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The Dog Whisperer’s murderer hopes a juror’s tweets will spring him from jail.

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ury duty,” teenager Caleb Chase typed to his Twitter followers on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. “Quite likely going to end up being one of the jurors for an extremely long case.”

He did, and it was. And it continues, thanks in part to that and other tweets.

The murder trial of Michiel Oakes, accused of killing dog-trainer-to-the-stars Mark Stover in a love/hate triangle, lasted most of a month, watched closely by an American TV and newspaper audience tuned to the daily revelations of a complicated small-town murder mystery.

Labeled in some news accounts as “Seattle’s Dog Whisperer,” Stover had a dominating psychological kinship with animals. Communing on their level, he first trained a dog to behave, then its owner. His success brought

him wealth and such clients as Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, musician Eddie Vedder, and Mariner Ichiro Suzuki.

But it was untamed human relationships that led to his 2009 murder in Anacortes.

Linda Opdycke, Stover’s wife of three years, had divorced him, then accused him of stalking her.

Oakes, Opdycke’s lover—he was her “Knight,” trying to “win the hand of the princess,” a judge would later say—shot Stover and pumped three bullets into his guard dog at Stover’s Anacortes home and kennel. The dog lived while Stover died, his body never found.

John Henry Browne, a Seattle attorney with a fondness for hyperbole, defended Oakes, calling him a victim and belittling the deceased Stover as a “domestic-violence terrorist.”

Oakes was claiming self defense, offering up a dented armored vest that indicated it had been hit by a round from Stover’s gun. But prosecutors said that not only was Stover unarmed and killed in cold blood, but someone likely hired

Michiel Oakes is led away at Skagit County Superior Court on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010.

Oakes was convicted for the murder of celebrity dog trainer Mark Stover.

Oakes to take out the dog whisperer. Opdycke denied it was her or her wealthy father.

A jury would decide, and Caleb Chase had become a member of it.

“On jury trial that is expected 4-5 weeks,” the religious, 19-year-old church guitarist told friends via Twitter Sept. 29, 2010, the day the trial began in Skagit County Superior Court in Mount Vernon. “Wow, talk about intense. This is going to be an interesting month.”

The trial would wind up Oct. 22 with Chase and his fellow jurors rendering a unanimous guilty verdict on the first vote.

Oakes, still professing his innocence, was sentenced to 26 years and is now in the state penitentiary at Walla Walla.

As Chase would tell followers on his Twitter feed that day: “Oh, and Dateline [NBC] wants to interview any/all of us on the jury. I’m think[ing] that I will probably say yes.”

The defense, judge, and prosecutors recently learned that Chase had sent at least 20 tweets throughout the four-week trial, and they’ve now become the basis for an appeal by the man he helped convict.

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apers were filed in Skagit County last month alleging that Chase’s tweets violated Oakes’ right to due process and a fair and impartial jury. The fate of the dog whisperer’s murder case now rests in part on the silent messages of a tweeting juror.

Though other social-media issues have been argued on appeal, this is thought to be the first Twitter appeals case in state history. “During the 17 years I served on the Supreme Court of Washington,” says recently retired Chief Justice Gerry Alexander, “the court was never confronted with

“They make it sound like I’m sitting there in the jury box with my phone in my hand, and that’s certainly untrue.”

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Stover, left, had a domineering psychological kinship with canines.

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n the trial’s opening day, the state laid out its case, claiming Oakes arrived at Stover’s home wearing an armored vest and bringing weights, rope, and camouflage material to use in disposing of the body. As The Seattle Times reported then, prosecutor Kaholokula introduced the case’s main cast of characters:

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Both issues were discovered after the trial, she says. Oakes’ brother, Tim Oakes, read about a recent landmark Arkansas Supreme Court decision that reversed the conviction of a death-row inmate because a juror had been tweeting during the trial. Tim then searched the Internet to see if jurors in his brother’s case had tweeted, discovering the posts on Chase’s Twitter page.

“If the [Skagit] judge denies our motion, then we’ll include these new issues in our brief to the court of appeals,” seeking a new trial at that level, Elliott said last week. “But we see them as extremely important issues for appeal.”

Asked about the issues, Skagit County senior deputy prosecutor Rosemary Kaholokula, who headed the Oakes prosecution team, said “We have not yet filed a response, and no, we have no comment.”

On his Twitter page (@chasecaleb), Chase describes himself as “a hardcore, radical Jesus addict. He is what I’m all about.” He’s posted more than 1,600 tweets and has 94 followers.

He links to a website as well, where he regularly posts and discusses Bible verses.

A sound engineer, Chase lives in Auburn and works for a church, the International House of Prayer Northwest in Federal Way, which he refers to as IHOP in his tweets.

He says he’s stunned to learn his Twitter “ramblings” could lead to the reversal of an outcome he thinks was just.

“I recall the judge making a big deal out of not talking to anyone, and we all took it very seriously,” says Chase, now 20. “I don’t recall the tweets, other than they were nothing very relatable or identifiable to the trial, other than telling people I was on jury duty.”

Chase says he tweeted from the jury room and could have been using either his smartphone or a laptop he’d brought. But as he

points out, he doesn’t appear to have commented directly on the trial itself, nor revealed jury discussions or his own feelings on Oakes’ innocence or guilt.

As the trial began on Sept. 29, for example, he tweeted, “Jury panel room has fresh coffee, water bottles, sodas and an assortment of muffins and hard candy. Not bad!” He then responded to a tweet from one of his Twitter followers, “Oh, I know, donuts tomorrow. The bailiff will basically do/get anything for us that the budget can fit.”

But in her brief for a new trial, Elliott argues that Chase and the other jurors had been warned by the judge not to discuss any aspects of the trial with persons other than jury members. And though the tweets never specifically reveal on which case Chase is sitting, some of his followers or anyone visiting his Twitter page might have been able to match the Oakes case to his Twitter clues, since the trial was generating daily headlines.

“Well,” says Chase, “they make it sound like I’m sitting there in the jury box with my phone in my hand, and that’s certainly untrue.”

Besides, he asks, how could a few innocuous tweets cancel out all that impressive evidence piled up by prosecutors against Michiel Oakes?

“From my perspective as a juror, the case was laid out clearly, and once we started to piece it together, the outcome was obvious, and we all, I assume, stand by it today.”

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a case where a juror was tweeting during a time when the juror was empaneled.”

But social media are having a growing impact on court cases here and elsewhere. “Most states have updated their jury instructions to tell jurors not to use the Internet or social media,” says Eric Robinson, deputy director of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Courts and Media at the University of Nevada-Reno.

“A few courts—the best, in my opinion—also explain the rationale for this decision. Of course, even if these warnings are included in the jury instructions, it’s hard to know how many judges are actually using them.”

Oakes’ appeal attorney, Suzanne Lee Elliott of Seattle, says she hopes to be granted a hearing on the issue this month or next. She has delayed filing an opening brief with the state appellate court, and is first appealing to the original trial court in Mount Vernon to grant a new trial. Besides the charge of juror tweeting, she is raising another new issue, claiming Oakes was denied due process by being arraigned for Stover’s murder in a closed courtroom without an attorney present.

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Renowned dog trainer Stover, 57; his ex-wife Opdycke, 45, the daughter of wealthy Eastside businessman Wally Opdycke, who once co-owned Chateau Ste. Michelle winery and ski manufacturer K2 Corp; and Oakes, 42, a security buff whom Linda Opdycke hired as her bodyguard and later took as her lover.

“Mark loved her very much,” Kaholokula told the courtroom, and was devastated by their 2008 divorce. “He behaved stupidly,” she said, “continuing to make contact with her that culminated with Mark rummaging through rubbish at her house” in Winthrop.

That led to a stalking conviction for Stover in Okanogan County that forced him to give up the several firearms he owned. He eventually moved on and found someone else to love, the prosecutor said. But Opdycke “maintained, or formulated, some belief that she was in danger from Mark,” Kaholokula said. “She was armed to the teeth. She trained guard dogs and had security around her house.”

She also hired Oakes to protect her.

Throughout the trial and afterward, prosecutors and investigators suggested Opdycke had a hand in sending Oakes to Stover’s home, but she has vigorously denied any role in the murder.

That first day was apparently a trying one for juror Chase. As he later tweeted, “I’m trying not to blow up at my family. Jury duty all day

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then worship practice…not enough space for an introvert.” (He was then commuting from Skagit County to the church in Federal Way.) As the prosecution moved forward, evidence of Stover’s blood in Oakes’ car was introduced, along with other factors intended to show Oakes had planned the killing. Approaching Stover’s home, Oakes reportedly shot Stover’s dog, Dingo, three times in the head, then killed Stover inside the home. (Dingo has since died of cancer.)

“I don’t believe the judge said anything about not tweeting,” Chase now says.

“And if he had, I certainly wouldn’t have done it otherwise.”

Only a few days into testimony, Chase tweeted, “Pretty sure I’m way past exhausted.

Eight hours of jury duty, six hours of driving, and four hours at IHOP. Wow.” Then things seemed to smooth out.

Oct. 6: “Cake in the jury room,” with a smiley face.

Oct. 7: “Played Apples to Apples [a party game] for an hour during jury duty.”

Oct. 11: “I’m on jury duty right now,” later adding: “2.5 hour lunch break: massive win.”

By then, the prosecution had rested, and local defense attorney Corbin Volluz,

co-counsel with Browne, was telling jurors they were about to hear “the rest of the story,” including Opdycke’s “nightmare with Mark Stover,” according to news reports.

She was always armed, even sleeping with a gun, Volluz told the court. Then she hired Oakes as backup. He had gone to Stover’s home to reason with him, only to find himself in the middle of a gun battle for his life.

On the witness stand, Opdycke painted Stover as a dangerous man, recalling a night when “I woke up with Mark in my bedroom . . . And he had a pistol in his hand, and laid it on the pillow next to my head.”

The prosecutor questioned Opdycke’s motives in testifying for Oakes. If she could help her boyfriend establish a self-defense case, Opdycke was asked, wouldn’t that get her off the hook, too?

“What do you mean by that?” Opdycke asked.

“If a jury were to find that this was selfdefense, you wouldn’t have any more liability, either,” said Kaholokula.

“I have no liability in this case,” said Opdycke.

It was a dramatic point in the trial, with the defendant, Oakes, about to to testify. Tweeted Chase on Oct. 12: “I’m living a reality-TV show because of the trial I’m on for jury duty,” later adding to a follower who asked about the case, “I just can’t say what case or anything until it’s over lol.”

That day, Oakes was sworn in and told his self-defense story: Stover had demanded they meet at Stover’s home, where Oakes hoped

to settle things peacefully, though he took the precaution of wearing a Kevlar vest. He planned to ask the dog whisperer to back off from Linda, when Stover—though he was prohibited from having firearms—produced a gun.

“He caught me totally by surprise and shot me in the vest and he was not wearing Kevlar and he was shot,” said Oakes. He then shot Stover’s dog after it attacked him, he said.

