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Seattle Gay News

Issue 33, Volume 45, August 18, 2017

Arts & Entertainment

The joys of the Santa Fe Opera

Ready for "War on the Catwalk" Aug. 20 & 21

Alexis Michelle talks about her RuPaul experience ahead of Seattle performances

Santa Fe Opera's dramatic open-air stage – Photo courtesy of Insight Foto

by Rod Parke SGN A&E Writer My husband and I just returned from our first-ever trip to the American SW and especially to Santa Fe Opera. Driving 4,200+ miles in our beloved Prius through some of the most exciting landscape we have ever seen actually eclipsed the joy of our first experience of this fine opera com-

pany. However, since this is an opera review, I’ll skip the outdoor glories for now.

(But keep an eye out for my travel article in the SGN’s upcoming Fall Arts & Travel special section September 15.)

Actually, Santa Fe Opera IS, in fact, an outdoor glory. The John Crosby Theatre is an open-air delight. (John Crosby founded

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Alexis Michelle performs this Sunday & Monday – Photo courtesy of EPRT

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer WAR ON THE CATWALK NEPTUNE THEATRE August 20 & 21 @ 8pm Before a contestant is selected to appear on “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” they have

to compete against thousands of other performers around the country, and Puerto Rico, as part of a long audition process that promises a spot to only 13 or 14 girls. If you’re fortunate and talented to get picked for the show, you then enter into a whole new battle against a group of ladies who are

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Soderbergh's Logan Two writers go through Lucky a directorial return musical-writing worth celebrating Village Theatre's Festival of New Musicals

development process

Channing Tatum, Riley Keough, and Adam Driver – Photo courtesy of Bleeker Street

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer A cast reading of Afterwords at the Festival – Photo courtesy of Village Theatre

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer VILLAGE THEATRE FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS August 11-13

The second weekend in August has become an annual summer ritual in Issaquah, Washington when Village Theatre produces the Festival of New Musicals. This past

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LOGAN LUCKY Now playing With his ex-wife Bobby Jo Chapman (Katie Holmes) on the verge of moving out of West Virginia with their daughter Sadie (Farrah Mackenzie), unemployed coal miner Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) hatches a crazy plan to rob North Carolina’s Char-

lotte Motor Speedway during a NASCAR race. Having worked at the speedway repairing sinkholes, he’s lucked into a little bit of knowledge that should help facilitate a successful heist right out from underneath the facility’s nose without anyone even knowing it is happening. Roping his Iraq War vet bartending brother Clyde (Adam Driver) and his down to earth hairdresser sister Mellie (Riley Keough) in on his plan,

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Celebrating 43 Years!

Concerts for Refugees will feature Dave Matthews and Patty Griffin at the Moore Theatre

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer Want to see Dave Matthews give an intimate performance, along with Patty Griffin, Steve Earle and special guests, while also assisting the refugee crisis? Then be at the Moore Theatre on the evening of October 3, as the trio of performers and yetunnamed artists will share the stage to raise awareness and funds to support expanded educational opportunities for displaced people through the Jesuit Refugee Service’s (JRS) Global Education Initiative. Money collected from Lampedusa: Concerts for Refugees will help refugees to heal, learn and thrive. Tickets for the show, priced between $45 and $150, are available online at www.ticketmaster.com, in person at the Paramount Theatre box office, or by phone at 1-800-745-3000. For more information, visit www.stgpresents.org.

Although Chris Cornell was laid to rest in Los Angeles, hometown fans will soon have somewhere, or something rather, to always remember him by. The late rock star’s family has commissioned a statue to be built and permanently situated in Seattle, expected to be unveiled later this year or early 2018. The life-size sculpture will be created by artist Wayne Toth, who also worked on a similar piece for Johnny Ramone that appears at his gravesite on the grounds of Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where Cornell is buried as well. The specific location in the city where the statue will be placed has not yet been announced. Besides the memorial, the Soundgarden frontman’s widow Vicky has also launched the Chris Cornell Music Therapy Program, as part of the Seattle non-profit organization Child Haven, benefiting children who have suffered physical or psychological abuse.

As soon as I receive any new information on the memorial statue, I’ll post it here in The Music Lounge. Cornell, who died on May 18, interviewed twice with Seattle Gay News.

You can expect an interview with Alison Moyet next month. The singer-song-

Alison Moyet comes to town in September – Photo courtesy of Reybee Inc.

writer is mostly recognized as half of the ’80s new wave duo Yaz (aka Yazoo), but has also enjoyed success as a solo artist, primarily from her standout album Essex from 1994 that contained the hit “Whispering Your Name.” In total, Moyet has released nine albums on her own, including her newest titled Other that came out in June 16 featuring the leadoff single “Reassuring Pinches.” Moyet is set to perform September 23 at The Showbox Market.

Look for my interview with her the week before, in our September 15 issue.

New concerts to announce include Kyle

Craft at The Crocodile on September 21, Death From Above at The Showbox Market on November 20, Kid Cudi at WaMu Theater on November 22 and Judy Collins at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley on February 8 through 11.

Finally, if you’re an EDM fan, know that the FreakNight Festival is returning to Seattle after it was moved to the Tacoma Dome last year. The date and location for this year’s Halloween’ish event is October 27 at WaMu Theater. The lineup is still being finalized, but should be revealed soon.

Shania Twain to open 2018 tour at Tacoma Dome

Shania Twain will be in Tacoma next spring – Photo courtesy of Reybee Inc.

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer Country superstar and LGBT favorite Shania Twain will kick off next year’s NOW tour at the Tacoma Dome on May 3.

The tour will support the five-time Grammy and multiple CMA winner’s new album, NOW, which is being released on Sep-

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tember 29 and features the leadoff single “Swingin’ With My Eyes Closed”; Twain debuted the song this week with a live performance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

Besides introducing fans to music from the new album, the “Queen of Country Pop” will include some of her biggest hits on the set list of her upcoming tour, such as

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“Man! I Feel Like a Woman,” “I’m Gonna Getcha Good!,” “Any Man of Mine,” “That Don’t Impress Me Much,” “Love Gets Me Every Time,” “Forever and for Always,” “You’re Still the One,” “From This Moment On” and “Come on Over.”

Twain has such a large gay fan base that even Oprah asked her about it when she appeared on her show, not to mention she discussed with MacLeans magazine about why she’s attracted so many drag queens to her music. “A lot of people in the artistic side of the industry are gay and do drag and they have this great vision,” she commented in the interview. “There’s not a huge gap between what we both do. I don’t see much of a separation there. Entertainment doesn’t have a gender.” Twain was also one of the very first musicians of any genre to celebrate the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling in 2015, having supported LGBT rights for many years before.

I’ve seen Shania Twain twice – at Key Arena and at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas – and she’s excellent in concert. Definitely see her live if you’re even remotely a fan. For ticket on sale date, visit www.ShaniaTwain.com.

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MUSIC

After 40 years together, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are among rock’s very best and still going strong

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers stand the test of time – Photo courtesy of Warner Brothers

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS 40TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR SAFECO FIELD August 19 My introduction to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers coincided with perfect tim-

ing; I was miserable. My family moved from a small city to a rural, farm town about 200 miles away, where I spent many days riding my bike around desperately trying to find other kids my age to play with.

Fortunately, we only lived there for just over a year and then moved back home, but those 15 months were absolutely miserable.

But one day my older brother came home with a stack of albums that he’d bought with his own money from doing

yard work and cheered me the hell up.

Among them was Damn the Torpedoes and it was love at first listen, I was hooked the very second that record player needle landed on the leadoff track, “Refugee.”

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were, and still are, that kind of band you want to keep listening to over and over again. If you love rock music, it doesn’t get any better than this. And they’re as All-American as you can get, right up there with baseball and apple pie.

You might not believe – and I certainly cannot – that this legendary band has been going strong for 40 years. In fact, the Florida-founded act’s North American tour is commemorating this milestone with fans, who pretty much buy every ticket to every show they perform. They come to hear the classics, such as “Free Fallin’,” “The Waiting,” “Learning to Fly,” “Runnin’ Down a Dream,” “I Won’t Back Down,” “American Girl,” “You Got Lucky,” “Breakdown,” “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” “Into the Great Wide Open,” “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” and “A Woman in Love (It’s Not Me),” to name a few. And they leave the concert as if they’d just partied all night with their best friends in a college dorm; it’s a celebrative, high energy, happy place to be for one night.

The multiple times I’ve seen Petty and his compadres perform live, from The Gorge to the Tacoma Dome and several venues in between, the atmosphere has been electric with people dancing, punch-

ing beach balls in the air and wrapping their arms around strangers while belting out those Petty hits in a big sing-along.

The four-decade journey that this iconic rock group embarked on has brought them incredible success. Up until 2010, when the band released its twelfth album Mojo (they’ve since put out another recording, Hypnotic Eye, in 2014), they had tallied 80 million copies sold of their albums worldwide and 17 Grammy nominations. Although the Heartbreakers have only won a single Grammy, Petty earned another for his solo track “You Don’t Know How It Feels” and also claimed an award as a member of the Travelin’ Wilbury’s (with Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Jeff Lynne). And let’s not forget that Petty has collaborated frequently with Stevie Nicks over the years, most notably on her breakout hit “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.”

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will take to Safeco Field this weekend to play in front of nearly 50,000 fans. It will be a party zone for sure, but a really fun and joyful party zone, with people of various ages, from college kids to grandparents. This is the first time that I can remember the group playing in the city vs. at The Gorge, White River Amphitheatre, or at the Tacoma Dome. They’ll play a bunch of their hits with very few new songs, and I’m guessing Eddie Vedder will make a special appearance, as he’s done before. For tickets, go to www.LiveNation.com.

Grand opening & free showing of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” at new Performing Arts & Event Center of Federal Way Enjoy a special presentation of the Dick Van Dyke classic “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” at the new Performing Arts & Event Center (PAEC) of Federal Way on Sunday, August 20 at 3pm. Tickets for this free showing are available through the Patron Services Box Office during the PAEC’s Community Day on Saturday, August 19th.

The facility will be open to the public for those who wish to explore the new Center.

The Performing Arts & Event Center of Federal Way official ribbon cutting and community opening day is on Saturday, August 19 from 11am to 5pm. This free event is open to the public.

At 11:00am, Federal Way Mayor Jim Ferrell will welcome our neighbors, friends and King County Councilmember Pete von Reichbauer.

Deputy Mayor Jeanne Burbidge will address the public at the entrance of the brand new Performing Arts and Event Center about the importance and impact of arts in our community.

The Mayor, along with the Federal Way City Council will cut the ceremonial ribbon, and open the doors of the Performing Arts and Event Center to the public for the first time.

