

It’s Christmas 1968! Get ready for songs, songs, and more songs on a nostalgia trip when the Marvelous Wonderettes are asked to entertain at the holiday party for Harper’s Hardware. 206.938.0339. $17-$36.50.

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

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Save money … Man around town (well, the Pacific Northwest, really), Scott McMurren helps locals and visitors alike explore the Emerald City on the cheap. In his discount travel book, The Seattle TourSaver (www.seattletoursaver.com), cost-conscious folks can save big on more than 100 offers, including whale-watching tours, flightseeing trips and a cruise to Victoria. It’s a great way to get out and explore Seattle and beyond (deals extend to Victoria and the San Juan Islands, too), but also a great way to save some cash when entertaining out-oftown family.

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Local architectural designer by day/fashion designer by night, Christine Chaney creates ethereal scarves, shrugs, jackets and dresses that make both sexes swoon. Named Seattle Magazine’s “2012 Best Emerging Designer,” we adore the versatility of her crochet hooked garments, especially the capelet. Chaney’s inspired pieces enable our city’s love affair with winter accessories, and we’re all the more stylish for it. Besides, how you not love a designer whose motto is: “Nobody gets screwed making this clothing, but if you wear it, you might just get laid.” Velouria 2205 NW Market St., 206-788-0330 christinechaneycreative.com/craft $132

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Bring the barista home (well, not literally) with Starbucks’ latest single-serve brewer. Verismo, a word derived from a form of Italian opera, uses fancy high-pressure Swiss engineering to bring the Starbucks experience straight to your kitchen. What sets this machine apart from others on the market? It can spew out perfectly made espresso-based drinks complete with crema beyond your usual cup of coffee. Sur La Table 84 Pine St., 206-448-2244 surlatable.com $199.95

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Closer to the Ground Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family’s Year on the Water, In the Woods and at the Table (Patagonia Books, 2012) by Dylan Tomine. This engaging memoir follows Bainbridge Island writer, Dylan Tomine and his family through four seasons as they hunt chanterelles, fish for salmon, dig clams and gather at the kitchen table to enjoy the fruits of their labor. The Washington Post calls it, “An eloquent chronicle of a likeable family’s attempt to love a more nature-centric life.” Dylan and his family own Bainbridge Island Blueberry Co. (u-pick farm). Patagonia 2100 First Ave., 206-622-9700 patagonia.com or amazon.com $29.95

Adopt an Orca Now you can be the proud parent of one of our Southern Resident Community of orcas, including the three new calves born this past summer. Great for kids who want to learn about whales, each adoption comes with a personalized certificate and photo, a genealogy chart of your whale’s pod, monthly e-updates about the whales and more. Kick up the cool factor for this gift with a whalewatching tour. The Orca Adoption Program whalemuseum.org Orcas Island Eclipse Charters 8365 Orcas Rd., Orcas Island 360-376-6566, orcasislandwhales.com $35 and

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Geared toward all ages and skill levels, Stand Up Paddling (aka SUP) may be the new “it” sport. Sure, it requires some serious core muscles to actually stand up, but the wide stable board makes it easier to balance than let’s say, a surfboard. Think of what an awesome adventure it would be to see Lake Washington and connect with nature from this perspective?! Yeah, we thought so. Salmon Bay Paddle Stand Up Paddle Board 206-465-7167, salmonbaypaddle.com $100 and up

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BLACK FRIDAY Sash Boa Coiler Boots Hey, snow bunnies! Hit the slopes in style with these sleek, luxury snowboarding boots from Ride Snowboards. Boa Coiler lacing gives you perfect cable tension all the way through the forefoot, while Ride’s uber-comfy Intuition™ Support Foam Liner hugs the contours of your feet. Available in black or teal. REI 222 Yale Ave. N., 206-223-1944 rei.com $229.95

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Gumball Poodle Socks Geared toward all ages and skill levels, Stand One of the defining, ahem, fashion statements of the ‘70s. Who remembers rocking the three-stripe tube socks at the roller rink? Satisfy your need for nostalgia with Gumball Poodle’s unisex, Made in USA tube socks emblazoned with super groovy words like Whiskey, Zombie and Nerd. Monster Art and Clothing 5000 20th Ave. NW, 206-789-0037 monsterartandclothing.com $10 or 3 pairs for $25

HALO 4 Halo Nation, rejoice! In Halo 4, the first entry in a new series of Halo games dubbed the “Reclaimer Trilogy,” experience the dawn of an epic new Halo adventure, solo or split screen with up to three friends. As the Master Chief returns to battle an ancient evil bent on vengeance and annihilation, embark on co-op missions with new enemies. Pink Gorilla Games West Seattle, University District and International District locations pinkgorillagames.com $59.99

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What happens when a brand new operating system meets a slimmed-down tablet format? You get Surface from Microsoft, this season’s “it” tech gadget. Use the built-in kickstand plus a removable keyboard, and you pretty much have a super cool touch screen laptop. Simple setup seals the deal. Windows users will love it. Microsoft University Village and Bellevue Square Mall locations microsoft.com $499 and up

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BLACK FRIDAY Necky Eliza Kayak

For the female paddling enthusiast in your life, consider the Rolls Royce of dive kayaks, a Necky Kayak. Born in the Pacific Northwest and named “Best Women’s Kayak” in Sea Kayaker Magazine’s 2011 Readers Choice Awards, the Eliza model is specifically designed to fit women. One of the lightest kayaks on the market, its boasts a roomy cockpit, and padded thigh braces for kick butt handling and control. Northwest Outdoor Center, 2100 Westlake Ave. N, Suite #1 206-281-9694, nwoc.com $1,599.99 and up (special order only)

Collapsible Boots

These colorful rain boots have been a must have for urban style-setters ever since Kate Moss rocked them with hot pants at the famed Glastonbury festival a few years back. Now, fashionistas on-the-go can weatherproof their look with Hunter’s brand new collapsible boots - the perfect travel companion. You can never own just one pair of these pretty boots, and when you know it’s going to rain for months on end, why would you? Nordstrom 500 Pine St., 206-628-2111 shop.nordstrom.com $135

Snowboarding Ultra Dream

Looking for a crowd pleasing gift for the hardto-shop for people on your list? How about the thrill of soaring nearly 200-feet in the sky over Elliott Bay? You could buy the standard ticket ($13 for adults; $8.50 for children) or go big with a ride in the VIP gondola, which features four leather bucket seats and a glass floor. Each VIP ticket zips guests to the front of the line first class-style, and then they get to take home a commemorative tee-shirt. The Seattle Great Wheel 1301 Alaskan Way, seattlegreatwheel.com $8.50 and up

