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COMEDY
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Are you cool? No?!?! Me neither. Okay, so neither of us is cool, and the limitless march of time suggests we’re all slogging slowly towards our eventual demise. What may very well be funnier than that? One chance is that this absolutely improvised comedy present, by which native comics (Mia Iseman, Hannah Monson, Zak Nelson, and others) cling desperately to cultural relevance by studying traits, slang, and goss from the viewers. Hopefully the terminally on-line will present as much as clarify issues; the remainder of us can simply nod alongside. LC
(Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown, $12.99)
COMMUNITY
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Seattle’s largest cemetery looks as if an apt place to have fun the Day of the Useless. Head north to Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park for this group celebration of Mexican tradition that may honor family members who’ve handed. You are inspired to color your face like a calavera (ornamental cranium), adorn your self with shiny flowers like cempazuchitl (marigolds), and produce pictures and gadgets for a group ofrenda. You can even seize a chew to eat from native meals vehicles whereas watching folks dance performances, having fun with dwell music, and purchasing from distributors. SL
(Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park, Haller Lake, free)
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Annually, in honor of Día de los Muertos, printmaker and artist Fulgencio Lazo creates a tapete. (Spanish for “rug,” tapetes are large-scale sand work created on the bottom). Impressed by ancestral Oaxacan traditions, the tapete has change into an annual custom on the Seattle Artwork Museum in observance of the position dying performs within the life cycle. This 12 months’s Día de los Muertos celebration can even embody a musical efficiency by La Banda Gozona, dances carried out by energetic Oaxacan troupe Grupo Cultural Oaxaqueño, and art-making actions with printmakers Edith Chávez and Ivan Bautista. LC
(Seattle Artwork Museum, Downtown, free)
PARTIES & NIGHTLIFE
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Indie sleaze is again, did ya hear? Dig the American Attire gadgets out of your closet and D.A.N.C.E. the evening away to a mix of 2000s indie rock, indietronica, and storage rock. Suppose Crystal Castles, MGMT, the Strokes, Sleigh Bells, and different favorites out of your highschool iPod. AV
(Neumos, Capitol Hill, $5-$10)
COMMUNITY
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Diwali is called the Indian competition of lights and celebrates the triumph of excellent over evil, which is one thing I’ll personally be channeling subsequent week through the election. However this present day clearly is not about American politics, it is about honoring cultural traditions from India with folks music and dancing, storytelling, puppetry, and visible artwork. Palms-on actions for all ages embody making flower mandalas, getting henna tattoos, and mixing spices alongside a roti-making demonstration and free samples of vegetarian meals. SL
(Seattle Heart, Uptown, free)
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Have a good time Polish meals and tradition at this annual bazaar that has been a convention of the Polish House Affiliation for over 50 years. Come hungry and luxuriate in a scrumptious Polish feast with cabbage rolls, pierogi, kielbasa, home made truffles, and soup choices like pickle or borscht. (Do not forget to clear some freezer house for luggage of frozen pyzy and candy and savory pierogi that can assist you get by means of our lengthy, darkish winter.) After filling up on consolation meals, take a look at the seller cubicles, the place you will get your arms on Baltic amber, beautiful fossilized tree sap from thousands and thousands of years in the past that floats up from the ocean mattress when the water density will increase throughout chilly Polish winters. Polish crystals and Boleslawiec pottery with lovable blue-and-white polka dot patterns can even be on provide. SL
(Dom Polski (Polish Cultural Heart), Miller Park, free)
FESTIVALS
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In 2018, former Stranger information editor Wealthy Smith wrote of Brief Run: “You’re going. You’re bringing at LEAST $50 money. You’re selecting up new artwork books, zines, buttons, and little strips of lovely screen-printed ephemera from internationally/nationally/locally-renowned comics creators.” Problem accepted! This 12 months’s version of the now-legendary DIY fest is their final on the Seattle Heart, and it consists of a whole lot of exhibitors, together with particular friends Mita Mahato, Powerpaola, and Sarah Leavitt. Go to shortrun.org for the total lineup and schedule. LC
