Resist Trump. Trump

AMERICA TO THE CITY’S POT SHOPS THE CITY’S POT TO

GREEN GUIDE RESIST TRUMP. TRUMP. RESIST

FREEEVERY WEDNESDAY • NOVEMBER VOL. NO. 26, 12 16–22, 2016 ACLU-WA.ORG AGAINST

• USE YOUR PRIVILEGE • FIGHT THE POWER P. • FIGHT THE POWER PRIVILEGE • USE YOUR 9 THE PLOT PLOT THE RECLAIM OUR COUNTRY: DEFEND IMMIGRANTS, DEFEND IMMIGRANTS, OUR COUNTRY: RECLAIM WOMEN, AND GAY MARRIAGE • PROTECT YOUR POT* POT* YOUR • PROTECT MARRIAGE AND GAY WOMEN, *SEE THE STRANGER’S *SEE THE STRANGER’S

FIGHTING FASCISTS SINCE 1991. 2 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 3

I T ’ S A LWAY S 4 2 0 H E R E ™

™

$3 edibles $4 pre rolls $5 grams $20 1 gram wax $15 eighths $75 14 grams $25 vapes $99 ounces Open: 8am-11:30pm, 7 days a week OCEANGREENS420.COM

DISCLAIMER: This product has intoxicating effects and may be habit-forming. Marijuana can impair concentration, coordination, and judgment. Do not operate a vehicle or machinery under the inﬂuence of this drug. Smoking can kill you. There may be health risks associated with consumption of this product. For use by adults twenty-one or older. Keep out of the reach of children. 4 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 5

Volume 26, Issue Number 12 November 16-22, 2016

COVER ART

Design by TRACIE LOUCK

WE SAW YOU America, welcome to your White Supremacist Patriarchy … page 7 FEATURE How to defeat the plot against America … page 9 WEED Legal weed and Trump … page 17 SAVAGE LOVE “Fuck this. Now fuck me.” … page 19 THINGS TO DO: ARTS & CULTURE The Stranger suggests Markeith Wiley at On the Boards, Dead Slow Ahead at Northwest Film Forum, MKNZ at Glass Box Gallery, and more … page 21 THINGS TO DO: MUSIC The Stranger suggests Chastity Belt at Chop Suey, Suzanne Vega at Triple Door, Sol’s Haiti Relief Show at Neumos, YG at Showbox Sodo, and more … page 25 MUSIC Seattle musicians reveal the music they’re listening to for coping with Trump … page 33 THEATER As One is a coming-of-age opera about a trans woman … page 37 ART Local exhibitions to calm you down and rile you up … page 39 FILM Stop reading Facebook and go watch Moonlight; reviews of Ixcanul and Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing … page 41 CHOW Drinking local beer is a way to stick it to Trump while sticking together … page 43 WHAT CAN YOU DO? Resist Donald Trump’s hate by supporting these worthy causes … page 46 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Cultivate an up-to-date affection for and commitment to what you actually have … page 47

THE STRANGER 1535 11th Avenue, Third Floor, Seattle, WA 98122 VOICE (206) 323-7101 FAX (206) 323-7203 SALES FAX (206) 325-4865 HOURS Mon–Fri, 9 am–5:30 pm E-MAIL [email protected] 6 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER

SUGAR (Just Pies)

Needing a gift for a friend, neighbor or relative? Got family coming over with speciﬁc dietary needs? Just need a little help to complement your Thanksgiving dinner?

Let Chef Makini Howell and the Plum family help you take care of dessert! We’ve baked up some delicious, homestyle pies that everyone will love!

Pies (9 in.) + $7 (g/f option) Apple $18 Sweet Potato $18 Bourbon chocolate pecan $21 Traditional pecan $18

Organic, 100% Vegan. Order exclusively online starting Tues Nov. 1

Send info to [email protected] Order deadline: Mon Nov. 21 by 3pm

All orders can be picked up at Sugar Plum 324 15th Ave E. Available for pick up starting Tues. Nov 22 Pick up times: 12pm-7pm, Thurs Nov. 24 11am-1pm Only THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 7 WE SAW YOU STRANGER STAFFERS WERE THERE AS IT HAPPENED

happened. But let’s not get it twisted: Donald War. White America has proved once again Trump will be our next president not because that it would rather burn itself down and be Hillary Clinton is unlikable, not because of king of ashes than share a better world with third-party voters, and not because of an en- everyone else. thusiasm gap in black voters. We have elected Do not think that you woke up in a differ- violent White Supremacist Patriarchy into of- ent world. You woke up in the same White Su- fice because the majority of white American premacist Patriarchy that you’ve been waking voters chose to elect violent White Suprema- up to your entire life. Know that this is why our cist Patriarchy into office. country is the way it is. This is why our black This has been building from the moment men are in prison. This is why we have a gen- Barack Obama was elected to the presidency der wage gap. This is why our Native Ameri- eight years ago. That was when the White can brothers and sisters are currently being Supremacist Patriarchy realized that it was pepper-sprayed and attacked by dogs for try- losing a very important war. Equal marriage ing to protect our environment. This is why rights, Black Lives Matter, and then a female our women are being raped at a rate of one in presidential candidate—everything that the five. This is why white households have 12 times White Supremacist Patriarchy relies upon for the wealth of black households and 10 times the its core identity has been under attack. And wealth of Hispanic households. Because we live we have been gaining ground at lightning-fast in a country that is so scared of change that it speed, leaving White Supremacist Patriarchy would elect Donald Trump for president. And demoralized, bitter, and afraid. we’ve always lived in that country. After the Civil War, after the South lost, a So now it’s out in the open. Now there is no lot of effort was made to rebuild a new South. denying that we live in a White Supremacist A South that could live in a new post-slavery Patriarchy that the majority of white people world. A South where the real power no lon- in just about every demographic in America ger rested with those who owned other hu- voted for. Now we know that the problem isn’t man beings. The reliance on the slave econo- personal preference, it is not the economy, it my had already been hurting the South—the is not a lack of education. Now we know that world had already begun to move past it— there is no middle ground. Now we know that and there were hopes that this reconstruction it is our very liberation that is the threat. So would resurrect the Southern economy and we can’t give up. We must fight, we must con- structure a new modern society. tinue the progress that has made the majority The ability to own slaves was more than of white America so scared, and we must fight just an economic reality. To many in the for that progress harder than ever before. Be- South, it was an identity—an identity of supe- cause there is only freedom or oppression— riority and power. It was a birthright to wake and now is a time for each of us to decide up knowing that you were not black, you were which of the two we will define ourselves by. ■ not a slave, you were more. You inherited your slaves and your superiority like your father and his father before him. And the To submit an unsigned confession or accusation, send an South would rather burn itself down before e-mail to [email protected]. Please remember it let that go. And what followed was a period to change the names of the innocent and guilty. of terror that left black Americans forever scarred and the South forever left behind. But it wasn’t only the South that relied GEORGE PFROMM II upon the oppression of others for its identity. The majority of white America has relied upon its identity of powerful, straight, Chris- tian whiteness since this country’s murder- ous inception. The majority of white males in America, Welcome to Your America have been born expecting to be at the top of that hierarchy. But the rest of the White Supremacist Patriarchy country did not lose the Civil War. The rest of the country was not plunged into an immedi- BY IJEOMA OLUO ate identity crisis at the end of the 19th cen- STEVEN WEISSMAN tury. And as long as the South was distracting ust recently, I was saying that we should be we did not avoid that tragedy. We did not even everyone with a sustained and very violent WHO’S LAUGHING NOW? Jlooking at the post-reconstruction South swerve. We stayed on that road that we paved fit, the rest of white America was safe in their The majority of Trump voters are what in order to understand what has been happen- hundreds of years ago and we gunned it. quiet positions of power. the pundits call silent Trump supporting with Trump voters. But when I wrote those And here we are. Welcome to your White But progress came for the North even- ers. I could write the obvious—that they words, I was writing them with more than a Supremacist Patriarchy. tually. Equality came for the rest of white weren’t particularly silent the other little hope that when we got together to dis- There will be a lot of hand-wringing and America, and white America has respond- night—but that would devalue what hap- cuss this, it would be with a sense of relief at excuse-giving and scapegoating in the upcom- ed with the same fear and hatred that the pened here. We progressives collectively the tragedy we had just narrowly avoided. But ing weeks as we try to grapple with what just South responded with at the end of the Civil bashed the other party, incessantly. At times, we laughed at jokes that went too far. One example (I’m paraphrasing): WE SAW YOU CRYING, PROTESTING, sogynist billionaire. All of America didn’t cosign “Trump’s ahead in the latest poll… but it FIGHTING those backward views. It was heartening to know was taken at a Cracker Barrel.” I’m guilty We saw you, an entire city, walking around shell- that many people felt moved to leave their homes of this as well: At a bar, when someone shocked on the night of Tuesday, November 8. For and spend hours walking the streets. They did it spoke of voting for Trump, I interjected: a day afterward, it was a city of tears, until the again on Sunday at Cal Anderson Park, gathering “Really? Are you fucking serious?” This in- tears gave way to fury. Protesters filled the streets in front of the fountain and then filling up Veloc- variably calcified the person’s pro-Trump on Wednesday night, gaining force as they walked ity Dance Center’s V2 space for a post-election resolve and bullied them into silence. from downtown to Westlake Park and continued community response forum. And then they did it Something this election has shown us is onward to the University District and then back to again on Monday. We watched from our window as that unlike horrible, racist, xenophobic, the Space Needle. In other cities, too, thousands thousands of middle and high school students held misogynistic internet posts, votes are of people gathered, blocking highways, shouting signs and yelled for their future. It filled us with anonymous. They should be. We got bit and chanting, making their voices heard. This is hope to know that the teenagers of our world are on this one, but maybe we’ll be saved in not America, they wanted the world to know. All so energized, that they won’t back down. They will the future if we learn some manners.

RAMON DOMPOR of America didn’t vote for a fascist, racist, mi- keep doing it. And we will keep doing it. ■ —Anonymous 8 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER

THANKSGIVING BISTRO RESERVATIONS: 11AM, 1:15PM, 3:30PM, AND 5:30PM! MENU You Shroom Lover… $65 Starter - Roasted Baby Carrot Soup, French Coriander Pesto, Caviar Lentils, Micro Greens. Appetizer - Seared “Scallop” Skewers, Fresh Herb & Black Pepper Oil. Entree - Gluten Free Blue Cornbread “Shrimp” Stuﬀed portobellos, Roast Fingerling Puree, Gluten Free Gravy. Dessert - Citrus Matcha Cheese Cake G/F Lemon Shortbread Crust, Candied Grapefruit & Coconut Cream. Oh My Pumpkin! $55 Starter - Caramelized Pumpkin & Mushroom Crostini, Cashew Ricotta. Appetizer - Crispy “Bacon” Brussels, Olive Oil, Sea Salt Cracked Pepper. Entree - Ginger Spiced Kentucky Bourbon Grilled Tofu, Pumpkin Puree, Buttery Almond Green Beans. Dessert - Pumpin Mouse, Spicy Candied Pecans, Ginger Shortbread. I’m So Classic. $60 Starter - Shaved Apple & Frisse Salad, Figs & Pecans. Appetizer - Spicy Cajun Mac & Yease. Entree - Hickory Cured Seitan Roast, Southern Gravy, Cornbread Stuﬃng, Cranberry Orange Sauce. Dessert - Black Fig & Seckel Pear Crumble Pie, Sweet Cream & Rosemary. 1429 12TH AVE, Happy Thanksgiving! - Plum Family SEATTLE, WA 98122 CONTACT US TODAY FOR RESERVATIONS! [email protected] THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 9

NATE GOWDY FIGHTING FOR THE FUTURE Seattle middle and high school students take to the streets. THE RESISTANCE How to Defeat the Plot Against America: Know Your Rights. Defend Immigrants, People of Color, and LGBTQ Americans. Expand Your City. Reclaim Our Democracy.

THE PLOT to roll back the freedom of the press and punish women for What does this mean? making choices about their own bodies. This means he’s It means we must now commit to defending basic AGAINST AMERICA hostile to the First Amendment, the 14th Amendment, things: Liberty. Equality. Community. When Khizr Khan stood at the Democratic National and the rule of law. Trump has spoken openly, on national It means we all need do what Khan suggested and what Convention in Philadelphia earlier this year and said di- television, about his intention to jail Hillary Clinton. This Trump has likely never done. Pull out a copy of the Consti- rectly to Donald Trump, “Have you even read the United means he respects neither due process nor democracy tution. Grab the Bill of Rights, too. Keep them. Read them. States Constitution?” he was asking the right question. itself. As a newspaper in deep-red Utah put it, Trump’s What follows is obvious: We must act. It remains the right question. heedless bullying and ignorant amorality reveal “the es- Now we resist. We speak. We write. We protest. We Trump has stated plainly that he wants to ban Muslims sence of a despot.” As others have warned, Trump’s thirst defend the rights of others as we would defend our own. from entering the United States and hopes to persecute for vengeance against dissenters, along with his glee- We educate ourselves. We make art that matters. We make Muslim citizens, people of Hispanic descent, and other ful targeting of the most vulnerable, is the hallmark of a lives that matter. We make love that matters, including in minority communities within America. This means he’s fascist. Yet Trump has now been elected president of the all of the delightful ways that were illegal in this country ready to shred the Bill of Rights. Trump has said he wants United States. just 13 fucking years ago. (See the US Supreme Court’s 10 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER

2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision, also worth The reinstatement of the Republican a read.) Party’s control of the White House and Con- We figure out how to persuade some of the gress is an unmistakable referendum on tens of millions of Americans who voted for WE WILL DO THIS FROM urban values (pluralism, tolerance, density, Trump. We don’t need to persuade all of them, AMERICA’S CITIES, collective provision, pro-other, etc.). It’s also thankfully; that’s one of the nice perks of de- a re-entrenchment of the suburban and exur- mocracy. But we do need to persuade enough BECAUSE THE CITIES ban principles we rightly associate with the of them that we can work together to reverse Bush years (isolationism; hostility to dark this existential error and save our republic. ARE WHERE MOST OF US skin, women, immigrants, and sexual mi- We will do this from America’s cities, be- norities; authoritarianism masquerading as cause the cities are where most of us who WHO VOTED AGAINST patriotism). voted against Trump reside. We see meaning The divide is helpfully laid out by Trump’s in this fact. We will shout this meaning toward DONALD TRUMP RESIDE. own rhetoric: They are the real America and anyone who will listen (and, sure, we’ll use our only they—and only their leader—can make indoor voices sometimes, too), because every- America great “again.” one within and beyond the city needs to hear Cities aren’t perfect. Seattle has egre- this, now more than ever. Our declaration of gious problems—inadequate public transit, urban resistance is about three things: fixing rental costs, homelessness, income inequality, the city, loving the city, and expanding the de facto cultural segregation, etc. But those city—the better to expand the opposition to problems have now been given a stark repri- Trump. oritization. As grim as the election results are, We will do this because we have to. We will there’s nothing like knowing with 100 percent do it because time is running out (see: climate certainty that you’re on the right side of a change). We will do it because we want a liv- culture war. It should inspire our sustained able future. Our republic cannot exist without action and reignite our sense of gratitude for certain basic things—things we cherish and the astonishing bounty of human and cultural now must defend both for ourselves and for experience right outside our doors, down our the country as a whole: Liberty. Equality. blocks, a few stops down our (slowly) growing Community. —ELI SANDERS light rail line. This will be a long battle. We are going to THE AMERICANS need to keep other cosmopolitan values alive as well—both to recharge our batteries and MOST UNDER to remember the things that make life a bit THREAT sweeter. We need to congregate, converse, If cities are to lead the resistance against conspire, argue, embrace, play shows, see Trump’s effort to dismantle everything we shows, drink up, and eat out (in every sense). city dwellers believe in, then we must start We need to revel, not cower. In one way, fuck by protecting the most vulnerable. Trump’s those people, sure. But in another way, invite presidency will bring policies that will harm them to see our example. Let the large minor- those who have already been fighting just ity solely concerned with taking care of itself to survive: people of color, undocumented see us taking care of each other. immigrants, Muslims, people seeking safe Here’s Thornton again: abortions, trans and gender nonconforming people. We, as a culture, have to stop infan- We must be ready to march. But marching tilizing and deifying rural and white won’t do the whole job. working-class Americans. Their expe-

In a press conference in Seattle, in an echo RAMON DOMPOR rience is not more of a real American of pronouncements made in cities around the COME TOGETHER A vigil on Capitol Hill. experience than anyone else’s, but country in recent days, leaders at OneAm- when we say that it is, we give people erica, El Centro de la Raza, and other local Seattle says no to the Trump administration. clearly we can use a reminder—and a revi- a pass from seeing and understanding immigrant rights groups called for specific Another source of federal funding Murray sion—every decade or so. Let’s review: more of their country. More Ameri- action: letters to the editor, white allies has been hoping for, money to meet our city’s The two geographically separate areas— cans need to see more of the United “provid[ing] the leadership to open up a dis- homelessness emergency—an emergency cities, not cities—have come once again States. They need to shake hands with cussion on race,” thorough documentation of that is familiar to other cities and dispropor- to represent a fundamental divide in the a Muslim, or talk soccer with a middle- hate crimes as a way of showing the concrete tionately affects people of color—is unlikely American consciousness, both sides of which aged lesbian, or attend a lecture by a harm of Trump’s policies. to flow from a Trump administration. Murray continue to argue over which is more bubbly female business executive. Sustaining action like this means not al- says he may pursue a city levy instead. We and which is to blame for the rise of Trump. We must start asking all Americans lowing the pressures and seductive amnesias must pass that levy. We say it’s their myopic selfishness. They to be their better selves. We must all of the everyday to lull us into complacency, re- “If there’s one thing we know about this say it’s our treasonous snobbery. As the real- understand that America is a melting member that status updates are not the same country—none of these things are new to us,” ity that Trump really happened continues to pot and that none of us has a more au- as real resistance. said Pramila Jayapal, a founder of OneAm- take hold, calls for us to understand where his thentic American experience. Those of us with privilege must put our erica and newly elected congressperson. “We supporters are coming from continue to pro- bodies on the line to stop deportations and have fought these battles over and over again liferate. Don’t fall for it. Patrick Thornton of So much for the larger question of building to hold our elected leaders accountable for and we have won—maybe not as big as we Roll Call perfectly spelled out why calls for bridges to Trump’s America. Motherfucker, the standing up to the Trump administration. would like, maybe not when we would like, Trumpathy have it all wrong: bridges are built! (Thank you, federal govern- The day after Trump’s victory, Seattle but we will win again.” —HEIDI GROOVER ment!) They know where to find us. And guess mayor Ed Murray promised that Seattle will All of this talk about coastal elites what: They’re more than welcome. That’s the remain a “sanctuary city” for immigrants and THE BUBBLES AND needing to understand more of Ameri- nature of cities: Everyone is, or should be. refugees, even if it means risking millions of ca has it backward. My home county in Our first responsibility is to fight to make dollars in federal funding. (Trump has prom- THE LONG BATTLE Ohio is 97 percent white. It, like a lot our urban areas more inclusive, not less. New- ised to “cancel all federal funding to sanctuary It’s been a big week for the word “bubble.” of other very unrepresentative coun- comers of all backgrounds, including Trump cities” on his first day in office.) There’s the liberal one, in which Democratic ties, went heavily for Donald Trump. Nationals will be coming when the jobs the “Seattle remains a city guided by our voters supposedly got so comfortable that we My high school had about 950 president-elect has promised to create fail to values of equality, inclusion, openness, and couldn’t hear the jackboots of Trump Nation students. Two were Asian. One was materialize, when his imaginary wall resem- equity,” Murray said. “We continue to be a storm troopers marching to the gates of our Hispanic. Zero were Muslim. All the bles an old Pontiac up on blocks on the front city that supports women. We will continue to right-on utopia. teachers were white. My high school lawn that is the US-Mexico border, cities will be a city that welcomes as our neighbors our Then there’s the conservative one, where had more convicted sexual preda- continue to be where the work is. Muslim brothers and sisters. And today, black the large minority of Americans that elected tor teachers than minority teachers. In the meantime, the real work starts with lives matter. Black lives will still matter and Trump are apparently content to insulate and That’s a rural American story. us. —SEAN NELSON continue to matter.” isolate themselves into the delusion that this In many of these areas, the only We’re proud to see Murray make these country belongs exclusively to ignorant white Muslims you see are in movies like EQUITY AND THE promises and we will hold him to them—and motherfuckers exactly like them. American Sniper. (I knew zero Mus- ourselves as well. Seattle voters have shown a But despite being totally real, these bub- lims before going to college in another AMERICAN CITY willingness to tax themselves for the greater bles are really just sub-bubbles of the much state.) You never see gay couples or Liberty. Equality. Diversity. Those are ur- good. We have raised taxes to pay for tran- larger spheres that surround urban and even interracial ones. Much of rural ban ideals. But our cities don’t always live up sit projects, affordable housing, parks, and nonurban America. This is a subject we’ve and exurban American is a time cap- to those ideals. schools. We must be willing to tax ourselves covered before, at LENGTH (see “The Ur- sule to America’s past. And on Tuesday, In 2015, the Brookings Institution to make up for any federal funds lost when ban Archipelago,” November 2004). But November 8, 2016, they dug it up. crunched US Census data and found 24 of THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 11 12 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER

struggling with TOWN HALL CIVICS SCIENCE ARTS & CULTURE COMMUNITY struggling with (11/16) MIT Enterprise Forum struggling with Northwest presents migraine pain? Smart Homes migraineStudy Doctor: Braden pain? Nago, MD (11/16) The Seattle Moth Neurologists at TheStudy Polyclinic Doctor: are currently Braden enrolling Nago, participants MD in a clinical GrandSLAM migraine pain? Neurologistsresearch study at Theevaluating Polyclinic an are investigational currently enrolling oral participantsmedication in for a clinical acute (11/17) Charles Eley researchmigraine headache.study evaluating an investigational oral medication for acute Zero Net Energy Buildings migraineStudy headache. Doctor: Braden Nago, MD You may qualify if you are between 18 and 75 years of age, have at least a (11/17) Town HallNeurologists and atYou1-year The may history Polyclinic qualify of ifmigraine, you are are between and currently have 18 2-8 and migraine 75 enrolling years attacks of age, per participantshave month at least with a in a clinical Ignite Seattle present 1-yearmoderate history to severe of migraine, headache and pain. have 2-8 migraine attacks per month with WE EVEN HAVE Ignite Seattleresearch 31 studymoderate evaluating to severe headache an investigational pain. oral medication for acute migraine headache. Study-related medical care and study drug or placebo (11/18) Amanda Hendrix Study-related(no active medication) medical care will and be studyprovided drug at or no placebo cost. COMICS and Charles Wohlforth Reimbursement(no active medication) for time and will travel be provided may also at be no available. cost. A Home in the Stars FOR PEOPLE WHO You may qualify if youReimbursement are between for time and 18 travel and may 75 also years be available. of age, have NEVER at least READ a COMICS. (11/18) Seattle Arts & Lectures presents1-year history of migraine,To learn and more have please 2-8 call migraine(206) 860-4761 attacks per month with Marina Abramovic´ Toor learn email more [email protected] please call (206) 860-4761 with Jen Gravesmoderate to severe headache pain. or email [email protected] PH O EN I X www.polyclinic.com/research COMICS (11/19-20) Saturday Family Concerts 113 Broadway E • next to Dick’s Caspar Babypants Study-related medicalwww.polyclinic.com/research care and study drug or placebo WINTER PARTY! . P H O E N I X S E AT T L E . GAMES Record Release (four shows) (no active medication) will be provided at no cost. Reimbursement for time and travel may also be available. (11/19) Seattle Public Library presents Clay Jenkinson as President Theodore Roosevelt McLellan/O’Donnell Living History Series To learn more please call (206) 860-4761 (11/19) MV Music presents John Cage Musicircus or email [email protected]

(11/20) Early Music Guild presents Día del Músico www.polyclinic.com/research Dance and Music of Oaxaca in Celebration of St. Cecilia’s Day

(11/21) Erik Vance How Suggestible Are You?

