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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Issue 27, Volume 42, July 4, 2014
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by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer CHER WITH CYNDI LAUPER KEY ARENA June 28
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She’s Cher. She says, does and wears what she wants because she’s Cher. And at the age of 68, when most people are settling into sunny retirement homes, the mega entertainer is parading on stage in skimpish outfits, self-promoting herself as an icon (which she is, by the way), singing to thousands of fans, surrounding herself with muscular backup dancers, and still kicking, literally, in highheeled boots. She might be older, but that’s not holding her back one bit. For her sold-out appearance that landed right in the middle of Pride weekend, the global star opened her Key Arena concert with “Woman’s World,” standing atop a pillar in a shimmy bejeweled get-up with nude tone peekaboo cut-outs and a peacock feather headdress. She removed the headdress for the second number, “Strong Enough,” one of her hits from 1998’s Believe album. “And what’s your granny doing tonight?” said Cher, after revealing her age to the audience and telling them
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that she had just stood on a 20-foot platform in nothing more than dental floss. She spoke to the crowd for about 10 minutes, reminding them about her first farewell tour 11 years ago, which swept through Seattle twice and Everett once, and joked about looking like a transvestite piñata. In great physical shape, Cher also told everyone that she can still fit into the revealing outfit worn in the “If I Could Turn Back Time” music video. “Take that, Katy Perry!” she exclaimed with a broad smile. The 2 hour-plus performance featured music from throughout Cher’s career, from 1967’s “The Beat Goes On,” in which she strutted around in a glittery cherry-red short dress and black-white puffy shawl, to her current smash and title of her tour, “Dressed to Kill,” starting the song inside a chandelier in a sexy black one-piece with matching headdress and fishnet stockings, then ending it by biting into a dancer’s neck with vampire fangs. “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves” and “Dark Lady” were performedamidstavintagecircustheme, complete with show announcer and man on stilts. She dueted with the late Sonny Bono, shown in black and white footage, on “I Got You Babe.” see CHER & CYNDI page 4
Ruby is Queen!
Cabaret artist Victor Janusz
tells “Obama tales” and reveals his own “(Nordstrom) Mannequin Blues” in his one-man show An interview with Ruby Lewis Courtesy of Victor Janusz
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HANDS SOLO: Pianoman
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HANDS SOLO: PIANOMAN VICTOR JANUSZ ACT’S CENTRAL HEATING LAB ACT THEATRE July 10-12 & 18-20 “Accompanying himself with a soulful, jazz hand...Janusz takes us on a vivid journey, and proves to be a masterful monologist, abetted by Lori Larsen’s deft pacing.” – Cabaret Scenes magazine Longtime Seattle Cabaret art-
ist Victor Janusz is opening up and telling his own hilarious and heartfelt story the best way he knows how: through song. This new one-man show includes many familiar songs, five original pieces by Janusz* and a dozen stories with corresponding music. In HANDS SOLO: Pianoman, Janusz recounts his life at the keys in hilarious detail and shares the tale of his “partnership with the piano” from age 8 to the present day. Learn of how he was fired by
his piano teacher at age 8 (“Without A Song”); hear what it was like Ruby Lewis to be sexually confused in L.A. Showtime’s “Masters of Sex.” in the ‘70s (“Deacon Blues”); and by Eric Andrews-Katz She’s been in films and has been what NYC “Method Acting” is re- SGN A&E Writer seen on stage since age 12 when ally like. Wonder about his surreal WE WILL ROCK YOU she performed in The Sound of nine-year stint at Nordstrom play5TH AVENUE THEATRE Music. But the young girl from ing for mannequins (“Mannequin July 8-13 Kentucky has grown up and is Blues”); marvel at his Mexican currently playing the role of Scarepiphany with the patron saint Ruby Lewis has earned the Triamouche in the musical, We Will (“Guadalupe”). Ruminate with ple Crown of performing. She’s Rock You – based on the music him over the 20 year wait for Marperformed in a recurring role on of Queen and Ben Elton. Rocksee Janusz page 5 “Desperate Housewives,” and see RUBY page 8
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R. Kelly’s child comes out as Transgender by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer
on August 11 and 12 (Paramount Theatre), Modest Mouse on July 18 (The Showbox Market), Goo Dolls & Daughtry with Plain White T’s on July 19 (Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery), Jack White on July 25 and 26 (Paramount Theatre), Sam Smith on September 25 (Paramount Theatre), ZZ Top on August 9 (Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery), Earth, Wind & Fire on August 23 (Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery), Boston on September 5 (Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery), and Crosby, Stills and Nash on September 13 (Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery; tickets still available for September 14 show).
You snooze, you lose. New Order on July 6 (Paramount Theatre), Arctic Monkeys
Finally, look for a review of the sold out New Order concert in next week’s paper. Instagram
R. Kelly now has a direct tie to the LGBT community. The R&B singer’s 13 year-old child Jaya Kelly recently came out as Transgender and has renamed himself Jay Kelly, much to the support of his mother Andrea Kelly, a reality TV series star, and big sister Joann. His father, a Grammy winning artist who penned the inspirational anthem “I Believe I Can Fly,” has commented briefly on the matter, but has not voiced immediate support for Jay, only to say that “At the end of the day, it’s not about me no more. It’s about three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that’s in love with me.” (Interview with Chicago radio station WGCI). You can follow Jay Kelly via his Ask.fm page.
hostel, yurts or camping at www.doebay. com. For more information on the festival, go to www.doebayfest.com. If you followed Conchita Wurst on the Eurovision Song Contest and happen to be traveling to Europe this summer, you can catch her live when she performs at Antwerp Pride. The contest winner will appear during the Closing Festival on August 10, taking place at the main city’s square. The bearded crooner made world headlines when she favorably won the multi-national talent competition, dressing in elegant gowns throughout the event. For details, visit www.antwerppride.com.
The lineup for the 7th Annual Doe Bay Festival on Orcas Island, in the San Juan Islands, includes Cody ChesnuTT, Truckasaurus, Hobosexual, Joe Pug, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Modern Kin, and Quiet Life. It’s an intimate, mellow event with beautiful scenery and 23 bands/singer-songwriters set to perform on August 7-11. The festival takes place at the Doe Bay Resort & Retreat, which offers a variety of fun and foresty accommodations for those wanting to rough it in the woods and those who’d prefer to “glamp” instead. Choose from cabins,
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my-winning tune that returned her to the pop charts in 1998. For a one-song encore, she floated above the heads of concertgoers while singing “I Hope You Find It” while standing on a platform that maneuvered throughout the arena. I actually prefer Cher’s cover of that song, compared to the original by Miley Cyrus. As expected, the overall production was a spectacle. It combined razzle dazzle with shtick, a touch of class with naughtiness (did I mention she wore pasties on her breasts during “Believe”?), and it highlighted the work of a woman who has clearly survived generations of music, culture, technology and even fans – some are no longer with us. Cher swore this was her actual farewell tour and vowed never to return, but haven’t we been here before?
