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Seattle Gay News

Issue 47, Volume 46, November 23, 2018

Arts & Entertainment

ArtsWest’s Jane Eyre - The Musical an impressive production

The cast of Jane Eyre - The Musical – Photo by John McLellan

by Paul Torres SGN A&E Writer JANE EYRE - THE MUSICAL ARTSWEST PLAYHOUSE AND GALLERY Through December 23

The classic Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre novel about a long-suffering plain, young woman is revved up in this splendid musical

by John Caird and Paul Gordon. ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery stages an impressive

Nava Ruthfield in Matilda The Musical – Photo by Mark Kitaoka

MATILDA THE MUSICAL VILLAGE THEATRE Issaquah: Through 12/30 Everett: 1/4-2/3

Viggo Mortenson and Mahershala Ali in Green Book – Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer GREEN BOOK Now playing

see JANE EYRE page 4

Great production of Matilda the Musical

by Miryam Gordon, SGN A&E Writer

Outstanding performances helps Green Book stay on the road

Village Theatre reports that their current production of Matilda the Musical is selling better than any show in history! One can’t call it a holiday show, but you might guess that a lot of kids would be excited to see it.

see MATILDA page 5

In 1962 New York nightclub bouncer Frank Anthony Vallelonga, aka Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), finds himself inbetween jobs as he waits patiently for the Copacabana to be renovated. It is suggested

see GREEN BOOK page 5

Warmhearted Instant Family an enchanting delight

Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Isabela Moner, Julianna Gamiz and Gustavo Quiroz in Instant Family – Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer INSTANT FAMILY Now playing

Pete (Mark Wahlberg) and Ellie Wagner (Rose Byrne) have a good life. They have a successful business renovating old houses and then flipping them for a tidy profit. But their mutual obsession with forging a suc-

see INSTANT FAMILY page 7

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Celebrating 44 Years!

Victor Janusz Band launches new CD Café Pluvieux VJ Trio to appear in MK Scott's “Unite Live” Holiday Show at The Triple Door Dec. 3

by Paul Torres SGN A&E Writer VJ TRIO MK SCOTT’S “UNITE LIVE” HOLIDAY SHOW THE TRIPLE DOOR December 3 at 7:30pm The opening chimes and swell of music of Victor Janusz Band’s latest release, Café Pluvieux, immediately draws you in as he croons, “You can’t start the show without me…” on “Don’t’ Start the Show Without Me!”. It’s a cheeky and fun set-up for a lounge-like, spend-your-rainy-Sunday-witha-loved-one album. This is a follow up to his wonderful 2015 Living in a Blue State. Café Pluvieux is a Valentine to café life.

Café Pluvieux is a joyful mix of new and classic tunes. The Sinatra-like take on U2’s classic “One” from their 1991 magnum opus Achtung Baby album is sweet and soulful.

The title track, “Café Pluvieux”, featuring singer Arwen Dewey, puts you in that café caffeine-buzz state of mind, perfectly Seattle or maybe London or Paris where you can get lost in a book as the day dims into evening where “there’s no rendezvous”. The

Victor Janusz Band – Photo by Nate Gowdy

rendition of “Over the Rainbow” is exquisite and emotes layers of beautiful sentiment.

The upbeat “Prince of Piece of Mind” adds some sassy groove (and a searing guitar lick) to the collection. They cover Cole Porter’s classic “Night & Day” with perfect adora-

tion and a French twist. “Soldier On” (sung

by Dewey) is a powerful and poetic song reminiscent of smoky room torch songs with glasses of bourbon clinking. Other tunes like “I Saw the Light” and the darkly romantic “Crescent Noon” show truly show off the

group’s breathtaking musical talent. And in true Victor style, the album ends with a kiss, “Le Baiser (French Kiss)” to be precise. It’s a luscious duet to end a perfect date at this elegiac café that may only exist in our minds.

There’s a lot of head bopping and finger snapping action going on here. Janusz works with an abundance of talent that includes Medearis “MD” Dixson (alto and tenor sax), Spencer Hoveskeland (bass and guitar), Robertson Witmer (accordion), Eric Wilcox (drums), Jacques Willis (vibes and drums), Steve White (percussion), and Pete Remine (steel drum). Of course, Janusz is the consummate artist with his vocals and a piano master that is especially showcased on “Sou Le Ciel De Paris”.

Janusz VJ Trio will be playing The Triple Door (216 Union St.) on December 3 at 7:30pm as the house band for MK Scott’s “Unite Live” Holiday Show. Tickets: $25 in advance and $35 at the door. It’s bound to be an exciting set featuring songs from this new CD. Café Pluvieux is perfect because it’s a bunch of talented friends having fun and all of this comes shining through with every sax wail, drum beat, and piano riff. https://www. facebook.com/VJBand/

MK Scott’s “Unite Live” All-Star Holiday Show featuring Arnaldo! Drag Chanteuse, Victor Janusz Trio, The Shirtless Violinist and more returns to The Triple Door Dec. 3

“Unite Live” – Photo courtesy of Unite Seattle Magazine

“UNITE LIVE” ALL-STAR HOLIDAY SHOW THE TRIPLE DOOR December 3 at 7:30pm Unite Seattle Magazine’s live show “Unite Live” returns to the Triple Door on Monday, December 3rd for its All-Star Holiday Show. SGN contributing writer MK Scott once again hosts this variety show/ chatfest in the tradition of Graham Norton, Merv Griffin and Johnny Carson. His last show on May 14 was just a preview with a guest list of local dancers, singers and artists. This time Scott welcomes The Shirtless Violinist, Matthew; Drag Chanteuse, Arnaldo!; Blues Chanteuse, Nora Michaels; Comedian, Gay Uncle Jeffery, and a few more surprise holiday guests.

VJ Trio, featuring Victor Janusz, piano/ lead vocals, Medearis Dixson, sax and Steve White, percussionist (of Blue Man Group fame), will be the house band. DJs from City Soundwave will be spinning

House music before the curtain rises at 7:30pm.

As a bonus, Scott will be looking back at his first Holiday TV show that aired on Portland Public Access in 1991.

“Unite Live” is co-presented by Unite Seattle Magazine and Glass Vodka.

Set decoration by Rosichelli Design.

Advance Tickets are $25 at tickets.thetripledoor.net or by calling the Triple Door at (206) 838-4333. Tickets will be available at the door for $35. The Triple Door is located at 216 Union St. in downtown Seattle.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit the newly created Unite Arts Fund. Unite Arts Fund is a new non-profit that will promote and raise funds for local performing artists.

Mark your calendars for its first big benefit show, called “Emerald City Backwards,” a Seattle version of “Broadway Backwards,” on March 25, 2019 at The Triple Door.

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The Shirtless Violinist – Photo courtesy of the artist

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“Les Étoiles” benefit cabaret raises over $4,500 for Pacific Northwest Cabaret Association

by MK Scott SGN Contributing Writer “LES ÉTOILES” BENEFIT CABARET JULIA’S ON BROADWAY November 18 It was a full house this past Sunday at Julia’s on Broadway for “Les Étoiles,” a benefit celebrating the art of the cabaret with proceeds going to the Pacific Northwest Cabaret Association, the non-profit producer of “March is Cabaret Month.” Its founder, Arnaldo! Drag Chanteuse, hosted the two and a half hour showcase that featured Joanne Klein, John Engerman, Sweet Spot Combo, Angie Louise, Valerie Piacenti, Gabrielle Nicole and more.

To honor the future of cabaret, Arnaldo brought up 13-year-old singer Ellie Nucci.

Later, Aleksa Manila assisted in a live auction for the audience to bid on items, including Arnaldo’s prized sign and framed Eartha Kitt LP that sold for $500.

“Les Étoiles” cabaret was staged to benefit the Pacific Northwest Cabaret Association (PNWCA), the producer of March Is Cabaret Month (MICM) which began in 2008. The MICM Festival is committed to providing artists a platform to create their own cabaret show and to giving back to the artists 85% of the ticket sales. “We can only continue to fiscally do this with your support,” Arnaldo said.

“Les Étoiles” <lay-ze-twhal> is French meaning “The Stars.” The art of the modern cabaret originated in Paris. When the form crossed the Atlantic to America, many venues in major American cities adopted the French names as well. PNWCA is continuing this tradition with “Les Étoiles”.

Photos by MK Scott

Chelsea LeValley and Louis Hobson in Jane Eyre - The Musical – Photo by John McLellan

JANE EYRE

continued from cover production. As the well-known story goes, Jane Eyre is reviled by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and tormented by her cousin. Since she’s seen as willful, she’s sent off to boarding school where life isn’t much better. When she completes school, she takes on a new job as a governess of a young girl at Thornfield Hall headed by Mr. Edward Rochester. Soon Jane and Edward become enamored of each other, but this house has secrets.

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Jane Eyre - The Musical opens with the song “Jane” and sets the maudlin tone hearkening to its Gothic era. As Jane, Chelsea LeValley’s exquisite voice soars and pleasingly sets up the story. LeValley is a true treasure here. As Edward Rochester, Louis Hobson perfectly portrays the dark and mysterious gentleman of the house. He fleshes it out further with his rich vocals that add layers of dark thrills to this musical. The supporting cast also shines here.

This cast includes Connie Corrick, Zoe Foster, Anasofia Gallegos, Mikko Juan, Ashley Koon, Tatum Poirrier, Christian

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Quinto, and an especially unforgettable vocal performance by Aaron Norman in the second act.

Some of the musical highlights include “Forgiveness” which is a touching and almost Christian hymn with its refrains as a consoling prayer. “Secrets of the House” is a perfectly English horror song that creeps and crawls into your senses. The “Sweet Liberty” number brings Jane Eyre’s feminist themes in these times as a sigh of modern release. “In the Light of the Virgin Morning” is a memorable and sweet lullaby. It’s a song to awaken your heart and then also

to bedevil your soul. “The Gypsy” number adds some frolic and levity while revealing some truths about Edwards’ intentions for Jane. It’s as much a musical highlight as it’s the story’s turning point. “Brave Enough to Love” is a resounding anthem and pleasing closer with the full cast vocals elevating beyond the grassy hills of England, beyond the yellow pages of its source novel and gently pressing into our memories like dewy autumn leaves on a stone path.

The flawless technical aspects are especially superb in this production. Scenic Designer Lex Marcos’ castle and grass set enliven each act with on-point lighting cues (and hues) by Lighting Designer Tristan Roberson. Without these, this musical would be missing a key character.

Jane Eyre - The Musical is guided by Director Mathew Wright’s capable talents.

His tight casting and blocking flow like a sweeping English breeze on a meadow. The narration by the cast speaking from the perspective of Jane is quite effective and tenderly moves the story along. Wright’s keen perspective rejuvenates a tried and true subject matter and polishes it with cozy small-theatre panache. We are welcomed into the homes here and we feel every joy and fright.

The melding of 19th-century dialogue with 21st-century parlance lends a thoughtful and welcome balance that emphasizes its modern relevancy of feminism and liberty to this current age of overwhelming societal murkiness. Jane Eyre - The Musical wins for bringing a tale from a dark age into the light of these toxic days of 2018.

ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery is located at 4711 California Ave. SW (just south of SW Alaska St. at the Alaska Junction) and is conveniently located near Metro Transit’s C Line. For more information and tickets, visit www.artswest.org or phone (206) 938-0339.

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The cast of Matilda The Musical – Photo by Mark Kitaoka

MATILDA

continued from cover They would be especially interested if they have read the Roald Dahl books.

Village’s production is as good a production of this musical as you’ll likely see anywhere! It’s particularly good to see it in a more modest theater than the cavernous Paramount or even the large 5th Avenue because – no matter what – the lyrics are going to be hard to understand.

Firstly, many lyrics are sung by children and no matter how hard they work at it, their high-pitched voices and lack of forming hard consonants make lyrics hard to understand in group numbers. But add to that fake British accents, and that complicates it almost beyond any understanding. So, a smaller theater like Village is more ideal for understanding those difficult words.

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he go interview with Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) for a temporary position as his driver during November and December, the job paying a substantial amount that will keep food on his family’s plates throughout the holidays. To Tony’s surprise Dr. Shirley literally lives above Carnegie Hall in a spacious apartment. Even more of a shock? He’s not a medical doctor but instead a world-renowned classical pianist.

He also happens to be Black.

Dr. Shirley needs someone with Tony’s skills as a fast-talking bouncer more than he needs a chauffeur. He’s about to tour the Deep South, and having someone along who can take care of themselves, and more importantly him, if trouble were to arise, is one of the requirements the record label is imposing upon their artist before they allow Dr. Shirley and the other members of his trio (Mike Hatton, Dimiter D. Marinov) to play these concerts. For Tony, a job is a job, and he’s more than willing to do what’s asked of him. For Dr. Shirley, he’s never encountered a man as rough around the edges as his new driver and protector proves to be. Unexpectedly, as each mile on the odometer clicks by the pair ends up forging a rather strong bond, and as their trip nears its end and their time as boss and driver comes to its climax it’s equally apparent their future as friends has only just begun.

Based on a true story, Green Book is about as gigantically a crowd-pleasing

The casting choices, particularly of the “grownups,” are terrific. Basil Harris, as the awful Ms. Trunchbull, is just scary enough and he sings his solo with gusto. Also awful – and really funny – are Chris Ensweiler and Ann Cornelius as Matilda’s terrible parents. Marissa Ryder, as the overly sweet and terribly un-confrontational Miss Honey, has a lovely voice for the (interminable) ballads.

Shaunyce Omar tries her best (which is very, very good) to infuse Mrs. Phelps the librarian with some extra spice, but since she’s clearly one of the best voices on stage, it’s almost criminal not to let her have a song somewhere! As a newcomer to the Seattle area, Jose Luis Uz makes a splash as the salsa dancer (and practically steals the scenes he is in).

The children’s ensemble, headed by Nava Ruthfield as Matilda on the day I saw the production, does a great job, including with the interesting and deliberately-awkward cho-

reography by director Kathryn Van Meter.

Young Thomas Gomes took on the role of the picked-on Bruce and won our hearts.

Matthew Smucker’s scenic design of massive chalkboards with cursive alphabets all over makes for a seamless set changing operation as walls open to classrooms or living rooms or doorways or library with small adjustments to their placement.

Lighting designer Alex Berry makes good use of pinpoint lighting to bring our eyes to the proper places on stage. Costume designer Melanie Taylor Burgess created mostly understated uniforms, but had great fun with Trunchbull’s umm… assets and the Wormwoods’ amazingly garish clothing. The musicians were outstandingly led

by Tim Symons, and also, the underscoring was held to a more minimal degree of loudness, allowing dialogue to be heard, as well.

The musical itself suffers from the fact that it is a musical of a book that is mostly a story related by the little girl Matilda. It’s

hard to translate telling a story to stage and this musical doesn’t really do it very well.

The songs added are often overly long (the ballads) and often don’t move the story along, either. There are a couple that are fun, thankfully including the opening number, “Miracle,” where the little kids relate how their parents call them “little miracles” and “prince(lings)” and then they have to go to school where the older kids are ready to terrorize them. It is, however, a faithful rendition of the novel, so kids who have read it will know what to expect. And it is also a whole-family-friendly production.

For more information, go to www.villagetheatre.org or call 425-392-2202.

piece of socially conscious entertainment as anything I’ve seen in ages. Magnificently acted by Mortensen and Ali, confidently directed by Peter Farrelly (There’s Something About Mary), there’s a lot to love about this jovial comedy-drama hybrid. At the same time, it’s equally apparent that for all its good intentions and technical excellence this is another story about race and racism in America as seen almost exclusively through the eyes of white man.

More, it is one where said white man actually starts teaching his Black employer about his own Blackness, and if that’s not a quietly unsettling little trait for this story to possess I’m not altogether certain what else would have been. As enjoyable as this film undeniably proves to be, and as contented and as happy as it made me by the time it came to an end, there was still something of a sour aftertaste left in my mouth once the curtain closed, and as such I’m a little conflicted just how much praise I want to throw this motion picture’s way.

And, make no mistake, I do want to toss plenty of said praise in the film’s general direction. While I have no idea how closely Farrelly, Brian Currie and Nick Vallelonga’s screenplay mirrors the actual events of Tony and Dr. Shirley’s trip, what is here is still pretty darn engaging. Better, it oftentimes feels authentic and real, Farrelly rarely pandering to the audience in overtly sentimental or mawkish ways that could transform this story into a distaff Driving Miss Daisy meets The Help variation.

It should also be said that Mortensen and Ali are superb. The pair have an effortless

chemistry that grows in resonance as things progress. They are given almost equal screen time and practically even opportunity to make their imprint upon all that is happening. They give themselves over to the material entirely and in the process help give the film a lived-in stylishness that’s undeniably captivating.

Then there are the technical facets.

Sean Porter’s (Green Room) cinematography is outstanding, the feature always feeling as if it is in motion whether Tony and Dr. Shirley are driving to their next gig or stopping at a roadside diner for a quick bite to eat. Kris Bowers’ (Monsters and Men) exquisite score is also pretty great, as are Betsy Heimann’s (A Walk Among the Tombstones) vibrantly withered and fashionably chic costumes. I also liked the way that editor Patrick J. Don Vito (My Life in Ruins) fashions the various pieces of this story together into a magnetically cohesive whole. Finally, Linda Cardellini delivers a sublime supporting performance as Tony’s wife Dolores, and even though the majority of her scenes are of the talking-on-thephone or reading-letters-to-the-kids variety she still finds a way to ground things with such naturalistic grace I was amazed by what she was able to accomplish.

But the truth still remains that I often felt like this story was being told through the wrong person’s eyes. Even though he’s the co-lead, Dr. Shirley stills get the short end of the stick far too frequently, and the scenes where Tony instructs him on the best ways to embrace his cultural identity are awkward and uncomfortably off-putting.

There are times Farrelly’s film comes perilously close to being one of those “white savior” dramas from the 1980s or the dreaded “magical negro” fantasies cinema has been obsessed with for far too long, and it’s understandable if some viewers will be so put off by both of those elements that they’ll be unable to embrace the numerous moments of this endeavor that are darn near perfect. Heck, even the “green book” of the title (a travel guide to safe lodging and dining options for African Americans during the era of Jim Crow) is something of a red herring, and I can’t exactly say its importance on the narrative is ever as substantial or as noteworthy as I kind of think it should have been.

I still like Green Book. Quite a lot. If Mortensen finally wins an Academy Award for his performance here I won’t complain.

If Ali follows up his own Oscar for Moonlight with a second one for his work as Dr. Shirley I might just stand up and cheer. But the movie, for all its strengths, still isn’t without a few speed bumps. There are elements that do not work, while other pieces feel as if they’ve been pulled from bygone cinematic eras making some of its observations about race feel slightly regressive.

While I can recommend the drama, it isn’t without a few rather substantial reservations, and as glorious as the blossoming friendship between Tony and Dr. Shirley is I still can’t help but wish I’d spent more time seeing this world through the latter’s eyes instead of his Caucasian chauffeur’s.

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REAL LIFE: Director Sean Anders adopts a new comedic style for his latest film Instant Family

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer INSTANT FAMILY Now playing If it feels like making Instant Family was a deeply personal experience for co-writer and director and co-writer Sean Anders, that’s because it was. While far from a true story, elements of this dramatic comedy dealing with the ups, downs and glorious in-betweens of foster parenthood were drawn from his own family’s experiences.

He and his wife made the decision to bring three siblings, including a teenager, into their home and it changed their lives forever.

This was the starting point for the Horrible Bosses 2 and Daddy’s Home director’s latest endeavor, and as such this ended up making the film one he wanted to get the word out about every and anyway he could.

“I told the studio when we started production to send me everywhere once we were done to promote it,” says a jovial Anders triumphantly. I’ve been going non-stop for over four weeks now. It’s exhausting, but this movie, this story, it’s all so personal to me.

I feel like the least I can do is crisscross the country talking to people about it.”

The two of us were sitting in a small conference room in the downtown Seattle Four Seasons. I was Anders’ last interview of the day before he would leave to the airport and fly back home. “Not going to lie,” he laughs, “it’s going to be great to get back home. But all of this has been such an adventure. As exhausting as all this travel has been, I wouldn’t change a second of it.

When you see how much the movie means to people, it feels pretty great.”

Instant Family stars Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne as a happily married couple who bring three foster kids into their home, the eldest of which is played by talented newcomer Isabela Moner. Co-written with frequent Anders collaborator John Morris, the movie is an honest, sweetly sincere drama that deftly tugs at the emotional heartstrings with relatively subtle eloquence. It’s also quite funny, the filmmakers managing to balance laughs and tears with somewhat surprising dexterity.

Anders and I had about 20 minutes to chat about the film before he had to rush out and catch his plane. Here are some of the highlights from our conversation: Sara Michelle Fetters: When you were sitting there, wondering what you were going to do next, when did you know it was the right time to tell this story? When did you realize it was the one you needed to tell?

Sean Anders: When you’re living your life, even when you make movies for a living, you’re not really thinking, “This is a movie,” you’re just getting through your life like anyone else. I make movies. My life isn’t supposed to be one. You just don’t think like that.

I was a few years into my process at this point when my writing partner John Morris said he thought it was time for us to consider doing a movie about [my wife and I] adopting our kids. I’d been telling him all the stories, telling him about everything that was going on, and it was all new to him. But it was new to me, too. When I first got involved, I didn’t know how any of it [the adoption process] worked. I didn’t know I was going to have to take classes.

I didn’t know I was going to learn all this about these kids, about these families. That I was going to go support group meetings.

And that’s where the script started.

It started from that place. Nobody really

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Rose Byrne and Mark Wahlberg in Instant Family – Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures

knows about any of this. But, because John and I make comedies, we started talking about whether comedy was the appropriate genre for this kind of story. We knew if we made it a comedy it would have to be different than what we normally do. But we also felt it had to be a comedy, because so many of the stories that I had told John were really funny. It’s all such an awkward situation.

The whole thing. The whole process. It’s life, you know? Real life. That’s where it all came from. That’s where the script started.

Sara Michelle Fetters: But how hard was it to mine this territory? This might be a fictional film, but so much of it is mined from your own family’s story. Your own family’s lived experiences.

Sean Anders: Well, it’s certainly not easy. [laughs] It was difficult. Yes. But difficult maybe in ways you wouldn’t think. When you’re creating a story from scratch, you kind of have the opposite problem than if you were just jotting down your own lived experiences like if you were writing a biography. You’re staring down at blank pages. You’re trying to add things to this world you are creating.

When a story comes from your reality, you have a million things to start with and so you’re trying to take things away, trying to pare it down to a story that you can tell in limited time. Because this movie isn’t a biopic about my family we couldn’t do that.

While we weren’t working from scratch, this is still a fictional story.

But there are stories here inspired by my family. Additionally, we also worked with a lot of other foster families. They all had amazing, wonderful, heartwarming and heartbreaking stories. For a while there, the floor of our office looked like the detective’s office who was hunting the Zodiac killer. It was just index cards with a million different ideas on them strewn all over the

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place. I’m sure you can imagine but it was really hard to boil all that down into one coherent script, let me tell you.

Sara Michelle Fetters: What I love about Instant Family, and it is also what I love about Elizabeth Chomko’s What They Had, is that you do find the humor in some incredibly tough subject matter.

That you make it okay to laugh. With this film, humor and laughter are almost like a defense mechanism for some of the characters. That’s real. That’s real life.

Sean Anders: It is. That’s why it was so important to John and I to reflect that in the story, to find that humor and to make it all right for the audience to laugh.

But it was always obvious that this was never going to be anything to laugh at. It was a film we wanted people to laugh with but not at, and that’s an important distinction.

The support group, for example, in real life those support groups have so much laughter in them. People are telling insane stories. I mean heartbreaking, difficult stories. Stories overflowing in life. And people are laughing.

They’re laughing because you have to. You have to find the humor in all of this.

I feel we’re in a weird time for laughter right now in our country, and maybe in the world, where people are incredibly sensitive. It makes people think that you can’t laugh, that there can’t be any laughter. Everything has to be very serious. We have to be angry. We have to be focused. I think there’s a place for all that stuff. But I also think that we can’t lose the laughter, because laughter is the thing that gets us through so many things, so many tough times. For me and my family, we laughed a lot, even during some of the hardest times.

It always felt natural to me for this to be played as a comedy just as long as we paid the proper respect, which I think we do, to the difficult parts of the subject matter.

Sara Michelle Fetters: Coming off of Horrible Bosses 2, the two Daddy’s Home films, was it difficult to find that balance?

Those are, after all, comedies that purposefully take the humor to a whole different kind of place than this one does. Was it hard to reign yourself in like that?

Sean Anders: Sure. I guess. It’s just a different form of comedy and, as I said, both John and I knew going in Instant Family would be a far different kind of comedy than Daddy’s Home was.

A lot of the movies that I’ve worked on, they all kind of came my way through different avenues. For example, Daddy’s Home, one of my main goals in Hollywood was to work with Will Ferrell. And when the opportunity to work with Will Ferrell on Daddy’s Home came along I jumped at it. Because A) it was Will Ferrell, but B) because I knew what his character was feeling because I’m not the biological father to my kids, kids who I love dearly. That was my way into that movie. Yet from the beginning, it was understood by everyone that that was going to be a pretty broad, screwball comedy. And I love that kind of comedy! It was really fun to write. It was fun to make. It was definitely fun to watch with audiences.

But with this movie, it was pretty obvious from the beginning that you don’t make a screwball comedy about foster parent adoption. It was going to have a different tone.

I really enjoyed working on this tone.

Working with Isabella Moner who plays Lizzy, working with the families whose stories helped inspire the plot, working with the social workers that consulted on the project, I feel like we really got to get into some really interesting psychological areas. In fact, we started to talk about how there should be a new type of therapy called, “Movie Therapy.” I would talk to these families and they would open up to me because they really wanted the movie to be honest and real. They would tell me these amazing things, and then they would kind of have these small breakthroughs while they were telling me their stories.

And it was good for me, too! I got to spend a year of my life just talking about how much I love my kids. That’s good for anybody.

Sara Michelle Fetters: I like that you brought up the context of this film in relation to current events and our collective need for laughter. But it also feels like a lot of the themes in this film in relation to hope, and to family and to togetherness, to kindness, to finding the ability to both forgive and to ask for forgiveness, to me, I can’t help but feel as if those are themes that we need now more than almost anything else.

Sean Anders: I agree with you completely.

Sara Michelle Fetters: In this current political and social climate, do you have these conversations with the studio? Did you have to convince them to allow you to fashion your script and your story in the manner that you did?

Sean Anders: The simple answer is that you just try not to have that conversation with them; you just do it and hope people respond positively to what it is you’ve created. I think a lot of those themes that you’re talking about, most of them are just baked into who I am.

I’m a big Frank Capra fan. I like movies that make you feel good. I like to make people feel good when I make movies, and you don’t always get a maximum amount of respect for doing that.

I accept that. But I also know that my family has made me feel better than any-

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thing in the world. I’m a complete cheese ball when it comes to my kids and to my family and I don’t care who knows it. For me to tell this story, and to take people through some traumatic, difficult times, but to take them into this laughter and this love that I get from my family, it was never a conversation about whether or not this is something that we need right now. It was a conversation as to what was the best way to serve the story.

That always had to be paramount.

he’s just there, that he’s in it, that he’s in the moment. That’s what we needed here.

When Mark is all excited after he sees the speech from the girl and the first foster parent instructional class and he’s talking about her like she’s a house and he’s all worked up, he totally commits to that moment. That’s all him. He’s a little dopey in that moment, but he’s also worked up and genuinely excited.

Later, when we get to the more emotional moments in the movie, he’s just so sincere. I

into some pretty heavy moments of drama.

Then, when they’re walking away from the house and Rose is hugging Mrs. Fernández, that’s all Rose. That wasn’t in the script. That was just me saying to her, “Why don’t you acknowledge that this woman just slapped you?” And Rose just suddenly did this amazing, totally unexpected thing. I hope this movie is a big, giant hit and it makes people stop asking that question about Rose. She’s incredible.

Sara Michelle Fetters: The kids. How hard were they to cast?

Sean Anders: Not that hard, actually.

Julianna Gamiz came our way fairly early in the process. We knew pretty quickly

Sara Michelle Fetters: I was going to ask you about casting Isabella. I mean, you ask a lot of her in this movie. She has to carry so much of it.

Sean Anders: We didn’t make it easy on her, that’s for sure. [laughs] She does carry a lot of the movie. That’s true. The whole thing balances on her throughout the movie. Once Lizzy shows up, she’s the center. Even just her entrance.

I mean, how good is she in that entrance?

She’s got this confidence, this strength, and yet there’s this vulnerability underneath all of it. It’s a silly little intro that she is just incredible in and the scene becomes so layered because of what Isabella brings to it.

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But it definitely is what I think we need right now. For me, at this time when people are so sensitive and so angry, so upset all the time, it was wonderful to be able to spend some time just talking about how much I love my kids. I feel this is the one thing we all have in common. We all love our kids.

We all want the best for our kids. Even if we’re diametrically opposed in a million other ways, we got that going for us.

Sara Michelle Fetters: You’ve worked with Mark Wahlberg a few times now.

How did you know that he could pull this type of comedy off? How did you know he wouldn’t play things too broadly?

Sean Anders: Well, Mark always seems to intuitively know just how far to take things. When you think about the comedy that Mark did in Boogie Nights, for example, which is not considered a comedy, Mark is funny as hell in that movie. That was really grounded comedy that he was doing. In other parts of that movie he was doing really intense drama. It’s an incredible performance.

So I never had a doubt for a second.

Mark approaches every role with incredible sincerity. He has a look on his face where

knew we needed sincerity from this character. And Mark oozes sincerity.

Sara Michelle Fetters: And then there is Rose. How are we not shouting her name from the rooftops as one of the great working actresses of today? How does she not have two Oscar nominations under her belt right now? Why is she continually so underestimated?

Sean Anders: That’s so true. All of it.

And she’s so fantastic in this movie.

Sara Michelle Fetters: What was it like, standing there behind the camera and watching her give this performance?

Sean Anders: I’ll be honest. The truth is, and I’ve said this to Rose, is that I sadly underestimated her, too. When she came in, I was so excited and happy that she wanted to be a part of our movie, but I never knew she was going to murder the material like she does.

Don’t get me wrong. I had seen her in different pieces. I’d seen her in dramas. I’d seen her in horror movies. I’d seen her in comedies. But this one she really has to do it all.

I mean, there’s that scene where they go to the Fernández family for advice. The scene goes from fairly ridiculous comedy right

when she walked in the door she was going to be Lita. With Gustavo Quiroz, that is an interesting story. His character, Juan, was written differently than what wound up in the movie. So when he came in and read he wasn’t quite right for the character that we had written. But we liked him better than that character, so we rewrote Juan to suit him. The great benefit of that is that he sort of inadvertently became more like my real son. He came in with such a big heart.

Then there is Isabella. She had worked with Mark before [in Transformers: The Last Knight] and I was initially against the idea of putting her in the movie. She had just worked with Mark as kind of a daughter figure, and I didn’t know if it would be a good idea to have them repeat that. But then she came in to read for Lizzy and me and these two other grown men there for her audition were completely in tears. From there it went from thinking it wasn’t the best idea to being absolutely desperate to get her in the movie.

Sara Michelle Fetters: When the movie was locked, when there were no more changes or edits to be made, what went through your mind? What were you feeling?

Sean Anders: Well, it’s weird to pin that down. I guess if I had to boil it down to a moment, it was the first time we showed the film to an audience. We were always trying to find this balance between the drama and the comedy, but you don’t know if you’ve found that balance until you put it in front of an audience. When we saw the way the very first audience was reacting to the movie, both with the laughter and the emotions, it was one of the greatest thrills of my life. I felt we made a movie that no one else could’ve made. I’m so incredibly proud of the movie. If I never get to make another movie, I’m good.

I mean, I hope I do, of course. I hope I get to make another movie. But, if I don’t?

I’m good.

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and warmhearted drama. Working again with frequent screenwriting collaborator John Morris (Mr. Popper’s Penguins, She’s Out of My League), Anders has brought a story to life that mostly eschews cheap humor or overt sentimentality and never feels melodramatically ponderous or takes itself too seriously. It’s an honest film filled with laughs, tears, heartache and smiles, everything building to a suitably uplifting conclusion that sent me out of the theatre feeling as if all was right with the world and everyday people truly can make a positive difference if only they choose to do so.

Not that the director can’t check himself completely. There are plenty of instances where he allows things to descend into a comedic abyss that doesn’t feel entirely genuine. As lovely as it is to see Airplane and Lost in America legend Julie Hagerty up there on the screen as Ellie’s mother, what Anders asks her to do is oftentimes so obnoxiously cartoonish her appearances don’t add anything substantive. Margo Martindale, as Pete’s jovially eccentric mom, fares a bit better but not much so, her excitable exuberance wearing a little thin. There are also some strange cameos near the end that took me entirely out of the movie for a brief second or two, one in particular during the stretch where Pete and Ellie are pulling out all the stops to get Lizzy to understand just how much they truly do care for her and her siblings particularly so.