When winter hits, Seattlelites like to hit the nearby slopes. K2’s brand new all-mountain snowboard is built for speed, stability and handles, well, like a dream. Tricked out with some new technology, like a BAMBOOYA bamboo core and refined the tips and tails, it’s kinda like a sexed-up, tuned-up version of K2’s Turbo. Evo 3500 Stone Way N., 206-973-4470 evo.com $549.95

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BLACK FRIDAY Briggs Dog Dish

Love your pooch, but don’t love the ever-popular plastic dog dish? Made from reclaimed steel drums, this eco-friendly dish is built to last, giving you and your dog something to bark about. No two pieces are exactly alike and each set includes a stainless steel bowl. Rex 1402 12th Ave., 206-467-4440 rexseattle.com $55

Felt Pod Planters

Like brightly colored flyer saucers, Flip & Tumble’s 100% recycled felt planters are perfect for your littlest plants. Lined with plastic, each planter comes with a dropper for easy watering. Cheap, cheerful and sustainable, these pod-like cuties will add a pop of color to your home or office. Andaluz 4908 Rainer Ave. S., 206-760-1900 andaluzseattle.com $14

Adopt a Pet

Sending holiday greetings is a snap when you use Postcardly. Simply set up a Postcardly email account, send an email with an attached photo and Postcardly will turn your image and message into a fridge-worthy postcard and send it via snail mail. Skip buying stamps and long lines at the post office and and still make every friend and relative happy. Easy peasey. Gift certificates available, too. postcardly.com $.99 each

Thinking about getting a pet for the holidays? Give an animal a special home (and a second chance!) with adoption. More than 5 million companion animals enter shelters each year; an estimated two-thirds are euthanized. Shelter pets make great - and grateful companions - love and licks guaranteed. All adoption applications are subject to approval. Seattle Humane Society 13212 SE Eastgate Way, Bellevue 425-641-0080, seattlehumane.org fees vary

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BLACK FRIDAY Schwinn Tigress

Indulge your fiercest little feline slash cyclist with this styley kids’ bike. Twelve-inch tires, coaster brakes, detachable training wheels and a sweet pink paint job complete with lots of Flower Power will keep your 2-4-year old rolling through the streets of your neighborhood in the utmost of safety and style. There’s also a version for the little dude in your life too; the Tiger. (Special order only, allow four weeks.) Alki Bike and Board 2606 California Ave. SW, 206-938-3322 alkibikeandboard.com $130

Sprout Watches

Forget mass-produced Disney, Lego and Hello Kitty themed watches. Instead, kit your favorite kiddie (or kid-at-heart) in Spout Watches adorable, affordable ecotimepieces made from sustainable materials including conflict-free diamonds, organic cotton, corn resin and bamboo which all run on a mercury-free battery. Colorful designs make a statement and range from simple classic bands to whimsically-detailed dials. With styles for men, women and children, these watches will make even non-wearers want to keep track of time. Nordstrom 500 Pine St., 206-628-2111 nordstrom.com $30 and up

Animal Hoodies

Is your crafty kid the next Rem Koolhaus? Give ‘em something beyond your standard building blocks. Made by Manzanita Kids, this awesome local business based in Ballard makes high-quality, open-ended wooden toys. This particular set allows kids to construct lots of cool stuff, including barns, castles and villages. Manzanita Kids 206-419-8528, manzanitakids.com $75

Love it or hate it, the animal knit cap trend isn’t going away. PingiHats takes the popular teenage craze one step further with its super cute zip-front hoodies available in a zoo full of options. We’re partial to the Bat, Owl and Unicorn hoodies, but if they made a Liger version, our grown-up world would be complete. Maybe with matching mittens. Pike Place Market Friday, Saturday and Sunday only pingihats.com $54 and up

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Designed by a self-proclaimed beauty junkie, Kari Tran’s the all-natural line is handmade in Seattle in small batches using organic ingredients. This minimalist kit can go straight into your carry on, ensuring a healthy complexion in the air and on arrival. info@karigran.com 206-257-1226, karigran.com $35

Screw wishing on a star when you can give your New Year dreams (symbolic) wings with these whimsical wishing kits. Make a wish and write it down, then light the paper and watch it fly to the sky. Making resolutions have never been easier (or more fun). Watson & Kennedy Purveyor of Fine Goods 1022 1st Ave., 206-652-8350 watsonkennedy.com $12

All-Purpose Utility Apron

Handmade Perfume

Channel your inner urban Annie Oakley with Janna Lufkin’s sensible, yet sassy handmade utility aprons. Inspired by her family’s ranches in southern Idaho and made in Seattle, these sturdy textiles stand up to the toughest kitchen tasks and work equally well for prop stylists and wait staff. Designed with both women and men in mind. rawmaterialsdesign.com $32

Artisan perfumer, Meredith Smith helps clients complete a fragrance profile before crafting a sweet-smelling custom formulation. 100% vegan fragrances, after-hours shopping and perfume-making classes are available. Sweet Anthem 6021-B California Ave. SW, 206-937-1415 sweetanthemperfumes.com $72 and up

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McManus fesses up that Black Friday isn’t the biggest retail day for Capitol Hill shops; Small Business Saturday is when shoppers really show up. “Shoppers are really locally-minded on that day, and really appreciate the flyers with the listing of all the local shops offering specials or deals,” she says. In addition, the Broadway Sunday Farmers Market will feature some deals that Sunday, and of course, the Capitol Hill Indoor Flea Market will sell arts, crafts and thrift goods upstairs in the OddFellows Building from 11a.m. to 3p.m. on Saturdays. Still not convinced to shop local? Lisa Nakamura, chef and owner of Allium on Orcas Island, knows a thing or two about small-town economy. Her children’s’ book, Bucky the Dollar Bill (www.createspace.com/3867098), traces how a single dollar bill spent on Orcas Island supports small, independent businesses and benefits the community. “Buying local is like throwing a pebble into a pond; the ripples spread far and wide,” says Nakamura. This year, give your fingers a rest, your feet a workout and your neighborhood businesses some love. For a complete listing of Shop the Hill Black Friday sales, deals, specials and online-only offers, visit www.capitolhillseattle.com.