CYNDI LAUPER Supporting act and lifelong friend Cyndi Lauper opened for Cher, beginning her hourlong set at the opposite end of the stage and gradually making her way to the front, performing “She Bop.” Reflecting the momentous occasion of Pride weekend, the Grammy and Tony Award winner draped herself with a large Pride flag – rumor has it, she called Seattle Gay News to track one down. The native New Yorker stuck mostly to material from her classic release She’s So Unusual, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2013. Surprisingly, she added a number from the Broadway musical Kinky Boots and apologized for wearing combat boots instead. Lauper delivered a fantastic version of “All Through the Night,” which happens to be Cher’s favorite, holding a white laser light to her face. She belted out “Money Changes Everything” beautifully, and jumped around excitedly during “Bring Ya to the Brink.” Lauper played a gentle rendition of “True Colors” as she cradled and strummed a dulcimer at the foot of the stage, and then led the crowd in a huge sing-along of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” going out to the first rows of the lower level seats to greet fans up close. She even stopped the tune once, saying “What the fuck?!” and asked everyone to sing it louder. She performed “At Last” to thunderous applause, calling it “the ultimate wedding song.” The strong LGBT ally told everybody in exiting to “Have a great Pride” and “Take care of yourselves”. cherstyle.com
She donned a pastel-colored Indian costume for “Half Breed,” as Cherokee drums beat in the background and Native American patterns in turquoise and orange lit up the stage. Two numbers from the musical film Burlesque were squeezed into the program, a dazzling rendition of “Welcome to Burlesque” and a knockout performance of “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me,” sung wonderfully by Cher, who like many fellow divas (Madonna, Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue), has never quite been recognized as a vocalist. In a show that saw nearly a dozen wardrobe changes, every other song was introduced by either a video montage of Cher’s cinematic work, or by aerial dancers who swung 30 to 40 feet in the air gracefully. At times it seemed too long a break before Cher returned to the stage, though each segment flowed nicely into the next without any major hiccups. For “Take It Like a Man,” Cher was garbed in a gold-plated outfit with platinum blonde wig as a large Trojan horse and gladiator-armoured dancers moved around behind her. She took a seat for “Just Like Jesse James,” a hit single she claims to have never fully embraced, yet performs it because her fans enjoy it. Wearing a butt cheek-exposed rocker ensemble, Cher got Key Arena to its feet with “I Found Someone” and “If I Could Turn Back Time,” and then closed out the main set with “Believe,” a Gram-
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riage Equality (“Wouldn’t It Be Nice?”); and revel in the tale of his “command-performance” for then-Presidential Candidate Obama (“Living In A Blue State “) where he exchanges business cards with the future President and causes a nervous breakdown among his Secret Service detail. Victor explains: “This show came out of my need to explain who the often overlooked pianoman really is. I want people to realize that the guy or gal behind the piano is investing their lifetime of relationships and stories into each song they play. My initial impulse and need to create this show came out of hundreds and hundreds of hours playing piano in swanky lounge towers with sweeping vistas and seedy, underground windowless clubs. No matter what the venue, I have learned that I can only publicly play songs that have really landed with me.” Lori Larsen (last seen at ACT as a performer in Other Desert Cities) has served as director and dramaturg for HANDS SOLO: Pianoman in all its incarnations. It has been workshopped at Yale University’s International Cabaret Conference (2008), had its world premiere at NYC’s The Duplex (2010) and had a very successful engagement at the Arthur Newman Theatre in Palm Springs (2012). The six performances at ACT’s Central Heating Lab have been in the works for over two years and Victor Janusz is thrilled to finally perform to a hometown crowd. Tickets are $25 and are on sale now
About The Central Heating Lab The Seagull Project, 14/48, and Icicle Creek Launched in 2007, The Central Heat- Theatre Festival grow and develop. New ing Lab at ACT serves as an incubator and programs are added throughout the year. catalyst for new works. ACT cultivates, pro- With year-round programming produced duces, and presents artists working in all by The Central Heating Lab at ACT alongperformance genres and provides an artis- side ACT’s Mainstage plays, ACT offers its tic home for a variety of local performance patrons a unique opportunity to maximize groups and artists. Relationships develop their theatre experience – the ACTPass: all About Victor Janusz daily with individual actors, performers you can see for only $30 per month. ACTIn 1998 Victor Janusz took his strong back- and playwrights while established partner- Pass Members can attend nearly all ACT ground in American theatre right to the Seat- ships with groups such as the Azeotrope, produced performances. tle Sheraton Towers for a nightly 6-month run as a pianist. He formed a trio and immediately booked venues from the historic Showbox Theatre to The Paramount lobby lounge He has worked non-stop ever since. His many cabaret hits include the popular Phoenicia & Vic shows with Wade Madsen and Pinkaboo! which enjoyed a month-long run at Seattle’s ACT Theatre in 2008. He has accompanied and sung alongside singers as diverse as jazz great Greta Matassa, Sarah Rudinoff, and “El Vez.” As one of the Northwest’s most in-demand pianomen (both a frontman and soloist), Janusz has: headlined (with the VJ Combo) at Canlis for six New Year’s Eve Galas, dazzled at the Fairmont Hotel, and has kept hungry brunch-goers happy for ten years at Salty’s On Alki. In 2008 Victor was selected from a nationwide audition to attend the 6th Annual Cabaret Conference at Yale University. He studied and performed for 10 days with masters of the art form, including Julie Wilson, Jason Graae, and Laurel Masse of “Manhattan Transfer.” His recordings include the instrumental Hands Solo (2002) and Cosmo Street (2005). He is currently completing a new album with an expected Victor Janusz and President Barack Obama release date of July 2014. through ACTTheatre at acttheatre.org or (206) 292-7676. The show runs ThursdaySaturday, July 10-12 at 7:30 p.m. and Friday-Sunday, July 18-20 at 7:30 p.m. at ACT Theatre’s Bullitt Cabaret, 700 Union St. All shows are performed without an intermission and are 85 minutes in length.
DJ Almond Brown hosts HARD BLOCK at The Cuff by Shaun Knittel SGN Associate Editor DJ Almond Brown, one of Seattle’s best known House music deejays and co-host of “Now Being Served,” a music and news podcast that has been well received, has a new night at The Cuff and things are heating up. “My new night is called HARD BLOCK, and it’s every second Saturday at The Cuff,” said Brown. “I really felt the need to create something that was very music focused and am trying to book local and national artists that are relevant and have musical versatility. We can’t live on the circuit sound alone, and I want these DJs to be able to step outside of their usual sound. It’s OK to play REAL house!” “Going to Chicago for Frankie Knuckles birthday party really changed my per-
spective and I’m devoted to preserving the legacy and sound of house,” he said. “So the night will be a continuous evolution of genres. I also felt the need to do a night that was pointed a bit more towards masculinity. You’ll see that the lights are lower, we’ve omitted basically all pop, and it’s sexy!” “I want everyone to check it out!” said Brown. “What’s exciting is that I’m bring DJs to that room that you would usually pay upwards of $100 an event to see outside of our area,” he said. “So it’s this really intimate experience to hear these acts, and watch them do their thing. And it’s breathing some life back into The Cuff.” As a veteran DJ, Almond Brown has noticed thatthereissometimesadeclineinGaymenwho go out to the club. And he says that matters “bebbintmusic.blogspot.com
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causewe’relosingabitofournightlifefabric.” “For years that was all we really had to connect, was to go out. It was the one thing that binded us,” he said. “There was the weekend we looked forward to to see friends and feel safe and free. I think we’ve lost a bit of that over the years, in part to technology and frankly, complacency from our local entertainment providers.” Almond Brown has been a DJ off and on since the 8th grade. “I use to DJ my school dances and parties on Hilltop in Tacoma. Music is the only thing I do really well. Whether I’m writing it, performing it, it’s the one thing I can say is truly built into my DNA. I may not be able to point out where, Tanzania is on the map, but I can tell you who played percussion on the Con Funk Shun Loveshine album in 1979! (Sheila E.)” “But, I do this work because I love so many folks in this community, and I really want to be a point of reference for quality shows and productions,” he said. “I feel like I have so much support from the core community, and I feel like it’s because I’ve always delivered, musically, politically, and stayed a REAL MOTHER F@$#$! Almond Brown told Seattle Gay News, “The Cuff will always be my home.” “I realized that profoundly during and after the shit show I went through with Q,” he said. “When I was doing my first residency at The Cuff (“Sensorium”) almost 4 years ago, I got to the point where I felt I needed to focus more on production and my musical taste was shifting a bit. Puppy has always been nothing but a sweetheart to me, and it pained me to leave, but he was gracious when I did. But I’m back! And we need The Cuff to be successful! It’s one of the last venues on the Hill we got left in a rapidly changing Capitol Hill. But it’s vital that they address their music programming
issues and recognize the changing tastes of what I feel is a demographic being overlooked. It’s not 2002, baby!” DJ Almond brown says Seattle’s Gay Nightlife is “kinda bouncing back.” “Seattle is on fire right now in terms of music and DJs on the “house head” side, and I think it’s starting to spill over,” he said. “There are so many theme nights right now, and I really think that variety is what we’ve needed for a while now. I’ve certainly seen a shift out of the 100 requests for Britney Spears tracks a night, so it’s definitely made my nightlife experience better! Seriously, I find myself recently running through Neighbours and R Place more and more, and I think it’s because folks are just looking for more options again.” Why should Gay men support LGBT owned/operated businesses? “I think the reasons are obvious. Where will you go when they disappear? I want to support everybody coming out, straight or Gay. But to a degree, we need to stop pandering to “straights” and this notion that we’re evolving at such a high rate that we should just accept it. If 20 Gay guys went to a straight bar and took their shirts off, there would be a problem. And you know that! Until we’re at a place where the playing field is equal regarding heterosexual privilege, we need to proceed with caution. It’s been proven once here locally how easy it is to cast our community aside, so if you’re patronizing any straight club, you’re operating under a false sense of security.” Some little known facts about DJ Almond Brown are, “I used to do stand-up comedy and was on HBO’s “Funniest Man in America” waaaay back in the day! I lived in Anchorage, Alaska for almost 6 years and I have been chased by a moose.”