(11/28) David France The Battle Against AIDS in America

(11/29) T. J. Stiles General Custer, Deconstructed

(11/30) ‘Seattle Times’ LiveWire presents K-12 Visions And Outcomes

(11/30) Susan Casey ‘Voices in the Ocean’

(12/1) Bonneville Power Administration presents Columbia River System Operations Public Meeting

(12/1) League of Women Voters of Seattle-King County presents A Post-Election Conversation with David Domke

TOWN HALL CIVICS SCIENCE ARTS & CULTURE COMMUNITY WWW.TOWNHALLSEATTLE.ORG

TOWN HALL CIVICS SCIENCE ARTS & CULTURE COMMUNITY THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 13

the 50 largest American cities got whiter Anyone but a fucking woman, said Ameri- between 2010 and 2014. But whiteness still ca. Anyone. Literally anyone. LET BISTRO 2GO means wealth, so Seattle is losing livability Of course, racism has as much to do with EVERYONE by the second. the outcome of this election as sexism. But CATERING A city puts you next to people unlike many women were proxies for misogyny di- ELSE HAVE you, and that is a social-justice issue, not rected at Hillary Clinton. They encountered THE BIRD THIS Sides (serves 4) just a matter of better restaurants. How it firsthand—lectured by mansplaining THANKSGIVING Roasted Rosemary Pumpkins G/F $16.50/lb can you work to create and maintain afford- “friends” on Facebook about what a bitch able housing in your own neighborhood? she was, told what a liar she was despite the BY MAKING Southern Collard Greens G/F 16.50/lb How can you persuade the residents of your fact that her e-mail scandal amounted to YOURS VEGAN Mac ‘n’ Yease $22 per lb g/f option street that parking is not more important nothing. Women listened patiently to false WITH PLUM $24/lb than transit? We still do not have public equivalencies: “They are both terrible,” CATERING. Roasted Carrots & Brussels Sprouts $16.50/lb restrooms for people with nowhere to go, family members would say, not grasping with Maple & Thyme G/F nowhere even to wash for a job interview. that equating a liar, a con man, a bigot, a Our public school system is even more woe- racist, a tax dodger with a woman who had a Mashed Potatoes with Gravy $12.50/lb fully segregated than it was just a decade private e-mail server was the result of cen- G/F Options available ago. Tell the billionaires their financing of turies of baked-in sexism and misogyny. charter schools is unacceptable. No wonder women felt so harassed that Cranberry Sauce G/F $9.50/pint To fight for the disenfranchised, to pri- they joined one of the many secret Hill- Cornbread Stuffing & Gravy $18.50/lb oritize affordability and transit, you must ary Clinton Facebook groups to find a safe be informed. How would Seattle residents space to talk about the election. Quinoa Stuffing G/F & Gravy $18.50/lb do on a quiz about When you are a the mayor’s housing member of a mar- Entrees (serves approximately 3 & a puppy) plans? Follow local ginalized class of THE MOST Smoked Seitan Roast $27 news even if you’re people experiencing with Gravy and Cornbread Stuffing skeptical of the me- HELPFUL homophobia, sex- dia; without you, ism, or misogyny, Smothered Tofu $27 journalism can’t get THING trying to explain to with Quinoa Stuffing G/F better, and the city people who are not can’t stem the tide PEOPLE a member of that Whole Pies (serves 8) + $7 (g/f option) of rising homogene- class of people—or Sweet Potato $18 ity. We need intrepid CAN DO IS even worse, who are Apple $18 critics. Read free lo- but who don’t under- Bourbon Chocolate Pecan $21 cal publications and stand it—that it is DONATE Traditional Pecan $18 purchase subscrip- already happening tions to others. MONEY. is like being the only Order online at [email protected] Cities are where person who can see by 3 pm on Monday, November 21st. we are supposed to a ghost in the room. remember each other. You don’t need to be It’s there, it’s talking to you, it’s plain as Pick Up at an asshole to fail other people. You just need day, but reasonable people insist that you SUGAR PLUM to forget them. Density is a wake-up call. So must be crazy—or worse, just wrong. 324 15TH AVE E SEATTLE WA 98122 is riding public transit. Use it. You can listen to Michael Moore speak Do not fall into the belief that a “liberal” at length about how the Democratic Party city is a liberal city all by itself. Every city didn’t connect to its base of working-class that’s getting whiter and wealthier—includ- blue-collar men in the rust belt—or how ing Oakland, DC, Austin, Atlanta, Charlotte, Clinton didn’t campaign enough (or at all) Colorado Springs, Denver, Oklahoma City, in Wisconsin and Ohio and Pennsylvania. Portland, Raleigh, Detroit, New York City, You can agree that perhaps Clinton didn’t Los Angeles, Dallas, Louisville, Nashville, do enough to connect with Joe the Plumber, Baltimore, Kansas City, New Orleans, and and Joe the vice president would have done Seattle, beloved Seattle—has to get off better there. its high horse and self-criticize. We do it But you are missing the key point: Clinton in big ways and small. Public and private. can’t connect because men like that are pre- At work, too. White men working at white- disposed to not like women like her. Women male-majority Amazon, not the only but the from those parts of the country don’t like largest such company in Seattle, do some- women like her. Clinton represents everything every day to correct this. There are thing we have been taught women should thousands of you, and you have a role. You not be: strong, smart, powerful, independent, are so important. Put pressure on your HR loud. That is sexism. supervisors and managers and CEOs to For many women, it’s still so painful to use their power to create a more equitable know what we came so close to achieving workplace and city. When you see people and how far away we still are. It’s so pain- experiencing homelessness in your neigh- ful to know that the Bernie bros have only borhood, let them be innocent until proven been vindicated by her loss, able to huff, “I guilty. Rich neighborhoods, stand up and told you so,” even though they themselves invite them in. have absorbed 20-plus years of conspiracy Cities are inclusive, equitable, and theories rooted in sexism and fear of female just only if we make them that way. power. When the next female presidential —JEN GRAVES candidate is introduced, hopefully sooner rather than later, all of us—men and wom- WHAT AMERICA en—need to listen to Clinton, who urged her supporters in her concession speech to stop SAID hiding “in secret, private Facebook sites… I Who would you rather have running the want everybody coming out from behind that country? The most qualified presidential can- and make sure your voices are heard going didate ever to run for office who happens to forward.” —TRICIA ROMANO be a woman… or (check all that apply): __ a racist. POLICE IN TRUMP’S __ a bigot. __ a misogynist. AMERICA __ a tax dodger. Mayor Ed Murray’s declaration that __ a billionaire who’s declared bankruptcy Seattle would remain a sanctuary city for multiple times. undocumented immigrants means that it will __ a man who has never held public office. keep being against city law for police to ask __a man who makes fun of disabled people. someone’s immigration status unless there’s __ a man who “grabs women by the pussy.” reasonable suspicion they committed a crime. __ a man who might not be able to read. It means police won’t be profiling and round- __ all of the above. ing up suspected immigrants, checking 14 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER

1-877-923-9555|509-923-9555 233 Lakeshore Dr.|Pateros, WA 98846 www.howardsontheriver.com

RAMON DOMPOR RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA STORE BRINGING THE LOVE Seventeen-year-old Mason Bernardo (left) and 22-year-old TACOMA WASHINGTON Vanee Lyon show support during Sunday’s rally in Cal Anderson Park. them for identiﬁcation, and deporting POT, ABORTION, Best Customer Service • Finest Quality • Unbeatable Pricing them—not if Murray can do anything about it. AND MARRIAGE IN

N Cedar St N Junett St Sergeant Sean Whitcomb said the mayor TRUMP’S AMERICA le tS Alder St N Alder St N Pine St is “showing leadership on all these fronts” It used to be that every 50 minutes in Daily Specials and the police department stands fully be- Washington State, someone was arrested Mary 6th Ave hind him. Whitcomb’s boss, Chief Kathleen for cannabis possession. Nine out of 10 of Mart S Pine St

Call or check our site for details! S Cedar St S Junett St O’Toole, said the undocumented “need to those arrests were people of color, even know we will be there for them, for ordinary though more than twice as many white $8 Grams $5 BULK SIZING police services and also when they are ex- people smoke weed as people of color. Le- + PRICING ON 3005 6TH AVE STE B ploited, threatened, or victimized.” Sergeant gal weed is a social-justice issue. It’s an + Joints Edibles FLOWER TACOMA, WA 98406 Whitcomb added: “We’re not some state incarceration issue. It’s an issue we need 253-327-1675 apparatus that’s here to squelch people’s to prevent President Trump and his rac- View our menu online at www.Mary-Mart.com rights.” ist henchmen from turning back the clock Still, protests often disrupt business on. Stop into your neighborhood pot shop WARNING: KEEP OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN.This product has intoxicating effects and may be habit forming. Marijuana can impair as usual. City council member Kshama and introduce yourself and tell them you’re concentration, coordination, and judgment.Do not operate a vehicle or machinery under the inﬂ uence of this drug. There may be health risks associated with consumption of this product. For use only by adults twenty-one and older. Sawant is calling for a complete shutdown their neighbor and you support them. And of business as usual on Inauguration Day. maybe while you’re at it, buy a gift for If push comes to shove, will police crack someone who likes weed. down on protesters who want to grind the Abortion rights and LGBTQ rights will city to a halt as a show of resistance to also come under attack. President Trump Trump? believes there should be “some form of pun- As Seattle protested Trump’s victory, ishment” for women who have abortions, and at least a few Seattle police officers were Vice President Mike Pence believes in con- LEGAL WEED IS A SOCIAL- JUSTICE ISSUE. IT’S AN INCARCERATION ISSUE.

celebrating it on social media. One called version therapy for LGBTQ people. out the mayor’s reaction to Trump’s win as So what can you do? “Honestly, right now, “one of the most pathetic political episodes donations are what’s best for us,” said Mer- I’ve ever seen.” Another officer wrote, cedes Sanchez, director of communications “Restore law and order and it’s ok to say for Cedar River Clinics, which has clinics in stop being a pussy. This is a great day for Renton, Seattle, and Tacoma and offers di- law enforcement… I’m pumped.” rect services in reproductive health care and Council Member Lorena González, a LGBTQ health care. child of immigrants who now oversees the And to protect the LGBTQ community? police as chair of the public safety commit- “Have you heard of the SAFE Alliance?” tee, has a blunt message for those officers: Sanchez asked. “They were developed when “It needs to be very clear from Chief O’Toole the stupid bathroom laws were coming up. to rank and file and to leadership within the It’s a statewide coalition of organizations police department [that] we expect you to do and individuals that are working to pro- your police work in a constitutional manner. tect Washington’s antidiscrimination laws, That means that you respect people’s due specifically focused on transgender process and equal rights under the Consti- protections.” tution. The fact that those statements are Speaking up and getting involved in being made is another sign of why police re- the political fight is important, Sanchez form, in spite of a Trump administration, is said, but she reiterated that the most help- important.” ful thing people can do is donate money. If you want to get involved in policing “We’re bracing for an influx of patients,” the police, go to the next Black Lives Mat- she said. “Our clinics have been around for ter protest, volunteer with the ACLU of more than 43 years. I hate to say it, but we Washington, or join a grassroots citizen have been through all the awful times, and watchdog like the Center for Open Policing. our plan is to hold the line for reproductive The Community Police Commission is also a rights, because without people offering di- great starting place for local reform efforts. rect services, our rights are meaningless.” —ANSEL HERZ — CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 15

SEEING THE LONG intersectional long before the word came CON AGAINST THE into its current vogue. Pick up any thread of American urban life and you will see this. MIDDLE CLASS Just start somewhere. Say New York City, The people who are about to control all 1961, when a young guitar player arrives of the major political institutions in the from Duluth, Minnesota, in search of his United States are going to make life ex- idol, Woody Guthrie, who’s dying in a New tremely miserable for the people who put York hospital. In a nightclub, this young them in power. guitar player meets Nina Simone. He takes The people about to take power want fast in Jimi Hendrix live. In the Chelsea Hotel, cash in the form of speculation, derivatives, this young man—today a Nobel laureate debt, leveraged buyouts, and shareholder who won’t return the Nobel committee’s maximation. Trump’s America is going to calls—is seen and admired by the punk have major bubbles, which will increase in- rocker Patti Smith. debtedness in the At first, peo- private sector, and ple didn’t know then, when things SEX OFFENDER CITIES ARE what to do with go bust—when the Patti Smith, a REGISTRATION rich need liquidity NOW THE woman singing to reduce debts and loud and angry GOT YOU DOWN? exposure to a crisis— HOME OF THE songs, a woman those debts, their who, at the tail We may be able to help to debts, will be trans- RESISTANCE. end of the Rea- remove that requirement. ferred to the public gan years—years sector. The indebted- YOU ARE THE of presidential The Meryhew Law Group, PLLC ness of the few will heartlessness (206)264-1590 become the indebted- RESISTANCE. in the face of ness of us all. the AIDS crisis, www.meryhewlaw.com Best believe this years of callous will hurt poor and middle-class people, demonization of “welfare queens,” years of many of whom are in the rural areas, most phony “trickle-down economics”—releases of whom voted for Trump. And because “People Have the Power.” (“The power to they know nothing about economics, they dream, to rule, to wrestle the earth from will blame not the people who are dis- fools.”) When this song comes out, Hillary possessing them, but us in the city, with Clinton is down in Arkansas learning that our liberal values and our desire to make people don’t know what to do with a loud and huge social investments that would ben- angry woman in politics, either. Fast-forward efit them. This is the cycle we are trapped to 2016, to the city of Cleveland, a few days in. This is the right’s big con. We need to before this year’s shattering presidential find a way to break free from it. The first election. Clinton is standing on a stage with step is to make sure more people can see it Beyoncé, an heir to Nina Simone, the woman clearly. That will require more funding for whose voice and spirit struck the man from education, and that will mean more money Duluth, and Clinton is quoting Jay Z: “Rosa going toward social investments rather Parks sat so Martin Luther could walk. And than tax cuts. That will mean doing exact- Martin Luther walked so that Barack Obama ly the opposite of what’s going to happen could run. And Barack Obama ran so that all over the next four years. — CHARLES the children could fly.” MUDEDE “Well,” Clinton continues, “we have unfinished business to do.” THIS MACHINE This is the unfinished business you must get off your depressed liberal ass and do. KILLS FASCISM In your city you will find everyone Donald Most likely you are reading this from in- Trump wants to demonize, marginalize, de- side a city. Most likely you have been feeling port, and degrade. Together we must wrestle despair and doubt and fear. Most likely you the earth back from fools. have wondered if this can still be your coun- You live inside a machine that has been try, too. killing fascism for a long time. Think of the Yes, it can. countless refugees from rural America, peo- Look out the window of your micro- ple who might otherwise have grown up to be apartment or new town house or aging Trump voters, who moved to your city and wood-shingled home. Look at the faces of were changed. Newspapers have long been the people sitting with you in the cafe, or part of the machine that kills fascism. Maybe bar, or free clinic lobby, or library. Look your own guitar, your own voice, your own ar- across the aisle of the bus, or subway, or tistic vision will become part of this machine light rail train you’re riding. Look at the that kill fascism. Maybe your money will be- drivers stuck in freeway traffic with you. come part of this machine that kills fascism. Look at the young and old of all colors and Maybe you and your tech-savvy coworkers creeds who share this city with you, some will create new and unheard of ways to kill sleeping, not far from you, under tarps and fascism. Whatever it is, whatever you can do, highway overpasses. get busy. This is the American city. You are fortunate Cities are now the home of the resistance. to be here, inside one of the most powerful You are the resistance. Kick yourself and the machines we have for defeating fascists. machine into action. Yes, it’s a messy machine American folk singer Woody Guthrie and there’s plenty to criticize within it. Yes, liked to say that his guitar killed fascists—he people don’t always treat each other per- painted that saying right on his instrument— fectly within cities, or speak perfectly from but Guthrie’s phrase, “This Machine Kills cities—in person, in print, or online. But we Fascists,” could just as well be painted across now face an existential threat and it is time everything and everyone in any city. Look to move forward together in strength. We inside yourself. You will see the nonviolent see the present danger with clarity, from our truth of this. You will see that your city has homes, our cafes, our buses, our workplaces, changed you as it has changed everyone and our classrooms. around you, that it has challenged and de- Cities have the power. Unleash its full feated the fascists within all of us, the selfish measure. Now. —ELI SANDERS AND and small and eliminationist parts that are DAN SAVAGE PODCAST perpetually humbled by the integrationist demands of the city. Find out how you can work to resist Trump Find it on iTunes. The city is literally intersectional. It was by supporting local causes, page 46. 16 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER

THE ORGANIC CONSUMER’S CHOICE

WE ARE CAPITOL HILL’S PREMIER CLEAN GREEN CERTIFIED® RETAILER. THE TERM “ORGANIC” CANNOT EXIST IN THE CANNABIS INDUSTRY DUE TO FEDERAL REGULATIONS. CLEAN GREEN CERTIFIED ® IS THE ONLY WAY TO KNOW YOUR CANNABIS WAS GROWN USING ORGANIC METHODS. COME CHECK OUT THE DIFFERENCES AT CAPITOL HILL’S PREMIER CLEAN GREEN CERTIFIED RETAILER®. THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 17

UW WEED Dental Research Study Seeking healthy users and non-users of marijuana, Chill 21-65 years old, for a dental Chill AF research study investigating Who the F knows SHOP LOCAL. the eect of marijuana on local anesthesia. The study SAVE MONEY. takes place over a single, Want your business in StrangerPerks? E-mail [email protected] two hour visit and partici- or call 206-323-7101 pants will be compensated up to $100. After a brief interview, local anesthetic will be administered and 50% OFF the duration of numbing will be measured.

Please call the University of Washington School of Dentistry, at (206) 685-8132 Legal Weed and Trump STRANGERPERKS.COM How Safe Is Your Pot Law? BY TOBIAS COUGHLIN-BOGUE Ballard Cannabis fter last week’s election, 20 percent of who care about pot reform, as he vowed on Athe country will live in a state where the campaign trail to aggressively enforce recreational marijuana is legal. Ballot ini- federal cannabis law in legal states. However, tiatives legalizing the recreational use of thanks to Bridgegate, he’s seems unlikely to cannabis passed in California, Massachu- get the nod. And now Giuliani seems more in- setts, Nevada, and Maine. Others legalizing terested in being secretary of state. access to medical marijuana passed in some It’s looking like either Senator Jeff Ses- pretty conservative states: Florida, Arkan- sions (R-Alabama) or Kansas secretary of sas, North Dakota, and Montana. That’s a lot state Kris Kobach, both of whom are noted of toppled dominoes. for being anti-immigrant assholes, may 21 + Recreational However, we also elected a president who head the DOJ. Sessions opposes any form of is, at best, a total wild card on cannabis and, amnesty, and Kobach helped write many an- Flower, Edibles, and More OPEN 417 NW 65th Street Conveniently at worst, going to oversee the deportation ti-immigration laws, including Arizona’s SB Tue-Thurs 11am-9pm located across from Fri-Sat 11am-10pm 206.402.5697 Slave to the Needle of every Mexican teenager who gets caught 1070—which authorized police to ask anyone Sun 11am-7pm www.thepartakery.com and The Tin Hat with a half gram. who looked “foreign” for their papers. thepartakery @Partakery

Before the election, President Barack As for pot: Sessions once told former as- This product has intoxicating effects and may be habit forming. Marijuana can impair concentration, coordination and judgement. Do not operate a vehicle or machinery under the influence of this drug. There may be health risks associated with consumptionof this prouct. For use only by adults twenty-one and older. Keep out of reach of children. Obama predicted that if California and a few sistant US attorney Thomas Figures, who is of the other ballot states went legal—which is black, that he thought the KKK was “okay exactly what happened—it would be impos- u ntil I found out they smoked pot.” Marijuana can impair c ing. once sible to maintain prohibition, telling noted State-level cannabis legalization does not form ntra bit- tion ha , c e oo pothead Bill Maher: preclude the federal government from en- b rd ay in m a d DES tio “The good news is that after this refer- forcing its laws, if it so chooses. The “Cole n L T n a , s O D a t n c I d e S S enda, to some degree it’s going to call the memo,” written by former deputy attorney ff ’ ju e ve N, S d g t A ea P g En tt m in o l question. Because if in fact it passed in all general James Cole, was a guarantee that his t m e E e a Le , n ic r W t x F A N . o T D these states, you’ll now have a fi fth of the agency wouldn’t enforce the federal law in t 5 o n 9 i 6T 8 S n s 4 1 o a t country that’s operating under one set of states with legal cannabis, so long as certain h 4 0 A A o t Ask About 7 p c es e u d t l r R a laws and four-fi fths in another. The Justice conditions were met. But it’s a nonbinding d E d o t o e i r s s p 20% Discount! a S ’ Y p Department, DEA, FBI, for them to try to memo. s i v e e e h h T l i n straddle and fi gure out how they’re sup- Whoever ends up running the show could : c l R t e E s posed to enforce laws in some places and very well follow Trump’s vague promise to t o M r I a

m A a

L a

r not in others, they’re going to guard against leave cannabis policy up to the states while c C e

I i y

transporting these drugs across state still selectively enforcing federal drug laws. S e .

lines… You’ve got the entire Paciﬁ c corridor This is why the thought of a person who u n

where this is legal. That is not going to be pushes anti-immigrant policies at the head n V

d t

tenable.” of the justice department terriﬁ es me. There i

Recreational Cannabis 21+ ﬂ

c 4465 Fremont Ave N.

