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The hottest political story of the year has to be: Do hormones drive women’s votes? And the fact that CNN pulled a story on this topic from its website only hours after posting it shouldn’t diminish its fertile contribution to the quirk-ridden science of predicting electoral behavior. It just so happens, according to a new study to be published in Psychological Science, that single, ovulating females are far more prone to vote for liberals, while married, committed women usually press the lever for conservatives. The study theorized that single, hormone-firing women “feel sexier” when ovulating, propelling them to “lean more toward liberal attitudes on abortion and marriage equality”—and, by a margin of 20 percent, will be more inclined to vote for President Obama than Mitt Romney. CNN’s story was based largely on the research of Kristina Durante, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Texas at San Antonio, who conducted online surveys of several hundred women. Pummeled with mockery and not-so subtle suggestions that the article was one large pile of pseudo-scientific horse manure, CNN caved and unpublished the piece. Still, it was too late to put the inflamed genies back in the bottle, as hordes of women took to Twitter and pounded out hundreds of priceless satirical gems. Our favorites: “When I ovulate I’m all ‘DEFICIT SPENDING SPURS THE ECONOMY’ but when I’m not I want to privatize Social Security.” “There’s no way I’m voting if I have my period that day [Nov. 6]. I’ll be too busy running away from bears and staying out of shark-infested waters and not being allowed to make tomato sauce.” ELLIS E. CONKLIN E news@seattleweekly.com

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has failed miserably. The ad says I-502 will generate millions of dollars that can be used on prevention and education, and that passing the initiative is “just common sense.” “Young people have easy access to marijuana, and of course drug dealers don’t check IDs,” says the woman playing the part of “Washington mom,” arguing that it’s time for a new approach to marijuana policy in our state. Kevin Sabet, a former senior adviser with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and current director of the Drug Policy Institute at the University of Florida College of Medicine, is an established critic of I-502. He scoffs at the idea that passing the initiative will make it more difficult for kids to get their hands on weed, and says that approving I-502 will likely create a situation in which both the black market and sneaky weed-selling big business (think Big Tobacco) will target kids. “That argument is completely flawed,” says Sabet of New Approach Washington’s latest advertising effort. “Alcohol and cigarettes are legal today for those 21 and 18, and kids have no problem accessing those two addictive substances. In fact, these legal drugs are implicitly marketed to kids, and completely normalized. Why would it be any different for marijuana? “If marijuana is legal for those over 21, the well-established black market will simply shift to exclusively targeting kids,” Sabet continues. “There are some legitimate arguments for changing current policy, but saying that legalization would lower teen use is completely contrary to over 40 years of evidence on the effect of price and legality on consumption.” New Approach Washington’s Alison Holcomb also cites the shadow of Big Tobacco in her arguments, though she’s obviously in favor of I-502. Holcomb says we should learn the lessons of the fight against teen tobacco use. “It wasn’t necessary to start arresting adult cigarette smokers to cut youth smoking rates in half. Instead, we tightened up advertising regulations to prevent marketing to children, and invested in information campaigns that helped kids make smarter choices,” says Holcomb. “The notion that the black market is going to shift its focus to the under-21 crowd is absurd,” she says of Sabet’s dire predictions. “Are underage drinkers keeping bootleggers in business?”

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“The notion that the black market is going to shift its focus to the under-21 crowd is absurd,” says Holcomb.

Like a seasoned sparring partner, however, Sabet is quick to pounce on successes claimed in the fight against tobacco. “If legalization advocates want to hang their hat on the tobacco experience, let’s not forget that most of our history has been spent fighting Big Tobacco’s lies. Do we think it will be any different for marijuana?” says Sabet. “The bottom line is this: Voters will need to decide if Washington state is going to be the guinea pig this November—or more accurately, should the kids of Washington be the guinea pigs? This will affect them the most,” Sabet says. For Holcomb, this is a familiar, and ultimately unconvincing, argument against change. “The key point is that what we are doing now isn’t keeping marijuana out of the hands of kids,” Holcomb says. “Relinquishing control of marijuana to the black market, and arresting adults for using marijuana, is an expensive, unnecessary, and failed strategy for preventing youth use of marijuana.” MATT DRISCOLL

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fees. U.S. Bank paid $55 million to settle a class-action suit in July. It was the 13th major bank caught running this scam. Yet these titans of finance were pikers compared to American Express. It promised $300 to anyone who signed up for its Blue Sky card, then decided it would be way better just to stiff them. The company was also caught charging illegal late fees and discriminating against older applicants. The penalty for its sins: $112 million in fines and refunds. These were just the opening salvos of the assault. Bank of America was caught illegally foreclosing on the homes of activeduty soldiers. Visa and MasterCard were charged with fixing the prices they charged merchants to process credit-card payments. Morgan Stanley colluded to drive up New York electricity prices. And in the most depraved case of all, Morgan Stanley was even sued for allegedly swindling Irish nuns in an investment deal. If they’d been common robbers, the bankers surely would have faced indictments. After all, their scams have run for years, their breadth and coordination breathtaking. But not a single boss went to jail. Some firms settled for just a fraction of what they’d stolen.

Most have never admitted wrongdoing. And in the ethics-optional land known as Wall Street, many saw their stock prices rise. America’s country-club set has forged its own replica of the Mafia—only bigger, broader, and capable of unleashing far more damage on the U.S. economy. “Unquestionably, that’s true,” says Notre Dame law professor G. Robert Blakey, whose career prosecuting organized crime runs all the way back to the Kennedy administration. “I was looking at stuff on Mulberry Street, and the real theft was on Wall Street . . . All of the people who ran the scams have their big houses and their airplanes, and they’re laughing . . . they got away with it.” The crime wave is a ready-made campaign issue: Gucci villains plundering the middle class. But you haven’t heard a peep out of Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. Both have records they’d prefer you didn’t notice. The situation leaves Sam Antar with a sense of longing. He’s a former chief financial officer convicted of securities, mail, and wire fraud. “My biggest mistake in life was that I committed my crimes in the 1980s,” he says. “If I committed them today, I wouldn’t even get house arrest. I’d just hire a good lawyer and pay a fine and I’d be free.”

“My biggest mistake in life was that I committed my crimes in the 1980s. If I committed them today, I wouldn’t even get house arrest.”

The crime spree didn’t end until August, when JPMorgan paid another $100 million to settle another class-action suit. This time it was dinged for enticing customers to transfer balances at other banks to its own credit cards. In return, they would only have to pay 2 percent of the debt each month. But the bank

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ou wouldn’t know it by watching the news or reading the paper, but America’s banks are on the largest crime spree the country has ever known. In July, Wells Fargo paid a $175 million settlement after the feds caught its brokers systematically pushing minority customers into mortgages with higher rates and fees, even though they posed the same credit risks as whites. One study found that Wells Fargo charged Hispanics $2,000 more, in what the Justice Department called a “racial surtax.” The bank docked blacks nearly $3,000 extra for their own improper pigmentation. But despite a colossal civil-rights fraud perpetrated against 30,000 customers, the settlement came to just 1.1 percent of the San Francisco bank’s annual income. It was like forcing a $30,000-a-year working stiff to pay a $330 fine. Across the country, in Minneapolis, U.S. Bank also swindled its customers, though at least it let whites in on the action. Instead of logging debit-card purchases in the order they were made, the bank rearranged them from highest amount to lowest, the better to artificially stick customers with overdraft

apitol Hill’s approach to organized crime—at least the yacht-club variety— was on display in June, when JPMorgan Chase chief executive officer Jamie Dimon was summoned to appear before the Senate Banking Committee. Four years earlier, American taxpayers shoveled him a $25 billion bailout package. But Dimon had since refashioned himself as the sweetheart of Wall Street, the heroic captain who’d weathered the storm. Obama called him “one of the smartest bankers we’ve got.” On this day, that compliment appeared based on a very low bar. A Morgan trader known as the “London Whale” had just gambled away a stunning $6 billion by making bad bets on the credit markets. His behavior reflected the same strain of incompetence that detonated the economy in 2008. The senators had presumably summoned Dimon to extract a pound of flesh. Instead the exact opposite happened: They stumbled over themselves with softball questions and blubbering supplication. Typical of the biting line of inquiry was Tennessee Republican Bob Corker: “You’re obviously renowned— rightfully so, I think—for being one of the best CEOs in the country,” he told Dimon. So much for protecting the economy: By the time the hearing was over, Dimon may have needed a post-coital shower. Conveniently unmentioned at the hearing—or covered in the press—was that JP Morgan was in the midst of a criminal bender that would make the Genovese crime family envious. It began the year before, when Dimon’s bank paid a $27-million settlement for systematically screwing 6,000 active-duty soldiers. JPMorgan was caught overcharging on interest rates and illegally foreclosing on the soldiers’ homes. (The bank did not respond to interview requests.) Last fall, JPMorgan was nabbed again, this time for violating international sanctions and antiterrorism laws. The Treasury Department cited the bank for engaging in illegal and “egregious” transactions with Iran and Cuba over a five-year period. But instead of being indicted for treason, JPMorgan paid an $88-million settlement to make the problem go away. In February, the bank was caught gouging customers on overdraft fees. Some were charged hundreds of dollars for being just a few bucks overdrawn. Yet cash—a $110 million settlement, to be exact—again made the accusations disappear.

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itself as kosher,” says Sam Antar. “The Obama administration’s record has been abysmal.” He should know. As the chief financial officer of a retail electronics chain in the 1980s, Antar pleaded guilty to multiple charges of fraud and conspiracy. He now describes himself as a “retired criminal” with a safer career: teaching FBI and IRS agents how to catch people just like him. “It’s kind of like Wall Street has a different set of rules than other industries,” Antar says. “It’s almost like stealing a billion dollars with a pencil is not as bad. You have a lesser chance of going to jail than if you mug somebody on the streets of New York.” And if Mitt Romney’s elected, he’ll make Bush and Obama look like disciples of Eliot Ness. Romney has vowed to rescind even Obama’s most modest gains, including toobig-to-fail laws. After all, he’s never had an aversion to snuggling up with corruption.

id-glove treatment for wayward bankers first became fashionable under George W. Bush. In the Orwellian world of conservative economics, he viewed fraud and racketeering statutes as little more than burdensome regulations—at least when it came to the executive crowd. Crimes against consumers were just a lucrative new profit center. Obama was supposed to change that; he was anti-business, after all, a modern-day Karl Marx with better access to a barber. But this reputation was born of the prattling of Republicans and their televised subsidiary, FOX News. The evidence screams otherwise. To be fair, the president did push through the Dodd-Frank Act, which includes too-bigto-fail legislation and other measures that hinder banks’ ability to set depth charges across the economy. Obama also created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, whose mission was to return America to the same safeguards that existed under Reagan and the first Bush. But when he appointed Eric Holder attorney general, it was like making John Dillinger’s lawyer head of the FBI bank-robbery unit. Holder, a former Wall Street defense attorney, would ramp up bigdollar settlements. But criminal charges quietly sputtered to a trickle. Justice Department spokeswoman Dena Iverson disagrees with this interpretation. “We understand there is desire by the public to put company officials behind bars who may be with firms that have committed fraud against the government,” she says in a written statement. “We follow the facts and the evidence, and whenever and wherever we uncover evidence of criminal wrongdoing, we will not hesitate to bring prosecutions.” Iverson offers a list of people who have been convicted for insider trading, Ponzi schemes, and mortgage fraud. But they’re mostly the smaller fish of finance, people who’ve never slept in the Lincoln bedroom or golfed with John Boehner. Conspicuously absent are racketeering indictments or repeat-offender charges against the likes of Bank of America or JPMorgan. In a sense, Holder has granted the industry its own version of juvenile court. No matter how pervasive the crime, no matter how many thousands of victims, the major players can be assured of walking away with little more than a fine, released to the custody of their parents. “When it comes to Wall Street, Eric Holder couldn’t prosecute a ham sandwich that sold

and former prosecutor, has never seen such tender handling of criminals. “It didn’t deter a company this big, because it sort of amounts to their lunch budget,” he says. “And most of all, it didn’t return the money to the people it was stolen from. I was a prosecutor for six years, and I’ve never seen someone being fined less than they made.” Unfortunately, it’s been happening for years. Take the widespread scheme of reordering debit-card purchases to push customers into overdrafts. When it began, Bush’s attorneys general, John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales, refused to prosecute. Private lawyers stepped into the breach with class-action suits. California attorney Barry Himmelstein was among them. He noticed that bankers had become so entitled, they began to complain that getting caught chopped into their profit margins. “We got that argument from Wells

“They designed a fraud cookie-cutter, and all of these guys have been running comparable scams,” Blakey says. “The variation between scam to scam is minor, and none of them are particularly imaginative.”

Take the case of Drexel Burnham Lambert, the grandest criminal empire in modern Wall Street history. In the 1980s, its CEO, Michael Milken, was being investigated in a massive insider-trading and stock-manipulation case. But Romney, then head of Bain Capital, refused to stop doing business with Drexel, claiming its chieftain had yet to be convicted. Before Drexel collapsed and Milken was sent to prison, Romney made $175 million with the company. Former Bain executive Marc Wolpow best expresses the nominee’s business principles: “Mitt, I think, spent his life balanced between fear and greed,” he told The Boston Globe.

o bad has the leniency become that the feds are allowing bankers to keep much of what they steal. Ask Morgan Stanley. In August, it settled with the Justice Department over its role in fixing New York City’s electricity rates. The bank played middleman in a deal between two energy providers, KeySpan and Astoria Generating, which then colluded to withhold electricity from the market, artificially driving up prices and costing consumers an estimated $300 million. Morgan Stanley was paid $21 million for arranging the scheme. But the ever-generous Holder let the bank settle for $4.8 million. It marked a stunning new low in federal prosecutions, akin to forcing a bank robber to return just $2,500 after stealing $10,000— with no jail time, of course. Morgan Stanley offers little defense for its actions. “We will decline comment,” says spokeswoman Mary Claire Delaney. But New York state senator Michael Gianaris will happily fill that silence. “It’s a good business deal for Morgan Stanley,” he says. “They could break the law and get away with almost $17 million in profits for it, so why not do it again? If they get caught—and that’s a big if—they still get 70 percent of the profits.” Peter Vallone Jr., a Queens councilman

Fargo,” he says. “It’s a ridiculous argument. The fact that you can’t make millions of dollars by screwing your customers is not an excuse to keep screwing them.” But even in class-action cases, the banks were getting off light. Himmelstein objected to one settlement involving Bank of America, which was also involved in the overdraft scam. By his calculations, the Charlotte, N.C., company had ripped off its customers to the tune of $4.5 billion. Yet the settlement allowed Bank of America to repay just 10 percent of its ill-gotten gains. The average victim was eligible for a $27 refund—less than the cost of a single overdraft. Four years ago, American taxpayers kept Bank of America afloat with a $45 billion bailout. BofA repaid them by becoming a veritable crime family. Let’s go to the highlight reel: • Last year, BofA paid a $20 million settlement for illegally foreclosing on soldiers’ homes over a three-year period. (Bank spokesman Larry Grayson declined comment for this story.) • But it wasn’t until this summer that the bank achieved frequent-guest status in American courtrooms. In June, it was fined for overbilling 95,000 customers over an eight-year period. Total revenue: $32 million. Total fine: $2.8 million. • A month later, it paid $20 million more to settle a class-action suit. This time it was caught deceiving customers—or simply enrolling them without their knowledge— in worthless credit-card protection programs. • In August, BofA paid another $738 million in a price-fixing case with Visa and MasterCard. It was accused of conspiring to keep merchant credit-card fees artificially high. • The bank returned to court in September, this time paying $2.4 billion for deceiving investors over its purchase of Merrill Lynch.

