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arl Marx famously said that religion is the opiate of the masses, and now a new study from sociologists at the University of Washington suggests that attending a Protestant megachurch actually does produce a high much like being on drugs.

The study, titled “ ‘God Is Like a Drug . . . ’: Explaining Interaction Ritual Chains in American Megachurches,” is the work of UW professor James Wellman and grad students Katie E. Corcoran and Kate Stockly-Meyerdirk. The trio pored over 470 interviews with attendees of 12 megachurches from across the United States.

Megachurches, defined as having a weekly congregation of more than 2,000 people, are a relatively new phenomenon, and they have become staggeringly popular. There are now more than 1,500 Protestant megachurches in the United States, at least 50 of which boast weekly attendance figures from 10,000 to 47,000. More than half of all churchgoers attend the largest 10 percent of The researchers found that when megachurches in America. churchgoers were asked to describe the “American Christianity has shifted from a effects of their worship, they occasionally smattering of mainline and evangelical Protsounded like junkies. One man expressed that estant denominational churches, befitting “God’s love becomes . . . such a drug that you small-town American life,” Wellman writes, can’t wait to come get your next hit . . . You “to a veritable cavalcade of postmodern, can’t wait to get involved to get the high post-suburban, post-denominational megafrom God.” Amusingly, another megachurch churches.” parishioner quoted in the UW study said While often criticized for being glorified “The movement of the rock concerts (and Holy Spirit goes through also for occasionally the crowd like a football being led by closeted, Print is great, team doing a wave.” meth-smoking bigots but if you want to see . . . our super-sexy collection of Seattle “The experience is like Ted Haggard), the Craigslist “Missed Connections,” you’ll very euphoric,” CorcoUW researchers found have to check out The Daily Weekly. ran says. “It’s sort that megachurches are SEATTLEWEEKLY.COM/DAILYWEEKLY of contagious. They “powerful purveyors describe it in a way of emotional religious that’s addictive. They need it. They hunger experience.” In addition to incorporating for it. They thirst for it.” popular music and state-of-the-art video Just like a bad dope habit, megachurch wortechnology into sermons, the UW team notes shippers sometimes struggle with withdrawthat “these churches have mastered the art of als. Corcoran says that some people reported creating a welcoming, non-intimidating ethos meeting in smaller groups during the week to and aesthetic.” “keep them going between Sundays.”

When all those factors are combined, the All this doesn’t necessarily mean that researchers say, the effect on the brain is megachurches are bad. “The megachurch similar to the high one gets from illicit drugs. message is more positive about being good or The cause is a neurochemical called oxytodifferent people,” Corcoran says, comparing cin, which “strongly influences the workmodern megachurches to the fire-and-brimings, the thoughts, decisions, and tendencies stone preachers of old. “The pastors are not of the prefrontal cortex.” Experiencing a generating horror and terror and fear of the megachurch sermon can create an “Oxytocin afterlife, but really positive sentiments.” cocktail” in your brain that includes other But with all the passing of the collection neurotransmitters and hormones. These plate, the substantial time commitment, and the combine to build a “sense of recognition, trust, and a reduction of stress.” » Continued on page 9

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Erickson also mentions the possibility of cuts to Pierce Transit’s SHUTTLE service for the elderly and disabled, and significant reductions in frequency for some of Pierce Transit’s most depended-upon routes.

Compounding the difficulties facing public transportation in Pierce County, Pierce Transit’s reduction in services has resulted in a predictable loss in riders. With many rural areas having decided to leave the district, and still more riders having ditched the bus because of reduced routes and services, it means Pierce Transit is bringing in less in sales tax, less at the fare box, and less in federal money. Add it all up, and you have what Young calls a potential “existential crisis” for Pierce Transit.

“It’s not a threat, it’s just the reality of where we’ll be at,” says Young of the potential closing of Pierce Transit should the November measure fail. “It’s terrifying.”

“It’ll be profound,” says Strickland of the potential cuts. “Pierce County is the second largest county in the state. We should have reliable bus service, period.” MATT DRISCOLL E

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Could Washington’s second most populous county cut its already greatly reduced bus service in half—or even scrap it completely?

It’s hard to fathom, but that’s exactly the doomsday scenario facing Pierce County.

With sales-tax revenue making up 70 percent of Pierce Transit’s budget, sales-tax projections continuing to fall, and reductions in service triggering a drop in ridership, the situation has become what Gig Harbor City Council and Pierce Transit Board of Commissioners member Derek Young describes as a “negative feedback loop.”

Pierce County’s Proposition 1—a measure slated for November’s general election which if approved will increase sales tax by 0.3 of one percent in the Pierce Transit district—may make or break the struggling transit agency.

Fifty percent of Pierce Transit’s ridership has a yearly household income of $20,000 or less, and 75 percent of riders have a yearly household income of $40,000 or less. In addition to standard bus service, Pierce Transit is responsible for providing paratransit shuttle service for people with disabilities. Thanks to the faltering economy and Pierce Transit’s heavy reliance on sales-tax revenue, the agency has experienced four straight years of declining revenue, with more of the same forecast. Despite all this, voters rejected an identical 0.3 of one percent sales-tax increase in February 2011 that would have helped the agency maintain services and its service area.

Pierce Transit currently collects 0.6 percent sales tax within its boundaries, with the authority to go up to 0.9 percent.

“For some people who don’t have access to transportation, this is their lifeline,” says Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland, chair of the Pierce Transit board of commissioners.

The 2011 decision by voters has already resulted in Pierce Transit being forced to cut services by one-third, and led to a servicearea reduction of 30 percent—reductions that have hit many riders hard. Some rural areas of Pierce County—places like Sumner, Bonney Lake, Orting, Buckley, and DuPont—have left the Pierce Transit district all together, questioning whether the taxes they were paying were worth the increasingly shoddy bus service they were receiving.

Now, facing further declining sales-tax receipts and recommendations for further cuts to Pierce Transit’s revenue forecast, officials say that without a sales-tax increase— bumping up to the full 0.9 of a cent available— within five years Pierce Transit’s service could be reduced to 75 percent of the service hours offered in 1980.

Shocking, right? That might be the optimistic view. According to Young, if November’s sales-tax measure meets the same fate as the February 2011 proposal, it will be time for the board of commissioners “to start thinking about whether or not Pierce Transit

will continue to be viable”—in other words, whether it can survive.

Strickland isn’t quite ready to go down that road, but agrees there will be tough decisions ahead if November’s sales-tax measure fails.

“We have not had, as a board, that conversation. We know we have to have that conversation, but we have not formally sat down and discussed it,” she says. “If this measure doesn’t pass this November, we’re looking at some pretty drastic cuts.”

Roughly 70 percent of Pierce Transit’s budget comes from sales tax collected within its boundaries, and about 14 percent from the fare box. The bulk of the rest is made up of federal and state money, with federal money awarded based on factors like ridership and efficiency.

In the past year and a half, sales-tax projections for Pierce Transit have dropped precipitously. In February 2011 it was expected that sales-tax revenue would grow 4 percent by 2013. That projection has since dropped to an expected increase of only 1 percent.

In terms of services, in February 2011 it was expected that at the current sales-tax rate, Pierce Transit would be able to offer 418,000 service hours a year—the agency’s current operating level. By August 13 of this year, that estimate had dropped to 197,000 service hours, the level to which services will need to be trimmed to if Prop. 1 is defeated—a roughly 53 percent reduction.

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An oral history of Seattle’s signature nocturnal sidewalk dish: the cream-cheese hot dog.

Seattle Dog to its menu four years ago, and vendors outside the stadium on game days sell thousands of dogs garnished with cream cheese—at least when health-department inspectors aren’t looking. Seller Joe Bernstein estimates that as many as seven of every 10 customers take their sausages with a schmear. It’s the city’s signature drunk food, sold from carts which congregate in Belltown, Ballard, and at the corner of 10th and Pike.

The Seattle Dog is 24 years old, but most fans are unclear on its life story. Here, in the words of the vendors who served the dogs and the customers who devoured them, is the previously untold tale of how an Ohioan collaborated with a Capitol Hill bakery to create the only food to bear the city’s name.

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lathering cream cheese on hot dogs is a notion that rose from the streets, not recipe books. Bonnie Slotnick, owner of the esteemed Greenwich Village antiquarian cookbook shop that bears her name, isn’t aware of any books that endorse the preparation, which she calls “extremely deviant.”

Likewise, Kraft Foods, producer of Philadelphia cream cheese and Oscar Mayer hot dogs, has no record of ever suggesting its customers combine the two; the very idea was considered so bizarre that a 1979 employee publication listed cream cheese alongside such outlandish toppings as mashed avocados, applesauce, and peach pie filling.

But for Seattle eaters, there’s nothing silly about the cream-cheese dog. Safeco Field added the

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JOE BERNSTEIN opened Joe’s Grilled Gourmet Hot Dogs on Occidental Avenue South in 1998.

A Seattle Dog is, obviously, cream cheese and onions.

We’re not like the East Coast. East Coast is mustard and kraut. New Yorkers, they walk up and go “Yeah, I’ll take a hot dog with kraut.” And I’ll say, “And cream cheese?”

They look at me like, “Cream cheese?”

FARSHID VARAMINI opened Pioneer Grill Hot Dogs on Occidental Avenue South in 1998.

People say, “What is that? It doesn’t sound right.” I say, “If you don’t like it, bring it back.” I have not yet had one customer bring one back.

DOROTHY BALLANTYNE lives in Brooklyn. Bernstein three years ago persuaded her to try her first Seattle Dog. We were like “All right, we’ll give it a go,” and we all loved it. It sounds like such an odd mixture, but it really is good. I tried to convince them in New York, but they’re not very flexible.

GARRETT MORLAN is a Seattle graphic designer.

I moved from New York City about three years ago, and the hot-dog vendors—although they’re world-famous in New York—they’re terrible. I moved to lower Queen Anne and, obviously, being close to Belltown, I used to go down to the Lava Lounge and the Crocodile. That’s how I came upon it, late-night and hungry. You’ve had a few drinks, a hot dog sounds great. I was kind of blown away by the mixture of cream cheese, and being able to put different things on it, like jalapeños or Sriracha or barbecue sauce. I thought it was amazing.

JEFF LEONARD is a bartender and Seattle Dog slinger at the Comet Tavern.

I’m doing it for four-and-a-half years, and I can’t stop eating them. They’re not bad for you: They cover four of the five basic food groups. You’ve got your bread; you’ve got your onion; you’ve got your dairy, with the cream cheese; and you’ve got your meat.

Bernstein: [Former KIRO announcer] New York Vinnie, he came down during a football game. I showed the dog with cream cheese, and he put it on TV, and everybody goes, “I don’t know if I can eat that ’cause I’m on Lipitor.” And then the ex-Seahawk in the booth—remember, we’re live on TV—he goes, “Hey, don’t worry about it, Vinnie. Bring that cream-cheese dog up to me.”

Varamini: Oh, it’s my favorite. I think it’s just different.

When you grow up, you’re used to the Oscar Mayer dog with ketchup, mustard—the Costco dog. The Seattle Dog has got so many different flavors: the creaminess of the cheese and the sweetness of the onions.

KEITH GARABEDIAN last year opened Hot Diggity, a high-end hot-dog shop, in Philadelphia.

I think it’s the balance of three things. Texturally, it’s the meat of the hot dog and the cream of the cream cheese. There’s also a hot/cold element: The hot dog’s hot and the cream cheese is usually kind of cold. And then the hot dog is really savory and cream cheese is kind of on the sweet side, so it’s got a couple of different things that are in balance, playing off each other really well.

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Above: Hadley Longe selling dogs in Pioneer Square in the mid-’90s.

Left: the sign from his cart.

Longe: I would tell everybody, “Two hands, hold on to it.” The cream cheese would always make [the hot dogs] slide out of there, so that’s why every single person, I’d have to tell. I had one guy, he called the cream cheese “glue,” and he’d always say “extra glue.” And I would put it on both sides of the bialy stick.

It was pretty much an overnight sensation.

I was doing so well, three other bars on my block opened up hot-dog stands: The J&M, The Central, and Larry’s. I don’t know if they were jealous or what.

OTMANE BEZZAZ sold bagels in New York before moving to Seattle. He currently owns J&M Cafe in Pioneer Square and two locations of Mediterranean Mix. I came to Seattle in 1993 and set up a stand selling hot dogs in Pioneer Square. I never thought about putting cream cheese on a hot dog, but I was selling cream-cheese bagels, and then MORE one time, I put ONLINE cream cheese on Want to know what it’s like to hustle the hot dogs and cream-cheese dogs the customer liked near Safeco Field?

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cream cheese. Now everybody is doing it and I get no credit.

Bernstein: Everybody seems to think that they’ve been doing cream cheese forever.

Once you get to know everybody, it’s funny.

Longe: Imitation is the best form of flattery.

But the imitation wasn’t precise: Other vendors soon traded their bagel rolls for standard hot-dog buns.

Totten: You’d buy it and it was on a regular steam roll. You’re like, “This doesn’t seem like the regular thing.”

Bezzaz: It was hard for us to sell the bagels because the bagel cannot stay over one day. I was using the bialy, but the crowd of Pioneer Square change, and the new customer find the bread is hard, so we switch to regular hoagie bun.

Longe moved to Idaho in 1999. He still has his cart, although he’s never again sold hot dogs.

Longe: It was so unique down there. Pioneer Square was such a special place. Back then, it was on the cusp of grunge and on the cusp of Starbucks and coffee and Microsoft. There was so much diversity in Pioneer Square. There was just so much music down there. And the nightlife, it was just revelry and fun.

The grunge years, that was probably one of my favorite things. All those grunge bands that made it, they came and ate with me, and they were just normal guys, all of them. They’re selling millions and millions of records, but you couldn’t tell. They’d just hang out: Caring individuals, you know, staying true to their roots, which was Pioneer Square.

Joe Bernstein at his stand.

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A bialy is actually bagel dough that’s not boiled, but it’s shaped like a hot-dog bun, and it’s got rolled onions on it. We used to put poppy seeds on it, but people kind of shied away from poppy seeds because of drug testing, so now we just do onions. If you’re in New York or Philadelphia, typically they’ll have a traditional round bialy that’s like a bagel, but it’s got a flat bottom on it. And then there are bialy sticks. We do the stick here.

HADLEY LONGE now manages Tony’s on the Lake, an Italian supper club in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. A bagel peddler in Longe’s hometown of Athens, Ohio, inspired him to start selling bagels in 1977 when he moved to Carbondale, Ill., to enroll in Southern Illinois University.

