On the List: November 17-23

Wednesday, November 17th

• Bad Religion is sold out @ Showbox SoDo
• Two more nights of Boxing Gym @ NWFF
• Coach Craig “Brother of Michelle Obama” Robinson brings his OSU Beavers hoops squad to play Seattle U @ KeyArena
• Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary Event, featuring Nick Jonas (!), for one night only @ Pacific Place
• Opening night of Dancing at Lughnasa @ Seattle Rep
• The hysterically over-the-top RoboGeisha slices, dices, and splatters @ Central Cinema

Thursday, November 18th

• The UW Huskies play a rare, traffic-snarling weeknight football game against UCLA @ Husky Stadium; regardless of the results, there’s a free Head Like A Kite headlined afterparty @ Hard Rock Cafe (if you can get downtown via the buspocalypse)
• Ralph Lemon’s How Can You Stay Inside All Day and Not Go Anywhere? arrives @ On the Boards
• It’s not the beaus you know, it’s the Beaujolais. Celebrate the release of this year’s Nouveau @ Maximilien
• Che cosa? The New Italian Cinema Festival screens (through Saturday) @ SIFF Cinema

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Friday, November 19th

• A little film about a wizard camping expedition opens everywhere, but why not check out the recent renovations @ Cinerama
• Gesamtkunstwerk! opens two shows at once: Shoreditch Madonna and The Late Henry Moss @ The Galley Theatre
• Chad Goller-Sojourner’s Sitting in Circles With Rich White Girls opens @ Rainier Valley Cultural Center
• Built to Spill plays their first of two nights @ the Showbox
• Another big show, with Wild Orchid Children, See Me River, and Magic Mirrors @ Columbia City Theater
• Told you so! Margot & the Nuclear So and Sos @ the Crocodile
• Start your shopping early with a holiday craft sale featuring handmade gift items such as lampshades, knit hats, cards, laptop/ipad/iphone covers, and more @ Cafe Petti Rosso
• Albertan bluesman Taj Mahal begins an eight-night stint @ Jazz Alley

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Turkey is the entrée of choice for lions, Komodo dragons, and other carnivores at Woodland Park Zoo’s Turkey Toss held Sat. Nov. 20, 10am-2pm. Photo credit: Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo

Saturday, November 20th

• The animals get to celebrate Thanksgiving all day with the annual Turkey Toss @ Woodland Park Zoo
• FREE: Community Cinema Seattle premieres a documentary fight over rights in coal country, Deep Down @ the Frye
• Husband-and-wife neo-cabaret duo Over the Rhine bring The Trumpet Child back (Sunday, too) @ the Triple Door
• Take the Lloyd Dobler in your life to Say Anything @ Central Cinema
• Comedy Central’s Daniel Tosh makes fun of the internet @ the Paramount

Sunday, November 21st

• Robyn, whose “Dancing on My Own” is a Song of The Year contender, will probably soon be booking arena shows to contain her irresistible Swedish pixie dance jams. If, however, you got on the bandwagon before her recent Gossip Girl cameo, you’ll get to see her up close and personal with a sold-out crowd @ Neumo’s
• The Bushwick Book Club make their second Seattle appearance, performing original songs based on The Princess Bride @ the Can Can
• Animal band-off! Black Whales and Bear Hands @ the Crocodile
• For one night only (and for only $5), you can catch cutie-pie piano girl Regina Spektor’s concert film Live in London @ NWFF
• Last of two chances to see Brandi Carlile playing with Seattle Symphony @ Benaroya Hall
• Implied Violence co-founder Ryan Mitchell, Frye Art Museum Director Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, and The Stranger‘s Jen Graves discuss what it’s all about @ the Frye Art Museum

Monday, November 22nd

• The theater kicks off their three-week Bing Crosby/Bob Hope Road to… series with Road to Morocco @ the Grand Illusion
• Oakland’s concept folk-art-rockers Faun Fables expand your consciousness @ the Triple Door

Tuesday, November 23rd

• $3 well drinks and $2 High Life/Pabst (and $1 pizza slices) are sure to get your courage up for all-Star karaoke @ Nectar
• Pepper Rabbit rock a clarinet solo or two in support of constantly-touring (do these kids even have a legal residence anymore?) Freelance Whales @ the Crocodile
• Beer & pizza walk with me. It’s episodes 6-8 of Twin Peaks @ Central Cinema