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Issue 10, Volume 46, March 9, 2018

Arts & Entertainment

ArtsWest’s Hir a darkly Seattle Men’s Chorus & comic shocker that’s Seattle Women’s Chorus magnificently captivating welcome special guest Randy Rainbow for “Not In Our Town”

Gretchen Krich as Paige and Evan Barrett as Isaac in Hir – Photo by John McLellan

by Paul Torres SGN Contributing Writer HIR ARTSWEST & INTIMAN THEATRE Through March 25

Hir by Taylor Mac doesn’t hold back.

It’s a darkly comic shocker from act to act.

ArtsWest and Intiman co-produce this latest production directed by noted Seattle scenic designer Jennifer Zeyl.

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2018 Academy Awards recap

The Shape of Water takes home Best Picture while Frances McDormand takes a stand for equality

The Shape of Water – Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer Guillermo del Toro’s fantastical romantic 1950’s-set Cold War fairy tale The Shape of Water about a mute cleaning woman falling in love with an amphibian creature while

plotting to free him from the very human monster who is keeping him captive was the big winner during the 90th annual Academy Awards broadcast. Taking Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Score

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Randy Rainbow – Photo courtesy of randyrainbow.com

SEATTLE MEN’S CHORUS & SEATTLE WOMEN’S CHORUS “NOT IN OUR TOWN” MARION OLIVER MCCAW HALL Free Family Concert April 7 @ 2pm Main Concerts April 7 @ 8pm & April 8 @ 2pm

400 members of Seattle Men’s Chorus (SMC) and Seattle Women’s Chorus (SWC) join together in song at McCaw Hall for “Not In Our Town” on Saturday, April 7 at 8pm and Sunday, April 8 at 2pm. New

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2018 Jewish Film Festival kicks off March 10 Gay Gezunt! March 11 screens The Cakemaker

The Cakemaker – Photo courtesy of Laila Films

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer The 23rd annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival returns this Saturday, March 10, things kicking off with a gala screening of director Oded Raz’s buddy comedy Maktub

at Seattle’s downtown AMC Pacific Place Theatre. Accompanying the film will be a Dessert Party featuring a smorgasbord of delectable treats created by Seattle’s own celebrity chef Tom Douglas, literally ensur-

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Celebrating 44 Years!

Pentatonix, Childish Gambino are Seattle-bound this summer and fall

Pentatonix – Photo courtesy of RCA

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer I know for sure that Pentatonix has a big fan base in Seattle because I heard y’all screaming when they opened for Kelly Clarkson back in 2015. And, of course, they have a lot of LGBT followers, partially because two of its members – Mitch Grassi and Scott Hoying – are openly gay. The a cappella group is widely known for covering other artist’s work, such as Daft Punk, Imagine Dragons, Lorde, Ariana Grande and Macklemore. A new album by Pentatonix, titled PTX Presents: Top Pop Vol 1 is expected to drop on April 13. Tickets to see them in concert at White River Amphitheater on June 14 are on sale now at www.LiveNation.com, or charge by phone at 1-800745-3000.

Multi-gifted artist Childish Gambino is coming to the Emerald City. Be still my heart. I really love this guy, in every facet of his career, from acting/writing/producing

(“Atlanta,” The Martian) to his music, like 2017’s critically acclaimed album Awaken, My Love!. He’s also very attractive. In January, Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover) accepted his first Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance for the track “Redbone” (SGN’s Top 10 Singles of 2017).

Now we can listen to the song live, in addition to music from his previous records, 2011’s Camp and 2013’s Because the Internet, when he appears in Seattle on September 29 at Key Arena. Tickets are on sale now at www.LiveNation.com, or charge by phone at 1-800-745-3000.

I’m a sucker for tall, lean and sexy musicians, especially the ones who are really talented. So right up my alley is British singer-songwriter James Bay, who rose to fame a few years ago with the release of his debut album Chaos and the Calm, which earned him three Grammy nominations, including a nod for Best New Artist. His sophomore effort, Electric Light, is landing in record stores on May 18. Bay will intro-

duce fans to songs from his latest album, as well as tracks from his first, when he comes to Seattle on October 14 at the Paramount Theatre. I saw him at The Showbox SoDo a couple of years ago and he was excellent.

For tickets, go to www.stgpresents.org.

I’ve got more shows to put on your radar, starting with EDM biggie Kygo at the Accesso Showare Center on April 10, folkpop singer-songwriter Josh Rouse at The Triple Door on May 30, electronic duo Simian Mobile Disco at The Neptune on June 14, rock legends Robert Plant and Lucinda Williams at Marymoor Park on June 27, a co-headlining concert by Evanescence and Lindsey Stirling at White River Amphitheater on September 7 and 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Joan Baez at Benaroya Hall on November 4.

Free live music with complimentary refreshments. You read that correctly. The Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) is once again hosting the Upbeat on Jackson

Concert Series beginning March 17 with a performance by eclectic act Reggie Garret and the Snake Oil Peddlers, followed by a concert featuring singer-songwriters Jim Page and Kat Eggleston on April 21 and concluding with a show by another pair of local artists, Laura Love and Terry Hunt.

All performances are free of charge and are being staged at Ernestine Anderson Place, 2010 South Jackson Street with complimentary refreshments and an opportunity to join fellow neighbors, or meet new friends. Show time is 7pm to 9pm. For more information, search for and visit the Upbeat on Jackson Concert Series official page on Facebook.

Finally, don’t forget that “Celebrating David Bowie” is happening this weekend, March 10, at Benaroya Hall. If you can’t find tickets online, the box office should be open before the show to buy them in person. I’ll be reviewing the concert, so if you can’t make it for some reason you can read my thoughts on it in next week’s SGN.

Cho announcement:

Emmy and Grammy-nominated comedienne Margaret Cho bringing “Fresh Off The Bloat” tour to Seattle, interview with SGN on March 23

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer MARGARET CHO “FRESH OFF THE BLOAT” PARLOR LIVE COMEDY CLUB March 29-31 Here’s an upcoming Cho (just play along) that you really need to get tickets to, if you’re in the mood to laugh your socks off. Well, it’s Margaret Cho. Named one of the “50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time” by Rolling Stone magazine, the legendary comedienne will perform three nights in Bellevue later this month. Her new show is called “Fresh Off The Bloat” and if it’s anything close to her previous

stand-up productions, it’s going to be hilarious and kray kray. “‘Fresh Off The Bloat’ is my sickest show to date,” reveals the Emmy and Grammy-nominated comedienne in a press release. My grandmother said, “You look bloated, as if you’ve been found dead in a lake after several days of searching.

Koreans are the most savage of all the Asians. My new show is all about being fresh off drugs and drinking and suicide and coming back to life – finally fished out of the river Styx. It’s magical. It’s me.”

Cho kicks off this leg of the tour in Phoenix with planned stops in Tampa, Dallas, Raleigh, Washington DC and Philadelphia (Philly Pride), to name a few. Her concerts in Bellevue will take place on

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March 29 (one show only) and March 30-31 (two shows nightly) at Parlor Live Comedy Club, located inside Lincoln Square, within a block or so of Bellevue Square; you can easily get to and from the venue by bus (Sound Transit #550 from downtown Seattle or Metro #271 from the U-District).

Before she comes to town, however, Cho will first speak with Seattle Gay News.

The comedy icon, who has also appeared on a number of TV series, including “Drop Dead Diva” and “30 Rock,” will interview with SGN in our upcoming March 23 issue.

For tickets to see Margaret Cho live, visit www.margaretcho.com or www.parlorlive.com.

Margaret Cho – Photo by Luke Fontana

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Diverse Harmony selects Eric Lane Barnes as Artistic Director The Board of Directors of Diverse Harmony has announced the selection of Eric Lane Barnes to be the Artistic Director for the Diverse Harmony youth choir as well as their a cappella alumni choir, Spectrum.

Barnes has over 30 years of experience as a musical director. For over 17 years he was Associate Artistic Director with the Seattle Men’s Chorus and the Seattle Women’s Chorus as well as the director of their Captain Smartypants and Sensible Shoes ensembles.

In addition to musical direction, Eric Lane Barnes is a composer and lyricist who has over 300 original compositions in his songbook. He has written six fulllength shows which have incorporated his compositions.

Diverse Harmony produces two concerts each season for the benefit of the public. Barnes will be responsible for the theme, format and content of each of those performances, as well as preparing the youth for their parts in the productions.

Diverse Harmony is the nation’s first queer-straight alliance youth chorus. Based in Seattle, the chorus presents music that opens the hearts and minds of communities and provides a safe environment for youth of diverse backgrounds to share their love of music and be accepted for who they are.

Spectrum, Diverse Harmony's a cappella group. – Photo courtesy of Diverse Harmony

Eric Lane Barnes – Photo courtesy of Diverse Harmony

The Diverse Harmony Board of Directors and singers are pleased and excited to have Eric Lane Barnes bring his professional talents and experience to the organization.

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Diverse Harmony members at a rehearsal. – Photo courtesy of Diverse Harmony

Michael Feinstein’s salute to the crooners was an evening to remember and a dream fulfilled at Tacoma’s Pantages Theater

by MK Scott SGN Contributing Writer “MICHAEL FEINSTEIN: CELEBRATING THE CROONERS – FRANK SINATRA, DEAN MARTIN, SAMMY DAVIS, BING CROSBY, & OTHERS” BROADWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS PANTAGES THEATER – TACOMA February 23 A 25-plus years’ dream was fulfilled last month as I headed down to the Pantages Theater in Tacoma to see the legendary Michael Feinstein’s “Celebrating the Crooners” concert. As I mentioned in my February 9 interview with Feinstein, I became an instant fan of his in the early ’90s and I always wanted to see him in concert.

Feinstein came out on stage to a warm welcome from the audience dressed in grey pants, a light blue designer sports jacket and white button down shirt with a black collar. He was accompanied on stage by a drummer, a bass player and occasionally by a back-up grand pianist, when he wasn’t playing the grand piano himself.

Act One began with Sinatra’s “LOVE”, “Almost Like Being in Love”, and “The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else”, followed

by Bing Crosby’s “Learn to Croon”, Harry James’ “I’ll Get By” and the song “If”, made popular in 1971 by the group, Bread. Next up Feinstein sang the classic “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter” and Sinatra’s “The Second Time Around.”

W.C. Handy’s “St. Louis Blues” and Lerner and Lowe’s “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face” from My Fair Lady followed.

Feinstein then joked that most of the composers of the songs he sang were Jewish and his next song, “Just One of Those

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Michael Feinstein – Photo by AJ Mast

Things”, the last song of his first set, sounds Jewish, but it was written by Cole Porter who was not Jewish.

At the concert I also discovered that Feinstein is more than just a singer, he is a bona fide entertainer with a great talent for impressions from Liberace to Louis Armstrong. Feinstein, who occasionally segued into a Liberace impression in the first act, joked that his Liberace is more like Michael Douglas (who portrayed the flamboyant pianist in the film, Behind the Candelabra) doing Liberace. In the second act, Feinstein gave us his Louis Armstrong impression singing “Hello, Dolly” Satchmo-style.

Following intermission Feinstein kicked-off his second set with Irving Berlin’s “I Love a Piano” followed by Nat King Cole’s “Day In Day Out.” He then shared a personal story about the time he met

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Fred Astaire (who he said was his favorite crooner) before singing “The Way You Look Tonight.” Feinstein’s rendition of Louis Armstrong’s “Hello Dolly” followed.

Feinstein then talked about his close association with Ira Gershwin during the last six years of Gershwin’s life and then sang his medley of Gershwin songs which included “Rhapsody In Blue” / “I Got Rhythm” / “Summertime” / “Someone To Watch Over Me” / “They Can’t Take That Away From Me.” (Later backstage, Feinstein confessed he forgot to mention the time in the late ’90s when he collaborated with the Seattle Men’s Chorus at the 5th Avenue Theater for the special concert singing “All Gershwin.”)

The finale was a celebration of Frank Sinatra, one of the greatest crooners ever, with Feinstein singing a medley of Sinatra

songs: “Come Fly with Me” / “Witchcraft” / “A Foggy Day” / “That’s Life” / “Night and Day” / You Make Me Feel So Young”.

Feinstein got a standing ovation following his Sinatra tribute and returned to the stage immediately for an encore song and salute to one of the last of the old-time crooners, Tony Bennett, with “For Once in My Life.”

After the show my fiancé and I went backstage and met Michael Feinstein and he was just like the guy on stage with bawdy humor and I felt I wouldn’t have to wait 25 years to see him again. It was an evening to remember.