I opened up my first bagel shop in Carbondale. It was a small college town, kind of like Bellingham. So after about seven years, I was like the big fish in the small pond, and I was wanting to see if I could do it in the big pond.

In the late ’80s, Seattle was the place to be, art and music and everything, so I moved to Seattle and I was the bagel man.

Longe arrived in Seattle in 1988. He got a job at the Bagel Express in Pioneer Square, and asked the owner’s permission to operate a hotdog cart at night. His cart was in full swing by 1989, when the Kingdome hosted the Final Four.

Longe: I got started just doing vegetarian bagels on the street, with raisins, cucumbers, onions, sprouts, sunflower seeds. After about a year of doing these veggie bagels, everybody wanted hot dogs. That was just something I didn’t want to do, so I thought I would incorporate my bagel and cream cheese into a hot dog. And I was just fortunate enough that the

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MARIO TOTTEN owns the domain name seattlebageldogs.com.

In the late 1990s, I used to go down to Pioneer Square with everybody, and they had a cart that would sell this creation called the bagel dog. People would line up and buy these dogs, and they would sell out quickly, like by 10 p.m. They started the craze because other stands couldn’t source the same rolls. It’s very distinct; I think it’s called a bialy stick.

DANTE RIVERA opened his first Dante’s Inferno Dogs cart in 2000.

The story I know is there was a guy down at Pioneer Square years ago who would butterfly all of his hot dogs and serve them on day-old bagels.

DALE JONES is the owner of Bagel Deli, a 32-year-old Capitol Hill bakery.

Bagel Deli created very unique bialy sticks.

They’re all hand-rolled and they’re all custom, and I kind of just created the bagel dog with cream cheese.

I didn’t want to be a hot-dog guy. I wanted to be the bagel man. So even though I sold hundreds of bagel dogs, I always waited for the person who would still want a veggie bagel.

Jones: It was crazy. He was selling hot dogs like nobody’s business. If you’ve eaten a Costco dog, you know what they’re like, but if you can imagine that plus something a little extra, and you put that on a bialy stick, it’s a pretty good hot dog.

But how did the dog become so popular beyond Pioneer Square?

Bezzaz: At the Showbox, we opened a location in 1997. I brought the cream-cheese dogs.

CHAD QUEIROLO is a concert promoter at the Showbox. In 2007, he and Jeff Steichen sold the downtown club to AEG Live.

The cream-cheese hot dog was a huge phenomenon when I started at the Showbox in 1999. Everyone loved them. I loved them. I was once hit in the face with a Seattle Dog at a Pearl Jam show in 2002, as people were so upset that we couldn’t let more people in the Showbox to an obviously beyond-sellout show.

JEFF LEONARD is a bartender at the Comet Tavern.

Six, seven years ago, maybe, a man named Said worked with the guy down at the Mediterranean Mix. Then he started his own [stand]; he brought it up to Capitol Hill.

The stand was owned by Said, but he rented the space from the Comet. The owner of the

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Bernstein: When was the big boom? Everybody started having it around 2001, because that’s when hot dogs went crazy. Why did hot dogs go crazy? Because we had the Mariners doing freaking awesome, and we had the All-Star Game. Hot-dog stands around the stadium just started booming. It really took off because of the volume of people coming.

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We pick up people from local hotels up by the Space Needle and we take them down to ball games. We used to drop them off right there by Joe’s stand. My favorite was the Buhner Dog [with] raw onions. One day, I’m at home and we have one of those creamcheese packets. And I was like, “Gee, I wonder how this would taste.” It was a packet of opportunity, I guess you’d call it.

Joe looked at me, and I was spreading this cream cheese on the Buhner dog, and he was like, “What are you doing?” I was like, “Taste it.” And he was like, “Wow, that’s pretty good.”

I’m not Seattle’s Mr. Cream Cheese, obviously, but you just try different combinations. [My wife] Melinda and I are foodies. We’ve tried cream cheese on lots and lots of different things. Some of those things you would never dream it goes with. Have you ever tried a burrito with cream cheese? It mellows the sharpness of the taco meat right out.

Bernstein: What else can I sell to go on a hot dog and make some money? “I’ll take a Polish sausage.” “Did you want onions on that?”

“Yep.” “How about cream cheese, you wanna add cream cheese on there?” And there we go.

Everyone thinks I invented it, but I didn’t.

I am one of the first ones who put on the sign “Seattle-style,” I can guarantee you that.

Because everybody walks up and asks for Chicago-style, I named it Seattle-style. I don’t remember copying anyone.

How do vendors make so many Seattle Dogs so quickly?

Rivera: I cannot take credit for the creamcheese dog, it’s been around much longer than I. Now the caulking gun, that is my one claim to fame. When I first went into the hotdog business, I didn’t really do my research. I knew what I wanted, what I liked, and I was going to go forward with that. And within my first weekend of slinging dogs, people kept mentioning cream cheese. I heard it so much, literally, my first or second night of serving dogs, I went out and I purchased myself a tub of cream cheese and a spreading knife and went to town.

Bernstein: We use the big five-pound bucket.

Rivera: It’s so messy, so time-consuming.

Hot-dog vendors, we make our money in multiple units, so if you’re slowing down to schmear cream cheese on a toasted hot-dog bun with the potential of the bun tearing . . .

MICHAEL ANDERSON has run M.A.’s Gourmet Dogs in Anchorage, Alaska, for 20 years.

USA Today named it one of the top 10 stands in the country.

Speed is essential. If I’m delaying each customer by 10, 15 seconds—times 30 people— that adds up.

Rivera: I was thinking there has to be a better way. And I literally got out of bed one night and went to a 24-hour drive-thru at the Ballard Taco Bell, up there on 15th. They have those sauce guns that they [use to] shoot out the sour cream and guacamole, and that’s where I got the idea. I remember asking for the Taco Bell manager at 1 o’clock in the morning because I wanted to buy it directly from him, right through the window. He said, “Sorry, dude. You’re going to have to hit a restaurant-supply store.” That’s exactly what I did the very next morning.

Rivera purchased a Prince Castle condiment dispenser, but he was squeezing so much hard cream cheese through a soft-foods tool that he was forced to replace it almost immediately. He eventually designed a customized cream-cheese gun that he sells to vendors for $350, while other hot-doggers have fashioned cheaper solutions to the application quandary.

DAVE PLANTE operates Dave’s New England Coneys in Renton.

I found a cupcake-decorating tool and modified it. It puts out a nice even stream, and people just love it. I think it’s called Dessert Pro or something like that; it’s found at Bed Bath & Beyond. We have the cart equipped with two of these guns, so when we go to bigger events, both of them are loaded and ready to go. But you can’t use regular cream cheese—you have to use whipped.

Rivera: Whipped cream cheese, to me, has a totally different flavor. It’s completely different. A lot of it has to do with the way it melts.

And also, you have to remember that people are most comfortable with what they’re familiar with, and they grew up on actual cream cheese.

Plante: The only problem that I’ve found is I’ve known of two people who are using the guns who have been told by the health department, “You’ve gotta go to packets.”

Bernstein: The health department doesn’t

like cream cheese. It’s still taboo. Isn’t that crazy? Our hot-dog carts are licensed to sell FDA-approved, precooked hot dogs. You can’t sell anything else off it. Technically, you’re not even supposed to have a veggie dog. And you have to have veggie dogs in Seattle.

PHIL WYMAN is a health and environmental investigator for the Public Health Department of Seattle and King County. He’s never had a Seattle Dog. They’re allowed to have cream cheese as long as it’s in individual packets. They can go with a tub, but they’ll have to upgrade the permit, which they probably don’t want to do just for cream cheese.

Rivera: You have to remember that in today’s economy, it’s another way to generate revenue. So it’s only recently that the health inspectors have actually started to fine. I’m not saying that the health inspectors don’t want to ensure public safety, but they have looked the other way for a number of years.

Wyman: Cream cheese is not one of the things we’re really focused on. We spend most of our time talking to people about hand-washing, not working when you’re sick, and so forth. Singling out a single food like cream cheese, we don’t really do that.

Bernstein: They know they’re damned if they do and they’re damned if they don’t, because if cream cheese isn’t on the menu, it would destroy the industry. I guarantee it.

As best as the crack staff at the Seattle Public Library can determine, Seattle Dogs were first mentioned in print by The Stranger, which in 1999 briefly reviewed Bezzaz’s cart. “They make something which, when I first heard it described, sounded repulsive, but turned out to be sublime: The cream-cheese hot dog,” Traci Vogel wrote. “This hot dog, nicely cooked, appears in a crispy bun smeared with cream cheese.”

The first national publication to take notice was the Serious Eats blog; in 2009, hot-dog columnist HAWk kRALL made the “Seattle-style cream-cheese dog” his hot dog of the week.

Morlan: Hawk and I went to art school together in Brooklyn. I just kept up with him, and I said, “You have to [write about] the Seattle Dog.” krall: Garrett said, “Hey, they have hot dogs here with cream cheese on them.” I said, “Oh, I never heard of that. Sounds crazy.” So he sent me some pictures. I’ve never actually been to Seattle and eaten one of these things, but I definitely looked into it, and after that article, people said “This is not real!”

RICk SEBAk is a documentary producer at WQED in Pittsburgh. His 1999 A Hot Dog Program, which remains in heavy rotation on PBS stations, is considered the seminal hot-dog doc.

What’s a Seattle Dog? I don’t even know . . . That sounds terrible.

The Bagel Deli, home of the bialy stick, doesn’t put cream cheese on its hot dogs.

Jones: We’re up on Capitol Hill, but when people think about the Seattle Dog, it’s down in downtown Seattle. But, you know, people ask for different things. We had a customer come in just the other day and say, “Can I have a lot of mayonnaise on mine?” I’ve never had mayonnaise on a hot dog, but he says, “Oh, it’s the best.”

Garabedian: Some people from Seattle don’t know anything about it. We had someone come in who had just moved here two weeks ago,

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gotten from some guy in Seattle. So I rolled out doing it. I probably went a good long way spreading the gospel here in Denver of the cream cheese on the dog. We do an elkjalapeño sausage, and it’s like the cream Anderson: I have a special day where I have cheese is made for that dog. It’s just the pera new topping; it’s called Topping Tuesday. fect accompaniment. Throw on some caraAbout five years ago, I hear about the cream melized onions and everybody’s happy. cheese, and I’m thinking “Cream cheese?

That’s silly.” Well, I Longe: You know, kept hearing about I’m in Coeur d’Alene, it, and after a year or Idaho, and there’s a so, I was like “Let’s hot-dog vendor out go ahead and try it.” here. He has cream I was shocked. It’s cheese on his hot become so popudogs. I don’t like lar that I won’t let to boast too much, them use the words because people “cream cheese” either believe you because I just don’t or they don’t. But he want everybody knows. knowing that I have Leonard: I had it, because I’m just somebody from too busy. So now Oklahoma come here it’s called “sumthin’ and say, “We have sumthin’.” So if Seattle Dogs.” They you want a hot dog call them Seattle with cream cheese, Dogs. you have to ask for Bernstein: The whatever kind of Food Network, dog you order with they’re going to have “sumthin’ sumthin’.” some stand someThe first national mention of the Seattle where like Montana Dog was on the Serious Eats blog in 2009.

JIM PITTENGER is or another big city, the Jim of Biker Jim’s and they’re going to Gourmet Dogs in have cream-cheese hot dogs. It’ll piss me off, Denver. In 2005, his buddy Michael Anderson because it’s definitely a Seattle thing. suggested he get into the hot-dog business.

I bought my first cart from a guy in Boise, Pittenger: I served one up to Anthony and when I got the cart from him, he gave me Bourdain, and he thought cream cheese was this cool cream-cheese caulking gun that he’d probably a really bad idea until he tried it.

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and she was super-excited it was on the menu.

And then there was a food writer here [former Seattle Weekly critic Jason Sheehan], and he came in and was like, “I never heard of anything like that,” and there you go.

PETER McKEE is an attorney who moved to Seattle in 1981.

The entire concept is delusional. I was with [food writer] John T. [Edge], and I could see it happening. We just happened to walk through the Ballard Farmers Market, and he got onto [Rivera], and I turned to him and said, “You’re going to write that this is the Seattle hot dog, aren’t you?”

Everyone I ever told about a guy caulking on cream cheese goes “Oh, my God.” My two adult daughters are natives, and I bet they have never eaten a Seattle Dog. So I would argue it’s a fantasy delusion of food writers. Because John T. wrote about it, it must be real.

JOHN T. EDGE is the author of a quartet of books on iconic American eats. He writes a monthly column on evolving American cuisine for The New York Times.

Peter gives me far too much kingmaker credit. I got the idea from walking the streets and eating local grub. I suspect that Peter has not stayed out past 10 p.m. in his own city.

If he went carousing, he’d see what the tottering classes are eating: hot dogs cradled in gummy buns, slathered with white goo.

I heard similar denials from Seattle folk when I came to town to write about teriyaki— which is, in my estimation, Seattle’s national dish, if you accept the conceit that Seattle is a kind of nation. Boosters like Peter shouted that Seattle was a salumi center, a crab citadel. I admire the aspirational impulse, but that doesn’t mean I have to buy it.

I’ve fed all kinds of people cream cheese on hot dogs: Bourdain, Susan Feniger, Ludo Lefebvre. I don’t call it a Seattle Dog, because I’m not in Seattle.

Garabedian: The hot dog is something that really identifies people as Americans. Every city in the country has a hot dog, and they all take a lot of pride in doing it the way they do, so it’s pretty important. This could be the newest dog in the country. Another new style could be the Puka Dog in Hawaii—they’re pretty new, but I’d say they’re more wellknown than the Seattle style. That involves a hot dog stuffed into a baguette with, like, a pineapple relish.

Krall: You have people talk about Detroit Coneys and New England, and most of the regional things we talk about are almost 100 years old, but there are new ones that have developed. I guess what would be similar is the Sonoran Dog [a bacon-wrapped hot dog with pinto beans, mayonnaise, and cotija that became popular about a decade ago] in Arizona. I mean, not similar in preparation, but they’re sort of new variations that have emerged to reflect what’s going on in the world, whether it’s Mexican food or drunks outside of bars doing a more punk-rock thing.

Bernstein: Everyone’s got their food, but we’re just not famous for a food around Seattle. I guess they think of salmon, but that’s a gimme. But now we’re famous for something.

People in Seattle, they can walk past your hotdog stand, you don’t have cream cheese or you run out, guess what? They’re not buying.

