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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Issue 34, Volume 42, August 22, 2014
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by Eric Andrews-Katz SGN A&E Writer A CHORUS LINE 5TH AVENUE THEATRE September 3-28 Chryssie Whitehead has a unique connection to the musical A Chorus Line. One of her earliest shows, she’s performed the show on Broadway, has appeared in the musical’s documentary, and is currently starring in the 5th Avenue’s upcoming production. Ms. Whitehead has appeared on television, in the movies and alongside Neil Patrick Harris in the PBS filmed concert version of Stephen Sondheim’s Company. The Seattle Gay News caught up with this very active performer as she prepares for Mark Kitaoka
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Andrews-Katz: What was your her role as Cassie in the 5th Avenue’s production of A Chorus Line. Paper Mill Playhouse audition like for Lola from the musical Damn Eric Andrews-Katz: Who were Yankees? Whitehead: I auditioned for your earliest influences? Chryssie Whitehead: I first did that role on tape! I’ve never had A Chorus Line when I was in the that happen before. I lived in LA 8th grade, at Community Theatre, most of my career, so when I found so I definitely have to say Michael out Paper Mill was doing Damn Bennett. I love the art form, the Yankees, I went for it. I always Gypsy art form – that we learn to wanted to play the role of Lola. I stand on the shoulders of those had to do two auditions on tape. who came before us. Elaine Stritch The first was “too glamorous” they was another inspiration because said. Their feedback was that they her voice wasn’t perfectly beauti- couldn’t see my body and how it ful, but she could act, and that was moved, and that’s so important for important to me. that role. I went to another studio Andrews-Katz: What was the and put myself on tape. I sang the show that gave you the theater bug? song and randomly called a friend Whitehead: A Chorus Line was to read scenes with me. It was a absolutely the show that did it! low quality production on that I was in Annie when I was 10 (as tape, but it got me the job. Andrews-Katz: Is Lola an evil an orphan), and later as part of a character? ballet company in South CaroWhitehead: Lola? Evil? I think lina – which is where I was born she’s an extremely insecure womand raised. I loved the jazzy part an who never felt pretty enough or of it all. In 8th grade I did A Chogood enough when she was alive. rus Line and had the time of my life. I remember watching the lo- She found out that she could have cal ballet teacher do “Cassie,” and that and live forever by making a watching them do this incredible deal with the Devil. By the end of number every night. I remember the day, she comes to terms with saying, “That’s what I do! That’s herself and the bargain she’s made. who I am! I have to play Cassie one see Sensation page 18 day.” And now I am.
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by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer EMMY AWARDS NBC/KING-5 August 27 at 5 p.m. PDT The shows we love. The series we follow week to week, episode to episode. The heroes we adore, the villains we loathe. Those scenes we
can’t shake out of our heads. An entire season of riveting drama, belly-aching comedy, shocking cliffhangers, plot twists, breakups, weddings, murders, hookups, meth dealers, female prisoners and sneaky politicians comes to a close when the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards are given out on Monday, August 27. Among those vying for TV’s top prize are several LGBT actors
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“The Normal Heart,” favored to win Outstanding Television Movie
and directors, such as Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”), Sarah Paulson (“American Horror Story: Coven”), Matt Bomer (“The Normal Heart”), Ryan Murphy (“The Normal Heart,” “American Horror Story: Coven”), Jodie Foster (“Orange is the New Black”) and Paris Barclay (“Glee”). With 16 nominations total, the AIDS-themed HBO film “The Normal Heart” is the strong favorite to win Outstanding Television Movie, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a TV Miniseries or Movie (Julia Roberts) and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a TV Miniseries or Movie (Parsons, Bomer, Alfred Molina, or Joe Mantello). Seth Myers is this year’s emcee and the list of presenters includes Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Viola Davis, Sofia Vergara, Halle Berry, Gwen Stefani, Andy Samberg, Kerry Washington, Adam Levine, Amy Poehler, Debra Messing and Jimmy Fallon, to name a few. Here’s a closer look at some of the key categories with expected winners and my personal picks:
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continued from cover Outstanding Lead Actress, Drama: Michelle Dockery (“Downton Abbey”), Claire Danes (“Homeland”), Robin Wright (“House of Cards”), Lizzy Caplan (“Masters of Sex”), Kerry Washington (“Scandal”), Juliana Margulies (“The Good Wife”). “Homeland” didn’t have a strong enough season to give Danes a third consecutive statuette. This will either go to Washington or Margulies, who had a stellar year and dealt with a major loss at the end. My vote: Margulies. Outstanding Lead Actor, Drama: Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”), Kevin Spacey (“House of Cards”), Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”), Jeff Daniels (“The Newsroom”), Woody Harrelson (“True Detective”), Matthew McConaughey (“True Detective”). It’s between Cranston and newly minted Oscar champ McConaughey. Each is deserving, but it’ll be difficult for Emmy voters to resist a bona fide Hollywood star who’s at the peak of his success. My vote: Cranston (by a sliver). Outstanding Supporting Actress, Drama: Anna Gunn (“Breaking Bad”), Maggie Smith (“Downton Abbey”), Joanne Froggatt (“Downton Abbey”), Lena Heady (“Game of Thrones”), Christina Hendricks (“Mad Men”), Christine Baranski (“The Good Wife”). In order for Gunn to repeat her 2013 triumph, and she’s got a good shot after submitting the episode “Ozymandias” to voters, she’ll have to topple Froggatt, whose character was raped last season, and Heady, who played both an evil queen and grieving mother in “GOT”’s season four. My vote: Gunn. Outstanding Supporting Actor, Drama: Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad”), Jim Carter (“Downton Abbey”), Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), Mandy Patinkin (“Homeland”), Jon Voight (“Ray Donovan”), Josh Charles (“The Good Wife”). Charles has the best storyline and a tragic exit; therefore he’s considered the favorite. Perennial nominees and previous winners Paul and Dinklage are always deserving. My vote: Charles. Outstanding Lead Actress, Comedy: Lena Dunham (“Girls”), Melissa McCarthy (“Mike & Molly”), Edie Falco (“Nurse Jackie”), Taylor Schilling (“Orange is the New Black”), Amy Poehler (“Parks and Recreation”), Julia Louis-Dreyfuss (“Veep”). Unless the Emmy-less Poehler can finally get called to the podium, or the upstart Schil-
ling scores an upset, it’ll be Louis-Dreyfuss “Veep,” however, is a favorite across the board victorious yet again. My vote: Schilling. and a show that is most likely to draw a consensus. My vote: “Orange is the New Black” Outstanding Lead Actor, Comedy: Ricky (but, “Big Bang” is long overdue – just sayin’). Gervais (“Derek”), Matt LeBlanc (“Episodes”), Don Cheadle (“House of Lies”), LouOutstanding Lead Actress, Miniseries is C.K. (“Louie”), William H. Macy (“Shame- or Movie: Jessica Lange (“American Horror less”), Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”). Story: Coven”), Sarah Paulson (“American Macy is exceptional as a dysfunctional, al- Horror Story: Coven”), Helena Bonham Carter coholic and heartless father. If he doesn’t go (“Burton and Taylor”), Minnie Driver (“Return home with the winged statue, expect Parsons to Zero”), Kristin Wieg (“The Spoils of Babyto accept his fourth prize, a consolation for lon”), Cicely Tyson (“The Trip to Bountiful”). losing out in the talent-packed Supporting The legendary Tyson will benefit from a Actor-TV or Mini-Series race. My vote: Macy. Coven vote-split, which will result in her winning both an Emmy and Tony for porOutstanding Supporting Actress, Com- traying the same role. My vote: Lange. edy: Julie Bowen (“Modern Family”), Allison Janney (“Mom”), Kate Mulgrew (“Orange is Outstanding Lead Actor, Miniseries or the New Black”), Kate McKinnon (“Saturday Movie: Chiwetel Ejiofor (“Dancing on the Night Live”), Mayim Bialik (“The Big Bang Edge”), Martin Freeman (“Fargo”), Billy Theory”), Anna Chlumsky (“Veep”). Bob Thornton (“Fargo”), Idris Elba (“LuAn impressive list with no slackers. Emmy ther”), Benedict Cumberbatch (“Sherlock: folks love Janney, who already won a guest His Last Vow – Masterpiece”), Mark Rufacting Emmy last weekend, and Chlumsky falo (“The Normal Heart”). could ride the Veep-mobile onto the podium, It’s a loaded category with Thornton and while Bialik is overdue. But keep your eye Cumberbatch ahead of the pack, with a slight on Mulgrew, the infectious “Red” from “Or- possibility of Ruffalo slipping through. My ange.” My vote: Bialik or Mulgrew. hunch, though, is that the mystery inside the envelope belongs to “Sherlock.” My vote: Ruffalo. Outstanding Supporting Actor, Comedy: Andre Braugher (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Adam Outstanding Supporting Actress, Driver (Girls), Ty Burrell (Modern Family), Miniseries or Movie: Angela Bassett Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family), Fred (“American Horror Story: Coven”), Frances Armisen (Portlandia), Tony Hale (Veep). Conroy (“American Horror Story: Coven”), I suspect Hale is the frontrunner, espe- Kathy Bates (“American Horror Story: cially since he submitted “The Crate” epi- Coven”), Allison Tolman (“Fargo”), Ellen sode to Emmy voters, and the only possible Burstyn (“Flowers in the Attic”), Julia Robspoiler is the much-beloved Braugher for a erts (“The Normal Heart”). comedy that’s more hype than actually funHere’s another great performance-jammed ny. My vote: Driver. race, although the real battle pits two Best Actress-Oscar winners against each other, Outstanding Drama Series: “Breaking Bad,” Bates vs. Roberts. Because of the likelihood “Downton Abbey,” “Game of Thrones,” “House that Bassett will siphon votes from her coof Cards,” “Mad Men,” “True Detective.” star, my money’s on the Pretty Woman to “Breaking Bad” should have this in the pull ahead. My vote: Bates or Bassett. bag, but “True Detective” is going to give it a run for its money. The second half of Outstanding Supporting Actor, Minisethe meth dealing drama’s final season was ries or Movie: Colin Hanks (“Fargo”), Martin riveting; completely mind-blowing. Back- Freeman (“Sherlock: His Last Vow – Masterto-back wins seems appropriate for one of piece”), Jim Parsons (“The Normal Heart”), TV’s finest programs in history, but stranger Joe Mantonello (“The Normal Heart”), Alfred things have happened at the Emmys. My Molina (“The Normal Heart”), Matt Bomer vote: “Breaking Bad.” (“The Normal Heart”). Could there be a four-way split between Outstanding Comedy Series: “Louie,” the “Normal” men, allowing Freeman to “Modern Family,” “Orange is the New Black,” get it? Yes, but similarly in 2004 a quartet “Silicon Valley,” “The Big Bang Theory,” “Veep.” of Angels in America actors were in the run“Modern Family” is probably being de- ning for this same award and Jeffrey Wright throned this year, but by whom? “Big Bang” beat them all out (and William H. Macy) is long overdue, “Orange” is the cool new kid for the Emmy. If it happens again, look for on the block and “Louie” is a critical darling. Bomer to be singled out. My vote: Bomer. Netflix / Lionsgate Television
