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Michael Medved Town Hall	Thu., November 20, 7:30pm		Books & Authors Politics/Activism
Just in time for Thanksgiving, if a little late for Election Day, local conservative writer and occasional film critic Michael Medved has a new book out. In fact, his The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation (Crown, $26.95) is pegged to Thanksgiving. It... More >>

Iced Earth, Earlyman, HMP, Vigilance Studio Seven	Thu., November 20, 7:00pm	SoDo	Music
Now that wonderfully overblown pomposity like power metal and progressive metal are back in vogue, Iced Earth is finally getting love from those longhairs who didn't stop buying records in 1987. And that's a good thing, because the group's new album, The Crucible of Man: Something Wicked Part... More >>

Patterns, Jack Lewis, Oh Yeah Hell Yeah Comet Tavern	Thu., November 20, 9:00pm	Capitol Hill	Music
Tonight's bill showcases a solid assortment of rollicking indie rock that ranges in genus from Appalachian-tinged Americana to suave, nuanced Portland pop. Come discover why your friends south of the (state) border harbor an abiding, cult-like love for Patterns (or anything frontman Ricci Swift... More >>

The Rosebuds, No Kids, The Kindness Kind Tractor Tavern	Thu., November 20, 9:00pm	Ballard	Music
Last year, married North Carolinians Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp -- better known as The Rosebuds -- delivered a terrific album of dark, stylish, synth-heavy pop (Night of the Furies) that merged ominous imagery with Howard's nocturnal guitar, Crisp's jaunty keys, and the pair's dramatic vocal... More >>

Yeasayer Neumos	Thu., November 20, 8:00pm	Madison Valley & Madison Park	Music
If David Byrne and Brian Eno collaborated with Animal Collective, you might expect a sound like Yeasayer's: with vocal harmonies, complex and ornate instrumentation, electronic accompaniment and clear Eastern influences. In 2007, this Brooklyn-based quartet released their debut LP, All Hour... More >>

Kathy Griffin Paramount Theatre	Daily from Thu., November 20 until Sat., November 22		Comedy
Publicists warned that my attempts to snag a phone interview with comedian Kathy Griffin would be futile. I realized they were right after an exchange of e-mails with a Griffin rep, who insisted on knowing if Kathy would be a SW cover story. That flack stopped communicating with me as soon as... More >>

Kidd Pivot: Lost Action On the Boards	Daily from Thu., November 20 until Sat., November 22, 8:00pm		Dance
There are 240 joints in the human body, and Crystal Pite makes full use of them all. In her new work for Kidd Pivot, her Vancouver, B.C.–based company, she continues to explore her hybrid roots in ballet and modern dance practices, creating long, juicy phrases that threaten to turn her... More >>

Justin Beckman: Honky Tonk PUNCH Gallery	Daily from Thu., November 20 until Sat., November 22	Pioneer Square	Art Exhibitions
Justin Beckman motions for me to grab a beer upon entering his bar. Empty boxes of Busch and Smirnoff are stacked high, the floor littered with empty peanut shells and sawdust. The walls are decorated with George Jones and Johnny Cash album covers. A projection screen shows Beckman lip-synching... More >>

Son of All Monsters Attack! Grand Illusion	Daily from Fri., October 17 until Thu., November 20	University District	Local Film/Arthouse
This GI horror series, with discounted double-feature pricing, concludes this week with two Lovecraft-inspired titles. At 7 p.m., Re-Animator (1985) has mad scientists run amok on campus. It's paired with director Stuart Gordon's follow-up one year later: From Beyond (at 9 p.m.), in which a... More >>

Zeitgeist: The Films of Our Times SIFF Cinema	Daily from Fri., November 14 until Wed., November 26	Queen Anne	Local Film/Arthouse
The lines will be long for the new 007 flick, and holiday movie season begins on Thanksgiving. If you want a worthy, balanced, and thoroughly international respite from multiplex gridlock, check out the Zeitgeist: The Films of Our Times retrospective (through Nov. 26). It begins tonight with a... More >>

John Grade: Disintegration, Sculpture through Landscape Bellevue Arts Museum	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Tue., August 26 until Sun., November 30	Bellevue	Art Exhibitions
A slot canyon has appeared at the Bellevue Arts Museum, but instead of water-smoothed stone, the interior of this narrow passageway by John Grade is dressed in a coat of goat hair, softening the rounded, convex forms. It might be dark as you make your way inside, and you might experience a bit... More >>

Arctic Wings: Miracle of Migration Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., October 1 until Wed., December 31	University District	Art Exhibitions
Sarah Palin must not have many bird houses in the backyard of her Alaska governor’s mansion. After all, the veep nominee is all about drilling in ANWR, which, as seven contributing photographers show us in “Arctic Wings: Miracle of Migration” (through Dec. 31), is a temporary... More >>

