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BY DANIEL PERSON | Swimming the length of an abused waterway. Plus: a new twist in solving the housing crisis, and Yesler Terrace goes YIMBY. 4 | CHATTERBOX 11 | NEIGHBORHUH?

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Those who question the “urbanist” vision of Seattle—dense, modern, carless—cannot be simply dismissed as “NIMBYs.” Rather, they are a potent political force to be reckoned with.

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ast week, Ellis E. Conklin took readers on a road-trip to Bellingham, 90 miles north of Seattle. As he reported, “a steady trickle of fed-up and stressed-out older, self-employed (for the most part) Seattleites are swimming . . . to Bellingham, the northernmost city of more than 50,000 in the contiguous U.S.” “The reasons behind the farewell to the Emerald City are hardly surprising,” Conklin continued.

“The horrendous cost of housing, the escalating disparity of wealth, the rising level of homelessness, the onslaught of massive (and generic) highdensity development . . . ” and on and on.

The story had been slated for last Wednesday’s issue for weeks, so it was pure coincidence— though we’d never say serendipity—that on Tuesday afternoon Danny Westneat at The Seattle Times published details of a leaked draft report from the Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda Committee, the task force that Mayor Ed Murray has entrusted with finding solutions to the rising cost of living in Seattle.

We’d noted in June that when the report was eventually released, it would undoubtedly include recommendations for more density around Seattle, and that such recommendations would stir a lot of resentment from neighbors already feeling as if their neighborhoods are being sold out to high-density developers (“HALA If Ya Hear Me,” June 24). But no one seems to have expected the bombshell Westneat reported: The committee was recommending an end to singlefamily zoning in the city, a hallmark of Seattle’s neighborhood feel. The firestorm was fast and immediate. While Conklin’s story stood on its own, the timing was such that many readers couldn’t help but note the connection.

“We’re giving Sequim a close look,” wrote one reader in reaction to Conklin’s Bellingham article. “The last straw is Seattle’s plan to repeal all single-family house zoning. It’ll get delayed, long enough to sell and get out. The ‘progressives’ hate the way we live, and the developers can make lots of money chewing everything up for apartment blocks. The choice is to stay and complain, or just leave. We’re going to go.”

Added another: “No surprise here. Retirees who’ve lived and worked here for decades can no longer afford to live here, and the neighborhoods are being ruined by Eastern Bloc style multifamily housing with no parking. Not realistic in a

rainy, hilly environment with poor infrastructure.

Soon it’ll be a city composed only of the homeless and $150,000-earning, bike-riding 35-yearold high-tech managers. No thanks.”

It’s not news that Seattle is suffering an identity

crisis. Some may argue that the last quartercentury in Seattle has been filled with as much coming-of-age angst as a Nirvana song, and just as many loud refrains. Nearly 13 years ago, Seattle Weekly reported on then-Mayor Greg Nickels’ plan for a transportation overhaul in South Lake Union (complete with, gasp!, a streetcar), which was derided by critics as just not in keeping with Seattle’s character. “Even if a lot of scientists and lab technicians were to find new employment in South Lake Union, chances are they would arrive there by driving from the suburbs or from more residential Seattle neighborhoods, where they can enjoy the bungalows and yards long associated with the region’s middle-class family life,” we wrote. That sentence is notably incorrect, yet amazingly prescient. It’s programmers, not lab techs, teeming around the neighborhood. And as it turns out, many of them have little interest in moving into a bungalow if a condo is available.

But the spirit of that article—that this is a city of bungalows and commutes—lives strong, as displayed last week, when neighborhood anger reached a fever pitch.

The effects of the sudden outrage are unclear.

On Monday, upon releasing his recommendations for affordable housing, Mayor Ed Murray held firm on the need for more density across Seattle, including in single-family zones (for a full account of Murray’s recommendations, see page 10). But that’s hardly the end of the matter. In less than a month, voters will cast ballots in City Council primaries, and candidates are quickly positioning themselves on the issue—which is to say, this election could become a real referendum on whether Seattle is moving in the right direction.

Which might be a dumb question. Right or

wrong, Seattle is moving in a definite direction: bigger, bigger, bigger.

Beneath the sound and the fury over density, the intellectually honest accept that keeping things exactly as they are is simply another way of saying, “Let’s not plan for the hundreds of thousands of people expected to move here in coming decades.”

Send your thoughts on this week’s issue to letters@seattleweekly.com Bill Bradburd, who is running for an at-large council position with the slogan “Take Back Seattle!”, did not offer up the political red meat he could have following news of the leaked housing report. Instead he suggested backyard cottages might be the solution. “We have 168,000 single-family homes in Seattle. If just a quarter of them were to add a backyard cottage or something like that, we would add around 40,000 [new residences] and achieve half our growth target,” he told Conklin on Thursday (“We Are Single-Family Homeowners, Hear Us Roar,” July 9).

That’s more density.

Peter Steinbrueck, who ran for mayor in 2013 promising to preserve neighborhoods, noted it would have been “political suicide” to talk about amending single-family zoning laws 10 or 15 years ago. But now, what with changing demographics, explosive growth, and the fact that the majority of single-family homes are occupied by one or two people, it is reasonable to discuss the prospect of changing zoning regulations.

“We do need a diversity of housing stock in Seattle,” he said.

In other words, more density.

That said, what’s been made suddenly clear

is that those who question the “urbanist” vision of Seattle—dense, modern, carless—cannot be simply dismissed as “NIMBYs,” a term that has become a tiresome slur overused by media, including this paper.

The report has shaken the hornets’ nest, and those Seattleites who have largely been drowned out by advocates for denser housing could become a potent political force to be reckoned with.

As one erudite reader noted on our website, “The part of me that is sick of being berated for buying a house in the city for my growing family in one of the only parts of town I could afford (that’s classist?) desperately wants to hear loudmouths keep saying that—because there is no surer way to cause a populist backlash than to kick sand in people’s faces and tell them that the home and community they’ve been building is selfish.

“But there’s also a part of me that wants to see a real dialogue, and real solutions for affordability. That part of me wants the self-righteous, zealous polarizing to stop.” E

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news&comment Swimming the Duwamish Why Mark Powell plans to submerge himself into the Green/Duwamish River, Superfund site and all.

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BY JENNIFER KARAMI been the goal of environmental groups to make people understand how polluted it was, as a way to ensure those responsible were held accountable.

I ask Powell whether swimming in the Lower Duwamish muddles that message.

He responds by walking over to a chainlinked fence that runs along the shore of the Green River. “If we build a fence like this all along the river, that would be the wrong approach,” he says, giving the fence a rattling kick for effect. “We need to protect people and their health from the threats. But I’d hate for people to feel so disconnected from the river that they don’t care.”

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Not that swimming downstream is necessarily easy. It comes with its own perils. But for Powell, a very fit 57, the adventure and challenge of the task are secondary to the message he hopes to send: The Duwamish is a living river that still pulses from the Cascade wilds.

“I’d like people to understand the connection between the Duwamish and here,” he says before he starts his swim that Thursday, “here” being the quiet solitude of the upper Green River.

“Here it’s a gorgeous, flowing, healthy stream.

People don’t understand the connection, that it’s a living river. . . . People want to write off the Duwamish—it’s a sacrifice zone, it’s industrial— but we can’t write off the Duwamish.”

That the Green and Duwamish rivers actually

are a single river speaks to how written-off it has been over the years. The Duwamish once represented the confluence of several rivers that descended from the Cascades. But the White River was diverted to Tacoma, and the Black made extinct when the Montlake Cut was opened and Lake Washington was lowered. All that was left to feed into the Duwamish was the Green. With the river’s flow greatly reduced, industrialists were able to turn the Duwamish Valley into an economic powerhouse that helped Seattle become the city it is today. In the meantime, industry leached, dumped, and spilled pollutants by the ton into the river. To make matters worse, every year, millions of gallons of sewage continue to flow into the river via storm drains that become overloaded during heavy rainfall.

Local, state, and federal agencies—along with the private businesses considered responsible for the much of the pollution—are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up the mess and prevent further pollution. But the Lower Duwamish is still an absolute mess. For years it’s

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Depend on yourself “The federal gov-

ernment has built an expectation—don’t worry, someone is going to be there to bail you out,” earthquake-risk consultant Mary Lou Zoback told NPR. “Unfortunately, that kind of perspective actually prevents us from becoming as prepared and as self-reliant as we should be.” There are numerous things you can do to bolster your disaster preparedness, including retrofitting your home to be earthquake-proof (Seattle-based Sound Seismic quotes a price between $4,000 and $9,000 on their website), developing and practicing an evacuation drill (don’t forget your pets!), and stockpiling food and water to last at least a week.

Practice, practice, practice The Great Washington ShakeOut happens each October 15 at 10:15 a.m. ShakeOut. org encourages families, businesses, schools, tribes, and other communities to register and participate in “drop, cover, and hold on” earthquake drills. According to a ShakeOut video, earthquakes “cause your fight-or-flight instinct to kick in. Before you know it, you are running, trying to get away from the ground movement.” The real danger, ShakeOut says, comes from flying or falling objects—therefore it’s important to practice suppressing your urges and finding shelter under sturdier structures, like tables.

Look to the pros San Francisco experi-

ences earthquakes frequently, so its citizens keep that in mind when voting.

“Voters in San Francisco frequently approve bond measures to pay for retrofitting of essential infrastructure such as its water and subway systems,” NPR reported. “Other areas grow lax because earthquakes are so infrequent.” However, all the disaster preparedness in the world won’t prevent a quake, and the New Yorker article offers little comfort to those living near the Cascadia Subduction Zone—but at least now we know we’re doomed. Thanks, New Yorker! E

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t’s 11 a.m. on a recent Thursday just outside Flaming Geyser State Park in southern King County, and the sun is already making clear its intentions to turn the day into another hot, miserable slog.

But for now, the mounting heat is abated by the shade of black birches and the cool rush of the Green River.

Mark Powell is standing in the water, doing the herky-jerky dance that is required to secure a wet suit to the body. He stretches to yank a zipper across his chest and pulls a hood tight over his head. Then his goggles are secured and he makes his way gingerly into the stream, using a walking stick affixed with a GoPro camera to balance on the slick river rock.

“You good?” he asks over the sound of the water. “OK. See ya later!”

And with that Powell is submerged in the Green River, which he plans to swim/snorkle/ walk five miles of that day (the exact mode of transportation depending on the depth).

It is his intention to swim, for all intents and purposes, the entire length of the Green and Duwamish Rivers—these days, a single continuous stream. He’s taking the 85-mile-long river in chunks, and so far has swum about 19 miles of it. The trip has already taken him to the top of Blowout Mountain, just north of Mount Rainier, where the watershed begins as a trickle, and will eventually lead him through the brackish, polluted waters of the Lower Duwamish.

Powell, the Puget Sound program director at the Washington Environmental Council, believes he will be the first person to swim the rivers’ entire length—if he completes his task.

His resume gives one hope that he will. In 2008 and 2009, he swam around Bainbridge Island, a 41-mile trek not aided by the gravitational tug of a river that descends from the Cascade Crest to Puget Sound.

For the record, it is OK to swim in the Duwamish. The worst of the pollution— at least when sewage isn’t actively spilling into the water during rainstorms—is contained to the sediment and the fish. So beach play and eating fish are discouraged, but swimming itself isn’t dangerous.

Still, the sight of someone voluntarily getting into Seattle’s only river—an active Superfund site—has a definite gross-out factor.

“People have perceptions that maybe he’s going to test out,” says Christie True, director of the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks.

Given that the swim will be filmed on GoPro, True says she hopes Powell will help people understand how alive the Duwamish remains beneath its gray surface. “I’m hoping that his swim will draw out what is OK, what is not OK, about the Duwamish. . . . Getting up close and personal with it is a way to reveal some of that.”

True says she learned about Powell’s plan last fall as Seattle and King County were announcing the start of an effort to create a new management strategy for the Green/Duwamish River (ourgreenduwamish.com)—an effort that tacitly acknowledges that governments haven’t treated the two rivers as the single entity they are. “Mark walked up and said, ‘I’m going to swim the entire river.’ I said, ‘You’re kidding, right?’ ” Starting last fall, Powell has more or less has followed the river chronologically down, with a couple of exceptions: A reservoir that supplies Tacoma with drinking water is closed to the public (he’s working on getting permission to swim there), and one stretch of the Green River Gorge was too gnarly for him to do before discussing it with people who know the area well.

As he gets farther down the river, the obstacles will more often be man-made. A pink salmon run is coming up, which is sure to put a lot of hooks and nets in the water. And the Lower Duwamish still churns at a strong, industrial clip.

As True put it: “It is OK for him to swim there. But he really should be careful with the maritime traffic.” E

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reat news, dwellers of houseboats, apartments with a view, and brick buildings! As if there isn’t enough to be paranoid about, it’s only a matter of time until Seattle is hit with a devastating earthquake/tsunami, according to an article published this week in The New Yorker.

“Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast,” FEMA director Kenneth Murphy told the magazine about what will happen when the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault line off the Pacific Coast rumbles. Besides moving far, far away from the West Coast (which, come to think of it, might not be so bad for Seattle’s housing crisis), here are three ways to prepare for the inevitable disaster.

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Camp in My Backyard Meet the neighborhood that wants a homeless encampment, but can’t get one.

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But, unlike Ballard residents, Yesler’s commu-

nity has come to see encampments as a possible solution to the existing neighborhood impact of homelessness. Also unlike Ballard residents, they’re probably not getting an official encampment anytime soon.

“The Yesler Terrace community reached out to us seeing that there’s already people just doing ad hoc encampment. There’s been some violence around the area—that’s why they decided to reach out to us and [ask us to] run one that is organized,” explains Jarvis Capucion, SHARE/ WHEEL’s spokesperson. But, as he explained, there are plenty of barriers to any possible encampment—not least the consensus of Yesler Terrace’s residents. SHARE/WHEEL’s presentation at the May meeting was informational, and as Capucion explained, “[Yesler residents] have to make that decision yea or nay to go for it, if that’s what they’re wanting to do. We’re waiting on them to decide whether they’re behind this.”

Any Yesler encampment is a long way off, if it ever happens. SHARE/WHEEL cited its limited resources—it’s still setting up the new Interbay camp—and need for government coordination as barriers. (The Washington Department of Transportation owns freeway shoulders.)

But stay tuned. After all, as O’Donnell ironically pointed out, the prospect of a Yesler tent city could help Ballardites get their way. “If they manage to oppose the location successfully, [the City] will need another place [for the encampments].”

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eattle’s plan for three new homeless encampments across the city has plenty of critics, but the placement of one encampment on Northwest Market Street in Ballard has proven particularly unpopular.

Many residents have accused homeless people, as a group, of being drug addicts, drunks, and criminals. An online petition against the encampment, directed at the City Council and titled “Don’t Tell Ballard to Shut Up,” has gathered more that 650 signatures. Businesses have lobbied the mayor via a letter from the Ballard Chamber of Commerce to “put the brakes on this process immediately.”

But while Ballard residents have raised a stink against the prospect of having a new homeless community in their neighborhood, a much different, and much quieter, situation is unfolding in Yesler Terrace: Community leaders actually want to get an organized tent city in their neighborhood, but aren’t immediately getting one.

In May, the Yesler Terrace Community Council invited members of SHARE/WHEEL, one of the groups the city tapped to operate the official encampments, to discuss founding an encampment to replace the ad hoc ones already set up at Yesler.

The unorganized tent city, which houses dozens of people, is perched on the steep, cliff-like retaining walls between Yesler Terrace and I-5.

The camp is dangerous for both the campers and the nearby residents. Several campers have fallen to their deaths from those walls in recent years.

Meanwhile, Yesler Terrace residents, like Ballard’s, have serious health and public-safety concerns about their homeless neighbors. Most of all, Yesler residents were alarmed about violence in the de facto encampment.

On March 14, a woman living in a tent at Eighth Avenue and Yesler Way was killed by multiple gunshots. At the Community Council meeting, residents complained about damage and theft in apartments and the Yesler Terrace community garden—an important food source for Yesler residents, many of whom are food-insecure. Parents were concerned that their children would be unsafe playing outside.

“Our current experience with folks camping by the freeway is that some are nice folks who you’d love to have next door. But far too many of them have limited neighbor skills—there’s been gunshots, aggressive panhandling, and stealing,” says Yesler Terrace resident Kristin O’Donnell.

She’s a member of the Yesler Terrace Community Council’s Leadership Committee and

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An ad hoc encampment near Yesler Terrace.

organized the contacts with SHARE/WHEEL. “Many of us have been homeless, and we do have sympathy for people who don’t have a permanent roof over their heads. But there needs to be some organized accountability.”

During the May Community Council meeting, residents expressed frustration with the crime, the litter, and the sight of campers relieving themselves outside—and that there doesn’t seem to be any authority or accountability to stop these problems.

