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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Issue 5, Volume 43, January 30, 2015

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Cast of 4000 Miles: (l to r) Adam Standley, Susan Corzatte, Adria LaMorticella, Sara Porkalob

by Paul Torres SGN A&E Writer 4000 MILES ARTSWEST January 22-February 15 Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles centers on Leo, a young man ending an arduous bicycle trip across the United States (by way of Seattle).

He dipped his bike’s back tire in the Pacific Ocean and before he dips that

front tire into the Atlantic Ocean to complete his pilgrimage, he makes a soul-searching stop at his grandmother’s (Vera) Greenwich Village apartment. 4000 Miles won the Obie Award for Best New American Play and was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist.

During his emotionally laden visit, a 21-year old Leo ambles through his youthful tribulations of an estranged girlfriend, peyotedriven regrets, guilt-ridden tragedy, and strained familial relationships.

Adam Standley gives a standout performance as the charming, wayward Leo. He could be any young man riding his bike around Seattle and, therefore, any one of our friends.

Standley brings this character home.

Vera is his 91-year-old tough and brassy grandmother. She is seemingly in need of his care, but she turns the doily-covered tables on him.

Susan Corzatte is a sheer uplifting pleasure. Corzatte gives one of the top performances of the season as his

Commie, weed-smoking grandma.

Corzatte is a veteran actor. Her love of the stage is evident and it enhances her performance as a no-nonsense, but empathetic elderly woman.

Young Leo is amok and aimless.

Vera, a widow for ten years, adds some balance as well as some brutally honest and hilarious truth to his life.

Her comments about his girlfriend’s physical appearance are offensively funny and oddly endearing. Their conversations about mortality and past indiscretions is drama at its best.

Herzog’s script illuminates this stage.

One sweet scene between Vera and Leo plays out in the dark on the living room couch. It is so beautiful because it breathes a soft light into the characters that only the darkness of that room can reveal. Vera’s hearing may be impaired, but her heart is listening to her young grandson expel some travel-worn demons. This scene proves that Director Mathew Wright has a keen understanding for character.

Supporting characters include Leo’s ex-girlfriend Becca (Adria LaMorticella) and Amanda (Sara Porkalob). Becca is steadfast in ending their relationship in the aftermath of a tragic Tyson Chicken

truck accident in the flatlands of Kansas involving Leo’s best friend.

His heart is broken and he finds potential love in a one-night stand with a garrulous young Chinese American woman (Amanda) who reminds him of his adopted sister.

The shifts of light from dawn to dusk and in between are almost their own character in this production.

Lighting Director Tristan Roberson deserves praise for this aspect that fills intheemotionalwoesandthenilluminates the emotional joys in this cozy, rent-controlled New York City flat.

4000 Miles is another fine achievement for ArtsWest. Mathew Wright is at the pinnacle of his art.

So far, this season is full of highlights like The Mountaintop and the sold-out Judy’s Scary Little Christmas. This show promises to be a breakthrough popular hit that reaches across all demographics.

This production packs some humorous punches with its powerful dramatic moments. Vera and Leo’s chemistry lifts the moving performances by both Standley and Corzatte. You are happy to be on their journey because 4000 Miles is many miles of hard road full of pathos, humor, and unconditional love.

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ternational Boulevard and South Stephen Tyrone Williams and Erika LaVonn in The Piano Lesson 188th Street on the morning of January 25 to catch a glimpse of by Eric Andrews-Katz The Piano Lesson is the 1990 PuThere is one stage set – the livthe Super Bowl-bound team as litzer Prize winning play by August ing room of the Doaker Charles’

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer they arrived at Sea-Tac Airport en Wilson.

Telling the story of an Afrihousehold – and all the action of SGN A&E Writer route to Arizona.

THE PIANO LESSON can-American family in 1936 Pitts- the play takes place over a few days.

The 12th Man, as supporters of Thousands of enthusiastic SeSEATTLE burgh, the play raises the questions: The story revolves around Doaker attle Seahawks fans lined both the football franchise are called, REPERTORY THEATRE How much of our past history makes Charles (Derrick Lee Weeden), his sides of South 188th Street, and January 16-February 8 us who we are today? And what obsee Outbound page 21 see Piano page 6 crammed the intersection of Inligations do we have to honor it?

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Kintsugi. Should you wish to see them elsewhere, DCFC will also play the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, The Pageant in St. Louis and The Fox Theatre in Atlanta, along with several festivals overseas. Tickets are on sale now via www.stgpresents.org.

The list of performers for next weekend’s Grammy Awards has expanded. Sam Smith, John Legend with Common, Miranda Lambert, Usher, and Pharrell Williams have been added to the bill that also boasts appearances by Madonna, AC/ DC, Eric Church, Ariana Grande, and Ed Sheeran. As we near the February 8 telecast, more names are expected to be piled onto the lineup, such as Sia, Iggy Azalea, and Meghan Trainor. Additionally, U2 is rumored to be performing.

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You should definitely know who Mat Kearney is. But I’ll forgive you for going to Wikipedia, though I’d rather direct you to Spotify or Pandora to listen to his music instead. The Eugene, Oregon native is a respected singer-songwriter who’s toured with John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, Keane, and Owl City. Now residing in Nashville, the 36 year-old musician is scheduled to drop his fifth studio album, Just Kids, on February 24 and will support it with a North American tour that delivers him to the Moore Theatre on March 6. But he’ll slide into The Music Lounge for a brief chit chat a week before, on Febru-

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If you couldn’t get tickets for Death Cab for Cutie’s show at The Crocodile two weeks ago, you’ve got another shot at seeing them live here in Seattle. But you’ll have to wait until October. The rock trio – Ben Gibbard, Nick Harmer, Jason McGerr – will wrap up a North American and European tour this fall in their hometown with a scheduled performance at the Paramount Theatre on October 3, promoting the group’s new album

Finally, look for a Grammy preview next week with picks and predictions for Album, Record and Song of the Year, as well as Best New Artist, besides an updated list of performers and presenters.

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“Tell It to My Heart,” “Prove Your Love,” “Love Will Lead You Back,” and “Heart of Stone” are just a few hits from Taylor Dayne’s catalog that stretches from 1988 to present date. In total, the R&B-pop artist had 18 of them between the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. A strong ally of the Gay community, Dayne has performed at numerous LGBT events across North America, including the 2010 Gay Games, Atlanta Pride, Denver PrideFest, and the upcoming Augusta Pride in late June. The multiple Grammy nominee is set to perform locally as well, at Snoqualmie Casino on February 22. Before heading here, though, she’ll be speaking with Seattle Gay News to preview her concert that will likely feature the aforementioned songs, plus “I’ll Always Love You,” “With Every Beat of My Heart,” and “Don’t Rush Me.” For tickets to the Snoqualmie show, which includes opening act Ambrosia, go to www.snocasino.com. Look for an interview with Taylor Dayne in The Music Lounge on February 20.

ary 27, so be sure to grab a copy of the SGN that week. Take a listen to his songs; I think you’ll love this guy.

Thus far, there are no Seattle dates for Diana Ross. However, the R&B icon is booked for a 9-show engagement at The Venetian in Las Vegas with a concert experience titled “The Essential Diana Ross: Some Memories Never Fade” from April 1-18. The exact performance nights are April 1, 3, 4, 8, 10, 11, 15, 17, and 18. “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “Endless Love,” “I’m Coming Out,” and “Reach Out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand)” are just some of the songs that will be included in the show, although I expect many others, such as “Upside Down,” “Chain Reaction,” and “Workin’ Overtime,” will also be squeezed in. I’ll be mind-blown if she adds “Swept Away” or “Muscles.” Whatever she does, it’ll be epic.

Tickets for Diana Ross are on sale now at www.Venetian.com/DianaRoss. I’ve never stayed at the Venetian before, so I can’t vouch for it, but I can highly recommend the very LGBT-friendly MGM Grand from personal experience.

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The Incredible Dolly Parton Of all musical genres, country music is the one that seems most willing to accommodate female stars. The greatest of them are the stuff that country dreams are made of: Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette and Reba McEntire. Though a case could be made for any of these ladies, in my opinion Dolly Parton is the greatest of them all. “Dolly Parton is the most famous, most universally beloved, and most widely respected woman who has ever emerged from country music, a role model not only for other singers and songwriters, but for working women everywhere,” wrote Mary A. Bufwack and Robert K. Oermann in Finding Her Voice, the definitive study of women in country music. “Hers is a true Horatio Alger, up-by-your-bootstraps success story – Daisy Mae Yokum of Dogpatch who turned into Mae West of Hollywood, a mountain butterfly who soared with eagles.”

Like country music itself, Dolly Parton’s career is a balancing act between her downhome roots and her mainstream aspirations, between Daisy Mae Yokum and Mae West.

Bufwack and Oermann described her public image as “possum-stew-and-Dom-Perignon,” while Parton herself called it “burlap and satin.” Her famous looks, which influenced her career as much as her music did, was a deliberate ploy to win attention from a general public that viewed country singers as illiterate hillbillies. Dolly wants to be heard, and if it takes a big blond wig and big tits to do it so be it: “It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap,” she famously said.

Parton’s Southern floozy look also satisfies a deep-seated need to be wildly extravagant, born perhaps of the singer’s childhood poverty: “If I were a man I would have been a drag queen,” she added.

Still, there’s more to Dolly Parton than meets the eye. “Parton’s appeal came through a fortuitous combination of physical attractiveness, singing talent, and a genius for song composition,” wrote Bill C. Malone in his classic text Country Music U.S.A. Her distinctive, “clear as a bell” soprano combines with a

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continued from cover niece Berniece, her brother Boy Willie, and a family heirloom – a beautiful hand-carved piano depicting the family’s slavery legacy.

Boy Willie (Stephen Tyrone Williams) arrives in Pittsburgh from down South with his friend Lymon (Yaegel T. Welch) to convince his sister Berniece (Erika La Vonn) to sell the family heirloom piano.

Years ago Sutter (the head of the slave-holding family that owned Boy Willie and Ber-

unique gift for writing songs to make Parton a musical force to be reckoned with. And while Dolly’s busty blonde looks are definitely prefeminist, she rightly became a role model for women during the early days of the women’s movement. “In contrast to the often tragic and always exhausting lives of so many female country singers, Dolly Parton somehow always retained an impression of being mistress of her own destiny, adapting, but never compromising, her style and material to suit the demands made of her,” Charlie Gillett wrote in The Sound of the City. Cline, Lynn and Wynette all had to endure drunk, abusive and unfaithful husbands. Parton’s husband, on the other hand, is Carl Dean, who keeps to himself and lets his wife lead her own life.

No matter how far away she gets, Dolly Rebecca Parton always returns to her “Tennessee mountain home.” She was born on January 19, 1946, in a proverbial log cabin near Sevierville, the fourth of twelve children. While still a child, Dolly began singing in churches and local theaters and (in 1959) on Knoxville radio. In 1964 she graduated from high school – the first in her family to do so – and moved to Nashville.

By 1966 she had married Carl Dean, signed with Monument Records, and had her first hit (the ironically-titled “Dumb Blonde”).