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Mark Morris Dance Group’s Acis and Galatea a brilliant confluence of music, dance, and drama Ken Friedman
Scene from Acis and Galatea
by Sharon Cumberland Special to the SGN ACIS AND GALATEA MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP ZELLERBACH HALL UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY April 25 When the monster Polyphemus makes his appearance in Mark Morris’ new work, Acis and Galetea, each giant footstep is represented by a trio of arm-linked dancers swinging the middle-man feet-first into the air and hinging him down six feet away. Two teams executing this maneuver in time to Handel’s percussive chorus “Behold the monster Polypheme! What ample strides he takes!” creates the weird illusion of a crea-
ture so massive he cannot be contained by the stage, or even Zellerbach Hall, where Mark Morris’ delightful opera-dance premiered in April. A new work by Mark Morris is cause for celebration among dance and music lovers everywhere. Morris, a Seattle native, is one of the most important choreographers alive today, and his company, The Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG), is famous not only for witty, complex shorter works, but for dances set to full-length compositions such as Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, and Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. He is one of the few artists working today whose musicality matches his choreographic talent, and whose company dances to live musical performances. Acis and Galatea, set to Handel’s pastoral opera, takes place in Arcadia, so both
the abstract backdrops by Adrianne Lobel and the printed chiffon costumes by Isaac Misrahi evoke the natural world without literal bushes and trees. The plot concerns a love triangle among the nymph Galatea, her beloved, Acis, and the monster Polyphemus. When Galatea rejects Polyphemus’ advances, he kills Acis, who Galatea then transforms into an ever-flowing river. This simple plot inspired a river of gorgeous music from Handel, played with clarity and warmth by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorus under the baton of Nicholas McGegan, and performed by a group of talented young singers featuring bass-baritone Douglas Williams, whose supercilious monster almost steals the show. The real stars, however, are the corps of MMDG dancers, whose execution of Morris’ intricate patterns is at once playful, meticulous, and fluid. Morris deploys his dancers in groups of four, five or six, firing them across the stage in ever-developing designs that repeat, mirror, and echo each other while expressing the sense of the musical texts. Morris is known for restoring music to a modern dance tradition that had abandoned classical traditions in order to manipulate movement to the accompaniment of spoken word, pop, soundscapes, or silence. When Morris came on the dance scene in the 1980s, there was a near-total divide between the elegant, musical world of ballet and the angular, atonal world of modern dance. In the past twenty-five years MMDG has made music central to modern dance once again. Morris has also brought a respect for clarity to a modern dance tradition that eschewed coherence for the experiment of moving bodies through space, much as abstract expressionism rejected representational art. Far from executing literal inter-
pretations of music, as some critics claim, Morris’ choreography is based on gestures that add meaning to the drama by establishing key ideas through visual signs. For instance, when Galatea sings “Love in her eyes sits playing” a figure-eight gesture signifying “love” forms and melts repeatedly through pairs of dancers bending sideways with clasped hands, arms akimbo. As the drama unfolds, this gesture reappears in arias of grief and conflict, silently reinforcing the core tragedy of love threatened, lost, and partially restored. When the chorus sings “Fate has passed this sad decree: no joy shall last,” trios of dancers form a gesture of lovers separated by fate. This “fate” figure becomes the final gesture of the evening, even as the chorus is singing “Galatea, dry thy tears.” No choreographer since Balanchine has Morris’ power of speaking clearly to the audience through a dance vocabulary expressing multi-layered concepts. In addition to the premiere at Cal Performances in Berkeley, Acis and Galatea was presented in Boston at the Citi Shubert Theater in May, and will appear again at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York August 7-9. One can only hope that this brilliant confluence of music, dance, and drama will tour more widely in the future, or that PBS will broadcast it on Live from Lincoln Center. Acis and Galatea deserves a Polyphemus-sized audience. Mark Morris Dance Group’s Acis and Galatea, music by George Frideric Handel, arranged by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto by John Gay, with Alexander Pope and John Hughes, conductor Nicolas McGegan with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale, premiered April 25, 2014 at Cal Performances, Zellerbach Hall, University of California, Berkeley.
Women rule the season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival by Alice Bloch SGN Contributing Writer OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASHLAND, OREGON Through November 2
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Richard III Through October 10 Actor Dan Donohue’s brilliant performances of Hal (in the Henry IV and V plays) and then Hamlet made his OSF reputation. This season he takes on another great Shakespeare role, the villainous but charismatic Richard III, and once again, his perfor-
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mance is superb: sly, self-aware, frightening, pathetic. Donohue connects exceptionally well with the audience and makes us all complicit in Richard’s crimes. This gripping, well-paced production, directed by James Bundy in the Allen, is firmly centered on the actors and brings out their best. On opening night, Franchelle Stewart Dorn, a festival newcomer, nearly stole the show with her powerful performance as Queen Margaret, whose husband and son have been killed by Richard.
Into the Woods Through October 11 It’s embarrassing for a theater and music critic to admit this, but I’d never seen Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods until opening night at the Allen. In fact, I’d never even heard the music from this amazing show, which mashes up a number of fairy tales and messes with the audience’s expectation of a happy ending. Well! It’s difficult to imagine a better incourtesy of oregon shakespeare festival
If you’ve never attended the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in Ashland, you might not know that only three or four of the eleven plays offered each season are by Shakespeare. This year, for the first time, a majority of the non-Shakespeare plays were written by women. Furthermore, the company turns Shakespearean tradition on its head by presenting The Two Gentlemen of Verona with an all-female cast. The second innovation this season is a technical one: a new sound system in the outdoor Allen Elizabethan Theatre. So much sound gets lost in a large open-air theater that it can be impossible for actors to project adequately without amplification. The actors performing in the Allen now wear body mikes, which deliver their words to all parts of the theater with little or no sound distortion. In the three opening nights I attended at the Allen, there was only one slight glitch when an actor bumped into another actor’s mike. Otherwise, the sound was clear and natural.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona Through October 12 Two Gents is very early Shakespeare and lacks the depth and subtlety of his later plays. However, this no-gents production in the Allen is thoroughly enjoyable. It doesn’t hurt that the cast includes some of the finest actors in the company: Sofia Jean Gomez and Christiana Clark as Valentine and Proteus, the two gents; Erica Sullivan as Julia, the young woman loved, then spurned, then loved again by Proteus; K. T. Vogt as Launce, Proteus’s servant; and veteran OSF actors Judith-Marie Bergan, Vilma Silva, and Catherine E. Coulson in smaller roles. It also doesn’t hurt that a lovable Great Pyrenees named Picasso plays Launce’s dog Crab. Director Sarah Rasmussen has created an elegant production, with simple, versatile sets designed by Andrew Boyce and gorgeous, gender-bending costumes designed by Moria Sine Clinton. And it’s such fun to see women roughhousing, clowning, and wooing each other onstage.
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troduction than the splendid OSF performance I witnessed, which fairly crackled with energy and spirit. Amanda Dehnert, who directed last year’s successful production of My Fair Lady, again serves as both stage director and music director. The performance begins in concert style, with the actors standing at lecterns, but each time the actors exit and re-enter, they are wearing more of their costumes. Gradually, concert becomes musical theater. This way of staging a musical seems to be Dehnert’s trademark, and it definitely draws the audience into the performance. Some of the cast are singers who can act, and some are actors who can sing pretty well. Some of the musicians are professionals, and some are middle- and high-school student apprentices. To the credit of Dehnert and all participants in this production, the quality of performance couldn’t be much higher – no small feat with Sondheim’s insanely complex music and lyrics. Miriam A. Laube plays the witch with gusto and musicality. John Tufts and Jeremy Peter Johnson as the two princes are as funny as they are cute, and that’s saying a lot. Noteworthy performers in the singing category are Rachael Warren, Miles Fletcher, Jennie Greenberry, and Johnson. In the acting category, Catherine E. Coulson, Howie Seago, Kjerstine Rose Anderson, and Royer Bockus shine. Robin Goodrin Nordl, who has made a long OSF career of tragic roles, gamely throws herself into broad comedy as the harried mother of Jack (the beanstalk guy) – she dances, mugs, and makes an astonishingly acrobatic entrance on a bedsheet. Matt Goodrich at the piano does a yeoman’s job of keeping the music on-track, even when he is covered in flour at one particularly riotous moment. On opening night in the Allen, the only part of the production that fell flat was the video projection of the giant’s head onto the top of the set. The low-tech effects worked much better: Red Riding Hood diving directly into the wolf’s stomach, characters hidden in a magician’s trunk, the two princes riding tricycles with horses’ heads, the witch transforming herself into a beauty in record time while twirling in a length of cloth.
