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Issue 52, Volume 46, December 28, 2018

Arts & Entertainment

Jenkins’ Beale Street FILM adaptation an aria of Paddington 2 and Roma melancholic grace and lead the way as the best societal self-examination of a very, very good year in cinema

Hugh Grant and Paddington (voiced by Ben Wishaw) in Paddington 2 – Photo courtesy of Warner Bros.

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer Seems like every year I say something along the lines of, “It’s been a great year

for movies.” Each year I mean it. But then I watched just over 200 features in 2018, and for the life of me I can’t imagine the average moviegoer is given the same opportunity.

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January theater shows variety

Bo Mellinger as Vodnik in Bohemia at The Triple Door – Photo by Julia Nardin

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer The list of productions opening in January is shorter this year than most, but there are a lot of very interesting choices to see

on our local stages. It’s a mix of old (I Do, I Do and Arsenic and Old Lace) and new (B and Last of the Boys). Get your calendars out and start getting those tickets!

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KiKi Layne and Stephan James in If Beale Street Could Talk – Photo courtesy of Annapurna Pictures

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Now playing

Childhood sweethearts Tish Rivers (KiKi Layne) and Alonzo “Fonny” Hunt (Stephan James) are going to get married. It is the 1970s and they have grown up together with

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Tasveer announces the inaugural Tasveer South Asian Literary Festival January 11-20

Tasveer is pleased to announce the inaugural Tasveer South Asian Literary Festival or LitFest (TSAL), also known as Tasveer Reads. The festival is FREE and will be held January 11-20 at three main venues: Richard Hugo House (1634 11th Ave.), Seattle Art Museum (1300 1st Ave.)

and Elliott Bay Book Company (1521 10th Ave.). For the complete schedule of TSAL programs, please visit tsal.tasveer.org.

Tasveer is well known in the Pacific Northwest for its popular annual film festival, the nation’s largest South Asian film

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buddy, Jeeter, with his girlfriend and her volatile mother. Intimate, funny, and fierce, Last of the Boys by renowned Seattle playwright Steven Dietz delves into a veteran’s struggle to understand his troubled past, which threatens to swallow him whole. www.seattlerep.org

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14/48: The World’s Quickest Theater Festival, The 14/48 Projects and ACTLab, 1/4-5, 1/11-12 January 2019 provides The 14/48 Projects another opportunity to bring its unique brand of theatre-making challenge. The rules: 14 world-premiere plays written, cast, designed, directed, scored, rehearsed, and performed in 48 hours. That same process is repeated for a second weekend! You never EVER know what you’ll get, which is part of the fun! www.the1448projects.org

Red, SecondStory Repertory, 1/18-2/2 Master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko has just landed the biggest commission in the history of modern art, a series of murals for New York’s famed Four Seasons Restaurant. In the two fascinating years that follow, Rothko works feverishly with his young assistant, Ken, in his Bowery studio. But when Ken gains the confidence to challenge him, Rothko faces the agonizing possibility that his crowning achievement could also become his undoing. www.secondstoryrep.org

All’s Well That Ends Well, Seattle Shakespeare Company, 1/8-2/3 (at Center Theatre at Seattle Center) Smart and unwavering, Helena has pinned her heart to Bertram. He wants nothing to do with her and runs off to the wars for adventure and to escape his newlyarranged marriage. Helena follows him.

Overcoming obstacles and aided by a fantastic collection of comical characters, the two begin separate journeys towards each other, both learning about the paradox of holding love tight as well as letting go. www.seattleshakespeare.org

Arsenic and Old Lace, Taproot Theatre, 1/23-3/2 Taproot favorites Pam Nolte and Kim Morris star as the meddling matriarchs.

The Brewsters are an eccentric bunch: Mortimer’s a theatre critic, his brother thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt and Aunts Abby and Martha are the most gracious killers. When Mortimer casually proposes to the pastor’s daughter, he unwittingly opens the lid on buried family secrets. As strangers and cops keep calling, the Brewster’s will go to hilarious lengths to protect the skeletons in the cellar. www.taproottheatre.org

Sovereign: 2nd Annual Black Queer One Womyn Show Festival, Earth Pearl Collective, 1/9-12 (at 18th & Union).

Patience Sings presents "Good Grief", Naa Akua presents "Akwaaba", Briq House presents "Lessons from the Pulpit", Aviona Rodriguez Brown presents "Aviona", Aishe' Keita presents "Griot". Visit website for complete descriptions and more details. www.earthpearlcollective.com www.18thandunion.org

Dear Evan Hansen, Paramount Theatre, 1/23-2/2 With music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (A Christmas Story and James and the Giant Peach), this musical tells the story of a young man with social difficulties that inhibit his ability to connect with other people and make friends.

He yearns to make a connection with his peers and lies about having a relationship with a deceased student to become closer to the boy’s family. www.stgpresents.org/paramount/calendar

B, Washington Ensemble Theatre, 1/11-28 Sharp, political work by Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón. B (world premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2017) is the story of Alejandra and Marcela, two anarchists searching for a way to voice their political beliefs and prove their dedication to the cause. They meet disillusioned bomb maker Jose who agrees to teach them all he knows. With their motives and devotion for non-violent anti-capitalist anarchy put to the test, Alejandra and Marcela must decide how far they are willing to go and what they are willing to give up to speak their minds.

Calderón’s tightly-wound absurdist play hashes out the complicated and irrational nature of violence, terrorism, and activism. www.washingtonensembletheatre.org

Bo Mellinger as Vodnik in Bohemia at The Triple Door – Photo by Julia Nardin

I Do! I Do! – A Musical About Marriage, Village Theatre, Issaquah: 1/172/24, Everett: 3/1-24 Kendra Kassebaum stars as Agnes and Peter Saide stars as Michael in this classic musical about marriage from 1967. It’s wedding day for Michael and Agnes, as they get ready to begin their lives together. Told from the venue of their marital bedroom, they navigate the perils and triumphs of marriage, children, arguments, and more. With a tuneful and charming score, I Do! I Do! is an intimate and nostalgic musical chronicling 50 years of life and love. www.villagetheatre.org Bohemia, Opal Peachey & Mark Siano Productions, 1/17-26 (at The Triple Door) Famous Bohemian composer Antonín Dvorák has hit a wall prior to composing his magnum opus. In a move of desperation, he turns to a bottle of absinthe for inspiration. In this macabre and mystical dream cabaret, Dvorák is visited by the ghost of late composer Frédéric Chopin and a host of beautiful green fairies. Chopin and many other famous Bohemians guide Dvorák as they search for the true source of inspiration and grasp at artistic immortality. This new musical combines live orchestral music with aerial numbers,

The cast of Dear Evan Hansen (National Tour) at the Paramount Theatre – Photo by Matthew Murphy

dance, burlesque, classical piano battles, comedy, and new and original songs. The Triple Door transforms into 1890s Prague. https://tickets.thetripledoor.net/eventperformances.asp?evt=1342 Everybody, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, 1/17-2/16 Everybody explores the most universal of truths: you can’t take it with you, but everybody tries. When the character Somebody faces imminent death, the choice between Friendship, Love, Kinship, Cousinship, and Stuff, is complicated. Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins adds to the mess by asking the core company of nine actors to choose

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roles by lottery every night, letting fate decide the journey as they play out this new riff on a 15th Century morality tale. Does that mean that every actor memorizes the whole play? Yes, it does. Does it mean that there are 120 possible actor combinations that might perform Everybody? That's right. www.strawshop.org Last of the Boys, Seattle Repertory Theatre, 1/18-2/10 Ben lives off-the-grid in his trailer in the California Central Valley, haunted by the memories of his service during the Vietnam War. His self-imposed exile is disrupted by the arrival of Ben’s old war

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M. Butterfly, ArtsWest, 1/24-2/17 David Henry Hwang writes a commentary on East/West perceptions. When we build fantasies to hide the truth, what happens when it all comes tumbling down? Clever parallels to the famous opera Madame Butterfly abound in this fearless play about a French diplomat who falls for a Chinese opera star: the ideal, exotic woman in his mind. The reality: a man with a secret mission. Rich with deeper themes, M. Butterfly confronts the perception of Eastern culture by the West and the persistent romanticism that clouds it. www.artswest.org The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Seattle Children’s Theatre, 1/243/10 An exquisitely fashioned toy china rabbit, Edward Tulane, experiences deep love and loss on a tumultuous 20-year journey.