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For the less intrepid, you don’t have to hit the mall to save money this holiday season. Instead head to Capitol Hill, where Audrey McManus, Marketing and Education Coordinator of Toys in Babeland, in cahoots with the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce, has done a killer job organizing a local shopping event the past three years. This year, she has the added support of Sound Transit, capitolhillseattle.com and United Reprographics. Last year, more than 80 businesses banded together to offer sales and deals to holiday shoppers throughout the entire postThanksgiving weekend; Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, plus Sunday. Although retailers are still being added to the roster and nailing down their sales, McManus hopes for even stronger participation this holiday season.

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Stage openings & events

Cat PaCk “Four swingin’ cats and one lovely kitten”

offer a ring-a-ding-ding improv cabaret. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, 587-2414, unexpectedproductions.org. $5–$15. 8:30 p.m. Fri., Nov. 23–Sat., Nov. 24. a Christmas Carol SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 19. Comedy for suPerstorm sandy relief A fundraising omnibus, including highlights from their shows Uncle Mike Ruins Christmas, Where No Man Has Gone Before, and much more. Wing-It Productions, 5510 University Way N.E., 781-3879, jetcityimprov.com. $15. 7 p.m. Sun., Nov. 25. how they attaCk us Kevin McKeon’s dark comedy about paranoia and conspiracy theories. New City Theater, 1404 18th Ave., 800-838-3006, newcitytheater.org. $16. Opens Wed., Nov. 21. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. Ends Dec. 15. insPeCting Carol Daniel Sullivan’s quirky comedy riffs on ACT’s rival Dickens production. Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Center, 443-2222. Previews Nov. 23, 24, 25, 27, opens Nov. 28. Runs 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sun. plus lots of matinees; see seattlerep.org for exact schedule. Ends Dec. 23. sherloCk holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol SW alum John Longenbaugh’s

popular mashup of Dickens and Conan Doyle. Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St., 781-9707, taproottheatre.org. $22–$37. Opens Nov. 23. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat. Ends Dec. 29. two Can Play Lorin Howard’s two-person mystery about a recluse and her caregiver. The Ballard Underground, 2220 N.W. Market St., 800-838-3006, brownpapertickets. com. $15. 7:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 24, Sun., Nov. 25, Mon., Nov. 26, Wed., Nov. 28, Thurs., Nov. 29, Sat., Dec. 1. unCle mike ruins Christmas In Wing-It Productions’ dysfunctional-family improv, share your holiday memories and watch Uncle Mike ruin them. Wing-It Productions, 5510 University Way N.E., 781-3879, wingitpresents.com. $12–$15. Opens Nov. 24. Midnight:30 Sat. Ends Dec. 22. the winter wonderettes Celebrate Christmas 1968 with this girl group. ArtsWest, 4711 California Ave. S.W., 938-0339, artswest.org. $17–$36.50. Preview Nov. 21, opens Nov. 23. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sat., 3 p.m. Sun., plus 3 p.m. Sat., Dec. 15, 22, 29. Ends Dec. 30. winterfest SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 19.

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contemporary about Tennessee Williams’ sad reminiscence of unrequited love, told in a hazy reverie by Tom Wingfield (Ben Huber). He strolls onstage, lights a cigarette, and begins to weave this tale, explaining at the outset that everything is depicted simply as he remembers it. Beset by his faded Southern socialite mother Amanda (Suzanne Bouchard) and tethered to a dead-end job, he’d have left home years ago were it not for his handicapped sister, Laura (Brenda Joyner), who limps from one end of their apartment to the other like a purposeless pet no one has the nerve to put down. She spends her days pining after a high-schooler several social strata beyond her grasp, only to discover that the co-worker her brother is bringing for dinner is the dreamboat in question, Jim (Eric Riedmann). Laura’s broken heart and busted glasswork are refracted through brilliant set and lighting (by Mikiko Suzuki MacAdams and L.B. Morse, respectively; Braden Abraham directs). The play’s final vortex of gloom mocks that old saw that Amanda might once have endorsed: “ ’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” No, Williams insists. It isn’t. KEVIN PHINNEY Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Center, 443-2222. $12–$70. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sun. plus select matinees; see seattlerep.org for exact schedule. Ends Dec. 2. the haBit SEE REVIEW, PAGE 21. sCrooge: the musiCal Dickens, with Leslie Bricusse’s score. Seattle Musical Theatre, 7400 Sand Point Way N.E. # 101N, 363-2809, seattlemusicaltheatre. org. $35–$40. 7:30 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 2 p.m. Sun., plus 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Dec. 6. Ends Dec. 9. seattle international Comedy ComPetition

Battling stand-ups, with a winner crowned Nov. 25. See seattlecomedycompetition.com for full schedule and venue details. teatro ZinZanni: return to Paradise Their usual fare—a leisurely five-course dinner interspersed with songs, sophisticated circus acts, and audience-participation comedy—is given a World’s Fair theme, set right here in 1962 Seattle. Among the circus acts, the standout is Sam Payne and Sandra Feusi’s “Vertical Tango”— exactly that, a tango performed not only on the dance floor but up a pole, with the same steamy body-wrapping and legwork in midair. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., 802-0015. $106 and up. Runs Thurs.–Sun. through Jan. 27; see dreams.zinzanni.org for exact schedule. the wiZard of oZ As that much-forwarded meme has it, a woman travels to a foreign land and kills the first person she sees, then teams up with three strangers to kill some more. Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Center, 441-3322. $20–$36. Runs Thurs.–Sun., plus Wed. over the holidays; see sct.org for exact schedule. Ends Jan. 6.

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biggest salsa event, both participatory and performative, with a “bootcamp” for beginners, social dancing, and shows by professionals from all over the Americas and beyond. See seattlesalsacongress.com for full details. Hilton Seattle Airport & Conference Center, 17620 International Blvd. Nov. 23–25. Carmona flamenCo Traditional music and dance. Cafe Solstice, 4116 University Way N.E., 932-4067. $15–$20. 8 & 9:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 24.

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cert (because they’re including Thanksgiving) is Doug Fullington’s group, with “American Folk Holiday.” Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., 323-9415, tudorchoir.org. $20–$30. 7:30 p.m. Fri., Nov. 23. Byrd ensemBle “What Sweeter Music” with guest vocalists the Parnassus Project. Trinity Episcopal Church, 609 Eighth Ave., 397-3627, byrdensemble.com. $10–$20. 7:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 24, 3 p.m. Sun., Nov. 25. evening of sevdah Traditional Bosnian love songs. Benaroya Recital Hall, Third Ave. and Union St., evening ofsevdah.com. $15. 7:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 24. northwest Clarinet Choir Originals and arrangements: Borodin, Handel, and more. Woodland Park United Methodist Church, 302 N. 78th St., nwclarinet choir.org. Free. 4 p.m. Sun., Nov. 25. ukrainian musiC and danCe From folk traditions. Kirkland Performance Center, 350 Kirkland Ave., Kirkland, 425-893-9900, kpcenter.org. $10–$15. 4 p.m. Sun., Nov. 25. uw Choirs The Chamber Singers and University Chorale perform. Meany Hall, UW campus, 543-4880, music. washington.edu. $10–$15. 7:30 p.m. Tues., Nov. 27. metroPolitan oPera at the movies Opera performances live in HD. Thomas Ades’ shimmering setting of The Tempest, one of the most acclaimed new operas of recent years. See metopera.org for participating theaters. $24. 6:30 p.m. Wed., Nov. 28.

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revue, hosted by Jasper McCann. Columbia City Theater, 4918 Rainier Ave. S., 800-838-3006, theatomicbombshells. com. $22–$25. 9 p.m. Sat. Ends Nov. 24. avenue Q SEE REVIEW, PAGE 21. fallen angels A 1925 Noel Coward comedy about two married women who discover they’re having separate affairs with the same man. Theater Schmeater, 1500 Summit Ave., 324-5801, schmeater.org. $15–$23. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. Ends Dec. 15. fiddler on the roof Based on Sholem Aleichem’s stories of imperiled shtetl life in Czarist Russia, this musical mines themes that resonate not only with Jews but with any culture struggling to preserve its traditions against modernization. When patriarch Tevye gathers with the men of the village to determine his daughter’s matrimonial fate, is that so different from the old arranged marriages of India, Africa, Asia, or Medieval Europe? Challenged by others’ new personal freedom, elders’ forefingers rise to the reactionary anthem “Tradition!” Director David Ira Goldstein nicely balances the villagers’ fatigue and the energy the musical numbers require. (Though one expects higher kicks from the Russian soldiers, considering they’re not doing physical labor all day.) As his daughters get with the times, slipping away from his control like sand running through Tevye’s fingers, so also is his familiar patch of earth yanked from beneath him. He and the remains of his community trudge away on a rotating floor, a mandala of sorts, perhaps toward better things in America—or more rude awakenings. MARGARET FRIEDMAN Village Theatre, 303 Front St. N., Issaquah, 425-392-1942. $22–$63. Runs Wed.–Sun. plus some Tues.; see villagetheatre.org for exact schedule. Ends Dec. 30, then moves to Everett Performing Arts Center Jan. 4–27.

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The first Thanksgiving was a boozy, unruly potluck, closer in spirit to a Dionysian harvest festival than a ceremonious white-tablecloth dinner.

ast month, Adam Gold, a veteran television consultant, opened Gobble in a Woodinville strip mall. “All we serve is turkey in a gazillion different forms,” he says of the counterservice restaurant. “There really isn’t another restaurant doing what we’re doing. It’s sort of a gamble, isn’t it? When you say ‘turkey’ to people, about four out of five people’s eyes roll back in their heads like Homer Simpson talking about doughnuts. But the other one says, ‘Once a year is enough for me.’ ” The specter of detractors didn’t derail Gold’s plans, years in the making, to offer a menu built around Thanksgiving staples. Buoyed by industry statistics showing turkey consumption is on the upswing, Gold developed recipes for creamed spinach, green-bean

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casserole, macaroni-and-cheese, Brussels sprouts, and cornbread. He’d already perfected turkey roasting: Long before he opened Gobble, he started producing low-budget online turkey-preparation videos, including “Should I Brine My Turkey?”, “How to Carve a Turkey,” and “Making Turkey Stock,” which features a Hawaiian-shirted Gold showing viewers how to slide the turkey’s “goodie bag” out of its neck cavity. “Everything I do you could do at home,” Gold says, conceding his restaurant’s turkey secrets are broadcast on YouTube. “But people don’t want to take the trouble to do it.” Gobble is arranged similarly to Boston Market, with most customers ordering the $8.99 turkey platter with stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, and two sides. The restaurant

also serves turkey chili, turkey lasagna, “There really isn’t another restaurant turkey pot pie, turkey Caesar salads, and doing what we’re doing,” says Gold. open-faced turkey sandwiches. Gold and his consultants guessed takeout would account for 80 percent of the restaurant’s business, work. “The middle of lunch rush is not the “but everyone wants to stay,” he says. The time to tell me we’re out of pot pies, or to room’s decor, like many of the recipes, was start preparing meatloaf,” he says. “I don’t drawn from Gold’s personal collection. “All want a fresh meatloaf at 2. I want it at 4:30.” of the stuff you see on the walls came out of my house,” he says. “My older son walked obble now serves about 125 meals in and said, ‘This is our house.’ Same colors, per day, or half of what Gold estisame cabinetry.” mates the restaurant needs to sell While Gobble produces a fantastically to break even. Still, the restaurant juicy turkey that could make even dark-meat is so overwhelmed that it’s sitting out the loyalists deign to eat a breast, every other year’s biggest turkey day. According to a webelement of the enterprise is trouble-prone. site post titled “Um . . . about Thanksgiving,” When I dropped by the restaurant soon after Gobble isn’t ready for a whole turkey rush. it opened, it took a flailing crew of four well“We’d never forgive ourselves—and we have a intentioned staffers to assemble a tray with hunch you wouldn’t either—if we ruined your cold macaroni, parched mashed potatoes, and holiday,” the online posting states. sour green beans (although I’d considered The restaurant is bracing for a post-holiday other sides, the staffers warned against it). lull, although Gold hopes traffic will pick up Much to Gold’s distress, other customers once the Wi-Fi’s working. “We’ll turn into your have reported similar experiences. local Starbucks with macaroni,” he predicts. Gold freely admits he’s struggling with Having sunk all his money into Gobble, inconsistent food and sloppy service. “It Gold grumbles that he probably shouldn’t feels like 10 years,” Gold says of the restauhave opened the restaurant. But his regrets rant’s opening weeks. “We’re obviously havhaven’t stopped him from looking to the ing challenges.” He attrifuture with Pilgrim-esque butes many of the missteps optimism. “If this one to his inexperience. Gold works, you might see some » PRICE GUIDE TURKEY PLATTER ............... $8.99 is learning how to order so more [locations],” he says. MEATLOAF PLATTER ......... $8.99 his inventory doesn’t go bad “I don’t know if I want to POT PIE .................................... $6.99 TURKEY SANDWICH............ $7.99 before he can use it, and be a mogul with 20,000 how to coach his staffers to of these, but if someone care about quality. “I have wants to offer me a billion to make them understand we rise and fall dollars, I don’t think money’s dirty. And the together,” he says, pointing out that he offers turkey’s really good.” E employees a profit-sharing plan. hraskin@seattleweekly.com A few of Gobble’s charges seem deeply invested: “I can tell that by the texts I receive GOBBLE at 3 a.m. saying the register’s short 49 cents,” 13300 N.E. 175th St. #3, Woodinville Gold says. But other employees have already 425-486-1486, gobblerestaurant.com. been let go for not grasping how restaurants 11 a.m.–9 p.m. daily.