She also caught the eye of established country singer Porter Wagoner, who hired Dolly to replace Norma Jean as the “girl singer” on his syndicated TV show. As part of her partnership with Wagoner, Parton signed with his record label, RCA, in 1967. In 1969 she joined the Grand Ole Opry.

The years of the Wagoner-Parton partnership, which she insists was platonic but which he claims had a sexual dimension, were also her most productive. In addition to a string of duets with Porter, Dolly ruled the country charts with a series of songs she wrote that pushed the boundaries of country music: “Just Because I’m a Woman” (1967), “Joshua” (1971), “Coat of Many Colors” (1972), “Jolene” (1973) and, most famously, “I Will Always Love You” (1974). By 1977, Parton was ready to take off. She dropped Wagoner like a hot potato, hired the openlygay Sandy Gallin as her personal manager,

niece’s great-grandparents and their children) broke up the family by selling off a mother (their great-grandmother) and a son (their grandfather) to buy a piano for his wife. The wife, although delighted with the gift, missed her slaves, so Sutter had their images carved into the piano. Sometime after World War I, Boy Willie’s and Berniece’s two uncles (Doaker Charles and Wining Boy) and their father stole the piano from the Sutter home. While their uncles got away with the piano, their father was shot and he died at the scene. Berniece took custody of the piano and watched Michael Davis, Syracuse Stage

(l to r) Derrick Lee Weeden, Yaegel T. Welch and G. Valmont Thomas in The Piano Lesson

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and “went Hollywood” with the pop tune “Here You Come Again.” Though Parton protested that “I am not leaving country music. All I want is a chance to do everything I want to do in life,” her down-home country fans found it hard to forgive. Though Parton had two number one pop hits in the 1980s “9 to 5” in 1981 and “Islands in the Stream” (a duet with Kenny Rogers) in 1983, never again would she dominate the country charts the way she did during the 1970s.

In spite of her blowzy public persona, Parton is reticent about her private life. Though she is still married to the reclusive Carl Dean, the two lived apart for most of their union, and they have no children. When Parton moved to Hollywood in 1977 she left Dean in Tennessee and took her “best friend” Judy Ogle, which started rumors of Lesbianism. Though Parton denies that she is a Lesbian, she is very Gay friendly.

Last year, in an interview for Britain’s Event magazine, Parton expressed her support for marriage equality: “I think everyone should be with who they love. I don’t want to be controversial or stir up a bunch of trouble but people are going to love who they are going to love. I think Gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals.” Later last year, she

spoke to Billboard about her Gay followers.

“They know that I completely love and accept them, as I do all people. I’ve struggled enough in my life to be appreciated and understood. I’ve had to go against all kinds of people through the years just to be myself.

I think everybody should be allowed to be who they are, and to love who they love.” At Dollywood, Parton’s theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, same-sex couples and Southern fundamentalists come together in their mutual love for the country star.

“Once upon a time and far, far away, back in the hollers at the foothills of the great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee there lived a little girl with yellow hair, blue-green eyes, fair skin, and freckles. She loved to read almost as much as she loved to dream. She read everything she could get her hands on, but mostly she loved fairy tales. So I grew up to be a fairy princess of a sort, more of a Cinderella story, the rags to riches kind.” Though she no longer rules the country charts, Dolly Parton has retained the public’s love and respect. In 1999 she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and continues to please fans and critics alike with her music, concerts, television and movie appearances. Whatever her ups and downs, Parton’s career is not over yet.

her mother polish it daily with blood and tears; but Berniece refused to play the piano after her Mama Ola’s death. The piano now stands practically abandoned but an ever-constant reminder of where they came from, and what they have accomplished since.

Weeden brings a sense of “family historian storyteller” to his character of Doaker Charles. Charles, the patriarch in the family, shows support for his niece and nephew, but also is educating future generations on the history of the past. Weeden’s voice is rich and deep enough to read a phone book and be entertaining, but his ability to show Doaker’s vulnerability goes far beyond. Stephen Tyrone Williams’ portrayal of Boy Willie expertly shows the conflicts between having one foot rooted in the past and his ambition to try and make a future for himself. His struggles are recognized as the sharecropper who wants to get ahead. Erika LaVonn does excellent work showing the inner turmoil of Berniece’s feelings and desires. She allows the audience to empathize with her struggles to remember her family’s past and her fears of becoming lost in it. Every actor in the play does a great job with their roles and characters using accents and personality traits that make these characters come alive. The remaining characters in the play are all performed very well and lend their support to the main set of conflicts. G. Valmont Thomas’ portrayal of Wining Boy adds humor and a certain poignancy to the show. Yaegel T. Welch, as charming Lymon,

gives his character a charming naiveté bringing further range to the show.

The play is a very well written and tightly acted drama. The tension of the sharecropping days versus the modernization and meshing of the African American family into American culture is brought out by August Wilson’s brilliant writing, adding further dimension to the fourth installment of “The Pittsburgh Cycle” of plays; ten plays are in the series with only one (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) taking place in Chicago and not Pittsburgh. Wilson’s writing shows the journey of the African-American trying to find their place – from slavery to sharecropping to an established piece of the American pie.

The play brings a lot of thought to the audience long after the curtain falls. What are the responsibilities that we have to our pasts? What should we bring with us into the future and what information do we pass onto future generations? Can we leave behind the scars of yesterday or do they make up who we are today? Go see The Piano Lesson and come to your own conclusions.

The Piano Lesson made its first preview on Broadway April 10, 1990 and ran for over 325 performances. The play was nominated for five Tony Awards in the 1990 Season including Best Play. It was nominated for (and won) the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. 1995 saw the Hallmark Hall of Fame television production of the play (airing on CBS), starring Alfre Woodard and Charles S. Dutton, who recreated his 1990 Tony-nominated performance.

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Colombia crowned 63rd Miss Universe Octavian Volcu

televised event viewed by millions. The 5 foot 10 inch Business Administration student is just the second contestant from Colombia to capture the coveted pageant title, closing a 57-year gap since the country’s first Miss Universe win, Luz Marina Zuluaga in 1958.

Miss USA Nia Sanchez was named 1st Runner-Up, while Miss Ukraine Diana Harkusha, Miss Netherlands Yasmin Verheijen, and Miss Jamaica Kaci Fennel finished strongly as 2nd, 3rd, and 4th RunnerUp, respectively. Two early favorites and pageant superpowers, Venezuela (Migbelis Castellanos) and Philippines (Mary Jean Lastimosa), failed to advance from the Top 10 into the final 5.

Though domestically the show enjoyed its highest television ratings in five years, seen by 7.6 million households in America, it proved to be lackluster in content. The three-hour telecast featured uninspiring musical numbers by Nick Jonas, Prince Royal, and Gavin Degraw that coincided with various phases of the competition – swimsuit, evening gown, final look – but their songs, medleys, and choreography were a complete mismatch to each of Miss Universe 2015 Paulina Vega Dieppa of Colombia these portions of the pageant. Jonas was Paulina Vega Dieppa bested 87 young noticeably disappointing, coming across

by Albert Rodriguez women from around the world on Janu- as a Justin Timberlake copycat with amaSGN A&E Writer ary 25 to become Miss Universe, in a live teur dance moves and sappy pop tunes.

The show also included an overwhelming amount of promotional plugs for its sponsors, primarily the host city, Doral, and host hotel, the Trump National Doral Miami, which shares the owner of the Miss Universe Organization, Donald Trump.

Vega relocated immediately to New York on Monday morning and will spend most of 2015 traveling and doing charity work throughout the world, from helping raise money for hurricane victims to visiting orphanages in poverty-stricken countries. The outgoing Miss Universe, Gabriela Isler, was privileged with an introduction and personal blessing from Pope Francis during her reign.

Hundreds of Colombians filled the streets of Barranquilla, Vega’s hometown, when she was crowned on Sunday night.

Fireworks, cars honking, and people dancing inside neighborhood bars were part of the jubilant celebration following the pageant, considered to be just as popular as sports in some Latin American countries. TV actress Sophia Vergara (“Modern Family”), also a Barranquilla native, congratulated Vega via Twitter.

Due to Miss Universe skipping a year in 2014, there is expected to be another telecast and crowning for the 64th installment of the competition later in 2015. No word yet on the location for the event.

Callous Black Sea a maelstrom of emotional tumult BLACK SEA Now playing Veteran submarine man Robinson (Jude Law) has just been let go by his longtime employer, a deep sea salvage company that doesn’t see the need to keep a man like him around with modern technological advances in underwater search, rescue and reclamation being what they now are. But when a fellow former employee reveals a secret involving Russian gold, a WWII submarine and international political skullduggery, the grizzled Captain is suddenly faced with an opportunity for riches the likes of which he heretofore never could have imagined.

With the shady Daniels (Scoot McNairy) keeping an eye on things for an unnamed moneyman who’s fronting the bill for the operation, Robinson assembles a crew of 12 hardened seaman, half Russian, the other half fellow Britons, to head to the middle of the Black Sea in order to recover this lost treasurer. But tensions run high when everyone learns exactly what it is that is at stake, as well as the potential payday waiting for them at the end of the voyage, making trust between shipmates difficult to come by.

The submarine thriller Black Sea is The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by way of The Hunt for Red October and Run Silent, Run Deep, an angst-riddled foray into the heart of darkness few are likely to be able to endure and even less are going to survive. Savagely directed by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, How I Live Now), he and screenwriter Dennis Kelly revel in the carnal carnivorous brutality of the scenario rarely allowing sentimentality or melodrama to enter into the proceedings. It’s down and dirty, the moralistic underpinnings cor-

rupt and sour yet also relatable and intimate, the downtrodden crewmen working class survivors desperately in search of reasons to keep fighting in the hope that a better life for their respective loved ones isn’t an impossible dream forever out of reach.

There aren’t a lot of surprises. Where all of this is headed is apparent right from the moment Robinson learns of the gold, those on his crew who swim to safety and those that end up curling up inside Davey Jones’ locker not exactly a shock, either. The template Macdonald and Kelly are following is a familiar one and as such there are points where the mechanics required to connect one moment to the next are far too apparent, and so the emotional undercurrents cascading through events like a torpedo slicing through the water are sadly diluted a fair amount.

Thankfully, what the film lacks in originality it more than makes up in complex characterizations and mesmerizingly terrific performances. The supporting cast is delectable, each doing their best to make every moment count and every scene crackle with tension and electricity. Ben Mendelsohn is particularly memorable, playing an oily deep sea diver who’s far more comfortable walking the ocean bed than he is shuffling around inside the metal confines of a floating sarcophagus. His catastrophic stupidity as it relates to his Russian crewmates is bracingly juxtaposed alongside his unwavering commitment to see fellow divers survive, multiple sides of his calamitous personality clashing and hammering one off the other in ways that are repugnant and meritorious each in almost equal measure.

This makes him ripe for abuse, McNairy’s timid, selfishly callow company man doing a number on the diver’s psyche that gets more and more potent, bordering on tragic, as things accelerate to the inevitable finish. Mendelsohn takes what could have been a rote, one-note

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rube of a human being and transforms him into a figure of pitiable dehumanization, his rises and falls chronicled in breathlessly intimate detail allowing the true horror of the moral failings at the center of things to be even more psychologically ruinous.

