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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Issue 49, Volume 42, December 5, 2014

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by Eric Andrews-Katz SGN A&E Writer “… OUR GAY APPAREL” SEATTLE MEN’S CHORUS BENAROYA HALL Through December 22

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I admit it; I’m a Grinch. The winter holidays just don’t do it for me and always make me feel like the bastard at the seasonal family reunion. It’s the time of year that I (as do many of us) reluctantly drag our feet in getting into the holiday mood of things. But traditions are traditions, and nobody likes to monkey around with tradition.

The Seattle Men’s Chorus’ holiday show has become a tradition for a good portion of Seattleites. It helps bring together a community and usually offers, at the very extreme beginning of the season, the first of the holiday cheer. It’s a choral heralding of the season about to start causing the Pacific Northwest to say: “Great. The Scene from “Our Gay Apparel...” holidays are here.”

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by Eric Andrews-Katz SGN A&E Writer ALL THE WAY SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE Through January 4 Robert Schenkkan’s play All the Way is the Tony Award winning show about an intimate peek inside the beginning of the Lyndon Baines Johnson presidential administration. Taking its name from the President’s campaign slogan, “All

the way with LBJ,” the play shows the struggles of the President in an inherited office trying to deal with civil rights and the growing tensions in Vietnam. This highly acclaimed play opened at the Seattle Repertory Theatre on November 14.

The play begins on November 22, 1963, hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson is on Air Force One being flown to his “swearing in,” and see All the way page 7

PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET STOWELL AND SENDAK NUTCRACKER MCCAW HALL Nov. 28-Dec. 28 It’s that time of year again – the holly-jolly season when The Nutcracker makes its annual appearance in ballet companies everywhere. Families who don’t attend another dance performance all year get their kids dressed up in tutus and bowties to see the ballet version of E.T.A. Hoffman’s 1816 scary-tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.” Performed to Tchaikovsky’s music in various choreographic versions by dance companies in all fifty states, it’s also being staged in Copenhagen, London, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Cuba, Peru, and Tokyo, according to a website that tracks the hundreds of offerings of The Nutcracker worldwide during the month of December.

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(l to r) Erica Sullivan, Peter Frechette, Jack Willis and Terri McMahon in All the Way

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This year’s SMC holiday show “…Our Gay Apparel” is full of the usual chorus traditions – as stated on their program cover, it’s “Seattle’s Other Holiday Tradition!”

There’s the traditional Christmas carols that are tried, true and (maybe a bit) tired. There is the obligatory Chanukah song, traditional drag schtick, the harmonious Captain Smartypants, the audience sing-along, “Silent Night” in sign language, and of course the “Special Guest” star the first weekend of the concerts This time the vocal talents of Broadway belter Linda Eder lends her powerful instrument in assisting the chorus, with over 200 men standing behind her.

Being a self-taught singer (with never a professional lesson), Ms. Eder’s voice has been compared to the greatest of the belters including that of Barbra Streisand. Strong, clear and with an octave range that would make you want to slap Santa, Ms. Eder’s songs can easily be heard throughout the entire Benaroya Hall auditorium. It is easy to see why she has become a star on Broadway as well as a highly successful

Andrew Bartee as the Nutcracker in PNB’s Stowell & Sendak Nutcracker

For the past thirty-one years Seattle’s Pacific Northwest Ballet has been the proud producer of one of the most distinctive versions of Tchaikovsky’s familiar musical tale of the little girl whose nutcracker soldier comes to life under the Christmas tree to battle the wicked mice and take her to a magical land of – in traditional versions – the Sugarplum Fairy and

her troupe of dancing candy canes, snowflakes, flowers, and folk dancers. In Seattle, however, the little girl, Clara, turns into a grown-up and takes a boat to a land governed by the Pasha – a big, mean guy in a gigantic turban who cracks his whip at a variety of enslaved birds, monsters and “dervishes.” see Nutcracker page 8

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Fleetwood Mac returns impressively with original crew and beloved songs www.fleetwoodmacnews.com

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by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer FLEETWOOD MAC NOVEMBER 22 MODA CENTER PORTLAND Not that any tour delivering Fleetwood Mac to the Northwest isn’t special, but their latest venture, which included stops at the Tacoma Dome and Portland’s Moda Center recently, were especially momentous because it reunited the full band with the return of Christine McVie. This marked the first time in 18 years that the keyboardist-vocalist played a succession of live dates with the supergroup – and boy, did they make up for lost time!

The show began, as it has in previous outings, with the strumming chords of “The Chain,” from Fleetwood Mac’s seminal recording Rumours, which to date has sold over 45 million copies worldwide, firmly staking its position on the list of all-time best-selling albums. Nine of the eleven tracks from the Grammy-winning

record were performed at the concert, which was attended by a capacity crowd that ranged from teenagers to twentysomethings to gray-haired grandparents.

It didn’t take long for McVie to get back into the mix, diving into the second number, “You Make Loving Fun.” But as much as we love McVie, it’s Stevie Nicks who we adore and worship – the centerpiece of this nostalgic five-piece act. The spirited singer-songwriter wove her magic on a pair of Mac classics, “Dreams” and “Rhiannon,” drawing an invisible heart by her microphone at the end of the former, twirling in a circle during the latter. Dressed from head to toe in all black – in a form-fitting dress with ruffly bottom, overcoat, tights, ankle-length boots – Nicks looked exquisite, at times shaking a tambourine, other moments in her own little universe, as we expect and want her to be.

Lindsey Buckingham, still devilishly handsome and brilliant on guitar, spoke sincerely to the audience, thanking us for sticking with Fleetwood Mac as it grew and persevered through the good times and the bad.

“It feels very circular for us, very complete,” he said in regards to McVie rejoining the band.

Buckingham took the lead on “Second Hand News,” and then passed the reigns to Nicks again for a tender rendition of “Rihannon.” Meanwhile, with McVie as part of the ensemble again, familiar favorites that were shelved for previous tours, such as “Everywhere” and “Over My Head,” were dusted off and repolished for this road outing, sounding fresh and wonderful decades later.

“Tusk” began with Buckingham slowly singing the first verse, but gradually picked up speed and turned into a danceable number when video footage of the USC Trojan Marching Band flashed on a giant LED screen at the back of the stage. Buckingham was on fire during “Big Love,” a song originally intended for a solo album, playing an acoustic guitar like a metal-head, and screaming out the “uh-ahhs” at the end like a madman.

There were a few diversions from the big

hits at Moda Center, which seats slightly more people than Seattle’s Key Arena. “I Know I’m Not Wrong” and the Nicks-driven “Sisters of the Moon,” both from 1979’s Tusk album, were surprise entries on the set list, as was “I’m So Afraid,” a track from 1975’s self-titled release. “Seven Wonders,” off 1987’s Tango in the Night, also resurfaced for the Portland concert.

Even with 20,000 fans in attendance, the show at moments felt intimate, like when Nicks gorgeously and quietly crooned “Landslide,” which she described as “an old song for the brokenhearted that means a lot to me.” It was also her father’s favorite. Equally wonderful was Nicks’ introduction of “Gypsy,” literally written from an experience of going into a clothing boutique in San Francisco pre-Fleetwood Mac and not being able to afford anything, yet somehow knowing she’d return to it when she became successful. The store was called the Velvet Underground and had a room decorated with lace and paper flowers, all referenced in the song.

The main set concluded with a fiery runthrough of “Go Your Own Way.” With the entire audience on its feet, cheering loudly, the group returned for an encore that began with yet another oldie but goodie, “World Turning” that featured the extremely talented and usual oddball Mick Fleetwood in a five to seven-minute drum solo. That was followed by the always festive “Don’t Stop,” with Nicks donning a top hat, and the ‘90s pop smash “Silver Springs.”

McVie closed it out with a stellar solo performance of “Songbird,” playing a baby grand piano at center stage.

Eighteen years went by without the complete Fleetwood Mac on stage, and while they’ve always put on an incredible show, regardless of the lineup, there was that essential component missing. This time, it was the real deal. Fans were treated to a two hour-plus concert that included the band’s most noted work and a few rarities. Most importantly, they saw what they’d been wanting to see for so long – Nicks, Buckingham, Fleetwood, John McVie, and Christine McVie – together again!