S h

T f f

When it comes to a stance on pot, Donald are few people of color in the cannabusiness p W

n T

i e

n p t

s B e h c

c e

Trump is a sphinx. He famously called for the world. I can only think that we’ll see that

o d e

r 4.8 - 141 Reviews f

legalization of all drugs at a Miami Herald number shrink further under Trump. y t s

f - a

d T

u t

luncheon in 1991, only to revise his stance in Indeed, something I’ve heard from a lot h g u

u . o

p r

y h

a e

the recent election, saying he supports medi- of people of color when discussing racially s e

e d d K

m r

a r.

cal marijuana and thinks the issue should be based barriers to entry to the cannabis in- a

y t l

b 0

e S

a -

y m

left to the states. But he also said, “They’ve dustry is that they’re afraid. They’re afraid a

e 1

e d

n r p a

n got a lot of problems right now” in Colorado i if they hang out a shingle saying they grow s

s w

s t

due to pot. (Not really.) or sell or are involved in any way with pot, c

y t

w s

u i

r h

His choice for attorney general might . they’re basically putting a target on their n t

s c

u u

m d o p r t p i

o s n i

h o t

offer an answer. Trump is already turning back. Being possessed of an abundance of f his cabinet into a rogues’ gallery—he plans optimism (read: white privilege), I always to appoint a climate-change denier to head wanted to believe that in ultra-liberal places the Environmental Protection Agency. like Seattle there was nothing for them to Early reports pegged one of two Trump sy- fear—that the cannabis industry could even Listen to Dan Savage’s cophants, Chris Christie or Rudy Giuliani, work hard to heal the wounds of the drug podcast every week at to be up for the top spot at the Department war and become a force of economic revital- of Justice. ization for the communities affected by it. Christie is the most feared among people After last Tuesday, I’m not so sure. ■ savagelovecast.com 18 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER

1 Month FREE with promo code: STRANGER

Your place or mine? The mobile hookup site for gay and bi men

*O er valid for new members only. Expires 31st January 2017. Visit Squirt.org on your mobile to hookup today

PRESENTS DAN SAVAGE’S

HOLIDAYJoin Dan for a special live holiday SPECIAL! taping of the Savage Lovecast. Sunday, December 4

THE NEPTUNE THEATRE // 1303 NE 45TH ST

7PM // 21+ ADV TICKETS AT THESTRANGER.COM/SAVAGESPECIAL THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 19 SAVAGE LOVE Mourning in America BY DAN SAVAGE

I’m a longtime fan and part of the 47 percent of experienced joy despite their hatred and despite this white women who did NOT vote for Donald Trump. awful disease. We turned to each other—we turned To say I’m disappointed, horrified, scared, and to our lovers and friends and sometimes strangers— mad about the election is woefully insufficient. I and said, “Fuck them. Now fuck me.” donated $100 to Planned Parenthood this morning We didn’t eradicate HIV/AIDS, the disease because I honestly felt like there was nothing else I that was sickening us then, but we fought it to a could do. That being said, I wanted to share that I standstill and we may defeat it yet. The disease had one of the most weirdly charged, hottest, and that now sickens our nation is different. We may sexiest orgasms. On election night, a little buzzed never eradicate racism and sexism and hatred. (dealing with those results) and sad, But fight it we will. And don’t listen my boyfriend and I turned to each to anyone who tells you that music other for consolation. One thing led and dance and art and sex and joy to another, and before I knew it, we are a distraction from the fight. were fucking as Trump came on the They are a part of the fight. TV to give his acceptance speech. As that orange blowhard spewed more My boyfriend is undocumented. bullshit about being our president, His sister married a US citizen I rode my boyfriend’s big, beautiful and may receive a green card. We dick until I came. It was the perfect had hoped to someday do the same. way to say, “Fuck this. Now fuck But next year, the extreme right me.” I encourage all your read- will control all three branches of ers to fuck out the stress from this the federal government. Depor- JOE NEWTON election. Yes, we should donate and tation will surely come for my volunteer and speak up and protest and vote and boyfriend. Additionally, we’re a gay couple, and not give up hope, but we should also keep doing it Donald Trump has pledged to repeal marriage and taking care of each other. Because love trumps equality, if not ban it outright. So if we were to hate, and fucking trumps… well, I’m not sure what marry now, the timing would look suspicious. fucking trumps. But it sure makes life better. And even if we did marry, that marriage is likely Justifiably Unsettled Lass Intensely Emoting to be invalidated in the coming years. Is it still worth it to try? What do I do if the government It’s important to practice good self-care in the takes away the love of my life? wake of a traumatic event—the election qualifies Keep Him Home as a traumatic event—and going by the definition of self-care at GoodTherapy.org, fucking the living You should marry your boyfriend immediately, shit out of someone qualifies as self-care: “Actions KHH, and do so with confidence. that an individual might take in order to reach “There is no realistic possibility that anyone’s optimal physical and mental health… Self-care marriage will be invalidated,” said Shannon [includes] activities that an individual engages in to Minter, legal director for the National Center for relax or attain emotional well-being, such as medi- Lesbian Rights, which has taken marriage-rights tating, journaling, or visiting a counselor.” cases to the US Supreme Court (and won). “The They’re too polite over at GoodTherapy.org to law is very strong that if a marriage is valid when include “fucking the shit out of someone” on their entered, it cannot be invalidated by any subse- list of examples, JULIE, but what you did on elec- quent change in the law. So people who are already tion night—which just so happens to be the exact married should not be concerned that their mar- same thing I did on election night—certainly riage can be taken away.” meets all the criteria. And Minter says the court is unlikely to And if anyone out there who did the same on overturn Obergefell, the decision that legalized election night—fucked the shit out of someone—is same-sex marriage across the country. feeling the least bit guilty, please know that mil- “The doctrine of stare decisis—which means lions of Americans did the exact same thing after that courts generally will respect and follow their 9/11. We used a different term to describe all that own prior rulings—is also very strong, and the post-9/11 fucking: “terror-sex,” which New York Supreme Court very rarely overturns an impor- magazine defined as “urgent, unguarded, end-of- tant constitutional ruling so soon after issuing it,” the-world coitus inspired by that day’s sudden jolt said Minter. “Even the appointment of an anti- of uncertainty and fear.” marriage-equality justice to replace Justice Scalia I want to thank you for writing, JULIE, and I would not jeopardize the Supreme Court’s 2015 want to second your recommendation: Sex, part- ruling on marriage equality, and the great major- nered or solo, makes life better—and people ity of Americans still strongly support the freedom SexEd for shouldn’t feel guilty about fucking someone else of same-sex couples to marry.” and/or fucking/jacking/dildo-ing themselves at this uncertain and fearful moment in our nation’s history. I’m heartsick about the election. Today I made Yes, we must donate and volunteer and protest and a donation to Planned Parenthood. PP asked me vote, all while reminding ourselves daily that Hillary if I wanted my donation to be in honor of anyone Grown-Ups Clinton won the popular vote. And we must commit and noted they’ll send a card to that person to let to defending our friends, neighbors, and coworkers them know I’ve donated in their name. Why yes, who are immigrants (documented or not), Muslims I thought, I’d like to make my donation in honor (American born, immigrants, or refugees), people of of Mike Pence, vice president-elect. Until January color, women seeking reproductive health care, trans 20, his address is 4600 N Meridian St, Indianapo- men and women seeking safety, lesbian and gay men lis, IN 46208. After January 20, his address will seeking to protect their families, and everyone and sadly be 1 Observatory Circle NW, Washington, DC everything else Trump has threatened to harm, up 20008. If any of your readers are inclined to join to and including the planet we all live on. me in honoring our VP-elect, they can donate at But we must make time for joy and pleasure and plannedparenthood.org. laughter and friends and food and art and music Generous Investment Verifying Equality and sex. During the darkest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, when Republicans and religious conser- In addition to donating to Planned Parenthood— vatives controlled the federal government and were which everyone should do—please donate to the Thurs 11/17 - Consent for a Sex Positive World doing everything in their power to harm the sick American Civil Liberties Union (aclu.org). Better Sat 11/19 - So, You Want To Tie People Up? and dying, queers organized and protested and yet, become a card-carrying member of the ACLU volunteered and mourned. We also made music and today. With Trump in the White House and Repub- Sun 11/20 - Asking For What You Want theater and art. We took care of each other, and we licans in control of both houses of Congress, freedom Sun 11/20 - Mapping The Vulva danced and loved and fucked. Embracing joy and art and decency need to lawyer the fuck up. ■ and sex in the face of fear and uncertainty made us Sat 12/3 - BDSM 101: Exploring Kink feel better—it kept us sane—and it had the added On the Lovecast, Dr. Lori Brotto on asexuality: Sat 12/10 - Bondage For Sex benefit of driving our enemies crazy. They couldn’t savagelovecast.com. understand how we could be anything but miser- For more info: TheFSPC.org able, given the challenges we faced—their greed, [email protected] Tickets: StrangerTickets.com their indifference, their bigotry—but we created and @fakedansavage on Twitter 20 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER

VOL . 5, NO. 3 / FALL 2016 / FREE! The largest-circulation arts publication in the Northwest! Fall

Yves Saint Laurent COMES TO SEATTLE Three-month shelf life! ART MUSEUM Marina Abramović WALKS THROUGH WALLS BenDeLaCreme GOES TO HELL Additional distribution in dedicated news boxes, theaters, hotels, galleries and more!

ISSUE DATE: DEC 7 • RESERVATION DEADLINE: NOV 25

CALL EMAIL [email protected] THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 21 THINGS TO DOARTS & CULTURE Find the complete calendar of things to do in Seattle All the Events The Stranger Suggests This Week at strangerthingstodo.com strangerTTD Stranger Things To Do

Gender Justice Awards Thurs Nov 17 at Melrose Market Studios

GENDER JUSTICE LEAGUE Flying Sisters: C.C. Attle’s, Sun Nov 19, 8 pm Bay Area to read from her debut collec- Guide to Zero Net Energy Buildings: QUEER Local Trans Short Films & Speed Friend- tion, DNA Hymn (Sibling Rivalry Press). I’ve Town Hall, Thurs Nov 17, 7:30 pm, $5 ing: University Branch of The Seattle Public never seen her read, but press materials An Evening with David Sedaris: Benaroya 2016 Gender Library, Sun Nov 20, 2-4 pm, free say she creates music with “a loop pedal, Hall, Wed Nov 16, 7:30 pm, $47/$57 Plot Holes in the Movie Burlesque: A Drag kitchen utensils, gas masks, raw eggs, Marina Abramovic: Town Hall, Fri Nov 18, Justice Awards Show: Unicorn, Sun Nov 20, 7:30 pm, $10 blood pressure cuffs, found objects, her 7:30 pm, Sold Out body, and more,” which sounds like a do- DON’T MISS Now is a particularly impor- Complete listings at strangerthingstodo.com Michelle Tea and Donna Kaz Dual Book mestic explosion. Another traveler, Amber tant point in history to stand in solidarity Launch: Fred Wildlife Refuge, Fri Nov 18, Dawn, descends from Vancouver to read with all marginalized people everywhere. READINGS & TALKS 7 pm, free from her debut book of poems, Where the As luck would have it, we have a prime op- The Moth Seattle GrandSLAM Words End and My Body Begins. Dawn won portunity to do just that by attending the Championship: Town Hall, Wed Nov 16, a Lambda Award for her novel Sub Rosa. Gender Justice Awards dinner, honoring the Annah Anti- 8 pm, Sold Out She’ll be joined by our own Leah Lakshmi Nisi Shawl: Elliott Bay Book Company, Fri tireless work of those who fi ght on behalf Piepzna-Samarasinha, whose Dirty River: A Palindrome, Leah Nov 18, 7 pm, free of trans, genderqueer, nonbinary, and Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Peter Himmelman and Sherman Alexie: gender nonconforming people throughout Home from Arsenal Pulp Press was a Lamb- Lakshmi Piepzna- Elliott Bay Book Company, Thurs Nov 17, the region. They’re going to have a real da Literary Award fi nalist. And the jewel, 7 pm, free tough time over the next four years, and we Samarasinha, Imani Sims, who blew my mind at Fuck Yo Saturday University: Tea Revives the cannot let a single moment go by without Couch during lit crawl, will hopefully read World: Asian Art Museum, Sat Nov 19, joining and supporting the fi ght. (Melrose Imani Sims, and from her most recent book, (A)live Heart. 9:30 am, $10 Market Studios, Thurs Nov 17, 6-10 pm, (Elliott Bay Book Company, Sat Nov 19, Understanding Our Chemical Finger- $60/$100) MATT BAUME Amber Dawn 7 pm, free) RICH SMITH prints: Safer Water for Our Cities: Kane DON’T MISS This is the most Fuck Trump Hall, Wed Nov 16, 7:30 pm, free We also recommend… reading I can possibly imagine. Annah We also recommend… Word Works: Patricia Smith: Washington Cucci’s Critter Barn: Kremwerk, Sat Nov 12, Anti-Palindrome is a “rural, working-class, Ed Skoog Book Launch: Run the Red Hall, Sat Nov 19, 7 pm, $12 7 pm, $5/$10, 21+ JewWitch, queer-femme survivor” poet- Lights: Hugo House First Hill, Wed Nov 16, Filmmaker’s Talk: Margaret Mullin: Hotel musician/sound-artist who bends genres 7 pm, free Complete listings at strangerthingstodo.com Sorrento, Tues Nov 15, 7 pm, free to her will. She’ll be traveling up from the Charles Eley: Design Professional’s Continued 22 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER

HUGE SALE! ONE DAY ONLY OPEN TO THE PUBLIC THINGS TO DO ARTS & CULTURE Sat 11/19, 10-4 or after by appointment: [email protected] PERFORMANCE Markeith Wiley: It’s Not Too Late

DON’T MISS A talk show starring chore- ographer/dancer Markeith Wiley! I like it. Wiley is funny, light on his feet, and not afraid to bring it down for a moment or to 1950’s Cocktail Dress go there or to say that. Press materials claim the show will include a live band, a bunch of local guests, stand-up comedy, theater, and dance. Organizers dropped Paul Mooney’s East of Woodinville, name in the press release, so there should worth the be a lot of searing and hilarious commen- drive! tary on matters of race, politics, and art. Maybe this will be like Brett Hamil’s Seattle Holiday Dressing, Lingerie, Coats, 20’s - 40’s Gowns Process but for the arts? That’d be cool. Or TONS of Hats/Shoes/Purses/Jewelry & Gift Ideas maybe it will be like something we’ve never Halcyone Vintage seen before? That would also be cool. (On Victorian - 1960’s Fashions the Boards, Nov 16-19, 8 pm, Sun Nov 20, 20210 NE 148th St. Woodinville, WA 98077 5 pm, $25) RICH SMITH www.etsy.com/shop/halcyonevintage We also recommend… Markeith Wiley: It’s Not Too Late Nov 16-20 at On the Boards Big Bad: The Ballard Underground, Thurs-

Sat, 7:30 pm, $18, through Nov 19 JOSEPH LAMBERT The Big Meal: New Century Theatre Com- fl ood, the sun is blocked out by your work pany at 12th Avenue Arts, Thurs-Sat, $30, schedule, and an unhinged megalomaniac through Nov 19 is about to seize power, but there you are, Fly by Night: The Slate Theater, Wed-Sat, sipping a bright, buoyant glass of Beau- 7:30 pm, $15-$20, through Nov 19 jolais Nouveau, nibbling on something The Habit: The Final Cut: Bathhouse The- delicious, and perhaps even closing your ater, Fri-Sun, $14-$19, through Nov 26 eyes for a moment to imagine that you’ve Into Ice: Velocity Dance Center, Fri-Sat, 8 expatriated and are enjoying all this lovely pm, $20, through Nov 19 food and wine in some cozy cafe in Lyon. King Charles III: Seattle Repertory Theatre, Au revoir, President Trump. (Le Pichet, Wed-Sun & Tues, $17-$77, through Dec 18 Thurs Nov 17, 6 pm, no cover) TOBIAS The Lost Girls: Annex Theatre, Thurs-Sat, COUGHLIN-BOGUE 7:30 pm, $18, through Nov 19 Naked Girls Reading: The Pocket Theater, We also recommend… Sun Nov 20, 6:30 & 8 pm, $10/$14 Dine Around Seattle: Various locations, Peter and the Starcatcher: Arts West, Sun-Thurs, $22/$33/$44, through Nov 23 Wed-Sun, $19-$39.50, through Dec 23 The Pride: Theatre22 at 12th Avenue Arts, Complete listings at strangerthingstodo.com Thurs-Sat, $25, through Nov 19 FILM SH*T GOLD: Founders Theater, Mon Nov 21, 10 pm, free When There Were Angels: Gay City, Thurs- Dead Slow Ahead Sun, 7:30 pm, $15-$20, through Nov 20 White Rabbit Red Rabbit: 18th & Union, DON’T MISS I’m still not sure if this is Thurs-Sat, 7:30 pm, $12-$25, through Nov 19 the greatest fi lm I have seen since Carlos Reygadas’s Silent Light (2007). It just might Complete listings at strangerthingstodo.com be. I will know for sure when I watch it again this week. The stunning images FOOD & DRINK from a two-month trip across the Atlantic on a freighter—the slowly swaying and Beaujolais creaking ship, the continents of clouds, the unearthly endlessness of the sea— Nouveau au which were shot and composed by the fi lm’s director, Mauro Herce, who is also Restaurant Le a cinematographer, might be loved and mean even more this time around, now Pichet that I long for a powerful escape from DON’T MISS Amid the sodden misery of the horrible political world I have found November in Seattle, there is always one myself in. Dead Slow Ahead aestheticizes bright spot: Beaujolais Nouveau Day. This and even dehumanizes the mega-machine. is the day that France’s most famous vin Humans made these massive objects. They de primeur (a wine that may be sold the dwarf us and have a godlike presence. same year it is made) is released upon the We worship and love our mega-machines. world. Due to an ancient French wine mar- They might save us one day. (Northwest keting conspiracy, it always falls on the Film Forum, Thurs Nov 17, 7:30 pm, Sat third Thursday of the month, and Seattle’s Nov 19, 4 pm, $11) CHARLES MUDEDE Le Pichet always throws a wonderful party We also recommend… to celebrate. Why do you give a shit about some obscure French wine? Well, because Babe: Pig in the City: Northwest Film Beaujolais Nouveau is such a magical, Forum, Sun Nov 20, 4 pm, $11 overabundantly fruity wine that it—along Blade Runner: The Final Cut: SIFF Cinema with Le Pichet’s sure-to-be-magical party Uptown, Nov 21-22, 6 & 8:30 pm, $12 menu of traditional street food—can help Cinema Italian Style: SIFF Cinema Up- you forget that you live in the end times. town, Nov 16-17, $12 Yes, the storm drains look like they’re Creepy: SIFF Cinema Uptown, Sat Nov 19, on the verge of an actual apocalyptic 9:30 pm, Sun Nov 20, 8:30 pm, $12 THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 23 THINGS TO DO ARTS & CULTURE