It also helps considerably that the thriller is extraordinarily well shot by cinematographer Christopher Ross (Eden Lake). Coupled with crackerjack sound design and some stupendous production work supervised by designer Nick Palmer (Red Tails), Ross’ camera glides through the claustrophobic confines of the sub with magnificent dexterity, the movie calling to mind Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot and Tony Scott’s Crimson Tide while also staking claim to a visual allure and acoustic esthetic uniquely its own.

None of which would matter if Law wasn’t up to the task of captaining things through to the end. He commands the

screen, dominating with a fatherly, unwavering confidence that breaks through the veneer of common sense becoming something painfully truthful and ruefully catastrophic.

There is pain and suffering underlying every comment, every gesture, making his few overtures of comfort and understanding all the more affecting. Law is as great as he has ever been, raising the overall tenor of the material to a level it otherwise never would have achieved without his efforts.

Macdonald isn’t reaching as high as he has in the past, and it is apparent he’s content to craft a B-grade old school thriller about the destructive influence greed has upon its prey and little more. But that doesn’t make Black Sea any less enthralling, the effect it had upon me as unsympathetic and as callous, yet also as entertaining, as any I could have hoped to have experienced before walking into the theater.

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by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer STILL ALICE Now playing Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) is turning 50. The esteemed linguistics professor is renowned in her field and adored by her husband John (Alec Baldwin) and children Anna (Kate Bosworth), Tom (Hunter Parrish) and Lydia (Kristen Stewart). Oddly, however, she’s starting to forget words during her lectures, having trouble recalling their meaning and importance. Not so much that anyone would notice, mind you, but often enough it’s got her a little on edge, and so she’s headed to the doctor to get things checked out just to be safe.

What Alice learns is that she’s in the beginning stages of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s, a fact that understandably knocks both her and John for a loop. Letting the kids in on what is going on, the Howland clan does what they can to help her put up a fearsome battle, coming up with ideas and plans of action that should hopefully assist in the fight for her to maintain the core sense of self that’s always the wife and mother colorfully and endearingly unique.

Still Alice is based on the acclaimed book

by Lisa Genova and adapted by openly-Gay directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (The Last of Robin Hood). [See related interview with Wash Westmoreland in this week’s SGN.] It is a fairly straightforward melodrama concerning a family forced to deal with the unthinkable and a smart, successful and driven woman grappling with the realization she’s on a slow, virtually unendurable journey to the loss of everything she’s always held most dear. Additionally, the movie will almost certainly win Moore her first Academy Award, an honor a long time in coming and one that’s by all accounts way past due.

Great! Terrific! I guess that’s fine. Fine because the distinguished actress is superb. Fine because Moore gives a complex, superbly layered performance that without question deserves to be considered amongst 2014’s best.

Fine because she’s the reason to see the film, plain and simple, and it’s highly doubtful it wouldworknearaswellasitdoesifshehadmade

the decision not to be a part of the ensemble.

The problem for me is that the movie itself – solidly made, competently directed, constructed with confidence and skill – is still shockingly slight, dripping into unnecessary sequences of melodramatic embellishment Genova’s complex, movingly multifaceted source material thankfully avoids. There are times that Still Alice feels more like a Lifetime programmer circa 1992 more than it does something stripped down, emotionally raw and dramatically essential, things moving in a rather foregone manner that can be a little more annoying, and thus not near enough moving than they by all accounts should be.

Not that Glatzer and Westmoreland drop the ball completely. There are a number of sequences and scenes that cut right to the chase, taking my breath clean away in the process.

Alice learning from her doctor that she’s got the disease being one of them, another later one when she gives a speech to a room full of fellow Alzheimer suffers, their doctors and, most importantly, their families. They’ve also constructed a handful of remarkable, incredibly affective moments between the mother and her youngest daughter, Lydia, Moore and Stewart sharing startlingly intimate chemistry that says volumes in precious few words.

I just wish the directors did more with the material that’s been handed them. While normally I’d be cheerleading their attempts to keep things brief, at barely 100 minutes there

is an unfinished quality to this I had trouble getting past. I felt like I needed more between Alice and Lydia, needed to see her interact more with her husband, John. Most of all, as hard as both Bosworth and Parrish try (the former performing at a much higher level than the latter, in my opinion), neither is given near enough to do in order for their respective characters to be anything more than rote, onedimensional caricatures, spending time with either just not particularly worthwhile.

Yet Moore really is wonderful, delivering a beautifully calibrated and nuanced portrait of a woman grappling with the unfathomable loss of self that’s as devastating as it is inevitable. The actress manages to make what Alice is going through tragically universal, allowing the viewer inside her soul in ways that rip the heart clean out of the chest. She’s stunning, make no mistake, and couple that with the scenes Glatzer and Westmoreland do get right, there’s plenty about this film to get behind and cheer.

Not that I did not want more from Still Alice. I did, there’s no denying it, and as such I do feel as if the directors haven’t risen to the heights of previous efforts like the melodiously enchanting Quinceañera. But the film gets just enough right and is anchored by a performance so stunning, it conceals many of the drama’s more egregious missteps. It’s just not what it potentially could have been, making my recommendation an uneasy one at best.

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zheimer’s – the further back the recollection, the easier it is to hold on to. To show this, we used little shards of super-8 of Alice’s childhood weaving in with her daily routine. Super-8 films were a big part of my childhood. When I remember something, I sometimes wonder if I’m remembering the event itself, or seeing it on Super-8. They have the same hazy texture in my mind.

Gary Kramer: Every scene – Alice speaking, cooking, or running – is freighted with the danger that she may forget what she is doing, or even harm herself or others. Can you talk about how you created this narrative tension?

Wash Westmoreland: We realized that the potential for memory loss leading to socially embarrassing situations or physical danger was a powerful source of suspense. Whenever Alice is doing something – whether it is giving a lecture, visiting the doctor or cooking Christmas dinner – the audience is consciously willing her to pull it off. In the end, it seems like she escapes social embarrassment but then something unexpected happens. In this way, it functions like a horror movie; the hand comes up out of the grave and grabs you.

Gary Kramer: There are powerful

themes of shame, security, struggle and suffering reverberated throughout the film.

Can you discuss that?

Wash Westmoreland: Alice says, “I’m so ashamed,” indicating the social perceptions of the disease. There is still something about Alzheimer’s that people feel embarrassed about. HIV/AIDS is also relevant here, demonstrating how the perception of a disease can be changed through social activism. What Alzheimer’s really needs is a similar sea change in the way the disease is perceived. We hope that Still Alice is a story that can get people to understand the disease more intimately.

Gary Kramer: How did you work with Julianne Moore on the role?

Wash Westmoreland: We divided Alice’s deterioration into four main stages, but Julianne did such a nuanced portrayal it seem more like four hundred phases. Julianne was so committed. She did so much research – in terms of visiting support groups and making friends in the Alzheimer’s community – to make sure everything she did was 100% real. This took away our main fear – a phony note – and created something that was authentic and relevant. © 2015 Gary M. Kramer Sony Pictures Classics

In Still Alice, writer/directors (and reallife couple) Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s beautiful, intelligent adaptation of Lisa Genova’s novel, Alice (Julianne Moore), is a Columbia University linguistics professor who experiences the symptoms of early onset Alzheimer’s. This compelling, moving drama shows the effect the disease has on her and her family.

Still Alice is all about loss and control as the title character slips in and out of stages where she has difficulty remembering things – be it a word, a name, or a dinner engagement – and the film shows how she tries to keep it together under such pressure.

Glatzer and Westmoreland never milk her situation for pathos, and they coax an extraordinary performance from Moore. Her expressions as she grapples with her condition, are absolutely heartbreaking.

In an email exchange, Westmoreland responded to questions about Still Alice.

Gary Kramer: I understand this film resonates with both you and Richard. Can you discuss your experiences and how they are reflected in Still Alice?

Wash Westmoreland: Richard developed a slight lisp about four years ago and was told he probably had bulbar ALS. The life expectancy for this is between 18 months and 4 years. Richard is not only beating the odds, but he has directed two feature films in this time. He’s determined to keep going. We don’t talk much about next year or the year after – we just live day by day. Adapting Still Alice helped us work through some of our own issues – both in terms of living with the disease and caregiving. The speech Alice gives at the Alzheimer’s Association later on in the movie largely comes from Richard’s experiences.

Gary Kramer: Your early films have had

a significant queer characters, plot or subplots. With Still Alice and your previous film, The Last Days of Robin Hood, you have made “women’s pictures.” Can you talk about this shift in your work?

Wash Westmoreland: We are always primarily driven by story and have projects on our docket with gay, straight, male and female protagonists. There is a great tradition – from Cukor to Fassbinder to Todd Haynes – of gay filmmakers having a strong connection to female protagonists.

I guess there’s a certain sense of empathy and exclusion from heterosexual patriarchy. We certainly had no problem identifying with Alice and working the entire story though her point of view.

Gary Kramer: How did you adapt the novel?

Wash Westmoreland: We knew the story was an intense emotional ride but wanted to avoid overplaying it. We took a restrained approach – largely inspired by Ozu’s Tokyo Story – so as not to hit the audience over the head with where and how to “feel.” We were pleased with the way this worked but some still [***still some] critics likened Alice to a movie-of-theweek, which we found bizarre. The movie’s tone is so emotionally raw and the techniques adhere much more closely to those of art film than Hallmark. I believe there is a generalized cultural misogyny around women’s pictures. Conventions from traditionally male genres seem to get more of a free pass. “Noir” is seen as enduringly cool whereas the slightest whiff of melodrama and you’re out!

Gary Kramer: Visually, you convey the theme of loss, the triggers of memory, and the fog of what is happening to Alice through out of focus shots and “home movies.” Can you discuss your visual approach?

Wash Westmoreland: As Alice’s shortterm memory deteriorates, she starts to live more in her distant memories. This is very common with people living with Al-

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Stewart’s brilliance makes Match worth celebrating MATCH Now playing Patrick Stewart has never been nominated for an Academy Award. Heck, he’s never been part of the conversation. Granted, considering the motion picture veteran’s most notable on-screen roles can be found in the likes of X-Men, Star Trek: First Contact, Conspiracy Theory, Lifeforce, Dune and Excalibur this should hardly be surprising, the majority of his most notable performances coming either on the stage or via television. Yet, make no mistake, the former Captain of the Starship Enterprise, JeanLuc Picard, and the modern incarnation of mutant leader Prof. Charles Xavier is one of our greatest living actors, and it was only a matter of time before someone finally gave him a cinematic role worthy of his talent.

Granted, seeing that his latest film, the gloriously entertaining three-person character study Match, was originally a theatrical production and is directed and adapted by the show’s playwright Stephen Belber (Management, The Laramie Project) it isn’t like Stewart is going all that far out of his typical comfort zone. Even though he wasn’t part of the acclaimed Broadway production (Frank Langella played the character originally), the theatricality of the piece and the intimate structure of the narrative are both things the actor has responded to time and time again throughout his career, and much like his celebrated Shakespearean productions on the London stage his inhabiting of the central fig-

ure here is as magnetic as it is multifaceted.