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Chorus, and involved the adult male singers’ attachments to their teddy bears. Although a cute song with very good voices singing, the boys missed their mark and should have forsaken their ‘Teddy’s” for any number of the real “bears” behind them. The final number was (assumingly) meant as a tribute to recently departed ladies and had impersonators of Joan Rivers (Gerald Gravallese) and Elaine Stritch (Joseph L. Lytle) among others, although I found it a little unsettling when Jackie Kennedy and Princess Diana escorted each other onto the stage. (Thank goodness Jackie’s pink dress was clean!)

The impersonators were all fine with “Joan Rivers” being funny, but the Elaine Stritch seemed lost on the audience. And, why not?

The majority of the people that would understand the joke, by knowing who she was, were on the stage – not in the audience.

The Seattle Men’s Chorus will be performing at Benaroya Hall through December 22.

(Special guest Linda Eder appeared only for last weekend’s performances.) The SMC’s holiday concert, “…Our Gay Apparel” is an enjoyable show. It is very much like going to the traditional holiday gathering: you may drag your feet in going, but you see people you haven’t seen in a long while, and you eventually give in, relax and enjoy yourself knowing that you don’t have to do it again for another year. And you almost always get a little surprise that makes it all worthwhile.

Seattle Men’s Chorus’ “… Our Gay Apparel” concerts continue in Seattle at Benaroya Hall

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com, priced between $35.75 and $125.75.

Also, coming soon to Seattle, is singersongwriter Mat Kearney, who’s putting out a new album in February titled Just Kids and following through with a tour that lands him in the Emerald City on March 6. The Oregon native will appear live at the Moore Theatre with tickets now on sale at www.stgpresents.org.

Were you considering buying tickets to the Meghan Trainor concert on February 14?

Well, I’m the bearer of bad news: tickets are currently not available. The Valentine’s Day show, part of the newbie’s nationwide “That Bass Tour,” is happening at the Neptune.

Closer to the performance date, log onto www.stgpresents.org for any last-minute released tickets. You’re also out of luck for Billy Idol on February 13 and Hozier, also on February 14, both at the Paramount Theatre.

This show may have slipped under your radar: Rufus Wainwright at the Moore Theatre, on December 6. That’s right, the sensational pianist and vocalist is returning to Seattle, a city that he loves coming back to again and again, this weekend with a show titled “The Best of Rufus Wainwright.” This is your chance to hear “Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk,” “Going to a Town,” “The One You Love,” “The Art Teacher,” and “Poses,” among others, all on his 2014 compilation Vibrate: The Best of Rufus Wainwright. For tickets on Saturday, go directly to the Moore Theatre box office.

If seeing Barry Manilow is on your bucket list, get your marking pen out. The Copacabana crooner, and former NYC Continental Baths singer, will perform May 27 at Key Arena, as part of his 27-city “One Last Time! Tour.” The pop singer has always been mum about his private life, including his sexuality, and to my knowledge has never officially stated his preference, nor does he have to. His music speaks for itself with a catalog of beloved hits that have become karaoke favorites around the world, such as “Can’t Smile Without You,” “Mandy,” Finally, from worthy sources, don’t be “It’s a Miracle,” “I Write the Songs,” “Even surprised if Madonna drops an album and Now,” and “The Old Songs.” Tickets for hits the road in 2015. There’s nothing to Barry Manilow are on sale now at www.axs. confirm now, but stick around.

12/12 @ 8 p.m., 12/14 @ 2 p.m., 12/14 @ 7:30 p.m. with sign language interpretation, 12/21 @ 7:30 p.m., and 12/22 @ 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $28-$78. www.seattlemenschorus.org; 206-388-1400.

SMC will perform in Everett on 12/20 @

8 p.m., at the Civic Auditorium (2415 Colby Ave., Everett). Tickets: $28-$48. www.seattlemenschorus.org; 206-388-1400.

The SMC’s annual holiday concert performance in Tacoma was held 12/4.

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concert performer with over 15 CD credits to her name. Meshing a program of music from Broadway and traditional holiday songs, Linda Eder’s voice takes control whether she is singing “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina,” “I, Don Quixote”, or the powerful renditions of “Do You Hear What I Hear?” “Oh, Holy Night,” or “The Little Drummer Boy.” It is her voice that is “a thrill of hope the weary world rejoices” and there is absolutely no doubt of it when she lets her voice shine.

Then there’s the chorus. The first number, “This Christmas,” was led by soloist Paul Gillispie whose voice was clear and strong. A group of men were providing ballet accompaniment, but it came across as more distracting from the song than highlighting it. It was the third song of the concert, a beautiful, arrangement of “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen,” that finally delivered the first of the promised “good cheer.” The somberness brought out the harmony and lit the proverbial tapers of the holiday.

Original songs by chorus member Eric Lane Barnes were presented – as is par for the seasonal course. The first was a cute song about the “extremities” of that famous gift, the “Marvelous Holiday Sweater,” which included a fashion show accompaniment that made guest star Linda Eder proclaim, “I want one of those sweaters!” Another was written for the a cappella group, Captain Smartypants, an ensemble of the Seattle Men’s

How will Jason Mraz be ringing in the New Year? What will he remember most about 2014? Is there plenty of eggnog chugging around the Mraz homestead during the holidays? You’ll soon know the replies to these questions, and a few more, that were answered

by the Grammy-winning artist via email. The acclaimed singer-songwriter, who played to a full house at Benaroya Hall in late October, will help Seattle Gay News celebrate the “Best of Music 2014” on December 19. Our choices for the year’s best albums, singles and live performances, plus our picks for the hottest artists and worst music will be featured in the spread, along with Mraz’s interview.

While touring in Asia, the multi-talented performer wrote his answers to several questions we sent over to him by email, marking the fourth time he’s chatted with the SGN. He’ll appear back-to-back nights at the Blaisdell Center in Honolulu on December 11-12, his final dates of the year, before resuming in February for a four-stop European outing that includes shows in Amsterdam and Scotland; he’s touring in support of his latest release, Yes! featuring the single “Love Someone.” Grab a copy of the December 19 SGN to read our Feature Artist Interview with Jason Mraz, and also find out what we selected as the Best of Music 2014.

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Mean, green Grinch is back (for fun)!

by Eric Andrews-Katz SGN A&E Writer HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS, THE MUSICAL PARAMOUNT THEATRE Through December 7

even has a sing-a-long to the holiday classic title song. For children, it’s a fun presentation with fun songs and live-animated characters and costumes. For adults, it’s a tiny bit of nostalgia presented in a new way.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas began as a book by the children’s author Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel in 1957. Written in rhyming verse the book was published by Random House with illustrations by the author. Criticizing the commercialism of the Christmas holiday the book

was transformed into the iconic animated television special in 1966 with Boris Karloff providing the voice of The Grinch. The book and cartoon was expanded to a full-length feature film in 2000 starring Jim Carey as the green creature out to steal Christmas. With several earlier mountings, the stage production reached New York in 2006 for a limited holiday performance schedule, and repeated itself for the 2007 Broadway season. In 2012 the School Library Journal declared it one of the 100 “Top Picture Books” of all time.

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“You are a mean one, Mr. Grinch.” So begins one of the most beloved holiday songs in the Christmas repertoire. The classic holiday book by Dr. Seuss has taken a new life on the stage and the green evil that hates all to do with Christmas is playing for a couple more days at the Paramount Theatre for the holidays.

The story is familiar to anyone over the age of five years old. The people of Whoville gather together in preparation for the quickly approaching Christmas. From far above atop a mountain, the green evil Grinch watches with complete loathing and contempt. With only his faithful dog Max for company, the creature with “a heart two sizes too small” decides on descending into the town on Christmas Eve dressed as Santa Claus. Under the shadow of night, he plots to steal the presents, the decorations and everything to do with the holiday thus eliminating Christmas celebrations all together and ruining the day for the Whos down in Whoville. When the young Cindy Lou Who surprises the Grinch, he finds that it is his own icy interior that melts instead.

The lead of the show is Stefán Karl. His voice is deep and rolling making it perfect for

the mean, green creature. His facial expressions are pure cartoon and his body movements are living animation making him the perfect fit for the role. The second lead is Max, the Grinch’s loyal dog companion. As the older dog Max (Bob Lauder) narrates the show as told by him in flashbacks. As a younger “pup” (Andrew Wyder) Max shows the enthusiasm and excitement of being caught in the holiday season and torn by his master’s voice – the Grinch’s evil plans to steal Christmas.