Edward, a self-important toy companion to a young girl, obsesses over his vast array of lovely outfits rather than forge new relationships. In his journey, he discovers what truly matters; to love and to be loved. (Ages 6+) www.sct.org Fire Season, Seattle Public Theater, 1/25-2/17 (World Premiere) Aurin Squire won the first Seattle Public Theater “Emerald Prize,” a $10,000 prize for a new play. Now the prize-winner will be presented on their main stage!

When a twelve-year-old boy overdoses on Oxycontin in rural Washington, his smalltown community is left reeling. A tragic and humorous look at the last generation of strong, working-class Americans that asks, “What happens when systems begin to harm the people they’re supposed to help – and what does it take to fight back?” www.seattlepublictheater.org

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Top Ten Films of 2018

Paddington 2 - Photo courtesy of Warner Bros.

1. Paddington 2 (D: Paul King) I can’t remember the last time I saw a film in January and then remained enamored with it to such a colossal degree for the remainder of the year, but that’s exactly what has happened as it pertains to director Paul King’s sequel. This divine marvel of

an empathetic charmer is a family-friendly confection that is exactly the movie the world needs right now. It’s a masterpiece of emotional nuance, and as Aunt Lucy says, if we’re kind and polite the world will be right, and if there’s any sentiment I want to become a reality in 2019 it has to be that one.

Revenge – Photo courtesy of Neon

3. Revenge (D: Coralie Fargeat) In what was a stunning year for horror, to my mind Coralie Fargeat’s incredible, genre-bending thriller Revenge clearly stands at the top of the heap. This FrenchCanadian production is a marvel of storytelling bravado that puts a decidedly character-driven and feminist spin on the tired rape-revenge subgenre, slamming things

on their head in ways that are consistently spellbinding. It’s all centered around a ferocious performance from young Matilda Lutz that’s both one of the year’s best as well as one of its more disappointingly forgotten.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post – Photo courtesy of FilmRise

5. The Miseducation of Cameron Post (D: Desiree Akhavan) The first of two “gay conversion therapy” dramas to see a release this year (the frustratingly didactic Boy Erased being the other), Desiree Akhavan’s sublime adaptation of Emily M. Danforth’s best-selling novel is an insightful character study that is as compassionate as it is merciless. Featuring incredible performances from Chloë Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane and Forrest

Goodluck as a group of teens sent by their parents to have their homosexual urges “fixed,” what’s wonderful about this motion picture is just how understandingly cathartic it ends up being. It treats these teens with level of unvarnished respect that’s inspiring, the film building to a series of final scenes that are heartbreaking and euphoric in almost equal measure.

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Roma – Photo courtesy of Netflix

2. Roma (D: Alfonso Cuarón) Speaking of empathy, Alfonso Cuarón’s masterful reminiscing of his Mexico City childhood Roma is one of the more profoundly moving achievements I’ve seen in a very long time. This is a movie that weaves through time and space with precision,

this journey into the past just as much a sly commentary on the future as it is a heartfelt recollection of people and places gone by. A visually stunning meditation on life’s various unforeseeable vagaries, I don’t think I could have loved this film more had I actively tried.

Blindspotting – Photo courtesy of Lionsgate

4. Blindspotting (D: Carlos López Estrada) Whoa. That’s the reaction I had walking out of the theatre after watching director Carlos López Estrada and screenwriters/ stars Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal’s jawdropping Blindspotting. In a year where a number of incredible films looked at race, racism, police brutality, gentrification and

economic inequality, this one stood out from the pack. This insightful and vicious satire exploded across the screen like an angry lightning bolt, Diggs and Casal’s unrelenting, clear-eyed script a masterwork of mood, character and story that’s phenomenal. To put it even more simply, this film is perfect.

You Were Never Really Here – Photo by Amazon Studios

6. You Were Never Really Here (D: Lynne Ramsay) An electrifying caterwaul of terrifying human demons coming home to roost, Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here is a noir genre barnburner where what is unsaid and is left unexplained is every bit as haunting and as intimately affecting as what is clearly spelled out. Centering on a stunning performance from star Joaquin Phoenix (who, what with this film, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot and The

Sisters Brothers had a 2018 to remember) as a mysterious enforcer with a shady background who goes on a brutal and bloody journey of self-discovery, this movie is an emotional marvel that cagily snuck up on me only to deliver a swift eye-opening slap to the face. Ramsay’s latest shook the pillars of my expectations for what a story like this could be, and personally I can’t wait to see what the supremely talented director has in store for me to watch next.

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Still, whenever someone comes at me and claims it was a subpar year for cinema I still glance at them cross-eyed. Their saying that usually means they didn’t look too far beyond whatever $100-million production was coming out of a major Hollywood studio, that they didn’t take the time to head to their local art house theatre and see any of the foreign or independent titles that might have been playing. It also likely means they didn’t dig too deeply into their VOD, Amazon Prime or Netflix queues to see if anything outside the ordinary might have been sitting there waiting to be discovered.

All that said, let me emphatically state 2018 was an extraordinary year for cinema.

Not since 2007 have I had so much trouble compiling my personal top ten list. I can’t help but think there are a solid 20 or so features that could possibly stand the test of time and end up being considered classics not too far in the foreseeable future. My own top 100 for the year is overflowing in titles I’d have no trouble whatsoever watching multiple times, a large handful of those speaking to me in an intimately personal

manner that often caught me by surprise.

There were films that challenged, startled, inspired, educated, entertained, offended, terrified, bewildered and wowed me, and even better there were multiple occasions these past 12 months where I was happily reminded what it was that inspired me to write about cinema in the first place.

And goodness knows I needed that reminder this year. With the world seemingly crumbling around us, to see so many filmmakers out there challenging our perceptions of what the medium can be and embracing diversity in so many clever and thought-provoking ways couldn’t help but bring a smile to my face. Legends like Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman), Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters), Alfonso Cuarón (Roma), Claire Denis (Let the Sunshine In), François Ozon (Double Lover), Stephen Soderbergh (Unsane), Gus Van Sant (Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot) and Paul Schrader (First Reformed) delivered fascinating efforts that offered up plenty of food for thought, while rising stars like Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here), Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite), Debra Granik (Leave No Trace), Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk), Brett Haley (Hearts Beat Loud), Marielle Heller

(Can You Ever Forgive Me?), Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), Steve McQueen (Widows), Damien Chazelle (First Man) and Karyn Kusama (Destroyer) cemented their status as talented newcomers worth continuing to get excited about.

This was also a year when Marvel’s decade of methodically building their comic book mythology finally paid dividends, their triple-whammy of Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War and Ant-Man and the Wasp appeasing fans and non-fans alike in almost equal measure. But DC and Warner Bros bounced back themselves with the hyperbolic craziness that was Aquaman, while Fox’s Deadpool 2 once again showcased there is indeed an R-rated market for superhero antics just as long as both the audience and the source material are treated with intelligent (if still irreverent) respect. But the big winner in the comic book adaptation sweepstakes might just have been Sony. Not only did their critically maligned Venom sport a world-wide gross of almost a billion dollars, but the studio’s animated endeavor Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse might just go down as one of the best superhero films ever made.

Nostalgia was once again in vogue in 2018, Mary Poppins Returns, Creed II, A Star

Is Born, The Grinch, Christopher Robin, the female-driven Ocean’s 8, Halloween, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Incredibles 2, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Bohemian Rhapsody and Insidious: The Last Key all making general audiences various degrees of happy. Then were the surprise hits like Crazy Rich Asians, A Quiet Place, Game Night, Love, Simon and Searching, each receiving their fair share of acclaim from both the ticket buying public as well as the majority of the critical establishment.

All-in-all there was plenty to talk about in 2018, that brief little recap only skimming the surface of all the possible topics for conversation. Nonetheless, here are my picks for the top ten motion pictures I had the pleasure to watch this past year along with a fair number of honorable mentions and alternate selections I feel are worthy of a look. Please keep in mind that these were my favorites, nothing more, and while I believe all of them are superior pieces of entertainment that doesn’t necessarily mean everyone out there is going to feel exactly the same. As always, like all forms of artistic expression cinema remains a personal experience that varies from one individual to the next. With that in mind, on to the list!

