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wo items stuck out for me when I visited Kathy Nyland’s fifth-story corner office at City Hall. One, on a shelf devoted mostly to nameless binders and reports, was Malcolm Gladwell’s David and Goliath (“That’s my story!”) The other was a sticker on her door that read #HALAyes (“I didn’t put that there!”) As Seattle’s so-called “neighborhood czar,” Nyland is tasked with helping all those would-be Davids in Seattle go up against the Philistines of Fourth Avenue—as she once did as a neighborhood activist in Georgetown. And yet as a member of the Murray administration (official title: Director of the Department of Neighborhoods), she sometimes can be cast in with all the other city leaders whose plans for growth—among them, yes, the Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA)—stick in the craw of many self-appointed “neighborhood preservationists.” With residents in Magnolia and Ballard claiming anew that their neighborhoods are under attack, and Saturday being Seattle Neighbor Appreciation Day, Nyland chatted with Seattle Weekly about the power of dialogue and why she hates the term “NIMBY.”

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It’s a Friday night at the Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford, and Joey and Grace, ages 9 and 11—tiny, wiry, and ebony-haired—are tumbling over each other to tell me what they know about climate change.Their introduction to the concept is pretty difficult to pinpoint, though, since it’s always been there, “like all those other facts,” says Grace. “It’s just, like, a regular thing,” adds Joey.

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deaths from prescription painkillers—which quadrupled between 1999 and 2010. Doctors and policymakers have gotten wise to Big Pharma’s dope-pushing ways, and have tightened access to opioids like OxyContin. However, policy doesn’t erase addiction, and many people who had been feeding their habit with prescription pills turned to heroin. “If you’re addicted to opiates, and you’ve used opiates for a long time, your brain chemistry has changed,” Dr. Caleb Banta-Green, a drug-use researcher at the University of Washington’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, told Casey Jaywork for his story on the spike in heroin addiction (“The Spike,” Aug. 12, 2015). “You lose your free will, because your priorities—literally, your biological priorities in your brain—are rotated around, so that the opiates become number one.” For every person who ODs on black tar heroin, countless others are left to a more uncertain fate of living life fix to fix—sacrificing family, home, and all else for their next high. Following a homelessness roundtable last week, Dustin Davies told Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat: “Everybody asks, ‘Why is homelessness getting so bad around here?’ I guarantee you it comes back to the heroin epidemic. But that’s the one thing they didn’t talk about in there.” Outside the roundtable, heroin addiction gets talked about ad nauseam, but only as a reason why compassion should not be shown to those we see living in the margins. They’re not homeless, they’re junkies, this story goes. No doubt a person who is homeless because of, say, domestic abuse needs different services than one who is homeless because of opiate addiction. But let’s cut the bullshit that every junkie arrived in his situation because he was a hedonist punk who had it coming. “There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes,” John Prine sang, and a lot of that money lined the pockets of pharmaceutical companies who knew exactly what they were doing to this country. So as the price tag of dealing with homelessness rises—on Monday, King County Executive Dow Constantine pledged another $17 million of taxpayer money to the problem—how about we start sending invoices to Purdue Pharmaceuticals? Because we seriously doubt they’re going to be able to come up with a pill to solve homelessness. E

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n Sunday, amid the Super Bowl advertisements for bad beer and disgusting pizza, was a spot for a pill called Movantik. Developed by AstraZeneca, the drug is aimed at easing constipation. On the face of it, marketing a product that addresses digestive problems between ads for gut-busting processed food seems genius, if a little gross. But as the voice on TV told us, Movantik is for a different kind of constipation, that caused by long-term opioid use. Little wonder. As Francie Diep blogged on the socialscience website Pacific Standard, “With so many Americans using opioid painkillers, it was only a matter of time before pharmaceutical companies developed a pill to take care of one of the painkiller’s most common side effects: gastrointestinal distress . . . It’s a sign of the times that . . . AstraZeneca found it worthwhile to buy a Super Bowl spot for their ad.” But constipation is hardly the only side effect of long-term opiate use, as we are seeing firsthand in Seattle with a homelessness crisis that is clearly tied to rampant addiction. That many people living on Seattle’s streets today are heroin users raises a number of public-safety concerns, some more legitimate than others. Residents express fears about falling into piles of discarded needles; victims of property crime suddenly have a ready lineup of subjects underneath the bridges; a Ballard business manager says he started pouring water on homeless people’s possessions outside his business because he had previously experienced an overdose on his property. The shooting that left two people dead in the Jungle two weeks ago has been tied to drug addiction: Police claim the shooters were settling a $500 drug debt for their mom. Police also say the shooters made off from the scene with $100 worth of black-tar heroin. Big Pharma’s role in America’s heroin epidemic is so well-established it can be taken as fact. To recount the shameful history in one paragraph: The Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of OxyContin in 1995. The drug-maker, Purdue Pharma, aggressively marketed the pill, claiming—with the FDA’s backing—that Oxy was non-habit forming. By 2010, the company was bringing in $3.1 billion a year selling it. As prescriptions rose, so did overdose

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SW: During the 2013 campaign, Ed Murray said: “I want to empower neighborhoods in way that they haven’t been since before Mayor Greg Nickels.” When he goes back to voters next year, how close to achieving that campaign promise will he have come?

Nyland: The mayor is constantly talking about how he wants to engage people differently, and I think he’s got two years behind him that indicate or show what he means and he’s doing just that. When he nominated me, I think that was an indication [that] this department has a rich history and it needs to have a robust future. We need to do things differently, and that was the directive given and that’s the charge I take seriously every day. I think he can go out there and tell, as I said, a really good story. If you listen to the rhetoric in the press, that story isn’t necessarily shining through. Where is the disconnect?

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I think it depends on who you’re listening to. I try not to do this, I try not to go onto social media and read anything, but there was this string over the weekend about community councils and engagement in neighborhood groups. I think there were over 50 comments of just people sharing their thoughts or experiences and Department of Neighborhoods and Mayor Murray were recognized quite a few times like “Things are changing.” Like, “They understand that we need to have more voices heard, more people at the table.” But I think there are some people for whom change is not easily accepted. There are people who see HALA as a nonstarter for what they call “the neighborhoods.”

The mayor, when he released the HALA recommendations, that’s what they were. They were recommendations to start a conversation and hear what people think and give people the opportunity to learn more and to engage and possibly shape. I will always continue to try and try and try to talk to people. I really believe, as does the mayor, that there’s more common ground than not. Have the neighborhood summits of the last few weeks changed your belief on that?

I have the thinnest skin. Some of those meetings, they’re difficult. They are difficult but I think you can’t avoid them. You need to experience that and push through it and again cling on to this belief that there’s more in common than not. And also, I think [at] those types of meetings you’re seeing the extremes, and the vast majority of people are neutral and haven’t formed an opinion yet.

Do you ever see your 2006 self out there in the crowd and go, “Oh my God, did I sound like that?”

You betcha! I think that’s one of the reasons why the mayor appointed me. Because I think I’m not that special, I’m not that different. I just had questions about different policy, and I was able to mobilize people and get some traction. But I think there’s lots of people like me. What does the term NIMBY mean to you?