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turned home with an injured leg, a painkiller addiction, and a ghost that haunts him; and the members of an online chat room in which recovering crack cocaine addicts help each other stay clean. Odessa Ortiz (screen name Haikumom, played by Vilma Silva) moderates the chat room. Although Silva’s deeply affecting performance makes her character the very heart of the play, this is an ensemble piece, in which the six major characters have nearly equal importance. All the actors do a terrific job in their individual roles and in their scenes together. Scenic designer Sibyl Wickersheimer’s spare, effective set illustrates the characters’ isolation and need for connection: a separate square on the floor represents each character’s space, and computer screens on the back wall show the chat room denizens logging on and off. The music of John Coltrane and other jazz-influenced sounds designed by John Nobori provide an appropriately dissonant atmosphere. Video projections designed by WickDenis Arndt (l) & Wayne T. Carr in The Tempest ersheimer and Geoff Korf give beautiful visual form to the pervasive water imagery of the play. The Tempest a nice companion piece to The Comedy of Water by the Spoonful is now closed for Through November 2 Errors. Expertly directed by David Ivers, the summer but will reopen for a two-month During the half-hour before the play be- choreographed by Jaclyn Miller, and orrun beginning September 4. gins, while the audience fills the Bowmer, chestrated by Gregg Coffin, the production four male dancers (Will Cooper, Tim Rubel, is just plain fun. The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window David Silpa, and Jordon Waters) with shaved Bedard as Groucho, Brent Hinkley as Through July 3 heads and pale painted skin sit in pools of Harpo, and John Tufts as Chico are an unThis first-rate production of Lorraine light on an onstage beach. They are motion- beatable team and delight in cracking up the Hansberry’s rarely performed last play less as statues until, one by one, they slowly rest of the cast and the Bowmer audience was definitely worth seeing, but unfortu- change poses in a style based on Japanese with their ad-lib antics. David Kelley as nately, it closed for the season before press Butoh. In the course of the evening, the danc- Detective Hennessey manages to make the time. If Hansberry had lived beyond age 34, ers function as a mute chorus, as servants same gags funny again and again. she probably would have shortened a few to Prospero (the main character, played by Jennie Greenberry’s voice does justice scenes. OSF sought permission from her es- Denis Arndt), as pieces of furniture, as en- to Berlin’s songs, and Miles Fletcher, Erin tate to do just that, and received permission tertainers at a betrothal ceremony, and as the O’Connor, and Katie Bradley execute some in some cases but not in others. Nonetheless, means for the sprite Ariel (Kate Hurster, in a cute routines with verve. Darcy Danielson does this is an important, rewarding play, and it fresh, clear performance) to fly. The dancers a fine job of conducting from the keyboard. deserves to be performed more widely. provide much of the magic of this lovely proIn the Angus Bowmer Theatre, director duction, directed by Tony Taccone. A Wrinkle in Time Juliette Carrillo, scenic designer Michiko SuWayne T. Carr, who plays Caliban, the Through November 1 zuki MacAdams, and sound designer David second nonhuman character, provides plenIf you read and loved the Madeleine Molina vividly recreate Greenwich Village ty of magic, too. He displays remarkable L’Engle novel A Wrinkle in Time during in the early 1960s. The crowded apartment of athleticism and emotional range, spending your childhood, you’ll probably love this Sidney Brustein (Ron Menzel, in an extremely nearly the entire play on his haunches and production, adapted and directed by Tracy high-energy performance) and his wife Iris movingly portraying the pathos and anger Young. Excerpts of recorded interviews (the quirky, expressive Sofia Jean Gomez) of an enslaved creature and the gradual de- with fans of the book and staged readings of overflows with books and papers, which lie velopment of the character’s dignity. passages from the book make reading itself in stacks under the couch and the coffee table. In smaller roles, Richard Elmore and Bar- the principal subject of the play. Water by the Spoonful The sound track includes Pete Seeger, Bob zin Akhavan are very funny as the clownish Alejandra Escalante, Sara Bruner, Joe WegSeptember 4 through November 2 Dylan, and other protest and folk singers. Stephano and Trinculo. ner, Mark Bedard, and Jeremy Thompson all Of the nine plays I attended during a A Gay playwright based on Edward Albee Kudos to scenic designer Daniel Ostling, do well as the children in the story, with Beweek-long OSF marathon, Water by the (perfectly portrayed by Benjamin Pelteson) is lighting designer Alexander V. Nichols, cos- dard and Thompson bringing particularly eloSpoonful, which won the 2012 Pulitzer the Brusteins’ upstairs neighbor. Iris’s two sis- tume designer Anita Yavich, and movement quent body language to their roles as teenage Prize for playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, ters are Mavis (in an excellent performance by director John Sipes for creating a striking, boys. A charming additional child (Jada Rae was my favorite. It was also the favorite of Erica Sullivan), a seemingly boring housewife evocative atmosphere. Perry) does science experiments onstage. In my companion and of several friends who who reveals a hidden complexity in a wonderThe performance I attended was marred the adult roles, Judith-Marie Bergan, Michele attended a different performance. ful monologue that includes text from Medea only by Arndt’s lack of diction and emotion. Jais, Kate Mulligan, Daniel T. Parker, and U. Directed by Shishir Kurup in the small in Greek; and Gloria (Vivia Font), a call girl A weak Prospero is a fatal flaw in almost Jonathan Toppo are all top-notch. Thomas Theatre, this is a stunning produc- being courted by an African American man any production of The Tempest, so this protion of an outstanding play. It has original- (Armando McClain) who passes for white. duction’s effectiveness is all the more imComing up: ity, strong characters, well-written dialog, The dialog is long on philosophy and poli- pressive. Daedalus Project, Family Album, and perfect pacing, and emotional impact – ev- tics, but also contains a lot of humor, some The Great Society erything one could ask for. of it quite biting. Hansberry, an African The Comedy of Errors You might want to travel to Ashland for The play concerns two connected groups: American Lesbian, was definitely ahead of Through November 2 the all-day OSF Daedalus Project on Authe family of Elliot Ortiz (played by Daniel her time – this 1964 play confronts racism, This madcap show, set in Harlem in the gust 18. This annual event raises money to José Molina), an Iraq War vet who has re- sexism, and homophobia. 1920s, takes some liberties with Shake- end the spread of HIV/AIDS, and to rememspeare’s text, but loses nothing of importance ber and celebrate those who have died from and gains some marvelous music, dancing, the disease. Activities include an afternoon and singing. The separation and reunion play reading and an always-hilarious eveof two sets of twins and of their parents has ning variety show. extra resonance when the twins are African Two plays will have world premieres at American, with one set having grown up in OSF in July. Family Album, a rock-andthe South and the other in the North. roll musical by Stew and Heidi Rodewald, Under Kent Gash’s direction in the Thom- the team behind the Tony Award-winning as, the play gallops along at a dizzying pace, show Passing Strange, will run in the which all cast members handle without ap- Thomas July 1-August 31. Robert Shenkparent strain. It’s near-impossible to imag- kan’s The Great Society, commissioned ine this production without Rodney Gardin- by the Seattle Repertory Theatre, will run er as both Dromios. He simply makes the in the Bowmer July 23-November 1. The show. Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, Ramiz Monsef, Great Society is the sequel to Shenkkan’s Bakesta King, and Mark Murphey also give Tony Award-winning All the Way, comstandout performances in smaller roles. missioned by OSF to tell the story of Lyndon B. Johnson in the manner of ShakeThe Cocoanuts speare’s history plays. Bill Rauch, artistic Through November 2 director of OSF, once again directs. After The chaos, fast pace, and crazy humor the OSF run, All the Way and The Great of this Marx Brothers musical, written by Society will move to the Seattle Rep, where Irving Berlin and George S. Kaufman and Rauch and key members of the OSF cast Daniel Jose Molina (l) & Nancy Rodriguez in Water by the Spoonful adapted for OSF by Mark Bedard, make it will continue their roles. courtesy of oregon shakespeare festival
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continued from cover ing it’s way into the Emerald City, the SGN caught up with this talented performer. Eric Andrews-Katz: Who were your earliest influences in becoming a performer? Ruby Lewis: I’d have to say Aretha Franklin was a big one. And Whitney Houston, too. We listened to a lot of Bonnie Raitt in my house as well. As far as turning on the radio, or putting on a cassette tape of music, those were my top three. Andrews-Katz: What was the first Queen song you remember? Lewis: I think the first one I remember was “Another One Bites the Dust.” At least,
that is my favorite as a kid. Andrews-Katz: After performing in The Sound of Music and Ragtime, how did you get yourself prepared for the We Will Rock You audition? Lewis: I was transitioning into rock musicals at that time, so it worked out really well. I had moved out to L.A. and started working for a company called For The Record. We would sing soundtracks from iconic film scores and sound tracks. So I was singing a lot of rock music when the audition came about. I was using the song “Somebody to Love” as an audition song, and that’s my big solo in the show. I had been using it for years. It was my audition song for Jersey Boys as well. I got the audition notice and luckily I knew the song really well!
