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After a flurry of demonstrated community concern, the sale of the Capitol Hill OddFellows building to developer Ted Schroth was finalized in January of 2008, and his company seemed to want to put the whole uncomfortable matter behind them when touting the glorious financial potential of the space:

"The OddFellows Building presented us with an incredible opportunity to restore one of the neighborhood's most cherished icons," said Ted Schroth, the project's developer. "It has been an exciting and rewarding project to be a part of, and we are very excited about the tenants who have already chosen to make the building their home. We are looking forward to finding the right mix of remaining retail and office tenants to share in this remarkable piece of history."

We don't even know 1621 12th Ave anymore. So much has changed in the building that formerly housed the Capitol Hill Arts Center that it's undertaken a completely new identity. First, there's the obvious: CHAC was kaput as of June 30th (though the un-updated website lives on).

We think this counts as "writing on both sides of your brain." Starting tonight and running through June 1 at CHAC is one of the more unusual solo performer shows we've heard of: former Washington State Insurance Commissioner Deborah Senn (a theater major, natch) has written a play about her experience wallowing in the mud of the election politics.

Along with all the hiphop this weekend and the hella rad Subtle laser show tonight, there's a few more music events of note. First up, tonight State Bird plays an early show (8 p.m.) at the Q Cafe in Ballard. How both the venue and this great group of Ohio tribal-folksters have been under our radar is beyond us.

From the real-life inspiration of Seattle-based writer and performer Joanna Horowitz comes 100 Heartbreaks, a story about country singer hopeful Charlane Tucker. Tucker, a self-proclaimed expert at hook-ups, break-ups and hangovers, is a regular girl who desperately wants to "make it" in the country music world. Her genius plan to get to Nashville: Find 100 men who will love and leave her.

at the Capitol Hill Arts Center. Daisey takes aim at the theater for its manifold failures: its pretentions, its disconnect from the world around it, its self-satisfaction. (Check out a five-minute sample over at the Slog.)

More details. Please don't let the arts community down. One day in Olympia. It's fun down there! If you have a day job, maybe think about participating by sending an email with this handy form from WA State Arts Alliance.

Reliable sources tell us that if you ask Mike Daisey what he does for a living, he replies that he's "a monologist."

For all those interested, tonight the Capitol Hill Arts Center will be hosting a panel discussion with the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce on the topic of "Is there still room for culture on Capitol Hill?" The impetus behind the event is the generally rapacious rate of condo-conversion and construction that's pushed out notable businesses along Pike/Pine, and now finds its apogee in the sale of Oddfellows Hall, which threatens to displace a number of arts organizations that took advantage of the low rents. Without access to such buildings, arts organizations could face a rapid exodus from Capitol Hill, hastening its transformation to yuppie-land. All those interested should attend.

Tuning the Air continues their multi-guitar soundscape at the Capitol Hill Arts Center showroom every Monday through 12/17. So you've only got four more chances to see the guitorchestra in action, playing their fusion of the old and new, the classic and the modern, live and in the round. Intrepid reporter MvB has seen them on more than one occasion and had this to say about the CHAC residency: Tuning the Air is guitar-topia,...

Tuning the Air has been performing their big guitar orchestra take on all genres, from classical to rock, pop, and ambient, for a couple years now. Think the Beatles back-to-back with Bach, and some improv thrown in for good (huh huh) measure. The show used to be in Ballard, but for the past few months, they've taken up a weekly residency at the Capitol Hill Arts Center, in the CHAC showroom on Mondays through 12/17--which means you've only got four more chances to sit in the middle of a guitar circle. Waaaay better-sounding and -smelling than a hippie-infested drum circle, believe you me.

Capitol Hill studio Pilates Body Fitness is celebrating their 5th year in the Capitol Hill Arts Center with an open house this Sunday. It's a good chance to stop in to check out the equipment, meet the instructors, and see if you're interested in giving this hippie holistic exercise bullshit a try. (Tongue-in-cheekiness aside, pilates is great, and we'd totally do it every day if we were an independently wealthy ex-trophy wife and/or trust fund kid.)