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to imagine that two disparate communities, united only by fear and disease, applied a certain pomp to a meal that in Civil War-era America came to signify the nation’s capacity for reconciliation. But that’s not what happened. The first Thanksgiving was a boozy, unruly potluck, closer in spirit to a Dionysian harvest festival than a ceremonious whitetablecloth dinner. There weren’t enough chairs to go around, and the Pilgrims didn’t have any forks. If modern eaters wanted to do conceptual justice to the 1620 experience, they’d forgo the crimped-edge pecan pies and magnums of prosecco and order pizzas and a keg. And then they’d celebrate madly, in the manner of settlers who’d withstood 11 months in what Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, called “the haunted vacancy of New England.” The Pilgrims’ lot was exceedingly tough. Determined to escape the Church of England by fleeing to Holland, the community first retained a thieving sea captain who turned them over to the police. Next they hired a captain who got the willies before his ship was fully boarded, sailing off without the women and children. Everyone eventually made it to Holland, but the Pilgrims worried they were still within the Church’s reach, so they purchased a square-rigged vessel that had previously transported wine, hemp, hops, whale blubber, and vinegar. It took the Pilgrims 65 sea-sickening days to make the transatlantic

trip aboard the Mayflower. For the travelers who survived, the coming years would bring hunger, suicide, sickness, and war. It’s almost incomprehensible that people would voluntarily choose such hardship. But, minus the risk of starvation and scurvy, Americans still make seemingly unwise decisions all the time. The Pilgrims’ legacy isn’t a grand meal, but a willingness to give up everything in pursuit of success. And while no segment of the American population is immune to the Pilgrim bug, would-be restaurant owners are especially susceptible.

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ack in grade school, when we crayoned hand-traced turkeys and made buckle hats from construction paper and glue, we sincerely believed the Pilgrims and Pokanokets initiated Thanksgiving by sitting around a long table, supping on cranberry sauce and casseroles. We’ve since recalibrated our vision of the Plymouth party in accordance with locavorism: Now we picture Natives and Europeans stirring pottages of venison and seal, roasting swans on wooden spits, and popping open clams, which grew so massive in 17thcentury Cape Cod that you couldn’t walk along the shore without getting soaked by bivalve spray. We now accept that the first Thanksgiving menu included ducks and bluefish, not cornbread dressing and pumpkin pie. What’s been harder to let loose is the notion that the first Thanksgiving was fancy. It’s tempting

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Turkuaz is a long, yellow breadbox ending in a bloodred wall, behind which is a magical kitchen that produces some of the most nuanced Turkish cuisine in town. At the top of Union Street on 34th Avenue in Madrona, this family-run spot is quietly fantastic. Hummus and pita and grape leaves might all be considered casual Mediterranean staples, but not here. The pace is slow, the mood mellow, and the dishes are very thoughtfully prepared. Your waitress might razz you, and her mother, the chef, may cast an approving smile at your appetite, but the biggest characters can be found on your plate. A meze platter is decked out with hummus and baba ghanouj, triangles of pita, and tightly rolled grape leaves, with all the flavors very nicely balanced. Make sure to try the acuka, a blend of red peppers and walnuts, rich with garlic and lemon. There are kebabs among the entrées, but the best dishes are the appetizers. And afterward, dessert might just have to be a piece of baklava, stuffed with pistachios and housemade chocolate. $$ BLUWATER BISTRO 102 Lakeside Ave., 328-2233. A sleek sorority sister for Green Lake’s good-looking young professionals who don’t want to drive the new Audi all the way to the original BluWater on Lake Union. The menu offers lots of appetizers (Jamaican jerk chicken satay, artichoke dip, calamari), salads (including the big seafood Louie), as well as steaks, chops, and fish for entrées. $$

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The Watering Hole: Maekawa, 601 S. King St., Suite 206, 622-0634, INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT The Atmosphere: Overlooking King Street in the International District is a Japanese izakaya that is authentic, from its cozy, lantern-lit space to its food. The bar shares the second-floor space in a small shopping mall, and an owner, with Fort St. George, a restaurant and bar. But while the Fort is dark and brooding, Maekawa is the light in the night: Its bright and convivial space, discreet by day, shines through a wall of glass windows. Maekawa’s intimacy makes it feel like a portal to a neighborhood bar in Tokyo where late-night diners enjoy yakitori and ramen with cold mugs of beer. The Bartender: After returning from a stay in Japan, Kyle Ketner took a job in Maekawa’s kitchen, where he kept his Japanese-language skills sharp while learning to prepare traditional dishes. Once he turned 21, Ketner took his experience behind the bar, where ingredients like wasabi, yuzu, and shiso were fair game. Currently he alternates between the bars at Fort St. George and Maekawa, but for the homey izakaya, he keeps things simple and traditional. The Drink: The Kingjyo, meaning “goldfish,” is delicate, like the childhood pet.