Andrews-Katz: Is it more difficult playing in a rock-n-roll musical or performing in a more traditional musical? Lewis: This show takes a lot of discipline, especially in the way of a lifestyle. I need to make sure I get enough sleep and drink enough water. It’s not glamorous. I don’t understand how Steve Taylor and those guys did it! It takes such a toll on your body and voice. The feedback from the audience helps. It gives us adrenaline and I feel like I can do anything on stage. Andrews-Katz: Do you think Jukebox musicals are more popular than traditional musicals? Lewis: These days I think people are looking for something different. There are waves of what’s popular and starting with
American Idiot and Spring Awakening, they started writing Broadway shows that are more rock based. It took off. I think people that aren’t natural theater goers like to go now, and have the music take them back. Andrews-Katz: What is it about Queen’s music that resonates with the general public so well? Lewis: I was shocked when I got the job and listened to their catalogue – at how versatile their voices and music were. How many different sounds they did. Freddy changed his voice just slight for the song “A Crazy Little Thing Called Love” (and people think Elvis did it first, they’re wrong) and how unique it sounded. Andrews-Katz: Which do you find more challenging as a performer, the movies, on television, or on stage, and why? Lewis: I prefer having constant interaction with my audience and like being on the stage. It’s totally different – the kind of energy – and much more fulfilling at the end of the day. It’s like during the Curtain Call every night, I have this moment of gratitude that sweeps over me. I say to myself, “Wow!” every night. “We are feeding them and they are feeding us,” and it’s instant and that’s why theater is so unique and magical. Andrews-Katz: If you could play any role – regardless of any limitations – what would it be and why? Lewis: Right now I’m really into autobiographical stuff. My dream would be to play Judy Garland or Marilyn Monroe in. …whatever. One of those two definitely. I think the layers of their personalities are there, and we idolize them for that. I want to show how special they were and how poorly they were treated. Jim Beach – the manager of the group Queen – was first approached about a Jukebox musical based on Queen’s music as early as 20 0 0. A year later the show We Will Rock You opened in London’s West End. It celebrated its 11th anniversary before closing in London on May 31, 2014.
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BEGIN AGAIN Now playing Dan (Mark Ruffalo) is a New York record executive whose unwillingness to change with the times has potentially cost him his job. Gretta (Keira Knightley) is a British songwriter whose longtime boyfriend Dave (Adam Levine) just hit it big and in the process of achieving stardom has suddenly embraced much of the excess that goes right along with it leaving her suddenly single and in the proverbial lurch. On a night when all Dan wants to do is get drunk and all Gretta’s hoping for is a peaceful few hours before boarding the plane back to London, the two find themselves in the same club at the same time, one making the other’s acquaintance while their lives are at a mutual crossroads. Dan knows greatness when he hears it, and Gretta has it in spades, even if she’s not quite confident enough to know it. Taking a leap of faith, the two join forces to compose an album on the streets of New York, the sounds of the city itself an energizing catalyst that will
hopefully bring the young woman success and the one-time hit-maker a music industry sensation one more time. John Carney’s Begin Again is noticeably safer than his Oscar-winning debut Once. It’s more predictable. More melodramatic. More willing to play in the relatively safe waters of convention. At the same time, that doesn’t make it any less joyous, the movie having an innate hardscrabble authenticity to its layers, making even the more tiredly cliché aspects feel more alive and genuine than they otherwise have any right to be. It is a film that made me smile, pretty much start to finish, leaving me to exit the theater with a song in my heart and a skip to my step I didn’t recall having before I entered. The initial setup admittedly takes far too long. We watch Dan’s fall from grace leading to his arrival in the bar to see Gretta take the stage, only to suddenly rewind backwards after the two meet to see her story and how her relationship with Dave devolved to the point where the young musician plans to retreat back to England. While important information, all of this takes forever, meaning the meat of the actual movie doesn’t even kick into gear until we’re al-
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Steinfeld), give the movie a perceptive pizzazz I responded to whole-heartedly, allowing for the more obnoxiously manufactured elements to feel less so as far as the overall mélange was ultimately concerned. The music, while not as sensational as the songs Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová composed for Once, is still outstanding – the opening piece sung by Knightley and a climactic number delivered with soulful flair by Levine each deserving of becoming an outright hit (or, at the very least, an Academy Award nominee). Better, each is organically interwoven into the story, every tune sung part of the fiber that gives the overall drama its vivacious kick. Begin Again is far from perfect. It lacks the delicate sensibilities of Carney’s 2007 effort, some of the coincidental melodramatics a bit too easy, a bit too obvious for my taste. But the characters themselves are beautifully constructed, the way the two leads interact with one another as well as the world at large continually captivating. More than that, though, while happy endings are found, everything doesn’t get tied up in a fancy bow, threads still left dangling in a way that hints at the hope, happenstance and healing with any luck still to come.
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most 30 minutes in. That’s almost a third of the 104-minute running time, and I was definitely squirming in my seat a bit waiting for the important stuff to get going. When it does, however, Carney’s latest doesn’t just take off, it soars into the stratosphere. Knightley and Ruffalo make a winning team, each playing off the other with multifaceted specificity achieving a beauteous eloquence that’s hypnotizing. Their characters are fully formed, completely three-dimensional, each finding little facets and quirks making them distinct and unique in ways that are consistently enthralling. Knightley, in particular, is sublime, delivering one of her flirtiest, most easy-going performances in ages, her Gretta maybe the most likable the actress has been since stealing scenes and hearts in Bend It Like Beckham way back in 2002. The film works best in its quieter moments. There are sparkling little bon mots sprinkled throughout, making the story’s inhabitants feel more genuine than they otherwise would have. Little things, like the way Ruffalo and Catherine Keener (playing Dan’s rock journalist ex-wife) fall into intimately familiar patterns every time he shows up on the doorstep to discuss their teenage daughter Violet (a magnetic Hailee
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Summer 2014 has proven to be a pretty darn good one up to this point. By and large, the majority of the major offerings coming out of Hollywood have been more or less solid, a small handful close to spectacular. Both Godzilla and X-Men: Days of Future Past exceeded expectation, while the ribald comedy Neighbors was a laugh riot start to finish. High profile sequels How to Train a Dragon 2 and 22 Jump Street also proved to be worthwhile cinematic offerings, as did the Tom Cruise sci-fi adventure Edge of Tomorrow and the teens-with-cancer melodrama The Fault in Our Stars. The final two months of Hollywood’s biggest season also have their promising titles eyeing a release. Melissa McCarthy attempts to cement her status as comedy’s newest sensation with Tammy (July 2), Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel re-up for a second time with Sex Tape (July 18) while Fox hopes there’s still room in the R-rated comedy summertime fold for their law enforcement impersonation effort Let’s Be Cops (August 13). Studios continue to mine the latest in Young Adult fiction, both The Giver (August 15) and If I Stay (August 22) hoping for box office success. As for sequels, there are plenty of them. Simians take control of the Earth in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (July 11), Marvel catapults its cinematic universe into the outer realms of the cosmos with Guardians of the Galaxy (August 1) and Robert Rodriguez heads back into Frank Miller hard-boiled noir territory as the long in coming Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (August 22) finally hits theaters. Disney mines straight-to-video terrain for the second time in two years with Planes: Fire and Rescue while Universal tries to make lightning strike twice with their quickly produced, low budgeted horror effort The Purge: Anarchy (both July 18). Then there’s Sylvester Stallone, assembling even more geriatric (or, almost geriatric) ac-
tion heroes for one last outing bringing forth The Expendables 3 (August 15) for some hardboiled, blood-riddled mayhem. On the smaller side of the coin, Richard Linklater unveils 2014’s best film Boyhood (July 25) to the world at large and not just the festival circuit, while Another Earth colleagues director Mike Cahill and actress Brit Marling reunite for the fascinating, deeply moving science-based metaphorical romance I, Origins (July 18). Once wunderkind John Carney returns with the melodiously enchanting Begin Again (July 2), while Woody Allen makes his yearly trek to the multiplex with the intriguing Magic in the Moonlight (July 25). There’s more, lots of it. A plethora of titles big, small and everywhere in-between scheduled to make appearances throughout the next two months. The following is a small sampling of films hitting Seattle screens in July and August. As always, release dates are subject to change so make sure and check with local theaters to make sure the movie you’re aching to see is actually going to be playing.