Throughout the day, visitors will be able to experience the grandeur of the 35-foot tall lobby windows with views of Mt. Rainier.

Tours of the building will be conducted every 30 minutes including the bamboofinished 716-seat theater. Food samples will be offered from SAVOR, the in-house food and beverage supplier.

Enjoy performances by the PAEC’s resident artists including Tacoma City Ballet, Federal Way Chorale, and the Federal Way

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phony | 12pm – Tacoma City Ballet | 12:30pm – Limelight Performing Arts | 1pm – Federal Way Youth Symphony | 1:30pm – Tacoma City Ballet | 2pm – Limelight Performing Arts | 2:30pm – Federal Way Youth Symphony | 3:30pm – Limelight Performing Arts IN THE VIP LOUNGE 1pm – Federal Way Chorale | 2:30pm – Harmony Kings Chorus | 3:30pm – Jet Cities Chorus IN THE PIQUETTE ROOM 11:30am – Book It Repertory Theatre | 12:30pm – Storytime by King County Library | 1:30 – Traditional Food Educator Valerie Seagrest | 3:30pm – Washington State Poet Laureate Tod Marshall | 4:30pm – Poetry Open Mic

Inside the new 716-seat theater space – Photo courtesy of PAEC of Federal Way

Symphony. The PAEC’s event rooms will be set to demonstrate a wedding reception and a lecture/seminar.

Presentations in the lecture/seminar event room include a talk about Traditional Foods by Educator Valerie Seagrest, Storytime by King County Library and a presentation by Washington State Poet Laureate Tod Marshall.

Patrons Services will be open to assist patrons in selecting a season subscriptions or to purchase single-show tickets which are now on sale.

Steinway Artist James Jelasic and Tenor Jon Lackey will close the day with a sensational performance on the theater main stage.

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located at 31510 Pete von Reichbauer Way South, Federal Way, WA 98003. Free parking will be available for this event.

COMMUNITY DAY SCHEDULE ON THE THEATER MAINSTAGE 12pm – Federal Way Chorale | 12:30pm – Federal Way Symphony | 1:30pm – Harmony Kings Chorus | 2pm – Jet Cities Chorus | 3pm – Tacoma City Ballet | 3:30pm – Maru Dance Group, Korean Dancers | 4pm – Soprano Wonjin Kim | 4:30pm – Steinway Artist James Jelasic & Tenor Jon Lackey IN THE WEST LOBBY 11:30am – Federal Way Youth Sym-

About the PAEC The Performing Arts & Event Center opens in August 2017 as the South King County premier center for entertainment in the region. The 716-seat, two-tiered theatre hosts a variety of live performances, community events and education programs for all ages. This beautiful South King County location, just 20 minutes south of SeaTac, is perfect for business, educational, and private events. This is an ideal event venue for full-service trade shows, corporate trainings, conventions, events, meetings, and banquets. The Center is located at 31510 Pete von Reichbauer Way S, Federal Way, WA 98003 – 253-835-7022 | www.fwpaec. org Courtesy of the Performing Arts & Event Center of Federal Way

Celebrating 43 Years!

Alexis Michelle – Photo courtesy of EPRT

ALEXIS

continued from cover as hungry for that title as you are. Which is why a fifth-place finish is no small accomplishment and something Alexis Michelle can rightfully claim from her appearance last season. The New York native was a week away from making it to the finale, though was eliminated just short of it. Still, being on “Drag Race” raised her profile from Big Apple club act to international entertainer, a journey that really has turned her into a star. Touring regularly these days, Alexis Michelle will perform here in Seattle with other “RuPaul” notables – Sasha Velour, Trinity Taylor, and Shea Coulee, to name a few – on Sunday and Monday, August 20 and 21 at The Neptune. For tickets, visit www.stgpresents.org.

Phoning in from her New York City apartment this week, here’s what Alexis Michelle had to share with Seattle Gay News: Albert Rodriguez: Have you been to Seattle before?

Alexis Michelle: I have been to Seattle once. It was sort of the first stop I did once I started touring nationally and internationally. It was my first stop when the show had started airing.

Rodriguez: Do you have fond memories of anything you did or saw while you were here?

Alexis Michelle: It was really gorgeous.

I happened to come on a day when I got both sun and rain, and it was a really pretty day. I visited with friends, saw a beautiful lake and got to go to Uncle Ike’s dispensary.

Rodriguez: Can you give us a snapshot of “War on the Catwalk”? What are audiences going to experience during these performances?

Alexis Michelle: The really amazing thing about this tour is that you’re going to get a nice sampling of different kinds of drag performance, ranging from theatrical to dance to more artistic style. It’s a really nice, wide spectrum of performance styles; aside from the awesome talent that is

on this tour, there’s also a great variety, so you’ll get to see a lot.

Rodriguez: Does everyone perform individually, or is the show entirely collaborative?

Alexis Michelle: As far as performance numbers, everything is solo. And then there’s just little bits of extra interaction that are also part of the show.

Rodriguez: I had a feeling you’d win Snatch Game last season; it was such a natural, effortless impersonation of Liza, which I think some people would say is easy, but I imagine it’s actually difficult to nail. How long did you prepare for that?

Alexis Michelle: My whole life. I’ve been auditioning for the show for the past 8 years, and going back to my very first audition tape Liza was there. I didn’t necessarily present it in the audition every single year, but most years there was at least a suggestion of it there and I can’t even say that’s when my love and study of Liza started. I think I really, really became interested in her in high school, so that’s already like 15 years ago.

Rodriguez: I asked BenDeLaCreme recently about the rivalries we see between the girls on the show and she said that it’s mostly editing that makes us believe they don’t like each other. Is that the case, that what the audience sees as feuds between the contestants is really non-existent?

Alexis Michelle: I certainly can’t speak to girls’ experiences on previous seasons; I can mostly speak for my season and the interactions I had. I think if you see tension, then the tension is probably real. But what you don’t see is all of the in-between time and any other discussion that was part of that, just because they film so much footage and they had to boil it down to a time that’ll fit for each episode. There is something lost in translation as far as just context, but I can’t say for everyone if that’s the case, if they were having a fight with someone how much of a fight it was. I can say from my season that there wasn’t much of that, it was pretty congenial and friendly for the most part.

Rodriguez: You mentioned auditioning for “Drag Race” more than once and I know other performers who’ve submitted

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their audition tapes every single year. Was it a difficult process?

Alexis Michelle: It’s a grueling audition tape that you have to make and after the past 7 years of making one, when it came time to make my tape last year I almost didn’t. I said, “I don’t know if I have the will for this. I’ve tried so many times.

I don’t know if I’m wasting my time.” The audition tape is a lot of content that they ask for and part of the challenge is getting it to fit within a time limit, and from that point there’s a series of phone calls and interviews before you’re actually cast. But it all starts with that tape and it is a grueling audition to prepare, for sure.

Rodriguez: How did you celebrate Pride this year?

Alexis Michelle: Pride was wonderful.

I was here in New York City and on Friday night we got to celebrate Sasha’s crowning at Stage 48 and the top seven of us performed, which was really great, and then on Sunday I got to be part of the parade telecast and I was announcing up on 23rd Street, first with Bianca Del Rio and Dina Delicious, and then I got ushered around on a golf cart down 5th Avenue and came down to 5th Avenue and 8th Street and got to announce the parade with my best friend, Dusty Ray Bottoms. It was a beautiful celebration and it was such a highlight getting to see Sasha come by on her victory float.

Rodriguez: Back when you decided that you wanted to be a drag performer, what was the first thing you bought, or tried on, or borrowed – was it a wig, a pair of high heels?

Alexis Michelle: I cannot remember, but I think the shoes came first. They were a pair of red acrylic stripper heels, and it was the only pair of shoes I had for the longest time and they were like cats, they had nine lives. They were red and then they were painted black and then they were cov-

ered in glitter, so they had to work for a lot of different years and looks. So I had that pair of red acrylic stripper shoes – I think the shoes came first – and then a wig, but needless to say they got a lot of action in my early drag days.

Rodriguez: When you’re not performing, when you’re back in New York and you have a night all to yourself to do whatever you want, what do you do?

Alexis Michelle: The truth is downtime doesn’t really exist in the truest form anymore. For example, I have two days off from our crazy tour that we’re doing and I’m using this time to order things online that I’m running out of and I’m arranging merchandise orders for DragCon, which is coming up, so the truth is that downtime is hard to find. But if I truly had a night off, I’d probably be watching TV on my couch and ordering Chinese.

Rodriguez: For anybody interested in pursuing a career as a drag performer, do you have any tips or advice – should they go buy a bunch of clothes, should they go out to the clubs and watch some drag shows?

Alexis Michelle: I think that the beauty of technology is that there’s a lot out there on the Internet – as far as information, as well as there’s so many makeup tutorials now. Even at our meet n’ greets, I’m astounded at how good everybody’s makeup has become, and you know that it comes from people studying pictures on Instagram or makeup tutorials on YouTube, so there’s definitely a lot that can be done behind closed doors, which is sort of how mine [my career] started, too. That being said, it takes time to learn the techniques and to sort of master them. So, don’t be worried if you feel where you’re at isn’t a finished product. Even where I’m at, 14 years later doing drag, I still don’t feel like everything is finished. There’s always room to keep going and to get better and to grow.

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continued from cover weekend was the 17th such festival. After a rigorous process of winnowing down hundreds of submissions from all over, even a few other countries, Village brings together writers of new musicals and top singing/ acting talent from the region (and sometimes New York and Los Angeles among others) for what are termed “29 hour workshops.” They provide directors and music directors and it all culminates in a threeday celebration of musical creation.

This year, there was a musical about Nikola Tesla, one about a little-known burial island in New York City (Hart Island), a developing fantasy musical to be staged

by Book-It Repertory Theatre this winter (Howl’s Moving Castle) and a zombie musical.

I was able to interview the women behind a new musical called Afterwords, focusing on a young woman’s quest to uncover more about a suddenly-killed mentor’s secret love life. When the young woman inherits his journals, she then discovers his love interest has also suddenly died, and is driven to connect with the woman’s two daughters. The musical has many themes about family and connection and legacy.

Zoe Sarnak wrote the music and lyrics and Emily Kaczmarek wrote the book (i.e., the script).

We spoke about the process of collaboration, the trust writers have to have in each other, and teased apart some of the expectations writers have about this workshop process and whether their expectations were met.

Zoe is an eclectic musician whose background includes writing songs in Nashville, short movie musicals, and she’s also got a degree in molecular biology!

Some of her songs can be heard here: http://www.zoesarnak.com/ media.

Emily focuses on playwriting, musicals, and screenplays. Info about her work can be found here: www.emilykaczmarek.com.