I can’t stand that term. Because I think it means lots of things. People yelled that about me a decade ago because I had questions. I wasn’t against things, I had questions about different options, but it’s a term I try not to throw around or get pulled into that debate. I just think it’s so unnecessary. E

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“Businesses have a right to protect their businesses because they pay property taxes.” people—even other homeless people—and collect free stuff from the government (paid for by us, of course).They are not “down on their luck.” No decent homeless person would live in these camps rather than a decent shelter. They are dangerous and unsanitary, but they are perfect for criminals because they provide a place to abuse drugs and alcohol, while most shelters do not. Molly, via seattleweekly.com Have you had junkies camp in the alley behind your house arguing and screaming all night? Have you called the police and have them come out just to find out they don’t want to deal with the problem because there is not much profit to be made prosecuting a homeless person? I doubt it. Jacob McDonald, via seattleweekly.com

People of Ballard, I know you aren’t all heartless reactionary jerks like this story portrays. I urge Shelters may be overcrowded or completely full. those of you who live in Ballard but aren’t fans of Domestic-violence victims may not be able to kicking-while-down, please organize yourselves get rooms at shelters. There may be issues with to support our most vulnerable community theft at that shelter. Some shelters are religiously members, and to provide a counter voice to the affiliated and require people to attend prayer really loud, really ugly voices we’re hearing from services to obtain food or shelter, which might your neighborhood now. violate their faith or they might not be comfortable doing. Some shelters are day foxfount, via seattleweekly.com shelters only and require occuSend your thoughts on pants to go elsewhere at night. Let’s take someone who is this week’s issue to Shelters may be far away from already having an incredibly difletters@seattleweekly.com each other (either walking or ficult life just trying to survive, has so little, and then go and ruin what little they have. Unbelievably cruel. countD, via seattleweekly.com

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A lot of these “homeless” are homeless by choice and have no desire to be part of society. Other cities don’t put up with that garbage, but sometimes being liberal and compassionate backfires. Mansgame, via seattleweekly.com Businesses have a right to protect their businesses because they pay property taxes. You can’t just camp anywhere in the city. If you ever have the privilege of owning a business or a home, you may change your mind about protecting it. And it looks like they have already put up a form of prison wire to keep the addicts out. Anne Steiner, via seattleweekly.com The people in these camps are junkie criminals who just want to loll around getting high, pooping in the streets, and piling up garbage everywhere. They do nothing but steal from other

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public-transit distance). Combine the latter two examples: Someone might have to leave for a night shelter that’s a 45-minute walk across the city only to find out that the night shelter is full—then they’d end up spending the night on the street. So as you can see, there are plenty of other reasons besides substance abuse for not spending the night in a shelter. holymolylions, via seattleweekly.com What a complete asshole. Guess I’ll never be going to Mac’s Upholstery in this lifetime. Neither should anyone else. Jed Perro, via seattleweekly.com Yeah, I’m sure you’ve been shopping around for new upholstery. Jimmy Jugular, via seattleweekly.com

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crisis of ocean acidification that she’s been interviewed for a Philippe Cousteau documentary on the topic. But that kind of climate despair, she says, in herself and others, is “what we need to change. We have to tell them, ‘You’re right, these terrible things are happening, but we can do something about it.’ ” If you, like Sierra, are 11 today, you were born not long before Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. Then, nearly every year of your existence, the world has seen epic climate-related disasters: Hurricane Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan, massive flooding in Pakistan, Pacific islands slipping underwater, Alaskan villages toppling from coastal bluffs, endless drought in California, and catastrophic wildfires in Washington. Every year seems to surpass the last as the “hottest year on record”; 2015 just beat out 2014 for the highest global average temperatures ever recorded, and 15 of the planet’s 16 hottest years occurred after 2001. Also, if you are 11, you were born just before the release of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, which marked a sea change in public perception around the concept—in this country, anyway— making “global warming” and “climate change” household terms as well as the stuff of political debate. More recently, you saw one of the largest international summits ever convened on this or any topic, and President Obama has been making climate speeches almost since you could speak. By some accounts, we are beyond predictions and have entered the age of climate consequences. The entire lifetime of today’s children falls into that age. In 2050, the year that some of the more dire climate scenarios could begin to unfold, an 11-year-old will be 45. “It affects us personally,” says 9-year-old Joey. “Most grownups will not be around long enough to see the big, awful effects I was talking about. For us . . . we’ll be middle-aged. We’ll be fully alive and have to worry about it.” The kids’ passion has made an impact on the local climate movement. Put onstage, they frequently pull grand, tearful statements—and sometimes actions—out of our elected officials. “Everything stops when the kid opens their mouth,” says parent and activist Michael Foster, creator of Plant for the Planet in Seattle. He’s taken these kids to a slew of climate events, he says, and without fail, when the kids speak, adults listen. “Whoever is sitting on that panel, behind that table, doodling their notes on their pad . . . The pencils go down. They make eye

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till, for my benefit, the siblings cast their minds back to the old days, when they knew about climate change but they didn’t know that much about it. “We knew it was caused by people burning oil and gas, but we didn’t understand what it meant,” offers Grace. “We didn’t know how it works, we didn’t understand the effects, we didn’t understand how fast it was happening,” Joey says at a rapid clip. “We thought it happened in, like, 150 years, the big effects?” “Something like that,” says Grace. But now they’re aware that “the big effects are already somewhat happening,” says Joey. “There’s natural global warming . . . but this isn’t natural.” And then, with some gravitas: “If we don’t make some big changes by 2020, it won’t matter how much we try to help after.” They share their feelings about that. “Frustration . . . anger.” “Frustration . . . annoyance. And kind of like . . . nobody getting it!” “And a little bit this desperate need, like, ‘We need to do something! Why won’t you understand that?! Whyyyy?!’ ” We’re at the tail end of a monthly meeting of the Seattle chapter of Plant for the Planet, an international environmental club with 34,000 young members in 50 countries who have collectively planted more than 14.2 billion trees. There are snacks and games, as you’d expect at a kid meeting—muffins, cookies, carrot sticks, a swift round of hide and seek, some dashing about and shrieking and breathless laughter. But mostly it’s quite serious. Moderated by the group’s 13-year-old president, Gabe Mandell, the young activists are celebrating the myriad climate wins of 2015—Shell is out of the Arctic! Obama vetoed Keystone XL!—and planning their next tree-planting workshops and retreats, as well as discussing the climate news of the day, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a controversial trade agreement that could allow multinational corporations to skirt carbon policies. These are the kids, aged 8 to 14, who’ve trained to become “Climate Justice Ambassadors”—the official title of every member of Plant for the Planet who participates in a daylong “Academy”—giving ebullient speeches to their peers at school and at climate events. They’ve shown up at Shell, Keystone, oil train, and Gates Divest protests; they’ve testified at climate conferences and hearings; they’ve urged the Seattle City Council to put warning labels on gas pumps. They’ve also spent time with Governor Jay Inslee and former Vice President Al Gore and been featured in the HBO documentary Saving My Tomorrow; they’ve planted 11,000 trees and started a state-level challenge to plant a billion. They’ve co-hosted workshops and trainings all over the Puget Sound area and inspired the creation of a Plant for the Planet chapter in Portland. They’re about 375 strong since their inception in early 2013, with a few dozen active members. And eight of them were plaintiffs in a highly publicized lawsuit petitioning the Washington State Department of Ecology to develop a carbon-emissions rule for the sake of their fundamental rights—a lawsuit that they almost won. “A lot of the times when I hear bad things about [climate change], I start to cry, and I feel pretty depressed,” says Sierra Gersdorf-Duncan, an 11-year-old fifth-grader so gripped by the

