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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Issue 39, Volume 40, September 28, 2012

costumes, the gold and white ballroom set in Act II, the gilded coach, and the dozen or so “baby ballerinas” carried the CINDERELLA PACIFIC NORTHWEST show and gave the near-capacity crowd something to cheer BALLET about. And cheer that happy McCAW HALL crowd did.

Through September 30 Pacific Northwest Ballet The story remains the same, opened its 40th anniversary and is clear for audiences of all season September 21 with ages. This writer’s guest for a glorious revival of Kent the opening was his nearly 11Stowell’s flashy, memorable, year old granddaughter who and challenging Cinderella. marveled at every moment.

The choreography by PNB’s She now wants a “red dress, founding co-director remains short, like the ladies who delightful, if not terribly excit- waltzed.” Well, that will haping. It is a story ballet and that pen – even if it’s Value Village story is world-famous in vari- rather than Neiman-Marcus. ous performance and publication formats. The incredible see cinderella page 31

by Milton W. Hamlin SGN A&E Writer

Carrie Imler as Cinderella’s godmother in Cinderella

all photos by Lindsay Thomas

Carla Körbes as Cinderella

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer Published in 1999, Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower was an instant sensation, becoming a New York Times bestseller, with almost a million copies sold in the United States in the 13 years since its release.

But when it came time to transform the book into a motion picture, the author wasn’t going to be rushed. He also knew that in the end he would be the one calling the shots – the story was too close to his heart to allow others to adapt the screenplay or direct the film itself.

“No, no one else was going to direct this film,” Chbosky laughs.

“I was either going to make this film or it wasn’t going to exist. No one else was going to do it.”

“Listen, I think others could have made very beautiful ver-

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Felicia Boswell in Memphis

Paul Kolnik

MEMPHIS: THE MUSICAL 5TH AVENUE THEATRE Through October 7 They say that you can never go home again. If indeed that is true, then Memphis is the exception to the rule. The Tony Award-winning musical actually debuted in Seattle at the 5th Avenue Theatre in 2009, and after many workshops made its way to Broadway.

Now Memphis has come home – in a big, triumphant way.

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by Eric Andrews-Katz SGN A&E Writer

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music Madonna still the Queen of Pop

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer

albums under her belt then. Now she has 15, if you include the Evita soundtrack. Of the overwhelming number of hit singles from those albums, not to mention the ones folded into compilations and other movie soundtracks, an estimated 24 will be performed live on Tuesday and again on Wednesday.

then “Holiday” will momentarily grab the spotlight. “La Isla Bonita” is said to have been retired, while “Like a Virgin” has been on the set list too many times. “Papa Don’t Preach,” “Who’s That Girl?,” “Open Your Heart,” “True Blue,” “Justify My Love,” and “Dress You Up” are prime, since neither received any attention in the past two tours

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MADONNA KEY ARENA October 2 & 3 Many attempts have been made to dethrone her as Queen of Pop, a title Madonna rightfully earned by talent alone. That’s not to say the Material Girl hasn’t stirred the pot to grab headlines in her three-decade career, but whatever she does, and whatever she says, can be backed up with an unparalleled music catalog.

Some contenders have proven they’re in for the long run, including Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Pink, Katy Perry, and Jennifer Lopez. Others simply ran out of gas, like Britney Spears, Shakira, and Janet Jackson. But Madonna has kept going and going. Some years and some albums were better than others, and she has to yet to be fully embraced by the film industry, but no female artist can touch Madge’s world domination in record sales, Grammy and MTV awards, sold-out tours, and fan clubs in just about every country on the planet.

This year alone, Madonna appeared in the Super Bowl halftime show – a performance seen by 114 million people – and won her second Golden Globe for penning “Masterpiece,” from the 2011 drama W.E., which she directed. She also launched her latest tour, in support of her new album, MDNA, this spring in Tel Aviv. The road outing has thus far plopped down in the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, France, Germany, and Sweden, to name a few of the itinerary stops, and continues with a bulk of North American dates that squeezes in back-to-back Seattle concerts.

When the international superstar appears

October 2 at Key Arena, it will be her first appearance here in 25 years. Her previous visit to the Emerald City was in July 1987 when the blob of cement called the Kingdome was still intact. Madonna had four

We know that Madonna leans heavily on newer material for her shows, and this means five to six tracks from MDNA have been plucked for this tour. It’s a safe bet that “Give Me All Your Luvin’” and “Girl Gone Wild” made the cut, plus “Masterpiece” and maybe “Turn Up the Radio.”

The real quiz is what will the pop legend yank from her older recordings? “Vogue” seems certain, coming off the Super Bowl high. Ditto for “Like a Prayer” and “Express Yourself.” If she reaches back to her debut,

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer A FINE FRENZY A fine what, you ask? A Fine Frenzy.

She’s a one-woman musical act, born in Seattle, who’s sprouted her wings with a trio of subtle pop albums that have earned her fans in France, Poland, Switzerland, and Germany as well as stateside. Her newest work, Pines, is a 13-track collection of beautiful lyrics and melodies blended with dreamy backgrounds – it’s a bit Aimee Mann and a pinch Norah Jones, with traces of Colbie Caillat and Ingrid Michaelson. A Fine Frenzy (real name Alison Sudol) is touring the country with fellow singer-songwriter Joshua Radin, who interviewed with me years ago (at Purr, of all places), and arrives in Seattle October 18 as one of the headliners of this year’s City Arts Fest. Go to www. cityartsfest.com for a complete schedule.

Look for an interview with Alison on October 12 here in The Music Lounge.

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Amidst the excitement of Madonna coming to town, you may have forgotten – or

bell’s recording retirement a bitter pill to swallow. This is very likely your last opportunity to see him in Seattle. Tickets go on sale September 29 (10 a.m.) at www.tickets. com. Also, Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard is set to play a special fundraiser for the Marriage Equality campaign at Smith Tower. Tickets for the October 9 appearance, priced at $75 each, are probably gone by now. And, for fans of French electronic duo Daft Punk, you might wanna check out “One More Time: A Daft Punk Tribute” at Neumos on October 30. virgin

Seattle’s music scene is in a fine fall frenzy

GLEN CAMPBELL “Rhinestone Cowboy” crooner Glen Campbell has announced a November 27 performance at the Paramount Theatre. A true country legend, the Nashville star is touring in support of what he says is his final album, last year’s marvelous Ghost on the Canvas. The title track was one of my picks for 2011’s best singles. Shamefully ig-

(“Dress You Up” did get included on a medley during the Confessions outing). And there’s no way she’s omitting “Celebration” from the show, her best dance hit of the past five years.

Expect a long wait before Madonna takes the stage, something she’s widely criticized for and doesn’t seem to really care about.

Expect lots of wardrobe changes, flashy set designs, sharp choreographed numbers, bare-chested men, two hours of music, appearances by Rocco Ritchie, and perhaps, if we’re fortunate, a statement from the diva recalling her first tour performance of her career, at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre with supporting act the Beastie Boys. Madonna could, in yet another bold shout-out to her Gay fan base, declare her support for the Approve R-74 campaign for marriage equality here in Washington. While performing in St. Petersburg this summer, she gave the middle finger to the Russian government with a boisterous speech on Gay rights and the display of a rainbow flag on stage.

This is nothing new, of course. Madonna has long been an outspoken ally of the LGBT community. In an era long before Lady Gaga marched on Washington – when Elton John was still in the closet, and when Gay men by the thousands were dying of AIDS – Madonna was using her fame to raise awareness of our community through song lyrics, music videos, and personal endorsements. Plus, her continued integration of Gay culture and artists in her work hasn’t gone unnoticed.

Madonna performs October 2 and 3 at KeyArena. Show time both nights is 8 p.m. (although, as mentioned, she’s never in a rush to go on stage). There’s no opening act billed for either concert, but she occasionally has a touring DJ warm up the crowd with a short set. The first night is sold out, but tickets remain for the second. Go to www. ticketmaster.com for ticket information, and look for a review of Madonna’s appearance in next week’s issue.

you may not even know – that Rufus Wainwright is performing October 1 at Benaroya Hall. The Gay singer-songwriter, who officially took himself off the market by marrying partner Jörn Weisbrodt recently in New York, is on the road boosting this year’s release, Out of the Game, with a stop in Seattle, one of his favorite cities to play live. No official press statement was sent out regarding this tour or specific show, which means I have no idea what he’ll be including on his set list. My best guess is that he’ll introduce several songs from Out of the Game, plus selections from older records. At the Paramount a few years ago, he pulled out “Going to a Town,” “Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk,” “This Love Affair,” and “Grey Gardens.” It’s a toss-up as to what he’ll do at Benaroya, and A Fine Frenzy that’s the beauty of it – he’s unpredictable. Log onto www.seattlesymphony.org/benaroya for ticket informa- nored by Grammy voters, without a single tion. nomination, Ghost was so genuine and so delicately composed that it made Camp-

YOU SNOOZE, YOU LOSE These concerts are now sold out: Imagine Dragons on October 2 (The Showbox Market), Beach House on October 3 and 4 (The Showbox Market), Macklemore & Ryan Lewis on October 12 (WaMu Theater), Billy Idol on October 26 (The Showbox SoDo), Ben Gibbard on November 16 (The Showbox Market), and Green Day on November 26 (Paramount Theatre).

Finally, besides City Arts Fest (October 17-20, multiple venues), don’t forget about another unique Seattle music event, the 2012 Earshot Jazz Festival (October 12-November 4, multiple venues). Information on this jazz showcase can be found at www.earshot.org.

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Celebrating 39 Years!

by Jessica Price SGN A&E Writer

THE RAVEONETTES NEUMOS September 22 The Raveonettes are one of the few indie pop bands that not only have survived the 21st century’s first decade intact, but have gone on to produce some of their best work 11 years on. Even more surprising is the fact that they’ve proven to be true road warriors, crisscrossing the globe so many times that their live performances are sharpened to effortless perfection. Observator, the sixth full-length album from Danish duo Sune Rose Wagner (guitar, vocals) and Sharin Foo (bass, vocals), is possibly their most refined and unique yet.

Appearing at Neumos last Saturday in support of the newest release, Sune and Sharin (now residents of New York and L.A., respectively) were characteristically stoic as they took the stage and went to work on their set. At this point, the two of them have so much material and such an unspoken musical language between them that they don’t let up or even seem to bat an eye until the very last chord is struck.

Plowing through a proficient 75-minute set of lovely – and very loud – two-part harmonies backed by a wall of feedback and drums is a highly efficient process for The Raveonettes. The pair may not be especial-

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ly animated (until they’re through, anyway), but they deliver a solid show every time.

Starting off with “Young and Cold” from Observator, the band jumped around all of their recent recordings, later revisiting some “really old stuff” (as Sune put it) such as “Attack of the Ghost Riders” from their debut EP, Whip It On. “Aly, Walk With Me” from Lust Lust Lust was a highlight, as well as “That Great Love Sound” from Chain Gang of Love and “Love in a Trashcan” from Pretty in Black. The set was pleasantly noise-laden, yet more refined with the addition of new material. “Observations,” “You Hit Me (I’m Down),” and “Young and Cold” implement piano for the first time in the band’s history, creating a sad undercurrent to the deceptively sweet harmonies. But make no mistake – The Raveonettes still deliver a gorgeous guitar rock show. The result of all this subtle experimentation is simply a fresh look at the band six albums in.

Though Observator was meant to be their “Los Angeles” record, Sune returned to his adopted home in New York to get into the right headspace for writing it. As he wrote on their label’s website in June, “After I got back to New York City, a swathe of bleak and sad songs about lost romances and unrequited love came freely. It makes Observator sumptuous and beautiful in its sound, but bleak and sad at its heart … It’s a collection of observations that occur in life and as I’ve learned, life happens everywhere.”