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those who have not been following along in the songbook, Ricki Mason and Jody Kuehner started out in the modern-dance community, shifted into neo-burlesque, and have added a sideline as drag performers, possibly channeling Cher, Madonna, Hugh Hefner, and a crew of Motown backup dancers. Hijinks ensue. SK The Cherdonna & Lou Show, 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Bagley Wright Theatre

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spent many hours reflecting on the story and discussing it with friends, but the mental technology that would have allowed him or her even to consider working out those feelings in song as part of an organized club did not yet exist. Nowadays, the opportunity to enjoy a full-length concert of music written in response to A Wrinkle in Time, Lonesome Dove, or even A People’s History of America is ours for the taking. It is recommended, but not necessary, that you reread Wrinkle, because Charles Wallace is kind of a creepy kid and you may have forgotten some of the time-traveling plot involving tesseracts. JR The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents A Wrinkle in Time, noon Monday, Words & Ideas Stage

Chicken-Fried Steak at the 5 Point (It’s open drinks after the show, breakfast before, and . . . shit, it never closes!) There’s something comforting and

sophisticated about The 5 Point—even though we’re fairly certain those two words have never been used to describe the enduring restaurant/urban pit stop in Belltown. You can always get a chickenfried steak, and they’ll serve you a drink any hour (other than 2–6 a.m., of course). There are a lot of places you can fuel up before, during, and after Bumbershoot, but this one will never turn you down. CK The 5 Point, 415 Cedar St., 448-9993

City and Colour (This underrated

folksinger sharpened his chops on the Vans Warped Tour.) Dallas Green, former

vocalist of post-hardcore band Alexisonfire, goes by City and Colour (get it?) when he wants to let his folky side shine through.

While the Juno Award-winning multiinstrumentalist is admittedly more popular in his native Canada, Americans fell head over heels with Green after 2011’s Little Hell.

He just might be our neighbors-from-theNorth’s best-kept secret. AP City and Colour, 7:45 p.m. Saturday, TuneIn Stage

Civil Twilight (Triumph without lethargy.) Civil Twilight is often compared

to U2, but Radiohead is a more apt analogue for the South African trio’s moody, downbeat second album, Holy Weather.

Woozy, emotional ballads like “It’s Over” are keyboard-driven and filled with echoey, breathy vocals, but a few upbeat, energetic tracks like “Fire Escape” punctuate the album and keep it from becoming lethargic.

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Diane, Alela (The Portland psych-folk singer goes it alone.) Diane’s last album,

Alela Diane & Wild Divine, was named for her backing band, which features both her father and husband on guitars. She’s spent this year going it alone, playing intimate solo sets previewing songs from her recently recorded

fourth record. EKT Alela Diane, 7:30 p.m.

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Don’t Talk to the Cops! (Band name; law enforcement-related advice.)

Armed with djblesOne’s patented dance-friendly production and snappy hooks from bles and tagteam partner Emecks, Seattle’s Don’t Talk to the Cops! has begun to take the fun-loving nation by storm. You can hear their records now courtesy of Das Racist’s Greedhead label, but the full DTttC! experience is had live, where the team can put their full array of moves on display. TH Don’t Talk to the Cops!, 1 p.m. Saturday, TuneIn Stage

Elvistravaganza! (The handsomest stranded crop-duster pilot ever.) Elvis was

not a very good actor, and It Happened at the World’s Fair (1963) is not a very good movie. But still, Elvis made it partly in Seattle during the 1962 World’s Fair; he dines at the Space Needle, visits a Century 21 trailer park (modern!), looks after a lost 7-year-old girl, and sings a few songs. To honor both the movie and the man, local artists will show works inspired by Fair (to be screened in continuous loop). A karaoke lounge will allow you to croon your favorite Elvis tune, and topiary will be pruned to reflect his famous visage. BM Elvistravaganza!, 11 a.m. to close, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, Fisher Pavilion

Foxy Shazam (Semi-novelty freak-rock all-stars.) In the beginning, Eric Sean Nally’s

nimble voice and never-boring lyrics were all that buoyed the band’s somewhat tired pianorock sound. On their most recent album, The Church of Rock and Roll, however, the band’s wild songwriting finally (almost) lives up to their theatrical absurdity. TH Foxy Shazam, 2:45 p.m. Monday, Exhibition Hall

Free Salty Snacks (The Streamline is the off-campus haunt that gets you back to neutral.) Rumor has it the Streamline Tavern never planned to serve peanuts. But a while back, a local paper did a write-up on bars in the neighborhood and mistakenly mentioned that the lovable dive shelled out free peanuts.

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are associating it with Greeks, so we included it,” a souvlaki-favoring Greek bazaar chairman told the Times in ’78—but the sandwich soon transcended its faux-Greek roots, showing up at street fairs and music festivals. According to gyro-meat producers, gyro sales skyrocket when the economy’s hurting. Expect to wait in line. HR Seattle Center, 305 Harrison St.

Heartless Bastards (Long may they

wail.) I won’t get sentimental here and yammer on about how Heartless Bastards stands for all sorts of things we are losing in popular music: regionalism (Ohio is in lead singer Erika Wennerstrom’s voice, there’s no other way to put it); a willingness to find originality and new excitement in roots rock; and a blue-collar musical sense that comes from making a living the hard way, on the road, playing songs night after night in front of people. I won’t get sentimental. I’ll just say that Heartless Bastards wail. Wennerstrom wails. And long may they wail. Daniel PeRson Heartless Bastards, 5:45 p.m. Saturday, Starbucks Stage

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Hoff, Christopher Martin (The

city holds its breath.) A transplant from

Georgia, Hoff arrived in Seattle a decade ago, and soon began to learn about his new home by painting it. Until his untimely death in March at age 39, Hoff specialized in plein-air painting—setting up shop on the sidewalk and documenting our viaducts, Dumpsters, and cranes at the port. In his streetscape oils, emptied of people, we see the vacant alleys of Pioneer Square, parking lots filled only with graffiti, construction sites lying dormant beneath tarps and waiting for the recession to end. It’s like the city is holding its breath.

BM Christopher Martin Hoff Remembered, 11 a.m. to close, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, Fisher Pavilion

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Herzig, Katie (This Nashville-based chanteuse brings easy listening, heavy thinking.) You may not be familiar with Katie

Herzig, but you’ve definitely heard her lilting vocals and folk-rock music; her songs have appeared on prime-time favorites like Smallville, Bones, and Grey’s Anatomy. Though topics like global warming and the economy appear in her songs, her airy voice makes it all listenable. Ask nicely and she might play her “Sweet Dreams/ Seven Nation Army” mashup. aP Katie Herzig, 5:45 p.m. Sunday, Starbucks Stage

Hey Marseilles (A local band

combines genres like there’s no tomorrow, to the complaint of—well, no one.) Throw indie

folk, jazz, and pop into an auditory blender and you’ve got Hey Marseilles. They’re about as Seattle as they come, forming when founders Nick Ward and Matt Bishop attended UW and called Gas Works Park an early practice space. They’ve since grown, adding five members, countless instruments, and a debut album, 2008’s To Travels & Trunks, for good

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Jackson, Wanda (The rockabilly queen is produced—and her husband is prayed for—by Jack White.) When I spoke

to Wanda Jackson not long after the release of her phenomenal The Party Ain’t Over, produced by Jack White, I asked her who chose the gospel song “Dust on the Bible.” I was surprised to hear that White had—and more surprised to hear that when Jackson’s husband was in the hospital last year, White dropped her a note saying he’d been praying for him. I asked White about his approach to spirituality and prayer earlier this month: “It’s funny. I don’t believe in any religious things very much. I only believe in God, really. But there’s times if you believe in God that I think you have to tell yourself there’s a good chance he might not exist, and that’s the way to sort of look at it from both sides. It helps even everything out.

“Even if you’re an atheist, if you can think that you can pray out loud to something, whatever psychological effect that it can have on you and the people around you—like if somebody’s sick—it can bring everyone on the same level . . . It doesn’t matter if God exists or not, in a real, arbitrary way.

“But in a bigger sense, it can influence everything, because if you try to create a song, or you try to create something like an album, it pales in comparison to what a God could create: a universe. And that’s sort of embarrassing that the best we can come up with down here—a bridge or a pyramid or “The Star Spangled Banner”—is kind of ridiculous in comparison to a star or a planet.” CK Wanda Jackson & the Dusty 45s, 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Starbucks Stage

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part the waters.) After the success of The Helio Sequence’s 2008 release, Keep Your Eyes Ahead, it would have been easy for the indie-pop duo to create another tight, technically sound album. And that’s just what they planned to do. But then their studio flooded, and . . . things changed. The result is Negotiations, a collection of loose, ambient songs that Brandon Summers mostly ad-libbed.

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on his attempt to write his name in blood on the wall of the Playboy Mansion’s “orgy room,” which got him banned from Hef’s boobie palace for life. Quoted in Don’t Try This at Home: a Year in the Life of Dave Navarro

5. Appearance is something one should not overlook. “I’d rather be overdressed than

underdressed. I like to have style all the time— onstage, walking through the airport, riding my bike.” —Farrell, The New York Times 6. Be prepared. “Socks and underwear should always be black. You never know when you’re going to be in a situation where you might have to take them off . . . And if they’re white, there’s a chance they may be . . . less cleanlooking.” —Navarro, Us Weekly 7. “Too good a time” is a relative term.

“The beautiful thing about CBGB is that I don’t have a single memory from that place . . . But I think it was amazing.” —Navarro, MTV News 8. Let the everyday be mysterious.

“I love the fact that you can walk by people’s houses and you have no idea what is going on behind the windows.” —Drummer Stephen Perkins, AlternativeAddiction.com 9. Acknowledge your influences. “People give me credit for starting ‘alternative’ music, but I give Lou Reed credit for starting me.”

—Farrell, Seattle Weekly 10. Trust your gut. “I’m not gonna do this.”

—Navarro, at the very last minute, phone receiver in hand, declining to be interviewed by the American Mustache Institute. MA’CHELL DUMA LAVASSAR Jane’s Addiction, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Mainstage

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If you’re a music fan born between 1963 and 1983, it’s hard to escape the impact of Jane’s Addiction. The band’s scorching cover of “Rock ’n’ Roll” gave many of us our first taste of the Velvet Underground. 1987’s Nothing’s Shocking—a record unabashedly made by people doing drugs for people doing drugs— was so purely hedonistic and libidinous, owning it practically served as a redeemable voucher for a nose ring and a three-way. Ritual de lo Habitual gave the band the alt-rock hit “Been Caught Stealing” and “normal kids” an excuse to stick their big toe into the Alternative Nation pool . . . and of course let us not forget one very long, generation-defining word: Lollapalooza.

Even though it’s been 25 years since their first release, the gentlemen of Jane’s Addiction still play by their own rules. Here are some life lessons from more than two decades of decadence that they lived and learned so you don’t have to: 1. First impressions are lasting. “I saw Psi Com at some private party on a ranch near Magic Mountain. The singer came out and it was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. He was absolutely out of his mind on fire, shaking and quivering, every muscle in his body was doing a different dance. It was insane. I couldn’t believe it. I was like, ‘This guy is out of his mind. Who is he?’ and it was Perry.” —Flea, quoted in Whores: An Oral Biography of Perry Farrell and Jane’s Addiction 2. Know when to hold ’em. “The very first time I saw her come in and shake her . . . ponytail, I hired her and I fell in love with her on the spot . . . ” —Perry Farrell, on meeting his future wife Etty, Blender online 3. And . . . when to fold ’em. “I said to myself a long time ago that I didn’t want to be

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Kate, Katie (Local art-rap creator;

electronic architect.) Seattle’s own Katie Kate shined as a producer on her 2011 debut, Flatland, and used her made-from-scratch beats to their utmost potential (most of the time). Her creatively delivered lyrics jump from sassy brag rap to chilly future R&B with equal effectiveness. TH Katie Kate, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, The Promenade

Lights (Not a band, but a lithe Canadian popstress.) Lights first came to America’s

attention in 2008, when her song “The Last Thing on Your Mind” was featured in an Old Navy commercial that aired incessantly during Gossip Girl. But unlike the insufferable Bay Area band Pomplamoose, which basically records songs exclusively for promotional use, Lights has already enjoyed a respectable career as one of Canada’s foremost young pop stars. MS Lights, 8 p.m. Monday, Exhibition Hall Stage

moment right now thanks to the dad-jeans candidacy of Willard “Mitt” Romney, it’s a pity he’s using Kid Rock’s music at campaign rallies in preference to that of his co-religionists.

Led by the married Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker since 1993 (with various bassists), the Minnesota slowcore band is now on Sub Pop, which last spring released C’mon, a gorgeous collection of swelling ballads and close harmonies. BM Low, 6:45 p.m. Monday, Sub Pop Stage

L.P. (The best thing that’s ever happened to

Citibank’s marketing team.) The initials L.P.—

stage name of pop/rock artist Laura Pergolizzi— ring few bells at first mention. But once heard, the curly-topped musician’s raw vocals are tough to forget. When Citibank featured L.P.’s “Into the Wild” in a 2011 commercial, audiences actually turned up the volume, and the songwriter-turned-singer became television’s faceless voice of the moment. While babystepping into her own spotlight, L.P. penned songs for Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, and Heidi Montag. Blessed with pipes that have been compared to Janis Joplin’s and Gwen Stefani’s, what L.P. lacks in recognition she overcompensates for in ferocity. kellie Cox L.P., 4:30 p.m. Monday, Starbucks Stage

MAD Magazine (The baby boom honed its sense of humor in those pulpy

pages.) Launched in 1952, MAD helped

pave the way for Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, and the stand-up comedy boom’s generational skepticism toward all forms of authority. It was rude and transgressive even before the ’60s began. And though it’s still published, it’s been overwhelmed by its spawn on cable, YouTube, and the rest of the web. Today, in a talk called “The Joy of Censorship,” MAD editor Joe Raiola will discuss how the magazine offended parents and teachers, delighted young readers, and gave the middle finger to an oppressively square society. BM Joe Raiola, 1:45 p.m.

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Maximum Velocity (A quartet of modern-dance tricksters, close to home.)

