Kyle MacLachlan is the Northwest-native-turned-Hollywood-star who’s racked up a career of indelible cinema moments, from picking up that ear in Blue Velvet to anchoring that pool-sex scene in Showgirls to serving as mayor of the eponymous city in Portlandia. Tonight, MacLachlan submits himself for an onstage Q&A (complete with career-spanning clip reel!), then joins the lucky crowd in watching the 90-minute pilot of the show that gave MacLachlan his greatest role, David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. (SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N, siff.net, 7:30 pm, $35)

David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest...