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Fiddler on the Roof Sing-Along Brunch There is no better Christmas Day combo, so far as Jews, atheists, and Wiccans are concerned, than movies and Chinese food. So again SIFF is programming a buffet/matinee screening of Norman Jewison’s 1971 adaptation of the famous Broadway show, with songs by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, to which you are encouraged to add your own voice. (Those include “Tradition,” “If I Were a Rich Man,” “Sunrise, Sunset,” etc., layered atop Sholem Aleichem’s stories of shtetl life in Czarist Russia.) Topol stars as Tevye, a man with five daughters to marry off, which ought to put your own family pressures in perspective during the holiday season. Before the screening there will be kosher Chinese food served from Leah’s Gourmet Kosher Foods, with live music performed in the lobby by Orkestyr Farfeleh (playing tunes from the movie, no less). Fiddler is three hours long, so it includes an intermission for more noshing. And why not make a day of it, since parking is free? SIFF is also playing another musical, Into the Woods, at 5:15 p.m. with Wild following at 8:30 p.m. It’ll be a cinematic trinity if you see all three. (Noon brunch, 1 p.m. screening.) BRIAN MILLER SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109 $20-$25 Thursday, December 25, 2014, 12 – 1pm

Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, December 30, 2014, 8 – 11:30pm

Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, January 6, 2015, 8 – 11:30pm

Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, January 13, 2015, 8 – 11:30pm

Seattle Poetry Slam Local poets share their verse and spoken word compositions. 21 and over. Rebar, 1114 Howell StreetSeattle, WA $5 Tuesday, January 20, 2015, 8 – 11:30pm