It wouldn’t be Bumbershoot without a contingent from the Seattle dance community, so Velocity Dance Center sends some of its best. Zoe Scofield and Amy O’Neal are both well known to Seattle audiences; Kate Wallich and Markeith Wiley are newer additions, but they’re all at the forefront of the field. Sk Maximum Velocity, 12:15 p.m. Monday, Bagley Wright Theatre

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Learned the Hard Way” is not a bad song, but when an otherwise stellar independent radio station plays a song to death, fatigue sets in, tricking the listener into thinking the song is bad. Jones is a soul powerhouse; she doesn’t need an overexuberant boost of white guilt to help her top the mountain. Mike Seely Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, 1:45 p.m. Sunday, Bumbershoot Mainstage

Low (If only Mitt were as hip as these Mormons.) If America is having its Mormon

Niki & The Dove (The Swedish pop duo stands for light, color, and freedom of sound.) The cover of Niki & The Dove’s first

album, Instinct, pictures bandmates Malin Dahlström and Gustaf Karlöf in front of a bright-blue sky and huge full moon. A shooting star streaks across one corner, while a tropical green forest sits in the background. Karlöf’s jacket is studded with jewels; Dahlström, wearing a breastplate with multicolored wings, swoons across his shoulder.

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paint wolves looking at the moon, or horses running in mist.”

This splashy aesthetic matches the feathery headpieces and streaks of glittery face paint that Dahlström wears in photoshoots and onstage.

“We wanted to go against the minimalistic black that reigns in Sweden,” she says. “We wanted to do color. We wanted color as a statement of something that isn’t in power. All the things in power in the world are somewhat restrained and very conformed in their color, and things that are under power are in color. We didn’t want to signal . . . We wanted to . . . ” She hesitates, searching for the right words in English. “We wanted to communicate freedom!”

Dahlström is speaking from her hometown of Gothenburg, where she and Karlöf are rehearsing for a fall tour of the U.S. to promote Instinct, released in August by Sub Pop. Its 14 cutting pop tracks feature a disparity of sound that goes with the duo’s touchstones of freedom and color: Some spike with sharp beats (“The Fox,” “Tomorrow”), some glow with burnished passion (“DJ, Ease My Mind,” “In Our Eyes”).

Dahlström’s distinctively icy vocals tie them all together.

Karlöf, who’s known Dahlström for more than 10 years, recalls, “The first time I met Malin was when I heard her singing with her guitar, and it was so beautiful. I envied the piano player that played with her, and I said to myself, ‘That’s gonna be my goal, to be that piano player.’ ” EKT Niki & The Dove, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Sub Pop Stage

Oberhofer (A sort of homecoming for a Tacoman.) Tacoma-born, Brooklyn-based

1 Reel Film Festival (All shorts, all three days, one venue.) Most packages run about an hour at 1 Reel, the nation’s largest film festival devoted entirely to shorts. This year’s buffet programs include nerds, children’s fare, highlights from SIFF, music, and romance gone sour. Remember that SIFF’s Film Center is in the old Alki Room, not beneath McCaw Hall, meaning fewer seats and longer lines. Queue early and bring a book to read while you wait.

BM 1 Reel Film Festival, noon to close, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, SIFF Film Center

Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The (Like Belle and Sebastian. With balls.)

Listening to The Pains of Being Pure at Heart spin odd tales of teenage love and sexual frustration over a blistering racket of electric guitars and crash cymbals, it’s hard for me not to hear an amped-up version of Belle and Sebastian. Indeed, lead singer Kip Berman’s lithe and melodic vocals can lull you into a sense of wholesomeness—which is tempered when you catch a lyric or two from “This Love Is Fucking Right” (about sister love, as far as I can tell) or “My Terrible Friend.” But if that doesn’t sound like your cup of tea, worry not.

The chaos this New York four-piece brings is

Passion Pit (Purveyors of pretty songs

about being down.) Despite the up-tempo dance beats and chipper vocals, Passion Pit’s second album, Gossamer, is a stunning account of Michael Angelakos’ struggle to get a grip on his unraveling life. His honest recounting of his mental-health issues and alcoholism would be overwhelmingly depressing were it not paired with the band’s signature synth-pop sound—so upbeat that listeners not paying attention could overlook the album’s message: Angelakos sings “I’m so self-loathing it’s hard for me to see reality from what I dream” amid pounding drums and squeaky harmonies. Even though the sound and subject matter are contradictory, Passion Pit has melded them into a complex and pleasing collection of pop. SE Passion Pit, 9:15 p.m. Monday, TuneIn Stage

Pharmacy, The (The local road warriors are back in town.) Vashon Island’s

finest band is almost 10 years old but shows no sign of slowing: The garage-rock trio’s spent much of the year on the road, promoting two new EPs, Dig Your Grave and Josephine, precursors to the band’s upcoming LP, the tellingly titled Stoned & Alone. EKT The Pharmacy, 4:30 p.m. Monday, The Promenade

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comedy career out of being underestimated.

He’s a big galoot often lurking in supporting roles (The Sarah Silverman Program, Just Shoot Me, The Five-Year Engagement, etc.), but never the star. Yet the mountain-tall 6'6" comic has made his . . . er, distinctively bald, jowly, hangdog appearance into a strength.

He’s always silently looming at the periphery of a scene. He quite literally looks down on the comic commotion, the hubbub at his feet. And though he visually presents as a slacker, he’s anything but. Besides comedy, he’s a heavy-metal scholar, a serious foodie (of the food-truck persuasion), and a proud sci-fi geek. His three shows will include several other performers and drop-by visitors. BM Brian Posehn, 8 p.m Saturday, 2:45 p.m. Sunday, 6:15 p.m.

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Post-Bone Brunch (Peso’s target

audience didn’t go home last night.) The first

and only time I had brunch at Peso’s, I was clearly the “One of These Things Is Not Like the Others” thing: unshowered and bleary, but wearing fresh clothes and having managed to twist my large, sheep-like hair into two Princess Leia buns. The other lady brunchers had not yet made it back to their closets and eye-makeup remover. As Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” blared at karaoke-bar volume, girls in last night’s knee-high boots and cleavage-bearing dresses struggled to keep their uncombed hair out of their chipotle-chile hollandaise. Breakfast margaritas, Bloody »

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Brad Oberhofer is just 21. In the past year, his eponymous punk-rock band has released their propulsive first record, Time Capsules II, and made big-name appearances at Coachella and on Letterman’s Late Show. EKT Oberhofer, 7 p.m. Saturday, Sub Pop Stage

so complete and wonderful that the lyrics fall by the wayside early and often in the threeminute bursts of their songs. DP The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, 5 p.m. Monday, Sub Pop Stage

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Post-Fest’s Most Shameful Meal (Shameful can be delicious, especially

at KFC/Taco Bell.) Somehow it was decided that Little Miss Lower Queen Anne, with her handsome old brick buildings and neverending nail salons, would behold a Kentucky Fried Taco Hut. Well, really it’s only a Kentucky Fried Taco Bell, the ingenious fast-food hybrid restaurant for stoners, preggos, and those who simply want it all. Why settle on just a Cheesy Gordita Crunch when you could simultaneously grip a bucket of extra-tasty crispy chicken between your thighs? Two birds, one gut-bomb. RB 201 W. Mercer St., 283-7575

Promise Ring, The (Shiny happy emo.) Born from the ashes of the

ridiculously prodigious Chicago emo-core outfit Cap’n Jazz, The Promise Ring came to exemplify emo’s increasingly successful mid-to-late-’90s wave: sweet, sappy, hearton-sleeve stuff that referenced Rites of Spring’s punk/hardcore ebullitions just slightly less than it did conventional power pop and pop-punk. What may have paved the way for the Dashboard Confessionals of the world turned out to be a great look for The Promise Ring, though, revealing Davey von Bohlen as a gifted songwriter of hopelessly catchy, charming, and cute pop tunes (though a singer whose raspy, perpetually adolescent voice may be an acquired taste). Reunited for 2012, expect loads of happy nostalgia and adorable rocking-out. EG The Promise Ring, 6:15 p.m.

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Peso’s and Ozzie’s are the neighborhood’s most popular nocturnal haunts, but if you want any level of tranquility, the Streamline, Oskar’s, Solo, and Crow are more reasonable choices, and the Bloody Mary brunches at the Mecca and 5 Point (technically in Belltown, but close enough) rate among the city’s best.

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Remix, Plagiarism, or Theft?

(The Verve: victims or villains?) This may be the most interesting conversation of the whole weekend. What are the limits of appropriating another artist’s work? Clearly, when The Verve sampled Andrew Oldham in “Bitter Sweet Symphony,” they created a wonderful new work and shouldn’t have had to forfeit all their publishing money to that asshole Allen Klein. Still, you shouldn’t be able to just take a famous photograph, draw some lipstick on it, and call it a completely new thing. Or should you? Probably the person who took the famous photograph would say no and the person

who drew lipstick on it would say yes, but all discussions of art and commerce involve passionate and inchoate feelings that are best expressed in the moment. In the long run it’ll all be decided by lawyers somewhere, but in the meantime talking about it is good brain food. JR Remix, Plagiarism, or Theft? 1:45 p.m.

Monday, Words & Ideas Stage

Retro Daddy (Where were you in ’62?)

Since we’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World’s Fair this year, who better to educate the Bumberthrongs on Seattle Center’s design and decor than the self-proclaimed “Retro Daddy,” aka Charles Phoenix. A chef, designer, and author (Americana the Beautiful: Mid-Century Culture in Kodachrome), he knows just what made America hip—or square—during that long-ago JFK era.

From Tiki idols to cocktail hour, his lectures are both catty and celebratory. BM Charles Phoenix, 1 p.m. Saturday, Words & Ideas Stage

Robot, Gay (Nick Swardson created the funniest Comedy Central series to never get made.) How do you make a robot gay?

Spill a wine cooler on him and then have him join a fraternity. This is the premise of Nick Swardson’s Gay Robot, arguably the funniest pilot to never make Comedy Central’s lineup (unless you count Gay Robot’s occasional appearances on Swardson’s Pretend Time).

Swardson often shows up in the sidekick role in Adam Sandler movies, and, like Sandler’s, his work is extremely lowbrow. Yet if you’re willing to scrape off the mud a bit, you’ll be privy to some hilariously clever cultural insight. MS Nick Swardson, 1 p.m. Saturday, 4:30 p.m. Sunday, and 2:45 p.m. Monday, Intiman Theatre.

Rules (Bring yer own.) If you’re not crazy about Bumbershoot’s gyros, feel free to pack your own lamb sandwich—or whatever else you’re legally craving. It’s fine to bring food and non-alcoholic drinks to the festival, so long as you observe the strict “no glass bottles and no cans” rule. Reusable water bottles are encouraged, but must be empty when you enter a Mainstage show. HR Seattle Center, 305 Harrison St. Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra (Some of the best music

ever made.) The jazz of the 1930s and

’40s as played by the big bands of the day was perhaps the finest American musical accomplishment, and might actually be the highest form of ensemble music in human history. The fact that it is now primarily experienced as Saving Private Ryan movie music or equated with Brian Setzer’s rockabilly misappropriation is a dead shame. Big-band music cannot be properly experienced on record. You need to get in front of those horns blowing eight-to-the-bar to begin to know its hair-raising glory, and in actual fact you should be dancing to it as if tonight were your last night on Earth and tomorrow you’ll get shipped off with the Marines. If your response to the word “jazz” is to roll your eyes and picture someone on public television lecturing you on how important it is that you appreciate a guy

A Destination Location For Music & Film Geeks playing a six-minute solo on a muted trumpet, do yourself a favor: Free your mind. This isn’t kitsch and you don’t need saddle shoes—this is some of the best music ever made. JR Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, 12:30 p.m.

Saturday, Starbucks Stage

Seattle Symphony (For once, see classical musicians not dressed like Noël Coward.) If I were in charge, orchestras

would can the tux forever. (Why, thanks for asking: black pants, and shirts in golden-brown shades that harmonize with string and brass instruments.) But the SSO is moving in the right direction at least once a year, at Bumbershoot, with its “Symphony Untuxed” presentation: chamber music and chat with SSO musicians.

The program seems calculated for maximum eclecticism, from a Bach concerto to light zakuski by Russian composers (Shostakovich, Schnittke, Pelecis) and the beguiling Memo by Michel van der Aa in which a violinist duets with himself via cassette player. Gavin BoRcheRt Symphony Untuxed, 12:15 p.m.

Sunday, Bagley Wright Theater

Segall, Ty (Lo-fi bandit; man of many

projects.) Guitarist/yeller Ty Segall has fashioned a career out of making gritty, rocking-ass recordings that transpose the listener back into the garage where the songs were born. Energy trumped complexity again on this year’s Slaughterhouse (under the Ty Segall Band banner), and that’s OK with us, because we like to party. th Ty Segall, 3:15 p.m. Monday, Sub Pop Stage

Skillet (The future begins with fried

chicken.) The 1962 World’s Fair’s vision of the

Skrillex (In the tradition of Bonham,

music as physical force.) Dubstep poster boy Skrillex makes way too easy a target: the screamo, the lopsided hair—hell, the whole aesthetic package, really. But while you can blame Sonny Moore almost singlehandedly for “EDM” and the bro-stepping of electronic music in America, it’s pretty hard to argue with the phenomenological core of his sound: the drop. Especially live, Skrillex’s famous bass-frequency plunges aren’t so much a new

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Skyward! (Jane, get me off this crazy

thing!) More than a dozen local artists will help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the World’s Fair by . . . looking forward? Yes, Britta Johnson, Dietrich Wenger, Hannah Viano, Iole Alessandrini, and a dozen more will imagine life as The Jetsons imagined life in the year 2062.

Whether that means flying cars, robot maids, personal jet packs, or mechanical dogs remains to be seen. BM Skyward!, 11 a.m. to close, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, Fisher Pavilion

Sub Pop (Bumbershoot finally just gives the local label the keys to a stage.) Next

year Sub Pop Records turns 25! 25! The label that launched Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Fleet Foxes will be celebrating with what we understand to be all manner of shenanigans. To get warmed up, Bumbershoot handed the local label the keys to their own stage at the fest, and they’ve responded appropriately, bringing in a number of acts that represent their long history (Mudhoney, the Vaselines), and eclectic tastes (Unnatural Helpers, THEESatisfaction). cK

TacocaT (If Pabst Blue Ribbon were

a band, it would be TacocaT.) TacocaT

is discordant and goofy—like an R-rated Presidents, but with Hillary(s) in the Oval Office. They’re an OK band to thrash around drunk to, but it’ll cost you a shitload to drink at Bumbershoot unless you smuggle in your own hooch, so we’d recommend waiting for their next sweaty club gig to get the quintessential TacocaT experience. MS TacocaT, 12:15 p.m.