The Grinch musical has been expanded – as one can imagine – from the original book and cartoon. There are new songs added in (music

by Mel Marvin and book/lyrics by Timothy Mason) to help flesh out the characters. They do what songs in a musical are supposed to do; they further the storyline and add a musical simplicity to the characters. There’s nothing too memorable here, but the songs are sweet and pleasant and definitely fit the musical’s mood.

John Lee Beatty who, I’m sure, must have carefully studied the original drawings designs the sets. The backgrounds and costumes (designed by Robert Morgan) are all in the lines of original Dr. Suess doodles with odd rounded costumes and angled trees and houses. It definitely helps to set the mood and brings a smile to the faces of those who notice.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the musical is a fun sweet alternative to holiday stage choices. It’s the only stage production officially authorized by the Seuss estate, and it’s presented well. It’s only (roughly) 90-minutes without any intermission, and

Stefan Karl and Seth Bazacas in How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Grammy nominations likely to go to Smith, Azalea, Beyonce, Swift, Williams Capitol

But these fresh faces will have to compete against heavyweight veterans, as Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams, The Black Keys, Miranda Lambert, Eminem, and Coldplay all have eligible recordings and have each won multiple Grammys, with the exception of Perry. And, watch out for Miley Cyrus, who might crash the party with her “Wrecking Ball.” The eligibility period for the 57th Grammy Awards runs between October 1, 2013 and September 30, 2014.

The road to Music’s Biggest Night begins December 5 with The Grammy Nominations Concert Live! telecast, in which a handful of categories will be revealed on live TV. Here’s my batch of potential nominees in the top races.

– Sam Smith; Prism – Katy Perry; GIRL – Pharrell Williams; Ghost Stories – Coldplay; Beyonce – Beyonce; Cheek to Cheek – Tony Bennett and Lady GaGa; Turn Blue – The Black Keys; The Marshall Mathers LP 2 – Eminem; Lazaretto – Jack White; X – Ed Sheeran

Possible spoilers: Bangerz – Miley Cyrus; Ultraviolence – Lana Del Rey; 12 Stories – Brandy Clark; Platinum – Miranda Lambert; Reflektor – Arcade Fire; V – Maroon 5; Morning Phase – Beck; High Hopes – Bruce Springsteen; Songs of Innocence – U2; Mandatory Fun – Weird Al Yankovic SONG OF THE YEAR

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Friday night could be a very good night for Sam Smith and Iggy Azalea. Both breakthrough acts are serious contenders going into the December 5 announcement of nominee’s for music’s biggest prize, the Grammy Awards.

Smith, who publicly came out this year, became an overnight success on the strength of his debut album In the Lonely Hour and chart-topping hit “Stay With Me,” which led to a sold out North American tour and appearances on “Ellen,” “CBS Sunday Morning,” and last month’s American Music Awards. The 22 year-old Brit, who used to

scrub toilets for a living, could become the first male performer to receive nominations in the top four categories – Album, Record, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist.

Another international star could land several key Grammy nods, Australian hip-hop newcomer Iggy Azalea. The 24 year-old owns one of 2014’s biggest singles, “Fancy,” and is featured on Ariana Grande’s mega smash “Problem.” She’s racked up nearly 400 million views on YouTube for “Fancy” alone. Azalea will probably be Smith’s toughest competition in the Best New Artist category, and she’s likely to snag a Record of the Year slot, aside from getting at least a couple of nominations in the Rap field.

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Serious contenders: “Stay With Me,” “Shake It Off,” “Wrecking Ball,” “Let It Serious contenders: “Fancy” – Iggy Azalea; Go,” “Happy,” “Sing,” “Magic,” “A Sky Full “Stay With Me” – Sam Smith; “Shake It Off” of Stars,” “All About That Bass,” “Follow – Taylor Swift; “Let It Go” – Idina Menzel; Your Arrow,” “Dark Horse,” “Pretty Hurts” “Happy” – Pharrel Williams; “Wrecking Ball” – Miley Cyrus; “Follow Your Arrow” – Kacey Possible spoilers: “Fancy,” “Team,” “ReMusgraves; “Dark Horse” – Katy Perry (featur- flektor,” “Maps,” “Say Something,” “The ing Juicy J); “All About That Bass” – Meghan Monster,” “Love Someone” Trainor; “Chandelier” – Sia; “Drunk in Love” –Beyonce (featuring Jay Z); “Team” – Lorde BEST NEW ARTIST Possible spoilers: “A Sky Full of Stars” – Coldplay; “Animals” – Maroon 5; “Reflektor” – Arcade Fire; “Pompei” – Bastille; “Problem” – Ariana Grande (featuring Iggy Azalea); “Sing” – Ed Sheeran; “West Coast” – Lana Del Rey; “Fever” – The Black Keys

Serious contenders: Sam Smith, Iggy Azalea, Ariana Grande, Brandy Clark, Florida Georgia Line, Run the Jewels, Bastille, Meghan Trainor, HAIM, Cole Swindell, Hozier, The 1975, Vance Joy

Possible spoilers: Lindsey Stirling, Kip Moore, Chvrches, Childish Gambino, FKA Twigs, Banks, First Aid Kit, A Great Big Serious contenders: In the Lonely Hour World, Tove Lo, Pentatonix ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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faces a turbulent country. As an accidental (and thus temporary) President, Johnson finds himself directly facing a country (and a Senate) being divided by Civil Rights causes, and a scheduled presidential election in only eleven months. Johnson finds himself straddling a barbed-wire fence between trying to make progress on the civil rights of African-Americans and appeasing the Southern Senators and Congress-

men that have helped put him into office who are hell bent on preventing racial acceptance and equality in the United States of the 1960s. The President feels pressures from the rising powerful voice and actions of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as the outspoken Republican Party Presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater.

The performances in this production are stellar no matter which actor you’re talking about, even if you aren’t familiar with politics or the era at that time. Jack Willis does a brilliant portrayal of the tormented Lyndon

Baines Johnson. Willis shows the conflict through expression and action as easily as if he were channeling the President himself. His voice conveys the gravelly tones of Johnson’s speech and the dialect and diction is perfect for the former Texas Vice President. It is easy to see why Willis was chosen to recreate his performance from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Peter Frechette plays Senator Hubert Humphrey, a man very active in the Civil Rights movement, while privately campaigning for a hopeful Vice Presidential nomination. Frechette does an excellent job presenting himself as the proverbial rope in the tug-of-war between Martin Luther King, Jr. and the President.

While the entire remaining cast is excellent, Danforth Comins as Johnson Presidential Aide, Walter Jenkins, and Kenajuan Bentley as the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., give performances that are above and beyond noting. These two supporting actors are as much a part of the team as anyone in this production. Comins’ performance shows the fierce dedication and loyalty of the President’s “Right-Hand Man” – the eventual scandal that erupted giving the political detractors a field day. The sharp performance that comes from Bentley presents the struggles of King as both a political Civil Rights leader and being a simple man.

Richard Elmore plays J. Edgar Hoover with perfect subtle smarminess to do the actual man proud. He is shown as the manipulator

that he was using his office for personal gain by the blackmailing of others while keeping his own secrets hidden from the public.

With heated dialogue and burning conflicts, the writing in All the Way is what makes this play sizzle. It is sharp, comical at points, and profound, especially during some of the more “private” conversations between the President and those he must deal with on a regular basis.

Even if an audience member has no political knowledge (or even interest), the play does an excellent job of giving enough explanation without providing too much background to bore those more politically experienced.

While only showing the eleven months of Lyndon Baines Johnson’s inherited Presidency, the play is an excellent piece of historical drama providing a well-examined look into the Presidency of such a controversial man and leader.

All the Way was originally commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival making its premier production in July 2012. Opening on Broadway in February 2014, the show ran for only a limited 131 performances, but left an impact on the Great White Way. Nominated for two Tony Awards the play won both categories, including Best Play and Best Actor in a Play (Bryan Cranston).

All the Way is the first part of a two-part play cycle, The Great Society (playing at the Seattle Repertory Theatre (December 5-January 4) continuing the storyline with the same cast continuing their excellent performances.

A Gathering Storm a very good retelling of a difficult subject

A GATHERING STORM

BY JAMESON CURRIER CHELSEA STATION EDITIONS A Gathering Storm by Jameson Currier is a book that’s difficult to read. It’s well written and brings the reader directly into the plot, but it is in the subject matter that one finds the challenge. It’s about a vicious and senseless hate crime. But the novel doesn’t make this the only focus; it explores the main people involved, those indirectly connected to them, and a town that sees the ripple effects such a heinous act can elicit both in and outside of their community.