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Country-Club Sopranos » from page 12 • And just last week, U.S. prosecutors in New York filed a civil complaint against Bank of America seeking $1 billion in damages related to the bank’s “hustle” home-loan program, in which defective mortgages were allegedly approved without proper due diligence, and then sold without warning to either Fannie or Freddie Mac. In less than two years, Bank of America had chalked up seven major fraud cases. But there was no talk of three strikes. No indictments for racketeering. Not one executive charged with a crime.

tors to charge entire organizations for a continuing pattern of criminality—exactly what the banks are doing. Back in the 1980s, Rudy Giuliani used the law to take down Romney’s pal Michael Milken. Yet prosecutors have been reticent to use it against corporations ever since. “I am livid that nobody has thought about it,” says Blakey. “I am livid that there are all these civil settlements.” He notes that the feds have a long history of taking on seemingly invincible foes, from Standard Oil to Big Tobacco: “What’s changed that they could get these convictions and we can’t now?” After all, Blakey argues, corporate criminals are easier to slay. When you subpoena their records, they’ll actually produce them. When Blakey was prosecuting the Teamsters, their books would suddenly go up in flames. Blakey sees bankers at the bottom of the organized-crime gene pool—their schemes simple and obvious. “They designed a fraud cookie-cutter, and all of these guys have been running comparable scams,” he says. “The variation between scam to scam is minor, and none of them are particularly imaginative.” But the problem isn’t Attorney General Holder, the professor asserts; it’s the battery of lawyers beneath him. Prosecutors prize their win/loss records like starting pitchers. For them, it’s much better to win a weak settlement than potentially lose a real fight. In other words, if justice were a bar brawl, the feds would seek out the little guy on crutches.

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he time to break balls was four years ago, believes Ed Mierzwinski of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a nationwide federation of consumer advocates. The banking industry was on the verge of collapse. American taxpayers showed up with a $125 billion life preserver. Yet government officials were so worried about imminent carnage, they forgot to ask a simple favor in return: You have to stop ripping us off. “We could have brought them to heel,” says Mierzwinski. “The bailout was done so fast that they didn’t put in clauses for better behavior.” Bankers, quite naturally, kept doing what they’d always done. This presented one of those only-in-government ironies: While taxpayers had plenty of money to bail them “Juries don’t like out, we found our holding mid-level pockets empty when it came time to throw people accountable them in prison. when the top Mierzwinski people are getting empathizes with the Justice Departoff,” says Spitzer. ment. Banks can field armies of lawyers, who are more than happy to stall and obfuscate as long as the meter’s ticking. The n May, SunTrust was caught working the feds cannot, so they retreat to triage, agreesame mortgage scam as Wells Fargo. It ing to settlements that present a mirage of had charged more than 20,000 black and victory. Hispanic customers higher interest rates Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer and fees than white clients with the same understands their predicament—somewhat. credit profiles. Price to make the problem go As his state’s attorney general, Spitzer was away: $21 million. the last major politician to launch a sustained A month later, ING paid a $619 million assault on financial crime. He too believes settlement for violating international sancthat Wall Street has become analogous to the tions and antiterrorist laws. It spent a decade Mafia. “Look, you organize things in a cartel providing “state sponsors of terror and other structure very similar to what the mob did,” sanctioned entities with access to the U.S. says Spitzer. “I think it’s also the continuity of financial system,” Assistant Attorney General the fraud and the pervasiveness.” Lisa Monaco said at the time. Yet Spitzer, now host of Current TV’s In July, Capital One was caught luring Viewpoint With Eliot Spitzer, knows firsthand customers into buying credit-card protection how difficult it is to drill a multibillion-dollar “they didn’t understand, didn’t want, or in crime family. Just like Mafia dons, CEOs are some cases couldn’t even use,” said the feds. insulated from direct involvement—or may The company paid $210 million in fines and not even be aware of the schemes. Moreover, refunds. it’s often harder to bring cases that simply In September, Discover was nabbed runpick off henchmen. “Juries don’t like holding ning the same scam on 3.5 million customers. mid-level people accountable when the top The company spent $214 million to make its people are getting off,” says Spitzer. sins vanish. Professor Blakey doesn’t buy the excuses. For those of you scoring at home: Four Blakey may be America’s most storied major crimes against America. Millions of organized-crime lawyer. He’s a former fedvictims. Zero executives jailed. eral prosecutor and author of the Racketeer “If there are no consequences,” asks Sam Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act Antar, “what incentive do I have to not be a (RICO), the cudgel used to pound the Mafia criminal?” E and corrupt labor unions. It allows prosecunews@seattleweekly.com

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Though occultist Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) wrote his Rites of Eleusis, a cycle of seven mystery plays, in 1910, it was only decades later that a musical genre developed that could really do justice to their voluptuous inscrutableness. Local troupe Eleusyve Productions figured out that they need to be staged as “Wagnerian rock operas,” as founder Jon Sewell puts it, with soaring ’70s-style melodies and acidy guitar solos. Eleusyve’s fourth show in the cycle, The Rite of Sol, opens tonight. To a prerecorded backing track, the cast of personified planets and zodiacal signs sings Crowley’s entire text— which makes it easier to memorize, especially the 112-line verse that Sewell, as Leo, belts in his best arena-rock tenor at the Rite’s climax. Sunnie Larsen’s electric viola adds yin to the production’s thrusting yang. You won’t see anything like it from any other fringe-theater group in Seattle. (Through Nov. 10.) Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave., eleusyve.com. $15–$20. 7 p.m. GAVIN BORCHERT

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Your ballot was mailed last week, and your Election Day alternatives are basically these: 1) hide in your bedroom closet with a bottle of booze, ignoring your smartphone and TV until tomorrow morning; or 2) face the results tonight, no matter how dreadful they may be, with good company. We recommend the latter at the Triple Door’s Musicquarium Election 2012 party, where CNN will be playing all night long. Specialty cocktails will be served as New Hampshire (yes, it could matter this year), Virginia, and Florida are called early. Then comes critical Ohio, when you’re entitled to an extra shot if Candy Crowley puts it in the blue column. You should be fairly buzzed when Wolf Blitzer renders a verdict on Wisconsin and Iowa. Remember to order some bar food before Colorado and Nevada come in, by which time you should be on your third or fourth round of drinks. Our own state results aren’t so critical: Inslee and Ref. 74 will probably follow on Obama’s blue coattails; Cantwell and McDermott will do just fine. But the top of the ticket may be decided very late, even past closing time. It’s possible that Obama (or Romney) could win the Electoral College but lose the popular vote. Or everything could end up in the Supreme Court, again, as you’re nursing your hangover on Wednesday. The Triple Door, 216 Union St., 838-4333, thetripledoor.net. Free. 21 and over. 4 p.m.–2 a.m. BRIAN MILLER

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It was 1963, and Alfred Hitchcock needed a new villain. Spies and serial killers he’d done, so what was left? Opening the Universal Pictures: Celebrating 100 Years retrospective tonight, The Birds is one of the oddest entries in his suspense canon. It’s based on a 1952 story by Daphne du Maurier (who also wrote Rebecca), which never explains just why the feathered marauders begin their attack. The English writer—like anyone dive-bombed by crows in Seattle—had seen random bird strafings of those who walked too close to a nest, but her premise was viral, almost science-fiction. What if the whole Audubon Guide went mad all at once? What if those peabrained dinosaur descendants decided to take back the planet from us soft-skinned interlopers? In many ways, The Birds looks ahead to the enviro-apocalypse films of the later ’60s and early ’70s, and it followed Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring by only a year. Maybe it’s coincidence, or maybe there was just something in the air. Tippi Hedren plays the Bay Area blonde menaced by birds in the film, to be introduced by erstwhile SW critic Tom Keogh. (The series continues through Nov. 14 with 13 other titles including Frankenstein, Jaws, The Sting, and High Plains Drifter.) Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., 829-7863, nwfilmforum.org. $6–$10. 7 & 9:15 p.m. BRIAN MILLER

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With an incomparable gift for musical pastiche and an unflappably deadpan performing style, singer/songwriter Tom Lehrer sent every sacred cow of the 1950s straight to the abattoir, especially the big three: race, sex, and the Cold War. His owlish, Stevensonian demeanor— he recorded his first album in 1953 while a mathematics grad student at Harvard—let him get away with singing things in his oneman shows that probably would’ve landed an edgier comedian before a Congressional grand jury. The mid-’60s essentially marked the end of his lifetime output and his public career (Gen-Xers may recall his later nonpolitical songs, like “Silent E” and “L-Y,” from The Electric Company), and he retreated to Santa Cruz to teach math and musical theater, bemoan the political scene in rare interviews, and genially refuse ever to be coaxed back into performing. But his comic tunes live on in

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Fall is a tough time for dogs. Weeks ago they were frolicking outside in the sun, tongues lolling; now we’re stuffing them into itchy wool sweaters, miniature football jerseys, and raincoats. (My guy’s is pink, with a little hood and skull-and-crossbones insignia). Even worse, every dog’s third-most-dreaded holiday—following the noisy Fourth of July and New Year’s Eve—is tonight: Halloween. It’s hard to think of another sight that inspires as much simultaneous pity (they’re so miserable!) and joy (but they’re so damn cute!) as a dog wearing Yoda ears, a hot-dog bun, or a Superman outfit with fake human legs dangling down the front. But that’s what the beastly bacchanalia The Dog and Pony Show will involve tonight in the courtyard/beer garden of the Brave Horse Tavern. Appropriate to the canine costume contest, the culinary theme will be hot dogs. (Edible prizes for the contestants come from Scraps Dog Bakery.) After an ordeal like this, you might feel obligated to buy your dog a pint or two. Brave Horse Tavern, 310 Terry Ave. N., 971-0717, bravehorsetavern.com. Free. 21 and over. 4–6 p.m. ERIN K. THOMPSON

that growth continues with four freshly minted works that mix past and present—and hope to influence the future. Three are homegrown, by current PNB performers Andrew Bartee, Kiyon Gaines, and Margaret Mullin. The fourth is by ever-forward-looking former native Mark Morris, who’ll attend tonight’s debut of his Kammermusik no. 3, set to a 1925 piece by Paul Hindemith. If you can believe it, it’s the first dance he’s ever created for PNB. And about time. (Through Nov. 11.) McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St. (Seattle Center), 441-2424, pnb.org. $28–$173. 7:30 p.m.

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Teatro ZinZanni’s usual fare—a leisurely five-course dinner interspersed with songs, sophisticated circus acts (aerialists, acrobalancers), and audience-participation comedy (which TZZ does like no one else)—is here given a World’s Fair theme, set right here in Seattle. This makes for the most random assemblage of characters this side of the Sgt. Pepper cover: Cast members play, or at least represent, Elvis and Priscilla, Bruce Lee, former governor Dixy Lee Ray, and cosmonaut Gherman Titov. Emcee Christine Deaver stars as Gracie Hansen, real-life proprietress of the Fair’s “Paradise International” burlesque show, telling the story of her arrival from Morton, Wash., to “save the World’s Fair from science” and give visitors something Vegaslike to do after they were done oohing over the Bubbleator. Poured into Louise DiLenge’s gaga costumes, Deaver is a bawdy, billowy, and masterful—or mistressful—raconteur. (How great would it be if she just went all out and wrote/starred in a full-length stage show about Hansen’s life?) The ’60s setting is also a fine excuse to build production numbers around oldiesradio rousers like “Tell Him” and “Burnin’ Love.” But Return to Paradise also makes welcome room for a more recent tune, the girl-groupy “I Wanna Go” from local poprock band Honey Tongue, whose singer Jen Ayers plays chanteuse Linda Emery. This show’s fully satisfying menu, appropriately, goes a little conservative and 1962-ish: beef tenderloin, an iceberg-lettuce wedge salad, chocolate mousse. Yummiest was the butternut-squash soup: sweet, velvety, and comforting, like a fleece Snuggie in a bowl. Among the circus acts, the most stunning, which crossed from athletics to art, 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. GAVIN BORCHERT WILLIAM ANTHONY

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As an inveterate single-tasker, I’ve never understood the logic of dinner theater. Is it designed for people who don’t have time to eat before or after the show? For companions short on dinner conversation? Dinner theater is an old, dated form that once guaranteed mediocre food plus mediocre entertainment. Still, give credit to Café Nordo for reviving the art over the past three years, allowing patrons to immerse themselves in a fictional world with a unified decor, menu, and story line. In Somethin’ Burning, Nordo’s fourth show, you enter a simulacrum of the iconic roadside diner in Twin Peaks: motley Formica tabletops, an antler chandelier, and a large mountain-landscape painting

Return to Paradise: Deaver’s Gracie Hansen deserves a show of her own.

by Jennifer Zeyl that’s classier than the one it’s supposed to be imitating. In the same vein, the menu elements—camouflaged as greasy-spoon standbys and distributed by the chatty actors—exceed expectations. The “parfait” course comes in Pyrex pudding goblets, tucking heavenly gobs of beets and Snake River wagyu beef between layers of horseradish sour cream, so you can eat like a foodie while looking like a hick. (Some patrons dressed like characters on Twin Peaks.) In addition to the seductive welcome drink of cava and cherries, each of the four breakfastthemed courses comes paired with a cocktail, which, perhaps strategically, adds up to a lot of alcohol before the show’s tipsy conclusion. Though the music composed by Annastasia Workman (plus one brilliant piece by the late Drew Keriakedes) and sung by Devin Bannon creates a decent atmosphere of hepcat cool and loopy menace, it can’t alter the sad fact that the story doesn’t work. On a riser amid the tables, Agent Elliot Penn (Evan Mosher) must figure out who killed chef Nordo Lefesczki. Was it his late former boss’ gorgeous daughter Angelica (Opal Peachey)? Or perhaps Nordo’s hatchet-voiced ex-wife Delores (an endearingly skanky Keira McDonald)? Or thuggish Michael Stern (Maximillian Davis, whose sunglasses and toothpick ensure he won’t be mistaken for anything but a caricature)? Because we never meet dead Nordo, and it sounds like he was a jerk, and since all the other characters are jerks, it’s hard to care about anyone, much less follow the busily static details. The suspects’ machinations alternate with fast-food-bemoaning philosophizing from a peanut gallery of bandanna-headed passers-through (MJ Sieber and Noah Benezra). It’s a shame the able cast doesn’t have a script to match the menu. Fortunately, the enigmatic dancing beaver (Sachie Mikawa) holds her tongue. MARGARET FRIEDMAN E

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moves to a new venue to chart the doomed Egyptian romance. Intiman Theatre, Seattle Center, 733-8222. $22– $45. Preview Nov. 1, opens Nov. 2. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sat., plus some weekend matinees; see seattleshakespeare. org for exact schedule. Ends Nov. 18. THE ATOMIC BOMBSHELLS Their latest burlesque revue, hosted by Jasper McCann. Columbia City Theater, 4918 Rainier Ave. S., 800-838-3006, theatomicbombshells. com. $22–$25. Opens Nov. 3. 9 p.m. Sat. Ends Nov. 24. CARDENIO One of GreenStage’s “Hard Bard” productions, which up the gore quotient, of this drama attributed to Shakespeare. Seattle Center Armory, 305 Harrison St., greenstage.org. Free. Opens Nov. 2. Runs 7:30 p.m. Thurs.–Sun. Ends Nov. 17. THE CHERDONNA AND LOU SHOW out out there (A Whole Night Lost) is this gender-bending dance-theater duo’s new show, exploring the nature of fear. Washington Hall, 153 14th Ave., 800-838-3006, CherdonnaLou.com. $20. 8 p.m. Fri., Nov. 2, 8 & 10 p.m. Sat., Nov. 3. THE GLASS MENAGERIE In Tennessee Williams’ durable drama, a Southern gent tries to find his shy sister a husband. Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Center, 443-2222. $12–$70. Opens Oct. 31. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sun. plus select Wed., Sat., Sun. matinees; see seattlerep.org for exact schedule. Ends Dec. 2. LANDSCAPE OF THE BODY In John Guare’s lurid 1977 comedy, a ghost haunts her sister, who has other problems to deal with. Meany Studio Theater, UW campus, 543-4880, depts.washington.edu/uwdrama. Previews Nov. 7–8, opens Nov. 9. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Nov. 18. ’NIGHT MOTHER KTO Productions presents Marsha Norman’s 1983 Pulitzer-winning drama. Odd Duck Studio, 1214 10th Ave., ktoproductions.net. $12–$15. Opens Nov. 1. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.–Sat., plus Tues., Nov. 13. Ends Nov. 17. POISONING PIGEONS IN THE PARK SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 17.