Saturday, Sub Pop Stage (Fountain Lawn)

thenewno2 (Dammit, Dhani! Just say you’re a Beatle’s kid!) Thenewno2 is another

in the long line of attempts by the children of famous people to forge their own careers by overmodestly subsuming their identities within a “band.” In this case it’s Dhani Harrison, son of George, who has chosen not to trade on his famous father’s name and instead play guitar in an unpronounceable combo. He was one of the best things about the 2002 “Concert for George” tribute, just strumming and smiling through the whole torpid affair, and of all the Beatles’ kids he’s the one most likely to make listenable pop now that Julian Lennon lives in a house shaped like a giant petunia.

However, that he’s performing under the name thenewno2 instead of just calling his band Dhani Harrison means that despite a lifetime of digesting Krishna humility with his lentils, he still doesn’t have any real friends willing to tell him when his ideas are bad. JR the newno2, 9 p.m. Sunday, The Promenade

Too Beautiful Drunk to Live Write (We asked TBTL’s Luke Burbank to

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LuKe BuRBanK Too Beautiful to Live, 1:15 p.m.

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SPIN Q13 FOX/JOEtv

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Seattle Weekly

KEYARENA

KEXP 90.3 City Arts MURAL

FISHER GREEN

FOUNTAIN LAWN

EXHIBITION HALL

THE PROMENADE

12:30

LIGHTS FROM SPACE

12:00 – 1:45

SEATTLE REPERTORY JAZZ ORCHESTRA MISSY HIGGINS

SKERIK’S BANDALABRA

3:00

2:30 – 3:30

GOTYE THE SOUL REBELS

5:00

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THE VERA PROJECT

THEATRE PUGET SOUND STAGE

LEO K. THEATRE

CENTER THEATRE

1 REEL FILM FESTIVAL

SPECTACLES

Presented by Seattle Center

SIFF FILM CENTER

Words & Ideas GROUNDS

12:30 – 1:00 1:00 – 2:00

1:30 – 2:30

POLECAT

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3:00 – 4:00

HOW DID THIS GET MADE?

JAMES ADOMIAN NICK SWARDSON

12:30 – 1:15

1:15 – 2:15

READ IT AND WEEP 1:45 – 2:45

5:45 - 6:45

HEARTLESS BASTARDS

PRONG

6:30 – 8:00

6:00 - 7:00

6:15 – 7:30

THE HEAVY

7:00

EYEHATEGOD

2:30 – 3:15 3:00 – 4:00

THE COMEDY STAND

4:30 – 5:30

THE BARR BROTHERS

DOUG LOVES MOVIES

4:30 – 5:30

GABE AND JENNY PAUL F. TOMPKINS

6:00 – 7:00

EIGHT AND A HALF

6:00 – 7:00

PAUL F. TOMPKINS & FRIENDS (REAL & FAKE)

AWOLNATION

JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT

8:30 - 9:45

THE HELIO SEQUENCE 9:30 - 10:45

JANE’S ADDICTION

THE JAYHAWKS

10:30

9:45 – 11:00

M. WARD

9:00 – 10:00

DAMIEN JURADO 9:30 – 2AM

BUMBERSHOOT AFTER DARK

11:00

JOHN WATERS

THIS FILTHY WORLD: FILTHIER & DIRTIER

DAMIEN LEMON KAREN KILGARIFF BRIAN POSEHN

LOVEBOMB GO-GO

2:00 – 3:00

3:45 – 4:30

MISS FANNY’S FUN BOX

Music: Metal

FLASHES OF FUNNY 2:30 - 2:45 3:30 – 4:30

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BEST OF SIFF: JURY AWARDS

Music: Bumbershoot After Dark Music: Jazz

5:00 – 6:00

5:15 – 6:15

WHY FAIRY TALES? WHY WAR ON WOMEN? WHY NOW?

ELECTION SHOW

BEST OF SIFF: AUDIENCE AWARDS

5:00 - 5:45

ELVIS PARADE

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5:30 – 6:30

NERDS UNITE

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6:45 – 8:00

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STRANGE LOVE 8:00 – 9:30

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1:00 - 1:45

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4:30 – 5:30

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4:45 – 5:45

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1:45 – 2:30

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12:00 – 1:OO

12:15 – 1:15

GALUMPHA

Legend

11:30 – 12:00

THEESATISFACTION

6:30

10:00

NUDE POP

COSMETICS

5:15 - 6:15

6:00

9:30

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SERA CAHOONE 4:15 – 5:15

5:30

8:30

BLACK BREATH 3:30 – 4:30

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12:00 – 1:00

2:45 – 3:45

JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND

4:00

8:00

THE SPITTIN’ COBRAS

UNNATURAL HELPERS

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4:30

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DON’T TALK TO THE COPS! 1:45 - 2:45

2:15 - 3:15

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1:45 – 2:45

2:30

12:15 - 1:15

TACOCAT

12:30 – 1:30

1:30

3:30

WORDS & IDEAS STAGE

11:30 – 12:15

11:45 - 12:30

1:00

2:00

BAGLEY WRIGHT

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SUB POP STAGE

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Seattle Weekly

FOUNTAIN LAWN

EXHIBITION HALL

THE PROMENADE

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12:00 – 1:45

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2:30

SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS

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interviews the Vaselines’ Eugene Kelly, nearly two decades after MTV Unplugged.)

Editor’s note: Nirvana introduced the world to the Vaselines in 1994 with the release of MTV Unplugged, which featured a cover of the punk-pop duo’s “Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam.” Here, Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and the Vaselines’ Eugene Kelly talk about the past, the present, and the pitfalls of nostalgia.

Novoselic: Eugene, how are you?

Kelly: I’m very good, thanks.

Where are you?

I’m in Glasgow. Always in Glasgow.

How have you been?

Good, yeah, good.

I’m recording you.

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Oh, you’re recording me? I’ll be very interesting, then.

Yeah, that’s the legal notice so the FBI won’t come and get me or something.

OK.

I’m going to turn you up a little bit. I’m going to turn you up, man!

Yeah, turn me up.

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How’s [bandmate] Frances [McKee] doing?

She’s doing good. I think she’s away in France just now, she’s away on a yoga retreat.

Oh wow, she’s cranking the yoga. I saw her 20 years ago and she was doing yoga.

Yeah, she’s a yoga teacher now, so she’s got a studio in the back of her house, and she travels and goes on a yoga retreat every so often.

So as a musical partner, is Frances flexible?

Yes.

Do you really hate the ’80s [as sung on the Vaselines’ “I Hate the ’80s”]?

I think we hate the nostalgia about the ’80s more than anything. The whole nostalgia thing just really annoys me, because it’s less interesting.

You know, nostalgia drives me crazy.

It’s so pervasive. It’s everywhere. People look back at the good old days, and it’s, like, they weren’t that good.

Yeah, the ’80s were pretty terrible: The politics were terrible, the fashion was terrible, a lot of the music was terrible, and there was so much crap going on. And people look back and think the ’80s were fantastic. Well, we lived through that, and it wasn’t that great.

How’s your last record, Sex With an X, doing? I really like that record.

Ward, M. (Better without his female companion.) Fans of this Portland singer/

songwriter were given a reprieve from a threeyear album drought in 2012 with the release of his splendid Wasteland Companion. Not that Matt Ward wasn’t making music: rather, he was working hard as the Him half of She and Him, a project with actress/singer Zooey Deschanel that was well-received but had a saccharine sheen that left many, myself included, yearning for a return to his more brooding style. There’s a consistent, almost

Yeah, that’s the whole key, to have as much fun as possible doing music. I haven’t been doing a lot of music. Through the grace of Dave Grohl, I’ve been going down to L.A. and played with him a little bit, and I did some things on the last Foo Fighters record. I’ve actually been playing a lot of accordion. I’m obsessed with it. It’s really crazy. I don’t know what the hell happened to me. I just picked one up one day, and have had to play it every day, all the time. It’s an obsession. But I guess there’s a lot worse obsessions. You know what I mean?

There’s a great sense of instruments lately.

My dad used to play a big—not an accordion, but with buttons on it.

You know, we were talking about nostalgia, but then there’s all these courts to the past, and they’re looming but you can’t cut ’em loose, because they’re so important. So that’s why [for] this interview, I thought, what do I talk to Eugene about? But it was kind of like, what have I not talked to him about? See what I’m dancing around here? It’s kind of like a Melvins Interview. I think you and the Melvins get the same questions. But I can’t deny things, and it would be actually bad to do so, but also at the same time, it would be almost cliché, you know what I mean? Do you have any insight at all not to answer the same questions, but an insight about my insight? [laughs]

People sort of before this, the guy kind of brings up Nirvana . . .

You said it! That’s what I was talking about. We can’t cut the past. It would be wrong.

You can’t deny it, because journalists were thinking that I want to talk about it, and some journalists think I don’t want to talk about it, and Frances and I, this is how we were known, because Nirvana covered our songs, and they introduced us to their audience, and

static quality to Ward’s solo work—not a flaw; Ward’s catalog amazes a listener time and again as he finds new spaces within his carefully curated sound (think a wicked guitarist with a warbling voice, backed by a pianist and a drummer in an empty dance hall). Wasteland Companion continues the amazement, though it’s notably more upbeat than his previous albums. Perhaps making music with beautiful actresses has certain restorative effects. DP M. Ward, 9:45 p.m.

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Thanks. We’re pretty happy with it, and I think we’re just glad we didn’t come back and just screw up. When we started, we had great fun, and we wanted to capture whatever we had 20 years ago, just writing—and that was the best part, just writing a lot. We had such a laugh, realizing this was good and making it work out for us.

some of them kind of liked it and wanted to hear some more. So that’s why we’re doing it now—because of that. I think it’s funny that some people think you want to deny that, and not talk about it, but it’s part of our story. So you can’t get around it and say we don’t want to talk about it.

Yeah, same here. I’m really proud of Nirvana and our associations—oh, there I said it—with the Vaselines, or just everything Nirvana did, so of course I’m going to talk about it or not deny it or whatever. Sometimes when I do political interviews I get really wonky about proportional representation, and then I’ll switch gears. But with music, all roads—as far as my path goes—all roads lead back to Nirvana. So that’s how it goes.

Yeah, but you have to embrace it, because that’s your story. As with our connection to Nirvana, that’s our story, and that’s where it starts. And talk about it.

Right now it’s not part of every interview, because we’re back again after 20 years, and we’ve got another record out, and hopefully another one in the future. You can talk about those things that sort of happen, now that we’re further away from the past, and we can talk about what we’re doing in the present, and that’s a good thing as well. And that’s a reason I wanted to do a new record. We wanted to be a current band. We didn’t want to be a nostalgia/heritage band. We wanted to be a modern band playing modern tunes, and also kind of a brief in the back catalog.

Do you have any closing remarks for the interview?

Not really, no. Nothing intelligent or witty.

It was all full of intelligence and wit.

Thanks, Eugene.

Yeah, nice talking to you.

Nice talking to you. Bye-bye.

Bye-bye. The Vaselines, 8:30 p.m. Monday, Sub Pop Stage

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songwriter has come out on top after abandoning his safety net.) In his 12 years as

a solo artist, folk-pop singer Tyrone Wells has done things most musicians only dream of, from signing a contract with Universal Records and releasing two successful albums, Hold On and Remain, to hearing his songs in countless movies and television shows. But he’s also done things many musicians would call crazy, including leaving Universal and again becoming an independent artist. After having a revelation on, of all places, a cruise ship, Wells just decided it was time for him to do his own thing. Though the leap may have been scary, it was the right choice. His 2009 release, Metal & Wood, spent nearly three weeks atop the iTunes Singer/Songwriter chart, and 2012’s Where We Meet might be his most personal release to date. AP Tyrone Wells, 9 p.m. Monday, The Promenade

Why? (Yes, that’s not a trick question.)

“I use the first person ’cause it sounds more urgent,” Yoni Wolf raps on the final track of Why?’s latest, the Sod in the Seed EP, “but the truth is I probably knew myself less than you

did.” It’s a typical Why? riddle—one that will resonate with longtime fans because Wolf has erected a monumental “I” over 10-plus D I N I NG indie years and four albums of idiosyncratic rock and rap. However much it reflects Wolf in real life, it’s become a complex, sickeningly enthralling character. Wolf is just as weirdly magnetic onstage, and the band is as nimble and tricky as his raps. EG Why?, 1 p.m.

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The country-bred lyricist may have seemed like a strange addition to (Eminem’s) Shady Records’ roster of household names, but he’s just the kind underdog/outsider-with-a-chipon-his-shoulder who fans want to root for. TH Yelawolf, 4 p.m. Sunday, TuneIn Stage E

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LOCAL RELEASES Art Vandelay, “Walter White” (out now,

Unimpressive Records, artvandelay206. bandcamp.com): Ricky Pharoe’s verses basically follow the story of Breaking Bad’s protagonist, which is just the kind of skewed pop-culture subject matter that suits him.

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Footwork, +JMBVM (out now, selfreleased, footwork.bandcamp.com): Guest vocalist Jamie Braden Von Mooter (JMBVM) adds some witchy rant and howl to Footwork’s heavy rumble (via Haunted Horses drummer Myke Pelly) and angular bass-guitar jags (via Wet Paint’s James David Scheall and Secondary’s Taylor Wingett) on six tracks, most of which shudder and jolt by in two-minute bursts. ERIC GRANDY (Fri., Aug. 31, Black Lodge)

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Dub & Jender, Oly 2 Bham (out now, selfreleased, soundcloud.com/dub-and-jender): Two young gentlemen take turns rapping about their everyday lives over some goofy beats. With Auto-Tuned hooks and horribly generic rhymes, it sounds as if the guys are still trying to find a good place to begin. TH

Yeah, every release

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released, goperiscope.net): A digital juggernaut rich with deep melodies and indie-rock stylings. This two-piece has created songs that dip and grow without forgetting their purpose: This music is meant to be heard live. JW

Harbor, Harbor (out now, self-released, harbor-

band.com): Despite Harbor’s serene cover art, the local trio’s debut delivers dark, heavy altrock. Chad McMurray’s deep tenor, over driving drums and thick guitar riffs, recalls Soundgarden circa Superunknown. SARAH ELSON

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Fox and the Law, Scarlet Fever (out now, self-released, foxandthelaw.com): Fuzzedout guitars and reverb-drenched vocals are the backbone of this debut full-length from a Seattle quartet that pulls as much from the White Stripes as the Strokes. It’s not supercontemporary, but it is super-rocking, and the playing is top-notch. DAVE LAKE (Sat., Sept. 22, Columbia City Theater)

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ball Music, justlikevinyl.com): Just Like Vinyl’s second album is more focused than their self-titled debut, spending more time on their heavier tendencies and offering angular riffs and a progressive hard-rock sound a la System of a Down or Coheed and Cambria. The first single, “Bitches Get Stitches,” is a good representation of the record: a slow, heavy groove that morphs into dueling guitar parts with a melodic vocal line atop it all. DL (Fri., Aug. 31, The Crocodile)

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(out now, Cloud Nice, kingdomcrumbs. bandcamp.com): An impressively produced, intelligently penned album from Seattle’s increasingly prolific Cloud Nice collective.

