On the List: January 19-25

by Audrey on January 19, 2011

Solar panels will be added to Woodland Park Zoo’s historic carousel this month in partnership with Seattle City Light. Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo

Wednesday, January 19th

  • Crocodiles aptly play @ the Croc
  • The Academy of Burlesque introduces the curious to the “Art of the Tease,” a 2-hour workshop @ HaLo (500 E. Pike)
  • Children of the Rain: A Night of Seattle Stories is a six-monologuist benefit show (Matt Smith, David Schmader, Keira McDonald, Troy Mink, Tina Rowley, Suzanne Morrison) @ Theatre Off Jackson
  • The film Craneway Event (shot in the craneway of an abandoned Ford car factory overlooking San Francisco Bay) is a glimpse of choreographer Merce Cunningham’s art @ NWFF

Thursday, January 20th

  • Check out Low Vs Diamond lead singer Lucas Field trying out new solo material in his weekly January and February Thursday residency @ the Laadla Bar
  • The FRED Wildlife Refuge opens with “Stay-Cation,” a collaboration by artists Jason Wood and Sean M. Johnson @ FRED Wildlife Refuge 
  • Celtic singer Colleen Raney holds a CD release party for her second album, Lark @ the Fremont Abbey
  • The Women’s Funding Alliance presents the panel discussion “In Our Own Backyard: A Closer Look at the Sex Trafficking of Local Girls” @ Town Hall
  • Jeff Huston’s abandonedsystems @ Project Space Available
  • INCONCEIVABLE! Wallace Shawn is interviewed by Sean Nelson @ the Sorrento
  • Otto Premingerfest! continues with Where the Sidewalk Ends @ SAM
  • Spidermann, a musical opening and closing before Julie Taymor’s Broadway monstrosity even opens @ the Satori Group’s Loft

Friday, January 21st

  • “Architecture 101: Windows on Seattle Style” is a 2-hour walking tour that starts @ SAF Gallery
  • Hide your kids, hide your wife. Crispin Hellion Glover is in town for four nights, screening films and giving his trademark crazy slideshow @ NWFF
  • The Thermals whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh @ Neumo’s
  • David Mamet’s November @ New City Theatre
  • The Bridge Project @ Velocity Dance Center
  • Sage and Sons of Mothers @ Chop Suey
  • It’s Steve Zakuani’s Birthday Bash @ the Vera Project
  • John Beebe, MD is a Jungian, so he’s qualified to talk about trauma and creativity @ the Good Shepherd Center

Saturday, January 22nd

  • Video Games Live is back for a Bonus Round @ the Paramount
  • Yes, the Official  Twilight Saga Fan Convention @ the Westin
  • Friend of the SunBreak music writer Chris Burlingame celebrates his birthday with Viper Creek Club, Tea Cozies, Katie Kate, and Concurs d’Elegance @ Columbia City Theater
  • It’s the 2nd Annual Belgianfest (beers, not people) @ The Work Shop at Warren G. Magnuson Park
  • The sex-positive Steampunk Exhibition Ball puts the exhibition back in…everything, really @ 2700 24th Ave E
  • Ming Wong: LIFE OF IMITATION, by the Berlin-based Singaporean artist Ming Wong, opens @ the Frye Art Museum

Sunday, January 23rd

  • Accordi-O-Rama IV takes the squeezebox to new heights @ Town Hall
  • Japanese samurai horror classic Kuroneku @ SIFF Cinema
  • If you saw last week’s screening of Evangelion 1.0 (You Are Not Alone), be sure to catch Evangelion 2.0: (You Can (Not) Advance) @ the Grand Illusion
  • The show-and-tell variety show “Weird and Awesome with Emmett Montgomery” returns @ the Annex
  • Wong Kar-wai’s beautiful In the Mood for Love screens @ the Frye Art Museum

Monday, January 24th

  • Enemies of the People ruminates on the nature of good and evil in the shadow of the Killing Fields @ NWFF
  • Old 97′s and Langhorne Slim bring alt-Americana @ Showbox at the Market
  • Drinking Lessons No. 17 is “Vodka…Blind,” hosted by Liberty’s Andrew Friedman @ the Sorrento’s Fireside Room

Tuesday, January 25th

  • So Percussion gets drummy @ Town Hall
  • I’ve been dying to see The Postelles even before they played the show where a bird shat in Kings of Leon’s mouth. The NYC pop-rock quartet make taut, tight tunes about girls and the city, and their Albert Hammond Jr.-produced debut has just a hint of the old Strokes swagger. They open for Free Energy @ the Croc
  • Play around with MovieCat at the interactive movie trivia night @ Central Cinema
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