Lean on Pete – Photo courtesy of A24

7. Lean on Pete (D: Andrew Haigh) 45 Years and Weekend director Andrew Haigh has delivered another gripping human drama with this masterful adaptation of author Willy Vlautin’s novel Lean on Pete.

An observational road trip through Oregon and Washington State Fairs that slowly and seductively morphs into an invigorating cross-country journey that revels in the most minute and intricate corners of the American experience, the film touches on a number of complex themes as it delicately trots towards conclusion. This coming-of-age

fable is anchored by an exceptional performance from youngster Charlie Plummer as a boy searching for answers to questions he can’t quite put words to in order to ask them aloud. Filled with a plethora of moving moments and haunting images, Haigh once again shows himself to be a consummate craftsman who will always put people and their personal experiences first, his films essential pieces of character-driven cinema worth celebrating.

BlacKkKlansman – Photos courtesy of Focus Features

9. BlacKkKlansman (D: Spike Lee) I can’t get Spike Lee’s explosive drama/ comedy/thriller/social commentary out of my head. It’s rambunctious and wild, splintering into a variety of directions at any given moment, sometimes in ways that are too bizarre for them ever to comfortably work. Yet the film has a controlled, angry urgency that’s all-encompassing, and while this story of a Black Colorado detective infiltrating the KKK along with his White

Jewish partner defies belief (even though it’s all true), Lee transforms this heroic tale into a cautionary parable spotlighting the modern societal evils the U.S. is in danger of succumbing to right this very second. James David Washington and Adam Driver give two of the year’s best performances, while a brief sequence featuring Harry Belafonte is one of the single greatest pieces of cinema I’ve had the immense pleasure to experience in all of 2018.

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The Favourite – Photos courtesy of Fox Searchlight

8. The Favourite (D: Yorgos Lanthimos) Leave it to idiosyncratic The Lobster and Dogtooth wunderkind Yorgos Lanthimos to flip his storytelling script once again, the esteemed filmmaker delivering an 18th century backstabbing comedic melodrama overflowing in palace intrigue, political maneuvering and feminine wiles. In the process, he showcases three incredible actresses

(Olivia Coleman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone) at the absolute top of their respective games, each of them reveling in the delectable choice bit of dialogue Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara’s crafty screenplay delivers in spades. It’s magnificent, the whole thing such devious Machiavellian fun, watching it only once is close to impossible.

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10. What They Had (D: Elizabeth Chomko) What could have been a somewhat standard disease-of-the-week story instead bursts into something vital and emotionally pure under the guidance of writer/director Elizabeth Chomko. What They Had treats its tale of a close-knit family dealing with a member battling the latter stages of Alzheimer’s with honesty, restraint, maturity and heart, the filmmaker intermixing

humor, heartache and anger with confidently understated grace. Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster and Blythe Danner all deliver performances that deserve to be right in the middle of the Oscar discussion (yet sadly aren’t), and in my opinion this is one Douglas Sirk meets Nicole Holofcener melodrama I am positive the passage of time is going to be more than kind to.

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Disobedience – Photo courtesy of Bleecker Street

Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight

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A SECOND TWENTY (in alphabetic order) Black Panther (D: Ryan Coogler), Can You Ever Forgive Me? (D: Marielle Heller), Cold War (D: Paweł Pawlikowski), Colette (D: Wash Westmoreland), Eighth Grade (D: Bo Burnham), The Guilty (D: Gustav Möller), The Hate U Give (D: George Tillman, Jr.), Hearts Beat Loud (D: Brett

Haley), If Beale Street Could Talk (D: Barry Jenkins), Leave No Trace (D: Debra Granik), Mary Poppins Returns (D: Rob Marshall), A Quiet Place (D: John Krasinski), The Rider (D: Chloé Zhao), Shoplifters (D: Hirokazu Kore-eda), A Simple Favor (D: Paul Fieg), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (D: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman) Support the Girls (D: Andrew Bujalski), Suspiria (D: Luca Guadagnino), Tully (D: Jason Reitman), Widows (D: Steve McQueen)

HONORABLE MENTIONS (in alphabetic order) Anna and the Apocalypse (D: John McPhail), Annihilation (D: Alex Garland), Assassination Nation (D: Sam Levinson), Bad Times at the El Royale (D: Drew Goddard), Braven (D: Lin Oeding), Burning (D: Lee Chang-dong), Crazy Rich Asians (D: Jon M. Chu), Destroyer (D: Karyn Kusama), Disobedience (D: Sebastián Lelio), Double Lover (D: François Ozon), Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot (D: Gus Van Sant), The Endless (D: Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson), First Man (D: Damien Chazelle), Game Night (D: John Francis Daley, Jonathan M. Goldstein), Ghost Stories (D: Jer-

emy Dyson, Andy Nyman), Halloween (D: David Gordon Green), Hereditary (D: Ari Aster), Let the Sunshine In (D: Claire Denis), Mandy (D: Panos Cosmatos), Marrowbone (D: Sergio G. Sánchez), Mission: Impossible - Fallout (D: Christopher McQuarrie), On the Basis of Sex (D: Mimi Leder), Puzzle (D: Marc Turtletaub), Ralph Breaks the Internet (D: Rich Moore, Phil Johnston), Red Sparrow (D: Francis Lawrence), The Sisters Brothers (D: Jacques Audiard), Sorry to Bother You (D: Boots Riley), A Star Is Born (D: Bradley Cooper), Unsane (D: Steven Soderbergh), Wanderland (D: Josh Klausner), (D: Paul Dano)

Free Solo – Photo courtesy of National Geographic Documentary Films

TOP FIVE DOCUMENTARIES (in alphabetic order) Free Solo (D: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi), Love, Gilda (D: Lisa Dapolito), McQueen (D: Ian Bonhôte),

Three Identical Strangers (D: Tim Wardle), Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (D: Morgan Neville) McQueen – Photo courtesy of Bleecker Street

Bohemian Rhapsody – Photo courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox

TEN DISAPPOINTMENTS Last year I decided to stop doing a “Worst of the Year” list. I just didn’t feel like ragging on a bunch of poorly made films that didn’t need additional anger and derision thrown their way. However, I did start doing a “Most Disappointing” list, as there were plenty of motion pictures I felt

had potential that for whatever reason sadly never lived up to it. This doesn’t mean they were bad, per se, and some might even be worthy of a look. But for whatever reason, none of these ten sat well with me, and when I think back on each of them, doing so cannot help but make me feel more than a little bit sad.

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The Girl in the Spider's Web – Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures

Without further ado, and in alphabetic order, my picks for the ten most disappointing films of 2018: Bohemian Rhapsody (D: Bryan Singer), The Cloverfield Paradox (D: Julius Onah), The Girl in the Spider’s Web (D: Fede Alvarez), The Happytime Murders (D: Brian Henson), Hold the Dark (D: Jeremy

Saulnier), Peter Rabbit (D: Will Gluck), Ready Player One (D: Steven Spielberg), Sicario: Day of the Soldado (D: Stefano Sollima), Vice (D: Adam McKay), Welcome to Marwen (D: Robert Zemeckis)

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their respective families in Harlem, living their lives together like so many other Black families in their community have done for as long as any of them can remember. But just as the pair are looking to get their first apartment together as a couple, Fonny is arrested for committing a heinous crime, and even though it isn’t possible for him to have done the deed all the evidence authorities are using against him at trial still points in his direction.

Complicating matters is the fact Tish is pregnant. She’s worried about telling her family, especially parents Sharon (Regina King) and Joseph (Colman Domingo). But as shocked as they all are, they still embrace their daughter with tenderness and love, inviting Fonny’s parents (Michael Beach, Aunjanue Ellis) and his sister Adrienne (Ebony Obsidian) into their home to share the good news. While the fathers bond the mothers fight, all the while Tish sits there wondering what is going to happen next, and even if they’re not all in complete agreement about the merits of the young woman’s pregnancy, they all remain determined to do whatever they can to see that justice is done and Fonny’s innocence is proven.