Stewart is Manhattanite Tobi Powell, a towering figure in the world of ballet, applauded as a teacher and a mentor to rising young students the world over. He is approached by a couple from Seattle, Lisa (Carla Gugino) and Mike Davis (Matthew Lillard), ostensibly there to interview him about his early days as a dancer during the 1960s. At first the maestro is more than happy to indulge the pair, spinning yarns of days long gone that are as eccentric as they are colorful. But as the hours drag on and the venue morphs from a New York diner to Tobi’s own home it’s soon clear there’s more going on beneath the surface than initially surmised, the secrets the dance impresario has been concealing ones that connect them all in ways none are ready to face let alone talk about.

The story’s theatrical roots are apparent from the start, and even though Belber attempts to open things up, he’s never truly able to escape them. More often than not there’s little about this presentation that feels cinematic, and thus unlike similar, equally recent endeavors by the likes of Roman Polanski (Carnage, Venus in Fur) or John Wells (August: Osage County) this film adaptation never entirely comes to life.

It doesn’t help that, as good as both are, neither Gugino or Lillard are fully able to connect with their respective characters and as such the climactic revelations don’t strike with quite the impact I admittedly expected them to as I started to put the pieces of the puzzle together for myself.

But Stewart? Stewart is astonishing, burning through the screen with passion and power, elevating the film to glorious heights

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keeping things fascinating and enthralling throughout no matter how big any one misstep might initially appear. Tobi is a flamboyantly charismatic man of mystery, hiding truth with lies and using subterfuge to augment fact, each coexisting with the others allowing secrets to hide right out in the open where they’ll hopefully continue to avoid being discovered. It’s a magnetic, intoxicating turn filled with insight and emotion, the revered teacher still not above becoming the perplexed pupil as history and circumstance force him to reconsider choices long ago dealt with, if still linger-

ing in the psyche, as if they were a perpetual nightmare impossible to forget.

Considering the film’s January release, it’s beyond doubtful anyone will be talking about Stewart’s turn come December. It will not put him in the Oscar discussion even though it undeniably should. Few will remember he gave one of the year’s finest performances.

But that doesn’t make him any less magnificent, and as such he manages to make Match one of 2015’s first must-see releases, fans of the actor owing it to themselves to see this master at something quite near the absolute top of his justifiably illustrious game.

Lesser Dardenne still a riveting Two Days

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT Now playing After a devastating battle with depression, Sandra (Marion Cotillard) returned to work at her job only to learn she’d been made redundant, her absence proving to the factory owner that his business’ monthly quota

could be made with one less person on the line. With her dismissal her coworkers will receive a fairly substantial bonus, their supervisor clouding the issue by attempting to convince everyone it’s an either-or proposition, and if she were to stay not only would there be no extra money, one of them would have to leave in her place.

This wasn’t true, Sandra’s best friend Juliette (Catherine Salée) convincing their boss to allow an open vote amongst the factory emCinéart

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ployees whether or not they would like to keep their bonuses or allow their coworker to keep her job. With a weekend to convince seven of the 12 to vote her way, the mother of two, with the help of her sous chef husband Manu (Fabrizio Rongione), hits the streets to engage in face-to-face talks with her colleagues in hopes of convincing them to do just that.

The Belgian drama Two Days, One Night fits perfectly inside directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s working class world, the movie making a superb companion to equally austere, straightforward works like L’enfant, Rosetta, The Kid with a Bike and La Promesse.

What it doesn’t have in common with any of the brothers’ previous motion pictures is the presence of a major international star, and while the pair have worked with more than their fair share of familiar faces they’ve never given center stage to someone like Academy Award-winner Cotillard.

Until now; and do they ever give her a role suited to her immense talents. Sandra is awash in acres of pain and self-doubt yet at the same time she’s putting on a brave face giving all she can to rebuild emotionally from the bottom up. Cotillard’s performance is a master class in internal duality, the actress subtly transforming from timid dormouse to predatory lioness.

Rarely has depression and its after effects been documented so impressively on film outside of a documentary, but considering the Dardenne’s fictional oeuvre and background in non-fiction, features like this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Still, make

no mistake, Cotillard is tremendous, and as she’s in virtually every frame, proclaiming this one of 2014’s most titanic tour de force performances goes without saying.

She is the movie, however, and while there are some wonderful little moments between her and Rongione, I’m hard-pressed to believe Two Days, One Night would be anything special without her. In more ways than one this does feel like lesser Dardenne, the brothers not saying anything too out of the ordinary or profound as they follow Sandra on her journey. The statements made in regards to modern situations for the working and middle classes, across the globe, not just in Belgium, are hardly prophetic or revelatory, and while they’re still bracing and emotionally chilly, I couldn’t help but feel as if I’d heard these proclamations from the Dardennes before.

Yet second tier Dardenne is still better than most other filmmakers’ best efforts, the level of intimate introspection stunning when everything is taken in total. Sandra’s journey is visceral, immediate, proceeding straight from the heart in a way that is timeless. There are no faked emotions, nothing that isn’t of the now, everything building to a realization of one’s potential for greatness that isn’t so much extraordinary as it is quietly cathartic.

It’s impossible not to feel every blow to the gut, slap to the face, pat on the back and redemptive embrace. It all leads to a final moment with the protagonist that is as euphoric as it is shattering, eventually making Two Days, One Night a startlingly effective drama that’s difficult to forget.

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Coming Up! Theater in February 2015 Joe Iano

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer You had such a good time reading about upcoming shows in January that you clamored for more information for February!

Well, we’re happy to oblige and let you know about the scintillating choices opening on area stages around the Sound this month. In fact, there is so much locally written material this month, we could dub February “Locally Written Theater Month.”

First to open is a locally written play, Natural, at Annex Theatre, 2/3-18, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays only.

Writer Marcus Gorman crafts a play about six Seattleites who unravel messy, urban lives of retail hell, online erotica and crises of sexual identity. Art and Theo met in French class and seem to be very happy together. But while Theo sorts through his relationship with a persistent co-worker, and his best friend Chloe tries to reconcile her on- and off-line reputations, Art finds himself unexpectedly drawn to worldly bartender Samantha. Alliances shift, friendships are tested, and mistakes are made. http://www.annextheatre.org/2015-season/off-night/natural/ Carousel is the next musical at The 5th Avenue Theatre, from 2/5-3/1 (a co-production of the 5th and Spectrum Dance Theater). It’s a classic musical love story about a carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, who loves mill worker Julie Jordan. After his untimely death, Billy makes a deal with an angel and is allowed to return to earth for just one day for a chance to redeem his life and make peace with the wife and daughter he left behind. A terrific cast, headed by Laura Griffith, Brandon O’Neill and Billie Wildrick, promises a strong showing, along with some unique choreography from Spectrum Dance Theater. The musical is not without controversy, though, since Billy Bigelow is a rough-cast fellow who has such difficulty managing his feelings that he hits people, including women. https://www.5thavenue.org/show/syos/ carousel

Annette Toutonghi (l) and Evelyn DeHais perform in the Live Girls Theater production of Blood/Water/Paint

through the harsh reality of Times Square, searching for The One. With her trio of streetwise girlfriends, a phony evangelist, a list of unreliable suitors, the unflappable Charity knows in her heart that there’s gotta be something better than this. The book by Neil Simon, music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Dorothy Fields includes musical theatre favorites “Big Spender,” “If My Friends Could See Me Now,” and “There’s Gotta Be Something Better Than This.” http://seattlemusicaltheatre.org/blog/productions/season-37/sweet-charity/

Seattle Musical Theatre presents Sweet Charity from 2/13-3/1. This classic musical focuses on Charity as she sings and dances

Another accomplished local playwright, Joy McCullough-Carranza, debuts her play Blood/Water/Paint.

Produced by Live Girls! Theater 2/203/14 and housed at Theatre Off Jackson.

This is a true story of Artemisia Gentileschi, an Italian Baroque painter from the early 1600s, now considered one of the most accomplished of her generation. Through interactions with the women featured in her own most famous paintings and the process of teaching her daughter to paint, the story unfolds of her fierce battle to rise above the most devastating event in her life and fight Matt & Ben, by Mindy Kaling and Brenda for justice despite horrific consequences.

Withers, is brought to you by STAGEright http://lgtheater.org/2015/01/boodwaterTheatre, 2/13-28 at Richard Hugo House. paint/ It’s a comedy supposedly about Ben Afflect and Matt Damon but played deliberately by The one-act play theatre, Stone Soup, preswomen. When the screenplay for Good Will ents Sam Shepard’s God of Hell 2/20-3/15.

Hunting drops mysteriously from the heav- Wisconsin dairy farmers, Frank and Emma, ens, the boys realize they’re being tested by agree to put up an old friend, Haynes, who is a Higher Power. The authors performed this on the lam from a secret government project on Broadway in 2003. involving plutonium. What ensues is a thrillhttp://www.seattlestageright.org/produc- ing theatrical ride as hilarious as it is sobering. tions/matt-and-ben http://www.stonesouptheatre.org/event/ god-of-hell-by-sam-shepard/ Voyage For Madmen by Rachel Atkins, local playwright, will play at West of Lenin The Pulitzer award-winning musical 2/20-3/7, courtesy of 14/48 Projects. It’s based about a mentally ill housewife trying to on the true story of Ardeo, Seattle’s theatre manage her family life, next to normal, in a French chateau. In fact, Atkins was an will be presented by SecondStory Rep, original member, so her play is based on in- 2/20-3/15. Locally developed here at Vilside information. The Seattle theatre company lage Theatre before going on to win multiple bought a château, moved to France to do the- awards nationally, it is a more easily manatre, and then crashed and burned spectacu- aged musical for a small venue like Secondlarly in 2001. Incorporating live music, vaude- Story, because it has a cast of six! But it is ville, The Tempest, Frankenstein, and the true a tricky and challenging piece. Ann Cornestory of Donald Crowhurst, a British amateur lius is new to Seattle stages and is making sailor who falsified his records in an attempt to her debut here with this complex character. win a round-the-world race in the 1960s, Voyhttp://www.secondstoryrep.org/mainage for Madmen goes beyond documentary stage/season16/normal.html facts to delve into the wild world of start-ups and creative risk at all costs, while highlightThe last locally written piece of the month ing many of the strange-but-true details of is Seven Ways to Get There, produced by backstage life at Ardeo.

DeeJayCee Creative Ventures and perhttp://the1448projects.org/voyagefor- formed at ACT Theatre 2/24-3/15. Bryan madmen/ Willis and Dwayne Clark based their play

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Phoenix Theatre in Edmonds mounts Self Help by Norm Foster, 2/6-3/1. Foster is a comedy stalwart known as the “Canadian Neil Simon.” Hal and Cindy Savage are two struggling actors, turned self-help gurus.