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THE ADDAMS FAMILY When this musical opened on

Broadway two years ago, critics were unkind, but the familiarity of Charles Addams’ amusingly macabre clan—from The New Yorker, TV, and movies—has made this touring production profitable and popular. (Following a Saturday matinee, the audience around me gave a standing ovation/finger-snaps.) The show’s creators— songs by Andrew Lippa, book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice—provide just enough morbid kitsch, camp, and general cheesiness to please. As patriarch Gomez, Douglas Sills—a Vaseline-smiling hunk more Antonio Banderas than Nathan Lane, who originated the role on Broadway—carries the show; he’s a master of the awkward pause. (Sara Gettelfinger plays his aloof Morticia.) Beneath the practiced one-liners, there’s a minimally sufficient story, as teenaged Wednesday Addams

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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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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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VIDEO GAMES LIVE Pantages Theater Friday, November 9

This immersive concert event features music from the most popular video games of all time. Tacoma Symphony Orchestra will perform along with exclusive video footage and music arrangements, synchronized lighting, solo performers, electronic percussionists, live action and unique interactive segments to create an explosive entertainment experience! It is not just a concert, but a celebration of the entire video game phenomenon that people of all ages will adore. Starting time is 7:30pm. 253.591.5894. $39-$94.

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Saturday, November 3

Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris at the Seattle Art Museum downtown features more than 130 artworks by 75 pioneering women artists from 1909 to 2007 offering a fresh perspective on a history of modern and contemporary art (thru Jan 11, 2013). In response to Elles: Pompidou, also on view is Elles: SAM—Singular Works by Seminal Women Artists, a series of works by women in SAM’s modern and contemporary galleries. Open Tues-Sun with special $3 off pricing on Thurs and Fri nights from 5-9 pm. Buy online today! 206.654.3100. $12–$23.

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FROM BEETHOVEN TO ARMENIAN CLASSICS

Experience a unique showcase presenting the transition of Armenian classical music through time from Beethoven to Armenian classics. Music by Beethoven, Komitas, Aram Khachaturian, and Eduard Baghdasaryan. Gayane Grigoryan, violin & Alisa Sargsyan, piano. Enjoy an enchanting evening of beautiful music at the Brechemin Auditorium, School of Music University of Washington, 7pm. For more details email ACAWAinfo@gmail.com. 206.486.2221. $10, UW students free after general admission.

JIM BRICKMAN

Benaroya Hall Wednesday, November 14

Live @ Benaroya Hall presents Jim Brickman! Brickman’s romantic piano sound has made him the best-selling solo piano artist of our time, revolutionizing the sound of solo piano with his pop-style instrumentals. 206.215.4747. $38-$58.

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FLAMENCO, WITH KAREN LUGO Benaroya Hall November 1, 2 & 4

Join Fundación Conservatorio Flamenco Casa Patas for some fiery footwork and live flamenco music presented in collaboration with Seattle’s Honorary Consulate of Spain. 206.215.4747. $33.

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COMEDY TRIPLE TREAT IMPROV Unexpected Productions Wednesday, October 31

Is there a demon lurking in the woods? What will happen to Poe’s Raven? Is the Unexpected Productions’ Market Theater haunted? Find out on Halloween night at 8:30 pm, when Unexpected Productions will present Triple Treat. 206.587.2414. $5-$15.

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COMEDY COMPETITION Naked City Brewery Thursday, November 1

Opening night of the 33rd Annual Seattle International Comedy Competition. 17 comedians compete for $10,000. 310.595.5000. $15.

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This not-to-be-missed 4-pack of world premieres is headlined by world famous choreographer Mark Morris’ first commissioned ballet for PNB. New works by three of the Company’s promising young dancemakers—Kiyon Gaines, Andrew Bartee, and Margaret Mullin—further underscore PNB’s commitment to dance innovation. 206.441.2424. $28-$173.

Join us for three creepy cinema classics on the Uptown’s giant screen in new digitally remastered presentations! From an iconic 80s comedy featuring a 100-foot-tall marshmallow man, to a rarely seen 3D thriller starring Vincent Price, to two of Hollywood’s biggest stars in the finest of “Grandma Guignol” cinema, you’re sure to enjoy thrills, chills, laughs, and screams. 206.324.9996. $10.

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SINNER SAINT BURLESQUE Noc Noc @ 1516 2nd Ave November 8 - December 27

Cardenio, by Shakespeare, directed by Tony Driscoll. It’s a very grave love story - A Tyrant’s cold blooded scheme to attain love is stalled when the Lady he longs for makes a grave attempt to escape his lustful desires. Gruesome and absurd acts of revenge, murder, suicide, lust, grave robbing, and necrophilia, make this romantic tragedy a Hard Bard experience you will never forget. 206.748.1551. FREE.

One of America’s most exciting new dance companies makes its Seattle debut. Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet has garnered international acclaim for its daring, athletic movements and integration of classical ballet with contemporary dance forms. Program includes works by Crystal Pite, Hofesh Shechter, and Alexander Ekman. 206.543.4880. $20-$40.

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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14-year-old Seattle playwright Frank Garland. Seattle Public Theater at the Bathhouse, 7312 W. Green Lake Ave. N., 524-1300. Free. Opens Nov. 2. Runs Fri.–Sun.; see seattlepublictheater.org for schedule. Ends Nov. 10. THE RITE OF SOL SEE THE WIRE, PAGE 17. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS Youth Theatre Northwest goes Grimm and skips Disney in this stage version. Youth Theatre Northwest, 8805 S.E. 40th St., Mercer Island, 232-4145, youththeatre.org. $13–$17. Opens Nov. 2. 7 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 2 p.m. Sat.–Sun. Ends Nov. 18. SPIN THE BOTTLE The annual 60 SECONDS MAX! showcase, with one-minute performances by Jed Dunkerley, Mark Siano, and more. Annex Theatre, 1100 E. Pike St., 728-0933, annextheatre.org. $5–$10. 11 p.m. Fri., Nov. 2. TRIPLE TREAT Unexpected Productions’ Halloween improv show. Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, unexpectedproductions.org. $15. 8:30 p.m. Wed., Oct. 31. WITCH PRISON The Schoolyard presents a “mashup of women-in-prison, Satanic cheerleader. and private-eye films.” Re-bar, 1114 Howell St., 800-838-3006, brown paper-tickets.com. $15–$18. Opens Nov. 2. 7:30 p.m. Fri.–Sat. Ends Nov. 17.

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SHERRY LOESER

“We’re gonna be all right, baby, we are still young . . . At least we have white skin. Baby, we have rich friends . . . Those kinds of connections can pay . . . ” —Shannon Stephens, “Faces Like Ours,” 2012 The first few times I heard “Faces Like Ours,” I was frustrated that Stephens would soil a deeply moving melody with verses about Shannon white guilt. As I listened to it more, however, Stephens the tongue-in-cheek words “We’re gonna be all right” started to make me feel thankful, and somewhat comforted. Thankful that I won the life lottery and was born in a country with (imperfect) infrastructures for education and health care. It reminded me of something Blondie’s Debbie Harry told me earlier this year: “People in this country live very well, very, very well, compared to the rest of the world. I think that most people in this country don’t really realize that. Even people that are in deep financial trouble live better than most people in other countries.” Stephens says the song is about privilege, inspired by her “internal process of just seeing who I am in the world and why some things have been easier for me throughout my life than [they] have been for other people.” She says that comfort is not the emotion she had in mind when she wrote it, yet that’s where I’ve landed. It’s not just a function of race, or of being born in the lower, middle, or upper class. We’re all fortunate to live in a country where our fellow citizens do not riot and murder in opposition to art and free speech; where and straight—are free to stand “If you find yourself musicians—gay up proudly for same-sex marriage rights, as playing to people the local music community has done with the who look like you, Music for Marriage Equality coalition. of music’s most enduring attributes is you’ve probably done itsOne ability to take on various meanings for varisomething wrong.” ous listeners, often differing from the author’s intent. When Tom Morello tells Rage Against the Machine fans like Paul Ryan that they don’t “understand” Rage if they espouse conservative values, he’s putting a limit on his music and his listeners. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ “Same Love” was written in support of the rights of samesex couples to marry. But the song is reaching beyond the core of listeners sympathetic to the Seattle-based duo’s message. The track, with the help of new friends like Rolling Stone and Ellen DeGeneres, is hitting people who disagree with its message. In the end, isn’t that the most important audience? “Music opens doors,” Bart Cameron, frontman of Seattle band the Foghorns, told me recently. “If you find yourself playing to people who look like you, you’ve probably done something wrong.” E —Chris Kornelis, editor, Reverb Monthly

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how archaic this issue already seems. It’s a s we are all very much aware, no-brainer to me. it’s time to put down our mark It’s just a matter of equal rights, no? Or for president, governor, is it a matter of shellfish? Or getting sheriff, and, in four states stoned to death for looking at a across America, the right for samesex couples to marry. In our state, neighbor’s wife’s tits? . . . Referendum 74 has been a hot point I don’t think we need to think in this election season. Marriage of this as an issue of artists versus equality for all can pit some belief religion, or gays versus straights, and moral systems against each other. or red state versus blue state. In the early 1980s, there was a Referendum 74 is about an cool-as-hell art/punk band called equal-rights issue. A human-rights the Fags. Actually, “band” is probably issue. Simple. A no-brainer. too simplistic a word; they were more The world is a funny place. E of a collective. They had a house in the Duff McKagan is the founding bassist of U District where they lived, threw parGuns N’ Roses. His column runs every week at ties, and rehearsed. It was an open house. seattleweekly.com/reverb. You could crash there, get a meal, or even askduff@seattleweekly.com just stop by to get out of the rain. It was fun over there at the Faghouse all R-74 the time. Good people, they were. The very last thing you thought about If they get their way, they’ll play . . . was their sexuality. Yes, a couple of their members BY MA’CHELL DUMA LAVASSAR were gay. It just wasn’t a big deal. Victoria VanBruinisse (live-show editor Growing up in the and photographer for Three Imaginary Seattle music scene also Girls) and Ana Wright (singer/songwriter) meant that if you worked are two of the most ridiculously in-love in a restaurant or theater people you could ever hope to meet. on or around Capitol Hill, On the eve of what could be an historic it was more than likely election, VanBruinisse chatted with me that you worked hand-inabout finding modern love and her very hand and back-to-back musical journey toward matrimony. Ana & Victoria with more than a few peoSW: How did you guys meet? ple who were homosexual VanBruinisse: OkCupid! They say or lesbian. It just wasn’t a that “it’s the Google of online dating,” which would be true if Google hit big deal. a home run to your query one out of . . . oh, every 200 times. The music scene up And did her musical choices on Ok affect your here—from the time of the choosing her (or her choosing you)? Faghouse through Nirvana Holy shit, absolutely. Her first message to me (I like to think we chose to the Music for Marriage each other, but she threw the first line out across the interwebs) was Equality coalition, which I mostly about a mutual love for the Wilco documentary I Am Trying to have supported—has been Break Your Heart. Her descriptives made me realize that we’d likely be harmonious with the gay able to hold a conversation in real life pretty easily. community. It’s hard even What’s your favorite musical relationship memory? to give examples, and that One of the best has to be the time on one of our earlier dates when I probably speaks volumes was in her kitchen making guacamole to take to a party, and she sat down for the fact that there is at the piano in the living room and started flawlessly knocking out a Cat no outstanding need for Power song. My heart still swoons just thinking about that sunny little anything to get all exemmoment, up to my wrists in avocados and sun coming in the window. plified about. Do you have a “song”? I have never had to I did open up the first mix I gave her with “No, I Can’t” by the think too much about an Mountain Goats and closed it with [Neko Case’s] “That Teenage issue like lawful equality Feeling”—so those have always been little cute “A-ha!” tunes for us. in marriage. There used to If the good people of Washington state grant you be laws that banned interthe right to marry, what song will be the first dance racial marriage in parts at your wedding? of America. That seems Well, the obvious choice would have to be “At Last” by Etta James, archaic as HELL these just for the unbeatable direct message. Actually, I’d like to hear that over days, doesn’t it? So now a sound system while a thousand happy queer and queer-allied couples that I am asked to think danced, not just Ana and I—all freshly married in a movie scene, mere about this referendum, all moments after we heard the vote had passed. E I can really think about is music@seattleweekly.com

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hen there is the question of who gets to vote. Republicans, particularly in swing states where they control the machinery of government (think Florida and Ohio), have spent the past few years furiously trying to purge the voting rolls of any lowdown, cheating sidewinders who might show up at a polling place without Sean Hannity–approved certificates of identification, hoping to vote Democratic. Failing that, they’ll run ads in poor neighborhoods telling voters that Election Day has been moved to Christmas. Efforts like these proved moderately successful in 2000 and 2004. Today’s Republican vote suppression is far more widespread and efficient. The same apparatus that is employed to get out the vote can be used to confuse voters into not showing up at the polls. That message arriving at your door might helpfully guide you to the nearest Ron Reagan, a Seattle-based writer balloting place or, like the ones circulating and commentator, is the son of the through minority neighborhoods in Ohio, 40th president. challenge your right to vote at all. Combine this with vigilante-style voter intimidation, Birtherism? Sure, we know Obama was and a state like Wisconsin—seemingly safely in born in Hawaii—everyone and their uncle the Obama column—could mysteriously slip to has had a peek at his birth certificate. But Romney in the wee hours of election night. the racists and haters like to fill their heads Once again, if Romney and the Republicans with darker imaginings, so let’s keep feedget away with it, expect to see more assaults ing them the Kenya Conspiracy. No need for on democracy in the future. Romney to wade into that Finally, there is the matter fever swamp himself beyond of race. There can be little The Romney the occasional “joke.” The doubt that President Obama Limbaughs, Becks, and Savloses some potential votes in campaign ages—the alternate-universe the white community—even attaches itself brigade howling daily over among Democrats—because to untruth like a he is black. I’ve seen estithe airwaves—will keep the flame of madness burning. mates as high as 5 percent. horny little dog Math doesn’t come close I find it disingenuous, or on a visitor’s leg. to adding up in your big tax perhaps willfully naive, to plan, the one you’ve been ignore this racial handicap. touting for months? What plan? You’ve never In a close contest, it could certainly make the heard of such a plan. The 20-percent, $5 difference. trillion tax cut everyone has spent too many Let us ask ourselves then: Should the perhours of their lives trying to figure out (or ception take hold that Barack Obama lost reimagine, really, since you’ve provided virtuelection, at least in part, on account of his race, ally no details)? They fantasized it during an will the major parties be more or less eager to opium stupor. The $716 billion the president promote into their ranks presidential contendis allegedly “stealing” from Medicare? That ers of color? I think we know the answer. half of all companies receiving federal dollars So there you have it. If Mitt Romney wins for green energy have gone bankrupt? Romthe presidency this November, brace yourself ney’s own plan to provide health insurance to for a future shitstorm of unabashed lies and people with pre-existing conditions? All of it a return to the days of poll taxes. And don’t a steaming bucket of crap. hold your breath waiting for another AfricanBut what if voters buy the crap? Then you American presidential nominee. E can bet on counterfactualism becoming the music@seattleweekly.com KEVIN P. CASEY