Based on James Baldwin’s lyrically haunting masterpiece If Beale Street Could Talk, writer/director Barry Jenkins’ adaptation is a masterfully assured, elegantly composed drama that sifts through time and space like an observational dream of happiness and amity sitting on the razor’s edge of transforming into a tragic nightmare. The Academy Award-winning filmmaker’s follow-up to Moonlight is a stunning bit of romantic remembrance that fearlessly cuts through the bull and instead leaves viewers with the hardened, not always pleasant truth no matter what the consequences of stating it so bluntly might be. And yet, the optimistic ebullience of a community striving to do better, longing to embrace love over anger, hope over fear, all of that is palpable, and even if every obstacle can’t be overcome, the idea that a better future might still be around the corner is still present nonetheless.

There’s plenty to unpack, Jenkins attempting as best he can to streamline Baldwin’s supposedly unfilmable novel in ways that make its core narrative easy to follow but still do not lose the lyrically angry poetry the author utilized to such punchy, thought-provoking perfection. If he’s not always successful it isn’t for lack of ambition. Even so, some scenes between the two fathers feel shoehorned into the proceedings even if they’re still integral to

assisting in the attempt to raising the necessary funds required to finance Fonny’s defense. Where Domingo is a towering presence, full of righteous indignation and selfless benevolence, the equally talented Beach gets somewhat pushed into the background never making the same sort of impact his co-star does.

But this is a minor problem as far as the larger picture is concerned. Tish and Fonny’s romance is stunning, Layne and James delivering performances of such emotive exactitude the ins and outs of their relationship are always clear. The film is bookended by a pair of scenes where the young woman visits her fiancé in prison while he’s awaiting trial, the two actors transforming themselves in ways that go beyond the obvious physical manifestations of the travails and hardships they’ve each been suffering under. Yet as damaged and as withered as each in their own way is, the genuine adoration they feel for one another is never a question, Layne and James finding a way to make the purity of their love break through the insane tragedy of their situation with crystalline purity.

Then there is King. The veteran character actress delivers one of the finest turns of her career as well as one of the best performances of 2018. There is a subplot where Sharon heads to Puerto Rico in order to find someone key to Fonny’s defense.

While there King sparkles in a series of scenes where the determined wife and mother discovers the interior strength to do what frustratingly will likely prove to be impossible. Yet she does not give in, does not give up, facing each obstacle laid in her path with a raw, naked candor that cuts to the horrific truth of the situation with razorsharp specificity. It all culminates with a scene between King and actress Emily Rios that is a firestorm of human feeling and internalized dread, their rage and uncertainty leaping off the screen and burying itself into the center of my soul making this moment an important microcosm of the American experience that’s extraordinary.

There’s so much more I want to single out for praise, not the least of which is cinematographer James Laxton’s (Camp X-Ray) deftly lithe camerawork, Joi McMillon (Lemon) and Nat Sanders’ (Short Term 12) meticulous editing, Mark Friedberg’s (Wonderstruck) exquisite production design and Caroline Eselin’s (The Hollars) suitably lived-in costumes. Best of all is Nicholas Britell’s (Battle of the Sexes) jazzy, melancholically radiant score, his assortment of musical queues adding an evocative veneer to the proceedings that’s sublime. Jenkins handles all of these technical aspects with such astute candor it aug-

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ments the various themes at the heart of Baldwin’s prose in ways that are electrifyingly vivacious, the final knock-out punch delivered with such care and understanding it’s like being delicately kissed with affectionate sincerity by the righthand hook of a heavyweight champion.

I want to add more. I want to talk about many of the shorter scenes, the little moments where each character lives their respective lives in an attempt to make the most of the situation they’re currently in no matter what demons and dangers might be waiting for them right around the corner.

But the majesty of If Beale Street Could

Talk is in the mystifying discoveries Jenkins asks the viewers to make on their own.

In the end this is a glorious treatise on more than just race in America, more than a dissertation on wealth, privilege and gender inequalities and what individuals and families go through in order to conquer them. It is an examination of who we are as a society, the best and worst of our tendencies all shimmering through in one way or another as this story of love, tragedy and family plays out to conclusion. This movie is a marvel. See it at once.

Well-cast Vice a condescending and obvious political satire

Christian Bale in Vice – Photo courtesy of Annapurna Pictures

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer VICE Now playing Adam McKay opened my eyes somewhat with his 2015 Oscar-winner The Big Short. Up until that point I can’t say I was a huge fan, his series of popular comedies with Will Ferrell, a list which includes Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Step Brothers and The Other Guys not doing much for me. While all of them have been technically proficient and made

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with noticeable skill, I just didn’t really find them all that consistently funny, and as such the director wasn’t high on my list of filmmakers I felt like keeping an eye on.

McKay’s star-studded satirical exploration of the late 2000’s housing crisis, however, made me reconsider that opinion. The film was made with inventive skill, the way he and co-writer Charles Randolph adapted Michael Lewis’ best-selling book for the screen overflowing in creative imagination.

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RBG drama On the Basis of Sex a rousing success

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer ON THE BASIS OF SEX Now playing Coming hot on the heels of the surprise success of Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s documentary RBG earlier this year, director Mimi Leder (Deep Impact) and Daniel Stiepleman unveil the drama On the Basis of Sex. This is an endearingly insightful feature chronicling roughly 15 years in the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) starting with her years at Harvard Law School and culminating with a landmark 1970 case where she, her tax attorney husband Martin (Armie Hammer) and the ACLU battled for the rights of a male caregiver taking care of his ailing mother but who was denied crucial tax deductions simply because of his gender. While moderately formulaic in narrative construction the film is still nonetheless a rousing story of selfless triumph and intimate self-reflection that only grows in powerful resonance as the story progresses. It’s very entertaining, and by the time the film had come to its conclusion all I wanted to do was to sit back down in the theatre and watch it against from the beginning right then and there.

What’s interesting is that as straightforward and conventional as the presentation might be, and even though he’s Ginsburg’s nephew, Stiepleman isn’t interested in presenting his aunt as some sort of saint or as an angelic embodiment of judicial perfection. While the future Supreme Court Justice is undeniably the hero that does not mean she still can’t make a few mistakes.

She has to find her voice the same as any other person who ends up making a historical name for themselves also has to do, and more than that the movie goes to subtle, emotionally astute lengths to showcase that she just as importantly does not do this alone. The Ginsburg marriage is depicted as being one of equals, Ruth and Martin just as willing to challenge one another on questions of the law just as they are to be selflessly supportive of each’s personal ambitions. It’s spellbinding, and I find it difficult to imagine either of them would have risen to the heights they did without the other there to lend a helping hand.

Leder has inexplicably been in something akin to major studio directing purgatory after the failure of her 2000 melodrama Pay It Forward starring Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt and Kevin Spacey.

Since then she’s mostly been working in television, helming a number of notable episodes for series like “The Leftovers,” “Shameless” and “Smash.” While her style is hardly flashy, there is a confident precision to her handling of key story dynamics

Felicity Jones in On the Basis of Sex – Photo courtesy of Focus Features

that help give this film an endearing sense of authenticity that’s comforting. More important, Leder is aces with actors, the freedom she gives them to make each individual performance their own undeniable.

This gives things an authoritative familiarity that’s reassuring, the majority of the characters, no matter how big or small their part in the story might be, pleasingly threedimensional oftentimes in any number of fairly surprising ways.

But the core element is Jones. After a number of sensational performances in films as diverse as The Theory of Everything (for which she received an Academy Award nomination), Like Crazy, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, A Monster Calls and Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, she’s delightful as Ruth Bader Ginsburg. With so much footage of the real woman it would have been incredibly easy for the actress to phone this one in, to rely upon the audience’s affinity for the Supreme Court Justice and deliver a spirited impersonation and call it a day. Instead, Jones goes for broke, attempting to get to the

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festival. With the addition of TSAL, Tasveer is expanding into serving the literary interests of the Seattle community.