But when their marriage takes a nosedive, they find themselves scrambling to hide a body, protect their reputations, and hold onto their falsely won fame. www.phoenixtheatreedmonds.org The Dog of the South is Book-It Repertory Theatre’s newest adaptation, performing 2/11-3/8 in the Armory at Seattle Center. The novel by Charles Portis introduces Ray Midge, a persnickety, hapless, twenty-something Arkansan on a mission to find his wife Norma who has run off with her ex-husband, Dupree. The two fugitives have stolen Midge’s credit cards and his beloved Ford Torino. Midge follows the meandering trail of credit card receipts from Arkansas to Mexico to Belize. Along the way he picks up the cranky con artist, Dr. Symes, who happens to be headed in the same direction. http://book-it.org/silver-jubilee-season/ the-dog-of-the-south/

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on a true story, following seven men in group therapy trying to work through their issues.

Set in the strange and manic world of men’s group therapy, this new play explores the many ways it takes to make it through difficult times. The play has a particularly strong cast and will be directed by John Langs, so you might tag this one “ACT Light.” http://www.acttheatre.org/Tickets/OnStage/SevenWaystoGetThere A Gogolplex is the name Ghostlight Theatricals has given to adaptations of two Nikolai Gogol stories: The Overcoat and The Nose, 2/27-3/14. His vision of St. Petersburg: a city in which a man on the brink of gaining everything he ever thought he wanted wakes up with a most personal possession missing; a city in which saving for a new coat transforms the life (and afterlife) of a humble clerk; a city of pigeons and ghosts, strange summers and brutal winters, and the oddest extremities of human experience. http://ghostlighttheatricals.org/season-12/ agogolplex/ Arouet also provides a night of two oneacts: The Long Road by Shelagh Stephenson and Nine by Jane Shepherd at Eclectic Theatre, 2/27-3/14. In The Long Road, after Danny’s pointless murder, his family struggles to find meaning and forgiveness. Stephenson spent many hours talking with victims and perpetrators of violent crime, visiting prisons and collaborating with the Forgiveness Project. The result is an affecting play intent on opening the hearts and minds without ever becoming preachy. (source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/) In Nine, when two women find themselves in a life-threatening situation, the mind games they play may be the only way to stay alive. Held in a room and chained apart, their only currency is words, and the fragile nature of their desperate situation means that a single word can become the hanging point between life and death. http://arouet.us/productions/two-one-actplays-one-riveting-evening/

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SATURDAY - January 31

Seattle Boat Show (1/23-2/1). Centurylink Field & South Lake Union. The West Coast’s largest display of boats, yachts, electronics & gear. www.seattleboatshow.com Ski Buddies. Every Saturday & Sunday. Ski, board or snow shoe locally with fellow club members! www. skibuddies.org Antiques & Collectibles Show in Puyallup (1/31 & 2/1). Sat 9am-6pm; Sun 10am-5pm. Washington State Fair Events Center, Puyallup. 400 booths full of antiques & collectibles. Admission $6. FREE parking. www. christinepalmer.net Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 9am. Greenlake (outside Evans Pool). Every Saturday. GLBT running & walking club sponsors weekly runs, monthly potlucks, track & field activity, annual Run With Pride. 448-8518. www.seattlefrontrunners.org.

Seattle Ladies Choir Season 8 Winter Concerts (1/30 & 1/31). Fri 7:30pm; Sat 2pm & 7:30pm. Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, 201 Mercer St. Features choral versions of songs by Bright Eyes, Aretha Franklin, Iron & Wine & more! $6-$16. seattleladieschoir.org Gay Bingo. 5-10pm. Fremont Studios, 155 N 35th St. Fabulous, cheeky, wildly popular, this is a community fundraiser that has become a beloved Seattle institution. Unbridled fun complete with ridiculous musical numbers, hilarious drag queen antics, chances to win wonderful prizes & more! General admission $50. www. seattlegaybingo.org Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 6pm-12 midnight. Call for location & details. Every Saturday. (253) 671-2838. www.oasisyouth center.org.

Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 6pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Saturday. Games also on Tuesdays & Thursdays. $4 fee includes coffee & snacks.

For more information visit www.rainbowbridgeclub.org or email rainbowbridgeclub@gmail.com “Reel Women” - Seattle Women’s Chorus PREVIEW Concert. 8pm. Renton Ikea Performing Arts Center, 400 S 2nd St. SWC presents a musical tribute to some of the silver screen’s most famous and scintillating women.

Tickets: $10. 206-388-1400; www.flyinghouse.org; and at the door. (“Reel Women” runs 2/5-2/8 at Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center.)

SUNDAY - February 1

For information on GLBT-friendly religious/spiritual organizations in the Greater Seattle area, call or email Rick at the SGN office: 206-324-4297; sgn2@ sgn.org.

Seattle Boat Show (1/23-2/1). Centurylink Field & South Lake Union. The West Coast’s largest display of boats, yachts, electronics & gear. www.seattleboatshow.com Ski Buddies. Every Saturday & Sunday. Ski, board or snow shoe locally with fellow club members! www. skibuddies.org Hiking Group. 8:45am. Uptown Espresso, 500 Westlake Ave N. Every Sunday year-round, rain or shine for moderate to strenuous day hikes. 323-8382. http:// groups.yahoo.com/group/TheSeattleGayHikingGroup/ Border Riders Motorcycle Club First Sunday Ride.

9am-rendezvous; 9:30am. Broadway Grill, 314 Broadway E. Meets 1st Sunday each month. A social & educational fraternity for individuals interested in recreational motorcycle touring. www.borderriders.com Seattle Soto Zen. 9:15am-Zazen Instruction, 9:30amZazen. 101 Nickerson St, Lower Level. Follow the traditional forms of the Soto school of Zen in a spirit of warmth & inclusion. Anyone interested in meditation, whether new or experienced in Zen practice or other traditions, is welcome. 323-1659, www.seattlesotozen.org Antiques & Collectibles Show in Puyallup (1/31 & 2/1). Sat 9am-6pm; Sun 10am-5pm. Washington State Fair Events Center, Puyallup. 400 booths full of antiques & collectibles. Admission $6. FREE parking. www. christinepalmer.net Gay Men’s Bowling in Everett. 10am. Evergreen Lanes, 5111 Claremont Way, Everett. Every Sunday.

Spectators welcome. Join us for lunch afterwards!

Sponsored by the Snohomish County Gay Men’s Task Force. For info email John at johndmarsh@mac.com Seattle Sunday Bowlers. 10am. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW (at SW Oregon St). Open bowl every Sunday for the GLBT community & friends. You don’t have to worry about how you bowl! $4.25 + $1 shoe rental. 329-1515.

Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle Coronation 2015: In-Town Brunch & Awards. 11am. CC Attle’s, 1701 E Olive Way. $10 suggested donation.

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January 31 thru February 8 Trans Youth Group. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. A chance for youth to talk with others about their experiences & concerns related to identifying as Transgender. www.lamberthouse.org Lambert House Art Night. 7:30-9:30pm. 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. Bring your ideas & let’s have some fun.

322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Unity Gay Men’s AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St. Tacoma. Every Monday.

(253) 474-8897.

Washington Gender Alliance Support Group Meeting in Shoreline. 7:30pm. Center for Human Services, 17018 15th Ave NE, Shoreline. Meets every Monday. For information email info@washingtongender alliance.com Les Be Honest. 8-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Open women only AA group. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org.

TUESDAY - February 3

Meditation for GBT Men. 11am-1pm. Cal Anderson House, 400 Broadway. Suitable for beginning & experienced meditators. Sponsored by Dharma Buddies.

Contact Forrest Rode, 920-6117, Mike Chin (509) 990-0007, or Doug Allison, doug.l.allison@gmail.com.

Women may wish to contact our sister meditation group via lotus.sisters@yahoo.com. www.dharmabuddies.org Just for Today. 12-1:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step (Narcotics Anonymous) group open to anyone in recovery. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org Paths to Recovery Al-Anon Family Group. 12-1:30pm.

Seattle University Student Center, 901 12th Ave, Room 122. Every Sunday. LGBTQ supported. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength & hope in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness & that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org Rain City Soccer Club - Ripple Effect. Every Sunday afternoon. Location varies. Ripple Effect soccer team plays a weekly recreational scrimmage game for Gay guys in Seattle. Perfect for guys looking for more relaxed play, who are just getting back into soccer, just learning the game and/or want to supplement their competitive play with a recreational team. To sign up visit www. raincitysoccer.org Grace Gospel Chapel. 2pm-Worship. Gift of Grace Lutheran Church, 2102 N 40th St. Oldest independent church ministering primarily to the Gay & Lesbian community. An exciting fellowship ... a place to believe, a place to belong. 784-8495.

PFLAG/Kittitas County. 4-5:30pm. First United Methodist Church, 3rd & Ruby Sts, Ellensburg. Meets the first Sunday of every month. For information, (509) 925-7937.

Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: 5-6:15pm; Mon/Weds/ Fri: 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. Every Sun, Mon, Wed & Fri. Pre-registration required. Orca Swim Team workouts are for both competitive & recreational swimmers. www.orcaswimteam.org Seattle Jazz Vespers. 6-8pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, Seneca St & Harvard Ave. 1st Sunday of every month (October-June). The historic Gothic sanctuary of Seattle First Baptist Church is offered to the best jazz groups in the city to perform 100 minutes of their own popular music. FREE. For info 325-6051, www.seattlefirstbaptist.org/sjv

January 30, 2015

Shame to Grace Sunday SAA. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women who share their experience, strength & hope with each other so they may overcome their sexual addiction & help others recover from sexual addiction or dependency. Seattle SAA helpline 237-8828, SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191.

SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Ski Buddies Potluck. 6pm. Check website for address.

You never want to miss this event as we discuss this seson’s trips. We’ll also have online sign up available for those who can’t make the potluck. skibuddies.org Pride League Bowling. 6:30pm. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW. Every Sunday (except during the summer). Regular league bowling. Jeff, 932-3731.

Noche Latina - Latino Night. 10pm. Neighbours, 1509 Broadway. Every Sunday.

MONDAY - February 2

SOBER - On Meds. 1-2pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. 12-step group open to anyone in recovery & living on a medicine regimen. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Strength Over Speed. 2-3:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Gay Social Dinner Club of Snohomish County. Every Monday. An informal group of Gay men living in Snohomish County meet for dinner at Snohomish County restaurants. For information, location & to RSVP contact Ricardo at socialdinnerclub@yahoo.com or phone (360) 722-1664.

Healing Words. 6:30-8pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Drop-in group open to all who are healing from trauma, addiction, or just the challenges of life in general. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

Pozitively Me! 6:30-8pm. Gay City Health Project, 517 E. Pike St. Every Monday. A group and conversation about HIV for Gay & Bi men newly diagnosed and for Gay & Bi men facing the challenges of living with HIV longterm. www.gaycity.org.

Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. FredLind Manor, 1802 17th Ave. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.FreelySpeaking.org Orca Swim Team Workout. 7-8:15pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

Simply Positive. 2:30-4pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. Drop-in support & social group for anyone HIV/AIDS positive. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Artful Expression. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. This is an ongoing art group to visualize the journey thru creative expression. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org Gay Men’s Task Force of Snohomish County in Everett. 6-8pm. Snohomish Health District, 3020 Rucker Ave Ste 309A, Everett. Meets 1st Tuesday each month.