MK Scott is a Seattle-based arts blogger.

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DRAG UPDATE:

RuPaul to receive Hollywood Walk of Fame star, BenDeLaCreme ousts herself, Trixie Mattel coming to Seattle in June

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer If you’ve been sleeping under a rock the past week or two, I’m about to wake your ass up with a bit of news from the drag world.

RuPaul, the Khaleesi of drag queens, will soon be starring on Hollywood...literally. The two-time Emmy-winning reality series host is going to receive a star on the famous Los Angeles landmark attraction, the Hollywood Walk of Fame, on March 17 just outside her World of Wonder offices. Not only does a celebrity have to be nominated to get his or her star on the Walk of Fame, but a selection committee has to approve the nomination and then somebody has to pay the cost of adding the star (between $30,000 and $40,000) to the sidewalk. One other member of the LGBT community earned his star this year, too, and that would be “Glee” and “American Horror Story” creator Ryan Murphy, so RuPaul is in good company.

You saw the episode, right? The one where BenDeLaCreme takes herself out of the competition on the current “All-Stars Season 3” of “RuPaul’s Drag Race”, after positioning herself as the frontrunner for the crown. I mean, after that Paul Lynde imper-

Trixie Mattel – Photo courtesy of trixiemattel.com

sonation on the “Snatch Game”, the Seattle queen pretty much had the win in the bag.

But when tasked to choose which of the bottom three – Kennedy Davenport, Shangela, Trixie Mattel – to send home, she instead made the exit herself, lipstick-scribbled fare-

well on the mirror to boot. Maybe it was a power move (she was gonna win, anyway), or maybe the intensity of the show got to her, or maybe it was the sincerest of gestures, but whatever it was, BenDeLaCreme is goners.

The Emerald City will have to settle for its

lone titleholder, Jinkx Monsoon. We do love both queens dearly, as both have generously interviewed with Seattle Gay News, and we certainly wish them continued success.

Speaking of Trixie Mattel, the adorable clown-like queen – a cross between Tammy Faye Baker and a life-sized, boozy drag version of Barbie – is coming to Seattle this summer. The Milwaukee-born entertainer will bring her “Now with Moving Parts” production to the Moore Theatre on June 12, as part of her 25-city North American tour. Trixie and her many suitcases of nothing but wigs and makeup will travel to Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta, New Orleans, Columbus, Buffalo, Portland, Salt Lake City and Houston, to name a few of her stops. Tickets are on sale now at all Ticketmaster outlets, or online at www.Ticketmaster.com.

Lastly, although it was announced a few weeks back, if you haven’t heard yet “Drag Race” alum and Season 6 winner Bianca Del Rio is returning to the Emerald City. She interviewed with SGN last time she swung her purse through town and was a total hoot! The Louisiana native, who I believe is now living in LA, will perform her new show “Blame it on Bianca” on April 6 at The Showbox SoDo with tickets on sale now at www.axs.com.

CHORUS

continued from cover York-based comedian and YouTube sensation Randy Rainbow is making his Seattle debut as the special guest for both performances. In addition to live performances of his wildly popular parody videos, Rainbow will sing hit songs with the Choruses, including the Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning song “This is Me” from The Greatest Showman.

This special unity concert brings together the combined forces of SWC and SMC to confront the rising tide of intolerance in our country. Local musical and gospel performers lend their talents for powerful songs including a tour de force musical theatre piece from the creators of Ragtime about the history of civil rights in America.

“Not In Our Town” salutes the welcoming values of Seattle with inspiring stories of equality as well as songs of celebration including Katy Perry’s “Firework,” Pink’s “Raise Your Glass” and Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody.”

Tickets to McCaw Hall Seattle performances are $25-$78 and available at www. seattlechoruses.org or over the phone at (206) 388-1400. The Seattle area box office is open Monday through Friday, 11am-6pm.

The Annual FREE Family Concert is at McCaw Hall on Saturday April 7 at 2pm.

Enjoy an afternoon for music-lovers, big and small with our region’s largest singing ensembles and guest performers from the Washington Middle School choir. This onehour concert features family-friendly songs from Katy Perry, Whitney Houston, The Wizard of Oz, and Broadway’s Dear Evan Hansen. Sing along, move about, and dance in the aisles of Seattle’s enormous McCaw Hall as you experience this fun, free, family celebration! Tickets are FREE, advance online reservations are recommended and can be made at www.seattlechoruses.org/ attend/concerts-events/family-concert/ About Randy Rainbow A comedian, actor, writer, host and Internet sensation best known for his viral comedy videos. His popular series of political spoofs and musical parodies have garnered international acclaim and hundreds of millions of views. His musi-

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cal tribute to the first presidential debate of 2016 (“BRAGGADOCIOUS!”) received 28 million views in its first two days. He was subsequently asked by the cast of TV’s “Will & Grace” to parody a song which they performed during a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. Randy has originated and starred in multiple hit web series for BroadwayWorld.com, written for comedian Kathy Griffin and hosted and performed in numerous theatrical events for the Broadway, cabaret and gay communities, as well as for the Tony Awards and some of New York City’s most popular night spots including 54 Below, Birdland Jazz Club and Therapy NYC. Rainbow can be seen starring opposite Margaret Cho in a new musical ad campaign for Orbitz. He has also been seen on VH1 and Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live,” and has been heard

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regularly as both a guest and co-host on Sirius XM Radio.

About Seattle Men’s Chorus/ Seattle Women’s Chorus The internationally renowned Seattle Men’s Chorus (founded 1979) and Seattle Women’s Chorus (founded 2002) comprise the largest community choral organization in North America. Both choruses stand out as the largest LGBTQ-identified men’s and women’s choruses in the world. The choruses comprise one of the Pacific Northwest’s largest, most vibrant and successful music organizations, performing in Seattle’s most prestigious venues for an annual audience of more than 30,000 patrons. Flying House Productions is the not-for-profit organization that governs and manages the Choruses. Collectively there are over 600

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singing members along with staff, volunteers, and associate members who support both Choruses. They are a leading voice for the LGBTQ community and offer more than 30 outreach events and main stage concert performances annually.

Our Mission Our voices transform society through innovative and entertaining programs that build community, illuminate the experiences of LGBTQ people and their allies, expand inclusion, and inspire justice.

Our Vision A more harmonious world that celebrates the unique identities and talents of all people.

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Irving Berlin comes to life at Seattle Rep!

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer HERSHEY FELDER AS IRVING BERLIN SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE Through March 18 Oy gevalt! (Holey moley!) So much meshugah schmaltz in this story! (So much crazy chicken-fat!) A schlemiel (a nobody) turns into one of the great American song writers and Hershey Felder tells you all about Israel Beilin growing up to become Irving Berlin.

There is a bit of a rocky start to the biographical one-man show as you get used to Hershey Felder’s delivery. It’s very New York and a bit odd, as sometimes his voice gets elliptical and weirdly low and at first his piano-playing is uneven. But then… But then, a kind of hypnotic charm flows from him and the character deepens and the storytelling and the unbelievably good music of Irving Berlin peeks out and starts working its magic.

Felder is a connoisseur of one-man biographical presentations. He’s created evenings about George Gershwin, Chopin, Beethoven, Leonard Bernstein and is creating one about Claude Debussy for an April, 2019 production. He has toured this evening of Irving Berlin music since 2014.

Felder starts our journey on a “unit set” (it’s a set that does not change and is “one place”) of Irving Berlin’s living room appointed in such a way that it’s clearly Christmas-time. We hear carolers singing a Berlin song. Felder talks to a wheelchair bound Berlin – but the chair is empty. It’s almost like a Clint Eastwood moment. He tells the chair that he’s going to invite the carolers in because they don’t even know the history of what they’re singing. Of course, the carolers are us.

Felder explains he is the “younger” Berlin and tells us of his history in becoming the well-off and well-known Irving Berlin.

He describes as impoverished a life start as any impoverished person can have. While the evening tends a little toward a Wikipe-

Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin – Photo courtesy Hershey Felder Presents

dia entry come to life (Felder is careful to date and time everything), Felder also contextualizes society’s attitudes and prejudices, as well.

The set, a handsome living room, is designed by Felder as well, and the walls and large portrait over the fireplace look entirely fixed. But wonderful projections

by Christopher Ash and Lawrence Siefert change the look of the wall entirely. Pictures of Berlin’s early life or projections of movies flow across the wall immersing us in the descriptions in a visceral way.

Clips of movies that Berlin participated in, and moments of his songs, remind us of

how many iconic moments this man has brought our country and even the world.

The anti-Semitism he faced, and the barriers he had to overcome, are stuff of legend, and make for compelling storytelling.

Felder plays us songs and tells us details, many amusing, about Berlin’s struggles and his triumphs. There are also stories of the songs that some person or other rejected that landed in his storage, somewhere, maybe a piano bench, and never saw the light of day. Or, like “God Bless America,” they saw daylight only after years had passed and for some reason Berlin was led to dig it out.

HIR

continued from cover Zeyl is well-known for her activities in the Seattle theater scene including her work with ACT Theatre (among others) and as being Founding Co-Artistic Director of Washington Ensemble Theatre. She has won the Stranger Genius Award and this production proves she is a powerhouse director as well.

Hir is essential viewing. It’s a radical, feminist, queer, #metoo themed story. The mother in the story has the reins now and is not holding back in any way. Seen through the perspective of an abused lower middle class woman, Hir is a remarkable peek into modern familial discord.

Gretchen Krich gives an impressive performance as the mother, Paige. She tears through each moment at a high emotional pitch that absolutely enthralls the audience.

Her dramatic and comic timing are impeccable as she delivers truths that are timely and more importantly relevant. Krich’s talent is the perfect mechanism for playwright Mac’s sensational writing.

Krich leads a group of talented actors.

They have to be in order to keep up with the frenetic pace with which she delivers the potent dialogue. Playing her disgraced ex-marine, meth-addict son is Evan Barrett as Isaac. Isaac returns from Afghanistan to find his home in shambles. Barrett is magnificent with this challenging theme and with his character’s withered white male privilege. Even his duty in the mortuary services in the military does not prepare him for what is to come. When his charac-

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(l-r) Evan Barrett as Isaac, Charles Leggett as Arnold, and Gretchen Krich as Paige in Hir – Photo by John McLellan

ter greets his now disabled father dressed in humiliating clown garb, it is a heartwrenching father and son moment.

The father, Arnold, is played by Charles Leggett. His subtle performance is sadly beautiful as a man crippled by a stroke and who is now completely emasculated by his wife. She orders him to shut door and turn up the air conditioner as she spritzes him with a water spray bottle like a naughty kitten. As Max, Adrian Kljucec gives a beaming performance. This character is the “hir” (rhymes with fear) of this story. Once a daughter and a sister in this traditional

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and mostly faulty family dynamic, Max is now transitioning from a distraught childhood and its junky “fluorescent food” diet to a person who lives their true self. Now Max re-voices herstory to move on to a future where it all hopefully gets better.

Not surprising, with Zeyl at the helm, the scenic design is excellent. Julia Welch and Timothy White Eagle bring to the stage a portrait of a home in decline; clothes strewn everywhere, furniture not where it’s supposed to be, walls graffitied with slogans. There are Pride flags, worn posters, and a rattling air conditioner, which

Yes, there are Sing-A-Longs! Yes, you’ll just have to sing with ‘em! It’s infectious.

And even for this reviewer, a tear-jerker. By the end of the evening, I double-dare you not to have fallen in love with this production and the evening.

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is a character in itself in this play. Even as the clutter clears in the second act the decay becomes more vivid just as the family dynamic dismantles. Lighting Designer Robert Aguilar’s lighting is flawless as it never obscures or shadows the true faces of this paralyzing American night terror.

Shades of renowned playwrights appear to influence Hir. Is it Edward Albee and its sad portrayal of marriage in tatters? Is it the sad sack useless father akin to Arthur Miller? Or can it be like Sam Shepard’s depictions of an American family who love one another just out of exhausting obligation? In many ways Hir transcends these classic themes and becomes something of its own. It shines a bright light on family in this new era gender idealism. It breaks down the dangerous and ever waning patriarchy and its fantasy of power. It reveals a home that is just a cheap house of plywood and glue built on an actual heap of trash.

Peek inside the cracked windows and see a house with busted walls, cheap countertops, and among this mess – an emptiness.

Who is left to pick up the pieces of the emotional scatterings? So-called father?