SHARE/WHEEL’s tent cities have restrooms, waste disposal, and a kitchen area, and typically accommodate up to 100 campers, who mount safety patrols of the encampment and clean up litter in the surrounding neighborhood. They also have a strict code of conduct enforced by a leadership committee elected by the encampment’s residents, including a blanket ban on drugs, alcohol, and weapons.

“The certain percentage of [campers] that are not lovely neighbors is to a large extent what we’re upset about,” says O’Donnell. “The police, after a week of calls . . . clear [the campers] out, but 24 hours later, the same people or another batch shows up. It’s really frustrating because [the police] know perfectly well that there’s going to be someone there, and they ignore it.”

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However, while Murray convened the HALA

committee in the name of consensus, he was unable to present an entirely united front on Monday after months of negotiations. HALA member Jon Grant—a former Tenants Union director and current City Council candidate— announced an alternative proposal, backed by Councilmembers Kshama Sawant and Nick Licata, immediately after the HALA report was released.

Grant says that while the HALA committee’s recommendations are a good start, they do not go far or fast enough to deal with the gravity of our affordable-housing crisis. His proposal includes a linkage fee that covers residential

development (not just commercial), and more affordable housing targeted at renters earning 30 percent of AMI or below, who constitute a little less than a 10th of the city population.

Murray and Grant are united in their likelihood

to further rouse opposition from neighborhood preservationists, who have already vocally opposed any move to increase density in residential Seattle. After an early draft of the report was leaked last week, word got out that HALA intended to do away with single-zone housing, which covers two-thirds of Seattle, altogether.

The news upset many homeowners. “I am offended. This is just appalling,” fumed Queen Anne Community Council chair Ellen Monrad. “The strongest neighborhoods in this city are single-family neighborhoods.”

The final report does not propose to drop the term “singlefamily housing” as the leaked draft did, and emphasizes that Seattle residents would still be allowed to build single-family homes if the changes were adopted. But it does not leave Seattle’s singlefamily neighborhoods alone. City officials say 6 percent of current single-family land would be rezoned to allow significantly more density, near urban villages and major transportation arteries. And the official report goes on to recommend a code change that would allow development like triplexes and stacked flats within the remaining 94 percent of singlefamily zones. It also retains the accurate but controversial statement that “Seattle’s zoning has roots in racial and class exclusion,” which first appeared in the leaked draft.

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n Monday morning, Mayor Ed Murray unveiled his plan to address Seattle’s affordable-housing crisis, Jon Grant unveiled his plan to address it harder and faster, and neighborhood preservationists faced two new menaces in the battle over development.

Murray’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) committee released 65 recommendations for how to keep janitors, baristas, and McDonald’s workers at home inside the city they serve. The biggest takeaway: a combination of more density and more pressure on developers to create affordable housing, or to help pay others to do so. A small fraction of single-family zones that are located near urban villages or major transportation routes would be turned into low-rise zones that could accommodate row houses or small apartment buildings. In exchange for the extra density—and regardless of whether they build to maximum density or not— builders would have to dedicate 5 to 7 percent of the building to affordable housing or pay the equivalent into the city’s affordablehousing fund. (“Affordable” in this context means affordable to someone earning 60 percent of area median income, or about $38,000 per year).

Developers building in commercial zones would also have to pay a new linkage fee that would go toward affordable housing.

“At the heart of our plan is a grand bargain between developers and affordable-housing advocates,” Murray said. He described HALA’s recommendations as a road map for combating the “economic apartheid” that plagues Seattle’s housing market and a way to end “an almosttwo-decade war about how we move forward on affordable housing.”

The call for dense, equitable development is

certain to elicit vociferous opposition from residents who don’t want to see their city transform around them. Announcing the HALA report, Murray acknowledged the homeowners’ concerns.

“I think there will be anxiety. This is change,” he said. But inaction isn’t an option, he said: “Our current crisis is fragmenting our society. . . . creating more and more neighborhoods that only the wealthy can afford.

“We can talk about growth as bad,” he said, “or we can talk about growth as something that helps make us a more equitable city.” E Ellis E. Conklin contributed to this report. cjaywork@seattleweekly.com

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Originally conceived as a 220-acre residence park in 1920, its namesake was the Victory Highway, now known as Lake City Way. (Victory Highway is better.) A Seattle Times ad from that year describes Victory Heights thus: ExcepArea of tionally high and dry. Lies beautifully. Rich gardetail den soil. That’s got to count for something, even if it’s not a proper haiku.

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Does its identity rest on the exchange of goods and services, or on its homes?

Victory Heights is a residential reprieve from the hustle and bustle of Northgate and Lake City Way (what?), sitting between them. It does have a few restaurants, a couple of minuscule parks, Thornton Creek (good creek), a Dick’s, and one or two random businesses at its borders of 15th Avenue Northeast and Lake City, but that’s about it.

What distinguishes Victory Heights among small neighborhoods is that not a single building bears its name (though I didn’t look everywhere).

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DEATH &DUTY So far in 2015, 19 people have perished following encounters with the law in Washington.

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A suspect, a cop, and a weapon—real or imagined—is a potentially fatal mix, sometimes requiring life-or-death snap decisions that can turn out tragically wrong.

In April, police in Lakewood killed a man allegedly pointing a gun at them. It turned out to be a cell phone.

These shooting incidents are among the nine cases of people being killed during fast-moving police encounters in Washington in the first six months of this year.

Five were white, the others Asian, Native, and Hispanic. Most of the shootings occurred in rural areas, such as Woodland, Shelton, and Sumas. Two unfolded in the Tri-Cities.

Another 10 people died in custody after they were arrested and booked into jails around the state, Seattle Weekly determined through interviews, court reviews, and media reports. They include an Island County man who died of dehydration and malnutrition after 13 days of jail neglect, and an inmate who died

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Death & Duty » FROM PAGE 13 of a yet-to-be revealed cause at the Franklin County jail. In a related action, the jail is being sued by Seattle attorneys for abusing inmates, including one who, the attorneys claim, bit off two of his fingers after days of being chained to a fence.

Altogether, these 19 incidents average out to at least three civilian police-related deaths every month in the Evergreen State.

The number is in keeping with recent statistics. In the first six month of 2014, 20 people were killed (and 34 total by year’s end), according to the relatively new national body-count website, KilledByPolice.net. In 2013, 22 were killed in Washington over a seven-month period, starting in May when the website launched.

Counting these deaths is an inexact science, and comparisons don’t yet mean a lot. The figures from Killed By Police come up short on some counts.

The site lists only 12 Washington shooting and in-custody deaths so far this year, having missed seven deaths the Weekly found, including two in the King County Jail.

Those two deaths got little media coverage, which is a big part of the problem. News reports are a primary source for data researchers now attempting to do what the government has failed to: count all the law enforcement-related deaths in America. Like the Pentagon in wartime, the Justice Department does not keep a precise body count of all those killed in battle. But as the U.S. street toll has mounted and videos of police-related deaths have proliferated, critics are calling for more precise state-by-state tracking to determine the true cost in lives. Police deaths are counted. Why not civilians?

Prodded by the 2014 Ferguson, Mo., police shooting of Michael Brown and what has appeared to be a near-epidemic of other policerelated fatalities since, The Washington Post and The Guardian recently tackled the phenomenon in a series of reports, hoping to accurately determine how many people have been killed by police across the country.

The Wall Street Journal also dove in, discovering a statistical anomaly: more than 550 law-enforcement killings were not included in FBI statistics between 2007 and 2012, making it impossible to trust any official tally of how many people are killed by police officers in any given year.

The Post—which did not include Taser-related or in-custody jail deaths in its count—found that U.S. law-enforcement officers have killed upward of 385 people in the first five months of 2015.

That’s about one every nine hours, or 2.5 deaths per day. Compared to other countries, that’s a lot: Just eight died in Germany in 2013-14, and none in the UK last year.

Including jail and Taser deaths as we have done, The Guardian determined that the U.S. averages 928 of these deaths per year—a number more than twice the official count gathered by U.S. government agencies. (The paper also noted that the six shots that hit surrendering farm worker Antonio Zambrano-Montes in Pasco earlier this year were equal to all the shots fired in one year by Finnish police.)

Those newspapers and some websites—such as Killed By Police and FatalEncounters.org—are assembling searchable databases to keep a running record of shootings. It’s crucial to have the numbers, Jim Bueermann, president of the Police Foundation, told the Post: “We are never going to reduce the number of police shootings if we don’t begin to accurately track this information.”

He hopes the data will lead to procedural changes for police as well. Nationwide, sixty-two officers have died in the line of duty so far this year, in causes ranging from shootings to car accidents. These include Chehalis officer Rick Silva, who died while undergoing surgery to correct a duty-related injury sustained in February while attempting to arrest a shoplifting suspect, according to Chief Glenn Schaffer.

Shooting scenes can be wild and improvisational, as shown in a New Year’s Eve 2012 video of Seattle police apparently being ambushed at a crime scene. It’s a chaotic moment when no one seems to know who’s shooting at whom, and underscores what outspoken ex-Baltimore cop Michael Wood recently told reporter/author Radley Balko: “Bad police shootings are almost always the result of . . . cops who were afraid, and fired their weapons out of fear.”

There’s nothing brave or heroic, he added, about shooting a suspect “the second you pull up to the scene. You know what is heroic?

Approaching the young kid with the gun. Putting yourself at risk by waiting a few seconds to be sure that the kid really is a threat, that the gun is a real gun. The hero is the cop who hesitates to pull the trigger.” That does happen, but since no one dies, it’s less likely to be film at 11.

A number of the civilian deaths reviewed by the Weekly appear justified, such as several “suicides-by-cop,” in which a civilian makes a threatening move in the hope that police will pull the trigger. But the truth is in the details,

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up being killed by a Mason County Sheriff ’s deputy.

Daughter Megan Elliott, 18, called 911 around 9:30 p.m. to report that her father, a pharmaceutical salesman, had shot himself, according to a follow-up report by Detective William Adam. Sergeant Trevor Severance and Deputy Sheriff Alfonzo Mercado responded to a residence in the 600 block of East Island Lake Drive, a rural area north of Shelton, where Elliott was aiding her wounded father.

Severance, a trained Emergency Medical Technician, entered the residence with medical gear.

But he and Mercado discovered that the bullet Elliott fired had only grazed his ear. Elliott greeted them with a .357 in his hand. At close range, he had clear shots at the deputies and held his gun menacingly. Severance and Mercado drew their weapons and began shouting for Elliott to drop the .357. (Megan Elliott had not hung up after the 911 call, and dispatchers were still on the line.

The deputies’ commands can be heard on the recorded audio.) He refused to discard his weapon, investigators say. The seconds ticked past.

“When Tim Elliott threatened to take the life of one of the deputies,” Det. Adam reports, “Severance was provided no other choice but to discharge his weapon, striking and mortally wounding Tim Elliott.”

Having failed to shoot himself, Elliott may have decided to commit suicide by cop. Or he simply wasn’t making rational decisions: His family told police he was taking medication for severe depression.

After a review, including an investigation led by the neighboring Grays Harbor County Sheriff ’s Office, Mason County Prosecutor Mike Dorcy concluded that Severance had followed the law. Mason County Sheriff Casey Salisbury called the sergeant’s actions courageous. Shortly after Elliott’s death, daughter Megan said on Facebook, “I know you all will be seeing stuff on the news. My best friend in the whole world and the best person I will ever know, my father, went up to heaven today. I love him more than anything in the world.”

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The January 2 killing of Elliott, 53, is the strange case of a man who reportedly attempted to kill himself, failed, and ended

It’s been almost a half-year since ZambranoMontes, unarmed, was killed by three officers on the streets of Pasco, shot at point-blank range

during the first volley, and thus already wounded when he held out his hands and was shot dead.

The shooting brought to four the number of people shot and killed by police in Pasco over just seven months. In September 2014, a Pasco cop fatally shot a suspected car thief armed with an Airsoft pistol that fires non-metallic pellets.

The prosecutor called the death a justified shoot.

Last July, two Pasco officers were cleared for killing a homeowner who approached them with a knife and refused to drop it. Also last summer, a Benton County deputy killed a drunken Pasco man after a four-hour standoff during which the suspect fired 60 rounds at police.

Maybe those were legal shoots. But not Zambrano-Montes’ death, says family attorney Charles Herrmann of Seattle. Thanks to the video, we’re able to witness the “unjustifiable killing of an unarmed man,” Herrmann says.

Flanagan—one of the three officers involved—resigned effective July 2, saying he is taking a job in the building-trades industry. “It’s unfortunate that an officer felt he had to give up his career for what occurred,” said Police Chief Bob Metzger.

JAMISON E. CHILDRESS

Childress, 20, brought a spray can to a gun fight.

Wanted for murder, the young Canadian was trying to slip across the U.S./Canada border on a Thursday afternoon, March 19, near Sumas, Whatcom County, when he was spotted by a U.S. border patrol agent.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Childress was slated to be charged with firstdegree murder in the death of Brando Walker.

The charred, dead body of the 18-year-old was found near Alberta’s Elbow River, dumped there, apparently, after being slain at a Calgary home.

The border agent spotted Childress with a backpack heading through an unauthorized area after he tripped a sensor. According to the Whatcom County Prosecutor’s Office, Childress “appeared disheveled, frightened, and started backing up.” He began fumbling through his pack and didn’t react when the agent ordered him to show his hands. The agent had drawn his gun when Childress pulled out a can of bearrepellent spray and took off through the thicket.

The agent radioed for assistance, and Childress was then confronted by two police officers and another agent.

Prosecutors say Childress began screaming “Kill me! . . . Just fucking shoot me,” pointing the bear spray at the lawmen. As Childress got closer, the officers backed up their cars. Childress then moved directly toward the border agent. “You better fucking kill me, pig!” he allegedly shouted.

The agent was backed up to a drainage ditch and could give no more ground.

Childress set off the bear spray and the agent fired. A cloud engulfed the agent just as one of two shots hit Childress in the temple. Toxicology tests indicated he’d been under the influence of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.

Prosecutor Dave McEachran told The Bellingham Herald that a two-month review found the shooting justified.

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and travels slowly. Some post-mortem reviews can wrap up quickly, while others await completion of internal or multi-jurisdictional investigations. Take the shooting of Zambrano-Montes in February: Officials took five months to complete their findings, but still haven’t fully announced them. (They released more video this month and claim the farmworker asked them to kill him, but have yet to explain why he was shot while holding out his empty hands.)

In some cases, it takes time to make sense of senseless acts. But undue delay raises suspicions.

In Lakewood, a month passed before police would even admit the man they’d killed in April had only a cell phone on him. By then, they’d begun blaming the victim, who was mentally ill.

They claimed he held the phone like a weapon.

Nine years ago, the Weekly took a long look at police-related deaths in and around Seattle and how they are dealt with in courts. “Justified” was always the finding by King County inquest juries weighing police shoots, regardless of the victim’s race, sex, age, or level of guilt. Buttressed with questionable findings, a prosecutor could claim there was reasonable doubt and decide charges were unwarranted. That happened even in the killing by the Seattle Police Department of a mentally disabled man with a squirt gun: Though he was riddled with 19 police bullets, no one was held responsible but the squirt-gunner.

SPD killed five people last year: a bankrobbery suspect, an armed man in a Queen Anne standoff, another who was attacking people at Gas Works Park, a fourth who pointed a gun at police following a car chase, and a fifth who pointed a replica gun at police. King County Sheriff ’s Office deputies also killed a man in Seattle at a light-rail station in 2014. Encouragingly, no one has been killed by SPD or KCSO officers so far this year.

Elsewhere in the state, the body count has kept up with recent trends. We wanted to take a closer look at these incidents, in hopes of making some sense of these untimely deaths. For each we have sought to go beyond the toll numbers and explain the circumstances, but many remain under investigation with the details still under wraps. Despite the common role of law enforcement, each of these 19 stories is as unique as the lives that were lost. Sadly, they won’t be the last.

while he held out his hands. We know who did it: officers Ryan Flanagan, Adam Wright, and Adrian Alaniz. We’re told it was because the suspect threw rocks at police and ran. But we’re not told why, when Zambrano-Montes stopped and seemingly surrendered, he was still shot dead.

In the first police shooting death of the year—that of Tim Elliott—officials released an account within three weeks. To date, Pasco police and investigators from a regional task force have yet to provide any detailed conclusions about what happened to ZambranoMontes. In the past couple of weeks, Franklin County prosecutor Shawn Sant finally released large files of interviews and reports, along with eight sets of raw video taken by witnesses. They add more details to the case—including witness statements that police were never in danger of being hurt by the suspect. But Sant has still not said whether he will file charges against police.

“The right decision is more important than a quick decision,” he said in a recent statement.

The case is expected to drag out for months, with a coroner’s inquest looming.

In the meantime, police have been much more forthcoming with information about ZambranoMontes, who was accused last year of trying to grab an officer’s gun during an arrest, earning him a six-month sentence. The 35-year-old outof-work illegal immigrant was separated from his wife and suffering from depression after his house had caught fire a few weeks earlier. In the latest police disclosure, he is said to have been on meth when killed.