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contact. They are paralyzed, not breathing, until that kid finishes.” Kids speaking up for themselves, for the planet they’ll inherit—it’s effective. 350 Seattle has been known to call these kids their “secret weapon.” But it’s not just some cheap ploy to fill out a climate agenda: The weapon works because the kids care, too. Tim Deppe, a Climate Ambassador who just turned 10, says all the bad stuff he hears about climate change doesn’t make him sad. “Not sad, no,” he says. “Passionate.” The journey to Plant for the Planet in Seattle began with a single Google search. In late 2012, Foster trained with Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps, and since his children were in fourth and sixth grade at the time, he figured he’d do a slide show for their science class. But the talk he’d prepared was pretty grim, and he wasn’t going to just slap on some sweet nothings at the end. “I cannot end a talk with, ‘But we’re gonna build a whole bunch of windmills, so you guys are going to be all right,’ ” he says. “That’s such a lie.” So he plugged “children save the world” and “climate” into a Google search bar and the top hit was a video put together by a German wunderkind named Felix Finkbeiner, who at age 9 decided that the best way to get around the climate crisis was to plant trees. Today the 17-yearold has been named the 2015 “European of the Year” by Reader’s Digest, addressed the United Nations, and launched a global organization

with the goal of planting a trillion trees by 2020. (There are about three trillion trees on the planet today, but we’re still losing an estimated 15 billion every year to agriculture and development.) Planting trees: It’s a simple concept for kids to grasp, and it’s one possible solution to climate change, since forests are huge carbon banks— they absorb planet-warming CO2 while pumping out oxygen. It also gives children something to hold onto in the face of “all this gloom-anddoom Al Gore stuff,” Foster says. He folded Finkbeiner’s video and call to action into his science-class presentation, and it was a total hit. Kids cheered, teachers wiped their eyes. “I was like, ‘Oh my God,’ ” he recalls. “‘I’ve got to do this slide show more.’ ” Foster has since presented to about a thousand kids in Seattle, by his estimation, and got on the phone with Finkbeiner, who chastised him for not having started a Seattle chapter of Plant for the Planet sooner. He’s also been a major connector for climate activists working with kids, as well as for local politicians—he’s brought Mayor Ed Murray as well as House Speaker Frank Chopp and representative Jamie Pedersen (D-Seattle) to various Plant for the Planet events. His two daughters were also the named plaintiffs in Zoe & Stella Foster v. Washington Department of Ecology, the kids’ climate-change lawsuit. It was one of many state-level lawsuits filed by Oregon-based nonprofit Our Children’s Trust—a way to force action on climate change through the courts by using a legal principle called the “public trust doctrine” (and a secret weapon called “children”). Getting on board with that, Foster says, was easy: He stumbled across an Our Children’s Trust video and recognized a Carkeek Park landmark behind Andrea Rodgers, one of the attorneys working on the cases, who, it turned out, lived in Seattle. He called her and said, “ ‘I need to talk to you.’ And she said, ‘Is this Michael Foster? I need to talk to you!’ It’s a pretty small network of climate activists working with kids around the country.” The kids got their final day in King County court last November; they’d been petitioning the Department of Ecology to create a carbonemissions rule based on the best available climate science since summer 2014. While they lost their case in the end, Judge Hollis Hill nevertheless created a legal precedent that thrilled climate activists: the idea that the Washington state constitution should in fact protect the atmosphere for future generations. According to Judge Hill’s ruling, the only reason she dismissed the kids’ case was because the Department of Ecology was already developing a similar rule. Notably, Ecology is developing that rule because Governor Jay Inslee ordered it to last summer—11 days after he spent 90 minutes listening to five of the kid plaintiffs asking him to do just that. Meanwhile, Senator Doug Ericksen (R-Ferndale), chair of the Energy, Environment, & Telecommunications Committee, has sponsored SB 6173, a bill that would overturn Ecology’s ability to make a carbon rule without the help of the legislature. The proposed rule, said Ericksen in a statement, “gives manufacturers a perverse incentive to leave the state of Washington.” The bill passed his committee and is now in the hands of the Rules Committee, which may send it to the Senate floor for a second reading. “The problem is we’re fighting a propaganda war,” says 11-year-old Grace. “Who can get people to listen more—the oil corporations or people like us?” She sighs, acknowledging that there are plenty of other problems in the world that she feels sympathetic to, but that we don’t have a spare

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“time crime.” We’re stealing the future from our children by burning fossil fuels with abandon, and we won’t really know it—we won’t know quite how much we’ve stolen—for decades. It is also, in his view, kind of like second-hand smoke. “I grew up in Texas at a time when everybody smoked everywhere,” he says. “I remember everywhere I went stank, and that’s just how it was. It was like sucking on a tailpipe, just cigars and whatever, all the time. And the idea that I could be a kid in a world of people who are just smoking around me, everywhere, all the time, and know what they’re doing to me? That’s crazy-making.” That’s why he wants to create an infrastructure for these kids—give them a platform so that “grownups take them seriously, and so they’re not feeling so crazy and isolated and alone with the knowledge that they have.” Sure, it’s often people like Foster who’ve put that knowledge in these kids’ heads in the first place, but they live in this world too, and they’re listening. 11-year-old Sierra is very, very worried about the ocean’s dying diatoms, for example, but explains that Plant for the Planet “gave me a thing to do about it. The effects [of climate change] are very depressing, but once you get involved, it doesn’t seem that hard because you have all these other people supporting you.” While some of the kids are interested in science or enjoy being mini-celebrities—it is nice, as former Planet for the Planet president Wren Wagenbach told me, to have somebody “listening to you, for once”—they often have very strong emotional connections to the issue, too. Last summer, 12-year-old Jenny wrote Governor Inslee a letter describing her attachment to a lake and a waterfall in a forest in China: She’d go every year to visit family, but one year when she returned, the forest had been cut down and turned into oil-slicked pavement. For Grace, it’s about compassion. “If someone’s upset or hurting or angry, it’s like it’s coming off them in waves and I feel it too,” she says. “But it’s not just people I’m actually in direct contact with . . . it’s like, every hurricane, every flood: It hurts.” It’s not just guilt, then, that makes climatecaring adults lose themselves in the kids’

speeches. It’s also because they’re kids—so optimistic, so emotionally raw, so guileless. They put things in simple terms; they force us to interrogate our own assumptions; and they are utterly convinced that this is a problem we can fix. Foster paraphrases a sentiment that he heard both Governor Inslee and Al Gore express at a fundraising luncheon in December 2014, following a three-minute call-to-action speech delivered by then-9-year-old Abby. “It’s not because we’re doing this for her,” he says, and he is crying now. His voice trembles. “It’s because she embodies the spirit of who we have to become.” Adds Foster: “It’s speaking truth to power, and saying, ‘You need to be over here with me. You need to be a little more like me. You need to be a little more bold, a little more courageous. You have to do the impossible.’ ”

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People are losing what little they have in homeless sweeps. And for what?

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“I just think that these [sites] can be great ways for folks to communicate about all sorts of concerns in their neighborhoods, both positive and negative,” Murray told Seattle Weekly last week. “But I think it’s important that providers not allow them to simply become a place where rampant rumors get started that could lead to some very scary outcomes. It appears that some of our neighborhoods where we have the highest complaints about crimes are not the neighborhoods that have the highest crime rates, but have a lot of social media that the neighborhoods are using.” In many ways, the story of neighborhoods being overwhelmed by homelessness and crime

hit the media following a tense public meeting in Magnolia on Jan. 6. Barnett, on her blog The C Is for Crank (thecisforcrank.com), quoted one attendee: “If you fall . . . you’ve got a really good change of falling into a pile of needles.” Lukoff says that Nextdoor played a large role in what went down that night at the Magnolia United Church of Christ. “I wouldn’t say it was organized over Nextdoor, but a lot of discussion and planning around it took place there,” he says. Representatives of Nextdoor insist it’s a force

for good in Seattle. “What happens is when Nextdoor has been well-adopted, when there are issues affecting our offline world, those issues will be discussed by neighbors on Nextdoor,” says Kelsey Grady, communication director for the San Francisco-based site. “Nextdoor is a very democratic platform, open to all verified residents. You have a lot of people coming in and voicing their opinions. We don’t control the conversations. “We’ve heard that neighborhood meeting attendance has been through the roof; that’s probably a sign that people have been talking about meetings on Nextdoor,” Grady says.

