On the List: February 2-8

Wednesday, February 2nd

• From the director of Cinema Paradiso, Baaria runs through Thursday @ SIFF Cinema
• Rain City Tales & Tunes presents the roots music of Coyote Grace and "Bitter Single Guy" Greg Brisendine at their radio-show taping @ Empty Sea Studios
• The Get Up Kids redeem emo @ Neumo's
• Read silently in the company of Christopher Frizzelle and others @ the Sorrento

Thursday, February 3rd

• Soul songstress Bettye Lavette funks it up through Saturday @ Jazz Alley
• On-air personality is explored in Babs the Dodo (runs through Feb. 14) @ Washington Ensemble Theatre
• Paula Vogel's Pulitzer-winning How I Learned to Drive opens @ Downstage Theatre
• Paul Budraitis's (IN)STABILITY opens @ On the Boards
• Siberian virtuoso violinist Vadim Repin plays Symphonie espagnole with Seattle Symphony (also Feb. 5 & 6) @ Benaroya Hall
• Conor Grennan talks about Nepal's trafficked children @ Town Hall
• The Dutch film The Indian touches on cross-cultural adoption @ the Northwest Film Forum

Friday, February 4th

• Our friends at Sound on the Sound presents Ivan & Alyosha's CD release show, along with Curtains For You and If Bears Were Bees @ Columbia City Theater
• Against Me! sells out (or do they?), with local tattoo aficionado Fences @ Neumo's
• The Satori Group presents nationally recognized comedy duo The Bengsons @ the Satori Loft
• Vincent Delaney's 3 Screams opens @ Theatre off Jackson
• A concert dedicated to the memory of local pianist Tricia Woods @ Good Shepherd Center
• Travis Hay's Guerilla Candy celebrates their official launch party (hosted by Brent Amaker) with Hounds of the Wild Hunt, Hot Bodies in Motion, Hobosexual, and My Goodness @ the High Dive
• With Schubert, Britten, and Shostakovich, there's some chamber music for everyone @ Benaroya Hall

Casper Babypants plays last week's Children's Film Festival opening party @ NWFF

Saturday, February 5th

• The Sci-fi on Blu-ray series brings Serenity and Starship Troopers @ SIFF Cinema
• Grand Hallway pop orchestras it up with Birds & Batteries @ Chop Suey
• Indie rockers Mal de Mer celebrate their debut 7" release @ the Sunset Tavern
• Buñuel and Dali's L'Age d'or will freak your shit out @ the Grand Illusion
• Nouveau cabaret exponents the Can Can Castaways present their newest, SHOW PONY @ the Can Can
• Kids! Caspar Babypants plays @ the Mount Baker Clubhouse
• Simple Measures performs the music of Significant Others (Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, and more) @ Kenyon Hall 
• Tamale-making classes @ El Centro de la Raza

Sunday, February 6th

• Skip the Super Bowl for Showtunes: The Music of Irving Berlin @ the Moore
• The Most Awesome Variety Show Ever features comedy stunt man Matt Baker, three Guinness World Record holders, and "another person" @ the Rendezvous Jewelbox Theater
• You can watch the Super Bowl at a bajillion places, but there's only one serving authentic Wisconsin Leinenkugel's (for just $3.50) @ the Bottleneck
• I sincerely doubt the wisdom of a festival launch party the night of the Super Bowl. But if you want the first word of who's playing Sasquatch this year and/or see The Thermals, Das Racist, Mad Rad, DJ Darwin, and comedian Todd Barry, head to Verizon Wireless store locations (6th & Olive, Northgate Mall, and Bellevue Square Mall) on Thursday for your free Sasquatch launch party tickets @ Showbox

Monday, February 7th

• Mount Eerie (Phil Elverum) and Seattle Symphony's Odeon Quartet converse musically and verbally about "cold landscapes" and indie music's embrace of chamber styles and sensibilities @ the Sorrento
• Alien and Aliens burst out of your stomach onto the big screen @ Central Cinema
• There's another night of National Theater Live with Fela! @ SIFF Cinema
• Experimental musicians wire Tokyo for sound for you in We Don't Care About Music Anyway @ the Northwest Film Forum

• Like Glee! but with school uniforms: "Individual and combined Catholic High School Choirs perform in concert" @ Benaroya Hall

Tuesday, February 8th

• Karaoke butt-rock musical Rock of Ages opens (through the 13th) @ the Paramount
• Take a tour of "Ming Wong: Life of Imitation" and then stay for tea @ the Frye Art Museum
• Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People, talks @ Benaroya Hall