Open to all Gay & Bisexual men in Snohomish County.

“We will be discussing issues concerning the local Gay community & value your opinion, voice, comments, suggestions & attendance. Come join us as we build community in Snohomish County.” David, (425) 339-5238.

LGBTQ Questioning & Allied Youth Drop-in Group in Renton. 6-8pm. Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS), 1025 S 3rd St, Renton. Meets every Tuesday. Confidential. Snacks provided. Bring friends or come alone - anyone 12-18 is welcome. Questions? Call Sarah Hardin, 425-271-5600 ext 155, or email sarahh@rays.org Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Diverse Harmony. 6:30-9pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Every Tuesday. Diverse Harmony is the nation’s first Gay/Straight Alliance Youth Chorus. Youths ages 13-22 are welcome regardless of sexual orientation. www.diverseharmony.org Gay/Bi Prostate Cancer Group. 6:30-8pm. Gilda’s Club, 1400 Broadway. Meets 1st Tuesday each month.

For Gay & Bi men diagnosed with prostate cancer. A safe space for emotional support on issues of treatment, sexuality, relationships & topics specific to Gay/Bi men.

FREE. 709-1400, www.gildasclubseattle.org Queer Young Females Group - For Female-Identified Youth, Ages 22 & Under. 6:30-7:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday. Topics range from family issues to school happenings to like/lust/love relationships. All Queer females welcome. Come discuss how smart. strong Queer women live their lives. 322-2515, www. lamberthouse.org Cineoke! Doors 6:30pm, Show 7pm. Jewelbox Theater at the Rendezvous, 2322 2nd Ave. Meets 1st Tuesday each month. You’re the star of your favorite movie musical. Pick any scene to sing along to, while the film & lyrics are projected onto the screen. There are hundreds of songs to choose from, or you can bring your own special request on DVD. $8 cover. Sponsored by Three Dollar Bill Cinema. www.threedollarbillcinema.org Over 40’s Group - For Lesbian Women 40 & Older.

7-8:30pm. University Congregational Church, 4515 16th Ave NE, Pilgrim Room. Every Tuesday. Open group for Lesbian women, 40 & older, in every stage of coming out or being out. Lots of social activities in addition to Tuesday meetings. 545-3521.

Rain City Jacks. 1st & 3rd Tuesday each month at 7pm; 4th Sunday each month at1pm. West Queen Anne/ Interbay. Location & membership details provided upon request. RCJ is a traditional jack-off club. Friendly, sexpositive, non-profit and private. Membership required.

Adult men only. Enroll at the door. www.raincityjacks. org, email info@raincityjacks.org or call 1-888-809-5035.

Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 7pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Tuesday. (See Saturday listing at 6pm.)

Tuesday Night Sex Addicts Anonymous (GLBTQI).

7-8:30pm. All Pilgrims Christian Church, 500 Broadway E (enter at 509 10th Ave E; buzz in, Dickson room). Every Tuesday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women whose primary purpose is to stop addictive sexual behavior & help others recover from sexual addiction. Seattle SAA helpline 237-8828. SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191.

Different Drummers. 7:15-8:30pm. Every Tuesday.

Hand drumming classes for Gay men. It’s easy, it’s fun & anyone can do it! Learn traditional African & AfroCaribbean rhythms & basic hand drumming techniques.

Experience connection, community & spirituality. Drums are provided. For info & location call Dennis at 363-4500 or www.outdrum.com What About Me? 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. Drop-in social, support & discussion group for maturing Gay & Bi men of all ages. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

Celebrating 41 Years!

Here & Now Gay & Lesbian AA Meeting in Tacoma.

7:30pm. Christ Episcopal Church, 310 N “K” St, Tacoma.

Every Tuesday.

Spiritual Empowerment. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. A group for all LGBT & friends of any spiritual belief to explore how spiritual practice can enrich their life. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. GLBT & GLBT-friendly co-ed water polo team is open to all who want to play. Beginners & experienced players welcome. Check our website for up to the minute details, or call the Otter Hotline 414-8797. www.otterpolo.com.

Seattle Poetry Slam. Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm. Rebar, 1114 Howell St. Every Tuesday. A spoken word poetry event that features a weekly open mic, feature poet, and slam (poetry competition). Come out and express yourself. LGBTQ- & QTPOC-friendly; all genders welcome. $5. 21+. seattlepoetryslam.org

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WEDNESDAY - February 4

Mature Friends Morning Exercise/Health & Fitness Get-Together. 10am. Ballard Odd Fellows Hall Bldg, 1706 NW Market St. Every Wednesday. An hour of health-related activities, followed by a walk around Greenlake & lunch at a local restaurant. MF is a social group for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www. maturefriends.org True Colors: Connecting LGBTQ Teens in Shoreline.

4-5pm. Every Wednesday. Discussing your important issues, building a supportive community. For information, location & to REGISTER call Lindsay Bagley 362-7282 x 8018 or email lbagley@chs-nw.org GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): A Support Group & HIV/STD Prevention for Youth (14-20) in Everett. 6-8pm. CCA Building, 3331 Broadway - Bottom Floor, Everett. Every Wednesday.

Sponsored by PFLAG Everett chapter. David/Brenda, (425) 263-2908. globeleaders@hotmail.com The Rowing Team Peer Recovery Group. 6-7:30pm.

All Pilgrims Church, 500 Broadway E. Meets every Wednesday. This peer recovery group provides a safe & supportive faith community to share your recovery journey with, God answers our prayers & sends us a boat.

Sometimes rowing furiously for yourself & sometimes for others. All are welcome.

Seattle Gay & Lesbian Book Club. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Discuss the best LGBT novels with other book-lovers in a safe, comfortable conversation. Come once or come every week.

Check our website for this month’s book. http://faculty. washington.edu/swittet/sglbookclub/ SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Southeast Seattle Lesbian Evening Group. 6pm.

Southeast Seattle Senior Center, 4655 S Holly St. Meets the 1st Wednesday of every month. RSVP to Kate Hawkins 722-0317. www.sessc.org. FREE. Lotus Sisters with Arinna Weisman. 6:30pm. Columbia City Church of Hope, 3818 S Angeline St. Meets every Wednesday. Drop-in Buddhist meditation Sangha for LBTQ women. Lotus.sisters@yahoo.com; www. lotussisters.org.

Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 6:30pm. Volunteer Park (in front of Black Sun across for museum). Every Wednesday. (See Saturday at 9am.)

HIV/AIDS Support Group. 7-8:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Please arrive by 7:00pm.

FREE peer-facilitated emotional support group for HIV+ men who are newly diagnosed or newly dealing. 3222437; www.sasgcc.org Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group. 7-9pm.

Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300.

All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome. This is a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction & information for the whole Gender community. www. ingersollcenter.org PFLAG/Renton Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Luke’s Episcopal Church, 99 Wells Ave S, Renton. Meets 1st Wednesday each month.PFLAG/Renton: 425-235-4139.

PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724. www.seattle-pflag.org.

Seattle Movie Bears Movie Night. Check website for details. Every Wednesday night. Gay & Bi men enjoy a movie at a local theater with opportunity to socialize before & after movies. More info: http://groups.yahoo.com/ group/seattlemoviebears; or e-mail: seattlemoviebearssubscribe@yahoogroups.com Lisa Koch Birthday Bash. Doors 6pm for Dinner, Show 7:30pm. The Triple Door, 216 Union St. Features Lisa Koch, Vickie Shaw, Roxanna Ward & special guests. $18 in advance, $20 at the door. www.tripledoor.com Mature Friends Weekly Bridge Group. 7:30pm. Call for location. Every Wednesday. All levels welcome. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting in Everett. 7:30-9pm. Everett United Church of Christ, 2624 Rockefeller Ave, Everett. Every Wednesday.

Trained peer facilitators lead a structured support meeting helping people deal with issues of gender identity & expression. All adults are welcomed, including those who are questioning, allies, or identify as FTM, MTF, Transgender, Queer, or Intersex, among others. (360) 445-2411; www.washingtongenderalliance.com.

Pride Skate Seattle. 9-11pm. Southgate Roller Rink, 9646 17th Ave SW. First Wednesday of every month. $7 admission includes skate rental. Must be 18+. After-party at Company, 9608 16th Ave SW, with drink specials & karaoke. www.southgaterollerrink.com

Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12-step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org First Fridays in Yakima. 7-9pm. 223 N 1st St, Yakima.

Meets 1st & 3rd Fridays. Social, support, education & advocacy group for the Yakima area GLBTQ community & their allies. All are welcomed & invited. (509) 576-0276. www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle Coronation 2015: Out of Town Show. Doors 6pm, Show 7pm.

Fred Wildlife Refuge, 127 Boylston Ave E. $15 suggested donation.

Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Rain Country Dance Night. 7-11pm, lessons at 7:15pm.

The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. An evening of country-western dancing for the LGBTQ community. FREE. www.raincountrydance.org.

Destiny Gay AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St, Tacoma. Every Friday.

(253) 474-8897.

Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

“Reel Women” - Seattle Women’s Chorus in Concert (2/5-2/8). Fri: 8pm (this concert with ASL interpretation).

Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, 201 Mercer St. SWC presents a musical tribute to some of the silver screen’s most famous and scintillating women. Tickets: $28-$63. 206-388-1400; www.flyinghouse.org LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 7:45pm.

Seattle Counseling Service, Rainbow Room, 1216 Pine St at Melrose Ave. Every Friday. (See related event Sunday at noon for details.) Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org Darqness: A Queer & Trans People of Color Party.

9pm. Maxim’s, 5608 Rainier Ave S. Features resident DJ Reverend Dollars & guest DJ Lawgurl. 21+. $5. facebook.com/darqnessseattle

SATURDAY - February 7

THURSDAY - February 5

Alcoholics Anonymous “Safe & Sober Group.”

12noon-1pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Open meeting of AA. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting.

12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. The BABES Network is a peer led agency; a sisterhood of women facing HIV together. 720-5566 or 888-292-1912; www.babesnetwork.org.

Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Thursday. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also Fridays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.)

Q Hour. 4:30-5:30pm. Orion Center, 1828 Yale Ave. 1st & 3rd Thursday of every month. A group for LGBTQ youth 13-21 & their allies. Sponsored by Youthcare.

FREE. 622-5555 x 212.

Seattle Human Rights Commission. 6-8pm. Seattle City Hall, 600 4th Ave. Meets 1st Thursday each month.

SHRC is made up of 15 citizen representatives who advise the Mayor, the City Council, & all City of Seattle Depts in matters regarding human rights. The commission advocates for justice & equal opportunity & collaborates with & educates the public & private sectors about how to prevent & eliminate discrimination city-wide.

Meetings open to the public. 684-4540.

Shifting Gears. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Thursday. Drop-in support group (non 12-step) for anyone of any orientation or gender who desires recovery from drugs or alcohol. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group). 6:30-8pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. Sponsored by Youth Eastside Services, which offers many programs for GLBT youth.