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Jasmine Thai 1530 Post Alley, 382-9899. A simple

market spot serving familiar Thai: phad Thai, garlic chicken, green and red curries. The new owners dropped Jasmine’s old Moroccan-Thai fusion, but added a tasty turmeric-rubbed grilled chicken with rice and green salad. Small consolation, some would say. $

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TaT’s DelicaTessen 159 Yesler Way, 264-8287. Tat’s

is the place where Philly native Brian Tatman and New Jerseyite Jason Simodejka first pushed their serious East Coast originals on both locals with a taste for the good stuff and expats craving a hit of home. The new Tat’s (with new partner Mike Sichel taking Simodejka’s place) works under the same guiding principles—big deli sandwiches, done in the best Philly tradition—but in a bigger Pioneer Square space and with one important addition: beer. $

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BamBoo GarDen 364 Roy St., 282-6616. This one-room

Chinese restaurant serves two constituencies (vegetarians and people who keep kosher) with a wide array of dishes featuring delicious fake meat. Though almost anything tastes great deep-fried and glazed with sweet-and-sour sauce (e.g., sweet-and-sour “pork”), favorites like kung pao “chicken” are tasty, too (but be emphatic if you want them spicy, since the Garden errs on the mild side). Speaking of which: Avoid the bland soups, the menu’s only real lowlight. $ Tup Tim Thai 118 W. Mercer St., 281-8833. There’s no forgetting the famously brisk, bustling vibe and excellent value of this place. Usually there’s a wait in the crowded vestibule before getting a table, but two not-to-miss dishes make it worth it: No. 40 (Mussaman Neua beef curry) and No. 61 (phad Thai with whatever you want). Spring rolls and chicken-satay skewers make for tasty starters. You can get out of here with a lot of food without flattening your wallet—one reason for the crowds. $

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I have no idea how many restaurants I’ve visited in Seattle, but I’ve eaten out five or six nights a week for a year and a half—and not once been approached by a sommelier. I assumed perhaps that was because I looked young or poor, but master sommelier Thomas Price, head sommelier at the Metropolitan Grill, says my experience may reflect how few local restaurants employ a sommelier. “I laugh with all my colleagues here about how there’s Canlis, [Wild] Ginger, and the Met Grill,” Price says. By contrast, Houston Press food critic Katharine Shilcutt estimates that 40 to 50 nicer restaurants in Houston, where I recently visited, employ a sommelier—or a very educated general manager who’s primed to fulfill a similar function. Even accounting for the cities’ population difference, or a few more soms in Seattle proper who may have slipped Price’s mind, that’s a startling statistic—all the more since Seattle is, as Price puts it, “sort of smack-dab in the middle of wine country.” Although Texas is valiantly trying to promote its wine growers, nobody would mistake the state’s hill country for the Yakima Valley. But the sommelier story isn’t best told with numbers. I’d rather introduce you to the man who poured our wine at Oxheart in Houston, where the Iron Som crown is considered among the most prestigious titles attainable in the food-andbeverage industry. Oxheart’s sommelier, Justin Vann, is a bespectacled blogger who has compared the feeling he gets after drinking a great Japanese whiskey to the way “a really good punk show might make you want to punch someone in the

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mosh pit in the face.” And while that sounds intense, Vann’s service style is selfeffacing and caring, two attributes rarely associated with Seattle soms. Vann had designed an all-white pairing for the seven-course meal on offer at Oxheart the night I dined there, but he was quick to ask whether I’d miss having a red. The pairings as planned were terrific, but Vann’s skill really shone when dealing with my husband, who doesn’t drink wine. Vann had recently purchased a set of non-alcoholic beverages for a special dinner, and spoke about them with the enthusiasm lesser soms reserve for bottles with triple-digit price tags. He had tasting notes for Mexican Coke. In Seattle, as Price nightly witnesses at the Met, diners typically go for big reds so reliably in the presence of beef that he’s forced to pour Brunellos with shellfish starters. “Personally, I find that horrifying, but my philosophy is always ‘guest first,’ ” he says. Still, at the Met, sommeliers typically don’t interact with guests unless they’ve expressed interest in ordering a bottle of wine. By contrast, at the Houston restaurant Underbelly, general manager/sommelier Matthew Pridgen bounds around the room, offering his services to anyone who looks thirsty. As Price explains, wine’s a given in Texas, while in Seattle many eaters don’t consider it an essential element of a great meal. And if they do, they’re unlikely to cede decision-making to a sommelier. Whether because the diner thinks it’d be uncool to defer to a restaurant staffer or because the sommelier fails to correctly read the customer, happy stories of Seattle eaters being introduced to unexpected pairings by a trained professional are exceedingly rare. It’s a genuine shame that Seattle doesn’t have a strong sommelier culture. It would be wonderful if new restaurants put more thought into not just their wine lists, but their wine service, funneling the young, geeky energy now concentrated on beer and cocktails into wine appreciation. Our city is lucky to have great food and great wine—its diners deserve more professionals to help them link the two. E hraskin@seattleweekly.com

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here is definitely an art to the dance that is being in a band. All kinds of crap can happen if band members let some of the following things go unattended. (As an aside, it IS healthy for a band’s creative juices to have a bit of a rub within the band. The release of tension onstage CAN be magical.) That said, here’s how to survive in a touring band:

A tour bus or a van, and traveling through airports together, can be small enough, but add small backstage dressing rooms, rehearsal rooms, and studio control, and you have the condition for someone in your band to blow their top.

Clothes, chocolate, drugs, whatever. If it’s expendable, it is a “band” item.

Being in a band is the best place I can think of to be as up-front as possible. If you let something stew, it’ll grow into a mountain of nonsensical black mud in no time.

The conversation can get old if you don’t have some good new topics to bring to the table. Gossip and cock-talk only go so far.

Keep bringing fresh ideas to your band.

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Duff McKagan has toured the world with Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver, and Loaded.

Yes, definitely phone home and text as much as possible. It keeps one a bit sane, and leaves one with at least a modicum of a cornerstone.