KC has come through here with one of the best LPs to hit the scene this year. TH (Fri., Oct. 19, Neumos)

Let’s Get Lost, House of Cards (out now, GypsyPop Records, letsgetlost.bandcamp. com): Easy, breezy indie pop punctuated by bluesy guitar riffs and laden with lush harmonic hooks you’ll be humming for days.

The thumping piano and trombone on tracks like “House of Cards” are evidence of the classic-rock influence of the Beatles and Queen. SE (Sun., Sept. 23, Crocodile)

Local Dudes, Better Place (9/1, self-released,

soundcloud.com/local-dudes): Chockablock with mercilessly straightforward rock and roll, Local Dudes’ debut LP straddles the line between Van Halen and the Black Crowes, with none of the latter’s poignancy. It’s decent background music for drinking beer and playing frisbee before a Tom Petty show at the Gorge. MIKE SEELY

Lowmen Markos, Flames (out now, selfreleased, lowmenmarkos.com): This 25minute, four-song EP never gives into postrock’s tendency toward melodrama and bombast; its abstract instrumental rock songs simmer instead of boiling over. ANDREW GOSPE Minus the Bear, Infinity Overhead (out now,

Dangerbird Records, minusthebear.com): Following a less-than-well-received exploration into bawdy electro-funk on 2010’s Omni, Minus the Bear returns to their proggy roots with this even, climax-less collection of songs featuring steely vocals and lots of guitar noodling. ERIN K. THOMPSON (Sat., Nov. 17, Showbox at the Market)

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Elverum and Sun, pwelverumandsun. com): A companion album to May’s Clear Moon, Ocean Roar in many ways feels like an odds-’n’-sods collection of outtakes (the blackmetal riffing of “Engel Der Luft”; an ambient interlude; the title track’s choral funk), but it’s no less compelling a Mount Eerie album for its variability. The thunderous guitar crashes

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On her second Sub Pop release, Cahoone continues to mine the familiar countrynoir sound that defined the soulful acoustics of her debut Only as the Day Is Long.

Similarly, her new 12-track album is filled with deep reflection and creeping time signatures, carefully brought to life by strong contributions from her longtime live band, including Jason Kardong on pedal steel, Jeff Fielder on dobro, banjo, and lead guitar, and Tomo Nakayama on piano and organ. With the help of producer Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Vetiver), Canyon rings with serene moments and thoughtfully spun lyrics and even nods to Cahoone’s recent influences—for instance, the bright, Son Volt–inspired guitar work of “Nervous Wreck” and the Vetiver-inspired bounce of closer “Oh My.” But with lyrics like “Feeling hopeless tonight/Seems to happen all the time,” which Cahoone croons in breathy tones on “Naked,” and the glacial, absorbing pedal steel on “Worry All Your Life,” this is the Sera her fans know and love: at once sad and hopeful, and just as determined to craft music directly from the heart. GWENDOLYN ELLIOTT (Sat., Sept. 1, Bumbershoot)

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Kisses (9/2, self-released, facebook. com/nightsweetpea): This record should come with a “Do Not Listen While Operating Machinery” warning label. Beautifully serene and calm, Alyse Black’s voice is the most gorgeous sound on the album, which includes a cover of “Over the Rainbow.” JW (Sun., Sept. 2, Columbia City Theater)

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Conjunctive Records, 1uppers.com): If the countrified snark of a tune like “Cadillac Truck” (towing the lyrics “You look like a dick”) doesn’t make you grin, then the driving, train-like rhythm and pedal-steel sheen of their dead-on Smiths cover “How Soon Is Now?” is sure to. GE (Fri., Sept. 14, Tractor Tavern)

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Origami Ghosts, It Don’t Exist (out now,

self-released, origamighosts.com): Somewhere between the Moldy Peaches’ anti-folk and Modest Mouse’s jangled guitar pop is this third full-length from sextet Origami Ghosts, chock-full of hyper-earnest ballads, “meow/ meow” refrains, and infectious, accordioninflected indie rock. GE (Fri., Sept. 7, High Dive)

Police Teeth, “Bellingham Media Black-

out” (out now, Latest Flame, policeteeth. bandcamp.com): The first single from Police

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Teeth’s forthcoming self-titled album (out October 16) is a gritty slice of shout-along bar rock that recalls Fugazi at its most propulsive.

AG (Sat., Sept. 22, Black Lodge) Alessandra Rose, You Are Gold (9/4, self-

released, alessandrarose.bandcamp.com): Dusky vocals, penetrating pop compositions, and capable backing from the likes of Rusty Willoughby and Christopher Jones make Gold a plush and well-conceived debut. Songs like “Love Junkie,” with a touch of Madeleine Peyroux’s honeyed warble, are filled with luscious melodies. GE (Sat., Sept. 8, Tractor Tavern)

Scriptures, Scriptures (out now, Translinguistic Other, scripturesmusic.com): Blending psychedelia and progressive metal, this fivepiece’s sprawling debut full-length is full of knotty breakdowns and wide-open ambience in equal measure. AG Seapony, Falling (9/11, Hardly Art, seapony.

bandcamp.com): The local trio’s second fulllength finds them slowly beginning to explore away from their gauzy dream-pop sound.

Falling’s most interesting songs, “Nothing Left” and “Never Be,” zip up the energy and riff a little louder than Seapony’s past fare.

EKT (Mon., Sept. 3, Bumbershoot) Shivering Denizens, Baker-Whiteley (out now, Ronerecords, theshiveringdenizens. com): Baker-Whiteley is a concept album set in a coal-mining town, yet its tracks are far from high-minded—like if you took the Drive-By

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of “Waves” and the 10-minute tidal surge-andebb of “Pale Lights” stand among Phil Elverum’s best later work. EG (Fri., Oct. 12, Cairo)

KYLE JOHNSON

The greatest flaw of this Seattle industrial band’s debut is that it can’t possibly capture the divisive energy of their live show, which benefits tremendously from singer Steve Snere’s slithering, lascivious, infamously microphone-fucking frontman antics. Its second flaw may be that, from its cover art to its dark and blurry electro-rock sound, Crypts looks like a very late entrant into the passing “witch house” trend. But if these guys are hipster goths-come-lately, Crypts also makes a strong argument for holding the clubhouse door (proverbial or Mercury) open for them. In the glassy synth choirs and morose vocals of “Territories,” the album’s longest track and the centerpiece of its first side, you can hear something like Cold Cave’s early output: aggressively noisy, with Snere’s vocals swimming deep in the mix, but masking some serious dark synthpop hooks. Elsewhere the grind is more strictly industrial: synths serrating or else sending fragile-but-clear distress signals through the murk in melodic Morse code; the rhythms an electronic bump ’n’ grind of metal pistons and pneumatic pumps; Snere screaming and, well, sneering. A scrappy but promising first effort from a band that could go on to do some truly sick shit. ERIC GRANDY (Sun., Sept. 9, Barboza)

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Not really. MS (Sun., Sept. 30, Little Red Hen) The T-Bagging Bandits, Fist Full of Whiskey (out now, self-released, facebook.com/The-TBagging-Bandits): With their old-timey countryrock sound, the Bandits should live in the South. Instead they reside at Snoqualmie Pass, play electrified versions of Johnny Cash tunes, and sing about, as the album title suggests, getting drunk all the time. ALLISON THOMASSEAU (Thurs., Sept. 13, The Crocodile) Uglyhead, The Garden (out now, Automation

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Becoming the Archetype, I Am (9/18, Solid State, iambecomingthearchetype.com): At first listen, I Am doesn’t suggest much growth from the Atlanta death-metal band. Stick with it, however; tracks like “The Eyes of the Storm” and “The Time Bender” are actually dripping with technicality and fervor. JW

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Corin Tucker Band, Kill My Blues (9/18, Kill Rock Stars, corintuckerband.

com): A riot grrrl returns to her roots: Bursting with wailing vocals and domineering guitar riffs, Tucker’s clattering new LP shrieks a lot harder than 2010’s 1,000 Years.

The hyper-catchy “Summer Jams” is the perfect last blast of heat before season’s end. EKT (Fri., Oct. 12, The Crocodile)

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Deep Magic, Closed Eyes (out now, Deba-

cle Records, debaclerecords.bandcamp. com): More delectable ambient music from local label Debacle Records and Seattle artist Alex Gray (aka Deep Magic), full of soft washes of sound, synths wavering like wind chimes, and the sparest penny-dropping percussion. EG

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Dum Dum Girls, End of Daze (9/25,

Sub Pop, wearedumdumgirls.com): The California quartet’s new EP is gorgeous in its elegiac sadness, from the lovely keen of their Strawberry Switchblade cover, “Trees and Flowers,” to the dizzying harmonies on “Lord Knows” and “I Got Nothing.” Despair has never sounded so radiant. EKT

Gaytheist, Stealth Beats (out now, Good to Die,

gaytheist.bandcamp.com): Presumably a gaytheist is a gay atheist, but judging by this Portland band’s blitzkrieg full-length, it’s also someone who knows how to write pulverizing hardcore punk songs. AG (Sat., Sept. 15, Comet Tavern)

The Helio Sequence, Negotiations (9/11, Sub

Pop, heliosequence.com): Helio Sequence’s indie rock has always been pristine and polite, carefully polished by two studio perfectionists, but Negotiations adds new layers of sonic character, stately if staid, fitting in among Beach House’s somnolent dream-pop, Fleet Foxes’ reverby chorals, or the Walkmen’s bleary balladeering. EG (Sat., Sept. 1, Bumbershoot)

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Poema, Remembering You (9/11, Tooth &

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Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., 628-3151. 9 p.m. $20 adv./$25 DOS. All ages.

ORBITAL Thursday, September 27

The peerless, undisputed highlight of the 2012 Decibel Festival, UK electronic duo Orbital has been a heavyweight since the, ahem, halcyon early-’90s days of rave in its home country, breaking through to America with the “electronica” boom of the mid-to-late ’90s. This year’s album Wonky, Orbital’s first in eight years, is a fine return to typically transcendent form, all lush synthesizer suites and lifting vocals (with Zola Jesus replacing Alison Goldfrapp). We’re lucky they’re back—and that Decibel got them. ERIC GRANDY The Paramount, 911 Pine St., 877-784-4849.

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That Barcelona-based producer John Talabot is apparently a mysterious, anonymous figure in the vein of Burial or Rex the Dog (or whatever other electronic artists wish to maintain a low profile or cultivate some extra excitement) is far less compelling than the music he makes: a moody, deep-grooving take on house that should move the Decibel Festival Finale crowd no matter whose face is behind the decks. EG Neumos. 9 p.m. $18. E

out our comprehensive music calendar, which features a show for each day of the month.

1 Amon Tobin Known both for his virtuosic sound-design abilities and his attention-grabbing live visuals, this electronic musician’s latest is 2011’s ISAM. The Moore, 1931 Second Ave., 467-5510, stgpresents.com. 8 p.m. $30 adv./ $35 DOS. All ages.

2 Pollens This Seattle six-piece incorporates drone music, polyrhythms, and complex vocal harmonies into its idiosyncratic sound. Barboza, 925 E. Pike, 709-9951, thebarboza.com. 8 p.m. $8.

3 AAIIEE Filling a niche few could have foreseen, this longtime local punk band released See You in Seattle, a concept album about the 1962 World’s Fair, earlier this summer. Funhouse, 206 Fifth Ave. N., 374-8400, thefunhouseseattle.com.

9:30 p.m. $5.

4 The Men On March’s Open Your Heart, this Brooklyn punk group refines the aggressive, gofor-broke promise of last year’s Leave Home. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8005, chopsuey.com.

8 p.m. $12.

5 Beirut Zach Condon’s indie-Balkan folk project displays its most consistent set of songs to date on last year’s The Rip Tide. The Moore.

7:30 p.m. $32.50 adv./$35 DOS. All ages.

6 Against Me! After singer/guitarist Laura Jane Grace’s widely publicized comingout as transgender, this Florida four-piece plans to release Transgender Dysphoria Blues later this year. El Corazon, 109 Eastlake Ave. E., 381-3094, elcorazonseattle.com. 8 p.m. $15 adv./$18 DOS. All ages.

7 Superhumanoids In one of the more unexpected covers you’ll hear all year, this L.A. dream-pop group offers a hazy, hypnagogic take on the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated.” Tractor Tavern, 5231 Ballard Ave. N.W., 789-3599, tractortavern.com. 9:30 p.m. $10.

8 Fucked Up A hardcore group with a literary bent, this Toronto sextet will provide a contrast to the anarchist noise-rock of tourmates Lightning Bolt. Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., 628-3151, showboxonline.com. 6 p.m. $10. All ages.

9 Chelsea Wolfe Few artists who fall under the umbrella of “folk” could tour with instrumental metal group Russian Circles, but Wolfe’s gothic take on the genre made the pairing appropriate when they were tourmates earlier this year. Barboza. 8 p.m. $10.

10 Heart On September 18, Nancy and Ann Wilson will release Kicking & Dreaming, a memoir documenting their 30-plus years of performing.

Puyallup Fair and Events Center, 110 Ninth Ave. S.W., Puyallup, 253-841-5045, thefair.com. 7:30 p.m. $25–$65. All ages.

11 The Raghu Dixit Project This singer/ songwriter’s self-titled debut was India’s best-selling non-film music release in 2011. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9442, neumos.com. 8 p.m. $18.

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12 Grass Widow This San Francisco postpunk band’s latest is the moody Internal Logic.

Chop Suey. 8 p.m. $10.

13 Pat Metheny One of the biggest names in jazz guitar, Metheny released a quartet record, Unity Band, in June. Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave., 4419729, jazzalley.com. 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. $60. All ages.

14 Hot Chip The search for a successor to LCD Soundsystem’s throne should begin and end with this British group, whose taut dance-rock is some of the best in the business. The Paramount, 911 Pine St., 467-5520, stgpresents.org. 8 p.m. $30 adv./$33 DOS. All ages.