Emily says, about how the two met, “We met about two years ago. Zoe needed a book writer with screen-writing experience for a 20-minute movie musical. I knew the form. I had some experience with musical projects with other composers.”

Zoe says, “Our learning curve was specific. There are two things that make a 20-minute movie musical: finding a short story that can be told in 20 minutes, as opposed to shortening a longer piece, and from moment one, you have to establish that this is a musical somehow, either finding interior moments that are set to music or another convention for music.

In theater, we’re used to people breaking out into song in a way that movies are not.

“In the case of our collaboration, we got good at collaborating very quickly. ‘How do the book and music integrate?’ We were able to have those conversations that were thoughtful.”

Emily adds, “It was a great boot-camp project. And we just established a good working relationship.”

As they got to know each other and spoke about their different projects, Zoe showed a collection of songs to Emily that Zoe liked but had difficulty creating the proper framework for. Emily was able to coalesce around the idea and help flesh it out.

Zoe relates, “The best way to say it is to say that I wrote a piece that involved themes of loss and art called ‘A Lasting Impression’ but never quite honed the narrative. Emily had an idea and I trusted her

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to tear it apart and come up with something new. Some of the score is still integrated with new lyrics, but the majority is [now] new music and new story.”

Writing styles have to be meshed together. Zoe and Emily write differently, but when they bring their work together, they trust their synergy. Zoe describes, “I have a nook with a desk, computer, piano and guitar and I might read a scene or play piano or guitar or use Finale [a sheet music software] or tweak lyrics. I can’t control when I will have the best idea, but I can control making progress every day.”

Understanding that there are parts of the craft that are just plain “work” (like doing the laundry), Zoe says, “If you sit down and work every day you’ll get both laundry and inspiration done.”

Emily says, “I write in binges and fits

me.”

The writers speak about having gone a “29 hour workshop” (where the singers rehearse for 29 hours – by union contract) in March in New York. Emily explains, “We got feedback. We learned to pay more attention to Jo’s arc [a lead character] through the show. Specify and raise the stakes on her motivation and her driving want. We spent a lot of time and energy talking about that. We landed on this idea about her guilt about Jimmy’s death. Guilt is a driving force. We [then] structured for guilt to be the biggest driving force in the beginning.”

Zoe says, “We were working on having her look for these answers. We were trying a new way in and hadn’t seen it yet.”

In working toward the opportunity to hear the piece at Festival, Emily says that she rewrote a good 70% of the book before

Festival writers Emily Kaczmarek and Zoe Sarnak – Photo by Melodie Jeng

and starts. If I’m on a deadline, I’m working every day but I’m most effective if I have a four hour chunk of time and I know I can sink in and stare for an hour and a half and then be in it. I go into my cave. I enjoy that.”

Zoe adds, “I have to allow time to hum to myself and have musical themes sit in my head until I’m writing a scene where I can say, ‘Oh yeah, that’s where that theme comes in.’ I don’t often just write a song about heartbreak and try to make a moment that a character sings it. Some moments in this musical we knew exactly what we wanted to accomplish and worked through it beat by beat.

“Finding a home for a song or monologue means that we already know that it’s just a draft. Because if I write a piece that feels like Kali [one of the daughters] and she feels this way and needs to end up feeling that way, we realize that this verse here shouldn’t say this, it should say that.”

Emily says, “You always have to compromise for the good of the whole. Collaborators contribute their piece and have to shape in service to the broader story. You can’t be precious about anything. If you collaborate really well, if it’s important to Zoe, it’s usually really also important to

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the August 1 deadline for sending in the current version of the piece. Both knew also that they would be listening for aspects they thought needed changing during rehearsal and were ready to tweak things here, as well. They discuss what they expected to accomplish at Festival.

Emily says, “We knew Brandon [Ivie, the primary head of this program at Village] and, of course, think he’s smart. We were excited to be a part of [Festival]. Village is special because it feels rigorous and professional and also communal and intimate. That combination has really served the work and we’ve been really joyful. We had high expectations and they’ve been met. It was gratifying to see rewrites we’ve done come to fruition and be successful.”

Having revamped 70% of the show, they were intensely interested in finding out what works. Zoe says, “Any time you’re in a workshop, you’re still in beat-to-beat [mode]. Until you hear it out loud, you can’t know how it works. It wasn’t a closed document. We came here and everyone learned the music, and at that point we wanted to tweak what we had heard so we did a midweek rewrite.

“We made two specific changes: I had

written a song that was a back and forth between two characters. Both want very different things and at the end of a song they want the same thing. The original draft had three ‘flips of power’ and we realized it could be done with two flips. If it can be done shorter then efficiency is important.

“In another song, Kali opens back up from being closed off and Jo helps open her back up. When we heard that song out-loud, we realized that at the end of Act 1, she opens up too far too soon. The song used to have the word ‘love’ in it. [Instead] I put in hints [of change that is coming] without opening up the floodgates.”

Emily says, “When we go into a room with actors, they are really smart and will tell you if a line feels inauthentic. Or if they trip up on it [as they deliver the line], that tells you [a change is needed]. I made lots of line edits. A lot of times it’s about cutting or [making it] simpler and clearer. The mother has a monologue and we discussed it a lot and wanted to keep the text but be more specific about what it meant for the daughters. It’s the place that they finally turn to each other and commit to being there for each other. I rewrote the lines the sisters say after they read the monologue.

“I think we achieved what we hoped. We saw a reading that taught us that the story works.

Moving forward, we’re looking forward to a developmental production [where there are sets, costumes, musicians, and the actors memorize the piece] to put it on its feet. Zoe’s music is so pop, rock, hip hop, folk informed that we’re hoping to have a band in the pit.”

As for what they wish in the future for the piece, they want it to be the best it can be, first. Emily says, “We want the story to get told and audiences to see it on a scale that is fruitful for us. So that Zoe hears the music she wrote and I have a story that is as nuanced as I dreamed.”

Zoe adds, “We want to make something resonant and allow it to be done at a high professional level and see it fully realized.”

Emily continues, “It’s like your kid: you have all these hopes and dreams and plans and do your best to shape them and [then] they find what they want to be. You make what you make without apology and put it into the world.”

If they had any advice to give to other writers coming to Festival, it would be, as Emily says, “Anytime you’re going through a developmental moment, it’s good to go in with goals and a clear sense of what you’re trying to learn. We approached this ‘29 hours’ differently than other ‘29 hours’ we have done because we’re in a different place. It’s good to have a plan.

“As we were watching the [performed] piece, I had an idea during one of the songs to raise the stakes and make it more gutpunchy. It’s an easy fix, but I had it watching the reading. There are things you can’t learn until you hear a table read, a concert or even until it opens. You have to be curious.”

Zoe says, “One thing about being a writer that is gratifying and comforting, is that in the end you can still write more.

You became a writer because you want to write and it’s what grounds you, and when things are out of your control, you still can write. It’s what is really lucky about what we do. There’s joy in the creation of what you make!”

If you want to join the fun next year, you can go to www.villagetheatre.org and click on the link for Village Originals.

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Unnerving Annabelle a creepily satisfying prequel

Lulu Wilson is convincingly chilling in Annabelle: Creation – Photo courtesy of Warner Brothers

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer ANNABELLE: CREATION Now playing A dozen years after the tragic death of their daughter, doll maker Samuel Mullins (Anthony LaPaglia) and his reclusive, bedridden wife Esther (Miranda Otto) make the decision to offer up their large country home to a small group of orphans and the woman charged with looking after them, Sister Charlotte (Stephanie Sigman). Amongst their group are best friends Linda (Lulu Wilson) and Janice (Talitha Bateman), the latter stricken with polio at a young age and, although recovering nicely, she still hasn’t regained full use of one of her legs.

Strange things begin to happen inside the house. Janice is seemingly beckoned by a mysterious force to venture inside the one place in the house they are all forbidden to enter, Samuel and Esther’s deceased daughter’s old bedroom. Going inside, she discovers a secret door leading to a small closet covered in pages pulled from the Bible, a lone doll sitting in the corner staring out into the distance as if it is watching everything that is happening, making insidious plans only it knows about. Soon bizarre, ominous events are taking place inside the house, the battle for the souls of all those living within seemingly about to take place.

Much like last year’s Ouija: Origin of Evil, a prequel that proved to be a monumentally massive improvement over its anemic low budget horror predecessor Ouija, Annabelle: Creation somehow, some way bucks the odds and proves to be a superior motion picture to its woeful 2014 precursor Annabelle, itself a spin-off prequel to James Wan’s 2013 sensation The Conjuring. Incoming director David F. Sandberg, who did a solid job expanding his own short film Lights Out into an entertaining feature-length chiller last summer, proves he’s worth keeping an eye on, his confidently controlled orchestration of this film’s thrills and chills simply wonderful.

It helps that the two main youngsters at the heart of things, Bateman and Wilson, the latter of whom also appearing in Ouija: Origin of Evil, are sensational, the two youngsters delivering chillingly complex

performances that allows the blossoming terror to take root with surprising wickedness. They are the reason this story ends up working nearly as well as it does, the lengths they go to to battle for one another’s survival having an authentic richness that was continually compelling. These two appear to be massively talented, showing an ability to convey a variety of emotions with ease, making it easy to get excited to discover what both of them might be capable of in the future if they choose to continue their respective acting careers.

Unlike Annabelle, which grew increasingly silly and frankly stupid as it went along, building to a climactic sequence of events that were downright obnoxious, this prequel is much more of a lithe, delicate and intimately disquieting thing. While still following a familiar template and rarely going anyplace too surprising, returning screenwriter Gary Dauberman (Within) still does a nice job maintaining a consistent rhythm as far as the mechanics of this particular story is concerned. More importantly, he doesn’t offer up any pointless twists that undermine anything that has already transpired, and even when things threaten to get too chaotic as events catapult towards conclusion, unlike the previous film events here still remain character-driven all the way through to the end.

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But it is Sandberg who impresses the most. His handling of the material is firstrate, the filmmaker’s ability to allow tension to build at a steadily uncomforting rate just plain marvelous. Much like Lights Out, he’s a fan of long, unrelentingly focused takes, ones where the camera gradually hones in on certain facets of the frame until what is being analyzed creepily appears almost out of the ether. While he does offer up a handful of jump scares, they are almost all organic to the material and connected to each character’s respective journey, giving them more power to affect the audience on a deeply personal level because of this.

Sandberg and cinematographer Maxime Alexandre (Maniac, The Hills Have Eyes) present a series of unnerving visual images that both startle and amaze, their mastery of the spaces production designer Jennifer Spence (The Bye Bye Man) has crafted for them never in doubt.