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lawsuit. In years prior, Al Hendrix had received an annual check of $50,000. That’s good money for a retired landscaper, but not for the father of Jimi Hendrix. To their credit, Seattle-based Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. pulled some of the questionable releases and replaced them with better recordings. However, they didn’t quite understand that Jimi was more about the counterculture than commercialism. The family company distastefully stuck his face on golf balls, baby diapers, and even red wine, which had been partially to blame for Jimi’s death. And then in 1999, Al and Janie Hendrix— Jimi’s stepsister—announced plans to build a lavish memorial for Jimi at Renton’s Greenwood Memorial Park and Cemetery, and asked fans to help offset costs by purchasing stones from the original gravesite, which were packaged in purple and gold and touted “to look cool with your rock-and-roll memorabilia.” The fiasco caught the attention of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, who said, “The family [will] hopefully [dig] deep enough to catch a glimpse of the hell that will one day welcome them.” When Al passed in 2002, Janie took control of the company. Leon Hendrix, Jimi’s younger brother, had his lawyers file three separate suits in King County Superior Court with the intent

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of wresting control of the estate from Janie, claiming that Al was incompetent when he wrote his will. Leon’s bequest, unfortunately, was one of Jimi’s gold records from Al’s collection, chosen by Janie. But then there are Hendrix’s unacknowledged “love children,” Tamika Laurice JamesHendrix and James Sundquist (a Swedish national who changed his name to Jimi Hendrix Jr.), who also are not sharing in Jimi’s legacy. Tamika was born in 1966, after Jimi’s brief relationship with Diana Carpenter. Hendrix was notified about her in 1970, but never took a blood test to prove paternity. James was born in 1969 after an affair with a Swedish fan. A Swedish court recognized Sundquist as the guitarist’s son, but he has never been recognized as such in the United States. As we approach what would’ve been Hendrix’s 70th birthday, November 27, a Jimi Hendrix clothing line designed by Lyric Culture with input from Experience Hendrix will hit the shelves at upscale Bloomingdale’s. Experience Hendrix also announced that select movie theaters around the globe would show Hendrix 70: Live at Woodstock—on the day before his birthday, oddly, and the participating theater nearest to Seattle is more than 400 miles away. It’s the latest—but unfortunately, not likely the last—sad installment in the mishandled legacy of the artist who once called Seattle home. E Steven Roby’s third Jimi Hendrix book, Hendrix on Hendrix (Chicago Review Press), was published in October. music@seattleweekly.com STEVEN ROBY DISCUSSES HENDRIX ON HENDRIX Seattle Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave. Free. 7 p.m. Mon., Nov. 26.

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SW: Do you mind if I record this call? Robinson: Go ahead. I’m not the director of

the CIA. I have nothing to hide.

He felt it was necessary to resign his post. What would it take for you to resign your post?

For me it would be self-imposed exile for, like, somehow tainting the muse, if you will. That to me would be the ultimate transgression. What is the real pursuit? What is your goal as an artist? And if I deviated from that too much, it would be too much self-disappointment. I think the only set I’ve ever seen where the band went on early was one of yours.

It’s a very little-known fact, though, that [I’m] one of the most punctual people for somebody who is supposedly so out of his mind. Even when I was, actually, back in the olden days, we were always very punctual.

[about]. I feel this band is born of a really West Coast spirit, which includes the Pacific Northwest. I know all the old Green River fans probably hate hearing hippies say stuff like that. Were you into Green River?

Not especially, you know. It was so funny to me—like, when all that stuff sort of happened, I was like, “That’s how . . . all the guys in bands in Atlanta that worked at the pizza shop [sounded like]. I already heard all those bands.” Really? That’s funny.

Oh yeah, in the ’80s? The music scene? Of course. The ’80s music scene in Atlanta sounded like the ’90s music scene in Seattle?

I think there was definitely the same roots of what supposed alternative or indie rock became—yeah, totally. I wasn’t a part of it, but all my friends were. CHRIS KORNELIS E ckornelis@seattleweekly.com THE CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9442, neumos.com. $8. 8 p.m. Sat., Nov. 24.

What do you have planned for the holidays?

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ing keyboard and synth sounds offset by Moore’s energetic drums. “It’s complex,” says Carr, “but it’s also goofy. Some of the sounds, some of them are really squelchy, juicy, wet, so there’s always a little bit of humor to the music.” BTW: The band’s worst show experience was at the Vera Project. “Chris’ then-girlfriend worked at a fondue restaurant,” Moore says, “and before the show we all ate way too much fondue. I felt awful the entire set.” Carr tries to blame a bad microphone cable. “I didn’t even know there was gear failure,” says Moore. “I attribute it all to fondue.” ERIN K. THOMPSON E BRAIN FRUIT With Rose Windows, Master Musicians of Bukkake. The Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave., 441-4618. All ages. $8. 8 p.m. Mon., Nov. 26.

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THE SITUATION I’m at Pike Place Market’s Alibi Room with the psychedelic electronic trio Brain Fruit—Jon Carr, Chris Davis, and Garrett Moore. Earlier, we caught the end of the Can Can’s Monster Planet Monday, where a video DJ plays clips of sci-fi and horror films to live, improvised electronic music. Davis played his suitcase-sized custom modular synthesizer, which he assembled out of 30 modules and which resembles a rectangular R2D2. HOW THEY GOT HERE Moore is a San Diego native who now works at Capitol Hill’s Downtown Dog Lounge. He likes big, shaggy dogs like Bernese Mountain Dogs, which is also the breed he—heavily bearded, cheerful—most resembles. Davis hails from Iowa; he came to Washington to study music and math at Evergreen, then shared a house in Seattle with Carr’s now-ex-girlfriend. SHOP TALK All three members had very musical upbringings—Moore’s father is a professional jazz drummer, Carr started playing classical piano at 5—but “Brain Fruit is the story of us learning how to play electronic music,” says Davis. The songs are mostly instrumental, with Carr and Davis’ meander-

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Screens are a trippy West Seattle four-to-fivepiece with a very relaxed demeanor and aqueous songwriting that drifts with their mood. They play up the spaciness (there’s a high likelihood you’ll see a [fake!] astronaut’s helmet on somebody with an instrument) and are quirky in their approach, but their songs have a distinct pop flavor that feels good on the palate regardless of your adventurousness. There are notes of dream-pop, light dub, and electrolounge in their keyboard-heavy blend, held together by Afrocop member Carlos Tulloss’ dexterous bass licks and Allison Tulloss’ calm vocal stylings. With Starry-Eyed Samurai, The Last Great Fire. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8005. 8 p.m. Free. TODD HAMM

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This six-member collective is making pop music like no one else in Seattle right now. Founders Hanna Benn and Jeff Aaron Bryant met each other, and the band’s eventual four other members, as students at Cornish College of the Arts, where they all performed in the school’s traditional Indonesian metalpercussion ensemble, Gamelan Pacifica. Their worldly influences are incorporated into Pollens’ polyrhythmic pop, which combines droning, buzzing-beelike vocals (all six members sing) and dexterous lines (“Like birds make nests without their hands/How might we understand?/Like edges form unplanned/ Like form mutates without demand”) with instrumental elements of African trance, Krautrock, and folk. It all comes together with a magical, hypnotic effect on Pollens’ beautifully poetic debut album, last month’s Brighten & Break. Tonight they open for songwriter Bryan John Appleby and his folksy backing band. With Shenandoah Davis. Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave. N.W.,

career—which began in the ’60s as a session player for the likes of Elvis and Sinatra—is a musical legacy rich with Grammys, Top 10 hits, and album sales upward of 50 million. Recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, the artist collaborated with everyone from Billy Corgan and Brian Setzer to Jakob Dylan and Dick Dale on his latest release, Ghost on the Canvas, and his current string of dates—The “Goodbye Tour”— is slated to be his last. With Victoria Ghost. The