But in the dead man’s corner is a shooting video that garnered national attention. It captures a particularly persuasive scene: Maybe Zambrano-Montes’ hands weren’t up, but they were out, and empty.

The cell phone video was posted to YouTube and soon viewed more than 2 million times.

The man who recorded the shooting, Dario Infante Zuniga, 21, said police came to his home later and seized the phone without a warrant, claiming it was evidence.

Zuniga thought the footage showed a bad shoot. “It looked like he had his hands in the air when he crossed the street,” Zuniga told reporters. He witnessed, he said, police firing a volley of shots at the fleeing man’s back, though none seem to strike him.

Police are shown scurrying around several squad cars with blue lights flashing. Five gunshots are heard. Police and witnesses say bullets flew through a busy intersection as ZambranoMontes fled. Police claimed they tried to stop him with a Taser at first, but it either did not connect or had no effect.

Zambrano-Montes is next seen running, possibly limping, as he crosses the intersection with officers in close pursuit. His hands are up, then out, as he trots along a sidewalk next to a cafe.

He twists and looks back, seemingly attempting to stop and submit. He is holding his hands away from his body. Finally he halts and turns, hands in front. He briefly touches both hands to his shirt—not his waistband.

As three officers fire, Zambrano-Montes crumples to the pavement and dies.

Altogether, 17 shots were fired at the running figure. Kennewick Sgt. Ken Lattin decided that “five or six rounds struck Mr. Zambrano.”

He was uncertain of the count because autopsy results don’t agree. The official autopsy came up with five—none in the back. But subsequent autopsies, authorized by Zambrano-Montes’ widow and parents, found eight entrance wounds, including two on the backside. If correct, Zambrano-Montes might have been hit

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Death & Duty » FROM PAGE 15 Highway 97, a byway rife with drug smugglers hauling dope and money from Canada to California. According to Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers, a 47-year-old man from Idaho told the federal officer he was hitchhiking when three people in a van—a female and two males—offered him a ride. Once on the road, the hitchhiker realized his new buddies were smoking meth and acting crazy. One then pulled a gun and pointed it at the hitchhiker’s head. They took his $150 cash and a fly rod and kicked him out of the van.

An hour later, the USFS officer spotted the suspect vehicle near a campground on Lyman Lake Road. The officer began tailing the van and called for backup. After a Washington State Patrol trooper fell in with him, the two officers tried to stop the van, which then sped off. The three vehicles roared along a back road for about five miles until the van spun out of control and hit a tree. The two men ran into the woods, leaving the woman behind.

It was a brief foot chase. One man escaped (but later surrendered). The officers caught up with the other suspect, William J. Dick III, 28, of Coulee Dam. When he wouldn’t surrender, the forest service officer nailed him with a Taser. He was cuffed and taken into custody.

Then he suddenly stopped breathing, Sheriff Rogers says. The officers used CPR and a medic unit was called, but no one could revive the suspect.

An autopsy a few days later could not determine a cause of death, The Wenatchee World reported. Okanogan County Coroner Dave Rodriguez said it might be a case of “excited delirium” brought on by the combined effect of drugs and Taser shock. There was no video of the event, and no officer was charged.

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Lakewood Police say the call came in around 1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21. Somebody saw a man running through the parking lot of a lumberyard on 108th Street Southwest. The man was carrying a hooded jacket. It seemed suspicious.

He climbed a fence and was apparently hiding on top of a rack of lumber, 25 feet in the air.

“No police agencies in the area were chasing him or actively looking for him prior to the lumberyard employees calling 911,” police said in a statement. But the man ended up dead nonetheless.

Officers say they saw the man atop the lumber pile and told him to come down. But he reached for something in his pocket, they claim. So they shot Daniel I. Covarrubias, 37, who, unknown to police, had just come from the hospital because he was having hallucinations.

Afterward, police put out word they were looking into Covarrubias’ criminal history. It included auto theft, drunk driving, eluding police, and assault, although none of that would change the facts of the shooting. Yet what were the facts?

“To protect the integrity of the investigation, we are not releasing any details at this time,” Lakewood police said in a statement.

But did Covarrubias have a weapon? Police wouldn’t say that day.

Turns out he didn’t. He had a cell phone, police conceded the following month.

Nonetheless, interim Chief Mike Zaro insists the cops had no other options. There was not enough time to identify whatever it was that

Covarrubias was supposedly pointing. He was hit by five of the nine bullets officers fired at him.

Covarrubias’ family has already come to a finding. “He was shot and murdered in broad daylight by the police,” his sister Lanna Covarrubias told KOMO-TV. A father of seven, her brother was a drug addict with mental problems who struggled to try to stay clean, Lanna said. “I just can’t believe my brother is another statistic.”

The shooting is currently being investigated by the Pierce County Prosecutor’s Office, who work with police on a daily basis.

MILLARD J. TALLANT III

His job and his 18-year marriage had already ended. And so too would life on a May evening for Tallant, 62.

He and his wife separated last December and filed for divorce on May 6, when he was still out of work. He hadn’t told her about being laid off, and had drained $100,000 from his retirement fund to cover up his lack of income. His wife kicked him out when she discovered the loss.

Just after midnight on May 28, he went to the estranged wife’s home on Tester Road in Monroe. He left after a brief meeting and fired off a round from his handgun. Responding to the wife’s 911 call saying Tallant had also talked of suicide, Snohomish County deputy Dan Tenbrink arrived around 12:30 a.m. and radioed that he had a man in sight.

Tenbrink then called out, “Shots fired. Shots fired,” The Herald of Everett reported. “I have one down,” the deputy radioed. “He’s not moving.”

The man fired his gun during the confrontation, the deputy told dispatchers: He “popped off one shot after I shot.”

It was initially unclear whether the fatal shot was fired by the deputy or self-inflicted

by Tallant. But the Herald later discovered a search warrant issued in the wake of the shooting that states that Tenbrink shot Tallant twice in the chest and Tallant then shot himself in the head, after Tallant ignored commands to drop his gun, the sheriff ’s office said. Tenbrink fired once when Tallant began to raise his gun, and three more times when he again refused to disarm. Tallant fell, and fired his last shot at himself.

A multi-agency team continues to investigate the death.

STEPHEN CUNNINGHAM

A loud-noise complaint. Tacoma Police are called. They confront a man, and shoot him dead.

It was a tragic moment made possible by the victim, who answered the door with a gun, and by police who were apparently unaware of all the circumstances.

Earlier on that 10th day of May, Cunningham, 47, had had a run-in with another man. When the knock on the door came just after 10 p.m., he thought it was the man coming back, Cunningham’s mother Beverly said. Her son picked up a gun and walked to the door of their South Proctor Street duplex, where the parents and son live side-by-side.

There was a confrontation. Then bullets went flying. Steve Gary, a neighbor who witnessed the incident, told KOMO-TV he heard 14 gunshots.

“It sounded like 14 gunshots, you know, seven in a row—and then another seven.”

Tacoma police say officers saw Cunningham pick up the gun when he came to the door, and that he was shot just outside the duplex. A

SWAT team was then called in to help clear the house. The incident remains under investigation.

What little we know for sure is that Cunningham was taken away in a body bag on Mother’s Day. And that Mom Beverly was left to wrestle with the rights and wrongs. “It could have been different if my son hadn’t had a gun in his hand,” she told KIRO-TV. “But I don’t blame the police. I really don’t.”

Still, she added, police told her that her son did not fire his weapon, for which he had a concealed-carry permit. “I’m not angry with police, it’s just a situation that should never have happened,” the mother said. “They made the decision to shoot him, which personally, I don’t think they should have. They could have shot him in the leg or something.”

Another thing, she said: She never heard any loud music that night.

ROARK K. COOK

The early-Monday 911 call came from Cook’s mother. Her 36-year-old son was mentally unstable, and was having an episode. He might hurt others, she said. He had done jail and prison time for domestic violence and assault. He also had access to guns.

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Police were told he was at a woman’s residence at a West Ninth Avenue apartment complex in Kennewick. At 3:30 a.m. on May 4, officers knocked and announced, but the woman who answered said all was well and they should go away, police told the Tri-City Herald.

Hearing a commotion inside, the officers attempted to break through the door. But when Cook shouted that he had a gun, they moved away, evacuating neighbors and calling for backup. Richland police, the Benton County Sheriff ’s Office, and the combined Tri-City SWAT team responded.

Surrounding the building, police, in the darkness, saw a woman and a 7-year-old boy on a second-story balcony outside the apartment. The woman dropped the boy safely to police but as she tried to climb down, Cook pulled her back inside. She got free again and, as she went over the balcony a second time, Cook fired his gun.

Officers shielded the woman, risking death, while others shot back at Cook. Two bullets, fired

by Benton County deputy Logan Brown and Richland police officer Ryan Miller, hit Cook, striking him in the thigh and under the shoulders, an autopsy would later show.

Cook crawled back into the apartment, and a second woman emerged and safely escaped over the balcony. Cook remained inside and refused to give up, also rejecting medical help. Police then decided to peek inside. The Richland bomb squad blew open a door and sent in a robot to spy on Cook. He could be seen still alive in the apartment, but he was armed and continued to refuse to surrender. He died shortly after from his wounds. The Herald reported that Cook—who had at least four no-contact orders filed against him by women—was accused of choking an exwife, threatening to stab another woman while she was pregnant, forcing another woman into sex, threatening children, assaulting police, and beating his estranged wife’s sister with a pot.

He had racked up 35 court cases dating back to 1999. Said a family friend: “He was a happy guy when he was taking his medications.”

GENE MARSHALL

Marshall, 58. was having a bad day, and night.

Just before 2 a.m. that Sunday, June 7, his wife called the 10-officer police department in Woodland, a town of 6,000 residents 20 miles north of Vancouver, and said her husband was waving a gun and threatening to shoot her. He also threatened to shoot himself, she added.

Officer Terry Casey, a 13-year veteran, was at the residence on Third Street in five minutes.

He entered warily. When Marshall came toward him, he still had the gun and would not surrender it. Casey fired in self-defense, police say, killing Marshall. The death is still being investigated by the Clark County Sheriff ’s Office, and no other details are available.

Marshall’s obituary described him as “an avid outdoorsman, enjoying hunting, fishing, hiking, and camping. He loved people. His family and friends meant the world to him.” In a statement, Woodland Police said they were “deeply saddened by this tragic loss of life and the resultant grief caused to Mr. Marshall’s family.”

IN-CUSTODY DEATHS

KING COUNTY JAILS

Compared to previous death rates, this seemed like a much-improved year at King County’s

two jails, in Seattle and Kent. Just a few years back, the jails were averaging a death every other month. Federal inspectors, citing civil-rights violations, said some of them were preventable and that inmates faced a “grave risk of harm” when incarcerated in the county lockups.

Things seem to have turned around lately, and for the first four months of 2015, no deaths were reported.

Then two men died in three days.

Brandon Dean Burris, 27, of Burien, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Kent Regional Justice Center lockup, according to jail spokesperson Steven Falcon. Emergency resuscitation measures failed and he was pronounced dead on May 1. On May 4, Nathan Adam Zambryski, a 31-year-old inmate at the downtown Seattle jail, suffered an apparent seizure, was rushed to the hospital, but died. According to Public Health spokesperson James Apa, the medical examiner has not yet determined the cause of death in either case.

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CLARK COUNTY JAIL

At the Clark County Jail in Vancouver, Mychael Lynch, 32, died on March 22 after he suffered a “medical emergency” while struggling with officers, The Columbian reported. Arrested for DUI and other traffic violations, Lynch was placed in the jail’s medical unit. There, a few hours later, he activated an alarm, apparently maliciously. Jailers decided Lynch should be moved to another cell, but he resisted. Jailers restrained him, resulting in the “medical emergency.” Lynch was taken to a hospital where he died two days later. Said

ISLAND COUNTY JAIL

One of the problems in assessing jail deaths is often the lack of investigation from independent outside agencies. But after 25-year-old Keaton Farris of Lopez Island died April 7 in the 58-bed Island County Jail in Coupeville, the county sheriff, who also runs the jail, issued a 65-page report that appears to pull no punches: Ferris, who was bipolar, died of dehydration and malnutrition, Det. C.E. Wallace Jr. found, and was clearly neglected during his 13 days in jail.

Wallace methodically estimated the amount of water/fluids Farris consumed during his stay—it came to 185 ounces. By federal standards, he should have consumed closer to 1563.2 ounces of fluid over that time period.

Booked for failure to appear on a checkforgery charge, Farris was in a cell where the water was shut off, and officers were not checking on him regularly; they also falsified logs to hide the lack of checks. Two deputies resigned, the jail’s chief deputy William “De” Dennis was suspended without pay for 30 days, and Lt. Pam McCarty was put on paid leave. Island County Prosecutor Greg Banks says he is now reviewing the death to determine if criminal charges can be filed against jail personnel. And a lawsuit is in the works. “I am truly sorry for this tragic death,” Sheriff Mark Brown said.

TRI-CITIES

The other two prisoners who died this year did so on the same day in jails separated by the Columbia River. Russell Sharrer, 54, a TriCities dishwasher, died on February 27 in the Franklin County Jail in Pasco. He was reportedly acting paranoid and possibly hallucinating after his arrest during a traffic stop. He fought with a state trooper while being escorted to the jail booking area, officials said.

“During the course of the physical confrontation,” the county sheriff ’s office reported, “Corrections Officers subdued Mr. Sharrer. While completing the search and intake process Mr. Sharrer had an unknown medical emergency.”

He died at a hospital later that Friday. The jail has yet to reveal a cause of death.

Also on February 27, Michael Shae, 22, died in the Benton County Jail across the bridge in Kennewick. He was reportedly found with bedding tied around his neck, and was thought to have committed suicide. His family told KNDUTV Shae had mental issues, and when previously jailed had been put on suicide watch after he tried to kill himself. They were stunned to hear he wasn’t under watch this time.

Attorneys from Columbia Legal Service in Seattle are among those hoping to prevent such deaths as well as the abuse of prisoners. They are suing the Franklin jail, and the two sides are reportedly close to reaching a settlement, according to the Tri-City Herald. The lawsuit claims the jail’s prisoners were subjected to barbaric practices such as being chained to a fence for days, forced into isolation, left for long periods in restraint chairs, and pepper-sprayed for no reason. CLS calls the jail “among the worst, if not the worst” of the 20 lockups it is investigating statewide. E

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Spokane County Jail, meanwhile, has so far doubled King County’s inmate death rate this year. One of the latest cases, from May 13, started with the domestic-violence arrest of Lorenzo Hayes, 37, at a north Spokane duplex.

A sometime welder who’d learned his trade at Renton Technical College, Hayes was known to police as a meth and heroin dealer. On this Wednesday, he was being busted for violating a no-contact order.

Hayes was taken to the county jail, and appeared to be high on something, police claim.

He kicked the interior of a patrol car while being transported. At the booking desk, custody officers attempted to strap him into a restraint chair to keep him from hurting himself or others.

During the struggle, Hayes collapsed and stopped breathing. Officers began to administer emergency chest compressions, and medics were called. Hayes was rushed to a hospital, but was pronounced dead.

“We need answers,” his cousin Monica Moore told The Spokesman-Review. If he was high and distressed, why wasn’t he first taken to the ER at Holy Family Hospital four blocks away, rather than to jail? she asked. An autopsy later determined Hayes died of apparent cardiac arrest.

Hayes was just one of three Spokane prisoners who died during a six-week spell this spring.

John Everitt, 46, was found dead in his cell in May with a sheet around his neck; the cause of death was “hanging by ligature,” an apparent suicide. Scott M. Stevens, 53, arrested for stealing a handbag at a department store, died June 12 in his cell from unknown causes, according to a news release. Another death was reported in January, but officials did not provide a name or details of the victim.

Undersheriff Mike Cooke in a press release, “We’ll refrain from making any unsupported comments or arriving at any conclusions until after the investigation is completed.”

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DRUNKY’S TWO SHOE BBQ CAMPFIRE Notable side Mac-’n’-cheese bowls provide a Probably the most regionally faithful Seattle barbecue place, Plus, here in Seattle, not every place cleaves completely to one WOOD SHOP BBQ Jack’s offers Central Texas style, which means sauce is creamy side to a heaping pile of your meat of choice type, often mixing and matching, or even adding a Pacific Northwest BITTERROOT served on the side and meat is tender but on the drier side. topped with one of their sauces.

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JACK’SPIT PECOS Julie Reinhardt shows women can compete with men when it comes to barbecue. With her partner in crime, Eric Reinhardt, and their own special dry rub, the barbecue at Smokin’ Pete’s is much too underappreciated. They even offer an entire smoked pig on their catering menu.

Location 1918 N.W. 65th St., Ballard Meat Turkey, duck, and prime rib on special order; Pete’s also carries the usual pulled pork, brisket, ribs, and hot links.