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ccording to those enmeshed in the politics of the moment, presidential elections are generally said to be about something. Two chickens in every pot. Two cars in every garage. Winning the Cold War or the War on Terror or the Next War. The themes vary. But every presidential election is always, in a practical sense, about the previous contest. Just as generals are always fighting the last war, political professionals are forever waging the last campaign. Whatever is perceived to have contributed to victory in the last election will be clutched like a combination talisman/lifesaver in the current cycle. Notice that Republicans are more active in social media this time out? That Dems are running more sharply negative ads? In this same way, the result of the 2012 presidential election will provide a blueprint for the contest in 2016. It’s useful to consider, then, what lessons campaign managers, admakers, and of course future candidates will take from this year’s campaigning should Mitt Romney prevail at the polls. The Romney campaign is built upon four pillars: dishonesty, vote suppression, race, and the still-struggling economy. The last is obvious and circumstantial. Presidents benefit from a robust economy, suffer blame for a poor one, and can do relatively little to control either. The other pillars, though, will instruct the field generals of campaigns to follow. Should they amount to a successful strategy, they will be copied and extended. We are used to politicians stretching the truth, spinning, selectively citing studies, and practicing all the other arts of mendacity employed in the pursuit and maintenance of high office. Yet in the long and ignoble catalogue of political bullshitting, Mitt Romney’s campaign stands horned head and hairy shoulders above the squalid competition. Never in the modern era—at least not in my memory—has an American presidential endeavor so enthusiastically embraced the concept of the Big Lie. No useful distortion is left under the rock where it was found. No bit of flummery is too absurd to be trotted out for the knuckle-dragging base to gnaw over. The Romney campaign attaches itself to untruth like a horny little dog on a visitor’s leg.

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Hodgman: Hello. What did you watch last night? a) debate b) basesball c) other Roderick: I watched the debate unfold via Twitter. I got the gist of it without having to endure the cringingly awful syntax and false demeanors of the candidates, plus I enjoyed the real-time analysis of hilarious people. Hodgman: That is how I watched debate one. And look how that turned out. Roderick: It got so I was commenting along, like I was watching it too. But I was living a lie. Hodgman: This time I spent the debate eating a steak and discussing Blade Runner, and it seemed to work better for everyone. Roderick: I ate a whole pork loin, but I’m not sure I feel it played any role in how the debates went. Your actions play a larger role in determining the outcomes of world affairs, to be sure. Hodgman: Did you watch any of the others? Roderick: No. I can’t stand the way politicians speak. Hodgman: Hmm. Roderick: I prefer to read the reviews after the fact. Are you telling me you watch stump speeches? Hodgman: But the debates are not stump speeches. They are highly condensed moments of real-time history. The dynamics of the election lurched and turned dramatically after debate one. I don’t like watching them either, and part of my resistance is feeling that that is too bright a fire of performance anxiety, theater, and real, actual, potential authentic conflict for me to stare into for long. But then I did enjoy the moment in debate two—which was utterly authentic—of watching Romney gloat once he thought he had Obama pinned down, only to have it turn to flop sweat when Candy Crowley fact-checked him. I felt what a basesball fan might when they see a live home goal, or whatever. Roderick: I’m too sensitive a flower to watch a staged debate. The discomfort and awkwardness aren’t worth the occasional joy of a “You’re no Jack Kennedy” moment. Also, although I’m very partisan, I take no joy in watching someone lose a contest, even a villain. The media narrative was that the first debate changed the election dynamic, but I’m not sure how much that’s actually true. I mean, how many undecided voters are there, really? Hodgman: I think it’s clear that there were a lot of voters who had not decided whether to vote for Romney or not vote at all. And something about Romney that night made them say, “Fine, already, I’ll do it.” Roderick: Hmm. Yeah, maybe. Hodgman: No rational analysis of the data can support your theory that that debate didn’t

candidate out of whatever police lineup they are surely in at this moment. Obama is the only choice, for a thousand reasons. But the American left has ceded so much of the moral high ground to the right over the past 30 years. I mean, the Republican candidate for president is a straight-up tax-dodger! He keeps his money in offshore accounts to avoid his lawful taxes, and this behavior is accepted as reasonable and even savvy by a large portion of the electorate! No one on the left is confronting this tax cheating and lying on moral grounds! Hodgman: OK. I’m’a let you finish. Roderick: The left has completely lost control of the national dialogue, completely squandered the New Deal/Great Society notions that idealism and self-sacrifice are noble attributes. The Republicans characterize social-welfare programs as at best naive and at worst plain graft. The left has no answer except that Republicans are mean, racist bullies. That’s not an ideology. Hodgman: So let’s first stipulate that we are both voting for Obama—or in your case, voting against Romney. Do you feel comfortable being so politically uncoy? Even in Seattle? Roderick: Oh, sure. The Republican Party has been at the top of my list of sworn enemies since I was 6 years old, and no one in Seattle has any illusions about me, I don’t think. We don’t have to be coy, we’re not living in Portland. Hodgman: Fine. Then yes: I agree with your utter frustration. Though I am a liar and fake-fact peddler by trade, I do believe in objective reality. That Romney is allowed QUESTIONS/ANSWERS to run an utterly post-truth campaign is maddening. I am not talking about lying per se. But assenting to Romney’s essential, Orwellian premise that multiple truths exist as a matter of sheer convenience. How the left lost the moral high ground Roderick: That, my friend, is the uninand profit became a sin. tended product of cultural relativism. Hodgman: Look: I was a literary theory BY JOHN HODGMAN & JOHN RODERICK major. I know where this bitter seed was sown. The alliance between Mitt Romney and Roland so comfortably into a Clintonian, capitalist, Barthes is the strangest bedfellowing I have have an effect. Obama went from a national neo-hawkish, defensive malaise. I don’t vote for ever observed. polling advantage of 5–6 points to a deficit of Democrats, I vote against Republicans. 2, or as much as 4. Almost literally overnight. Roderick: The Papillon Effect. That’s not a media narrative. That’s science. Hodgman: I am sympathetic to your point Hodgman: For example: Romney states of view, but I also could not disagree with you that 47 percent of the American people are Roderick: Sure, science with a margin more strongly. moocher victims who refuse to accept responof error of 10 points. Polls can only canvass sibility for their own lives. On tape. Repeatedly. people who answer their phone when a Roderick: A paradox! He repeatedly softens, but essentially endorses blocked number calls at dinnertime on a Hodgman: I appreciate why the lesser-ofthis sentiment in several appearances thereSunday night. Who are those people? Lonely two-evils argument is offensive to many. But after. Then, minutes before 80-year-olds watching Walker, Texas Ranger. the reason it is meaningful is debate one, he says that the because of events like 9/11. Hodgman: This election will turn on We will see whole thing was an accident— Even if both parties are marTexas Ranger Grandmoms. While I agree that presidential a “misstatement.” That is an ried more to a hateful status it is right to be skeptical, I detect a level of elections utter lie. And yet the whole quo than you like, nature nihilism in your text. (What the children call tape disappears. Believe me. “nihilexting.”) “Politicians all sound the same,” abhors a status quo. Big and look more and like to blame that on small events conspire con“Polls are bogus,” etc. Were you a Nader voter? more like Dancing Ithewould left ceding ground because stantly against the status quo. Roderick: Fact is, as fascinated by politics With the Stars. they are not strong and prinWe are but a single Supreme as I am, I can’t escape the feeling that eleccipled and Alaskan enough, Court heartbeat or two away tions are the worst kind of showbiz. Bread and but I think there is something else at work. from a dramatically different judicial future. circuses. I did vote for Nader, twice, and reject So while it is critical to advocate for causes the accusation that he cost Gore the election. Roderick: Our whole political process now and candidates that you are truly passionate Obviously the “Gore and Bush are two sides of resembles a LiveJournal comments feed. I canabout, in a presidential election it does come the same coin” argument of 2000 was pretty not keep this many “truths” in my head at once. down to a choice of two, or very rarely three, ridiculously off-base once 9/11 happened, and Hodgman: “I cannot keep this many people. Who do you want making decisions I renounce it. But the platforms of the Repub‘truths’ in my head at once.” First line of when the status quo gets un-quoed? lican and Democratic parties have diverged Orwell’s never-completed sequel, 1986. radically over the past 10 years. Romney and Roderick: Sure, I’m not saying I’m still Roderick: The whole electorate is BalkanObama are plenty different, but I’m deeply voting for the Green Party candidate in 2012. ized. They’re getting their news from church resentful that liberals in America have settled I wouldn’t be able to pick the Green Party » CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 John Roderick (left) and his basesball buddy, John Hodgman.

reverb»Election Special The Last Debate » FROM PAGE 11 pulpits, Internet portals, talk radio, and Facebook posts—just as they always did throughout history—but at the end of the day there’s no WALTER CRONKITE to spackle it all together into a middle-of-the-road consensus. As technology allows us to expand the franchise to more accurately reflect a popular vote, we will see presidential elections look more and more like Dancing With the Stars. Mark my words: This is what democracy looks like. Hodgman: You truly are a crank and a scold. Roderick: You are a Democrat, I presume? In addition to being a Plutocrat. Hodgman: I am registered as such, though like you, I am not sure what the term means to me personally, or in general. There is part of me that supports very specific issues, such as marriage rights, abortion rights, and fair taxation, that I simply cannot trust even moderate Republicans on at the moment. Roderick: It’s true, what you say. The Democrats have the right stance on almost all the meaningful issues. That’s it in a nut-

shell: I vote for Democrats because of issues, not for leadership. Hodgman: There is a more diffuse nexus of positions, such as pro-science, antisuperstition, and pro-education, that I find the Democrats more generally aligned with than the opposition. Roderick: Agreed. Agreed. Hodgman: And then there are issues where I directly support the president that I suspect you and I will disagree on. Roderick: Such as? Hodgman: I believe drone warfare has monstrous and tragic consequences. But I am not as inclined as some—understandably— are to break with the president and the party on this issue. Because I believe unfocused land wars with murky objectives in multiple countries are also catastrophic, and I believe in a leaner, aggressive, and more intelligent approach to national security. Roderick: Hmm. I’m more hawkish than you might imagine. But drone warfare is ethically indefensible. We’ve empowered a bunch of 26-year-old Air Force captains sitting in air-conditioned trailers in the Nevada desert to blow up houses full of people half a world away

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based on some grainy footage taken by a windsee the holes and gaps in leftism, I still believe up toy. All the justifications for it are expedient it is a more moral approach to human life than rather than moral. I don’t think we’re on the any conservative doctrine. Conservatism is right side of history on this topic, and when inherently selfish and afraid. Skynet becomes self-aware, we’re going to be Hodgman: I am personally very selfish sorry we activated those drones. and usually terrified, and there are elements of Atlas Shrugged that still really resonate with Hodgman: It’s not horses and bayonets, me. I do think self-reliance is a virtue and profit and I say that grimly, without laughing. I not a sin. know you have a bunch of sabers in a hat stand, figuratively and literally. But if war Roderick: I am sympathetic to a great was ever chivalrous and gentlemanly, that deal of what makes the Tea Party emotionally fantasy is over. No tools of war are ethically resonant, although I think they are 94 percent defensible, and evil is done in our name and gas-huffing idiots. under our flag abroad in so many ways. But only Hodgman: But I am also an adult, and action brings about change. When people use not a college freshperson. The idea that the this issue (or any other) as a sanctimony cudgel wealthy are a John Galtian victim class is on the Internet, it is the definition of nona toxic, narcissistic delusion. The idea that action; and using any moral high ground to justhese fragile financial titans should feel puntify not participating in the system—flawed as it ished is absurd; they already live in a secret is—is not something I have a lot of patience for. luxury valley all their own. What I appreciate on balance in Obama’s Democratic party Roderick: I wonder if the Department more than the opposition, or for that matter of Defense has looked into weaponizing this some corners of the left, is that it feels con“sanctimony cudgel” you speak of. nected first with the reality of the moment, Hodgman: I was deeply relieved by the and not first preoccupied with a fantasy. finding and killing of Bin Laden in a way that I had not anticipated, and is still hard to Roderick: I do not allow that having a articulate. I don’t celebrate his killing, but it philosophical platform is “fantasy” that realpowas deeply meaningful to me, in part because litik trumps. That’s the old lesser-of-two-evils it seemed like so many people—especially logic again. the ones calling for endless war the loudest— Hodgman: I concur. But one of the reaseemed so prepared to just let him go. It was sons I resist your “All politicians are crooks/ also a reminder that shit can actually get done, The Internet will make our democracy into and it’s not all hopeless. Storage Wars” formulations is that it suggests no change is possible, so why try? Whereas Roderick: Agreed. Booyah. And I agree I think a great political platform would be: we need fewer unfocused land wars, trending We are prepared to identify these problems toward none. I’d personally like to see America and effectively and fairly solve them. I feel start developing an all–Special Forces military, confident that this is possible because in the just total black-ops all the time. My kind of 1960s, conservatives saw America is one where our one big problem called dudes appear out of the Government is the Great Society. And night sky wherever evildointrinsic to civilization; rather than just wringing ers lurk and kill them with their hands in exile, they poison-tipped umbrellas civilization is what methodically and with and then disappear into allows us to live in discipline began to solve the sewers. The CIA is so something other that problem almost out bloated and ineffective than constant hunger of effing existence. now it’s a joke. It took us 10 years to find Bin Laden Roderick: Exactly. and terror. masturbating to Big Butts They have an enemy: DVDs in a neighborhood the bullying liberal who in Pakistan. Seriously. To reform the intelliwants to steal their money and give it away gence community, we need to break the grip of to the undeserving. Whereas liberals are Yale old-boys, starting with you. busy being pro-Wall Street, pro-union, promanagement, pro-military, pro-peacenik, proHodgman: Let’s not get into your Yale unwed mother, pro-family, pro-everything. fixation just yet. It’s not a philosophy, it’s an all-you-can-eat Roderick: Basically, America’s problems buffet. Conservatives have an intellectual begin at Yale. foundation for what they do, grounded in a Hodgman: Arguably, Yale is to be blamed half-understood reading of a few sacred texts not merely for America’s problems, but the and a reverse-engineered justification for their sad, sorry state of the whole Secret World emotional needs. Liberals are so hamstrung by Government! the desire to support every minority platform, Roderick: When it stopped being secret no matter how contradictory, that they can’t was the beginning of the problem. even back-engineer a justification for it. Hodgman: Tell me about it. In some ways I am a Democrat in the same hateful way Hodgman: So how would you articulate the most people belong to a party—they inherit philosophy they should have? You need to think it from their family like a sports team and a about this for when you run for mayor. state motto. But that’s the worst. It is easy to Roderick: I’ve traveled overseas, in my follow politics as a team sport; and for the capacity as a rock-and-roll ambassador, and media, infinitely easier to cover it as a horsing have come to believe that, in addition to the Bill race, as it’s called. But this is sport with actual of Rights, our bureaucracy is all that separates consequences. us from living in the Ukraine. The people who scream loudest about limited government are Roderick: I’ve always been a leftist, also the ones who are constantly filing affidavits of because my parents were, and although I can