Oakes panicked, he said. Rather than call police, he tried to cover up the crime, dumping Stover’s body into the nearby Swinomish Channel at Padilla Bay, just behind the Swinomish Casino and Lodge.

But, contrary to Oakes’ testimony, prosecutors and investigators contended he shot a hole in his own vest to suggest Stover had fired at him. They also felt he didn’t dump the body where he said he did. Were they to find it, said Skagit County Sheriff’s detective Dan Luvera, “It’s gonna tell us that Mark was probably shot in the back of the head or in the side of the head. It’s gonna tell us stories that Michiel Oakes does not want us to know.”

As the case went to the jury, Chase tweeted on Oct. 15, “Jury duty wisdom of the day: boats are cheaper than wives.”

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he following Monday, the 12member panel was confined to the jury room on the first day of deliberations. No one on the outside knew what was happening. But Chase let his followers know that, whichever case he

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“Wow,” he tweeted. “Sitting in the jury duty room listening to people casually having a conversation about new age rituals and no clue what to say.”

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The second day, responding to a follower who tweeted she was tired, he wrote: “UG me too. Exhausted to the max from jury duty plus running sound at church plus playing at IHOP plus driving equals 65-75 hours a week.”

The guilty verdict was announced on Oct. 22, 2010, to a packed courtroom. Oakes took it quietly, hugging his three children from a former marriage, while some in the audience cheered. Judge Mike Reichardt would later hand down the 26-year sentence, describing the killing as a variation on a story from the ages: “How does the Knight win the hand of the princess? He goes out and he slays the dragon.”

Still, Reichardt added, “I almost have more questions now than I had when we picked the jury. I don’t know where Mr. Stover is, but I’m pretty sure I know where he isn’t, and that’s off the dock at the end of the Swinomish Channel.”

Caleb Chase wound up his trial tweets on the final day with a flourish: “Finished jury today. Defendant was convicted. It was an intense four weeks.”

Followed by: “It was a first-degree murder trial of Oakes. He was convicted for killing T. Mark Stover, a famous dog trainer.”

“It was covered by local news plus four national shows, including Dateline and 48 Hours. Dateline wants to interview me.”

Later on, he sent a hyperlink: “Seattle Times article on the case I was on jury.”

His final related tweet, according to court filings, was Nov. 15, after the Skagit Valley Herald published a picture of jurors and reported on their deliberations.

“Made it on the front page of the county newspaper yesterday, big color picture and everything!” he wrote, adding in a follow-up, “Yes. That’s me on the front page. I feel so special.” He also linked to his Tumblr site, which featured a picture taken of the front page.

“I don’t believe the judge said anything about not tweeting,” Chase now says. “And if he had, I certainly wouldn’t have done it otherwise.”

Did any other jurors tweet? “If they did, I don’t have a clue.”

In her argument for a new trial for Oakes, attorney Elliott observes that the Oct. 18 tweet, in which jurors talked about “new age rituals,” effectively “revealed jury-room discussions on the very day the case had been given to the jury for deliberations. This was despite repeated warnings from the trial judge instructing the jurors not to discuss the case.” Such “conduct undercut the right to a fair and impartial jury. Mr. Oakes should be granted a new trial, at which further precautions can be taken to avoid similar problems,” Elliott says.

New precautions may be in order either way, agrees legal expert Robinson in an e-mail.

“There are an increasing number of cases [nationwide] in which jurors have been found using the Internet and social media for everything from ‘friending’ fellow jurors to researching legal terms online.” But “in general, courts have allowed verdicts to stand or not declared mistrials in cases where jurors have tweeted, posted Facebook messages, et cetera, as long as the content of the posts has nothing to do with the case and does not reveal anything about the jury’s deliberations.”

That seems the situation in the Oakes case. Still, this past December, the Arkansas Supreme Court reversed a murder conviction and death sentence in a 2010 case where one juror tweeted during the trial, while another fell asleep.

“Both these problems, the court said, constituted juror misconduct requiring reversal and a new trial,” Robinson points out. “The court was particularly concerned about one of the juror’s tweets, ‘Its over,’ sent 50 minutes before the jury informed the court that it had agreed on a sentence.”

The defendant, Erickson Dimas-Martinez, had been convicted in 2010 of robbing and shooting a teenager. The juror’s Twitter feed, followed by at least one journalist, gave “advance notice that the jury had completed its sentencing deliberations before an official announcement was made to the court,” the court ruled.

By contrast, Chase’s most revealing tweets were apparently all made after the verdict was announced. Chief Justice Alexander says he “would be surprised if a court takes the position that tweeting by a juror automatically justifies a new trial. Over the years I have seen a number of [non-Twitter] cases where it was alleged that the juror was talking about the case with someone during the course of the trial. Those incidents don’t ordinarily result in a new trial unless the juror gained some information they should not have received or he or she expressed their views about the case.

“I, of course, don’t know how Washington courts will look at tweeting,” he adds. “As they say, we shall see.” E

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ou’ll find two main varieties of SIFFgoers at the Seattle International Film Festival, now in its 38th year. First are the savvy veterans, passes dangling on lanyards, schedules heavily annotated, iSIFF apps glowing onscreen while standing in the short line. They buy their premium passes before the schedule’s even announced. They’re members of SIFF year-round.

They’re always early to the screenings, comparing notes, wearing comfortable shoes. Then there are the random, almost accidental SIFFgoers, the “Hey, what’s this line all about?” passersby. If late tickets are available (most screenings are $11 this year), they join the long line—sometimes just out of blind curiosity. It’s like restaurants: A crowd implies quality. So my question is, in choosing among the 273 features and docs (plus nearly 200 shorts), who has more fun? Who has more sense of discovery—the die-hards or the newbies? The former camp tends to do homework in advance, parsing IMDb and other festival reviews. If they know the director, another movie about grain threshing in Kazakhstan won’t seem so daunting. For the impulse filmgoer, there’s the satisfaction of weathering something completely unexpected—and sometimes even wonderful. Even a bad movie can be, in its obdurate challenges, a “Wow, Thai brothel workers have it even worse than I imagined” kind of revelation. SIFF needs both contingents—the grizzled passholders and the fresh blood—and it rewards them both, too.

Hey, what movies are opening this weekend?

This week, we talk with Seattle See seattleweekly.com/movies for indie queen Lynn Shelton, discuss reviews of Battleship, Bernie, The Dictator, Mansome, and What to a local documentary 10 years in the Expect When You're Expecting. making, and offer 12 short reviews.

Plus other local film events.

During our next three issues, we’ll continue our week-by-week approach to the fest, which runs Thursday, May 17–Sunday, June 10. As always, we’ll also be adding daily new reviews, interviews, and SIFF news to our website (see seattleweekly.com/movies and, when in doubt, consult siff. net). SIFF’s main venues this year are the Egyptian, Harvard Exit, Pacific Place, and SIFF Cinema Uptown, with satellite screenings at the Everett Performing Arts Center, Kirkland Performance Center, and Renton IKEA Performing Arts Center. See you in line.

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For decades, it seems, Seattle’s tiny film community has been waiting for The Next Big Thing—some breakout talent who would put us on the moviemaking map. Instead, however, Lynn Shelton’s Humpday drew praise at Sundance and SIFF three years ago for its small-scale humanism. She’s not working big but working steadily: She just filmed her fifth feature here in town, and her fourth, Your Sister’s Sister, is an intimate three-hander set mostly in a vacation home up in the San Juans. Mark Duplass is back from Humpday as an aging, grieving slacker, Jack, who has an ill-advised, drunken fling with Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt), the sister of his good friend Iris (Emily Blunt), who arrives to find unexpected tensions in the

Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt in Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister's Sister.

cabin. In outline, Your Sister’s Sister could be a bed-hopping farce, but Shelton is less concerned with the sex than the emotional consequences. Hannah was recently dumped by her girlfriend. Jack’s dead brother once dated Iris, the high achiever in the bunch. As with Humpday and her prior My Effortless Brilliance, Shelton’s characters tend to be yearning and groping toward change in their lives. Jack seems harnessed by grief or bitterness; Hannah worries that she’s too old, that she’ll never have kids; and Iris has a secret to spill. Shelton lets her cast improvise on the three characters’ longing and confusion. The result is a talky, naturalistic film, with many moments of humor (but no punch lines) and truth—the latter often eloquently expressed with silence.

BRIAN MILLER (See our Q&A with Shelton on page 12. The film opens nationally June 15.)

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Then you turned more to photography and video. Why?

In the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a visual artist. I was in the darkroom all the time in high school. I would take portraits of people for the yearbook and sort of hide behind the lens. [Photography] allowed me to transfer my addiction. I didn’t have to ask permission to make my art. Then I took this video workshop, and it’s like, This is my medium! I was approaching film as a painter or a photographer, as a solo artist, doing everything myself. The idea of film as a collaborative art was totally foreign to me.

Did you reach a point after nine years when you were done with New York?

SW: Growing up in Seattle, were you a theater geek or movie buff?

Shelton: I think I really identified myself

as an artist. I was really shy. I started out as an introvert. I started writing poems when I was 8. When I was 11, I took a clown class!

It was at what turned into Seattle Children’s Theatre. And that was just a total lifechanger. Every class they offered, I would take. I was acting and writing and was a photographer.

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t’s quite the honor to be selected as SIFF’s opening-night feature, particularly when Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister is the first genuinely local film ever to launch the fest. (Battle in Seattle, at SIFF ’08, was merely shot here by visitors.)

Shelton started at SIFF ’00 with a documentary short, then brought three features to SIFF in the next nine years—including her 2009 breakout Humpday, which got a national release and earned Shelton a guestdirecting shot on Mad Men. And in the weeks before this year’s fest, she’s been filming her latest feature (working title: Touchy Feely) in locations around Seattle. (Yet another movie, with Paul Rudd, is planned for later this year.)

So, given her prodigious workload, I decided to spare Shelton the usual kaffeeklatsch and pose a lightning round of questions, which suits her warm, effusive conversational style. (“I tend to ramble . . . ”) Answers have been condensed and edited. See page 10 for capsule review and screening details.

Shelton grew up in Maple Leaf and graduated from Garfield HIgh and the UW.

When did movies enter the equation?

I always loved film. I think one of the earliest influences for me was Woody Allen.

And Monty Python! In high school, I went to the movies a lot. In college, I would see two, three movies a day at the Seven Gables, the

“I’d be crushed because I didn’t get the audition.

As an actor, you’re waiting around to be chosen.

You’re waiting for permission to do your work.”

Varsity, the Grand Illusion. One of the things I remember really vividly was that the Grand Illusion had a Jean-Luc Godard retrospective.

And I was at that theater every day for matinees and double features. I saw them all so close together that they’re all kind of one big movie in my head!

What happened at UW drama school and afterward?

My freshman/sophomore years, I was really ambitious—I wanted to be Meryl Streep! But the ambition kind of melted away. After college, I remember thinking I could apply to film school, but it just felt too

It wasn’t shared at all. [Kevin] loved it. He didn’t want to leave.

