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LIVE MUSIC
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With the experimental mission 81:80, cellist Ha-Yang Kim, guitarist Jeff Bowen, and violinist Luke Fitzpatrick discover “new textures and the passage of time by microtonal improvisation.” If you do not know what meaning, let me break it down: microtonal music makes use of tones in intervals that differ from the usual semitones (or half steps) of a tuning system or scale. The trio experiments with these not often explored tones, introducing your ears to a wider sonic spectrum with a mixture of string and digital devices. For this efficiency, they may carry out an expanded model of Ha-Yang Kim’s might you dream of rainbows in magical lands alongsidelocal digital artist Marcin Pączkowski. AV
(Good Shepherd Heart/Chapel Efficiency Area, Wallingford, $5-$20 donation on the door)
PERFORMANCE
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The “longest-running drag present in Washington State historical past” has a brand new house, and it solely is smart that the Unicorn would host the who’s-who of Seattle’s drag scene. This weekly present will host a number of the metropolis’s largest drag names, together with Ladie Chablis, Londyn Bradshaw, Miss Texas 1988, Amora Namor, and LüChi. LC
(Unicorn, Capitol Hill, free)
READINGS & TALKS
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Let the storytelling proceed! This version of The Moth StorySLAM suits in completely with the darker days of November, centering tales of “outgrowing”—tight denims, faux buddies, and so forth—from inside the attractive St. Mark’s Cathedral. Individuals will spill the tea in entrance of a reside viewers with quirk-heavy five-minute tales on all issues growth-related, so that you would possibly depart able to stage up. LC
(St. Mark’s Cathedral, Capitol Hill, $15)
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 could possibly be funnier than that? One risk is that this totally improvised comedy present, wherein native comics (Sonia Dillane, Caroline Herlihy, Mia Iseman, Jaime Lazich, and others) cling desperately to cultural relevance by studying developments, 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
(Annex Theatre, Capitol Hill, $15)
FILM
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VHS Uber Alles’ November entry follows a chaotic solid of nuclear holocaust survivors as they scrap with an evil dude who’s imprisoning radiated people in zirconium mines. The George Miller wannabe is a mix of inventory pictures, scenes from different movies, and roughly 10 minutes of unique footage. Ridiculous? Completely. Actually, that is the purpose. This sort of direct-to-VHS mayhem is par for the course at VHS Uber Alles, the place three bucks will land you a ticket to a hush-hush flick that you’ve got in all probability by no means heard of, anyway. The screening collection is at all times supplied at an ultra-low value aligned with the so-bad-it’s-good high quality of its programming. (That is what makes it enjoyable.) LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, $3)
FOOD & DRINK
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Savor some significantly piquant new small-batch releases from Fortunate Envelope, together with their Xtreme Two Pepper Pale Ale, Chili Crisp Lager, and Chili Chocolate Imperial Stout. Do you have to work up an urge for food, the meals truck El Tacky Taco will sling its fromage-rich Mexican fare from 4:30-8 pm. JB
(Fortunate Envelope Brewing, West Woodland)
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Folktronica mission Mt Fog makes use of minimalist digital sounds and ethereal vocals as a magic wand to “evoke magical areas, actual and imagined.” The trio will play tracks from their newest album, ultraviolet coronary heart machine, a whimsical marriage of Björk-style growls and sparkly ’80s synths. Arrive early to catch opening units from alt-hip-hop outfit Sus and digital musician/sound designer Excessive Fruit. AV
(Clock-Out Lounge, Beacon Hill, $15)
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Classical music may be an intimidating style to discover thanks partially to excessive ticket costs and terminology like “sonata,” “overture,” “suite,” and “nocturne.” If you happen to’re classical music-curious, the Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra’s $10 fall live performance is an excellent and cost-effective place to start out. This system, which incorporates Gershwin’s Cuban Overture, Copeland’s Tender Land Suite, and Stravinsky’s Petrushka, will deliver you one step nearer to turning into a classical music buff. AV
(City Corridor Seattle, First Hill, $8-$10)
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In honor of the SAM’s present exhibit Following Area: Thaddeus Mosley & Alexander Calder, the museum will fill its gallery halls with the colourful jazz melodies that impressed Mosley’s emotive wooden sculptures. The collection kicks off this week with a efficiency from improvisational saxophonist Kate Olsen’s KO Ensemble that includes a rotating solid of Seattle-based jazz musicians. AV
(Seattle Artwork Museum, Downtown, free)
READINGS & TALKS
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Now in its fifteenth 12 months, the Phinney Neighborhood Affiliation’s Vacation Bookfest presents signed tomes from over two dozen regional authors. Books make nice items for nearly everybody in your life: seize a signed copy of Renee Erickson’s new e book on your good friend who’s an aspiring chef, Juan Carlos Reyes’s debut fiction assortment for the short-form fanatic, and Taha Ebrahimi’s Road Bushes of Seattle for that one good friend who’s at all times happening walks. The bookfest additionally presents quick readings from authors and provides the chance to donate gently used books to Books to Prisoners. SL
(Phinney Heart, Phinney Ridge, free)
SPORTS & RECREATION