I’m not sure how I feel about this idea to create an entire cinematic universe out of the monsters, demons and ghosts introduced in both The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2, Sandberg’s film forced to work a little overtime in order to drop in hints for upcoming spin-offs featuring ghoulish creatures first seen in those two hit horror films. They’re not necessary, these little asides adding little to the story that is being

presented, only taking attention away from Linda and Janice and sending it places, even if only for a second or two, it doesn’t need to wander to. Additionally, for as strong as the overall film might be, it’s not altogether shocking where everything ends up, the overall predictability level as far as the bigger picture is concerned reasonably high.

Yet Annabelle: Creation works. The performances are universally solid, and in the case of Bateman and Wilson so terrific they’re both worthy of individual praise.

It also shows additional promise as far as things pertain to Sandberg, and based on both Lights Out and now this I find it difficult not to assume bigger and better things are in store for the director relatively soon.

Best of all, thanks to a wildly inspired final scene it even makes me reconsider my dislike of the first Annabelle, the crafty way in which the filmmakers attach the two films together inspired. While that reassessment is unlikely, that I’m even considering it should speak volumes as far as just how good this wily little prequel proves to be, and if this The Conjuring universe is going to happen, as long as more entries turn out like this then I’m on board to discover what sort of scares might be on tap next.

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Edward Parks in The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, with a New Mexico sunset behind him – Photo by Ken Howard

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continued from cover Santa Fe Opera in 1956 and was its General Director until 2000.) The audience, orchestra and stage are all covered and protected from the frequent summer thunderstorms, but the sides of the audience area and the back portion of the stage are open to the spectacular views of the nearby desert and mountains. (We experienced considerable lightning but no thunder during each performance. It rained only once.) Surprisingly, the acoustic is quite good for clarity and balance, but it is not as “warm” as the best indoor houses, whose sidewalls embrace, reflect and enrich the sound from pit and stage. Most operas here are presented without any amplification, nor is it needed.

Sight lines are all very good and translation of the libretto is provided in multiple languages via seatback screens similar to those at the Metropolitan Opera.

THE (R)EVOLUTION OF STEVE JOBS Our first of four operas was The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, with music by Mason Bates and libretto by Mark Campbell. Here amplification was indeed employed to better handle the balances between the electronic instruments and the orchestra and voices. That combination made for at times rather exciting aural fun and pleasantly exaggerated stereo effects. As a foe of operatic amplification, I nonetheless found this use sensible and inoffensive.

This world premiere opera is an unqualified success in all regards. The music is very accessible, mostly warm and very tonal, and most important of all, very vocal. Composers who understand the human voice and know how to use it to good effect are not plentiful, but Mason Bates is definitely one of them. Most of the opera does an excellent job of telling the story of its larger-than-life but deeply flawed main character, even though it is told out of sequence. The last 15 minutes is especially moving. The opera also does an excellent job of conveying the negative sides of Steve Jobs without diminishing his talent and achievements.

Of special interest to Seattle audiences is that this opera was underwritten in part

by Seattle Opera and will appear here soon.

One hopes the production will be much like what we saw. Scenery is entirely by projected images, but this is made more effective

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than one might expect because those images appear on easily moveable panels (walls) that change positions often to reflect scene and/or mood changes. The projections varied from abstract circuit board schematics to natural landscapes. At one point, when Jobs is taking a long walk in the countryside, the late evening silhouette of the real mountains in the distance beyond the stage exactly matched that of the projected mountains. You won’t see THAT in Seattle!

The singers were all excellent, both vocally and dramatically. Of special merit was the warm voice of Sasha Cooke, well known to Seattle audiences. Perhaps appropriately, the less supportive role of Jobs’ girlfriend was given to the light, fluttery soprano of Jessica E. Jones. Job’s Zen teacher, who injects welcome humor, was the excellent bass Wei Wu (from Beijing, China).

Another standout was tenor Garrett Sorenson as Steve Wozniak (“Wos”). Perhaps the rather undramatic portrayal of Jobs himself by baritone Edward Parks was reflective of his rather private, un-generous personality; vocally Parks was more than adequate.

This opera lacks memorable tunes but provides an unforgettable dramatic experi-

ence. You can look forward to its appearance at Seattle Opera next year.

THE GOLDEN COCKEREL After The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs my husband and I saw three more operas at Santa Fe Opera. The first was The Golden Cockerel by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, an opera of fairy tale and political satire.

The latter was clear enough to get the work banned during the composer’s lifetime, yet the story is so silly that one wonders that the czarist officials took it so seriously. As a fan of silliness and satire, I expected to enjoy the show. But, besides my relative ignorance of Russian folklore, several issues got in the way of my enjoyment.

First of all, the silliness of the story (not really worth retelling here), was amplified by staging that abandoned any attempt at subtlety, going instead for antics more akin to slapstick than dramatic impact. Russian satire, as in Prokofiev’s The Nose, can engage the mind by playing with the absurd, but here we got attempts at laughter through action and images suited to a comic book.

(Apologies to the creators of the wonderful MAD magazine!) In looking for more sub-

stance, I missed the point, I think, of Director Paul Curran’s staging. Many audience members clearly enjoyed the show. Perhaps the greater gravitas of the originally advertised Tsar Dodon, bass Eric Owens, would have helped.

All the singers, including Owens’ replacement, Tim Mix, were more than adequate, and the score was inventive and well conducted by Emmanuel Villaume.

But here again, my expectations of an opera I had never heard before got in the way. I longed for some of the lush orchestral sounds of other more familiar works

by Rimsky-Korsakov. But the acoustic of the John Crosby Theatre was too cool, too “thin” to project the orchestral warmth I hear everywhere in this composer. Or, perhaps the conductor had to restrain the players too severely to allow the singers to be heard. At any rate, I found the orchestra an almost missing element.

I appreciated the opportunity to see such a seldom performed opera, but, like the comic who tries too hard to be funny, this show fell flat despite some fun costumes by Gideon Davey. The actual cockerel character, BTW, appeared only as a pro-

Brenda Rae shines in Lucia di Lammermoor – Photo by Ken Howard

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jection accompanied by the lovely soprano voice of Kasia Borowiec. The projection was not nearly so spectacular as the poster of the cockerel displayed in the gift shop outside the theater.

ALCINA The next opera, Handel’s Alcina, was a musical feast. Conducted by the masterful Harry Bicket, the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra sounded transformed into an excellent early music group. Twice, a member of the orchestra joined a soloist on-stage for exquisite ensemble. The long evening (getting out after midnight!) was full of treasures.

(Joan Sutherland’s stupendous NYC debut was the only other time I have seen this opera, albeit in a concert form, in Carnegie Hall. I remember nothing of that night except Joan, Joan, and more Joan!)

The only disappointment was more a matter of taste than talent: as Alcina, soprano Elza van den Heever (well known to the Metropolitan Opera and those who attend the Met Live in HD series in movie theaters) has a big voice and a serviceable coloratura technique, but the voice has a hard quality that, to my ears, lacks warmth and beauty. That mellowed a bit as the evening went on. Dramatically, she was quite wonderful. The vocal highlights came instead from mezzo Paula Murrihy as Roggiero and from Alek Shrader, whose tenor has taken on a more baritonal weight and warmth since he appeared in the Metropolitan Opera film The Audition in which he sang the aria with the nine high C’s from The Daughter of the Regiment.

The convoluted story of Alcina is merely a rack upon which Handel could hang an amazing array of musical and vocal delights. Thus, I didn’t let the seemingly irrelevant stage antics by Director David Alden get in the way of wallowing in the music.

As silly, puzzling and busy as all these stage actions appeared, the cast nonetheless clearly embraced it all with gusto. Those who might find this long string of rather long arias rather tiring were nonetheless entertained by all the busywork on stage, even if it didn’t have much to do with the story.

Jorge Espino, Richard Smagur, Tim Mix, & SFO Chorus in The Golden Cockerel – Photo by Paul Horpedahl

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Our last of these four operas, Lucia di Lammermoor, was also the one about which we had heard the most raves. Indeed, soprano Brenda Rae proved to be the real item: a Lucia with perfect marksmanship, hitting all those high notes on pitch and with absolute security. While her coloratura skills did not cause one to forget the great ones of the past, they propelled her strong, beautiful voice through this virtuoso role with no signs of strain or fatigue. Her movements to convey madness were rather limited to too much twitching and little else. At

first effective, they soon lost their power to engage dramatically.

Tenor Mario Chang was less successful as Lucia’s lover Edgardo. Even someone new to this opera would notice his lack of acting ability; his was one of those “plant and sing” appearances. And to those who have heard many successful tenors in this role, this voice was all wrong for the part.

He sounded secure, even in the two demanding arias of the last act, but his tone was more suited to heroic roles. He sang loud most of the time with a buzzing, growling sound. Indeed, I would much

rather have heard Carlos Santelli, the tenor relegated to the small role of Lucia’s murdered bridegroom, in the role of Edgardo.

Santelli’s smooth, lovely lyric tenor would be a much better fit for the long, legato lines of Lucia’s lover; alas, he “died” too soon.

Baritone Zachary Nelson was an adequate tormentor as Lucia’s scheming brother, Lord Enrico Ashton. In the more sympathetic role of her fatherly chaplain, bass-baritone Christian Van Horn marred his otherwise impressive performance by seeming to be compelled to show us just how big his voice could be. Thus, it was difficult to see his tender concern for Lucia when his words to her were always triple forte! Soft singing is harder than loud singing, at least for big voices. I’ve heard even some of the greats (Zinka Milanov, Renee Fleming, etc.) get lazy and nearly shout their way through a night’s performance, missing all those precious moments when they usually wowed us with beautifully caressed soft phrases.

Conductor Corrado Rovaris led a brisk evening, sometimes missing the full impact of the “larger” moments such as the great sextet. There seemed little effort to make the six voices blend with each other and with the orchestra in what many cherish as one of the best moments in all of opera. The set design gave no hint of the Scottish setting nor the period of the Sir Walter Scott novel. For instance, the famous well of the opening scene was a clear plastic affair, seemingly lit by pink neon!

So, we came away from Santa Fe Opera more impressed by its musical values than its dramatic choices (the opera about Steve Jobs excepted). But the company does some things as well as or better than any other company I have visited. The printed program, for instance, is an impressive softcover book, half an inch thick, with many informative articles, photos and, of course, lots of advertisements. We also were privileged to attend an annual press dinner, which with cocktails and wine could not have been more delightful. And before each performance we attended excellent talks by a voice familiar to those who listen to the opera quiz portion of the Met Saturday radio broadcasts, Cori Ellison.

If this is a somewhat mixed review of Santa Fe Opera, I would nonetheless strongly recommend a trip to see this company and its spectacular setting. The American Southwest is country unlike any other.