He emphasized Nextdoor’s close relationship with the SPD, and encouraged Seattle Weekly to reach out to police spokesman Sean Whitcomb for this story. As if to confirm that close relationship, Whitcomb then proactively called the Weekly to talk about Nextdoor. A Nextdoor fan, Whitcomb pushed back on the idea that the site is creating problems that aren’t there. Not all public-safety concerns can be reflected in crime data, he says, and neighbors sharing information about what’s going on on the ground is always valuable to police. “You can have a neighborhood where crime is low and concern is high. We have to do something about that. You can have neighborhoods where crime is high and concern is low. We have to do something about that,” he says. “Now, people have voiced concern about property crime. How does Nextdoor contribute to that? Nextdoor is really just a social-networking platform where neighbors can share experiences, be it this great electrician, this person [who] can help you if you need your gutter fixed, or ‘Hey, there are people stealing our deliveries.’ ” “If they can share concerns with our department, that’s a good thing. . . . If we were just a data-driven department and were completely disconnected [with neighborhood concerns], we truly wouldn’t be doing our job.” The most measured thoughts on the issue may come from Magnolia’s Lukoff. He says he’s not too interested in a lot of the crime/disorder threads on the site, and sees people seeking out information that confirms their own opinions. But in the end, neighbors are talking to each other, and that’s a good thing, he thinks. “The main thing is that it facilitates conversations. There are neighborhood blogs, there are e-mail lists, there were things out there already, but never too much conversation. And comment sections on news sites, as you know, they can devolve very quickly. “It facilitates conversation, but it facilitates all sorts of conversation. I had a positive experience talking to a homeless person on the bus; I posted my story; that produced a lot of positive conversation. It also facilitates conversations where people want to complain and fight with each other . . . A lot of those conversations weren’t taking place, so I guess you take the good with the bad.” E

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enjamin Lukoff, of Magnolia, signed up with the neighborhood socialnetworking site Nextdoor shortly after it launched in 2011. “I’ve always been interested in neighborhood issues, so I signed up early,” he says. For years, things were pretty quiet on the site, which requires address verification to ensure that only neighbors are privy to local conversations. There was lots of talk about finding good house painters, baby sitters, etc. In recent months, though, as concerns over homelessness and property crime escalated in Magnolia, Lukoff has seen a sudden uptick in activity. “Especially since the RV-slash-drug-whateveryou-what-to-call-it issue has been more in the press, I’ve seen many more people join,” he says. “You see when people have joined, and it used to be one a day, a handful a day. Now it’s, ‘Welcome six more people.’ People are telling their neighbors, ‘Get on there.’ ” Magnolia doesn’t seem to be an outlier in this respect. According to Nextdoor’s own data, the site saw a 103 percent increase in users in 2015. At least some of this growth has been in concert with the City of Seattle, which in 2014 launched a partnership with Nextdoor as a way to foster better neighborhood conversation. The Seattle Police Department has an active presence on the site, using the network’s ability to target specific areas of the city to provide hyperlocal public-safety information. And yet one of the many sub-narratives to grow out of the city’s homelessness crisis is that social-media sites aren’t helping the dialogue, but instead are fueling hysteria—with Nextdoor bearing the brunt of the criticism. Indeed, for many, “Nextdoor” seems to have become a byword to describe the phenomenon of communities whipping themselves into a froth. “What you guys are experiencing through things like Nextdoor is fueling your own hysteria,” activist Sarra Tekola told a crowd of angry neighbors in Ballard two weeks ago. “Those complaints sound an awful lot like Nextdoor-fueled hysteria,” urbanist blogger Erica C. Barnett wrote recently, regarding complaints from Magnolia residents about an uptick in crime. Mayor Ed Murray has avoided citing Nextdoor by name, but has certainly bought into the idea that neighborhood-specific social media is stirring up unfounded discontent.

im Harris has a bone to pick with the mayor and his Human Services director over the city’s clearing-out of unauthorized homeless encampments. “What I’ve been hearing . . . from homeless folks,” says the advocate, “is that [encampment] sites are being swept without [receiving notice ahead of time], and that things that should have been stored have not been stored.” Harris’ newspaper, Real Change, has made the same charge in print. Last week’s edition featured the story of Jason Goss, a homeless man and Real Change vendor who was out selling papers when his campsite was cleared. Goss reportedly lost a generator that was inside a tent. To Harris, this is proof that the city’s ongoing encampment clearings aren’t as humane as advertised. “It seems like if anything’s going to rise to the fucking bar of what gets stored,” says Harris, “it would be an electrical generator.” On paper, the city protocols for storing property found during an encampment sweep appear strong. Strict inventories are required, anything over $25 is to be saved, and several types of items are to be saved regardless of apparent value: “photos, jewelry, eyeglasses, medicine, crutches, slings, wheelchairs, braces or other similar items, radios, electronics, cameras, bicycles, carts, skateboards, skates, tents, lanterns, stoves, pots, pans, dishes, and items with names or other contact information.” Yet it is unclear how many items the city is actually saving, and whether those items that have been saved can be retrieved by their rightful owner. When we called the phone number listed on flyers left at cleared encampment sites, it went to a voicemail system with no name or information. The city’s website contains a page listing seized items that was last updated during the Nickels administration. When we called city customer service, we were routed through three bewildered operators, the last of them at a police evidence warehouse that apparently has nothing to do with the storage of homeless’ seized possessions. Even more concerning to advocates, the homeless may be losing their possessions in sweeps for lack of any warning. Per policy set in 2008, the city is required to post flyers three days ahead of a clearance. However, “encampment” only means sites with three or more tents/structures. That’s only about a quarter of all unpermitted encampments, according to a city estimate from last month. That means that the three-quarters of encampments don’t technically require notice. According to Human Services spokesperson Katherine Jolly, prior notice can also be waived at unpermitted encampments “where there is illegal activity, including obstructing a sidewalk such that wheelchairs cannot pass.” That doesn’t mean that smaller campsites never get a heads-up. They may, or they may not. “The City makes every effort to provide both notice and outreach wherever possible,” Jolly says.

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news&comment Off Their Feet » FROM PAGE 9 Naturally, this kind of flexible guarantee doesn’t satisfy advocates. But it’s not just the details of encampment clearance, not just issues of notice and reclamation, which aggravates them. “The sweeps, we believe, aren’t actually addressing the identified [public health and safety] concerns,” says Yurij Rudensky of Columbia Legal Services. Columbia’s position is that encampments are shitty—duh—but if the homeless had anywhere better to go, they’d already be there. When the city’s poorest are figuratively hanging from the edge of a cliff, pushing them further away isn’t helpful. “I’ve been to a number of encampments and talked to people and I’ve witnessed sweeps,” says Rudensky. “What the city’s doing, it’s not actually alleviating [health and safety prob-

lems], because ultimately people have nowhere else to go.” Columbia and other advocacy organizations have called for the mayor to quit clearing encampments, at least until city leaders and homeless advocates can update the 2008 policy that currently dictates clearance protocol. That hasn’t happened yet, but a roundtable of advocates and service providers, including Harris and Rudensky, sat down with several City Council members for three and a half hours on Friday to discuss what is and isn’t working in the city’s current reaction to the homelessness crisis. In that meeting, service providers talked about their projects and asked for more money; a representative of managed tent cities said his organization was close to folding and asked for more money; and Harris said this: “I’ve been doing this work for more than 20 years in Seattle, and I am more hopeful, actually, about how we are dealing with