So-called mother? Brother/sister-sister/ brother? This complex and confusing story is certainly not afraid to speak its truth about domestic abuse, PTSD, and gender parity. Hir revels in this horrid space and it is magnificently captivating. ​ Hir is presented by ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery (4711 California Ave SW) and co-produced with Intiman Theatre. For more information and tickets, visit www. artswest.org or call 206-938-0963.

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Sound Theatre presents You Can’t Take It With You

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU SOUND THEATRE COMPANY Through March 11 George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart wrote a play in 1936 that at the time was a challenge to the status quo and even considered politically challenging. The message of You Can’t Take It With You was to enjoy today and stop treading on the dreary treadmill of corporate jobs and a life full of “shoulds.” It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (though it’s a comedy).

Now produced in every high school, and many folks’ “gateway drug” into acting, there is little new about its content or message. To make it work, the production has to be shined up in comic timing to a blinding sheen. It can’t be taken literally, since everything in it was written farcically.

Sound Theatre Company has chosen it as the lead off to its new season showcasing their focus on racial inclusion, and more, by casting people of color and including an actor in a wheelchair. There are some great choices, especially casting Teotha (“Tee”) Dennard as Grampa.

Choosing Shermona Mitchell as the mother figure, Penny, however, either immediately tilts the production into “wtf” territory – she’s way too young to mother all these grown children – or makes you understand you are not to take any character that literally … Mitchell, being a talented actor, commits thoroughly enough that she brings the play along and becomes one of the strengths. It’s still not an easy hurdle.

So, every character is an archetype instead of a real person. In some ways, that fits the play perfectly. Grampa gave up corporate life 35 years ago to be happy, Penny became a playwright 8 years ago because a typewriter was mistakenly delivered to the house, daughter Essie (Bo Mellinger) became a ballet dancer because she was no good at it, Mr. Depinna (Laurie Lynch) arrived five years ago and never left after the milkman-whostayed-until-he-died and spends his time making fireworks in the basement.

The cast of You Can't Take It With You – Photo by Ken Holmes

Politics are front and center when an IRS agent tries to collect taxes and Grampa argues with him about why the taxes are necessary. When told things like, “Taxes pay for the Constitution,” Grampa replies that the Constitution was paid for long ago.

In fact, the IRS guy has no good reasons for taxes, according to Grampa, so he says he’ll pay $75 just so the guy will go away.

Given that this was opening weekend and sometimes it takes casts some time to settle in, more of the comedy might land later in the run. However, while there are a few good laughs, some of the problem is that some characters want to be in a realistic play, not a farce. Mellinger, for instance, is way too graceful to be a clunky ballerina. The part

clearly deserves some completely bad dancing. Chris Shea as a bombastic Russian, Kolenkhov, seems almost out of place when he does the outsized acting the role calls for.

Ayo Tushinde and Corey Spruill and Bob Williams and Laura Steele do fine work as “regular” people. Alice (Tushinde) is the “normal” family member who falls in love with a “normal” young executive (Spruill) and fears his “normal” rich parents (Williams and Steele) will be horrified by her eccentric family. But the rest of the cast portraying her eccentric family are too “normal” to horrify… That’s a bit sad.

The tech support is fine, with a handsome homey set by Robin Macartney and colorful costumes by Margaret Toomey.

Lights by Ahren Buhmann and sound by D. R. Amromin complemented.

There seemed to be more misses than hits in this show, and unfortunately, the pacing did not meet the need. If everyone amps their deliveries up at least 50% in brightness, your audience experience will improve.

For more information, go to www. soundtheatrecompany.org or call 206-8565520.

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Roxy Doll’s “The Dollhouse” Open Mic still going strong

Performers at “The Dollhouse” – Photos by Gayle Staker

Seattle Drag icon Roxy Doll has been hosting “The Dollhouse” Open Mic Show for 33 years. The show has moved through various bars/clubs over the past 33 years but is currently located at Capitol Lounge.

Tuesday March 6th The Dollhouse held a 33-year anniversary party for Roxy Doll and The Dollhouse, a weekly talent showcase that offers a supportive and positive

environment for performing artists to practice their craft.

The Dollhouse welcomes stand-up comedians, dancers of all backgrounds, burlesque artists, spoken word poets, live singers, live music/bands, storytellers, all forms of drag, magicians, and circus/sideshow artists. No performer ever turned away, all are welcome. Regularly attended

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by artists of all backgrounds, and skill levels/experience. (21+) The show runs every Tuesday night from 9pm-2am at Capitol Lounge (916 E. Pike St.) The Dollhouse is also active on several social media platforms: Instagram – https://www.instagram. com/dollhouse_seattle

Official Facebook Page – https://www. facebook.com/DollhouseSeattle/ Facebook Public Group – https://www. facebook.com/groups/2066292023600362/ Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/ Dollhouse_Seattle

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Oscars wrap: Coco’s LGBT creators thank spouses on telecast, Chilean transgender movie wins Best Foreign Language Film

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer Diversity was well apparent on Sunday evening’s Academy Awards telecast, where a pair of LGBT filmmakers were honored for their work, the first transgender-themed motion picture won the coveted Best Foreign Language Film prize and the star of that movie became the first ever trans presenter on the globally broadcast ceremony.

Two of the creators of Coco, which walked away with the Best Animated Feature statue, thanked their spouses during the live telecast. Producer Darla K. Anderson extended her gratitude to wife Kori Rae, also a film producer, while screenwriter Adrian Molina credited husband Ryan Dooley in his portion of the speech, which also included the Mexican-themed film’s director Lee Unkrich.

Speaking of Mexico, it was a big night for our neighbors down South, as well as Latin America in general. In addition to Best Animated Feature, Coco also nabbed the Oscar for Best Original Song for the track “Remember Me” written by Robert Lopez and Kristen-Anderson Lopez, the married duo behind another Academy Award-winning tune, “Let It Go” from Frozen.

“Not only are we diverse, but we are close to 50/50 for gender representation,” said Kristen-Anderson Lopez, in recognizing her fellow nominees.

Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro earned the Best Director prize and his movie The Shape of Water captured the allimportant Best Picture award.

The South American country of Chile won its first Best Foreign Film award for A Fantastic Woman, which centers around a transgender woman dealing with the death of her lover and the rejection of his family afterwards. Director Sebastián Lelio acknowledged that lead star Daniela Vega, standing behind him, was the inspiration behind the movie, earning loud cheers and applause from Hollywood’s elite seated inside the Dolby Theatre.

Vega made history herself, becoming the first transgender ceremony presenter in the Academy Awards’ 90-year run.

Dressed in an elegant fuchsia-colored gown designed by Maria Lucia Hohan, the actress introduced the musical number “Mystery of Love”, a Best Original Song nominee from Call Me by Your Name.

Since we’re on the subject of Call Me

by Your Name, the gay coming-of-age film didn’t go home empty handed Sunday night. James Ivory was honored with the Best Adapted Screenplay award and also made history by becoming the oldest Academy Award recipient (in a competitive category) at 89 years old.

“A story familiar to most of us, whether we’re straight or gay or somewhere in between,” Ivory stated in his acceptance speech with a walking cane dangling from his left arm. “We’ve all gone through first love, I hope, and come out the other side mostly in tact.”

Jimmy Kimmel hosted the telecast for the second consecutive year; however, he fell flat in contrast to 2017’s ceremony.

None of his jokes were really that funny with the exception of asking 88 year-old Christopher Plummer how Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of Hamilton, compared to the real Alexander Hamilton.

Kimmel did bring up the sexual misconduct issue in his 11-minute monologue, wittingly saying that film icon Harvey Weinstein was expelled by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for alle-

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Director Sebastián Lelio (l) and lead actress Daniela Vega of A Fantastic Woman, which was awarded the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

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(l-r) Adrian Molina, Lee Unkrich, and Darla K. Anderson accept the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Coco – Photo by Chris Pizzello / Invision / AP

gations that range from sexual harassment to assault, but that the only other person banned from the film industry’s prestigious organization was a former member caught distributing VHS screeners (or advance copies) of nominated films to other Academy members.

Various A-list celebrities, including Ansel Elgort, Armie Hammer, Margot Robbie and Guillermo del Toro, joined Kimmel in surprising an audience across the street from the Dolby Theatre attending a special screening of A Wrinkle in Time with snacks. Elgort and Hammer used a cannon to shoot hot dogs out to the crowd,

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James Ivory and his Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, Call Me by Your Name. His shirt is emblazoned with an image of Timothée Chalamet in the movie. – Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty

while Robbie and Emily Blunt handed out candy. It was certainly entertaining.

Seattle’s own Eddie Vedder performed a stirring cover of Tom Petty’s “Room at the Top” during the sentimental In Memoriam portion of the program.

The night’s best moment, however, came when Frances McDormand was called to the podium to accept her second Oscar for Best Actress for her leading work in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri. Midway through her speech, she set her statue on the floor of the stage and asked all female nominees in every category to stand up, which they did proudly

from Meryl Streep to Greta Gerwig to Rachel Morrison, the first woman to be ever be nominated for Best Cinematography (Mudbound).

“Look around, Ladies and Gentlemen,” she stated with a joyful laugh. “Because we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed.” She concluded with two words, “Inclusion Rider,” which in industry terms is something actors can add to their contracts that guarantees the workforce on a particular movie project will be equally gender and racially represented.

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Frances McDormand asked all female Oscar nominees to stand during her Academy Awards acceptance speech. – Photo by Ed Herrera / ABC via Getty

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continued from cover and Best Production Design, and while there were no major snafus on the level of last year’s La La Land / Moonlight shocker, del Toro’s ambitious and unusual drama winning the top prize was still something of a slight surprise considering the Academy’s well-known reticence to honor fantasy and horror efforts with similar marks of distinction in the past.

“I am an immigrant like Alfonso [Cuarón] and Alejandro [G. Iñárritu], my compadres,” said del Toro as he accepted his Best Director prize. “Like Gael [García Bernal], like Salma [Hayek Pinault] and like many, many of you. And in the last 25 years, I’ve been living in a country all of our own.

Part of it is here, part of it is in Europe, part of it is everywhere. Because I think that the greatest thing our art does and our industry does is to erase the lines in the sand. We should continue doing that when the world tells us to make them deeper.”

This was one of many statements made throughout the evening. In regards to immigrants. In regards to the #TimesUp movement. In regards to the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the shooting in Parkland, Florida and, to no surprise of likely anyone, the political hurricane swirling around President Donald Trump. But, in the end, the focus remained on the movies themselves, many of the winners choosing to try and take a broader, more expansive view of both the industry, their place in it and where they think, or hope, things might be going in the future as they delivered their acceptance speech.

No one epitomized that more than Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri Best Actress winner Frances McDormand. Overflowing with genuine joy, McDormand ini-

tially kept things light. “So I think this is what Chloe Kim must have felt like after doing back-to-back 1080s in the Olympic halfpipe,” she said with a joyful chuckle.

“Did you see that? Okay, that’s what it feels like.” From there, she proceeded to thank many of the usual suspects, including delivering a particularly heartfelt and touching salute to her husband filmmaker Joel Coen and their son Pedro McDormand Coen, “I know you are proud of me,” she proclaimed, “and that fills me with everlasting joy.”

It’s here where McDormand decided to drop the mic. “And now I want to get some perspective,” she said. “If I may be so honored to have all the female nominees in every category stand with me in this room tonight, the actors – Meryl, if you do it, everybody else will, c’mon – the filmmakers, the producers, the directors, the writers, the cinematographer, the composers, the songwriters, the designers. C’mon! Okay, look around everybody. Look around, ladies and gentlemen, because we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed. Don’t talk to us about it at the parties tonight.

Invite us into your office in a couple days, or you can come to ours, whatever suits you best, and we’ll tell you all about them. I have two words to leave with you tonight, ladies and gentlemen: inclusion rider.”

Suddenly Twitter and Facebook issues all over the world were Googling the term, “inclusion rider,” wondering what the heck it was McDormand was talking about. It’s a clause in a contract that stipulates that the cast and/or the crew in a film reflect real demographics, including a proportionate number of women, minorities, LGBTQ individuals and people with disabilities.

It was a call to action that reverberated throughout the room, and as she walked off stage to stunned, rapturous applause the now two-time Oscar winner (she won previously for Fargo) had made her point.