Finding excellent opera there makes it a priority trip, for sure!

Reviewer Rod Parke can be reached at rmp62@columbia.edu.

Anna Christy and Alek Shrader in Alcina – Photo by Ken Howard

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Daniel Craig is unrecognizable, and delightful, in Logan Lucky – Photo courtesy of Bleeker Street

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continued from cover Jimmy sets out to do the impossible, knowing success will mean everything to his family, a family that’s had more than their fair share of bad breaks over the years.

About four years ago director Steven Soderbergh announced he was retiring from making theatrical motion pictures, turning his attention instead to working on projects for HBO and Cinemax. But along came rookie screenwriter Rebecca Blunt and her script for Logan Lucky, a mangy little comedic heist thriller that took the elegance of the filmmaker’s hit Ocean’s Eleven remake, gave it a down home backwoods West Virginia sensibility and threw all the technical precision and high-gloss glitz right out the window. What went from a simple request on her part for Soderbergh to give her some pointers on whom to approach in Hollywood about the project quickly transformed into the Traffic Oscarwinner coming out of retirement to helm it

himself. He was energized by her scenario so much he wanted to personally see it happen, and somewhat on the sly he ended up assembling an all-star cast and utilized a revolutionary self-financing model to make the film a reality.

Thank goodness for that. Not only is Blunt’s script fresh, funny, emotional, exciting and fascinatingly nuanced, Soderbergh is also at the absolute height of his directorial powers as well. While there is a giddy simplicity to the structure of the narrative, the filmmaker gives it a refreshingly idiosyncratic spin reminiscent of some of his other crazily beguiling genre riffs like Magic Mike, Side Effects, Haywire, The Limey and Out of Sight. There is a looseness that allows for even the crazier ideas to feel lived-in and authentic, and as such the characters Blunt has so carefully constructed overflow with just that much more life and vitality. Logan Lucky is as giant an August surprise as anything I ever could have hoped for, the delight I felt watching it only exceeded by the knowledge audiences were going to get to experience all this jo-

vial throwback ebullience for themselves starting this weekend.

For all the obvious similarities to Ocean’s Eleven and its two hit sequels, this picture actually has more in common with old school comedy-thrillers about impossible robberies like 1969’s version of The Italian Job with Michael Caine or 1971’s The Anderson Tapes with Sean Connery than it does anything else. It also owes quite a bit to the cockeyed worldview of Joel and Ethan Coen, a part of me wanting to rush home to watch Raising Arizona as soon as I got out of the theatre. There’s a roughneck, shaggy-eared insanity to what Jimmy Logan has planned that’s intoxicating, Soderbergh and Blunt going from there to making sure they populate his story with richly crafted characters a viewer is instantaneously drawn to. Yet, it’s also precisely orchestrated down to the smallest detail, every piece fitting into the next with a level of virtuosity that’s sublime.

On the casting front, there’s not a wrong move anywhere to be found. Tatum fills the part of the world-weary elder Logan

nicely, his regrets from dreams turned into sour nightmares fueling an inner fire to do something extraordinary, all having a haunting urgency that’s strikingly effective. Driver is equally wonderful, scenes where he subtly laments for an arm left somewhere in the deserts of Iraq having a haunting eloquence that bursts through the comedy with shocking intimacy. Keough is a ton of fun, as is newcomer Mackenzie as a beauty pageant-loving little girl who knows far more is going on with her father than he is remotely going to admit to her. There’s also some marvelously brief work from the likes of Seth MacFarlane, Katherine Waterston, Hilary Swank, Brian Gleeson, Jack Quaid, Dwight Yoakam, Sebastian Stan and Jon Eyez in a variety of supporting roles that are all key to the film’s success, each of them making the most of their screen time no matter how brief it might turn out to be.

But the ace in the hole is Daniel Craig.

The current James Bond portrays West Virginia inmate Joe Bang, a bank robber currently quietly serving the last six months of his prison sentence but who also just so happens to be key in ensuring Jimmy Logan’s heist is a successful one. The ins and outs of his character are worth discovering without any additional explanation, the part he plays in all of this and how Jimmy and Clyde utilize him exuberantly divine.

Craig’s performance, however, is a jolt of electricity the likes of which had me boisterously spellbound, and much like how Kevin Kline ripped apart A Fish Called Wanda away from the likes of John Cleese, Jaime Lee Curtis and Michael Palin back in 1988, that’s exactly what the actor does here as well. Even though he’s only in it for maybe a third of the actual running time, imagining this picture without him proves to be impossible, his toothy gummy bear grin worth the price of admission all by itself.

It should be noted that there is an actual debate as to whether or not Rebecca Blunt is a real person or if she is a shrewdly constructed pseudonym for another writer or even Soderbergh himself. While I wouldn’t put it past the filmmaker to put one over on all of us like this, I also have no reason to assume the production notes or quotes from any of the actors who worked on the film are part of the plan to playfully deceive viewers like this in some strange marketing strategy I honestly can’t make heads or tails of. Be all of that as it may, the only thing that matters is that Logan Lucky is sensational, the fact it stole my heart away with seemingly so little effort whatsoever the greatest heist of them all.

Slight Bodyguard a forgettable showcase for Jackson and Reynolds

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD Now playing After her transportation of hitman Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) to the International Criminal Court at the Hague is blown to pieces thanks to someone revealing her route to a well-armed team of mercenaries, Interpol Agent Amelia Roussel (Elodie Yung) learns the hard way she can’t trust anyone in law enforcement. With few viable options, she contacts former boyfriend Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds) to lend her some assistance. He’s a professional bodyguard whom she had a falling out with two years prior after one of his high-profile gigs went tragically wrong and he blamed her for its failure. But be that as

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it may, and as down on his luck as Bryce might appear, Roussel knows there’s actually no one better than her ex to do this job, and if anyone is going to transport Kincaid to the Hague alive and in one piece, it’s going to be him.

Obviously Kincaid and Bryce know one another, and to say they’re not exactly on friendly terms would be an additional understatement. They will bicker. They will banter. They will argue over who is better at their respective jobs while debating the morality of what it is each of them does for a living. Through it all they will bond, learn things about themselves they didn’t know and make sure they reach the Hague in order for Kincaid to testify against disgraced former Belarusian dictator Vladislav Dukhovich (Gary Oldman). It’s Midnight Run meets 48hrs. meets 16 Blocks meets 3:10 to Yuma, all of it with a foul-mouthed, bullet-

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riddled swagger that feels a lot like a second tier B-movie Dimension Films would have sent straight to VHS back in the early 1990s.

That’s director Patrick Hughes’ (The Expendables 3) The Hitman’s Bodyguard in a nutshell, a movie with the thinnest of concepts that’s propelled forward entirely thanks to the energetic and engaged personalities of the two above-the-title actors at the center of all the mayhem. One gets the feeling screenwriter Tom O’Connor (Fire with Fire) had loftier intentions, his scenario going out of its way to hint at a larger world where protection professionals and hired killers vie to outdo one another all while international enforcement agencies like Interpol and the like do what they can to monitor their actions, stepping in to administer justice only when they have

to. But none of that really comes through in any concrete way, almost as if the powers that be had stripped anything close to complexity or ballsy go-for-broke thriller aesthetics out of this piece in order to play things predominately for laughs.

To that end, all involved can thank their lucky stars Jackson and Reynolds are up to the challenge. While neither is doing anything that far removed from their typical shtick, the two not exactly required to dig deep in order to access emotional regions aching to be explored, their mutual chemistry is apparent right from the start. Also, for as convoluted as O’Connor’s script might appear to be, it also feels as if Jackson and Reynolds are making up the majority of what it is they are doing and saying as they go along. It’s a freewheeling little adventure that’s so loose and limber there’s no ac-

tual weight to anything that happens, and at almost two hours in length the fact it ends up being as breezily easy to watch as it is ends up being is an impressive achievement in and of itself.

But a full-blown movie this isn’t. It’s a crassly violent comic book, an insane bit of violence and bloodshed overflowing in crude one-liners, car chases, explosions and random jolts of gunfire. But as far as a structured story with three-dimensional characters are concerned? There’s sadly not a lot to grab hold to. It’s so easy to figure out who the mole is inside Interpol that Hughes just stops trying to make it a mystery after about 20 minutes, while the goons working for Dukhovich are pretty much video game baddies who pop up firing machine guns and exist solely to get killed in a variety of whacky ways by Kincaid and Bryce.

You look at the films this one so clearly wants to emulate, motion pictures like the aforementioned Midnight Run, and as thinly plotted as many of these pieces of pulp entertainment might have been, they were still grounded in realistic characters who had complex lives that felt distinctive and authentic. That isn’t the case here.

When a game Salma Hayek shows up for a handful of random scenes, she’s doing so to have a bit of fun while also picking up a relatively easy paycheck. When someone like Joaquim de Almeida makes an appearance as an Interpol bigwig, it’s not exactly shocking the part he’s about to play in the proceedings. Oldman struts around delivering a variation on his Air Force One performance but in a way that’s hardly as menacing as his baddie was in that Harrison Ford

box office smash, making Dukhovich a facile, stereotypically banal villain hardly worth caring about.

Even so, Hughes stages a couple of nice action sequences, especially one motorcycle-car-boat chase that’s fairly spectacular.

There’s also some great fight scenes, and while they don’t rise to the same level as the ones in recent efforts like The Raid, John Wick or Atomic Blonde, it’s readily apparent the director has cribbed a little from what burgeoning genre maestros like Gareth Huw Evans, Chad Stahelski and David Leitch are offering up for an audience’s consumption. I was also tickled in regards to how one signature set piece began by taking place almost entirely in the background, Reynolds’s tired, upset and moderately annoyed character contemplating whether or not to get involved in the pandemonium while sipping vodka at an outdoor café.

I just wish The Hitman’s Bodyguard cared to make more of itself than it actually does. As easy to watch as it might be, as good as Jackson and Reynolds are together, this minor little action riff is shockingly easy to forget, practically nothing of any substance sticking with me all that long after I left the theatre. What could have been an interesting foray into a new world of killers, bodyguards and international enforcement agents instead proves to be a mindless piece of fluff and not much else, and for a story about lethal marksmen who never miss their shot this film ends up being well wide of that target the majority of the time.

Emotionally muted Glass Castle a transparently maudlin misfire

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer THE GLASS CASTLE Now playing Based on the best-selling memoir by Jeannette Walls, reuniting writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton with his Short Term 12 star Brie Larson, there’s no question whatsoever that The Glass Castle should be a heck of a lot better than it is. Flipping back and forth through time as Walls (Larson), a popular New York gossip columnist working in a posh Manhattan office circa 1989, ruminates about her and her family’s nomadic life thanks to the wandering needs of her gypsy-like father Rex (Woody Harrelson), the movie is a shaggy-eared melodrama that never earns the emotional connection with the audience it so clearly is aiming for. As strong as the cast might be, as wonderful as many individual moments are, the story itself never connects, the whole thing keeping me frustratingly at arm’s length for the majority of its lackadaisically paced 127 minutes.