Yet the core of the film is so strong, so pure, that any missteps Anders might take with this story don’t feel as egregious or as damaging as they have in many of his more unabashedly slapstick endeavors. Pete and Ellie’s marriage is genuine, as is their desire to help others and to try to form a lasting familial bond with Lizzy, Juan and Lita. I really loved how the film took the time to show how hard foster parenthood can be, that it didn’t soft peddle or sugarcoat any of the inherent difficulties. I also like that Anders balanced the comedy and drama with such deft precision, the ability to laugh when dealing with trauma an almost automatic defense mechanism for most that shouldn’t be minimized. Most of all, even with some fairly outlandish subplots and narrative asides, the heart beating at the center of this movie is vibrant and strong throughout, its refreshing sincerity filling my soul with joy.

This is one of Wahlberg’s most likable performances. The smugness that can frequently be a part of what he brings to the table, at least in a few of his more recent efforts like the risible Mile 22, Daddy’s Home 2, the two Ted films or even in the otherwise excellent All the Money in the World, is missing here, his work as Pete a pleasant reminder just how charming the actor can be when he sets his mind to it. The scenes between him and Moner are especially strong, while his comedic back-and-forth rapport with Octavia

Spencer and Tig Notaro, portraying the two social workers running the local foster care facility, is excellent.

Byrne is even better. Granted, for those who have watched her bravura turns in features as diverse as Juliet, Naked, Spy, The Meddler, Bridesmaids, Get Him to the Greek and the two Neighbors films this will likely not come as much of a surprise. The actress is superb as Ellie, building layers of emotional nuance that are consistently compelling. Byrne makes Anders and Morris’ script come alive in ways that amazed me, watching her give so much of herself over to the character a pure, dramatically satisfying treat I wanted to stand up and cheer.

There are elements of the film that do stumble into treacle. Also, as already mentioned, there were other instances where the comedy threatened to overwhelm things in ways that came perilously close to becoming inappropriately off-putting.

But it’s clear just how important this story is to Anders, and as such the director finds a way to re-center things whenever Instant Family starts to come close to going off the rails. This is a marvelously enchanting drama overflowing in good vibes and even better intentions, all of it coming from a place of a truthful authenticity that’s nothing short of wonderful.

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cessful career had them put some of their other aspirations, especially as they pertained to children, on hold. After looking at adoption websites and reading literature pertaining to the volume of kids currently in the foster care system, Pete and Ellie decide to go to a local agency and take all the necessary classes to maybe become foster parents themselves. At the end of this training the couple takes three children, opinionated teenager Lizzy (Isabela Moner) and her two younger siblings Juan (Gustavo Quiroz) and Lita (Julianna Gamiz), into their home. But this form of instantaneous parenthood isn’t without its challenges, and it soon becomes a genuine question whether or not this ragtag quintet can become the one thing all of them desire most: a family.

Inspired by his and his wife’s adoption of three children, including a teenager, and the ups, downs and unexpected inbetweens they all ended up experiencing as they built their lives together, director and co-writer Sean Anders has outdone himself with the emotionally resonate Instant Family. The man behind such over-the-top comedic entertainments like Sex Drive, Horrible Bosses 2 and the two Daddy’s Home motion pictures tones things down considerably for this thought-provoking

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McQueen’s Widows a socially astute heist thriller

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer WIDOWS Now playing After their husbands are killed during an attempted heist of $2-million in cash, distraught widows Veronica (Viola Davis), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Alice (Elizabeth Debicki) find themselves thrown together in common cause against a murderous adversary. Previously strangers by design, now all of them are the target of Chicago kingpin Jamal Manning (Brian Tyree Henry). He’s currently in a heated campaign against veteran politician Jack Mulligan (Colin Farrell) to become his neighborhood’s new alderman and is in need of cash for one last advertising blitz. It was Jamal’s money Veronica’s criminal mastermind husband Harry Rawlings (Liam Neeson) absconded with, and he’s given the wives 30 days to make good on the debt otherwise his bloodthirsty younger brother Jatemme (Daniel Kaluuya) will be paying all three of them and their families a lethal visit.

Courtesy of her late husband’s notebook Veronica has a plan. Harry had outlined one last theft of $5-million and it only takes a tiny crew to pull it off. She’s certain that three of them can pull it off. She’s also convinced her chauffeur Bash (Garret Dillahunt), a devoted friend and confidant, to be their getaway driver. Veronica thinks that she, Linda and Alice can do this mainly because no one expects them capable of such an audacious crime. But as well as everything seems to be going Jatemme is secretly monitoring the trio’s every move, and while he doesn’t know what it is they’re up to, he’s still positive Jamal won’t mind if he keeps tabs on the women all the same.

Widows, based on the 2002 BBC miniseries from “Prime Suspect” impresario Lynda La Plante, is magnificent. Director and co-writer Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Hunger), working with Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn on the adaptation, has crafted a drama that touches on ideas of gentrification, gender inequality, political corruption, racism, nepotism and a whole bushel of additional hot-button social issues, all of it concealed in the guise of an adult-oriented heist flick that would make Michael Mann, John Huston and Jules Dassin all proud. It is a terrifically complex thriller, everything building to a stupendous conclusion that melds all of the various themes and ideas McQueen and Flynn had been playing with throughout the story to something nearing perfection.

I think what is most impressive is how the director juggles so many different plots and subplots with such effortlessness. Even more astonishing, McQueen and Flynn never lose sight that this is primarily Veronica’s journey, and while practically all of the numerous characters populating the film are given their individual moments to shine, she remains at the center of the maelstrom. She is the one Jamal goes to with his demands.

She is the one who must be the first of the women to set aside her grief in order to try and look at their collective problem as clearly as possible. She is the one who is able to connect the dots as to why Harry’s plan went so wrong and resulted in catastrophe. She is the one that, if she doesn’t already know all the players personally, has the resources to figure out who they are and make their acquaintance.

With all that and more to play with, Davis is superb as Veronica. Her grief is palpable. Her pain is omnipresent. Yet her intelligence is never in doubt, even during those moments when she is second-guessing her plans and wondering whether or not she and the other women are doing to the right thing. Davis has a way of making the character’s stoicism feel like a shield against the trauma and the despair that’s threatening to overwhelm her, the shock-

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ing, unexpected ferocity of her reactions to unexpected twists and turns catching me by surprise. It’s a mesmerizing turn, one with delicate little nuances worthy of additional dissection and study, and for the Academy Award-winning actress this is a titanic performance that is unquestionably one of the finest of her justifiably lauded career.

She’s not the only one doing careerbest work. Debicki, so wonderful in films as diverse as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Great Gatsby, is a constant surprise as the browbeaten Alice, this damaged and abused woman finding an inner strength and a determined resilience she never knew existed in the first place. Then there is Kaluuya. In a performance that’s as far removed from his Oscar-nominated turn in Get Out as you can get, the actor is a demonic force of nature as the pleasantly homicidal Jatemme, the shudders crawling up my spine each time the character made an appearance justified considering just how terrifying this killer proves himself to be.

But everyone in the cast is great, especially Rodriguez, Farrell and Henry, each taking what could have been stock genre characters and doing something unforeseen with all of them. I was also blown away by an unrecognizable Cynthia Erivo, the Bad Times

at the El Royale chanteuse crafting a performance for McQueen as a quietly dogged single mother struggling to keep her head above water that’s divine. Only Robert Duvall as the elder Tom Mulligan, constantly badgering his weasel of a son Jack, disappoints and not because the legendary actor gives a subpar performance. Instead, this is due to the routine way in which the character is scripted, his constant foul-mouthed antagonism more expected and commonplace than it is appalling or unanticipated.

From a technical standpoint, few 2018 motion pictures look, sound and move as well as this one does. Sean Bobbitt’s (Shame) cinematography is a master class in framing, his use of shadows, light and explosions of color stunning. Same goes for Joe Walker’s (Arrival) confidently kinetic editing, his ability to imbue each scene with a steady aura of menace and dread outstanding. As for veteran composer Hans Zimmer’s (Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk) score, the way his music augments each of the individual scenes it’s so cleverly utilized within is close to extraordinary, and it’s hard not to believe a second Oscar might be on its way.

In the end, it is McQueen and Flynn’s script that impressed me the most. It’s apparent that they love these women, even

the ones at the periphery portrayed by the likes of Carrie Coon, Jacki Weaver and Molly Kunz, the two filmmakers making sure each character has their own distinctive voice. Better, the duo allows them to have their own inner lives that they’re currently attempting to navigate. This helps make all of the women, and not just Veronica, Linda and Alice, feel authentic in their emotional dimensionality, giving the film an extra layer of realism that’s impressive in diverse specificity.

I figured out the story’s core twist early on, and I’m not entirely certain McQueen and Flynn meant for me to do so. But this didn’t weaken the film for me, its visceral power to amaze never waning, making the fact I figured out what was going to happen at the end not matter nearly as much as maybe it should have. The final scenes of Widows have a haunting truthfulness that left me both shattered and hopeful at the exact same time, the austere closing image a quiet plea for forgiveness, friendship and companionship that’s nothing short of flawless. It’s an unforgettable moment in an equally unforgettable movie, and I can’t wait for audiences to sit in the darkened theatre and discover its magnificence for themselves right away.

Character-driven Wildlife an emotionally raw heartbreaker

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer WILDLIFE Now playing Golf pro Jerry Brinson (Jake Gyllenhaal) has moved his family to a small Montana town to take a job at a local country club.

Not only does this mean a new school for 14-year-old son Joe (Ed Oxenbould), it also forced his wife Jeanette (Carey Mulligan) to give up her position as a substitute teacher and become a full-time housewife. But when he shockingly loses his job after a bizarre misunderstanding with his boss, mother and son are forced to pick up the financial slack.

Joe gets an after-school job working as a photographer’s assistant while Jeanette puts her teaching skills to good use getting a parttime position as a swimming instructor. All the while Jerry quietly stews, their dual success making him feel emasculated as they’re both out there picking up paychecks while he drowns his sorrows in a bottle of beer.

Even though the pay is terrible and the work is dangerous, Jerry joins a local crew to help battle wildfires up near the Cana-

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Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal in Wildlife – Photo courtesy of IFC Films

dian border. Jeanette is livid, thinking her husband is being an egotistical fool, that his anger that his wife is making more money than he is has caused him to take a job that could easily result in his death. In fact, she’s so angry she begins to rethink why it was she allowed Jerry to move them to the middle of

the desolate nowhere in the first place. Looking to rediscover her fading youth, and in her own attempt to battle her growing sense of loneliness, Jeanette begins a flirtatious friendship with wealthy businessman and

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Latest Fantastic Beasts lacks magic

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD Now playing The evil wizard Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) has escaped. He and his followers have come to Paris searching for Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller), the dangerously powerful young man with a demonic force lurking inside of him currently in France trying to discover who his birth parents are and why they gave him up for adoption. The Ministry of Magic is also looking for Credence, and they want magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) to be the one to find him as he was there in New York two years prior and witnessed the destruction and damage he can cause firsthand. But he knows they want him to kill the boy, and that is something Newt simply will not do. He believes Credence can be saved from his self-destructive tendencies, and if the Ministry isn’t open to that possibility he isn’t going to help them find him, even if it is his own brother Theseus (Callum Turner), a high-ranking government official, asking him to do so.