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Neon Trees interview coming soon Neon Trees are headed to Bumbershoot and to The Music Lounge. I’m in the process of finalizing an interview with the pop-rock group, which features lead singer Tyler Glenn, who recently announced to his fans and the general public that he is Gay. The band is currently touring Pop Psychology, a new album that includes the hit single “Sleeping with a Friend.” Neon Trees is performing at the Fisher Green Stage at Seattle Center on Monday afternoon, the last day of the festival. For ticket and pass information, go to www.bumbershoot.org. The Lykke Li concert scheduled for the Paramount Theatre on September 17 has been moved to the Moore Theatre. Same night, different venue. No need to exchange your tickets, just use the ones already issued for the Paramount. The Swedish pop artist is on the road promoting her newest release, I Would Never Learn. Details are surfacing for the upcoming NFL Kick-Off Concert featuring Soundgarden and Pharrell Williams. The show will take place at the North Parking Lot at approximately 1 p.m. Tickets are currently not available for pur-
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chase, only being given away as a promotional item by select sponsors, radio stations and the NFL. I’m hoping to attend the festivities, so stay glued for coverage of this special event. Captain Smartypants is getting “Starstruck” at The Triple Door next month. An offspring vocal ensemble of the Seattle Men’s Chorus, the multi-member act will perform their newest production to guests on September 13 (8 p.m.), 20 (8 p.m.) and 21 (7 p.m.). “Starstruck” is a tribute to all the film actresses that Gay men have fallen in love with all these years, a composition of movie mash-ups (“Man of Steel Magnolias,” “Jesus Christ Superstar Trek,” etc.) and a trio of personalized stories that tie film themes to life-changing events. The cast includes nine members of Captain Smartypants: Colin Behr, Jeffrey Erickson, Joshua Herrington, Rad Milosavljevic, David Nilsson, Jason Reuer, Don Riling, Dante Rodriguez, and Paul Rosenberg. Tickets for “Starstruck,” under the direction of Eric Lane Barnes, are available at www.CaptainSmartypants.org or www.thetripledoor.net. Also worth announcing are upcoming performances by Placebo at The Showbox SoDo on October 20, La Santa Cecilia at Nectar Lounge on October 25, Kina Grannis at The Crocodile on December 8, and Herbie Hancock with Chick Corea at the Paramount Theatre on March 14.
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Too beautiful for its own good? by Rod Parke SGN A&E Writer FRANCESCO CILEA’S ADRIANA LECOUVREUR DECCA BLU-RAY
are fun and interesting. But the music is almost too gorgeous...too close to the purely sentimental. Was Cilea too concerned with beauty to dig below the surface into earthy emotion? Having said all that, this is a very enjoyable disc. The recording engineers did a good job, giving us a DTS HD Master Audio surround sound that is free of distortion and well balanced. Conductor Mark Elder keeps everything lively and sparkling. Director David McVicar moves people around the stage so well that the back-stage opening scene is a marvel of tightly coordinated entrances and exits. Sets and costumes are lush (to match the music?). I can’t imagine a better production. If you are not familiar with Angela Gheorghiu, this is the perfect way to learn of her many talents. She is a beautiful woman, and her always-lovely voice is large enough to make the most of musical climaxes without ever pushing her instrument beyond its ample capabilities. This role of a self-obsessed actress is a natural for her. Cilea gives her two lovely arias, which I don’t ever expect to hear more beautifully sung. As her two-timing lover, Jonas Kaufmann gives more dimension to the role than is usually encountered. During his liaisons with Olga Borodina, his conflict and deviance leave no doubt as to his character. He’s in excellent form and delivers his aria with sweeping phrases, effective dynamics and radiant tone. Borodina’s voice is a wonder of dark richness and smooth perfection. This Decca release is from the 2010 production at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. This is the first time the opera has been mounted there since the very early 20th century, shortly after its composition. With such a cast on hand, I’m very glad that we get the chance to experience what is about as good as this one gets.
If you don’t require a novel or gripping plot, opera videos don’t come much better than this new Blu-ray of Francesco Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur. The music is gorgeous; the production from Covent Garden is tight and attractive; and the singing/acting is wonderful. Soprano Angela Gheorghiu sometimes bores me, but not here. She is at the height of her powers and is perfectly suited to this role. Tenor Jonas Kaufmann, aside from singing well, adds dimension to an otherwise uninteresting character. Mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina is vocally spectacular and acts effortlessly. Finally, Alessandro Corbelli is perfect in every way for his role in this love quadrangle. That such a musically attractive opera as this is so seldom staged raises interesting questions about what makes a great opera great. As regular readers well know, my overriding passion in opera is for those singers whose combination of voice, technique and artistry can raise the hairs on my arms and make me sob with excess of emotion. So, even with such a cast as this one, why is this work not in my top 10 or even top 20? The answer lies in the clichés of the plot. Why does the silly plot of Verdi’s Il Trovatore not at all impede the thrills I can get from its singers? That plot, however silly, is nonetheless fun and dramatic, while giving the singers plenty to get passionate about. In Adriana Lecouvreur we’re confined to little more than the frustrations of the loves of all the characters. I find that boring. And, let’s face it: Cilea is no Verdi. He writes Reviewer Rod Parke can be reached at beautifully for the voice, and his orchestrations rmp62@columbia.edu.
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Expendables III brings half-baked geriatric action trilogy to an end Lionsgate
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by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer THE EXPENDABLES III Now playing What is there to say about The Expendables III? More than I thought, less than is necessary and little that’s all that important, this capper to the 1980s-style brawny, starstudded action trilogy pretty much exactly what you expect it to be and nothing too much more. Creator and star Sylvester Stallone has rounded up the core group from the first two films, added Wesley Snipes, Antonio Banderas and Harrison Ford to the hero side and brought in Mel Gibson to dance and preen as the principal baddie. He’s also enlisted Twilight heartthrob Kellan Lutz, UFC champion Ronda Rousey, boxer Victor Ortiz and rising star Glen Powell to bring in a younger audience, hoping that they, along with a PG-13 rating, will make the film even more accessible to audiences across all age spectrums. What he has not done, writing alongside Olympus Has Fallen scribes Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, is give them a scenario or a narrative worthy of the fuss. There’s nothing here that’s slightly origi-
nal, which isn’t a surprise, of course, considering the types of Raw Deal, Invasion U.S.A., Delta Force and Cobra motion pictures this series emulates, but considering the sheer size of the cast (not to mention the two-plus hour running time) it’s more noticeable than ever this time. What in all honesty should be nothing more than a bullet-riddled tale of revenge ends up being so much less, mainly because focus can’t be maintained and momentum is hard to come by, everything presented with an indifferent triviality that’s moderately irresponsible. It does not help that the effects are bottom of the barrel, almost SyFy Channel-like in their second tier video game appearance, explosions and aerial dogfights about as exciting and believable as a race between three-legged tortoises. It also doesn’t help that, in the pursuit of a PG-13 rating, the blood has been literally drained from the proceedings, the amount of gunfire, bullet holes, knifings and impalements virtually the same as previous outings, only without the gooey red excretions that typically go right alongside such things. This has the effect of making the ultra-violence silly, tension and suspense vanishing, all in the pursuit of making it easier for teenagers to buy tickets, showing, once again, the disgusting hypocrisy of the Motion Picture Association of America
(MPAA) as it pertains to the ratings system. Yet, there are multiple points of light and jolliness in this monstrosity that hit me by surprise. The group’s first mission is to rescue Snipes from an Eastern European prison train, and once he’s introduced he dominates the first 30 minutes with charismatic, violently electric magnetism that’s infectious. Ford, taking over for the departed Bruce Willis as the team’s CIA contact, also seems to be having a blast, and while he’s barely in the film, he makes the most of every scene and oneliner he’s asked to be a part of. Then there’s Gibson, and while it’s not a shock he makes for a transfixing villain, he still provides a nasty, ruthless punch to the proceedings that’s sorely missed whenever he isn’t around. He preens and prances his way through things with melodiously thuggish grace, and I can’t help but wonder what he could do in a more straight-forward action-adventure yarn portraying a similar sort of bad guy. As for Banderas, he’s a breath of fresh air, taking over the latter third of the picture portraying a character who in lesser hands would have been nothing short of insufferable. He’s the Puss-in-Boots meets Desperado wannabe Expendable, and as such he steals every moment and every scene
he shows up in with stratospheric ease. The plot is the type of total nonsense one expects, Expendables leader Barney Ross (Stallone) disbanding the main members of his mercenary unit when he learns former friend turned most reprehensible enemy Conrad Stonebanks (Gibson) is still alive and ticking and not six-feet under like he’d been led to believe. Turning to a younger group of killers (Lutz, Rousey, Ortiz and Powell) he thinks are even more disposable than his usual team, he embarks on a suicide mission under the direction of CIA handler Drummer (Ford) to take Stonebanks down. However, when things go wrong, it’s up to the older Expendables (Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Snipes, Banderas), along with Drummer and friendly mercenary Trench (Arnold Schwarzenegger), to set things right, old and new schools uniting to make sure justice is delivered and evil is vanquished. Why this takes over two hours I have no idea, the film illogically padded in order to allow newcomer Kelsey Grammer (don’t ask) a few choice one-liners and to let the youngsters (most notably Rousey) to show off their individual skill sets. Director Patrick Hughes, who did such a grand job handling all the mysterious, brutal dynamics of the spellbinding modern Western Red Hill, seems out of his elements here, the movie having trouble maintaining momentum and energy even when tanks are firing and motorcycles are flying through the air. Listen, you know what you’re going to be getting where it comes to The Expendables III, so anyone buying a ticket shouldn’t be particularly shocked by the lo-fi ambiance of the visual esthetics or the third-rate nature of the script. Thanks to Snipes, Ford, Gibson and especially Banderas (with a notable assist from Schwarzenegger getting to “the chopper”), the sequel is hardly a waste of time, all of them adding moments of levity, charisma and fun to a movie oddly devoid of all three much of the time. All the same, I’m glad this series is ending because now I can go revisit the ‘80s favorites these have been aping and pretend like this halfbaked trilogy never existed in the first place.