Afraid to break the news about her recent engagement to investment banker David (Max Greenfield) to her free-spirited parents Rex and Rose Mary (Naomi Watts), currently squatting in a vacant and dilapidated building in Brooklyn, columnist Jeannette Walls gets advice from her two sisters Lori (Sarah Snook) and Maureen (Brigette Lundy-Paine) as well as brother Brian (Josh Caras) as to the best way to let them know what is going on. In the process, she reminisces as to what it was like growing up, the family constantly on the road avoiding debt collectors as they made their way across America looking for someplace to lay down roots. Ultimately, and much to Rex’s consternation, they end up in his former West Virginia hometown. As their father’s alcohol abuse and depression transforms him into a shell of his once energetically adventurous self, a 10-year-old Jeannette (Ella Anderson) comes to the realization that the only way either she or her siblings are going to escape a similar fate is if they all decide together to do whatever it

takes to make something of themselves on their own without any assistance from their rudderless parents.

I don’t have a problem with the film’s structure, Cretton and his co-writer Andrew Lanham (The Shack) honestly keeping the flashbacks relatively linear in their presentation, drifting back to them in more or less sequence as Jeannette puts the pieces of her past back together as she decides what she wants to be doing in the here and now. It’s their ragged presentation that gets on my nerves. Some of these scenes, especially early ones with the protagonist at an even younger age (beautifully portrayed by Chandler Head), are just divine, Harrelson doing some of his best work walking a fine line between inspiration and madness that’s sublime. But others, especially after Rex fully allows himself to become an alcoholic bully devoid of imagination and sensitivity, they ring infuriatingly hollow, a banal pall descending upon the narrative that refuses to dissipate until much too late to matter.

Cretton, who showed such marvelous restraint with his handling of Short Term 12, seems uncertain the best way to handle the material. He slathers composer Chandler Head’s (Grandma) nice, if overly obvious, score over scenes that might have been more effectively presented without any embellishments, choking the emotional life out of the movie in the process. There’s little room for the characters to breathe, their collective journeys never evolving in ways that feel authentic or genuine. Jeannette’s transitions happen because the story requires them to, not because they feel organic to her own personal story, diluting the inherent power of her resilient perseverance to achieve by a substantial margin.

Which is a true shame, because, at least according to Walls’s best-selling memoir, a Hollywood embellishment here and there aside, pretty much all of what’s depicted in this motion picture really happened. What she and her siblings overcame truly is extraordinary. More than that, the level of love and understanding they still share for their parents, the way they are all able to weigh and measure Rex and Rose Mary’s various faults and virtues extraordinary. There is a

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selfless determination at the heart of Walls’ tale that cannot help but resonate with just about anyone who hears it, and as such it deserves a much better telling than the one that is represented here.

There are plenty of wonderful moments sprinkled throughout, and the movie does rebound slightly right at the end with a scene between Brie and Harrelson that ripped my heart into two and did so in a way that didn’t feel forced or false. The child actors are also wonderful across the board, while an early sequence inside a hospital room after one of the kids suffers an unimaginable accident straddles the line between suffering and jubilation rather nicely.

But the movie itself is frequently tire-

some, moving around in such turgid circles of despair and ennui, caring about any of Jeannette’s or her siblings’ collective achievements isn’t just difficult, it’s pretty much impossible. The Glass Castle feels in many ways like it wants to be this year’s Captain Fantastic, that it strives to show how the insane and the practical can walk hand-in-hand with far more comfortable ease than can be easily explained. Yet Cretton can’t balance the extremes, can’t differentiate between the various emotional nuances in a manner that’s truly satisfying.

This adaptation just doesn’t work, making it one of 2017’s most massively disappointing misfires and a cinematic failure I’m going to be having a great deal of trouble getting over.

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community calendar

Meetings Events Activities

TO GET A CALENDAR LISTING: To have your meeting or event considered for the Community Calendar, please mail, fax, or drop off details to: SGN, Attn: Community Calendar, 1707 23rd Ave., Seattle, WA 98122.

SGN phone: (206) 324-4297. E-mail: sgn2@sgn.org.

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

ACCESSIBILITY: Is your event accessible to LGBTQ people with 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.

SATURDAY - August 19

The Reunion Project Seattle. 9am-5pm. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N. The Reunion Project Seattle is a gathering of people who are long-term survivors of HIV & AIDS. The project is a community forum for individuals to come and share their stories, strength and resilience as we continue our lives.

The event is free. Food will be served. And there will be structured, themed groups led by community members as well as plenty of pleasant spots to gather and chat.

This is a day to share and listen to the experience of others. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-reunionproject-seattle-tickets-35178297234 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.

Crystal Meth Anonymous. 10:30am. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. Also meets Mon @ 6:30pm, Thurs @ 6:30pm, Sun @ 6:30pm. More info: crystalmeth.org.

PNW G/B/Q Longhaired Men. 2pm. Locations vary.

Check the website or call for details. An informal social group for longhairs, growers, longhair admirers & their friends. We gather for brunch on the 3rd Saturday each month to socialize, chat & often go out afterwards for coffee or some activity. Please join us! For information & to RSVP: www.longhair.shorturl.com Seattle Prime Timers Annual Potluck Picnic. 3pm6pm. Woodland Park Shelter #5, N 59th St & Aurora Ave N / off Green Lake Way N. Grill items including hamburgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers, veggie dogs AND buns along with condiments and cold drinks will be provided. You bring the sides. RSVP REQUIRED

by Thursday 8/17 and state quantity of meat or veggie burgers/dogs you desire. Non-members are asked to donate $10 to cover expenses. RSVP to Gregry Loomis, 206-789-6778.

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.

Seattle Center Movies at the Mural - “Clue.” Arrive early for best seating; screening begins at dusk. Seating is first-come, first-served. Spread out a blanket on the Mural Amphitheatre lawn, bring along a picnic or purchase dinner at the Seattle Center Armory. Low back chairs, blankets and bean bags are recommended.

Large bags, large coolers/ice chests, umbrellas and video and audio recorders are not allowed. Please leave pets at home.

SUNDAY - August 20

Center for Spiritual Living. Services 8:25, 9:45, 11:30am. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. Blessings & we hope to see you soon! Info (206) 527-8801 ext 203, www.cslseattle.org Ravenna United Methodist Church. 5751 33rd Ave NE. 8:30am “Seattle’s most dangerous Sunday school;” 9:45am worship. 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, 9:30amZazen. 101 Nickerson St, Lower Level. Follow the traditional forms of the Soto school of Zen in a spirit of warmth & inclusion. Anyone interested in meditation, whether new or experienced in Zen practice or other traditions, is welcome. (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 [***NOTE: Location UPDATED 7-28-17] Tacoma First United Methodist Church. 9:30amWorship, 11am-Adult Education. 423 Martin Luther King Way, Tacoma. This reconciling congregation welcomes GLBT persons seeking a spiritual home. (253) 627-0129, www.fumctacoma.org Baha’i Prayer & Fellowship Circle. 10am. Pearl Warren Bldg, 606 12th Ave S. Meets the 3rd Sunday each month. Share prayers, readings, thoughts & music. All backgrounds, all faiths welcome. (206) 391-2188.

August 19 thru August 27 addiction & help others recover from sexual addiction or dependency. Seattle SAA helpline (206) 237-8828, SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191.

Crystal Meth Anonymous. 6:30pm. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. Also meets Mon @ 6:30pm, Thurs @ 6:30pm, Sat @ 10:30am. More info: crystalmeth.org.

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.

“War on the Catwalk” - The Queens from Season 9. 8pm. Neptune Theatre, 1303 NE 45th St. “RuPaul’s Drag Race” - Season 9 contestants put on a fabulous show. Tickets: 800-745-3000 and at the door. All ages welcome. www.dragfans.com (Also 8/21.)

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

MONDAY - August 21

Central Lutheran Church. 10am-Worship. 1710 11th Ave (just north of E Pine St). An open & affirming church/ 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.

University Congregational United Church of Christ.

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

Wallingford United Methodist Church. 10am-Worship.

2115 N 42nd St. A progressive reconciling congregation.

(206) 547-6945 (office); (206) 285-5077 (George).

All Pilgrims Christian Church. 10:30am-Worship. 500 Broadway E. A congregation of the Disciples of Christ & the United Church of Christ. (206) 322-0487.

Ethyl Forever Car Club, Pacific NW Region Lambda Car Club Monthly Tire Kick/Social. 10:30am. Randy’s Restaurant, 10016 E Marginal Way S (south of the Museum of Flight). Meets the 3rd Sunday each month.

This monthly informal auto enthusiasts event starts with breakfast at this location with a show & tell and continues to a chosen point of interest. Open to all LGBTQ persons & friends who have an interest in the automobile, not just collector or performance vehicles. ethylforever@ hotmail.com 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.

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 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, Mike Chin (509) 990-0007, or Doug Allison, doug.l.allison@gmail.com. www.dharmabuddies.org. (Women may wish to contact our sister meditation group at www.LotusSisters.org.)

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St Paul’s United Church of Christ. 11am-Worship.

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

(206) 783-6733; www.stpauluccseattle.com.

St Paul’s Episcopal Church. 11:15am (also 7:30am, 9am, 5pm). 15 Roy St in Lower Queen Anne. www. stpaulseattle.com Holy Covenant International Christian Community Church. 12pm. 4525 19th Ave NE. Outreach to the LGBT community. holycovenantccc@gmail.com Just for Today. 12-1:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step (Narcotics Anonymous) group open to anyone in recovery.

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 Seattle Center Festal - BrasilFest. Seattle Center Armory, Mural Amphitheatre, Fisher Roof. Brazilian immigrants brought this high-energy festival to Seattle with a mission of introducing the broader community to the arts and traditions at the time of Brazilian Folklore Day. The dynamic event also provides a platform for contemporary Brazilian cultural expression. Learn more at: www.brasilfest.com.

Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: Afternoon; Mon/Weds/ Fri: Evenings. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. Every Sun, Mon, Wed & Fri. Pre-registration required. Orca Swim Team workouts are for both competitive & recreational swimmers. www. orcaswimteam.org 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. To sign up visit www.raincitysoccer.org Seattle Poly Potluck & Discussion Group. 5-8pm. (contact for new location) Meets 3rd Sunday each month. For people interested in polyamorous, open, and ethically non-monogamous relationships. $5 donation; please bring a potluck dish. This event is open to the public. Look for us on Facebook or Meetup.