No one could have predicted how long

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Raveonettes show their staying power

Sharin Foo (l) and Sune Rose Wagner of the Ravonettes

The Raveonettes would last, or how they would turn out reliably solid albums year after year within the simple framework of bubblegum feedback they’ve perfected.

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Art. Tattoos. Love.

True Love Art isn’t your typical gallery – or tattoo shop

by James Whitely SGN Staff Writer “Art. Tattoos. Love.” A promise of what one might find at True Love Art Gallery (1525 Summit Ave.) on Capitol Hill? The slogan, if indeed it is a promise, is one True Love delivers on. So what makes True Love different?

It’s one of the few tattoo parlors on the Hill that’s actually Gay-owned, but according to co-owner George Long, “tattooer” and curator of True Love Art Gallery, that really doesn’t matter – and it’s not at all relevant to what sets True Love apart.

“I’ve done just about any tattoo you can think of. I’ve done literally tens of thousands of tattoos,” said Long.

Long, who always had an interest in art and illustration, took to tattoos in the late ’80s after he’d gotten a couple himself and decided he wanted to make a career out of it. He’s been tattooing now for 22 years, starting out in Pierce County, where he served military personnel as well as local residents. He made the move to Seattle in 1992.

True Love doesn’t feel like most tattoo joints. Those unfamiliar with the scene will immediately notice it’s not grungy, but Long says there’s something else that’s different. He feels that many shops are designed primarily to impress tattoo aficionados and other tattoo artists.

“I really want to impress my clientele, and a broad clientele,” Long told SGN. ALL THIS, AND ART TOO True Love is as much a gallery as it is a tattoo studio.

“I wanted to have a large, spacious lobby so people could relax and enjoy their time

With Observator and the current tour, The Raveonettes prove that past is only a means to an end, and they’re actually quite at home in the present.

here even when they’re not getting tattoos. I wanted a space big enough to hold art openings and art functions,” Long said. “I wanted to have a tattoo shop that was welcoming to people who aren’t involved with tattoo culture directly.”

With True Love, Long foresaw a place where local artists could show their work and a tattoo shop that was just “a little different from everybody else’s.”

Currently on display at True Love is an exhibit called “For Work and Play,” which features “weird” paintings by H. Lee Porter, graphic screen prints by Riley Hoonan, paintings by Glenn Newcomer, and work by Long himself.

“I’m showing a collection of figures made out of discarded doll parts and plastic bottles,” Long told SGN. As a rotating gallery, True Love is also an active participant in the Capitol Hill Arts Walk. Every second Thursday of the month, George throws an art party and features local DJs. “We show a lot of Queer artists and we George Long show a lot of straight artists,” Long said.

“The Gay identity of Capitol Hill is dis“She’s really talented,” said Long. “She sipating … people are spreading out to other has a gift for drawing portraits that will ture is so accepting. neighborhoods and I think it is representa- translate very well to tattooing.”

“I think that it’s important for us to emtive of the evolution of our community and The other major artist at True Love is Cos- brace identities that reflect the neighborour culture.” mo Andoloro. hood we live in and I think the identity of “Even the most bizarre aspects of Gay our neighborhood is really mixed,” said IT’S ABOUT ACCEPTANCE culture he’s right on board with,” said Long Long. “I really don’t want everybody to just It’s clear to George that acceptance is at of Andoloro. peg us as ‘the Queer tattoo shop.’ It could the center of tattoo culture. His clientele “The artist and the patron come together be a misrepresentation if it seemed like is mixed and his staff is mixed. The other for an art project that will be viewed by we were just trying to market to the Queer owners are Boris Erickson and Mike Gilm- thousands of people for years to come,” community.” ore, who bartends at CC Attle’s. The shop’s Long told SGN. Stop by True Love during Arts Walk or apprentice, Stephanie Battershell, does For Long, there must be acceptance be- any time, and check out Long and Andographic design for the Seattle Art Museum tween the two, because common ground loro’s portfolios online at www.trueloveand just recently stated doing tattoo work in must be found in order to produce a mean- art.com. You can also “like” True Love on the shop. ingful piece. This, he says, is why tattoo cul- Facebook.

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theater and stage

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer BIG RIVER: THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN VILLAGE THEATRE Through October 21 (Issaquah) October 26–November 18 (Everett) Village Theatre’s latest production is a rollicking, feel-good experience, sometimes a bit at odds with its subject matter – the last days of slavery, as told by Mark Twain. The music and lyrics by Roger Miller are often upbeat and exuberant. The choreography

by Daniel Cruz envelopes the whole stage, often with huge ensemble numbers that lift your spirits.

There is a whole lot to like, as is usual for Village productions, in this musical. Aside from the excellent choreography, director Steve Tomkins gets great support from an amazing set by Scott Fyfe – a rustic system of piers that appear and disappear as needed, even flying into the ceiling at one point!

– along with expressive lighting from Tom Sturge, down-home costuming from Melanie Burgess, and a beautifully rendered score from music director Tim Symons.

Twain’s seminal characters, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, are presented as troublemaking scamps in an early would-be pirate gang, though they imagine themselves much more troublesome than they really are. Huck has to escape from an abusive father and decides to fake his own death.

Then he finds that Jim, a local slave, has escaped as well and, somewhat dubiously, Huck decides to raft down the Mississippi with Jim. Thus their adventures begin.

In an outstanding introduction to the local theater community, Jim is played by Rodney Hicks, who recently moved to the Portland area after starring on Broadway in The Scottsboro Boys and other shows. He is riveting every time he takes stage, with a ramrod-straight posture and a mellow, commanding baritone.

His tormented gaze pierces the audience, who cannot help but feel his pain at being a slave. The ensemble of African-American actors who play slaves also are a suitably mournful bunch and it is just painful to see them with chains on.

Hicks is joined by Randy Scholz as Huck.

While Scholz has a very easy-to-listen-to vocal quality and can handily manage the choreography, he’s got two aspects that work against his performance. First, he’s even taller than Hicks, which plays against his teenage-ness and visually jars, and second, he doesn’t deepen the emotional content of the role, staying on the surface. He neither seems upset at getting beaten by his father nor fearful of going on a journey into the unknown almost alone. While the vocal blend of Hicks’ and Scholz’s voices is quite lovely, that emotional disconnect fails the production as a whole.

But there are other standout performances. Unusually for them, both Greg McCor-

Jay Koh

Big River a new spin on Finn

Randy Scholz (l) as Huck and Rodney Hicks as Jim in Big River

mick Allen and Rich Gray play bad guys.

Funny bad guys, but Allen and Gray are almost always funny good guys onstage.

David Anthony Lewis gets a hysterical moment as the terrible father figure. Having recently been the hysterically funny-bad Nazi in Village’s The Producers, Lewis is in danger of being typecast as the bad guy with the hysterical song! He’s so great at it!

Cheryl Massey-Peters and Jayne Muirhead have a great time as “aunts” to Huck.

Claudine Mboligikpelani Nako and Stacie Pinkney Calkins offer a couple of great vocal moments. Taylor Niemeyer is entrancing as a love interest, and on-stage musicians John Patrick Lowrie and Eric Chappelle add wonderful ambience.

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

Discuss your opinions with sgncritic@ gmail.com or go to www.facebook.com/SeattleTheaterWriters.

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requires. When he does the 11 o’clock num- fantastic jobs in their roles. Johnson’s comeber “Memphis Lives in Me,” the strength of dic timing as the bigoted mother who learns his voice is undisputable and leaves the ear and grows excels in her own song, “Change ringing in the best of ways. He gives off a Don’t Come Easy.” Rogers’ appearance personality on stage that allows the audi- as protective brother Delray is performed ence to become endeared to this uneducated very well. His concern for his sister is easand completely charming character. Fen- ily identified with, and the audience unkart allows his character’s passions – music derstands his hesitancy to allow Felicia to and the woman in his life – to shine brightly. pursue her career and her risky romance.

It is hard not to like the charismatic singer Parry does a great job as the radio station Felicia Farrell (played by Felicia Boswell). owner who is conflicted between his tradiThe character has a youthful speaking voice tional Southern beliefs and the success that but a powerful singing instrument. When is brought to him by crossing racial boundshe speaks her soft demeanor draws in the aries. The dancers and singers all perform audience and when she takes a breath to well and the show owes part of its success to sing, we brace ourselves for the power she this talented ensemble. possesses. She can vocally handle the soft Memphis got its start in Seattle at the 5th bouncy “Someday,” the bluesy “Colored Avenue Theatre. Through several workWoman,” or the rocked-out opening num- shops and audience feedback the show was ber, “Underground,” with the grace and crafted and shaped, continually morphing emotion each one deserves. Her timing until it opened on Broadway on September when turning from simple charm to sass to 23, 2009, playing for more than 1,160 persongstress to seductress is perfect, and is formances until the end of its run in Audone with such ease that she is a true plea- gust 2012. It was nominated for eight Tony sure to watch on stage.

Awards in 2010 (including Best Leading The rest of the cast is all very good as Actor and Best Leading Actress) and won Felicia Boswell and Bryan Fenkart in Memphis well. Julie Johnson (as Mama), Horace V. four, including Best Musical. The 5th AvRogers (as Delray), and William Parry (as enue Theatre’s Tony statue for Memphis is but delights the kids, and his career takes radio station owner Mr. Simmons) all do proudly displayed in the lobby. off. First he becomes the town’s premier continued from cover radio personality, and then he is offered his If you saw it at the 5th in its pre-Broadway own television show. When he refuses to days, you owe yourself a look at what it has succumb to racial prejudices, a line is drawn between himself and Felicia. since become.

Bryan Fenkart and Felicia Boswell are the The story is loosely based on the true story of a disc jockey who was one of the two leads of this show and they are amazfirst white radio personalities to promote ing. There’s a subtle chemistry between and play black music. Huey Calhoun is an them that makes it easy for the audience to uneducated, illiterate Memphis boy who accept their characters and that makes it a stumbles into an all-black club when he pleasure to watch their interactions. Fenkart featuring the National Touring Company of Memphis hears the voice of an incredible singer, Feli- is a chameleon when it comes to his charwith DJ Greg Vandy (KEXP & American Standard Time) cia Farrell. Despite the racial tension of the acter. By pulling on an accent and using his Monday, October 1, 7 p.m.

1950s South, and against the wishes of both body with a certain gait and movements, he Neumos Huey’s mother and Felicia’s brother (and positively transforms into Huey Calhoun – a 925 E. Pike St., Seattle club owner), Delray, the two start a roman- character he understudied on Broadway. His $15 advance (21+ only) tic relationship. Huey becomes a disc jockey voice is strong and is easily understood even Tickets on sale at Moe Bar and at etix.com and the music he plays infuriates the adults when he uses the unique accent that the part

Memphis

Washington United for Marriage presents

“It’s About Time”

an evening of music and dance to benefit the Approve R-74 campaign for marriage equality

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Celebrating 39 Years!

Allan Armstrong

Stirring up the dirt Dark, edgy Disco Pigs wallows in dysfunction and tragedy

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer DISCO PIGS GIANT PROJECTS/ SOUND THEATRE COMPANY Through October 6 It might be best to take the attitude that the production of Disco Pigs by GianT Projects (now housed in the Ballard Underground space) is spoken in Swahili or another language you don’t understand. That way, you’ll expect to get most of the context in visuals and sound effects. And much of the time, you can piece together the story.

It is, indeed, a strange tale by Enda Walsh, an Irish writer of exceptional edginess, who recently won a Tony award for Once (now on Broadway). Disco Pigs is her first play that caught people’s notice. Pig and Runt, normally known by their families as Sinead and Darren, are next-door neighbors born minutes or hours apart in the same hospital.