Initially fascinating Giver runs out of insights THE GIVER Now playing There’s a reason it’s taken about two decades for someone to make a movie out of Lois Lowry’s best-selling piece of young adult fiction The Giver. On the surface this futuristic morality tale set in a dystopian land where emotions have been muted and all color has literally been erased from existence doesn’t scream as being anything too complex or original; but digging into the prose one quickly discovers that initial observation is anything but true. Complex, intelligent, filled with themes and ideas that are universal in both power and importance, the book is a series of frank, unsentimental, yet emotionally overpowering discussions
between pupil and teacher chronicling the world’s virtues, evils and everything in-between in remarkably exacting detail. In other words, The Hunger Games this is not. Heck, it’s not even Divergent (even though that Veronica Roth trilogy owes a gigantic debt to Lowry’s novel), this story not exactly filled with action, pyrotechnics, love triangles or anything overtly spectacular. Yes, revolution does play a part in the outcome, but getting there is hardly as startling or as filled with adrenaline as one might presuppose, the whole thing more My Dinner with Andre meets 1984 than it is Star Wars crossed with The Never-Ending Story. Thus, there have been some noticeable changes from the source material, the chief amongst them being the aging up of the protagonist, curious student Jonas (Brenton Thwaites), from 12 to 17. Also added in is something of a mild love triangle (not that any of the central characters know exactly
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I responded to whole-heartedly. It’s when Jonas is forced to spring into action that things begin to lose their focus, the script by Michael Mitnick and Robert B. Weide (Mother Night) having trouble maintaining fidelity to the source material in ways that don’t feel didactic and overtly melodramatic. As good as everyone is, and Bridges, Thwaites and Meryl Streep (playing the community’s omnipotent Chief Elder, deathly fearful of what young Jonas has in store for the only world she’s ever known) are all terrific, that doesn’t make the last third less bombastic or clumsy, the ham-fisted nature of the emotions being presented never coalescing in ways I found genuine. In honesty, none of this hits me as too gigantic a surprise. The nuances of Lowry’s book, the way it bends and weaves with such poetic eloquence, the way it works primarily on a decidedly interior level, none of these are facets that make for an easy adaptation from page to screen. There’s nothing inherently cinematic about the way the author presents her climactic revolution and yet everything that happens in those last chapters is breathlessly exciting and powerfully emotional. A movie trying to showcase any of that visually was always going to have more than its fair share of trouble, so the fact Noyce and company don’t quite figure it out wasn’t a shock. But it is unfortunate. As low-tech and old school as much of the presentation might be (there’s a decided ‘80s sheen reminiscent of stuff like The Last Starfighter and
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what “love” is, per se) between him and fellow teenagers Fiona (Odeya Rush) and Asher (Cameron Monaghan), while the last third is devoted to a frenetic chase sequence juxtaposed with a moralistic conversation both of which are a little on the heavy-handed side of the equation. But the main thrust remains the same, the crux of the narrative revolving around Jonas being given his adult profession becoming his community’s new “Receiver of Memory,” a highly esteemed position of great authority and significance. He quickly learns, however, that this job isn’t anything close to what he thought it would be, the man responsible for instructing him, nicknamed “The Giver” (Jeff Bridges), showing him facets of a world long destroyed he can barely comprehend. Jonas quickly surmises that a world without emotion, without color, without choice, without free will, is one that will never be fulfilling. And that portion of the film works. Beautifully, in point of fact, director Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, Rabbit-Proof Fence) doing a splendid job empowering the scenes between Bridges and Thwaites, giving them a palpable sense of inherent realism I found invigorating. The juxtaposition between a (literally) black and white world and a past history filled with color, tears, blood, suffering and triumph is startling, the themes at the center of Lowry’s source material popping off the screen. There is a sense of discovery that gives the proceedings a literary, almost theatrical quality that
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Flight of the Navigator oozing all over this) it fits the material beautifully. More than that, Noyce has a decided knack for making scenes filled with nothing more than page upon page of dialogue between two characters feel thrilling and active, the director allowing his actors room to roam, breath and create, giving their discussion an brisk vibrancy that’s quietly entrancing. So when it begins to lag, dwell too much in the more obviously sentimental aspects
of its narrative, this can’t help but be frustrating. For a good two-thirds I was far more invested in what was going on and why than I had anticipated, and I can honestly say the simple beauty of the initial bits had me close to convinced Noyce and company had figured out the path to allow Lowry’s work to transition to the silver screen. But that’s sadly just not so, and as good as The Giver is initially, the sour taste left by the final act is just too foul to easily get beyond.
Suitably depraved Sin City not worth revisiting by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR Now playing In “Just Another Saturday Night,” veteran enforcer Marv (Mickey Rourke) attempts to put the dots back together when he finds himself on a plateau overlooking Sin City, a pair of wrecked automobiles by the side of the road and a handful of bloody college punks laying at his feet. In “The Long, Bad Night” selfconfident professional gambler Johnny (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) returns to his hometown to make the ruthless Senator Roark (Powers Boothe) look like the chump he is. In “A Dame to Kill For,” reformed bad boy Dwight (Josh
Brolin) finds himself under the thumb of his duplicitous former lady-love, the intoxicating temptress Ava Lord (Eva Green). And, finally, in “Nancy’s Last Dance,” still pining over the selfless death of her beloved protector Detective Hartigan (Bruce Willis), kind-hearted stripper Nancy (Jessica Alba) enlists Marv’s help in making sure the man who did him in finally pays for his crimes. Welcome to Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s longawaited follow-up to their somewhat surprising 2005 success Sin City. Utilizing the same CG-generated visual esthetics of the first film, framing everything in icy cold black and whites with splashes of neon tinted color, the sequel is every bit as eye-popping as its predecessor was, giving things a look and a feel that’s uniquely, and intriguingly, distinctive. Dimension Films
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Unsurprisingly, also much like that previous pulp effort, this film is a case study in style over substance, Rodriguez and Miller trading in hard-boiled noir tropes, not doing a single thing one would ever consider character-driven, complex or subtle. That said, unlike the original, this one isn’t anywhere near as much fun, and while moments of pleasure can be found, they’re so few and far between, getting to them isn’t worthy of the effort. This is a case where more isn’t more, the filmmakers just engaging in shameless self-aggrandizing exploitation simply because they can and not because either the movie or the stories being told are benefiting from their efforts. It’s not a total loss. Marv was a fan favorite who dominated the first Sin City even though he wasn’t a gigantic part of the film as a whole, Rourke’s animalistic bombast suiting the character and his demeanor perfectly. Rodriguez and Miller were smart to find a way to use him more this time, this pugilistic wrecking ball appearing in all four tales, becoming a vital cog in three of them. The opening segment revolving entirely around him is easily the film’s best vignette, his taking out a cadre of upper-crust trust fund college nincompoops a bloody descent into giddy madness the rest of the picture has trouble equaling. Problem is, because this is all artifice, because everyone is a noir caricature and not a three-dimensional flesh and blood creation, caring about anything that’s happening is close to impossible. Furthermore, few of the talented actors filling the roles are able to tap into the smarmy skins of their respective characters, only Rourke and Boothe rising above the fray, tapping into the giddy cartoonish gruesomeness of Rodriguez and Miller’s world. Not even Green, so stunning as a similar sort of vixen in 300: Rise of an Empire (itself also based on one of Miller’s graphic novels), can create much in the way of heat, which is really saying something,
considering she spends almost half her screen time nakedly on display for the world to savor and salivate over. If not for the snappy dialogue, bursts of adrenaline-fueled abandon, and idiosyncratic narrative fury, the first Sin City would have been nothing but a lustfilled masculine fantasy designed entirely for the prurient eyes of 13-year-olds too young to know exactly what it is they’re salivating over. This time around, Rodriguez and Miller dispense almost entirely with the subtext and just revel in said fantasies, allowing their adolescent minds to blossom in full-force forgetting to craft situations and stories that could appeal to more than just those with the basest and most libidinous of appetites. It does not help that the pair chose the worst of the four stories to end with, Alba’s revenge-driven assault indifferently staged and even more insipidly structured. There’s no drive to the events, no power to the emotions forcing her into action, and by the time she puts her plans into motion I almost needed someone to nudge me back awake as I was incredibly close to nodding off in disinterested boredom. The whole bit is as pitiful as it is forgettable, everything leading to a conclusion that is both foregone and ridiculous each at the exact same time. There’s not a lot more to add. Those waiting with bated breath for this sequel to arrive will want to rush out and give it a look no matter what I say; while everyone else will wonder why so much fuss is being made for a motion picture that took nine long years to finally see the light of day. While not deadly, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For barely has a pulse all the same, watching it about as much fun as eating a knuckle sandwich or getting hit over the head with a tire iron, and I for one don’t find either enjoyable and as such I don’t intend to be watching this sequel again anytime soon.