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Launched in the mid-’80s by its lone constant, Karl Wallinger, World Party was nearly SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24 over when Wallinger suffered an aneurysm in 2001 that left him unable to talk or walk. This If blues rock is having a moment in Seattle, isn’t the sort of ailment that musicians typiit’s in no small part thanks to Saskatchcally bounce back from. It’s not an annoying ewan native Jordan Cook—stage name callus or laryngitis; Wallinger literally lost the Reignwolf—who moved here last Decemability to form words, a cruel fate for a brilber and instantly caused a stir with his liant and rangy British trouwildly impressive guibadour who’d never quite tar chops. Reignwolf ’s gotten his due. Only Wallgift is his combination Tune in to 97.3 KIRO FM inger pulled one over on fate, of the fierce, young every Saturday at 7 p.m. emerging from five years of spirit of rock and roll to hear music editor Chris Kornelis on Seattle Sounds. rehab not only able to speak, and the soulful, old but to sing, play, and tour the spirit of the blues. world. World Party’s songs Cook loves the city (earlier this year he told SW’s Todd Hamm, have always been ambitious, insightful, and exceedingly joyful. Wallinger’s comeback “It’s definitely where a musician wants to only accentuates such virtues. With Martin be . . . even the weather here being up and down, it makes you feel moods like crazy, Harley. Triple Door, 215 Union St., 838-4333. and makes you want to play music”) and 7:30 p.m. $35–$40. All ages. MIKE SEELY the city loves him. His Phil Ek–produced EP is hotly anticipated—a recent video clip Glen Campbell TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27 shows him in the studio bending his guitar strings to create a sound like a giant zip“There’ll be a load of compromisin’/On the per being undone—and he’s currently on a road to my horizon,” pop-country artist Glen much-ballyhooed nationwide tour. He’ll be Campbell sang in his 1975 hit “Rhinestone ably supported tonight by raucous garage Cowboy,” and few other words so acutely duo The Grizzled Mighty. With the Young describe the peaks and pitfalls of the life of this seventh child of an Arkansas sharecropEvils. The Neptune, 1303 N.E. 45th St., per. Divorce, affairs, and addiction may have 877-784-4849. 9 p.m. $16. All ages. been the compromises, but overall Campbell’s ERIN K. THOMPSON

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Thursday, Nov. 22 lounge where they were a weekly fixture, Jon Alberts (piano), Jeff Johnson (bass), and Tad Britton (drums) have moved their jazz act to Thursday nights at the Copper Gate, 6301 24th Ave., 706-3292, thecoppergate.com. 8 p.m. Free. TEQUILA ROSE BAND At least three country groups go by the name “Tequila Rose Band,” hailing from exotic locales such as Fresno and New Jersey. Seattle’s edition plays modern and classic country hits. Little Red Hen, 7115 Woodlawn Ave. N.E., 522-1168, littleredhen.com. 9 p.m. $3.

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from this Saskatchewan alt-country band is 2011’s The Place I Left Behind, which earned them slots at Bonnaroo and the Newport Folk Festival this year. Sunset Tavern. 8 p.m. $8 adv./$10 DOS. WALK OFF THE EARTH This Toronto-area group is blessed with golden voices and enviable SEO abilities—see their innovative five-people-on-oneguitar cover of Gotye’s “Somebody I Used to Know,” with 138 million YouTube views and counting. With Selah Sue, The Mowglis. Showbox at The Market. 7 p.m. $18 adv./$20 DOS. All ages.

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$20, which means I got a $13 strain for $7 a gram. Of course, as bottom-of-the-jar weed it was mostly shake, but since it had all fallen off well-manicured flowers, it was still good medicine. The high was typically sativa-like in its alertness and motivational qualities, but also faded quickly. Fat, trichome-heavy buds led me to make Cherry Kush, a 60 percent indica dominant, my second selection. These tasty nugs bore the signature Seattle Collective bouquet and sweet-tokin’ taste Garden (at the former of their namesake, along with home of Seattle a pain-relieving yet functional Cannabis Co-op, which high that spoke clearly of both was raided and shut down parts of their genetic heritage. If a year ago) showed that it’s the Marley was a good first smoke firmly in the latter camp. of the day, Cherry Kush My budtender, Ruby, was makes a good medicine among the most knowledgeable for the early afterdispensary employees I’ve ever noon, when pain relief encountered. With her assisis needed but there are tance, picking my flower strains a few more chores on the wasn’t a chore, it was a pleasure. agenda before chillin’ time. SCG’s donation scheme norMy final selection was Mr. Nice mally includes strains for $7 and Guy, an extraordi$9 a gram, 100-percent in addition to Some shops—the good ones— nary indica which I highly $11 and $13 actually seem to hire folks recommend for body varieties. But on the basis of their ability pain. This is an $11 on the day I visited, all the to handle the job. strain, but let me contradict my above $7 and $9 weed advice to say you should try an eighth of was sold out. About a dozen varieties were this if pain is a factor. If there’s any hurt still available at the higher donation points, left over after medicating with Mr. Nice though. If you’re going to buy an eighth or Guy, you can bet that it will certainly more, be sure to get one of the $13 strains, matter a lot less than it did before you because both $11 and $13 varieties go for $35 toked. E an eighth. For the same price, you might as well get the top-shelf medicine. tokesignals@seattleweekly.com My first selection was the sativa strain Steve Elliott edits Toke of the Town, Bob Marley. It so happened that they had Voice Media Group’s site of cannabis news, only 2.9 grams of Marley left at the bottom views, rumor, and humor. of the jar, and Ruby dazzled me with her service: She gave me the 2.9 grams for just SEATTLE COLLECTIVE GARDEN

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Greenlake/West Seattle $400 & up Utilities included! busline, some with private bathrooms a Please call Anna between 10am & 8pm a 206-790-5342

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