They’ve grown up together and developed their own language, which they essentially only speak to each other.

So, even if you’re used to an Irish accent, their use of it is different. It can therefore be a bit frustrating trying to follow the story.

Fox Rain Matthews and Alyssa Kay portray the 17-year-olds, and we know they know what they’re saying. They are compelling to watch, which helps the piece work. A few

more overt moments of humor would have been welcome, as this play, directed by Gianni Truzzi, is pretty dark.

SWINISH BEHAVIOR The story focuses on the pair’s birthday and the day after. We’re introduced to them – they tell us they were born in “Pork,” Ireland, and grew up together – and to their vernacular. We understand fairly quickly that they are basically thugs. They go to a local bar to disco dance and pull a scam in which Runt pretends to like a boy, and when he responds to Runt’s enticements, Pig pounces and drags him outside to pummel him into unconsciousness. Then they rob him. This doesn’t bother Runt in the least.

However, their relationship starts to change when Pig kisses Runt. While Pig begins to obsess about Runt, Runt begins to pull away from Pig. Whether you understand all the words, it’s clear that tragedy is the result of the disintegration of their tooclose relationship.

The staging is ultra-low-budget spare – stage boxes painted with childish alphabet letters – but the disco-style strobe-light effects are all that’s really needed. Matthews does a solid job of portraying the dysfunctional Pig, including a devastatingly creepysexy moment when he describes his fantasy of having sex with Runt, in far more understandable language than in most of the rest

Love and war Book-It looks at a sad historical event through a child’s eyes

Adam Smith

The cast of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet take a tour of the Panama Hotel.

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE Through October 21 Book-It’s latest production is a moving and honorable adaptation of Jamie Ford’s novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Adapter/director Annie Lareau cooks up a fittingly bittersweet tone throughout in this home-grown story of a Chinese boy and Japanese girl who find puppy love on the eve of the World War II internment program.

Henry (Jose Abaoag) and Keiko (Stepha-

nie Kim) are 11-year-old classmates as the story begins. Henry’s old-school Chinese father hates the Japanese for what they did to his home village – an animosity he has carried to his new country as well – so Henry doesn’t dare tell him of his budding friendship with the girl. But curiosity and a fairness of heart prompt Henry to find out more about his Japanese neighbors in Seattle’s International District.

The book is a sprawling tale involving dozens of people, unfolding the plight of the Japanese and Henry’s growing despair at being unable to stop the injustice being perpetrated on them by the U.S. government. The play does a pretty good job of honing the tale down to a split-time-sharing

Alyssa Kay and Fox Rain Matthews in Disco Pigs

of the play. Kay has a beautifully expressive face that communicates a lot of what she needs to get across. The two leads work well together.

The play supposedly takes place in “the present day,” but that can’t really be true.

References to 1990s hit shows like Baywatch date the piece, as does the music.

If you’re looking for something different theatrically, this might be something to put

on your calendar. If you crave light comedy, though, it’s not likely to be your best bet.

For more information, go to www.soundtheatrecompany.org or www.brownpapertickets.com/event/259302, or call 1-800838-3006.

between young Henry and an older, newly widowed Henry (Stan Asis) with a grown son of his own (Moses Yim). Still, there is a cast of 26!

In lots of sometimes very brief scenes, we go back and forth in time, as the elder Henry hears about a treasure trove in the basement of the Panama Hotel, where Japanese internees had stashed their belongings hoping to retrieve them after the war. Henry is looking for something specific, although it takes more than half the play to find out what it is.

We do know it involves Keiko and her family, and we are treated to a tender retelling of their friendship and the support of a busker saxophonist (the talented Marcel Davis) who helps Henry deal with the rich-boy bully who picks on Japanese and Chinese kids alike. We see Henry wearing an “I Am Chinese” button, emphasizing his heritage so he wouldn’t be targeted as un-American like those of Japanese descent – an idea of his father’s that eventually seems like a really good one.

Once Keiko’s family is relocated, an enchanting interplay with a brusque school cafeteria lady (a sweet-and-sour Marianne Owen) helps Henry visit Keiko in the desolation of the camp. Their shared love of jazz and a special record link the young and old Henrys and the Panama Hotel. We know he and Keiko lose touch after that and we hope throughout the whole play that they will find each other again.

There are many well-done performances throughout – including an energetic Sydney Andrews as the Caucasian girl who is engaged to Henry’s son, Matt Fulbright as the nasty bully, and Kathy Hsieh as Henry’s mother. But the three principals – Abaoag, Kim, and Asis – hold the story together beautifully and in heart-tugging fashion.

While Lareau could have found ways to shorten the fairly long evening, this is an elegant production, thanks to a spare set design using hanging pictures by Carey Wong, understated but attractive costuming

by Jocelyne Fowler, spot-focused lighting

by Andrew D. Smith, and a quietly additive sound design by Kevin Heard.

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is a wonderful play that even very young children, perhaps as young as six if able to sit still, can enjoy and learn from. For more information, go to www.book-it.org or call (206) 216-0833.

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Every child in the audience – and every adult, it truly seemed – was dazzled by the high energy and superlative dancing. The costumes may have carried the palace ball scene, but the incredible skill of the talented PNB cast – from older character actor/ dancers to the tiny tots who stole their every scene – made the evening truly joyous. The children added fun, fun, fun (and undoubtedly sold several hundred seats to proud family members at every performance).

The leads were, as usual, incredible on opening night. SGN and this reviewer tend not to stress names since each production has a rotating repertory of dancers – usually three, sometimes four, in each major part and most character roles. But, to be truthful, Carla Körbes’ title role work, Karel Cruz’s Prince Charming, and Jonathan Poretta’s Court Jester simply will never be bettered.

Matched, perhaps, but never topped. Both leads are incredible dancers and beautiful people – he is a hunk-and-a-half who truly glitters as he walks (or waltzes), and she is a tiny Cinderella who takes command of the stage and never lets go. Poretta seemed to be dancing on springs – his high leaps and big, big smile stopped the show.

One word sums it all up: Go. Ticket information and reservations at www.pnb.org or (206) 441-2424. Ask about senior, student, and rush discounts.

PNB’s next mixed repertory program features four world or Seattle premieres.

What a wonderful contrast. Watch SGN for details.

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Many perks to viewing near-perfect Wallflower

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THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER Opens September 28 It’s been longer than I care to admit, but I still can recall my high school years like they were yesterday. I remember wandering the halls without a pass, heading out on the practice field after stretching in the gym, engaging in heated debates about what story to put on the front page afterhours in the journalism room, and standing in the corner at the Homecoming dance chatting with my friends. I can recall more of my four years as a John R. Rogers Pirate than many of you might think – the highs, lows, and inbetweens in many ways feeling as if they happened yesterday.

I’m not sure I’ve felt more kinship with a motion picture in recent memory than I have with screenwriter and director Stephen Chbosky’s stunning adaption of his own 1999 novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower. At the very least, I haven’t seen a movie in 2012 that’s affected me quite so intimately, that’s moved me in ways difficult to describe and maybe even harder to comprehend. What I do know is that the characters that make up its story, the travails all of them go through, freshman and senior alike, were all ones I felt affiliation with, allowing the funny, heartfelt, and deeply moving drama to become an instant favorite I’m positive I’ll return to numerous times in the future.

Of course, there are certain aspects (I don’t remotely intend on ruining anything here, so don’t expect me to elaborate) that are not close to anything I experienced during my own high school journey. At the same time, the mood of the piece – the way the characters related to one another, the way the haves and the have-nots mingled, made use of one another, became friends, and allowed exterior forces to make them enemies – all of it felt natural, honest, and true. The simple fact is the mistakes we make are the ones we tend to hold onto the longest, our most magnificent triumphs often paling compared to our most insignificant failures.

But that first kiss, that first caress, the first time we held someone else’s hand and realized there was a connection going way beyond the physical, all of that and more comes to the forefront in Chbosky’s miraculously multifaceted narrative. These are kids we know, definitely of the here-andnow, but also of the 1991 the film is set in.

More than that, though, the angst they feel, the apprehensions and the fears they share, the community they create, and the bonds they celebrate are universal, speaking to the kid in all of us no matter what our age or which generation we call ourselves a part of.

I admit I was apprehensive and nervous about the film before entering the theater.

Part of me couldn’t help but feel that I needed to see another teenage coming-ofage story like I needed someone to slap me across the face with a two-by-four. What new was there to say? What roads not already well-traveled could this group of characters hope to go down? It all sounded like a two-hour festival of melodramatic clichés, and even though I knew of the acclaim Chbosky’s novel had achieved, that didn’t mean I was willing or ready to believe the adaptation would be more than ordinary.

Color me wrong. This movie may journey into familiar territory, may not always

be able to avoid convention entirely, but that doesn’t mean it is anything other than magnificent, start to finish. Every time I thought Chbosky was going to take a wrong turn, every time I feared he’d let the proceedings drown in rote cliché, somehow he managed to surprise me, showing a form of hypnotic

thrown his way. The places he goes to, the emotions he mines, all of it comes together in a way I couldn’t help but be enamored with, and as great as everyone else is – and they are outstanding – his is the performance I’ll cherish the longest after the dust settles and my euphoria begins to wane.

Not that I expect said waning to happen anytime soon. Chbosky’s movie is a revelation, a marvel of dramatic simplicity and model of a narrative integrity numerous other filmmakers should take note of. He proves that you can take familiar material and make it something special, can find a way to transcend inherent melodrama and

sions of Perks, and there is an alternate universe I almost wish existed where a German film company wanted to make a German version of the novel, and I’d kill to see that movie, but in the end I just don’t think it would have been right for someone else to have made this movie. It wouldn’t have been right or authentic. You can’t outsource the adoption of your baby and expect it to have the same sense of history as if you raised it yourself. It’s just the way it is.”

ABIDING EXPERIENCES One of the more remarkable trademarks of both the film and the book are how profound they are in regard to the high school experience. Even though the story is set during the early 1990s, there is a universality to Charlie’s story that’s immediately relatable to viewers and readers of virtually every age and demographic, speaking to the core of the individual teenage experience that’s borderline stunning.

“This story, it could be set anywhere,” says Chbosky with a smile. “But that was the point. There’s this thing in Ken Burns’ Jazz – I love that series. Remember those shots of all the young girls screaming their heads off about Artie Shaw? Artie Shaw, Justin Bieber, there is no difference. The thing that is eternal is not the performer – it is the shouting teenage girls.

“There are certain things that will always be in adolescence, that sense of longing, feeling alone, feeling nobody else gets this.

Yet everyone gets it, and even if you know that everyone gets it you still think you’re the only one that gets it. I make a joke sometimes that whenever someone stops you and says they had the weirdest dream last night, it’s always boring – I don’t care what it is.

But the flipside to everyone’s dreams being boring is that whenever anyone tells you about their first kiss it is always interesting.

Always. Whenever they tell you about the first crush they had, whether it was a boy or girl, it’s always a great story.

“Just like a good superhero movie, it’s the origin story. Origin stories are always great, and that’s what Perks is, so I’m not surprised so many have related to it like they have – although I am grateful that they have.

After all, I was just telling them my personal origin story.”

NOSTALGIA AND HOPE Perks follows a young Pittsburgh high school freshman named Charlie (Logan Lerman) who is dealing with all sorts of personal trauma and isn’t sure he’s going to be able to function during this new stage of his adolescent education. Two seniors, Patrick (Ezra Miller) and Sam (Emma Watson), take him under their wing, opening his eyes to the world at large and introducing him to experiences that help redefine his ideas of what high school can be and put him on the path toward healing his long-festering psychological scars.