The inaugural TSAL will present award-winning local and visiting authors and feature a diverse and novel blend of storytelling, poetry events, literary panels on LGBTQ writings and post-colonial fiction, and readings pertaining to the South Asian diaspora in the U.S. “We strongly believe in the power of literature to draw people together and promote cultural understanding. It’s our pleasure to bring together for the first time in Seattle a talented group of local and national South Asian writers and poets for the benefit of this city’s vibrant literary

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community,” says Alka Kurian, who coleads the festival with Shahina Piyarali, and Sumathi Raghavan.

TSAL will feature Seattle’s own Sharmila Sen, SJ Sindhu and Shobha Rao amongst others. The festival opens with a keynote address from acclaimed South Asian author Amitava Kumar (Immigrant, Montana) at Hugo House. We are also proud to welcome to Seattle authors Sharmila Sen (Not Quite Not White), SJ Sindhu (A Marriage of a Thousand Lies), and Shobha Rao (Girls Burn Brighter) amongst others.

Tasveer is committed to showcasing local writers and poets. Featured at TSAL are Seattle’s 2018/19 Youth Poet Laureate Azura Tyabji and Seattle-based authors including Indu Sundaresan (The Mountain of Light) and Sonora Jha (Foreign). In addition to readings, program highlights include the popular South Asian storytell-

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very heart of Ginsburg’s furious pursuit of gender equality and her dogged determination to battle discriminatory policies everywhere she sees it. There is a delicate yet still ferocious specificity to her actions that’s invigorating, everything culminating with her character’s empowered closing arguments during that 1970 tax discrimination case that are as poignantly human as they are breathlessly sincere.

I also loved what Hammer did here, his Martin Ginsburg a quietly supportive firebrand in his own right even if his temperament always seems to appear steady and nonplussed no matter what might be happening. Sam Waterston is masterful as Harvard Law School dean and future U.S. Government Solicitor General Erwin Griswold, while Stephen Root craftily steals any number of scenes as one of Ruth’s narrow-minded professors who will become her chief judicial foil less than 15 years after her graduation. There’s a feisty cameo from Kathy Bates as barrier-busting lawyer and feminist icon Dorothy Kenyon, a

scene between her and ACLU legal department head Mel Wulf (Justin Theroux) particularly winning. Best of all might just be Cailee Spaeny as Ruth and Martin’s headstrong and independent daughter Jane, her scenes with Jones having a magnetic electricity that’s credibly multifaceted.

I can’t say On the Basis of Sex goes anywhere surprising. I can’t say Stiepleman’s script digs down any deeper than it needs to in order to edify or to entertain. But none of that makes the film any less rapturous.

Leder directs things with an assertive hand, the technical proficiency of her drama never in doubt especially as it pertains to cinematographer Michael Grady (Annie), editor Michelle Tesoro (Shot Caller), Oscar-winning composer Mychael Danna (Life of Pi) and costume designer Isis Mussenden (The Wolverine). The film is also a magnificent showcase for Jones, the talented actress giving one of the best performances of her career, making this examination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s early judicial exploits a rousing success I couldn’t help but love.

ing event, “Storywallahs: What’s In Your Name,” as well as a youth version hosted by Tasveer Youth Collective – also being inaugurated in 2019 – and a discussion of the film adaption of South Asian fiction.

The first Tasveer South Asian Literary Festival is presented in partnership with the Gardner Center for Asian Arts and Ideas, The Elliot Bay Book Company, Hugo House, KUOW, Northwest Film Forum, South Asia Center, UW Seattle, and Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Bothell.

Thanks to generous funding by the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, all Tasveer Reads events are free to the public and will run from January 11-20 in and around Capitol Hill. TSAL programs will be presented at three venues: Hugo House, Seattle Art Museum, and Elliott Bay Book Co. For the complete schedule of TSAL programs, please visit tsal.tasveer.org.

About Tasveer Founded in March 2002, Tasveer is a vibrant platform for artistic expression serving Seattle’s South Asian community – those with roots in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tibet.

Tasveer, founded by Rita Meher and Farah Nousheen, is dedicated to providing a space and stage for South Asians to share their truths aloud, without being stifled by culture, community, fear, or stigma. Through films, visual art, stage performances, discussions, and now literary readings, Tasveer brings to light difficult issues that demand attention and discussion. To learn more about Tasveer, visit tasveer.org.

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Misbegotten Marwen an offensively exploitive disaster

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer WELCOME TO MARWEN Now playing Robert Zemeckis is a great director. Any filmmaker who has the likes of I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Used Cars, Romancing the Stone, the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Death Becomes Her and Cast Away on their resume deserves all the praise they’ve ever received, and I honestly don’t think that’s up for debate. Heck, even if I don’t personally care for Forrest Gump all that much I still understand it’s a staggering cinematic achievement only a master craftsman could have made. Even his foray into motion-capture animation advanced the medium in a multitude of ways, and while I don’t think The Polar Express, Beowulf or A Christmas Carol are particularly entertaining, I still respect what it was Zemeckis was attempting to do in all three instances.

As far as the director’s more recent period is concerned, I really liked both Flight and The Walk a lot, both of them featuring stellar performances from their respective stars Denzel Washington (who received an Oscar nomination) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt that rank amongst each actor’s best work. The latter also showcased the single greatest use of 3-D of any recent modern picture outside of Avatar, Gravity or Hugo, the film’s closing sequence a virtuoso balancing act that’s extraordinary. As for 2016’s WWII romantic thriller Allied, that one sadly left me cold, and although it was gorgeously composed and elegantly realized there was just something about that Brad Pitt/Marion Cotillard WWII romantic thriller I could never embrace.

I include all of that exposition as it pertains to Zemeckis and his career so that there is a context as I write about the director’s latest endeavor, the fantastical redemptive melodrama Welcome to Marwen. This movie, featuring incredible visual effects where its stars are photo-realistically transformed into plasticized Barbie Dolls and G.I. Joes, revolving around a story that’s based on an inspiring true story of a talented artist who overcame unimaginable trauma to put his life back together and create imaginative works of art, is an absolute disaster. It is the worst film of its director’s career. It is an inexcusable, tonedeaf misfire that does a huge disservice to the person it is supposedly trying to celebrate while at the same time transform-

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continued from page 7 directly to the audience in order to explain in short, punchy bursts of adrenaline the ins and outs of the more minute concepts of the housing crisis were extraordinary. I loved much of what McKay did with The Big Short, and in the couple years since its original release I’ve found his massively amusing satire has only grown in resonance and entertainment value with each passing day.

I do not foresee the same thing happening with his latest attempt at historical deconstruction, Vice. Even with a magnificent central performance from an almost unrecognizable Christian Bale as Dick Cheney and a superb supporting cast which includes the likes of Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney, Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush, Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld, Alison Pill as Mary Cheney, LisaGay Hamilton as Condoleezza Rice, Lily Rabe as Liz Cheney and Tyler Perry as Colin Powell this movie frustrated and annoyed me more than it did anything else. McKay’s utilization of the same fourth wall-breaking style he used for The Big Short feels decidedly unnecessary, while his historical observations regarding the contro-

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ing its collection of female characters into risible archetypical caricatures that feel of a bygone era that doesn’t need to be revisited. For the first time ever I hated a Robert Zemeckis-helmed project, a sentiment I honestly never imagined would be even close to possible.

I’m going to keep this as brief as I can because I just don’t feel the need to expound on this monstrosity for very long. The basic plot concerns Mark Hogancamp (Steve Carell), an artist who is beaten within an inch of his life after a group of thugs discover he likes to wear women’s shoes. During his physical and mental rehab Hogancamp creates a fictional WWII-era Belgian town he names “Marwen” where his alter ego Captain Hoagie battles against Nazi oppressors with the aid of a group of beautiful-yet-gruff women who can shoot, drink and talk just as tough as he can. Each of these citizens of Marwen is crafted utilizing 12-inch dolls and are based on people from his life, including members of the gang that assaulted him. But most of them are the women who have helped him heal, so they’re the ones who assist Captain Hoagie in his fight against the Nazis, Hogancamp finding inspiration in each of them as he tries to rebuild his life.

The first visit to Marwen is undeniably stunning. The motion capture effects required to bring these dolls to life is astonishing, and what will likely come as no surprise to anyone the technical wizardry

required to pull these sequences off is magnificently realized on Zemeckis’ part. As far as combining top-flight visual effects seamlessly into a live action motion picture are concerned, the director is a virtuoso, and it’s unlikely even Steven Spielberg or James Cameron would question the filmmaker’s prowess as far as that particular skill is concerned.