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James Beard-award-winning chef Sam Choy is WOOD SHOP BBQ BOURBON AND BONES making a one night only appearance at the Stone

House Cafe (9701 Rainier Ave. S.). The godfather of poke (a Hawaiian raw salad appetizer) will dish up classic Pacific Rim cuisine on Tues., July 21 from 7 to 9 p.m. in a meal sure to be full of lovely seafood.

For $70 you’ll get six courses with plenty of poke for all. Tickets are available at Brown Paper Tickets and seating is limited.

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taurant Zoe, and Uneeda Burger, has decided to head east and feed people across the water something decent. Feed Co. Burger will take over the defunct Bill the Butcher space at 7990 Leary Way N.E. in “Old Town” Redmond in the next couple of weeks. Burger varieties will include beef, lamb, turkey, elk, and Chinese water buffalo, as well as a seasonal tempura program. Giddyup! E

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The decor is a little right-leaning for the city, with animal heads on the wall and a chain-saw chandelier—yes, made of rusty chain saws. But owner Nate Rezac is striving for classic barbecue and perhaps an aesthetic to match.

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The Lookout (757 Bellevue Ave. E.) Yes, the unceasing construction in Capitol Hill and South Lake Union has made this bar’s name a bit more ironic than initially intended, but the patio area is still super-delightful. Trees and abundant greenery keep the air a bit cooler, and there are plenty of seats, not to mention the railings overlooking the city that are perfect for a bit of contemplation, especially the kind that’s facilitated by a couple of beers.

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Fishing is still a major industry, but compared to tech companies or even Boeing, it seems woefully outdated. Yet fish taste way better than microchips or jets, so who the hell cares? On Chinook’s expansive deck, you can chow down on unfussy seafood while sipping a beer and staring at the marina’s boat collection. It’s Seattle the way your parents knew it.

The Seattle/Bainbridge Island Ferry You shouldn’t do this. The law says you can drink the booze you buy on the ferry only in the galley.

You shouldn’t break the law. Sure, it might be gorgeous on the upper level, staring out at the sun-speckled water, the wind rushing in your face; and sure, other people might be furtively sipping from a beer, wine bottle, or flask; but that doesn’t mean you should give in to your totally understandable, and in fact utterly justified, urge to enjoy a cool, refreshing drink like a responsible adult. Most definitely not. E

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A Fan’s Notes

Trainwreck director Judd Apatow talks about comedy, his new movie, and Amy Schumer.

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the collapse. I think it was still peaking when I stopped. I stopped performing when I was 24, after seven years. It was all of those TV shows that made it collapse.” The brick-wall backdrop of a comedy cellar became cliché, thanks in part to cable TV—one reason Apatow transitioned to writing for Garry Shandling. He also watched as his roommate Adam Sandler shot to stardom on SNL. In his book, he recalls wondering “Why don’t I have the magic fairy dust?”

Apatow then worked productively in TV for Shandling (interviewed) Ben Stiller (not), Roseanne Barr (yes), and helped create Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared. Subsequent success in movies, plus marriage and kids, have brought him to a better place—as is evident in a book thick with references to past anger and therapy. With Marc Maron, he discusses neediness and neuroses. To Seinfeld, a TM practitioner (!), he confesses he can’t set his ego aside to be that one Zen drop in the ocean. In a candid exchange with Barr, he says of their careers, “The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don’t bother to fix the thing in your life.”

Is it possible to achieve a healthier home-versusHollywood life balance today? “I’m kind of a catastrophic thinker, says Apatow. “I’m always trying to avoid bad situations. As a producer that pays off, as I have to think a year ahead and imagine what can go wrong. But as a human being, that is the opposite of living in the moment. But you need to learn how to change gears and drop that, and it’s hard to drop that when it’s successful 9 to 5.”

Yet after a two-decade break from performing,

Apatow is again telling jokes in small clubs—and opening with other Trainwreck comics for the headlining Schumer (also interviewed in his book). “I missed the camaraderie of hanging out with comedians,” he says. “When you are a direc-

tor or writer, you’re just alone most of the time.

Movies are stressful. You work on them for years.

And all your work might be rejected within 10 minutes the day it comes out. It’s like waiting three years to know if someone is going to punch you in the face. But when you do stand-up, it disappears. You do it, you have a connection with the crowd, and it goes well or doesn’t go so well.

And you try it again another day, and the stakes aren’t so high. I like the immediacy of it.”

As the current king of Hollywood comedy, Apatow can afford to treat stand-up as a hobby.

But his star Schumer only recently emerged from the trenches of the trade. Why, I ask, did he want to work with a woman—though very talented—who only had a small club and cable following? In answering, Apatow still sounds like a teenage comedy nerd. “I was just sitting in my car listening to her on the Howard Stern show,” he recalls, “and she was just so funny. But she was telling this pretty intense story about her dad having multiple sclerosis. I had seen a little bit of her comedy, but . . . this type of storytelling was at a whole other level. She was brutally, painfully honest, but also very warm and very funny. And there aren’t that many people who can do that.

“So we started talking about doing something that was very personal—and inspired by my time working with Lena Dunham, Kristen Wiig, and Annie Mumolo [co-writer with Wiig of Bridesmaids]. And that evolved into Trainwreck. I just had a quick instinct: ‘Oh, I wish she had a movie,’ and that if I don’t push her to make it, maybe it won’t ever happen. So it’s like being a fan. I have to jump in if I want to watch her movie.” E bmiller@seattleweekly.com

TRAINWRECK Opens Fri., July 17 at Sundance, Meridian, and other theaters. Rated R. 122 minutes.

Anders Nilsen’s sprawling 2011 graphic novel Big Questions starts with birds talking about seeds, then existentialism, then prophetic visions, and finally an enormous, meticulously interwoven Biblical tale meditating on God, perception, and existence. It’s terrifying, dark, and utterly brilliant—easily among my top five graphic novels of all time. Nilsen’s new book, Poetry Is Useless, (Drawn & Quarterly, $30), is a collection from his sketchbooks, full of simple drawings that serve as a portal into some very heavy subject matter. Using a faceless silhouette figure as his narrator (perhaps a stand-in for his own subconscious), Nilsen runs through countless despairinducing thought experiments about the absence of God, the impending end of civilization, and the vast emptiness of the universe. It’s very surreal—thanks to the juxtaposition of random dinosaur and swamp-minotaur doodles—and at times incredibly sad. Nilsen will appear tonight with D&Q cartoon comrade Marc Bell, whose new Stroppy ($22) is a 180-degree reversal from Poetry Is Useless—a goofy, Seussian romp that reads like an episode of The Muppets on acid.

Talk about surreal juxtaposition. Ada’s Technical Books, 425 15th Ave. E., 322-1058, adasbooks. com. Free. 7 p.m. KELTON SEARS

Nilsen’s new work.

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Jim Gaffigan

Irish Catholic humor can tend toward certain types: angry, drunk, maudlin, or even vehemently anticlerical. What’s somewhat surprising about the reliably funny Gaffigan, a kind of dad-core comic who can fill arenas, is his steadfast suburban decency. He’s funny, but he works clean; and we’ll see that in his new Comedy Central show, which he co-created with his wife. (In it, an Irish Catholic comedian tries to juggle the demands of career, faith, marriage, and raising five kids in a too-small Manhattan apartment—read into that what parallels you will.) The Jim Gaffigan Show

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eadlining the recent Trainwreck Comedy Tour when it passed through Seattle last month, Amy Schumer is clearly having a moment. She’s on magazine covers, has a hit Comedy Central show, and wrote and stars in Trainwreck, projected to be one of the summer’s big comedies. (For the record: I enjoyed the film, which opens Friday; it’s more the conventional rom-com than you might expect, with a finale I found lacking.) Schumer feels important because she’s part of a distaff wave—along with Lena Dunham, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and the all-female Ghostbusters remake coming next summer—that’s reinvigorating American screen comedy. And nothing certifies the moment more than Schumer’s partnering with Judd Apatow, whose golden directing and producing touch has yielded hits including Bridesmaids, The 40-YearOld Virgin, and Knocked Up. In his new book of comedian interviews, Sick in the Head (Random House, $27), each with an autobiographical intro, he writes, “I feel like we’re in the middle of a great moment in comedy,” a new golden age comparable to that of his impressionable youth.

So why, I ask Apatow in the quiet lobby of a downtown hotel, is the comedy scene so much better now than when he abandoned stand-up some 20 years ago? “When I was a kid, nobody was a comedy nerd,” he recalls. “I loved comedy, but I had nobody to talk about it with. It wasn’t part of the culture in a big way. People liked SNL and The Tonight Show and Letterman, but there wasn’t an obsession with humor and comedians at the scale that there is now, with Funny or Die or Upright Citizens Brigade. Look at Broad City, or what Amy Schumer is doing, or Key and Peele. There’s just so much great comedy happening right now.”

In Sick in the Head, Apatow also writes how “the Internet has just turbocharged everything” in the comedy scene. We now live in a world of viral videos and performers emerging from YouTube—far different from the period when high-school student Apatow convinced Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, and even Steve Allen to sit for interviews now contained in his book (the majority are recent). There were fewer working comics—whose ranks Apatow desperately wanted to join. (He started as a dishwasher in a Long Island comedy club.) Today, in essence, he’s written the book he wanted then.

“When I was a kid in love with comedy in the early ’80s,” says Apatow, “there were only a few books about comedy. That’s part of the reason I started interviewing comedians when I was 15. I just needed an excuse to get them in a room with me, where I could hit them up for information, which might help my attempts at being a comedian.”

By the time Apatow got to USC (soon to drop out), doing stand-up by night, he saw how the profession had become bloated. All the young comics were chasing the past examples of Steve Martin (interviewed) and Robin Williams (not). Today, with some relief, he says, “I missed

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» FROM PAGE 21 debuts on Wednesday, and Gaffigan is beginning his 30-city Contagious tour here in Seattle tonight.

As ever, expect plenty of jokes regarding his foremost obsession, as detailed in last year’s book, Food: A Love Story. Sample wisdom: “Sides are never called ‘vegetables,’ because what is done to vegetables in steakhouses makes them no longer qualify as vegetables.” And don’t get him started on cake, or gravy, or cupcakes, or Hot Pockets, or . . . well, let’s just say there’s a very long list of food-related sins for Gaffigan to confess on Sundays. McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St. (Seattle Center), 800-745-3000, mccawhall.com. $42–$52.

7 & 9:30 p.m. (Repeats Fri.) BRIAN MILLER

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ARC Dance does a hard thing very well: presenting young ballet dancers at the point where they’re just ready to become professional. They’ve got the physical facility—now they need to be able to say “Look at us.” For the eighth Summer Dance at the Center series, director Marie Chong has continued to commission and make work that will show these artists at their best while giving them all the challenges they need. This year’s edition features choreography from nationally known artists with local connections, and a broad palette of styles. On the bill are new works from visiting choreographers Ilana Goldman, Travis Guerin, and Edwaard Liang. Locals Jason Ohlberg and Chong herself are also represented.

(Through July 25.) Seattle Repertory Theatre, 155 Mercer St. (Seattle Center), arcdance.org. $15–$40. 8 p.m. SANDRA KURTZ

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Rebels of the Neon God

This is a rare chance to see the 1992 debut feature from Tsai Ming-liang, who’s since become a force in Taiwanese cinema with The Hole, What Time Is It There?, and Stray Dogs (which played during SIFF last year). His hero Hsiao-kang, an only child, is miserably stuck in a cram school. Riding in his father’s cab, he glances at a passing motorcycle being ridden by what seems to him the most glamorous, sexy couple in the world. Or rather, Ah-tze and Ahkuei open up notions of a different world for Hsiao-kang. The film contrasts his stultifying routine with the petty larceny and hooliganism of Ah-tze; yet both these young men are somewhat trapped by circumstance. Rebels is a

compound portrait in discontent, full of brooding and anomie. Youth is being squandered here, and at the same time Tsai is offering a critique of a moribund nation that doesn’t know what to do with its youth. Tsai’s favorite metaphor is famously water, which here backs up out of clogged drains and gutters. Thus, Taiwan is likewise a stuck and congested society, where genuine rebellion seems impossible. ( Jealously infatuated Hsiao-kang merely vandalizes Ahtze’s motorcycle, and dances spastically to freak out his parents.) Ah-kuei, a call girl, speaks for everyone when she says, “Let’s leave this place.” But the movie gives them no place to go. (Through Thurs). SIFF Film Center (Seattle

Center), 324-9996. $7–$12. See siff.net for showtimes. BRIAN MILLER

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Opening today, this excellent documentary examines our failed War on Drugs from two perspectives, following a self-appointed citizen border-patroller in Arizona and a charismatic doctor-turned-militia leader in the Mexican state of Michoacán. During a sit-down at SIFF, director Matthew Heineman told me that after reading about the Autodefensas movement led

by Dr. Jose Mireles, “The next day I got on the phone with the doctor, and two weeks later I was down there. I had surfed in Mexico, but I had never reported from there. I had never been in a war zone before. I was very fortunate to spend eight or nine months going back and forth [between Michoacán and Arizona] and really developing relationships, really developing characters.” His two main subjects, Mireles and Tim “Nailer” Foley, had different degrees of trust in being filmed, says Heineman.

“Mireles had some experience with international media. He was very comfortable. He had also lived in the States before. It took longer to get on the ground [with Foley], months of phone calls and relationship-building. I think Foley feels that people like him and his group get vilified in the media as racist extremists.

In his mind he’s fulfilling a need, a void where our government is failing. At some level, this film is a character portrait of two men, two very complex men. Both believe that their government has failed them, both have ‘taken the law into their own hands’ to fight for what they believe.” Sundance Cinemas (sundancecinemas.com) and SIFF Cinema Uptown (siff.net).

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five local actresses in a cabaret/interview hybrid. Sarah Rose Davis is up first. ArtsWest, 4711 California Ave. S.W., 938-0339, artswest.org. Single tickets $25–$75, series $100–$300. Opens July 20. 7:30 p.m. Mon. Ends Aug. 17.

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Marcus Gardley retells the myth of Demeter and Persephone set during the Civil War. Center Theatre at the Armory, Seattle Center. $15–$25. Previews July 16–17, opens July 18. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. plus Mon., July 27; 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Aug. 2.

CODENAME: KANSAS, WITCH HUNTER! A staged reading of . . . well, we’re not sure, but it’s set in the “postpost apocalypse.” Pocket Theater, 8312 Greenwood Ave. N., thepocket.org. Donation. 6 p.m. Sun., July 19.

FAMILY AFFAIR Jennifer Jasper’s cabaret on the theme of family. JewelBox Theater, Rendezvous, 2322 Second Ave., jenniferjasperperforms.com. $10. 7:30 p.m. Wed., July 15.

JIM GAFFIGAN SEE THE PICK LIST, PAGE 21.

GAME NIGHT GONE BAD Game-inspired sketches reveal the truth behind chess, Hungry Hungry Hippos, and more.

Pocket Theater, 8312 Greenwood Ave. N., thepocket.org. $10–$14. Opens July 17. 8:30 p.m. Fri.–Sat. Ends July 25.

GREASE It’s the one that you want. 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Ave., 625-1900, 5thavenue.org. $29 and up. Preview July 15, opens July 16. 7:30 p.m. Tues.–Wed., 8 p.m. Thurs.– Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., 1:30 & 7 p.m. Sun. Ends Aug. 2.

BRETT HAMIL & EMMETT MONTGOMERY Two comedians collaborate “for a weekend of sharing, laughter, and meaningful glances.” Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., 628-0303, comedyunderground.com. $15–$55. 9 & 11 p.m. Fri., July 17–Sat., July 18.

HOLD THESE TRUTHS A UW student challenges the WWII internment of Japanese-Americans in Jeanne Sakata’s solo show. ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., 292-7676. $15–$44.

Previews begin July 17, opens July 23. Runs Tues.–Sat.; see acttheatre.org for exact schedule. Ends Aug. 16.

A MAZE Theatre Battery presents Rob Handel’s play, for which, they exhort, “you have to allow things not to make sense and trust that all will be revealed.” Theatre Battery @ Kent Station, 438 Ramsay Way, Suite 103, Kent, facebook.com/theatrebattery. $15–$25. Opens July 16.

8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. Ends Aug. 1.

OUTDOOR TREK Star Trek episodes performed live. This summer, see Spock get all horned up in “Amok Time.”

Blanche Lavizzo Park, 2100 S. Jackson St. Free. Opens July 18. 7 p.m. Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Aug. 9.

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QUEEN SHMOOQUAN: A RIVER RUNS THROUGH HER Jeppa Hall’s site-specific performance-art piece on

the banks of the Duwamish. 4651 Diagonal Ave. S., queen shmooquan.com. Free. 8 p.m. Fri., July 17–Sat., July 18.

PAST CURFEW This one-act festival includes works by David Ives, Thornton Wilder, and Jamie Jordan. Eclectic Theater, 1214 10th Ave., youngamericanstheatreco.org. $15. 7 p.m. Fri., July 17–Sun., July 19.