For me, when I started in New York, it felt like the energy of the city was feeding me. I was fired up. But by the time we left, it was the opposite. I felt like it was sucking me dry. The only way I could drag him back was that I was literally about eight months pregnant when we drove back across the country.

Is success more meaningful now than it might’ve been in your 20s?

intimidating. I didn’t have the confidence.

There was this turning point when I moved to New York. I didn’t know anybody. It was really difficult to figure out how to break in. The performing experiences I had were at these kind of downtown cafes. I worked on these very downtown, low-rent productions, building the sets and so on. It was exhausting: I’d be working 10 jobs during the day and then do that at night. I never got an agent. I’d be crushed because I didn’t get the audition. As an actor, you’re waiting around to be chosen. You’re waiting for permission to do your work.

God, yes, absolutely! It really is. When I applied to grad school in acting, I only applied to NYU. I didn’t hear anything from them [after auditioning]. It was horrible! It was crazy-making! I called Rainn Wilson, and he said, ‘You were at the top of the waiting list. You came a hairsbreadth from getting in.

You were very close.’ And I think about that a lot! If I’d gotten in, I can’t even begin to imagine where I’d be now. You think about those forks in the road. I thought I wanted this other thing, but I don’t ultimately think it would’ve been a great idea for me. As a director, I’ve never loved acting more.

Meanwhile, what was your view of showbiz in the ’90s, given that your boyfriend (now husband) Kevin Seal was already in the industry?

After marriage, motherhood, and years of striving, what other perspective on filmmaking have you gained?

He was working for MTV for two years before I moved to New York. He’d come back to Seattle to visit, and we’d go out to movies at the mall. And it was insane! People would recognize him and mob him! And I was like, This is horrible! I remember very distinctly seeing what [fame] was like. That helped to dampen feelings I might’ve had about being a famous actor. I didn’t want any part of that.

It was really creepy to me—sort of scary and kind of annoying.

I can’t wait around for years for a movie to get developed. At the age of 40, I had a very clear sense that I had a certain number of years left on the planet that I did not have at the age of 20 or 25. You’re fully grateful and fully aware that you are blessed to discover something that makes you so happy and so fulfilled. You don’t want to waste a second. I want to make as many movies as I can. I don’t want to be sitting around. E bmiller@seattleweekly.com

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Why a local filmmaker spent a decade following two Mormon kids from Shoreline.

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its subjects over the span of 10 years, makes you think of the British Seven Up! documentary series (now in its eighth iteration), it’s no coincidence. “I love the BBC series Seven Up! and clearly stole the idea of doing a longitudinal study from them,” confesses Seattle filmmaker Rick Stevenson, “but one of the things I didn’t like about how they handled it was how all the kids became media stars at age 7. It totally affected their stories.”

So in 2001, after becoming a husband and a father himself, Stevenson began to interview 60 schoolkids in Shoreline, starting at age 10 and then following up every year.

His plan was to observe their evolution over time, sit on the footage, then produce his first documentary. Stevenson has a long resume as a producer (Restless Natives, Some Girls) and director (Magic in the Water and Expiration Date, seen at SIFF ’06), jobs that often forced him to travel away from Seattle. “I began the

project as a way to spend time with my family,” he says.

When his father, William, former superintendent of the Shoreline School District, watched the early interviews, he saw the potential for something much bigger than a single film. He envisioned a school curriculum for kids to examine themselves and make sense of the most confusing time in their young lives. William Stevenson died in 2009, but his advice spurred Rick to expand his scope. He created The 5,000 Days Project, named for the number of schooldays before college, focusing on the years between 10 and 20, “the time when selfreflection sets in.”

In Two Brothers, Sam and Luke Nelson are two of the kids from the initial pool of 60. They were first interviewed at age 10 and 8, respectively, in 2001. They are also Stevenson’s nephews, he explains: “I’m a Protestant Christian, and I married into a Mormon Christian family, of which there are a huge amount of similarities and very few

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differences. But those differences tend to keep people apart for ridiculous reasons. I’m all about building bridges.” (Mitt Romney, are you listening?)

Sam and Luke’s faith is an integral part of their story: During the film, both embark on two-year church missions (Sam to Chile, Luke to Cambodia). Yet what drew Stevenson’s interest was their initially fractious relationship—which over the years they acknowledged and repaired to become best friends. He first created a 12-minute short about the boys, edited by partner Kevin Klar, which caught the interest of BYUtv, Brigham Young University’s campus TV network. BYU offered to fund a full-length documentary about the Nelson boys, then in their late teens. “I was the first non-Mormon to ever go on a mission and film,” Stevenson

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They broke a lot of protocol to allow me to do this.” Though, he’s quick to point out, he maintained final cut over the doc. (Half-hour portraits of other kids run as Listen on BYUtv and the web.)

If you’ve noticed those “I’m a Mormon” ads on Metro buses, don’t worry that Stevenson is shilling for the faith. We don’t see Mormon kids in Two Brothers, we just see ordinary kids: running for student government, playing sports, applying for college and athletic scholarships. (Luke plays football for BYU.) And they face the same issues that kids all over the world face: low self-esteem, loneliness, alienation, even depression. Those are the strongest elements of Two Brothers, which often plays like a PBS doc on adolescence, filled with talking heads, generic background music, and montages of the Nelsons at play. What distinguishes it from reality TV or feel-good news stories is the intimacy and candor of the boys’ conversations. Sam struggles with depression, and his transformation from bully to protective big brother is authentic and moving.

Now 21 and back from Chile, Sam tells me

of those turbulent years, “It’s not really cool to talk about it with your friends. It’s not really cool to talk about it with your parents, either. You’re kind of on your own. It’s a hard time.” (Luke is still in Cambodia; he and Sam remain close via e-mail.)

Stevenson sees that communication as a lifeline—and as the unifying theme of his project. “Over my 11 years with these kids,” he says, “the thing that’s emerged that’s most common among all of them—despite economic background, despite their home lives, despite education, despite even their genealogy—almost every kid at age 12, 13, 14 feels really alone.” Crucially, during the project’s long self-funded gestation, he told all his subjects they’d have final say over whether their interviews would be used in the final film (or films).

Along the way, however, Stevenson’s 5,000 Days Project was in fact adopted by the Shoreline School District. “Suddenly I was getting paid to do this, which helped,” he laughs. He helped develop a program for kids to record their own video diaries, expanding it to a new website, twobrothersthemovie. com. Today there are 200 local kids whom Stevenson still interviews. Even more create video diaries through school programs he helped set up in eight countries, including Canada and Australia.

Says Stevenson, “When you throw together the cocktail of hormones and the battlefield of middle school and all of the familial influences on a child, that’s a pretty confusing emotional world that kids grow up in.” Accordingly, Two Brothers and its related programs are meant to be more than just documentaries for us to watch at film festivals. After being scrutinized on camera for so long, Sam Nelson says the regular interview schedule “forced me to become more self-reflective and think about things that I probably wouldn’t have thought about otherwise.” By that measure alone, the project is a success. E

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TED ALCORN

Something of a living wake, and a certainly a colorful postcard from Senegal, Tey’s original French title is Aujourd’hui—meaning today, the very hour of now, the present moment with all its mortal urgency. But FrancoSenegalese director Alain Gomis actually has a larger time frame in mind for his protagonist, Satché (New York poet and actor Saul Williams), whom we meet on the morning of his funeral. At first, it’s a jarringly joyous occasion, full of tributes from family and greetings from friends. He’s paraded through the streets of Dakar in a red shirt like some kind of celebrity. He’s fixin’ to die, and we have no idea why. The camera follows him to a party, his uncle’s house, a skyscraper art gallery (where a beautiful curator awaits), a government reception, and through traffic-choked streets where urchins beg for change. Around him are squalor and pride. “He’s been chosen,” declares an elder of Satché, who says nothing for the movie’s first half-hour. Is he some cryptic African Christ, trudging to the cross? Tey is more allegory than story, a film that layers enigma on enigma. (It’s also beautifully photographed by Crystel Fournier.) By the time Satché’s wife, kids, and domestic life are revealed (with colors suddenly toned down), you’re unclear if he’s dreaming, dying, or simply traveling through African time— from his glorious ancestors to the mundane present. If this is limbo, it’s a good place to be.

BRIAN MILLER (Also 2:30 p.m. Sat., May 19.)

that he allows Klayman to use. It’s generous, but also part of his own careful image management. An English speaker who spent a dozen years in New York City, Ai has to juggle art, commerce, global celebrity, politics, and a somewhat messy personal life (he has a child with a woman not his wife). He uses his fame shrewdly but not always cautiously: one of his fact-finding missions results in a police beating, which of course he films. Ai is puckish, funny, bold, and a thoroughly wired modern artist. As he says (before arrest) of the media, “If it’s not publicized, it’s like it never happened.” BRIAN MILLER (Also 4 p.m. Sat., May 19.)

P Ai Weiwei: What with the dramatic escape and U.S. embassy standoff of blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, you can’t get much more timely than this documentary profile of the renowned artist, blogger, and fellow activist, who was incarcerated (and silenced thereafter) for several months last year. Those events conclude Alison Klayman’s film, which follows Ai for more than a year from his Beijing home to his studio to London and Germany for big museum shows. The access—and Ai’s outspokenness on camera and via Twitter— are fairly remarkable, but he’s really an equal partner with journalist Klayman on the project. His own camera crew and staff constantly follow him, and he’s made docs on controversial topics like the 2008 Sichuan earthquake (shoddy “tofu” school construction, government graft, 5,000 children killed)—footage

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I love a good bummer as much as the next man, and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles is certainly a good bummer—maybe even a double-bummer, now that I think of it. Roman Polanski took his crack at the novel in 1979, making a star of Nastassja Kinski; a silent adaptation dates from 1913; and you can find the 2008 BBC miniseries (starring Gemma Arterton) on DVD. So what new spin can director Michael Winterbottom possibly bring to the tragedy? He stages it in caste-divided India, and even recruits Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto to play his doomed heroine. Trishna is a peasant girl in Rajasthan, educated enough to speak English and work in a hotel. Jay (Riz Ahmed) is an idle, British-educated hotelier’s son who doesn’t even speak Hindi (much less Marvadi, the local dialect), but he’s got an eye for beauty—and Trishna is a beauty. Their romance takes them from one palatial hotel to another, where caged birds sing and maids gossip; there’s an enjoyable interlude in Bombay, where Jay tries to produce movies and Trishna takes dance lessons with Bollywood stars. (Amusingly, some play themselves.)

But we know where things are headed: Jay has all the power, Trishna has none, and he’s a shallow, easily bored sort. Perhaps because of

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» FROM PAGE 17 this, and having done a straight Hardy adaptation with the 1996 Jude, Winterbottom dwells on his story’s incidental pleasures: Jay’s rowdy English friends, his blind father (Roshan Seth, excellent in his few scenes), and dinner parties in Bollywood. It’s the same digressive strategy used in The Trip or 24 Hour Party People; for a while you can deceive yourself that things will work out for Jay and Trishna. But Hardy always closes the book on such hopes.