The story centers on Danny, a boy small in stature, slightly effeminate and a college student at a school not far outside of Washington DC. Newly out of the closet, Danny

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the gruesome scenes at a deserted fencepost.

Currier even includes the audacity of zealots hiding under a religious guise and preparing to picket Danny’s funeral, showing that hate crimes happen on different levels.

A Gathering Storm is much more than another factual retelling of the case. Currier infuses subtle details from other true hate crimes incorporating them into the storyline. His third-person, journalistic style allows the author to speculate about the characters feelings, thoughts and emotions. This technique allows the facts to easily be conveyed allowing a “silent observer” effect for the reader to be in on the scenes developing before them. Currier explores the thoughts and reactions to the two assailants’ girlfriends, the sheriff involved in the case, relatives to all three boys, the doctors working to save his life, and various people directly (and indirectly) involved showing

the unmentioned butterfly effect a horrible crime can have on so many others.

A Gathering Storm is an important book to read and it’s definitely worth your time to read it! The book focuses less on the horror of the action itself, and more on the consequences – both positive and negative – left in its wake. A Gathering Storm is very well crafted allowing any reader to explore, and possibly understand the results of such a gruesome cause-and-effect crime on any town or on anyone.

Jameson Currier (http://www.jamesoncurrier.com/index.html) is the author of four short story anthologies and six novels. His novel Where the Rainbow Ends was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award. In 2010 he founded Chelsea Station Editions a press dedicated to Gay literature, and in 2011 founded the Gay literary magazine (http://www.chelseastationmagazine.com/) Chelsea Station. hwadarkwhispers.wordpress.com

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isn’t shy about his homosexuality but doesn’t announce it either – aware of his more conservative surroundings. He goes to class, has friends, and explores on-line dating like any other normal student – anywhere – in any university town of the United States.

One night Danny goes out to a “mixed” bar where he meets two boys named A.J. and Rick. The two strangers, strung out after a drug binge, plot to rob Danny and start off with subtle flirting and light conversation.

The two boys offer the smaller boy a ride back to his apartment. When all three of the boys leave together the trouble starts. Danny is attacked as the truck drives to a secluded graveyard outside of a small church. As the beating frenzy escalates, the attackers’ anger, frustration, resentment, and hate transforms a planned robbery into a near-deadly assault.

Leaving the barely conscious Danny tied to a fence-post; the two attackers take his wallet and his shoes before driving away, leaving Danny defenseless against the elements. It is the stupidity of an attempted drug transaction immediately following the college student’s beating that allows the two other boys to get caught. The police are unaware of the hate crime when the initial arrest occurs until they are alerted of a horrific find found by early morning joggers. Soon it is not only the fate of the three boys involved that becomes the center of an investigation. It is also the town and its residents that becomes, thanks to the decent of mass media, under the scrutiny of the entire country.

To say the story is a slightly masked tale of Mathew Shepherd is not in question. Currier explains his motives for writing the story in the prologue, stating that the first draft was indeed started as a personal response trying to deal with the horrific attack and murder on the Wyoming college student. The parallels are noticeable including the motives, the involvements of the assailants’ girlfriends, and

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picture book, whereas the stereotyping of Nutcracker characters – people in turbans, people with brown skin and kinky black hair, “Chinese” girls and boys – might have been “exotic” thirty years ago, but are inappropriate now. I grew up singing “The cannibal king with the big nose ring/fell in love with a dusky dame” but I have never taught it to the children in our family. What was OK “back in the day” is not OK now.

Yes, Tchaikovsky used musical cliché’s to describe racial difference, particularly in the very familiar Chinese and Hindu dances. But Sendak is a product of the late 20th century, not the 19th century. We can see in the news every day the consequences of ignoring racial stereotypes, however subtle. Do we really want kids being “disturbed” by men wearing turbans in an age when we need to bend over backward not to demonize the people of Sikh or Muslim faith, or people from Afghanistan, India or Iran who wear turbans? Do we really want kids to see white men dressing up like “dervishes” (read “savages”) in kinky wigs and brown skin suits? There were quite a few people of color in the audience on the 29th – I wanted to ask them how they felt about the “exotic” motifs in this Nutcracker, but I didn’t have the nerve. Or perhaps I was too embarrassed.

At any rate, it’s time – even past time – to exchange this lazy choreography and problematic exoticism for something truly excellent. An entire generation has been lulled into passively applauding the Stowell/ Sendak Nutcracker because they haven’t been shown the dances that fit the music, the dances that build layer upon layer of complexity, that bring out the best in each dancer, that challenge and thrill the audience all at once. I predict that by next year at this time all controversy about retiring this production will have melted away in the bright light of the newly designed Balanchine Nutcracker (which, I hope, will have found a way to avoid Tchaikovsky’s “Arab Coffee” and “Chinese Tea” clichés). The little girl in pink who sat in front of me on the 29th will still be perched on the edge of her booster cushion, but she won’t be seeing people of color as exotic or disturbing, and she won’t be seeing talented dancers standing around looking pretty. She’ll be seeing a Nutcracker worthy of the great dance company that PNB has become, and the discerning audiences that we will become when we are exposed to works of the highest quality.

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This lavish production, choreographed by PNB co-founder Kent Stowell and designed by children’s picture-book writer Maurice Sendak, uses Tchaikovsky’s music for its own purposes. According to Gemma Wilson’s article in the current City Arts, not only was the Stowell/Sendak version of Nutcracker developed to give the company a financial boost (it’s been a huge success) but it was also meant to give the sugary story something of its original scary edge. Wilson quoted Sendak as saying “My feeling is this [production] has to be disturbing to children.”

At the sold-out performance I attended on the evening of November 29 there were very few disturbed children, though one howling youngster had to be carried out during the second act. Instead, there were a great many happy adults, and a sprinkling of well-behaved elementary and middleschoolers. The little girl in pink who sat in front of me was perched on the edge of her booster cushion the entire time, as intrigued, I think, by all the other children dancing on the stage as by the exotic characters and cartoon-style settings. This production does a wonderful job of incorporating the students in the PNB School of Dance into the cast of party guests, mice, toy infantry and cavalry, “servant children,” and Toy Theater children. There are more than 150 roles, and though the adult dancers take on more than one part, the dozens and dozens of children involved each have their own contribution to make in what, for many, is their first professional appearance on stage.

Any discussion of this performance, however, has to take note of the fact that Artistic Director Peter Boal is retiring the Stowell/Sendak Nutcracker, and that this is the last time any of us will see what has be-

come a stalwart part of the Seattle artistic scene. A lively conversation is taking place – in the lobby, in the coffee shops, in the elevator, in the press – among those who approve of this daring move to replace PNB’s cash cow with a newly designed Balanchine version, and those who are bereft at the idea of losing Seattle’s very own, very famous, and very beloved production. Many dance lovers – and many more people who only go to this one dance each year – can’t imagine why Director Boal would do away with something everyone loves.

Well, I can imagine why. For one thing, not everyone loves it. Speaking for myself, I have never been a big fan of this version of The Nutcracker for two reasons: 1) Kent Stowell’s choreography and 2) Maurice Sendak’s design.

“What?” I can hear you say. “Stowell and Sendak are the very reason we have such a great Nutcracker!”

Well, disappointed reader, read on – and consider the possibility that what was an innovative and edgy design concept thirty years ago has become a shop-worn collection of racial clichés in the 21st century. Consider also the possibility that although we can be forever grateful to Kent Stowell and his wife, Francia Russell, for founding and supporting PNB for three decades, that does not require us to say, out of loyalty, that Stowell’s choreography is very good when it is, at best, rather dull.

In fact, Stowell’s works – not just his Nutcracker, but his Cinderella, Swan Lake, Hail the Conquering Hero – most of his choreographic efforts are distinctly lacking in variety, complexity, and imagination. I think of his style as “run, run, pose” – the dancer is asked to run a few steps, then strike a pose; run a few more steps, strike another pose. In Nutcracker, for instance, the Dance of the Snowflakes could be more aptly be called the Dance of the Thundering Snowflakes since

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Stowell has his dancers leaping in groups of four, back and forth across the stage, not only invoking a carnival turkey shoot, but creating the sound (as a companion suggested) of wild turkeys running through a forest. Shouldn’t snowflakes be stepping quietly, gesturing gently, forming the geometrics of snowflakes as they move across the stage? (Just wait until you see the Balanchine snowflakes, whose formations melt and reform kaleidoscopically during this waltz).

