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Empathy is the issue at hand, though. Lawyer Atticus Finch (David Bishins) is an odd bird. He won't play a backyard game of catch with his son Jem. He won't join in a touch football game. When he chats with Scout, his daughter, his conversation is mainly made up of oracular pronouncements not geared for childish comprehension.He hides his countywide fame as a marksman from his kids. He takes a case that guarantees the whole family will be subject to verbal abuse and gossip. And he's always at the office -- though how busy could a small town in Alabama in 1935 keep him? -- leaving his kids mainly in the housekeeper's care.

This week, we're tempted by David "Fathead" Newman's Tuesday and Wednesday gigs -- a tenor saxman who used to play with the Ray Charles Band, Newman is said to belong in the company of Coltrane and Getz. But Saturday night we were at the Triple Door for the Rocco DeLuca/Sierra Swan bill.

Continuing on our quest to catch up on the Oscar-nominated films, Seattlest went last night to see Capote, playing at the Harvard Exit (and now, thanks to Oscar-inspired wider release, also in Kirkland). We stopped along the way at Bailey/Coy to buy the book the movie's more or less about, which we haven't read, and scowled at the ratfink Now, a Major Motion Picture! sticker, announcing that we never got around to reading until the movie came out.