Saturday 11/13
STRAIGHT
Oh, twisted, SAD-demented friends! Despair not! This most dreary and Novembery of weeks is crammed to its Novembery crannies with colorful places and delightful people who always warm my cockles, and who will warm your cockles, too. People who are, themselves, occasionally crammed to the crannies and/or cockles. With talent! And brilliance! And other things also! (Like penises! Heeeey!) It all begins with David Schmader. Let me count the ways: ONE! His name strikes terror into hearts of all who would dare perpetrate rude acts of private hygiene IN PUBLIC. (Toenail clipping on the bus, for example, or flossing! Schmader will track you down, expose you, and then kill you dead in secret.) TWO! His big gay brain is bigger than a big gay barn dance, and the funny that comes out of it is not only top-drawer, but middle-drawer, junk-drawer, AND sock-drawer, too. (His wit merits ALL drawers, damnit! ALL DRAWERS!) THREE! Without him, I'd be nothing. (Would you like fries with that?) And so! Tonight, Schmader is doing Straight, his infamous and hilarious undercover account of the sick and truly perverted world of Christian "conversion therapy." Schmader is breaking it out for lucky us before taking it to his hometown of San Antonio, Texas, where it is, of course, still way too politically salient. (Fuck you, wretched Republicans!) Be there. DON'T FLOSS. Hugo House, 8 pm, $15, all ages.
Monday 11/15
KILL THOSE LONELY HOURS! (KILL THEM!)
Again with the Sarah Rudinoff? Absofuckinglutely. (Wanna fight about it?) This time she and her golden vocal cords are joining the equally incomparable golden vocal cords of Nick Garrison—her old costar from a certain play that I'm not going to mention that ran for threekajillion years and ensconced them both as Seattle fringe-theater superstars forever (AND which, btw, was SO fucking superior to the crapping FILM version that I could just PUKE)—for a warm and loungey evening of song and sass at the new Vito's! It's called Kill the Lonely Hours. And when Rudinoff and Garrison meet with a microphone? Magick. (Yes, with a k!) With special guests! Vito's, 7–9 pm (two sets), free, 21+.