In past interviews, Chbosky had mentioned numerous times how the general path his novel and film take is personal but not necessarily autobiographical. This was a point I was eager to have him elaborate on, but like most authors it was also one he just as fervently didn’t want to over-explain.

“How do I put this?” he asks gingerly.

“Some of the stuff that happens to Charlie happened to me. Some of the stuff happened to other people. Like all stories, it’s a mixture, and I’m not sure that trying to

SURPRISED AT REACTION With that being the case, it’s impossible not to wonder how the almost instantaneous acclaim for the book when it was published affected the author. The same goes for the heated criticism. Certain school districts around the country banned Perks from their shelves, while in both 2006 and 2008 the American Library Association named it as one of the top 10 most frequently challenged books.

“I was very surprised,” he admits candidly. “The very happy accident in all of this was that I wrote for personal reasons but you publish [the book] in hopes people who read it will not feel alone. Every time I get a letter, every time I meets somebody and they tell me this was their own high school experience, the person who doesn’t feel alone is me, over and over and over again.

It’s the best feeling in the world and is the greatest joy. This is the best thing I’ve ever done, book and movie, and I couldn’t be happier about that.

“In terms of the vitriol, of the people who object to it, it’s strange because they object

Logan Lerman In The Perks of Being a Wallflower

restraint that held me spellbound.

And what is that story? In all honesty, my summarizing it here isn’t particularly important. Just know that what transpires is seen through the eyes of Pittsburgh high school freshman Charlie (Logan Lerman), a teenage loner still reeling from the dual losses of his best friend from middle school via suicide and his beloved Aunt Helen (Melanie Lynskey), thanks to an auto accident a handful of years prior. In high school, he comes into contact with seniors Patrick (Ezra Miller) and Sam (Emma Watson), a brother-sister combo (by marriage, not blood) who decide to take him under their wing, bringing him into their tight-knit circle of friends.

What happens from there? I’m not going to tell you, but by and large it’s not that difficult to anticipate a lot of it. Save for a couple of third-act revelations, where the movie is headed is never in doubt, Charlie’s voyage of self-discovery as tried and true as any that’s been told. It’s the getting there that makes what happens so special, the way that Chbosky understands his characters and how he manufactures the world around them, allowing the film to resonate on a mystifying, innermost level few others covering similar terrain have matched.

The cast is uniformly excellent. Lerman, a bit out of his element in both the recent remake of The Three Musketeers remake as well as in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, acquits himself beautifully as Charlie, his performance building with a subtle eloquence that took me by surprise. Harry Potter standout Watson also proves that she’s got more in her than that particular saga – a pair of scenes with Lerman, both inside Sam’s bedroom yet profoundly different from one another, are so outstanding they might be the best individual moments I’ve seen all year.

Yet it is Miller, so good in both We Need to Talk About Kevin and City Island, who blew me away. His performance as Patrick is one of the best of 2012, deserving of as many accolades and awards that could be

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elaborate on the final mixture of what’s personal to me, and what happened to others, and what I just made up, is a good thing.”

“I can say this, because I want to give you a real answer – some of it did happen to me and some of it didn’t, and I do need to keep off of the table what is what. The important thing is that Charlie’s worldview is mine.

Charlie’s genuine desire for people to be happy is mine as well.

“I have at times put people before me and thought that counted as love. ‘We accept the love we think we deserve’ is a line I wrote because it was my own response to why I let people treat me badly and why the people I loved, who deserved so much more, let themselves be treated so badly. I wanted to create a line we could all have. But Perks, to me, is a combination of my nostalgia of being young but also my hope for every young person.”

take things to a lofty plateau that’s as profound as it is true-to-life. The Perks of Being a Wallflower took me back to my own high school years allowing me to revisit them in ways I haven’t in eons, the experience of watching it a cathartic free-for-all I can’t wait to revel in again.

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AVOIDING CLICHÉS The story itself obviously lends itself to both cliché and to melodrama, two facets Chbosky knew he had to find a way to avoid – if not completely, then just enough so that the audience never realizes their emotions are being fiddled with. But how to calibrate that? How to trigger the emotional responses required for Charlie’s story to resonate without the movie descending into Nicholas Sparks-level platitudes?

“That was the trick, right?” he asks honestly. “I didn’t want to make a sentimental movie – I wanted to make an honest movie.

I remember John Malkovich, he came on to produce the film, on set during those first couple of weeks and during dinner he said, ‘I love your script because it has heart. Because it has real heart you don’t need sentiment. Direct this movie like a guy from Pittsburgh and always get the tough take.’

That became a bit of a mantra for me – always get the tough take.”

“Sometimes when you have a really emotional actor, a method actor, that person more than anyone needs a very strong director because they’re not self-editing. They’re just going to go there, and they need someone to tell them to pull back a little, to bring it down. In post, that was [producers Russell Smith and Lianne Halfon’s] job with me.

I making this movie? Now, that the movie is over, I know what it was I waiting for – I was waiting for those three kids. If I make it three years ago they’re too young. If I make it three years from now they’re too old. But those three were the key.”

“Not only those three, but those three at this particular stage of their lives and this John Bramley

to it, and this happens quite often, for completely the wrong reasons. They describe the date rape that happens in the book, but not the movie. I didn’t think it was necessary, as something it is not. It’s a rape. It’s traumatic. It’s horrible. It goes to show [how] scarring witnessing that sort of moment can be for Charlie and it’s completely in line with all the other stuff that happens.

It’s all there for a reason, yet some people think I’m trying to be sexy for some reason.

There are moments when you want to say to someone, please God, look in the mirror, because this is not sexy. This is not titillating. If it is to you, then I suggest you stop blaming me for that and go look in that mirror.”

Chbosky’s answer is illuminating, but it also goes to the sort of nuts-and-bolts aspect of filmmaking and of adapting popular books for the screen that most authors avoid by allowing others to compose the screenplays for their works. Deciding which elements to change, which elements to keep, and which ones to excise is often too difficult and painful for an author.

“It was very difficult,” he states matterof-factly. “It was about a decade between book and screenplay, and I needed that time to make the tough decisions. In the same breath, I also missed a step. When you write a book like this and you’re 26, you’re still close to your own high school experiences.

When you’re in your late 30s, I ended up having to do a lot of work emotionally to put myself back in the mindset, to respect what it was that kids go through on an eye-to-eye level.”

Director Stephen Chbosky and actor Emma Watson on the set of The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Other people as well. I told people over and over again that I had the book, I didn’t need the book again, that I needed the movie and if I went off the rails I needed them to tell me. Luckily, between their feedback and my ‘this has to be great’ desires, we managed to get it done.”

CASTING WAS KEY Running out of time and with the publicist breathing down my neck to wrap it up, I decide I can’t leave the room without asking about the three young actors – Lerman, Miller, and Watson – who make up the central triumvirate of the tale. “They’re extraordinary, aren’t they?” responds Chbosky with a gigantic grin. “The whole cast is great, but those three, especially Logan Lerman as Charlie, are just wonderful.”

“You know, there is a little bit of fate that goes into it, casting, and there were times over the years when I was doing rewrites on the script and I would stop and think to myself, what was I waiting for, why wasn’t

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stage of their careers. Emma had so much to prove to herself, that she could play an American and a teenager, someone right around her own age and in a real-world setting. I’ve never seen anyone who needed such permission to just be free and that’s all she wanted to be, and it was an honor to help her do it.”

“Logan, he brought in the performance that you saw. We auditioned two people and he was number two – there were no other auditions. He was fantastic, and he only got deeper, only got better, as we spent time on the production and he read the book and the script and dug deeper and deeper into it. He

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was determined. This really cool thing happened. There was this screening at Donna Karan’s house and afterwards Paul McCartney came up to Logan and said, ‘You’re brilliant, man.’ How amazing is that?”

And Ezra? Playing the sexually liberated Patrick, his performance was the one I personally found the most emotionally effecting in the entire film. What did Chbosky have to say about him?

“He’s awesome,” he proclaims proudly.

“I knew him from City Island, and while he was a little younger I knew that with Logan and Emma basically being raised on film sets that I needed a bit of a wildcard to let them know it was OK to be kids, that this was important. Ezra, my goodness, I hit the jackpot with this guy. He’s amazing, isn’t he? Without him, I just don’t think this particular trio of actors would have been as stunning as they ultimately were.”

‘WE ALL GET THIS THING’ At the end of the day, the movie is the movie and the book is the book, and while Chbosky is proud of both, now that the former is going into general release while the latter is finding a newfound surge in popularity, one wonders what his thoughts are on the journey as a whole. “I had this moment,” he explains, “and I don’t know how many directors have felt this way as this is only my second movie, I had finished the final mix and I was a lunatic when I was done. So tired. So emotionally drained. I came back to it after a few months away and I was like, my God, I made that movie? It was as pure a moment as you could get.

“I know I’ll sit in the theater and I’ll look around and when people laugh or cry or whatever, I’ll think to myself that we all just get this thing, this emotional thing, and while I made the movie and while you watched the movie when it’s all finished, it is the thing that is the thing, it doesn’t get simpler than that. Our parts in it, the making if it, that’s kind of irrelevant, and I just love that sense of community, that sense of experience we can have collectively. Adolescence, first kisses, how we meet the love of our lives, it’s always interesting. Remember that.”

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This year our guest preacher will be the Revd. Stan Fowler, who will preach on "Marriage Equality is the Gospel mandate for our time .” Bring any of your friends and family who may be undecided: our message is that Christians can and should support marriage equality.

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Meetings Events Activities

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“It’s About Time” - A Concert Benefiting Washington United for Marriage. 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show. Neumos, 925 E Pike St. The National Touring Company of “Memphis” in association with Washington United for Marriage proudly presents “It’s About Time,” a concert benefiting Washington United for Marriage. Hosted by Memphis’ Bryan Fenkart (www. bryanfenkart.com). Pre-show entertainment with KEXP & American Standard Time DJ Greg Vandy. Tickets: $15 general admission. www.neumos.com/buy.

Les Be Honest. 8-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Open women only AA group. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org.

TUESDAY - October 2

SATURDAY - September 29

Northwest Chocolate Festival (9/29-9/30). Washington State Convention & Trade Center, 8th Ave & Pike St. www.nwchocolate.com Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 9am. Greenlake (outside Evans Pool). Every Saturday. GLBT running & walking club sponsors weekly runs, monthly potlucks, track & field activity, annual Run With Pride. 448-8518. www.seattlefrontrunners.org.

Fall Abundance Plant Sale. 10am-2pm. 2300 Arboretum Dr E. www.arboretumfoundation.org Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 6pm-12 midnight. Call for location & details.

Every Saturday. (253) 671-2838. www.oasisyouth center.org. (Also meets Thursdays & Fridays 4-10pm.)

Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 6pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Saturday. Games also on Tuesdays & Thursdays. $4 fee includes coffee & snacks www.rainbowbridgeclub.org or email rainbowbridgeclub@gmail.com Imperial Court of Seattle’s Empress Express Show.

Doors 6pm, Show 7pm. Neighbours Nightclub, 1509 Broadway. An evening of fine drag entertainment with Olympia 41 Beverly Peters Lake. $10.

Entre Hermanos Latino Pageant 2012. 7pm. Campion Ballroom, Seattle University, 12th Ave & E Marion St. General admission $35, Friends of the Board $50. www.brownpaper tickets.com/event/272724 “Voices United for Marriage” - Seattle Men’s Chorus & Seattle Women’s Chorus in Concert - in Olympia. 8pm. Center for the Performing Arts, 512 Washington Dr SE, Olympia. SMC and SWC will showcase their support for marriage equality at a series of FREE concert events. The program will feature a 90-minute set of music, stories, and speakers devoted to building awareness and engaging audience members to help Approve Referendum 74 and support marriage equality in the state of Washington.