The problem is not only a paucity of imaginative movement, but that the works are under-choreographed – Stowell simply doesn’t give his dancers enough to do. One critic used the word “threadbare” to describe his choreography in Cinderella, and the term could also be used here. The brilliant Batkuhrel Bold as the Prince practically has the night off, standing around showing us his good posture, lifting his Clara, Carla Korbes, up and down now and then. She has very little to do as well, stepping around on her toes, executing standard movement in predictable ways – like the pre-Nureyev Margot Fontaine – correct, technical, but not exciting. Even the children are underchoreographed, rocking doll babies, waving wooden swords, skipping in circles, with the exception of four little couples in the second act. (Who are they? What is their purpose?

The story – though acted in dumb show at five different points in the ballet – is never clear.) Yet these kids were actually given real steps to dance, and were, for me, the highlight of the evening, because they were the only dancers – children or professionals – who were not being moved around the stage either in pantomime or in dances that did not reflect a true relationship with the score. So what if Tchaikovsky’s Spanish dance has castanets? The five couples called “Moors” in the program simply ignore the inflections that are inserted for a dance they are not doing – and the audience is expected to ignore these inconsistencies as well.

The fact that there are “Moors,” “Dervishes,” and a central character called the “Pasha” brings me to the problem with Maurice Sendak’s design in the 21st century. His desire to make Nutcracker “disturbing to children” is fine, as far as I’m concerned – let’s stir them up a little! Make them drop their Leapsters and Xbox controllers! Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are is wonderfully disturbing – weird, scary, and reassuring all at once. But there are no racial stereotypes in that classic

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by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer Keep On Keepin’ On is a jazz documentary for jazz lovers that just so happens to be gloriously entertaining for just about everyone else as well. Incredibly well put together over a period of roughly five years by freshman filmmaker Alan Hicks and

his crew, the film follows the blossoming friendship between blind piano prodigy Justin Kauflin and legendary jazz icon Clark Terry, the talents of both continually on magnificent display.

Not that the movie does anything extraordinary. By and large it is mostly a talking heads affair, luminaries like Quincy Jones (one of the film’s producers),

Herbie Hancock, Arturo Sandoval and Bill Cosby – not the best timing on that front, that’s for certain – waxing poetic about Terry while adding insight into his tutelage of Kauflin. As strong a filmmaker as Hicks proves himself to be, he basically started this project on something akin to a whim coupled with happy happenstance, and as such he doesn’t shake up the formula all

that terribly much, proceeding on a relatively straightforward path as he chronicles the two men and their relationship.

But, not only is Terry’s 70-plus years as a musician justifiably celebrated, so is the history and progression of jazz itself. Woven into that is Kauflin’s journey, his evolution as a young artist trying to find his voice assisted by one of the music industry’s most towering figures. It’s old school and new school coming together in fascinating, constantly evolving ways, each lending a voice to the other that potentially neither man actually knew they had simmering within them and theoretically would not have come out had they not met.

The movie is hugely enjoyable and, as I’ve already stated, that pretty much goes whether you’re a lover of jazz or if you’re indifferent to the genre. Terry is a fascinating figure, oozing intelligence and charm even as he heads into his 90s, while Kauflin’s got charisma to burn, his talents as a musician apparent right from the start.

As for Hicks, he’s managed to assemble as solid a debut as anything he could have hoped for, Keep on Keepin’ On a rousing documentary undertaking whose rhythmic underpinnings are so self-assured they’re positively euphonious.

Sublime Babadook an emotionally unsettling debut THE BABADOOK Now playing It’s been six years since her husband’s violent death, Amelia (Essie Davis) hardly psychologically recovered from the loss.

The single parent barely has the ability to care for her son, Samuel (Noah Wiseman), incidentally six-years-old, the child acting out to the point of being uncontrollable. He worries something out there wants to do them harm, designing a variety of homemade contraptions he thinks will protect him and his mother from certain death.

A strange new pop-up book with a sinister and disturbing fairy tale contained within mysteriously appears on Samuel’s bookshelf. He believes the malevolent creature bursting from its pages, the Babadook, really exists and is coming to claim both he and his mother as its next victims, and while Amelia does all she can to ease her son’s fears after a number of sleepless nights and ominous occurrences, she’s suddenly not so certain he’s wrong.

Thus begins The Babadook, the impressive writing and directing debut from Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent. Unsettling, thought-provoking, filled with startling visuals coming from a place of pure, uncompromising emotional truth, the film is an oftentimes devastating look at loss, death and regret, coupled with the responsibilities of parenthood that hits extremely close to the bone. It doesn’t let up, keeping Amelia’s wavering psychological state at the center of things throughout, delivering up a powerfully honest conclusion to this small family’s travails and woes that is instantly unforgettable.

But is the movie scary? Honestly, I didn’t

really find it so, none of the stuff involving the actual creature itself doing a lot for me one way or the other, this Freddie Kruger meets something out of “Supernatural” visage more creepy than it was terrifying. At the same time, I’m not positive the film is supposed to be scary, Kent more interested at looking at the underlying emotional motivations driving Amelia onward than she is in delivering a typical fright fest. This isn’t so much an entry in the horror genre as it is an examination of a woman still under the strains of deep, unresolved feelings of trauma and loss, the death of her husband keeping Amelia in a state of emotional stasis it takes the likes of something like a razor-clawed demon to jumpstart her back to something even resembling sanity.

Davis gives one of the best performances you will see – this, or in any other, year. Her Amelia is a whirling, twirling ball of doubt, uncertainty, pain, resilience, self-sacrifice and unconditional love, each emotional layer battling with the next with the future of both her and her son riding on the outcome. Rare is it to see an actor so willing to throw themselves into such a role with this much passion, this type of nakedly raw abandon, Davis not caring whether audiences so much like the character as they instead understand, and feel for themselves, all it is she’s dealing with.

As for Kent, her visual eye is matched by her keen insight into her characters as well as her visceral sense of pace. Never rushing things, never hurrying the action, the film at the same time never drags, doesn’t contain a false beat. The director develops things bitby-bit, ounce-by-ounce, allowing situation and moment to influence action and thusly sees her two protagonists blossom with three-dimensional exactitude. Kent never wavers as to where she wants to go and how she wants to get there, allowing the climac-

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tic sequences to come alive in ways they never would have been able to otherwise.

What’s most remarkable is that the filmmaker accomplishes all she wants to even though she revolves the entirety of the main events around two characters who are rarely likeable. Amelia, in many ways, is a bad mother, allowing her insecurity and pain left by the death of her husband to keep her from taking care of Samuel as best she could. As for the kid, he’s whiny, prone to loud outbursts, acting out to the world around him in ways that are shrill and discombobulating.

Together, this pair should be insufferable, difficult to spend anything close to 93 minutes with, their competing emotional malignancies a tornado of interpersonal tumult I normally would have found infuriating.

But I didn’t, not even in passing, Kent’s intimate and intricate script revealing its secrets with shocking, obdurate ease. I got swept up inside Amelia and Samuel’s stories in ways that consistently caught me off

guard, and anyone who has ever lost someone close to their hearts is going to relate to all the pair is going through, even with the supernatural ghoulishness augmenting the narrative. The filmmaker weaves an impressively elaborate web, the core elements sticking to me in ways I couldn’t help but respond to.

The lack of scares is a problem. This is a noticeable deficiency I can’t help but feel a little uneasy about. All the same, Kent has manufactured a drama about how we deal with loss and tragedy that hits home in ways that are astonishing. Aided by Radoslaw Ladczuk’s stunning, crisply elegant cinematography, with overall tensions enhanced thanks to Jed Kurzel’s (The Snowtown Murders) bruising, beautifully eerie score, The Babadook is a wonderful debut, one of the best of its kind 2014 has seen. Kent has undeniable talent, that is for certain. Seeing what she does with it one of more intriguing cinematic mysteries still to be answered.

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Absurdly chaotic Penguins a lackluster spinoff

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR Now playing From the time they were freshly hatched, penguins Skipper (voiced by Tom McGrath), Kowalski (Chris Miller), Rico (Conrad Vernon) and Private (Christopher Knights) knew they were destined for more than a life shuffling back and forth across a frozen arctic tundra. From their journey to New York’s Central Park Zoo, to heading to Madagascar with a ragtag group of escaped animals, to becoming circus stars with a

penchant for high explosives, this particular quartet has never been happy sitting on their laurels or staying in one place for very long.