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Latest Transformers shows series veering towards extinction It’s been five years since the events in Chicago. The CIA, under the shadowy leadership of the mysterious Harold Attinger (Kelsey Grammer), has been covertly hunting down all the remaining Decepticons, secretively delivering their remains to weapons expert and billionaire inventor Joshua Joyce (Stanley Tucci). But unknown to the agency, and for that matter the White House, he’s been hunting Autobots as well, forcing Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen) himself to go into hiding, ordering his surviving compatriots to do the same. Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) is a Texas farmer who fancies himself a robotics pioneer, trying to raise only child Tessa (Nicola Peltz) as a single father, as best he can. When a group of mercenaries led by the coldhearted James Savoy (Titus Welliver) ends up on his doorstep, the close-knit family suddenly finds themselves in the middle of a conflict they barely understand, let alone thought they’d become a part of. It turns out that old truck in the barn is none other than Optimus Prime, and unbeknownst to both the Yeagers and to Attinger, he’s the key to stopping a new evil from rising, that if allowed to blossom will result in the extinction of the entire human race. Thus begins Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth film in the based-on-Hasbrotoys franchise, all of them directed by The Rock and Bad Boys auteur Michael Bay. Introducing an entire new set of human characters into the mix and jettisoning every single last one of the actors who appeared in the previous trilogy (voice actors excluded, of course) – even with all this change going on, there’s not a heck of a lot different about this effort than
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any of the previous ones. The plot makes little to no sense. Character development is minimal. The volume is turned all the way up to 11, explosions are frequent and rampant bouts of blatant misogyny lurk inside every frame. If we’re being honest, and where it comes to this series, or Bay’s recent filmography in general (I know this isn’t exactly easy to do, but if we’re at least trying to make the attempt) – as far as the world of Transformers is concerned this latest effort is arguably the most successful one in the franchise since the 2007 original. Even at a mind-numbing 165-minutes, even with Bay working somewhat on autopilot, there is some imaginative visual razzle-dazzle inside the picture that’s undeniable. On top of that, some of the action sequences are impressively staged; and even though most of them feel like they’ve been pulled from the director’s previous
flicks (most notably The Island, Armageddon and Bad Boys II) that doesn’t make them anything to scoff at. Same time, as far as good news goes, that’s about it. These films have never been designed for critics, this goes without saying; but what’s most glaring at this point is that, for all intents and purposes, they’re no longer even designed for domestic audiences. Dialogue and plot, never important to the franchise in the first place, are even more minimal and nonsensical this time, while story and character beats are dispensed with in order to stage another gunfight, another car chase, another near miss and another breathless escape. The excess on display is undeniable (the Dinobots are added to the chaos for no reason whatsoever), everything engineered for international audiences, specifically those who speak little to no English and just want to see things blow up with spectacular aplomb.
I have nothing more to say. I didn’t like Transformers: Age of Extinction, have no wish whatsoever to ever watch it again, but I can’t say I hated it in the same breath, either. I understood immediately what it was and why it existed, and while that doesn’t excuse it for being as stupid and as vapid as it is, that doesn’t mean I should be throwing a tantrum or raining down obscenities on its head, either. It’s not a good movie, true, one made for far more money than it should have been and with so little care you wonder why the majority of the players (filmmakers and cast) bothered in the first place. Be that as it may, the film does exist and people are going to see it, and as much as I think that’s a decidedly bad idea, there are far worse flicks out there other than this for me to get my dander up about and urge potential viewers to steer away from.
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ing time with her can be more of a chore than its worth; and while her situation is pitiable, the actions she takes and the tantrums she’s prone to throwing are hardly endearing. I like the fact the comedian is attempting to stretch, is content not to just keep turning in audience-friendly performances found in the likes of The Heat and Bridesmaids. Be that as it may, she and Falcone haven’t exactly made it easy on themselves, McCarthy’s character difficult to embrace and even harder to want to spend more than a couple of minutes with at any one time. There’s not a lot of reason to go into more detail. Tammy is a jumble of ideas and concepts, dropping its all-star contin-
gent (the cast also includes Mark Duplass, Gary Cole, Sandra Oh, Sarah Baker and Dan Aykroyd) in the middle of all this bedlam and pretty much letting them rip with barely a concept of what the outcome is supposed to be. More than that, its supposed heartwarming conclusion, while bringing a smile to my face, isn’t earned, letting characters off the hook for actions and transgressions that are borderline heinous. For all the talent involved, and there’s a stupefying ton of it, the film itself is half-baked at best, making watching the finished product as tedious and as arduous a process as anything I’ve experienced this year. Warner Bros. Pictures
TAMMY Now playing Tammy Banks (Melissa McCarthy) is having a bad day. First off, she totaled her car in an accident involving a preternaturally resilient deer. Next, she lost her job at the local fast food joint. Finally, her husband Greg (Nat Faxon) is having an affair with their next-door neighbor, Missi (Toni Collette), putting the capper on the worst morning a person could arguably ever have. With her drunken grandmother Pearl (Susan Sarandon) eager to hit the road and do something exciting, and much to the chagrin of her fusspot mother Deb (Allison Janney), Tammy makes the impromptu decision to get out of town. With a loose plan to head in the general direction of Niagara Falls, she and Pearl undergo a series of unusual, nonsensical adventures (most of them coming apart at the seams thanks to the latter’s alcoholism), making new friends and visiting old ones, their journey filled with life lessons both women will unexpectedly learn to embrace. Tammy is about as close to a low budget, mumblecore, Sundance-like, independently produced, rambunctiously haphazard ensemble relationship comedy as anything a major Hollywood studio (in this case Warner Bros. courtesy of New Line) has ever financed and released on thousands of screens nationwide. The movie disjointed and all over the map, dealing with a tone of ideas and concepts it doesn’t entirely know what to do with. It’s messy and undefined, bringing up intriguing possibilities only to rarely do anything of merit with any of them; and while there are plenty of laughs to be found, there are just as many – if not
more – sighs of discontent to be uttered throughout the enterprise’s 96-minute running time as well. A labor of love for McCarthy and her husband Ben Falcone (both wrote the script, while the latter also makes his directorial debut), the film is nonetheless a disheveled star-filled mongrel that can’t seem to find its footing. It’s a road trip comedy. It’s a buddy comedy. It’s a comedic drama about broken people learning to reconnect both with themselves as well as with the rest of the world. It’s a romantic comedy. It’s a gross-out comedy. It’s a serious foray into thirty-something discontent and malaise. It’s all of that and yet also so much more, everything moving along with an anything-goes gait that’s intriguing and off-putting both in equal measure. There are some sensational bits of emotional humanistic insight, specifically during a couple of poignant quiet stretches where Tammy and Pearl attempt to make a connection while out on the road. There’s also a great lecture from Kathy Bates, appearing late in the film as a wise-ass Lesbian with a penchant for blowing things up, and while what she says borders on cliché (and comes at a rather odd moment) the Oscar-winner delivers her words with such authentic conviction it’s hard not to find them effective. There are some surprisingly touching bits sprinkled helter-skelter throughout, and in the end it goes without saying that Sarandon has an innate ability to make even the most mundane and witless of situations feel genuine and true even if in reality they are anything but. Then there’s McCarthy. She’s feisty and unpredictable, doing her best to craft a wellrounded character, unafraid to let Tammy be as ugly and as unlikable as necessary whenever the moment requires. Problem is, spend-
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2014 Mid-Year Film Recap As far as 2014 is concerned, by the end of June I’ve already watched just over a 100 films that have either been released or are scheduled-to-be-released this year, which actually is down a little for 2013, if I’m being perfectly honest. But in terms of quality? Quality-wise, this year has been borderline exceptional, a number of noteworthy films seeing a release, a large handful of which are without question worthy of top ten status come the end of December. Not too surprisingly, it’s been independent and foreign releases that have led the way. Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel might just be the idiosyncratic filmmaker’s best effort yet, while veterans Jim Jarmusch (Only Lovers Left Alive), David Gordon Green (Joe), Hirokazu Koreeda (Like Father, Like Son) and Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake) returned to action with delectable, multifaceted relish. The big news, though, might just be the emergence of relatively new distributor A24 into the multiplex, the upstart company bringing forth Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child, Steven Knight’s Locke, Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin, Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy and David Michôd’s The Rover all within the past sixth months, a fairly glorious selection of releases for an entire year let alone half of one.
2014 TOP TEN CONTENDERS As far as the major studios are con(alphabetic order) cerned, there’s plenty to talk about on • Blue Ruin that front as well. Warner Bros. hit it out • Captain America: The Winter Soldier of the park with both the animated gem • Cheap Thrills The LEGO Movie as well as director Ga• The Grand Budapest Hotel reth Edwards’s reimagining of Godzilla, • The LEGO Movie the Toho icon regaining his status as the • Like Father, Like Son King of Monsters with ferocious tenac• Locke ity. Paramount rolled the dice on Darren • Noah Aronofsky’s audacious and wildly eccen• Obvious Child tric Biblical epic Noah and had to come • Only Lovers Left Alive away pleased with the results on such a • Proxy risky cinematic experiment. Fox brought • The Rover John Greene’s best-selling teenagers with • Stranger by the Lake cancer novel The Fault in Our Stars to life • Under the Skin under the direction of Josh Boone, the resulting motion picture without question GETTING BETTER (the more I think one of the summer’s most emotionally about them) dexterous surprises. • The Den Then there are the comic book adapta• Edge of Tomorrow tions, now a yearlong staple no longer lim• Enemy ited to just the summer schedule. Of those, • Godzilla two are worthy of being talked about in • Joe gushing terms (Captain America: The • Lucky Them Winter Soldier and X-Men: Days of Future • The Raid 2 Past) while the less said about the third (The • Rigor Mortis Amazing Spider-Man 2) the better, as it proved to be not just a disappointment, but JUST PLAIN GOOD also in the running to be one of 2014’s abso• About Last Night lute worst big budget releases. • Almost Human As for the films from the first half of • Anita the year that I watched, here are the ones • The Art of the Steal I feel are worth talking a little bit more about – who knows if I’ll still be doing so by the time the calendar moves into its final days come December?