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No ifs, ands, or buts about it, Stay is terrible IF I STAY Now playing I was about two-thirds of the way through Gayle Forman’s best-selling novel If I Stay when I had the early opportunity to view director R.J. Cutler (The September Issue) and screenwriter Shauna Cross’ (Whip It) movie adaptation starring rising talent Chloë Grace Moretz. Once it was finished I knew I would not waste my time reading the final few chapters. Not because the book wasn’t any good, it’s actually quite well-written; but because the film version was a colossal waste of time and talent, so mind-numbingly awful that any affinity I might have been feeling for Forman’s source material was instantly erased as soon as the credits rolled. Make no mistakes, If I Stay might be the worst film of 2014, and considering I’ve already endured such putrid disasters as Winter’s Tale, Ride Along and The Legend of Hercules, that’s not a statement I make lightly. Cutler’s film is a hackneyed, overly melodramatic mess that talks down to its audience and wallows in the basest forms of simpleminded sentimentality. On top of that, it does a grave disservice to its main character, leading to an answering of the titular query that’s as insulting as it is abhorrent. The plot is vintage Hollywood hokum. Moretz is Mia Hall, a Portland, Oregon high school senior and cello prodigy waiting on pins and needles to hear from Julliard on whether or not she’s been admitted to attend. On the day her letter of acceptance (or denial) is scheduled to arrive, thanks to an impromptu snow day, she and little brother Teddy (Jakob Davies), dad Denny (Joshua Leonard) and mom Kat (Mireille Enos) decide to take a late winter trip to see the grandparents. A patch of icy road later, Mia
finds herself literally having an out-of-body experience, the entire Hall family suffering an unthinkable tragedy leaving the eldest child a spectral observer at the hospital forced to choose between life and death. Like the novel, the movie begins with the auto accident, Mia becoming an ethereal witness to her family’s fates while also an almost helpless observer as hospital staff go out of their way to save her life. As she’s told repeatedly, it’s up to her where or not she lives or dies, the young teen taking this challenge as an opportunity to revisit important moments in her life, most notably a wide-eyed romance with young rock and roller Adam (Jamie Blackley). She embraces memories both happy and sad involving her parents while also reveling in her love of classical music and the subsequent bonding with her cello. The youngster is, in her own way, weighing the pros and the cons of whether or not she actually wants to live through this ordeal, everything more often than not revolving back to her apparent oversize love for Adam. While an admittedly silly and inherently melodramatic concept to be sure, at least as things pertain to Forman’s source material somehow the author manages to make this overly emotional obnoxiousness feel authentic and resonant no matter how syrupy things get. More, there is a weight to the central tragedy involving Mia’s family that hits home like a punch to the gut, making her ghostly journey all the more effective in the process. But as far as the movie is concerned? Well, let’s just say there aren’t a lot of positives for me to sit here, recollect on and subsequently write about. The film is a disaster pretty much from the moment the Hall family’s car is run off the road culminating in one of the most absurd, close to insulting conclusions I’ve had the misfortune to sit through in some time. It wastes a fine, suitably complex performance from Moretz while also throwing both Enos
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and Leonard under the bus giving all of them little to work with and even less to do. It does not help that Moretz and Blackley have no chemistry. Their all-powerful love is about as affecting as a swift kick to the head or curt slap to the face, the kid coming through as more of an egotistical toad than he does anything else. Blackley never attaches himself to the character, never finds a way to get him to feel multidimensional or real, and by the time all is done I was so put off by his whiny, selfcentered antics I started to wish Adam had been in the car along with the rest of the Halls so I wouldn’t have had to put up with him. Cutler and Cross never find a way to make the material anything less than insufferable, and even when they do get something right (there’s a beautiful scene between Moretz and Enos while washing dishes that’s as touching as it is subtle, while the Julliard audition sequence is suit-
ably bravura) they immediately undercut these moments with flashes of rank, almost amateurish, blasts of inane sentimentality making them all for naught. It all builds to final moments that are so poorly handled, so misdirected, so blatantly sensationalistic, they’re laughable, thus making sitting through all 106 minutes of this fiasco a massive waste of time. I can’t say whether or not I’d feel the same had I finished the novel. I can only imagine Forman’s prose follows the same pathways as this adaptation, but based on the first two-thirds of the book I’m going to guess she handles it all tons better than the filmmakers do here. Not that it matters. If I Stay is so bad, so unrelentingly terrible, I’m never going to read the last few pages, and the only time I’m even going to think about this story or these characters again is when I compile my ten worst films list of 2014.
Legendary comedian’s death shines spotlight on depression, addiction by Shaun Knittel SGN Associate Editor It would not be untrue to say that Robin Williams, both the man and the characters he played onstage or in movies, was out of this world. That’s because some of the characters he played, like the boy who could never grow old or die, Peter Pan (Hook, 1991); American physician Chris Nielsen, an American physician who haunts his wife after having been killed in a car accident (What Dreams May
Come, 1998); or the character he rose to fame portraying – Mork (U.S. TV series “Mork & Mindy,” 1978–82) an extraterrestrial alien who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-man egg-shaped spaceship, literally, were out of this world. Characters, like legends, are almost always opposite the person playing them. A truth the world learned applied to the greatness of Robin Williams, too. On August 11, the man who made millions and millions of people laugh for decades, now made some of them cry. At Twitter
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12:02 p.m. Williams was found dead after committing suicide by hanging at his home in Paradise Cay, near Tiburon, California. Williams sometimes suffered from depression, which according to his wife at the time he died, had become “severe” depression, and he also struggled with drug and alcohol addiction for much of his early career. Before one show, he says he accepted a line of cocaine that someone gave him, but added that cocaine made him paranoid, saying that “being on stage is not exactly the place to go when you’re paranoid. It was a short trip to hell.” Still, for whatever reason, Williams began doing booze and blew every chance he got. In later years Williams shocked journalists and fans alike by how frank he would be about his use, sometimes admitting that for many years he was “drunk or stoned every single day.” Although he said that he never drank or did drugs while on stage, he admitted to having, on occasion, performed when he was feeling sick with a hangover from the previous day. Williams described the life of a stand-up comedian in the ‘70s and ‘80s after he’d gotten sober, recalling, “It’s a brutal field, man. It takes its toll. Plus, the lifestyle – partying, drinking, drugs. If you’re on the road, it’s even more brutal. You gotta come back down to mellow your ass out, and then performing takes you back up.” And then, somehow predicting his own death, Williams said, “Sometimes they just give up.” After the initial shock of his death began to subside in the hours and days after his death,
the public would learn that, short of anything serious showing up in the toxicology report, Williams was not drunk or high when he, allegedly suffering emotionally and mentally, attempted to slit his wrist with a small knife but when that didn’t seem to work, according to Marin County Sheriff’s Lt. Keith Boyd Williams was found in a bedroom by his personal assistant on Monday with preliminary reports saying that Williams death is attributed to “suicide by asphyxia.” Williams was last seen at his home at 10 p.m. on Sunday. On Monday morning just before 11:55 a.m., an emergency call was made there. He was pronounced dead at age 63. For twenty years Williams had never stopped working but he did stop drinking and getting high. As far as we all know, Williams relapsed only once “officially,” but returned to rehab in 2008. Williams is survived by his first wife, Valerie Velardi, their son Zachary Pym “Zak” Williams, second wife, Marsha Garces, their daughter Zelda Rae Williams and son Cody Alan Williams. In addition, William’s third wife, the last person to see Williams alive, Susan Schnieder, survived Williams and on August 14 revealed that her husband was not drunk or high when he killed himself, instead, she said the actor/comedian was suffering from the early stages of Parkinson’s disease, a progressive and debilitating neuromuscular condition. “Robin spent so much of his life helping
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ports that the first signs of Parkinson’s often include a tremor, a slight shaking of the fincontinued from page 7 ger, hand, chin, lip or leg. Other early signs, according to the foundation, include shrinkothers. Whether he was entertaining millions ing handwriting, reduced sense of smell, on stage, film or television, our troops on the sleep problems, awkward movements, or a frontlines, or comforting a sick child – Robin stiff or frozen facial expression. wanted us to laugh and to feel less afraid,” she said in a statement via USA Today. “Since his Williams donated to Seattle Food Bank passing, all of us who loved Robin have found Robin Williams was a very generous man; some solace in the tremendous outpouring some stars donate here or there, but Wilof affection and admiration for him from the liams’ philanthropy was exceptional. millions of people whose lives he touched. His Alongside fellow comedians Billy Crysgreatest legacy, besides his three children, is tal and Whoopi Goldberg, Williams raised the joy and happiness he offered to others, par- an estimated $80 million for people in need ticularly to those fighting personal battles.” over two decades with their Comic Relief “Robin’s sobriety was intact and he was standup specials. brave as he struggled with his own battles of de“No words” is what Crystal tweeted late last pression, anxiety as well as early stages of Par- night in response to the 63-year-old Williams’ kinson’s Disease, which he was not yet ready to suicide on Monday. Goldberg also posted, share publicly,” she disclosed. “It is our hope in “Billy Crystal is right...There are no words.” the wake of Robin’s