None of which means the animal-loving wizard is going to sit on the sidelines and watch what happens from afar. Urged into action by his former Hogwarts professor Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), Newt heads to Paris with his not-so-memory-wiped American muggle friend Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler) along for the ride. Jacob is hoping to find the love of his life Queenie Goldstein (Alison Sudol), the previously inseparable duo at romantic odds for seemingly the first time. She in turn is trying to find her sister Tina (Katherine Waterston), and the last the bubbly mind-reading sorceress knew her sibling was in France attempting to prove Credence isn’t the threat the Ministry thinks he is.

The second chapter in a proposed fivefilm series, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is even more complex and convoluted than that two-paragraph synopsis makes things sound. We get flashbacks detailing Newt’s and former girlfriend Leta Lestrange’s (Zoë Kravitz) student days at Hogwarts. We’re introduced to mysterious French wizard Yusuf Kama (William Nadylam). We’re given insight into Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s complex history and why it is they can’t directly attack one another.

We’re told Newt and Tina are at odds because she erroneously believes he’s going to be married to Lita when instead it is his brother she is engaged to. We’re allowed to follow Credence on his journey to discover who he is, taking solace in the arms of kindhearted shapeshifter Nagini (Claudia Kim), a woman tragically doomed to someday be stuck as the giant snake she can transform herself into.

Finally, there are the reasons behind Jacob

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continued from page 8 war hero Warren Miller (Bill Camp). More, she allows Joe to see all of what is going on between the two of them, believing he has every right to know his parents aren’t perfect and that they have personal lives outside of their raising of him.

Everything and nothing is happening inside actor Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife, a superb adaptation of Richard Ford’s 1990 novel. Featuring a delicate, effortlessly balanced script he co-wrote with Zoe Kazan (Ruby Sparks), Dano’s film has an observational spark of insightful intimacy reminiscent of Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women or Chloé Zhao’s The Rider.

It is a movie uniquely in tune with its early 1960s environment and one that grows in emotional urgency as it goes along. Featuring a spellbinding central performance

Eddie Redmayne and Callum Turner in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – Photo courtesy of Warner Bros.

on the sequel barely 30 minutes in, the disgust I felt at the way this woman was being treated likely obvious to all of those sitting around me at the screening.

I get why Rowling does this. I understand from a dramatic perspective why she wanted to add a few speed bumps to Queenie and Jacob’s love affair. Yet I feel she could have got the duo to exactly where she wanted them to be by the climax in ways that didn’t seriously emotionally assault one of her primary female leads in the process. It’s a disservice to the character, a bigger one to the talented Sudol portraying her and an even more massive one to the audience that spent so much time emotionally investing in her over the course of the last film. It’s a bizarre turn of events that is frankly cruel, and for the life of me I just can’t figure out why Rowling or Yates felt treating Queenie in this manner would be anything close to a good idea.

Again, I do understand why the filmmakers wanted to create this discord. That’s how dramatic fiction works. You take characters, throw them passionately into one another’s arms and find a reason to break them apart before finally getting them back together in a way the audience will hopefully madly swoon over when it happens. But this movie, the ways in which it does these sort of things to its characters, it debases and devalues them to the point redemption might not be possible. It’s a callous, perplexingly frustrating way to tell a story, and for large portions of the feature I sat scratching my head in appalled disbelief.

It all still looks and sounds spectacular, James Newton Howard’s (Red Sparrow) score, Philippe Rousselot’s (A River Runs Through It) cinematography, Colleen Atwood’s (Tomb Raider) costumes and Stuart Craig’s (The English Patient) production design all exemplary. I also feel that Law is an inspired choice to portray the younger incarnation of Dumbledore, his delighted joy adding a clever levity to the proceedings I couldn’t help but love and I definitely can foresee a scenario where he becomes more and more of a central figure as these stories progress.

It’s still all for naught, Yates’ tired and lackadaisical direction not exactly helping matters. While the filmmaker does rouse himself to full strength during the climax, producing a finale that’s certainly more interesting and emotionally arresting than anything else the movie has to offer, it’s just not enough. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald lacks the sense of magic and mystery Rowling’s wizarding world has been noted for since its inception, and not even the divine trinity of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger would be powerful enough to make me believe watching this sequel could be anything close to worthwhile.

and Queenie’s troubles, the two of them agreeing that they are desperately in love but at odds where it comes to the subject of whether or not they should get married.

That’s a lot of stuff to keep track of, screenwriter and Harry Potter impresario J.K. Rowling crafting a story so overflowing in material it’s easy to lose track of who is who, what is what and why anyone is doing whatever it is they are currently engaged in accomplishing at any given moment. The problem is that none of it matters. It’s all prologue, setting the stage for events to come in other movies scheduled to be released over the coming years. The first two-thirds of this 134-minute fantasy is superfluous as far as the core central narrative is concerned, meaning that it is really hard to feel like this latest jaunt into Rawlings’ wizarding world stands on its own outside of either the Fantastic Beasts features still to come or the eight original Harry Potter adventures that have already been released.

In fairness, the last third of the film is fantastic. Rowling manages to bring almost all of her characters together for a spectacular showdown that’s more impressive for its intelligent restraint than it is for its eye-popping spectacle. There’s real storytelling here, almost all of it affecting these various heroes and villains in a fundamental way. This sequence also allows Rowling to dig into profound concepts regarding gender, race, politics and social justice that are intriguing, and if the rest of the film had been interested in dealing with these topics, even in passing, it’s doubtful I’d have been as annoyed with this sequel as I ultimately ended up being.

But that’s not the case. Rowling and returning director David Yates, who after

helming six of these Harry Potter related spectacles should start thinking about passing the baton to someone else, throw a couple of their most interesting female characters under the bus and then repeatedly run over them until they’ve basically been flatted so completely they become a part of the 1927 Parisian asphalt. In the case of Leta Lestrange, they take this story’s most fascinating new character and treat her like an emotionally battered afterthought. Worse, the talented Kravitz throws herself completely into her performance, going above and beyond to give the woman life. But it’s all for naught as the story looks at her as nothing more than a giant red herring who only exists to move the plot forward for the primary male characters, a victim of psychological and physical abuse sacrificed at a patriarchal alter I found a little unseemly to say the least.

Then there is Queenie and Jacob’s relationship. While I have no issue, no matter how heartbreaking it might appear, where Rowling ultimately takes things between the two of them, I do have serious reservations about what she does to them in order to get the pair standing at opposite ends of a romantic crossroads. In my opinion the two most likable and interesting characters introduced in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, this story destroys the emotional affinity I had for them mere moments after they’re both reintroduced into the narrative. It is Queenie who is treated most egregiously. The actions she takes, what she does, all of it so completely out of character based on what we learned about her in the first film I found these immediate revelations to be borderline insulting. I hated this twist, so much so I came close to turning

from Mulligan and strong supporting turns from Gyllenhaal, Camp and Oxenbould, I kind of loved Dano’s film, the fact that it has continued to haunt, vex and intellectually stimulate me over a month after my first viewing a big reason why.

A big reason for this is the fearless complexity of Jeanette’s character. We do not typically see women like her in modern cinema outside of femme fatales, prostitutes or villains, especially not stories set in the 1940s, ’50s or ’60s. But Dano and Kazan allow Jeanette to be her own person, flaws and all.

She loves her son. She maybe loves her husband. She wants to make their life in Montana work. But she also wants to be her own woman. She wants to feel valued. She doesn’t want to be left at home wondering where the most productive years of her life disappeared to. This is a woman who makes painfully bad decisions but also tries to be as honest about them as she believes she can be. Jeanette is a walking, talking conundrum, her contradic-

tions and shortcomings making her human and as such far more believably authentic than she otherwise would have been.

This unsurprisingly gives the talented Mulligan fertile emotional earth to plant seeds within, her performance blossoming into something gorgeously spectacular. The An Education Oscar-nominee is spectacular, and oftentimes it is what goes unsaid, the numerous quiet moments, where she proves to be the most heartbreakingly authentic. The jittery physicality of Mulligan’s portrayal is frequently surprising. She shares scenes with Oxenbould that are mesmeric in their uncomfortable specificity, Jeanette’s attempts to explain to Joe what is going on with her, his father and her relationship with Warren creating more selfinflicted emotional wounds than they heal.

There are some third act speed bumps.

A fiery scene between Gyllenhaal and Camp doesn’t work, Jerry’s actions not ringing with the same sort of character-

driven realism that almost everything else in the movie seems to showcase. Also, as good as Oxenbould is, and even though Joe is the observer whose eyes the audience views all of this marital self-destructive carnage through, I can’t say Dano and Kazan’s script treats him with the same sort of multidimensional nuance as it does either Jeanette or Jerry.

Yet this remains a movie I can’t get out of my head. Dano’s debut effort has latched onto me in ways that defy easy description.

It pokes and prods, the film breathlessly unafraid to break its characters down to their most basic elements, stripping them naked so that their flaws are as clearly on display as their strengths are. Wildlife is a quiet, introspective marvel that only grows in lasting resonance the further away I get from it, the lasting imprint it has made upon my psyche one I’m going to treasure for some time to come.