SUNDAY - September 30

September 29 thru October 7

For a directory of GLBT-friendly religious organizations in Washington state, visit www.sgn.org and scroll down the first page of either section to see Multifaith Works’ 2007-2008 Directory of Inclusive Faith Communities (some information may not be current). For information on GLBT-friendly Christian churches around the world visit www.gaychurch.org.

Northwest Chocolate Festival (9/29-9/30). Washington State Convention & Trade Center, 8th Ave & Pike St. www.nwchocolate.com Hiking Group. 8:45am. Uptown Espresso, 500 Westlake Ave N. Every Sunday year-round, rain or shine for moderate to strenuous day hikes. 3238382. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheSeattleGay HikingGroup/ Gay Men’s Bowling in Everett. 10am. Evergreen Lanes, 5111 Claremont Way, Everett. Every Sunday.

Spectators welcome. Join us for lunch afterwards!

Sponsored by the Snohomish County Gay Men’s Task Force. For info email John at johndmarsh@mac.com Seattle Sunday Bowlers. 10am. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW (at SW Oregon St). Open bowl every Sunday for the GLBT community & friends. You don’t have to worry about how you bowl! $4.25 + $1 shoe rental. 329-1515.

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

Contact Forrest Rode, 920-6177, or Mike Chin (509) 990-0007. Women may wish to contact our sister meditation group via lotus.sisters@yahoo.com. www. dharmabuddies.org Just for Today. 12-1:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step (Narcotics Anonymous) group open to anyone in recovery. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org Paths to Recovery Al-Anon Family Group. 121:30pm. 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 625-0000; www.seattleal-anon.org Rain City Soccer Club - Ripple Effect. Every Sunday afternoon. Location varies. Ripple Effect soccer team plays a weekly recreational scrimmage game for Gay guys in Seattle. To sign up visit www.raincity soccer.org

Northwest Seattle Faith Communities Walk for Marriage Equality. 12:30pm. Woodland Park UMC, N 78th St & Greenwood Ave N. Members of several congregations will walk down Greenwood & Phinney Avenues N. to show support for marriage equality.

March concludes at St John United Lutheran Church, N 55th St & Phinney Ave N. Sweat & Stretch for Marriage Equality in Redmond.

2-5pm. Knotty Yoga, 2545 152nd Ave NE, Redmond.

Fundraiser for Washington United for Marriage features an hour-long workout, performances by aerial artists & a reception with snacks. Suggested minimum donation $40.

Daring Divorced Divas. 3-5pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. A support group for Lesbian women dealing with divorce, separation & transformation. To attend this group please contact the facilitator at daringdivorceddivas@yahoo.com. SASG 322-2427; www.sasgcc.org Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: 5-6:15pm; Mon/ Weds/Fri: 7:30-8:45pm. 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 Out for Sustainabiility “Coming Out Local” Annual Dinner. 5pm. Melrose Market Studios, 1532 Minor Ave. Features guest of honor Sen. Ed Murray & keynote speaker Jill Bamberg, a leader in the Local Living Economy movement. Tickets $75. www.brownpaper tickets.com/events/262113 Simply Sundays. 5:30-7pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. Peer support for recovery from substance abuse. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Shame to Grace Sunday SAA. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women who share their experience, strength & hope with each other so they may overcome their sexual addiction & help others recover from sexual addiction or dependency. Seattle SAA helpline 237-8828, SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191.

SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Pride League Bowling. 6:30pm. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW. Every Sunday (except during the summer). Regular league bowling. Jeff, 932-3731.

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

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MONDAY - October 1

SOBER - On Meds. 1-2pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. 12-step group open to anyone in recovery & living on a medicine regimen. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Strength Over Speed. 2-3:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Gay Social Dinner Club of Snohomish County.

Every Monday. An informal group of Gay men living in Snohomish County meet for dinner at Snohomish County restaurants. For information, location & to RSVP contact Ricardo at socialdinnerclub@ yahoo. com or phone (360) 722-1664.

Healing Words. 6:30-8pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Drop-in group open to all who are healing from trauma, addiction, or just the challenges of life in general. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. FredLind Manor, 1802 17th Ave. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.Freely Speaking.org Orca Swim Team Workout. 7-8:15pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

Reform or Revolution Book Group. 7-8:30pm. 1903 NE 82nd St. Every Monday 10/1-12/3. Discover one of the classics of Marxist thought, written by Rosa Luxemburg, a heroine of European socialism. Weekly discussions will explore this radical economist’s famous pamphlet on whether capitalism is capable of evolving into a more humane system or must be replaced by a worker-run economy. FREE. Spomsored

by Radical Women. 722-6057, rwseattle@ mindspring. com. www.radicalwomen.org Trans Youth Group. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. A chance for youth to talk with others about their experiences & concerns related to identifying as Transgender. www.lamberthouse.org Lambert House Art Night. 7:30-9:30pm. 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. Bring your ideas & let’s have some fun. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Unity Gay Men’s AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St. Tacoma. Every Monday.

(253) 474-8897.

Homeless Services for Youth, Ages 14-22. 1-4pm.

Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday & Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Simply Positive. 2:30-4pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. Drop-in support & social group for anyone HIV/AIDS positive. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Artful Expression. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. This is an ongoing art group to visualize the journey thru creative expression. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Gay Men’s Task Force of Snohomish County in Everett. 6-8pm. Snohomish Health District, 3020 Rucker Ave Ste 309A, Everett. Meets 1st Tuesday each month. Open to all Gay & Bisexual men in Snohomish County. “We will be discussing issues concerning the local Gay community & value your opinion, voice, comments, suggestions & attendance. Come join us as we build community in Snohomish County.” David, (425) 339-5238.

LGBTQ Questioning & Allied Youth Drop-in Group in Renton. 6-8pm. Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS), 1025 S 3rd St, Renton. Meets every Tuesday. Confidential. Snacks provided. Bring friends or come alone - anyone 12-18 is welcome. Questions?

Call Sarah Hardin, 425-271-5600 ext 155, or email sarahh@rays.org Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org 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 Gay/Bi Prostate Cancer Group. 6:30-8pm. Gilda’s Club, 1400 Broadway. Meets 1st Tuesday each month.

For Gay & Bi men diagnosed with prostate cancer. A safe space for emotional support on issues of treatment, sexuality, relationships & topics specific to Gay/ Bi men. FREE. 709-1400, www.gildasclubseattle.org Olympic Yacht Club Meeting. 6:30pm. Northwest Yacht Brokers Association, 901 Fairview Ave N Ste A-190 (at Chandler’s Cove on South Lake Union).

Meets 1st Tuesday each month. Monthly board meeting open to all OYC members & prospective members.

709-BOAT, www.oycnw.org Queer Young Females Group - For Female-Identified Youth, Ages 22 & Under. 6:30-7:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday. Topics range from family issues to school happenings to like/lust/ love relationships. All Queer females welcome. Come discuss how smart. strong Queer women live their lives. 322-2515, www. lamberthouse.org Friends in Adoption Monthly Meeting. 7pm.

Childhaven Community Center, 1345 22nd Ave NE, Auburn. Meets 1st Tuesday each month (Sept-June) with presentations by guest speakers on adoptionrelated issues. More info & to RSVP, call 264-5136; friendsinadoption@yahoo.com.

Tuesday Night Sex Addicts Anonymous (GLBTQI).

7-8:30pm. All Pilgrims Christian Church, 500 Broadway E (enter at 509 10th Ave E; buzz in, Dickson room).

Every Tuesday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women whose primary purpose is to stop addictive sexual behavior & help others recover from sexual addiction.

Seattle SAA helpline 237-8828. SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191.

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. 545-3521.

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

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

Hand drumming classes for Gay men. Learn traditional African & Afro-Caribbean rhythms & basic hand drumming techniques. Drums are provided. For info & location call Dennis at 363-4500 or www.outdrum.com Ageless. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. Drop-in social, support & discussion group for maturing Gay & Bi men of all ages. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Here & Now Gay & Lesbian AA Meeting in Tacoma.

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

Celebrating 39 Years!

Seattle Speaks - Referendum 74: Same-Sex Marriage. Registration 6:30pm, Audience Instructions 7pm, Program 7:30-8:30pm. Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave. Live televised discussion with interactive audience, featuring political leaders, critics & stakeholders.

FREE, but seating is limited and advance registration is required. www.townhallseattle.org Spiritual Empowerment. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. A group for all LGBT & friends of any spiritual belief to explore how spiritual practice can enrich their life. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. GLBT & GLBT-friendly co-ed water polo team is open to all who want to play. Beginners & experienced players welcome. Check our website for up to the minute details, or call the Otter Hotline 414-8797. www.otterpolo.com.

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WEDNESDAY - October 3

Women in Salsa: A Festival of Female Salsa DJs & Instructors (10/3-10/7). Century Ballroom, 915 E Pine St. Tickets $7-$52. www.centuryball room.com Mature Friends Morning Exercise/Health & Fitness Get-Together. 10am. Ballard Odd Fellows Hall Bldg, 1706 NW Market St. Every Wednesday. An hour of health-related activities, followed by a walk around Greenlake & lunch at a local restaurant. www.mature friends.org Women’s HIV+ Support Group in Tacoma. 1-3pm.

Pierce County AIDS Foundation, 3520 S Pine St, Tacoma - 3 blocks east of Tacoma Mall. Meets 1st & 3rd Wednesday each month. (253) 383-2565.

True Colors: Connecting LGBTQ Teens in Shoreline. 4-5pm. Every Wednesday. Discussing your important issues, building a supportive community.

For information, location & to REGISTER call Lindsay Bagley 362-7282 x 8018 or email lbagley@chs-nw.org GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): A Support Group & HIV/STD Prevention for Youth (14-20) in Everett. 6-8pm. CCA Building, 3331 Broadway - Bottom Floor, Everett. Every Wednesday. Sponsored by PFLAG Everett chapter.

(425) 263-2908. globeleaders@hotmail.com Seattle Gay & Lesbian Book Club. 6-7:15pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Discuss the best LGBT novels with other book-lovers in a safe, comfortable conversation. Come once or come every week.

Check our website for this month’s book. http://faculty. washington.edu/swittet/sglbookclub/ SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Lotus Sisters with Arinna Weisman. 6:30pm.

Columbia City Church of Hope, 3818 S Angeline St. Meets every Wednesday. Drop-in Buddhist meditation Sangha for LBTQ women. Lotus.sisters@yahoo.com; www.lotussisters.org.

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

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

Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300.

All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome.

This is a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction & information for the whole Gender community. www.ingersollcenter.org PFLAG/Renton Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Luke’s Episcopal Church, 99 Wells Ave S, Renton. Meets 1st Wednesday each month. PFLAG/Renton: 425235-4139. PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724. www. seattle-pflag.org.

Seattle Movie Bears Movie Night. Check website for details. Every Wednesday night. Gay & Bi men enjoy a movie at a local theater with opportunity to socialize before & after movies. More info: http://groups.yahoo. com/group/seattlemoviebears; or e-mail: seattlemovie bears-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Sex, Dating & Healthy Relationships. 7-8pm.

Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Meets the 1st & 3rd Wednesday of every month. For LGBTQ youth that want to learn new things & explore all sorts of ideas around sex, identity & sexual relationships. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org HIV/AIDS Support Group. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Please arrive by 7:30pm.

FREE peer-facilitated emotional support group for HIV+ men who are newly diagnosed or newly dealing.

322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Mature Friends Weekly Bridge Group. 7:30pm. Call for location. Every Wednesday. All levels welcome.

MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

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.washingtongender alliance.com.

Pride Skate Seattle. 9-11pm. Southgate Roller Rink, 9646 17th Ave SW. First Wednesday of every month. $7 admission includes skate rental. Must be 18+.

