The Stranger

In early 2001, for just a couple of months, the skylights were opened on the cavernous underground rooms at the Henry Art Gallery and the sun shone down on one work of art especially: a rectangle of glowing orange pollen, painstakingly collected from hazelnut trees by the artist Wolfgang Laib. People just stared, taking it in as if it were radiating nutrition. Now, the German artist’s piece goes back on view, paired with another work made 125 years earlier, Winslow Homer’s late 19th-century painting An Adirondack Lake, also from the Henry’s collection. The painted scene is set at dusk, when the light is unreal. (Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave NE, www.henryart.org, 11 am–4 pm, $10) by Jen Graves

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Like an eco-friendly Justice League, DubSea Bikes is a nonprofit collective of eight local organizations (including Bike Works, Cascade Bicycle Club, and the King County Food & Fitness Initiative) intent on spreading the velocipede love in low-income and bike-shop-less districts. Their main MO is to give free tune-ups to anyone with a two-wheeler, and today they’re doing it at the White Center Food Bank, so bring a donation (you don’t have to, but do you really want to give cyclists a worse reputation?). Sadly, DubSea can’t work miracles, so if your ride’s totally screwed, they’ll refer you to a bike shop. (White Center Food Bank, 10829 Eighth Ave SW, 860-1432, 2–4 pm, free) by Julian Kusché

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The late choreographer Pina Bausch was not just any great choreographer—not just technically demanding, not just an inspiration to earth’s most incredible dance artists, not just a maker of movements that seem completely normal and totally unfamiliar at the same time. Her combination of dance and theater was one of the 20th century’s great revelations. And Wim Wenders’s film tribute to her is visceral. It’s 3-D. You feel the dancers punch themselves in the gut, fall to the ground, dive through each other’s arms. This is in the running for the best dance movie ever made. (Cinerama; 2100 Fourth Ave; www.seattlecinerama.com; 10:45 am, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 pm; $13–$15) by Jen Graves

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Love is fleeting. You’ll have 15 sexual partners in your lifetime, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Chances are you’ll get married, and odds are you’ll end up divorced. But there’s one love that will never leave you: your mouth. Sure, it’s got its downsides—spreading rabies and off-key singing—but it also smooches, eats, and makes you sound smart sometimes. Today, give it some love in the form of a quarter-inch-thick brown-sugar shortbread cookie from Macrina Bakery—a treat bigger than an ox’s heart and so buttery delicious you’ll tongue a mirror in gratitude. (Macrina Bakery & Cafe, 2408 First Ave, 448-4032, 7 am–6 pm, $3.75) by Cienna Madrid

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Charlotte von Mahlsdorf is the world-famous German transvestite who survived the Nazi and Communist regimes in women’s clothing. Doug Wright’s Pulitzer-winning script for one actor is based on his conversations with von Mahlsdorf, who clobbered her father to death with a rolling pin, had a job clearing out the apartments of deported Jews, and started a “museum of everyday objects” that became a center of gravity for the East Berlin gay scene. Performed by Nick Garrison, directed by Jerry Manning. (Seattle Repertory Theatre, 155 Mercer St, www.seattlerep.org, 7:30 pm, $45) by Brendan Kiley

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Abbas Kiarostami’s Through the Olive Trees is one of the peaks of the Iranian new wave movement, which began around 1987 and ended in 2006. The movie is about a young and poor laborer who falls in love with a young and middle-class student. The laborer spends the entire film following the educated woman and making big promises—if they marry, he will be a good husband, he will give her all the intellectual freedom she needs, he will do all the work and she all of the reading. The ending of this film is, for me, the greatest ending in all of cinema. (Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, www.nwfilmforum.org, 8 pm, $10) by Charles Mudede

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