BRIAN MILLER (Also 3:30 p.m. Sun., May 20.)

Jeremy (Mark Kelly) and Mark (Steve Zissis) are two brothers who compete in The Do-Deca-Pentathlon.

extended to 80 minutes when 30 would’ve sufficed. But it does contain a fundamental truth about (at least some) brothers: “We have fun by beating the shit out of each other.” BRIAN MILLER (Also Pacific Place, 4:30 p.m. Tues., May 22.)

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Those alarmingly prolific Duplass brothers, Mark and Jay, are back with another tale of sibling rivalry. Jeff, Who Lives at Home was just in theaters this past March, and The Do-Deca-Pentathlon is currently scheduled for a July release. (When will they make a movie about rivalrous sisters?) Here, Steve Zissis and Mark Kelly play two soft-bellied bros in their unhappy 30s. One’s married and a father, the other a poker-playing black sheep. All convene at Mom’s house for a weekend birthday gathering, where the brothers resurrect a 25-event contest that ended in a bitter tie when they were teens.

Ping-pong, laser tag, bumper cars, minigolf, and holding one’s breath underwater are among the categories on a contract they solemnly sign, wherein the winner shall be declared “the better brother for eternity.” All the while, Mom, wife, and son must be kept in the dark about the contest (though they eventually catch on). Do-Deca apparently sat on the shelf for a while after Baghead, but it’s a better, funnier, but still awkward film (that’s a compliment)—and an advance beyond mumblecore. Still, it’s not so good as the Duplass brothers’ subsequent Jeff or Cyrus, which had scripts and character development to fit their run times. Do-Deca is more of a comic sketch

Actor Matthew Lillard recently got a very big break when he landed a role in The Descendants (as George Clooney’s comatose wife’s lover), in which he acquitted himself nicely. In his first directing gig, adapting K.L. Going’s 2003 young-adult book, he also does a nice job with the material. He’s got a generous touch with the performers (led

by Jacob Wysocki, recently the chubby star of Terri), whom he sends hurtling around various Seattle locations. Fat Kid is partly about the formation of a rock band, and Lillard gives the movie plenty of punk energy. (Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready supplies the score.) Teenagers will surely relate to 17-year-old Troy, an underconfident outsider who lives with a gruff but loving single father (Billy Campbell) and younger brother. Into his miserable life comes Marcus (the hyperactive but endearing Matt O’Leary), a teen street addict who challenges Troy to form a band with him. Fat Kid is a straightforward, peppy, pleasing movie that’s been updated just enough for the age of Facebook. (Troy’s vomiting onstage becomes a YouTube viral sensation and great publicity for the band.)

Adults will find Going’s story too simple, of course, which is why we call them youngadult books. But the simplicity works. If Marcus can say, “Don’t disappoint me, Troy,” you can be sure he won’t. BRIAN MILLER (Also Egyptian, 6:30 p.m. Sat., May 19, and Everett, 6 p.m. Mon., May 28.

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P Wiebo’s War 12:30 P.M., HARVARD EXIT

Ecoterrorism usually gets painted in a shade of black—a group of young leftist radicals firebombing a horticulture lab for reasons that don’t directly impact them. But director David York has found a group of activists who break the mold. Wiebo Ludwig and his family of fundamentalist Christians came to escape society several years ago on a bucolic farm, with no idea that their land lay atop Canada’s largest untapped oil field—and that they had no rights to what lurked no more than six inches beneath the surface. Nonviolent attempts to stop oil and gas extraction prove futile, and after livestock and family members fall ill—often mortally—the Ludwigs feel they have no choice but to take “direct action.” Like the best documentaries, Wiebo’s War offers no obvious moral conclusions, and York stays true to his promise to the family that he will let facts and interviews speak for themselves without his own prejudices seeping in. York’s film is an exercise in restraint and respect, and a very fulfilling one at that. MIKE SEELY (Also SIFF Cinema Uptown, 6 p.m. Thurs., May 24.)

Giorgelli doesn’t push his two agemismatched leads into easy rapport.

Truckers bear unsavory stereotypes (think back to Duel), but Rubén gradually softens.

And while Jacinta is cute and vivacious, she never imposes on the stranger seated beside her. Little is said, but both have impeccable manners. Acacias are the trees being brutally logged in the film’s first scenes; Rubén then drives the timber to market. In a way, both characters have been uprooted from place and kin. If you’re patient, very patient, Las Acacias suggests that new growth is possible. But there is no radio in the truck, and there are many kilometers to travel. BRIAN MILLER (Also Harvard Exit, 4 p.m. Sat., May 26, and SIFF Cinema Uptown, 5:30 p.m. Mon., May 28.)

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Most musicians are rightfully derided as naive and arrogant when they enter the world’s political fray, or they’re given some fauxdiplomatic title on account of the United Nations’ insatiable appetite for starfucking.

When Paul Simon traveled to South Africa to record what would become Graceland, while apartheid was still in effect, he didn’t really want to enter this fray; he just wanted to make music. But given his profile and dismissal of a cultural boycott in effect at the time, a media shitstorm was inevitable, despite the indisputable power and charm of the music itself. In Joe Berlinger’s documentary, Simon hands history its ass, routing sheepish Artists Against Apartheid leader Dali Tambo in a clearing of the air that should have occurred 25 years earlier. As Peter Gabriel notes, what Simon did by collaborating—and touring the world—with South African artists at that point in history was to show that the country’s oppressed citizenry was more than just an impoverished lot with flies on their faces. Simon’s contribution to apartheid’s end, however unintentional, is in hindsight greatly enhanced. MIKE SEELY (Also SIFF Cinema Uptown, 4:30 p.m. Tues., May 22.)

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There is no musical score for this Argentine road movie, only the incessant throbbing of a truck’s diesel engine. And it is a long, long drive from Paraguay to Buenos Aires—maybe two days in real time, 85 minutes for us. The driver, Rubén (Germán de Silva), is a taciturn guy past middle age who doesn’t speak for the movie’s first 20 minutes. His passenger, Jacinta (Hebe Duarte), is scared to break the silence, because she only got the ride because Rubén’s boss told him to. And between them is her 5-month-old baby, whose sudden cries and gurgles startle Rubén out of his solitary routine. (He’s been 30 years on the road, ever alone.) At a truck stop, Jacinta looks through the glove box: Rubén is a father, but she daren’t ask him about it. Director Pablo

P Breathing 8 P.M., SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN

Austrian cinema has a way with sudden nudity and sex. In a funeral parlor where 19-year-old Roman (Thomas Schubert) is apprenticing for a job, a naked woman is unceremoniously rolled out of the freezer, her shaved genitals and huge autopsy incision apparent for all to see. Roman gasps with us in the audience, for the woman has the same last name as the mother who sent him to a children’s home: Kroger. Gradually we learn

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that 14-year-old Roman killed someone while in state custody; now he’s on work release, being positioned for re-entry to society. An untrained actor being directed by a veteran performer (Karl Markovics of The Counterfeiters, who also wrote the script), Schubert has a stolid, doughy uncertainty about him.

You can almost hear him asking of the director, “Is this what I’m supposed to do?”, which perfectly suits his groping character. On the late train back to juvenile detention, Roman shares a compartment with a cute American tourist girl. She orders a beer, so he does too—knowing he’ll be taking a breathalyzer test later that night. Roman just wants to be accepted; more, he desperately wants to find his mother. Hardly articulate about his aims, Roman doesn’t know how to ask for help or love or forgiveness. He’s something of a blank Bressonian exemplar, but his criminal vulnerability reminds me of the protagonist in Erick Zonca’s Le Petit Voleur, seen all the way back at SIFF ’00. After crime comes punishment.

And after punishment comes what? BRIAN MILLER (Also 3:30 p.m. Wed., May 23.)

yet to top—and probably never will.

MIKE SEELY (Also Egyptian, 9 p.m. Fri., May 25, and Kirkland, 8:30 p.m. Fri., June 1.)

Roller Town 9 P.M., SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN

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Love Free or Die 6:30 P.M., EGYPTIAN

Be prepared to have your stereotypes shattered by this doc, which portrays men and women, young and old, liberal and conservative, some butch, some effeminate; a rainbow of people of all races and backgrounds, sharing the same hopes, fears, and concerns as everyone else. I’m talking, of course, about Anglican bishops. New Hampshire’s Gene Robinson is one of them—the first openly gay one, as it happens—and director Macky Alston’s film covers him during a few dramatic years bracketed by two clerical gatherings: the decennial Lambeth Conference in London in 2008, from which he was officially disinvited, and an Episcopalian General Convention the following year, which took a momentous vote on the consecration of gay bishops and blessings of same-sex marriages. As one talking head points out, Robinson was ostracized not for being gay, but for not lying about it (when during prayer he invokes a “good and outrageously gracious God,” he rather tips his hand). We follow the ever-buoyant Reverend from his invocation at Obama’s inaugurationweek events to The Daily Show (where his brilliant one-liner incapacitates Jon Stewart) to his civil-partnership ceremony (bring tissues and get them ready when Robinson’s Kentucky-raised parents speak). Love Free or Die is inspiring, if not particularly hard-hitting.

A possible Anglican schism over gay issues is hinted at but not explored—I suspect because the most fervently antigay Anglican clergy have been Africans, and Alston wanted to leave race out of it. Pretty standard KCTS-Mondayat-9 fare, but an absorbing look at an LGBT pioneer. GAVIN BORCHERT (Also 4 p.m. Tues., May 22, and Kirkland, 6 p.m. Sun., June 10.) E film@seattleweekly.com

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Barely long enough at 75 minutes to call itself a feature film, Andrew Bush’s Roller Town features some very funny dialogue. But it’s of the thrown-against-the-wall sort that most capable comedy troupes can pull off in their sleep. Nova Scotia’s Picnicface stars, resulting in a work that’s not so much a cohesive film as a random collection of goofy bits.

Occasionally reminiscent of Strangers With Candy (the pioneering Comedy Central show, not the belated, ill-conceived movie that followed), Roller Town nonetheless falls well short of the gold standard of little-knowncomedy-ensemble films, Super Troopers, which even its creators, Broken Lizard, have

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Former Seattleite Lauren Weedman’s comic prowess continues to turn heads in Hollywood.

In addition to stealing scenes as the insatiable Horny Patty on HBO’s Hung, she recently won raves as a tough yet needy top chef in The Five-Year Engagement (The New Yorker called her bit “irresistible”). But Weedman still tours the country doing solo stage shows, a skill she honed here; and her latest piece is a departure from the ouch-inducing, introspective comedy mined from recent experiences. Instead, SRO—Single Room Occupancy reaches back to a time spent in Amsterdam watching American movies like Philadelphia. (“The death scene that leads into the wake? I was 23, OK? It carpe diem-ed me really hard.”) Upon her return to Fremont, she took up with a “stalker” who did lawn care and obsessed over horror movies. “I lived above City People’s—the dreariest apartment in the world,” she explains by phone.