After-party at Company, 9608 16th Ave SW, with drink specials & karaoke. www.southgaterollerrink.com

Visit us online www.sgn.org

Women in Salsa: A Festival of Female Salsa DJs & Instructors (10/3-10/7). Century Ballroom, 915 E Pine St. Tickets $7-$52. www.centuryball room.com Homeless Services for Youth, Ages 14-22. 1-4pm.

Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday & Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Friday.

(253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org Born This Way Kafe. 5-9pm. Cal Anderson Park Shelterhouse, 1635 11th Ave. Every Friday. A welcoming place where LGBTQ youth ages 13-19, friends & allies can gather, be themselves & have fun. 883-6110, randy.wiger@seattle.gov Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12-step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org First Fridays in Yakima. 7-9pm. 223 N 1st St, Yakima.

Meets 1st & 3rd Fridays. Social, support, education & advocacy group for the Yakima area GLBTQ community & their allies. All are welcomed & invited. (509) 576-0276. www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm.

Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22.

322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Rain Country Dance Night. 7-11pm, lessons at 7:15pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. An evening of country-western dancing for the LGBTQ community.

FREE. www.raincountrydance.org.

Seattle Prime Timers Coffee Reunion. 7pm. Starbucks, 1600 E. Olive Way. Meets the 1st & 3rd Friday of every month. www.seattleprimetimers.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. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

Pioneers & Warriors TM. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Friday. Peer support group for Gay & Bi men over 40 - honoring the past, accepting the present & embracing the future. Group attendance requires facilitator approval. Please contact Joel Davis at 261-6616. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 8pm.

Gay City, 517 E Pike St (temporary meeting location).

Every Friday. (See related meeting Sunday at noon for description.) Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org

SATURDAY - October 6

THURSDAY - October 4

Women in Salsa: A Festival of Female Salsa DJs & Instructors (10/3-10/7). Century Ballroom, 915 E Pine St. Tickets $7-$52. For details visit www.centuryball room.com Alcoholics Anonymous “Safe & Sober Group.”

12noon-1pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Open meeting of AA. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting.

12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. The BABES Network is a peer led agency; a sisterhood of women facing HIV together. 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 (Also Fridays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.)

Q Hour. 4:30-5:30pm. Orion Center, 1828 Yale Ave. 1st & 3rd Thursday of every month. A group for LGBTQ youth 13-21 & their allies. Sponsored by Youthcare.

FREE. 622-5555 x 212.

Happy Hour Meditation. 5:30-6:35pm. Gay City, 517 E Pike St. Every Thursday. Come unwind at the end of your day in a relaxed & welcoming environment. We will meditate for the first half hour followed by 20 minutes of open discussion. No admittance after 5:45pm to avoid disrupting the meditation. www.gaycity.org Come Out For Yourself (COFY). 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Thursday. Peer support for people dealing with issues of sexual orientation. 3222437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Human Rights Commission. 6-8pm. Seattle City Hall, 600 4th Ave. Meets 1st Thursday each month. SHRC is made up of 15 citizen representatives who advise the Mayor, the City Council, & all City of Seattle Depts in matters regarding human rights.

Meetings open to the public. 684-4540.

Shifting Gears. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Thursday. Drop-in support group (non 12-step) for anyone of any orientation or gender who desires recovery from drugs or alcohol. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group). 6:30-8pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. Sponsored by Youth Eastside Services, which offers many programs for GLBT youth. (425) 747-4937.

Pozitively Me! 6:30-8pm. Seattle Counseling Service, 1216 Pine St, 3rd Floor. Meets every Thursday. A conversation about HIV with other men. Gay & Bi men facing challenges living with HIV longterm now have a new way to meet others facing similar challenges.

Boys’ Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 14-22. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about issues that relate to their everyday lives, with the facilitation of a male volunteer. 322-2515 ext 16. www.lamberthouse.org Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 7pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Thursday. (See Saturday listing at 6pm.)

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

322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Emerald City Social Club. 7:30pm. Call for details & location - phone staffed most Tuesday evenings or leave message. Meets 1st Thursday each month.

ECSC is a confidential crossdressing social & support organization for Transvestite & Transsexual individuals, primarily MTF, which offers confidential membership, private monthly meetings, frequent events on the town, & help in coming out. (425) 827-9494.

Gay Fathers Association of Seattle. 7:30-9pm.

Group Health, 201 16th Ave E, Central Bldg, Lower Atrium. Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & Gay men who are currently or previously married. Safe, anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring fathers & friends. You are not alone.

For information, community events & “questioning” visit www.gfas.org or our message board at http://groups. yahoo.com/groups/gayfathersseattle Gay Male Sexuality & Relationships. 7:30-9pm.

SASG, 303 17th Ave. E. Every Thursday. A discussion group that is strictly focused on sexual topics and relationship issues related to being a Gay male.

322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. (See Tuesday listing at 8pm.)

FRIDAY - October 5

Seattle Latino Film Festival (10/5-10/14). SLFF celebrates the art & entertainment of Latin American cinema, as part of Hispanic culture globally. For films & venues visit www.slff.org

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(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

Seattle Latino Film Festival (10/5-10/14). SLFF celebrates the art & entertainment of Latin American cinema, as part of Hispanic culture globally. For films & venues visit www.slff.org Women in Salsa: A Festival of Female Salsa DJs & Instructors (10/3-10/7). Century Ballroom, 915 E Pine St. Tickets $7-$52. For details visit www.centuryball room.com Rummage Sale to Support the Market Street Singers. 9am-4pm. St Luke’s Episcopal Church, 5710 22nd Ave NW. www.marketstreet singers.org March for Marriage. 12noon. Cal Anderson Park, 11th Ave & Howell St. Gather at Cal Anderson Park & march to Westlake for a closing rally. Show your support for Referendum 74 and the freedom to marry in Washington state.

Many Voices One Song. 7pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Features Total Experience gospel Choir, Soul Jelly, Captain Smartypants & Chava Mirel. benefits Rosehedge/Multifaith Works. $10 in advance, $15 at the door. www.rosehedge.org

SUNDAY - October 7

(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.)

Seattle Latino Film Festival (10/5-10/14). SLFF celebrates the art & entertainment of Latin American cinema, as part of Hispanic culture globally. For films & venues visit www.slff.org Women in Salsa: A Festival of Female Salsa DJs & Instructors (10/3-10/7). Century Ballroom, 915 E Pine St. Tickets $7-$52. For details visit www.centuryball room.com Border Riders Motorcycle Club First Sunday Ride. 9am-rendezvous; 9:30am. Broadway Grill, 314 Broadway E. Meets 1st Sunday each month. BRMC provides a social & educational fraternity for individuals interested in recreational motorcycle touring. www. borderriders.com Lotus Sisters. 11am-1:15pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Meets the 1st Sunday of every month. Drop-in Buddhist meditation Sangha for LBTQ women. Lotus.sisters@ yahoo.com; www.sasgcc.org Rain City Jacks. West Queen Anne/Interbay. 1st Sunday each month, 2pm; 2nd & 4th Wednesday each month, 7pm. Location & membership details provided upon request. RCJ is a friendly, sex-positive & non-profit private club. Membership required. Adult men only. Enrollment available at the door. www. raincityjacks.org, email info@raincityjacks.org or call 1-888-809-5033.

PFLAG/Kittitas County. 4-5:30pm. First United Methodist Church, 3rd & Ruby Sts, Ellensburg. Meets the first Sunday of every month. For info, (509) 925-7937.

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

American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver.us Another Gay Social Club! - www.meetup.com/ Another-Gay-Social-Club/ Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane. com/guide.html Bent Writing Institute promotes written & spoken word in our LGBTQI communities. Bent offers affordable classes & workshops for Queer-identified people.

For more information or to sign up for a class, email bent.writing@gmail.com. Visit www.bentwriting.com or find us on Facebook. For upcoming events join our mailing list by emailing bent.news@gmail.com BiNet Seattle is a mixed gender, social group for Bisexuals, their partners & other Bi-friendly folks - www. binetseattle.org. Seattle Bisexual Women’s Network - www.sbwn.net.

Bremerton/Kitsap County - www.outwestsound.org Capitol Hill Alano Club is an umbrella organizing sponsoring LGBTQ-supported recovery meetings.

CHAC is currently looking for a new home. www. chacseattle.org, 860-9560 or call 587-2838. (Groups formerly meeting at CHAC are currently meeting at SASG (Seattle Area Support Groups) and other locations. Check out the SGN’s Community Calendar listings to find these groups.)

Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) 963-1994.

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

Report domestic violence and sexual assault.

Equal Rights Washington - 324-2570; www.equal rightswashington.org Everett/Snohomish Cty - www.gaysnohomish.org Freely Speaking Toastmasters - www.freely speaking.org Gay City organizes events & activities for Gay & Bi men & offers anonymous & confidential HIV/STD testing at the Center for LGBT Health, 517 E Pike St. More info or to schedule an appointment, 860-6969. www.gaycity.org Gay & Lesbian National Hotline (GLNH): 1-888-THEGLNH (1-888-843-4564). Non-profit, peer-counseling, information & local resources telephone hotline for GLBT people across the country.

GLSEN/WA - Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network - 330-2099; www.glsenwa.org Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) 363-9188; www.thegsba.org HIV/AIDS Program, Seattle/King County Dept of Public Health, provides confidential/anonymous information about & testing for HIV/AIDS. 205-7837. For a comprehensive list of HIV/AIDS service organizations see the GSBA Guide or visit www.thegsba.org or call Lifelong AIDS Alliance, 328-8979.

Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle & the Olympic & Rainier Empire - www.imperialcourtofseattle.com Lambert House - 322-2515; www.lamberthouse.org LGBT Library - 517 E Pike St. Open Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. A wide range of fiction and non-fiction for the LGBT community and allies can be borrowed free of charge.

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

Lifelong AIDS Alliance - 328-8979, www.lifelongaids alliance.org MEN: Gay City: 860-6969, www.gaycity.org; Knights of Mantra: 329-0886, www.jetchapterkofm.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Northwest Bears: www.nw bears.com; The Olympians: www.TheOlympians. net; POZSeattle: www.pozseattle.org; Q-Squared: www.qsquared.org; Rain City Jacks: 888-809-5035, www.raincityjacks.org; Seattle Gay Couples: www. seattlegaycouples.org; Seattle Men in Leather: www. seattlemeninleather. org; Seattle Prime Timers: Gay & Bi men 40 & over, www.seattle primetimers.org.

MUSIC: Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony.org; Rainbow City Band: 1-866-841-9139 ext 2126; rainbowcityband@onebox.com; www.rainbowcity band. com; Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus: 388-1408, 323-0750. www.flyinghouse. org.

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. www.outandequal.org/affiliates/seattle

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PARENTHOOD: Families Like Ours provides a network of safe placement agencies, training, support & resources: 441-7602, www.familieslikeours. org; Family Works offers support, information & activities for LGBT families: 694-6727, www.familyworksseattle. org; Gay Fathers’ Association of Seattle offers support groups & social activities: www.gfas. org; Maybe Baby, info@maybebabyseattle.org; Proud & Loud Families - Northwest, www.meetup.com/ proud-and-loud-families-northwest, plfnorthwest@ aol.com; Queer Parent Networking Dinners: Deann, 568-7777, deann@nwnetwork.org; Rainbow Families of Puget Sound: www.rainbowfamiliesps.org Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Washington State: 325-7724, www. seattle-pflag.org, with directory of PFLAG chapters in Washington State; www.pnwpflag.org; National PFLAG, www.pflag.org PEOPLE OF COLOR: Asian/Pacific Islander Queer Network Project at the API Safety Center, April, 4679976; Center for MultiCultural Health, 461-6910, www.multi-culturalhealth.org; Entre Hermanos, GLBT Latinos/as, 322-7700, www.entrehermanos.org; Ile LaiLai, 781-3565, iya@ilelailai.org; Men of All Colors & Cultures Together (MACCT), 923-8313, macctseattle@yahoo.com, www.macctsea.org; Nubian Pride Productions, nubianpride@gmail.com; People of Color Against AIDS Network (POCAAN), 322-7061; Seattle Two Spirit, SeattleTwoSpirit@ hotmail.com; Sistah 2 Sistah, LBT women of African descent, 3227061, 255-8951; Trikone-Northwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 985-4376, www.trikonenw. org; TwoSpirit Honor Project, 1-866-685-0164.