Delicatessen: Central Cinema, Nov 18-21, Museum, Wed-Mon, $25, through July 16 9:30 pm, $8 Big Picture: Art After 1945: Seattle Art Homo Sapiens: Northwest Film Forum, Fri Museum, Wed-Sun, $25 Nov 18, 8:30 pm, Sat Nov 19, 7 pm, $11 Black Bodies in Propaganda: Northwest Puget Soundtrack: Chris Brokaw Pres- African American Museum, Wed-Sun, $7 ents The Films of Peter Hutton: Northwest Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s Local Comic Shop Day Film Forum, Sun Nov 20, 7 pm, $15 Tales of Slavery and Power: Bellevue Arts Complete listings at strangerthingstodo.com Museum, Tues-Sun, $12, through Nov 27 Everything has been material for Sat, Nov. 19th! ART scissors to shape: Wing Luke Museum, Tues-Sun, $14.95, through April 16 Get cool exclusives AND shop local! You’ve been Gifted! Go Tell It: Civil Rights Photography: Se- localcomicshopday.com MKNZ: Cumulative attle Art Museum, Wed-Mon, $25, through use this coupon for a 25% discount! Jan 8 Deposits (Of You Gu Xiong: A River of Migration: San Juan Æours: Islands Museum of Art (SJIMA), Friday Har- 115 N 85th Street Sun & Tues: 12-6 • Mon: Closed 206.297.3737 Inside Me) bor, Thurs-Mon, $10, through Nov 28 Seattle, WA 98103 Wed & Thurs: 12-8 • Fri & Sat: 10-8 dreamstrands.com DON’T MISS On election night, I heard Jennifer West: Film Is Dead…: Seattle Art several people say they’d left their bodies Museum, Nov 19-May 7, $25 and felt like they couldn’t get back in. I’ve MOTHA and Chris E. Vargas present: heard rape victims talk about leaving their Transhirstory in 99 Objects: Henry Art bodies to shield themselves from the full Gallery, Wed-Sun, $10, through June 4 impact of the attack. The association with Terratopia: The Chinese Landscape in a President Trump is natural and horrify- Painting and Film: Asian Art Museum, ing. What you might want now is art that Wed-Sun, $9, through Feb 26 is made from pain and unafraid to claim it To: Seattle | Subject: Personal: Frye Art and name it—each of the sculptures and Museum, Tues-Sun, free, through Jan 8 installations in MKNZ’s show is named after Victoria Haven: Blue Sun: Olympic Sculp- a real person from MKNZ’s history—but ture Park, free, through March 5 that also offers safety to those who need Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of it, centering for marginalized bodies, and Style: Seattle Art Museum, Wed-Mon, $25, the possibility of re-embodiment itself. The through Jan 8 show is called Cumulative Deposits (Of You Inside Me). I recommend going straight to GALLERIES two pieces, both of which are named after Amir Zaki: Survey 1999-2015: James Har- females. One is called Charmeesha. Char- ris Gallery, Wed-Sat, free, through Nov 19 meesha was MKNZ’s “best friend, my only friend, at a Catholic elementary school in Coast to Coast - WEST: Washington State Pontiac, Michigan,” a gallery flyer explains. Convention & Trade Center, Mon-Fri, free, “I was badly bullied... It was a great sacri- through Jan 11 fice to be my companion, when she could Considering the Voluntary Absence of have aligned herself with a safer group of God: Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), friends. We would hide under the playsets Thurs-Sat, free, through Nov 26 during recess to avoid the older boys and do Danielle Andress: Twilight Gallery, Tues- each other’s hair.” The installation is a web Sun, free, through Dec 4 strung between the walls and from the ceil- Deborah Faye Lawrence: Open Carry: ing made entirely of colorful hair ties and 4Culture, Mon-Fri, free, through Dec 1 girls’ barrettes. A video plays on the wall Emily Gherard: Making Presence nearby of a quiet sky. Here is a dream of Known: Bridge Productions, Wed-Sat, free, shelter offered up for as long as you want through Dec 3 to stay. The sky streams by. The other vital Fernanda D’Agostino: Generativity: installation is a whole length of one room’s Suyama Space, Mon-Fri, free, through Dec 16 floor made pink by pouring a glazy, lightly in·dig·e·nize: Daybreak Star Center, Mon- scented mixture of Paul Mitchell shampoo Fri, free, through Dec 1 and blush across it. Splotches of darker pink Jeffrey Simmons: Greg Kucera Gallery, blush appear in it as if it were a certain tone Tues-Sat, free, through Dec 23 of girlish skin responding. This girl is not just Jessica Jorgensen: A Quiet Truth: AXIS Pi- white but pink: white in drag. Just standing oneer Square, Mon-Fri, free, through Nov 28 near the smear is a way to be restored to Judith Cooper Haden: The Women of your body—maybe especially if your body the Milpa: M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery, is female and queer, like MKNZ’s. The piece Mon-Fri, free, through Dec 15 is titled Diana. Diana was the first time Just Visiting: SOIL, Thurs-Sun, free, MKNZ experienced sex and love as one. The through Nov 26 directness of MKNZ’s testimony in the flyer Kiss Fear: BONFIRE, Wed-Sat, free, through that accompanies the art—her disregard Jan 28 for topical mystery or secrecy—creates a Laura Allen: Intelligent Life: Twilight Gal- path through her stories and out the other lery, Tues-Sun, free, through Dec 4 side into personal, direct, bodily experience manuel arturo abreu: resilience: INCA, with her works. And again, stay as long as Wed-Sat, free, through Nov 26 you want. (Glassbox Gallery, Wed-Sat, free, Mark Calderon: Greg Kucera Gallery, Tues- through Nov 26) JEN GRAVES Sat, free, through Dec 23 Michelle Anderst: Seven: New Work: We also recommend… Ghost Gallery, Thurs-Sun, free, through Dec 4 Pick Your Poison: Politics in Print: David- ART EVENTS son Galleries, Tues-Sat, free, through Nov 26 Inscape Open Studios: Inscape, Sat Nov Robots Building Robots: Hedreen Gallery, 19, 1-6 pm, free Wed-Sat, free, through Dec 10 SAM Remix: Seattle Art Museum, Fri Nov Three Days in Standing Rock: A Fund- 18, 8 pm-midnight, $25 raising Photography Show: Vermillion, Tues-Sun, free, through Dec 3 MUSEUMS Warren Dykeman: Would I go home 30 Americans: Tacoma Art Museum, Tues- again?: Studio E Gallery, Fri-Sat, free, Sun, $14, through Jan 15 through Dec 3 African Renaissances: Seattle Art Complete listings at strangerthingstodo.com 24 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER

EVERY MONDAY: MOJAM Nectar Lounge TUESDAYS IN DEC: HAPPY ORCHESTRA 412 N 36th St 12.3 KUNG FU + PARTICLE 206.632.2020 12.4 OBJECT HEAVY www.nectarlounge.com 12.8 NIGHTMARES ON WAX 12.9 SHOOK TWINS 11.17 Thursday (Bluegrass) + RABBIT WILDE TROUT STEAK REVIVAL 12.10 CLINTON FEARON The Warren G. Hardings, the Railsplitters 12.15 SCOTT PEMBERTON 11.18 Friday (Pop) 12.16 OG MCTUFF TRL “SPICE UP YOUR LIFE” 12.17 DESERT DWELLERS #ALL4DORAS: Seattle’s only tribute 12.18 BLUEGRASS CHRISTMAS boyband w/ DJ Indica Jones & Moynilectric 12.21 & 22 ANUHEA - 2 NIGHTS! 11.19 Saturday (Electronica) 12.23 HIBOU PHUTUREPRIMITIVE 12.29 KALYA SCINTILLA with Acorn Project 12.30 LYRICS BORN 11.20 Sunday (Rock & Roll) +BLACKALICIOUS MIDNIGHT NORTH 12.31 NITE WAVE NEON NYE Blue Lotus, China The Band 1.5 CLOZEE + PSYMBIONIC 11.23 Wed & 11.25 Fri (Grateful Dead) 1.6 CRY-DAY EMO PARTY “THANKFUL DEAD” 1.11 TALKING DREADS FEAT ANDY COE BAND 1.13 DIMOND SAINTS 11.26 Saturday (Dance Party) 1.18 BROWN SABBATH PRINCE VS MICHAEL 1.19 VINCE HERMAN w/ DJ Dave Paul +GIPSY MOON 11.27 Sunday (Hip-Hop) 1.20 GIANT PANDA GRAN RAPIDS GUERILLA DUB SQUAD Dead Rich, Ill Writers Guild 1.21 KELLER WILLIAMS 11.30 Wednesday (Bluegrass) KWAHTRO CASCADE CRESCENDO Oly Mountain Boys, Sourwood Stringband 1.29 KRIZZ KALIKO 2.2 & 3 SIR MIX-A-LOT 12.1 Thursday (Hip Hop / Funk) 2.10 DIRT NASTY THE FUNK HUNTERS W/ 2.12 WHITE LIES CHALI 2NA (of Jurassic 5) The Staxx Brothers, Willdabeast, 2.17 JOHN BROWN’S BODY DJ Indica Jones 2.19 KNEEBODY 12.2 Friday (Bluegrass) 2.25 MARIACHI FLOR HOT BUTTERED RUM 3.16-17 ALO (2 NIGHTS!) with Spare Rib & The Bluegrass Sauce 3.29 THE WERKS THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 25

Noteworthy Shows This Week THINGS TO DOMUSIC strangerthingstodo.com @SEAshows

are smart as a mofo, AND they don’t overdo it with the reverb. Of course, y’all prolly all Seu Jorge Presents: The know this, ’cause everyone I know is already Life Aquatic, A Tribute a CB fan. Along for tonight’s ride are Vers- to David Bowie ing, who play thick, melodic ’90s-inspired Mon Nov 21 indie rock, and Malidont, an “electronic at Benaroya Hall project.” MIKE NIPPER

Hound Dog Taylor’s Hand, Bad Luck, KO Solo (Blue Moon) It’s ﬁ nally time to celebrate the release of Seattle trio Hound Dog Taylor’s Hand’s self-titled debut studio LP on Alan Bishop’s always-crucial Abduction Records. Long one of the city’s most incendiary and interesting bands, HDTH—guitarist Jeffery Taylor, bassist John Seman, and drummer Mark Ostrowski—have found myriad ways to integrate Hendrixian pyrotechnics and tenderness (Jimi was a softy at heart) with Sonny Sharrock–ian and James Blood Ulmer– esque jazz brut. It’s highbrow, high-intensity music that doesn’t neglect the body, and it thrives in the divey atmosphere of places like the Blue Moon and the old Comet. Support comes from two of Seattle’s boldest boundary-eroders with tangential connections to jazz: KO Solo (aka Kate Olson) and Bad Luck. DAVE SEGAL

Medina/Walsh, Mára, Darto (Chapel Performance Space, all ages) Tonight experimental-music haven Debacle Records celebrates the release of Vault of Angels, the debut album by Seattle duo Medina/ Walsh. Mainstays of the titular Debacle Fest, guitarist Joshua Medina and electron- ics master Paurl Walsh take John Fahey’s fi ngerpicking and his late-career experiments with industrial noise and collage to their next logical level on their excellent LP, which came out November 11. Walsh both manipulates Medina’s gorgeous pastoral passages and augments them with his subtle computer treatments. The result is a near- seamless merger of soothing and ominous drone tapestries and contemplative folk guitar melodies that shimmer with a solemn aid people hurting in Haiti right now. When more cerebral substance(s) in their rave ex- grandeur. Vault of Angels rebukes those WEDNESDAY 11/16 the country was rocked by a catastrophic periences. He’s since gone on to tweak that who think that folk is naturally resistant to Suzanne Vega, Teddy Thompson earthquake in 2010, Sol organized a local- formula in the studio via myriad iterations innovation. DAVE SEGAL (Triple Door, early show all ages) If you’re a star-studded benefi t show at Neumos. Sol’s of technological advances and micro-edits, FRIDAY 11/18 Generation Xer or older, you know Suzanne mother is Haitian-born, and he still has lots making music that’s both more layered and of family around Haiti, including the village Vega is famous for “Luka” and “Tom’s more severe. As a DJ, Hawtin has maneu- of Abricots—which he described as “the Terry Malts, Killer Ghost, Diner,” which is fi ne. Frankly, I think a whole vered into the outdoor festival circuit without poorest part of the poorest country in the Versing, Rainy Day book could be written about “Tom’s Diner,” losing all of his underground cred, though his world”—and last month, that village was hit (Vera, all ages) They may hail from Cali- just like Gordon Theisen got a whole book dodgy haircuts have resulted in mockery. But hard by Hurricane Matthew. So he’s return- fornia, but buzz-saw-pop trio Terry Malts out of Edward Hopper’s famous Nighthawks even as recently as his 2014 Decibel appear- ing to Neumos with the Physics, Gifted Gab, ance at EMP, Hawtin sounded almost as vital manage the neat trick of sounding like a UK painting: the small scene at hand and how act steeped in Americana. It’s not that bass and Ariana DeBoo to raise funds to help and interesting as during his ’90s peak phases. existence radiates outward from it. If you’re player and vocalist Phil Benson sings with rebuild homes and schools damaged and de- On the decks, he’s always manipulating tracks not already converted to Vega, though, a British accent, but rather that he brings a stroyed—and if you can’t make the show, you with state-of-the-art gear, and his selections try “Wooden Horse,” the spooky story of touch of post-punk cool to the proceedings can give to his online fundraising efforts at are usually stellar, so his sets sound like no- Kaspar Hauser. That’ll sell you. This time of (his vocals recall House of Love’s Guy Chad- youcaring.com/paradis-des-indiens-and-the- body else’s. DAVE SEGAL year, especially. Teddy Thompson is the son wick, circa their 1988 hit “Christine”). Terry village-of-abricots-670305. “Let’s practice our of Richard Thompson, the mighty Fairport Malts are like the Buzzcocks fi ltered through empathy as a global community,” Sol says on Chastity Belt, Malidont, Versing Convention singer/guitarist, and Linda Hüsker Dü, as guitarist and sometime-vocalist the show’s promo video, “and do something Thompson, the mighty singer. He got all (Chop Suey, all ages) I LERVE Chastity Belt Corey Cunningham generates the buzz and greater than us.” LARRY MIZELL JR. the good genes. Plus, as his mother said, he so much, I haven’t stopped listening to chime, while drummer Nathan Sweatt deliv- really was the best thing in the school play. Time to Go Home since its release. See, ers the power and speed (Cunningham’s ANDREW HAMLIN Richie Hawtin, Zacharia, Ctrl_ though they’re not of MY generation, they lilting “It’s Not Me” proves he should sing Alt_Dlt, Eugene Fauntleroy somehow captured the not-yet-codifi ed- more). After two self-produced efforts, Terry THURSDAY 11/17 (Q Nightclub) In the early 1990s, Richie underground-sounds of the late ’80s/very Malts hired Soft Moon producer Monte Hawtin and his many aliases (Plastikman, early ’90s, like, when almost every record Vallier to bring the group’s strengths into Sol’s Haiti Relief Show: Sol, the F.U.S.E., UP!, Concept 1, etc.) launched a released was relevant. BUT, my lerve ain’t sharper focus for this year’s Lost at the Party Physics, Gifted Gab, Ariana DeBoo mystique-laden, utopian brand of minimalist, just nostalgia—Chastity Belt DO have it without dulling their distinctive personality. (Neumos, all ages) God bless the heart of lysergic techno that fi red the imaginations where it counts. They’re melodic and catchy, KATHY FENNESSY Seattle rapper Sol—with your help, you can and moved the asses of people who wanted their arrangements are considered, the lyrics Continued 26 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER THINGS TO DO MUSIC

DIAD, Contact Cult continue to perform, aided by newest mem- you’re keeping pace with a guy traversing his (Chapel Performance Space, all ages) DIAD is ber Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, often mixing neighborhood as he shout-mumbles distinct the high-level analog-synth summit meeting piano and tabla into their original drum-and- memories throughout his life of every corner between electronic-music luminaries Chloe bass template. JOSEPH SCHAFER he rounds, set to the slash-and-burn reverb of “Raica” Harris and Timm “Mood Organ” three-chord guitar riffs and the background Mason. Whether the Seattle musicians are SATURDAY 11/19 noise of someone banging their face against a kick drum. There’s something very thera- collaborating in the studio or onstage, the Sleigh Bells, the Regrettes results inevitably slant toward the abstractly peutic about Kozelek screaming “SUCK MY (Neumos, all ages) Readers in their mid-to- astral. Their self-titled debut album, coming HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR DICK” over a late-20s who at any time owned a wallet next year on Further Records, explores stellar backing track that a bored high-schooler attached to a chain may remember Derek could’ve arranged. Humor and angst, what and aquatic realms with scientific rigor. Fans Miller as the guitarist in hardcore outfit else do you need? KIM SELLING of Klaus Schulze’s most kosmische excursions Poison the Well. Anyone younger prob- and the cerebral sound-design intricacies of ably knows him as the multi-instrumentalist Warp’s Artificial Intelligence comps will dig Research: DJ Qu, Carlos R, Miles Mercer behind New York’s Sleigh Bells. With a hyper- what DIAD’s laying down. Portland musician (Kremwerk) DJ Qu is one of those house- compressed mix of blistering guitar, Big Contact Cult (aka Troy Micheau, guitarist for music DJs whose sets gracefully straddle the Black–ish drum machines, and saccharine the shape-shifting rock-disco band formerly thin line between traditional soulfulness and pop vocals courtesy of Alexis Krauss, the duo known as Swahili, which is now on hiatus) staunch funkiness and tracks that boast more racked up accolades in 2010 with their debut outré elements like strange tonalities and dropped one of the Northwest’s deepest album, Treats. Critical reception has since disruptive rhythms. He’s even been known slabs of tranquil, mirage-inducing ambience cooled, but Sleigh Bells still sneak the abra- to take some detours into Basic Channel–like for Seattle label Translinguistic Other last sive sounds of extreme metal music and shred dub techno and golden-age hiphop. Which is year, titled Hylozoist. If Jon Hassell/Rapoon guitar into the pop lexicon with more gusto a solid reason why the savvy talent-spotters vibes float your catamaran, you need to than any band since. JOSEPH SCHAFER check out Contact Cult. DAVE SEGAL of Research booked Qu. With support by local selectors Carlos R and Miles Mercer, this Jesu and Sun Kil Moon OM, Daniel Higgs night’s going to get heady quickly, and then (Moore, all ages) Mark Kozelek of Sun Kil just get progressively deeper as the night (Neumos) If it seems like bassist and vocalist Moon has spent his career wrangling his goes on. DAVE SEGAL Al Cisneros was just in town playing loud choked acoustic darkness into a marketable songs over a protracted length of time, shape, and that decades-old practice remains SUNDAY 11/20 that’s because he was. Cisneros recently the case with his latest album, titled Jesu / Sun played as part of doom metal trio Sleep, but Kil Moon, a project in partnership with perma- YG, RJ, Kamaiyah, Sadboy` OM play in a different sandbox, albeit with weird Brit experiment human Justin Broadrick (Showbox Sodo, all ages) Though he boasts the same massive bass rig. Originally a meld- of the early ’00s band Jesu, known for their he’s “the only one that made it out the West ing of drone rock and Tibetan and Byzantine coherent drone-gaze. As much as I prefer the without Dre” (a delightfully bold line from chant music, OM have been redistributing the imagery of Kozelek’s lone figure bleating into “Twist My Fingaz”), Keenon Daequan Ray focus in “amp worship” from “amp” to “wor- the void (as it is in much of his music), the part- Jackson, better known as Compton rapper ship” since 2003. Even though they haven’t nership works. It’s got a very mid-’90s “The YG, can be found soaking in the same musical released a studio album in four years, OM Future Is Nigh” vibe, with an innate sense that Continued

TIMES LISTED ARE SHOW TIMES. DOORS OPEN 30-60 MINUTES BEFORE.

Thurs 11/17 ALL SHOWS / ALL AGES BAR W/ID UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED CANADIAN FOLK ROCK JUST OFF 1ST AVE SOUTH - 110 S. HORTON ALAN DOYLE More Info 206-286-1312 or www.studioseven.us (OF GREAT BIG SEA) & THE BEAUTIFUL WED 11/ 16 6PM Thu GYPSIES 11/17 NOISEGASM 8PM $25 9pm Sat 11/19 EPICA SOUL/FUNK/POP/ROCK FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE Fri STANDING ROCK THE DIP 11/18 BENEFIT W/ FUTURE DIRTY REVIVAL, HOECAKES ARKONA 9pm SHOCK 9PM $18/$20 Sun 11/20 THE AGONIST SAN FRAN ROCKERS Sat SNAP! 90’S DANCE DIEGO’S FRI 11/18 7PM 11/19 GHOST SHIP OCTAVIOUS 9pm PARTY - $10 UMBRELLA BUTT DIAL, THE DEBAUCHAUNTES THREAD THE SKY / REEVOLUTION / 8PM $10 GEORGE VARGHESE Wed BEASTIE BOYS Wed 11/23 11/23 80’S VS 90’S W/ FRI 11/25 7PM 9pm TRIBUTE DJ INDICA JONES EXTINCTION A.D AYRON JONES, #ALL4DORAS, – IN UPPER LEVEL - MOJ + MORE JUKEBOX ZERO / AS OF RIGHT NOW / GUESTS CONSIDERATE 9PM $10/$15 A HOLES, Fri Wed 11/16 SAT 12/3 8PM 21 & OVER 11/25 Shagnasty, KEXP PRESENTS PRETTY BOY FLOYD Flying Tortugas SCANDINAVIAN FOLK DUO REV 3 / ANTAREZ MY BUBBA GHOSTS I’VE MET THU 12/8 6:30PM ANGELICA 8PM $14/$18 FAMOUS LAST WORDS Sun BURDETTE - SINGER, THE FUNERAL PORTRAIT/ VERSUS ME 11/27 John Othic (dj), 8pm TUE 12/13 6:30PM Little Child Man, SWORN ENEMY

Just Chatting HOODS / DROWNING / STAB / COMPOUND HMC / BAD IDEA 11/22 ETHAN J PERRY 11/25 DUSTY 45’S 11/26 VAUDEVILLE UP AND COMING: 11/25 EXTICTION A.D. 12/5 ETIQUETTE 11/27 SLOUCHER 11/28 SQUARE DANCE 11/29 KYLE CRAFT FACE YOUR MAKER / KRIMINALS / HOLLOW EARTH FOLLOW US ON FB, TWITTER & INSTAGRAM 12/12 MEMORIES IN BROKEN GLASS / DAWN OF FLAMES 2/1 POWERMAN 5000 – ORGY 2/4 LORDI 2/9 LA GUN’S REUNION TOUR 2/18 LYNCH MOB 3/14 ARCHITECHS THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 27 28 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER

SEA MONSTER live music 7 nights a week featuring: MONDAYS OPEN MIC NIGHT 8pm TUESDAYS W/JOE DORIA B3 organ live jazz fusion 10pm, opening band 8pm WESTSOUND WEDNESDAYS live rare soul & original funk family 10pm MARMALADE THURSDAYS live funk jam party w/ DJ’s at 9pm $6. FUNKY 2 DEATH FRIDAYS live funk and soul revue w/ DJ ROC PHIZZLE at 9pm $7. SAT & SUN BRUNCH 10am-3pm w/ LIVE JAZZ 12-2pm, ALL AGES TIL 10PM

