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Wednesday the 18th is our second annual Blogsgiving! Blogsgiving is a chance for a bunch of local blogs (and their readers!) to meet up, mingle, and get some face time while also raising money for Northwest Harvest.

There's only one reason to see this movie, and that's if you enjoy things that are awesome. Then again, that's one more reason than exists not to go see it, because there are none.

Q: ARE WE NOT MEN?: A: Nah, we're new wave! Get out your red plastic hat, get de-evolved, and get boogying!

DEAD ALIVE: Touted as "The Goriest Fright Film of All Time," Dead Alive (aka Braindead) will be playing tonight at Central Cinema. And yes, they will be featuring Peter Jackson's director's cut with the full lawnmower scene. The plot sounds fantastic--a woman is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey, dies, and comes back to life to kill and eat DOGS, among other living creatures. It doesn't get much more awesome than that.

ONE WORLD, TWELVE FINALISTS: Central Cinema will be featuring some of the twelve best short films submitted to the 2009 Manhattan Shorts Festival tonight--the first night of the three-day event. Manhattan's goal is to show the finalists in venues on every continent, uniting audiences around the world, for this one week only. We must admit that they have a point when they ask, "For up-and-coming filmmakers, what greater test for your film is there than to be judged in cinemas by a global audience?" So go join in on the judging fun, and let your inner-critic shine.

TUILE BATTER AND PICKLE BRINE ANYONE?: Author Tod Davies reads from Jam Today: A Diary of Cooking with What You've Got at the University Book Store.

It was a coincidence that Central Cinema was showing an all-Swayze ticket starting the night of his death. They're showing Dirty Dancing tonight at 7, and Road House every night until September 17 at 9:30.

SHE GOT SOUL: Bettye Lavette, a Detroit native and prolific singer-songwriter well known for her work in the Motown era, is visiting Seattle tonight and tomorrow night. Though Lavette toured in the 1960s with the likes of Otis Redding and Ben E. King and even had a short stint with the James Brown Revue, she always flew under the fame radar until 2005, when she released her album, I've Got My Own Hell to Raise. While in Seattle, Lavette will be singing songs from her latest album, The Scene of the Crime, along with old favorites from the '60s.

YOU AND EMILIANA: Supercute Italian-Icelandic chanteuse Emiliana Torrini hits the Croc tonight, still touring on her 2008 album Me and Armini. Emiliana ain't no Bjork; her music is a mélange of genres: a little trip-hop here, a little folk there, with a smattering of ska, psych-rock, and bossa nova for good measure. Here's proof of her musical diversity: Torrini both sang "Gollum's Song" over the credits of LoTR: The Two Towers and wrote "Slow" for Kylie Minogue. Now that's what we call delightfully all over the place. 9 p.m. // The Croc // 2200 2nd Ave // $15, 21+

JOHN WATERS FANS : Central Cinema is showing one of our favorite '80s movies, Cry-Baby, and there's never a bad excuse to watch this film. Especially right now, in an air-conditioned theatre with stone oven pizza, and beer to wash it down. Ricki Lake? Hatchet Face? That single slow-moving tear drop? It doesn't get much better than that.

HIPHOP THEATRE: Described as a "hip-hop renaissance man," Marc Bamuthi Joseph brings his hiphop theater multimedia production, the break/s, to Seattle (runs through July 12). David Schmader seems to like it, and after reading more about it, we can totally understand why. Joseph, a dancer, award-winning poet, and educator, makes what is described as a "mixtape for the stage" with turntables and djs, visual imagery, dance, and spoken word (story and poetry) from personal interviews and documentary footage. 7:30 p.m. // ACT Theatre, 700 Union Street// Tickets: $10/ $15 (students w/ ID), $37.50/ $50 (adults)

FREE DATE NIGHT: Shop sex toys with your beloved. We're going to quote here: "Enjoy mini-workshops on fellatio, the G-spot, and sex positions." The first twenty-five couples in the door get a goodie bag, so if you are both cheap and horny, this is the place for tonight. 7 p.m. // Babeland // 707 E Pike St // free

What is it with these British girls and the soul music? Perhaps it's the coal-dusted air of industrializing Britain that gives their voices those deliciously bluesy twangs. Whatever the case, Scout Niblett is a vocally talented indie-pop chanteuse from Portland by-way-of-England who's playing the Tractor tonight.

LIKE MOVIES FOR CHOCOLATE: Tonight is movie night at Theo Chocolate on Phinney, and--you'll never guess, we'll just tell you--they're showing Like Water for Chocolate. (Rotten Tomatoes says it's 89 percent fresh!) But it sounds a little different than a night at the megaplex: "We will be serving up hot chocolate, popcorn and other special surprises. Be sure to bring your own camping chair, or cushion to sit on, and snuggle up in front of the fire." Reservations are required: call 206-632-5100 to book your spot.