(Fisher Pavilion, Uptown, free)
FILM
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Superstition! Gender roles! Abalone!! This South Korean gem is typically described as an much more weird variation of The Wicker Man. It follows a businessman who visits a mysterious island, inhabited by feminine divers and widows of useless sailors. The person should unravel the realm’s mysteries, however he is just a little suspicious himself. It is a sluggish burn with a transgressive, psychosexual payoff. (Together with “shamanic necrophilia,” The Beacon stories.) “Do not mess with ladies. Do not mess with the setting. Do not mess with Ieoh Island,” says one Letterboxd reviewer. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, $12.50)
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Offered as a part of Filmlab’s Palestine Cinema Days, which goals to amplify Palestinian filmmaking, director Carol Mansour’s Aida Returns will display free of charge at Northwest Movie Discussion board. The heartbreaking, feisty, and infrequently comical documentary follows Mansour’s mom’s battle with Alzheimer’s illness and the solace she present in returning to “the Palestine of her youth.” The movie will display on the “somber anniversary” of the Balfour Declaration, a 1917 doc expressing the British authorities’s help for establishing a nationwide residence for Jewish individuals in Palestine. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, free)
PARTIES & NIGHTLIFE
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In case you recurrently get FOMO from watching Boiler Room units, head over to Neumos this weekend for a high-energy night of membership classics. Count on to listen to a number of tunes from Boiler Room alums like Charli XCX, Fred Once more, Peggy Gou, Rebecca Black, and extra. AV
(Neumos, Capitol Hill, $5-$10)
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Take Tay Tay’s recommendation about “getting right down to this sick beat” at this Halloween rave devoted to the beloved pop princess. Count on a mix of Swift’s beat-driven jams (suppose: Status– and 1989-era tracks) together with remixes, lasers, neon decor, and strobe lights that’ll preserve you in a lavender haze. This will probably be a wonderful place for Swifties to collect and solid spells on Scooter Braun, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ticketmaster, and John Mayer, so make sure that to decorate for revenge, aka in costume. AV
(Chop Suey, Capitol Hill, $10-$15)
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If it seems like I have never slept in weeks, that is that me espresso. Significantly, my mind has had each tune from Sabrina Carpenter’s Brief n’ Candy on replay because the album’s launch in August—I am dropping my thoughts! Simply days earlier than her tour cease in Seattle, congregate with fellow Sabrina stans at this flirty pop evening taking part in her hits together with songs from different of-the-moment pop girlies like Madison Beer, Ariana Grande, Camila Cabello, Doja Cat, and extra. AV
(Nectar Lounge, Fremont, $15)
VISUAL ART
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I am a long-time fan of Gretchen Frances Bennett’s deceptively easy coloured pencil compositions, which mix natural components (flowers, pure phenomena) to consider human emotion, interiority, and the way we is perhaps extra like flowers than we expect. Though Bennett’s flora-inspired works are alluring, I am notably pulled towards this drawing impressed by Wong Kar-wai’s Glad Collectively. The picture’s hazy, blended colour discipline seems as if it has been rained on; nonetheless, there is a potent sense of relationship and tactile reminiscence right here. Bennett’s drawings really feel like well-loved pictures: smudged, folded up, and stored protected in a pockets. LC
(Veronica, Mount Baker, free)
FILM
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If you have not but paid a go to to Meot: Korean Artwork from the Frank Bayley Assortment on the Seattle Asian Artwork Museum, carve out a while—the exhibition options up to date Korean artworks and historic items, highlighting how conventional Korean artwork mediums, together with buncheong ware, calligraphy, woodwork, and extra, have persevered and developed throughout centuries. Accompanying the exhibition is the two-week screening collection Korean Cinema’s Bought Fashion!, which highlights the “attraction, type, and innovation” of Korean filmmaking with horror, comedy, and even Western picks. On November 3, the museum will display Kim Jee-woon’s Leone-inspired “kimchi Western” The Good, the Unhealthy, and the Bizarre, by which three bandits in Japanese-occupied Manchuria sling weapons and search riches. Your movie ticket additionally consists of admission to the museum galleries. LC