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

Resource & Referral Line can connect you to LGBT-friendly resources throughout Puget Sound and beyond. Call 323-LGBT Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. At other times leave voice mail and your call will be returned. Or visit www.gaycity.org to view list of resources online or through Facebook.

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Rosehedge/Multifaith Works - 324-1520; www. rosehedge.org Safe Schools Coalition - www.safeschools coalition. org; 451-SAFE (451-7233).

SEAMEC interviews, researches & rates candidates for public office on issues of concern to the LGBT community. 905-9941, www.seamec.org Seattle Area Support Groups & Community Center (SASG) is a non-profit organization that builds community and cultivates powerful, healthy lives by providing emotional support and personal development services to those affected by HIV/AIDS, the Queer communities, and those who love them. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities - 6844503.

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. 323-1768.

Seattle Police Department Sexual Minorities Community Advisory Council: kim.bogucki@seattle.gov 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 Alliance, 328-8979, www.thebody.com/step/ steppage.html Servicemembers Legal Defense Network - (202) 328-3244; www.sldn.org Shanti - 324-1520; www.rosehedge.org SHIFT: A Peer Recovery Network - www.shift recovery.org Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, The Abbey of St. Joan - 860-3666; www.theabbey.org Snohomish Health District HIV/AIDS Program provides free confidential/anonymous HIV counseling & testing 9am-5pm Monday-Friday, until 7pm Tuesdays.

(425) 339-5298.

South Sound Q Calendar - LGBTQ events in Tacoma, Olympia & Sound Puget Sound area; www.South SoundQCal.com SPORTS & RECREATION: Bent Car Guys: www. bentcarguys.org; Border Riders Motorcycle Club: www.borderriders.com; Bottom Dwellers Scuba Club: www.bottomdwellers.org; Capitol Hill Cyclers: join their Facebook group or email capitolhillcycling@ groups.facebook.com or jordan.l.simonson@gmail. com; Cascade Flyers: www.cascadeflyers.org; Different Spokes Bicycling Club: www.differentspokes.org;

Emerald City Mudhen Rugby: www.mudhenrugby. com; Emerald City Softball Association: www.emeraldcity softball.org, www.eteamz.com/womensecsa; Ethyl Forever Car Club: http://Clubs.Hemmings.com/ EthylForever CarClub/; Hiking Group: 323-8382; Jet City Hoops: www.jetcityhoops.org; Olympic Yacht Club: www.oycnw.org; OutVentures: outdoor education & recreation activities, www.outventures. org; Pacific Northwest Gay Rodeo Association: www.pacificnwgra.org; Puddletown Squares: www. puddletownsquares.org; Rain City Soccer: www. raincitysoccer.org; Rain Country Dance Association: a country-western dance organization catering to the LGBTQ community but open to all, www. raincountrydance.org; Seattle Front runners: www. seattlefrontrunners.org; Seattle Orca Swim Team: www.orcaswimteam.org; Seattle Otters Water Polo: www.otterpolo.com; Seattle Quake Rugby: www. quakerugby.com; Seattle Tennis Alliance: www. seattletennisalliance.org; Seattle Unified Bowling Association (SUBA): magee98106@ aol.com, www. teamseattle.org/bowling.htm, www.thepridel eague. com, Century 21 League; Seattle United Soccer League: www.seattleunitedsl.com; Seattle Volleyball Club: www.seattlevolleyballclub. com; Ski Buddies: www. skibuddies.org; Team Seattle Gay Sports Network is an umbrella organization for a wide range of local GLBT sports activities, 367-4064, www.teamseattle.org (see website for comprehensive list of sports clubs); Triangle Recreation Camp at Bender Creek: recreational camping for GLBT folks. Must be 21; ID required. trc@camptrc.org, www.camptrc.org, 1122 E Pike St #1069, Seattle 98122-3934.

Strength Over Speed - www.strengthoverspeed.org Tacky Tourist Clubs of America, Seattle Chapter - www.ttca.org; bruce@ttca.org; 1122 E Pike St PMB 905, Seattle, WA 98122-3934.

Tacoma/Pierce County - Rainbow Center, 741 St Helens Ave, a resource center for the LGBTIQA community, (253) 383-2318, www. rainbowcntr.org TRANSGENDER: Emerald City Social Club: (425) 827-9494; Gender Alliance of the South Sound: www.SouthSoundGender.com; Gender Odyssey: www.genderodyssey.com; Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group: 322-7700; Ingersoll Gender Center: 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: BABES: support groups for HIV+ women.

720-5566, 1-888-292-1912; Festival of the Babes: www.festivalofthebabes.com; Lesbians Over 40: 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 Girls of Leather: www.sgol.org; Tacoma Lesbian Concern (TLC): www.tacomalesbian concern. org; 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, 436-8671.

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. 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, 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org; www.MatthewsPlace. com; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 6712838, www.oasisyouthcen ter.org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: 325-7724, www.seattle-pflag.org; Plus One Queer Youth: for LGBTQ youth, 16-24 - Bam Mendiola, 206-957-1665, bamm@ llaa.org; Prism: for LGBTQ youth, ages 14-21, in Puyallup - Cherise.Alexander@ multicare.org; www.facebook.com/PuyallupPrism; Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS): LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth drop-in group, ages 12-18 - Sarah Hardin, 425-271-5600, ext 155; sarahh@rays. org; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoalition.org; 451-SAFE (451-7233) (non-emergency), 1-877-SAFE-SAFE (1-877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Teen Link: 461-4922, 1-888-431-TEEN; The Trevor Project: 866-4-U-Trevor; www.thetrevorproject.org; True Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, 362-7282 x 8018, lbagley@chs-nw.org; Vista Youth Center: for LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth, ages 14-21, in Kennewick, 509-396-5198, www.vistayouthcenter.org; YouthCare/Orion Center: 622-5555; YouthCare/Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): 522-8412; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273-TALK, www.yspp.org

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Please fax weekly changes to (206) 322-7188 or email them to seattleGaynews@yahoo.com no later than 3 pm on Tuesdays!

FRIDAY

Bar Myx - Weekly drink specials and dancing with DJ Matt Stands! No cover!

Changes - Happy Hour 12pm-8pm Super Happy Hour 4pm-7pm $1.50/$3 Well Drinks $1.25 PBR Drafts. Prime Rib Dinner $11.75 Live DJ 9pm-close Club Silverstone - in Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm.

DJ Dance 9 pm - 1:30 am. Hosted by Eric. Bear Night, 2nd Friday every month.

The Cuff Complex - Country Dancing w/ Rain Country 7 pm -11 pm, HiNRG Dancing - Alternating DJ’s 11pmclose. Cover $5 @ 9 pm.

Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime. Happy Hour 2 pm - 7 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls.“full service” food menu. Get your grub on!

Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. $3.00 daily drink specials. Happy Hour, 3 - 7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour Sun. - Thurs. 9 - 11 pm: $1.50 Miller drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3.00 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. till 4:30 pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - No cover … ever!!! Start your weekend off right. Happy Hour 6 - 8 pm.Weekly beer & cocktail specials.

Neighbours Nightclub - House music with DJ Eric.

9 pm - 4 am 21+ * Cover charges as follows: 9 pm - 12 am, $5.00; 12 am - 2 am, $8.00; 2 am - 4 am, $10.00* **From 2 am - 4 am, 18+ with valid ID on main floor** www.neighboursnightclub.com.

Poco Wine Room - An intimate, cozy Capitol Hill wine bar featuring many NW wines by the glass. www.pocowineroom.com.

PURR Cocktail Lounge - 4 pm - 2 am. Happy Hour until 7 pm.

R Place - Happy Hour 4-7 $5.75 wells $2.50 drafts. Daily drink and bottle specials. Lashes Cabaret at 9 pm with Chablis & company.

Wildrose - www.thewildrosebar.com.

SATURDAY

Bar Myx - Weekly drink specials and dancing with DJ Trent Von! No cover!

Changes - Happy Hour 12pm-8pm Super Happy Hour 4pm-7pm $1.50/$3 Well Drinks $1.25 PBR Drafts. Free Pool, Free Darts and Free TouchScreen games all day and all night. Live DJ 9pm-close Club Silverstone - in Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm.

DJ Dance, 9 pm - 1:30 am. Hosted by Eric.

The Cuff Complex - 1st Saturday Country Dancing w/ Rain Country 7 pm -10 pm, HiNRG Dancing - Alternating DJ’s 10 pm-3 am. Cover $5 @ 9 pm.

Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime.

Happy Hour Noon - 5 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls. “full service” food menu. Get your grub on!

Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. $3 daily drink specials. Happy Hour, 3 - 7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour, Sun.-Thurs. 9 - 11 pm: $1.50 Miller drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. till 4:30 pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - No cover … ever!!! But get in early to beat the line. Capacity enforced for your comfort & safety.

Happy Hour, 6 - 8 pm.Weekly beer & cocktail specials.

Neighbours - Power Mix with DJ Randy Schlager from C89. 21+ with Valid ID. 9 pm - 4 am. *Cover charges as follows - 9 pm - 12 am, $5.00; 12 am - 2 am. $8.00; 2 am - 4 am, $10.00. 206-324-5358; www.neighboursnightclub.com.

Poco Wine Room - An intimate, cozy Capitol Hill wine bar featuring many NW wines by the glass. www.pocowineroom.com.

PURR Cocktail Lounge - Noon - 2 am. Happy Hour until 7pm.

R Place - HAPPY HOUR 2-7 $5.75 wells $2.50 domestic drafts. $6.50 Gourmet Bloody Mary’s Lashes cabaret with Chablis and Company.

Wildrose - First Saturday each month, DJs & dancing. $5 cover. www.thewildrosebar.com.

Sunday

Bar Myx - T Dance! 3-7pm with DJ Lady Char, $1.00 Rolling Rocks. Dinner and a Movie at Bar Myx! Enjoy the newest releases on our big screens from 7 pm every Sunday! Dinner specials every week, $4 glasses of house wine, $1 doubles any drink! After the movie, one lucky customer will get to take the movie home…every week!

Changes - Happy Hour 12pm-2am Karaoke with Black Nail Productions 9pm-1am Club Silverstone - in Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm.

9-Ball Pool Tourney at 6 pm - 16 players only. Hosted by RW & Co. The Cuff Complex - “Bottom forty” 6 pm-close w/ DJ Nark + Riff Raff & Guests. Cover $5 @ 8 pm Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime. Happy Hour Noon - 5 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls.“full service” food menu. Get your grub on!

Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. $3 daily drink specials. Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. till 4:30 pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - NW Sports first on TV. Sound with early afternoon Mariners games. Pitcher special all day with free U-shell peanuts and pool.

Neighbours - 9 pm - 2 am Entre Hermanos Noche Latina $5.00 cover 21+ with Valid ID.With DJ Luis.

Poco Wine Room - An intimate, cozy Capitol Hill wine bar featuring many NW wines by the glass. www.pocowineroom.com.

PURR Cocktail Lounge - Noon-midnight. Happy Hour until 7 pm.