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Pike St - 204-0126 114 - Railroad Ave. N - (253) 852-0909 DOGHOUSE LEATHERS NEIGHBOURS 1509 Broadway 324-5358 DOGHOUSE LEATHERS HOT HOUSE(stairs SPA &behind SAUNAWildrose) - (women)- 568-3240 1312 E. Pike St. - (206) 257-0231 OUT WEST - 5401California Ave. SW 1312 E. Pike St. - 257-0231 SW corner ofSTEAM Pike & WORKS 11th - (men) EMERSON SALON - 909 E. Pike St. - (206) 323-7437 THE PINE BOX - 1600 Melrose Ave - 588-0375 Summit - 388-4818 EMERSON SALON - 909 E. Pike St. - 323-7437 (stairs behind1520 Wildrose) - (206) 568-3240 FANTASY UNLIMITED POCO WINE ROOM HASHTAG - 3540 Stone Way N - 946-8157 STEAM WORKS - (men) 2027 Westlake Ave. (206) 682-0167 THE HERON INN & WATERGRASS DAY SPA 1408 E. Pine St. - 322-9463 NEW YORK EXCHANGE 1520 Summit Ave - (206) 388-4818 1510 1st Ave (206) 624-1784 117 Ave. - E. (877) 883-8899 POKE BAR - 1542 12th Ave - 402-5178 225Maple Broadway - 726-3300 HASHTAG - 3540 Stone Way N - (206) 946-8157 info@theheron.com 88 KEYS - 315 2nd Ave. S. - 839-1300 PONY - 1221 E. Madison St. - 324-2854 ONYX LEATHER - 1605 12th Ave. #8 - 328-1965 LEGENDS - 55Ave. Bell St - (206) 849-5596 BALTIC ROOM - 1207 Pine St. - 625-4444 HERBAN PURR - 1518 11th - 325-3112 RESTAURANTS & BARS OZ - 3831 Stone Way N - 251-0630 HERB(N) ELEMENTS THE BOTTLENECK LOUNGE R PLACE - 619 E. Pine - 322-8828 PANACHE 11013 Lake City Way NE (206) 535-8769 E. Madison - 323-1098 RE-BAR - 1114 Howell at Boren - 233-9873 225 Broadway E. - 726-3300 88 KEYS - 3152328 2nd Ave. S - (206)St. 839-1300 LAUGHING TATTOO C.C. ATTLE’S GRILLE ROOTBUDDHA TABLE 2213 NW Market St. - 420-3214 RUCKUS CAFE 1465 E Republican St. - 257-4805 DARBY’S BALTIC ROOM - 1207 PineBAR St. -&(206) 625-4444 1534 Broadway - (206) -329-8274 1701 E. Olive Way - 726-0565 SEATTLE EAGLE 314 E. Pike - 621-7591 THE 5th FANTASY 211 Ave. SESHOP - (360) 357-6229 THE BOTTLENECK LOUNGE THE NEW YORK2222 XCHANGE - 441-5449 THE CANTERBURY - 534 15th Ave. E. - 322-3130 SHORTY’S 2nd Ave 9630 16th Ave. SW - 762-3299 LOVER’S 2328 E. Madison St. - (206) 323-1098 CHANGES IN WALLINGFORD 225 Broadway E. - (206) STOUT -1530 11th726-3300 Ave - 397-3825 TABOO ADULT 3959 Martin WayVIDEO E, Suite D - (360) 456-7300 CAPITOL CIDER - 818 E Pike St. - (206) 397-3564 2103 N. 45th - 545-8363 TOULOUSE PETIT ONYX LEATHER 9813 16th SW -E767-4855 JAKES - 311Ave 4th Ave. - (360) 956-3247 C.C. ATTLE’S BAR & GRILLE THE CRESCENT - 1413 E. Olive Way - 720-8188 601Ave. Queen Ave N - 432-9069 1605 12th #8 - Anne (206) 328-1965 TOYS IN BABELAND - 707 E. Pike St. - 328-2914 1701 E. OliveTHE Way - (206) 726-0565 CUFF COMPLEX UNICORN - 1118 E Pike - 325-6492 OZ - 3831 Stone Way N - (206) 251-0630 UNDER U 4 MEN THE CANTERBURY PACIFIC NORTHWEST SHOP 709 Broadway Ave. E. - 324-6446 534 15th Ave. E - (206) 322-3130 4411 Wallingford Ave. N. - (206) 535-6920 UNCLE IKE’S CHANGES IN WALLINGFORD MAPLE 2310 E ROSE Union INN St - 1-800-GET-DRUGS PANACHE - 225 Broadway E. - (206) 726-3300 2103 N. 45th - (206) 545-8363 112 (800) 570-2007 501Reservoir 15th AveRd E -- 1-800-GET-DRUGS PONDER - 2413 E Union - (206) 420-2180 THE CRESCENT 9822 15th Ave SW - 1-800-GET-DRUGS RUCKUS - 1465 E Republican St - (206) 257-4805 1413 E. Olive Way - (206) 720-8188 WILD AT HEART TABOO ADULT VIDEO THE CUFF COMPLEX 1111 NW Leary Way - 782-5538 9813 16th Ave SW - (206) 767-4855 1533 13th Ave. - (206) 323-1525 ANDY’S - 1401 W. 1st Ave. - (509) 747-0304 TRUE LOVE ART GALLERY & TATTOO DIESEL BAR - 1413 14th Ave. - (206) 322-1080 THE BLIND BUCK 1525 Summit Ave. - (206) 227-3572 GLO’S - 1621 E. Olive Way - (206) 324-2577 204 N. Division St. - (509) 343-9425 UNDER U 4 MEN HOT MAMA’S PIZZA LOVER’S GLOBE BAR AND KITCHEN 709 Broadway Ave. E - (206) 324-6446 700 E. Pine St. - (206) 322-6444 193N. Telegraph Road - (360) 752-1862 204 Division St. - (509) 443-4014 UNCLE IKE’S JAZZ ALLEY - 2033 6th Ave. - (206) 441-9729 RUMORS NYNE BARCABARET AND BISTRO 2310 E Union St - 1-800-GET-DRUGS JULIA’S - 300 Broadway Ave. E - (206) 860-1818 1119 - (306) 671-1849 232 W.Railroad Sprague Ave. - (509) 474-1621 501 15th Ave E - 1-800-GET-DRUGS KREMWERK - 1809 Minor Ave. #10 - (206) 682-2935 9822 15th Ave SW - 1-800-GET-DRUGS THE LUMBER YARD WILD AT HEART 9619 16th Ave. SW - (206) 695-2007 1111 NW Leary Way - (206) 782-5538 ADULT AIRPORT VIDEO 2 MADISON PUB - 1315 E. Madison - (206) 325-6537 21635 Pacific Hwy S - 878-7780 NEIGHBOURS - 1509 Broadway - (206) 324-5358 OUT WEST 5401California Ave. SW - (206) 937-1540 LOVER'S THE PINE BOX - 1600 Melrose Ave - (206) 588-0375 ADULT AIRPORT VIDEO 193 Telegraph Road - (360) 752-1862 POCO WINE ROOM 11732 Airport Road - (425) 290-7555 RUMORS CABARET 1408 E. Pine St. - (206) 322-9463 LOVER’S - 112 SE Everett - (425) 353-3607 1119 Railroad - (360) 671-1849 POKE BAR - 1542 12th Ave - (206) 402-5178 LOVER’S - 3402 Broadway - (425) 252-8754 PONY - 1221 E. Madison St. - (206) 324-2854 QUEER BAR - 1518 11th Ave - (206) 687-7491 R PLACE - 619 E. Pine - (206) 322-8828 LOVER’S RE-BAR - 1114 Howell at Boren - (206) 233-9873 ADULT AIRPORT VIDEO 2 25801 104th Ave. S.E. - (253) 852-1720 ROOT TABLE 2213 NW Market St. - (206) 420-3214 21635 Pacific Hwy S - (206) 878-7780 THE FANTASY SHOP SEATTLE EAGLE - 314 E. Pike - (206) 621-7591 SECRETS 604 Central Ave. S. - (253) 850-8428 SHORTY’S 2222 2nd Ave - (206) 441-5449 22862 Pacific Hwy S - (206) 878-8480 NASHVILLE’S SPORTS BAR (Drag Shows) STOUT -1530 11th Ave - (206) 397-3825 114 - Railroad Ave. N. - (253) 852 - 0909 TOULOUSE PETIT 601 Queen Anne Ave. N - (206) 432-9069 UNICORN - 1118 E Pike - (206) 325-6492 ADULT AIRPORT VIDEO UNION - 1318 E. Union St. - (206) 328-1318 11732 Airport Road - (425) 290-7555 WILDROSE - 1021 E Pike - (206) 324-9210 LOVER’S - 112 SE Everett - (425) 353-3607 ZIPPY’S GIANT BURGERS LOVER’S - 3402 Broadway - (425) 252-8754 9614 14th Ave SW - (206) 763-1347 1533 13th Ave. - 323-1525

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THE HERON INN & WATERGRASS DAY SPA SUPERSTORE 117 CASTLE Maple Ave. - (877) 883-8899 - info@theheron.com 6015 Tacoma Mall Blvd. - (253) 471-0391 CLUB SILVERSTONE 739½ St. Helens Ave. - (253) 404-0273 THE FANTASY SHOP DARBY’S CAFE 2301 6thS.E. Ave.- (360) - (253)357-6229 272-6640 211 5th Ave. LOVER’S LOVER’S 7002 Tacoma Mall Blvd., #F - (253) 475-2271 3959 Martin Way E. Suite D - (360) 456-7300 PACIFIC NORTHWEST SHOP JAKES - 311 4th Ave. E. - (360) 956-3247 2702 N. Proctor St. - (253) 752-2242 THE MIX - 635 St. Helens Ave. - (253) 383-4327 RAINBOW CENTER MAPLE ROSE INN Ave. - (253) 383-2318 2215 Pacific 112 SHAKABRAH Reservoir Rd - (800) JAVA570-2007 CAFE 2618 6th Ave. - (253) 572-2787

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ANDY’S 1401 W. 1st Ave. - (509) 747 - 0304 STRAY NIGHTCLUB CLUB OUT & ABOUT 415 327 W. Sprague - (509) 624 543-3796 - 4450 W. Lewis Ave. St., Pasco - (509) NYNE BAR AND BISTRO 232 W. Sprague Ave. - (509) 474 -1621

TUKWILA LOVER’S - 530 Southcenter Blvd. - (206) 248-5085 TACOMA CASTLE SUPERSTORE 6015 Tacoma Mall Blvd. - (253) 471-0391 CLUB SILVERSTONE 739½ St. Helens Ave. - (253) 404-0273 THE FANTASY SHOP 2301 6th Ave. - (253) 272-6640 LOVER’S 7002 Tacoma Mall Blvd., #F - (253) 475-2271 THE MIX - 635 St. Helens Ave. - (253) 383-4327 RAINBOW CENTER 2215 Pacific Ave. - (253) 383-2318 SHAKABRAH JAVA CAFE 2618 6th Ave. - (253) 572-2787

TRI-CITIES

CLUB OUT & ABOUT 327 W. Lewis St., Pasco - (509) 543-3796

TUKWILA LOVER’S

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The (206) area code must now be used to dial local calls. Location of meetings/events is in Seattle unless otherwise noted.

SATURDAY - November 24

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.

Native Holiday Gift Fair. 10am-5pm, Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center, 4705 Marginal Way SW. Support local Native American artists and craftspeople this holiday season. Free. Info: www.duwamishtribe.org.

(Also Sun., Nov. 25.)

Positively Living Coffee Social. 10am-12 noon. Cupcake Royale, 1111 E Pike St. Every Saturday. Casual social get-together for the HIV community. (206) 9571600. Sponsored by LIfelong.

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201, O’Neil Room. Meets daily. 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.

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.

1-800-477-8191. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.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.

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.

Noche Latina - Latino Night. 10pm. Capitol Lounge, 916 E Pike St. Every Sunday. Go-go dancers at 10:30pm; drag show at midnight. 21+ ID required. $10 cover. Co-sponsored by Entre Hermanos.

MONDAY - November 26

SUNDAY - November 25

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 Ravenna United Methodist Church. 8:30am “Seattle’s most dangerous Sunday school” - 9:45am Worship. 5751 33rd Ave NE. A reconciling congregation, fully inclusive and affirming of LGBTQ persons. (206) 525-7988.

Seattle Unity Church. 9am & 11am Sunday Services.

200 8th Ave N. “Come join our Gay & Lesbian-friendly, spiritual family at Seattle Unity Church. Our mission is to bring love, miracles & spiritual awakening into everyday life!” (206) 622-8475; www.seattleunity.org.

