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MAR 17, 2007

Shoobie-doowie up-ba-ba. Aah-ahh-ahh-ooh-woo. Whoa-oh-oh-oh. It's easy enough to sing along at a Dr. Dog show—you just kinda make up the words as you go. Onstage, the band twinkle, lurch, swell, and roll, practiced in loose and sloppy delivery that sees band members switching instruments, singing harmonies, and swaggering behind unstyled hairdos and goofy sunglasses. The Philly five-piece are masters of the sunshine-pop hook, pouring as much slaphappy glee into a three-word chorus as into a five-minute breakdown. (Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave, 441-5611. 9 pm, $12 adv/$14 DOS, 21+.) by Jonathan Zwickel

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The premise is simple: Somebody shouts out a made-up teen-slasher movie title and the three members of Blood Squad spend an hour acting it out. The Squad doesn't use stage blood or props, which is smart—small theater cannot summon anything worse than the gore in our imaginations. It also helps that the show starts late with a mostly tipsy audience and the actors stealing sips from their backstage beer stash. (Odd Duck Studio, 1214 10th Ave, 800-838-3006. 10:30 pm, $10.) by Brendan Kiley

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Also Suggested Today: Dr. Dog 'Return to Camp Death'

SUN
MAR 18, 2007

When Franz von Stuck made his painting Sin—the unmistakable dark-eyed, bare-breasted woman wearing a hissing serpent—he intended it to be seen from below, as if on an altar, being worshiped. In the first of an occasional series of explorations of historic works in the Frye's collection by contemporary artists, Seattle artist Victoria Haven created a large, crystalline, gold Mylar structure that will surround the lascivious early-20th-century painting at its restored, righteous height. (Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, 622-9250. Noon—5 pm, free.) by Jen Graves

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MAR 19, 2007

If you want to see a perfect movie then you must see Climates. It's directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a Turk, and is about the death and aftermath of a relationship between a middle-aged professor and a young TV producer. The rhythm of Climates is slow but every moment in it matters. Even the fly that just happens to land on a woman's sunburnt face has the impact of a great event, a terrific happening. You will not be bored by Climates. (Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 267-5380. 9 pm, $5—$8.50.) by Charles Mudede

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MAR 20, 2007

Jordan O'Jordan is a musical storyteller in the most fanciful way. His song stories sound like Southern Gothic renditions of slash fiction, about making awkward love to ghosts in creepy stone graveyards and frogs being friendly, and everything is strung through with banjo and wonderment. He's on first, so go early. (Chop Suey, 1325 E Madison St. 8 pm, $6, 21+.) by Ari Spool

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MAR 21, 2007

From The Ring to the Rep, Seattle audiences love to suffer. Tonight, Seattle's masochistic cineastes get the night of their dreams, as The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman's 1957 meditation on life and death, sulks across the screen at the new SIFF Cinema. Anyone willing to spend a lovely spring evening watching a Swedish tone poem on mortality deserves what they get. Instead of popcorn, why not eat gravel? (SIFF Cinema at McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St, www.seattlefilm.org. 7:30 pm, $7.50/$9.)

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MAR 22, 2007

This 1962 Italian release is charming then funny then sad. An exuberant Sicilian son—who moved to Milan to become a factory efficiency expert—takes his new family to meet his toothless parents, mustachioed sister, and the local Don, who ensnares him in an improbable plot. It's sweet with a bitter moral, like crushed aspirin at the heart of a bonbon—whether in industrial Milan or mafioso Sicily, we cannot escape being part of vast machines. (Varsity Theatre, 4329 University Way NE, 781-5755. See Movie Times, p. 89, for details.) by Brendan Kiley

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When French fur traders first imported the vocoder to Canada, they couldn't have known what an impact it would eventually have. Alberta's Shout Out Out Out Out (take that, !!! (!)) join the ranks of countrymen MSTRKRFT and Chromeo in their fondness for the roboticizing power of the vocal encoder. The sextet dispense neon funk jams with titles like "Chicken Soup for the Fuck You" and "Your Shitty Record Won't Mix Itself" highlighted by smooth, synthetic crooning. (Chop Suey, 1325 E Madison St, 324-8000. 9 pm, $6/$8, 18+.) by Eric Grandy

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MAR 23, 2007

Facts you can't ignore: Eileen Myles is a living legend; her new book of poetry is called Sorry, Tree; and tonight the elder spokesdyke of punk poetry and author of the classic story collection Chelsea Girls blesses Bailey/Coy Books with an in-store appearance. (Bailey/Coy Books, 414 Broadway E, 323-8842. 7 pm, free.) by David Schmader

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There are two reliable times every year to get a sense of the best talent coming out of UW art graduate programs: first, Coupling, and then later in the spring, the MFA shows. Coupling, now in its fifth year, pairs 10 accomplished artists—this time, Debra Baxter, Matt Sellars, Alex Schweder, Lisa Buchanan, and Buddy Bunting, among others—with 10 students to make collaborative works. The intriguing split-authored results are auctioned at the opening. (Ouch My Eye Gallery, 1022 First Ave S, 381-8457. 6—9 pm, free.) by Jen Graves

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