On the List: October 27-November 2

Wednesday, October 27th

• It doesn’t make total sense to us either, but if you want to be in a Ford Fiesta-related Hulu reality show, grab your road rally teammate and head out @ Pyramid Alehouse
• Tonight gives you the veritable indie rock sophie’s choice between Deerhunter @ the Showbox, Women and Elf Power @ the Vera Project, or the surely completely wackadoodle stage show of Of Montreal and Janelle Monae @ the Paramount
• Edward Albee’s “charming, vicious, and wretched” Three Tall Women opens @ the Seattle Rep
• The Beetlejuice/Poltergeist double-feature continues @ Central Cinema
• Girish Karnad’s play Broken Images, starring Shabana Azmi, has a one-night-only performance @ Benaroya Hall
• Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, directed by Andrew Tsao, opens @ the UW’s Hughes Penthouse Theater

Thursday, October 28th

• It’s a night of music and raising money for non-profits at TeamUp4TeamUp with Grand Hallway, Lindsay Fuller, and the Royal Bear @ the Hard Rock
• It’s the last night for sparse Swedish drama (is there any other kind?) The Anchorage @ NWFF
• The First Annual First Hill Pumpkin Carving Contest kicks off at 6 @ Vito’s
• Queer comedy with Three Geeks One Mic @ Eclectic Theatre
• Seattle Police Chief John Diaz talks with Seattle Channel’s urbane C.R. Douglas @ Seattle Central Public Library
• Halloween kicks off early, with a free show with Champagne Champagne + Ononos @ Neumo’s

Friday, October 29th

• The documentary on singer Feist, Look at What the Light Did Now, makes its Seattle debut @ the Henry Art Gallery
• Dr. Dog and Here We Go Magic serve up plenty of delicious pop goodness @ Showbox SoDo
• How about a gloomy Danish…prince? It’s opening night of Hamlet @ Seattle Shakespeare Co.
• Modern Dance behind the Pink Door, Alice Gosti’s quarterly dance event @ the Pink Door
• Expect zombies to make appearances all over town @ ZomBCon
• There’s a 21+ “Spooky Soirée” (costume party/fundraiser for street kids) with Jason & Molly Mesnick of “The Bachelor” and other celebrity guests  @ The Hawk’s Nest Sports Bar and Grill
• Anthony Sonnenberg (a UW MFA student) hosts a Highly Opinionated Public Tour of the art @ SAM
• Kremerata Baltica, led by Gidon Kremer, give you a little Bartok, Schumann, Pärt, and Nyman @ Benaroya Hall

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A red ruffed lemur explores a pumpkin at Woodland Park Zoo’s Pumpkin Bash. The event, held Sat.-Sun., Oct. 30-31, treats the zoo’s animal residents to pumpkins and zoo-goers to trick-or-treating, live entertainment and more. Photo credit: Dennis Dow/Woodland Park Zoo

Saturday, October 30th

• It’s just a jump to the left. Costumes and props encouraged at two showings of the Rocky Horror Picture Show @ the Theatre at Meydenbauer Center
• Even with Elliott’s Slurp Up and Oyster New Year, there’s still room for more all-you-can-eat seafood ($35 tickets available only by calling 206-728-8595), with the 8th annual Oyster Frenzy @ Flying Fish
• Sweet and newly-schizophrenic Sufjan Stevens is sold out @ the Paramount, but there’s still tix available to the fuzzed-out lo-fi of Best Coast @ Neumo’s
• Chop Shop North, a new extension of Eva Stone’s popular East Side Dance Fest, kicks off @ Edmonds Community College

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Sunday, October 31st

• You haven’t done the time warp; it’s a day later, and now Rocky Horror Picture Show is playing as part of View and Chew @ Century Ballroom
• Mavis Staples has also taken a step to the right: the gospel and soul great’s Earshot Jazz date originally scheduled for October 30th has been moved one day later @ Town Hall
• Trick or treat and you’ll end up with more than just candy, not to mention the sexiest pumpkin carving contest @ Babeland
• Cast member Andras Jones makes an in-person appearance at a screening of Nightmare on Elm Street 4 @ Central Cinema
• Narrator Steve Reeder, local actors, and the Seattle Symphony explore Debussy’s La mer (with a big-screen presentation) before playing the work whole @ Benaroya Hall
• In the mood for a “lyrical nightmare”? Catch this screening of the 1932 classic Vampyr @ Frye Art Museum

Monday, November 1st

• At Sundance, audiences either loved this terrorism comedy for its audaciousness or hated it for its offensiveness. You can decide after the free preview screening of Four Lions @ Central Cinema
• Hear the Dawson’s Creek theme song in all of its glory when Paula Cole plays the friendly confines @ Triple Door
• You know things are going to get weird with Adult Swim’s Tim and Eric live, kicking off their Chrimbus Spectacular 2010 tour @ Showbox SoDo
• First Mondays always mean a new edition of free music night The Rumble, this time featuring Austin’s Ume and locals Yuni in Taxco @ Havana
• “Kill the Lonely Hours” is the name of the Sarah Rudinoff/Nick Garrison “From Weimar to vaudeville” lounge act @ Vito’s

Tuesday, November 2nd

• Another night of tough show choices with Avi Buffalo @ Neumo’s, Bear in Heaven @ the Croc, and a big cartoon spectacle, care of Gorillaz @ Key Arena
• Before he gets his arm caught under a rock, check out James Franco as Allen Ginsberg in Howl (through 11/4) @ Northwest Film Forum
• Suddenly I see: KT Tunstall (and her new Hulu channel) @ Showbox SoDo
• To stay on point, there’s a noon preview of PNB’s “All Tharp” program @ Seattle Central Public Library