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appeal when their water bill is too high or calling the police when their neighbor’s dog barks. Recourse to the law is something Americans take for granted, but in most of the world there is almost no such recourse, and no appeal. Our laws need to be administered, and that occurs when people get hired to sit in offices. Otherwise known as: government. Hodgman: I think we are in agreement there. I believe government is essential. Any suggestion otherwise—that we can all thrive as independent actors—is playground fantasy. Or I should say, fantasy for all but the bloodthirstiest of playground bullies. Government is intrinsic to civilization; civilization is what allows us to live in something other than constant hunger and terror (though plenty still do, and often at the hands of governments); and for those of us who are sedentary and asthmatic, civilization is what allows us to live at all. Roderick: Liberals have made some tragic missteps articulating this message by overstepping their mandate in pursuit of utopia. Public-housing projects were mostly a disaster, busing was mostly a disaster, the unions squandered their power on perks and patronage, and the antiwar movement was hijacked by asshole baby-boom narcissists. Projects were identified in the public mind with gang violence, organized labor with the Mob, and antiwar rhetoric with drugs. All these ideas had noble beginnings, and they all now serve as rhetorical punching bags for the right. Hodgman: OK. But: Please answer the question. As an exemplar of the new leftist who will never again make the mistakes of the ’70s, who has a hat stand full of sabers and is ready to govern Seattle properly, what unifying principle will guide the Golden Era of Lord Mayor John Roderick? Roderick: Liberals need to relearn the rules of persuasion, to lead by example. The decline in the level of discourse in this country isn’t the Republicans’ fault—they’ve always been huffy, entitled, thin-skinned, and myopic—it’s that the Democrats have given up convincing people to join their cause and decided to just mandate the change. We’ve grown dependent on the idea that we can speed the arc of history by passing legislation—forcing people to accept our principles rather than convincing them— and we’ve become incredibly impatient with the learning curve of democracy. Our failure to convince the unconvinced isn’t their fault, it stems from a lack of conviction on our part. It’s one thing to outlaw discrimination, an entirely other and much more difficult thing to end discrimination; one thing to raise taxes, an entirely other and much more difficult thing to persuade people that higher taxes benefit them. We have the harder job, and the onus is on us to do a better job. Conservatives base their appeal on greed and fear. If we truly believe that liberalism appeals to people’s generosity of spirit, we should be prepared to try harder and set a higher standard for ourselves than just shouting down the opposition. The Republicans own the tone of our national discourse now, and it’s a disgrace. High-mindedness is not naive, it is the soul of liberalism: an appeal to reason on behalf of justice. You can’t force it upon people at bayonet-point. Hodgman: You have my vote. E

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Fresh Espresso, Jupiter (out now, selfreleased, freshespresso.bandcamp.com): The jokey chorus at the end of opener “Hellen Keller” is a little much, but still fits the grime-meets-high-life style Fresh Espresso does so well. The rest of the five-track EP consists of smashing, synthy P Smoov beats and saucy Rik Rude/Smoov raps that are just as stylish and sexy as the rest of their portfolio. TH

Golden Gardens, How Brave the Hunted Wolves (11/13, Neon Sigh, goldengardens.bandcamp.com): Blending trip-hop beats with singer Aubrey Bramble’s just-out-of-reach vocals, this duo crafts dreamy, gothic guitar-and-synth odysseys that, sonically at least, resemble The Cure circa Disintegration if they had known about shoegaze. ANDREW GOSPE (Fri., Nov. 2, The Mix) Jess Grant, Innocent Invader (out now, self-released, jessgrantmusic.com): Occasionally grating but mostly graceful, Grant sounds a bit like Elvis Costello, or Anthony Kiedis on stripped-down Chili Pepper ballads. His lyrics are at times overwrought, but his limber sound is admirably unique and adventurous. MIKE SEELY GravelRoad, Pedernales (out now, Knick Knack Records, gravelroadblues.com): “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean” is the season’s first solid drinking song (you’ll need a whole pitcher). “Monkey With a Wig,” the front side of this single, is sophisticated bar-band blues at its most riffalicious. CK (Sun., Nov. 30, JewelBox/Rendezvous) Graves33, Banner for Boxed In (11/14, self-released, graves33.com): Graves has always had a knack for making heavy, mood-altering beats, and he’s only improved as a producer on his new full-length, dressing up loops until they’re engulfing pools of sound. His rhymes still come sealed in his stuffy-

* In each issue, we review every release from local bands and labels scheduled for the coming month. We fully expect a few releases to slip through the cracks. So each issue will also include anything we missed in previous issues, or that had been released in the interim. Send releases and reminders to reverbreviews@seattleweekly.com.

nosed monotone, but they’ve taken on a more personal, direct subject matter (see “Horns of Oblivion”), which has not only made him a more relatable MC, but all the more intriguing. TH (Wed., Nov. 14, Nectar)

Gavin Guss, On High (out now, Fin Records, gavinguss.com): Guss’ second solo album glows with buoyant pop melodies, vibrant guitars, and crisp production; Brendan Benson and Elliott Smith come to mind, as does Elvis Costello, especially on the Mighty Like a Rose–era, keys-heavy “Invent You Myself.” GWENDOLYN ELLIOTT

The Hoot Hoots, Feel the Cosmos (11/29, self-released, thehoothoots.bandcamp.com): This quartet’s EP is six tracks of joyous pop-rock, replete with analog synth, overdriven guitar, and a singer whose voice occasionally recalls James Mercer’s before he started making adult-contemporary music. This is the rare local “power pop” band that actually can write pop songs. AG (Fri., Nov. 29, Barboza)

The Insurgence, Elimi-nation (out now, Innerstrength Records, theinsurgence.com): With the occasional appearance of an umlaut over the u in their name recalling fellow Seattle band The Accüsed, The Insurgence plays a similar hybrid of punk and thrash with socially conscious lyrics, chromatic guitar riffs, and shouted vocals. There’s not much melody to be found, but there’s not supposed to be. DL The Januariez, Authentic (out now, Epochalyptic Music, thejanuariez.com): Singer/guitarist J-kNee has a big voice, but The Januariez’s debut lacks hooks big enough to really show it off. Stylistically, the band’s foundation is funky guitar lines a la “Been Caught Stealing” from Jane’s Addiction or Mother’s Milk–era Chili Peppers, but without the punk energy that made both groups great. DL

Kid Simpl, Skylight (11/12, Hush Hush, soundcloud.com/hush-hush-records): Soundsmith Joey Butler, 22, has mastered the desirable electronic art of adding texture to sound. Close your eyes, and his music manifests as soft or jagged shapes floating over a dark desert valley, which can feel slow-moving and isolating if you’re looking for traditional melody and song structure—but think of it as a journey, and it’ll take you to amazing places. TH (Sat., Nov. 3, Vermillion)

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The Connerys, The Connerys (out now, selfreleased, theconnerys.com): Three dudes play fourchord garage rock with distorted vocals and reverbed guitars that give the songs a surfy vibe. The band’s energy is high across most of the release, which features “Hit Me!” and later “Bleed Me!”, as well as a fuzzed-out cover of the Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer.” DAVE LAKE (Tues., Nov. 20, Comet Tavern)

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Chaos Chaos, S (out now, self-released, chaoschaosmusic.com): Asy and Chloe Saavedra have moved on from the precocious pop that defined Smoosh, the band they formed as tweens. Chloe’s tribal beats and Asy’s whimsical vocals on this dance-rock EP is the duo’s most interesting and mature material yet. CHRIS KORNELIS (Sun., Dec. 2, Crocodile)

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La Luz, Damp Face (out now, self-released, laluz. bandcamp.com): Shana Cleveland and Marian Li-Pino, both formerly of the now-disbanded Curious Mystery, have a new all-girl quartet that jives surfy, woozy guitar riffs and psychedelic keyboard solos with soft, cascading vocals, making for a genially easy-rolling pop sound. ERIN K. THOMPSON (Tues., Nov. 6, Comet Tavern)

Land of Pines, “Dead Feathers” b/w “Follow the Leader” (11/20, Fin Records, soundcloud.com/finrecords): The new single from this hooky and youthful Seattle quintet is a blast of jumpy energy, prettily led by the lucid Kessiah Gordon; on the flip she trades lines and blends with Evan Easthope’s pleasingly mild and sandy vocals. EKT (Sun., Nov. 4, Sunset Tavern) Lanford Black, Lanford Black (11/29, self-released, lanfordblack.bandcamp.com): The success of acts like Pickwick and Alan Stone have made soul twinned with twang a hot Seattle commodity. If you find either of those acts appealing, Lanford Black will make you very happy. MDL (Thurs., Nov. 29, Sunset Tavern)

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Gabriel Mintz, In Safety (11/13, Fin Records, soundcloud.com/fin-records): Gabriel Mintz is a lovable weirdo who makes lovably weird music. His hair is pretty, and so is his voice. His new vinyl single comprises two tracks reminiscent of David Crosby. If Melissa Etheridge decides to have another kid, Mintz should be her sperm donor. MS (Sun., Nov. 25, Tractor Tavern)

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nice nate, i hate you moshe. (out now, Paxico Records, nicenate.bandcamp.com): Up-and-comer nice nate has made great strides since releasing last year’s milo., an album that hinted at visions fully realized here. i hate you moshe. is headphone candy for the beat head in need of a fix. Get familiar. TH

The Pharmacy, Stoned and Alone (11/6, Old Flame, thepharmacy.bandcamp.com): The Pharmacy’s first full-length since 2010 plays more like a collection of singles than a cohesive album (it includes four songs released on EPs earlier this year), but the new material atones for the repetition with a barrage of bite-sized garage-pop hooks. AG (Wed., Oct. 31, Lo-Fi Performance Gallery)

Pollens, Brighten & Break (11/6, Tapete Records, pollens.bandcamp.com): No other band in Seattle is doing what this Cornish College–originated sextet is doing, and their debut full-length, a magically transportive swirl of dissonant choral chants, polyrhythmic percussion, and African trance-inspired structures, is a triumph. The chirping opener “Helping Hand” and the swoony “Splinters & Pointheads,” which features vocals that sound like birds and bees flitting and buzzing in one big swarm, are standouts. EKT (Wed., Nov. 21, Tractor Tavern)

Proud Wonderful Me, Proud Wonderful Me (out now, Knick Knack Records, facebook.com/ ProudWonderfulMe): A band with a name like this must be either unbearably uplifting or incredibly funny. Luckily, these guys are the latter. Pairing goofy vocals with ’70s-reminiscent garage rock, this debut EP is lighthearted and fun. SE (Thurs., Nov. 15, Comet Tavern)

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The Local Strangers, Left for Better (11/5, selfreleased, thelocalstrangers.bandcamp.com): When Aubrey Zoli sings alone, she sounds like a tolerable combination of Dido and Shelby Earl. When Matt Hart sings alone, he sounds like an infuriating combination of Conor Oberst and Sufjan Stevens. But when they relax and sing in harmony, as they do on the glorious “I Will Let You Down,” they sound lovely. When duos sound this good together, there’s no need for either member to go it alone. MS (Fri., Nov. 9, Columbia City Theater)

Mizz Honey Bucket, American Ho (11/10, selfreleased, facebook.com/mizzhoneybucket): The Lady Honey Bucket (pronounced “bouquet”) delivers a screamingly fun record of Ke$ha-like carousing anthems, including a reworking of Cake’s “Short Skirt, Long Jacket”; “Nice Gut, Big Package” (“I want a bear with a nice derriere . . . ”); and “Baby Got Front,” which flips around Sir Mix-a-Lot’s classic Seattle anthem. EKT (Sat., Nov. 10, Re-bar)

Recorded live at Cafe Racer a month before the tragic May 30 shootings, Lonesome Shack’s driving country blues and psychedelic Americana reveal yet more versatility among the tight-knit Racer crew, a group of UW students and friends who play everything from free jazz to folk. Drummer Kristian Garrard and bassist Luke Bergman (who moonlight as guitar duo Thousands) take a backseat here to frontman Ben Todd’s bluesy bawl and gritty guitar, and tracks like the driving opener “White Lightning” crackle with crowd chatter. Elsewhere, “Bad Luck” and “Mushin Dog” electrify with tightly percussive, roots-fueled rhythms. And that wailing, greasy sax on “City Man” is just perfect. GE (Fri., Nov. 30, JewelBox/Rendezvous)

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Rigid dance-punk drumming, effects-laden waves of guitar, Wil Adams’ theatrical vocals, and songs equally likely to break into scrappy rave-ups or extended jams: These are just a few components of Stephanie’s sound, but none fully encapsulates it. Genre signifiers aside, the quintet has carved out a unique aesthetic on this Erik Blood–produced album, their full-length debut. The band refers to its sound as “swirl,” and it sounds like little else in Seattle right now, so perhaps that’s the best description; these six tracks sparkle and thrash in equal measure, building imposing post-punk monoliths out of nebulous swaths of sound. AG

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Princess, Welcome Winter (out now, selfreleased, princess.bandcamp.com): Princess comes through with some thunderous, vintagesounding heaviness here, a feeling that’s really driven home by the album’s muffled recording. It’s all extremely rad, and might be just what you need to get your blood pumping. TH (Sat., Nov. 10, Josephine)

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The Quiet Ones, Version Suicides (out now, self-released, quietonesmusic.com): These 10 covers span a spectrum of rock from Blitzen Trapper to Steely Dan, but small touches—like the dreamy pedal steel on Gram Parsons’ “A Song for You” and the melodica on R.E.M.’s “Find the River”—remain devotedly faithful to the original. GE (Tues., Nov. 13, High Dive)

Sam Russell, The Year of the Cow (out now, self-released, thebluemoonbible.com): Ever wonder what would happen if David Bowie cut an acoustic album? Thin White Duke sound-alike Sam Russell provides the answer—and it’s gorgeous and haunting, the optimal soundtrack for a dark, rainy night when the chips are down. MS

Ken Stringfellow, Danzig in the Moonlight (out now, Spark and Shine Records, kenstringfellow.com): Notes of Posies-style power pop and sweeping ’70s rock a la Big Star (“History Buff”) mingle amid a range of twangy pedal steel, synth effects, and vocal play. Such a genre buffet could come off contrived, but here each song finds its rightful place in a seasoned pop drama. GE

Union Street Orchestra, Dangerous World (11/4, self-released, facebook.com/UnionStreetOrchestra): Syrupy emo pop from Kirkland that’s heavy on pianoand acoustic guitar–fueled breakdowns and widescreen horn and string arrangements. Singer Peter McMurray successfully apes Ben Gibbard’s vocal delivery but, as evidenced by clichés like “You’re the beauty to my beast,” not his lyrics. AG (Sun., Nov. 4, Chop Suey)

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Usury, The Benefits of Traveling Alone (11/6, selfreleased, usury.bandcamp.com): There are some clever ideas on the latest from Seth Sommerfeld’s DIY folkpunk project, like “All My Favorite Singers Have Stolen All My Best Lines” (even if the concept was cribbed from an Alkaline Trio lyric). But Sommerfeld’s speak/ sing delivery just isn’t strong enough to hold the songs together, especially in such a stripped-down format. DL