What better way to raise money for cancer than a good old-fashioned moustache pageant? Seemingly classy-ass Monsieur Moustache is tonight at the Capitol Hill Arts Center, with the proceeds going to help pay the leukemia treatment bills of local waiter extraordinare Nick Farina. (Proceeds will also be shared with the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.) Nick's not the only guy out there with over a million dollars in bills (since, you know, our system's fucked), so the organizers are hoping to make this an annual benefit to raise money for cancer patients and organizations.

Balagan Theatre burst out of the womb of the Capitol Hill Arts Center last week with the opening of their new season in the La Spiga building at the corner of Pike and 12th. "Three weeks ago this was a concrete box," someone said before the performance, "and thanks to the hard work of many people, today it's a concrete box with curtains." It's actually pretty fly for a concrete box with curtains.

In anticipation of French house DJs Daft Punk's show at WaMu Theatre this Sunday, head to Lower Level at the Capitol Hill Arts Center tonight for a screening of the first film directed by the electro duo:

7:30pm // The Paramount // sold out, but apparently people on Craigslist think it's worth $325 a ticket

CASTING CALL: Local director Garrett Bennett is looking for extras to cast in his independent film The Spy & the Sparrow.

BEE: Re-Bar's spelling bee is back after last month's finals. Seattle Weekly writer Gavin Borchert won last time around, spelling words like "festschrift," "cockalorum," and "samadhi" correctly.

BASKETBALL: Ex-Garfield High and UW star Will Conroy suits up for a regular season NBA game for the first time tonight as his new team Memphis hosts Dallas.

MUSIC: God help you if you can't appreciate the genius of Stephen Malkmus. Alright, so he's not playing with Pavement (best indie band EVER, pleeeeeease reunite!), but tonight with The Jicks, he'll have one thing that Pavement never had: badass Janet Weiss on drums. Hells yeah!

OPENING: The McLeod Residence, Seattle's premiere lounge/club/gallery, celebrates their grand opening this evening. So if you weren't invited on New Year's, now's your chance to check out the swank digs and the current exhibits.

8pm // Neumo's // $20. 21+

DONATE: For as much as gamers earn their nerdy reputations (and thus our ridicule), Child's Play gives them a chance to both share their geek pride and help the world around them through donations to help kids in hospitals. You want to help too, right?

>>>DORKBOT, 7:30pm. We love the name, but saying that they plan to "discuss their innovative approach to immersive, participatory entertainment" doesn't hide the fact that this will be geeks talking about videogames. Free, but only if you know the secret code: 'Knock knock, who's there?' 'Um, dorks?' 'Come in!'

Halloween is such a fantastic mix of death, decay, kitsch, and morbid Catholic ritual that there is just no topping it as far as holidays go. Of course it does present some problems. Often at Halloween what would appear to be limitless possibility in the end boils down to options that are severely limited by your own laziness and the picked-over racks at the costume store, and this is particularly true for the girls. What to be on Halloween: A Sexy Devil? A Sexy Cat? A Sexy Nurse? A Sexy Devil Cat? And the same holds true when a theatre company is attempting to stage a production that takes advantage of the Halloween theme. The pool of appropriate stageplays would seem to be vast, and yet new theatre company Balagan's choice of "Transylvanian Clockworks" is the theatrical equivalent of the Sexy Devil Cat Nurse. Did they start shopping for this on October 30th?

Someone walked into a Capitol Hill party at 7am this morning with a number of guns and shot a bunch of people. Six 20-somethings and the gunman are dead. The Seattle Times is reporting that the incident occured at the 2100 block of East Republican - An officer in the area heard shots fired and responded to the address where he confronted a man armed with a shotgun. The man then shot himself.

Besides raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, these were a few of our favorite things, at least in terms of live music during the past year.

Still hedging your bets about New Year's Eve? For what it's worth, here's what we're doing.

A while back, before we got strep throat from making out with ten-year-olds, we were at the Capitol Hill Arts Center for the opening night performance of Cloud Tectonics, the first play of their 2005-2006 theatre season. This piece has a lot going for it: it's written by José Rivera, who has several other great plays up his sleeve, as well as an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of The Motorcycle Diaries (watch for his script on another journey film, the upcoming version of On the Road); the set is extensive and well-designed; all the performances (by Todd Licea, Jennifer Faulkner, and Ray Gonzalez) are strong and nuanced. And yet, the play didn't entirely work for us. What the dilly, yo?