(425) 747-4937.

Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation - Contemplative Service. 6:30pm. 7141 California Ave SW. 935-0418, office@wsuu.org, www.wsuu.org Boys’ Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 1422. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about issues that relate to their everyday lives, with the facilitation of a male volunteer. 322-2515 ext 16. www.lamberthouse.org Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 7pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Thursday. (See Saturday listing at 6pm.)

Visit us online www.sgn.org

Seattle Prime Timers Coffee Reunion. 7pm. Starbucks, 1600 E. Olive Way. Meets 1st Thursday each month. www.seattleprimetimers.org Buddhism & Recovery. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Thursday. A meditation/recovery group.

322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Emerald City Social Club. 7:30pm. Call for details & location - phone staffed most Tuesday evenings or leave message. Meets 1st Thursday each month. ECSC is a confidential crossdressing social & support organization for Transvestite & Transsexual individuals, primarily MTF, which offers confidential membership, private monthly meetings, frequent events on the town, & help in coming out. (425) 827-9494.

Gay Fathers Association of Seattle. 7:30-9pm. Group Health, 201 16th Ave E, Central Bldg, Lower Atrium.

Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & Gay men who are currently or previously married.

Safe, anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring fathers & friends. You are not alone. For info, community events & “questioning” visit www.gfas.org or our message board at http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/ gayfathersseattle Gay Male Sexuality & Relationships. 7:30-9pm.

SASG, 303 17th Ave. E. Every Thursday. A discussion group that is strictly focused on sexual topics and relationship issues related to being a Gay male. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle Coronation 2015: Denver & Salt Lake City Show. Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm. Baltic Room, 1207 Pine St. No cover.

“Reel Women” - Seattle Women’s Chorus in Concert (2/5-2/8). Thurs: 7:30pm. Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, 201 Mercer St. SWC presents a musical tribute to some of the silver screen’s most famous and scintillating women. Tickets: $28-$63. 206-388-1400; www. flyinghouse.org Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. (See Tuesday listing at 8pm.)

FRIDAY - February 6

Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Film Festival (2/62/8). EMP, 325 5th Ave N. For list of films & times visit www.empmuseum.org Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Friday.

(253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also Thursdays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.)

January 30, 2015

(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

Greater Seattle Postcard & Paper Collectibles Show (2/7-2/8). Sat: 10am-6pm; Sun: 10am-4pm. Kent Commons, 525 4th Ave N, Kent. Dealers from throughout the West Coast will be displaying and selling almost half a million old postcards, paper collectibles and ephemera.

FREE appraisals of all old paper collectibles will be given with the price of admission - $5 for both days or FREE with ad running in SGN in Section 2.

Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Film Festival (2/62/8). EMP, 325 5th Ave N. For list of films & times visit www.empmuseum.org “Reel Women” - Seattle Women’s Chorus in Concert (2/5-2/8). Sat: 2pm & 8pm. Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, 201 Mercer St. SWC presents a musical tribute to some of the silver screen’s most famous and scintillating women. Tickets: $28-$63. 206-388-1400; www. flyinghouse.org SEAMEC’S 38th Annual Meeting. 3-5pm. Ingersoll Center/Equal Rights Washington office (lower level next to clinic) at Kaladi Brothers Coffee/Gay City Health Project/Michael C. Weidemann Library complex, 517 E Pike St. Help chart SEAMEC’s course for 2015 and elect Steering Committee members and officers. To vote you must be a SEAMEC member. SEAMEC annual membership: $35 individual; $50 family. Come for the discussion and the election. Support SEAMEC. Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle Coronation 2015: Curtain Up! Doors 5pm, Ball 6pm. Renaissance Seattle Hotel, 515 Madison St. $50 Ball Ticket.

Northwest Bears Potluck and Meet & Greet Beer Bust. 6pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave at E. Pine St. Meets 1st Saturday each month. Northwest Bears is a Gay men’s social and service organization providing a focal point within the Gay community for Bears and Bear admirers. www.nwbears.com.

“Reel Women” - Seattle Women’s Chorus in Concert (2/5-2/8). Sat: 2pm & 8pm. Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, 201 Mercer St. SWC presents a musical tribute to some of the silver screen’s most famous and scintillating women. Tickets: $28-$63. 206-388-1400; www. flyinghouse.org

SUNDAY - February 8

(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.)

Greater Seattle Postcard & Paper Collectibles Show (2/7-2/8). Sat: 10am-6pm; Sun: 10am-4pm. Kent Commons, 525 4th Ave N, Kent. (See Saturday listing for details.)

Lotus Sisters. 11am-1:15pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Meets the 2nd Sunday of every month. Drop-in Buddhist meditation Sangha for LBTQ women. Lotus.sisters@ yahoo.com; www.sasgcc.org Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle Coronation 2015: Victory Brunch. Doors 11am, Brunch 11:30am.

Fred Wildlife Refuge, 127 Boylston Ave E. $20 per plate.

Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Film Festival (2/62/8). EMP, 325 5th Ave N. For list of films & times visit www.empmuseum.org No Safeword Writers Group. 1-3pm. Meets 2nd Sunday each month. NSWG exists to provide mutual support for members’ efforts. Support is in the form of critique & commentary on each other’s work, information about publishing opportunities, & discussion of issues facing writers. For info & location, NSWG@ sexpositiveculture. org; www.nosafewordwriters group.org. (Also meets 4th Monday, 7-9pm.)

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Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle Coronation 2015: Alaska Birdwater Party. 2pm. CC Attle’s, 1701 E Olive Way. No cover.

“Reel Women” - Seattle Women’s Chorus in Concert (2/5-2/8). Sun: 2pm. Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, 201 Mercer St. SWC presents a musical tribute to some of the silver screen’s most famous and scintillating women. Tickets: $28-$63. 206-388-1400; www. flyinghouse.org

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COMMUNITY RESOURCES

Allyship - an organization of LGBTQ individuals fighting for economic and social justice. www.LGBTQ Allyship. org, allyship@yahoo.com, 279-8169.

American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver.us Another Gay Social Club! - www.meetup.com/AnotherGay-Social-Club/ Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane. com/guide.html BiNet Seattle is a mixed gender, social group for Bisexuals, their partners & other Bi-friendly folks - www. binetseattle.org. Seattle Bisexual Women’s Network - www.sbwn.net.

Bremerton/Kitsap County - www.outwestsound.org Capitol Hill Alano Club - www.chacseattle.org Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) 963-1994.

DIFFA/Seattle (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS). 763-8885; www.diffaseattle.org DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: Crisis Clinic, 461-3222 (24 hour line); King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) - 24-hour crisis line for information, support, & medical & legal assistance: 1-888-99-VOICE; Northwest Network - support & advocacy for Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian & Gay Survivors of Abuse & Dating Violence, 568-7777 (voice), 517-9670 (tty), www.nwnetwork.org; Pierce County Domestic Violence Helpline: Teresa, (253) 798-4166; Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities - offers on-going support groups for men: 323-1768; Seattle Police Dept Domestic Violence Unit, 684-0330; State Wide Domestic Violence Hot Line, 1-800-562-6025.

In an emergency call 911. Report domestic violence and sexual assault.

Equal Rights Washington - 324-2570; www.equal rightswashington.org Everett/Snohomish Cty - www.gaysnohomish.org Freely Speaking Toastmasters - www.freely speaking.org Gay City organizes events & activities for Gay & Bi men & offers anonymous & confidential HIV/STD testing at the Center for LGBT Health, 517 E Pike St. More info or to schedule an appointment, 860-6969. www.gaycity.org Gay & Lesbian National Hotline (GLNH): 1-888-THEGLNH (1-888-843-4564). Non-profit, peer-counseling, information & local resources telephone hotline for GLBT people across the country.

GLSEN/WA - Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network - 330-2099; www.glsenwa.org Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) - 3639188; www.thegsba.org HIV/AIDS Program, Seattle/King County Dept of Public Health, provides confidential/anonymous information about & testing for HIV/AIDS. 205-7837. For a comprehensive list of HIV/AIDS service organizations see the GSBA Guide or visit www.thegsba.org or call Lifelong AIDS Alliance, 328-8979.

Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle & the Olympic & Rainier Empire - www.facebook.com/ISCSORE; www. imperialcourtofseattle.com Lambert House - 322-2515; www.lamberthouse.org LGBT Library - 517 E Pike St. Open Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm.

LGBT MS Connection - 250-5002; LGBTMS Connection@gmail.com. Support group for LGBT persons with MS and their partners and their caregivers.

Lifelong AIDS Alliance - 328-8979, www.lifelongaids alliance.org MEN: Gay City: 860-6969, www.gaycity.org; Knights of Mantra: 329-0886, www.jetchapterkofm.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.mature friends.org; Northwest Bears: www.nwbears.com; The Olympians: www.TheOlympians.net; POZSeattle: www.pozseattle.org; Q-Squared: www.qsquared.org; Rain City Jacks: 888-809-5035, www.raincityjacks. org; Seattle Gay Couples: www. seattlegaycouples. org; Seattle Men in Leather: www.seattlemeninleather. org; Seattle Prime Timers: Gay & Bi men 40 & over, www.seattle primetimers.org.

MUSIC: Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony.org; Rainbow City Band: 1-866-841-9139 ext 2126; rainbowcityband@onebox.com; www.rainbowcity band.com; Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus: 388-1408, 323-0750. www.flyinghouse. org.

Northwest Lesbian & Gay History Museum Project - gayhistnw@aol.com Northwest Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf - www. nwrad.org Olympia/Thurston County: www.RainbowCenterOly. org Out & Equal Workplace Advocates/Seattle Regional Affiliate supports the work of LGBT employees and the growing number of ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) making a difference within local companies. www.outandequal.org/affiliates/seattle PARENTHOOD: Families Like Ours provides a gateway for LGBT families interested in adoption & provides a network of safe placement agencies, training, support & resources: 441-7602, www.familieslikeours. org; Family Works offers support, information & activities for LGBT families: 694-6727, www.familyworksseattle.

org; Gay Fathers’ Association of Seattle offers support groups & social activities: www.gfas. org; Maybe Baby, https://groups.yahoo.com/group/maybebabyseattle; Proud & Loud Families - Northwest, www.meetup. com/proud-and-loud-families-northwest, plfnorthwest@ aol.com; Queer Parent Networking Dinners: 5687777, info@nwnetwork.org; Rainbow Families of Puget Sound: www.rainbowfamiliesps.org Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Washington State: 325-7724, www.seattlepflag.org, with directory of PFLAG chapters in Washington State; www.pnwpflag.org; National PFLAG, www.pflag.org PEOPLE OF COLOR: Asian/Pacific Islander Queer Network Program at API Chaya, 467-9976; Center for MultiCultural Health, 461-6910, www.multiculturalhealth.org; Entre Hermanos, GLBT Latinos/as, 322-7700, www.entrehermanos.org; Ile LaiLai, 7813565, iya@ilelailai.org; Men of All Colors & Cultures Together (MACCT), 923-8313, macctseattle@yahoo. com, www.macctsea.org; Nubian Pride Productions, nubianpride@gmail.com; People of Color Against AIDS Network (POCAAN) offers rapid HIV testing, M-F, 10am-5pm, 322-7061, www.pocaan.org and on Facebook; Seattle Two Spirit, SeattleTwoSpirit@ hotmail.com; Sistah 2 Sistah, LBT women of African descent, 322-7061, 255-8951; Sistah Sinema, www. sistahsinema.com, info@sistahsinema.com; TrikoneNorthwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 985-4376, www. trikonenw.org; Two-Spirit Honor Project, 1-866-6850164; U.T.O.P.I.A. Seattle.