Seattle Soto Zen. 9:15am Zazen Instruction, 9:30am Zazen. 101 Nickerson St, Lower Level. Follow the traditional forms of the Soto school of Zen in a spirit of warmth & inclusion. Anyone interested in meditation, whether new or experienced in Zen practice or other traditions, is welcome. (206) 323-1659, www.seattlesotozen.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. This reconciling congregation welcomes with warm hands, warm hearts & open minds GLBT persons seeking a spiritual home. (253) 627-0129, www. fumctacoma.org University Lutheran Church. 9:30am Worship, 10:30am Coffee Fellowship, 11am Adult Forum & Education Hour. 1604 NE 50th St. All are welcome. We choose love. (206) 525-7074. universitylutheranseattle.org Central Lutheran Church. 10am Worship. 1710 11th Ave (just north of E Pine St). An open & affirming church, which in Lutheran churches is called “Reconciled in Christ.” “We seek to share God’s love with all people regardless of race, age, gender or sexual orientation.”

All are welcome. (206) 322-7500.

East Shore Unitarian Church. 10am Sunday Service.

12700 SE 32nd St, Bellevue. An open & affirming congregation. (425) 747-3780.

Gethsemane Lutheran Church. 10am Worship. 911 Stewart St. A downtown faith community centered in justice. An open & affirming congregation. (206) 682-3620.

Native Holiday Gift Fair. 10am-5pm, Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center, 4705 W Marginal Way SW. Support local Native American artists and craftspeople this holiday season. Free. Info: www.duwamishtribe.org.

Plymouth Church United Church of Christ. 10am Worship. 1217 6th Ave. Love your (LGBTQ) neighbor as yourself. (206) 622-4865, plymouthchurchseattle.org Unity Church of Kent. 10am. 218 State Ave S, Kent.

A welcoming congregation open to people of all races, religions, creeds & lifestyles. Join us any Sunday for an inspirational message, joyful fellowship & a fresh spiritual outlook. (253) 854-9747.

University Congregational United Church of Christ.

9am all ages education; 10am Worship. 4515 16th Ave NE. UCUCC is an open & affirming congregation. (206) 524-2322; www.universityucc.org.

Wallingford United Methodist Church. 10am Worship.

2115 N 42nd St. A progressive congregation. In 1984 Wallingford UMC became the 9th reconciling Methodist church in the U.S. (206) 547-6945 (office); (206) 2855077 (George).

November 24 thru December 2

All Pilgrims Christian Church. 10:30am Worship.

500 Broadway E. Come as you are. All are welcome.

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. Where people of all genders and sexualities, and families of all shapes & sizes are welcome and celebrated. A welcoming and affirming community since 1987. welcometablecc.org Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation.

10:30am. 7141 California Ave SW. (206) 935-0418, office@wsuu.org, www.wsuu.org Emerald City Metropolitan Community Church Seattle. 11am Worship. Chapel at University Temple United Methodist Church, 1415 NE 43rd St. MCC is a progressive Christ-centered faith community committed to providing a nurturing environment for individual & community growth thru Jesus Christ while celebrating unity in diversity. MCC is Seattle’s oldest Gay-friendly church. (206) 325-2421, www.mccseattle.org.

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” on Meetup.com or at DharmaBuddies.org. (Women are invited to contact our sister meditation group at www.

LotusSisters.org.)

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. 11:15am (also 7:30am, 9am, 5pm). 15 W Roy St. We are an accepting, progressive, Anglo-Catholic parish, renewing its people for their Christian lives in today’s world through worship, spiritual formation, engagement in the arts, and acts of compassion. www.stpaulseattle.com 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

Visit us online www.sgn.org

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201, O’Neil Room. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

Paths to Recovery Al-Anon Family Group. 12-1:30pm.

Seattle University Student Center, 901 12th Ave, Room 122. Every Sunday. LGBTQ supported. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength & hope in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness & that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number (206) 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: Afternoon; Mon/ Weds/Fri: Evenings; Tues/Thurs: Mornings. Seattle University, Redhawk Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. Pre-registration required. Orca Swim Team workouts are for both competitive & recreational swimmers. www. orcaswimteam.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 Seattle Prime Timers Rap Group. 1:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201. Meets 4th Sunday each month in the Ian MacKintosh Room. This month’s topic: Committed Relationships and the Gay Man. Coffee and tea will be served. Info: www.seattleprimetimers.org “Seattle Now & Then: The Historic Hundred” - Paul Dorpat and Jean Sherrard Author Reading. 2-3:30pm.

Fremont Branch Library, 731 N 34th St. New coffee table book highlights Seattle photo-history column that Dorpat has produced for the Seattle Times over the past 36 years. FREE. www.spl.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. To sign up visit 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

November 23, 2018

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201, O’Neil Room. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

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, Redhawk Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday afternoon listing.)

Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. Gay City, 517 E Pike St, downstairs space (note new location). Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.

FreelySpeaking.org Lotus Sisters South Seattle/Columbia City Meditation & Dharma Discussion. Gather at 6:45pm; sit at 7pm. Meets 4th Monday each month. Short presentation with discussion to follow. Oriented to LBTQ sisters. Email us or call (206) 550-5587 for details and location; www.

LotusSisters.org. (Wheelchair accessible.)

PFLAG/South King County Monthly Meeting. 7pm.

Unitarian Universalist Church, 25701 14th Pl S, Kent.

Meets 4th Monday each month. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses & families of GLBT persons, as well as those sexual 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 Poetry Reading: Danez Smith. 7:30pm, Broadway Performance Hall (at Seattle Central College), 1625 Broadway. Danez Smith is a Black, queer, POZ writer and performer whose most recent collection, “Don’t Call Us Dead,” was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award. Presented by Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series. Tickets $20-$80 (students $10) and more info at https://lectures.org/event/danez-smith.

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.)

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 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 - November 27

Orca Swim Team Workout. Morning. Seattle University, Redhawk Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday afternoon listing.)

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201, O’Neil Room. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

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.

AMP Open House and Art Plan Discussion. 6-8:30pm, Seattle Central College, Room BE-1110 (enter at southfacing door off south campus plaza). Help plan the AIDS Memorial Pathway’s public art that will create a physical place for remembrance and reflection at the gateway to Cal Anderson Park and the plaza over the Capitol Hill light-rail station. AMP’s opening is planned for early 2020. Refreshments provided. Info: www.theamp.org.

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.

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.

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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.

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. Youth 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.

No Man’s Land - For Female-Identified Youth, Ages 22 & Under. 7-8:30pm. 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) 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org PFLAG/North Seattle Monthly Meeting. 7-9pm. Haller Lake United Methodist Church, 13055 1st Ave NE. Meets 4th Tuesday each month. (206) 325-7724 or northseattle@pflagseattle.org. PFLAG, a national organization founded in 1972, provides support, education and advocacy for families and friends of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer persons and is committed to moving LGBTQ equality forward.

Tuesday Night Sex Addicts Anonymous (GLBTQI).

7-8:30pm. All Pilgrims Christian Church, 500 Broadway E (enter at 509 10th Ave E; buzz in, Colonial 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. It’s easy, it’s fun & anyone can do it! Learn traditional African & AfroCaribbean rhythms & basic hand drumming techniques.

Experience connection, community & spirituality. Drums are provided. For info & location call Dennis at (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.

Spiritual Empowerment. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. A vibrant drop-in workshop for those of any spiritual belief. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. GLBT & GLBT-friendly co-ed water polo team is open to all who want to play. Beginners & experienced players welcome. Check our website for up to the minute details, or call the Otter Hotline (206) 414-8797. www.otterpolo.com. [Note: No practice Dec. 18-Jan. 1.]

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 - November 28

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 New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201, O’Neil Room. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

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 Living Positively. 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. (206) 957-1600 or www.lifelong.org.

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 Queer Seattle Book Club. 6pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E (upstairs). Every Wednesday. This month’s title is “Horse Crazy” by Gary Indiana, a worst-case scenario of an injudicious romance. https://faculty.washington. edu/swittet/SGLBookClub/ Lotus Sisters Meditation & Dharma Discussion North. 6:15-8pm. Ravenna Bryant neighborhood. Every Wednesday. Call (206) 525-7295 for location. www.

LotusSisters.org.

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Erika Lee: A History of American Xenophobia.

7-8:30pm, Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Leading immigration and Asian-American historian Lee traces the history of anti-foreigner sentiment from the Japanese-American internment during World War II to the Trump administration’s current attempts to limit Muslim immigration and travel. A conversation with Lee and Densho’s Tom Ikeda follows her presentation. Free, Gay Fathers Association of Seattle. 7:30-9pm. Group sponsored by Seattle Public Library. Info: (206) 386-4103 Health, 201 16th Ave E, Central Bldg, Lower Atrium. or www.spl.org.

Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & SUNDAY - December 2 Gay men who are currently or previously married. Safe, anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring (See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.) fathers & friends. You are not alone. For information, community events & “questioning” visit www.gfas.org or Border Riders Motorcycle Club First Sunday Ride. our message board at http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/ Contact Border Riders for details and rendezvous point.

Meets 1st Sunday most months. BRMC provides a sogayfathersseattle cial & educational fraternity for individuals interested in Gay Male Sexuality & Relationships. 7:30-9pm. recreational motorcycle touring. www.borderriders.com SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday.

Ongoing support group open to Gay and Bisexual men. Day of Mindfulness with Arinna Weisman. 10am-4pm, (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org [NOTE: Please con- Mindfulness Community of Puget Sound, Dharma Gate, 1910 24th Ave S (entrance in back). Sitting, walking, and tact the facilitator prior to attending.] eating meditation, a dharma talk, questions and group Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar inquiry. Open to all, suggested donation $30 plus dana Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every for teacher (no one turned away). Sponsored by Lotus Tuesday & Thursday. (See Tuesday listing at 8pm.) Sisters/Lotus Sangha. Info: www.LotusSisters.org.

[Note: No practice Dec. 18-Jan. 1.]

Knights of Mantra Monthly Meeting. 3pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. Meets 1st Sunday each month. K of M/ FRIDAY - November 30 Jet Chapter is a fun-loving leather/Levi social & chariWorld AIDS Day Breakfast. 7:30am-registration; table organization that raises money for various causes 8-9am-breakfast and program. Embassy Suites, King & organizations. (206) 329-0886. www.facebook.com/ Street Ballroom, 255 S King St. Fifteenth annual event kofmjetchapter/ benefits Gay City, Seattle Counseling Service, and the PFLAG/Whatcom County (Bellingham) Monthly Care Teams program at Samaritan Center of Puget Meeting. 5pm. Community Food Co-op Bakery, 405 E Sound. RSVP at bit.ly/WorldAIDSDay2018; Twitter: Holly St, Bellingham. Meets 1st Sunday each month. #worldaidsday Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national Ageless in Recovery (AA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th support organization for parents, spouses, & families of Ave E, Suite 201. Every Friday. A drop-in AA group for GLBT persons, as well as those minorities. www.what55+. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org compflag.org; PFLAG/Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724.