15 Buckethead An eccentric shred guitarist, Brian Carroll is also unusually prolific— he’s put out 37 albums and been involved with more than 200 projects in his 20-year career.

The Neptune, 1303 N.E. 45th St., 877-784-4849, stgpresents.org. 8 p.m. $21 adv./$24 DOS. All ages.

16 The Fresh & Onlys Along with the likes of Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall, Tim Cohen’s band is one of the leading voices of San Francisco’s burgeoning garage-rock scene.

The Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave., 441-7416, thecrocodile.com.. 8 p.m. $10. All ages.

17 Saul Williams At this show, alternative hip-hop artist and poet Williams will perform CHORUS, a new spoken-word project. Triple Door, 216 Union St., 838-4333, thetripledoor.net. 7:30 p.m. $25 adv./$30 DOS. All ages.

18 Animal Collective The nearly four years since 2009’s Merriweather Post Pavilion have seen solo releases from members Panda Bear and Avey Tare and an AnCo visual album; Centipede Hz, the highly anticipated follow-up, drops September 4. The Paramount. 7:30 p.m. $27.25 adv./$30.25 DOS. All ages.

19 Led to Sea When not playing classicalinspired violin pop as Led to Sea, L. Alex Guy has contributed strings to music by Xiu Xiu, The Pharmacy, and Parenthetical Girls. Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave. N.W., 784-4880, sunsettavern.com. 9 p.m. $7.

20 Lush Tones This recently formed threepiece blends funk, soul, and hard rock. High Dive, 513 N. 36th St., 632-0212, highdiveseattle.com.

9 p.m. $7.

21 Father John Misty Joshua Tillman has released seven solo albums dating back to 2005, but May’s Fear Fun was the first on which he adopted the strung-out Laurel Canyon persona of Father John Misty. Neumos. 8 p.m. $16.

22 Wheedle’s Groove At this show, members of various local funk and soul groups unite to pay tribute to the forgotten Seattle funk scene of the ’60s and ’70s. The Neptune. 9 p.m. $19. All ages.

23 Tomorrow’s Bad Seeds This Southern California reggae-rock five-piece released The Great Escape earlier this year. Nectar Lounge, 412 N. 36th St., 632-2020, nectarlounge.com. 8 p.m. $12.

24 Tegan & Sara Last year, this Canadian indie group released a film, Get Along, comprising three mini-documentaries and a live album. The Neptune. 8 p.m. $35. All ages.

25 Roach Gigz Bay Area radio station KMEL recently named this MC one of the area’s 10 most promising freshman rappers. The Crocodile. 8 p.m. $10. All ages.

26 Garbage May’s Not Your Kind of People is these ’90s alt-rockers’ first album in seven years.

Showbox SoDo, 1700 First Ave. S., 652-0444, showboxonline.com. 7 p.m. $35 adv./$40 DOS. All ages.

27 Star Slinger As part of Decibel Festival, UK producer and DJ Darren Williams brings his hip-hop-tinged instrumentals to town. Neumos.

9 p.m. $18.

28 Deerhoof This San Francisco trio has churned out 11 albums of kinetic noise-pop since its inception in 1994. Vera Project, 305 Harrison St., 956-8372, theveraproject.org. 7:30 p.m. $16. All ages.

29 The Offspring This ever-irreverent punk band’s newest single, “Cruising California (Bumpin’ in My Trunk),” is meant to satirize the mainstream pop-music industry. White River Amphitheater, 40601 Auburn Enumclaw Rd., 360-825-6200, l ivenation.com. 1:30 p.m. $35–$81. All ages.

30 The Weeknd After a trilogy of mixtapes took Abel Tesfaye from obscure R&B songwriter to Drake collaborator, he made his U.S. debut at Coachella and will open several shows for Florence + the Machine this fall. The Paramount.

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to stare at an old Ford. It’s a happy, selfselecting crowd, one that’s not being dragged to see something edifying.

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he same applies at Chihuly Garden: True to the spirit of the ’62 World’s Fair, there’s hucksterism in the air, the ghost of P.T. Barnum. People know in advance what they’re getting, what’s being sold. Only here you exit through the large gift shop, where postcards start at $1 and signed prints and small glass pieces run toward 10 grand. The whole enterprise is slick and well-run, the building designed by Owen Richards with landscape architect AHBL. A screen of cedar trees on the perimeter—facing the Space Needle entrance off Broad Street—limits the picture-taking outside. Inside, if you didn’t bring a camera, a neat little kiosk allows you to e-mail approved photos to friends. (I didn’t visit the attached Collections Café, decorated with Chihuly’s own bric-a-brac, but our Hanna Raskin says it’s the best place to eat at Seattle Center.)

Chihuly’s galleries are hushed and dark, so his wares can be dramatically lit. Just about every visitor had a glowing iPhone—either to snap pictures or listen to the audio tour. Kids were better-behaved than I expected; for them, perhaps, it’s like visiting a planetarium with these giant colored orbs. Do they even miss the Fun Forest? That’s for geezers to mourn, apparently. A theater plays videos of the master at work, growling orders to his minions (“That’s the way nature would do it . . . !”). It’s self-

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clad in shiny aluminum, the museum suggests a giant metal sea slug or sushi roll basking in the salt air. Designed by L.A. architect Alan Grant, the museum stands out strikingly in its open setting. Few new buildings get such a privileged site, and I’d love to see it at Seattle Center in a face-off with Gehry.

As with any museum, the focus is interior: rows of cars parked on four descending levels. (LeMay’s original trove has been cut in half; some 300 to 500 cars will be on view in rotating groups, plus loaners from other collectors.) You enter through the gift shop, a frank acknowledgment of purpose.

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If Damien Hirst would ever like to pickle and hang a blue whale, I know just the place.

Depression, and the ACM raised most of its $65 million budget from sponsors and memberships, with Tacoma and the state kicking in about $22 million. Upstairs on the mezzanine, a cafe offers a nice view down to the main level, its ceiling vaulted with bent-wood trusses of spruce. Even if you don’t like cars, it’s a great space that could house anything.

If Damien Hirst would ever like to pickle and hang a blue whale, I know just the place.

The ramps and levels below are more conventionally garage-like, concrete and charmless. Wall photos and video kiosks offer additional information about the cars—and corporate sponsors. The sound of screaming engines is pumped into one section; in another are pay-to-play stations for slotcar racing and big-screen driving games.

Otherwise you constantly hear snapping camera shutters. Here and at Chihuly Garden, there’s no restriction on photography—unlike at most museums, and that’s part of the populist draw. Something else you wouldn’t see at SAM: A boy maybe 10 years old, lying on the floor with his colored-pencil box and paper, carefully sketching his favorite car. That’s the kind of repeat visitor all museums should try to cultivate.

Interestingly, the ACM does acknowledge non-gasoline-powered vehicles: I was amused to note more electric cars inside the museum than out in the parking lot. Visitors skew male, wearing dad jeans and comfortable shoes. They can’t touch the cordoned-off vehicles, but there’s much bending over to inspect—hands on knees—with talk of carburetors and camshafts. Enthusiastic gearheads come with advance knowledge, but it’s not esoteric knowledge. You don’t need an MFA

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This summer welcomed two new tourist museums to the region. In Tacoma, the LeMay— America’s Car Museum now houses highlights from the collection of Harold LeMay (1919– 2000), the South Sound trash-hauling baron who amassed some 3,000 vehicles. At Seattle Center, we have the $20 million Chihuly Garden and Glass, privately funded by Dale Chihuly, who needs little introduction. Both debuted in time for tourist season, so I joined the late-summer throngs to see what highbrow museum- and gallery-goers are missing.

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serving, true, but Chihuly paid for this shrine— and the city needs the sales-tax revenue.

Out in the atrium and courtyard (a perfect wedding-rental venue), there’s room to roam and tables for sitting—but not eating. Weirdly, fake bird calls are piped in, perhaps to combat the music from buskers outside. I would worry about kids running into the flower beds where glass tendrils protrude, but there are plenty of staff on duty. And anything that breaks, Chihuly Industries can easily replace.

Chihuly courts the tourists at Seattle Center.

I’m no fan of Chihuly’s work, but the execution here is satisfying, like a visit to the Apple store. Nowhere do you read the word “museum.” It’s a place of appreciation, not awe. For me, the best thing on display was a wall of Edward S. Curtis photographs of Native Americans. Maybe they’ll lead some visitors to real museums. Down in Tacoma, my favorite item was a red 1971 Ferrari Daytona—a touchstone of childhood, today worth nearly $400,000. Chihuly’s oversized baubles are out of my price range, too, but that’s what gift shops are for. Maybe an ACM key fob and a baseball cap bearing Chihuly’s Hotbox logo . . . no, wait, I don’t want to become a hoarder like LeMay or Chihuly!

Both are humble South Sound kids who did good—who built fortunes out of their private obsessions, which these mercantile museums faithfully celebrate. E LEMAY—AMERICA’S CAR MUSEUM 2702 E. D St., Tacoma, 877-902-8490, lemaymuseum.org. $8–$14.

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Whether you’ve been to Part I or not (the two biggest pieces are still there since the March opening), see this update before it closes. The Seattle artist is all about sensory confusion, when what you’re hearing and seeing don’t correspond. Upon entering, the five video panels of Circular Breathing are a visual assault; your eye scans for familiar figures, but the flicker resists any familiar pattern (narrative or otherwise). A little girl’s voice says, “Remembering is not a mental process,” even as you’re trying to recall earlier images in the stroboscopic series. (In the Switchblade gallery, the flickering video becomes overwhelming—it’s easier to close your eyes and just listen to some medical condition being described.) Depth Charge is the newest piece, with guitarist Bill Frisell rendered as a blue laser figure on the wall. In contrast to his long, dreamy solo, five monitors on the floor show Hill, also on the floor, trying to answer questions while apparently tripping hard on LSD. (“I just want to be dead!”) Connecting it all is a tangle of cables

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PORTLAND’S TOP-SHELF SHOWCASE Ian Karmel hosts Portland’s second most hilarious group of comics (after the Timbers). Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., 628-0303, comedyunderground.com. $10. 8:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 29.

FRANCINE REED With the Reed Family and the Total Experience Gospel Choir, Teatro ZinZanni’s star vocalist performs. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., mirrortent music.org. $35–$55. 7 p.m. Wed., Aug. 29.

RIVER ICE Playwrights Theatre premieres a play about a daring Czech assassination raid during WWII. Seattle Public Theater at the Bathhouse, 7312 W. Green Lake Ave. N., 800-838-3006, playwrights-theatre.org. $8–$15. Opens Sept. 1. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.–Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 16.

WESTERN WEAR N’ TEAR Midnight Mystery Theater’s new radio-theater show. Odd Duck Studio, 1214 10th Ave., 679-3271. $8. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 29.

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CABARET Showgirls and their admirers try to deny the Third Reich in Kander & Ebb’s musical. Second Story Repertory Theatre, 16587 N.E. 74th St., Redmond, 425-881-6777, secondstoryrep.org. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 2.

THE LAST LEPER OF CHARENTON The Schoolyard premieres Todd van der Ark’s 1671-set play about a French asylum. The Ballard Underground, 2220 N.W. Market St., 800-838-3006, facebook.com/TheSchoolyardSeattle. $15–$18. 8 p.m. Fri.–Sat. Ends Sept. 8.

TEATRO ZINZANNI: GANGSTERS OF LOVE Improv cutup Frank Ferrante is back as Caesar; Dietrich-like beauty Dreya Weber plays his long-lost amore Myrna.

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Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., 802-0015. $106 and up.

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EMPTY WORDS AND INDETERMINACY Spokenword pieces and music (though how do you define the difference?) by John Cage, to mark his centennial.

Neal Kosaly-Meyer, Roger Nelson, Stuart Dempster, and William O. Smith perform. Jack Straw Studios, 4261 Roosevelt Way N.E., 328-7694, jackstraw.org. Free.

Noon–midnight Tues., Sept. 4.

PACIFIC RIMS Two works by John Cage, Credo in US and Four4, on his 100th. Chapel Performance Space, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., 789-1939, waywardmusic. blogspot.com. $5–$15. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Sept. 5.

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A documentary composed of vignettes of Europe by night, shot as though through the eyes of some inquisitive, unobtrusive, silent ghost, Abendland is fringed with scenes of aspirant immigrants turned away at the continent’s door. The rest of the film raises the question of why exactly anyone would want to come to this place. The film’s principal subjects are the Eurozone’s service and security industries, showing a continent busy saving its citizens from themselves: There’s material from a phone-in psychoanalysis center, the dumping grounds of London’s surveillance-camera feed, and the detox tent at some massive Biergarten—like much of the film, mordantly funny in a kind of pursed-lips, arched-eyebrows way. Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter, steadily working since 1994 and most famed for Our Daily Bread , his 2005 survey of industrial food production, is operating along parallel lines with fellow borderjumping Austrians Ulrich Seidl and Michael Glawogger, recording under-the-hood images of the global economy’s workings. Abendland was shot in Austria, Germany, the UK, Spain, and unidentifiable other nations—though by the climactic scene, in which the camera shoulders across the endless dance floor at a coliseum rave, you notice that you no longer have any idea where you are, and that, what’s more, it doesn’t really matter. NICK PINKERTON

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Prepare to have your assumptions pitched out the window by this tense, surprisingly probing satirical documentary—not just about religious longing and “spirituality,” its ostensible subjects, either, but also about how deep the genre that gave us Borat and Morgan Spurlock’s spotty oeuvre can go. Kumaré is essentially the chronicle of a joke turned serious: Director/star Vikram Gandhi, a middle-class Indian-American from New Jersey, transforms a faltering doc project debunking bogus gurus (a couple of whom make it into the final cut, to their everlasting detriment) into an immersive lark when he assumes the movie’s titular persona. A shaggy baba complete with gobsmacked gaze, impenetrable accent, and questionable underwear, Kumaré attracts a following among

Screening the history of bootlegging in urban America led to the invention of a genre—the gangster film—but moviegoers have seen little of the hills and hollers from whence the syndicates’ potent spirits were shipped. In Lawless, the scene is laid during the Indian summer of Prohibition in Franklin County, Virginia, where the flames of stills dot the hillsides. Foremost among Franklin’s moonshiners are the Bondurant brothers: the eldest, Howard (Jason Clarke), a half-crazed survivor of the trenches of World War I; middle child Forrest (Tom Hardy), the functioning ringleader; and the callow youngest, Jack (Shia LaBeouf ), who narrates with awed reverence for his brothers. The Bondurants run a no-fuss distilling business inside the county and work hand-in-glove with local

Geyrhalter frames the modern workplace in Abendland.

law enforcement, but the status quo is upset as outsiders roll in: first Maggie (Jessica Chastain), an ex-chorus girl from Chicago; headline-news gangster Floyd Banner (Gary Oldman), who stops in just long enough to empty a tommy gun into a pursuing automobile and to win the idolatry of Jack, who has ambitions beyond his brothers’ big-fish, small-pond setup; and Federal Special Deputy Charlie Rakes (Guy Pearce), a citified dandy shipped down from Chicago to bust stills and heads. Director John Hillcoat makes genre films in an elevated style (Terrence Malick is given “special thanks”). He distills his stories into lyrical effects and a “painterly” mise-enscène, but refines quite primitive relationships into abstractions. Hillcoat achieves some indelible moments in Lawless, but the narrative often seems at odds with the director’s pictorialism, trudging when it should be striding toward the climax. NICK PINKERTON

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A more hopeful reimagining of 2001’s portrait of man/machine relations, Robot & Frank envisions a near future in which automated servants aid the elderly in their twilight years.