That’s the good news. The bad is so overwhelming I almost don’t know where to begin. Initially, I will say that as impressive as the visual effects are they also become increasingly tiresome as the movie progresses. The sequences in the town just lose their potency and allure, Zemeckis taking his story to this WWII hotbed of Nazi activity so frequently he diminishes their power to amaze.

While that is unfortunate, it’s everything else that ends up making the movie such a heinous and exploitive catastrophe.

None of the main actresses involved (a list which includes the likes of Gwendoline Christie, Leslie Mann, Janelle Monáe, Eiza González, Merritt Wever, Diane Kruger and Leslie Zemeckis) see their characters become anything other than a disastrous cliché, while the film’s depiction of an individual dealing with a disability caused by inconceivable physical and mental trauma is borderline offensive. Zemeckis, never a filmmaker afraid of sentiment, sprays it around on this story as if it were coming out of a firehouse, the whole enterprise drown-

ing in a tidal wave of schmaltzy mawkishness that’s as facile as it is assaultive.

Then there is the treatment of Mark Hogancamp’s fetishes and his fascination with women’s footwear. It is as if Zemeckis is completely incapable of dealing with the subject matter, as if for all his good intentions and progressive ideals his concepts of gender and self-expression just don’t allow him to be able to fully process ideas that do not conform to typical societal norms. The movie is so afraid of this facet of Hogancamp’s story that it treats it more as a throwaway element and not a key facet of the main character’s personality. It’s horrifying, and I’m not sure what more there is to add.

Writing about all of this is only making me angry. Jeff Malmberg, an executive producer here, made a brilliant documentary about Mark Hogancamp in 2010 entitled Marwencol. It’s one of this past decade’s best films, an essential piece of non-fiction cinema that tells the artist’s story with grace, precision, intelligence, complexity and most of all empathy. It’s available in multiple formats and on a number of platforms and should be seen right away. As for Zemeckis’ fictionalized recounting of Hogancamp’s tale? While I’ll always love the director for his numerous past triumphs that doesn’t mean I can cut him any slack this time around. Welcome to Marwen is a revolting calamity, and my hope is that audiences choose to avoid this film like the plague.

versial political figure aren’t especially deep or insightful. I found the director’s latest to be nothing more than a constant frustration, and as great as a few individual moments and scenes might be, and as strong as pretty much all of the performances are, for me this easily ranks as one of 2018’s most surprising disappointments.

As narrated by Jesse Plemons, portraying a character who initially appears to be a generic, politically-astute everyman, but in reality ends up being so much more, the film is an overview of Dick Cheney’s ascension to the office of Vice President under President George W. Bush and how he changed perceptions of that position in the U.S. Government forever. It also covers his marriage to Lynne, initial support for daughter Mary when she comes out as a lesbian and his Congressional internship where he becomes the right-hand man to Donald Rumsfeld. His time as Haliburton CEO is touched upon, as are other various highlights from his and Lynne’s life together weathering every hardship and scandal that came their way.

That’s pretty much it, the movie an observational comedy-drama hybrid analyzing Dick Cheney and the various things he accomplished in his life from a con-

versationally bird’s eye view. It doesn’t want to scrutinize, doesn’t want to dig too deep, McKay adding an occasional jolt of haughty laughter from either one of the characters watching things play out or from Plemons’ (mostly) unseen narrator. Instead Vice just seems content to make supercilious fun of everything, its most pointed barbs not so much directed at Dick Cheney and his enablers so much as they are at the audience itself. When the fourth wall is broken and Plemons starts explaining what is going on it’s almost as if he’s berating the viewer personally for allowing Bush, Cheney and all of their cronies to come to power in the first place. To me this felt more than a little condescending, and while McKay isn’t pulling his punches they still came across as nothing more than cheap shots pummeling the wrong adversary.

Don’t blame the cast. McKay gives his actors plenty of room to make these real life figures their own, Rockwell, Perry, Carell and especially Adams all exemplary. But it is Bale who steals the show. He’s magnificent as Dick Cheney, and instead of relying upon the impressive prosthetic makeup effects to do the heavy lifting for him the Oscar-winning actor still manages to give a delicately refined, aggressively complex

performance that’s frequently extraordinary. While getting inside this man’s headspace is frequently a distasteful place to be Bale doesn’t attempt to modulate what he’s doing in some clueless attempt to make the man likable or empathetic. Instead, he’s digging deeper than that, trying to find the internal mechanisms that make Dick Cheney tick, and in doing so paints a far more fascinating portrait of the man than I initially assumed possible.

As great as he and the rest of his castmates are, however, none of that is enough for me to find the overall film even moderately worthwhile. It doesn’t say anything new, doesn’t offer any incredible insights that forced me to look at Dick Cheney, if not in a different way, at least from an angle I might not have thought to view him from beforehand. But McKay doesn’t seem interested in doing that. Instead, as I’ve already stated he just seems to want to poke fun at all this disturbing absurdity in ways that to my mind were both obvious and patronizing. After The Big Short I expected more from the director. To say Vice didn’t deliver on those expectations would be to understate that sentiment considerably

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INCLUDE: Date, time, location, contact phone # for publication (if possible), brief description of event & sponsoring organization. DEADLINE: Tuesday 5pm.

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

NOTE: 10-digit dialing has come to the Seattle area.

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

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 - December 31

SATURDAY - December 29

Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 9am. Greenlake (outside Evans Pool). Every Saturday. GLBT running & walking club sponsors weekly runs, monthly potlucks, track & field activity, annual Run With Pride. (206) 4488518. www.seattlefrontrunners.org.

Positively Living Coffee Social. 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.

Mature Friends Monthly Potluck. 6pm. Wallingford Community Senior Center, Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Suite 140. Monthly potluck meets last Saturday most months. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www. maturefriends.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.

(Also Thursdays & Fridays 4-10pm.)

SUNDAY - December 30

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.

Plymouth Church United Church of Christ. 10am Worship. 1217 6th Ave. Love your (LGBTQ) neighbor as yourself. (206) 622-4865, plymouthchurchseattle.org Queen Anne United Methodist Church. 10am Worship. 1606 5th Ave W. (206) 282-4307.

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.

December 29 thru January 6

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).

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 Northminster Presbyterian Church. 10:30am Worship.

7706 25th Ave NW. A village church in the city open to all. (206) 783-3402. www.northminsterpres.org [Conveniently located a block from the Metro #40 bus route.]

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 United Church of Christ. 11am Worship.

6512 12th Ave NW. An “open & affirming” congregation.

Visit us online www.sgn.org

“We celebrate our diversity in religious background, sexual orientation, race, age & abilities.” (206) 783-6733; www.stpauluccseattle.com.

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 Holy Covenant International Christian Community Church. 12 noon. 4525 19th Ave NE. Outreach to the LGBT community. holycovenantccc@gmail.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 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 (NOTE: Orca Swim Team Workout is on Winter Break thru Jan. 6.)

Rain City Soccer Club - Kickabout. Sunday afternoon usually at 3pm. Location varies. Join us for Seattle’s mostly-weekly mostly-LGBTQ pickup soccer game. We play an organized, 2-hour scrimmage on nice fieldturf surface. Sometimes there is a brief training/practice session before we play. Usually there is a “one-beer” after the scrimmage. 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 1-800-477-8191. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

December 28, 2018

NEW YEAR’S EVE 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 Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. Gay City, 517 E Pike St, downstairs space. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December).

Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.FreelySpeaking.org 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 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 NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTIES Capitol Cider - “COUNTDOWN AT THE BAYOU” Magic, Music & Burlesque - CapitolCider.com; Chihuly Garden & Glass - “NEW YEAR’S EVE ART PARTY AT CHIHULY GARDEN & GLASS” - Dancing to Michael Benson Band, Bites & Desserts; Photobooth; Fireworks at the Space Needle - newyearsatchihuly. com; Fremont Ballroom - “11TH ANNUAL BLACK & WHITE BALL” - Champagne, Appetizers, Photobooth, Dancing - ballroomfremont.com; Moisture Festival “NEW YEAR’S EVE 2019” - Hale’s Paladium - Dancing, Variety Show, Appetizers & Champagne Toast - www. moisturefestival.org; Pacific Science Center - “SPECTRA NYE 2019” - Music, Dancing, Drinks - Fireworks at the Space Needle - PacSci.org; Space Needle - NEW YEAR’S AT THE NEEDLE - Dance, Drinks, Appetizers & Desserts, spectacular view of the fireworks from the newly remodeled Space Needle - spaceneedle.com/ holidays; USC Events - “RESOLUTION” - Concert & Dance - WAMU Theater - www.resolutionseattle.com; Wicked-Karma - “BOLLYWOOD NYE” - Showbox SODO - wicked-karma.com.

TUESDAY - January 1

HAPPY NEW YEAR! (NOTE: Some regularly scheduled events listed here may not take place today. Call or check online in advance if you are unsure.)

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. defeatHIV Community Advisory Board (CAB). 5:307:30pm. Cal Anderson House, 400 Broadway @ E Jefferson St. Meets 1st Tuesday each month. CAB builds community involvement in order to advance defeatHIV’s clinical research into a potential gene therapy cure for HIV infection. If you want to learn more about our efforts to ensure that all of Seattle’s communities that are affected by HIV have a strong voice in the cure research of defeatHIV, please come to one of our community dinner meetings. More info, contact Michael Louella, (206) 667-5810; mlouella@fredhutch.org Gay Men’s Task Force of Snohomish County in Everett. 6-8pm. Snohomish Health District, 3020 Rucker Ave Ste 309A, Everett. Meets 1st Tuesday each month.

Open to all Gay & Bisexual men in Snohomish County.

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

LGBTQ Questioning & Allied Youth Drop-in Group in Renton. 6-8pm. Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS), 1025 S 3rd St, Renton. Every Tuesday. Confidential.

Snacks provided. Bring friends or come alone - anyone

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12-18 is welcome. Questions? Call Sarah Hardin, (425) 271-5600 ext 155, or email sarahh@rays.org Strength Over Speed (SOS). 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Peer support for Gay and Bisexual men recovering from crystal meth addiction. www.strengthoverspeed.org. (206) 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org 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 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 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. Regular Tues.-Thurs. practice resumes Jan. 3, 8pm. See listing below.

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 - January 2

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 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 Southeast Seattle Lesbian Evening Group. 6pm.

Southeast Seattle Senior Center, 4655 S Holly St. Meets 1st Wednesday each month. RSVP to Kate Hawkins (206) 722-0317. www.sessc.org. FREE. Lotus Sisters Meditation & Dharma Discussion North. 6:15-8pm. Ravenna Bryant neighborhood. Every Wednesday. Call (206) 525-7295 for location. www.

LotusSisters.org.

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.)

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 PFLAG/Renton Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Luke’s Episcopal Church, 99 Wells Ave S, Renton. Meets 1st Wednesday each month. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses & families of GLBT persons, as well as those

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Buddhism & Recovery. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday. A meditation/recovery group. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Emerald City Social Club. 7:30pm. Call for details & location - phone staffed most Tuesday evenings or leave message. Meets 1st Thursday each month. ECSC is a confidential crossdressing social & support organization for Transvestite & Transsexual individuals, primarily MTF, which offers confidential membership, private monthly meetings, frequent events on the town, & help in coming out. (425) 827-9494.

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

Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & Gay men who are currently or previously married. Safe, anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring fathers & friends. You are not alone. For information, community events & “questioning” visit www.gfas.org or our message board at http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/ gayfathersseattle Gay Male Sexuality & Relationships. 7:30-9pm.

SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday.

Ongoing support group open to Gay and Bisexual men.

THURSDAY - January 3 (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org [NOTE: Please conALISS - Aging Lesbians in South Seattle Lunch tact the facilitator prior to attending.]

Gathering. 11:30am-2:30pm. Southeast Seattle Senior Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Center, 4655 S Holly St, Rainier Ave S & S Holly St., Arts Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every & Crafts Room. Meets 1st Thursday each month. This Tuesday & Thursday. GLBT & GLBT-friendly co-ed water is a group primarily for Lesbians but all are welcome to polo team is open to all who want to play. Beginners & attend. Facilitator: Fai Coffin; Cost: Free for gathering; experienced players welcome. Check our website for $5 suggested donation for lunch. Metro route 7. Wheel- up to the minute details, or call the Otter Hotline (206) chair accessible. Kate, (206) 722-0317; www.sessc.org. 414-8797. www.otterpolo.com.

BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting.

FRIDAY - January 4 12-2pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. The BABES Network is a peer led agency; a sisterhood of women Ageless in Recovery (AA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th facing HIV together. (206) 720-5566 or 888-292-1912; Ave E, Suite 201. Every Friday. A drop-in AA group for 55+. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org www.babesnetwork.org.

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

Safe and Sober (AA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave Road to Recovery (SLAA). 12-1:30pm. SASG, 115 E, Suite 201. Open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Friday. Ongoing 12-step group for sex and love addicts. (206) 322-2437; www.

(206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, sasgcc.org Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages Lake City Seniors LGBTQ2+Allies Peer Support 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Thurs- Group. 1-2:30pm. Lake City Community Center, 12531 day. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also 28th Ave NE. Meets last Friday most months. Please call Fridays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.) to confirm. Small group of mostly 50+ come together to First Thursday Art Walk in Downtown Seattle/Pioneer connect, share and learn from one another. For quesSquare. 5-9pm. Art galleries in Downtown Seattle/Pio- tions or more information, please contact Claudine neer Square host opening night receptions. Seattle Art Wallace, (206) 472-5471 or claudinew@soundgenerations.org.

Museum is free today.

Rouge at Maximilien. 5-7pm. 81a Pike Place Market. Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Live Parisian music during First Thursday Art Walk.

Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages Seattle Human Rights Commission. 6-8pm. Se- 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Friday. attle City Hall, 600 4th Ave. Meets 1st Thursday each (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also Thursmonth. SHRC is made up of 15 citizen representatives days 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.) who advise the Mayor, the City Council, & all City of LGBTQ & Allies 18+ Free Friday Night Drop-In VolSeattle Depts in matters regarding human rights. The leyball. 6-7:45pm. Miller Community Center, 330 19th commission advocates for justice & equal opportunity Ave E. Every Friday. (206) 684-4753. & collaborates with & educates the public & private Strength Over Speed (SOS). 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 sectors about how to prevent & eliminate discrimination 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Peer support for Gay and city-wide. Meetings open to the public. (206) 684-4540. Bisexual men recovering from crystal meth addiction.

B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Question- www.strengthoverspeed.org. (206) 322-2437; www. ing Adolescent Drop-In Group). 6:30-8pm. Call for sasgcc.org location. Every Thursday. Sponsored by Youth Eastside Game Night. 7pm-11pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite Services, which offers many programs for GLBT youth. 201. Every Friday. Card games, board games and fel(425) 747-4937. lowship. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Boys Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 14- Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm. Lam22. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every bert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Friday. Lambert House Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about is- is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for sues that relate to their everyday lives, with the facilita- GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. (206) 322-2515, tion of a male volunteer. (206) 322-2515 ext 16. www. www.lamberthouse.org lamberthouse.org Rain Country Dance Night. 7-11pm, lessons at 7:15pm.

Seattle Prime Timers Coffee Reunion. 7pm. Northgate The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. An evening of country-western Mall, 491 NE Northgate Way. Meets 1st Thursday each dancing for the LGBTQ community. FREE. www.rainmonth. Monthly social meet & greet. Look for your fel- countrydance.org. low Prime Timers at a table in the Food Court at the south end of the mall. Northgate is served by many Destiny/Unity AA Meeting in Tacoma. 7:30-8:30pm. bus routes including 26X, 40, 41, 67 & 75. www.seat- Christ Episcopal Church, 310 N “K” St, Tacoma. Every Friday. LGBTQ-friendly AA meeting. (253) 474-8897. tleprimetimers.org (Also meets Mondays.)

21st Century Bowling. 7pm. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW. Every Thursday. Regular league bowling. LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 8-9pm.

SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201 - in the O’Neill Room.

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

Every Friday. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share minorities. PFLAG/Renton: 425-235-4139. PFLAG/ Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724. www.seattle-pflag.org.

Mature Friends Pinochle Group. 7:30pm. Wallingford Community Senior Center, lower level of Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnywide Ave N. Meets 1st & 3rd Wednesday each month All levels welcome. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.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.

Pride Skate Seattle. 8:30-11pm. Southgate Roller Rink, 9646 17th Ave SW. Meets 1st Wednesday each month. $8 admission includes skate rental. Must be 18+, with 21+ bar. Performances, roller skating, and fun! See you there! www.southgaterollerrink.com

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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; (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

SATURDAY - January 5

(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

SUNDAY - January 6

(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.)

Knights of Mantra Monthly Meeting. 3pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. Meets 1st Sunday each month. K of M/ Jet Chapter is a fun-loving leather/Levi social & charitable organization that raises money for various causes & organizations. (206) 329-0886. www.facebook.com/ kofmjetchapter/ PFLAG/Whatcom County (Bellingham) Monthly Meeting. 5pm. Community Food Co-op Bakery, 405 E Holly St, Bellingham. Meets 1st Sunday each month.

Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses, & families of GLBT persons, as well as those minorities. www.whatcompflag.org; PFLAG/Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724.

Seattle Jazz Vespers. 6-8pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, Seneca St & Harvard Ave. Meets 1st Sunday each month (October-June). The historic Gothic sanctuary of Seattle First Baptist Church is offered to the best jazz groups in the city to perform 100 minutes of their own popular music. FREE. For info (206) 325-6051, www.seattlefirstbaptist.org/sjv

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

Allyship - an organization of LGBTQ individuals fighting for economic and social justice. www.LGBTQAllyship. org, allyship@yahoo.com, (206) 279-8169.

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

Bremerton/Kitsap County - www.outwestsound.org Capitol Hill Alano Club - www.chacseattle.org Cascade Rainbow Community Center (Mount Vernon) - (360) 840-8499 and on Facebook.

COLAGE unites people with LGBTQ parents and caregivers into a network of peers and supports them as they nurture and empower each other to be skilled, self-confident, and just leaders in our collective communities - www.colage.org Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) 963-1994.

DIFFA/Northwest (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS). (206) 763-8885; www.diffanorthwest. org DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: Crisis Clinic, (206) 461-3222 (24 hour line); King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) - 24-hour crisis line for information, support, & medical & legal assistance: 1-888-99-VOICE; Northwest Network support & advocacy for Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian & Gay Survivors of Abuse & Dating Violence, (206) 568-7777 (voice), 517-9670 (tty), www.nwnetwork.org; Pierce County Domestic Violence Helpline: Teresa, (253) 798-4166; Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities - offers on-going support groups for men: 323-1768; Seattle Police Dept Domestic Violence Unit, (206) 684-0330; State Wide Domestic Violence Hot Line, 1-800-562-6025. In an emergency call 911.

Report domestic violence and sexual assault.

Equal Rights Washington - (206) 324-2570; www. equalrightswashington.org Everett/Snohomish Cty - www.gaysnohomish.org Freely Speaking Toastmasters - www.freelyspeaking.org Gay City promotes wellness in LGBTQ communities by providing health services, connecting people to resources, fostering arts, and building community. Gay City Health Project’s Wellness Center provides anonymous & confidential HIV/STD testing. 517 E Pike St. More info or to schedule an appointment, (206) 860-6969. www.gaycity.org Gay & Lesbian National Hotline (GLNH): 1-888-THEGLNH (1-888-843-4564). Non-profit, peer-counseling, information & local resources telephone hotline for GLBT people across the country.

Generations Aging With Pride empowers elder LGBTQ adults to live with pride and dignity by promoting, connecting, and developing innovative programs and services that enhance belonging and support, eliminate discrimination, and honor the lives of older members of our community - (206) 393-3400; info@gapseattle.org; gapseattle.org GLSEN/WA - Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network - (206) 330-2099; www.glsenwa.org Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) - (206) 363-9188; www.thegsba.org HIV/AIDS Program, Seattle/King County Dept of Public Health, provides confidential/anonymous information about & testing for HIV/AIDS. (206) 205-7837. For a comprehensive list of HIV/AIDS service organizations see the GSBA Guide or visit www.thegsba.org or call Lifelong AIDS Alliance, (206) 328-8979.

Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle & the Olympic & Rainier Empire - www.facebook.com/ISCSORE; www. imperialcourtofseattle.com Lambert House - (206) 322-2515; www.lamberthouse. org

Celebrating 44 Years!

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 & 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

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resources, and safe space for the LGBTQIA community.

Sponsors Tacoma Pride Festival. (253) 383-2318, www. rainbowcntr.org Resource & Referral Line can connect you to LGBTfriendly resources throughout Puget Sound and beyond.

Call (206) 323-LGBT Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. At other times leave voice mail and your call will be returned. Or visit www.gaycity.org to view list of resources online or through Facebook.

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.

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

Visit us online www.sgn.org

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 Three Dollar Bill Cinema - TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival; Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival; Outdoor Cinema at Cal Anderson Park. www. threedollarbillcinema.org 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:

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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; OKAY! LGBTQ+ Outreach for Kent Area Youth: (253) 859-0699 ext 3034. OKAY! is an open support group for youth ages 13-19 who identify as LGBTQ+. A program of Kent Youth & Family Services; OUT There Adventures: www.outthereadventures.org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724, 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) 726-8500; www.psks.org; Pizza Klatch: weekly lunchtime support groups for LGBTQ youth in Thurston County, www. pizzaklatch.org; Prism: for LGBTQ youth, 14-21, in Puyallup - Cherise.Alexander@ multicare.org; www. facebook.com/PuyallupPrism; Proud Out Wonderful (POW!): for LGBTQ youth, 13-21, in South King County, (206) 326-9112, www.facebook.com/proudoutwonderful; Q Youth Resources: in Kitsap County - (360) 698-3335; www.kchaf.org; Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS): LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth drop-in group, ages 12-18 - Sarah Hardin, (425) 271-5600, ext 155; sarahh@rays.org; Roots Young Adult Shelter: 1415 NE 43rd St., (206) 632-1635; www.rootsinfo.org; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoalition.org; (206) 451-SAFE, (206) 451-7233 (non-emergency), 1-877-SAFE-SAFE (1-877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): (206) 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Street Youth Ministries (SYM): (206) 524-7301 ext 111; www. streetyouthministries.org; Teen Link: (206) 461-4922, 1-888-431-TEEN; The Trevor Project: 866-4-U-Trevor; www.thetrevorproject.org; True Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, (206) 362-7282 x 8018, lbagley@chs-nw.org; Vista Youth Center: for LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth, ages 14-21, in Kennewick, (509) 396-5198, www.vistayouthcenter.org; YouthCare/ Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): (206) 522-8412; YouthCare/ Orion Center Young Adult Shelter: 1828 Yale Ave @ Stewart St. (206) 622-5555; Youth in Focus: (206) 723-1479; www.youthinfocus.org; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): (206) 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273-TALK, www.yspp.org

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Meet McJingles, a 1-year-old Hound! This happy wiggle worm loves a good adventure and will happily fetch all the toys you can throw for her. She also loves a good bum scratch and will trade plenty of sweet kisses for one. If you have room in your heart and home for this sweet girl, then come meet her today at the Seattle Humane – you'll be glad you did!

All of our dogs go home spayed or neutered, microchipped, and vaccinated. Each pet will go home with a certificate for a complimentary veterinary examination. PLUS, most dog adoptions include 30 days of Trupanion pet insurance and six weeks of on-campus training classes – a great way to start off on the right paw!

Sunday – Wednesday | 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

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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.

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Lady Isabel of Purrsville is a gorgeous grey and white 5-year-old lady with stunning green eyes.

She's a very sweet girl who loves to play and cuddle! She has lived with other cats and dogs and does well with both. Meet Lady Isabel of Purrsville today at Seattle Humane. She’ll purr her way right into your heart!

All of our cats go home spayed or neutered, microchipped, and vaccinated. Each pet will go home with a certificate for a complimentary veterinary examination and an identification tag.

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