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Transfer apart turkey trots, we’re driving bikes this 12 months. Seattle’s fifteenth annual Cranksgiving is a neighborhood bike trip and meals drive that advantages the Rainier Valley Meals Financial institution, College District Meals Financial institution, and Market at Byrd Barr Place. The thought is that people present up on bikes, then bike round buying groceries (members ought to anticipate spending $20 minimal) and delivering them to meals banks—consider it as a charitable scavenger hunt. Final 12 months, 186 riders delivered 3,699 kilos of products! Costumes are inspired, and there is even a three-to-five-mile “mini-Cranksgiving” trip for riders of all ages and talent ranges. After the trip, take a look at the after-party at Central Cinema to revel within the vacation spirit. SL
(Byrd Barr Place, Central District, free)
VISUAL ART
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“Native artist Maja Petrić’s chic work is finest skilled in particular person,” the Seattle Occasions says. I am apt to agree: In Specimens of Time, the artist’s gentle sculptures use generative algorithms to conjure the impression of local weather change in once-pristine pure environments. The dynamism of Petrić’s work serves as an example the affect of human life on these delicate environments; upon coming into the exhibition, you would possibly discover the impression of your individual presence within the area. LC
(The Vestibule, Ballard, free; opening)
FILM
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LA/206 director Zia Mohajerjasbi’s debut function Know Your Place is a movie that everybody in Seattle (and all different main cities) ought to (should) watch. It’s a packed work, and so unpacking all of it is nothing however unattainable inside the apparent attentional limits imposed on weblog posts. However, I’ll start by saying the star of this movie is, above all, Seattle. However this star has two essential and completely different elements. One: the town that is turning into, class sensible, homogenous. This sort of metropolis has much less and fewer area for the working lessons. Two: the town that is dropping its coloration. Black Individuals have been the primary to go. Now it is black Africans. Subsequent will likely be East Asian Individuals. Know Your Place takes place within the now. Learn the total assessment on The Stranger. STRANGER SENIOR WRITER CHARLES MUDEDE
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, $14.50-$15.50)
FOOD & DRINK
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Channel your interior Nice British Bake-Off contestant and put your pastry prowess to the check at this all-ages, “mildly aggressive” potluck. Enter any pie recipe, whether or not it is candy or savory, for an opportunity to win prizes and bragging rights. Or, if you happen to’d reasonably play Paul Hollywood, get one token per drink ordered on the bar to pattern entries and solid a vote on your favourite. JB
(Machine Home Brewery, Hillman Metropolis, free)
SHOPPING
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A gaggle of file sellers will as soon as once more peddle their eclectic wares (a few of which is able to solely be a buck) to deal-hunting vinyl hounds at this annual pop-up sale. Report exhibits is usually a actual give and take—you could find unimaginable offers on uncommon information 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). Soar on this chance to hunt for the right Thanksgiving dinner soundtrack or a vacation reward for a liked one. AV
(Clock-Out Lounge, Beacon Hill, free)
WINTER HOLIDAYS
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The Nationwide Nordic Museum’s annual Julefest is a weekend crammed with vacation celebrations, together with music, dancing, and winter fare from northern Europe. Modeled after a conventional Christmas market, it contains pictures with Santa, wares from dozens of native artisans, and attractive Scandinavian snacks like æbleskiver for when you’ll want to heat up your insides. New this 12 months, the market will open on Friday night for the 21-and-up crowd with festive drinks within the Valhalla Beer Corridor and giving adults first dibs on goodies from distributors like Hygge Sweets and Sky River Mead. SL
(Nationwide Nordic Museum, Ballard, $0-$20, Friday–Sunday)
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Yearly, diabetes analysis heart JDRF Northwest invitations native structure companies to make use of their expertise to craft elaborate gingerbread constructions for this vacation custom that’s displayed on the Sheraton. These aren’t your common gingerbread homes; some constructions can tower as much as six toes, making them an ideal reference level to surreptitiously see in case your Hinge date is mendacity about their peak. Plus, it is a festive exercise to tack onto the usual “let’s get drinks” date. SL
(Sheraton Resort, Downtown, Donations inspired, Friday–Sunday)
EXHIBIT
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Brat summer season is lastly behind us, which implies it is time for what EverOut music calendar editor Audrey Vann calls “sizzling troll fall.” Seattle Japanese Backyard is the perfect place to put on a sweater and stroll like a cute little troll among the many autumnal bushes, simply as their leaves begin to tackle tinges of crimson and gold. Whilst you’re busy being troll-like, shuffle over to okirie (paper-cutting) artist Kanako Abe’s poetic solo exhibition Flower, Chook, Wind, Moon, a group of meticulous, season-appropriate paper-cut compositions. The serene, introspective present’s title is pulled from the Japanese philosophy of kachou fūgetsu, which is usually interpreted as “experiencing the fantastic thing about nature” or “discovering your self in nature.” I really feel calmer already. LC
(Seattle Japanese Backyard, Madison Park, $10, Friday–Sunday)
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Seattle-based dance firm El Sueño (“the dream” in Spanish) curated this colourful exhibition of Mexican Indigenous artwork. Noches De Anáhuac is a hymn for Mexican “traditions, colours, and tales handed right down to our current era”—the present contains works by engaged native creators like Tlalokan, Devin Muñoz, Maribel Galvan, Tessa Bañales, and Alicia Mullikin, together with images, movie, sculpture, textiles, carpentry, work, and extra. LC