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It was only one of many major events that occurred throughout the evening. Ashley Judd, Salma Hayek Pinault and Annabella Sciorra, three of the women at the center of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, took the stage to introduce a short video spotlighting female representation both behind and in front of the camera moving forward. Cherokee actor Wes Studi became the first Native American presenter in Academy history, introducing a montage of Academy Award-winning war films composed to celebrate the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces. Director Sebastián Lelio’s drama A Fantastic Woman took home the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film. Moments later, that picture’s star, and the person Lelio credited for being its inspiration, Daniela Vega, took the stage to introduce recording artist Sufjan Stevens to perform his nominated song from Call Me by Your Name, in the process becoming the first Transgender actor to do so at the Academy Awards. That movie’s screenwriter, the openly gay James Ivory, became the oldest winner in Oscar history when he picked up the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, while 14-time nominee Roger Deakins finally went home with his hands full after winning Best Cinematography for his work on Blade Runner 2049.

Another big moment came when Jordan Peele won Best Original Screenplay for his box office hit Get Out, marking the first time a horror film had taken home a writing Oscar since The Silence of the Lambs was awarded the prize for Best Adapted Screenplay back in 1992. “I stopped writing this movie about 20 times because I thought it was impossible,” said Peele. “I thought it wasn’t going to work. I thought no one would ever make this movie. But I kept coming back to it because I knew if someone let me make this movie, that people would hear it and people would see it. So I want to dedicate this to all

the people who raised my voice and let me make this movie… Everybody who bought a ticket, who told somebody to buy a ticket, thank you. I love you for shouting out at the theater, for shouting out at the screen.”

The other acting prizes went as expected with Gary Oldman winning Best Actor for his performance in Darkest Hour, Sam Rockwell taking home the Best Supporting Actor prize for his turn alongside McDormand in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri and Allison Janney snagging the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for I, Tanya. “I would like to thank my mother who is older than the Oscar,” said a dumbstruck Oldman. “She is 99 years young next birthday. And, she is watching this ceremony from the comfort of her sofa.

I say to my mother, thank you for your love and support. Put the kettle on, I’m bringing Oscar home.”

Other big winners included Disney/ Pixar’s Coco picking up awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song, the Russian athletic doping investigation Icarus winning for Best Documentary Feature and Christopher Nolan’s WWII epic Dunkirk snagging Best Editing, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing.

Blade Runner 2049 also won Best Visual Effects to go along with Deakins’ cinematography victory while Phantom Thread walked away with Best Costume Design and Darkest Hour unsurprisingly grabbed the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

Host Jimmy Kimmel returned for the second year in a row, his opening monologue one of the strongest in recent memory.

All-in-all the 90th Oscar telecast, while as overlong as ever, still proved to be a night to remember, if only for McDormand putting the entire industry on notice that the status quo will, hopefully, no longer be tolerated.

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Emotionally humanistic Wrinkle an imaginative sci-fi adventure

Reese Witherspoon and Storm Reid in A Wrinkle in Time – Photo courtesy of Disney

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer A WRINKLE IN TIME Now playing Meg Murry’s (Storm Reid) scientist father Dr. Jack Murry (Chris Pine) disappeared four years ago. Since then she’s been going through the motions of her life, the intelligent 12-year-old cutting herself off from almost everything that was once important to her save her mother Dr. Dana Murry (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and her overly precocious adopted younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe). Just as things reach their emotional low point, Meg is visited by three strange women, Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey), Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon) and Mrs. Who (Mindy Kaling), all of whom claim to be in touch with the Universe. More importantly, they say they know what happened to Mr. Murry, and they believe only his children will be capable of finding him.

Joined by classmate Calvin O’Keefe (Levi Miller), Meg and Charles Wallace are whisked away on an interstellar adventure that takes them further away from home than any human beings have ever gone before. Along the way they will learn of the constant battle between Light and Darkness, Mrs. Which granting them a look at what can happen when the latter grabs hold of the human psyche and begins twisting it to its dangerously destructive designs. They are also introduced to the “It,” a being of pure evil that works just as hard for the Darkness as the three ladies do for the Light. It is with this “It” that Mr. Murry is currently being held, and it will be up to Meg to put the final pieces in their proper order if any of them have a chance of returning to Earth and making sure the balance between good and evil remains in alignment.

Along with Lloyd Alexander’s The Chronicles of Prydain adventures and

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea books, Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time quintet was unquestionably one of my absolute favorite series of novels I had the pleasure to read growing up. L’Engle’s efforts, in particular, shattered the way I looked at myself and the world at large. They gave me hope that the impossible could be realized, that the journey to discovery began with understanding who I was as a person and what it was I wanted most from life.

While it would take me more years than I care to count to figure all of that stuff out, I honestly believe I would not be the writer, critic, coworker or friend I am today had these stories not been a part of my own personal adventure, L’Engle helping my imagination soar in ways it never had before I’d become acquainted with her writing.

But A Wrinkle in Time has never lent itself to being filmed. There have been a small handful of attempts, most notably a four-plus hour television miniseries broadcast in 2003. Yet none of them have managed to convey the mixture of magic, emotion, realism, fantasy and imagination L’Engle excelled at manufacturing. More, her story is so layered and complex, so filled with metaphorical meanderings born of psychology, science fiction and romantic longing, keeping track of the various ups, downs and mesmerizing in-betweens is something of a rapturous literary exploit in and of itself.

Taking the reins of a reported $100-million budget, Selma, The 13th and Middle of Nowhere director Ava DuVernay unquestionably tackles her most ambitious project yet. Working from a script by Jennifer Lee (Frozen) and Jeff Stockwell (Bridge to Terabithia), the filmmaker pulls out all the stops in her attempt to bring L’Engle’s timeless story to life. Most of the time she’s wondrously successful, at others coming up infuriatingly short, the movie ultimately a thoughtful, emotionally pure piece of fantastical entertainment that won me over to

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its side even if its more obnoxious missteps are undeniably difficult to overlook.

It is the human angle where DuVernay excels. Scenes of Meg being bullied at school, her inability to access her feelings whenever her father’s name enters into the conversation, the way the youngster lights up from within whenever she sees Charles Wallace do something incredible, all of it resonates in a manner that’s sublime. These scenes have the same kind of introspective, documentarylike edge the director brought to her previous endeavors, she and cinematographer Tobias Schliessler (Beauty and the Beast) utilizing a visual language that’s fairly atypical to productions similar to this one.

When things do explode into colorful fantasy, the resultant images the pair put on display in vibrant, widescreen glory are eye-popping in their authentic magnitude.

Better, they do not overshadow the human journey Meg, Charles Wallace and Calvin are all on. In fact they augment it, precious little feeling showy or self-indulgent from a visual effects standpoint. If anything, DuVernay is more interested in the tactile and the lived-in than she is in the supernaturally expansive. Scenes of suburban cul-de-sacs overtaken with Stepford-like madness and crowded beaches overrun in gluttony and immoderation pack the biggest wallop, as do Mrs. Which’s visions of the “It” at full strength carnivorously turning friend into foe and joy into anger.

As much as I loved so much of this film, there are still pieces that held me at a distance. While Winfrey is nicely cast as the all-knowing Mrs. Which, unlike turns in pictures like Beloved or Lee Daniels’ The Butler, features that were made well after she’d become a global icon, here she can’t really disappear into the role. It does feel like she’s playing herself, and as such I felt myself being somewhat taken out of the story for the majority of her appearances.

While the same can’t really be said of her two co-stars Witherspoon and Kaling, their

characters are still fairly broad, undeniably cartoonish portraits of goodness, levity and joy that can come off as comical if viewed in the wrong light, making the taking of either of them seriously frustratingly difficult.

There is also something to be said about a movie that almost requires the viewer read the book that inspired it in order to fully understand all that is happening and why. While it is obvious DuVernay and her team treasure and adore L’Engle’s source material, that does not mean they are still able to transpose all of its delicate themes and ideas to the screen successfully. Even though significant changes have been made (don’t go looking for the twins; they’re nowhere to be found), most of them still don’t streamline things in a way that feels entirely manageable for those unfamiliar with the novel. It can be rough going as far as that is concerned, and while I never lost track what was going on and why I couldn’t help but still feel like not every viewer is going to be so lucky.

But DuVernay’s humanistic approach can often be spellbinding. The gentle mixing of the broadly cinematic with the starkly personal is exceedingly powerful, especially during the film’s magnificent conclusion.

Meg’s choice to stay and fight for what she believes in and cherishes no matter what the cost a selfless testament to the sort of heights a person can aspire to when they fully set their mind to doing so. The level of understanding, the idea that anything is possible as long as love, compassion and sacrifice are on hand for the assist, that a person no matter what their race, gender or age can accomplish just about anything when labels are put aside as if they never existed, all of that is present here. A Wrinkle in Time might not be as magnificent as L’Engle’s novel (and I can’t say I expected it to be), but even so DuVernay’s adaptation is still a spellbinding family-friendly adventure worth venturing out to see.

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Violently repugnant Sparrow a viscously captivating espionage thriller

Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Lawrence in Red Sparrow – Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer RED SPARROW Now playing After suffering a career-ending injury, Bolshoi prima ballerina Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) is determined to find a way to ensure she and her sick mother Nina (Joely Richardson) continue to live in their large apartment and the pair’s medical bills continue to be paid. To that end, at the urging of her uncle Vanya Egorov (Matthias Schoenaerts), a high-ranking government official, Dominika agrees to go out with a shady Russian businessman who wants to add her to his large stable of mistresses.

But this is all a ruse, an excuse to get this duplicitous millionaire in a room away from his security guards, what happens after the former ballerina is able to achieve this changing the course of her life in ways she never could have anticipated.

Given the choice by her uncle to either be killed for having seen more than she should have or be sent to a special academy for spies who specialize in sexual manipulation, with the understanding that her mother will continue to receive medical care Dominika quickly acquiesces to her uncle’s suggestions. Within four months she proves herself to be quite adept to adapting to all that is asked of her while at the same time maintaining a level of resolve and self-respect that keeps her from becoming nothing more than a mindless government surveillance drone. She does so well, Vanya decides to test Dominika and see just how far her skills have progressed, sending her to seduce CIA operative Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton) in hopes he’ll inadvertently reveal the identity of an American mole inside the Russian government during a moment of romantic candor.

Based on the novel by former CIA ana-

lyst Jason Matthews, Red Sparrow is an old school spy vs. spy throwback that takes itself very, very seriously. Working from a layered, intricately comprehensive script

by Justin Haythe (Snitch), director Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, I Am Legend) doesn’t pull any punches as far as the grotesque abhorrence of psychological and physical manipulation is concerned. He treats the material with total solemnity, showcasing every bone break, knife wound and bullet to the head with a tenacious ruthlessness that’s purposefully discombobulating.

This conceit tends to work. The film has an exceedingly hard edge, one that recalls ’70s thrillers like The Day of the Jackal, The Destructors, The Parallax View and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and it’s clear that Lawrence revels in taking no prisoners as he steers this story towards its chilling conclusion. But the violence almost always feels part of the story, events that help shape the characters thus allowing for additional insight into why many of these shady, duplicitous figures end up making the decisions that they do. It’s very methodical, each piece of the narrative building upon the next in a manner that is exacting yet rarely feels self-indulgent or superfluous, the director creating an insidious aura of melancholic repugnance that’s chilling.

As completely as I responded to the material overall, there were still moments where I couldn’t help but feel as if Lawrence was going a step or two further than necessary. There is an act of brutality that transpires between Dominika and the businessman that plays like some variation of a scene found in grindhouse exploitation thrillers like The Last House on the Left or I Spit on Your Grave, and while the scene isn’t played for thrills, isn’t designed to titillate, it’s still so extreme in its vile cruelty I was almost angry at the director for including it. I didn’t like the moment, not at all,

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and while that might seem a little hypocritical considering my fondness for retro B-grade horror that tends to revel in scenes similar to this one, it’s the nature in which Lawrence chooses to depict this event that sickened me, images here so senselessly loathsome I’m not going to be shaking them anytime soon.

Yet I find that Red Sparrow continues to grow on me the further I get away from my initial viewing. Haythe’s screenplay does a fine job of fleshing Dominika out, giving her layers of depth and nuance that only grow in power and determination as events evolve. I loved the way in which she and Vanya interact, the nature of their relationship overflowing in destructive venom that only gets more potent the longer and more often they continue to work together. The writer does a fine job of maintaining the intelligent convolutions that helped make Matthews’s novel a bestseller, the ways in which the various twists and turns ultimately take shape undeniably compelling.