homelessness than I have ever been. People are pulling in the same direction, we are talking about homelessness as the inequality issue that it is, we’re connecting it to the issue of rising rents.” But all that good work could be squandered, he said, if roughshod encampment clearings divided the people at the table. “I don’t think anybody has an issue with dealing with encampments that pose legitimate health and safety risks,” said Harris. “That’s kind of a no-brainer. But that’s not all encampments. It’s not even most encampments . . . We should have a publichealth approach, and the first principle of a public-health approach is to do no harm.” Controversy over encampment clearings

has reached the city’s legislative branch and escalated tension between the mayor and the Council. Under questioning from Councilmembers Kshama Sawant and Tim Burgess at

a briefing last month, Human Services director Catherine Lester acknowledged that the city doesn’t always have enough shelter and/ or behavioral health beds for the people it displaces from encampments. She stressed, though, that the city is “increasingly . . . able to deliver.” At the same time, most cleared campers decline to move into formal homeless shelters, which often require guests to split up from their closest companions. Lisa Herbold, who’s emerged as the Council’s lead on supervising encampment clearances, says she was not aware that the prior-notice rule doesn’t necessarily apply to camps with one or two tents until Seattle Weekly told her. “I think everyone is entitled to advance notice, outreach and access to services, and storage of belongings,” she responded, “regardless [of whether] they are in a camp of fewer than three tents.” E

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Daniels says the project has a great deal of evin Daniels and his bride held public support and fits naturally into the park’s their wedding rehearsal dinner at character. The seminary’s outward appearance St. Edward Park more than 31 years would remain intact. ago. Joe Marshall married his wife 20 years ago in “The Grotto,” a stone-and-grass alcove that looks as if it had been carved out of Daniels’ plan would require the State Parks the side of a hill within the park. Commission to approve the land swap, which Both have a longtime spiritual bond with the for now has moved the center of the St. Edward hilly park surrounding the empty Roman Cathdrama from Kenmore to Olympia, where oppoolic seminary, encircled by woods, picnic spots, nents see an effort afoot to “grease the skids” of and muddy trails. The vibe is gothic surrounded the deal. by a forested wilderness, with an invisible subUnder current state law, the seven-member urbia lurking behind the trees. state parks commission must vote unanimously And now Marshall and Daniels are on oppoto approve a land transfer to private use. Howsite sides of what to do with the four-story, ever, the Washington Senate Natural Resources 85-year-old seminary build& Parks Committee last week ing. Developer Daniels sees it endorsed SB 6377, which as a spa-oriented destination would reduce the requirehotel with a rustic ambience. ment to a simple four-vote Attorney and Kenmore resimajority. There’s little doubt dent Marshall sees that vision what lawmakers have in mind; as sacrilege. currently, St. Edward is the The Archdiocese of Seattle only state park property being originally owned the 316eyed for a land swap with a acre site along Kenmore’s private business. This unanimLake Washington shore, ity requirement dates back to and built the main semi1947—and is the only such nary there in 1931. Due to requirement among the state declining enrollment, the commissions involved with diocese closed the seminary land deals; others require only in 1977 and sold the site to a simple majority. the state for $7 million. St. “Unanimous—we can’t Edward seminary became find that model for any other the state’s St. Edward Park, government agency. It should with eight and a half miles be hard to transfer government of hiking trails, four miles property, but it shouldn’t have of mountain-bike trails, St. Edward Seminary. to be unanimous,” testified parking for 195 cars, and an Mark Brown, one of the seven athletic field. However, the park’s centerpiece, state parks commissioners. the 90,000-square-foot seminary building, Budget considerations weigh heavily on has deteriorated; it needs $14 million to $16 Brown’s support of the bill. The state parks million worth of basic fix-it work before any department is largely self-supporting: 77 percent significant renovation can begin. of its budget comes from fees; only 23 percent is Daniels—who has restored historical properprovided by state taxes. Thus getting rid of up to ties such as Seattle’s Union Station and King $16 million in fix-it costs would be a major savStreet Station—became interested in developing for a $138 million biennial budget. “We now ing the seminary when nearby Bastyr University find ourselves trying to be more entrepreneurial,” asked him to study the feasibility of expanding Brown told the Senate committee. its campus into the old building. Bastyr decided But others cautioned lawmakers about overto shelve its expansion, but the study gave Danturning the unanimity requirement. Tom Riggs, iels the idea in 2015 of upgrading the building president of Parks Local No. 1466 of the Washinto a rustic 90-room spa hotel with the semiington Federation of State Employees, says nary’s exterior intact. The overall cost, including “The high bar was set for a reason.” the $14 million in fixes, would be about $50 While the bill started with bipartisan supmillion. Daniels’ plan is to buy 10 acres along port, it was passed out of committee on a partythe shore just north of the park and trade it to line vote, the committees’ four Republicans votthe state for a 5.5-acre spot that includes the ing to recommend that the bill be approved. seminary building. Some Kenmore residents who hate this idea, Critics have a Plan B and a Plan C if the parks arguing that carving out a private retreat from commission gives Daniels a green light. Plan B is a state park would ruin the ambience, started a possible litigation over whether such a transfer is petition, now with more than 2,000 signatures, allowed because federal money was used in 1977 to protest the proposed swap. “This violates the by the state to buy the land for public use. purpose and nature of the property,” Marshall Plan C is the legally required state environsays. mental review of the swap on the 10 acres north “It’s best not to put [a 5.5-acre private of the park and on the seminary site—places business] in the heart of the park,” says Amy full of hills and wetlands. E McKendry of Kenmore. news@seattleweekly.com

