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Now, don't let the chicken- and cat-rape, possum-gutting, or deep-frying a sparrow put you off. (Or the hamster, which we don't have time to get into.) There's a lot of tenderness to playwright Kelleen Conway Blanchard's depiction of small-town life. And if former Pork Queen Lucinda is one-eyed, the Sheriff's plastic cranium doesn't seal that well, bemulleted Bud has testicular size-and-quantity issues, and Lucinda's brother Stu Lionel has a too-lively fascination with dead things (and how they get that way), that just says something vital about what it means to be human -- any rich, vibrant tapestry has got to have a few loose ends.

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.

As a wise man once said: "Ohhhh, we're half-way there / Ohhh-oh, living on a prayer." On Wednesday, SIFF officially reached the half-way mark. But it's by no means all downhill from here. There's still tons more great films to see before the fest is through.

Wonderful Town, currently playing at the 5th Avenue Theatre, is, in a word, fantastic. (You thought we would go with “wonderful,” didn’t you? Yeah, not this time, buddy.) Seattlest caught the show last Saturday night, and we genuinely enjoyed it.