SEATTLE AFTER HOURS Six “hot and lusty plays exploring the seedier side of Seattle.” Erickson Theatre, 1524 Harvard Ave., seattletheatreworks.org. $10. Opens July 17. 10 p.m. Fri.–Sat. Ends July 25.

SELF-TITLED: A LIVE (THEATRICAL) MIXTAPE The Metronome Society presents five new short plays inspired by favorite songs (Hendrix, Sting, etc.) JewelBox Theater at the Rendezvous, 2322 Second Ave., jewelbox theater.com. $10–$15. 7 p.m. Thurs., July 16–Sat., July 18.

SIDEWINDERS Basil Kreimendahl’s “existential transgender wild Western.” Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave., 800838-3006, fantasticz.org. $10–$15. Opens July 16. 8 p.m.

Thurs.–Sat. plus Tues., July 21. Ends Aug. 1.

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CAFÉ NORDO Something practically every night: Maria

Glanz’ solo show Being Naked Mon.; “Out to Eat” on Tues.; “Wine Wednesdays”; “Drinkers & Thinkers” on Thurs.; Chef/Artist dinners Fri.–Sat.; “Readers & Eaters” on Sun.; and more. Nordo’s Culinarium, 109 S. Main St., brownpapertickets.com. Full info at cafenordo.com.

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Village Theatre KIDSTAGE presents this musical about a serial impostor. First Stage Theatre, 120 Front St. N., Issaquah, 425-392-2202, villagetheatre.org. $16–$18. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sat., 2 p.m.

Sat.–Sun. Ends July 19.

THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH Schmeater’s family show about the mythical figure and “first superhero.” Volunteer Park, schmeater.org. Free. 5 p.m. Sat.–Sun. Ends Aug. 16.

FEEL YOU UP! Satirizing self-help seminars through improv. Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, unexpected productions.org. $5–$15. 8:30 p.m. Fri.–Sat. Ends Aug. 15.

GODSPELL Stephen (Wicked) Schwartz’s gospel musical is reset in Pike Place Market. Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St., 781-9707, taproottheatre.org. $20–$40. 7:30 p.m. Wed.– Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat. Ends Aug. 15.

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If you are tired of live theater that makes you wonder why you stirred from your La-Z-Boy to watch something that you could just as enjoyably have seen on TV (realistic, orderly, passive, pat, and procedural), this production may be the perfect antidote. Had Tennessee Williams’ late-career play from 1957 been performed in a traditional way, it might easily have fallen into that “Why bother with live?” quagmire.

But there’s no such question to this staging

by The Williams Project, a guest company (from Providence, R.I.) during this summer’s Intiman Theatre Festival. Director Ryan Purcell’s version features unconventional casting, emphasis on a story’s universality, a blurring of stage and audience, the mechanics of storytelling laid bare, and subconscious eruptions the likes of which you will not see anytime soon on A&E. In Ovid’s Orpheus myth, a heartthrob musician drives listeners mad with desire while trying to spring Eurydice from the underworld.

Williams imagines Hell as a small Southern town—as it would have been for a gay man like himself—and Eurydice as a Sicilian-American store owner named Lady. Her passionate, racially indeterminate otherness will lead to tragedy and reveal the community’s intolerance (not that we have any doubts about that). Yet this production includes men playing women and blacks playing whites. Intolerance is made universal and humanity put to the fore. It’s an odd choice, but for me it works.

Ugandan-born actress Kemiyondo Coutinho plays an initially wary and heavyspirited Lady, tapping into earthy mannerisms that differentiate her from the hyper-social ladies who frequent her store (Tiffany Nichole Green’s Beulah being a particularly loquacious delight). When charmer Val (Charlie Thurston) arrives, helpless as “a bird with no feet,” bewitching all with his accordion, Lady’s mood lifts microscopically, synapse by synapse.

Meanwhile, less-restrained townsgirl Carol (Elise LeBreton), garbed like a James Dean groupie, flips out for Val. We experience her madness through castwide outbreaks of mayhem, replete with crazy wigs and a loony rainbow wading pool. It’s a heady mess that literal-minded viewers might loathe, but I loved glimpsing this love-crazed psyche.

The oddball minimalist set shifts around for the tragic third act, for which a few audience members are invited to sit at an onstage table where the action transpires starkly, maybe even symbolically. (A Last Supper?) By then Lady is in full thaw, a sensual being brought to life by the fertile mix of truth about her past and hope for a love-filled future.

Yet as we know too well from recent events in Charleston, and as Williams knew in his sensitive heart, Southern social hatred—personified

by Lady’s ailing husband Jabe (Max Rosenak)— can’t abide such a grace-filled state for long.

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About Nothing free in area parks, plus stripped-down versions of Macbeth and The Two Gentlemen of Verona in smaller venues. Runs Thurs.–Sun.; see greenstage.org for complete venue & schedule info. Ends Aug. 15.

HOT TIN STREETCAR Unexpected Productions’ improvised Tennessee Williams sendup. Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, 587-2414, unexpectedproductions.org. $10. 8:30 p.m. Sun. Ends Aug. 16.

THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER Youth Theatre Northwest takes you to the Hundred-Acre Wood. Rotary Park, 4350 88th Ave. S.E., Mercer Island, 232-4145 x109, youththeatre.org. $13–$17. 11 a.m. Thurs., 7 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 1 p.m. Sun. Ends July 26.

INTIMAN THEATRE FESTIVAL SEE REVIEW, PAGE 23. (Following in the festival are Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour, Sept. 9–27; John Baxter Is a Switch Hitter, Aug. 18–Sept. 27; and Bootycandy, Sept. 17–Oct. 3.

12th Avenue Arts & Cornish Playhouse. See intiman.org for complete schedule.

JET CITY IMPROV SUMMER MADNESS Themed shows all summer; on July 18, it’s “1800s Night.” Jet City Improv, 5510 University Way N.E., jetcityimprov.org. $12–$15. 8 & 10:30 Sat. Ends Sept. 19.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Teens! Faeries!

A love potion! Bloedel Reserve, 7571 N.E. Dolphin Dr., Bainbridge Island, 842-8569, bainbridgeperformingarts. org. $20–$25. 7 p.m. Thurs.–Sun. Ends July 26.

PEANUTTY GOODNESS Scott Warrender is workshopping his new musical, but he’ll need the audience’s help, Mad-Libs-style, with a few of the details. Theater Schmeater, 2125 Third Ave., 800-838-3006, brownpaper tickets.com. $20. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. & Mon. Ends July 27.

SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR A Seattle-centric rethinking of Pirandello’s 1921 metatheater classic. Erickson Theatre, 1524 Harvard Ave., seattletheatreworks.org. $25. 7:30 p.m. Fri.–Sat. plus 2 p.m.

Sun., July 19 & 7:30 p.m. Thurs., July 23. Ends July 25.

TEATRO ZINZANNI A show for the Jem generation, “The Return of Chaos” is glitzy, campy, and definitely chaotic, but the cirque acts are as exhilarating as ever, if not more so. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., 802-0015. $99 and up. Runs Thurs.–Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni. com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 13.

THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY Sibling actors are forced to perform in Tennessee Williams’ meta-play. New City Theater, 1404 Eighth Ave., civicrep.org. $20–$30. 7:30 p.m.

Wed.–Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Aug. 1.

WICKED With Alyssa Fox as Elphaba and Carrie St. Louis as Glinda. The Paramount, 911 Pine St., 877-784-4849, stg presents.org. $30 and up. 7:30 p.m. Tues.–Thurs., 8 p.m.

Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., 1 & 6:30 p.m. Sun. Ends Aug. 2.

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Amy Wheeler’s comedy about hijinks at a gay reparativetherapy clinic really ought to rethink its title. 12th Avenue Arts, 1620 12th Ave., 800-838-3006, theatre22.org. $14–$25.

8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. plus 2 p.m. Sun., July 19 & 26 and 8 p.m.

Tues., July 21. Ends Aug. 1.

WOODEN O/SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK Free outdoor productions of As You Like It and Henry IV, Part 1 in area parks. Runs Wed.–Sun.; see seattleshakespeare.org for complete venue & schedule info. Ends Aug. 9.

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very few rules for this festival: Work should last at least an hour but less than two days, and audience members are free to come and go as they wish. Beyond that, it’s all up in the air. SANDRA KURTZ Hedreen Gallery, 901 12th Ave. Runs through Aug. 5; see facebook.com/yellowfish festival for schedule.

ERASED Dani Tirrell and Color Lines Dance Ensemble explore the lives of young women of color in this dancetheater piece. The Neptune, 1303 N.E. 45th St., 877-7844849, stgpresents.org. Free. 7 p.m. Thurs., July 16.

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SEATTLE BUTOH FESTIVAL Including a solo performance by Diego Pinon and a new work by DAIPANbutoh Collective. Broadway Performance Hall, 1625 Broadway, 800-838-3006. $18–$22. 8 p.m. Fri., July 17–Sat., July 18.

For BUTOH IN THE GARDEN, Pinon and Joan Laage collaborate. Kubota Garden, 9817 55th Ave. S. Free. Noon, Sun., July 19. daipanbutoh.com.

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at 7 p.m., concerts at 8.

Janacek for violin and piano. Concert: Songs by Janacek and Respighi. July 17 Recital: Pianist Joyce Yang with colorful Impressionist works. Concert: Britten songs,

Brahms’ horn trio, and a chamber version of Strauss’ Metamorphosen. July 20 Recital: an introduction to this summer’s premiere, Steven Stucky’s Cantus. Concert: Cantus, plus Mendelssohn and Brahms. July 22 Recital: Pärt and Saint-Saëns for violin and piano. Concert: Mozart, Poulenc, Brahms. Benaroya Recital Hall, Third Ave. & Union St., 283-8808, seattlechambermusic.org. $48.

THE MET: LIVE IN HD SUMMER ENCORES Well, it was live once: Favorite broadcasts from recent seasons are back. On July 15, Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez in Donizetti’s La fille du régiment from 2008; on July 22, Renee Fleming in The Merry Widow. See fathomevents. com for participating theaters. 7 p.m.

PIANOS IN THE PARKS They’re back—I don’t know how they survive the elements, but 22 pianos will be installed for public use in area park through Aug. 16. The kickoff event is at Lake Union Park, 860 Terry Ave. N., noon, Thurs., July 16. pianosintheparks.com.

ICICLE CREEK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL July 17 Beethoven, Loeffler, and Brahms. July 18 Ravel, Beethoven, and Rachmaninoff. Icicle Creek Center for the Arts, 7409 Icicle Rd., Leavenworth, 877-265-6026, icicle. org. $10–$20. 7 p.m. Fri.–Sat. Ends July 18.

SEATTLE GILBERT AND SULLIVAN SOCIETY Their smart and zesty production of The Pirates of Penzance probably won’t generate the same controversy that The Mikado did last summer; still, the presence of no actual Cornish people in the cast is troubling. Seattle Rep, Seattle Center, 800-838-3006, pattersong.org. $16–$40. 7:30 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 2 p.m. Sat.–Sun. Ends July 25.

OLYMPIC MUSIC FESTIVAL Chamber music in a rustic barn (or sit on the lawn outside), each Sat. & Sun. at 2 p.m. through Sept. 13. This weekend, a folk and classical miscellany with musicians from Miami’s GardenMusic festival. 7360 Center Rd., Quilcene, Wash., 360-732-4800, olympicmusicfestival.org. $20–$32.

Author Events

Of Orcas and Men: • DAVID NEIWERT’s latest exploresThird Place Books,

What Killer Whales Can Teach Us. 17171 Bothell Way N.E., 366-3333, thirdplacebooks. com.7 p.m. Wed., July 15.

ROGER SHIMOMURA Currently featured in Tacoma Art Museum’s wonderful show An American Knockoff, he talks with Gage Academy’s Gary Faigin. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., 652-4255, townhallseattle.org. $5. 7:30 p.m.

Wed., July 15. (Also TAM, 3 p.m. Sun., July 19.)

JODY BOWER Illusions of Jane Eyre’s Sisters: How Women Live and Write the Heroine’s Story argues that Joseph Campbell’s model of the hero’s journey maybe isn’t all that universal. Ravenna Third Place, 6500 20th Ave. N.E., 523-0210, ravennathirdplace.com. 7 p.m.

Thurs., July 16.

ERNEST CLINE Life imitates sci-fi in his novel Armada, from the author of Ready Player One. University Book Store. Noon Thurs., July 16.

CHRIS COLFER You may know him from Glee, but he’s also the author of Land of Stories: Beyond the Kingdoms.

Elliott Bay, 7 p.m. Thurs., July 16.

KELLY CORDES takes us to a fabled Patagonian peak in The Tower: A Chronicle of Climbing and Controversy on Cerro Torre. Vertical World Seattle, 2330 W. Commodore Way, verticalworld.com. 7:30 p.m.

Thurs., July 16.

CLINT HILL & LISA MCCUBBIN Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November are their books about the JFK assassination. Hill, a former Secret Service agent, was in the presidential motorcade that day (!!!). Eagle Harbor Books, 157 Winslow Way E. (Bainbridge Island), 8425332, eagleharborbooks.com. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., July 16.

SCOTT DODSON Everyone’s favorite jaboted justice gets examined in The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Elliott Bay. 7 p.m. Fri., July 17.

JANE GREEN A lunch chat with the author of Summer Secrets. Women’s University Club, 1105 Sixth Ave., bookstore.washington.edu. $28. Noon, Fri., July 17.

MARGARET GRUNDSTEIN Author of Naked in the Woods: My Unexpected Years in a Hippie Commune.

Third Place, 6:30 p.m. Fri., July 17; Elliott Bay, 7 p.m.

Wed., July 22.

EDAN LEPUCKI Her dystopian novel California became a bestseller after Stephen Colbert mentioned it; she’ll discuss it and that. University Book Store. 7 p.m. Mon., July 20.

MICHAEL HILTZIK recounts the birth of the science/ government alliance in Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex. Town Hall. $5. 7:30 p.m. Tues., July 21.

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large colorful paintings that suggest natural forms (waves, etc.) pushing into abstraction. Also on view: big swaths of color by Miya Ando and photographs of swirling aquarium experiments by Kim Keever. Opening reception, 6-8 p.m. Thurs. Winston Wächter Fine Art, 203 Dexter Ave. N., 652-5855, winstonwachter.com.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Ends Sept. 5.

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Seattle Asian Art Museum, Ends Oct. 4.

CANOPIES In the forest sense, i.e., the roof of trees above our heads. New work by Kimberly Clark, Eric Elliott, Tamblyn Gawley, and Evelyn Woods evokes it. Prographica, 3419 E. Denny Way, 322-3851, prographicadrawings.com. 11 a.m-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends Aug. 22.

JACK CHEVALIER & JULIA HAACK From Vashon, Chevalier paints flappers and actresses from the Jazz Age and silent-movie era. Local artist Haack specializes in wooden constructions that are painted and assembled as wall displays. Linda Hodges Gallery, 316 First Ave. S. 624-3034, lindahodgesgallery. com. 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends Aug. 1.

CONVERGENCE A quintet of Skagit County painters show their work: Michael Clough, Heidi Epstein, Kathleen Faulkner, Margy Lavelle, and Allen Moe. Virginia Inn, 1937 First Ave., 728-1937, virginiainnseattle.com. 11:30 a.m.-midnight daily. Ends July 31.

SCARLETT COTEN Political upheaval always gets reduced to visual cliché. Thus the ’60s were reduced to love beads, hippies, and peace signs. The Reaganite ’80s became yellow ties and brick-size cellphones.

Today, over in the Middle East, it’s ISIS beheadings, Hamas banners, and suicide vests. French photographer Scarlett Coten was determined to expand that view of young Arab men of the apolitical and even hedonistic persuasion. On the streets of Tunisia, Egypt, and the West Bank, she acted like a talent scout for a modeling agency—identifying hipsters with a certain look, then posing them for formal portraits. Her impressive first U.S. show, Mectoub, in the Shadows of the Arab Spring, puns on the Arabic maktoub (roughly, “It is written”) and the French mec (dude or guy). Indeed, her subjects in these 30-odd photos appear to be entirely secular, the sort of guys who might be pulling your espresso or pouring your craft beer on Capitol Hill or in Williamsburg. There’s a languorous quality of repose to Coten’s crew; against backdrops often dingy and decayed, she grants these mecs a wary kind of beauty. We’re not used to seeing them this way, nor are they accustomed to being given such a respectful aesthetic treatment. Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, 1203 Second Ave., 467-4927, marianeibrahim.com. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends July 25.

MARTIN CREED Those who frequented the old Western Bridge gallery, like me, will recognize Work No. 360: Half the air in a given space, though it occupied a much smaller room back in 2010. The English conceptual artist Martin Creed is calling our attention to volume by enclosing it here in 37,000 silver balloons, far more than five years ago. Back then at the cheerful opening reception, half of a small room meant the balloons were only waist-high (or thereabouts); now, in the Henry’s cavernous gallery they’re way over your head. Needless to say, there are certain restrictions on entry. Don’t wear anything spiky or sharp. Even then, expect some popping. And static electricity. And the overpowering smell of latex—like paint drying. It’s a somewhat overwhelming, enveloping immersion in art.