SCRATCH BAR FOOD and HAPPY HOUR 4-6 DAILY 2202 N 45th St • Seattle 206 992-1120 seamonsterlounge.com THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 29 THINGS TO DO MUSIC hot tub as the breakthrough 1990s artists from also act, the late David Bowie’s his neck of California. Classically wonky G-funk genre-spanning music would COMING UP NEXT production and heavily slurred slang directly still have found its way into from the front steps of the Blood side of town countless motion pictures, THURSDAY 11/17 have come back around to the mainstream few more inventively Suzanne Vega SOL’S HAITI RELIEF SHOW than The Life Aquatic some 25 years later, like acid-wash jeans. And Wed Nov 16 THE PHYSICS + GIFTED GAB + ARIANA DEBOO despite some of the misogynist viewpoints that with Steve Zissou, a at Triple Door apparently still come with the wah-wah bass poignant father-son FRIDAY 11/18 lines, YG has proven to be an insightful street- drama disguised as level journalist, weaving racial politics and loopy underwater OM Donald Trump shots between club anthems on adventure. A less DANIEL HIGGS his sophomore LP, Still Brazy. TODD HAMM ingenious ﬁ lm- maker might have WEDNESDAY 11/23 Temple of the Dog, Fantastic Negrito shelled out for an original record- INDUSTRIAL REVELATION (Paramount, all ages, Nov 20–21) Temple of ing or two, but Wes D’VONNE LEWIS’ LIMITED EDITION the Dog are Chris Cornell—honoring the late Anderson instead + NICK DRUMMOND BAND Andrew Wood—out in front of most of Pearl tapped singer-actor Seu Jam, including Matt Cameron from Sound- Jorge, fresh off a run as SATURDAY 11/26 garden (and Pearl Jam), and (let’s hope) Eddie Knockout Ned in the Oscar- Vedder, who sang on some of the most amaz- POLYRHYTHMICS nominated City of God, to play COUNTRY LIPS ing shit from the band’s album, now 25 years a guitar-wielding deckhand who old (sigh) and well worth (re)discovering. Let’s entertains the crew with Portuguese SUNDAY 11/27 not leave out the opening act, though: Fan- versions of RCA-era Bowie numbers, like “Life tastic Negrito is a man who waded through a on Mars?” Jorge’s resistance to imitation al- I was ready to not-gotta love them if they DRAGONETTE failed record deal and then climbed out of a lows his own warm, expressive voice to shine were just another hardcore band—hey, man, GIBBZ hospital bed after a near-fatal car crash, saying through, leading Bowie himself to praise “the you gotta earn the word “fuck” in yer band “fuck you” to the permanent physical damage THURSDAY 12/1 new level of beauty” the Brazilian brought to name! To my pleasant surprise and the relief and going to work growing weed. Then he his material. KATHY FENNESSY of my damaged ears, they’re not hardcore. started playing music again. He’s just a little bit MOON DIAL No, this is organ jazz with distortion. Or MYRRUM + BIGFOOT WALLACE angry. Who wouldn’t be? ANDREW HAMLIN TUESDAY 11/22 maybe distortion with jazz organ. Impolite but AND HIS WICKED SONS serious-minded organ/drum duels. So you just MONDAY 11/21 The Suﬀ ering Fuckheads (Royal Room) Some bands, you just gotta love gotta love bands that pick rude names that FRIDAY 12/2 Seu Jorge Presents: The Life them for their name. See above. Some bands, make folks think they’re hardcore. But in the AN EVENING WITH Aquatic, a Tribute to David Bowie you just gotta love because they call their end, I’m intellectually persuaded. Spank my ass (Benaroya Hall, all ages) Even if he didn’t album Obnoxious Jazz for Sensitive Assholes. and call me Charlie. ANDREW HAMLIN CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD SATURDAY 12/3 SHAMELESS DANCE NIGHT ALL YOUR GUILTY PLEASURES Wednesday, November 16 & ONE HIT WONDERS GUTTERMOUTH Get Dead The Cryptics, Toecutter 9PM $13 - $15 Thursday, November 17 COMING UP NEXT SOULTANZ Samurai Del, FRIDAY 11/18 Sendai Mike, Kyo Ken, GOLDEN SUITS Cidi, DNZ CATALDO 9PM $10 Friday, November 18 SATURDAY 11/19 SUBROSA Eight Bells NATALY DAWN & LAUREN Eye of Nix, O’CONNELL Nox Vellum 9PM $10 - $12 MONDAY 11/21 Friday, November 25 LOS PEPINIYOZ MNDSGN Dr. Quinn and the Medicine Woman TUESDAY 11/22 LoudMotor 9:30PM $8 SKINNY LISTER Saturday, November 26 LINCOLN DURHAM + TRAPPER SCHOEPP TOYS COME ALIVE 2 9PM $10 - $15 FRIDAY 11/25 Sunday, November 27, 2016 FRICTION PITCH SHIFTERCAR Nestoria WEEKLY FRIDAY & SATURDAY You.May.Die.In.The.Desert DANCE NIGHTS FROM 10:30PM TO CLOSE 9PM $10 TICKET AVAILABLE AT www.highlineseattle.com MOE BAR & ETIX.COM 210 Broadway Ave E • 21+ NEUMOS.COM | THEBARBOZA.COM | MOEBARSEATTLE.COM Dinner service everyday 5-11pm 925 EAST PIKE STREET, SEATTLE 30 November 16, 2016 THEPONY STRANGER THINGS TO DOMUSIC The Best of the Rest of the Shows This Week strangerthingstodo.com @SEAshows = Recommended a = All Ages

Forest Veil, Mickelson, Pioneers, Jose Fang, 9 pm, $22-$122 WED 11/16 8 pm, $6/$8 $6/$8 a BREMERTON HIGHWAY 99 Trailer Park HIGH DIVE Self Center PERFORMING ARTS LIVE MUSIC Kings, 8 pm, $7 Records Launch Party with CENTER Symphonie CAPITOL CIDER Scott NECTAR Trout Steak Head Like A Kite, The Fantastique, 7:30 pm, 1221 Mickelson, 8-10 pm, free Animals at Night, and Tim $10-$24 1221 e Revival, The Warren G. CHOP SUEY Kevin Devine Hardings, The Railsplitters, Held, 8 pm, $6/$10 a PACIFIC LUTHERAN emadison madison & The Goddamn Band, 8 pm, $12/$16 HIGHLINE Subrosa, Eight UNIVERSITY PLU Opera: Pinegrove, Petal, 7:30 pm, a NEPTUNE THEATRE Bells, Eye of Nix, Nox Fiery Jade - Cai Yan, 7:30 $15/$18 Vellum, 9 pm, $10/$12 wed 12/03 He’s A Rebel ! Candlebox, Jeff Angell’s pm, $5-$15 MON - THU: 5pm to 2am COLUMBIA CITY THEATER Staticland, PeteRG, 8 pm, HIGHWAY 99 Ayron a WASHINGTON fri 12/05 BEEFCAKE! Thor & Friends with Adam $23.50 Jones & Friends with CENTER FOR THE FRI - SUN: 3pm to 2am Torres, 8 pm, $12/$14 THE ROYAL ROOM Erin McTuff, 8 pm, $15 PERFORMING ARTS sat 12/06 mooseknuckle CONOR BYRNE Katie McKeown with The Cabin MOORE THEATRE Global Seattle Rock Orchestra: Kuffel, Erica Cooper, Project, 7 pm, $15/$17 Party, 7:30 pm, $10 David Bowie, 7:30 pm, $10-$35 sun ponyseattle.com12/07 4pm Andrew St. Andrew, 8 a SHOWBOX SODO Keys NECTAR TRL: Spice Up Your WORLD’S TINIEST TEADANCE! pm, $8 n Krates, Branchez, KRNE, Life: DJ Indica Jones, DJ a WASHINGTON HALL tue 12/09 i hate karaoke ! CROCODILE a Caleborate, 8:30 pm, $25/$30 Moynilectric, #ALL4DORAS, As One: A Transgender 6:30 pm, $12; a A Tribe a STUDIO SEVEN Adema, 9 pm, $7/$10 Story. A New Opera Called Red, 8 pm, $17 Galaxy, John Mahaffey, NEPTUNE THEATRE The Experience., $25-$40 a THE FUNHOUSE Guests, 7 pm, $13/$15 New Mastersounds & No-Knock Raid with Fucking SUBSTATION PissWand, Turkuaz, 9 pm, $20/$23.50 SAT 11/19 Awesome, 8 pm, $8/$10 The Great Goddamn, Love a PARAMOUNT THEATRE HIGH DIVE Radkey, The Moon, Praying, 8:30 pm, $8 Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern LIVE MUSIC Fame Riot, Shit Ghost, Wall SUNSET TAVERN Patrick Jukebox, 8 pm, $35.75- BARBOZA Nataly Dawn & of Ears, 8 pm, $10/$15 Galactic, A Breakthrough $101.25 Lauren O’Connell, 7 pm, Guttermouth, In Field Studies, Among THE ROYAL ROOM En HIGHLINE $15 Get Dead, The Cryptics, Authors, 9 pm, $8 Canto, 8 pm, $10/$12 BLUE MOON TAVERN Toecutter, 9 pm, $13/$15 TRACTOR TAVERN Alan SHOWBOX SODO An Chung Antique, Holy HIGHWAY 99 Big Road Doyle, 8 pm, $25 Evening with Zemfira, 8 pm, Tentacles, Bullets or Blues, 8 pm, $7; Zydeco Rex, $87.75-$152.75 a VERA PROJECT The Balloons, 9 pm, $5 8 pm, $7 Dropouts, 7 pm, $10/$12 a THE SHOWBOX Jai Wolf, CAPP’S CLUB Chris Poage NECTAR WAX with Palmer Jerry Folk, Ramzoid, 9 pm, VERMILLION Convictions, with Mts and Tunnels, Squares, 8 pm, $15 $20/$25 Quid Quo, ex-Licks, Sterling Panda Conspiracy, Mother a NEPTUNE THEATRE The Serpent, 9 pm, $7 SKYLARK CAFE & CLUB of Pearl, Josh Clauson Trio, Smith & Whitaker with Posies with Anomie Belle, 9 8 pm, $10/$12 pm, $18.50/$23.50 JAZZ Jones, The Almost Faithful, CENTRAL SALOON Plus a JAZZ ALLEY Cherry 9 pm, $7 NEUMOS Snakehips with One & Pizza Fest Present: Poppin’ Daddies, 7:30 pm, AbJo, 8 pm, $20 SLIM’S LAST CHANCE Plus Crust, $10 $31.50 Unbiblical Cords, Hostile PARAMOUNT THEATRE COLUMBIA CITY THEATER RESONANCE AT SOMA Takeover, Side Hammer, 9 Celtic Thunder, 6:30 pm, The Neil Youngs and the TOWERS A Horn of Plenty pm, $6 $41.25-$71.25 Harvest Moon Band, 8 pm, with Dmitri Matheny, 7:30- SPINNAKER BAY BREWING SLIM’S LAST CHANCE The $15/$17 9:30 pm, $15 Women’s Blues Jam, free Billy Joe Show, 8 pm, free CONOR BYRNE Jonathan a STUDIO SEVEN Ghost a STUDIO SEVEN Epica, Warren & the Billy Goats DJ Ship Octavius, Thread The FleshGod Apocalypse, with Rusty Cleavers, 9 pm, PONY Billion Dollar Sky, ReEvolution, George Arkona, The Agonist, 6 pm, $8; Concert For Water Babies: DJ Aykut Ozen and Varghese, 7 pm, $12/$15 $25/$30 Pretty Baby, 9 pm Protectors: #NoDAPL with SUNSET TAVERN El Perro SUBSTATION Close Sebastian & The Deep Blue, THE CARLILE ROOM Brian Del Mar with Emma Lee Encounter, The Celestials, Lindstrom & The Limit, Yeager and DJ FOOD, 10 pm Toyoda, 8:30 pm, $12 Charlatan, 8 pm, $8 Tobias The Owl, and Katrina TIMBRE ROOM Hype TACOMA RIALTO THEATER SUNSET TAVERN LITE, Charles, 2-6 pm, $8 Thursdays, 9 pm-1 am, free Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Mouse on the Keys, 8 pm, a CROCODILE Los 7:30 pm, $29-$49 Kingdom, 7 pm, $7 $17 CLASSICAL TRACTOR TAVERN Cash’d aTIMBRE ROOM American EL CORAZON MC Chris, a BENAROYA HALL Out: A Tribute to Johnny Murder Song, 8-11 pm, MC Lars, Mega Ran, 8 pm, Rachmaninov Piano Cash, 11 pm, $18 $5-$30 Concerto No. 4, 7:30 pm, $15/$18 a TRIPLE DOOR Anders TRACTOR TAVERN My $22-$122 a FREMONT ABBEY Osborne and James Seattle Rock Orchestra Bubba with Ghosts I’ve Met, a PACIFIC LUTHERAN McMurtry, 7 pm, $28-$38 Social Club #1 Performs The 8 pm, $14 UNIVERSITY PLU Opera: VERMILLION Wildstyle: DJ Fiery Jade - Cai Yan, Nov Beatles, 8 pm, $15/$17 Zeta, 10 pm, free JAZZ 17-19, 7:30 pm, $5-$15 a THE FUNHOUSE Salem a JAZZ ALLEY Cherry VICTORY LOUNGE Tincho, a WASHINGTON HALL Knights, Anthrocene, I The Poppin’ Daddies, 7:30 pm, Hot Vodka, Power Cowards, As One: A Transgender Creator, Visceral, As Pillars $31.50 Dusty, 9 pm, $5 Story. A New Opera Fall, 7 pm, $10/$12 HIGH DIVE Adrian H & The Experience., $25-$40 JAZZ DJ Wounds, Shadow House, DJ a Q NIGHTCLUB FWD: JAZZ ALLEY Taj Mahal Savak, 8 pm, $6/$8 UNiiQU3 & MURLO, 9 pm-2 Trio, Nov 18-20, $37.50 FRI 11/18 NECTAR Phutureprimitive am, $11 TACOMA RIALTO THEATER with Acorn Project, 8 pm, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, LIVE MUSIC $15/$18 DANCE 7:30 pm, $29-$49 BARBOZA Golden Suits, 7 a NEPTUNE THEATRE 415 WESTLAKE Stomp Dave Peck Trio, Isan Thai pm, $12 TULA’S Seattle’s Last Waltz Tribute, the Hate: Nasty Women 7:30 pm, $20 8 pm, $15 Restaurant & Dance Party, 7:30-10 pm, $5 BLUE MOON TAVERN Tigers Bar in the Heart Suggested Donation in the Tank, Triceraclops, DJ PARAMOUNT THEATRE 5-Track, 9 pm, $5 Amos Lee, 8 pm, $35-$45 of Capitol Hill CONTOUR Max Schwasty, 9 CAPP’S CLUB Radio pm-2 am, free SHOWBOX SODO Steel THURS 11/17 Raheem with Kim Virant, Panther with December in 1400 10th Ave. Seattle KREMWERK Tom Kha & 206.556.5781 8:30 pm, $6/$8 Red, 8 pm, $25/$30 Kremwerk Present: Conrank www.SoiCapitolHill.com LIVE MUSIC CENTRAL SALOON Plus & Faze Miyake, 10 pm-2 am a THE SHOWBOX The BARBOZA Waterstrider, 8 One & Pizza Fest Present: Randy Rogers Band with Q NIGHTCLUB Mint: OPEN FOR LUNCH, pm, $10 Plus Crust, $10 Cody Johnson, 8:30 pm, $20 DINNER & DRINKS Supagi, 10 pm-2 am, $10 Plus CHOP SUEY Duke Evers, SLIM’S LAST CHANCE Sun-Thu 11AM to 12AM CENTRAL SALOON R PLACE Transcendence: Fauna Shade, The Hollers, Fri & Sat 11AM to 2AM One & Pizza Fest Present: with DJ E, 9:30 pm Ghost Train Trio, Franks BRUNCH Plus Crust, $10 Tekla, 8 pm, $12 & Deans, Benny & The SUBSTATION Paradise Sat & Sun, 11-3 CONOR BYRNE The Pfeffearl Hillbillies, 9 pm, $6 CONOR BYRNE A Sessions: Sublevel Live, HAPPY HOUR Pornadoes, Wages of Sin, Benefit Concert for 10 pm-3 am, $15 SUNSET TAVERN 3PM to 6PM Everyday Standing Rock: Sarah Vito & The One-Eyed Jacks, Scarlet Parke, Northern TIMBRE ROOM Foolish Gerritsen & the Shadow 9 pm, $8 Shakedown, James Anaya, Fridays, 9 pm-2 am, $5 Catchers, Zach Fleury, CROCODILE a Corey 9 pm, $10 LATE NIGHT before 10pm/$10 after HAPPY HOUR! Chebon Tiger, and Kevin Harper, 7:30 pm, $5; a TIMBRE ROOM Qoqo Sur, 8 pm, $8 Lemaitre, Chet Porter, Sun-Thu 10PM to Close DANCE Roboqs, Nightspace, Fri & Sat 11PM to Close a Off! Coucheron, 8 pm, $15 Pleather, 7-10 pm EL CORAZON NECTAR TRL: Spice Up Your with Plague Vendor, 7 pm, a EL CORAZON David Life: DJ Indica Jones, DJ TOWN HALL a Caspar $20/$23 Choi, 8 pm, $15/$20 Moynilectric, #ALL4DORAS, Babypants, 12:30 pm, $5 for THE FUNHOUSE Agent EMP SKY CHURCH 9 pm, $7/$10 adults/Free for children; a Orange, The Atom Age, Influencers Concert Series: John Cage Musicircus, 6:30 Ape Machine, The Sky Wanda Jackson & The Dusty CLASSICAL pm, $5-$15 Rained Heroes, 8 pm, 45’s, 9 pm, $22 a BENAROYA HALL TRACTOR TAVERN The Dip, $13/$15 THE FUNHOUSE The Heels, Rachmaninov Piano Dirty Revival, Hoecakes, HIGH DIVE Furniture Girls, The Suicide Notes, Young Concerto No. 4, noon, 9 pm, $18 THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 31 THINGS TO DO All the Shows Happening This Week 1 a TRIPLE DOOR Johnny 20-21, 8 pm, $94.25 A, 8 pm, $25-$32 SUBSTATION Jeffrey a VERA PROJECT Lewis & the Los Bolts, Whitney Ballen, Generifus, Kurly Somthing, Vivian, 8 Sun Dummy, Swamp Meat, pm, $20 7:30 pm, $6/$8 SUNSET TAVERN All Star VERMILLION Pad Pushers, Opera, Cosmos, Kung Foo 9 pm, free Grip, 8 pm, $10 VICTORY LOUNGE Skates!, TIMBRE ROOM Swingin’ Wild English, Castle A Lens! A Film Program Dwellers, Ramona, 9 pm-1 Fundraiser, 6 pm, $15 am, $5/$8 TOWN HALL a Caspar Babypants, 12:30 pm, $5 JAZZ for adults/Free for children; EGAN’S JAM HOUSE a Día del Músico, 1:30 pm, Overton Berry Ensemble $5 suggested donation with Bernie Jacobs, 9 pm, TRACTOR TAVERN Diego’s $15/$25 for both shows Umbrella, Butt Dial, The a JAZZ ALLEY Taj Debaucherauntes, 8 pm, Mahal Trio, $37.50 $10 TULA’S Dave Peck Trio, a TRIPLE DOOR 7:30 pm, $20 Star Anna with Tekla VITO’S RESTAURANT & Waterfield, 7:30 pm, $10 LOUNGE The Tarantellas, THURS, 11/17 - SAT, 11/19 a VERA PROJECT Trekkie 6-9 pm, free Trax Crew, 8 pm, $12 DJ JAZZ CONTOUR Brinkage a JAZZ ALLEY Taj Mahal GABRIEL RUTLEDGE & Seattle Sub Sessions Trio, 7:30 pm, $37.50 Present: LOST, 10 pm, $10 a TULA’S Jim Cutler LO-FI Snap! 90’s Dance with Bri Pruitt Jazz Orchestra, 7:30 pm, $8 Party, 9 pm, $10 VITO’S RESTAURANT Q NIGHTCLUB Bizaar: Gabriel Rutledge was the winner & LOUNGE The Ron Audioh b2b Santamaria, Weinstein Trio, 9:30 pm, of the Seattle International Comedy DNA, Doozy b2b Chenbear, free It Me, Oki, 10 pm-2 am, Competition. He has performed at the $12 CLASSICAL HBO/TBS Comedy Festival in Las Vegas, RE-BAR Ceremony: DJ Evan BENAROYA HALL Chamber the Laughing Skull Comedy Festival in Blackstone, 10 pm-2 am, $5 Music Works of George SUBSTATION 215 Enescu, 7 pm, $26.50 Atlanta, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Productions 4 Year a PACIFIC LUTHERAN Anniversary Party, 10 pm-2 Portland, and the Great American Comedy UNIVERSITY PLU Opera: am, free Fiery Jade - Cai Yan, 3 pm, Festival held in Johnny Carson’s home town TIMBRE ROOM The Return $5-$15 of Norfolk Nebraska. Rutledge makes his of Passage with DJ Julie PANTAGES THEATER Herrera, 10 pm-2 am, Free “SAXY”, 2:30 pm, $18-$36 home in one of the great entertainment before 11pm/$10 after a ST. MARK’S capitals of the world; Olympia, Washington. CLASSICAL CATHEDRAL Compline Choir, 9:30 pm, free BENAROYA HALL a Rachmaninov Piano a TRINITY PARISH 109 S. WASHINGTON ST. Concerto No. 4, 8 pm, CHURCH Seattle Bach $22-$122; a Los Angeles Choir: God and Queen, ™ (ON OCCIDENTAL PARK) Guitar Quartet, 7:30 pm, 7:30 pm, $15/$18 (206)628-0303 $43 a PACIFIC LUTHERAN MON 11/21 WWW.COMEDYUNDERGROUND.COM UNIVERSITY PLU Opera: Fiery Jade - Cai Yan, 7:30 LIVE MUSIC pm, $5-$15 BARBOZA MNDSGN with PANTAGES THEATER Swarvy, 8 pm, $12 Classics II: Copland & Glass, THE FUNHOUSE SWYM, 7:30 pm, $19-$80 Dead Yeti, Eden Page, a PLYMOUTH 7:30 pm, $6/$8 INDOMITABLE CONGREGATIONAL INDOMITABLE THE ROYAL ROOM Duda CHURCH A Prayer for Almeida with Eduardo Unity | Fauré “Requiem”, Mendonça, 7 pm, $10 8-9:30 pm, $20 SUBSTATION Autopilot, a WASHINGTON HALL SPIRIT! Popcan Pipers, Something As One: A Transgender United, 8 pm-midnight, $8 Story. A New Opera Experience., $25-$40 SUNSET TAVERN Mr. Little Jeans with Trace, 7:30 pm, Quantum Martial Arts $15 now oﬀering kids classes SUN 11/20 a TRIPLE DOOR Brad Roberts of The Crash Test LIVE MUSIC four days a week! Dummies, 7:30 pm, $21/$30 CROCODILE The Pizza Pulpit: Actionesse, Tues & Wed 5-6pm Asterhouse, 6:30 pm, free; TUE 11/22 a SALES with Tangerine, Fri 4:30-5:50pm 8 pm, $13 LIVE MUSIC a EL CORAZON An BARBOZA Skinny Lister, Sat 10-11:15am Evening of Orange Lincoln Durham, Trapper (ages 6 -12) Sunshine with Matt Costa Schoepp, 7:30 pm, $15 and Band, 8 pm, $22/$25 a EL CORAZON William a THE FUNHOUSE Felix Control with MXMS, 7 pm, Martin, The Fine Constant, $12/$15 Lb!, 7 pm, $10/$12 a NEPTUNE THEATRE HIGH DIVE Ready Ron MØ, 8 pm, $20/$21.50 Beats Takeover: Ready a THE SHOWBOX SoMo Ron, DoNormaal, Billy The with STANAJ:, 8 pm, S Fridge, Feezable The Germ, $28/$30 T R Soul The Interrogator, TRACTOR TAVERN Ethan J A

Black Magic Noize, Peace & M Perry & The Remedy Band, A R L Red Velvet, 8 pm, $5/$10 T I A Rooster Crow, Lady Grace a MOORE THEATRE Band, Pine Hearts, 8 pm, $8 Raffi, 1 pm, $30/$57.50 NECTAR Midnight North, JAZZ Teens and Adults too! Check out the schedule at Blue Lotus, China The a JAZZ ALLEY Taj Mahal Band, 8 pm, $8/$10 Trio, 7:30 pm, $37.50 www.quantumseattle.org a PARAMOUNT PARK TULA’S Natalie Cressman presented by Temple of the Dog with & Mike Bono CD Release 1800 S. Jackson St, Seattle, Wa, • (206) 322-4799 (800) 745-3000 • STGPRESENTS.ORG NE 45TH & BROOK LYN AVE Fantastic Negrito, Nov Show, 7:30 pm, $12 Tickets Available At ticketmaster.com 32 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER

PROMOTION WHERE IT MATTERS

SELL TICKETS WITH THE LOCAL PROMOTIONAL POWER OF

5.8 MILLION WEB VIEWS WEBWEBMONTHLY 12K+SUBSCRIBERS E-MAIL PRINT 175K weekly readers SOCIAL MEDIA 50K FRIENDS / FOLLOWERS

TURN SERVICE FEES INTO AD CREDIT!