tragic passing that others This week Washingtonians learned that will find the strength to seek the care and sup- the Oscar-winning actor’s generosity was port they need to treat whatever battles they are bestowed upon people in need in the Emerfacing so they may feel less afraid.” ald City. According to news reports, in 2004, News that Williams suffered from depres- Robin Williams performed stand-up comedy sion and the early stages of Parkinson’s has at the Showbox nightclub in downtown Seata connection say experts. tle, and without telling anyone, donated all of “The brain disease often leads to depression the proceeds to the West Seattle Food Bank. and can elevate someone’s risk of suicide,” “I was just astounded,” said Executive Disays Jeffrey Lieberman, Professor and Chair- rector Fran Yeatts. man of Psychiatry at Columbia University Yeatts revealed that Williams also perCollege of Physicians and Surgeons and Di- formed shows in 2007 and 2008 and raised rector, New York State Psychiatric Institute. nearly $50,000 for the organization, just as In a 2012, a study about Parkinson’s re- the economy was collapsing and need was vealed that more than 60% of people with skyrocketing. Parkinson’s reported depression, and 18% “Robin Williams is the type of person who reported severe, major depression. really understands there are a lot of people Lieberman says Williams was already at who are really, really struggling,” Yeatts said. higher than average risk for suicide because of his history of depression and substance abuse, Robin Williams made a connection as well as his demographic group. “Older with millions the world-over white men, particularly those who have had There is no doubt that Robin Williams is heart surgery, as he had, are at higher risk. one of comedies great legends. He will not Parkinson’s is another risk factor both psycho- fade away. The amount of (good and bad) logically and physiologically,” he said. films he made is stupefying. He was funny In fact, according to neurologist Irene for sure and it just seemed like he was a man Richard, an adviser to the Michael J. Fox doing what it was he was born to do. Who Foundation, “Depression appears to devel- else could’ve been as perfect as he when he op not because people are sad that they have recorded his voice for the Genie in the Disa disability, but because of damage caused ney animated cartoon Aladdin? by Parkinson’s to the brain.” And there is certainly nobody that can touch The National Parkinson’s Foundation re- the fantastic drama and comedy required to
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nail the part of Adrian Cronauer, the young disc jockey who shook up Armed Forces Radio during the conflict in Vietnam, the leading role in “Good Morning, Vietnam.” On Tuesday, Cronauer reflected on the life and death of the comedian and actor. “He’s a very big name, a very funny guy.” The two never met during filming, but after the movie was complete, they got together to compare notes. “It was never intended to be a point-bypoint biography,” he said. “It was always intended to be a piece of entertainment. “He was playing a character named Adrian Cronauer, but what he was really doing was being Robin Williams, and he was good at it. I was gobsmacked.” Josh Black, a local entertainer best known for his disturbed clown character Ronald McFondle said, “I met him once at Rebar and drunkenly talked his ear off about Shakes the Clown and told him about Ronald McFondle. As I was leaving later that night he came outside grabbed me by the shoulder and laughing hysterically told me Ronald McFondle was the best clown name ever and shook my hand. Such a nice guy.” I never met Robin Williams or even saw him live. But, I cannot tell you the impact Birdcage had on me when it was released in theaters, nationwide, in 1996. Remember, in 1996 not everyone had a computer in their house, you could not log onto this Internet thing easily anyway, Facebook did not yet exist and little boys who realized they liked other boys felt very, very alone. I was sixteen and I couldn’t believe what I was watching! I looked around the theater and throngs of straight people were laughing and having a great time. You see, up until that point in my life I hadn’t ever even knowingly met someone else who was Gay, let alone think that others were like me and that “liking” us and thinking we were funny instead of disgusting changed my life forever. It was empowering. I convinced like four different groups of friends to go see it, just so I could see it yet again. Not everyone likes it though; The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), known for its vile anti-Gay hatred and for picketing the funerals of soldiers, is now threatening to spread their hate at the funeral of Robin Williams. The group has denounced Williams as a “fag pimp” because he played a Gay char-
acter in Birdcage and a cross dresser in the family film Mrs. Doubtfire. Even President Obama, on vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, chimed in saying in a statement issued Monday night (8/11) that Williams “arrived in our lives as an alien – but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit.” The president said the actor was generous with his comic talents for those who needed it, including troops abroad, and he ended the letter by saying, “The Obama family offers our condolences to Robin’s family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams.” The cast of Good Will Hunting also remembered Williams. Ben Affleck Tweeted, “Heartbroken. Thanks chief – for your friendship and for what you gave the world. Robin had a ton of love in him. He personally did so much for so many people. He made Matt and my dreams come true. Affleck then asks, “What do you owe a guy who does that?” “Everything.” Matt Damon reacted by saying, “Robin brought so much joy into my life and I will carry that joy with me forever. He was such a beautiful man, I was lucky to know him and I will never, ever forget him.” Minnie Driver also tweeted: “My heart’s broken. Robin was a beautiful, kind soul. Can’t bear that he’s gone.” However, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tweeted, in memory of him, something that just seems so perfect: “Genie, you’re free.” Robin Williams’ closest family members and friends gathered at a private funeral in San Francisco last week to mourn the passing of the comedy legend. Although none of his fans were able to attend the intimate funeral, many of them extended their condolences by placing fan-made shrines at some of his most famous film locations. The executive producer of the Emmys confirmed they are planning a public tribute to the beloved comedian to air during the August 25 awards show. The actor’s body was cremated just one day after the actor was found dead, and the family scattered his ashes in San Francisco Bay not far from his home.
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Theatre22 performed a public service bringing Ben Abbott’s Questions of the Heart, to Seattle’s Tyee Yacht Club for a limited, twonight run on August 18 and 19. In its short time here, the show sparked controversy and open debate. A touchy subject after six years, the Mormon Church’s foray in politics during the Proposition 8 campaign still evokes raw emotions for some members of the LGBTQ community who feel angry and betrayed by what they see as the church using wealth gathered for religious purposes to persecute sexual minorities in 2008 California politics. There is no truth to the charge that Questions of the Heart is “… one of the most offensive and dangerous pieces of propaganda, and apology pieces about the Mormon church that I have witnessed in a very long time,” as a particularly disgruntled audience member wrote about the show on social media after its Seattle opening. The show directly confronts the pain, emotional abuse, and suicides Mormon Gays and Lesbians
have suffered at the hands of the Mormon Church by retelling their stories in their own words. If anybody should have squirmed during the performance, it would be the straight, devoted Mormons in the audience. But back to the performance: To put it in context, last week, the world mourned the passing of two great legendary actors, Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall. Williams was beloved as a chameleon, who could channel multiple persona with lightening quick intensity. Lauren Bacall was loved for being Lauren Bacall, no matter what role she played. Ben Abbott, who wrote this one-act, one-man show based on the interviews he made, falls more into the Bacall category. Like Bacall, or actually, a lot like Jimmy Stewart, he remains pretty much the character of himself as he tells these stories. Like Stewart, he is the everyman caught in the middle, and who takes us on a guided tour to the heart of some serious existential matters, and leaves the audience satisfied with the ride. He spared us what could have been offensive caricatures and yet made us laugh and cry at an untenable situation. Abbott is genuinely right there with us on the rollercoaster, feeling what we do, and what Mormon Queers felt during Prop 8. Not bad for a straight Mormon dude who really did not have to sign up for this scary, ridiculous ride, let alone take us with him.
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3D Printer World Expo (8/22 & 8/23). Hyatt Regency Bellevue, 900 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue. 3D art & other visionary work, live demos & contests, over 30 seminars & special exhibits. www.3dprinterworldexpo.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. American Cancer Society Relay of Life. 10am-10pm. Imagine a world with less cancer and a world with more birthdays. Cal Anderson Park, 11th Ave & E Olive St. CapHillRelay.org. Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Rummage Spectacular (8/23 & 8/24). Sat 8/23 - 11am-6pm; Sun 8/24 - 12noon-6pm. All Pilgrim’s Church, 500 Broadway E. Chehalis Garlic Fest & Craft Show (8/22-8/24). Fri 8/22 - 12noon-7pm; Sat 8/23 - 10am-7pm; Sun 8/24 - 10am5pm. SW Washington Fair Grounds, 2555 N National Ave, Chehalis. Features garlic-themed cuisine, artisans, vendors, chef demonstrations, kid’s activities, beer & wine, live music. $5 general admission, $4 seniors & military. Kids under 7 FREE. All Things Japanese Sale. 11am-4pm. 1414 S Weller St. Manga, kimono textiles, ceramics, lacquer, antiques, scrolls, paintings & much more! Benefits Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Washington. www.jcccw.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. For more information visit www.rainbowbridgeclub.org or email rainbowbridgeclub@gmail.com AMDEF 2014 Extravaganza. 7pm. Neumos, 925 E Pike St. This year’s AMDEF (Art, Music, Dance, Entertainment, Fashion) show benefits Social Outreach Seattle. Local, national & international artists are challenged to partner with talent from a different creative background to co-produce each act. More than 150 artists. Rugby is a Drag - hosted by Gaysha Starr. Doors 6pm, show 7pm. Neighbours, 1509 Broadway. 3rd annual drag show for charity benefit featuring the Quake Rugby AllStar Divas. Suggested donation $10. Pub crawl to follow: Purr, Madison Pub, The Cuff. www.quakerugby.org.
