On the List: May 19-25

The Mark Morris Dance Group returns to Seattle for 3 nights at the Paramount Theatre. Photo by Stephanie Berge.

Tuesday

• At 8:15 p.m. tonight, Alice Gosti and Elizabeth Buschman present DO While, a site-specific performance on the kite hill @ Gasworks Park Eds.: Canceled due to weather.

Wednesday

• Wake up at 2:30 a.m. to see afroed erstwhile Seattleite Reggie Watts' debut comedy release Why S#!+ So Crazy? uncut and uncensored @ Comedy Central

• Screening the second slate of films from the 48hr Film Project @ Harvard Exit
• Closing: Jose Amador's El Hijo Prodigo @ Annex Theatre
• It's the one, the only Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars @ Triple Door
• Salmon Gone Wild continues today (through June 30) with an extra special happy hour, featuring grilled salmon bites, drink specials, and a chance to win whole Copper River salmon @ Elliott's
• Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer unveils her conjoined twin supergroup side project Evelyn Evelyn @ Showbox
• SAL's Linda Bowers defends Mulholland Drive @ NWFF's Curator's Defense
• A roundtable discussion of marijuana policy in Seattle @ Town Hall (RSVP req'd)

Thursday

• Let the film festival festivities begin! It's opening night for SIFF with The Extra Man @ Benaroya Hall

• Poet Karen Finnyfrock and the Vis-à-Vis Society @ SAM Word
• Scott/Powell Performance's Home @ the Erickson Theatre
• The Most Dangerous Woman in America opens @ Odd Duck Theatre
• Wiping My Mother's Arse opens @ ArtAttack Theatre
• The Thin Place opens @ the Intiman
• One Pot's Michael Hebb defends Dig! @ NWFF's Curator's Defense

Friday

• The Mark Morris Dance Group  @ the Paramount Theatre
• Catherine Cabeen's Form and Fluidity @ The Seattle Changing Room
• The unholy forces of Umphrey's McGee, Yonder Mountain String Band, and Northern Mississippi All Stars unite in 30db @ the Tractor
• KEXP takes over the neighborhood all day long in their third annual Hood to Hood Day @ West Seattle
• Seattle Men's Chorus zany alter-ego Captain Smartypants kicks out choral jams (also Saturday) @ Town Hall
• Yes, that's right: Peter Frampton loves your way @ Little Creek Casino
• Roger Ebert hated, hated, hated this movie (but Jonathan Rosenbaum loved it): Chelsea Girls @ Seattle Art Museum
• How's that involuntary simplicity workin' out for ya? Duane Elgin is keepin' it real (simple) @ Town Hall
• How to your 21st century readers (panels & presentations Friday through Sunday) @ Hugo House

Saturday

• Monkey See, Monkey Buy, an auction supporting Macha Monkey Productions @ Freehold Theatre
• Schmorgasborg, a monthly cabaret of new performance @ the Balagan Theatre
• If you missed Hey Marseilles' all-ages show at the Vera last night, catch the local orchestral popsters @ the Tractor
• Nashville singer-songwriter Landon Pigg plays the latest (RED)Nights show, with proceeds going to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS in Africa @ Triple Door
• Plants and Animals bring their lush melodies and sense of irony to Seattle. With Frog Eyes and Lost in the Trees @ the Croc

Sunday

• Learn how to moregasm your orgasm for only $35 (or free at their couples' event next Wednesday) @ Babeland
• City Arts presents Lessons from West, with "Awesome," Nick Garrison, and Sarah Rudinoff @ the Sorrento Fireside Room
• FREE (but it will assuredly sell out, so be sure to get a seat via a $5 food/beverage voucher):  It's the 2.5-hour final episode of Lost! All the mysteries of The Island revealed, in the company of drunk strangers @ Central Cinema
• Microcredit financier Muhammad Yunus talks about his book Building Social Business @ Town Hall
• FREE: PNB's Doug Fullington and dancers Chalnessa Eames, Seth Orza, and Kaori Nakamura, talk about Coppélia @ Elliott Bay Book Co.

Monday

• Lynnwood High School jazz bands bring the noise and/or the funk @ Triple Door
• Eat Pan-Asian till you can't eat no more at the ID Spring Roll @ Showbox SoDo
• Economist and author Juliet Schor talks about measuring "true wealth" @ Town Hall
• Benaroya Hall has a huge built-in organ (What? What'd I say?) that doesn't get played enough (Oh come on!)--fine, tonight is a French organ music recital @ Benaroya Hall

Tuesday

• MacArthur fellow jazz violinist Regina Carter takes on African folk tunes in her first of two nights @ Jazz Alley
• Sorry folks, the super-teaming of Danger Mouse and James Mercer in Broken Bells, with the melodic pedal-heavy pop of the Morning Benders, is all sold out @ Showbox
• FREE: Real estate is the topic of novelist and L.A. Times op-ed-er Meghan Daum's memoir, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House, which she reads from @ Elliott Bay Book Co.