Shame to Grace Sunday SAA. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Sunday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women who share their experience, strength & hope with each other so they may overcome their sexual

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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.

Strength Over Speed. 2-3:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org.

Seattle Women’s Commission Meeting. 5:30-8pm.

Municipal Bldg, 600 4th Ave Rm 221. Meets 3rd Monday each month (except December). SWC is a 20-member volunteer advisory board that advises the Mayor, City Council, & all City of Seattle departments on matters concerning women & women’s rights. Meetings open to the public. (206) 684-4537.

Crystal Meth Anonymous. 6:30pm. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. Also meets Thurs @ 6:30pm, Sat @ 10:30am, Sun @ 6:30pm. More info: crystalmeth.org.

Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. Seattle Unity Church, 200 8th Ave N. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.FreelySpeaking.org Lotus Sisters South End/Columbia City Meditation & Dharma Discussion. 7-8:30pm. Meets 3rd Monday each month. Call (206) 725-3608 or (206) 434-5521 for details and location; www.LotusSisters.org. (Not wheelchair accessible.)

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

PFLAG/Bremerton Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Paul’s Episcopal Church, 700 Callahan Dr, Bremerton. Meets 3rd Monday each month. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses & families of GLBT persons, as well as those minorities. PFLAG/Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724.

PFLAG/Everett Monthly Meeting. 7pm. First Congregational Church of Everett, 2624 Rockefeller Ave, Everett. Meets 3rd Monday each month. (See related listing above for details.)

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

(253) 474-8897.

Washington Gender Alliance Support Group Meeting in Shoreline. 7:30pm. Center for Human Services, 17018 15th Ave NE, Shoreline. Meets every Monday. For information email info@washingtongender alliance.com Queers, Crackpots & Fallen Women AA. 8-9pm.

SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Monday. Open women only AA group. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

“War on the Catwalk” - The Queens from Season 9 8pm. Neptune Theatre, 1303 NE 45th St. “RuPaul’s Drag Race” - Season 9 contestants put on a fabulous show. Tickets: 800-745-3000 and at the door. All ages welcome. www.dragfans.com (Also 8/20.)

TUESDAY - August 22

Lesbian & Gay Child Care Task Force Monthly Meeting. 12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Meets 4th Tuesday each month. The Task Force, in conjunction with Child Care Resources of King County, offers referrals to GLBT-welcoming child care centers & provides training, support & curriculum materials to child care providers.

(To access this, call (206) 329-1011 & ask for the “Gaywelcoming” child care programs in your zip code area.)

The task force meets monthly to assess their progress in achieving their goals.

LGBTQ Questioning & Allied Youth Drop-in Group in Renton. 6-8pm. Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS), 1025 S 3rd St, Renton. Meets every Tuesday. Confidential. Snacks provided. Bring friends or come alone - anyone 12-18 is welcome. Questions? Call Sarah Hardin, (425) 271-5600 ext 155, or email sarahh@rays.org Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org.

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

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

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

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Diverse Harmony. 6:30-9pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Every Tuesday. Diverse Harmony is the nation’s first Gay/Straight Alliance Youth Chorus. Youths ages 13-22 are welcome regardless of sexual orientation. www.diverseharmony.org LGBTQ MS Connection/National MS Society. 6:308pm. Swedish Conference Center, Cherry Hill Campus, James Tower, 550 17th Avenue, Room E, 1st Floor.

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

Seattle Tennis Alliance Summer Social Doubles.

6:30-8:30pm. Lower Woodland Tennis Courts, 5773 W Green Lake Way N. Every Tuesday & Thursday JuneAugust. seattletennisalliance.org Tuesday Night Sex Addicts Anonymous (GLBTQI).

7-8:30pm. All Pilgrims Christian Church, 500 Broadway E (enter at 509 10th Ave E; buzz in, Dickson room). Every Tuesday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women whose primary purpose is to stop addictive sexual behavior & help others recover from sexual addiction. Seattle SAA helpline (206) 237-8828. SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191.

Over 40’s Group - For Lesbian Women 40 & Older.

7-8:30pm. University Congregational Church, 4515 16th Ave NE, Pilgrim Room. Every Tuesday. Open group for Lesbian women, 40 & older, in every stage of coming out or being out. Lots of social activities in addition to Tuesday meetings. (206) 545-3521.

PFLAG/North Seattle Monthly Meeting. 7-9pm. Haller Lake United Methodist Church, 13055 1st Ave NE. Meets 4th Tuesday each month. (206) 325-7724 or northseattle@pflagseattle.org. PFLAG, a national organization founded in 1972, provides support, education and advocacy for families and friends of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer persons and is committed to moving LGBTQ equality 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 Dennis (206) 363-4500 or www.outdrum.com What About Me? 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Tuesday. Drop-in social, support & discussion group for Gay & Bi men of all ages. (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 group for all LGBT & friends of any spiritual belief to explore how spiritual practice can enrich their life. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org 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 - August 23

Mature Friends Walk Around Greenlake. 11am. Meet up at 10:50am with a group of older men gathered at the north end of the parking lot that is next to the boathouse along the southwest side of Greenlake. Every Wednesday. Walk around Greenlake followed by lunch at a local restaurant. www.maturefriends.org Mature Friends Dining Out Luncheon. 12 noon.

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

4-5pm. Every Wednesday. Discussing your important issues, building a supportive community. For information, location & to REGISTER call Lindsay Bagley (206) 362-7282 x 8018 or email lbagley@chs-nw.org GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): A Support Group & HIV/STD Prevention for Youth (14-20) in Everett. 6-8pm. CCA Building, 3331 Broadway - Bottom Floor, Everett. Every Wednesday.

Sponsored by PFLAG Everett chapter. David/Brenda, (425) 263-2908. globeleaders@hotmail.com Seattle Gay Book Club. 6pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E (upstairs). Meets every Wednesday. This month’s title is Crazy for Vincent by Herve Guibert.

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

All Pilgrims Church, 500 Broadway E. Meets every Wednesday..

Lotus Sisters Meditation & Dharma Discussion North. 6:15-8pm. Ravenna Bryant neighborhood. Meets 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 (in front of Black Sun across for museum). Every Wednesday. (See Saturday at 9am.)

Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group. 7-9pm.

Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300.

All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome. This is a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction & information for the whole Gender community. 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

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County and beyond. The Center has the largest LGBTQAI library in Skagit County with an online catalog of their collection. Visit www.cascaderainbow.org and on Facebook for complete details. (360) 840-8499.

Rain Country Dance Night. 7-11pm, lessons at 7:15pm.

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

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

(253) 474-8897.

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

GaYme Night 4 the LGBT Community. 8pm-1am.

SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Meets the 3rd & 4th Friday of every month. Board games, cards & fun.

LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 8pm.

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

Every Friday. (See related listing Sunday at noon for details.) Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number (206) 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org “Juno” - Three Dollar Bill Cinema Summer Movies in Cal Anderson Park. Screening at sunset. Amphitheatre off 11th Ave & E Olive St. FREE outdoor movie with pre-show entertainment. www.threedollarbillcinema.org.

SATURDAY - August 26

(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

Seattle Center Festal - Tibet Fest (8/26 & 8/27). Seattle Center Armory & Fisher Roof. Aspiring to promote the distinct religious and cultural heritage of their people, festival organizers share Tibetan history and arts - along with messages of love, compassion and kindness - to entertain, engage and educate younger Tibetan generations and people of their adopted country. Learn more at: www.washingtontibet.org Women’s Rights Day Banquet - “Celebrate 50 Years of Revolutionary Feminism.” 6pm - Summer Dinner, with vegan option, available for $10 donation; 7:30pm - Program, $3-$5 door donation. New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave S. Join feminists, labor and community activists at a banquet commemorating Radical Women’s 50th Anniversary. Learn about past organizing by Radical Women and friends and find out how to be part of upcoming organizing efforts. For more information or childcare, contact (206) 722-6057 or rwseattle@mindspring.com.

Everyone welcome. Wheelchair accessible.

Pink Pistols. 7pm. West Coast Armory Indoor Range, 13216 SE 32nd St. Monthly Range Meet (Target Shooting/Practice). Contact us on Facebook for more information/Confirm details.

Seattle Center Movies at the Mural - “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” Seattle Center Mural Amphitheatre.

(See related Saturday 8/19 listing for details.)

SUNDAY - August 27

Wednesday. All levels welcome. Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing.)

SEAMEC Monthly Meeting. 7pm. 1605 12th Ave, Suite 21. Meets the 4th Wednesday of every month. SEAMEC interviews, researches & rates candidates for public office on issues of concern to the LGBT community. www.voteseamec.org Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting in Everett. 7:30-9pm. Everett United Church of Christ, 2624 Rockefeller Ave, Everett. Every Wednesday.

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

THURSDAY - August 24

Alcoholics Anonymous “Safe & Sober Group.”

12noon-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Open meeting of AA. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting.

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

Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Thursday. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org Shifting Gears. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday. Drop-in support group (non 12-step) for anyone of any orientation or gender who desires recovery from drugs or alcohol.

B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group). 6:30-8pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. Sponsored by Youth Eastside Services, which offers many programs for GLBT youth.

(425) 747-4937.

Crystal Meth Anonymous. 6:30pm. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. Also meets Mon @ 6:30pm, Sat @ 10:30am, Sun @ 6:30pm. More info: crystalmeth.org.

Seattle Tennis Alliance Summer Social Doubles.

6:30-8:30pm. Lower Woodland Tennis Courts, 5773 W Green Lake Way N. Every Tuesday & Thursday JuneAugust. seattletennisalliance.org

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(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.)

Seattle Center Festal - Tibet Fest (8/26 & 8/27).

Seattle Center Armory & Fisher Roof. (See Saturday listing for details.)

No Safeword Writers Group. 1pm. Meets 4th Sunday each month. NSWG exists to provide mutual support Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation - for members’ efforts. Support is in the form of critique Contemplative Service. 6:30pm. 7141 California Ave & commentary on each other’s work, information about SW. (206) 935-0418, office@wsuu.org, www.wsuu.org publishing opportunities, & discussion of issues facing writers. NSWG’s primary focus is erotic writing - but they PFLAG/Tacoma Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Andrew’s welcome anyone who writes. The only requirements are Episcopal Church, 7410 S 12th (at Jackson), Tacoma. to write, to attend, & to be respectful. For info & location, Meets 4th Thursday each month. Parents & Friends of NSWG@sexpositiveculture.org; www.nosafewordwritLesbians & Gays is a national support organization for ersgroup.org (Also meets 2nd Tuesday, 7pm.) parents, spouses & families of GLBT persons, as well as those sexual minorities. PFLAG/Tacoma: (253) 383- Seattle Prime Timers Rap Group. 1:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E., Suite 201 (in the MacKintosh Room).