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For information on GLBT-friendly religious/spiritual organizations in the Greater Seattle area, call or email Rick at the SGN office: 206-324-4297; sgn2@ sgn.org. Center for Spiritual Living. Services 8:25, 9:45, 11:30am. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. Blessings & we hope to see you soon! Info 527-8801 ext 203, www. cslseattle.org Ravenna United Methodist Church. 5751 33rd Ave NE. 8:30am “Seattle’s most dangerous Sunday school;” 9:45am worship. A reconciling congregation, fully inclusive and affirming of LGBTQ persons. 525-7988. Wallingford United Methodist Church. 8:30am & 11am-Worship (10am during summer). 2115 N 42nd St. A progressive congregation. In 1984 Wallingford UMC became the 9th reconciling Methodist church in the U.S. 547-6945 (office); 285-5077 (George). Hiking Group. 8:45am. Uptown Espresso, 500 Westlake Ave N. Every Sunday year-round, rain or shine for moderate to strenuous day hikes. 323-8382. http:// groups.yahoo.com/group/TheSeattleGayHikingGroup/ Seattle Unity Church. 9am & 11am-Sunday Services. 200 8th Ave N. “Come join our Gay & Lesbian-friendly, spiritual family at Seattle Unity Church. Our mission is to bring love, miracles & spiritual awakening into everyday life!” 622-8475; www.seattleunity.org. University Congregational United Church of Christ. All ages education 9am, Worship 10am. 4515 16th Ave NE. UCUCC is an open & affirming congregation. 5242322; www.universityucc.org. Seattle Soto Zen. 9:15am-Zazen Instruction, 9:30amZazen. 101 Nickerson St, Lower Level. Follow the traditional forms of the Soto school of Zen in a spirit of warmth & inclusion. Anyone interested in meditation, whether new or experienced in Zen practice or other traditions, is welcome. 323-1659, www.seattlesotozen.org Tacoma First United Methodist Church. 9:30amWorship, 11am-Adult Education. 423 Martin Luther King Way, Tacoma. This reconciling congregation welcomes
August 23 thru August 31 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 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 Integrity/Puget Sound. 7pm-Worship & Fellowship. St. Mark’s Cathedral, Thomson Chapel, 1245 10th Ave E. Integrity is an international ministry of Gay & Lesbian Episcopalians, their friends & families, dedicated to education, support & service within the Church & the GLBT community. (425) 226-2746. Mr, Miss & Ms Neighbours Pageant 2014. 6pm doors, 7pm pageant. Neighbours, 1509 Broadway. Hosted by Isaac Scott. With special appearances by Anastasia Beaverhausen, Mac S. McGregor, Mark Finley, Gaysha Starr. Noche Latina - Latino Night. 10pm. Neighbours, 1509 Broadway. Every Sunday.
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with warm hands, warm hearts & open minds GLBT persons seeking a spiritual home. (253) 627-0129, www. fumctacoma.org Central Lutheran Church. 10am-Worship. 1710 11th Ave (just north of E Pine St). An open & affirming church, which in Lutheran churches is called “Reconciled in Christ.” “We seek to share God’s love with all people regardless of race, age, gender or sexual orientation.” All are welcome. 322-7500. East Shore Unitarian Church. 10am-Sunday Service. 12700 SE 32nd St, Bellevue. An open & affirming congregation. (425) 747-3780. 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 Gethsemane Lutheran Church. 10am-Worship. 911 Stewart St. A downtown faith community centered in justice. An open & affirming congregation. 682-3620. 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. All Pilgrims Christian Church. 10:30am-Worship. 500 Broadway E. Come as you are. All are welcome. A congregation of the Disciples of Christ & the United Church of Christ. 322-0487, www.allpilgrims.org Living Water Fellowship. 10:30am-Worship. 7204 NE 175th St, Kenmore. All GLBT welcome. Pastor Susan George. 963-0807. www.livingwaterwa. com Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation. 10:30am. 7141 California Ave SW. 935-0418, office@ wsuu.org, www.wsuu.org Grace Gospel Chapel. 11am-Worship. 2052 NW 64th St. Oldest independent church ministering primarily to the Gay & Lesbian community. An exciting fellowship ... a place to believe, a place to belong. 784-8495. Emerald City Metropolitan Community Church Seattle. 11am-Worship. Chapel at University Temple United Methodist Church, 1415 NE 43rd St. MCC is a progressive Christ-centered faith community committed to providing a nurturing environment for individual & community growth thru Jesus Christ while celebrating unity in diversity. MCC is Seattle’s oldest Gay-friendly church. 325-2421, www.mccseattle.org. Kawabe Summerfest. 11am-4pm. 221 18th Ave S. Food, fun, family activities, live music, prize drawings, dancing.
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Celebrate Little Saigon. 11am-6pm. Little Saigon, 12th Ave & S Jackson St. This FREE carnival-themed summer festival is a celebration of Vietnamese culture, food, arts, and community. Guests will enjoy break dance performances, traditional lion dancing, kids activities, cooking demonstrations from Tamarind Tree, and the very popular pho eating contest. www.friendsoflittlesaigon.org. Meditation for GBT Men. 11am-1pm. Cal Anderson House, 400 Broadway. Suitable for beginning & experienced meditators. Sponsored by Dharma Buddies. Contact Forrest Rode, 920-6117, Mike Chin (509) 990-0007, or Doug Allison, doug.l.allison@gmail.com. Women may wish to contact our sister meditation group via lotus.sisters@yahoo.com. www.dharmabuddies.org St Paul’s United Church of Christ. 11am-Worship. 6512 12th Ave NW. An “open & affirming” congregation. “We celebrate our diversity in religious background, sexual orientation, race, age & abilities.” 783-6733; www. stpauluccseattle.com. Holy Covenant International Christian Community Church. 12pm. 4525 19th Ave NE. Outreach to the LGBT community. holycovenantccc@gmail.com Just for Today. 12-1:30pm. SASG, 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. 12-1:30pm. Seattle University Student Center, 901 12th Ave, Room 122. Every Sunday. LGBTQ supported. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength & hope in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness & that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www.seattle-al-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. Perfect for guys looking for more relaxed play, who are just getting back into soccer, just learning the game and/or want to supplement their competitive play with a recreational team. To sign up visit www. raincitysoccer.org Rain City Jacks. 4th Sunday each month at 1pm; 1st & 3rd Tuesday each month at 7pm. West Queen Anne/ Interbay. Location & membership details provided upon request. RCJ is a traditional jack-off club. Friendly, sexpositive, non-profit and private. Membership required. Adult men only. Enroll at the door. www.raincityjacks. org, email info@raincityjacks.org or call 1-888-809-5035.
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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. Pozitively Me! 6:30-8pm. Gay City Health Project, 517 E. Pike St. Every Monday. A group and conversation about HIV for Gay & Bi men newly diagnosed and for Gay & Bi men facing the challenges of living with HIV longterm. www.gaycity.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.FreelySpeaking.org No Safeword Writers Group. 7-9pm. Meets 4th Monday each month. NSWG exists to provide mutual support for members’ efforts. Support is in the form of critique & commentary on each other’s work, information about publishing opportunities, & discussion of issues facing writers. NSWG’s primary focus is erotic writing - but they welcome anyone who writes. The only requirements are to write, to attend, & to be respectful. For info & location, NSWG@sexpositiveculture.org; www.nosafewordwritersgroup.org (Also meets 2nd Sunday, 1-3pm.) Orca Swim Team Workout. 7-8:15pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.) PFLAG/South King County Monthly Meeting. 7pm. Unitarian Universalist Church, 25701 14th Pl S, Kent. Meets 4th Monday each month. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses & families of GLBT persons, as well as those sexual minorities. PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724. Trans Youth Group. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. A chance for youth to talk with others about their experiences & concerns related to identifying as Transgender. www.lamberthouse.org Lambert House Art Night. 7:30-9:30pm. 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. Bring your ideas & let’s have some fun. 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. Washington Gender Alliance Support Group Meeting in Shoreline. 7:30pm. Center for Human Services, 17018 15th Ave NE, Shoreline. Meets every Monday. For information email info@washingtongender alliance.com Les Be Honest. 8-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Open women only AA group. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org.
TUESDAY - August 26
Lesbian & Gay Child Care Task Force Monthly Meeting. 12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Meets 4th Tuesday each month. The Task Force, in conjunction with Child Care Resources of King County, offers referrals to GLBT-welcoming child care centers & provides training, support & curriculum materials to child care providers. (To access this, call 329-1011 & ask for the “Gay-welcoming” child care programs in your zip code area.) The task force meets monthly to assess their progress in achieving their goals.
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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 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 LGBTQ MS Connection/National MS Society. 6:308pm. Swedish Conference Center, Cherry Hill Campus, James Tower, 550 17th Avenue, Room E, 1st Floor. Meets the 2nd & 4th Tuesday each month. MS Connection is a support group with the goal of providing a safe environment for the LGBT community to express their experiences and the impact of MS on their lives and the lives of their loved ones, as well as provide support for one another. Contact Shelly at 206-250-5002 or LGBTMSConnection@gmail.com. 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 Seattle Tennis Alliance Social Doubles. 6:30-8pm. Meadowbrook Playfield, 10533 35th Ave NE (tennis courts at 32nd Ave NE). Every Tuesday & Thursday thru Sept. STA is Seattle’s premier Gay & Lesbian tennis club. $3 for members & first-time guests, $5 for returning guests. http://sta.clubexpress.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. 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 Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting in Bellingham. 7:30-9pm. St James Presbyterian Church, 910 14th St., Bellingham. Every Tuesday. (360) 445-2411; www.washingtongenderalliance.com. (See Wednesday listing at 7:30pm for details.)