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Meetings Events Activities
FOR A CALENDAR LISTING: Send details to: SGN, Attn: Community Calendar, 1605 12th Ave, Ste 31, Seattle, WA 98122. SGN phone: 324-4297. Fax: 3227188. E-mail: sgn2@sgn.org. INCLUDE: Date, time, location, contact phone # for publication (if possible), brief description of event & sponsoring organization. DEADLINE: Tuesday 5pm. ACCESSIBILITY: Is your event accessible to LGBTQ people with disabilities? See Jean’s List webpage www. scn.org/activism/calendar/disabilities.html for Marla Nonken’s disabilities accommodations lists. NOTE: Phone numbers accompanying listings are within area code (206) & locations of meetings/ events are in Seattle unless otherwise noted.
SATURDAY - July 5
Emerald City Softball Classic (7/4-7/6). 8am-7:30pm. Marymoor Park, N. SeaTac Park, Steve Underwood Memorial Park, Petrovitsky Park, Valley Ridge Park. 74 softball teams. 1,000+ ball players from 14 cities and 2 countries. seattlegay softball.com/ecc 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. 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
SUNDAY - July 6
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. Emerald City Softball Classic (7/4-7/6). 8am-7:30pm. Marymoor Park, N. SeaTac Park, Steve Underwood Memorial Park, Petrovitsky Park, Valley Ridge Park. 74 softball teams. 1,000+ ball players from 14 cities and 2 countries. seattlegaysoftball.com/ecc. [Closing Party at Neighbours. 6-9pm. 1509 Broadway.] Victoria BC Pride Parade & Festival. www.victoriapride society.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 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.
Rainier Valley Unitarian Congregation. 10am. 835 Yesler Way. 722-4880, www.rvuuc.org 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 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. 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
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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 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 Emerald City Softball Classic Closing Party. 6-9pm. Neighbours Nightclub, 1509 Broadway. seattlegaysoftball.com/ecc 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. Noche Latina - Latino Night. 10pm. Neighbours, 1509 Broadway. Every Sunday.
July 5 thru July 13 homish County meet for dinner at Snohomish County restaurants. For information, location & to RSVP contact Ricardo at socialdinnerclub@yahoo.com or phone (360) 722-1664. LCS Foster Care Monthly Information Meeting. 6-8pm. 433 Minor Ave N. Meets 2nd Monday each month. LCS is a non-profit foster care program in King & Snohomish counties. LCS does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion or sexual orientation. Couples & singles encouraged to apply. RSVP to April at 694-5713. 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 Orca Swim Team Workout. 7-8:15pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.) PFLAG/Seattle Monthly Meeting. 7pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Meets 2nd Monday each month. (A spouse’s support group runs concurrently with this meeting; PFLAG/FOCUS meets concurrently with this meeting.) PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724. www.seattle-pflag.org. PFLAG/Skagit County Monthly Meeting. 7pm. Skagit Valley Food Co-op Bldg, Room 309, 202 South 1st St., Mt. Vernon. Meets 2nd Monday each month. 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 Knights of Mantra Monthly Meeting. 7:30pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. Meets 2nd Monday each month. K of M/Jet Chapter is a fun-loving leather/Levi social & charitable organization that raises money for various causes & organizations, including Pennies from Heaven, Rosehedge House, & Three Cedars. 329-0886, mailbox@jetchapterkofm.com 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 - July 8
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 Alzheimer’s Association’s LGBT Caregivers’ Support Group. 6:30-8pm. Elderhealth Northwest, 6555 Ravenna Ave NE (entrance on NE 68th St). Meets 2nd Tuesday each month. A free information and support group for care partners, family members and friends of individuals with dementia. For more information, contact group facilitator Caila Nickerson, 781-248-3524 (cell) or email: cailanickerson@gmail.com 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 LGBT MS Connection/National MS Society. 6:30-8pm. MONDAY - July 7 Swedish Conference Center, Cherry Hill Campus, James SOBER - On Meds. 1-2pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave Tower, 550 17th Avenue, Room E, 1st Floor. Meets the E. Every Monday. 12-step group open to anyone in 2nd & 4th Tuesday each month. MS Connection is a suprecovery & living on a medicine regimen. 322-2437; port group with the goal of providing a safe environment www.sasgcc.org for the LGBT community to express their experiences Strength Over Speed. 2-3:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave and the impact of MS on their lives and the lives of their E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay loved ones, as well as provide support for one another. & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For informa- Contact Shelly at 206-250-5002 or LGBTMSConnection visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; tion@gmail.com. www.sasgcc.org Queer Young Females Group - For Female-Identified Gay Social Dinner Club of Snohomish County. Every Youth, Ages 22 & Under. 6:30-7:30pm. Lambert House, Monday. An informal group of Gay men living in Sno- 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday. Topics range from family
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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. Maybe Baby. 7-8:30pm. Kaladi Brothers Coffee, 511 E Pike St. Meets the 2nd Tuesday each month. Maybe Baby is a support group for LGBTQ people who are interested in becoming parents. groups.yahoo.com/ group/maybebabyseattle. 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. It’s easy, it’s fun & anyone can do it! Learn traditional African & AfroCaribbean rhythms & basic hand drumming techniques. Experience connection, community & spirituality. Drums are provided. For info & location call Dennis at 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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FRIDAY - July 11
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 Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Rain Country Dance Night. 7-11pm, lessons at 7:15pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. An evening of country-western dancing for the LGBTQ community. FREE. www.raincountrydance.org. Destiny Gay AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St, Tacoma. Every Friday. (253) 474-8897. Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.) LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 7:45pm. Seattle Counseling Service, Rainbow Room, 1216 Pine St at Melrose Ave. Every Friday. 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
SATURDAY - July 12
WEDNESDAY - July 9
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 RSVP. Meets 2nd & 4th Wednesday most months. 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. (425) 263-2908. globeleaders@hotmail.com Seattle Gay & Lesbian Book Club. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Discuss the best LGBT novels with other book-lovers in a safe, comfortable conversation. Come once or come every week. Check our website for this month’s book. http://faculty. washington.edu/swittet/sglbookclub/ SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Center for Spiritual Living. 6:30pm-Meditation, 7pmService. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. Blessings & we hope to see you soon! Info 527-8801 ext 203, www. cslseattle.org Lotus Sisters with Arinna Weisman. 6:30pm. Columbia City Church of Hope, 3818 S Angeline St. Meets every Wednesday. Drop-in Buddhist meditation Sangha for LBTQ women. Lotus.sisters@yahoo.com; www. lotussisters.org. Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 6:30pm. Volunteer Park (in front of Black Sun across for museum). Every Wednesday. (See Saturday at 9am.) Entre Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group. 7pm. Entre Hermanos, 1105 23rd Ave. Bilingual (Spanish/English) Transsexual support group meets 2nd & 4th Wednesday each month to provide information, counseling, healthcare, sisterhood & social activities for Latino & foreign-born people in their transition. For more information contact Abby 322-7700, www. entrehermanos.org HIV/AIDS Support Group. 7-8:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Please arrive by 7:00pm. FREE peer-facilitated emotional support group for HIV+ men who are newly diagnosed or newly dealing. 3222437; www.sasgcc.org Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group. 7-9pm. Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300. All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome. This is
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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
a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction & information for the whole Gender community. www. ingersollcenter.org Seattle Movie Bears Movie Night. Check website for details. Every Wednesday night. Gay & Bi men enjoy a movie at a local theater with opportunity to socialize before & after movies. http://groups.yahoo. com/group/ seattlemoviebears; or e-mail: seattlemovie bearssubscribe@yahoogroups.com Mature Friends Weekly Bridge Group. 7:30pm. Call for location. Every Wednesday. All levels welcome. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.) “StageFright” - Youth Open Mic - For Aspiring Writers & Performers, Ages 14-24. 7:30pm. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave. Meets 2nd Wednesday each month. FREE. Everyone welcome to attend. StageFright not only features young folk, but is also MC’d by young folk & attended in great majority by young folk. 3227030; www.hugohouse.org. Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting in Everett. 7:30-9pm. Everett United Church of Christ, 2624 Rockefeller Ave, Everett. Every Wednesday. Trained peer facilitators lead a structured support meeting helping people deal with issues of gender identity & expression. All adults are welcomed, including those who are questioning, allies, or identify as FTM, MTF, Transgender, Queer, or Intersex, among others. (360) 445-2411; www.washingtongender alliance.com. Border Riders Motorcycle Club Meet & Greet. 8-9pm. The Cuff Complex, 1533 13th Ave (at E Pine St). Meets the Wednesday before the 3rd Saturday each month. BRMC provides a social & educational fraternity for individuals interested in recreational motorcycle touring. www.borderriders.com