On the move again, they find themselves the focus of evil genius Dr. Octavius “Dave” Brine’s (John Malkovich) evil plans. See, he’s of the opinion their extreme cuteness destroyed his life, so the dastardly octopus-slashgeneticist-slash-world-renowned-scientist (with a talent for pretending to be human) has concocted a secret plan to ruin the penguin image forever. It’s up to Skipper, et al., along with a healthy assistant from a covert Arctic agency known as The North Wind, to stop him, their brotherly bonds, not any complex planning, key to the foursome finding success.

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Little kids are going to adore Penguins of Madagascar, this quickly paced, unabashedly absurdist spinoff from the Madagascar trilogy owing more to vintage Saturday morning cartoons than it does anything else. The film doesn’t try to make sense of all that’s going on or make the world in which it exists feel even passingly authentic, things moving with a slapdash enthusiasm that’s so chaotic the overall effect is moderately mind-blowing. This is a silly movie that never apologizes for being so, going for the joke at every opportunity, offering up verbal and visual sight gags galore, never slowing down as it speeds towards its rambunctiously colorful conclusion.

All of which is fine if you’re under the age of 12. For everyone else, watching this animated merry-go-round can be a little bit of a tough slog. While there are more than a few brightly virtuoso bits of creative inspiration, overall the movie is an overly frenetic jumble of sound and fury that does a better job of inducing headaches than it does laughter or smiles. The whole thing is so rambunctiously in the viewer’s face that stomaching the film start to finish isn’t easy, the only solace being that at barely 90 minutes it’s thankfully all over almost as swiftly as it began.

Not that little kids are going to care. The penguins are as rowdy as ever, all doing crazy bizarre things while snapping off oneliners and creating all sorts of havoc with every step they take. They’re always moving, always pushing forward, never taking a break for introspection or thought, just leaping into the fray with no concern to the consequences. They’re pipsqueak creations who’d be right at home mixing it up with

Tom and Jerry, solving crimes with ScoobyDoo or composing merry melodies with Bugs Bunny and his loony friends, and as such youngsters are going to delight in their misadventures no matter how convoluted they might ultimately prove to be.

For my part, as someone who kind of enjoys the Madagascar films, and also one who extolled the virtues of these penguins from the jump, I can’t say I was totally displeased. The vocal work is strong thanks to the core trio of McGrath, Miller and Knights, while the interplay between all four characters remains inspired. I also felt a few of the supporting turns were terrific, most notably Malkovich as the eight-legged baddie and Benedict Cumberbatch as the wolfy leader of the North Wind (erroneously given the moniker “Agent Classified” by Skipper), both getting me to giggle appreciatively more than once. Best of all is the opening sequence featuring Werner Herzog in full authoritative know-it-all documentarian glory, lampooning modern penguin hysteria with loving cleverness.

At the same time, I can’t say Penguins of Madagascar is an animated effort I’m going to be returning to anytime soon.

The movie basically proves these crazy feathered hellions are better as sidekicks and secondary characters than they are as leads, designing an entire motion picture around their misadventures not one of the better ideas DreamWorks has had of late.

It wasn’t made for me, and while parents aren’t going to be upset if their kids end up watching it, they’ll certainly feel better if they don’t have to do so as well.

ArtsWest celebrates the Seattle Public Theater’s holiday season with Judy’s HOLIDAY NOIR! Scary Little Christmas

visit from sexy elf Holly Wonderland (Amber Wolfe) that spins him on a search for the truth and meaning of Christmas. Featuring the additional talents of Rhonda J. Soikowski and Brandon Felker in multiple roles.

The show runs Dec. 4-Dec. 24, Thurs.Sun. @ 7:30 p.m., except Sun. 12/7 is at 2 p.m. (meet the actors following the performance), and Mon.-Wed., 12/22-12/24 @ 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $32-general, $30-seniors, $5 under $12. SPT Box Office 206-5241300 or visit www.seattlepublictheater.org.

Little Christmas cunningly combines old Hollywood glam with a dash of Dickens for a holiday outing you won’t soon forget.

Judy’s Scary Little Christmas plays December 4-28 at ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery (4711 California Ave SW). Tickets (ranging from $17 to $36.50) www.artswest. org; 206-938-0339; or in person at the Box Office Thurs.-Sun., 1:30-7:30 p.m.

SEATTLE – This holiday season join ArtsWest and Judy Garland as they welcome you into their home for the Seattle Premiere of Judy’s Scary Little Christmas.

With music and lyrics by Joe Patrick Ward and book by David Church and Jim Webber, Judy welcomes her baggage-ridden celebrity friends – Bing Crosby, Liberace, Bing Crosby, Liberace, Ethel Merman, Joan Crawford, Lillian Hellman, VP Richard Nixon, Punch, and a special dark guest – to her 1959 TV Christmas Special. Featuring some of Seattle’s best character actors, Judy’s Scary

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SEATTLE – Just when it was safe to assume that holiday shows have all been done, a new play comes along to slap that assumption in the face. Christmastown: A Holiday Noir is a new play by Wayne Rawley, directed by Gregory-Award winner Kelly Kitchens, and premiering at Seattle Public Theater December 5-24.

A newly-commissioned play from Seattle playwright Wayne Rawley, Christmastown: A Holiday Noir is a tightly wrapped comedy packed with all the trimmings of your favorite hard-boiled detective fiction from the 1940s noir genre. Christmastown explores the dark side of the holidays with a wry detective, a gorgeous elf, a team of gangster reindeer, and a used tree salesman (!). Directed by Kelly Kitchens (Arcadia, Slowgirl), the adult comedy features Nick Holiday (John Ulman) as the ultimate lowlife private detective who gets a surprise

Christmastown is stage managed by Ariel Bui and features set design by Kyna Shilling, costume design by Samantha Armitage, properties design by Krissy Grant, lighting design by Caleb Rupert, and co-sound design

by Jay Weinland and Robertson Witmer.

Christmastown: A Holiday Noir is sponsored by the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture, 4Culture, ArtsFund, KUOW, Keeney’s Office Supply, and GP Realty Finance.

About Seattle Public Theater at the Bathhouse on Green Lake Seattle Public Theater (SPT) at the Bathhouse is the place where performers, teachers, audiences, designers, directors and community members come together to create theater as an integral part of life in Seattle. SPT is a nonprofit professional performing arts organization.

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Meetings Events Activities

FOR A CALENDAR LISTING: Send details to: SGN, Attn: Community Calendar, 1605 12th Ave, Ste 31, Seattle, WA 98122. SGN phone: 324-4297. Fax: 3227188. E-mail: sgn2@sgn.org. INCLUDE: Date, time, location, contact phone # for publication (if possible), brief description of event & sponsoring organization.

DEADLINE: Tuesday 5pm.

ACCESSIBILITY: Is your event accessible to LGBTQ people with disabilities? See Jean’s List webpage www. scn.org/activism/calendar/disabilities.html for Marla Nonken’s disabilities accommodations lists.

NOTE: Phone numbers accompanying listings are within area code (206) & locations of meetings/ events are in Seattle unless otherwise noted.

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SATURDAY - December 6

Ski Buddies. 8am, 9am & 10am. Every Saturday & Sunday. Ski, board or snow shoe locally with fellow club members! Let fellow club members know that you’ll be waiting for them near the ticket booth. Throw out some ideas that might help us identify other club members without having to sing Broadway show tunes! skibuddies.org Drawing Jam. 9am-7pm. Gage Academy of Art, 1501 10th Ave E. Live models, live music, open studios & art activities for the whole family - plus a great assortment of Seattle’s finest food trucks. Tickets $10 at the door; artists 15 & under FREE. Art supplies FREE. 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.

“A Christmas Story” - Fox Theatre Film Series in Centralia. 2pm & 7pm. Fox Theatre, 123 S Tower Ave, Centralia. Tickets: $8 single, $20 family of 3-4 persons. www.centraliafoxtheatre.com “The Hours of Life” - A New Musical by Paul Lewis (12/4 preview performance; 12/5-12/14). 2pm & 8pm.

Cornish Playhouse Studio at Seattle Center, 201 Mercer St. About the love and romance between Edgar Allen Poe and Sarah Helen Whitman. Tues-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun matinees 2pm. Tickets: hoursoflife.brownpaper tickets.com. Presented by Theatre22.

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.

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.

(Also meets Thursdays & Fridays 4-10pm.)