Now here let me say that while I love No. 360, there’s no fucking way I’m going inside it. Waist-high was enough. Over your head makes it claustrophobic; and that squeaky, rubbery sound of thousand of balloons shifting and colliding gives me the creeps. Better for cowards like me to survey the undulating installation— almost like waves on the sea—from the mezzanine.

Kids, on the other hand, will probably be delighted to play in it, like the bubble room at McDonald’s Henry Art Gallery, ends Sept. 27.

A CURIOUS BESTIARY Prints by seven artists are featured, most depicting chimeras and cryptozoological specimens you won’t find in nature. Of note are the whimsical scenes by Julie Buffalohead and Ashton Ludden’s depictions of pets as meat. Davidson Galleries, 313 Occidental Ave. S., 624-6700, davidsongalleries.com. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends July 31.

KATRINA DEL MAR She shows large, bold color potraits in Feral Women. Twilight Gallery, 4306 S.W. Alaska St., 933-2444, twilightart.net. 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

Mon.-Fri. Noon-6 p.m. Sat. Ends July 25.

WILLEM DE ROOIJ For Bouquet XI, the Dutch artist collaborated with a local florist to create works centered around Middle Eastern flowers. Henry Art Gallery, Ends Aug. 16.

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including Morgan Brig, who creates whimsical little robot-like sculptures. Patricia Rovzar, 1225 Second Ave., 223-0273, rovzargallery.com. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mon.-Sun. Ends Aug. 3 CHIHO AOSHIMA This is SAAM’s second exhibit by a contemporary young Japanese artist associated with Takashi Murakami. (The artist known as Mr. was the guy who recently filled a gallery with tsunami detritus.)

Aoshima is a woman, however, who ought to provide a different perspective on the oppressive sexism of most anime. In addition to 30-plus drawings and two large “dreamscapes,” her show Rebirth of the World will include new animated work, Takaamanohara (or The Plain of High Heaven), dealing with Shinto deities. In her typically colorful paintings, ethereal kawaii sprites roam in enchanted glades where the colors are anything but natural. The corporeal, architectural, and natural realms blur together. Seattle Asian Art Museum, 1400 E. Prospect St. (Volunteer Park), 6543100, seattleartmuseum.org. $5-$9. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Wed., Fri.-Sun. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thurs. Ends Oct. 4.

ART BY ARCHITECTS Eight local practictioners unleash their innner Picassos. AIA Seattle, 1911 First Ave., 448-4938, aiaseattle.org. Hours vary. Ends Aug. 13.

LEO SAUL BERK From childhood trauma, art? That’s often the way it works, especially for actors and writers, though Berk isn’t re-enacting any primal scenes or revenging himself on his parents for moving the family from England to rural Illinois in 1980. Leo was only 6 then; and as he notes in the wall text to Structure and Ornament, the next six years of living in a leaky, impractical quonset-like cluster of three domed structures (by modernist architect Bruce Goff) ended their marriage. Now based in Seattle, Berk seems haunted by the place, which he revisited in 1999. Some of the images here have been seen locally before, and they have a ghostly quality—forms and shapes half-remembered, echoed and translated into new sculptures and videos. Goff used odd materials, including cannel coal, rope, and glass cullet, for the round walls of Ford House; and the arched roof rested on trusses, something like a yurt. In his large, titular showpiece sculpture, Berk turns those radial trusses on an axis, rising from the floor like a giant spiky tiara, made of cypress wood and orange fiberglass. Berk’s large sculpture feels like a fresh-built ruin, salvaged from memory.

Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave., 622-9250, fryemuseum.org. Free. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sun. (Open to 7 p.m. Thursdays.) Ends Sept. 6.

BIRDS AND TREES Randena Walsh, Karin Lowrie, and Darin Clark explore nature themes. Jeffrey Moose Gallery, 1333 Fifth Ave. (Rainier Square), 467-6951, jeffreymoosegallery.com. 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. MonFri. 12:30-5 p.m. Sat. Ends. Aug. 31.

ILSE BING An early user of the 35mm Leica hand-held camera, the German Bing (1889-1998) is known as a pioneering woman in European photography. Ilse Bing: Modern Photographer is a selection of her images, spanning the 1920s through 1950s. Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave. N.E. (UW campus), 543-2280, henryart.org. $6-$10. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wed., Sat., Sun. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Thurs.-Fri. Ends Oct. 11.

GREGORY BLACKSTOCK One of our favorite local artists, the autistic-savant former dishwasher is a cheerful explainer. His mostly tabular, annotated works are didactic in a sense; he’s teaching us something about flags and dogs and donkeys and hydroplanes, organizing and categorizing them for our edification. They’re like the rare color pages you find in an unabridged dictionary, illustrated not for the sake of art, but instruction. Also on view, work by a dozen fellow outsider artists, called I Taught Myself, including Henry Darger and Grandma Moses. Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave., 624-0770, gregkucera.com.

10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends Aug. 29.

HEIKE BRACHLOW The German glass artist, now based in the UK, creates elaborately bent and shaped sculptures. Color Through Form represents her first exhibition with the gallery. Traver Gallery, 110 Union St., 587-6501, travergallery.com. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. Ends Aug. 2.

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Ardor

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It pays homage to classic filmmaking, it’s got two fine-looking international stars, and it calls attention to the environmental crisis in the rainforest. It’s still a dumb movie. Ardor dresses up a basic revenge plot with arty style and mystical mumbo-jumbo, all played out in a South American jungle where people have apparently watched a lot of spaghetti Westerns. In their quest to exploit the land, mercenaries set fire to swaths of the forest, trying to drive out yet another local farmer. Time for a mysterious outsider to emerge, barefoot and shirtless, from the jungle. The credits name him as Kai, although I don’t remember him being referred to that way—he’s really another Man With No Name, roaming the landscape and showing up to set things right. Kai is played by Gael García Bernal, the Mexican star of Rosewater, who smolders impressively and deserves enormous credit for keeping a straight face through all this.

The mystery hero teams up with the landowner’s daughter Vania (Alice Braga, from Elysium) to strike back at the mercenaries. This involves a great deal of booby-trap-placing and javelin-throwing, all of which proves Kai can do wonders with a machete and a few branches. There’s also time for one dew-soaked bit of lovemaking on the rainforest floor. Don’t get your hopes up for a happily-everafter ending for these two, because Kai is a loner who must ultimately go his own way, and all that.

We should mention here that there’s a jaguar stalking through the forest, and that this highly symbolic cat turns up at crucial moments in the struggle. Like our hero, the jaguar has been crowded out of his real home, and no longer has a place in this world. (He’s also barefoot and shirtless, come to think of it.) Argentine writer/ director Pablo Fendrik lays this stuff out with complete sincerity, and while he may have real affection for the films of spaghetti-Western genius Sergio Leone, he completely misses the wicked humor of Leone’s world. And although I’m fond of genre pictures that include political subtext, the crudeness of Fendrik’s approach dissipates whatever goodwill the environmental angle might have generated. Rallying outrage about the deforestation of the planet might require a superhero to step in, not just a loner with a jaguar as his spirit guide. ROBERT HORTON

Gemma Bovery OPENS FRI., JULY 17 AT SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN. RATED R. 99 MINUTES.

Based on a long-form ’90s cartoon strip in The Guardian, Gemma Bovery ought to be much cleverer than it is. There are only so many jokes that director Anne Fontaine can wring from the Emma Bovary parallels, as expat English newlywed Gemma (Gemma Arterton) becomes the obsession of a French baker (Fabrice Luchini) besotted with Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. He’s sure Gemma will follow Emma’s tragic path into adultery . . . and some of those parallels are in fact realized. Yet the film is too easily distracted by gorgeous Normandy countryside, and the baker’s wishful dread-fulfillment begins to look like the behavior of a deranged stalker. Arterton is a bona fide beauty who’s been slumming in action fodder like Prince of Persia and Clash of the Titans. She has a charm—unlike the supporting cast—that would’ve been better served by the old Merchant-Ivory team, had they gotten their hands on Posy Simmonds’ original comic.

Mr. Holmes OPENS FRI., JULY 17 AT GUILD 45TH, PACIFIC PLACE, THORNTON PLACE, AND OTHERS. RATED PG. 104 MINUTES.

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PInfinitely Polar Bear OPENS FRI., JULY 17 AT SUNDANCE AND PACIFIC PLACE. RATED R. 88 MINUTES.

If you’re going to be raised in a chaotic, divided family by a bipolar father in 1978 Cambridge, let that father be Mark Ruffalo. In a fond account based on her own girlhood, Maya Forbes doesn’t offer much plot, but maybe she doesn’t need to. A Harvard Lampoon writer who went on to television and screenwriting (Monsters vs. Aliens, The Rocker), she’s basically filmed one chapter of a family memoir. What comes before or after is only glancingly suggested. But considered only as one richly detailed, sweetly remembered chapter, spanning about 18 months, Infinitely Polar Bear charmed me.

I remember 1978; and like Forbes, I know exactly what that year felt like—the rusting and unreliable cars (no seatbelts, ever!), the mothers struggling their way into a sexist workplace, endless craft projects, the cigarettes on everyone’s lips, the wildness of kids being raised by liberal young parents determined not to be as stuffy and disapproving as their elders were. (Oh, and the same napkin rings that sat on my own family dinner table!)

A brief prologue/montage of home movies shows a loving family before Cam (Ruffalo) enters a manic phase that lands him in the hospital.

Despite the old money in his clan, Maggie (Zoe Saldana) and her two daughters are living in lowincome housing. The Stuarts are a mixed-race family, a fact barely acknowledged, with 10-year-old Amelia lighter-skinned than younger sister Faith (Ashley Aufderheide). Only Amelia (Imogene

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Wolodarsky, Forbes’ daughter) seems to worry that she’s insufficiently black; and only once does Maggie explain to her husband that living in squalor means something quite different to striving blacks than shabby-genteel whites—a lovely scene among many here.

The gentle dilemma is whether Cam—with Maggie away for an MBA at Columbia—can hold it together mentally while Mr. Mom-ing two headstrong girls. Like any effusive, loving parent, he’s a source of constant embarrassment to them. He’s a Yankee cheapskate who wears tennis togs in winter (well, they’re clean, right?), an optimistic hoarder who believes he can fix every last broken bicycle and clock radio that fills their apartment. Returning home on weekends, Maggie is by turns dismayed and reassured. The single-parent routine is good for Cam, she keeps saying (partly to convince herself), therapeutic; and the painful separation only furthers her determination to have her own money and career. (Truth be told, Saldana isn’t in the movie enough; but this is only one chapter, like I said.)

Forbes doesn’t force the drama in this warm, mostly comic account. We never worry that harm will come to the girls from Cam’s eccentricity; nor is there the false romantic promise that he’ll ever win back their mother. Life is messy and inconclusive, though a postscript shows us which way the girls are headed.

(Forbes’ younger sister China is now the singer in the Portland band Pink Martini.) Ruffalo is a delight: shrinking with sadness, bursting with energy, talking like a preppie Hunter S. Thompson. (He enunciates every word with Brahmin care.) Forbes has created the rare film where mental illness isn’t a catastrophe, but just something you live with. BRIAN MILLER

McKellen as aged sleuth.

Ian McKellen was surely made to play Sherlock Holmes—that lanky figure and cultivated voice are ideal for the deerstalker hat, the pipe, and the highbrow cogitating. As it happens, all three attributes are challenged in Mr. Holmes, Bill Condon’s film about the waning days of the world’s greatest consulting detective. Holmes, now 93 and long retired to the countryside, irritably brushes aside the cap and the pipe as the fancies of those stories Dr. Watson used to write. More pressingly, Holmes’ mind is fading. As he loses his memory, he tries to put down in writing what happened in his last case, some 30 years ago. He’s forgotten the details, but he knows that something went terribly wrong.

Mr. Holmes is based on the 2005 novel A Slight Trick of the Mind, by Mitch Cullin. The elements are nearly irresistible, although the movie doesn’t unfold in the straightforward fashion of an Arthur Conan Doyle story. As befits Holmes’ addled brain, the action periodically trips back in time. Scenes

from the old case reel through Holmes’ mind, as he recalls a mystery woman (Hattie Morahan) he was hired to observe. More recently, the detective’s trip to post-WWII Japan, and his visit with a local admirer (Hiroyuki Sanada), become more significant as the film goes on. The result is oddly similar to 1998’s Gods and Monsters, which also paired McKellen with Condon; there’s another plain-talking housekeeper (Laura Linney here) and a naïve admirer—in this case, the housekeeper’s young son (Milo Parker), who helps Holmes with beekeeping.

There’s a lot of charm in the situation, although the detective story isn’t actually that compelling by itself.

McKellen’s performance is surprisingly fussy. The actor is 76 and must play both older and younger than his real age, a ploy undermined by bad makeup and hair. He overemphasizes the comedy in the early going, as though someone got nervous about making an audience sit through what is actually a rather grim story. But Mr. Holmes is sneaky, because as it rounds to its purpose, it reveals a wonderful idea at its core: Sherlock Holmes, who disdains the romance of Watson’s short stories and prefers to deal only in facts, must learn how to accept the need for fiction. Being Sherlock Holmes is a science, but telling lies is an art—an intriguing lesson rolled into this mellow tale. ROBERT HORTON

A Murder in the Park OPENS FRI., JULY 17 AT SUNDANCE CINEMAS. RATED PG-13. 91 MINUTES.

This is a problematic advocacy doc most recommended for law students, attorneys, and possibly journalism students. (Pro trip to the latter: Get out now; there are no jobs.) It is a very flawed, one-sided project, funded by the defense team for a Chicago man who was likely framed for a double murder he didn’t commit. An injustice is finally righted. And yet that injustice sprang from altruistic motives: Opposed to the death penalty in Illinois, a Northwestern journalism professor and his students successfully sought in 1998 to exonerate a deathrow inmate who’d been convicted for the 1982 crime. (Two teens were shot during a late-night robbery.) As a result of the near-execution and last-minute reprieve of a seemingly innocent man

by Gov. George Ryan, the latter commuted all the death-penalty sentences in his state in 2003.

Before delving into the names and particulars of a three-decades-old crime, here’s the big picture that the filmmakers fail to address: All the victims and perpetrators are poor and black. Most all the lawyers, cops, journalists, and politicians involved are white. One class pulls the strings; the other goes to jail. Even as we talk about Ferguson, Baltimore, and Charleston, Chicago in the early ’80s shows us how little America’s racial and class polarity has changed. And the death-penalty system in Illinois, as in other states today, was surely biased against African-Americans.

But that is not something executive producer and lawyer Andrew Hale wants to discuss. A former producer for FOX News who stars in this partisan documentary, his main goal is to discredit former professor David Protess. Hale and company do make a good case that the original suspect, Anthony Porter, was actually guilty. In breathless, TV-true-crime manner, old evidence is laid out, eyewitnesses are newly interviewed, and Chicago cops and prosecutors are presented as the maligned, noble champions of law and order. The man who confessed under duress to the murders in 1999, Alstory Simon, is portrayed as a feeble-minded crack addict who was manipulated by an evil cartel of liberals, led by professor Protess. Apart from

some recent depositions, he’s never interviewed, nor are his former students; he later lost his Northwestern job for misconduct on an unrelated case.

Numerous other exonerations have been upheld, as Hale fails to mention.

Amid such murky, conflicting motives, Hale’s Murder in the Park tries to draw a bright line of rectitude where any fair-minded filmmaker—Errol Morris comes to mind—would recognize that’s an impossible task. As of now, thanks to a broken legal system, both Porter and Simon are free men, which ought to be dismaying to viewers on both the left and right. BRIAN MILLER

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Bent Hamer specializes in comedies that radiate a warm, gentle Norwegian humanism. (His outlook is the opposite of Roy Andersson’s bleak Swedish existential humor; see below.) His new film is both appealing and more than a little trite, finding pleasantly glib solutions to the terrors of mortality and loss. His scientist heroine Marie (Ane Dahl Torp) works for a weights-and-measures laboratory that also employs her elderly widowed father Ernst, whose fate is easy to guess. He lives out on a ramshackle farm, while Marie inhabits a starkly modern home—her electric car plugged in in front—that’s gradually being depleted of furniture by her exhusband. Her precisely regulated life is bathed in icy blue light, so sunny Paris comes as a shock when she’s unexpectedly sent to attend a big conference.

In her custody—carried like a precious platinum baby—is Norway’s official one-kilogram unit of measure. (Don’t drop the baby!)