TIMELY LESSON: With Valentine's Day just around the corner, it's only fitting that Inara George and Greg Kurstin are bringing their sexy, breathy version of jazz-influenced indie pop to Chop Suey tonight. An hour and a half of George's luscious vocals making sweet love to your ears will prove an invaluable lesson come Saturday. The Bird and the Bee take the stage tonight after a set by Obi Best.

• A neighborhood as incorrigibly cute as Wallingford has to have an equally cute moniker for its neighborhood blog. Enter Wallyhood, the new kid on the local blog block. Welcome, little one. Live long and prosper!
• CHS, the motherblog for Capitol Hill, turned three years old yesterday. Cap To The Hill extended congratulations, a beautiful DIY card, and a saucy invitation to the CHSers in honor of the occasion.
• Phinney Ridge: good and good for you. Knees up, ladies. Walking those hills on the regular will help you tone your patootie!

OH THE HORROR: Every Monday in January is a different silent movie, complete with Dennis James on The Paramount's mighty Wurlitzer organ. This time around, Trader Joe's Silent Movie Mondays features scary silent classics from the '20s, kicking off with tonight's showing of Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Last night we made it to Central Cinema for a sold-out showing of Roadhouse, which we're imagining is the one and only time Roadhouse has sold out anywhere. It was part of "From BAD to WORSE: Cinematic Terribleness in 6 easy pieces," hosted by David "I'm in ur Showgirls DVD, commentating" Schmader. Schmader gave us an introduction, we set into a pitcher of beer and a personal pizza, and the carnage began. Our previous experience with Roadhouse came from seeing excerpts from it on Saturday afternoon TV, and we were a little unprepared for lines like "Pain don't hurt," and "I used to fuck guys like you in prison!" From the back, Schmader chimed in via microphone and rewound key plot points (or their absence) in super slo-mo. Whoever was costuming Swayze outdid themselves. Still to come are the Dolly/Stallone-tastic Rhinestone and the Affleck/J-Lo implosion Gigli. *shudder*

HOLIDAYS AT THE ZOO: Even the animals at the Woodland Park Zoo are getting into the holiday spirit. For the next three days of the zoo's Winter Celebration, zookeepers will bring the animals gifts of tasty treats like "wreaths trimmed with fish or assorted fruit, evergreen trees with ornamental fruit, or wrapped boxes filled with favorite tidbits." For today, the schedule of feedings is sun bears at 11 a.m., grizzlies and pigs at noon, and the elephants at 2 p.m. Tomorrow, the orangutans, otters, golden lion tamarins, and tigers get theirs, and Wednesday closes things out with the emus, gorillas, and Australian birds and keas.

BAD FILM: This week, David Schmader's crash-course in the history of awful cinema continues with the legendarily bad Bill Cosby flick, writers for years, Schmader's shtick is probably a bit old by now. But by and large he's good at it, ensuring some added hilarity to an already comically bad film, all while gorging yourself on beer and pizza from the good people at Central Cinema.

Readers of the Seattle Times take their bad movies seriously. Comments to Moira Macdonald's piece on David Schmader's six-week series of bad cinema run the gamut from slightly stupid ("Roadhouse is so bad that multi-million dollar Broadcast stations like TNT and TBS show it virtually every week...because it is so horrible no one will watch it, right?") to completely clueless ("I think this guy [Schmader] needs a job. Honestly, if it were Spielberg, Scorsese, John Woo, Oliver Stone, Polanski, or even Woody Allen or George Cukor giving the reviews of movies, I might be slightly persuaded to read them. But from some guy who knows nothing about directing a movie and even less about acting, give me a break.") to downright incomprehensible ("Does nobody else realize that this guy's 'job' has consisted of watching Elizabeth Berkely strip?"). Take a minute to read the entire ridiculous comment thread here.

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THINK GLOBALLY: Global development is such a lonely two words. But it doesn't have to be. Think tank Global Washington invites you to drop in at their event Global Connections this afternoon, with guest speaker Adam Smith. It's all about helping Washington’s nonprofits, businesses, academics, and government agencies come together and increase their impact globally. The talky part is 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., and then there's an hour-long reception.

HIS NAME IS SPIEGELMAN: Maus-keteer Art Spiegelman has a new graphic memoir out, Breakdowns: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! The book "traces the artist’s evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy, to a neurotic adult examining the effect of his parents’ memories of Auschwitz on his own son." He's at Town Hall for what you'd hope is a multimedia "reading," otherwise it seems like, you know, the graphic part would be lost in translation.

MORE THAN CLOWNS: Two college friends who shared a love of making balloon animals blow the balloon world wide open with their film . This documentary shows how eight balloon twisters' lives have been changed by balloon animals. The opening night screening includes a balloon twisting workshop (get that dog you always wanted). Bonus: the film is at Central Cinema, so you can kick it with a beer and a pizza while you watch.