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 “A Christmas Story” - Fox Theatre Film Series in Centralia. 2pm & 7pm. Fox Theatre, 123 S Tower Ave, Centralia. Tickets: $8 single, $20 family of 3-4 persons. www.centraliafoxtheatre.com Ingersoll Gender Center Snowball 2014. 7pm. Seattle City Hall, Bertha Knight Landes Room, 5th Ave & Cherry St. Holiday celebration and fundraiser with buffet and entertainment. Tickets $25.

“Chimeras” - Dazzling Dances (12/5 & 12/6). 8pm join Diana Garcia-Snyder for a pre-show performance at 7:30pm. Youngstown Cultural Arts, 4408 Delridge Way SW. Dances by Helen Thorsen and Mary Cutrera, Sheri Brown, Joan Laage, Kaoru Okumura, Vanessa Skantze. Produced by Helenthorsendances, LastLeg, DAIPANbutoh Collective in partnership with Shunpike. $15. http://chimeras.brownpapertickets.com/ “The Hours of Life” - A New Musical by Paul Lewis (12/4 preview performance; 12/5-12/14). 2pm & 8pm.

Cornish Playhouse Studio at Seattle Center, 201 Mercer St. About the love and romance between Edgar Allen Poe and Sarah Helen Whitman. Tues-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun matinees 2pm. Tickets: hoursoflife.brownpaper tickets.com. Presented by Theatre22.

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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.)

PFLAG/Seattle Monthly Meeting. 7pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Meets 2nd Monday each month. (A spouse’s support group runs concurrently with this meeting; PFLAG/FOCUS meets concurrently with this meeting.) PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724. www.seattle-pflag.org.

PFLAG/Skagit County Monthly Meeting. 7pm. Skagit Valley Food Co-op Bldg, Room 309, 202 South 1st St., Mt. Vernon. Meets 2nd Monday each month. PFLAG/ Puget Sound: 325-7724.

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 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 - December 9

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.

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 SUNDAY - December 7 can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number For information on GLBT-friendly religious/spiritual 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org organizations in the Greater Seattle area, call or Rain City Soccer Club - Ripple Effect. Every Sunday email Rick at the SGN office: 206-324-4297; sgn2@ afternoon. Location varies. Ripple Effect soccer team sgn.org. plays a weekly recreational scrimmage game for Gay Ski Buddies. 8am, 9am & 10am. Every Saturday & guys in Seattle. Perfect for guys looking for more relaxed Sunday. Ski, board or snow shoe locally with fellow club play, who are just getting back into soccer, just learning members! Whether it’s Crystal Mountain, Stevens Pass the game and/or want to supplement their competitive or Snoqualimie Pass, let fellow club members know that play with a recreational team. To sign up visit www. you’ll be waiting for them near the ticket booth. Throw raincitysoccer.org out some ideas that might help us identify other club “The Hours of Life” - A New Musical by Paul Lewis members without having to sing Broadway show tunes! (12/4 preview performance; 12/5-12/14). 2pm. Cornish skibuddies.org Playhouse Studio at Seattle Center, 201 Mercer St. Hiking Group. 8:45am. Uptown Espresso, 500 West- About the love and romance between Edgar Allen Poe lake Ave N. Every Sunday year-round, rain or shine and Sarah Helen Whitman. Tues-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun for moderate to strenuous day hikes. 323-8382. http:// matinees 2pm. Tickets: hoursoflife.brownpaper tickets. groups.yahoo.com/group/TheSeattleGayHikingGroup/ com. Presented by Theatre22.

Border Riders Motorcycle Club First Sunday Ride. PFLAG/Kittitas County. 4-5:30pm. First United Method9am-rendezvous; 9:30am. Broadway Grill, 314 Broad- ist Church, 3rd & Ruby Sts, Ellensburg. Meets the first way E. Meets 1st Sunday each month. A social & educa- Sunday of every month. For information, (509) 925-7937. tional fraternity for individuals interested in recreational Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: 5-6:15pm; Mon/Weds/ motorcycle touring. www.borderriders.com Fri: 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic

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December 5, 2014

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 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 season’s trips. We’ll also have online signups available for those that can’t make the poyluck. 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 - December 8

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.

LCS Foster Care Monthly Information Meeting.

6-8pm. 433 Minor Ave N. Meets 2nd Monday each month. LCS is a non-profit foster care program in King & Snohomish counties. Couples & singles encouraged to apply. RSVP to April at 694-5713.

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 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 Alzheimer’s Association’s LGBT Caregivers’ Support Group. 6:30-8pm. Elderhealth Northwest, 6555 Ravenna Ave NE (entrance on NE 68th St). Meets 2nd Tuesday each month. A free information and support group for care partners, family members and friends of individuals with dementia. For more information, contact group facilitator Caila Nickerson, 781-248-3524 (cell) or email: cailanickerson@gmail.com 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 LGBTQ MS Connection/National MS Society. 6:308pm. Swedish Conference Center, Cherry Hill Campus, James Tower, 550 17th Avenue, Room E, 1st Floor.

Meets the 2nd & 4th Tuesday each month. MS Connection is a support group with the goal of providing a safe environment for the LGBT community to express their experiences and the impact of MS on their lives and the lives of their loved ones, as well as provide support for one another. Contact Shelly at 206-250-5002 or LGBTMSConnection@gmail.com.

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 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.

Maybe Baby. 7-8:30pm. Kaladi Brothers Coffee, 511 E Pike St. Meets the 2nd Tuesday each month. Maybe Baby is a support group for LGBTQ people who are interested in becoming parents. groups.yahoo.com/ group/maybebabyseattle.

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

Celebrating 41 Years!

Lesbian women, 40 & older, in every stage of coming out or being out. Lots of social activities in addition to Tuesday meetings. 545-3521.

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

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

Hand drumming classes for Gay men. Learn traditional African & Afro-Caribbean rhythms & basic hand drumming techniques. 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 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 “The Hours of Life” - A New Musical by Paul Lewis (12/4 preview performance; 12/5-12/14). 8pm. Cornish Playhouse Studio at Seattle Center, 201 Mercer St. (See Saturday listing at 8pm for details.)

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. 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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FRIDAY - December 12

Michael C Weideman LGBT Library Used Book Sale (12/12-12/14). Fri 12/12 12noon-8pm; Sat 12/13 10am6pm; Sun 12/14 10am-6pm. Gay City, 517 E Pike St. LGBT fiction & non-fiction books. www.gaycity.org/library 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.)

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 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.

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

LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 7:45pm.

Seattle Counseling Service, Rainbow Room, 1216 Pine St at Melrose Ave. Every Friday. (See related listing Sunday at noon for details.) Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org “The Hours of Life” - A New Musical by Paul Lewis (12/4 preview performance; 12/5-12/14). 8pm. Cornish Playhouse Studio at Seattle Center, 201 Mercer St. About the love and romance between Edgar Allen Poe and Sarah Helen Whitman. Tues-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun matinees 2pm. Tickets: hoursoflife.brownpaper tickets. com. Presented by Theatre22.

WEDNESDAY - December 10

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. www.mature friends.org GSBA Holiday Luncheon & Annual Meeting. 11am1:30pm. McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St. Hear from Seattle’s new Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole about her plans to make Seattle a safer & more just city for all. It’s also a time of year to thank GSBA’s outgoing Board members for their leadership and meet the new 2015 GSBA Board members. GSBA members $35, non-members $45, students $35. Walk-ins add $5 at the door. To REGISTER visit www.thegsba.org Mature Friends Dining Out Luncheon. 12:30pm. Call for details, location & to RSVP. Meets 2nd & 4th Wednesday most months. 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.

POZSeattle Holiday Chili Feed. 6-8pm. The Cuff Complex, 1533 13th Ave. Meet us at the downstairs bar for drinks, home-made chili - vegetarian & meat - cornbread & holiday desserts, all prepared by your POZSeattle volunteers & board members.

The Holiday Social features an optional Holiday Gift Exchange. If you’d like to participate, bring a fun, funny, or naughty wrapped gift for “Santa Poz” to deliver, and you will get one in exchange. It is a lot of fun to participate.

Please, a $5-$10 limit suggested cost.

Join us for socializing, catching up with old friends, making new ones & a whole lot of fun! This event is for all HIV+ men & their friends regardless of age, shape, size or color & is offered at no cost, but we ask a $5 donation to help with overhead costs. www.pozseattle.com 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 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.)