Jenny Heishman: Water Mover Ernst Park	Daily	Fremont	Art Exhibitions Family Events
Unbuilt lots, even sloped blackberry patches sitting on unstable soil, are fast disappearing in Seattle. Particularly in Fremont, where townhouses sprout like mushrooms, any real-estate resistance is appreciated. Sitting next to the Fremont Branch Library, A.B. Ernst Park was completed four... More >>

"Empire" Frye Art Museum	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., September 20 until Sun., January 4	Downtown	Art Exhibitions
As the U.S. occupation of Iraq drags on, as the inflamed Arab Middle East continues to assign that loaded word—occupation—to the Israeli-controlled West Bank territories, the Frye’s new show “Empire” (through Jan. 4) is timely. It runs in tandem with “Napoleon on... More >>

Gaze: Vision, Desire, and Difference in the Frye Collections Frye Art Museum	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sun., August 31 until Sun., January 4, 10:00am	Downtown	Art Exhibitions
Timothy Lowly’s large-scale portrait Temma on Earth shows his young daughter, physically and mentally disabled since birth, lying helpless in the dirt. Most haunting is the expression on her face: mouth gaping open and blank eyes staring at something—or is it nothing?—that we... More >>

Ariana Page Russell: Dressing Gallery4Culture	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Mon., November 10 until Fri., November 28	Pioneer Square	Art Exhibitions
In her first solo Seattle show, local artist Ariana Page Russell is showing some skin. Perhaps best known for her portraits of decoratively patterned welts self-inflicted onto her pale skin (possible thanks to a condition called dermatographia), Russell continues to use her own epidermis as... More >>

Liz Magor: The Mouth and Other Storage Facilities Henry Art Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., September 13 until Sun., December 14	University District	Art Exhibitions
Inside an ash tray lies the tiny, defeated, mummified body of a mouse. Near him in a similarly inert state is a raccoon in a bed of strewn candy wrappers and cigarettes. Canadian sculptor Liz Magor’s victims are actually made of polymerized gypsum and found objects, but that doesn’t... More >>

Richard Misrach: On the Beach Henry Art Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., October 10 until Sun., January 18	University District	Art Exhibitions
Bay Area photographer Richard Misrach is best known for his decades-long Desert Cantos series, which deals with the vastness and scale of the American West. The environment is a political construct for him, something humans shape by their choices and policies. This new traveling show of 20... More >>

Richard Barnes: Animal Logic Howard House	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., November 7 until Sat., January 3	Downtown	Art Exhibitions
Many photographers have a museum fetish. They like to reframe what others have put in a frame—and how that frame is made. Joseph Holmes did that recently in his “Underexposed” at Wall Space. Now Richard Barnes follows suit with “Animal Logic” (on view through Jan. 3).... More >>

I-5 Colonnade I-5 Colonnade	Daily	Eastlake & South Lake Union	Family Events Sports
Sure, Seattle’s a pretty good cycling town. It’s got bicycle commuters, über-rich guys on road bikes worth more than cars, Critical Mass, gangs of Cap Hill fixie riders, and nude cyclists in Fremont. But until now the scene just hasn’t been complete. The full-suspension set,... More >>

Claire Cowie: 12 Views James Harris Gallery	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., November 19 until Sat., December 20	Pioneer Square	Art Exhibitions
Meerkats reign over the animal kingdom and human heads sprout like weeds in the ground in the wacky landscapes of Claire Cowie. The Seattle painter deliberately uses unnatural hues and subjects in her new series “12 Views” (through Dec. 20). She cites 19th-century Japanese painter... More >>

Doris Totten Chase: Changing Form Kerry Park	Daily from Mon., November 17 until Fri., December 25	Queen Anne	Art Exhibitions
The most popular viewpoint in the city is often a bore for kids. Whenever I walk up to Kerry Park, on the south prow of Queen Anne Hill, shutterbugs, wedding parties, and sightseers are intent on the panoramic view. Watch what the children do, however, when they squirm free of parental grasp or... More >>

Bridge Between Cultures King Street Center	Daily from Wed., October 15 until Wed., October 13	International District	Art Exhibitions
With coal cars and commuter trains rumbling beneath, the Weller Street Overpass connecting the ID to King Street Station isn’t a place where pedestrians tend to linger. Racing across Fourth Avenue South from offices at Amazon.com to catch the last Sound Transit train home, their haste is... More >>

April Brimer: Portraits of Curiosity McLeod Residence	Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., October 9 until Sat., November 22	Belltown	Art Exhibitions
Looking at April Brimer’s portraits, you can’t help but wonder what is happening. Why is that girl’s popcorn flying out of its box? Does that foxy lady know there’s a fox under her bed? And who is that hunk in the sexy horn-rimmed glasses? Is it me? Unfortunately there... More >>

Michael Heizer’s Adjacent, Against, Upon Myrtle Edwards Park	Daily	Downtown	Art Exhibitions
Since opening last year, the Olympic Sculpture Park has somehow eclipsed and subsumed the identity of Myrtle Edwards Park, which was established (with a different name) back in 1964, when SAM was still a small institution confined to Capitol Hill. The narrow old shoreline park was renamed in... More >>