Pride Foundation - 323-3318; www.pridefoundation. org Project NEON is a program of Seattle Counseling Service providing FREE information & services to Gay & Bi men to reduce health risks associated with methamphetamine use. 323-1768. www.crystalneon.org Public Health-Seattle & King County Online Comprehensive Health Information for Sexual Minorities: www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/personal/ glbt.aspx Q Law: The GLBT Bar Association of WA - 682-6711; www.q-law.org; ; Q Law GLBT Legal Clinic - 235-7235.

Resource & Referral Line can connect you to LGBTfriendly resources throughout Puget Sound and beyond.

Call 323-LGBT Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. At other times leave voice mail and your call will be returned. Or visit www.gaycity.org to view list of resources online or through Facebook.

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Safe Schools Coalition - www.safeschoolscoalition. org; 451-SAFE (451-7233).

SEAMEC interviews, researches & rates candidates for public office on issues of concern to the LGBT community. 905-9941, www.seamec.org Seattle Area Support Groups & Community Center (SASG) is a non-profit organization that builds community and cultivates powerful, healthy lives by providing emotional support and personal development services to those affected by HIV/AIDS, the Queer communities, and those who love them. Our work is done in a spirit of safety, trust, inclusiveness, and celebration of individual differences. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities - 684-4503.

Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities is a community mental health service for GLBT persons & their families providing comprehensive mental health services on a sliding scale. 323-1768.

Seattle Out & Proud - 206-322-9561; www.seattle pride.org Seattle Police Department Sexual Minorities Community Advisory Council: kim.bogucki@seattle.gov Seattle PrideFest - www.seattlepridefest.org Seattle Treatment Education Project (STEP) E-zine is an electronic resource distributed to people affected

by HIV/AIDS, case managers, front line workers & other health professionals. Now a part of Lifelong AIDS Alliance, 328-8979, www.thebody.com/step/steppage.html Servicemembers Legal Defense Network - (202) 328-3244; www.sldn.org SHIFT: A Peer Recovery Network - www.shift recovery.org Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, The Abbey of St. Joan - 860-3666; www.theabbey.org Snohomish Health District HIV/AIDS Program provides free confidential/anonymous HIV counseling & testing 9am-5pm Monday-Friday, until 7pm Tuesdays.

(425) 339-5298.

Social Outreach Seattle (SOSea) - www.facebook. com/socialoutreachseattle South Sound Q Calendar - LGBTQ events in Tacoma, Olympia & Sound Puget Sound area; www.South SoundQCal.com SPORTS & RECREATION: Bent Car Guys: www. bentcarguys.org; Border Riders Motorcycle Club: www. borderriders.com; Bottom Dwellers Scuba Club: www. bottomdwellers.org; Capitol Hill Cyclers: join their Facebook group or email capitolhill cycling@groups.facebook. com or jordan.l.simonson@ gmail.com; Cascade Flyers: www.cascadeflyers.org; Different Spokes Bicycling

Club: www.different spokes.org; Emerald City Mudhen Rugby: www.mudhenrugby.com; Emerald City Softball Association: www.emeraldcitysoftball.org, www.eteamz. com/womensecsa; Ethyl Forever Car Club: http://Clubs.

Hemmings.com/EthylForever CarClub/; Hiking Group: 323-8382; Jet City Hoops: www.jetcityhoops. org; Olympic Yacht Club: www.oycnw.org; OutVentures: outdoor education & recreation activities, www.outventures.org; Pacific Northwest Gay Rodeo Association: www.pacificnwgra.org; Puddletown Squares: www.puddletownsquares.org; Rain City Soccer: www.raincitysoccer.org; Rain Country Dance Association: a country-western dance organization catering to the LGBTQ community but open to all, www.raincountrydance.org; Sea Dawgs: LGBT ice hockey - SkateSeaDawgs@gmail.com and on Facebook; Seattle Frontrunners: www.seattlefront runners.org; Seattle Orca Swim Team: www.orcaswim team.org; Seattle Otters Water Polo: www.otterpolo. com; Seattle Quake Rugby: www.quakerugby.com; Seattle Tennis Alliance: www.seattletennisalliance. org; Seattle Unified Bowling Association (SUBA): magee98106@aol.com, www.teamseattle.org/bowling. htm, www.theprideleague.com, Century 21 League; Seattle United Soccer League: www.seattleunitedsl.com; Seattle Volleyball Club: www.seattlevolleyballclub.com; Ski Buddies: www. skibuddies.org; Team Seattle Gay Sports Network is an umbrella organization for a wide range of local GLBT sports activities, 367-4064, www. teamseattle.org (see website for comprehensive list of sports clubs); Triangle Recreation Camp at Bender Creek: recreational camping for GLBT folks. Must be 21; ID required. trc@camptrc.org, www.camptrc.org, 1122 E Pike St #1069, Seattle 98122-3934.

Strength Over Speed - www.strengthoverspeed.org Tacoma/Pierce County - Rainbow Center, 2215 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, a resource center for the LGBTIQA community of Pierce County, (253) 383-2318, www. rainbowcntr.org TRANSGENDER: Emerald City Social Club: (425) 827-9494; Gender Alliance of the South Sound: www.SouthSoundGender.com; Gender Justice League: www.genderjusticeleague.org; Gender Odyssey: www.genderodyssey.com; Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group: 322-7700; Ingersoll Gender Center: 329-6651, www.ingersoll center.org; The New BoyZ Club: www.olympiaftm group.webs.com; Olympia Trans Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/pages/Olympia-Trans-DiscussionGroup/262449878114; Washington Gender Alliance: (360) 445-2411, www.washington genderalliance.com WOMEN: BABES: support groups for HIV+ women.

720-5566, 1-888-292-1912; Festival of the Babes: www. festivalofthebabes.com; Lesbians Over 40: 722-0729; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Older Lesbians Organizing for Change/ WA State Chapter: gloria@oloc.org, mary@oloc.org, www.oloc.org; Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives: www.pnwlesbianarchives.org; RainshadowWomen: RainshadowWomen@aol.com; Seattle Girls of Leather: www.sgol.org; Tacoma Lesbian Concern (TLC): www. tacomalesbianconcern.org; WOWS: a fun, memberdriven social group for Lesbians, http://groups.yahoo.com/ group/womenofwest seattle; YWCA Women’s Health Outreach: providing low or no-cost mammograms for income eligible 40+ LBTQ individuals. Follow us at http:// lbtqhealth-ywca.blogspot.com, twitter.com/ingridWHO or email lbthealth@ywcaworks.org, 461-4493.

YOUTH: B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group): Youth Eastside Services offers many programs for GLBT youth, including B-GLAD, (425) 747-4937; Diverse Harmony: www. diverseharmony. org; GLSEN/Washington State (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) & Washington State GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) Network: GLSEN works to create safe schools for LGBT students. WA GSA Network supports youth-led GSA’s to fight harassment & homophobia in Washington state schools. 330-2099; www.glsenwa. org; www.wagsa.org. GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): a support group & HIV/STD prevention program for GLBTQ youth, 14-20, in Everett, (425) 263-2908, www.globeyouth.org; Health Education Youth Outreach: for LGBTQ youth, ages 16-24 - Jessica Hatlo, 206-957-1665, jessicah@ llaa.org; It Gets Better Project: www.itgetsbetter.org; Lambert House: an activities & resource center for LGBT youth, 14-22, in Seattle, 322-2515, www.lamberthouse. org; www.MatthewsPlace.com; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcen ter.org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: 325-7724, www.seattle-pflag.org; Pizza Klatch: weekly lunchtime support groups for LGBTQ youth in Thurston County, www. pizzaklatch.org; Prism: for LGBTQ youth, 14-21, in Puyallup - Cherise.Alexander@ multicare.org; www.facebook. com/PuyallupPrism; Proud Out Wonderful (POW!): for LGBTQ youth, 13-21, in South King County, 206-3269112, www.facebook.com/proudoutwonderful; Q Youth Resources: in Kitsap County - 360-698-3335; www.kchaf. org; Queer Youth Space: 206-495-9963; www.queeryouth space.org; Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS): LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth drop-in group, ages 12-18 Sarah Hardin, 425-271-5600, ext 155; sarahh@rays.org; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoalition.org; 451-SAFE (451-7233) (non-emergency), 1-877-SAFESAFE (1-877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Teen Link: 461-4922, 1-888431-TEEN; The Trevor Project: 866-4-U-Trevor; www. thetrevorproject.org; True Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, 362-7282 x 8018, lbagley@chs-nw. org; Vista Youth Center: for LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth, ages 14-21, in Kennewick, 509-396-5198, www. vistayouthcenter.org; YouthCare/Orion Center: 622-5555; YouthCare/Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): 522-8412; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273-TALK, www.yspp.org

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began flocking to the airport bright and early last Sunday, clogging fast food parking lots, sidewalks, and pathways leading into the airport’s main terminal. The scene was quite festive; blue and green-clad fans threw footballs to one another, blasted Motley Crue songs from their car stereos, waved colorful banners, and lit fireworks in anticipation of the Seahawks’ arrival at the Delta Air Lines hangar at the south end of the airport.

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fans and airport workers.

Before closing the airplane door, Delta flight attendants waved a light blue-colored 12th Man flag out to the crowd, which was met with a thunderous cheer.

If the Seahawks prevail this weekend in their quest for back-to-back Super Bowl championships, an event similar to Sunday morning is planned for Monday.

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coaches, and other team personnel left the Seahawks headquarters in Renton at 9:40 a.m., where they had completed a TSA security screening allowing them to board their plane directly after disembarking their buses, although several players, including cornerback Richard Sherman, chose to greet a privileged group of about 200 fans, most of them Delta employees, that were awaiting them inside the hangar.

Select media, including Seattle Gay News, were also invited to give the NFC Champions a proper send-off.

Delta is the official airline of the Seattle Seahawks and they transported the team on Sunday aboard a 767-400ER (used mainly for long-haul international flights) to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Although it was a charter flight, the aircraft itself is part of the airline’s current fleet and went back into rotation after unloading the team in Arizona. The football squad’s staff coordinated the seating arrangement during the flight, and with only 40 Business Elite lie-flat seats up for grabs, it’s anyone’s guess as to where star players like Russell Wilson and Marshawn Lynch sat for the short 2 hour and 20-minute trip.

Many of the players wore suits and ties with dress slacks, but a few opted for sweatpants and hoodies, notably Sherman, who approached supporters in workout gear and a pair of headphones covering his ears. Wide Receiver Doug Baldwin, wearing a casual all-black ensemble with headphones wrapped around his neck, kindly posed for photos with various energetic

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