As far as the acting goes, this is a showcase for Jennifer Lawrence and Matthias Schoenaerts, both of whom are exceptional, everyone else, including a reasonably intense Edgerton, forced to make do with whatever emotional scraps might have been left dangling for them to make use of. Recent Academy Award nominee Charlotte Rampling is particularly underutilized, and it’s hard not to imagine in the television miniseries version of this story her hard-edged matron of the sexual spy school would have had a heck of a lot more to do. Mary-Louise Parker, on the other hand, appears to be having a grand time vamping it up as an American who inadvertently crosses Dominika’s path, and while her time in the story is decidedly brief that doesn’t make it any less memorable.

Unsurprisingly, much like many of Lawrence’s previous films, notably Constantine and Water for Elephants, this

thriller proves to be an immaculately designed visual marvel featuring crack production design from Maria Djurkovic (The Imitation Game) and superlative editing from Alan Edward Bell (The Dark Tower), while Jo Willems’s (30 Days of Night) impressively visceral cinematography is intoxicating in its elegantly observational refinement. James Newton Howard’s (Detroit, Nightcrawler) score is also superb, his music propelling things forward down an increasingly dark and twisted path that Dominika must successfully navigate if she’s going to make it to the end alive.

I have plenty of reservations as far as it pertains to Red Sparrow, not the least of which being that scene of sexual desecration and blood-splattered mental abuse that closes out the first act and helps send the former ballerina on a one-way path to a place often referred to as “whore school” by a number of the secondary characters.

There’s also a massive leap of faith that needs to happen in order to accept that Dominika could become such a crack agent with such minuscule training (four months isn’t exactly a lot of time), ballet and espionage not exactly two professions that normally walk happily hand-in-hand.

But I still can’t shake this movie. Jennifer Lawrence’s focused, nakedly raw performance is sensational, and I love that Haythe has constructed his narrative in a manner where all the clues are right there to be dissected and discussed assuming the viewer is observant enough to make note of them. Red Sparrow likely won’t jump start a new franchise, the ugly, harshly repugnant nature of things not going to sit well with a great many members of the audience, yet I still find I liked it all the same.

This is a thriller I’ll be thinking about for some time to come, and I have this sneaking suspicion I’m going to be taking a second look at it sooner rather than later.

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The Cakemaker – Photo courtesy of Laila Films

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continued from cover ing that the evening’s festivities will be a delectable, sugary treat to attend.

For the first time ever, the festival is split into two parts in 2018, the main section running from March 10 thru March 18 with screenings and events at AMC Pacific Place, the SIFF Uptown Cinema and at the Seattle Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island. Following the main week’s events there will also be a first-ever MiniFestival on the Eastside running April 14 and 15, gala screenings and events scheduled for the Regal Cinebarre Issaquah 8.

More information on the Seattle Jewish Film Festival can be found at http://www. seattlejewishfilmfestival.org/ For LGBTQ viewers, the festival’s popular Gay Gezunt! returns once again with a gala screening of writer/director Ofir Raul Graizer’s award-winning drama The Cakemaker on Sunday, March 11, at 8:40pm at AMC Pacific Place (600 Pike St.) In the spirit of full disclosure, I’ll actually be introducing the film this year, so if you want to see me mumble a few words and make a valiant attempt to sound like I know what I’m talking about make sure you attend. If that’s not a good enough reason to be at the theatre, the movie is flat-out terrific, which in all honesty should be reason enough to give it a look all by itself. [EDITOR’S NOTE: Hearing Sara Michelle talk about film is always a special occasion and a tremendous opportunity to learn more about and absorb her knowledge and passion for film.]

I had the opportunity to speak briefly with Stroum Jewish Community Center of Greater Seattle Director of Cultural Arts and longtime festival programmer Pamela Lavitt to talk a little bit about this year’s event. Here are some of the highlights from our conversation: Sara Michelle Fetters: We’re back for another year! What’s the excitement level like this go-around? Or has this just became old hat for you at this point?

Pamela Lavitt: The Seattle Jewish Film Festival is never old hat! Pishaw! Or, “poo, poo,” as they say in superstitious Yiddish.

Each year we have over 400 films to consider, a prolific plenty of Jewish and Israeli cinema and nuanced stories to choose from and filmmakers to invite. This year, we are expanding the festival, adding another two days and four films to the lineup at a fullmenu venue. Yes, dinner and drinks can be ordered! Or hang out at the bar before or after the show! With Israel turning 70, this milestone gave us the opportunity to focus

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on Israeli cinema. Almost half our films are from Israel in part or in whole.

Furthermore, every other year we offer a REEL Difference Award to a filmmaker who makes a real difference through their work, and Tiffany Shlain is this year’s recipient. She’s an Internet pioneer, founder of the Webby Awards and an Emmy nominated filmmaker with numerous Sundance premieres and has a social justice / social initiative component to her work making her a global talent worth celebrating. [Tiffany] lived in Seattle briefly but has not attended our festival before. Her “Spoken Cinema” closing program is going to be very exciting.

In sum, it’s fun to reinvent, rebrand and celebrate REEL Jewish and this is REEL life every year, and we have fun finding new ways to [program] and find new guests to bring to our region. Oh, and did I mention that Hedy Lamarr’s daughter, Denise LoderDeLuca, lives in Seattle and will introduce the documentary about her mother? And that she used to be a JCC member? Who knew? I just love how film brings so many people “out” in our community.

Sara Michelle Fetters: What were the challenges in regards to this year’s festival?

Pamela Lavitt: Our first challenge was to respond to survey requests for either a North End or Eastside venue. People have been asking for this for years so we needed to find the right location with the right assets, and Regal Cinebarre Issaquah 8, with a full food, drink and bar menu, was just the ticket.

But in the Jewish world, it wasn’t as easy as just adding another venue for a few days or a weekend. We are beholden to the Jewish calendar, and Passover is right after the festival and we have a number of hot-ticket cultural events after as well (including James Beard Award-winning Israeli-New Orleans chef Alon Shaya, whose cookbook release party is accompanied by Creole cocktails, Bayou-ites and a Louisiana DJ in the house on March 24), so we are skipping over a month and having a mini-Fest on April 14 and 15. We will have to see how it goes. It’s a new demographic, a new venue, new dates and we are hoping the community responds.

Also, we want to welcome in diverse communities from the Issaquah, Redmond, Kirkland and the Snohomish corridor, all of whom don’t get a lot of Jewish/Israeli films coming their way with wider appeal, films such as the opener Shalom Bollywood about IndianJewish cinema legends. There is a 500-year history of Indian-Jews or Bene-Israel, and it’s always a challenge to ensure that folks from India and South East Asia attend the festival.

We want to keep building those bridges.

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Sara Michelle Fetters: This past year, there’s been so much activity in regards to the SJCC. Alan Alda. Stephen Tobolowsky.

Those are only two of the names and events you sponsored and organized this past year.

What’s it mean to you to have year-round events like these? Do you have even more planned for the future?

Pamela Lavitt: To quote from Hamilton, “Just you wait…Just you wait.” We are hitting our groove!

SJFF is part of the SJCC (Stroum Jewish Community Center) Arts + Ideas programs. Nationally and internationally known artists and speakers are coming to our venue which opened three years ago.

I modeled these events on a 92nd Street Y model in New York City. We run a full season of programs including spoken word, global music, comedy and chef and author talks. There are film forums year-round.

Finally, names and faces people know and love are coming to our theater. We just announced Nigella Lawson is coming next on April 24. The celebrity chef, TV broadcaster and personality has a new book At My Table and we are holding a high noon tea VIP event which has already sold out!

We’ll also have a chef talk with a tea tasting by our sponsor Sholom Teas which will feature both kosher and organic options.

And we continue to aim higher. For the stars, so to speak. And not just in regard to Jewish/Israeli performers (i.e. celebrities like Alan Alda). Coming up on April 19 Israel’s hit podcast based on “This American Life” called “Israel Story” will be here. It focuses on a bunch of young Israelis showing the complex diversity of Israel in long-form storytelling mentored by Ira Glass. This is just one way we can educate the region about the nuances of Israeli life, and they are absolutely amazing on stage with live music, multimedia stories and live sound.

Also coming soon is YidLife Crisis.

These comedians do shtick all in Yiddish, but everyone will laugh young and old; Jewish and non-Jewish. These guys became famous with a web sitcom series on YouTube with star cameos from Mayim Bialik and Howie Mandel and they’ve swept up awards at Jewish film festivals around the country.

Finally, on June 3 African rhythms meet Jewish ones as the big band Zion80 comes to town. Members of this band play with other known bands such as the Klezmatics and Matisyahu. Years ago, we tried to fit all of this into the festival. Now we have another nine months to present amazing Jewish and Israeli artists and bring people together year-round.

But wait, there’s more! We are launching a new festival in Winter 2018 with a footprint like SJFF around town, featuring some

even more famous faces. Tentative name: “Shmuzik. Just you wait!” We are having so much fun. To the film infinity, and beyond!

Sara Michelle Fetters: Always nice to see that the Gay Gezunt! program has returned. Heck, I’ll even be there to introduce the film The Cakemaker this year.

Why is this program important? Why make sure films like this one are represented at the festival?

Pamela Lavitt: One of the first Yiddish words I learned as a kid growing up in New York was, “fegele,” literally Yiddish for “bird” but slang for “queer” or “gay.”

It was hard for me to bear that a minority culture could use a term to minimize members of our community. Being active in Jewish social justice my whole life with organizations like Jews for Racial and Economic Justice in NY founded and led by awesome lesbians back in my New York days, and following new Yiddish poets like Irena Klepfisz, LGBTQ thoughts and ideas were interwoven into the filmmaking and performance culture I was a part of, and it included people like Tony Kushner along with so many others.

When I came to Seattle and started directing the festival, adding an LGBTQ component wasn’t rocket science. Out of 400 submissions, many fall into the LGBTQ category and we have a very strong relationship with Three Dollar Bill Cinema, sharing films and showing some excellent ones twice. They are “judged” by the committee and programmers just like other entries but we prioritize having at least one featured slot because we have amazing options, amazing gay-identified programmers and amazing gay partners such as Congregation Tikvah Chadashah and many Queer and Trans members of Temple Beth Am, Kol Haneshemah and Congregation Beth Shalom.

It’s just part of the weave of our mosaic and Jewish diversity. It’s a priority to show all the prismatic colors of the rainbow. SJFF strives for diversity of representation; demographically, by age, by affiliation, by country, by political ideas and points of view.

When I studies Yiddish many years ago we made T-shirts that said, “gay maidel,” which means, “go girl,” in hot pink. Everyone wore it! That’s the goal. Get everyone to see the mosaic of Jewish life and spectrums of identity as their own. Israel also has some amazing gay filmmakers like Tomer Heymann whose output often features gay subjects with universal messages and done brilliantly. It’s really as simple as that.

Sara Michelle Fetters: Quick! Two films (or programs) you feel audiences simply MUST make it a priority to see or be a part of?

Pamela Lavitt: Praise the Lard on March 13. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story on March 16. Her daughter is coming.

How can you not attend! The Testament on March 15. “Tiffany Shlain’s Spoken Cinema” on March 18. She’s a Ted Talk and a Sundance Filmmaker all wrapped into one. Glorious! Shalom Bollywood and Your Honor showing during the Eastside MiniFestival.

Wait. That’s more than two. Whoops!

It’s all great. See everything!

Sara Michelle Fetters: At the end of the day, what do you hope audiences take away from the festival? What do you hope they are talking about?

Pamela Lavitt: That SJFF presents a colorful mosaic and diverse spectrum of amazing international films and that we go above and beyond to feed your senses, as well as to literally feed you as often as possible. Come on honey, eat something! The Jewish mother in me says that constantly.

We’ve got tons of food. We’ve got forums for dialogue, conflict, passion, debate and good old-fashioned schmoozing. It’s a kaleidoscopic world we hope you will enter and radiate in all year long. Or at least until our next Arts+Ideas program or film screening!

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SATURDAY - March 10

Seattle Jewish Film Festival (03/10-03/18 & 04/14-04/15) www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org A Gathering of Men in Edmonds. 8:15-11:30am.

Edmonds UUC, 8109 224th St SW, Edmonds. Meets 2nd Saturday each month. All men are welcome. www. agatheringofmen.org 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. (206) 4488518. www.seattlefrontrunners.org.

Positively Living Coffee Social. 9:30am-12 noon.

Cupcake Royale, 1111 E Pike St. Every Saturday. Casual social get-together for the HIV community. Anthony, 206-957-1600. Sponsored by LIfelong.