For retired cat burglar Frank (Frank Langella), memory loss is something to be denied, and the robot (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard) with which he’s saddled by his son Hunter (James Marsden) is an intruder to be hated— until, that is, he discovers that his mechanical assistant is willing to be trained as his thieving accomplice. Jake Schreier’s film charts their burgeoning friendship—which comes to include alternately sly and clumsy heists and cover-ups—with an attention to its protagonist’s need for a companion who, unlike Hunter and activist daughter Madison (Liv Tyler), will listen to and acknowledge him for who he is. Even in its nicely underplayed climactic revelation, this sentimental drama is more attuned to issues of acceptance and self-reflection than actual suspense, and Sarsgaard’s vocal performance deftly colors his preprogrammed remoteness with hints of

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the New Age–curious in southern Arizona despite an arsenal of idiotic fake-yoga moves, half-gibberish koans, and frequent and open admissions of his fraudulence. Incredibly, Gandhi forms a genuine, mutually enriching bond with these apostles, which serves his thesis: No single person or belief system has a lock on the cosmic, and that we’re all seekers in our own way (as opposed to exposing it as Michael Moore–style overstatement or smug posturing a la Bill Maher’s hateful Religulous).

It helps that Kumaré’s “teachings” are bolstered by Gandhi’s strict Hindu upbringing, obvious real-yoga expertise, and the memory of his devout grandmother. His refusal to make the yogi’s diverse adepts (including a stressed-out death-row attorney and a lonely single mom) look foolish or pathetic shows uncommon, admirable restraint, too. Whether Kumaré’s happy alignment of cinematic inspiration and philosophical awakening is simply a feat of editing remains an open question, and the element of racial pandering in its teacher/ student dynamic goes entirely unaddressed, but the white-knuckle climax, in which the newly shorn filmmaker reveals his inner Garden Stater to team Kumaré, is incredibly moving all the same. MARK HOLCOMB

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This Week’s Attractions » FROM PAGE 23 human curiosity and deviousness. It’s Langella, however, who ultimately props up this borderline-schmaltzy character study, exhibiting a heartbreaking sense of destabilization and confusion that nonetheless can’t quite quell his indomitable criminal—and profane crankyold-man—spirit. NICK SCHAGER

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Sleepwalk With Me OPENS FRI., AUG. 31 AT HARVARD EXIT. NOT RATED. 81 MINUTES.

Smart, funny stand-up comic Mike Birbiglia has already based a book and a touring show on his biographical woes, some of which you may also have heard on This American Life.

(Look! There’s Ira Glass in a cameo; he helped write the Sleepwalk script.) Here calling himself Matt, Birbiglia plays a mediocre Brooklyn comic pushing 30 with a wonderful girlfriend (Lauren Ambrose) and some very impatient parents (Carol Kane and James Rebhorn).

Lacking confidence or compellingly personal material onstage, Matt also has a sleeping disorder and an aversion to marriage. Sleepwalk is studded with Birbiglia’s standup buddies, including Wyatt Cenac, Kristen Schaal, Amy Schumer, and Marc Maron, who tells Matt to use his own life for joke material. Bingo!

Soon he’s piloting a hand-me-down Volvo on the Northeastern college comedy circuit, neglecting his health and girlfriend—whom, oops, he’s promised to marry! The best parts of Sleepwalk come from Birbiglia’s directaddress narration as he circles for a parking space in his wagon. He’s a flawed yet sympathetic fellow reflecting on his youth during the flip-phone ’90s. But the mature comic is more compelling than the tyro, and you’d rather see Birbiglia onstage today than Matt way back when. BRIAN MILLER E film@seattleweekly.com

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CLERKS Kevin Smith had his 1994 indie breakthrough with this amusingly foul-mouthed study in New Jersey desperation. (R) Egyptian, $8.25, Fri., Aug. 31, 11:59 p.m.; Sat., Sept. 1, 11:59 p.m.

DO THE RIGHT THING Spike Lee’s 1989 drama, set during a single hot, racially charged day in Brooklyn, remains his best and most incendiary work. (R) Central Cinema, $6-$8, Wed., Aug. 29, 7 p.m.

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H.P. LOVECRAFT DOUBLE FEATURE Scheduled are The Call of Cthulhu (2005) and The Whisperer in Darkness (2011), both based on writings by the famed occult author. (NR) SIFF Cinema Uptown, $5-$10, Aug. 31-Sept. 6, 9:15 p.m.

LOVES OF A BLONDE Uniquely dialectical, Milos Forman’s deadpan 1965 farce—in which a young woman loses her illusions, perhaps—plays as funny-sad. The largely nonprofessional actors are at once cute and ugly, his technique is both spontaneous and studied, the world is cozy yet bleak, and the filmmaker’s attitude is simultaneously tender and cruel. (NR) J. HOBERMAN SIFF Film Center, $5-$10, Tue., Sept. 4, 7 p.m.

MAGNUSON OUTDOOR MOVIES Before he was Sam in the LOTR movies (before he could shave, for that matter), Sean Astin joined fellow child actors including Corey Feldman in the 1985 fantasy-adventure flick The Goonies. Outdoor movie screens at dusk.

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MARYMOOR PARK OUTDOOR MOVIES From 1987, Rob Reiner’s charming PG-rated adaptation of the classic William Goldman children’s tale The Princess Bride is sweet, funny, and well played down the line for both parents and kids. Outdoor movie screens at dusk. (PG) BRIAN MILLER Marymoor Park, 6046 W. Lake Sammamish Parkway N.E., Redmond, movies atmarymoor.com, $5, Weds., 7 p.m. Aug. 29.

MOONLIGHT CINEMA Michael Lewis’ 2003 book concerns Billy Beane, a former ballplayer-turned-scoutturned-GM, and Paul DePodesta, an Ivy League wonk, who transformed the Oakland Athletics. Turns out that adapting Moneyball for the cineplex was fairly straightforward after all: Like every other sports movie ever, it’s the story of The Little Team That Could. Lewis’ account is simply inspiration; director Bennett Miller and writers Aaron Sorkin and Steve Zaillian boil down complex formulas to a single, simple thesis: Sign ballplayers who get on base more than anyone else. Then they hand over the movie to Brad Pitt as Beane, a former first-round draft pick exorcising his dashed-dream demons one trade, thrown chair, and turned-over watercooler at a time.

Play ball. (R) ROBERT WILONSKY Redhook Ale Brewery, 14300 N.E. 145th St., Woodinville, 425-483-3232, redhook. com, $5, Dusk, Thurs. Aug. 30.

(Ann Dowd) gets a phone call from a man calling himself Officer Daniels (Pat Healy). The cop claims that a young employee, Becky (Dreama Walker), has been seen stealing money from a customer’s purse.

Sandra takes Becky into a back room and obeys the instructions from Officer Daniels: to take off all of Becky’s clothes and search her for the stolen money.

On one level, it’s ridiculous that someone would take Officer Daniels for a real cop. On the other, it’s a little absurd that we have to take off our shoes to board an airplane. More than any other recent film, Compliance allegorizes the loss of civil liberties and creeping authoritarianism we have come to accept since 9/11.

(R) Steven Erickson Varsity HIT & RUN A cheap, silly car-chase movie with a cute girl, Hit & Run wouldn’t stand out during the August doldrums without the good-hearted direction of its writer and star, Dax Shepard. The girl is Kristen Bell, the car is a tricked-out ‘67 Lincoln Continental, and the story involves Shepard’s very Zen ex-robber (now in witness protection) driving his girlfriend to a job interview in L.A. In pursuit are her jealous ex, his federal minder (Tom Arnold), and his old criminal cohort (led by a dreadlocked and amusing Bradley Cooper). Not that the plot matters very much. What sets the film apart from today’s vidgame-influenced car flicks is the genuine, affectionate banter between Shepard and Bell (they’re an offscreen couple, too) and the odd conversational cul de sacs into which other characters drive. (R) Brian Miller Lincoln Square, Meridian, Sundance Cinemas, Thornton Place MOONRISE KINGDOM It’s 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky coast of a fictional New England isle.

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TOMATOES

With her, ripe is defined by heat, by heft in the hand, not so much perfume or the give of flesh.

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when before any method or recipe my mother sliced them in salad and we all lingered in the litter of dinner fingers allowed to slide the remaining vinegar salt pepper circles from the bowl dropping them slippery tart to our mouths although I will add they’ve been used in art for example at the museum café refreshing the water visually at first in the dispenser with floating translucent circles the greens in concentric colors more luminous the more toward the seeds in the center and then as fragrance in the glass invisibly

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arming is tough. To raise the potatoes we mash for dinner and the tomatoes which fill our summer sandwiches, growers are forced to battle banks, fight off pesky herds of deer, and figure out what to do when it doesn’t rain for five weeks straight.

Wanting to honor our local farmers’ Herculean efforts, we turned to folks who’ve taken on a similarly daunting task. Local poets who bravely wrestle with metaphors, meter, and sometimes rhyme generously responded to our call for poems about Pacific Northwest produce.

All summer long, Seattle Weekly’s food blog, Voracious (seattleweekly.com/voracious), has run poems celebrating what’s newly ripe at area farmers markets. (The Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance chipped in recipes, which you’ll find online.)

On Wednesday, August 29, we’ll celebrate our “Producing Poetry” series with a reading at the Columbia City Farmers Market, 3698 S. Edmunds St., featuring seven contributors.

The event runs from 5:30–6:30 p.m., and is open to the public. Here’s a taste of what you’ll hear, along with each poem’s corresponding fruit or veggie:

BEETS The heart of the beet is black by Marjorie Rommel

Each fall in the Skagit where roadside farms form oases among flat brown fields that stretch

one. Weigh it in your hand, test it for volume & density—this is the vault where Earth keeps her

to the horizon, beets come out of the winter ground bedraggled as bag ladies gone to moss, goblin faces

dark secrets. Cut top to bottom & held up to light a slice reveals rich-stained windows, flying

suffused with wine. Dark knobs piled in mountains on rich soil intricately tire-patterned out onto wet

buttresses, a bloody aurora. The beet is no valentine. Its heart is so red it is almost black.

roads. Where rain washes the dirt away, they glow like hot coals, like the red spot on Jupiter. Choose

Rommel is a member of the Auburn Striped Water Poets.

Once bitten there’s no stopping her, you’ve got to go all the way with her, as layer by layer drops away you find it’s all in the curve and swell of her tight wound heart.

The bitter then sweet of her sizzle gives tongue full range of pleasure.

Cousins on all continents, these broads command respect from Morocco to Myanmar, from Paris to São Paulo, stars in their own right like the great Walla Walla, sweet Southern Vidalia, the Oignon doux des Cévennes, that red-headed hot Bermuda, the child-like Cipolla Rossa di Tropea.

Johnson is a culinary-arts teacher and Food Services Manager for the La Conner School District.

MARIONBERRIES For her produce poems, Kate Lebo erased selected words from the featured fruits and vegetables’ Wikipedia entries. The original erasures are posted at seattleweekly.com/voracious.

Marionberry For the former mayor breeding is a cross between a large spine and a deep thaw The more powerful ice over the mar berry was released under the name Marion after the county adapted to the hurt Most legislators have agreed not to press the issue Lebo is a pie-baker and a 2012 graduate of the University of Washington’s MFA program.

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and as one more example my friends whose two doors take two keys code them dark green for the outer pale green for the inner “like a cucumber” they remind me dropping a set in my hands and telling me to make myself at home In addition to authoring three books of poetry, Tenenbaum plays Appalachian fiddle and banjo.

But oh, her scent once the chemise is stripped once those straps have fallen it’s no secret she can make a grown man cry.

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The Seattle-based “digital food brand,” which has been disseminating home cooks’ recipes since 1997, is redoubling efforts to upgrade the content of its international sites.

Allrecipes this summer recruited 17 foreign students studying in the U.S. to serve as recipe collectors in their home countries; each intern is charged with gathering 1,000 recipes that reflect native cooking traditions.

“When the sites are small, getting people to come to the site can be difficult,” communications director Stephanie Robinett explains.

Without much prompting, amateur cooks around the world flocked to the U.S. edition of Allrecipes because of its sheer size: Community members have contributed more than one million recipes to the site. But Robinett says international users were frustrated by recipes which called for ingredients unavailable in their hometowns. So Allrecipes in 2008 launched a United Kingdom version, quickly followed by sites in Australia, Germany, and France.

Allrecipes has since added sites in countries where the Meredith Corporation, which earlier this year purchased the brand, ran Reader’s Digest’s offices. Years of soliciting recipes for contests and cookbooks had left Meredith with a trove of material to populate the new sites in Asia and South America, although Allrecipes hopes to stimulate additional contributions through social media. “What we know is people love to experiment with recipes and love to tell people about their recipes,” Robinett says.

That guiding principle has translated to other cultures without much trouble, although Robinett admits the site has encountered the most skepticism in France, the nation which birthed celebrity chefdom and the Guide Michelin. “Of all the countries, France is where people are less trusting of home cooks, but we’re still growing really strongly there,” she says.

Recipes from the international sites are now being translated into English so Allrecipes can offer “authentic” home-cooking ideas to its U.S. readers. “We know our cooks have really great dishes, but our version of a crêpe is different from what you might find in France,” says Esmee Williams, vice president for brand marketing.

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