“I found this SRO; and the first night I was there, a man was passed out on the toilet. So getting into this ritual with this lawn-care guy watching horror movies every night was sort of comforting.” SRO will be more off-the-cuff than usual thanks to her ongoing gig hosting the popular live storytelling event The Moth in Santa Monica. “This time I just want to let stuff happen,” says Weedman. “That’s usually the best part of the story—the part you find while you’re talking.” (Through Sat.) Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., 267-5380, nwfilmforum. org. $12–$15. 8 p.m. STEVE WIECKING STAGE

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third of four films pairing him with Katharine Hepburn. The 1938 comedy flips the dynamic of Bringing Up Baby, with Grant the hearty freethinker and Hepburn the inhibited society girl brought to life by Weedman occupies Grant, her sister’s fiancé. It’s her own solo show. based on a play by Philip Barry, and it shows: The theme of independence versus conformity and respectability is practically stated like a classroom lecture. Still, the dialogue is delicious, and George Cukor’s light, generous direction keeps Holiday focused on the people rather than the moral. A sense of play erupts amid stodgy society gatherings, with Grant goofing like a big kid and inspiring Hepburn to follow suit. So often cast as the fussy, befuddled ninny with more money than sense, Edward Everett Horton is wonderful in support as a high-society intellectual with a philosophical streak and a playful manner. There’s plenty of jawboning over the issues, but when CYCLING Horton uses a puppet to get his point across, he’s irresistible. This is a new 35mm print of one of Grant’s most underrated classics.

(Through Thurs.) Grand Illusion, 1403 N.E. 50th St., 523-3935, grandillusioncinema.org.

BIke to Work Day? Not already! Not again! And $5–$10. 7 & 9 p.m. SEAN AXMAKER not the usual excuses, either: no air in your tires, can’t find those shorts with the cushiony crotch, all the batteries in your blinky lights are dead. And think of the incentives: More than 40 sponsored stations will be offering swag, food, mechanical advice, and encouragement from Everett to Kent. (You can also buy the official T-shirt at selected stations, orgaBOOKS/MUSIC nized by the Cascade Bicycle Club.) In fact, the whole of May is deemed Bike Month, an ecumenical occasion when we should seek to forgive the trespasses of fixies (those red lights are for you, too), racers (do you have to pass so OK, so maybe the William Shatner–starring close?), and recumbents/unicyclists (just grit TV adaptation of his book Shit My Dad Says your teeth and smile at those bearded cousins). didn’t find an audience, but it broke Justin Instead of complaining about motorists for a Halpern out of the Twittersphere and into change, today’s a day for cyclists to increase sitcomland. His new memoir I Suck at Girls their visibility (which increases safety) and (HarperCollins, $16.99) edges a little closer defer to pedestrians (no matter how they to narrative, but it’s mainly a collection meander). And while some local companies of relatable vignettes about dismal dates, are competing to log miles in the Group Health teenage insecurity, and verbal abuse from Commute Challenge, we prefer to think of Dad. (Dr. Halpern continues to pour obscenitoday as a karmic challenge: Ride politely and ties on his would-be screenwriter son, but law-abidingly, wave and smile at drivers, and in a loving way.) Halpern’s slim volume of the good feeling will benefit us all during the humiliation—projectile vomiting, working as other 364 days of the year. Various locations, a virginal dishwasher at Hooters, etc.—is like cascade.org/bike-month. Bike stations open 6–9 a literary companion to all those Judd Apatow a.m. (Also note City Hall rally, 8–8:30 a.m., and movies. In fact, it’s a book begging to be made Ballard Street Party, 4–6 p.m.) BRIAN MILLER into an Apatow movie. I Suck at Girls will

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Returning home from several years in Boston, UW-trained photographer Eirik Johnson soon set out for the woods of Oregon. And for the north shore of Alaska. His intent for the images in Camps & Cabins was to document what he calls “cultural and environmental modes of improvisation.” Or, put differently, shacks and lean-tos. In Oregon, predominantly Mexican and Southeast Asian mushroom pickers set up temporary camps among the pines. They’re basically wood poles that sketch the shape of a house, then covered with tarps in season. When the pickers depart, the outlines remain, like architectural traces of a domicile that doesn’t really exist.

There’s just the suggestion of a house whose residents provide the precious morels, matsukes, and chanterelles we eat in expensive organic restaurants. Up in Barrow, Alaska, the Iñupiat cabins used

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for bird and seal hunting have to withstand more severe weather, since the wind blows right off the Beaufort Sea. These structures are a bit more finished, with traces of family life outside: old tricycles, basketball hoops, even a skateboard ramp.

But they’re hardly domestic, just drab and functional when framed against the flat horizon. These homes are for leaving as much as for staying. Today Johnson will give a gallery talk on the show, which continues through May 26. G. Gibson Gallery, 300 S. Washington St. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 587-4033, ggibsongallery. com. Free. 2 p.m. BRIAN MILLER

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A lot of composers today—practically every one under 40, and plenty over—spend a lot of self-conscious time and energy on the question of genre-blending. This means “breaking down barriers” (or however they choose to describe it), writing effortfully funky ostinatos into string quartets and impressing themselves deeply. Dilettantes, all of them, compared to Seattle’s own Trimpin, who’s forged an unlikely, eccentric career by exploring the musical possibilities of sculpture. His newest piece even adds a third artistic discipline, theater. The Gurs Zyklus, Trimpin’s collaboration with narrator Rinde Eckert, premiered at Stanford a year ago. It’s based on letters from inmates at the Gurs concentration camp, to which Jews from his hometown of Efringen-Kirchen, Germany, were sent during the Holocaust.

Adding four vocalists to a stageful of his inventions, Trimpin pays homage to the doomed using water-filled jars, player pianos, automated castanets, speaker-enhanced teetertotters, a “fire organ,” and more. (Through Sun.) On the Boards, 100 W. Roy St., 217-9886, ontheboards.org. $20. 8 p.m. GAVIN BORCHERT

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reduce nicely to a 90-minute, R-rated romcom, but after all Halpern’s drunken hookup failures, his hard-won success with a commuter romance will earn your applause at the final credits. And an extra bonus before the movie: Tonight Halpern will be joined by the Bushwick Book Club Seattle, performing new songs based on his book. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., 634-3400, bookstore. washington.edu. Free. 7 p.m. BRIAN MILLER

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If you liked WET’s retrofuturistic ’80s MTV tribute Robopop! two years ago, you’ll be eager to see this welding of horror movie and hard-core rap. This musical dramedy is another premiere from the company’s Noah Benezra and Hannah Victoria Franklin. Bed Snake takes just 70 minutes to work its malevolent magic, all revolving around a slacker who sells his soul for mad microphone skillz and finds himself sucked into the underworld as if via pneumatic tube. Like Robopop!, the show is essentially a sketch, but executed with greater length and intelligence than SNL could ever mange.

Yet the music and beats are a serious, slamming hoot (credited to Kry$tal and Wolf, the characters Franklin and Benezra play in the show). Melody may creep in occasionally, but most of the soundtrack is a satanic roar of energy, braggadocio, and violence, augmented by grainy film clips and bloody vidgames. Elissa Eskridge’s smoldering, stuttering choreography is executed with the precision of a Lady Gaga show.

Swirling at the maelstrom’s center is the love/hate dynamic between fanboy Wolf and the devilish rap goddess Kry$tal, who has collected many souls before his. Starting as a hopeless dweeb, for Wolf to sell his soul like Robert Johnson seems a more-than-fair bargain. Though once he becomes her rap equal, Wolf finds it hard to win Kry$tal’s love.

Don’t let the graffiti-strewn set and ripped clothes fool you: Nothing’s slipshod or left to chance in Bed Snake. Amiya Brown’s spraypaint designs and lighting make good use of WET’s shoebox theater; the supporting cast dances their asses off (at one point, they undulate on the walls); and Benezra holds his own against Franklin, who commands a stage like few others. She’s the Statue of Liberty of our local theater scene, a towering figure who invests every character with missionary fervor.

After seeing Bed Snake, you just might want to sell her your soul, too. KEVIN PHINNEY

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Not many people love Groucho Marx as I do.

Yet it’s easy to imagine that a dwindling number of comedy fans remember him (1890–1977), his brothers, or their classic movies of the ’30 and ’40s. He was the consummate trickster in the grandest sense of commedia dell’arte—a figure like Bugs Bunny or Borat who inhabits a world where it’s possible to taunt, defy, and mock authority figures without ever having to pay a penalty for such insolence.

Frank Ferrante also loves Groucho, and this one-man show is the closest recreation of his brilliant anarchic wit and stiletto tongue you’re likely to witness. It’s a freewheeling stream-of-

Benezra and Franklin deal with the devil in Bed Snake.

consciousness romp, equal parts autobiography and musical revue. Ferrante also pays tribute to Groucho’s last showbiz hurrah, the radio (and later television) game show You Bet Your Life, by grilling audience members, too.

Having perfected his act over 25 years, Ferrante doesn’t need much of a set. There’s the vanity where he paints on Groucho’s eyebrows and mustache; an old chair and vintage phone, to hector his next sputtering victim; and the redoubtable Jim Furmston on piano, as straight man and accompanist. The show includes all the vaudeville and big-screen anecdotes you’d hope for: how the Marx Brothers evolved from a musical act into four unique comic characters, how they got their nicknames, how they swapped Zeppo for Gummo, etc.

Ferrante and Furmston perform a number of classic songs from the Marx Brothers’ heyday, including “Hooray for Captain Spaulding,” “Hello, I Must Be Going,” and “Lydia the Tattooed Lady.” While his singing is no better or worse than Groucho’s, it’s the wicked asides that you’ll remember. Here’s an old gag Ferrante reprises: Groucho, to a woman on You Bet Your Life: “How old are you?” Woman (aghast): “Why, I’m approaching 40.” Groucho (eyebrows bouncing): “Oh, really? From which direction?”

Ferrante also reveals Groucho’s gentler side in reminiscences of his departed brothers and his longtime comic foil, Margaret Dumont.

Through it all, Groucho’s glee and Ferrante’s delight in playing him come shining through.

In the pantheon of American comedy, the nation reveres satirists Mark Twain for his homespun tales and Will Rogers for his aw-shucks manner. A brainy Jew from New York, Groucho nudged those rustics aside with urban zingers that Ferrante delivers with a marksman’s accuracy. KEVIN PHINNEY E stage@seattleweekly.com

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CAPTAIN SMARTYPANTS: A PANTY LINE This comic

vocal ensemble spoofs Broadway. Erickson Theatre, 1524 Harvard Ave., 388-1400, captainsmartypants.org. $15–$25.

Opens May 18. 8 p.m. Fri., 8 & 11 p.m. Sat. Ends May 26.

ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE Joe Orton’s groundbreaking 1964 comedy. Theater Schmeater, 1500 Summit Ave., 800-838-3006, schmeater.org. $15–$23. Preview May 17, opens May 18. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. Ends June 16.

JET CITY IMPROV’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION! A week of events (see jetcityimprov.

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Wing-It Productions, 5510 University Way N.E., 781-3879.

LEAVING IOWA A road trip is packaged into comedy.

Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St., 781-9707, taproottheatre. org. $15–$37. Previews May 16–17, opens May 18. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat. Ends June 16.

MENU “A night of a la carte improv.” Market Theatre, 1428 Post Alley, 587-2414, unexpectedproductions.org. Opens May 18. 8:30 p.m. Fri.–Sat. Ends June 8.

PORK FILLED PLAYERS Seattle’s longest-running sketch-comedy group headlines a new “Spam-O-Rama” cabaret. Theater Off Jackson, 409 Seventh Ave. S., 800-838-3006, porkfilled.com. $10. 7:30 p.m. Wed., May 16.

THIS WIDE NIGHT Chloë Moss’ play about two ex-inmates sticking together on the outside. Seattle Public Theater at the Bathhouse, 7312 W. Green Lake Ave. N., 524-1300, seattlepublictheater.org. Preview May 17, opens May 18.

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MARIAN ANDERSON STRING QUARTET A “Night of Strings” with area music students. Meany Hall, UW campus, uwworldseries.org. Free. 6:30 p.m. Fri., May 18.

SEATTLE OPERA Patricia Racette brings intensity and heat to Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. McCaw Hall, Seattle Center, 389-7676. $25 and up. Runs Wed., Sat., & Sun.; see seattleopera.org for exact schedule. Ends May 20.

SEATTLE SYMPHONY Bartok’s lurid Bluebeard’s Castle and excerpts from David Diamond’s The Noblest Game. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., 215-4747, seattle symphony.org. $17–$74. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., May 17, 7:30 p.m.

CLANG Rick Bidlack’s latest interactive musical installations. A Project Space, 1941 First Ave. S.. 6 p.m.

LYRIC OPERA NORTHWEST Puccini’s three-death Tosca.

At the Moore, 1932 Second Ave., 7:30 p.m. Fri., May 18, and the Auburn Performing Arts Center, 700 E. Main St., Auburn, 4 p.m. Sun., May 20. $38. 800-838-3006, lonw.org.

MICHAEL NICOLELLA Contemporary music for guitar. St. Thomas Church, 8398 N.E. 12th St., Medina, 425-454-9541, stthomasmedina.org. $10–$15. 8 p.m. Fri., May 18.

SEATTLE SYMPHONY Franz Xaver Süssmayr’s greatest hit, aka “Mozart’s” Requiem. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., 215-4747, seattlesymphony.org. $17– $125. 8 p.m. Fri., May 18, 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., May 19.

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ery few eaters attempt Wedgwood’s challenge, which is only advertised through a small plaque in the restaurant’s lobby: Cockbain, who always serves the challenge meals, estimates one eater a year might take the dare. (Seattle Weekly editor Mike Seely made an unsuccessful attempt in 2007.) Most eaters make it through about 56 ounces of meat, usually pleading jaw pain when the time expires.

There are critical steak strategies, Santel says. “I told them to give me a really sharp knife,” he says. “And make sure you’re on a sturdy table, or the water’s going to go everywhere.” Water isn’t a required element of the Wedgwood challenge, but Santel finishes four glasses of lemonade during his attempt. He also uses liquid as a training tool, stretching his stomach with 12 pounds of watermelon and a half-gallon of water. “You can drown yourself and get hurt,” he warns. “But a hell of a lot more people have died in marathons than eating challenges.”

Santel dispenses eating wisdom during challenges, which he videotapes and condenses for his website, randysantel.com. He prefers to attempt a challenge in a crowded room, but in an unknown city like Seattle he makes do with a few servers sticking around after their shifts, half-a-dozen restaurant regulars from the neighborhood, and a reporter. Even his traveling buddies didn’t make the trip to Wedgwood from their downtown hotel.

When Santel sits down to his steak, he’s already knocked off a one-pound doughnut challenge and a ramen challenge earlier in the

day. “I wouldn’t say I’m hungry, but I’ve got room to eat,” he says. Before lifting the fork he’s brought with him, Santel strips off a shirt promoting his website to reveal a red muscle shirt reading “These aren’t guns: They’re cannons.”

Talking directly into his camera, Santel says, “Only good things are going to happen.”

Before the challenge begins, Santel predicts he’ll finish in 20 minutes, which is about how long it took him to polish off an 87-ounce steak in New York. At the 25-minute mark, however, he acknowledges his forecast was off. “I think it’s been 25 minutes because it’s very hard to cut steak and eat it,” he says.

Spectators aren’t clear on exactly when to cheer. Are there certain chews or knife maneuvers that would thrill a challengeeating follower? But when the steak is gone, everyone applauds.

“There we go,” Santel says. “Let’s go on to all the rest.”

He starts in on the salad, then devours the roll. He downs the soup and milk, saving the tomato juice for nearly last. “I’m not a big fan,” he says. “But hopefully, Wedgwood Broiler’s is good.” He drinks the juice in one gulp. “That was delicious,” he says.

A cup of ice cream later, Santel becomes the first eater ever to complete the challenge.

Hamman returns his $75 cash deposit, but there aren’t any plans to post Santel’s picture on a wall or reward him with a lifetime of on-the-house martinis.

“He goes, ‘You don’t have a T-shirt for when I finish?’,” Cockbain said before the challenge, as Santel was arranging the plates and cups on his table. “I said we’ve never had anyone finish.

I’ll have to make it up and send it to you.” E hraskin@seattleweekly.com WEDGWOOD BROILER 8230 35th Ave. N.E., 523-1115.

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ssessing what remains of Randy Santel’s steak, reduced from a 72-ounce slab to a collection of square-inch bites, Wedgwood Broiler manager Mike Hamman signals a server to fetch the cook who’d grilled the Winner’s Dinner sirloin.

“Get Isaiah,” he hisses, too quietly to disturb Santel, chewing in rhythm to the Dixie Chicks tracks on his mp3 player.

When the cook arrives in the back dining room, he knows he’s lost. All the money in the kitchen was riding on Santel becoming the first person ever to complete the 47-yearold restaurant’s hour-long eating challenge: Only the cook who had handled the massive steak, imagining the stresses it might inflict on a practiced jaw and iron gut, had bet against him.

On the night of May 5, Santel demolished the steak, baked potato, salad, roll, cup of soup, glass of milk, glass of tomato juice, and dish of vanilla ice cream in 41 minutes and 46 seconds. The following day, he traveled to Tacoma to attack a six-pound burrito, the sixth food challenge he attempted during his three-day visit to Seattle.

A former Missouri State University offensive lineman, Santel in 2010 won a Men’s (“We haven’t had steak fries in 25 years,” Health body transformation contest by manager Alycien Cockbain says of her dropping 25 pounds in two months. Santel, regular menu.) Santel opted for the baked now 25, had long struggled with his weight, rendition, reasoning he eats enough fries on joining Weight Watchers as a fifth-grader burger challenges. His Seattle trip brought and nearly being left behind on a Boy Scout his successful-challenge count to 100—he sailing trip because he was too heavy for the blames his ego and sneaky owners who can’t boat. But the contest—which culminated in resist piling six pounds of chips alongside a a trip to New Zealand to film an episode of publicized three-pound sandwich for the four Spartacus, Starz’s gladiator series—left him failed attempts—with many, many burgers with a newfound reverence for his metabolic among them. system. He and a friend took on a 28-inch Although Santel has set records across pizza at a St. Louis restaurant and won $500; the country, he hasn’t had to deal with Santel had eaten most of the pie. carpetbagging charges. “Restaurants like “My metabolism is not always going to be it, because if a challenge goes [undefeated] like this,” he concedes. In the meantime, he’s for so long, people start stalking restaurant chalthinking you can’t beat lenges across the country, it,” he says. “This gives his range limited only For an equally heroic account of one man’s attempt to EAT all the testosterone-filled by construction gigs and A 72-OUNCE PINEAPPLE, visit guys the idea that they a girl back in Missouri.

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“It sucks I’m not single,” says Santel, who wants to Since Santel’s eating complete challenges in all 50 states. “Not trips are currently funded by the cash prizes that I want to break up with my girlfriend or he wins on the challenge circuit, he’s hoping whatever, but I’d like to move out West.” to transform restaurants’ appreciation of his services into sponsorships. Other than Travel Wedgwood’s challenge dates back to the Channel personality Adam Richman, Santel restaurant’s opening, a few years after The is the only competitive eater focusing excluBig Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo littered sively on restaurant challenges. And, as Santel Route 66 with billboards promising a free points out, Richman’s notched a mere 37 wins 72-ounce steak dinner to anyone who could in three years. finish the meal in an hour. The challenge details haven’t changed much since they Santel has never entered a Major League were devised under opening owner Albert Eating contest, since the officiating organizaBalch. tion forbids its participants from entering When eaters request fries, the kitchen mom-and-pop contests, and Santel isn’t has to cut them for the occasion, trying to interested in a never-ending schedule of hot approximate the volume of a baked potato. dogs and chicken wings.

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The Barkeep: Bar manager Mark Davis’ bar » by tiffany ran program will serve as a model for future Din Tai Fung outlets. “Because we were the first ones, we are able to be more creative,” says Davis, who loves crafting new drinks with his team; the The Watering Hole: Din Tai Fung, 700 one most involved in the making of a drink gets to Bellevue Way N.E., #280, name it.

The Drink: Davis’ 425-698-1095, BELLEVUE The Atmosphere: While plum-blossom martini has the ladies all in a tizzy. the dumplings at Bellevue’s He uses plum vodka in the Din Tai Fung get all the drink, and named it after praise, the restaurant’s bar Taiwan’s national flower, sits cozily on one side, a paying homage to the birthrefuge for diners antsy from place of the Din Tai Fung the expected hour-long wait. franchise.

At any other Din Tai Fung The Verdict: The drink in the world, one would not was good, but too sweet to think to find a bar. Bellevue’s pair with food. I might return aims to change that as the to try the food with the first Din Tai Fung with its A pioneering barman. lighter Ginger Lime Drop. own bar program. High ceilI admit I wasn’t keen on ings, modern-day lanterns, and a black granite bar give the distinct feeling of the idea of a Din Tai Fung with a bar. I’d wanted to dismiss this place for its clean-cut Bellevue drinking in a hotel lobby. aesthetic, its menu of girly drinks, and the slight As Lincoln Square shoppers, good-looking overkill of Asian references on the menu, which couples, and hungry families wander in, the bar seem like such a departure from the homely crowd starts to look like what some Seattleites Taiwanese Din Tai Fungs I’ve long known and might call “quintessentially Eastside.” But at Din loved. But I don’t hate it. I actually really like it. E Tai Fung’s bar, one would feel no shame having food@seattleweekly.com drinks with Mom; better yet, a Manhattan can

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As far as biological imperatives go, acting on the need to feed oneself after a night of heavy drinking is the least likely to end in regret. That’s assuming you’ve choosen your post-last-call meal wisely. In Ballard, that means Dante’s Inferno Dogs.