(Seattle Asian Artwork Museum, Capitol Hill, $15)
FOOD & DRINK
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If in case you have a bounty of apples, pears, grapes, or different fruit rising in your yard and need to remodel it right into a refreshing juice, deliver it to Republic Cider’s group urgent day, together with a container. Their resident consultants will train you how one can mill and press your produce, and you may take residence your very personal home made nectar. JB
(Republic of Cider, SoDo, free)
SHOPPING
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Over 50 file sellers will peddle their eclectic wares (a few of which is able to solely be a buck) to deal-hunting vinyl hounds at this recurring pop-up sale. Document reveals could be a actual give-and-take—you will discover unbelievable offers on uncommon data with the trade-off of being elbow-to-elbow with a bunch of know-it-all record-collecting nerds. (Do not say I did not warn you.) Of us who deliver a meals merchandise to donate to Northwest Harvest will get one greenback off admission. AV
(Seattle Heart Armory, Uptown, $3-$15)
FILM
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Sean Baker is one among my favourite trendy administrators. He has a present for tapping into the realities of poverty and life for underprivileged People in and across the South, which is curious, as a result of he is from New Jersey and appears to have loved a reasonably typical upbringing. That is one among The Florida Mission‘s strengths. I grew up in Orlando with a low-income single mother, so the movie, set in a dreary motel close to Disney World, really bears an eerie similarity to my very own childhood. However even if you cannot relate to its topics or locale, you will in all probability see your self someplace within the childlike hopefulness or the monetary stressors. Baker’s storytelling at all times drives residence that you simply’re not alone. Anora is a departure for him–it is set in Brooklyn—however I sense that it’s going to additionally replicate on late-capitalist survival in Baker’s sharp vogue. The movie follows a intercourse employee who impulsively marries a person in a Russian oligarch household. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, $14.50-$15.50, Friday–Sunday)
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I will be sincere: Till this second, I might by no means as soon as thought of how popes are chosen. Is he simply an particularly pious man? Does he have to use for the job, or simply have good networking expertise? I do not know!! Possibly you possibly can relate. In that case, Edward Berger’s Conclave ought to enlighten us. The movie digs into “one of many world’s most secretive and historic occasions”—selecting a brand new Pope—and incorporates a killer solid, together with Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rossellini. If a bunch of outdated guys selecting a non secular chief would not instantly entice you, think about this headline from the Atlantic: “When the Pope Dies, the Cardinals Get Catty.” LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, $15.50, Friday–Sunday)
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The Texas Chain Noticed Bloodbath is the proper New Hollywood movie. It is moody, atmospheric, lo-fi, anti-establishment, and totally imaginative, wrenching the slasher style from its hiding place at the hours of darkness of evening and shoving it into the brilliant Texas sunshine. Its indifferent grittiness coaxed the rise of found-footage horror many years later, and Sally Hardesty’s maniacal laughter revealed the psychological toll on the ultimate lady for the primary time, a theme that is repeated with Halloween’s Laurie Strode, Scream‘s Sidney Prescott, and numerous different slasher survivors. The Texas Chain Noticed Bloodbath‘s sequel, nevertheless, is one thing fully completely different. And by “fully completely different,” I imply that Tobe Hooper directed a black comedy, and it is superior. Learn the total evaluate on The Stranger. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, $7-$14, Saturday–Sunday)
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Nonbinary filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun’s first feature-length flick, We’re All Going to the World’s Truthful, was an eerie foray into the world of on-line horror gaming, following one teenager’s descent into an more and more unsettling fantasy. It stirred up optimistic critiques at Sundance, and solidified Schoenbrun as a director to look at. Lo and behold, Schoenbrun landed an A24 flick with I Noticed the TV Glow, which paperwork a teen’s investigations right into a mysterious, supernatural TV present. Followers of digital wormholes and creepypasta appeared to dig it. In case you missed the movie that kick-started Schoenbrun’s profession, although, this is your probability to catch up: We’re All Going to the World’s Truthful will set the scene to your “very on-line” Halloween. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, $7-$14, Friday–Sunday)