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Only when I toured and started playing shows did I realize that only parts of the record did that to the audience.” During his six weeks in Athens, Reitherman worked incessantly on achieving this goal. During the day he would work in the studio to build his songs. Taking a cue from another musical hero, Matthew Dear, he decided to almost completely discard that reaching tenor and instead lower his voice, doubling it with duplicate vocals at different pitches. The result is a richer vocal stack that is as much texture as it is lyric, a growl more than a croon. He also refined his sense of rhythm, trading those insistent beats with something more seductive, more encouraging to the reticent dancer. In the evenings Barnes would stop in for a late-night recording session. The Of Montreal How Scott Reitherman found his new sound with Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes. leader had never produced another artist’s record, but according to Reitherman he came BY MARK BAUMGARTEN at it naturally. He encouraged and challenged Reitherman, and contributed his trademark melodic bass lines and some vocals. “Kevin has a very specific skill set that I don’t have,” Reitherman says. “He is a fantastic singer and a fantastic bass player, and he favors chord progressions that are a lot more kind of Reitherman says he wants searching and psychedelic than I do. My taste to make “joyful music.” is much more pop, so I thought adding him in could kind of freak out the simplicity of what after the release of Pillar Point’s second album, to record a live album during the West Coast leg t happened in Phoenix. On a Friday night I do.” Marble Mouth. “Is this going to be interesting at of its tour, suggested the same: that Reitherman in October 2014, Pillar Point had just Essentially, Reitherman had stripped away all for him?” forego recording in Seattle—as he had done for wrapped up a set opening for Of Montreal the defining sounds of his earlier band, dishis entire career—and instead spend a few weeks at the sold-out Crescent Ballroom. Spirits tilling the rhythmic core of his music then holed up in Athens, Ga., home to Vandenberg were high backstage as the capacity crowd of It was Reitherman’s three-chord pop songs that embellishing it with Barnes’ influand Barnes. 550 came down from an energized set filled with first garnered him attention in 2007 when ence. The result, as Barnes attests, Three months later, Reitherman arrived at songs from the Seattle electronic outfit’s selfhe self-released Moonbeams, his first is exactly what Reitherman was Barnes’ home studio with a handful of rushed titled debut album. As the audience prepared for album under the moniker Throw Pillar Point searching for. demos and a hint of apprehension. Not only the psychedelic spectacle of the evening’s headMe the Statue, acclaimed for its Chop Suey, “It makes me wanna dress in was Reitherman a long-time fan of Of Monliner, Of Montreal leader Kevin Barnes sat in combination of charmingly lo-fi 1325 E. Madison St., drag and go to a blue-collar bar,” Pillar Point’s dressing room, applying his makeup treal, but Barnes happened to be one of the instrumentation and catchy, insischopsuey.com. $10. Barnes recently wrote in a newsletmost prolific and inventive craftsmen of the and putting on his wig while chatting with his tent pop hooks paired with Rei21 and over. ter for Polyvinyl, which counts Of indie-pop era, a member of the vaunted Eleopening act’s primary member, Scott Reithertherman’s vocal melodies, delivered 8 p.m. Thurs., Feb. 11. Montreal among its acts. “It almost phant 6 collective and the mastermind behind man. The two were just getting to know one in a reaching tenor. The sound was feels like a greatest-hits album, since all Of Montreal’s 13 full-length albums, almost all another; they had been on tour for two weeks naïve in a way, the strummy acoustic of the songs could be singles.” of which he produced himself. Reitherman, on with another two weeks to go. That is when it pop songs delivered over layers of curious If Pillar Point’s first album was a departure the other hand, was an artist at a kind of crehappened. sounds, part synthesizer, part thrift-shop. Praise from Throw Me the Statue, Marble Mouth is a ative crossroads, neither prolific nor completely “It was just a casual conversation,” recalls arrived from national media, and Reitherman postcard from the edge, the music almost entirely sure of himself. Reitherman. “He said, ‘What are your plans for even flirted with ubiquity when the song “Lolita” unrecognizable. It is a radical, and welcome, shift. “There were definitely moments when I was the next album? I think it would be cool to work earned placement in a long-running TV ad for a And, as Reitherman sees it, a permanent one. showing Kevin, like, a three-chord song or a together.’ ” national hotel chain. “The first Pillar Point record was a pretty tranUnremarkable, yes, but this is where the trajec- four-chord thing, and I thought, He doesn’t Follow-up Creaturesque was released by sitional thing,” Reitherman says now. “This one even sneeze on something like this,” Reitherman tory of Pillar Point changed. Or perhaps it was respected indie label Secretly Canadian and met feels, for me, like a full-on identity lock.” E recalled while sitting at a Seattle coffee shop a two days before, when long-time Of Montreal with a positive reception, but Reitherman had year after his Athens sojourn and just two weeks engineer Drew Vandenberg, joining the group already started to move on. While recording mbaumgarten@seattleweekly.com

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may very well come as a surprise that Europeans ichael Moore is a nudger. Rarely who live in those nightmarish socialist democracontent to let facts speak for cies we hear about are drawing their full salaries themselves, he can’t resist sticking while spending a couple of weeks every summer his elbow in your side as he makes in the south of France and an annual winter holihis points. One reason Moore was at his most day in Spain. Meanwhile, Americans are pitifully effective with his roaring 2004 polemic Fahrengrateful for two weeks of paid vacation—perheit 9/11 was that he kept himself offscreen for much of the film’s furious second half. In general, haps a third if we work hard enough and long enough—although we probably couldn’t afford to though, his weakness for broad-brush tactics and go anywhere because of our medical bills. heavy-handed jokery hampers his documentary One of the film’s funniest sequences—and portraits of America gone wrong. Leaving well Where to Invade Next is frequently funny—has enough alone isn’t in his makeup—but then he Moore showing French schoolchildren photos wouldn’t be Michael Moore if he could leave of the kinds of lunches served to American kids. well enough alone. Quelle horreur, as you would expect. He travels to Moore’s latest is Where to Invade Next , a Finland to explore that country’s much-vaunted misleadingly titled look overseas. His thesis here educational system, which excludes homework. is that if America could embrace the social(All right, that was a surprise to me. It makes you democratic practices of European nations (ideas wonder if we’re enamored of homework as an that Moore argues originated in the U.S.), our educational method just because it’s always been people might be better off. You could argue that around, a vestige of the Puritan work ethic.) Moore’s approach cherry-picks good things Among Moore’s dumber tactics and ignores problematic ones; this film is the repeated gesture of planting mostly skirts the European migrant Where to Invade Next an American flag in his interview crisis, for instance. But on the other Rated R for language, subjects’ countries, “claiming” the hand, why not cherry-pick? At some violent images, territory on behalf of the United least it’s a start to the conversadrug use, and brief States. This half-baked idea feels tion, and Moore is nothing if not graphic nudity. like something left over from an a crusader—he wants to change Opens Fri., Feb. 12. early version of the concept, and it the world, not objectively observe it. gives the movie its oddly inflammaSo he begins in Italy, in one of the tory title. film’s most charming episodes. I’m not Moore has always been canny about pacing sure anyone would hold up Italy as an example his films so they build to a strong climax, and of societal competence; their cars may be wellthis one makes Iceland its final stop. The choice oiled machines, but their governments have been allows Moore to build a case about a country prone to breakdowns. Still, Moore’s subject is that has recovered from the financial shocks of human happiness. And the people he interviews the past decade, elected a stand-up comedian look awfully happy: workers with two-hour as mayor of Reykjavik, put some of its weasel lunches, regular middle-class folks with many bankers in jail, and installed women in the top weeks of paid vacation (and paid maternity echelons of government. By this point, nobody leave), CEOs with generous attitudes. And will think Michael Moore is just talking about everybody dresses so well. Iceland or any other European nation. His subTo informed viewers, these discoveries will not ject is clearly America, and Moore remains both be new (even though Moore does his best to act agitator and schoolmarm on the subject. Where to amazed at each revelation of European largesse). Invade Next is undeniably entertaining, but make But I always suspect that Moore’s real target is not no mistake—we’ve been given homework. E his fan base, but people who may not be politically minded or otherwise paying attention. To them, it film@seattleweekly.com