Problem is, everybody knows it, which is why come 2 a.m. the wait to get a fix of dog, bun and toppings becomes nearly unbearable. So try your luck at one of this Ballard institution’s many carts at midday, even if you’ve no booze left to soak up. $

on the barstools cheering at the TV game. Besides the overflowing breakfast platters, the restaurant is known for its crispy fish and chips. Lockspot is located at . . . wait for it . . . the entrance to the Ballard Locks. $ LOUIE’S CUISINE OF CHINA 5100 15th Ave. N.W., 782-8855. There are restaurants across the city that reflect a range of culinary traditions associated with China, but no restaurant better encapsulates the regionspecific tradition of eating Chinese in Seattle than Louie’s Cuisine. The restaurant traces its roots back to the 1930s, when the Louie family served some of the best food in Chinatown. There aren’t any real misses on the lengthy menu, but oyster beef, garlic chicken with black bean sauce and lobster sauce prawns are reliable standbys. $$ MALENA’S TACO SHOP 2010 N.W. 56th St., 789-8207.

Malena’s can’t be beat for after-work takeout. It’s not as showy as some of the more ambitious Ballard restaurants, but its tidy ivory curtains, silk flowers, and friendly service make it the neighborhood darling of frenzied families, newspaper-reading singles, and hungry skate punks. $ MATADOR 2221 N.W. Market St., 297-2855. The feel of Matador is South of the Border saloon: lots of wood, an open fire pit, and an elaborate wrought-iron doorway with a steel steer skull. The drinks are the focus at this Tex-Mex-inspired spot, which makes for a fun, loud night out. But you can also get gigantic plates of tacos or enchiladas with slow-roasted tomatillo sauce. Weekend brunch is popular, too. $$ SALMON BAY CAFE 5109 Shilshole Ave. W., 782-5539. Great ambience if you like parking lots—there’s one out every window. But there’s also a peekaboo vista of working fishing boats and yachts passing on the canal. Despite the view, lines form on weekends for the vittles. Besides piles of eggs and meats, you get generous mounds of toast and fruit. Bypassing the eggs Benedict is treasonous. Be prepared: Dirty dishes are stacked in plain sight, and the noise level is like a quintuplets’ birthday party. $ SAMBAR 425 N.W. Market St., 569-5009. What to do if you don’t quite have the dough for a full meal at Le Gourmand?

Go to Sambar, the smaller, cheaper, just-as-wonderful neighbor to Ballard’s best French restaurant. Belgian-style frites and croque monsieurs are a refreshing sight in old Ballard—then again, in this pop-art setting, almost nothing

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Produce is limited to a few bins of potatoes and citrus out front, and one narrow aisle of okra, bittermelon, Chinese eggplant, bushels of mint, and a few leafy greens. Jars and cans are filled with a variety of shrimp pastes, fermented fish, diced fruits, and Kraft cheeses.

Bottles of soy sauce, vinegar, banana ketchup, and hot sauces are just a few steps away from boxed bibingka, instant palabok, calamansi juice. There are also premade Vietnamese sandwiches and a plethora of desserts, including fat wedges of flan and sweet pan de leche buns. A great place to go for Filipino food. $

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The rest of the menu is similarly rustic, comfortably at home between homey and haute, and missteps are rare.

Service and atmosphere are both top-notch, making this a can’t-miss spot for Hillsters and visiting foodies.

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DOM POLSKI ZAPRASZA/POLISH HOME ASSOCIATION 1714 18th Ave., 322-3020. On Friday

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similarly barred from setting up oyster bars at weddings and other outdoor gigs. “The reason is we’ve had tons of Vibrio cases, and it’s really difficult to trace back,” says Hilary Karasz, spokesperson for Seattle and King County’s public-health department. “An open-air, come-onup-and-try-my-oysters stand doesn’t work well.”

But restaurants are in the legal clear, she confirms. In addition to the oyster bar and small full-service bar, Elliott’s cafe will have patio seating near the boat dock and an indoor dining room furnished with copper and wood. Wilkinson describes the decor as a “warm pier look.”

The cafe will offer the same menu all day. Although the progressive happy-hour pricing that’s made Elliott’s Oyster House’s bar so popular in the late afternoon won’t carry over to the cafe, the cafe will develop its own specials. Elliott’s Oyster House’s Robert Spaulding will oversee the cafe kitchen, while continuing to serve as executive chef of the more formal restaurant. Planned menu items include halibut tostadas, seafood-salad brioche rolls, sliders piled with scallops and root beer–braised beef, fried-oyster spinach salad, and plenty of Washington-grown oysters. E hraskin@seattleweekly.com

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Weed & Feed

The constant gardener.

After seven years in the garden, Shannon Stephens learned she needs music to grow.

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and included it on his 2008 album Lie Down in the Light. “We were actually supposed to meet up before a Seattle show he was having,” she says, “but I was in the midst of my music burnout and didn’t show.”

Stephens moved to Seattle after Marzuki disbanded, and met her future husband Seth Otto. They settled down, started Otto Garden Care, and welcomed the birth of their daughter, Ruby. Songwriting time began to slip away. The demands of running a household and a business and promoting herself as an artist were huge, and she began

to struggle with loneliness and depression.

“It took me seven years to realize that I have to do music to be a happy person,” she says.

What eventually lured her back, after the gap between Shannon Stephens and The Breadwinner, was the support of her husband, Seattle’s encouraging music community, and a lingering, unanswered question: What if?

“Her perspective has changed a lot on what she’s hoping to accomplish,” says Grammy-winning sound engineer Kory Kruckenberg, who worked with Stephens on The Breadwinner and Pull It Together.

“She’s a lot more driven. She’s saying what she wants more clearly, and she’s putting more time in with the songs.”

Galen Disston, frontman for new-soul group Pickwick, sings backup on bluesy power anthem “Down the Drain and It’s Gone” and understands her struggles as a musician. “I can relate to the voice of her narrator. There’s a lot of very human stuff she sings about that makes sense to me,” he says. “Stuff about balancing work and life and being an artist, like she was speaking for me.”

Elsewhere on Pull It Together, Stephens is joined by respected session players, including guitarist Jeff Fielder, drummer James McAlister, and Steve Moore on keyboards—even Oldham, in a duet. After connecting through “I’ll Be Glad,” the two became mutual fans. “I always had it in my head that I wanted to collaborate with him, and then I wrote the right song,” she says of “Faces Like Ours.” Harmonizing tenderly, Oldham’s weighty vocals and Stephens’ serene tone paint a shrewd portrait of racial privilege, a particularly poignant moment on the album.

It’s Stephens’ guiding instinct to include such a track that makes Together such a departure from her self-titled album, a delicate work of sparse instrumentation.

With new resolve, Stephens projects pitchperfect vocals into gentle songs that glow with resilience. “I’d like to pay the bills/And set out your vitamin pills/’Cause that’s what love looks like,” she sings on “What Love Looks Like,” a sweetly sassy nod to enduring marital bonding.

In her renewed commitment to music,

Stephens made recording more collaborative than ever. “All the people who play on the album have so much studio experience that we put our heads together and we did it,” she says. “On my last album, all the production was on me, sitting at my keyboard pounding out cello parts, viola parts, and English horn parts, and then trying to find people to play them. This time around, I decided to get everybody together to make the album as a group and to rely on their strengths.”

To do it, Stephens realized, “I had to let a lot of things go. I was always feeling like I didn’t have enough time for canning, or enough time to pull weeds in my garden. I just had to realize that there’s not enough time in the day to do it all and focus on my music.” E gelliott@seattleweekly.com SHANNON STEPHENS AND HER FABULOUS FRIENDS With Cataldo, Henry at War. Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave. N.E., 784-4880, sunsettavern.com. $8 adv./$10 DOS. 21 and over. 10 p.m., Fri., June 8.

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“I just had to realize that there’s not enough time in the day to do it all and focus on my music.”

SHERRY LOESER

W

hen Shannon Stephens turned 35, she stopped giving a shit what people thought of her. She stopped caring if her weeds were overgrown. And she decided to start writing music for the first time in eight years.

The process was twofold: First she released 2009’s The Breadwinner, an acoustic-folk record born of her transitional years as a parent and the follow-up to her 2000 self-titled debut. Her second move: The album she’ll release next Tuesday, Pull It Together, is the best she’s made in more than two decades in the business.

During the mid-’90s, Stephens, a lanky brunette with clean and lilting pipes, fronted Marzuki alongside Sufjan Stevens, who’s since become an indie-rock darling. “I met Sufjan at a concert,” she remembers. “Afterwards we sat across from each other at Denny’s, and he found out I played electric guitar.”

The band performed and toured together for five years, “but we never really took off.

We played a lot of shows in New York, but it was hard to get people out to a show. I didn’t have enough perspective to really enjoy the city.”

But the partnership had other benefits, most notably her relationship since 2000 with Stevens’ label, Asthmatic Kitty, whose roster includes My Brightest Diamond and Liz Janes, both strong influences. When Will Oldham, aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, heard that release and discovered Stephens’ “I’ll Be Glad,” he worked a cover into his live sets

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W

atching the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on HBO recently, I was struck by how honored I was to have been included in such an epic class of bands and artists. GNR opened for the Peppers a few times in L.A. back in the early days. They were king-shit on the hill back then. And the Beasties were the hard-core East Coast counterpart to what we were oozing over on the West Coast.

In fact, I seem to remember us being in the same club sometime in 1986, and the rumor of us brawling with each other was rampant throughout the club that night.

Ah, testosterone!

There we all were in Cleveland last month. Bands that made some sort of difference somewhere. The Peppers still do, and so did the Beasties until the recent tragic and unavoidable end. And both bands stayed together, through thick . . . and blackened thin. But GNR didn’t survive the folly and nonsense. We didn’t rise above.

Watching that HBO special made me sad—for the very first time, perhaps—that the original GNR didn’t somehow stay together. It would have been a miracle if we

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Watching that HBO special made me sad—for the very first time, perhaps—that the original GNR didn’t somehow stay together.

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had. If I’d known then what I know now, I would have done my part to try to rid that band of the caustic resentments and outside input that finally wore us down to a nub of what we once were, and what we could have come back from. Alas, it just wasn’t in the cards.

A funny thing happened in the lead-up to Cleveland. It seemed that there was an understanding—not only among the people who had flown to Cleveland to see “their band” inducted, but in the way the other inductees rallied around Slash, Steven, Matt, and myself. They had our backs, and all offered help in any way we could use it.