HRC Seattle’s 16th Annual Bowling for Equality.

2 hours shifts: 3-5pm, 6-8pm, 9-11pm. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW. Join HRC Seattle for our annual bowling event! This year we are excited to return to Saturday nights and really amp up the party!! West Seattle Bowl is proud to host HRC Seattle this year and we have lots of fun planned. Tickets are $40 per person ($20 for 18 & under) or $320 for a lane of 8. Included in your ticket price are two hours of bowling, shoe rental, appetizers and an annual HRC membership or membership renewal. After party at OutWest Bar, 5401 California Ave SW. OutWest Bar, West Seattle’s very own LGBTQA bar, located at the corner of California Ave SW & SW Brandon St, invites you to join the after party fun! Featuring drink special available all day! Keep the party going at OutWest.

Georgetown Art Attack. 6-9pm. Meets 2nd Saturday each month. Reflects the industrial-strength character of the neighborhood. For information stop into Georgetown Records at Airport Way S & S Vale or visit www. georgetownneighborhood.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.oasisyouthcenter.org.

Ballard’s Second Saturday Artwalk. 7-10pm. Pick up maps at participating shops & galleries located in the Ballard business district (Ballard Ave NW & NW Market St area). Meets 2nd Saturday each month. Enjoy an evening of art as local galleries & businesses showcase artists from Ballard & beyond. (206) 784-9705; visitballard.com Gay City Arts presents “Hijx de su Madre” (03/0903/11). 6:30pm doors; 7pm show. Mutaciones, Cruzadas, Desvias, Relajos, Desmadres, Matamorphosis y Tim Travel Along Las Fronteras del Ser. General admission: $15-$20; students & seniors: $12. More info and tickets: gaycity.org/arts/ Beijing Queer Chorus with Captain Smartypants and Sensible Shoes. 8pm. East Shore Unitarian Church, 12700 SE 32nd St, Bellevue. A special concert with the visiting Beijing Queer Chorus hosted by Eric Lane Barnes with SMC’s & SWC’s Captain Smartypants & Sensible Shoes. Tickets: $25 per person; $40 couple or family. Tickets: at http://ESUC.org/beijing-queer-chorussaturday-march-10/ or 425-747-3780 starting Monday and at the door.

Medieval Women’s Choir “Spring Celebration.”

8pm. Trinity Episcopal Parish, 609 8th Ave. The concert features a number of works from the Carmina Burana which was compiled around 1230. The choir will also perform motets for 13th century Paris, tender rondeaux

by Adam de la Halle, and love songs by the titan of medieval France, Guillaume de Machaut. Tickets: $25 advance, $15 students, $30 at the door. https://singspring. brownpapertickets.com. www.medievalwomenschoir.org

SUNDAY - March 11

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BEGINS Seattle Jewish Film Festival (03/10-03/18 & 04/14-04/15) www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org Center for Spiritual Living. 8:25, 9:45, 11:30am. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. Blessings & we hope to see you soon! (206) 527-8801 ext 203, www.cslseattle.org Gay Men’s Bowling in Everett. 9:30am. Glacier Lanes, 9630 Evergreen 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; www.gaysnohomish.org Tacoma First United Methodist Church. 9:30am Worship, 11am Adult Education. 423 Martin Luther King Way, Tacoma. (253) 627-0129, www.fumctacoma.org University Lutheran Church. 9:30am Worship, 1604 NE 50th St. All are welcome. We choose love. (206) 525-7074. universitylutheranseattle.org

March 10 thru March 18 Integrity/Puget Sound. 7pm Worship & Fellowship. St. Mark’s Cathedral, Thomson Chapel, 1245 10th Ave E. Integrity is an international ministry of Gay & Lesbian Episcopalians, their friends & families, dedicated to education, support & service within the Church & the GLBT community. (425) 226-2746.

Gay City Arts presents “Hijx de su Madre” (03/0903/11). 6:30pm doors; 7pm show. Mutaciones, Cruzadas, Desvias, Relajos, Desmadres, Matamorphosis y Tim Travel Along Las Fronteras del Ser. General admission: $15-$20; students & seniors: $12. More info and tickets: gaycity.org/arts Seattle Jewish Film Festival - “Gay Gezunt!” – LGBTQ Film “The Caretaker.” 8:40pm. AMP Pacific Place 11, 600 Pine St. Devastated by the sudden death of his Israeli boyfriend, a shy Berlin baker journeys to Jerusalem, where he secretly infiltrates the lives of his lover’s widow and son, and helps revive her fledgling cafe with his tantalizing German confections. How long can he keep this secret while the pair becomes deeply enmeshed? Community Partners: Congregation Tikvah Chadashah and Kol HaNeshamah. www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org.

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

MONDAY - March 12

Plymouth Church United Church of Christ. 10am Workship. 1217 6th Ave. (206) 622-4865, plymouthchurchseattle.org All Pilgrims Christian Church. 10:30am Worship. 500 Broadway E. A congregation of the Disciples of Christ & the United Church of Christ. (206) 322-0487, www. allpilgrims.org St. Clement’s Episcopal Church. 10:30am Worship.

1501 32nd Ave S. Great music. Dynamic preaching.

Holy communion. Encountering the transformative and unconditional love of God in Christ. Join us! www. stclementseattle.org Seattle Sunday Bowling. 10:30am. 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! $6.50 + $3 shoe rental. (425) 785-4729.

Welcome Table Christian Church. 9:45am Meditation; 10:30am Worship; Labyrinth 2nd Sundays 1-4pm. 1322 S Bayview St. welcometablecc.org Emerald City Metropolitan Community Church Seattle. 11am Worship. Chapel at University Temple United Methodist Church, 1415 NE 43rd St. MCC is Seattle’s oldest Gay-friendly church. (206) 325-2421, www.mccseattle.org.

Lotus Sisters Guided Meditation. 11am-1:30pm.

SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Meets 2nd Sunday each month. Senior students lead the meditation, provide dharma talks or reflections & lead discussion.

(206) 329-5908; www.LotusSisters.org; www.sasgcc.org (Meets in 2nd floor meeting room; no elevator.)

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

Contact Forrest Rode, (206) 920-6117, or Doug Allison, doug.l.allison@gmail.com. Find us under “Dharma Buddies” under Meetup.com or DharmaBuddies.org.

(Women may wish to contact our sister meditation group at www.LotusSisters.org.)

Just for Today (NA). 12-1:15pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step Narcotics Anonymous group open to anyone in recovery. (206) 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

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can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number (206) 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org New Beginnings (SLAA). 12 noon-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201, O’Neil Room. MEETS DAILY (except Saturday). Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous is a 12-step/12- tradition-oriented fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope to overcome sex and love patterns of addiction. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org No Safeword Writers Group. 1pm. See website for location. Meets 2nd & 4th 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. NSWG’s primary focus is erotic writing - but they welcome anyone who writes. The only requirements are to write, to attend, & to be respectful. For info & location, www.nosafewordwritersgroup.org Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: Afternoon; Mon/Weds/ Fri: Evenings; Tues/Thurs: Mornings. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. Preregistration required. Orca Swim Team workouts are for both competitive & recreational swimmers. www. orcaswimteam.org Rain City Soccer Club - Kickabout. Sunday afternoon usually at 3pm. Location varies. Join us for Seattle’s mostly-weekly mostly-LGBTQ pickup soccer game. www.raincitysoccer.org Shame to Grace (SAA). 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Sunday. Sex Addicts Anonymous 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 (206) 237-8828, SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Ski Buddies Monthly Potluck. 6-8:30pm. Check website for details and location. Meets 1st or 2nd Sunday each month (Oct-Feb). Come & hear about all the great ski trips & winter activities Ski Buddies has planned.

Bring a potluck dish to share. Ski Buddies is a nonprofit GLBT & GLBT-friendly club which meets regularly thruout the fall & winter, offering camaraderie & deeply discounted skiing adventures for all levels of skiers & snowboarders. www.skibuddies.org Pride League Bowling. 6:30pm. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW. Every Sunday. Regular league bowling. Jeff, (206) 932-3731; leagues@wsbowl.com.

[EXCEPT no bowling June, July & August.]

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Seattle Jewish Film Festival (03/10-03/18 & 04/14-04/15) www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org SOBER On Meds. 1-2pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Monday. 12-step group open to anyone in recovery & living on a medicine regimen. (206) 3222437; www.sasgcc.org Strength Over Speed (SOS). 2-3:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Peer support for Gay and Bisexual men recovering from crystal meth addiction. www.strengthoverspeed.org. (206) 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday afternoon listing.)

Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. Seattle Unity Church, 200 8th Ave N. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.FreelySpeaking.org PFLAG/Seattle Monthly Meeting. 7-9pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Meets 2nd Monday each month. (206) 325-7724 or info@pflagseattle.org; www.pflagseattle.org. PFLAG is the national organization for parents, families, allies, and LGBTQ people united for equality.

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. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses, & families of GLBT persons, as well as those minorities. PFLAG/Puget Sound: (206) 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.

(206) 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Destiny/Unity AA Meeting in Tacoma. 7:30-8:30pm.

Christ Episcopal Church, 310 N “K” St, Tacoma. Every Monday. LGBTQ-friendly AA meeting. (253) 474-8897.

(Also meets Fridays.)

Washington Gender Alliance Support Group Meeting in Shoreline. 7:30pm. Center for Human Services, 17018 15th Ave NE, Shoreline. Every Monday. www. washingtongenderalliance.com

TUESDAY - March 13

Seattle Jewish Film Festival (03/10-03/18 & 04/14-04/15) www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org Orca Swim Team Workout. Morning. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday afternoon listing.)

LGBTQ+ Group. 1:15-2:15pm. Orion Center, 1828 Yale Ave. Every Tuesday. A group for LGBTQ youth ages 13-24 & their allies. Sponsored by Youthcare.

(206) 622-5555.

Dignity/Seattle. 6pm-Prayer Service. Ravenna United Methodist Church, 5751 33rd Ave NE. Meets 2nd Sunday each month. Dignity/Seattle is the local chapter of the nationwide organization of GLBT Roman Catholics.

“We celebrate our inherent dignity with pride in liturgy, mutual support, work for justice, & social activities.”

Gender-inclusive & relationship affirming liturgies & prayer services. All welcome. (206) 325-7314.

LGBTQ Questioning & Allied Youth Drop-in Group in Renton. 6-8pm. Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS), 1025 S 3rd St, Renton. 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 (SOS). 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Peer support for Gay and Bisexual men recovering from crystal meth addiction. www.strengthoverspeed.org. (206) 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org

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ALISS - Aging Lesbians in South Seattle Evening Gathering. 6:30-8pm. Southeast Seattle Senior Center, 4655 S Holly St, Rainier Ave S & S Holly St., Social Hall.

Meets 2nd & 4th Tuesday each month. This is a group primarily for Lesbians but all are welcome to attend.

Facilitator: Fai Coffin; Cost: FREE. Metro route 7. Wheelchair accessible. Kate, (206) 722-0317; www.sessc.org.

Alzheimer’s Association’s LGBT Caregivers’ Support Group. 6:30-8pm. Home Street Bank, 7307 Greenwood Ave N. Meets 2nd Tuesday each month.

A free information and support group for care partners, family members and friends of individuals with dementia.

Please contact group facilitator Mandi Gunderson, (206) 471-2352 prior to attending.

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 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. (206) 3222515, 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 (206) 237-8828. SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191.

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

Hand drumming classes for Gay men. Drums provided.

For info & location call Dennis at (206) 363-4500 or www.outdrum.com Men’s Discussion Group. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Tuesday. Peer group for Gay & Bi men. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Here & Now Gay & Lesbian AA Meeting in Tacoma.

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

Every Tuesday.

Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. GLBT & GLBT-friendly co-ed water polo team is open to all who want to play. Beginners & experienced players welcome. Check our website for up to the minute details, or call the Otter Hotline (206) 414-8797. www.otterpolo.com. [EXCEPT no water polo mid-June through Labor Day Weekend.]

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

WEDNESDAY - March 14

Seattle Jewish Film Festival (03/10-03/18 & 04/14-04/15) www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org Mature Friends Walk Around Greenlake. 11am. Meet up at 10:50am with a group of older men gathered at the north end of the parking lot that is next to the boathouse along the southwest side of Greenlake. Every Wednesday. Walk around Greenlake followed by lunch at a local restaurant. www.maturefriends.org Mature Friends Dining Out Luncheon. 12 noon.