KNOW OF ANY EVENTS? FIND OUT HOW REFERRALS CAN GET YOU FREE AD CREDIT!

STRANGERTICKETS.COM THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 33 MUSIC

Post-Trump Stress Disorder Seattle Musicians Reveal the Music They’re Listening to for Coping with… You Know BY DAVE SEGAL

o gauge how Seattle musicians and CHRIS BROKAW DJs have been dealing with the Merzbow, all day long. I did make an ex- Tlooming prospect of a four-year ception to listen to a bunch of Leonard shitshow, The Stranger asked some of them Cohen last night. Oddly, I feel like his pass- to reveal the sounds that are keeping them ing is not a terrible addition to the blows relatively sane during this gut-wrenching of this week, but a kind of light for us to The Crocodile Presents:: time. The response was overwhelming and celebrate. As evidenced in the recent long 11/16 A Tribe Called Red diverse—including everyone from Leonard portrait of him in the New Yorker, he was WEDNESDAY Crockett King (of the Fish Tank Friends) Cohen to Björk to A Tribe Called Quest. We engaged, happy, and making great work All Ages - Sold Out have a crisis on our hands, America. (Person- right up to now, had his affairs in order, The Crocodile Presents:: ally, I’m coping with heavy doses of Terry and seemed at peace and ready for his pas- 11/16 Riley and Alice Coltrane, plus Colin New- sage. It’s hard to imagine a better end to LITE + Mouse on the Keys WEDNESDAY @ The Sunset 21+ man’s A–Z and Not To—not that you asked.) such an admirable life. And I sure needed something to celebrate this week, since it STG Presents:: NATASHA EL-SERGANY (OF couldn’t be the one thing I expected. Cohen 11/18 LEMAITRE SOMESURPRISES, MAN) gave me something else—typically gener- FRIDAY Chet Porter, Coucheron I have been listening to Björk’s 2001 album ous of him. All Ages Vespertine, as it combines the comforting ex- The Crocodile Presents:: perience of being at home (it was an album LARRY MIZELL JR. 11/18 El Perro Del Mar @ The Sunset about things that happen in the home—the B- Outkast’s Aquemini and A Tribe Called FRIDAY Emma Lee Toyoda sides release was called Domestica) with her Quest’s We Got It from Here… Thank You 21+ powerful emotional vulnerability and feminini- 4 Your Service. The Crocodile Presents:: ty. It just reminds me that what is in our homes 11/20 SALES and hearts are worlds unto themselves and the PAT THOMAS (OF MUSHROOM) SUNDAY Tangerine source of what we will present as an alternative Amiri Baraka’s “Who Will Survive Amer- All Ages to the cold neoliberal and now potentially fas- ica” from Listen, Whitey!: The Sounds of cist politics of the outside world. Also Marcel Black Power 1967–1974—it’s very much a 11/21 The Crocodile Presents:: Khalife’s album Promises of the Storm, be- universal message in 2016, going into 2017, Mr Little Jeans @ The Sunset cause it’s sad and beautiful. I’m so upset about with Trump. MONDAY TRACE 21+ this election and glad to be in a city where that sentiment is overwhelmingly shared. LEE CIZEK (OF SAME-SEX DICTATOR) THUR 1/5 SAT 3/18 A pretty deep Cocteau Twins phase has been WED 2/15 NOLAN NONAME DONAVON RAFAEL ANTON IRISARRI (OF THE SIGHT soothing me through the day. And Scorpions GARRETT FRANKENREITER BELOW) before that for some reason… probably be- FEATURED A few months ago, during my many days of cause it’s hard to not feel awesome when 11/23 HELMS ALEE 11/26 EMANCIPATOR 11/27-11/30 X “40TH ANNIVERSARY” 11/27 utter despair and overwhelming anxiety (as it listening to them. WARM BREW & MICHAEL CHRISTMAS @ CHOP SUEY 11/30 THE JAPANESE HOUSE sank in that Trump could win), I said jokingly @ THE SUNSET 12/1 THE SLACKERS 12/2 ADVANCE PLACEMENT TOUR 12/3 PERE that I’d curate the 2017 Trump inauguration: DJ RIZ UBU 12/7 HELMET 12/8 AGAINST THE CURRENT 12/9 VANIC 12/10 THE PAPER KITES Sunn O))), Tim Hecker, and Lawrence Silence. Although the Vijay Iyer/Wadada 2200 2ND AVE CORNER OF 2ND & BLANCHARD English. You know, some sounds to go along Leo Smith show at Benaroya [November 9] TICKETS @ THECROCODILE.COM & THE CROCODILE BOX OFFICE with the impending beginning of the end we’d helped center me amid the siren din after that be witnessing. shooting downtown last Wednesday night. MORE INFO AT WWW.THECROCODILE.COM 34 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER

PROMOTION WHERE IT MATTERS StrangerTickets.com NEUMOS.COM FEATURED EVENTS THURSDAY 12/8 GIRAFFE TONGUE

Hangar 30 ORCHESTRA(MEMBERS OF ALICE IN CHAINS + Dec at Magnuson MASTODON + DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN) 2 - 3 Park SUNDAY 12/11 ROONEY IMOSAS CABAR ROYAL TEETH + SWIMM En Canto M ET N  > R R <  TUESDAY 12/27 MACHINEDRUM

Nov 19 • 1 pm • Unicorn - Narwhal ‡ the Green vs White Bout ‡ TICKETS AVAILABLE AT MOE BAR & ETIX.COM ‡ ‡ NEUMOS.COM | THE BARBOZA.COM | MOEBARSEATTLE.COM | 925 E PIKE STREET, SEATTLE ‡ ‡ ‡ ‡ ‡ ‡ Mapping the Vulva ‡ ‡ ‡ ‡ Nov 20 | 3pm ‡ ‡ Club Sapphire ‡ ‡ ‡ Nov 19 ‡ 2pm ‡ The Rat’s Nest ‡

Nov 21 6:30pm

Stories of Drunken Masters Erik Vance: Comedy Show Suggestible You Nov 23 - 9:30pm Town Hall e Rendezvous TIMBRRR!

Winter Music Festival HAVE AN EVENT? Use Stranger Tickets for your event and get a FREE ad here! STRANGERTICKETS.COM THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 35

“BLUE JAY BRINGS BACK THE MOON” A CELEBRATION OF NATIVE ARTS AND CULTURE

Native Art Show Traditional Dinner & Festive Program TOP

ARTISTS 6:00-8:30PM $5-$50 sliding scale NOON-5:30PM

Holiday Refreshments @BROWN PAPER TICKETS

MAXIMILIAN WOZNIAK modern life in the US. Never has the voice of SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH For very obvious reasons, NON’s “Total dissent been more crucial than it is today. I Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center War.” The collective anxiety of election night will be going home to listen to Parliament’s was so palpable that this came to mind. Chocolate City to mourn the loss of Obama [email protected], 206-784-0818 as president. A Production of Na’ah Illahee Fund WOLCOTT SMITH (OF ZEN MOTHER) Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker. ASTRA ELANE (OF THE GODS THEMSELVES) TYLER CORAY (OF NEWAXEYES) I’m listening to a ton of vaporwave and dub. Not much to say, because of the fragility in Spaced-out dub and Jamaican sound system everything right now. Gil Scott-Heron’s shit… Scientist, Burning Spear, Dillinger, Pieces of a Man. etc. It’s transporting and meditative—a quaalude for my ears. CYNDI GOODMAN (OF PIZZA RIOT) George Harrison’s “Beware of Darkness” DAVE EINMO (OF HEAD LIKE A KITE) and Frank Zappa’s “I’m the Slime.” I’m going dark and ambient. I want to try to be positive (or at least not negative), but ADRIAN SWAN (OF CTRL MOD-L) it’s too early. I need to release some frustra- Pretty much since that night I’ve been lis- tion ﬁrst. So for now I’m listening to Wolf tening to nothing but Brian Eno’s Discreet Eyes’ “Dead Hills” and smashing stuff in the Music and the track “XMAS_EVET10 backyard. (thanaton3 mix)” off of Syro by Aphex Twin. [The former] is the most soothing and peace- MEGAN MITCHELL (OF CRUEL DIAGONALS) ful piece of music that exists; it’s practically So much Brigitte Fontaine, especially the the aural equivalent of an crying tracks. episode of Bob Ross or Mr. Rogers. I intersperse that “I have been BENJAMIN THOMAS- with the Aphex Twin track, KENNEDY (OF FUNGAL because that is the perfect attempting to ABYSS, LESBIAN, SHITTY combination of calming me cope by blasting PERSON) down while amping me up I have been attempting to to get off my ass and do Mgla’s Exercises cope by blasting Mgla’s something. in Futility.” Exercises in Futility. If ever there was a time for DJ DAREK MAZZONE nihilistic Polish black met- I was on the air as the results started coming al, this is it. The album is raw hopelessness, in on Tuesday. I started playing tracks to help which is how I feel, but it also has an angry deal and have evolved them to help cope… forward momentum. It allows for embracing barely. KEXP has been awesome every day, the despair without the apathy. and the DJs have curated perfect shows. It’s so great to have a living station that has DJ- TRAVIS RITTER (DJ GOO GOO) driven music to reﬂect how we feel. Fela Kuti’s Bad Religion’s How Could Hell Be Any “Roforofo Fight,” Harold Budd and Cocteau Worse? It is absolutely timely and rel- Twins’ “Memory Gongs,” David Sylvian’s evant—thematically disenfranchised by “The Healing Place,” Gaudi’s “I Start to Pray.” the government and an impending World War III. The Roots’ Things Fall Apart—I JACOB LONDON listened to this album a lot during the 2000 Full Toilet’s “So Fucked.” This just gets election, but in retrospect, it’s even more rel- right to the point and doesn’t belabor it. evant this year.

SEAN CURLEY (OF NEW WEATHER) JOEL BERGSTROM (OF VIBRAGUN) This is killing me. So sad. I could cry at the By 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, I decided that my drop of a hat. Last week, I placed the Kinks’ band Vibragun is done. The next show will Low Budget in my bag, I had no idea how be our last. Not as a protest or because we’re prescient that move would be in the coming giving up, but to recognize there are going week. I ﬁnally listened to it yesterday and to be new voices to deal with this permission realized just how timely tracks like “Catch of misogyny and xenophobia in the coming Me Now I’m Falling” and “Superman” really years. The patriarchy is real. “The KKK are. As I’ve matured, I often reﬂect on the Took My Baby Away” by the Ramones has fact that Kinks were so overtly political, cer- been in my head a lot, because we’re Joey tainly more so than Dylan or other so-called Ramone singing this fucking song to Johnny protest singers. Ultimately, the Kinks are Ramone, aka Trump, and we’re all in the more in line with the Minutemen in regards same band. And I’ve also been listening to to political commentary. Ray Davies has al- Outside by David Bowie because maybe the ways displayed incredibly keen insights into time of post-millennial tension has come. ■ 36 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 37 THEATER

SUNY Purchase, and now the two are working together professionally. “I’ve loved this young man from the time he was a sophomore, and now he’s singing Hannah before!” she says. She also used to write work for the string quartet playing that evening. “I think it’s going to be a beautiful homecoming in Se- attle,” she says. Confusing fact: Though co-librettist Reed is a trans woman, there won’t be any transgender people onstage or backstage during this performance—at least not during the show proper. The show’s creators, Seattle Opera, and director L. Zane Jones are all very much aware of this fact. As far as trans representation goes, Camp- bell says he would “love nothing more” than to have transgender people playing these roles. “We haven’t found the properly trained singers to do that. The second we do, we will,” he says. “We should have as many different combi- nations of representation and diversity that we can,” Reed says. “But I’d underline that I’m very much looking forward to that production that has all trans actors.” Though Williams and Raven are cisgender, casting (very good) black singers in an opera about a trans woman for a venue where Bil- lie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald have sung

ROZARII LYNCH might resonate with a hard reality. The trans SOPRANO POWER Taylor Raven (Hannah after) and Jorell Williams (Hannah before) in Seattle Opera’s ‘As One’ at Washington Hall. community, and especially the black trans community, according to the Advocate, is mourning the killings of 24 trans people this As One Transcends the Trump Blues year alone, the vast majority of whom were black trans women. And the fact that trans people of color in general experience high Go See This Coming-of-Age Opera About rates of violence isn’t lost on anybody who is working on this production. a Trans Woman Discovering Her Authentic Self As Jones directed the opera—her first— BY RICH SMITH Marsha Botzer, founder of the Ingersoll Gender Center, and Breanna Anderson hen you walk into the newly season time frame. messages as we hear them.” (both of whom are trans women) worked renovated Washington Hall The opera’s success is due in part to the “We have an obligation to make a civic im- with her as community consultants. They W to see As One, which is some- talent at the heart of the playbill. Librettist pact,” she says. read the libretto, expressed some concerns, thing you’re absolutely going to want to do, Mark Campbell, who has 15 operas under When I press Jamison about who she thinks and offered some thoughts about the piece, you’ll likely experience an evening of heart- his belt (including Silent Night), cowrote the opera will impact civically, she imagines a Jones says. They’ve been involved with rending/heart-lifting opera that will make the piece with Kimberly Reed, a first-time mix of young people who are interested in be- rehearsals, and they’ll lead a pre-show pre- you think you actually like opera. librettist but a seasoned storyteller and film- coming better trans advocates but who maybe sentation and a post-show conversation with After the show, you’re going to walk down- maker. Former Cornish music department haven’t ever seen an opera and stalwart opera- the audience. stairs, get a drink, and then have some brass chair and current composer-in-residence at goers who might know the word “transgender” As for the piece itself, Jones was ecstatic to tacks conversations with representatives OPERA America, Laura Kaminsky, com- but not what it means. work on the project. “You don’t see opera—or from Pride Foundation and the Greater Se- posed the music. Both the composition and at least I’ve never seen an opera—about any- attle Business Association about how to be the libretto draw on real events from Reed’s one who is queer. To have it centered on the a better advocate for LGBTQ issues, with a life as a trans woman growing up in Mon- As One is an opera that journey of trans woman is cool,” she said. As special emphasis on that T. tana, which you can learn more a queer woman, Jones says she sees herself The opera is a pretty As One about in her autobiographical will make you think you in Hannah when Hannah sees a transgender straightforward coming-of-age Seattle Opera at documentary, Prodigal Sons. like opera. woman on TV talking about being transgen- story about a trans woman Washington Hall Another part of the show’s der and then goes off to the library to learn named Hannah. Two musical ac- Through Nov 19 success might be due to its por- more. “That moment of seeing yourself when tors play the one role: a baritone tability. The opera is only 90 you haven’t before—and you think some- plays Hannah before and a mezzo-soprano minutes long and requires only two singers, The Seattle production marks the first thing’s wrong because you don’t see yourself plays Hannah after. a string quartet, and a projector, so produc- time Hannah will be played by African Ameri- anywhere—that’s a really important moment. Hannah grows up a star football player ers don’t need much scene setting—or really can singers (and also the first time the opera It’s when you don’t feel alone.” in a small town, experiences a period of self- even much of a stage—at all. This was by will run without Reed’s film—there was a Reed echoes this sentiment a little. She discovery and community-building at college, design. “We envisioned a piece that could be problem with the walls). Taylor Raven plays thinks art’s political possibilities lie in the encounters violence during the dramatic performed at high schools and community Hannah after and Jorell Williams plays Han- connection between audience members and climax, and then finds (some) clarity in an un- centers,” Campbell says. Reed agreed: “The nah before. the characters onstage. “It’s not about mak- expected place—Norway. thinking was that we wanted this piece to be Raven’s vocal and acting abilities are im- ing general philosophical statements about With six productions since its premiere seen in a lot of places.” possible to overstate, and they work well in how the world needs to change in a really at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2014, Portability seems to be one of the keys concert with Williams’s talents. Her soprano didactic way,” she says. “But if you create a As One is on its way to becoming one of the for Seattle Opera. Director of education Bar- is soul-piercing, and his tenor, the few times character that people can really connect with most-produced contemporary American op- bara Lynne Jamison says As One is the first he employs it, is likely to jerk a tear. Though and humanize, they’ll see the world in a way eras. This is according to Patricia Kiernan show they’ve staged outside McCaw Hall, their faces and bodies obviously look differ- that they haven’t seen it before.” She adds, Johnson, director of marketing and commu- and it likely won’t be the last. Seattle Opera ent, they both move similarly and project the “That’s where the real power of art to affect nications for OPERA America, who adds that plans its main stage shows four years ahead, same wide-eyed sunburst smile, so it’s as if politics comes from. That’s what we aimed to 2012’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Silent Night Jamison says, but producing smaller-scale they were, you know, as one. do in As One, it’s what I aim to do with my is the only other opera that’s ahead (by one!) operas allow it to be “more nimble and have a Heartwarming fun fact: Williams studied films, and to me that’s the most effective way in terms of productions during that three little more flexibility to respond to community with Kaminsky when she was the dean at to affect political change.” ■ 38 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER

RESISTANCE & RALLIES THINGS MUSIC TO FILM ARTS FESTIVALS

DOYour guide to everything happening in Seattle. StrangerThingsToDo.com THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 39 ART

presents a free conversation on national is- before them, by visiting the remaining sues titled Seeing Art: A Multidisciplinary, scrawled names by former prisoners on the Critical Discourse on Twenty-First-Centu- upper balcony. (Inscape, 815 Seattle Blvd S, ry Art Practice with artists Maikoiyo Alley- inscapearts.org, Sat Nov 19, 1–6 pm, free) Barnes, Bruch, and Sandy Ciofﬁ , and Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat. (Frye Art Mark Calderon: Show of Hands Museum, 704 Terry Ave, fryemuseum.org, Seattle artist Mark Calderon’s lovely Tues–Sun, free) sculptures can be subdued, but new pieces made of mica are political. They’re hands, Roots That Connect Us All: A Mother & Son based on an example from the prehistoric Collaboration North American “Hopewell” culture of a hand Isabel Rorick and her son Robin Ror- made from cut mica. One pair of hands rises ick descend from Haida art royalty—her to amplify a voice. It’s called Cry: Cry, then great-grandparents were Isabella and cry out. (Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave Charles Edenshaw. Charles was born in S, gregkucera.com, Tues–Sat, free) 1839 and worked as a master carver at a time of violent, intense hardship for his in- Black Bodies in Propaganda digenous people in what we today refer These 33 posters dating back to the found- to as British Columbia. Isabel is the most ing of the United States and from all across respected living spruce root weaver on the world are motivation to watch for vicious, the coast, and Robin a great carver. For racist imagery crusading as patriotic. (North- this show, Robin will paint on his mother’s west African American Museum, 2300 S weavings the way Charles did on Isabella’s. Massachusetts St, naamnw.org, Wed–Sun, (Stonington Gallery, 125 S Jackson St, $7 adults/$5 students and seniors/free every stoningtongallery.com, daily, free) ﬁ rst Thursday)

Jean-Claude Moschetti: Parallel Worlds John Boylan’s Conversations: “What Do We A traveler throughout West Africa, Jean- Do Now?” Claude Moschetti makes photographs that On the subject of doing what’s doable, let’s draw together beauty, power, and spirit as sit down and talk to ﬁ gure out our own par- people present to his camera their own em- ticular roles as “organizers and cultural work- GLASSBOX MKNZ AT GLASS BOX An expansive show that offers safety to those who need it. blems and rituals. (Mariane Ibrahim Gal- ers… in the struggles to come.” (Vermillion, lery, 608 Second Ave, marianeibrahim.com, 1508 11th Ave, boylanconversation.word- Wed–Sat, free) press.com, Tues Nov 22, 7–9 pm, free)