Walking into the lobby of the hotel where all the artists were staying, the first fellow inductee I saw was fucking Ronnie Wood from the Faces/Stones. He gave me a big hug and a huge grin. “Isn’t this going to be fucking great, Duff?!” Uh, yeah, sure. What a welcome! Flea gave me a big hug later that afternoon, and so did Chad Smith. The Green Day guys had come

BY DUFF MCKAGAN to my book reading the night before at the House of Blues, and Billie Joe and I devised a plan where he would sing whatever was needed . . . if needed.

In the aftermath of all the drama leading up to the event, with a few people from our camp stating publicly that they weren’t coming at all, I stuck with the mindset that I was there to honor our fan base who had been there for us for more than 25 years.

It was a very poignant night.

And after watching the broadcast—and seeing my old friends perform for our die-hard fans—it’s starting to sink in just how heavy the event was for me on a personal level.

We really didn’t know if we were going to play at all. It wasn’t cemented until we actually rehearsed at 2 a.m. the day of the show—right after my reading. It was all THAT last-minute. In fact, my band and soundman for the reading—Jeff and Mike from Loaded, and Seattle’s own Martin Feveyear—instantly became GNR’s crew!

That’s right. We hadn’t even thought ahead about guitar techs, drum techs, or sound guys. So it was nice to have them there with me for the RRHOF, for sure.

For Slash and me, it was the first time we’d played our songs with Steven Adler in something like 22 years. We had to wonder: Would it work? Would we be able to get our mojo back with only 14 hours to spare before playing in front of an audience of 7,000 and being filmed for an HBO special!?

I couldn’t have been prouder of the guys I did take the stage with that night (special thanks to guitarist Gilby Clarke and singer Myles Kennedy for their heroic, last-minute efforts). My bandmates composed themselves in the face of so much unneeded drama. We had no resentment, and showed up to pay homage to those fans who did their part for us.

At the end of the day, I am so very satisfied about the outcome of that night in Cleveland. It was about the music that GNR wrote way back when. And the fact that a few of us showed up to reciprocate our appreciation was certainly enough for the occasion. E Duff McKagan is the founding bassist of Guns N’ Roses and the author of It’s So Easy (Touchstone). His column runs every Thursday at seattleweekly.com/reverb. askduff@seattleweekly.com

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THE SITUATION I’m at Moe Bar on a recent Monday night, sitting across from local hip-hop artist Jarv Dee, 27, and his glass of Hennessy.

He wears a flat-bill cap and, on his left hand, an enormous ring of two gold Egyptian pyramids that encases his pinky and ring fingers. They look like artistic and sharp brass knuckles. “I was kind of ducking away when I walked across from the police a couple days ago, because they do look kind of scary,” Jarv says, laughing. “I don’t know if I can get in trouble for these!”

HOW HE GOT HERE Jarv, who was born in Seattle and lives in Renton, says he started writing raps and recording them on a tape player in third grade; he strayed from rapping for a few years for a different art form: tap dancing. “If you’re a fan of music, you gotta try everything, test the waters,” he says.

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Jarv Dee is part of a “tribe of cats . . . ready to take shit over. Bling bling.”

SHOP TALK Last year, Jarv dedicated much of his time to making music with his trio BadAssYellowBoyz (BAYB), comprising himself, P Steez, and his god-brother Nacho Picasso, as well as collaborating with fellow Cloud Nice crewmates Helladope, but right now he’s focused on his solo material. Jarv just finished his second solo record, Dopamine, and he’ll be celebrating its physical release Friday night at Chop Suey. He describes the new songs as “feel-good”: “There was dark times but I’m feeling great right now.” I ask him about a song called “Klingon.” He clarifies that it’s just a song title, and he’s not a Trekkie—“I’m more Star Wars,” he says. I ask if he’s going to do a Star Wars song. He pauses.

“Nah, that’d be hella corny. I can’t do it.”

BTW: Jarv is a man of many affiliations.

He’s all about his friends, his cousins, his fellow rappers—besides the Cloud Nice collective, there’s also Moor Gang, a group of friends and musical collaborators who just started designing their own T-shirts. One has a Public Enemy–style target logo on it; another shows a man in a robe and keffiyeh with “Moor Gang” written below in Arabic-style letters. There’s a picture on Twitter of Jarv’s mom smiling and holding one of the latter.

Jarv describes Moor Gang to me as “just a tribe, man. We’re a tribe of cats that are just ready to take shit over. Bling bling. That’s what we’re trying to do in Seattle.” E ethompson@seattleweekly.com JARV DEE With Kris Kasanova, Kung Foo Grip, Steezie Nasa, Nacho Picasso, Parker Joe. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8005. $10. All ages. 8 p.m. Fri., May 18.

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Buckingham’s legacy will obviously always first recognize his success as the guitarist and lead singer of Fleetwood Mac, but that doesn’t mean his solo material should be overlooked. His first such effort, 1981’s Law and Order, featured the infectious hit single “Trouble” and a smoldering shirtless cover photo. His 1983 ditty “Holiday Road” famously appeared in National Lampoon’s Vacation and became a cult favorite. 1984’s Go Insane was an awesomely surprising venture into synth-pop. His next four solo albums, up to last year’s Seeds We Sow, are all solid collections of smooth pop-rock.

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Dayglo, if you will—for those drab alternative times. I don’t know about that, but it does make the band a weird candidate for a revival right now, when young bands are Cairo PA Benefit SATURDAY, MAY 19 drawing from the ’90s the most explicitly grungy stuff possible (see Broken Water’s On the most basic level, a PA, or publicSonic Youth–echoing Tempest, or Gun address system, is what turns an ordinary Outfit and Milk Music’s room into a viable liveDinosaur Jr. riffing). music venue. Barring the Still, Love Battery odd band that brings all Tune in to 97.3 KIRO FM are apparently back, its own amps and mixers every Sunday at 3 p.m. playing the Lo-Fi for (noise godheads Lightto hear music editor Chris Kornelis on Seattle Sounds.

Atomic Brides’ Dead Air ning Bolt, say, or local record-release party. duo Haunted Horses), With support from most bands will need to sunny indie poppers Summer Babes. Lo-Fi plug their microphones into a house sound system to be properly heard. Ironically, at Performance Gallery, 429 Eastlake Ave. E., least half the Cairo-raised bands playing this 254-2824. 9 p.m. $8. ERIC GRANDY fundraiser to buy a new PA for the DIY arts space—especially post-punkers Stephanie Loudon Wainwright III SUNDAY, MAY 20 and promising grunge-exhumers Naomi Punk—deal in vocals blurred, smeared, While known to many as a cool dad in mumbled, or otherwise sonically obscured.

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The story goes that Love Battery never really fit into the grunge-era Seattle scene: Triple Door, 216 Union St., 838-4333. 7:30 Its psych-garage rock was too colorful—too p.m. $30 adv./$34 DOS. All ages. MIKE SEELY

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THE QUICK & EASY BOYS This Portland three-piece blends garage rock with R&B and psychedelia. With Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the Januariez. Comet Tavern, 922 E. Pike St., 322-9272, comettavern.com. 9 p.m. $8.

Ryan Leslie serenades Neumos on May 19.

Sunday, May 20 BEN FISHER Busker extraordinaire/UW student Fisher

will release his second full-length, Roanoke, at this show. With Whitney Ballen, Josh Morrison. Columbia City Theater. 8 p.m. $8.

THE REQUISITE The local indie rockers play a show to benefit ovarian cancer research. With the Springboards, DJ Noise. Nectar. 3 p.m. $15.

SICK KIDS XOXO This Missoula, Mont., five-piece strives for the grandiose pop-rock stylings of Florence and the Machine or the Killers. With Badwater Fire Company. Chop Suey. 8 p.m. $7.

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CONFETTI KIDS A retro-leaning pop-rock four-piece replete with boy/girl vocals. With Joyfield, Smiley Faces. High Dive, 513 N. 36th St., 632-0212, highdive seattle.com. 8 p.m. $6.

SHOTTY These local rockers combine ’90s alt-rock with ’80s new-wave sensibilities. With Hot Seat, the Archelons. JewelBox/Rendezvous, 2322 Second Ave., 441-5823, jewelboxtheater.com. 10 p.m. $5.

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THE WASHOVER FANS This quartet fits snugly into Seattle’s current musical zeitgeist, playing rootsy music with pretty harmonies. They aren’t reinventing any wheels, but the ones they’re spinning sound quite lovely. Triple Door Musicquarium, 216 Union St., 838-4333. 5 p.m. Free.

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Friday, May 18 BARCELONA The British Academy of Sound Therapy

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JARV DEE The local rapper’s album-release show will feature a guest appearance from Nacho Picasso. With Kris Kasanova, Kung Foo Grip, Steezie Nasa. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8005, chopsuey.com.

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YOUTHBITCH The PDX punks’ latest album is the repetitively titled Youthbitch Youthbitch Youthbitch Youthbitch Youthbitch. With No Tomorrow Boys, Si Si Si. Rendezvous.10 p.m. $5.

Saturday, May 19 RYAN LESLIE The R&B artist and producer is set to

release his third full-length, Les Is More, early next month; his previous effort, 2009’s Transition, was nominated for a Grammy. With Radar. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $35.

MASSY FERGUSON Fittingly named after a farmequipment company, this band deals in blue-collar Americana. With Old Tinder. Barboza, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9951, thebarboza.com. 7 p.m. $10 adv.

NIGHTRAIN This local quartet’s straightforward melodies and dance-rock rhythms are set to carry this bill toward a good time. With Mongrel Blood, The Revolutionary Hydra. Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave. N.W., 784-4880, sunsettavern.com. 10 p.m. $8.

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local group’s influences, which seems highly appropriate based on their overtly gothic take on shoegaze and dream-pop. With Jetman Jet Team, Your City Sleeps.

High Dive. 8 p.m. $6.

METAL MONDAY This week’s installment of the 2 Bit Saloon’s celebration of all things dark and wonderful features black-metal favorites Baal Beryth, Chemical Castration, and Grave Desecration. If you’ve ever wanted to mingle with some of the local scene’s most ferocious players, this is your chance. 2 Bit Saloon, 4818 17th Ave., 708-6917, the2bitsaloon.com. 9 p.m. $5.

WE ARE SERENADES Adam Olenius’ current project bears a great deal of sonic resemblance to his bestknown one, wan indie-pop band Shout Out Louds.

The Crocodile. 8 p.m. $10. All ages.

Best Coast plays the Neptune on May 22.

BAD VEINS This Cincinnati rock two-piece is touring

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Barboza. 8 p.m. $10.

BEST COAST Beach-rocker Bethany Cosentino is touring in support of her highly anticipated second LP, the Jon Brion–produced The Only Place. The rowdy Orrall siblings of Nashville’s JEFF the Brotherhood open. The Neptune, 1303 N.E. 45th St., 877-784-4849, stgpresents. org. 8 p.m. $18 adv./$20 DOS. All ages.

THE DO WRONGS Loud, liquor-soaked garage punk with a dash of blues thrown in the mix. With Sir Coyler & the Asthmatics, Doctor & the Birds, Aim Lows. Comet Tavern. 9 p.m. $6.

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