R Place - Happy Hour 2-7 $5.75 Wells $2.50 domestic drafts.

Wildrose - Free pool all day. www.thewildrosebar.com.

MONDAY

Bar Myx - Bacardi Game Night! $4 Bacardi calls all night long, plus $9 Bacardi Pitchers! Mental Masturbation at 7:30 (with bonus questions and a bar match for the grand prize), followed by Beer Pong! Evening is hosted by our sassy bartenderess Karee Jo! Changes - Happy Hour all day 12 pm-2am Super Happy Hour 4pm-7pm $1.50/$3 Well Drinks $1.25 PBR Drafts.

Club Silverstone - in Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm.

See us at www.clubsilverstone.com.

The Cuff Complex - “Free Games” All Day - Table top games, pool, darts, pinball, Happy Hour 2 pm-8 pm Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime. Happy Hour 2 pm - 7 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls.“full service” food menu. Get your grub on!

Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. Daily drink specials at $3, Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily, Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. till 4:30 pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - Happy Hour 6-8 pm. Pint night with Happy Hour prices 8 pm-close. 9-Ball Pool Tourney at 7 pm.

Poco Wine Room - An intimate, cozy Capitol Hill wine bar featuring many NW wines by the glass. www.pocowineroom.com.

PURR Cocktail Lounge - Happy Hour 4 pm-2 am.

Hamburger & Draft Beer $6.00 from 4pm -10.00 Black Nail Productions Karaoke 9pm to 1am.

R Place - Happy Hour 4-7 $5.75 wells $2.50 domestic drafts. Daily drink and bottle special.

Seattle Eagle - Radio Dept. $4 wells all night Dj HOTPLAY from 10 pm - 2 am.

Wildrose - Pool Tournament 7 pm w/Prizes!

TUESDAY

Bar Myx - 2 for 1 wells and $2 drafts all night long! Sliders 3 for $3, or 6 for $5! Either traditional or pulled pork!

Changes - Happy Hour 12pm- 8pm. Domestic Bottled Beer $1.25 All Day and Night, Super Happy Hour 4pm7pm $1.50/$3 Well Drinks $1.25 PBR Drafts. Burger Specials $2.50 Hamburger, $3.50 Cheeseburger $4.50 Bacon Cheeseburger.

Club Silverstone - In Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm.

Free pool all day - 2 tables.

The Cuff Complex - “Free Games” All Day - Table top

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games, pool, darts, pinball, Happy Hour 2 pm-8 pm, Peanut Night, Bearoke 8 pm- 12 am w/Jonathan Jones Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime. Happy Hour 2 pm - 7 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls.“full service” food menu. Get your grub on!

Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. Daily drink specials at $3, Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. til 4:30pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - Happy Hour 6-8 pm. 8-Ball Pool Tournament starts at 6:30 pm.

PURR Cocktail Lounge - 4 pm-2 am. Happy Hour until 7 pm. Black Nail Production Karaoke 9 pm-1 am.

R Place - HAPPY HOUR 4-7. $5.75 wells $2.50 domestic drafts. Daily drink and bottle special.

Seattle Eagle - IN HEAT $5 Long Island Iced teas Dj KINGOFPANTS from 10-2 Wildrose - Taco Tuesday. No cover.

WEDNESDAY

Bar Myx - $2 Bud and Bud Light drafts, and $4 Bud and Bud Light Mondos! $3 shots of Fireball, $5 well margaritas, $5 Nachos (beef, chicken or veggie) and 2 beef tacos for $2, 2 chicken tacos for $3 or 2 carne asada tacos for $4!

Changes - Happy Hour 12pm-8pm Super Happy Hour 4pm-7pm $1.50/$3 Well Drinks $1.25 PBR Drafts Trivia Night 8pm Club Silverstone - In Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm.

8-Ball Tourney 7:30 pm. Hosted by RW & Co. Karaoke 9 pm-1:30 am hosted by Michael.

The Cuff Complex - Free pool & Pitcher special , Happy Hour 2 pm-8 pm, Country lesson w/Rain Country 1st & 3rd Wednesday 7:30 pm, Poz Seattle social 2nd Wednesday 6 pm, Leather social 4th Wednesday 7 pm Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime. Happy Hour 2 pm - 7 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls.“full service” food menu. Get your grub on!

Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. $3 daily drink specials. Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. till 4:30pm. Black Nail Productions Karaoke 9pm to 1am. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - Happy Hour 6-8 pm. Dart Tournament starts at 7:30 pm.

Poco Wine Room - An intimate, cozy Capitol Hill wine bar featuring many NW wines by the glass. www.pocowineroom.com.

PURR Cocktail Lounge - 4 pm-2 am. Happy Hour until 7 pm. DJ Gelliphish 7 pm-midnight.

Re-Bar - D.A.I.S.Y. Age with Riz! Hip Hop and R/B from the 1990’s.YO! FREE 10 pm.

R Place - HAPPY HOUR 4-7. $5.75 wells $2.50 domestic drafts.

Wildrose - Karaoke 8 pm-12:30 am. No cover; drink specials. www.thewildrosebar.com.

THURSDAY

Bar Myx - $5 Long Island, Long Beach, AMF and Porn Stars! $4 with college or military ID! $8 Trashcans, and $3 Capitol Hill Dogs!

Changes - Happy Hour 12pm-8pm Super Happy Hour 4pm-7pm $1.50/$3 Well Drinks $1.25 PBR Drafts Club Silverstone - In Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm.

Dart Tourney 7:30 pm. Hosted by RW & Co. The Cuff Complex - Happy Hour 2 pm-8 pm, Pool Tournament 7 pm, Karaoke 8 pm-12 am w/Jonathan Jones Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime. Happy Hour 2 pm - 7 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls.“full service” food menu. Get your grub on!

Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. $3 daily drink specials. Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. til 4:30pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - Happy Hour 6-8 pm. Weekly beer & cocktail specials. Kick off the weekend early. No DJ needed, you control the jukebox.

Poco Wine Room - An intimate, cozy Capitol Hill wine bar featuring many NW wines by the glass. www.pocowineroom.com.

PURR Cocktail Lounge - 4 pm-2 am. Happy Hour until 7 pm. DJ Thomas from 7 pm-midnight.

R Place - HAPPY HOUR 4-7. $5.75 wells $2.50 domestic drafts.

Wildrose - Cheap date night! $2 wells. Corn dogs & tater tots. www.thewildrosebar.com.

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CLUB Z - (men) 1117 Pike near Boren - 622-9958 HOT HOUSE SPA & SAUNA - (women) SW corner of Pike & 11th (stairs behind Wildrose) - 568-3240 STEAM WORKS - (men) 1520 Summit - 388-4818

EVERETT

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ANIMALS ESPRESSO - 550 12th Ave. - 329-3914 BALTIC ROOM - 1207 Pine St. - 625-4444 BEACON PUB - 3057 Beacon Ave. S. - 726-0238 THE BOTTLENECK LOUNGE - 2328 E. Madison St. - 323-1098 THE BROADWAY GRILL - 314 Broadway E. - 328-7000 C.C. ATTLE’S BAR & GRILLE - 1701 E. Olive Way THE CANTERBURY - 534 15th Ave. E. - 322-3130 CHANGES IN WALLINGFORD - 2103 N. 45th - 545-8363 THE CRESCENT - 1413 E. Olive Way - 720-8188 THE CUFF COMPLEX - 1533 13th Ave. - 323-1525 DIESEL BAR - 1413 14th Ave. - 322-1080 DOUBLE HEADER - 407 2nd Ave. S. - 464-9918 GLO’S - 1621 E. Olive Way - 324-2577 INSOMNIAX - 102 15th Ave. E. - 322-6477 JAZZ ALLEY - 2033 6th Ave. E. - 441-9729 JULIA’S - 300 Broadway Ave. E. - 860-1818 THE LOBBY - 916 E. Pike St. - 328-6703 MAE’S CAFE - 6412 Phinney Ave. N. - 782-1222 MADISON PUB - 1315 E. Madison - 325-6537 NEIGHBOURS - 1509 Broadway - 324-5358 OUT WEST - 5401California Ave. SW, West Seattle POCO WINE ROOM - 1408 E. Pine St. - 322-9463 PONY - 1221 E. Madison St. - 324-2854 PURR - 1518 11th Ave. - 325-3112 Q - 1426 Broadway R PLACE - 619 E. Pine - 322-8828 RE-BAR - 1114 Howell at Boren - 233-9873 SEATTLE EAGLE - 314 E. Pike - 621-7591 THE SOCIAL -1715 E. Olive Way - 329-1423 TOMMY GUN - 1703 E. Olive Way WILDROSE - 1021 E. Pike - 324-9210

RETAIL SHOPS

CASTLE SUPERSTORE #17 - 206 Broadway Ave. E. - 204-0126 DOGHOUSE LEATHERS - 1312 E. Pike St. - 257-0231 EMERSON SALON - 909 E. Pike St. - 323-7437 MAIL BOXES ETC. - Above QFC at Broadway & Pike - 324-5600 THE CRYPT - 1516 11th Ave. 325-3882 ONYX LEATHER - 1605 12th Ave. #8 - 328-1965 STAN’S ADULT SUPERSTORE - 9630 16th Ave. SW - 762-3299 UNDER U 4 MEN - 709 Broadway Ave. E. - 324-6446 TABOO VIDEO - 1012 1st Ave. - 622-SEXY TOYS IN BABELAND - 707 E. Pike St. - 328-2914

LOVER’S - 193 Telegraph Road - (360) 752-1862 RUMORS CABARET - 1119 Railroad - (306) 671-1849

BAR MYX - 1212 California St. - 425-610-4071 LOVER’S - 112 SE Everett - (425) 353-3607 LOVER’S - 3402 Broadway - (425) 252-8754

KENT

LOVER’S - 25801 104th Ave. S.E. - (253) 852-1720 THE VOYEUR - 604 Central Ave. S. - (253) 850-8428

LA CONNER

THE HERON INN & WATERGRASS DAY SPA 117 Maple Ave. - (877) 883-8899 - info@theheron.com

OLYMPIA

DARBY’S CAFE - 211 5th Ave. S.E. - (360) 357-6229 DESIRE VIDEO - 3126 Pacific Ave. - (360) 352-0820 LOVER’S - 3959 Martin Way E. Suite D - (360) 456-7300 JAKES - 311 4th Ave. E. - (360) 956-3247 URBAN ONION - 116 Legion Way - (360) 943-9242

PORT ANGELES

MAPLE ROSE INN - 112 Reservoir Rd - (800) 570-2007

SPOKANE

DEMPSEY’S BRASS RAIL - 909 W 1st Ave. - (509) 747-5362 THE LOFT - 410 W. Sprague Ave. - (509) 455-7260

TACOMA

AIRPORT TAVERN - 5406 S. Tacoma Way - (253) 475-9730 CASTLE SUPERSTORE - 6015 Tacoma Mall Blvd. - (253) 471-0391 CLUB SILVERSTONE - 739 - 1/2 St. Helens Ave. - (253) 404-0273 THE DELTAN CLUB - 733 Commerce St. THE FANTASY SHOP - 2301 6th Ave. - (253) 272-6640 LOVER’S - 7002 Tacoma Mall Blvd., #F - (253) 475-2271 THE MIX - 635 St. Helens Ave. - (253) 383-4327 RAINBOW CENTER - 741 St. Helens Ave. - (253) 383-2318 SHAKABRAH JAVA CAFE - 2618 6th Ave. - (253) 572-2787

TUKWILA

LOVER’S - 530 Southcenter Blvd. - (206) 248-5085

WENATCHEE

THE CELLAR CAFE - 240 N. Mission St. - (509) 662-172

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