So, predictably and agreeably, Marie’s scientific certainties will upended; and her future love interest will even tell her, “We all need some chaos in our lives.” (Didn’t we just see that movie? With Kate Winslet in the garden of King Louis XIV? Never mind . . . ) In its own way, 1001 Grams is precisionengineered to achieve its unsurprising effect. Hamer has a cool eye and a deadpan style. His 2004 Kitchen Stories dealt with the same themes of order vs. the organic, artifice vs. nature. Thinking back, I liked his English-language Factotum (2006) better, since its Bukowski-derived script dispensed of the tidiness and repression. With an enjoyably belligerent Matt Dillon as the Bukowski figure, it started out drunk, sloppy, and disinhibited—and never needed to change course. Marie’s course correction is a less lively affair, but it’s hard to argue with a sunset over Paris. And how much does the sun weigh? By that time Marie couldn’t care less. BRIAN MILLER

my favorite films of the 21st century, I might nominate Punch-Drunk Love, In Bruges, Napoleon Dynamite, probably something by the Coen brothers— maybe Inside Llewyn Davis. But I would definitely have room for You, the Living, a gloomily hilarious 2007 gem from Sweden’s Roy Andersson. The movie is like a series of vaudeville blackout sketches performed by a clinically depressed clown.

Andersson’s latest is delivered in exactly the same format—he composes every shot in the same meticulous way—but with a more biting edge. If the film has a spine, it is that we periodically return to a pair of salesman, Jonathan and Sam (Holger Andersson and Nils Westblom), as they make their rounds. They sell novelties, and at each stop they bring out the same plastic vampire teeth and fright mask, using the same patter to peddle their weirdly outdated joke items. A note of philosophy is also repeated: “We just want to help people have fun,” these grim-faced Willy Lomans insist. You’re not sure whether this line is used to sell novelties or let them cling to their last remaining threads of humanity. Other sequences present strange episodes of frustration and heartlessness, even though everybody keeps saying, “I’m glad to hear you’re fine.” There’s an especially long time devoted to the Swedish king Charles XII and a disastrous 18thcentury battle, even though the movie is set during the present day.

Pigeon has more bitters in the cocktail than You, the Living, and it’s harder to cozy up to. People move in and out of pale, tired rooms, interrupted by events both mundane and life-altering. The fact that Andersson never breaks his deadpan gaze—even during a horrifying dream sequence that touches on slavery and genocide—conveys the gist of his attitude about all this. You watch the movie, and you have the choice to scream at the dire state of existence or to laugh at it. If that’s also what you think when you’re reflecting on existence, this movie is for you. ROBERT HORTON E

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J. Fox’s star-making trilogy, has one of the more preposterous plotlines in movie history: Huey Lewis-listening ’80s dude Marty McFly (shown to be a badass for hitching rides on trucks while on his skateboard) has a buddy who’s inventing a time machine. Shit goes haywire and Marty finds himself stuck in 1955, fending off advances from his future mother (Lea Thompson) while coaching his future father (Crispin Glover, not looking a day older or younger than today). (PG) ANDREW BONAZELLI SIFF Cinema Egyptian, 801 E. Pine St., 324-9996, siff.net. $7-$12. Midnight, Fri. BOOM! From 1968, this disastrous marital meltdown flick stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, with a script by Tennessee Williams (based on his play The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore). Local scholar Steven Fried introduces this film. (NR) Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., 267-5380, nwfilmforum.org. $6-$11. 9 p.m. Sat. BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S Audrey Hepburn stars in the 1961 adaptation of the Truman Capote novel.

George Peppard barely registers more than the wallpaper as the kept man/aspiring writer who hopes to win Holly Golightly’s hand. Mickey Rooney stoops to racist caricature as her Japanese neighbor upstairs, but at least Patricia Neal keeps dignity intact as Peppard’s lusty employer. An Oscar went to the Henry Mancini-Johnny Mercer standard-to-be, “Moon River,” famously written to suit Hepburn’s one-octave singing voice. (G) BRIAN MILLER Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave., 686-6684, central-cinema.com. $7-$9. 7 p.m.

Fri.-Tues. plus 3 p.m. Sun. DOUBLE INDEMNITY Barbara Stanwyck’s doublecrossing Phyllis is perhaps the iconic femme fatale of film noir—a sultry schemer who, in Billy Wilder’s superior 1944 adaptation of the James M. Cain crime novel, seduces a sap (Fred MacMurray) and tricks him into murdering her husband. Walter’s pal and fellow insurance investigator (Edward G. Robinson) is the only figure of decency in the movie. And he warns Walter about what will inevitably follow the fatal train “accident” that Phyllis orchestrated: “Murder’s never perfect. Always comes apart sooner or later. And when two people are involved, it’s usually sooner.” (NR) B.R.M. Varsity, 4329 University Way N.E., 632-7218, farawayentertainment.com. $10.25. 2 p.m. Sun. & 7 p.m. Mon. (Also same showtimes at Bainbridge Cinemas.)

FREMONT OUTDOOR MOVIES In the 2006 Talladega Nights, Will Ferrell plays an abandoned kid who grows up to be a famous NASCAR driver. The movie plays like a series of sketches in which grown-ass men do dumb-ass-kid stuff for nearly two hours. There are two kinds of scenes in Talladega Nights: the short ones that advance the storyline, and the prolonged sequences in which Ferrell and/or John C. Reilly (as Ricky’s best friend, the whitest-trash Cal Naughton Jr.) and/or Sacha Baron Cohen (as Ricky’s rival, French fancy boy Jean Girard) make shit up and crack each other up and stop cameras and start all over again. There’s no difference between the movies and the end-credit outtakes in these movies. (PG-13) ROBERT WILONSKY 3501 Phinney Ave. N., 781-4230, fremontoutdoormovies. com. $5-$10. Movie at dusk. Sat., July 18.

GIRLS OF SUMMER Belle de Jour, Luis Buñuel’s 1966 tale of sexual repression and expression, finds supposedly “frigid” newlywed Catherine Deneuve working in a Paris brothel, catering to a variety of fetishists, unbeknownst to her clueless husband. It’s a remarkably weird, funny take on divided consciousness, on the collision between the supposedly normal and the supposedly perverse. And the sweetly serene Deneuve is just plain beautiful to watch. (NR) B.R.M. Varsity, $10.25. 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Aug. 11.

THE GODFATHER: PART II Winner of six Oscars, and generally accorded superior ranking over the 1972 original, this 1974 sequel loops back in time to relate the Corleones’ tragic family history, with Robert De Niro as the young patriarch. Francis Ford Coppola directs. (R) Central Cinema, $8-$10. 8 p.m. Thurs.

LA FEMME NIKITA The French mightily resent the commercial success of Luc Besson, whose very influential 1990 girl-with-a-gun flick starring Anne Parillaud presumably had auteurs spinning in their graves—or put them there. His tale of a distaff assassin who falls in love with a regular, uncomprehending schlub was later remade as Point of No Return, with Bridget Fonda.

In large part, Besson established a new formula by essentially putting a John Woo movie in a dress (or a very short skirt, actually), effectively fusing sex appeal and firepower. Look for Jean Reno, Jeanne Moreau, and Tchéky Karyo in crucial supporting roles. (R) B.R.M. Central Cinema, $7-$9. 9:30 p.m. Fri.-Tues.

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LOST HIGHWAY In David Lynch’s 1997 puzzle picture,

Bill Pullman plays the guy who ends up being two guys (later played by Balthazar Getty), both of them troubled

by Patricia Arquette. ( Pullman is charged with killing his wife but beats the rap, being Getty.) The whole thing’s an unsatisfactory career midpoint between Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive. Lynch works through many of the same ideas—doubles, obsessions creating their own dark-mirror reality, the fickleness of love— without creating a consistent tone of dream logic. The film gains an extra layer of creepiness thanks to the presence of future wife killer Robert Blake. Other Lynch shorts are screened. (R) B.R.M. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., 654-3121, seattleartmuseum.org. $6-$8. 7:30 p.m. Fri. MADCAP GENIUS This Preston Sturges retrospective continues with 1941’s shipboard screwball The Lady Eve, in which Henry Fonda plays the rich rube and Barbara Stanwyck the vixen who sets out to hustle him. Naturally she’s a gold digger with a heart of gold, which she reveals in her second incarnation as an English swell (whom Fonda somehow doesn’t recognize). My favorite line of hers: “I need him like the axe needs the turkey.” (NR) B.R.M. Seattle Art Museum, $42–$45 series, $8 individual. 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 13.

MOONLIGHT CINEMA Mel Brooks’ 1987 Spaceballs, a send-up of Star Wars and other sci-fi flicks, is screened. (PG) Redhook Brewery, 14300 N.E. 145th St. (Woodinville), 425-483-3232, redhook.com. $5. 21 and over. Movie at dusk. Thursdays through Aug. 27.

MOVIES AT MAGNUSON After Emily (Julianne Moore) tells Cal (Steve Carell) that she wants a divorce, she confesses she may be having a mid-life crisis. “Can women even have mid-life crises? In the movies, it’s always men.” In this movie, too. Yet another Hollywood romantic comedy to play up its awareness of genre cliché in a narrative which validates far more of those clichés than it deflates, Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) makes the mistake of suggesting a path untrod, only to deliver a scramble of the familiar. Still, it’s notably big-hearted, and enlivened by the work of a good cast, including Ryan Gosling (as a playa) and Emma Stone (the girl who forces him to reconsider his ways). (PG13) KARINA LONGWORTH 7400 Sand Point Way N.E., moviesatmagnuson.com. $5. Activities begin at 7 p.m., movie at dusk. Thursdays through Aug. 27.

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by Roy Germano looks at cross-border traffic from Mexico, which a 2012 report from the Pew Research Center says is actually running in a southern direction, owing to Mexico’s improved economy. (NR) Keystone Church, 5019 Keystone Pl. N., 632-6021. Free. 7 p.m.

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WEST SEATTLE MOVIES ON THE WALL Ben Stiller’s 2001 comedy follows the titular male supermodel turned political assassin. Dimwitted Derek (Stiller) and his peyote-munching sidekick, Hansel (Owen Wilson), actually achieve the unthinkable—admittedly, Zoolander’s forte—as they battle the nefarious forces of Mugler/Gaultier knock-off Mugatu (Will Ferrell): They elicit consistent laughs. (A sequel is planned for next year.) (PG-13) KURT B. REIGHLEY 4410 California Ave. S.W., westseattlemovies.blogspot.com. Free.

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than you expect—still a naïve teenager, soon to ink a recording contract. After her rise, however, comes the plunge into fame, addiction, and hounding by the English tabloid press. There’s no omniscient narrator or script, but instead a chorus of voices and opinions from those who knew Winehouse: managers, fellow musicians (including Mos Def, Mark Ronson, and Tony Bennett), a sympathetic bodyguard (“She needed someone to say ‘No’ ”), and old friends. Her father and husband speak with infuriating, selfish denial. We couldn’t have saved her, but neither did we help by clicking on all those damn links. (R) B.R.M. Sundance, Pacific Place, Thornton Place, Lincoln Square DOPE Eighteen-year-old Malcolm (Shameik Moore) is a brainy nerd from a poor section of L.A. who’s possessed of a profound love for high flattop haircuts, acid-washed jeans, BMX bikes, Air Jordans, and A Tribe Called Quest. At the same time, he’s very much a creature of the iPhone present, conversant in Bitcoin and Silk Road. He’s savvy enough to recognize an opportunity when a bag of MDMA drops into his hands.

So which path is more promising—the thug life or the Ivy League? Written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa, Dope starts with the irresistible, cheerful energy of its central trio: earnest Malcolm, wry Diggy (Kiersey Clemons), and irrepressible Jib (Tony Revolori, from The Grand Budapest Hotel ). Dope works best in chasecomedy mode, as our heroes blunder from one hazard to the next, constantly switching codes among different classes and milieus. (R) B.R.M. Ark Lodge LOVE & MERCY During discreet periods in the ’60s and ’80s, the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson is portrayed as a young visionary (Paul Dano) and a fragile, terrified older man (John Cusack). Yet somehow Bill Pohlad’s biopic manages to capture a lot of history in those few years. Dano radiates a state of near-bliss as Wilson creates Pet Sounds with the greatest studio musicians in L.A.—subject of the recent doc The Wrecking Crew—in a studio he treats as an artistic playroom.

Cusack doesn’t look much like Dano, but he has the same expression of sincerity and openness, trapped in the frail mind of an infantilized adult. Paul Giamatti’s sleazy, abusive shrink makes this Wilson a kind of psychological prisoner. But, thankfully, the film does have a kind of heroine: Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth Banks), who helps rescue the older Wilson from Dr. Landy and his many meds. (R) SEAN AXMAKER Sundance, Kirkland, others ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL Said dying girl is Rachel (Olivia Cooke), a Pittsburgh classmate— but not friend—of high school senior Greg (Thomas Mann), a movie obsessive who wants nothing more to be the next Wes Anderson. Greg and Earl (RJ Cyler) are a misfit duo of filmmaking buddies in a chaotic, teeming public school full of bullies and jocks, cliques and castes. Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon helmed several episodes of Glee, and it’s fair to assume that he and screenwriter/source novelist Jesse Andrews still have all the slights and indignities of high school seared into their brains. The movie’s first half is an utterly delightful spin on the usual mopey YA themes.

It’s impossible to stop smiling at Greg and Earl’s series of arthouse movie remakes (their own private Criterion Collection), including My Dinner With Andre the Giant and A Sockwork Orange. However, in this unusual two-act structure, following a major misdirection ploy, there must be leukemia, Greg’s growing attachment to Rachel, prom, and finally a college-admissions crisis that the film doesn’t really need. (PG-13) B.R.M. SIFF Cinema Uptown, Guild 45th, others THE THIRD MAN Orson Welles stars in Carol Reed’s wonderfully atmospheric 1949 adaptation of the Graham Greene novel, newly restored in 4K digital.

Some people say that Welles exerted his influence on the picture over director Reed, but that’s unfair to the British pro. His use of skewed camera angles, Vienna’s labyrinthine sewers (shot on location), and a great zither score (by Anton Karas) makes Welles’ Harry Lime only one part of a dark canvas of corruption. Joseph Cotten plays the innocent Yank who can’t believe his old pal is involved in underworld drug-dealing and murder. When the two of them meet in the famous Ferris wheel scene, his eyes are opened to how even upright Americans can turn rotten in the right milieu (always a favorite Greene theme).

Comparing the revelers below to ants, Lime asks, “Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you 20,000 pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money?” (NR) B.R.M. Sundance

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The lofty space will be outfitted with 4.1 surHeld at the Good Shepherd Center in round sound for the show, and Vince Galloway, Wallingford this Thursday through Saturday, the live sound engineer for acclaimed electronic Substrata features musicians and composers of producer Nicolas Jaar, will man the soundsystem. experimental, postmodern, and ambient works.

It’s not surprising that Substrata-goers have Artists and attendees will collaborate and distaken to lying on the floor to let the sound comcover through intimate performances and workpletely wash over them. shops in which sound exploration and invention As a composer, producer, and artist, Irisarri are the main focus. Irisarri has scrupulously understands the need for a novel approach to curated an event that goes far beyond the typical designing a correct space for performers in this show to gestate an environment where the line amorphous genre while providing a climate that between artist and audience begins to blur and a maximizes the listening experience. “As Ameribiosphere of mutual exploration occurs. cans we are taught bigger is better. I couldn’t “I wanted the event to feel like a house show disagree more with this idea. Substrata is meant in a way,” Irisarri says, “where you know everyone, to be a tiny event, by design,” he says, noting that or perhaps not, but you feel very welcomed and he could book the festival in a larger space and surrounded by like-minded individuals with the make more money, something he’s refused to do. commonality of loving music and sound art not Attendees are encouraged to turn off necessarily popular at the time. There are no their phones and refrain from con‘headliners’ at Substrata—all artists were versation—to “enjoy a little time given the same consideration. I want you off ” to increase their presence in to hear something new, differthe intimate space. “We live in a ent, something foreign to time where we are bombarded your ears, something by information every waking you probably haven’t moment. As a result, we are heard before, and constantly tuning out. challenge any Does this constant preconcepavailability, saturations.” tion, and resulting Substrata tuning-out creattendees ate a situation certainly where art loses Are your hands dexterous enough will hear its value and for Lubomyr Melnyk’s three-hour something becomes dispiano workshop? they haven’t before. posable?”

The lineup ranges from ambient artists to singer/ songwriters to former rave DJs—sometimes Irisarri had been located in Seattle, but moved a dizzying combination of all three. Spanish to the East Coast last year, citing this distance as composer Rauelsson, for example, expertly mixes the main factor in ending the festival. He doesn’t orchestration, field recordings, classical piano want to diminish its quality by organizing things solos, acoustic guitar, and synth elements to crefrom afar. “I decided to go out with one last strong ate something that sits beautifully between a film edition. Substrata listeners deserve the best I can score and shoegaze drone. Mary Lattimore progive them as they have supported this event for duces cascading loops and runs with her massive years and trusted my curatorial judgment, in some harp that sound equal parts horror movie and cases even making the commitment early and fairy-tale narrative. buying a pass before a lineup was even announced.