(King Road Station, SoDo, free, Friday–Saturday)
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I might take or depart Jesse Eisenberg, however really feel strongly that Kieran Culkin is one in all our most interesting modern character actors. (If you have not seen Succession, watch half an episode and you will perceive why.) In A Actual Ache, Eisenberg’s second function movie as author/director, he stars alongside Culkin. The pair play cousins headed to Poland to “honor their beloved grandmother,” the place, maybe predictably, familial tensions floor. I like a chance for actors to indicate off their chops with out a lot distraction, so the movie’s pared-down premise is intriguing. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, $14.50-$15.50, Friday–Sunday)
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Do you know that Alien‘s 1979 world premiere was proper right here in Seattle? Sit again with some xenomorphs and eerie industrialism at this screening—galactic badass Ellen Ripley (and Jonesy, my BFF) will deal with the remainder. You already know the drill. They’re going to navigate the wrath of the slick, Giger-inspired ne’er-do-wells aboard the Nostromo and an much more insidious hazard: the ever-mysterious, megalomaniacal enterprise Weylan-Yutani. LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, $12, Friday–Sunday)
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Sean Baker is one in all my favourite trendy administrators. He has a present for tapping into the realities of poverty and life for underprivileged Individuals 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 in all The Florida Undertaking‘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 house 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 trend. 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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In Eve’s Bayou, which is ready within the Sixties, a black household is affluent and even claims aristocratic blood from a French ancestor. The daddy, performed fantastically by Samuel L. Jackson, is the physician for the “coloured neighborhood” in a sleepy nook of Louisiana. The physician lives in a mansion together with his mom, spouse, and three youngsters (two ladies and a boy). The physician makes no effort in anyway to be devoted to his spouse, Roz (Lynn Whitfield). When he isn’t at house, he’s almost certainly sleeping with one in all his purchasers reasonably than treating them. The 1997 movie revolves round this serial philandering. It breaks Roz’s coronary heart and sexually confuses the physician’s eldest daughter, Cisely (Meagan Good). The movie—which is expertly directed and written by Kasi Lemmons (the director of Harriet), and edited by Terilyn A. Shropshire (one of many few black feminine editors within the business)—is concerning the messiness of sexual awakening. STRANGER SENIOR WRITER CHARLES MUDEDE
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, $7-$14, Friday–Sunday)
SHOPPING
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Billing itself as a “main showcase of unbiased craft and design,” this craft honest based in 2003 was the primary of its type, and it gives a refreshing different to the relentless deluge of consumerism and capitalism in the course of the vacation season to at the present time. It returns to Hangar 30 in November—the weekend earlier than Black Friday, whew!—with greater than 180 curated indie distributors, plus a choice of out of doors meals vehicles. Handmade items like delicate jewellery, daring ceramics, scented candles, tub and physique merchandise, paper items, and different charming trinkets are certain to develop even the grinchiest coronary heart three sizes. JB
(Magnuson Park Hangar 30, Sand Level, $5 instructed donation, Saturday–Sunday)
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Put your cash the place your land acknowledgment is and help the Indigenous neighborhood at this curated market and exhibition that includes items from native Native artists. The market runs for a weekend in November and December, so there’s ample alternative to select from a variety of items, together with clothes, jewellery, artwork prints, woodworks, and devices. Already completed along with your vacation buying? That is superb—these high-quality creations will likely be in fashion all 12 months spherical, and also you’ve earned a little bit one thing for your self, don’t you assume? SL
(Dawn Star Indian Cultural Heart, Magnolia, free, Saturday–Sunday)
VISUAL ART
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This community-based mission was conceived in collaboration with the Frye Artwork Museum, native artist Ixtli White Hawk, arts nonprofit Path with Artwork, and different social service companions. At art-making events led by White Hawk earlier this 12 months, members created dolls with repurposed materials and recycled supplies; the mission aimed to “showcase the mission’s mission to encourage optimistic self-reflection and honor the artist inside us all.” Guests can view the multimedia dolls at this candy exhibit. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, free, Friday–Sunday)
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When life provides you lemons within the type of a worst-case-scenario presidential election, make lemonade by attending a cat-themed artwork present. Look, I am unable to promise this exhibition will treatment your existential dread. I can, nonetheless, promise that Gallery ERGO has curated an “insanely good lineup” of artists, all of whom have labored their magic on “birch cat head-shaped panels.” Plus, 10% of all proceeds from the present will likely be donated to a neighborhood animal shelter. There’s nonetheless hope for humanity, you realize. LC
(Gallery ERGO, Pike Place Market, free, Friday–Sunday)
