HILARIOUS TOMFOOLERY: Andrew Connor of The Cody Rivers Show, a brilliant physical comedy group out of Bellingham, has brought MissoulaOblongata's newest show, The Last Hurrah of the Clementines, to Theatre Off Jackson. Connor, who has great taste, and is rumored to be the newest curator of Seattle Sketchfest, is pretty much guaranteed to bring in a winner. If you're not convinced, check out the synopsis: Late one night, a stranger knocks at the door of......

The first thing you need to know before you go to the Solo Performance Festival at the Theatre Off Jackson is that while the Theatre Off Jackson is at 7th and Jackson, one block up at 8th and Jackson sit two of the ID's most-loved restaurants: Green Leaf offers Vietnamese cuisine and the Szechuan Noodle Bowl, Chinese. The second thing is that the Green Leaf is remodeling and isn't open, so get that out of......

One-man theater performances like the ones going on in festival format at the Theatre Off Jackson right now require a lot of imagination from the audience. Imagine that there's a huge fantastical set, imagine that the person the actor is having a conversation with isn't the very same actor with a modified posture and voice and standing on the other side of the room. Imagine that you're there in the first place, for most of......

THEATRE: Suzanne Morrison's one-woman show Yoga Bitch is the tonight's highlight at SPF 2-Sweatproof!, the solo performance festival ongoing at the Theatre Off Jackson. Morrison's show recounts her trip to Bali for a two-month yoga retreat that illustrates, if nothing else, that the path to inner peace and killer abs has some hairpin turns in it. We found a Yoga Bitch excerpt on YouTube and were persuaded to see the whole thing. 7pm //......

MUSIC: If you're not heading to the Gutter Twins, maybe try another direction. Almost exactly two years ago, we went to hear Trespassers William and their psychedelic folk pop. Said Audrey, "with the band's varied instrumentation and singer Anna-Lynne Williams' steady, hollow voice, their sound is haunting and hypnotic." The question is, have they found a hook to hang a song on? You make the call--check out one of their newest songs on the......

Friday Theatre: The Solo Performance Festival, SPF2: Sweatproof!, returns to the Theatre Off Jackson with a terrific lineup of uni-personned shows. In fact, tonight has a terrific lineup all on its own, thanks to the Unicycle Collective. Their MonoLodge 4 is an evening of solo shorts from Seattle veterans and up-and-coming talents: Keith Hitchcock, Jennifer Jasper, Troy Mink, K. Brian Neel, Becky Poole, Mary Purdy, Seth Rosenbloom, Mark Siano, and Jenna Bean Veatch. (Saturday......

MOVIES: There are two kinds of people in this world: those who are attracted to a film program called Monument Recall: Public Memory and Public Spaces, and those who are repelled. If you're the former? Tonight's your night. 7 and 9pm // Central Cinema // $5 BOOKS: New Yorker-approved author Deborah Eisenberg reads from Twilight of the Superheroes. 7:30pm // Elliott Bay Books // free THEATER: SPF 1: No Protection, "Seattle's first solo performance theatre......

Disappointment is a matter of frustrated expectation. In this case, we blame Sheila Callaghan's account of what prompted her to write this play: The genesis of We Are Not These Hands came to Ms. Callaghan during a trip to China, where in poor villages along the Yangtze, she noted illicit cyber-cafes hidden down side alleys. In news stories at home, she read of the death of 41 students, blown up while assembling firecrackers in......

SHOPPING: Scarecrow is having a used DVD sale right now that will be running through the end of the month (or "until the shelves are bare"), but don't wait until everyone else goes through and takes all the good stuff. Scarecrow Video // DVDs for $5 or less and laserdiscs for a buck MOVIE: There were mountain movies before the book Into Thin Air or, more recently, the film Cliff Hanger. The German's were doing......

Wednesday, November 29 >>>Third Place Books, 7:00pm. Another weighty tome, Unreleased Beatles by Richie Unterberger, to add to your Beatles-only reference section. It details the shitload of stuff that was recorded but, you know, forgotten about what with being so high at the time, plus the whole headtrip with Yoko. Free with OCD collecting disorder. >>>University Bookstore, 7:00pm. Elizabeth George backtracks: in her last Inspector Lynley mystery, the Inspector's wife was killed. In What......