Each year the festival offers an opportunity for Doing one last edition is the least I can do for a attendees and musicians to cross the line between place I consider my hometown.” them through workshops and field trips based on Substrata will certainly be missed. For five years collaboration and skill-sharing. This year’s workit’s fulfilled a mission uniquely contrary to most shop is with groundbreaking Ukrainian pianist/ overblown modern music festivals—helping you composer Lubomyr Melnyk, who in the 1970s withdraw from a world filled with distraction, developed “a new language” for the piano called retreat to a sanctuary of sound, and take a moment “continuous music.” “It involves very fast, multito really listen. E pattern playing in each finger, and it’s amazing to music@seattleweekly.com witness live,” Irisarri says. “It also takes an enormous level of skill and dexterity—not just physiSUBSTRATA 1.5 cal, but mental. The result of this technique creWith Lubomyr Melnyk, Rachel Grimes, Tiny ates a single wall of sound, full of rich overtones.”

Vipers, and more. Chapel Performance Space, In the three-hour workshop, Melnyk will explain 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., 547-8127, irisarri.org/ the technique and teach participants to develop substrata. $45–$100 (Fri. & Sat. sold out). the dexterity needed to perform the patterns he All ages. 7–10 p.m. Thurs., July 16–Sat., July 18.

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Campfire Tales Timber! Fest artists on wiping their butt and fighting off predators in the rugged outdoors.

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KGRG & SHOWBOX PRESENT

SAY ANYTHING 7/23

with MODERN BASEBALL + CYMBALS EAT GUITARS + HARD GIRLS

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Henry Lavalle of the Naked Giants

Adam Prairie of the Hoot Hoots

If it came down to it, would you rather fight a bear or a cougar? When I was a kid, my cousin tried to convince me that his dad killed a cougar with his bare hands. If his dad could do it, we probably could. Bears are scary! I’ve learned my lesson from watching Grizzly Man. What’s your best camping recipe? Annie’s Mac and Cheese (purple box 4 life) with avocado.

Bob Martin of Bigfoot Wallace & His Wicked Sons

What’s your worst camping experience? The worst camping experience I’ve ever had was also the first time I ever got drunk. I woke up the morning after drinking large amounts of white wine and went to drink water out of my water bottle—but instead of water in the bottle, there

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What’s your go-to camping food? Dip Cones.

Gibraltar eats a lot of dip cones from Dairy Queen. It’s our go to must-have snack whatever we’re doing.

If it came down to it, would you rather fight a bear or a cougar? Always fight a bear, because a cougar is a cat, and cats are insane. Also, bears are cuddly!

Emily Nokes of Tacocat

If you were to go camping together, who in the band is most likely to get scared at night? Well, Bree is terrified of deer, so that’s a legit concern. Lelah once stepped into a shoe with a scorpion/spider creature in it, so that could keep her up at night, maybe? Eric might be scared of losing service to his MMA podcast, which, to my knowledge, is what he falls asleep to. Truth be told, though, it’d probably be me—my true-crime book/TV habit makes sleeping outside (or in general) pretty nerve-wracking. Someone could slice right through a tent in ONE STAB. If it came down to it, would you rather fight a bear or a cougar? Like Bob Mould or Courteney Cox? Hmmm, that’s tough. I guess Mr. Mould—he’d probably let you get the first punch in, give you a very sullen look, and then take you out for a no-nonsense beer afterward. E

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TIMBER! OUTDOOR MUSIC FESTIVAL With the Dead Milkmen, Beat Connection, La Luz, David Bazan, and more.

Tolt-MacDonald Park, 31020 N.E. 40th St., Carnation, timbermusicfest.com.

Single-day pass $30–$40, weekend pass $75.

All ages. Thurs., July 16–Sat., July 18.

SALIM NOURALLAH

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Leaves or toilet paper? I like to wipe my bottom straight at the source. Leaves, baby.

Aaron Starkey of Gibraltar

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CHARLI XCX + BLEACHERS 7/25

with BøRNS

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DANZIG with PENNYWISE + CANCERBATS

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ANDREW MCMAHON IN THE WILDERNESS + NEW POLITICS 10/13

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What technology can you not leave behind when camping? Probably a Casio beat maker. Latenight free-styling is of utmost importance when spending a night under the stars.

Toilet paper or leaves? I’d rather a smooth stone, perhaps slightly heated by the warmth of the afternoon sun.

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And of course there’s music too—more than 20 bands will perform at the three-day event at scenic Tolt-MacDonald Park and campground, conveniently only 40 minutes away in Carnation. In the spirit of the great outdoors, we asked a few of those bands about their camping preferences, their best outdoorsy stories, and other campfire miscellanea.

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Supersuck It, Cancer Eddie Spaghetti is spending his summer in Los Angeles bracing for surgery and radiation treatment.

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w/Vendetta Red, Encourager, Plus Guests

Doors at 7:00PM / Show at 8:00 ALL AGES/BAR W/ID. $13 ADV / $15 DOS

FRIDAY JULY 17TH FUNHOUSE BRIAN FOSS PRESENTS:

MILLHOUS w/13 Scars, Toe Tag, 7 Year Old Blind Girl, Land Of Wolves

Doors at 8:00PM / Show at 9:00. 21+. $7

SATURDAY JULY 18TH EL CORAZON

VOXMIRAGE

w/Kight, W16, Amberfield

Doors 7:30PM / Show 8:00.

ALL AGES/BAR W/ID. $8 ADV / $10 DOS

w/Jesus Wears Armani, Fallen Kings, Abnercash,

MONDAY JULY 20TH FUNHOUSE BRIAN FOSS PRESENTS:

A.T.M. WITH JIMMY FLAME Plus Guests

Doors at 8:30PM / Show at 9:00. 21+. $5

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YOUNG DUBLINERS

w/The Bog Hoppers, Ockham’s Razor,

Stout Pounders Doors 7:00PM / Show 8:00.

21+. $15 ADV / $18 DOS

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he Supersuckers aren’t from Seattle, but they claimed it as home in 1989, where their no-frills, punk-infused garage rock quickly found favor with music fans. They scored a record deal with Sub Pop soon after and became a beloved Seattle musical institution.

It was with great concern that the band recently announced singer and bassist Eddie Spaghetti had been diagnosed with stage 3 oropharynx cancer after a mass was found in his neck. On June 18, the band played its final show for a spell, after which Spaghetti and his family relocated to Los Angeles, where he’ll undergo a pair of surgeries as well as radiation treatments this summer.

“I think the realness of it comes when you hear words like ‘risks’ and ‘less than 5% chance,’ ” his wife Jessika Daly posted on his Facebook page about his upcoming surgeries. “Less than 5% chance of him ending up in a disaster but still . . . that sucks.”

Deb Talan of the husband-and-wife folk duo the Weepies knows these struggles firsthand.

She survived stage 3 breast cancer and made her latest album, Sirens, largely while she was sick, seeing the process less as a distraction and more as a kind of life-affirming endeavor she could focus on. Because of her illness, she and her husband Steve Tannen recorded Sirens at home, with whatever brief spells of energy she could muster, which sometimes meant just a single vocal take. If she hadn’t had health insurance, Talan said cancer would have surely put the future of her family and the Weepies in jeopardy. “We describe ourselves as a middleclass band,” she says. “We have a family and we were able to buy a house—in Iowa, not Seattle.” Many musicians are not so lucky, however. Record companies do not provide health insurance, and Talan said many of her musician friends aren’t covered. “We made sure we were both insured when we started having kids,” she says. “It was ironic because we were totally griping about it until right up when I got sick, and then it was ‘Thank God we’ve been paying these exorbitant rates.’ ”

Dr. Neal Futran, the director of head and neck surgery in the department of otolaryngology at the University of Washington, says that stage 3 oropharynx cancer is considered “moderately advanced” but is still eminently treatable and curable. He says 45,000 to 50,000 Americans are diagnosed with this kind of cancer annually. “The only known risk factors for throat cancer,” he says, “are cigarette smoking and alcohol use, either alone or in combination. Both of those are independent risk factors, but the combination of cigarette and alcohol use exponentially increases the incident.”

One of Spaghetti’s surgeries will be a roboticassisted radical neck dissection, which Futran says has come a long way in recent years: “The restoration of speech and swallowing is excellent.” Spaghetti will also undergo radiation, which can have long-term side effects. “The most significant, especially in a singer’s case,” he says, “is dry mouth. It won’t affect voice per se, but it could have an adverse impact on vocal quality both short- and long-term.”

Fans and friends have bombarded Spaghetti’s Facebook page with thoughts and prayers, both heartfelt and humorous, two qualities embodied in his songs. Spaghetti also represents an ever-shrinking demographic: the working-class musician. The Supersuckers are a blue-collar band that earns its living from making records and touring, neither of which are possible during Spaghetti’s initial treatments. As such, Daly has started a fundraising campaign on YouCaring, which quickly surpassed its $50,000 goal and will continue to raise money for several months.

Spaghetti’s family says the outpouring of public support from family, friends, and fans has kept their spirits high through the hard times. Even rock stars have offered support. “My heart is beating incredibly fast,” said Eddie Vedder as he introduced a Ramones cover with Spaghetti and company at the Supersuckers’ last show before its hiatus. “It’s an honor to be onstage with these people.” Here’s hoping that in a few months there will be a few more rock stars on the Tractor stage prepping to play a few more punk-rock songs with a newly cancer-free Supersuckers. E

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BASSEKOU KOUYATE & NGONI BA WED, JUL 15 Grammy-nominated Malian master of the ngoni who has played alongside Toumani Dianate, Taj Mahal, Ali Farka Toure and Sir Paul McCartney.

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CATHERINE RUSSELL TUES, JUL 21 - WED, JUL 22

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Seattle punk survivors THE SPITS have been around for what seems like forever, releasing five albums (all self-titled) and touring relentlessly. The band is about as punk as punk gets. Tonight’s show is a memorial in honor of A.J. Pero, the drummer from ’80s hair-metal icons Twisted Sister. Will the Spits cover “We’re Not Gonna Take It?” Only one way to find out. With Wimps and Gazebos. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8005, chopsuey.com. 8 p.m. $10.

21 and over. DANIEL ROTH

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SEATTLE WEEKLY PRESENTS

Lawrence of Arabia. Epic, sweeping, and desert-worn, the group’s most recent LP We Used to Be Hunters is already one of this year’s best local releases, thanks to its gorgeous arrangements and uniquely baroque take on psych rock. A great soundtrack for journeying of any kind, inner or outer. With Geist & The Sacred Ensemble, Low Hums. Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave. N.W., 789-3599, tractortavern.com. 8 p.m. $8. 21 and over. KELTON SEARS

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NEARLY DAN WED, JUL 29

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Friday, July 17

Just two weeks ago, Sub Pop receptionist Derek Erdman caused a stir with a Facebook event inviting people to watch a single VHS copy of grunge-era classic Singles at the Capitol Hill apartment where it was filmed. The hope was to cram all 1,000-plus RSVPers in the courtyard. Even though the insane gathering was canceled, tonight you can catch the sludgy doom majesty of BROTHERS OF THE SONIC CLOTH, whose frontman Tad Doyle (of classic Seattle grunge group Tad) had a four-second cameo in the film. Maybe you can score an autograph in between the episodes of monster riffage.

With Heiress, He Whose Ox Is Gored. Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave. N.W., 789-3599, tractortavern.com.

9 p.m. $10. 21 and up. KS

Monday, July 20

Tuesday, July 21

Until March’s Melbourne, Florida, DICK DIVER had never released an album outside Australia. That’s a shame, since the band’s loose, lovely, and just plain fun brand of indie pop should by no means be confined to the streets of Melbourne. Fortunately, they’ve embarked on a U.S. tour and are stopping in Seattle—prepare to leave with a silly grin on your face. With iji and Michael O. The Vera Project, 305 Harrison St., 956-8372, theveraproject.org. 8 p.m. $8. All ages. DR Send events to music@seattleweekly.com.

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Formerly of the joke-rap trio Das Racist, HEEMS’ new solo debut, Eat Pray Thug, is a complicated, introspective look at the rapper’s Indian heritage and what it means to be a “brown man” in modern America. In the video for lead single “Sometimes,” Heems peddles a comical “Sometimes White” skin-lightening cream for brown guys down on their dating game—funny, except that skin-lightening “Fair & Lovely/Fair & Handsome” creams actually are for sale in India. With Spank Rock.

Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave. N.W., 784-4880, sunsettavern.com. 8 p.m. $15. 21 and over. DR

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The Good, the Bad, & the Very Ugly The Good

Oregon has joined Alaska, Colorado, D.C., and our own great state in the Brotherhood of Ganja, officially legalizing marijuana on July 1. In several ways, the Oregonians are doing it better than us, allowing HIGHERGROUND home

BY MICHAEL A. STUSSER grows (four plants each), setting the tax at 17 percent (as compared to our newly lowered but still obnoxious 37 percent excise tax), expunging the records of those with cannabis convictions, and even letting citizens fly with weed within the state. Oregon also allows the most pot per person of any of the legal states: up to half a pound of Grade A herb (eight ounces) as compared to our paltry single-ounce (or 28-gram) limit. Adults 21 and over can carry up to an ounce of cannabis and have a pound of edibles in their homes, as well as 72 ounces of cannabis-infused liquids. To get a sense of how much weed you can possess, the Portland Police Bureau’s handy reference guide compares chronic quantities to the city’s famous Voodoo donuts.

As for buying weed at a retail outlet: Not so fast, Portlandia. Because of bureaucratic red tape (green tape?), Oregon’s recreational stores may not be up and running until fall 2016. Governor Kate Brown is considering signing a law that would allow sales of recreational cannabis by existing medical dispensaries to begin October 1. Of course, Rose City residents are always welcome in Rain City if they’re running low in the meantime. Visitors will have to smoke all their legal ganja before they head back to P-Town, however: Ya can’t bring cannabis across state lines in either direction.

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Rush Limbaugh. Just the mention of his name can make you throw up in your mouth a little bit.

The Great Bloated Reefer Madness Fiend was at it again last month on his why-is-this-still-onthe-air radio show.

“I don’t have any experience with this so I’m unable to render an opinion,” said Limbaugh.

“Maybe I should go smoke some and find out what this is all about and be able to render an . . . [indecipherable mumbling] Oh, yeah, eat a brownie. That’s what ‘wake and bake’ means, right? Yeah, there’s an NFL player who had a Snapchat or Instagram post.

He woke up and he’s all happy, and said, ‘Time to wake and bake,’ and somebody said, ‘Wow, that guy does the weed.’ So that’s what wake and bake means. Bake some cookies or brownies, I guess.

Have you had them? . . . [heavy breathing] What do they taste like? . . . [more gasping, munching sounds] I do wonder what they taste like.”

OK, a few notes and we’ll move on. First, “waking and baking” is not about edibles—“baking” is a reference to adding a heated element, such as fire, to cannabis, then inhaling through a device.

Secondly, the “waking” part of a wake ’n’ bake, in stoner’s parlance, means rising each morning and taking a hit off a pipe or bong. Lastly, Mr. Limbo, I highly suggest, if you truly haven’t already, trying some of the wacky weed. Unlike the oxycodone

you so covet, it’s not addictive, and might even calm you while the last of your rapidly dwindling minions abandon your show.

The Very Ugly

It bears repeating that, until marijuana is legalized federally, hundreds of thousands of Americans will continue to be arrested for possession of the plant, and our veterans and loved ones will not have access to its medicinal properties.

In our least favorite state, Oklahoma, Marine veteran Kris Lewandowski is facing a life sentence for possession of less than an ounce of weed— which he was using to help cope with PTSD. Lewandowski, who served three combat tours of duty that included stints in Afghanistan and Iraq (thank you for your service), was attempting to wean himself off a fistful of pharmaceuticals that he’d been prescribed for a variety of ailments, including severe PTSD after being honorably and medically discharged from the Marine Corps.

In June 2014, neighbors called the police after Lewandowski had what his wife described as a PTSD flare-up. Comanche N County sheriff ’s I SH CA deputies responded to NA N IA a report that Lewandowski BR had been chasing his wife with a knife. Cops searched the house, finding six small cannabis plants that did not total a single ounce; in Oklahoma, that’s bad news no matter how many tours you’ve served. Among other offenses, including a disputed domestic-violence charge, the war veteran and father of three was charged with felony marijuana possession and cultivation, and could potentially serve a life sentence under Oklahoma’s draconian weed laws.

Both Kris and his wife Whitney were arrested and charged with felonies, and were told their children were being taken to Child Protective Services. The police told Whitney her kids could avoid that fate—and she’d avoid the felony charge—if she pressed assault charges. Though she opposes the domestic-violence charge, she understandably took the deal. “They’re trying to use me as a victim and to make it look worse on his case,” said Whitney in an interview with Truth in Media. “My husband has absolutely never laid his hands on me ever. He is not an abusive man, ever . . . quite the opposite. He is extremely doting.”

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