Entre Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group. 7pm. Entre Hermanos, 1105 23rd Ave. Bilingual (Spanish/English) Transsexual support group meets 2nd & 4th Wednesday each month to provide information, counseling, healthcare, sisterhood & social activities for Latino & foreign-born people in their transition. For more information contact Abby 322-7700, www. entrehermanos.org 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+

www.sasgcc.org “The Hours of Life” - A New Musical by Paul Lewis (12/4 preview performance; 12/5-12/14). 8pm. Cornish Playhouse Studio at Seattle Center, 201 Mercer St. (See Saturday listing at 8pm for details.)

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.)

SATURDAY - December 13

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 Seattle Movie Bears Movie Night. Check website for details. Every Wednesday night. More info: http:// groups.yahoo.com/group/seattlemoviebears; or e-mail: seattlemoviebears-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Mature Friends Weekly Bridge Group. 7:30pm. Call for location. Every Wednesday. All levels welcome. 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.)

“StageFright” - Youth Open Mic - For Aspiring Writers & Performers, Ages 14-24. 7:30pm. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave. Meets 2nd Wednesday each month. FREE. Everyone welcome to attend. StageFright not only features young folk, but is also MC’d by young folk & attended in great majority by young folk. 322-7030; www.hugohouse.org.

Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting in Everett. 7:30-9pm. Everett United Church of Christ, 2624 Rockefeller Ave, Everett. Every Wednesday. A structured support meeting helping people deal with issues of gender identity & expression. All adults are welcomed. (360) 445-2411; www.washingtongender alliance.com.

Border Riders Motorcycle Club Meet & Greet. 8-9pm.

The Cuff Complex, 1533 13th Ave (at E Pine St). Meets the Wednesday before the 3rd Saturday each month.

BRMC provides a social & educational fraternity for individuals interested in recreational motorcycle touring. www.borderriders.com “The Hours of Life” - A New Musical by Paul Lewis (12/4 preview performance; 12/5-12/14). 8pm. Cornish Playhouse Studio at Seattle Center, 201 Mercer St. (See Saturday listing at 8pm for details.)

THURSDAY - December 11

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

Visit us online www.sgn.org

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.)

Queer Night at the Bremerton/Kitsap Health Department. 4:30-7pm. 109 Austin Dr, Bremerton. Meets 2nd Thursday each month. HIV/AIDS & STD testing in a GLBT positive environment. Call Sue or Steve at (360) 337-5235.

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.

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 PFLAG/Whatcom County-Bellingham Monthly Meeting. 7pm. First Congregational Church, 2401 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. Meets 2nd Thursday each month.

360-733-1500; www.whatcompflag.com; PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724.

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

Buddhism & Recovery. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Thursday. A meditation/recovery group.

322-2437; www.sasgcc.org 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. 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;

December 5, 2014

(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

A Gathering of Men in Edmonds. 8:15-11:30am. Edmonds UUC, 8109 224th St SW, Edmonds. Meets 2nd Saturday each month. Men gather monthly for drumming, singing, storytelling & sharing of life experience. www.agatheringofmen.org Michael C Weideman LGBT Library Used Book Sale (12/12-12/14). Fri 12/12 12noon-8pm; Sat 12/13 10am6pm; Sun 12/14 10am-6pm. Gay City, 517 E Pike St. LGBT fiction & non-fiction books. www.gaycity.org/library Between the Covers - Gay City LGBT Library Book Club. 1pm. Gay City, 517 E. Pike St. Meets 2nd Saturday each month. Informal group of Queer folks talking about Queer literature. Visit www.gaycity.org for monthly reading selection.

“The Hours of Life” - A New Musical by Paul Lewis (12/4 preview performance; 12/5-12/14). 2pm & 8pm.

Cornish Playhouse Studio at Seattle Center, 201 Mercer St. About the love and romance between Edgar Allen Poe and Sarah Helen Whitman. Tues-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun matinees 2pm. Tickets: hoursoflife.brownpaper tickets.com. Presented by Theatre22.

Seattle Prime Timers Dining Out. 6pm. Julia’s in Wallingford, 4401 Wallingford Ave N. RSVP by Thursday, December 11 to Bob, 935-5683 or bob.ropelle@ comcast.net “Down the Chimney” - The Market Street Singers.

7:30pm. Ballard First Lutheran Church, NW 65th St & 20th Ave NW. FREE, donations gratefully accepted. www.marketstreetsingers.org “The Hours of Life” - A New Musical by Paul Lewis (12/4 preview performance; 12/5-12/14). 2pm & 8pm.

Cornish Playhouse Studio at Seattle Center, 201 Mercer St. About the love and romance between Edgar Allen Poe and Sarah Helen Whitman. Tues-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun matinees 2pm. Tickets: hoursoflife.brownpaper tickets.com. Presented by Theatre22.

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence “Pantry 3” Food Drive. The Sisters will be conducting a bucket drive to collect monetary donations to benefit Chicken Soup Brigade. Post-food drive party at 10pm, R Place, 619 E Pine St.

SUNDAY - December 14

(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.)

Michael C Weideman LGBT Library Used Book Sale (12/12-12/14). Fri 12/12 12noon-8pm; Sat 12/13 10am6pm; Sun 12/14 10am-6pm. Gay City, 517 E Pike St. LGBT fiction & non-fiction books. www.gaycity.org/library 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 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@sexpositive culture. org; www.nosafewordwritersgroup.org. (Also meets 4th Monday, 7-9pm.)

“The Hours of Life” - A New Musical by Paul Lewis (12/4 preview performance; 12/5-12/14). 2pm. Cornish Playhouse Studio at Seattle Center, 201 Mercer St.

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About the love and romance between Edgar Allen Poe and Sarah Helen Whitman. Tues-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun matinees 2pm. Tickets: hoursoflife.brownpaper tickets. com. Presented by Theatre22.

Knights of Mantra Monthly Meeting. 7:30pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. Meets 2nd Sunday each month.

K of M/Jet Chapter is a fun-loving leather/Levi social & charitable organization that raises money for various causes & organizations. 329-0886, mailbox@jetchapter kofm.com

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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 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.

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) - 24hour 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. A wide range of fiction and non-fiction for the LGBT community and allies can be borrowed free of charge.

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.flying house. org.

Northwest Lesbian & Gay History Museum Project - gayhistnw@aol.com Northwest Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf - www. nwrad.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: 4417602, 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/proudand-loud-families-northwest, plfnorthwest@ aol.com; Queer Parent Networking Dinners: 568-7777, info@ nwnetwork.org; Rainbow Families of Puget Sound: www.rainbow familiesps.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.multi-culturalhealth.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; Trikone-Northwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 9854376, www.trikonenw.org; Two-Spirit Honor Project, 1-866-685-0164; 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.

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

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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. 3222437; 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. 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 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 capitolhillcycling@ groups.facebook.com or jordan.l.simonson@ gmail.com; Cascade Flyers: www.cascadeflyers. org; Different Spokes Bicycling Club: www.differentspokes.org; Emerald City Mudhen Rugby: www.mudhenrugby. com; Emerald City Softball Association: www.emerald citysoftball.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.rain countrydance.org; Sea Dawgs: LGBT ice hockey - SkateSeaDawgs@gmail. com and on Facebook; Seattle Frontrunners: www. seattlefrontrunners.org; Seattle Orca Swim Team: www.orcaswimteam.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-Discussion-Group/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: 7220729; 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, member-driven 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.seattlepflag.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, 206-326-9112, 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-SAFE-SAFE (1-877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Teen Link: 461-4922, 1-888-431-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; 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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“Sisters’ Pantry 3”! perate need of community support. The clients served by Chicken Soup Brigade need toiletries (toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, shampoo, etc.), canned foods, and dry goods (pasta, beans, rice, etc.).

Collection boxes will be at R-Place, C.C. Attle’s, The Wild Rose, Madison Pub, The Cuff Complex, Changes in Wallingford, Pike Place Dental, and Lifelong AIDS Alliance Thrift Store November 14th through December 14th.

Sister Hillda Billy, who organizes the annual food drive, said, “I am positively giddy with excitement for this year’s food drive! We’ve added new collection locations this year, in response to last year’s community generosity. Last year, the community donated several hundred pounds of food and toiletries. We’re hoping to be able to help the community donate even more of these essential items this year!”

On Saturday, December 13th, the Sisters will be conducting a bucket drive to collect monetary donations to add to the food donations. The Sisters will also be hosting a post food-drive party that evening that will be held at R-Place (619 E. Pine St.) at 10 p.m.

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