Roosters Restaurant, 611 Broadway E. Meets 2nd & 4th Wednesday each month. Just drop in - no RSVP required. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org True Colors: Connecting LGBTQ Teens in Shoreline.

4-5pm. Every Wednesday. Discussing your important issues, building a supportive community. For information, location & to REGISTER call Lindsay Bagley (206) 362-7282 x 8018 or email lbagley@chs-nw.org Positively Living. 5-7pm. Lifelong, 1016 E Pike St., 3rd Fl. Every Wednesday. Social and support group for the HIV community with various topics for discussion and conversation. Anthony, 206-957-1600. Sponsored

by Lifelong.

GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): A Support Group for GLBTQ+Youth (14-20) serving Snohomish County & surrounding communities. 6-8pm. Phone or email for location. Every Wednesday. Sponsored by PFLAG Everett. Brenda, (425) 263-2908. globeleaders@hotmail.com POZ Seattle Monthly Social - St. Patty’s Potluck 2018.

6-8pm. The Cuff Complex, 1533 13th Ave. Food, music, 50/50 raffle. $5 suggested donation; no one turned away for lack of funds. www.pozseattle.org.

Queer Seattle Book Club. 6pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E (upstairs). Every Wednesday. This month’s title is “Necessary Errors” by Caleb Crain. https://faculty. washington.edu/swittet/SGLBookClub/ [Next month: “The Sparsholt Affair” by Alan Hollinghurst.]

The Rowing Team Peer Recovery Group. 6-7:30pm.

All Pilgrims Church, 500 Broadway E. Every Wednesday.

This peer recovery group provides a safe & supportive faith community to share your recovery journey with,

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month to socialize, chat & often go out afterwards for coffee or some activity. Please join us! For information & to RSVP: www.longhair.shorturl.com Seattle Prime Timers Monthly Potluck. 2pm. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave (behind Seattle Central College). Enter via the north parking lot and get a permit for free parking. Meets 3rd Saturday most months. Cost: $4 per person (please try to bring Tuesdays between 12noon-3pm. For information, visit exact change) to help pay for the meeting room rental. www.q-law.org/legalclinic Please bring a dish that will serve eight or more to share.

PFLAG Bellevue/Eastside Monthly Meeting. 7-9pm. Within walking distance of Metro routes 8, 10, 11, 49, 60, First United Methodist Church, 1934 108th Ave NE, Capitol Hill LINK Light Rail station, Capitol Hill streetcar.

Bellevue. Meets 3rd Thursday each month. Wheelchair www.seattleprimetimers.org accessible. We offer support and education in a safe, Pink Pistols Seattle. 5pm. West Coast Armory Indoor confidential, and welcoming atmosphere and serve all Range, 13216 SE 32nd St, Bellevue WA. Monthly range East King County communities The first half of each meeting (target shooting/practice). Contact us on Facemeeting is dedicated to support, the second half is book for more information/Confirm details. usually a guest speaker. See http://community.pflag.

“Upbeat on Jackson” - Featuring Reggie Garrett & org/PFLAGBellevue. Contact us at info@bellevue-pflag.

The Snake Oil Peddlers. 7-9pm. Ernestine Anderson org or (425) 483-6642. PFLAG Bellevue/Eastside is a Place, 2010 S Jackson St. FREE monthly concert series. support and advocacy group, uniting members of the Next concert: April 21 with Jim Page and Kat Eggleston.

LGBTQ community with friends, families, and allies.

Sponsored by Low Income Housing Institute.

21st Century Bowling. 7pm. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW. Every Thursday. Regular league bowling.

SUNDAY - March 18 Jeff, (206) 932-3731; leagues@wsbowl.com. [EXCEPT (See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.) no bowling June, July, August.]

Seattle Jewish Film Festival Buddhism & Recovery. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th (03/10-03/18 & 04/14-04/15) Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday. A meditation/recovery www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org group. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Gay Fathers Association of Seattle. 7:30-9pm. Group Baha’i Prayer & Fellowship Circle. 10am. Pearl Health, 201 16th Ave E, Central Bldg, Lower Atrium. Warren Bldg, 606 12th Ave S. Meets 3rd Sunday each Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & month. Share prayers, readings, thoughts & music. All Gay men who are currently or previously married. Safe, backgrounds, all faiths welcome. (206) 391-2188. anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring Ethyl Forever Car Club, Pacific NW Region Lambda fathers & friends. You are not alone. For information, Car Club Monthly Tire Kick/Social. 10:30am. Randy’s community events & “questioning” visit www.gfas.org or Restaurant, 10016 E Marginal Way S (south of the our message board at http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/ Museum of Flight). Meets 3rd Sunday each month.

This monthly informal auto enthusiasts event starts gayfathersseattle Gay Male Sexuality & Relationships. 7:30-9pm. with breakfast at this location with a show & tell and SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday. continues to a chosen point of interest. Open to all Ongoing support group open to Gay and Bisexual men. LGBTQ persons & friends who have an interest in the (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org [NOTE: Please con- automobile, not just collector or performance vehicles. ethylforever@hotmail.com tact the facilitator prior to attending.]

Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Radical Women International Women’s Day CelEvers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tues- ebration - “Working Women Rise Up: Many Fronts, day & Thursday. (See Tuesday listing at 8pm.) [EXCEPT One Struggle.” 2pm. 5018 Rainier Ave S. The event no water polo mid-June through Labor Day Weekend.] will feature a panel of speakers on crucial local issues, discuss the leadership role women are playing in it, how people can help and thoughts on how to buiild a FRIDAY - March 16 powerful, multiracial movement led by working and poor Seattle Jewish Film Festival women. $5 door donation requested. Savory Italian (03/10-03/18 & 04/14-04/15) Lunch Buffet at 1pm for $10 donation. 206-722-6057; www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org www.radicalwomen.org.

Ageless in Recovery (AA). 12noon-1pm. SASG, 115 Seattle Poly Potluck & Discussion Group. 5-8pm.

15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Friday. A drop-in AA group (contact for new location) Meets 3rd Sunday each for 55+. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org month. For people interested in polyamorous, open, and Road to Recovery (SLAA). 12noon-1:30pm. SASG, ethically non-monogamous relationships. $5 donation; 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Friday. Ongoing 12- please bring a potluck dish. This event is open to the step group for sex and love addicts. (206) 322-2437; public. Look for us on Facebook or Meetup. www.sasgcc.org COMMUNITY RESOURCES Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Allyship - an organization of LGBTQ individuals fighting Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Friday. for economic and social justice. www.LGBTQAllyship. org, allyship@yahoo.com, (206) 279-8169.

(253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org Strength Over Speed (SOS). 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver.us 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Peer support for Gay and Another Gay Social Club! - www.meetup.com/AnotherBisexual men recovering from crystal meth addiction. Gay-Social-Club/ www.strengthoverspeed.org. (206) 322-2437; www. Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane. sasgcc.org com/guide.html Cascades Rainbow Community Center - in Mount BiNet Seattle is a mixed gender, social group for BiVernon. 6:30-10:30pm. 1508 N 18th St, Mount Vernon. sexuals, their partners & other Bi-friendly folks - www.

Every Friday. Weekly social get-togethers including binetseattle.org. potlucks and movie nights for LGBTQAI folks in Skagit County and beyond. The Center has the largest LG- Bremerton/Kitsap County - www.outwestsound.org BTQAI library in Skagit County with an online catalog Capitol Hill Alano Club - www.chacseattle.org Cascade Rainbow Community Center (Mount Verof their collection. (360) 840-8499 and on Facebook.

Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, non) - (360) 840-8499 and on Facebook.

Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See COLAGE unites people with LGBTQ parents and caregivers into a network of peers and supports them Sunday afternoon listing.)

Game Night. 7pm-11pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite as they nurture and empower each other to be skilled, 201. Every Friday. Card games, board games and fel- self-confident, and just leaders in our collective communities - www.colage.org lowship. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm. Lam- Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) bert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Friday. Lambert House 963-1994. is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for DIFFA/Northwest (Design Industries Foundation GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. (206) 322-2515, Fighting AIDS). (206) 763-8885; www.diffanorthwest. org www.lamberthouse.org Rain Country Dance Night. 7-11pm, lessons at 7:15pm. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: Crisis The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. An evening of country-western Clinic, (206) 461-3222 (24 hour line); King County dancing for the LGBTQ community. FREE. www.rain- Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) - 24-hour crisis line for information, support, & medical & legal countrydance.org.

Destiny/Unity AA Meeting in Tacoma. 7:30-8:30pm. assistance: 1-888-99-VOICE; Northwest Network Christ Episcopal Church, 310 N “K” St, Tacoma. Every support & advocacy for Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian & Gay Friday. LGBTQ-friendly AA meeting. (253) 474-8897. Survivors of Abuse & Dating Violence, (206) 568-7777 (voice), 517-9670 (tty), www.nwnetwork.org; Pierce (Also meets Mondays.)

LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 8-9pm. County Domestic Violence Helpline: Teresa, (253) SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201 - in the O’Neill Room. 798-4166; Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Every Friday. (See related listing Sunday at noon for Minorities - offers on-going support groups for men: details.) Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number (206) 323-1768; Seattle Police Dept Domestic Violence 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org; (206) 322-2437; Unit, (206) 684-0330; State Wide Domestic Violence Hot Line, 1-800-562-6025. In an emergency call 911. www.sasgcc.org Report domestic violence and sexual assault.

Equal Rights Washington - (206) 324-2570; www.

SATURDAY - March 17 equalrightswashington.org (See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

Everett/Snohomish Cty - www.gaysnohomish.org Seattle Jewish Film Festival Freely Speaking Toastmasters - www.freelyspeak(03/10-03/18 & 04/14-04/15) ing.org www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org Lambert House Queer Rec. 1pm. 1818 15th Ave. Meets Gay City promotes wellness in LGBTQ communities 3rd Saturday each month. Outdoor & indoor adventures by providing health services, connecting people to resources, fostering arts, and building community. Gay City for youth ages 22 & under. www.lamberthouse.org Health Project’s Wellness Center provides anonymous PNW G/B/Q Longhaired Men. 2pm. Locations vary. & confidential HIV/STD testing. 517 E Pike St. More Check the website or call for details. An informal social info or to schedule an appointment, (206) 860-6969. group for longhairs, growers, longhair admirers & their www.gaycity.org friends. We gather for brunch on the 3rd Saturday each

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God answers our prayers & sends us a boat. Sometimes rowing furiously for yourself & sometimes for others. All are welcome.

Lotus Sisters Meditation & Dharma Discussion North. 6:15-8pm. Ravenna Bryant neighborhood. Every Wednesday. Call (206) 525-7295 for location. www.

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Center for Spiritual Living. 6:30pm-Meditation, 7pmService. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. Blessings & we hope to see you soon! Info (206) 527-8801 ext 203, www.cslseattle.org Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday afternoon listing.)

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

Border Riders Motorcycle Club Meet & Greet. 7pm.

The Cuff Complex, 1533 13th Ave (at E Pine St). Meets 2nd Wednesday most months - check website to confirm details. BRMC provides a social & educational fraternity for individuals interested in recreational motorcycle touring. www.borderriders.com Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group. 7-9pm.

Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300.

Every Wednesday. 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. No fee, donations welcome. www. ingersollcenter.org Mature Friends Weekly Bridge Group. 7pm. Wallingford Community Senior Center, lower level of Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnywide Ave N. Every Wednesday. All levels welcome. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www. maturefriends.org “StageFright” - Youth Open Mic - For Aspiring Writers & Performers, Ages 14-24. 7-8pm. Richard Hugo House, 1021 Columbia St. 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. Richard Hugo House is a community gathering place where writing & reading is celebrated & explored thru events, performances & programs. (206) 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.

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

THURSDAY - March 15

Seattle Jewish Film Festival (03/10-03/18 & 04/14-04/15) www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org Orca Swim Team Workout. Morning. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday afternoon listing.)

BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting.

12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. The BABES Network is a peer led agency; a sisterhood of women facing HIV together. (206) 720-5566 or 888-2921912; www.babesnetwork.org.

Safe and Sober (AA). 12noon-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle LGBTQ Employees for Equality (SEqual).

12noon. Seattle Municipal Tower, 700 5th Ave, Room 4070. Meets 3rd Thursday each month. Open to the public.

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 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.

Seattle LGBTQ Commission. 6:30-8:30pm. Municipal Bldg, 600 4th Ave, Room 221. Meets 3rd Thursday each month. Meetings open to the public. (206) 684-4514.