Local Trans Shorts and Speed Friending The Bureau of Arts & Culture by PDL Art After Trump It’s not just that local queer and trans fi lm- Starting December 1, King Street Station makers will screen their shorts here, it’s also will host 21 art proposals “designed to trig- Local Exhibitions to Calm You Down that the screening will be followed by a one-on- ger a new enthusiasm for the direction of our one, fi ve-minute-interval speed-friending event city and how art can play a vital role in our and Rile You Up to build community, and a social hour with re- future… tackling issues such as homeless- freshments after that. (Seattle Public Library, ness, gun violence, urban growth, cultural BY JEN GRAVES University Branch, 5009 Roosevelt Way NE, tourism, arts education, and human traffi ck- spl.org, Sun Nov 20, 2–4 pm, ing.” Part of the show is the free) Give Gallery, where if you on’t stay home. You’re going to titled after females, Charmeesha and Diana, The Frye show donate blood between No- need two kinds of art in the days made of girls’ barrettes and Paul Mitchell Judith Cooper Haden: The is a haunting vember 28 and December Dand months to come. You’re going shampoo tinted pink with blush. Each one is Women of the Milpa 16 through Bloodworks, to need the kind that calms you down and the an immersive dream of fi nding shelter and be- These black-and-white reincarnation of you can take home, free, a kind that riles you up. As New York artist ing in your own skin. (Glass Box Gallery, 831 photographs of Oaxacan what we are in work of art by a local artist Marilyn Minter told Artnet.com, if you don’t Seattle Blvd S, glassboxgallery.com, Wed– women cooking are a testa- from the gallery, including want to see a Trump elected again, here are Sat, free) ment to the wisdom of the el- danger of losing. Jeffry Mitchell, Crystal your operating instructions: “Feel the pain, ders and the fullness of time. Barbre, Charles Peterson, until it passes thru you. Regroup, get angry, Emily Gherard: Making Presence Known The farmers and cooks have June Sekiguchi, Warren get tough, take notes.” For quiet contemplation and wonder, we returned to indigenous traditions in the face of Dykeman, and Amanda Manitach. The Give You won’t be able to do the second sen- need Seattle artist Emily Gherard’s living, economic and environmental devastation, and Gallery will be open 6 to 10 p.m. Dec 1, and tence unless you do the fi rst, so here are some breathing drawings of something—they hint their determination in these images is quiet noon to 6 p.m. Dec 3–4, 10–11, and 17–18. works of art you can see now in Seattle that at rocks or shadows or sheer presences. They, and undeniable. (Seattle Central College, M. (King Street Station, 303 S Jackson St, face- will get you started on both, focusing on art somehow, feel like company. With them, you Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery, 1701 Broadway, book.com/events/686874388131841, free or $5 made by LGBTQ people, immigrants, people aren’t alone. Also, Bridge Productions is of- seattlecentral.edu/artgallery, Mon–Fri, free) suggested donation on opening night Dec 1) of color, and women—anybody Trump’s cam- fering its space to anybody in need of com- paign hatred targeted. munity right now, so the spirit is in the walls. Manuel Arturo Abreu: resilience Deborah Faye Lawrence (Bridge Productions, 6007 12th Ave S, bridge. Manuel Arturo Abreu is a poet and artist The fi erce satirical feminist collagist is at it ART TO SOOTHE productions, Wed–Sat, free) from the Bronx, and part of the Dominican again. (4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Pl S, 4cul- diaspora. “I fi nd myself with one foot in both ture.org, Mon–Fri, free) MKNZ: Cumulative Deposits (Of You Inside To: Seattle | Subject: Personal the ‘displaced person’ and ‘privileged West- Me) For the last seven years, while Jo-Anne erner’ categories,” he told Rhizome. “The A few more in brief: Guerrilla Girls on On election night, I heard people say they’d Birnie Danzker was director and Robin Held former denies me access to my provenance, Tour 2016–17 at Form/Space Atelier (form left their bodies and felt like they couldn’t get and Scott Lawrimore (with others) worked while the latter affords me a certain level of spaceatelier.com), In•dig•e•nize at Daybreak back in. Rape victims talk about leaving their as curators and educators, the Frye has been protection.” His multimedia work is oblique, Star Center (unitedindians.org), Three Days bodies to shield themselves from the full im- the largest institution devoted to the most refl ective, and brilliant. (INCA, 2 West Roy in Standing Rock at Vermillion (vermillion pact of the attack. What might help now is art urgent social, emotional, and intellectual St, incainstitute.org, Wed–Sat, free) seattle.com), 30 Americans at Tacoma Art made from pain and unafraid to claim it and questions of contemporary life. This show Museum (tacomaartmuseum.org), Pick Your name it. Each of the sculptures and installa- is a haunting reincarnation of what we are ART TO MOBILIZE Poison: Politics in Print at Davidson Gal- tions in Seattle artist MKNZ’s show is named in danger of losing, with sterling, relevant leries (davidsongalleries.com), MOTHA and after a real person from her history. But it’s works by Seattle artists Inye Wokoma, DK Inscape Open Studios Chris E. Vargas Present: Transhirstory in 99 an expansive show that offers safety to those Pan, C. Davida Ingram, Cris Bruch, De- Inscape artist studios are in the build- Objects at Henry Art Gallery (henryart.org), who need it, centering for marginalized bod- generate Art Ensemble, Implied Violence, ing that formerly imprisoned detained im- We Are the Ocean: An Indigenous Response ies, and the possibility of re-embodiment it- Jeffry Mitchell, Susie Lee, and Mark Calde- migrants. Go to this event to connect with to Climate Change at Wing Luke Museum self. I’d go straight to the two installations ron. On November 19 at 2 p.m., the museum people there, and also to remember those (wingluke.org). ■ seattle turkish film seattlefestivalseattle turkishturkish2016 film film festivalfestival 2016 2016 seattle

40 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER turkish film festival 2016 seattle turkish film festival 2016

Seattle’s

X-mas online shopping season is here! Advertise to Seattle for less than Facebook or Google.

november 4-20 www.stff.org siff cinema | amc pacific place | kirkland performance center seattle.cork.market

5030 ROOSEVELT WAY NE, SEATTLE • 206-524-8554 www.scarecrow.com

ON SALE THIS WEEK! Also available for rent! PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (Criterion Collection) The Greatest Adam Sandler Movie of All Time DVD $22.95 Blu-ray $26.95 AKIRA KUROSAWA’S DREAMS (Criterion Collection) Gorgeous Anthology from Cinema’s Sensei DVD $22.95 Blu-ray $26.95 DEAD RINGERS (Collector’s Edition) Jeremy Irons as Twin Gynecologists. Yikes. Blu-ray $27.95 For a full list of New Releases for rent + sale, visit scarecrow.com

GAME OF THRONES: Season 6 Make Westeros Great Again DVD $54.95 Blu-ray $64.95 FINDING DORY Another Pixar Heartstring-yanker DVD $25.95 Blu-ray $33.95 3D Blu $34.95 C.H.U.D. Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers DVD / Blu-ray $26.95

COSMOS The Final Film from Polish Master Andrzej Zulawski Blu-ray $28.95 TIME AFTER TIME H.G. Wells vs. Jack the Ripper in 70’s San Francisco Blu-ray $19.95 DOC SAVAGE: THE MAN OF BRONZE Pulp’s Original Indiana Jones Blu-ray $19.95

Four Vintage Noirs from Kino Lorber BOOMERANG Support the CRY OF THE CITY Scarecrow 2016 DAISY KENYON Membership Drive! HOUSE ON 92ND STREET scarecrow.com/membership $21.95 EACH ON BLU-RAY THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 41

SEATTLE FILM 4500 9TH AVE NE 2066330059

commentator Ijeoma Oluo is right: “White America has proved once again that it would rather burn itself down and be king of ashes TWO WAYS TO SAVE AT SUNDANCE SEATTLE MONDAY IS $6 ORCA DAY SHOW YOUR ORCA CARD ALL than share a better world with everyone SEATS ARE $6** $7.50 FOR 3D NOT GOOD ON HOLIDAYS. else.” TUESDAY IS GIRLS NIGHT OUT! 2 or more ladies get $6 ($7.50 for 3D) Admission ALL DAY. Tickets Available at Box Oce Only.) Like grief-stricken people everywhere, STUDIO ADVANCE SCREENINGS THAT FALL ON A TUESDAY ARE NOT I’m having pangs of “Why didn’t I do more?” PART OF THE GIRLS MOVIE NIGHT OUT PROMOTION I argued ﬁercely for Clinton around the of- FULL BAR & BISTRO FARE RESERVED SEATS +21 AT ALL TIMES ﬁce. “Why was I so sure?” I now wonder. I FOR SHOWTIMES VISIT: SUNDANCECINEMAS.COM FANTASTIC BEASTS AND Watching Moonlight did WHERE TO FIND THEM ARRIVAL in 3D / 2D something to me I still THE EDGE don’t have words for. MOONLIGHT OF SEVENTEEN BLEED FOR THIS AQUARIUS

DOCTOR STRANGE in 2D THE ACCOUNTANT thought, rationally, mathematically, she had a better shot than Bernie Sanders at taking HACKSAW RIDGE SHUT IN Trump to task. But who knows. Maybe Sand- ers would have had a better shot at getting ** TIX AVAIL AT BOX OFFICE ONLY through to uneducated whites with economic problems, who voted overwhelmingly on Election Day against their own economic interests. Maybe he wouldn’t have been so associated in rat-brain voters’ minds with MOONLIGHT You should watch it now. the black president. I have a relative who lives in North Caro- lina, who was thinking of voting for Trump, Stop Reading whom I talked into voting for Clinton. I have a relative in New Hampshire who was thinking of voting for Gary Johnson, whom I talked into voting for Clinton. But North Facebook and Go Carolina and New Hampshire went to Trump anyway. I should have done more. I could have done more. I could have phone- Watch Moonlight banked, I could have doorbelled, I could have donated more than $27. But I didn’t. It’s Medicine for the Post-Election Heart And look at us now. We’re in the middle of a tragedy. BY CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE The election of Donald Trump to the presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the oon we’ll be past shock. We’ll be on depicted on a screen before tells me Vonne- American republic, a tragedy for the Consti- to anger. I can’t wait for anger. I gut is not completely right. Maybe art can’t tution, and a triumph for the forces, at home S wish I could fast-forward to anger stop wars, but art does something to your and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, right now, fast-forward to fire in the belly, heart. Or it can. The good stuff can. One day, misogyny, and racism. Trump’s shocking vic- better protests, new art, coming together in a I will have words to explain what Moonlight tory, his ascension to the presidency, is one way that only certain horrors can bring peo- did to my heart, but in the meantime, if you of the most sickening events in the history ple together. But right now? I’m haven’t seen it yet, you should of the United States and liberal democracy. stuck in grief, and so is everyone Moonlight go see what it does to yours. On January 20, 2017, we will bid farewell to I know. dir. Barry Jenkins Go. Stop reading the in- the ﬁrst African American president—a man Grief is like that: You’re not SIFF Cinema Egyptian ternet, stop looking at social of integrity, dignity, and generous spirit— in control. media, just go. and witness the inauguration of a con man Fantastically talented coworkers have And take some white people with you. who did little to spurn endorsement by a dead look in their eyes. Innocuous com- Take some people who aren’t used to rep- forces of xenophobia and white supremacy. ments from friends who want to reassure resentations of black people not built from It is impossible to react to this moment with me that things will be okay make me feel the premise of white supremacy. You realize anything less than revulsion and profound insane. I’m crabby and I need a hug, but just how much white supremacy is baked anxiety. don’t hug me because I’m crabby. I can’t into all mainstream art when the extraor- Novelist Gary Shteyngart tweeted this the shake the cynical suspicion that, while I love dinary simplicity of Moonlight presents day after the election: “Want to change this art and activism and believe an extremist in itself to you. I sat there after watching country? Read a book. Read a book to your the White House will inspire lots of activism Moonlight, shocked at its simplicity and children. Tell your friends about a great book. and art-making… um, we’ve had a lot of ac- the realization: This very, very simple thing Get off Twitter. Now.” tivism lately, for naught, and art doesn’t do has never been depicted before. I’m going to start a writing party. I’m go- anything. People will take any claim to superiority ing to start a book club. I’m going to keep Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “During the Viet- they can, even if it’s imaginary, and uneducat- hosting the silent-reading party. I’m going nam War, which lasted longer than any war ed white people want desperately to believe to start throwing parties in rock clubs for we’ve ever been in—and which we lost—ev- in their superiority, because it’s the only authors again. I am going to throw dinner ery respectable artist in this country was claim to greatness they have. Looking at how parties with people I love, people with spirit, against the war. It was like a laser beam. We people voted along color lines ﬁlls me with people who are wiser than me, people who were all aimed in the same direction. The grief. know more about the world than I do, peo- power of this weapon turns out to be that of You saw the results of that recent Slate ple who challenge me, people who don’t see a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six survey of Donald Trump supporters, right? things the way I do. That is the small way feet high.” A third of Trump voters admitted to poll- I am going to change my life after election Vonnegut’s right. But he’s also wrong. sters they believe black people are “less night. Watching Moonlight did something to me evolved” than white people. Their racism I am going to double down on art, and I still don’t have words for. The fact that trumps everything else—it may even trump friends, and the life of the city, because it’s Moonlight, a three-part story of a young their sexism. Punishing Hillary Clinton good for my heart. And you should, too. And black male directed by the talented Barry by not voting for her was a proxy for pun- you should watch Moonlight now because it Jenkins, is so simple and yet has never been ishing President Barack Obama. Social will be good for your heart. ■ 42 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER

ADMIRAL IXCANUL The first film made in the Kaqchikel Mayan language. THEATER 4329 University Way NE Seattle, WA 98105 2343 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98116 MOVIE LINE: 206-632-7218 FREE PARKING! MOVIE LINE: 206-938-0360 EVENINGS & WEEKENDS Ixcanul Is Good and Organically Weird BY ANDREW WRIGHT atching people simply go about their irresponsible fellow villager, and, most no- W business can somehow be one of the tably, the looming specter of an arranged most fascinating things in the movies. The marriage to her impoverished family’s land- Berlin Award–winning Ixcanul (Volcano), lord. (Also, yes, that previously mentioned Guatemala’s entry for last year’s need for snake repellant.) A sup- Oscars, is an absorbing, unpreten- Ixcanul porting character’s wistful talk Friday Nov 18 - Thursday Nov 24 tious look at a culture not often dir. Jayro Bustamante about the prosperity and progres- shown, whether capturing how Grand Illusion siveness of America would likely HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE (PG-13) the characters can carry a forest’s always sting, but after these past 2D & 3D TROLLS (PG) NO 3D SURCHARGE worth of firewood on their heads without miss- few weeks, I mean, come on. ing a step, or witnessing them getting their Extended sequences of everyday life FRI & SAT, NOV 18 & 19 at 11:15 PM HARRY & SNOWMAN (NR) Tickets are $15 and are available at the box offi ce pigs drunk on rum in hopes of speeding up the aside, Ixcanul definitely isn’t a documentary, The brand new concert fi lm from Mumford & Sons will screen EXCLUSIVELY IN 2D & 3D MOANA (PG) NO 3D SURCHARGE SEATTLE at West Seattle’s, Admiral theater. Filmed live on tour with 50,000 mating season. By the time someone noncha- and the plot does take a third-act turn that ecstatic fans in Pretoria, South Africa, their spectacular performance was shot STARTS TUE 11/22 @ 7PM lantly remarks on the unpleasant smell of their could easily be melodramatic in the wrong in Ultra HD and is presented in stunning surround sound. snake repellant, the sense of transportation hands. Fortunately, Bustamante never lets please visit our website for showtimes and more: please visit our website for showtimes and more: is complete. the story mechanics overwhelm the basic www.farawayentertainment.com www.farawayentertainment.com The first film made in the Kaqchikel minute-to-minute reality of his subjects, Mayan language, writer-director Jayro resulting in a film that’s earthy and unsenti- Bustamante’s feature debut follows a teen- mental and riveting throughout. Even when age coffee-bean harvester (Maria Mercedes the main character gets frisky with a tree Coroy) facing a number of coming-of-age while preparing for her first time, it feels… crises, including a reduced crop, the off- Okay, that part is a bit weird. But it’s an or- and-on attentions of a handsome and wholly ganic weird. ■ SHOP LOCAL. SAVE MONEY. WANT YOUR BUSINESS IN STRANGERPERKS? 50% OFF Boston’s Spirit Survived Call 206-323-7101 or e-mail BY JULIA RABAN [email protected] hen two bombs went off near the clips, they reconstruct the story beginning W finish line of the Boston Marathon the morning of the marathon. While the in 2013, clouds of smoke appeared and then fast-paced pursuit adds a level of suspense, dissipated, revealing streets packed with terri- the directors’ main interest is the survivors’ fied runners, spectators, and slow physical progress families. The aftermath left and enduring trauma, and urgent questions: Who did they make a real effort this? How did they do it? For to avoid glamorizing the what reason? The internet perpetrators. (incorrectly) identified the All of this, while ad- perpetrator. The manhunt for mirable, sounds deeply the real bombers lasted days. depressing—but ultimately Internet indoctrination and Marathon is a kind of feel- homegrown terrorism were good movie. Moments of top concerns. While HBO’s levity range from adorable new documentary Marathon: service-dog videos to wry RAIN CITY INTEGRATIVE CLINIC The Patriots Day Bombing certainly takes jokes about missing legs. We learn that for advantage of this dramatic material, the film the most part, strangers are kind, Boston’s Westlake! surprisingly spends a good deal spirit survived the ordeal Rain City Integrative Clinic specializes in Naturopathic family medicine and of time exploring the gradual Marathon: The Patriots unbroken, and victims be- massage therapy. The providers at RCIC are fascinated by health, wellness, and the recovery of people who lost Day Bombing came close friends. One of occasional sci-fi /fantasy story. Come in and climb onto the massage table and walk limbs in the attack. dir. Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg the sweetest moments comes out in less pain and more relaxed. The massage therapists at Rain City offer deep Directors Ricki Stern and HBO toward the end when former tissue, myofascial release, Swedish massage, prenatal massage, and injury specifi c Anne Sundberg (who have long-distance runner Jessica treatment massages. made general-interest documentaries about (who faced, and continues to face, an incred- One 90-Minute Massage ($100 Value). Your Price: $50 topics spanning from Joan Rivers to UFOs) ibly tough recovery) makes an introduction focus on stories of rehabilitation paired with while standing near the finish line of the Bos- nerve-racking footage and commentary from ton Marathon, years after the event that cost STRANGERPERKS.COM the bloody search for the Tsarnaev brothers. her the life she used to know. “This is Celeste,” Offer must be purchased from StrangerPerks website, Relying heavily on retrospective interviews, she says, smiling. “She’s another friend from and is not available directly through retailer. home videos, archival footage, and fair use the marathon bombing.” ■ THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 43 CHOW

Drinking Local Beer Is a Way to Stick It to Trump While Sticking Together BY LESTER BLACK

haven’t gotten past the fear stage in all own beer. We need cities to keep being buzzing anti-Trumpers is where I want I of this. Will President Donald Trump— the economic engines of this country, to be right now. a revolting phrase if there ever was and we need to build up our resources And their beer is really, really one—act on his campaign promises? Will for the fight ahead. Head to a brewery good. Try the Spelt Saison, a French he really ban Muslims or a bar and meet your farmhouse ale with the finest touch from entering the coun- fellow Seattleites, who of tartness. Saisons are generally all try, enact penalties for There is no silver overwhelmingly voted about the yeast, with pale malts taking women choosing to have lining to this against the demagogue, a back seat, but this saison is brewed abortions, tear up all of and drink Seattle beer. with spelt and whole wheat, giving it a the work (albeit small) hurricane cloud, Our founding fa- grainy, complex flavor. Or go for their that President Barack but there are thers hashed out our Altbier, a malty red ale with interest- Obama has made on friends to drink democracy over beer ing chemistry. Altbiers are the only ale climate change? Repub- (George Washington, that is fermented at lager-like tempera- licans will soon control with underneath James Madison, and tures and then aged after fermentation every branch of the fed- its rain. Thomas Jefferson were in lagering tanks, giving these beers the eral government and the all outspoken beer sup- smoothness and drinkability of a lager. majority of statehouses porters, and Samuel Think about that peculiarity instead of and governorships in our country. There is Adams was even a professional malt- thinking about what Trump will do to the no real check on Trump’s vengeance. ster), so breweries are a fitting setting Endangered Species Act. There is no silver lining to this hur- for talking politics and organizing. There isn’t a better place in the world ricane cloud, but there are friends to If you live in the Central District or to commiserate than a busy English pub. drink with underneath its rain. We are Capitol Hill, you should go to Standard It may be the sweaters and dry humor, a beer city, one of the greatest beer Brewing (2504 S Jackson St), a brewery but I think the therapy of a true Eng- cities in the world, and cities voted over- that epitomizes community. If it’s rain- lish pub is in the cask ale. Cask ale is the JESSICA STEIN whelmingly against Trump, so we should ing on the patio, the interior might get traditional beer of England—unfiltered, STANDARD BREWING They have a well-rounded beer drink together. And we should drink our crowded, but a tight-packed crowd of uncarbonated, and served at cellar list for all of your post-election drinking needs. 44 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER Our Pioneer Square location is now Open 7 Days a Week

Mon-Fri 7-2 Sat-Sun 8-3 621 3rd Ave NormsEatery.com (3rd & Cherry) Like us on

GO HAWKS! Get Your Football Fix at Norm’s! Sounders FC & Seahawks • All Games in HD! Trailer Park Happy Hour Daily: 4pm-7pm Weekend Breakfast! Open@ 9am to Table Bonus Weekend Happy Hour, Sat & Sun 10am-2pm 206-547-1417 • 460 North 36th Street IN THE HEART OF FREMONT

FRESH OYSTERS ON THE HALF-SHELL NIGHT! $1.50/Oyster MONDAYS 5PM-CLOSE (OR UNTIL WE RUN OUT)

Old Stove Brewing Company ~Pike Place Market~ 1525 1st Ave, Seattle • www.oldstove.com *Consuming raw or uncooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellﬁ sh, or eggs may increase your risk of food borne illnesses. THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 45 ORDER NOW! FRESH, NATURAL TURKEY FOR THANKSGIVING... Finest Seafood Ranch Eggs Select Wines Quality Poultry

The NFL Sunday Ticket Here In Hi-Def Buy Now Pay Later Financing Available

Near the Center of the Universe Free Delivery at the Corner of 35th. and Stone Way N. 206-547-2967 your restaurant’s missing ingredient 206-419-5801

MONDAY - FRIDAY 7AM-6PM TheRestaurantWarehouse.com SATURDAY & SUNDAY 8AM-5PM [email protected]

JESSICA STEIN HOLY MOUNTAIN BREWING COMPANY They serve up irresistible saisons, farmhouse ales, barrel-aged beers, and IPAs.

temperature, these are rainy heartbreak’s smells a bit like armpit—but in a good way. best friend. And Machine House Brewery in Avoid thinking about Donald Trump’s arm- Georgetown (5840 Airport Way S) is produc- pits. Next, try Somnium, the funkiest of this ing some of the best cask ales outside of the trifecta. With house-mixed cultures thrown in, British Isles. this beer is seriously dank. Go smoke a bowl. Machine House is all about tradition— I am a cis, straight, white male, meaning their beers are full of flavor but light on even in Trump’s America my voice is not mar- alcohol. Try their Dark Mild, a beer heavy ginalized, but I’m worried about everyone on malt character but light on the palate and else. I worry about those of us who will feel only 3.7 percent alcohol. Or grab a Best Bit- the brunt of Trump’s vengeance: my queer ter, a copper and slightly bitter beer that I and trans friends who may see more rights could drink all day. These are beers from the stripped away, the women I know who may English day-drinking tradition—everyone see their reproductive rights overturned by Before, During is plastered in an English pub by 7 p.m.— the Supreme Court, my Muslim and Hispanic so get on a bus to Georgetown and spend a friends who could face even more hate, and & After Football Saturday getting slowly shitfaced with your all of the plants and animals that don’t even Games! fellow Seattleites, WHO DIDN’T VOTE have a marginalized voice in the never-end- FOR TRUMP. ing war humans have waged against them. Plus, the UK’s vote to leave the EU is I need a beer. ■ nearly as depressing as our election of Trump, so drinking cask ale is a form of transatlantic sympathizing for our fellow urbanites lament- ing in London. If you are a solitary depressive, go to Holy DECADENT Mountain Brewing (1421 Elliott Ave W). It’s a clean, super-high-ceilinged taproom in VEGAN FOOD Interbay with beers so amazing and delicate 7 days • 5-11pm that you can easily get lost in them. Here you can contemplate the finer notes of oak barrels HAPPY HOUR instead of getting lost in a futile argument 5-6 everyday with a Bernie bro over how Debbie Wasser- Coors$5 Light NFL Man Cans $3 wells man Schultz is responsible for Trumpism. SUNDAY TICKET Order Holy Mountain’s Remnant and soak $1 off all beers in the aromas of oak, lemon, and mustiness— is that a hint of grass? I don’t know, think OPEN EARLY $5 off all pitchers. about it over another sip instead of thinking FOR HOME GAMES LIVE MUSIC MOST NIGHTS about the next anti-LGBTQ bill Paul Ryan ONE BLOCK WEST OF CENTURY LINK FIELD - FOR FULL CALENDAR VISIT OUR WEBSITE - will introduce on the House floor, with Mike 553 1ST AVE S • 206-628-0474 Pence’s endorsement. Order Covenant next, MACHINE HOUSE BREWERY HIGHLINESEATTLE.COM www.trianglepub.com a slightly sweeter, slightly tarter beer that JESSICA STEIN 210 Broadway Ave E • 328.7837 46 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER What Can You Do? Resist Donald Trump’s Hate by Supporting These Worthy Causes

ith an impending Trump presidency, we are looking W at four years of an administration that seems likely to threaten the health, safety, and security of women, the LGBTQ community, people of color, and immigrants, as well as the long-term health of our planet. So where do we go from here? Expect the worst and mobilize to ﬁght back. Here’s how you can donate your time and money in the Seattle area and beyond to help people and causes that will be most affected by Trump.