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to her performance. Her inner narrative is much hakespeare is catnip for choreograclearer than it was in the past—we see the deciphers, and Roméo et Juliette has sions being made. Her Roméo, James Moore, has been the biggest draw—more than also thought through his choices, which, here too, 50 balletic versions of the tale have makes the character’s impulsive nature read even been made, most of them set to Sergei Prokomore clearly. Lesley Rausch and Jerome Tisserfiev’s iconic 1935 score. Pacific Northwest Ballet and, also performing the main roles, are newer to has one of the more arresting productions, by their parts and are still making connections, but Jean-Christophe Maillot, who has stripped the their fundamental relationship is strong. story down to its essential elements. Instead of Both Ezra Thomson and Jonathan Porretta are an elaborate staging full of Renaissance details, returning as well to the role of Mercutio. The misthe sets and costumes are quite spare, leaving the focus on the characters and their headlong tumble chievous friend of Roméo is in almost perpetual motion, flirting, teasing, and fighting, and the into love and death. temptation to just blast through the choreography Yet it is Maillot’s pacing that truly sets his must be strong. But both dancers realize that the vision of this classic tale apart. The choreograaudience needs moments of stillness for the pher incorporates some techniques from film, action to really register. Thomson does freezing certain moments and running an excellent job with that timing, but others in slow motion, so that we McCaw Hall Porretta is really a master of phrasing notice relationships and follow 321 Mercer St., 441-2424, here. He’s returning to performing actions more clearly. This contrasts pnb.org. $30–$187. after a long rehab, and it is a real with a general sense of gathering 7:30 p.m. Thurs., pleasure to see him onstage again. momentum as the work develops; Feb. 11–Sat., Feb. 13, 1 & Kyle Davis and Benjamin Griffiths groups rush on- and offstage 6:30 p.m. Sun., Feb. 14. are sharing Benvolio. Griffiths’ rather than at the stately pace we innate classicism gives him a slightly might expect from classic theater. sunnier quality, which contrasts with Assisting these cinematic devices, Porretta’s aggressive Mercutio, while Davis’ the character of the Friar acts as a kind of Benvolio has more edge on his own. director, starting and stopping the action but ultiMost of the Nurse’s role is played for laughs. mately unable to change the script. It’s full of Rube Goldberg-like sequences in which That script, of course, is well known, as are she caroms from one disaster to the next, stopping its characters. Still, Maillot’s production takes for a spit-take when Juliette opens her dressing nothing for granted. With the set pared down gown to prove she’s a woman with breasts, or to a collection of walls that move in and out to flirting with all the men in the marketplace. But suggest different locations and costumes that are when she comes into Juliette’s bedchamber to equally restrained, it really is on the dancers to find her dead, the twitchy timing that made us show us not only who they are but to illuminate their whole world. Juliette is a hoyden and Roméo laugh earlier reads as denial; when she realizes her charge is indeed dead, we get the tragic version of a fickle young man—in this version love really the earlier double-take. Margaret Mullin finesses is a coup de foudre, a lightning bolt that turns these shifts very deftly. their world inside out. Maillot’s Juliette is more The Friar is a pivotal role in this version of the rambunctious than shy, while Roméo is more of a ballet, and Miles Pertl, new to the company this dreamer. Their balcony scene (with a simple ramp year, is handling that challenge with aplomb. He standing in for the architectural detail) is all rushspends a considerable amount of stage time alone, ing and jumping, like kids at recess on the playyet is able to give us a sense of what the character ground. They literally squirm with delight. is thinking and how he hopes to shift the situaJuliette was a transformational role for Noelani tion in a peaceful direction. That he cannot is of Pantastico when the company first performed this course what makes this a tragedy, but the producversion in 2008. She went on to join the choreogtion as a whole is a triumph for the company. E rapher’s company in Monte Carlo, but now she’s returned to PNB and brings even more depth dance@seattleweekly.com

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the extreme smoked flavor you find in many ody Morris made a name for himself versions, which is indicative of the food overall in the obscurity of SoDo, where his at Mollusk. While the chef uses unusual Asian Epic Ales and its attached Gastroingredients, the flavors are never overly bold, but pod restaurant established him as played with a delicate hand that allows a dish’s the city’s quirkiest, most cerebral brewer. When main ingredient—be it a protein or vegetable— he decided to open Mollusk in the much-lessto reveal itself. obscure Amazon bro-hood of South Lake Union, the initial plans were to keep both locales in business, using Epic for his more experimental Besides the curry, we ordered one main dish: brews and the new Mollusk for more mainthe beef-cheek baklava, essentially an open-faced stream concoctions. In the end, Morris opted to beef Wellington made with cheeks instead of a close Epic and Gastropod, but he promises to filet. While the phyllo dough is gleefully flaky keep pushing the envelope in the new digs. and buttery, and the braised red cabbage, gem All indications seem to be that Morris and raisins, and purple daikon a tangy counterpoint, chef Travis Kukull are making good on that the miss on this dish was the undersalting of promise and bringing their irreverent spirit to the meat. When we asked for salt, our server Mollusk. Though the seven-barrel brewinquired helpfully (not haughtily) which house didn’t have the squid-ink pilsner dish was underseasoned and quickly I’d heard about last year, the beer brought us a tiny bowl of salt— menu did include standouts such which made the moist meat as deliMollusk as a lager brewed with mashed cious as we’d hoped. 803 Dexter Ave. N., fruitcake, a light but complex rye Dessert offers quite a few tan403-1228, cream ale with a lingering citrus talizing options, but we decided to molluskseattle.com note, and a puckering blueberry try the housemade ice cream–after sour ale—all of which arrived I embarrassingly asked our server on a tasting flight that includes six “How big is the ding dong?” (I’ll try 4-ounce beers of your choice. that another time.) The mushroom foie As for food, Mollusk is still pretty impossible gras ice cream was nearly as good as the server to pin down. While you’ll find the majority of promised, the chunks of mushroom somehow inspiration from Southeast Asia, it’s by no means managing to taste like, well, mushrooms, yet still a traditional take. The curry chicken wings with marry with sweet vanilla ice cream, while the foie “soft herbs,” citrus, Nutella, and gado gado dressgras got lost in the tofu caramel topping. The ing are a must-try small plate. Gado gado is a other scoop, bay leaf ginger, was my favorite. You signature Indonesian dish defined more by its know how when you make a pot of something peanut sauce than by the actual salad it dresses— with bay leaf, you worry about fishing it out lest typically blanched vegetables like jack fruit, someone accidentally eat it? Well, this ice cream string beans and corn, hard-boiled eggs, fried is like getting permission to chomp into it— tofu, and tempeh and rice in a banana leaf. The without the tingling taste-bud-kill. sauce’s flavor is unlike any other, not as sweet and The playfulness of the food and the seriouspeanut-forward as a satay sauce, and the addition ness of the beer are represented well in an inteof Nutella brings a whimsical note. I wanted to rior that is both rustic and funky. And of course lick it right off the wings. there’s the piece de resistance: the hulking brew A jerky salad is an inspired coalition of house tanks behind a glass wall, which serve as a notpork jerky, pickled onions, peanuts, and pineso-subtle reminder of Morris’ true calling. It’s apple jerky over arugula, with a light garlic ranch hard to say what devotees will think of the perdressing—and sweet and savory are in optimal haps-tamer food and beer here, but there’s surely balance. It’s worth pointing out that the pork plenty of peculiarity for first-timers to savor. E jerky is, surprisingly, quite mild—nothing like food@seattleweekly.com

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merica has always had a complicated relationship with home distilleries. For some time they embodied rebellion and revolt, yet moonshiners and makers of bathtub gin are more a subject for mirth these days than admiration. That’s a shame, as we owe much of our inspirituous legacy to the countless pioneering families who turned just about everything they could get their hands on into booze. They, of course, have been forgotten; now we associate bourbon with brand names and not the Scottish and Irish immigrants who invented it. Driven firmly underground by Prohibition and crushed under the weight of the commercial distilling industry, home distilling is a hobby few have dared to take on—even in the wake of the recent massively successful home-brew movement. Indeed, while Washington’s craft-beer scene was largely fueled by home brewers looking to scale up and sell their wares, craft distilling has some built-in limits. A few distillers have experience working in larger distilleries or overseas, but for many it’s been a process of trial and error, in part because both state and federal law make home distilling difficult from a legal standpoint. So imagine my surprise when I recently read a book aimed squarely at would-be home distillers— and from a local author to boot. Craft Distilling: Making Liquor Legally at Home approaches the subject with an earnestness and forthrightness that seems to spring from author Victoria Miller’s background. She’s not a distiller who sought to bring her hobby home, but an individualist living largely off the grid on her farm in Sequim. Her interest is almost charmingly direct: find a way to legally make liquor more cheaply than she can buy it in a store, and make it taste good. That no-nonsense approach shows through as she talks about building her own column still the way most of us would recount putting together a particularly simple Ikea bookshelf. I doubt teaching yourself to solder copper is quite as easy as she makes it seem. The value of Miller’s book is twofold. First, it’s impressively comprehensive, covering everything from the permitting process you’ll need to go through to make your home setup legal (and safe) to easy-tofollow recipes to make your own versions of spirits like gin, vodka, whiskey, and rum. Throughout, she’s careful to point out the risks of ignoring either the law (she’s adamant you not try to build a stove-top still) or common sense (yes, you should carefully monitor the temperature of your distillates). While few of us in Seattle will have the space for a home distillery, the economic argument Miller posits about making your own booze is hard to counter. It’s true that at the moment, the state and federal government don’t really view home production as something distinct from opening a small craft distillery, but Miller advocates for laws that would allow a return to the independence that our predecessors enjoyed. Craft distilling might not be a paean to the artistic merit of homemade liquor, but it’s hard not to admire Miller’s ambitious spirit. E barcode@seattleweekly.com

