On the List: November 3-9

Wednesday, November 3rd

• Halloween is over, but for one night only, it's John Carpenter's The Thing @ the Metro
• The 31st annual Seattle International Comedy Competition (through Nov 28) kicks off with an interrobang @ the Vera Project
• Party time, excellent, Wayne's World @ Central Cinema
• Ben Gibbard's solo show is likely to feature all kinds of wonderful old Death Cab For Cutie songs pared down to their bare acoustics. Kick yourself for not getting Teen Feed-benefitting tickets early, because it's sold out @ the Croc
• How you like them now? The Heavy @ the Showbox
• Savion Glover and his dance band Bare Soundz go flamenco @ Benaroya Hall

Thursday, November 4th

• Seattle Polish Film Festival running through Sunday @ SIFF Cinema
• King of the blues B.B. King @ Snoqualmie Casino
• Aw, come on, it's the erstwhile Muslims the The Soft Pack with Kurt Vile @ Neumo's
• It's a Folklife night at the movies, with Coal Miner's Daughter and a dual partnership available at both institutions for $65 @ Grand Illusion
• André the pianist (Watts, of course) plays Beethoven's "Emperor" symphony (also Friday and Saturday) @ Benaroya Hall

The Soft Pack, looking hard.

Friday, November 5th

• Don't miss The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and their fuzzy pop longings (with Weekend) @ the Vera Project
• 333 minutes of a French miniseries is a commitment, but all three parts of Olivier Assayas' Carlos (as in "The Jackal") screen daily through Sunday @ NWFF
• GhostLight Theatricals presents A Midsummer Night's Dream @ the Ballard Underground Theatre
• FREE: Bringing together Icelandic (Mugison, Sin Fang Bous of Seabear, Lay Low, and Pétur Ben) and Seattle (John Roderick, Rachel Flotard, Rusty Willoughby, Jason Dodson, and Nathan Wade) artists, it's Reykjavik Calling @ the Croc
• Our friends at Sound on the Sound presents Seattle's own The Black Whales, Vancouver smart folkie Dan Mangan, and Portland's Jared Mees and the Grown Children @ Columbia City Theater
• Neo-R&B crooner Aloe Blacc needs a dollar @ Nectar
• I'd like to watch Norm McDonald pick blueberries @ the Paramount
• Choreographer Paige Barnes and collaborators present Ayadapii @ Open Flight Studio
• NW Dance Syndrome launches Collide @ the Erickson Theatre

Saturday, November 6th

• Noise for the Needy throws another TeenFeed benefit with Rob Delaney's Naked and Bloody @ Re-Bar
• Stars, the romantic pop arm of the Arts & Crafts empire, pour their hearts out @ the Showbox
• Battlestar Galactica cast member Aaron Douglas (Chief Galen Tyrol) shows his favorite episode of the series ("Flight of Phoenix") @ EMP|SFM
• They've got a Tony and a Spike Lee film, and now it's the second night of Stew and the Negro Problem @ the Triple Door
• Tim Kasher (Cursive) has a solo show @ Tractor Tavern
• Alex Cox's Leone/Peckinpah send-up/homage Straight to Hell shows through November 10 @ the Grand Illusion

Sunday, November 7th

• Welcome to the circus with Yard Dogs Road Show @ the Triple Door
• Four local poets, Kelli Russell Agodon, Allen Braden, Oliver de la Paz, and Susan Rich, read new poems inspired by artworks @ the Frye Art Museum
• Vladimir Spivakov's Moscow Virtuosi perform works by Shostakovich, Boccherini, Schnittke, and Mozart @ Benaroya Hall
• Blue-eyed soul with Mayer Hawthorne @ Neumo's

Monday, November 8th

• Music of Remembrance collaborates with Spectrum Dance Theater's Donald Byrd on a new dance set to music from The Dybbuk @ Benaroya Hall

Tuesday, November 9th

• The second week of the Required Viewing Hitchcock series @ NWFF
• Daniel Handler talks Lemony Snicket as part of Seattle Arts and Lectures @ Benaroya Hall
• Stomp makes makes song and dance out of noise (or is it the other way around?) through the 14th @ the Paramount
• Take your pick: Thrill Jockey post-rockers Trans Am @ Chop Suey or techno guru turned singer Matthew Dear with live band @ Nectar
• Twin Peaks from the beginning starts with the pilot and Episode 1 @ Central Cinema