Bottom Dwellers Scuba Club Monthly Potluck & Meeting. 7pm. Meets 3rd Thursday each month. Bottom Dwellers promotes safe & responsible scuba diving & other outdoor activities for the GLBT community & friends at all experience levels. For info & location, www. bottomdwellers.org.

Boys’ Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 1422. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about issues that relate to their everyday lives, with the facilitation of a male volunteer. (206) 322-2515 ext 16. www. lamberthouse.org GLBT Legal Clinic. 7-9pm. Meets 3rd Thursday each month. QLaw Foundation holds a monthly legal clinic addressing the legal needs of LGBT individuals & couples.

Volunteer attorneys provide FREE 30-minute consultations. For information and to schedule an appointment, call (206) 235-7235. Clinic volunteers return calls on

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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.

Generations Aging With Pride empowers elder LGBTQ adults to live with pride and dignity by promoting, connecting, and developing innovative programs and services that enhance belonging and support, eliminate discrimination, and honor the lives of older members of our community - (206) 495-8312; info@gapseattle.org; gapseattle.org GLSEN/WA - Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network - (206) 330-2099; www.glsenwa.org Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) - (206) 363-9188; www.thegsba.org HIV/AIDS Program, Seattle/King County Dept of Public Health, provides confidential/anonymous information about & testing for HIV/AIDS. (206) 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, (206) 328-8979.

Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle & the Olympic & Rainier Empire - www.facebook.com/ISCSORE; www. imperialcourtofseattle.com Lambert House - (206) 322-2515; lamberthouse.org LGBT Library - 517 E Pike St. Open Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm.

LGBT MS Connection - (206) 250-5002; LGBTMSConnection@gmail.com. Support group for LGBT persons with MS and their partners and their caregivers. Sponsored by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Lifelong AIDS Alliance - (206) 328-8979, www.lifelongaids alliance.org Lion’s Main Art Collective - www.lionsmain.org MEN: Gay City: (206) 860-6969, www.gaycity.org; Knights of Mantra: (206) 329-0886, www.jetchapterkofm.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Northwest Bears: www. nwbears.com; The Olympians: www.TheOlympians. net; POZSeattle: www.pozseattle.org; Q-Squared: www.qsquared.org; Rain City Jacks: 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; Tacoma Older LGBT: www.tacomaolderlgbt.org. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.)

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: (206) 388-1408, (206) 323-0750. www.seattlechoruses.org.

Northwest Lesbian & Gay History Museum Project - gayhistnw@aol.com Northwest Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf - www. nwrad.org Olympia/Thurston County - www.RainbowCenterOly. org Out & Equal Workplace Advocates/Seattle Regional Affiliate supports the work of LGBT employees and the growing number of ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) making a difference within local companies, including Alaska Airlines, Amazon.com, Amgen, AT&T, Bank of America, Deloitte, Macy’s, Microsoft, Russell Investments, Safeco Insurance, Starbucks Coffee, Xerox. www.outandequal.org/affiliates/seattle Out & Proud Grays Harbor Coalition - http://outandproudgh.org PARENTHOOD: Families Like Ours provides a gateway for LGBT families interested in adoption & provides a network of safe placement agencies, training, support & resources: (206) 441-7602, www.familieslikeours. org; Family Works offers support, information & activities for LGBT families: (206) 694-6727, www.familyworksseattle. org; Gay Fathers’ Association of Seattle offers support groups & social activities: www.gfas. org; Proud & Loud Families - Northwest, www.meetup.com/proudand-loud-families-northwest, plfnorthwest@aol.com; Queer Parent Networking Dinners: (206) 568-7777, qpnd@nwnetwork.org, www.nwnetwork.org; Rainbow Families of Puget Sound: www.rainbowfamiliesps.org PFLAG is the national organization for parents, families, allies, and LGBTQ people united for equality with chapters in Seattle, Bellevue/Eastside, the Puget Sound region and across Washington state. PFLAG Seattle: (206) 325-7724, info@pflagseattle.org, and www.pflagseattle.org; PFLAG Bellevue/Eastside: (425) 483-6642, info@bellevue-pflag.org, http://community. pflag.org/PFLAGBellevue; PFLAG Pacific Northwest: www.pnwpflag.org; PFLAG Washington State: www. pflagwsc.org.

PEOPLE OF COLOR: AARTH (African American Reach & Teach Health Ministry), (206) 850-2070, www.aarth.org; Asian/Pacific Islander Queer Network Program at API Chaya, (206) 467-9976; Center for MultiCultural Health, (206) 461-6910, www.multiculturalhealth.org; Entre Hermanos, GLBT Latinos/as, (206) 322-7700, www.entrehermanos.org; Ile LaiLai, (206) 781-3565, iya@ilelailai.org; Men of All Colors & Cultures Together (MACCT), (206) 923-8313, macctseattle@yahoo.com, www.macctsea.org; Northwest Two Spirit Society, https://www.facebook.com/ groups/nw2spiritsociety/, Nubian Pride Productions, nubianpride@gmail.com; People of Color Against AIDS Network (POCAAN) offers rapid HIV testing, M-F, 10am-5pm, (206) 322-7061, www.pocaan.org and on Facebook; QBASS - Queer Black Alliance of the South Sound, (253) 256-1846, weareqbass@gmail. com; Sistah 2 Sistah, LBT women of African descent, (206) 322-7061, (206) 255-8951; Somos Seattle, somosseattle.org; Trikone-Northwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 985-4376, www.trikonenw.org; Two-Spirit Honor Project, 1-866-685-0164; U.T.O.P.I.A. Seattle,

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www.utopiaseattlewa.org; VietQ Greater Seattle, vietqorganization@gmail.com Pierce County AIDS Foundation - (253) 383-2565; www.piercecountyaids.org Pride Foundation - (206) 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. (206) 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 - (206) 682-6711; www.q-law.org; Q Law GLBT Legal Clinic - (206) 235-7235.

Queer Geek! - queergeekseattle.org SEAMEC interviews, researches & rates candidates for public office on issues of concern to the LGBT community. www.voteseamec.org Seattle Area Support Groups & Community Center (SASG) is a non-profit organization that builds community and cultivates powerful, healthy lives by providing emotional support and personal development services to those affected by HIV/AIDS, the Queer communities, and those who love them. Our work is done in a spirit of safety, trust, inclusiveness, and celebration of individual differences. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Bisexual Women’s Network - BiSeattle.wixsite. com/SBWN and on Facebook.

Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities is a community mental health service for GLBT persons & their families providing comprehensive mental health services on a sliding scale. (206) 323-1768.

Seattle LGBTQ Commission - (206) 684-4503.

Seattle Out & Proud - (206) 322-9561; www.seattlepride.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 Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, The Abbey of St. Joan - (206) 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.

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South Sound Q Calendar - LGBTQ events in Tacoma, Olympia & Sound Puget Sound area; www.SouthSoundQCal.com Spokane/Inland Northwest - www.outspokane.com; www.stonewallnews.net 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.emeraldcitysoftball.org, www.eteamz.com/womensecsa; Ethyl Forever Car Club: ethylforever@hotmail.com; Festival of the Babes: www.festivalofthebabes.com; Olympic Yacht Club: www.oycnw.org; OutVentures: outdoor education & recreation activities, www.outventures.org; Pacific Northwest Gay Rodeo Association: www.pacificnwgra.org; Puddletown Squares: www. puddletownsquares.org; Rain City Soccer: www.raincitysoccer.org; Rain Country Dance Association: a country-western dance organization catering to the LGBTQ community but open to all, www.raincountrydance. org; Sea Dawgs: LGBT ice hockey - SkateSeaDawgs@ gmail.com and on Facebook; Seattle Frontrunners: www.seattlefrontrunners.org; Seattle Gay Basketball Association: www.seattlegaybasketballassociation. com; 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 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, (206) 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.

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

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TRANSGENDER: Emerald City Social Club: (425) 827-9494; Gender Alliance of the South Sound: www.SouthSoundGender.com; Gender Diversity: www.genderdiversity.org; Gender Justice League: www.genderjusticeleague.org; Gender Odyssey: www.genderodyssey.com; Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group: (206) 322-7700; Ingersoll Gender Center: (206) 329-6651, www. ingersollcenter.org; Lion’s Main Art Collective: www. lionsmain.org; The New BoyZ Club: www.olympiaftmgroup.webs.com; Olympia Trans Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/pages/Olympia-Trans-DiscussionGroup/262449878114; [trans] ACTION: Trans* & Gender Non-Conforming Sex Workers’ Support Group - a safe, peer-led space. mail@utopiaseattle.org; TRANSform Washington: transformwashington.com; Trans Resource & Referral Guide: kctransguide.org; Washington Gender Alliance: (360) 445-2411, www. washington genderalliance.com WOMEN: Aging Ballard Lesbian Exchange (A.B.L.E.): We are Lesbians 60 years (generally) and up, living (mostly) in the north half of Seattle. The purpose of the group is to connect, socialize and support each other. ruthemilyvogel@gmail.com; Aging Lesbians in South Seattle (ALISS) - Lesbian Group at the Southeast Seattle Senior Center. This is a gathering primarily for Lesbians but all are welcome to attend. Kate, (206) 722-0317; www.sessc.org; BABES: support groups for HIV+ women. (206) 720-5566, 1-888-292-1912; Coming Out Women Support Group of Tacoma: www. comingoutwomen.org; Festival of the Babes: www. festivalofthebabes.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Puget Sound Old Lesbian Organizing for Change: http:// psoloc.org, (253) 777-3357; 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 Bisexual Women’s Network: BiSeattle. wixsite.com/SBWN; Seattle Girls of Leather: www. sgol.org; Tacoma Lesbian Concern (TLC): www.tacomalesbianconcern.org; Tacoma Older LGBT: www. tacomaolderlgbt.org; Women of West Seattle (WOWS): a fun, member-driven social group for Lesbians, http:// groups.yahoo.com/group/womenofwestseattle; 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, (206) 461-4493. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.)

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; Coyote Central: www.coyotecentral.org; 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. (206) 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; It Gets Better Project: www.itgetsbetter.org; Lambert House: an activities & resource center for LGBT youth, 14-22, in Seattle, 1818 15th Ave @ E Denny Way; (206) 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org; Lifelong HEYO (Health Education Youth Outreach): for LGBTQ youth, ages 16-24: (206) 957-1665; www. llaa.org/HEYO; www.MatthewsPlace.com; The Mockingbird Society: (206) 323-KIDS (5437), www.mockingbirdsociety.org; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 671-2838, www. oasisyouthcenter.org; OUT There Adventures: www. outthereadventures.org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: (206) 3257724, www.seattle-pflag.org; Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets (PSKS) Drop-In Center & Young Adult Shelter: 1609 19th Ave @ E Pine St., (206) 7268500; www.psks.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; 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; Roots Young Adult Shelter: 1415 NE 43rd St., (206) 632-1635; www.rootsinfo.org; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoalition.org; (206) 451-SAFE, (206) 451-7233 (non-emergency), 1-877-SAFE-SAFE (1-877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): (206) 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Street Youth Ministries (SYM): (206) 524-7301 ext 111; www. streetyouthministries.org; Teen Link: (206) 461-4922, 1-888-431-TEEN; The Trevor Project: 866-4-U-Trevor; www.thetrevorproject.org; True Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, (206) 362-7282 x 8018, lbagley@chs-nw.org; Vista Youth Center: for LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth, ages 14-21, in Kennewick, (509) 396-5198, www.vistayouthcenter.org; YouthCare/ Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): (206) 522-8412; YouthCare/ Orion Center Young Adult Shelter: 1828 Yale Ave @ Stewart St. (206) 622-5555; Youth in Focus: (206) 723-1479; www.youthinfocus.org; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): (206) 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273-TALK, www.yspp.org

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Meet Brion, a handsome 1-year-old grey tabby. Brion is a reserved young kitty in need of a patient adopter who understands that it may take time for him to warm up and trust his new best friends. Brion is making progress with Seattle Humane staff and his foster volunteers to who are making him feel safe and understood! Come talk to staff about him if you think you might be his hero – he can't wait to be on his way to getting cozy at home with you! Brion would do well in a home with another kitty, too.

As with all of our wonderful cats, Brion is neutered, microchipped and vaccinated. He has been tested for FIV/Feline Leukemia and will go home with a certificate for a complimentary veterinarian examination and an identification tag. PLUS, most cat adoptions include 30 days of pet insurance from Trupanion – a great way to start off on the right paw!

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