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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. Seattle Tennis Alliance Social Doubles. 6:30-8pm. Lower Woodland Park Courts 5, 6, 7 & 8. Every Tuesday & Thursday. STA is Seattle’s premier Gay & Lesbian tennis club. $2 for members & first-time guests, $5 for returning guests. http://sta.clubexpress.com. Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation - Contemplative Service. 6:30pm. 7141 California Ave SW. 935-0418, office@wsuu.org, www.wsuu.org Boys’ Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 1422. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about issues that relate to their everyday lives, with the facilitation of a male volunteer. 322-2515 ext 16. www.lamberthouse.org PFLAG/Tacoma Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 7410 S 12th (at Jackson), Tacoma. Meets 4th Thursday each month. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses & families of GLBT persons, as well as those sexual minorities. PFLAG/Tacoma: (253) 3832318. PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724. 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 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
FRIDAY - August 29
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. MF is a social group for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www. maturefriends.org Mature Friends Dining Out Luncheon. 12:30pm. Call for details, location & to make reservations. Meets 2nd & 4th Wednesday. www.maturefriends.org True Colors: Connecting LGBTQ Teens in Shoreline. 4-5pm. Every Wednesday. Discussing your important issues, building a supportive community. For information, location & to REGISTER call Lindsay Bagley 362-7282 x 8018 or email lbagley@chs-nw.org GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): A Support Group & HIV/STD Prevention for Youth (14-20) in Everett. 6-8pm. CCA Building, 3331 Broadway - Bottom Floor, Everett. Every Wednesday. Sponsored by PFLAG Everett chapter. David/Brenda, (425) 263-2908. globeleaders@ hotmail.com POZSeattle Social. 6-8pm. CC Attle’s, 1701 E Olive Way. Meet us inside for drinks, a light fare of tasty food provided by CC’s kitchen, socializing & a whole lot of fun. This is not only great for our community, but it gives us a chance to expand, meet new people, experience a different environment & atmosphere. This event is offered at no cost, but to help with overhead costs we
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 (Also Thursdays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.) 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 Mature Friends Monthly Potluck. 6:30pm-appetizers & socializing; 7:30pm-dinner. Ballard Odd Fellows Hall Bldg, 1706 NW Market St. Meets last Friday most months. MF is a social organization for Gay men & ask for a $5 donation. The event is for all HIV+ men Seattle Movie Bears Movie Night. Check website for women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org & their friends regardless of age, shape, size & color. details. Every Wednesday night. Gay & Bi men enjoy Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm. Lama movie at a local theater with opportunity to socialize www.pozseattle.org bert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Friday. Lambert House Seattle Gay & Lesbian Book Club. 6-7:30pm. SASG, before & after movies. http://groups.yahoo. com/group/ is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center seattlemoviebears; or e-mail: seattlemovie bears303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Discuss the best for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. 322-2515, LGBT novels with other book-lovers in a safe, comfort- subscribe@yahoogroups.com www.lamberthouse.org able conversation. Check our website for this month’s Mature Friends Weekly Bridge Group. 7:30pm. Call for Rain Country Dance Night. 7-11pm, lessons at 7:15pm. book. http://faculty.washington.edu/swittet/sglbookclub/ location. Every Wednesday. All levels welcome. www. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. An evening of country-western maturefriends.org SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org dancing for the LGBTQ community. FREE. www.rainCenter for Spiritual Living. 6:30pm-Meditation, 7pm- Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle Uni- countrydance.org. Service. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. Blessings & we versity, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry Destiny Gay AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New hope to see you soon! Info 527-8801 ext 203, www. St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.) Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St, Tacoma. Every Friday. cslseattle.org Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting (253) 474-8897. Lotus Sisters with Arinna Weisman. 6:30pm. Colum- in Everett. 7:30-9pm. Everett United Church of Christ, Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle Unibia City Church of Hope, 3818 S Angeline St. Meets 2624 Rockefeller Ave, Everett. Every Wednesday. versity, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry every Wednesday. Drop-in Buddhist meditation Sangha Trained peer facilitators lead a structured support meet- St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.) for LBTQ women. Lotus.sisters@yahoo. com; www. ing helping people deal with issues of gender identity & expression. All adults are welcomed, including those LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 7:45pm. lotussisters.org. Seattle Counseling Service, Rainbow Room, 1216 Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 6:30pm. Volunteer who are questioning, allies, or identify as FTM, MTF, Pine St at Melrose Ave. Every Friday. The Al-Anon Transgender, Queer, or Intersex, among others. (360) Park (in front of Black Sun across for museum). Every Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of 445-2411; www.washingtongender alliance.com. Wednesday. (See Saturday at 9am.) alcoholics who share their experience, strength & hope HIV/AIDS Support Group. 7-8:30pm. SASG, 303 17th in order to solve their common problems. We believe THURSDAY August 28 Ave E. Every Wednesday. Please arrive by 7:00pm. alcoholism is a family illness & that changed attitudes Alcoholics Anonymous “Safe & Sober Group.” FREE peer-facilitated emotional support group for HIV+ can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number men who are newly diagnosed or newly dealing. 322- 12noon-1pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Open meeting of 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org AA. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org. 2437; www.sasgcc.org SATURDAY - August 30 Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting. Group. 7pm. Entre Hermanos, 1105 23rd Ave. Bilingual 12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. The (See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.) (Spanish/English) Transsexual support group meets 2nd BABES Network is a peer led agency; a sisterhood of Bumbershoot (8/30-9/1). Seattle Center. For complete women facing HIV together. 720-5566 or 888-292-1912; & 4th Wednesday each month to provide information, list of artists & venues visit www.bumbershoot.org counseling, healthcare, sisterhood & social activities www.babesnetwork.org. for Latino & foreign-born people in their transition. Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Shots, Shave & Shine. 2-9pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th For more information contact Abby 322-7700, www. Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages Ave. A fundraiser for Bailey-Boushay House hosted by entrehermanos.org 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Thurs- Washington State Mr Leather 2014 Erik Taylor. Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group. 7-9pm. day. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also Book Signing: Sara Benincasa. 5pm. University Bookstore, 4326 University Way NE. Part comedy show, part Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300. Fridays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.) All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Volunteer Drop-In Night at Lifelong AIDS Alliance. book signing, comedian Sara Benincasa introduces her Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome. This is 4-7pm. LAA Volunteer Services Office, 1161 11th Ave. new book “Great,” a modern LGBTQ take on The Great a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction Every Thursday. Volunteer on LAA projects - assembling Gatsby. FREE. & information for the whole Gender community. www. safer sex kits, helping with mailings, a different project Devonation: The Wild Garden Collection Fashion ingersollcenter.org every week! Get-togethers are highly social & offer “low Show. 6pm. Velocity Dance Center, 1621 12th Ave. Nobel Laureate Francoise Barre-Sinoussi. 7-8:30pm. impact” volunteer work & an opportunity to learn more Features Arnaldo Drag Chanteuse. Tickets $10, www. Pelton Auditorium, Thomas Bldg, 1100 Fairview Ave N. about LAA. Please call before dropping in. 957-1776. brownpapertickets.com/event/769494 Featuring the scientist-activist who discovered HIV. Dr www.lifelongaidsalliance.org SUNDAY - August 31 Barre-Sinoussi will answer questions & share her stories Everett-Snohomish County Friendship Dinner for (See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.) about the research that brought her fame, the moment Persons Living with HIV/AIDS. 6pm. Grace UMC that changed her into an activist & what each of us can (formerly Firs United Methodist). Meets last Thursday Bumbershoot (8/30-9/1). Seattle Center. For complete do to end the HIV epidemic. Light refreshments avail- most months. FREE. Everyone welcome. Sponsored by list of artists & venues visit www.bumbershoot.org able, FREE. 667-5810, info@defeathiv.org the Evergreen AIDS Foundation & SNOCO Gay Men’s Task Force. For information call (425) 252-7751.
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Queer Geek! Seattle’s Pink Party Prime. 9pm. Neighbours, 1509 Broadway. Featuring Mass Effect’s Jennifer Hale. Tickets: $15 general admission; $30 VIP. www. pinkpartyprime.com.
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 - 684-4503. 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 Out & Proud - 206-322-9561; www.seattle pride.org Seattle Police Department Sexual Minorities Community Advisory Council: kim.bogucki@seattle.gov Seattle PrideFest - www.seattlepridefest.org Seattle Treatment Education Project (STEP) E-zine is an electronic resource distributed to people affected by HIV/AIDS, case managers, front line workers & other health professionals. Now a part of Lifelong AIDS Alliance, 328-8979, www.thebody.com/step/steppage.html Servicemembers Legal Defense Network - (202) 328-3244; www.sldn.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. Social Outreach Seattle (SOSea) - www.facebook. com/socialoutreachseattle 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
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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/AnotherGay-Social-Club/ Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane. com/guide.html BiNet Seattle is a mixed gender, social group for Bisexuals, their partners & other Bi-friendly folks - www. binetseattle.org. Seattle Bisexual Women’s Network - www.sbwn.net. Bremerton/Kitsap County - www.outwestsound.org Capitol Hill Alano Club - www.chacseattle.org 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) - 3639188; 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.facebook.com/ISCSORE; 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. 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 Lesbian & Gay History Museum Project - gayhistnw@aol.com Northwest Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf - www. nwrad.org Olympia/Thurston County: www.RainbowCenterOly. org Out & Equal Workplace Advocates/Seattle Regional Affiliate supports the work of LGBT employees and the growing number of ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) making a difference within local companies. www.outandequal.org/affiliates/seattle PARENTHOOD: Families Like Ours provides a gateway for LGBT families interested in adoption & provides a network of safe placement agencies, training, support & resources: 441-7602, www.familieslikeours. org; Family Works offers support, information & activities for LGBT families: 694-6727, www.familyworks seattle. org; Gay Fathers’ Association of Seattle offers support groups & social activities: www.gfas. org; Maybe Baby, https://groups.yahoo.com/group/maybebabyseattle; Proud & Loud Families - Northwest, www.meetup.