THURSDAY - July 10
Alcoholics Anonymous “Safe & Sober Group.” 12noon-1pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Open meeting of AA. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org. BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting. 12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. The BABES Network is a peer led agency; a sisterhood of women facing HIV together. 720-5566 or 888-292-1912; www.babesnetwork.org. Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages
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(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.) A Gathering of Men in Edmonds. 8:15-11:30am. Edmonds UUC, 8109 224th St SW, Edmonds. Meets 2nd Saturday each month. Men gather monthly for drumming, singing, storytelling & sharing of life experience. We create a safe, confidential & sacred space in which a man can speak his truth from the heart, to heal & empower himself. We are fiercely non-political, non-sectarian & non-judgmental. All men are welcome. www.agatheringofmen.org Bellingham Pride Family Picnic. 12noon. Bloedel Donovan Park, 2214 Electric Ave. www.bhampride. org/events.shtml Out in the Park - Tacoma Pride. 12noon-5pm. Broadway between 9th St & 11th St, Tacoma. www.rainbow cntr.org Between the Covers - Gay City LGBT Library Book 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Thurs- Club. 1pm. Gay City, 517 E. Pike St. Meets 2nd Saturday. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also day each month. Informal group of Queer folks talking about Queer literature. Visit www.gaycity.org for monthly Fridays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.) reading selection. Queer Night at the Bremerton/Kitsap Health Department. 4:30-7pm. 109 Austin Dr, Bremerton. Meets 2nd Georgetown Art Attack. 6-9pm. 2nd Saturday each Thursday each month. HIV/AIDS & STD testing in a month. Reflects the industrial-strength character of the GLBT positive environment. Call Sue or Steve at (360) neighborhood. For information stop into Georgetown Records at Airport Way S & S Vale or visit www.george337-5235. townneighborhood.com Capitol Hill Arts Walk. 5-8pm. Participating shops & galleries in the Pike/Pine corridor. 2nd Thursday each Ballard’s Second Saturday Artwalk. 7-10pm. Pick up month. Keep your eyes out for curbside A-boards that maps at participating shops & galleries located in the mark each participating venue. Pick up a walking map Ballard business district (Ballard Ave NW & NW Market from any location & you’re on your way. Enjoy refresh- St area). Meets 2nd Saturday each month. Enjoy an ments & meet the featured artists as you stroll the Hill. evening of art as local galleries & businesses showcase artists from Ballard & beyond. 784-9705. www.caphillchamber.org Shifting Gears. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Bellingham Annual ISCEE Pride Drag Show (21+), Every Thursday. Drop-in support group (non 12-step) for All-Ages B-Proud Dance, Rumors Pride Celebraanyone of any orientation or gender who desires recov- tion (21+). Details at www.bhampride.org/events.shtml. ery from drugs or alcohol. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org SUNDAY - July 13 B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Question(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.) ing Adolescent Drop-In Group). 6:30-8pm. Call for Lotus Sisters. 11am-1:15pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. location. Every Thursday. Sponsored by Youth Eastside Services, which offers many programs for GLBT youth. Meets the 2nd Sunday of every month. Drop-in Buddhist meditation Sangha for LBTQ women. Lotus.sisters@ (425) 747-4937. Seattle Tennis Alliance Social Doubles. 6:30-8pm. yahoo.com; www.sasgcc.org Lower Woodland Park Courts 5, 6, 7 & 8. Every Tuesday Victory Fund Champagne Brunch. 11am-2pm. Seattle & Thursday. STA is Seattle’s premier Gay & Lesbian Marriott Waterfront, 2100 Alaskan Way. Tickets: $200. tennis club. $2 for members & first-time guests, $5 for www.victoryfund.org Bellingham Pride Parade & Festival. Noon. Starts at returning guests. http://sta.clubexpress.com. Boys’ Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 14- Ohio & Cornwall, travels along Cornwall Ave., ends at 22. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Depot Market Square (1100 Railroad Ave.). Festival at Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about issues Depot Market Square until 4 p.m. $2 suggested donation. that relate to their everyday lives, with the facilitation of a www.bhampride.org/events.shtml. male volunteer. 322-2515 ext 16. www.lamberthouse.org No Safeword Writers Group. 1-3pm. Meets 2nd SunPFLAG/Whatcom County-Bellingham Monthly Meet- day each month. NSWG exists to provide mutual support ing. 7pm. First Congregational Church, 2401 Cornwall for members’ efforts. Support is in the form of critique Ave., Bellingham. Meets 2nd Thursday each month. & commentary on each other’s work, information about 360-733-1500; www.whatcompflag.com; PFLAG/Puget publishing opportunities, & discussion of issues facing writers. For info & location, NSWG@ sexpositiveculture. Sound: 325-7724. Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 7pm. Bus-accessible org; www.nosafewordwriters group.org. (Also meets 4th Central Area location. Every Thursday. (See Saturday Monday, 7-9pm.) Bellingham Pride Party (21+). Rumors Cabaret. listing at 6pm.) Buddhism & Recovery. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th 4pm-close. 1119 Railroad Ave. www.bhampride.org/ Ave E. Every Thursday. A meditation/recovery group. events.shtml. Dignity/Seattle. 6pm-Prayer Service. Ravenna United 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Gay Fathers Association of Seattle. 7:30-9pm. Group Methodist Church, 5751 33rd Ave NE. Meets 2nd SunHealth, 201 16th Ave E, Central Bldg, Lower Atrium. day each month. Dignity/Seattle is the local chapter of Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & the nationwide organization of GLBT Roman Catholics. Gay men who are currently or previously married. Safe, Gender-inclusive & relationship affirming liturgies & anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring prayer services. All welcome. 325-7314.
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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. 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.emeraldcitys oftball.org, www.eteamz.com/womensecsa; Ethyl Forever Car Club: http://Clubs.Hemmings.com/ EthylForever CarClub/; Hiking Group: 323-8382; Jet City Hoops: www.jetcityhoops.org; Olympic Yacht Club: www.oycnw.org; OutVentures: outdoor education & recreation activities, www.outventures. org; Pacific Northwest Gay Rodeo Association:
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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 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. LGBT MS Connection - 250-5002; LGBTMS Connection@gmail.com. Support group for LGBT persons with MS and their partners and their caregivers. Sponsored by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Lifelong AIDS Alliance - 328-8979, www.lifelongaids alliance.org MEN: Gay City: 860-6969, www.gaycity.org; Knights of Mantra: 329-0886, www.jetchapterkofm.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Northwest Bears: www.nw bears.com; The Olympians: www.TheOlympians.net; POZSeattle: www.pozseattle.org; Q-Squared: www.qsquared.org; Rain City Jacks: 888-809-5035, www.raincityjacks. org; Seattle Gay Couples: www. seattlegaycouples. org; Seattle Men in Leather: www.seattlemeninleather. org; Seattle Prime Timers: Gay & Bi men 40 & over, www.seattle primetimers.org. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.) MUSIC: Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony.org; Rainbow City Band: 1-866-841-9139 ext 2126; rainbowcityband@onebox.com; www.rainbowcity band.com; Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus: 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: 4417602, www.familieslikeours. org; Family Works offers support, information & activities for LGBT families: 694-6727, www.familyworksseattle. org; Gay Fathers’ Association of Seattle offers support groups & social activities: www.gfas. org; Maybe Baby, https://groups. yahoo.com/group/maybebabyseattle; Proud & Loud Families - Northwest, www.meetup.com/proud-andloud-families-northwest, plfnorthwest@aol.com; Queer Parent Networking Dinners: Deann, 568-7777, deann@nwnetwork.org; Rainbow Families of Puget
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.orca swimteam.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/womenof westseattle; 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. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.) Yakima: First Fridays - (509) 576-0276. www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html YOUTH: B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group): Youth Eastside Services offers many programs for GLBT youth, including B-GLAD, (425) 747-4937; Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony. org; GLSEN/Washington State (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) & Washington State GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) Network: GLSEN works to create safe schools for LGBT students. WA GSA Network supports youth-led GSA’s to fight harassment & homophobia in Washington state schools. 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, 206-957-1665, jessicah@llaa.org; It Gets Better Project: www.itgetsbetter.org; Lambert House: an activities & resource center for LGBT youth, 14-22, in Seattle, 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org; www.MatthewsPlace. com; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcen ter. org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: 325-7724, www.seattlepflag.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-SAFE-SAFE (1-877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Teen Link: 461-4922, 1-888-431-TEEN; The Trevor Project: 866-4-U-Trevor; www.thetrevorproject.org; True Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, 362-7282 x 8018, lbagley@chs-nw.org; Vista Youth Center: for LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth, ages 14-21, in Kennewick, 509-396-5198, www.vistayouthcenter.org; YouthCare/Orion Center: 622-5555; YouthCare/Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): 522-8412; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273-TALK, www.yspp.org
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 Seattle Area Support Groups & Community Center (SASG) is a non-profit organization that builds community and cultivates powerful, healthy lives by providing
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