FOOD & DRINK
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The cheerful Capitol Hill bar and mercadito El Lugar will host a Día de los Muertos celebration with festive themed drink specials and freshly baked pan de muerto from the pop-up Bakescapade. You are invited to snap a photograph on the altar and add ofrendas and pictures of your departed family members if you would like. El Lugar’s close by sister eating places Fogón and La Josie’s can even serve specials all weekend. JB
(El Lugar Bodega Bar, Capitol Hill, free, Friday–Saturday)
VISUAL ART
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Brandon Vosika, whose piece Portray for the Artists and the Lovers lately graced the quilt of The Stranger‘s Fall Arts + Efficiency information, is one among our favourite native artists. His new exhibition, Vases to Maintain My Tears, displays on the preciousness and cruelty of life. “There are such a lot of tragedies proper now, I can hardly comprise them,” he defined in an artist assertion. The number of new work and sculptures consists of the layered, mysterious Loss of life in acrylic and pastel. LC
(Gallery ERGO, Pike Place Market, free, Friday–Sunday)
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The Henry’s newest exhibition reimagines the position of sunshine in images, not merely as a “beacon of fact” however as an lively drive that shapes, conceals, and distorts our perceptions. Featured artists like Karen Truax and Manuel Lucero look at how gentle reveals hidden layers of fact by shifting typical senses of house, id, and time. With intentional overexposures, shadows, and subtle glows, their works additionally problem gentle’s affiliation with objectivity. Head to Overexposures to glimpse the layered, complicated relationship between gentle and actuality—the present consists of experimental works from the Henry’s collections, together with pictures by Aneta Grzeszykowska and Arthur S. Siegel. LC
(Henry Artwork Gallery, College District, free, Saturday–Sunday; opening)
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In case you lately watched The Substance, Caroline Fargeat’s twisted, skin-ripping strike at youth obsession, do artists Holly Ballard Martz and Paul D. McKee have the exhibition for you. (And if you have not seen The Substance, you need to. Contemplate it prep work for this present.) Preserved continues to ponder our “futile makes an attempt” at clutching to youthfulness, connecting injectables to bigger concepts of preservation and reminiscence. The present’s preview pictures function works with hooks and holes and bottled specimens and phrases like “plump” and “taut.” I’m squicked out already, which looks like a very good signal. LC
(The Vestibule, Ballard, free, Friday–Saturday)
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In case you assume STÖR is a parody of a sure meatball-serving Swedish mega-retailer, you would be proper—but it surely’s greater than that, too. The labyrinthine Base Camp Studios venture was imagined as an “immersive rebrand of how we expertise, devour, and buy artwork.” Which means you possibly can discover and store the STÖR house whereas considering the confluence of commerce and inventive manufacturing. Mary Anne Carter, Lilia Deering, and over 25 different collaborating artists have outfitted the set up with “surreal reinterpretations” of mass-produced residence items and decor. LC
(Base Camp Studios, Downtown, $15 urged donation, Friday–Sunday)
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You’ve got in all probability by no means referred to your corporeal kind as a “survival machine” earlier than, however the identify appears becoming sufficient, no less than till we obtain singularity and change into floating brains, which sounds unusually peaceable. Anyway, artists Kyungjin Kim, Althea Rao, and Eunsun Choi have joined heads (not floating brains) to current Survival Machine, which speculates on the position of genes in “overcoming harsh environmental challenges,” cloud computing and information as “disembodied reminiscences,” and “pure choice for human imaginative and prescient.” (Count on ultra-sensory works, like Choi’s “hypersensitive organic-shaped kinetic sculptures that react to synthetic stimuli.”) When you’re pondering all of it at SOIL, you may also dig into Nola Avienne’s Vivi fossilium dwelling fossils within the gallery’s backspace, a number of sculptural items proposing “the acceleration of mineralization and fossilization of [extinct and endangered] species.” LC
(SOIL, Pioneer Sq., free, Friday–Saturday; closing)