2318. PFLAG/Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724.

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Buddhism & Recovery. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th This meeting is open to all members and the general Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday. A meditation/recovery public. seattleprimetimers.org group. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Gay Fathers Association of Seattle. 7:30-9pm. Group COMMUNITY RESOURCES Health, 201 16th Ave E, Central Bldg, Lower Atrium.

Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & Allyship - an organization of LGBTQ individuals fighting Gay men who are currently or previously married. Safe, for economic and social justice. www.LGBTQAllyship. anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring org, allyship@yahoo.com, (206) 279-8169. fathers & friends. You are not alone. For information, American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver.us community events & “questioning” visit www.gfas.org or Another Gay Social Club! - www.meetup.com/Anotherour message board at http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/ Gay-Social-Club/ gayfathersseattle Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane.

Gay Male Sexuality & Relationships. 7:30-9pm. com/guide.html SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday. A BiNet Seattle is a mixed gender, social group for Bidiscussion group that is strictly focused on sexual top- sexuals, their partners & other Bi-friendly folks - www. ics and relationship issues related to being a Gay male. binetseattle.org.

(206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Bremerton/Kitsap County - www.outwestsound.org FRIDAY - August 25 Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) AA Ageless in Recovery. 12noon-1pm. SASG, 115 963-1994.

15th Ave E, Suite 201. Meets every Friday. A drop in DIFFA/Northwest (Design Industries Foundation AA group for older & wiser people 55+. www.sasgcc.org Fighting AIDS). (206) 763-8885; www.diffanorthwest.

Re-Parenting Ourselves. 12noon-1pm. SASG, 115 org 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Meets every Friday. A peer sup- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: Crisis Clinic, (206) 461-3222 (24 hour line); King County port group for adult children of any addiction.

SLAA Road to Recovery. 12noon-1:30pm. SASG, 115 Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) - 24-hour 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Meets every Friday. Ongoing crisis line for information, support, & medical & legal 12 step group for sex & love addicts. www.sasgcc.org assistance: 1-888-99-VOICE; Northwest Network support & advocacy for Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian & Gay Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Survivors of Abuse & Dating Violence, (206) 568-7777 Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages (voice), 517-9670 (tty), www.nwnetwork.org; Pierce 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Friday. County Domestic Violence Helpline: Teresa, (253) (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org 798-4166; Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave Minorities - offers on-going support groups for men: E, Suite 201. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12-step) 323-1768; Seattle Police Dept Domestic Violence for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. www. Unit, (206) 684-0330; State Wide Domestic Violence Hot Line, 1-800-562-6025. In an emergency call 911. strengthoverspeed.org.

Cascades Rainbow Community Center - in Mount Report domestic violence and sexual assault.

Vernon. 6:30-10:30pm. 1508 N 18th St, Mount Vernon. Equal Rights Washington - (206) 324-2570; www.

Every Friday. Weekly social get-togethers including equalrightswashington.org potlucks and movie nights for LGBTQAI folks in Skagit

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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.

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 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 MEN: Gay City: (206) 860-6969, www.gaycity.org; Knights of Mantra: (206) 329-0886, www.jetchapterkofm.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Northwest Bears: www. nwbears.com; The Olympians: www.TheOlympians. net; POZSeattle: www.pozseattle.org; Q-Squared: www.qsquared.org; Rain City Jacks: www.raincityjacks. org; Seattle Gay Couples: www. seattlegaycouples. org; Seattle Men in Leather: www.seattlemeninleather. org; Seattle Prime Timers: Gay & Bi men 40 & over, www.seattle primetimers.org. (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 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; Sistah 2 Sistah, LBT women of African descent, (206) 322-7061, (206) 255-8951; Sistah Sinema, www.sistahsinema.com, info@sistahsinema. com; Trikone-Northwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 985-4376, www.trikonenw.org; Two-Spirit Honor Proj-

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Pierce County AIDS Foundation - (253) 383-2565; www.piercecountyaids.org Pride Foundation - (206) 323-3318; www.pridefoundation. org Project NEON is a program of Seattle Counseling Service providing FREE information & services to Gay & Bi men to reduce health risks associated with methamphetamine use. (206) 323-1768. www.crystalneon.org Public Health-Seattle & King County Online Comprehensive Health Information for Sexual Minorities: www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/personal/ glbt.aspx Q Law: The GLBT Bar Association of WA - (206) 682-6711; www.q-law.org; Q Law GLBT Legal Clinic - (206) 235-7235.

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.

Safe Schools Coalition - www.safeschoolscoalition. org; (206) 451-SAFE; (206) 451-7233.

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

Seattle LGBTQ Commission - (206) 684-4503.

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

by HIV/AIDS, case managers, front line workers & other health professionals. Now a part of Lifelong AIDS

Visit us online www.sgn.org

Alliance, (206) 328-8979, www.thebody.com/step/ steppage.html 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 Club: www.bottomdwellers.org; Capitol Hill Cyclers: join their Facebook group or email capitolhillcycling@ groups.facebook.com or jordan.l.simonson@gmail.com; Cascade Flyers: www.cascadeflyers.org; Different Spokes Bicycling Club: www.differentspokes.org; Emerald City Mudhen Rugby: www.mudhenrugby. com; Emerald City Softball Association: www.emeraldcitysoftball.org, www.eteamz.com/womensecsa; Ethyl Forever Car Club: ethylforever@hotmail.com; Festival of the Babes: www.festivalofthebabes.com; Olympic Yacht Club: www.oycnw.org; OutVentures: outdoor education & recreation activities, www.outventures.org; Pacific Northwest Gay Rodeo Association: www.pacificnwgra.org; Puddletown Squares: www. puddletownsquares.org; Rain City Soccer: www.raincitysoccer.org; Rain Country Dance Association: a country-western dance organization catering to the LGBTQ community but open to all, www.raincountrydance. org; Sea Dawgs: LGBT ice hockey - SkateSeaDawgs@ gmail.com and on Facebook; Seattle Frontrunners: www.seattlefrontrunners.org; Seattle Gay Basketball Association: www.seattlegaybasketballassociation. com; Seattle Orca Swim Team: www.orcaswimteam. org; Seattle Otters Water Polo: www.otterpolo.com; Seattle Quake Rugby: www.quakerugby.com; Seattle Tennis Alliance: www.seattletennisalliance.org; Seattle Unified Bowling Association (SUBA): magee98106@ aol.com, www.teamseattle.org/bowling.htm, www. theprideleague.com, Century 21 League; Seattle Volleyball Club: www.seattlevolleyballclub.com; Ski Buddies: www. skibuddies.org; Team Seattle Gay Sports Network is an umbrella organization for a wide range

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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 TRANSGENDER: Emerald City Social Club: (425) 827-9494; Gender Alliance of the South Sound: www.SouthSoundGender.com; Gender Diversity: www.genderdiversity.org; Gender Justice League: www.genderjusticeleague.org; Gender Odyssey: www.genderodyssey.com; Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group: (206) 322-7700; Ingersoll Gender Center: (206) 329-6651, www. ingersollcenter.org; The New BoyZ Club: www.olympiaftmgroup.webs.com; Olympia Trans Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/pages/Olympia-Trans-DiscussionGroup/262449878114; Washington Gender Alliance: (360) 445-2411, www.washington genderalliance.com WOMEN: ALISS - Aging Lesbians in South Seattle - 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; Festival of the Babes: www.festivalofthebabes.com; Lesbians Over 40: (206) 722-0729; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Older Lesbians Organizing for Change/WA State Chapter: gloria@ oloc.org, mary@oloc.org, www.oloc.org; Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives: www.pnwlesbianarchives.org; RainshadowWomen: RainshadowWomen@aol.com; Seattle Bisexual Women’s Network: BiSeattle.wixsite. com/SBWN; Seattle Girls of Leather: www.sgol.org; Tacoma Lesbian Concern (TLC): www.tacomalesbianconcern.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.)

Yakima: First Fridays - (509) 576-0276. www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html YOUTH: B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group): Youth Eastside Services offers many programs for GLBT youth, including B-GLAD, (425) 747-4937; Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony. org; GLSEN/Washington State (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) & Washington State GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) Network: GLSEN works to create safe schools for LGBT students. WA GSA Network supports youth-led GSA’s to fight harassment & homophobia in Washington state schools. (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) 3222515, 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.oasisyouthcen ter. 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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Generations Aging with Pride is a non-profit organization whose mission is to: empower older LGBTQ adults to live with pride and dignity by promoting, connecting and developing innovative programs, services and trainings that enhance belonging and support, eliminate discrimination, and honor the lives of older members of our community. We currently have an opening for a part-time Interim Outreach Coordinator. This position is exempt, with no paid benefits.

The Outreach Coordinator will be responsible for supporting Generations Aging with Pride’s priorities through the end of the calendar year 2017. Responsibilities include: program coordination; outreach and marketing of organization; supporting Board of Directors; maintaining fiscal records and providing monthly reporting/invoices; and engaging with community partners to move the goals of the organization forward.

Candidate must be able to pass a background check.

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Belle is quite the pretty little lady with her big golden eyes. This 8-year-old kitty is a bit shy at first, but she’ll warm up quickly as she gets to know you. Belle tested positive for Feline Leukemia.

When kept indoors, an FeLV-positive cat can live a happy life like any other feline. Our staff would be happy to speak with you about FeLV and Belle's long-term needs. If beautiful Belle sounds like the girl for you, come see her at Seattle Humane!

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

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Meet Amanda, a super adorable 2-year old Chihuahua/Miniature Dachshund mix. She’s friendly, playful, and loves to run. Amanda can be a little shy around strangers, but she warms up quickly with some patience and gentle encouragement. She’ll not only climb into your lap, she’ll also climb all sorts of fences and enclosures. This little girl has mad skills!

Interested in taking an agility class? Amanda would excel.

While fearless in many ways, Amanda can also be uncertain and fearful when faced with unfamiliar situations. She’ll benefit from ongoing confidence-building to help her feel more at ease in a variety of circumstances.

Introduce to children 12 years and older. Resident dogs are recommended to visit Amanda prior to adoption. Please see our adoption advisors for additional behavior information. If you’re looking for a kissy, energetic, agile sweet pea, please come to Seattle Humane and say hello to Amanda!

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As with all our dogs, Amanda has been spayed, microchipped, vaccinated and behavior-tested. She will go home with a certificate for an examination by a king County veterinarian and an ID tag. Most dog adoptions include 30 days of pet insurance from Trupanion and a training rebate when you complete a dog behavior course - a great way to learn and bond.

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