SUPPORT CIVIL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE • American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Wash- ington works to defend and expand civil liberties and civil NATE GOWDY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Protesting Donald Trump in downtown Seattle. rights. (aclu-wa.org, 624-2184) • Black Lives Matter Seattle fights racism and affirms Black lives across the gender spectrum. (blacklivesmatter. • NARAL Pro-Choice Washington works to protect and • Earthshare Washington connects you with worth- com, facebook.com/BLMSeattle) expand reproductive freedom. (prochoicewashington.org, while environmental and conservation organizations. • Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) 624-1990) (esw.org, 622-9840) Seattle is a civil liberties group that defends and empowers • National Network of Abortion Funds works to remove • Seattle Audubon works to protect birds and their American Muslims. (cairseattle.org, 367-4081) barriers to abortion access. Member organizations provide habitat. (seattleaudubon.org, 523-4483) ■ • Human Rights Campaign (HRC) in Seattle fights financial aid, transportation, translation, and other services. Do- for equality for LGBTQ Americans. (hrc.org/local-issues/ nations to the Dr. Willie Parker Fund go directly toward paying community/seattle) for abortions in Mississippi and Alabama. (abortionfunds.org) JOIN THE RESISTANCE • King County Civil Rights Commission raises aware- • Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest is a There have been protests and rallies nearly every day since ness of civil rights issues in King County. (kingcounty.gov/ health-care provider and advocate for reproductive health Donald Trump was elected. Stay up to date on organized exec/CivilRightsCommission.aspx, 296-0100) care, sex education, and information. (plannedparenthood. anti-Trump efforts in the community with our resistance • Seattle and King County NAACP works to defend org/planned-parenthood-great-northwest-hawaiian-islands) and rallies calendar at thestranger.com/events/resistance. equality of rights for all persons, and to eliminate race-based Here are five events in the Seattle area you can join this discrimination. (seattlekingcountynaacp.org, 324-6600) week: • Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Pacific Northwest SUPPORT THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY fights anti-Semitism and bigotry, tracks and identifies ex- • Equal Rights Washington is a LGBTQ advocacy and Dump Trump: March Against Trump and His Bigotry tremists, and lobbies for civil rights and religious freedom. community outreach group. (equalrightswashington.org, Through Bothell (seattle.adl.org, 448-5349) 324-2570) (Wed Nov 16, 5:30 pm, Cascadia Community College, • Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation 18345 Campus Way NE, Bothell) (GLAAD) promotes LGBTQ equality through media repre- Bring signs and banners to this emphatically peaceful HELP PEOPLE WHO FACE HATE sentation. (glaad.org/tags/seattle) march with the students from Cascadia College. They’ll start CRIMES AND POSSIBLE DEPORTATION • Gay City provides health services and resources, and at Cascadia, walk through downtown Bothell, and end at • 21 Progress cultivates youth leadership in local immi- fosters community building through the arts. (gaycity.org, Pop Keeney Stadium. grant communities. (21progress.org, 829-8382) 860-6969) • Casa Latina welcomes, defends, and empowers Latinx • Gender Justice League is an activist collective that What We Must Do Now immigrants through employment, education, and commu- promotes trans rights and empowerment. (genderjustice- (Fri Nov 18, 7 pm, Rainier Arts Center, 3515 S Alaska St) nity organizing. (casa-latina.org, 956-0779) league.org) Journalists from the South Seattle Emerald, Seattle Glo- • El Centro de la Raza is a local social justice power- balist, Seattle Weekly, and Crosscut will discuss “the road house for Seattle’s Latino community. (elcentrodelaraza.org, ahead for the electorate, movements and the media in the 957-4634) SUPPORT FOOD BANKS Age of Trump” in this discussion moderated by Seattle City • International Refugee Assistance Project provides • Northwest Harvest is Washington’s statewide food Council legislative aide Sera Day. legal aid for refugees and other displaced persons. They have bank. (northwestharvest.org, 800-722-6924) a local chapter at Seattle University. (refugeerights.org) • Pike Market Food Bank serves the Pike Place Market Protest Trump • Northwest Immigrant Rights Project is a legal services and downtown. (pmfb.org, 626-6462) (Sat Nov 19, 11:30 am, Wright Park, 501 South I St, Tacoma) group that helps immigrants in Washington State. (nwirp.org) Speak out and make your feelings about Trump known • OneAmerica is an immigrant advocacy group that at this Tacoma protest. They say: “Show our country that promotes community organizing and works to shape immi- SUPPORT THOSE EXPERIENCING we will NOT stand for a corrupt, racist, sexist, xenophobic, gration legislation. (weareoneamerica.org, 723-2203) HOMELESSNESS and anti-LGBTQ+ man as our president, nor will we stand • Downtown Emergency Service Center provides for the corrupt government and system that got us here.” services, treatment, and housing for homeless people. (desc.org, HELP SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT 464-1570) Peaceful Trump Response: Join Hands Around • Abused Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services is a local • Seattle/King County Coalition on Homeless- Green Lake partner of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. ness works to advance solutions, programs, and legislation (Sat Nov 19, 12:30 pm, Green Lake Park, 7201 East Green (adwas.org, 812-1001) that combat homelessness. (homelessinfo.org, 204-8350) Lake Dr N) • King County Sexual Assault Resource Center • United Way of King County provides services, sup- Inspired by the Hands Around Lake Merritt solidarity provides crisis response, legal advocacy, therapy, and family ports outreach to workers, and connects people to jobs. protest in Oakland, this event aims to get enough people services for victims of sexual assault. (kcsarc.org, 425-226-5062) (uwkc.org, 461-3700) (2,700, they say) to join hands all the way around Green • Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network • YouthCare provides outreach, basic needs, shelter, and Lake (2.8 miles) in “a single loop of unity… against racism, (RAINN) runs the National Sexual Assault Hotline and education to homeless youth. (youthcare.org, 694-4500) sexism, homophobia, and Islamophobia.” works with local sexual assault service providers. (rainn.org, 800-656-4673) #DumpTheTrump #NotMyPresident FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE (Sun Nov 20, 6 pm, Seattle Central College, 1701 Broadway) • Center for Environmental Law and Policy works to Hosted by the Black Freedom Front, this event invites “all PROTECT REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS protect water in Washington State. (celp.org, 829-8299) the people who are not racists, bigots, hateful” to “stand in • CAIR Project provides referrals, counseling, and • Climate Solutions specializes in presenting solutions to unity and solidarity against hate, bigotry, and racism” and financial help to women seeking abortions in Washington, global warming and pushes for action. (climatesolutions.org, “show America and the world that LOVE wins over hate.” ■ Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska. (cairproject.org, 888-644-2247) 443-9570) FREE WILL ASTROLOGY BY ROB BREZSNY

For the Week of November 16

ARIES (March 21–April 19): There is a 97 percent chance that you will NOT engage in the following activities within the next 30 days: naked skydiving, tight-rope walking between two skyscrapers, getting drunk on a mountaintop, taking ayahuasca with Peruvian shamans in a remote rural hut, or dancing ecstatically in a muddy pit of snakes. However, I suspect that you will be involved in almost equally exotic exploits—although less risky ones—that will require you to summon more pluck and improvisational skill than you knew you had.

TAURUS (April 20–May 20): The Onion, my favorite news source, reported, “It’s perfectly natural for people to fantasize about sand- wiches other than the one currently in their hands.” You shouldn’t feel shame, the article said, if you’re enjoying a hoagie but suddenly feel an inexplicable yearning for a BLT or pastrami on rye. While I ap- preciate this reassuring counsel, I don’t think it applies to you in the coming weeks. In my opinion, you have a sacred duty to be unwaver- ingly faithful, both in your imagination and your actual behavior—as much for your own sake as for others’. I advise you to cultivate an up-to-date affection for and commitment to what you actually have, and not indulge in obsessive fantasies about “what ifs.”

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): I hesitate to deliver the contents of this horoscope without a disclaimer. Unless you are an extremely ethical person with a vivid streak of empathy, you might be prone to abuse the information I’m about to present. So please ignore it unless you can responsibly employ the concepts of benevolent mischief and tricky blessings and cathartic shenanigans. Ready? Here’s your oracle: Now is a favorable time for grayer truths, wilder leaps of the imagination, more useful bullshit, funnier enigmas, and more outlandish stories seasoned with crazy wisdom.

CANCER (June 21–July 22): Kavachi is an underwater volcano in the southwest Pacific Ocean. It erupts periodically, and in general makes the surrounding water so hot and acidic that human divers must avoid it. And yet some hardy species live there, including crabs, jellyfish, stingrays, and sharks. What adaptations and strategies enable them to thrive in such an extreme environment? Scientists don’t know. I’m going to draw a comparison between you and the resourceful crea- tures living near Kavachi. In the coming weeks, I bet you’ll flourish in circumstances that normal people might find daunting.

LEO (July 23–Aug 22): Seventeenth-century British people used the now-obsolete word “firkytoodle.” It meant “cuddling and snuggling accompanied by leisurely experiments in smooching, fondling, licking, and sweet dirty talk.” The coming weeks will be prime time for you to carry out extensive experiments in this activity. But here’s an interesting question: Will the near future also be a favorable phase for record levels of orgasmic release? The answer: maybe, but IF AND ONLY if you pursue firkytoodle as an end in itself, IF AND ONLY IF you relish the teasing and playing as if they were ultimate rewards and don’t relegate them to being merely preliminary acts for pleasures that are supposedly bigger and better. P.S. These same principles apply not just to your intimate connections but to everything else in your life, as well. Enjoying the journey is as important as reaching a destination.

VIRGO (Aug 23–Sept 22): Here’s an experiment worth trying: Reach back into the past to find a remedy for what’s bugging you now. In other words, seek out on an old, perhaps even partially forgotten THE STRANGER November 16, 2016 47 influence to resolve a current dilemma that has resisted your efforts to master it. This is one time when it may make good sense to temporarily resurrect a lost dream. You could energize your future by drawing FREE WILL ASTROLOGY inspiration from possibilities that might have been but never were. BY ROB BREZSNY LIBRA (Sept 23–Oct 22): By the time he died at the age of 87 in 1983, freethinker Buckminster Fuller had licensed his inventions to For the Week of November 16 more than 100 companies. But along the way, he often had to be patient as he waited for the world to be ready for his visionary cre- ARIES (March 21–April 19): There is a 97 percent chance that you ations. He was ahead of his time, dreaming up things that would be will NOT engage in the following activities within the next 30 days: needed before anyone knew they’d be needed. I encourage you to naked skydiving, tight-rope walking between two skyscrapers, getting be like him in the coming weeks, Libra. Try to anticipate the future. drunk on a mountaintop, taking ayahuasca with Peruvian shamans in Generate possibilities that people are not yet ripe to accept but will a remote rural hut, or dancing ecstatically in a muddy pit of snakes. eventually be ready to embrace. However, I suspect that you will be involved in almost equally exotic SCORPIO (Oct 23–Nov 21): Does the word “revolution” have any exploits—although less risky ones—that will require you to summon useful meaning? Or has it been invoked by so many fanatics with more pluck and improvisational skill than you knew you had. such melodramatic agendas that it has lost its value? In accordance TAURUS (April 20–May 20): The Onion, my favorite news source, with your astrological omens, I suggest we give it another chance. I reported, “It’s perfectly natural for people to fantasize about sand- think it deserves a cozy spot in your life during the next few months. wiches other than the one currently in their hands.” You shouldn’t As for what exactly that entails, let’s call on author Rebecca Solnit for feel shame, the article said, if you’re enjoying a hoagie but suddenly inspiration. She says, “I still think the [real] revolution is to make the feel an inexplicable yearning for a BLT or pastrami on rye. While I ap- world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the preciate this reassuring counsel, I don’t think it applies to you in the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.” coming weeks. In my opinion, you have a sacred duty to be unwaver- SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22–Dec 21): “We all have ghosts inside us, and ingly faithful, both in your imagination and your actual behavior—as it’s better when they speak than when they don’t,” wrote author Siri much for your own sake as for others’. I advise you to cultivate an Hustvedt. The good news, Sagittarius, is that in recent weeks your per- up-to-date affection for and commitment to what you actually have, sonal ghosts have been discoursing at length. They have offered their and not indulge in obsessive fantasies about “what ifs.” interpretation of your life’s central mysteries and have provided twists GEMINI (May 21–June 20): I hesitate to deliver the contents of this on old stories you thought you had all figured out. The bad news is that horoscope without a disclaimer. Unless you are an extremely ethical they don’t seem to want to shut up. Also, less than 25 percent of what person with a vivid streak of empathy, you might be prone to abuse they have been asserting is actually true or useful. But here’s the fan- the information I’m about to present. So please ignore it unless you tastic news: Those ghosts have delivered everything you need to know can responsibly employ the concepts of benevolent mischief and for now, and will obey if you tell them to take an extended vacation. tricky blessings and cathartic shenanigans. Ready? Here’s your oracle: CAPRICORN (Dec 22–Jan 19): In the film Bruce Almighty, Morgan Now is a favorable time for grayer truths, wilder leaps of the imagi- Freeman plays the role of God, and Capricorn actor Jim Carrey is a nation, more useful bullshit, funnier enigmas, and more outlandish frustrated reporter named Bruce Nolan. After Nolan bemoans his stories seasoned with crazy wisdom. rocky fate and blames it on God’s ineptitude, the Supreme Being CANCER (June 21–July 22): Kavachi is an underwater volcano in the reaches out by phone. (His number is 716-776-2323.) A series of southwest Pacific Ocean. It erupts periodically, and in general makes conversations and negotiations ensues, leading Nolan on roller- the surrounding water so hot and acidic that human divers must avoid coaster adventures that ultimately result in a mostly happy ending. it. And yet some hardy species live there, including crabs, jellyfish, According to my reading of the astrological omens, you Capricorns stingrays, and sharks. What adaptations and strategies enable them will have an unusually high chance of making fruitful contact with to thrive in such an extreme environment? Scientists don’t know. I’m a Higher Power or Illuminating Source in the coming weeks. I doubt going to draw a comparison between you and the resourceful crea- that 716-776-2323 is the right contact information. But if you trust tures living near Kavachi. In the coming weeks, I bet you’ll flourish in your intuition, I bet you’ll make the connection. circumstances that normal people might find daunting. AQUARIUS (Jan 20–Feb 18): Some spiders are both construction LEO (July 23–Aug 22): Seventeenth-century British people used the workers and artists. The webs they spin are not just strong and func- now-obsolete word “firkytoodle.” It meant “cuddling and snuggling tional, but also feature decorative elements called “stabilimenta.” accompanied by leisurely experiments in smooching, fondling, licking, These may be as simple as zigzags or as complex as spiral whorls. Biolo- and sweet dirty talk.” The coming weeks will be prime time for you to gists say the stabilimenta draw prey to specific locations, help the spider carry out extensive experiments in this activity. But here’s an interesting hide, and render the overall stability of the web more robust. As you question: Will the near future also be a favorable phase for record enter the web-building phase of your cycle, Aquarius, I suggest that you levels of orgasmic release? The answer: maybe, but IF AND ONLY if include your own version of attractive stabilimenta. Your purpose, of you pursue firkytoodle as an end in itself, IF AND ONLY IF you relish course, is not to catch prey, but to bolster your network and invigorate the teasing and playing as if they were ultimate rewards and don’t your support system. Be artful as well as practical. (Thanks to Mother relegate them to being merely preliminary acts for pleasures that are Nature Network’s Jaymi Heimbuch for info on stabilimenta.) supposedly bigger and better. P.S. These same principles apply not just PISCES (Feb 19–March 20): “Aren’t there parts of ourselves that are to your intimate connections but to everything else in your life, as just better left unfed?” asked Piscean author David Foster Wallace. well. Enjoying the journey is as important as reaching a destination. I propose that we make that one of your two keynotes during the VIRGO (Aug 23–Sept 22): Here’s an experiment worth trying: Reach next four weeks. Here’s a second keynote: As you become more and back into the past to find a remedy for what’s bugging you now. In more skilled at not fueling the parts of yourself that are better left other words, seek out on an old, perhaps even partially forgotten unfed, you will have a growing knack for identifying the parts of influence to resolve a current dilemma that has resisted your efforts to yourself that should be well-fed. Feed them with care and artistry! ■ master it. This is one time when it may make good sense to temporarily resurrect a lost dream. You could energize your future by drawing inspiration from possibilities that might have been but never were.

LIBRA (Sept 23–Oct 22): By the time he died at the age of 87 in 1983, freethinker Buckminster Fuller had licensed his inventions to more than 100 companies. But along the way, he often had to be patient as he waited for the world to be ready for his visionary cre- ations. He was ahead of his time, dreaming up things that would be needed before anyone knew they’d be needed. I encourage you to be like him in the coming weeks, Libra. Try to anticipate the future. Generate possibilities that people are not yet ripe to accept but will eventually be ready to embrace.

SCORPIO (Oct 23–Nov 21): Does the word “revolution” have any useful meaning? Or has it been invoked by so many fanatics with such melodramatic agendas that it has lost its value? In accordance with your astrological omens, I suggest we give it another chance. I think it deserves a cozy spot in your life during the next few months. As for what exactly that entails, let’s call on author Rebecca Solnit for inspiration. She says, “I still think the [real] revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22–Dec 21): “We all have ghosts inside us, and it’s better when they speak than when they don’t,” wrote author Siri Hustvedt. The good news, Sagittarius, is that in recent weeks your personal ghosts have been discoursing at length. They have offered their interpretation of your life’s central mysteries and have provided twists on old stories you thought you had all figured out. The bad news is that they don’t seem to want to shut up. Also, less than 25 percent of what they have been asserting is actually true or useful. But here’s the fantastic news: Those ghosts have delivered everything you need to know for now, and will obey if you tell them to take an extended vacation.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22–Jan 19): In the film Bruce Almighty, Morgan Freeman plays the role of God, and Capricorn actor Jim Carrey is a frustrated reporter named Bruce Nolan. After Nolan bemoans his rocky fate and blames it on God’s ineptitude, the Supreme Being reaches out by phone. (His number is 716-776-2323.) A series of conversations and negotiations ensues, leading Nolan on roller- coaster adventures that ultimately result in a mostly happy ending. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you Capricorns will have an unusually high chance of making fruitful contact with a Higher Power or Illuminating Source in the coming weeks. I doubt that 716-776-2323 is the right contact information. But if you trust your intuition, I bet you’ll make the connection.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20–Feb 18): Some spiders are both construction workers and artists. The webs they spin are not just strong and func- tional, but also feature decorative elements called “stabilimenta.” These may be as simple as zigzags or as complex as spiral whorls. Biolo- gists say the stabilimenta draw prey to specific locations, help the spider hide, and render the overall stability of the web more robust. As you enter the web-building phase of your cycle, Aquarius, I suggest that you include your own version of attractive stabilimenta. Your purpose, of course, is not to catch prey, but to bolster your network and invigorate your support system. Be artful as well as practical. (Thanks to Mother Nature Network’s Jaymi Heimbuch for info on stabilimenta.)

PISCES (Feb 19–March 20): “Aren’t there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed?” asked Piscean author David Foster Wallace. I propose that we make that one of your two keynotes during the next four weeks. Here’s a second keynote: As you become more and more skilled at not fueling the parts of yourself that are better left unfed, you will have a growing knack for identifying the parts of yourself that should be well-fed. Feed them with care and artistry! ■ 48 November 16, 2016 THE STRANGER

DO YOU HAVE PTSD AND ALCOHOL PROBLEMS? SEATTLE’S ORIGINAL CANNABIS SHOP Seeking free treatment? 2733 4th Ave South • Seattle WA Paid research opportunity. www.CannabisCity.us

This product has intoxicating effects and may be habit forming. Marijuana can impair Call the APT study at concentraion, coordination, and judgement. Do not operate a vehicle or machinery under the influence of this drug. There may be healthrisks asociated with consumption of this product. 206-764-2458 For use only by adults twenty-one and older. Keep out of the reach of children.