Seattle Events in the University District neighborhood

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Cliff Mass Kane Hall	Thu., December 4, 7:00pm	University District	Books & Authors
Everybody talks about the weather, but how many of us are actually doing something about it? UW professor and KUOW regular Cliff Mass invites you to join the ranks of concerned amateur meteorologists in The Weather of the Pacific Northwest (UW Press, $29.95), which is packed full of colorful... More >>

Rosanne Olson University Book Store	Tue., December 2, 7:00pm	University District	Books & Authors
A haunting image in This is Who I Am: Our Beauty in All Our Shapes and Sizes (Artisan, $25.95) shows a gorgeous, doe-eyed woman named Emily posing nude without an ounce of fat on her toned, 22-year-old thighs. In the accompanying text, Emily reveals she has cystic fibrosis, which kills most... More >>

Bernadette Peters Barnes & Noble, U-Village	Sun., December 7, 2:00pm	University District	Books & Authors Family Events Theater
Hey! The Broadway legend and two-time Tony Award winner (for Song and Dance and Annie Get Your Gun) has written a children's book with a theatrical theme: Broadway Barks. Proceeds from today's book sales go to Seattle Children’s Theatre, which will also be displaying costumes, props,... More >>

The Last Polar Bear Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture	Daily from Sun., July 20 until Wed., December 31, 10:00am	University District	Art Exhibitions
That damn global warming: First it made the weather wacky. Now it’s melted enough Arctic ice to threaten polar bears with extinction. And while the Lords of the Arctic have a reputation for being stealthy, ruthless killers, the exhibit “The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a... 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 >>

Correo Aereo Agua Verde Cafe and Paddle Club	Every week Monday, 6:30pm	University District
On Monday nights, when most restaurants declare a day of rest, there’s one joint in the city that’s always slammed. On any given night Agua Verde Cafe is an expedition of sorts—during conventional dining hours (and especially in the summer), you’ve got to be prepared to wait... 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 >>

Adaptation Henry Art Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., November 22 until Sun., March 22	University District	Art Exhibitions
Art and recycling are often synonymous terms. It’s not just movies that remake novels or American TV shows that remake English TV shows; the tradition of borrowing and adapting goes back at least as far as Homer and Virgil. Through next March, the Henry is welcoming a half-dozen younger... More >>

Metro Classics Metro	Every week Wednesday from Wed., October 8 until Wed., December 3	University District	Local Film/Arthouse
This repertory series concludes continues with Liza Minnelli in the 1972 Cabaret (at 6:50 and 9:10 p.m.), which won her an Oscar among the film's seven other statuettes. Based on Christopher Isherwood's original stories of life in Weimar Berlin (later a play, I Am a Camera, then the musical... More >>

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Grand Illusion	Daily from Mon., December 1 until Thu., December 4, 6:00pm more dates/times	University District	Local Film/Arthouse
He is tall, skinny, earnest. His ears might stick out too much. He’s not a Washington insider. But he is courageous, principled, determined to bring change to our nation’s capital. Sound familiar? Subject of a four-film retrospective (through Dec. 25), James Stewart stars as an... More >>

Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq Odegaard Undergraduate Library, UW campus	Daily from Fri., November 14 until Sat., December 6	University District	Art Exhibitions
With our history-making election and economic crisis dominating the headlines, Iraq has slipped from most of our minds. But once you see the 60 photographs in “Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq” (continuing through Dec. 6), that won’t be a problem.... More >>

James Stewart Retropsective Grand Illusion	Daily from Fri., November 21 until Thu., December 25, 9:00pm more dates/times	University District	Local Film/Arthouse
Written by Moss Hart and George S. Kauffman, the stage hit You Can't Take It With You was adapted by Frank Capra in 1938. Stewart tries, with not total success, to anchor the crazy family spinning around him. Capra also introduces a bit more Depression-era politics than Broadway audiences would... More >>

Stronghold University of Washington Campus	Daily	University District	Art Exhibitions
The original UW campus downtown was once covered with old-growth timber, as was its present location when the school moved north in 1895. Now, as that institution continues its inexorable sprawl south of Pacific Street toward Portage Bay, New York artist Brian Tolle reminds us of that arboreal... More >>

Cris Bruch: DMFA University of Washington Campus	Daily from Wed., October 29 until Thu., October 1	University District	Art Exhibitions
You have to kick aside the fallen leaves to find a small marker identifying the Department of Forensic Morphology Annex, a four-year-old installation just south of the UW Law School. Students scurry by to their classes, seemingly oblivious (or accustomed) to the stainless-steel blob, which... More >>

More Events

Cantante Flamenco Trio Agua Verde Cafe and Paddle Club	Every week Wednesday, 6:30pm	University District

Homage Henry Art Gallery	Wed., December 3, 7:30pm	University District	Classical/Opera

Dana Robinson Kane Hall	Sun., December 7, 7:30pm	University District	Classical/Opera

Certain Inertia, Velvet Drive, guests Blue Moon Tavern	Sat., December 6, 10:00pm	University District	Music

Dosey Wallips, Buddhabrot, Invisible Giants Blue Moon Tavern	Thu., December 11, 9:00pm	University District	Music

Free Beer at Exit 80 Blue Moon Tavern	Fri., December 12, 10:00pm	University District	Music

Gabe Mintz, Ref the Fox Blue Moon Tavern	Sat., December 13, 10:00pm	University District	Music

Sourmash Stevedores, Salmon Skin, Glorydog Blue Moon Tavern	Thu., December 4, 9:00pm	University District	Music

Survey Cez, Kindred, Ghosts of Wyoming Blue Moon Tavern	Fri., December 5, 10:00pm	University District	Music

Wad, The Megafauna Monkey Pub	Sat., December 6, 9:00pm	University District	Music