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Seattle Jazz Vespers. 6-8pm. Seattle First Baptist Ave E #201, O’Neil Room. Meets daily. (See Saturday Church, Seneca St & Harvard Ave. Meets 1st Sunday listing at noon for details.) each month (October-June). The historic Gothic sanctuRoad to Recovery (SLAA). 12-1:30pm. SASG, 115 ary of Seattle First Baptist Church is offered to the best 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Friday. Ongoing 12-step jazz groups in the city to perform 100 minutes of their group for sex and love addicts. (206) 322-2437; www. own popular music. FREE. For info (206) 325-6051, sasgcc.org www.seattlefirstbaptist.org/sjv Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, COMMUNITY RESOURCES Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Friday. Allyship - an organization of LGBTQ individuals fighting (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org for economic and social justice. www.LGBTQAllyship.

LGBTQ & Allies 18+ Free Friday Night Drop-In Vol- org, allyship@yahoo.com, (206) 279-8169. leyball. 6-7:45pm. Miller Community Center, 330 19th American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver.us Ave E. Every Friday. 206-684-4753.

Another Gay Social Club! - www.meetup.com/AnotherOrca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, Gay-Social-Club/ Redhawk Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane. afternoon listing.) com/guide.html Henry Holiday Art Sale. 6-9pm, Vermillion Art Gallery & Bar, 1508 11th Ave. Info: www.vermillionseattle.com. BiNet Seattle is a mixed gender, social group for Bisexuals, their partners & other Bi-friendly folks - www.

(Also Sat., Dec. 1.) binetseattle.org.

Strength Over Speed (SOS). 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Peer support for Gay and Bremerton/Kitsap County - www.outwestsound.org Bisexual men recovering from crystal meth addiction. Cascade Rainbow Community Center (Mount Verwww.strengthoverspeed.org. (206) 322-2437; www. non) - (360) 840-8499 and on Facebook.

COLAGE unites people with LGBTQ parents and sasgcc.org Game Night. 7pm-11pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite caregivers into a network of peers and supports them 201. Every Friday. Card games, board games and fel- as they nurture and empower each other to be skilled, self-confident, and just leaders in our collective comlowship. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm. Lam- munities - www.colage.org bert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Friday. Lambert House Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for 963-1994.

GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. (206) 322-2515, DIFFA/Northwest (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS). (206) 763-8885; www.diffanorthwest. www.lamberthouse.org Rain Country Dance Night. 7-11pm, lessons at 7:15pm. org The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. An evening of country-western DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: Crisis dancing for the LGBTQ community. FREE. www.rain- Clinic, (206) 461-3222 (24 hour line); King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) - 24-hour countrydance.org.

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

LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 8-9pm. (voice), 517-9670 (tty), www.nwnetwork.org; Pierce SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201 - in the O’Neill Room. County Domestic Violence Helpline: Teresa, (253) Every Friday. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fel- 798-4166; Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual lowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share Minorities - offers on-going support groups for men: their experience, strength & hope in order to solve their 323-1768; Seattle Police Dept Domestic Violence common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family Unit, (206) 684-0330; State Wide Domestic Violence illness & that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Greater Hot Line, 1-800-562-6025. In an emergency call 911.

Seattle AIS 24-hour number (206) 625-0000; www. Report domestic violence and sexual assault. seattle-al-anon.org; (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Equal Rights Washington - (206) 324-2570; www. equalrightswashington.org SATURDAY - December 1 Everett/Snohomish Cty - www.gaysnohomish.org Freely Speaking Toastmasters - www.freelyspeak(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

House of Queer: Housing Conference. 10am-3pm, ing.org Kent Lutheran Church, 336 2nd Ave S, Kent. Third an- Gay City promotes wellness in LGBTQ communities nual event hosted by LGBTQ Allyship to educate our by providing health services, connecting people to recommunity on housing and related issues in South King sources, fostering arts, and building community. Gay City County. This year’s theme is “Rebuilding Community” Health Project’s Wellness Center provides anonymous with speakers including Burien City Council member & confidential HIV/STD testing. 517 E Pike St. More Krystal Marx plus workshops on renters’ rights, LGBTQ info or to schedule an appointment, (206) 860-6969. www.gaycity.org senior housing, and more. Info: www.allyship.org.

Anti-Fascist Counter-Protest. 12noon-4pm, Seattle Gay & Lesbian National Hotline (GLNH): 1-888-THECity Hall, 600 4th Ave (between Cherry St & James St). GLNH (1-888-843-4564). Non-profit, peer-counseling, Say No! to misogyny, white supremacy, anti-Semitism, information & local resources telephone hotline for GLBT nativism, and homophobia. This action is in direct re- people across the country. sponse to a planned rally by the pro-Trump Washington Generations Aging With Pride empowers elder LGThree Percenters and Redoubt News. Co-sponsored BTQ adults to live with pride and dignity by promoting,

by ANSWER Coalition, Freedom Socialist Party, ISO, connecting, and developing innovative programs and Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity, the Party for So- services that enhance belonging and support, eliminate cialism and Liberation, and Radical Women. Endorsed discrimination, and honor the lives of older members of

by Wash. Federation of State Employees Local 304. Info: our community - (206) 393-3400; info@gapseattle.org; (206) 722-2453 or email 12.1.18.seattle@gmail.com. gapseattle.org Henry Holiday Art Sale. 1-4pm, Vermillion Art Gallery GLSEN/WA - Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Net& Bar, 1508 11th Ave. Info: www.vermillionseattle.com. work - (206) 330-2099; www.glsenwa.org

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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 Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 6:30pm. Volunteer Park, 14th Ave E & E Prospect St. Every Wednesday.

Meet at Black Sun sculpture across for museum. (See Saturday at 9am.)

Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, Redhawk Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday afternoon listing.)

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 SEAMEC Monthly Meeting. 7pm. 1605 12th Ave, Suite 21. Meets 4th Wednesday each month. SEAMEC interviews, researches & rates candidates for public office on issues of concern to the LGBT community. www. voteseamec.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 - November 29

Orca Swim Team Workout. Morning. Seattle University, Redhawk Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday afternoon listing.)

Aging Ballard Lesbian Exchange (A.B.L.E.) Monthly Lunch Get-Together. 12 noon. Ballard NW Senior Center, 5429 32nd Ave NW. Meets 4th Thursday each month. Look for the A.B.L.E. sign on the table. We are Lesbians, 60 years (generally) and up, living (mostly) in the north half of Seattle. The purpose of this group is to connect, socialize, and support each other. We have been meeting since 2015. The purpose of this group is to connect, socialize, and support each other. The group hosts evening potlucks, outings and get-togethers. Cosponsored by Puget Sound Old Lesbians Organizing for Change. (PSOLOC).

BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting.

12-2pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. The BABES Network is a peer led agency; a sisterhood of women facing HIV together. (206) 720-5566 or 888-292-1912; www.babesnetwork.org.

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201, O’Neil Room. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

Safe and Sober (AA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous.

(206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Thursday. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org Everett-Snohomish County Friendship Dinner for persons living with HIV/AIDS, their friends, and for those who want to support them. 6pm. Trinity Lutheran Church, 2324 Lombard Ave, Everett. Meets last Thursday each month. For further information, please call 360-202-3978. Sponsored by AIDS Project Snohomish County (APSC) and Gay Men’s Task Force.

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.

Film Program: “Alternate Endings, Activist Risings.” 7-8pm, Frye Art Museum Auditorium, 704 Terry Ave. Collaborative video project honoring World AIDS Day, featuring shorts by ACT-UP NY, Positive Women’s Network, Sero Project, The SPOT, Tacoma Action Collective, and VOCAL NY. These works highlight the impact of art in HIV/AIDS activism and advocacy. Followed by Q&A with filmmakers Cana Caldwell, Louis Shackelford, and Stephaun Wallace. FREE. More info: https://fryemuseum.org/calendar/event/7068.

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

Jeff, (206) 932-3731; leagues@wsbowl.com.

Buddhism & Recovery. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday. A meditation/recovery group. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

November 23, 2018

Celebrating 44 Years!

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; www.lamberthouse. org LGBT Library - 517 E Pike St. Open Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. A wide range of fiction and non-fiction for the LGBT community and allies can be borrowed free of charge.

LGBT MS Connection - (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.com; 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, 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 Pride Lives - www.facebook.com/PrideLives/ Project NEON is a program of Seattle Counseling Service providing FREE information & services to Gay

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& 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 Rainbow Center - Resource Center for Tacoma/Pierce County LGBTIQA community. Through education, advocacy and celebration, the Rainbow Center expands resources, and safe space for the LGBTQIA community.

Sponsors Tacoma Pride Festival. (253) 383-2318, www. rainbowcntr.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. www/ seattle.gov/lgbtq 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.

(425) 339-5298.

Visit us online www.sgn.org

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 Flag Football: www.cascadeflagfootball.org; Cascade Flyers: www.cascadeflyers.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.

Strength Over Speed - www.strengthoverspeed.org Tacoma/Pierce County - Rainbow Center, 2215 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, a resource center for the LGBTIQA community of Pierce County, (253) 383-2318, www. rainbowcntr.org

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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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Pomegranate

PETS OF THE WEEK Adoption Center

Sunday – Wednesday | 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Thursday – Saturday | 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.

13212 SE Eastgate Wy, Bellevue, WA 98005 (425) 649-7563 | adoption@seattlehumane.org

Is your life missing a furry friend? Now is the perfect time to open your world to a pet in need.

Coldwell Banker’s Homes for Dogs program with Adopt-a-pet.com has helped place 20,000 dogs into homes across the country. Could your place be the next happy ending for a pet in need? Make your house a home by visiting the shelter and bringing back the pet of your dreams.

Let us introduce Pomegranate, an 8-year-old red Pomeranian. Pom came to us as a stray. We've found her to be totally charming, sweet and social. She walks well on a leash and LOVES treats! Pom knows some commands and an adorable dance/bunny hop! She would likely do well in any home environment. Come adopt Pomegranate today!

As with all our dogs, Pomegranate has been spayed, microchipped, and vaccinated. She will go home with a certificate for a complimentary veterinary examination.

PLUS, most dog adoptions include 30 days of pet insurance from Trupanion and six weeks of on-campus training classes - a great way to start off on the right paw!

Resident dog intros recommended. Introduce to kids of all ages, but watch intros at first to be sure all are comfy.

No history with cats.

Belle Meet Belle, a beautiful 6-year-old cream and white kitty! Belle was transferred to Seattle Humane from another shelter. We will give her as long as she needs for us to find her a home of her own. Belle is a charming girl who's extremely affectionate! She's a cuddle machine. This little love bug wants nothing more than to be a lap cat and to snuggle up nice and close. Come meet Belle today at Seattle Humane! You'll fall in love at first sight.

Adoption Updates:

As with all of our cats, Belle is spayed, microchipped and vaccinated. All of our cats have been tested for Feline Leukemia/FIV and go home with a certificate for an examination by a King County veterinarian and their very own identification tag and collar. PLUS, most cat adoptions include 30 days of pet insurance from Trupanion – a great way to start off on the right paw!

November is Adopt-a-Senior-Pet Month at Seattle Humane in Bellevue, meaning adoption fees are waived all month long for cats and dogs ages 8 years and up! Grey-muzzled sweethearts await you.

Learn more at seattlehumane.org.

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Teens with dog experience are ok. No small children.

No history with cats. Dog introductions required.

Please bring all of the members of your family to meet this guy.

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