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; Sea Dawgs: LGBT ice hockey - SkateSeaDawgs@gmail.com and on Facebook; Seattle Frontrunners: www.seattlefront runners.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.thepride league.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 Tacoma/Pierce County - Rainbow Center, 2215 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, a resource center for the LGBTIQA community of Pierce County, (253) 383-2318, www. rainbowcntr.org TRANSGENDER: Emerald City Social Club: (425) 827-9494; Gender Alliance of the South Sound: www.SouthSoundGender.com; Gender Justice League: www.genderjusticeleague.org; Gender Odyssey: www.genderodyssey.com; Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group: 322-7700; Ingersoll Gender Center: 329-6651, www.ingersoll center.org; The New BoyZ Club: www.olympiaftm group.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: 7220729; 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.tacomalesbianconcern. 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, 461-4493. 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; Health Education Youth Outreach: for LGBTQ youth, ages 16-24 - Jessica Hatlo, 206957-1665, jessicah@llaa.org; It Gets Better Project: www.itgetsbetter.org; Lambert House: an activities & resource center for LGBT youth, 14-22, in Seattle, 3222515, www.lamberthouse.org; www.MatthewsPlace. com; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcen ter.org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: 325-7724, www.seattle-pflag. org; Pizza Klatch: weekly lunchtime support groups for LGBTQ youth in Thurston County, www.pizzaklatch.org; Prism: for LGBTQ youth, 14-21, in Puyallup - Cherise. Alexander@ multicare.org; www.facebook.com/PuyallupPrism; Proud Out Wonderful (POW!): for LGBTQ youth, 13-21, in South King County, 206-326-9112, www. facebook.com/proudoutwonderful; Q Youth Resources: in Kitsap County - 360-698-3335; www.kchaf.org; Queer Youth Space: 206-495-9963; www.queeryouth space. org; Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS): LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth drop-in group, ages 12-18 Sarah Hardin, 425-271-5600, ext 155; sarahh@rays.org; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoalition.org; 451-SAFE (451-7233) (non-emergency), 1-877-SAFESAFE (1-877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Teen Link: 461-4922, 1-888431-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): 5228412; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoudGLBTQ): 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273-TALK, www. yspp.org
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.seattlepflag.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 Program at API Chaya, 467-9976; Center for MultiCultural Health, 461-6910, www.multiculturalhealth.org; Entre Hermanos, GLBT Latinos/as, 322-7700, www.entrehermanos.org; Ile LaiLai, 7813565, 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) offers rapid HIV testing, M-F, 10am-5pm, 322-7061, www.pocaan.org and on Facebook; Seattle Two Spirit, SeattleTwoSpirit@hotmail. com; Sistah 2 Sistah, LBT women of African descent, 322-7061, 255-8951; Trikone-Northwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 985-4376, www.trikonenw.org; Two-Spirit Honor Project, 1-866-685-0164; U.T.O.P.I.A. Seattle. 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 LGBTfriendly 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. 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
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continued from cover I think the show is about coming to terms with who you are instead of selling your soul to be someone else. It takes her by surprise when she falls in love. She shows us that you don’t have to be a glamorous wom-
an all of the time. It can get pretty lonely with all those expectations. She’s stuck in “limbo” because of the deal she made, and that’s something I think we can all relate to; when we feel that what we have isn’t enough and we want to be something (or someone) else. Lola’s a fun character, but deep down there is sadness about her. jewishcurrents.org
Chryssie Whitehead (l) in the Broadway performance of A Chorus Line
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continued from cover of superiority by Westerners, and fervent prayers for the healing of political and religious divisions. On the program: Hierarchical Entrance Rite for a Byzantine Divine Liturgy at Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, c. 1453. Guillaume DuFay (1397-1474): Ecclesiae militantis, Apostolo glorioso, Vasilissa ergo gaude, Lamentatio Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae; Manuel Chrysaphes (fl. 1440-1463): Lament for the Fall of Constantinople; and more. The concert will be held Friday, August 29, at 8 p.m., at St. Joseph’s Parish, 732 18th Ave. E.
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“Good Friday in Medieval Jerusalem” Cappella Romana releases its 21st recording with these performances of music for Good Friday in Medieval Jerusalem. Hear Medieval Byzantine chant, the fraternal repertoire to Latin chant in the West, composed for 8th- and 9th-century celebrations of Holy Week in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Hymns by Jerusalem’s great church fathers – Patriarch Sophronios, Kosmas the Melodist, and Saint John Damascene – include the famous Orthodox hymn “Semeron krematai” (“Today He who is hung upon the tree”) sung to its original medieval melody. On the program: Sophronios of Jerusalem: Antiphons of Holy Friday (selections); Kosmas the Melodist: Hymns of the Triodion; Romanos the Melodist: Kontakion of Holy Friday; Anonymous: Byzantine
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heightened in my body must be conveyed in my eyes. It’s using your body versus using your eyes; it’s the same amount of urgency but more of a matter of where you put it. Andrews-Katz: Tell me about the upcoming film adaptation of the Ahrens/Flaherty musical, Lucky Stiff – starring Jason Alexander and Nikki James. Whitehead: I hope it’s still coming out! Allegedly, it’s being released shortly, but we filmed it over two years ago. Chris Ashley is an incredible director. I worked with him on All Shook Up and Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion [musical workshop]. I play a fun little part where I am on the train singing and being a flirt. We filmed on an actual train car so we didn’t have a lot of room for staging. Andrews-Katz: If you could play any role – regardless of any limitations – what would it be and why? Whitehead: That’s such a hard question. I have to say I’ve always wanted to play “Cassie” [in A Chorus Line]. But if there were no limitations, I think the role that would be really fun for me would be “The Genie” in Aladdin. I think that would be really fun because I love a good comedy and a kookie role! Chryssie Whitehead’s work can be seen in many places including the concert version of Stephen Sondheim’s Company filmed for PBS and starring Neil Patrick Harris and Patti LuPone. On television she can be also be seen in her recurring role as “Claire” (Claudia’s sister on the SYFY channel) on “Warehouse 13,” “GRIMM,” and “Grey’s Anatomy” among several others.
chant from MS EBE 2401; Byzantios and Stoudites: Idiomela. The concert will be held on Friday, February 6, at 8 p.m., at St. Joseph’s Parish, 732 18th Ave. E.
with Diptych by Galina Grigorjeva and his own work Anastasis on Eastertide texts in Greek and English. On the program: Alfred Schnittke: Twelve Verses of Repentance a.k.a. Psalms of Repentance (U.S. Premiere); Galina Grigorje“From Darkness to Light” va: Diptych; Ivan Moody: Anastasis (“ResAlfred Schnittke’s Verses of Repentance urrection”). (Stikhi Pokayanniye) is a musical tour-deThe concert will be held on Friday, May force, surpassing in virtuosity Schnittke’s 15, at 8 p.m., at Trinity Parish, 609 8th Ave. more widely know Concerto for Choir. Rich harmonies and exuberant melodies deliver Cappella Romana also presents their conthese poignant words with tender to fervent certs in Portland these weekends on Saturemotion, as the music gives way to an inef- day evenings and sometimes Sunday matifable, final movement sung without words. nees. For more information and advance Cappella Romana favorite Ivan Moody will tickets, call 503-236-8202 or visit cappelconduct, completing this intense program laromana.org. www.orartswatch.org
“Sacred Songs of Serbia” Musicologist and conductor Bogdan Djakovic makes his U.S. debut with Cappella Romana leading a program of beautiful works from the Serbian Orthodox tradition. Dr. Djakovic makes his home in Serbia’s historically turbulent northern region, which for generations has been subject to competing cultural influences. He has devoted his career to exploring the meeting of East and West in Serbian choral music. His program presents traditional Eastern Orthodox sources filtered through Western European musical colors and techniques, creating works of resplendent beauty. On the program: Kornelije Stankovic (1831-1865): Dogmatikon for the Mother of God; Josif Marinkovic (1851-1931): “O heavenly King,” “Our Father”; Steven Stojanovic Mokranjac (1856-1914): Cherubic Hymn, Opelo/Requiem (excerpts); and more. The concert will be held Friday, October 24, at 8 p.m., at St. Joseph’s Parish, 732 18th Ave. E.
“Echoes of the Renaissance” Dr. Tikey Zes (b. 1927) is the most prolific composer of Greek Orthodox liturgical music in America. Long a proponent of Zes’s music, Cappella Romana will perform excerpts of a setting of his Divine Liturgy, which Cappella Romana released on CD last season. Preceding the Zes are selections of the Missa MiMi by Johannes Ockeghem, who with other masters of the Renaissance inspired Zes’s approach to modal harmony and counterpoint. Zes recorded the Ockeghem Missa MiMi on LP with his Berkeley Chamber Singers in the 1960s, at the dawn of the modern Early Music movement. On the program: Johannes Ockeghem: Missa MiMi (excerpts); Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Motets; Tikey Zes: The Divine Liturgy (1991/96, selections). The concert will be held on Friday, January 9, at 8 p.m., at St. Joseph’s Parish, 732 18th Ave. E.
Andrews-Katz: A Chorus Line seems to hold a significant place in your life. It was one of your first professional jobs, you performed it on Broadway, in the documentary [Every Little Step] and now at the 5th Avenue’s production. What is it about this show that resonates with people? Whitehead: It’s not a character show; it’s about real people. Everybody in the audience can find the one person on that line that they can identify with and say: “Wow! That’s like me.” It’s not just a show about dance, it’s about putting your heart on the line and pursuing a dream. When I first did the show, I had a much different approach (and a different role) from the way I perform now. No matter what you choose to do in life, you do what you must to pursue that dream. The show inspires people to say, “What am I doing? Am I doing the work to make my dream come true?” With dancers, you see how hard we work and the heartbreak to continue doing what you love. This show is timeless. I was first introduced to it 20 years ago and here I am playing the role again in a great city that loves and appreciates the arts. It’s a dream come true! Andrews-Katz: What different approaches do you take when performing theater from television from film? Whitehead: Theater is a heightened experience because you have to reach the freakin’ back of the auditorium! It’s more dealing with your body movements in theater, you get to act with your whole body and your whole voice. In television, I’m not doing that much. It’s all in the eyes and what’s going on needs to be represented there. Everything that is
Cappella Romana performing at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Portland
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