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Chop Shop is the smartypants brainchild of local choreographer Eva Stone—a very mixed repertory show with works from local and international artists. It’s a chance to catch up with multiple artists from our own territory, and get a look at other dances from other places. The world of modern dance is as varied as the artists themselves, and this program is always stuffed with beautiful things—like a big Valentine’s Day gift of dance. (Also 3 p.m. Sun., Feb. 14.) Meydenbauer Center, 11100 N.E. Sixth St., Bellevue, 425-637-1020, chopshopdance.org. $23–$28. 7:30 p.m. SANDRA KURTZ

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FEBRUARY 12

Friday Julian Schwarz

After studying cello privately as a Lakeside student and then at L.A.’s Colburn School, Julian Schwarz is finishing a master’s degree at Juilliard—but not before this week’s homecoming tour, which encompasses several performances and master classes throughout the Puget Sound area. Prior to weekend recitals in Shoreline and Tacoma (Beethoven, Schumann, Poulenc, and more with pianist Marika Bournaki), a Friday concert reunites him with the Lake Union Chamber Orchestra, which—taking up the family business from his father Gerard—he served as assistant conductor while in high school. With LUCO he’ll play Édouard Lalo’s suavely dramatic Concerto in D minor (1876), all about lyrical intensity and rich tone—parts of it sound like a baritone opera aria transcribed for cello. The rest of the year takes Schwarz as concert soloist and chamber musician to Mexico, Nova Scotia, Chicago, and coast to coast. See julianschwarz. com for full details. LUCO: Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., luco.org. $13–$18. 7:30 p.m.

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It’s been five years since Los Angeles trio King first gained notice with a three-song EP of mid-tempo, synth-skinned R&B. Prince, an early champion, even took the trio—Anita Bias and twin sisters Amber and Paris Strother—on tour. Yet aside from a few guest appearances and one-off songs, King had been silent until this month’s release of We Are King, an album that picks up where the EP left off so long ago, delivering an ornate and seductive collection of love songs that would fit perfectly alongside those of Babyface, Erykah Badu, and Luther Vandross. This isn’t a cynical take on an outdated sound; it is an earnest continuation, executed by three women who reportedly do all their own writing, playing, recording, and bookkeeping. The only thing more surprising than the group’s freshly reminiscent sound is the fact that since their EP was released, no one has succeeded in copying it. Then again, it’s difficult to imagine anyone doing it better. With Sassyblack. Barboza, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9442,

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There are a million ways to talk about race in this country, but we could always use another. Enter Matt Ruff, the acclaimed Seattle novelist who will be celebrating the release of his latest, Lovecraft Country, in a sit-down interview with Paul Constant of The Seattle Review of Books tonight. Set in mid-century America, Ruff ’s story follows a young Army veteran named Atticus Turner as he searches for his missing father alongside his uncle, who happens to be the author of The Safe Negro Travel Guide. Along the way, Ruff deftly pairs the horrors of racism with those found in the work of H.P. Lovecraft as Turner finds his father imprisoned by the malevolent Order of the Ancient Dawn. Ruff ’s revelation is both sobering and hopeful, and his writing is irresistible. Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave., 624-6600, elliottbaybook.com. Free. All ages. 7 p.m.

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Anything associated with Seattle’s oddball jazz collective/label Tables & Chairs is guaranteed to be the opposite of boring. Tonight, as part of the group’s regular Vermillion night, local “lullaby rock” singer/songwriter Ings will curate a very visual night of music, starting with the debut of her music video. Following her will be William Hayes, guitarist of experimental/industrial group Newaxeyes, performing a score he wrote to “microscopic footage of organisms.” Rounding out the evening is Netcat, an improv group with an incredibly strange setup, including cello, drums, a number of computers, and something called a “chango,” a synthesizer computer program that emits sounds based on the intensity of the light received by a camera. Remember what I said about this being the opposite of boring?

of digital artists and researchers exchanging thoughts about “value, labor, and the quantification of art work,” which is becoming increasingly murky for artists in the age of one-click reposts, shares, free streams, and Creative Commons. And no, you can’t illegally download tickets to this, you jerk. Northwest Film

One of the first songs that got me hooked on Seattle’s Chastity Belt was 2012’s “God Damn.” The tune, equal parts drunk and dreamy, perfectly soundtracks that feeling when you spot a hottie at a party and go slack-jawed, briefly imagine a life together, then return to your initial inebriated lusting, in that order. “God damn/That boy is hot damn/OH! Ohhhhh . . . .” front woman Julia Shapiro howls. “I think he’s the one for me/He’s better than a Nic Cage movie/He’s gold.” “God Damn” is just one of many Chastity Belt songs featuring lyrics begging to be printed on novelty Valentine’s Day cards, including “Cool Slut” (“Ladies it’s okay to be slutty”) and James Dean (“This is sex/This is war/This is me fucking you on the dance floor”). Instead of buying your significant other a cheesy teddy bear, buy them tickets to Chastity Belt tonight for some guaranteed swoons. With Lemolo, Iji. Nectar Lounge, 412

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The EMP Sound Off! underage battle of the bands is entering its 15th year, and with those years comes a brief history of the modern Seattle scene. Not every band who has won has made it out in one piece, but many have had a lasting influence beyond their existence. Here’s what’s happened to some of the hall-of-famers since their Sound Off! wins. Maybe play Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” while you read it. Really whatever gets you supernostalgic. 2002: Aaron Richner and the Blues Drivers Considering how indebted rock is to the blues, it feels appropriate that eastern Washington’s Aaron Richner and the Blues Drivers took home the first Sound Off! title. But sometime over the past 14 years, the teens grew up and the band dissolved. Richner is still playing the blues, however, putting a Christian-rock twist on it with his group Chariot Sky. 2004: Mon Frere Mon Frere was the first female-fronted act to win Sound Off!, propelling itself with a “death-pop” sound. The band released a kick-ass album with an even more kick-ass name, Blood, Sweat & Swords, in 2006 before calling it quits a year later. Front woman Nouela Johnston ventured off solo under the moniker People Eating People before ditching the title and performing under her own name. 2006: The Lonely Forest The Lonely Forest may be the most successful act to come out of the competition. Front man John Van Deusen and co. gained local notoriety with their sprawling epic We Sing the Body Electric, embracing indie-rock maximalism. The band’s knack for hooks and experimentation caught the ear of Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla, who signed the band to his Trans- imprint and produced its 2011 mainstream rock album Arrows. In 2014, the band played its final show at Bumbershoot—a fitting end seeing as how Sound Off! Winners are typically given a spot on the festival’s lineup. 2009: Dyno Jamz Though hip-hop acts had been performing in Sound Off! since the competition’s first few years, Dyno Jamz was the first to take home the title. Zac “Turtle T” Millan fronted the jazz group with his fresh flow and palpable charisma. The band split in 2012, and Turtle T went on to release solo material before joining rap crew Nu Era. Keyboardist Clarke Reid currently plays with Chilean outfit the Cumbieros, and drummer Saba Samaker has created drum and horn arrangements for artists like Paolo Escobar. E music@seattleweekly.com

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