Vinca Minor, Capital of Sorrow (11/6, Second Shimmy, vincaminormusic.com): Matt Menovcik’s songwriting largely lives up to the sorrow in his second album’s title: ponderous, self-serious ballads augmented by synthesized strings and his ever-straining voice. AG (Tues., Nov. 6, JewelBox/Rendezvous)

Edmund Wayne, Edmund Wayne EP (out now, self-released, edmundwayne.bandcamp. com): A breathtaking album of mellow, serene, and inspiring alternative folk. On “To the Bugs on My Ceiling,” vocalist Curt Krause manages to elicit the mood and stylings of Andrew Bird with the magnitude of Radiohead. JW

J. Wong, The Statue of Corrupted Endeavor (out now, self-released, jwongmusic.com): This singer/ songwriter’s first full-length builds on the Pacific Northwest folk canon with expressively tender, finely arranged tunes like “I Just Can’t Do It,” recalling the soft-spun melodies of Joshua Morrison and Damien Jurado. GE (Wed., Nov. 7, Tractor Tavern) Zarni, Zarni (out now, self-released, zarnimusic.com): Zarni de Wet, the keyboardist/singer from Campfire Ok, goes solo on this EP, which sees the singer/ songwriter dabble in emotive, Grey’s Anatomy–ready ballads and jangly pop. MDL (Thurs., Nov. 1, Tasting Room)

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Love and Death, Between Here & Lost (11/19, Tooth & Nail, facebook.com/loveanddeathmusic.com): Though heavily rooted in the sounds that pushed Korn to such success, ex-Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welsh has pieced together an album that’s addictively honest and instrumentally superb in its own right. JW The O.C. Supertones, For the Glory (11/6, BEC, ocsupertones.com): This Orange County, Calif., Christian ska band has created a unique sound that’s both heavy and light, with upbeat brass, rough punk vocals, and a clear Christian message throughout. JW Underoath, Anthology 1999–2013 (11/6, Solid State, underoath777.com): After 14 years and seven studio albums, Underoath is calling it quits. This anthology is stacked, with songs spanning from their 1999 debut Act of Depression with vocalist Dallas Taylor all the way to 2010’s Ø (Disambiguation). JW

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19 Fatlip A former member of early-’90s alternative hip-hop group The Pharcyde, rapper Derrick Stewart left the group after two albums to pursue a solo career. He released The Loneliest Punk in 2005. With Slimkid3, J. Swift, L.A. Jay, Project Lionheart, Yirim Seck. Neumos. 8 p.m. $18.

1 Jens Lekman I Know What Love Isn’t is this Swedish songwriter’s third full-length of demure, selfeffacing ruminations on romance. The Neptune, 1303 N.E. 45th St., 784-4849, stgpresents.org. 7 p.m. $20. All ages. 2 METZ This Sub Pop–signed Canadian band’s sludgy hardcore punk recalls The Jesus Lizard in its go-for-broke intensity. Barboza, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9951, thebarboza.com. 7 p.m. $10.

20 Taj Mahal Trio Grammywinning guitarist Taj Mahal blends blues and reggae on his band’s latest, Maestro. Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave., 441-9729, jazzalley.com. 5:30 p.m. $33.50. All ages.

4 Pantha du Prince Hendrik Weber’s most recent minimalist techno opus, 2010’s Black Noise, featured guest spots from members of Animal Collective and LCD Soundsystem. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9442, neumos.com. 8 p.m. $15. 5 Lúnasa While more than a few bands have made a career blending Celtic instrumentation and rock, Lúnasa (named for a Gaelic harvest festival) takes a traditionalist approach to Irish folk music. Triple Door, 216 Union St., 838-4333, thetripledoor.net. 6 p.m. $25. All ages.

7 Wiz Khalifa Following the lead of rappersturned-actors like Ice Cube and Ludacris, Khalifa starred in the straight-to-DVD stoner comedy Mac & Devin Go to High School in July. WaMu Theater, 800 Occidental Ave. S., 381-7555, wamutheater.com. 6:30 p.m. $39.50. All ages. 8 Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter Last year’s Marble Son marked a high point in Sykes’ long career; the sprawling psychcountry record even earned her a New York Times write-up. Tractor Tavern, 5231 Ballard Ave. N.W., 789-3599, tractortavern.com. 9 p.m. $10. 9 New Monsoon The latest release from this bluegrass-influenced jam band is, fittingly, a two-disc live album, recorded over three nights of shows in Texas. Nectar Lounge, 412 N. 36th St., 632-2020, nectarlounge.com. 8 p.m. $10. 10 Mount Kimbie Compatriots of James Blake and other artists from the tasteful side of the dubstep tracks, this British duo is preparing its second album, to be released on respected electronic label Warp. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8005, chopsuey.com. 9 p.m. $12. 11 Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard A folk musician and comic-book artist, Lewis’ simply strummed three-chord songs have much in common

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with those of Kimya Dawson, his opener at this show. Vera Project, 305 Harrison St., 956-8372, theveraproject. org. 7:30 p.m. $9. All ages. 12 Absence of Grace This Tacoma fivepiece plays no-nonsense, thrashy metal. The Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave., 441-7416, thecrocodile.com. 8 p.m. $5 DOS. All ages. 13 Rush Currently on their umpteenth massive arena tour, these Canadian progressive-rock innovators released Clockwork Angels, their 19th album, in June. KeyArena, 305 Harrison St., 684-7200, seattle center.com. 7:30 p.m. $56–$150. All ages. 14 Titus Andronicus On Local Business, Patrick Stickles and co. have scaled back from 2010’s epic, loosely conceptual The Monitor, but they retain their Replacements-meets-Springsteen bravado. Neumos. 8 p.m. $15. All ages. 15 Wintersleep This Nova Scotia band (2008 Juno Award winners) plays agreeably polished indie rock. Columbia City Theater, 4918 Rainier Ave. S., 7230088, columbiacitytheater.com. 8 p.m. $12 adv./$14 DOS. 16 J. Boog The music of this Compton-based singer/MC (a former member of early-’00s R&B group B2K) is now closer to reggae than hip-hop. Showbox SoDo, 1700 First Ave. S., 652-0444, showboxonline.com. 8 p.m. $32 adv./$35 DOS. All ages.

21 Bryan John Appleby Boasting a mellifluous tenor and vivid neo-folk arrangements, Appleby has quickly become a vital component of the local songwriter scene. Tractor Tavern. 9 p.m. $10 adv./$12 DOS.

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22 Sammy Steele Band Celebrate Thanksgiving, one of the most American of holidays, with Steele’s appropriately traditional country-roots rock. Little Red Hen, 7115 Woodlawn Ave. N.E., 522-1168, littleredhen.com. 9 p.m. $3. 23 Skism This up-and-coming DJ is known both for his live technical prowess and his prolific output of dubstep remixes. Chop Suey. 8 p.m. $15. All ages. 24 VALIS Formed in 1996 during the tail end of Van Conner’s stint as the bassist for Screaming Trees, VALIS finds Connor fronting an alternative-metal powerhouse. Sunset Tavern. 9 p.m. $8. 25 World Party Karl Wallinger founded World Party in 1986 as a vehicle for his pop-songwriting eccentricities; most notably, he scored a minor hit with “Ship of Fools.” Triple Door. 6 p.m. $30. All ages. 26 Green Day Since American Idiot, this erstwhile punk group has had a flair for the grandiose, so it’s hardly a surprise that they’re planning a sequence of three thematically related albums. The first, ¡Uno!, is out now. The Paramount, 911 Pine St., 467-5520, stgpresents.org. 6:30 p.m. $47.50. All ages.

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27 Jonathan Richman Known by some as the “godfather of punk” because of his influence as leader of the Modern Lovers, Richman will perform tonight and the 28th. Tractor Tavern. 8 p.m. $15. 28 Strange Jerome This local quartet offers a rollicking take on blues, country, and folk. High Dive, 513 N. 36th St., 632-0212, highdiveseattle.com. 8 p.m. $6.

17 Minus the Bear With the exception of 2010’s uneven, funk-tinged Omni, Minus the Bear has been remarkably consistent, releasing five albums of precise but lyrical progressive rock over 10 years. Showbox at the Market. 8 p.m. $25. All ages.

29 Death Grips is the Internet’s most famous shock-rap group, after tweeting that they would release their second album of 2012 without permission from their label—and with an erect penis on the cover. The Crocodile. 8 p.m. $15. All ages.

18 Susanna Hoffs Best known as a founder of the Bangles, Hoffs has relaunched her solo career with Someday, her first album since 1996, and a sound that moves her pop sensibilities in a more mature direction. Triple Door. 6 p.m. $30. All ages.

30 Deep Sea Diver Jessica Dobson is often lauded for her guitar abilities, but her songwriting is the star of Deep Sea Diver, whose indie-pop songs are surprisingly muscular and proggy. Neumos. 8 p.m. $12. E

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arts»Performance (Cortney Wolfson) brings home her normy boyfriend to meet the family. Needless to say, things don’t go as planned. But you knew that already. TERRA SULLIVAN 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Ave., 625-1900, 5thavenue. org. $35 and up. 7:30 p.m. Tues.–Wed., 8 p.m. Thurs.–Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., 1:30 & 7 p.m. Sun. Ends Nov. 11. AUDREY & NELSON Bret Fetzer’s late-night puppet sex musical—“a simple story of a straight boy and girl who meet at a gay club and end up in bed together”—with songs by Dude York’s Peter Richards. Annex Theatre, 1100 E. Pike St., 728-0933, annextheatre.org. $5–$10. 11 p.m. Fri.–Sat., plus Mon., Nov. 12. Ends Nov. 16. CAFÉ NORDO SEE REVIEW, PAGE 18. DANNY, KING OF THE BASEMENT David S. Craig’s play about imagination, reality, and a difficult childhood. Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Center, 441-3322. $25–$36. Runs weekends and some Thurs.; see sct.org for exact schedule. Ends Nov. 18. DEMON DREAMS In Tommy Smith’s play, otherworldly beings discuss the human race’s foibles. West of Lenin, 203 N. 36th St., 800-838-3006, westoflenin.com. $12–$18. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. Ends Nov. 10. HELLBILLY Blood Squad’s latest improv-horror-satire salutes backwoods-mutants movies, with a different show each week. Balagan Theatre, 1117 E. Pike St., balagan theatre.org. $10. 11 p.m. Fri. Ends Nov. 2. HELLO, DOLLY! A benT H I S CO D E efit for Operation Bootstrap TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE Africa. Microsoft Theater, SEATTLE WEEKLY 3750 163rd Ave. N.E., Building IPHONE/ANDROID APP 31, Redmond. $15. Opens FOR MORE EVENTS OR VISIT Oct. 25. Runs Thurs.–Sat.; seattleweekly.com see mstheater.org for exact schedule. Ends Nov. 17. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Rogue Theatrics gives Shakespeare a creepy edge. TPS Theatre 4, Seattle Center, Center House, 4th flr., roguetheatrics. com. $15–$20. 8 p.m. Wed.–Sat. Ends Nov. 3. A MOUSE WHO KNOWS ME A musical set in a genetics lab. Annex Theatre, 1100 E. Pike St., 728-0933, annex theatre.org. $5–$15. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. Ends Nov. 17. ODIN’S HORSE “Behind every sheet of paper, and within every tree, there is a story.” Ethnic Cultural Center, 3931 Brooklyn Ave. N.E., mirrorstage.org. $11–$25. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Nov. 11. RABBIT HOLE David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer-winner. Freehold Theatre, 2222 Second Ave. Suite 200, 800-8383006. Pay what you can. Runs Fri.–Sat., plus Thurs., Nov. 8; see theatreverity.weebly.com for schedule. Ends Nov. 10. RAMAYANA ACT’s adaptation of the fifth-century B.C. source material follows demigod Rama and his beloved Sita on their spiritual journey toward dharma (one’s purpose or duty), which can get pretty confusing with battles, betrayals, monkey and bear armies, and shapeshifting. The most intriguing moments occur when the production jumps with both feet into the spiritual, as when a temptress deer (yes, really) dances to lure Rama from Sita. I wish there were more such epiphanies amid the scads of plot. As for the play’s unambiguously happy ending, maybe it’s meant as a reward for our having sat for three hours. MARGARET FRIEDMAN ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., 292-7676. $15–$55. Runs Tues.–Sun.; see acttheatre.org for exact schedule. Ends Nov. 11. SCAPIN Molière updated to the era of punk. Ballard Underground, 2220 N.W. Market St., 800-838-3006, ghostlighttheatricals.org. $12–$15. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.– Sat., plus 7:30 p.m. Mon., Nov. 5 and 2 p.m. Sun., Nov. 11. Ends Nov. 11. THE SKRIKER Caryl Churchill’s dreamlike horror story about pregnant teens and the withered demoness (Mary Ewald) who stalks them. The emphasis is on the slipperiness of language, its excesses and inadequacies, the psychodramatic images that fill the spaces between words. The girls, played with heartbreaking sincerity by Jessica Martin and Mariel Neto, survive time warps, kidnappings, and seductions by Ewald’s chimeric Skriker. Choreographed by Pat Graney, interpretive dance helps enliven peripheral figures from the unconscious. The original music is by Paul Hansen, costumes by Eve Cohen. This version is both taxing and rewarding, not unlike pregnancy. MARGARET FRIEDMAN Erickson Theatre Off Broadway, 1524 Harvard Ave., 800-838-3006, brownpapertickets.com. $20 and up. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.– Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Nov. 11. TEATRO ZINZANNI SEE REVIEW, PAGE 18. THIS IS HALLOWEEN Burlesque inspired by The Nightmare Before Christmas. (7 p.m. all-ages, 10 p.m. 21 and over.) The Triple Door, 216 Union St., 838-4333, the tripledoor.net. $20–$35. 7 & 10 p.m. Wed., Oct. 31.

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(mis-)communication. Stone Soup Theatre, 4035 Stone Way N.E., 633-1883, stonesouptheatre.com. $14–$25. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat., 4 p.m. Sun. Ends Nov. 11. WICKED A reimagining of The Wizard of Oz from the viewpoint of the Wicked Witch of the West (redubbed Elphaba, and here strongly played by Dee Roscioli). The joy of this production is Patti Murin as preppy princess Glinda. She’s a first-rate physical comedienne—the kind you usually find stealing a show in character roles. GAVIN BORCHERT The Paramount, 911 Pine St., 877-STG-4TIX. $35–$160. Runs Tues.–Sun.; see stg presents.org for exact schedule. Ends Nov. 17.

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ent traditional music and dance in “Por el Flamenco.” JewelBox/Rendezvous, 2322 Second Ave., 800-838-3006, savannahfuentes.com. $20–$40. 8 p.m. Thurs., Nov. 1.

FUNDACION CONSERVATORIO FLAMENCO CASA PATAS With live music and choreographer/dancer

Karen Lugo. Benaroya Recital Hall, Third Ave. and Union St., benaroyahall.org. $33. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Nov. 1– Fri., Nov. 2, 6:30 p.m. Sun., Nov. 4.

