Can't Miss It: Monday
OSCARS TRIVIA: In case you haven't had enough of the Academy Awards already, Atlas Foods is kicking off their new weekly trivia night with questions about all things Oscar. This trivia night is all ages (a rarity, it seems), but happy hour-priced drinks are available to those of legal age. Teams can have up to four people.
6 p.m. // Atlas Foods, U Village // 2675 NE Village Lane // $5 per team
IT'S THE GUNS, STUPID: It's not the size of the weapon, but what you do with it. "Renowned small arms expert" Rachel Stohl gives a talk at UW tonight about how the global gun trade feeds into the war on terror. Here's a preview of the talk, sponsored by the World Affairs Council: "While world attention is focused on weapons of mass destruction, most of the millions of victims of recent conflicts have been killed by weapons of individual destruction: small arms and light weapons. Over 800 million of these cheap, light, portable weapons are available around the world, part of an estimated annual authorized trade exceeding $4 billion and a black market trade worth over $1 million annually. Efforts to control the global trade in these weapons have largely faltered and today, terrorists, drug lords, and governments use these weapons to wage war and commit violence." Frowny face.
7 p.m. // University of Washington, Kane Hall 210 // $10 members/students; $15 non-members
HER NAME WAS LOLA, SHE WAS A SHOWGIRL: Lola Montes continues its run at SIFF Cinema through Thursday, and we have to say that we enjoyed this quasi-biopic much more than we were expecting. Max Ophuls' final film was a commercial failure, prompting some major re-edits and butchering at the hands of producers and studio execs, but that's only because it was so ahead of its time. Lola Montes may be an over-the-top hyper-saturated spectacle, but at its core it's a colorful, non-chronological meditation on the fleeting nature of fame and celebrity, with the titular character's story--as a dancer, courtesan, and mistress to some of Europe's biggest names--emerging through flashbacks. This is the definitive restoration, with all existing footage of the film incorporated into a beautifully restored 35mm print.
7:30 p.m. // SIFF Cinema // 321 Mercer St. // $10
