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The SunBreak On the List: January 12-18 — ice cream for Haiti, art walk, MLK

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Below, your weekly delivery of cross-Seattle goodness. But first, a few highlights from the CHS Calendar. You know you can add your events to the calendar for free, no? Yes! Also, Seahawks play on Sunday. Where you watching the game? What game? Don’t worry about it.

More from Capitol Hill and beyond:

Wednesday, January 12th

  • It’s a veritable cavalcade of local pop bands with Let’s Get Lost, Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground, Exohxo, and Ravenna Woods @ Neumo’s
  • Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of the Emperor of All Maladies (among the New York Times‘ “5 best nonfiction books of 2010“), talks cancer history @ Town Hall (Great Hall)
  • CANCELED: Eric Alterman explains that liberals will continue to be disappointed in Obama until we have more civic engagement @ Town Hall (downstairs)

Thursday, January 13th

  • Friends of Emmet rock to raise suicide prevention awareness @ Tacoma Community College Student Center, while Kris Orlowski, Passenger String Quartet, and Star Anna raise money for Climate Solutions @ Triple Door
  • First of two nights of 1928 black-and-white F.W. Murnau classic Sunrise with live score by cellist Lori Goldston @ NWFF
  • Otto Preminger’s Daisy Kenyon gets a screening @ SAM
  • It’s Blitz @ Capitol Hill Arts Walk
  • Polish director Radoslaw Rychcik’s stunning plat-cum-punk-concert In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields @ On the Boards
  • Artifakt Art brings street art and music to Cap Hill for first Thursday @ The Loft
  • “Jan Steen is a hoot” is the terrific title of a talk by Rebecca Albiani on the Dutch painter @ the Frye Art Museum
  • Almost Female: A Jockette’s Awesome Journey opens @ Upstage Theater

Meanwhile, Flickr superuser Chris Blakely brought in the New Year with Orkestar Zirkonium. Jealous?

Friday, January 14th

  • SIFF is back from winter vacation with Soderbergh-directed Spalding Gray doc And Everything is Going Fine @ SIFF Cinema
  • Sound on the Sound’s 4th annual birthday bash with pseudonymous The Allman Butters, super cover group The Petty Party, Pickwick, and Kelli Schaefer @ the Blue Moon
  • More local rock, just not in birthday format when the Quiet Ones & Skeletons with Flesh On Them play @ the Croc
  • Weekend 2 of 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theater Festival @ ACT Theatre
  • Ghost Light Theatricals’ Metamorphosis opens @ the Ballard Underground
  • Crooked, a 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival favorite about a teenage misfit, opens @ Theater Schmeater
  • No Snowflake in an Avalanche is a world premiere @ TPS Theatre
  • Olivier Wevers’ modern dance company Whim W’Him presents “Shadows, Raincoats & Monsters” @ the Intiman Theatre
  • “Celebrate Asia!” showcases Eastern classical music–Carolyn Kuan, conductor; Sumi Jo, soprano; James Sun, host–with a performance @ Benaroya Hall

Saturday, January 15th

Sunday, January 16th

  • The Bushwick Book Club presents A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court @ Can Can

Monday, January 17th

  • Bad Movie Art celebrates their one year anniversary with Moving Target @ Central Cinema
  • In the mood for a Japanese apocalypse? Perhaps now would be a good time see that Evangelion 1.0 movie @ the Grand Illusion

Tuesday, January 18th

  • Celebrate Pearl Jam’s Live on Ten Legs release on the West Side, sipping cocktails—like the Earl Jam, natch—and hanging with Ten Club and Easy Street folks @ Feedback Lounge
  • Four of your fellow citizens present mini-reports on findings interest during “Report Night” @ Town Hall
  • Seattle jazz combo The Right Wolf–featuring our own Jason Parker!–has a no-cover set @ the Triple Door
  • The wincing, laugh-filled Salon of Shame presents installment #32, upstairs @ the Theatre Off Jackson
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