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SALON DE DASSDANCE New choreography from The

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plus Berg and Bartok. Meany Hall, UW campus, 543-4880, uwworldseries.org. $40–$44. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Nov. 1. DAINIUS VAICEKONIS Berg’s Piano Sonata again (see above), plus Ligeti etudes and much more. Brechemin Auditorium, School of Music, UW campus, 685-8384, music.washington.edu. $15. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Nov. 1. SEATTLE SYMPHONY Neeme Jarvi conducts Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., 215-4747, seattlesymphony.org. $19–$112. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Nov. 1, noon Fri., Nov. 2, 8 p.m. Sat., Nov. 3. JOHN CAGE’S 33 1/3 Man the turntables yourselves in this participatory performance marking Cage’s centennial. Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave. N.E., 543-2280, henryart.org. $10. 11 a.m.–9 p.m. Fri., Nov. 2. SEATTLE PEACE CHORUS Cris Williamson is the guest vocalist for this pre-election spirit-raiser. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., 800-838-3006, seattlepeacechorus.org. $18–$25. 7:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 3. SEATTLE SYMPHONY CHAMBER MUSIC SSO members play Schnittke, Scriabin, and more. Benaroya Recital Hall, Third Ave. and Union St., 215-4747, seattlesymphony.org. $37. 2 p.m. Sun., Nov. 4. EUROPA This piano trio plays Beethoven’s “Archduke” Trio and other works. Olympic Recital Hall, S. Seattle Community College, 6000 16th Ave. S.W., 937-2899, musicnorthwest.org. $16–$18. 3 p.m. Sun., Nov. 4. SEATTLE YOUTH SYMPHONY Saint-Saëns’ thundering “Organ” Symphony should blow off the roof when these eager kids dig into it. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., 362-2300, syso.org. $15–$40. 3 p.m. Sun., Nov. 4. SINE NOMINE RENAISSANCE CHOIR With the New Baroque Orchestra, two motets and the Magnificat by Bach. Trinity Episcopal Church, 609 Eighth Ave., early musicguild.org. Freewill offering. 3 p.m. Sun., Nov. 4. OCTAVA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Music by Bach and Mozart (the gorgoues “Gran Partita”), plus Pierre Suignard’s Heroic Overture. Maple Park Church, 17620 60th Ave. W., Lynnwood, octavachamberorchestra.com. $5–$15. 6 p.m. Sun., Nov. 4. JOSEPH ADAM The Seattle Symphony’s resident organist plays French works. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., 215-4747, seattlesymphony.org. $21. 7:30 p.m. Mon., Nov. 5. ATAR ARAD & MELIA WATRAS Music—including their own works—from these composer/violists. Meany Hall, UW campus, 543-4880, music.washington.edu. $12–$20. 7:30 p.m. Mon., Nov. 5. ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN & HYUNG-KI JOO This violinist and pianist combine music and comedy. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., 888-377-4510, igudesmanandjoo.com. $10–$25. 7:30 p.m. Mon., Nov. 5. NEWBAND Pioneering composer Harry Partch (1901– 74) was so pioneering he even built his own instruments. New Jersey ensemble Newband has preserved those instruments, and performs Partch’s you’ve never-heardanything-like-it music on them. Meany Hall, UW campus, 543-4880, music.washington.edu. $12–$20. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Nov. 7.

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Openings & Events JULIE ALPERT Her dramatic installation Tableau Vivant

incorporates hand-painted wood cutouts, bits of fabric, and paint to create a theatrical backdrop. Also on view, some of her smaller watercolors. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Gallery4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Place S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 296-7580, 4culture.org. Opens Nov. 1. Mon.–Fri., 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Through Nov. 30. ARREST ME Juried by the Frye’s Scott Lawrimore, this annual competition features more than a dozen local and national artists. First Thursday reception, 5–8 p.m. Punch Gallery, 119 Prefontaine Place S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 621-1945, punchgallery.org. Opens Nov. 1. Thurs.–Sat., noon–5 p.m. Through Dec. 15. ART AT WORK OPENING PARTY Celebrate Art at Work Month with music by the Tacoma Youth Symphony, appetizers, dessert, and a no-host bar. Tacoma Art Museum, 1701 Pacific Ave., 253-272-4258, tacomaart museum.org. Free. Thurs., Nov. 1, 6–8:30 p.m. ARTIST TRUST AWARDS PARTY Mia McEldowney and ArtsWA, both 2012 grant recipients and Creative Catalyst Award honorees, are celebrated in an evening that includes live music, art, and nibbles from Wolfgang Puck. Experience Music Project, 325 Fifth Ave. N., 2922787, empsfm.org. $25–$50. Thurs., Nov. 1, 6:30–8:30 p.m.

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David Nixon, filmmaker, musician, and philosophy professor, uses music and animation to share two true stories about his family.

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Demonstrations, raffles and original art from local artists are featured., artistsunitedclub.com. Burien Community Center, 425 S.W. 144th St., Des Moines, 206-988-3700, burienparks.net. Sat., Nov. 3, T H I S CO D E 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m. TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE SARAH AWAD In SEATTLE WEEKLY Transference and IPHONE/ANDROID APP Speculation, she shows a FOR MORE EVENTS OR VISIT diverse group of paintings, seattleweekly.com with influences ranging from classical to modern. Also showing: Jenny Heishman’s first sculpture show, Band Practice. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. James Harris Gallery, 312 Second Ave. S., 903-6220, jamesharrisgallery.com. Opens Nov. 1. Thurs.–Sat., 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Through Nov. 30. BAM’S FREE FIRST FRIDAY Here’s your chance to check out the museum’s current exhibit of fiber and textile art. Bellevue Arts Museum, 510 Bellevue Way N.E., 425-519-0770, bellevuearts.org. Free. First Friday of every month, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. KELLY BJORK & LENAE DAY Bjork shows airy drawings with Day’s photography and accompanying short stories. First Thursday reception, 5–9 p.m. Corridor Gallery, 306 S. Washington St., 856-7037, tklofts.com. Opens Nov. 2. Fri., Sat., noon–5 p.m. Through Nov. 30. DIA DE LOS MUERTOS FESTIVAL TAM is partnering with Centro Latino and Proyecto MoLE to present a Day of the Dead celebration that includes art, live music, food, and art-making activities for the family. Tacoma Art Museum. Thurs., Nov. 1, 6 p.m. EQUINE, BOVINE, CANINE, FELINE… Contemplating the animal kingdom are David Brody, John Fadeff, Moira Hahn, Randy Hayes, Carolyn Krieg, Sherry Markovitz, Glenn Rudolph, Robert Schlegel, Fred Stonehouse, and Peter Zokosky. Opening reception: 2–4 p.m. Sat., Nov. 3. Prographica, 3419 E. Denny Way, 322-3851, prographica drawings.com. Opens Nov. 3, Wed.–Sun., noon–5 p.m. Through Dec. 8. BASO FIBONACCI The Pioneer Square artist unveils new paintings, many with an animal theme. Call for ongoing hours. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Zeitgeist Art and Coffee, 171 S. Jackson St., 583-0497, zeitgeistcoffee.com. Thurs., Nov. 1.

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Karen Hackenberg’s flotsam art, at Bainbridge Arts and Crafts.

KAREN HACKENBERG In Watershed, she meticulously

depicts “post-consumer” landscape via dislocated, discarded, mass-produced objects that often wash up on the beach. Also Showing: Lost and Found, featuring several Northwest artists. Gallery talk: Shane Miller, 12:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 3. Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, 151 Winslow Way E., 206-842-3132, bacart.org. Opens Nov. 2. Mon.–Sat., 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Through Dec. 3. HANDBOUND Eroyn Franklin, Kelly Froh, Max Clotfelter and a dozen others present original art, sketches, ephemera, and books. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Also see related exhibit of books and zines at The Vera Project, 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 3. Soil Gallery, 112 Third Ave. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 264-8061, soilart.org. Wed.–Sat., noon–5 p.m. Through Dec. 2. STEPHANIE HARGRAVE Organic forms and nature figure in the large paintings presented in Rubia. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Patricia Rovzar Gallery, 1225 Second Ave., 223-0273, rovzargallery.com. Opens Nov. 1. Mon.–Sun., 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Through Nov. 25. HOMAGE TO ELLES Gala Bent, Julie Blackmon, Nealy Blau, Diem Chau, Laurie Danial, and others contribute to this rotating selection of works. Artists’ reception: 6 p.m. Thurs., Nov. 1. G. Gibson Gallery, 300 S. Washington St. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 587-4033, ggibsongallery.com. Wed.–Sat., 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Through Dec. 22. PETER JUVONEN His large, abstract, colorful paintings are shown. First Friday reception, 6–8 p.m. Roby King Galleries, 176 Winslow Way E., Bainbridge Island, robykinggalleries.com. Opens Nov. 1. Tues.–Sat., 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Through Dec. 1. THE MAGICAL JOURNEY Featured are Frank Dobrushken’s photography, Don Haggerty’s figurative paintings, Judith Heim’s collages, and Roger Shurtleff’s sculpture. Artists’ reception: 5–7 p.m. Thurs., Nov. 1. Shoreline City Hall, 17500 Midvale Ave. N., 417-4645, Mon.–Fri., 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Through Jan. 25. JEREMY MANGAN In Congratulations, Canyon he depicts rustic structures and rural scenes from the Pacific Northwest. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Linda Hodges Gallery, 316 First Ave. S., 624-3034, lindahodgesgallery.com. Opens Nov. 1. Tues.–Sat., 10:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Through Dec. 1. ERIC MEAD & PAULA STOKES In Transformation, Mead works in glass to follow the patterns of Stokes’ paintings. First Thursday reception, 5–8 p.m. Artist reception, 6 p.m. Wed., Nov. 14. Call for hours. Shift Collaborative Studio, 306 S. Washington St. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 547-1215, shiftstudio.org. Nov. 1–Dec. 1. MOVING FORWARD The gallery celebrates its expansion with new furniture and paintings. First Friday reception, 6–8 p.m., with music by Ranger & the Re-Arrangers. The Island Gallery, 400 Winslow Way E., Bainbridge Island, 206-780-9500, theislandgallery.net. Opens Nov. 2. Mon.– Sat., 11 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sun., 1–5 p.m. Through Nov. 30.

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Activspace, Fremont Brewing Co., 509 Winery and Tasting Room, Caffé Vita, and Fremont Abbey. (See fremontfirstfriday. com for other participating venues on the walk.) 6–9 p.m. Fri. Nov. 2.

CHRISTINA CARLYLE REED Featuring sculptural

prints on metal and wood, prints, and other works, her West Meets East is partly inspired by travels in India. First Thursday reception, 5–8 p.m. Pratt Gallery at Tashiro Kaplan Studios, 312 S. Washington St., Ste. 1A, 328-2200, pratt.org. Opens Nov. 1. Wed.–Sat., noon–5 p.m. Through Nov. 30. SUSAN ROBB She will create sculptures with local, national, and international artists, using Skype video calls in this interactive performance piece.

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Gallery artists present new works in this new venue’s debut show. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Tashiro Kaplan Building, 310 S. Washington St., 223-1160, tklofts.com. Opens Nov. 1. Wed.–Sat., 10:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Through Dec. 15. HARRIET SANDERSON Uneasy Landscapes covers 25 years of her art in diverse media. Opening reception, 6:30 p.m. Fri., Nov. 2. Kirkland Arts Center, 620 Market St., Kirkland, 425822-7161, kirklandartscenter.org. Opens Nov. 2. Sat., 11 a.m.–5 p.m.; Mon.–Fri., 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Through Dec. 15. DAVID SCHWARZ Architecture/Nature contains his glass plates and vessels. Also on view: wooden sculpture by Paul Vexler, some with gears and moving parts. Call for hours. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Foster/White Gallery, 220 Third Ave. S., 622-2833, fosterwhite.com. Nov. 1–24. THE SEDUCTION OF COLOR Local photography collector Robert E. Jackson, whose trove exceeds 8,000 color snapshots, is represented both with a show and new monograph for sale. First Thursday reception, 5–7 p.m. Paper Hammer, 1400 Second Ave., 682-3820, paperhammer.com. Opens Nov. 1. Mon.–Sat., 11 a.m.– 6 p.m. Through Dec. 29. JOHN SLOAN Sixty vintage Sloan etchings satirize the mores and manners of the 1890s through the Depression Era and Ashcan School. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Davidson Galleries, 313 Occidental Ave. S., 6241324, davidsongalleries.com. Opens Nov. 2, Tues.–Sat., 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Through Dec. 1. SONYA STOCKTON Her paintings ask Am I Woman? Also showing: Still Time for Woman’s Lib?, whimsical photos of dolls in incongruous settings by Fab Rideti. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Artists’ reception with lecture: 5–8 p.m. Sat., Nov. 3. Gallery 110, 110 Third Ave. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 624-9336, gallery110.com. Opens Nov. 1. Wed.–Sat., noon–5 p.m. Through Dec. 1. RAY TURNER In Population, he shows 200 portraits rendered in glass, some depicting members of the Tacoma community. Artist reception: 7–10 p.m. Sat., Nov. 10. Artist talk: 4 p.m. Thurs., Nov. 1 at UPS, Rausch Auditorium. Museum of Glass, 1801 E. Dock St., Tacoma, 253-284-4750, museumofglass.org. $5–$20, free to members. Opens Nov. 3. Tues.–Sat., 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sun., noon–5 p.m. Through Feb. 3. TERRY TURRELL Modestly scaled figures (animal, bird and human) constructed from wood, tin, and mixed media and elaborately surfaced narrative paintings abound in Hindsight. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Grover/ Thurston Gallery, 319 Third Ave. S., 223-0816, grover thurston.com. Opens Nov. 1. Tues.–Sat., 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Through Dec. 21. UN-WEDGED Over 20 artists from all over the United States, Canada, and Mexico exhibit functional and sculptural ceramics and other work. Opening reception, 6 p.m. Sat., Nov. 3. Pottery Northwest, 226 First Ave. N., 285-4421, potterynorthwest.org. Opens Nov. 6. Tues.–Fri., 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Through Nov. 30. ANDY WARHOL’S FLOWERS FOR TACOMA In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Warhol’s proposal for decorating the Tacoma Dome, his flowers and proposed design are shown. Workshop: Print It! 10 a.m. Sat., Nov., 3. Lecture: Adorning the Dome, 2 p.m. Sat., Nov. 3. Reception: Hop Art Ale, 3 p.m. Sat., Nov. 3. New Year’s Eve Bash, Studio 54 at TAM, Mon., Dec. 31. (The show opens Sat., Nov. 3.) Tacoma Art Museum. Wed.–Sun., 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Thurs., 10 a.m.– 8 p.m. Through Feb. 10. JERRY WINGREN & VICTORIA JOHNSON His wooden sculptures and her colorful abstract paintings are shown. First Thursday reception, 6–8 p.m. Lisa Harris Gallery, 1922 Pike Place, 443-3315, lisaharrisgallery.com. Opens Nov. 1. Mon.–Sat., 10:30 a.m.– 5:30 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Through Dec. 2. ADRIAN WYARD Her photographs from Georgia, Paris, and London are of textures and geometries. Also showing: The Seattle Weavers Guild Putting the Art in Fiber Arts—Proud Past, Dynamic Future. Opening reception 7–10 p.m. Sat., Nov. 3. Art/Not Terminal Gallery, 2045 Westlake Ave., 233-0680, antgallery.org. Opens Nov. 3. Mon.–Sat., 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Sun., noon– 5 p.m. Through Nov. 29.

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A Liar’s Autobiography RUNS FRI., NOV. 2–WED., NOV. 7 AT SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN. NOT RATED. 82 MINUTES.

Bent on futzing with the form, this biopic bears the strong authorial stamp of its subject, but nonetheless looks like something made by committee: The 3-D feature incorporates 17 different animation styles (by 14 different houses), roughly one for each featured episode from the life of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman (1941–89). An audio recording of Chapman reading his 1980 book serves as the backbone, while directors Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, and Ben Timlett incorporate miscellaneous supporting-player voice work by

surviving Pythons John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam (Eric Idle is conspicuously absent). Although given an outlandish spin, the story appears to follow the basic arc of Chapman’s life, as he progresses from precocious kid to worldwide celebrity, along the way coming out of the closet (to the shock of friends, who note his “butch” pipesmoking habit) and struggling with alcoholism (rock bottom comes courtesy of a drunken heterosexual-sex bender). Naturally, some of the animated sequences are more inspired than others: A comic-book-realist dogfight nicely brings us inside the fantasy life of Chapman the young bookworm, while the idea of populating Hollywood-party scenes with partially seethrough figures seems rather, well, transparent. Much of the for-the-fans humor also grows tiresome, particularly the raunchier stuff. That old standby, the cock ’n’ balls, provides a recurring visual motif; the Python song “Sit on My Face” gets a needlessly extended rendition. Still, the movie has enough weird-wild-ride brio to convince you that Chapman was indeed quite a character. BENJAMIN MERCER

The Loneliest Planet RUNS FRI., NOV. 2–THURS., NOV. 8 AT VARSITY. NOT RATED. 113 MINUTES.

The Loneliest Planet begins with a close-up of a beautiful woman, naked and trembling. It’s not what it sounds like. Nica (Hani Furstenberg), on a pre-marriage honeymoon with fiancé Alex (Gael García Bernal) in rural Georgia, is in the midst of a makeshift shower. As Nica pogoes up and down to keep warm, her slim, androgynous body, doused in milky-white soap suds, becomes a blur of motion. It takes a moment for the eyes to adjust, to register what we’re seeing: Is this body male or female? Is this a mundane act or some strange, exotic ritual? With this, writer/director Julia Loktev sets up her extraordinary second fiction feature: She announces her intent to explore sex and gender murkiness, and warns that this is a film that demands distraction-free contemplation. Loktev takes a painterly approach, crafting a study in colors—the vibrant green landscape, entire campfire-lit scenes registering as dances of shadow and warm flashes of skin—as she also charts the variable shades and tones of a single relationship. Within a scantily plotted, novella-

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The yammering about “Oscar gold” and Denzel Washington’s potential three-peat will soon reach a deafening pitch, but such noise can only embarrass a fine character study like Flight, whose prevailing tone is a heavy melancholy. The mood is there from the opening, when William “Whip” Whitaker (Washington) is waking in a bottle-strewn hotel suite, last night’s company fishing her thong from behind a recliner. Much the worse for the wear after his long weekend, Whip gets ready for work with a snort of coke, and is young again as he swaggers into the cockpit for a morning flight—Whip, you see, is a commercial-airline captain. It’s not Whip’s shabby state, however, that eventually puts his plane into a sudden free fall. Drawing on a lifetime of experience, Whip improvises a miraculous plan that brings craft and passengers down more or less safely. To hush up a medical report of Whip’s potent blood-alcohol level at the crash scene and to coach him through the investigation, a lawyer, Hugh Lang (Don Cheadle), is brought in to do damage control at the behest of the pilot’s union rep, Charlie Anderson (Bruce Greenwood), an old Navy buddy of Whip’s and custodian of the open secret of his drinking. Anderson’s opposite is Whip’s dealer, Harling, played with dirtbag bonhomie by John Goodman. Calm and chaos commingle beautifully in the crash-landing set piece as handled by director Robert Zemeckis, making his first live-action film since 2000’s Cast Away. It’s not surprising that Zemeckis’ handling of spectacle would be undiminished, but he hasn’t lost his touch with actors, either, coaching Washington into one of those rare performances that suggests much more than it shows. NICK PINKERTON

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Cheryl is converting to Judaism, a scenario that makes possible these words from Rhea Perlman’s mikveh attendant: “This is the body that God crafted for you.” Hawkes and Hunt nobly tackle the physical demands their roles require, and there is one good line, from a male attendant of Mark’s who says that intercourse is “overrated but necessary”—a statement soon belied by a sight gag of the erotically adventurous Mark gasping for his ventilator after Primary Cheryl sits on his face. MELISSA ANDERSON

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religion, including Hollywood’s, the 1979 set in Jerusalem A.D. 33. Terry Jones’ Sunday-school travesty follows the career of the unintentionally messianic Brian of Nazareth. It’s a hearty burlesque in which the three wise men signal their presence with a discreet belch and lisping Pontius Pilate (Michael Palin) can’t stop babbling about his “fwiend” Biggus Dickus. Graham Chapman is appropriately nonplussed in the Gene Wilder-ish role of Brian while, tricked out in fake beards, the rest of the gang (John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle) pop up as centurions, prophets, terrorists from the People’s Front of Judea, and wiseass members of the rabble. The film is pegged to this week’s Chapman profile, A Liar’s Autobiography. (R) J. HOBERMAN SIFF Cinema Uptown, $5-$10, Sat., Nov. 3, 3 p.m.; Sun., Nov. 4, 3 p.m.; Tue., Nov. 6, 7 p.m. MIAMI CONNECTION Ninja rock, cocaine dealing, and neon colors are promised in this 1987 artifact from the Miami Vice era. (NR) Grand Illusion, $5-$8, Opens Nov. 2, Fri., Sat., 11 p.m.; Thu., Nov. 8, 9 p.m. Through Nov. 10. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL Six names guaranteed to make you laugh: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Arthurian legends have never been treated with such impudent silliness as in Monty Python’s 1975 geek comedy classic, later turned a Broadway smash. Substituting coconut shells to clip-clop in place of actual horses, playing multiple characters each, the Pythons merrily run amok through Camelot and other mythic locales. Cleese playing the French tower guard remains a highlight among highlights; don’t pretend you don’t already know all the lines. As they say, “Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!” The film is pegged to this week’s Chapman profile, A Liar’s Autobiography. (PG) BRIAN MILLER SIFF Cinema Uptown, $5-$10, Fri., Nov. 2, 9 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 3, 1 & 9 p.m.; Sun., Nov. 4, 1 & 9 p.m.; Mon., Nov. 5, 7 p.m.

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erhaps the best dish at El Tio— and the second-best reason to look forward to the state liquor control board’s approval of the restaurant’s beer permit—is the tlayuda, a roulette wheel of parchment-thin grilled tortilla smeared with a lard-enhanced blackbean paste and topped with shredded lettuce, tomato wedges, slim avocado slices, snaking threads of rubbery Oaxacan cheese, and a plump, blistered jalapeño. Commonly called a Mexican pizza, the tlayuda is wilder than

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Eaters can have authentic or they can have handcrafted, but rarely can they have both. sans crave. The subtly smoky tortilla is then sent north for finishing: In addition to fresh vegetables, El Tio applies a selection of meats to its regrilled tlayudas, including a crumbled chorizo with an appealingly fatty punch. It’s up to the customer to add hot sauce. There’s Tapatio on the table, and a thin housemade sauce flavored with a Christmas confetti of red and green chiles and spices. Or, better yet, request a tlayuda with a thin coat of mole, dark and weighty as swamp mud. Eaters who know anything about Oaxacan cuisine understand that the region’s revered for its moles. There are seven distinct varieties of the chilepepper sauce, and El Tio serves three of them. The mole negro gets the most screen time: It’s draped over squishy enchiladas, liberally ladled on steak plates, and painted atop molotes—stiff

hould you find yourself energetically parsing the herbs in your mole, it’s likely time to order another round of chapulines. El Tio isn’t the kind of restaurant that lends croquettes of mashed potato and pork secreted itself to humorless culinary scrutiny—it’s in masa. In small doses, the gently bitter mole designed to sell excellent $12 tlayudas to famis plummy and nutty with a hint of cloves, but ilies with herds of young children; there are I found its dark chocolate richness becomes two different signs asking patrons to “cuide overwhelming when served by the cupful. Still, a sus hijos.” Although the restaurant was if your personal Candy Land is landscaped largely empty both times I dined there, it’s with mole-filled canals, you may have no comset up to accommodate noisy, messy eaters of plaint about El Tio’s version. all ages. The floor is covered in square white On the opposite end of the mole spectrum, tiles, and the cinderblock walls—painted mole verde is a raging fresh stew that draws its a cheery yellow—are hung with Mexican distinctive green color from tomatillos. Unlike prints and televisions tuned to variety shows. its counterparts made with dried herbs, mole Other than the blue-vinyl booths and a few verde is nearly translucent on the spoon. The freestanding tables, the only furnishings are lightness and somewhat belabored brightness a gumball machine and a sandwich board of El Tio’s oniony verde (another good target advertising the day’s specials. for hot-saucing) reminded me of Campbell’s With such an extensive menu, though, condensed cream-of-broccoli soup. And I many customers never consult the specials mean that as a compliment. list. They’re understandably content with the Like the verde, the mole amarillo is poured string-cheesy quesadillas, terrific empanadas over the back quarter of crowded with funky corn a chicken, its dark, salty smut, and pliant tamales meat softened by the with damp walls of masa. » PRICE GUIDE CHAPULINES �� $4 surrounding stew. But El Tio also sells dessert TLAYUDA��$11�95 while the mild verde has rolls, with pan de muerto MOLOTES ��$7�50 MOLE CON POLLO��$8�75 the warm, sloppy charavailable for the Day of EMPANADA DE HUITLACOCHE��$9�25 acter of orphanage gruel, the Dead next week. Are HOT CHOCOLATE�� $3�50 El Tio’s orange-hued they made in-house? amarillo benefits from a It makes no difference. distinctly Caribbean tinge. The mole tastes of What matters is that they’re served with allspice and peppercorns, and is reminiscent steaming mugs of hot chocolate, same as in of a West Indies pepperpot soup. Perhaps Oaxaca. E the most contentious of the seven formalized hraskin@seattleweekly.com moles, amarillos are sometimes thick and sometimes thin. El Tio’s is fairly sheer, but the EL TIO seasoning has a complexity missing from the 452 S.W. 153rd St., Suite A, Burien, 242-2326. other two moles. 10 a.m.–10 p.m. daily. Grasshopper three ways.

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l Tio’s menu is monumental, about the size of a small pillowcase. Like an IHOP menu redone with chorizo and string cheese, its laminated pages pop with saturated images of white-corn tortillas contorted into every imaginable pose, molded mounds of yellow rice, pools of bluish mole negro, and thin pennants of ruddy beef bruised by the grill. But even among so many colorful choices, the picture of a shallow, crimped-edged pot teeming with toasted grasshoppers stands out. Despite the predictions of insect proselytizers, bugs still haven’t landed in the American mainstream. Grasshoppers (chapulines), locusts, and their kin are high in protein, low in fat, impressively gentle on the planet, and almost impossible to find in stateside restaurants. On Capitol Hill, the fiesta-minded Poquitos offers chapulines as a bar snack, but they’re meant mostly as a conversation starter, whereas for the southern Mexicans who gather at El Tio—the Burien storefront formerly known as El Sabor de Oaxaca—the grasshoppers are a familiar finger food to nosh on while talking about the day. If you’re not familiar with chapulines, they taste uncannily like sunflower seeds. Indeed, the resemblance is so intense that I scoured the Web for pictures of Latin ballplayers gnawing chapulines in the dugout. (No dice, but I learned the grasshoppers are a popular spectator snack.) Fried with chile and spritzed with plenty of lime juice, the grasshoppers have a salty, sour crunch and slick oiliness that begs for a swig of Modelo. Unfortunately, there isn’t any beer at El Tio, although a liquor-license application is posted near the front door. “Proxima semana,” our server promised. In the meantime, there’s horchata and Mexican Coke. El Tio imports its chapulines from Oaxaca. In fact, the restaurant imports lots of ingredients from Oaxaca. If you have any qualms about being told “No” when asking “So, do you make the (blank) here?”, it’s probably best to keep your lips zipped. But the sourcing situation is a good reminder that eaters can have authentic or they can have handcrafted, but rarely can they have both. El Tio is wonderfully true to a Oaxacan yeoman aesthetic, and the results are pretty delicious.

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The online effort to help Seattle bartending legend Murray Stenson pay for the medical costs associated with a heart condition that’s keeping him from working has attracted widespread attention. Last week, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow tweeted her support for the cause, driving thousands of her followers to rally behind Murr the Blur. But while few bartenders will ever match Stenson’s influence, many are likely to find themselves in similar straits as they age. According to the National Consumers League, 90 percent of restaurant workers receive no health coverage from their employers. Bartenders can purchase insurance through the Responsible Bartenders’ Association or the United States Bartenders Guild, but these plans aren’t cheap. Bill Bennett, president of the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, which assists musicians coping with health crises, says artists are understandably discouraged by the high price of individual health insurance. “We have a local union here in Orange County, so I checked to see what’s available, and the bottom barrel is $600-something a month,” notes Bennett. “Who can afford that? Even at half of that, I would have trouble dishing it out.” Bennett doubts that the grant-giving model followed by his organization could be easily adapted for the food-and-beverage industry because so many restaurant workers are employed by big companies which offer health coverage. “That being said, of all the corporate jobs out there, I would guess restaurant workers need insurance most,” he says.

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A few independent restaurant owners offer health insurance, including Plum Bistro’s Makini Howell, who wrote a Washington Post op-ed in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent health-care ruling. Howell says the cost of insuring employees will drop by one-third when the provisions of the Affordable Care Act take effect. But critics of the health-care system worry that the law won’t solve the problems likely to confront bartenders weakened by decades spent damaging their wrists and shoulders through the repetitive motions drink-mixing requires. Asked how bartenders who don’t have legions of supporters might avoid crushing health-care costs in later years, Bennett jokes, “Become an accountant or a lawyer like your mom or dad wanted you to . . . It’s easy for any of us to say ‘Put money away for a rainy day,’ but that’s extremely difficult to do when you’re making just enough to get by.” In earlier generations, it was common for musicians and other artists to garner the support of wealthy patrons, Bennett says. But with most craftsmen now at the mercy of the market, they’re not shielded from financial ruin by talent and vision. “I don’t know that there’s a great solution, and that’s why the health-care debate is so passionate,” Bennett says. “Like this bartender— I’ve got to imagine he’s rooting for health care to become more affordable.” E To find out how you can help pay Murray’s medical bills, visit MurrayAid.org. hraskin@seattleweekly.com

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better to educate it than legislate it. But NAW didn’t see it that way, so it seems inevitable that Washington state marijuana users will face a legal nightmare unless this unscientific and arbitrary 5 ng/ml limit is removed. That seems extremely unlikely, since I can’t find any instance of a DUI law being relaxed, rather than made even stricter. The problem with NAW’s DUI measure is so obvious that even Alison Holcomb of NAW admitted, in a Hempfest 502 debate (in which I took part), that “it could be fixed after 502 passes.” If the chief author of 502 admits the DUI portion “needs fixing,” then why include it in the first place? Another glaring flaw of 502 is its zero tolerance for drivers aged 18 to 21. Since so many pot busts impact young adults, they are presumably one of the target audiences for I-502’s brand of legalization. So it seems bizarre that this demographic would be especially susceptible to a DUI conviction, which, ironically, is currently a more expensive and serious charge than possession of under an ounce. You might imagine that if 502 passes, you’ll be able to grow your own marijuana. But home cultivation will still be a felony under 502. You’ll be required to buy your cannabis from state-licensed stores, who will be required to purchase it at a 25 percent markup from state-licensed processors, who will be required to acquire it at a 25 percent markup from state-licensed growers—only a few of which will be awarded $1,000 cultivation licenses. And did I mention that 502 would “legalize” only up to an ounce, and that 40 grams or more of weed would still be a felony? This isn’t marijuana legalization, folks; at best, it’s decriminalization on steroids. We can do better. E tokesignals@seattleweekly.com

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