WEDNESDAY 8/7
Romy Presents Membership Mid Air
(MUSIC) Romy Madley Croft, finest recognized for her work as a guitarist and vocalist for dream pop band The xx, launched her debut solo album Mid Air in 2023. Drawing inspiration from late-’90s electro-pop favorites like Every little thing however the Woman, the album is a love letter to the homosexual golf equipment she attended rising up, with atmospheric beats and queer-centric lyricism. Croft will rework the Showbox into Membership Mid Air with a efficiency of the album from entrance to again. (The Showbox, 1426 First Ave, 7:30 pm, $35–$40, all ages) AUDREY VANN
THURSDAY 8/8
Lola Milholland with Angela Garbes
(BOOKS) Author, social follow artist, and Umi Natural noodle-maker Lola Milholland tells the story of her colourful upbringing in Portland’s Holman Home in Group Residing and Different Recipes. The e-book “recounts Milholland’s childhood within the nineties, [as] the kid of iconoclastic hippies…[who] threw open the doorways of their rambling home to long-term guests and weird company.” Milholland’s early expertise of communal dwelling led to “transcendent meals and ecstatic events,” which is greater than I can say for many of my roommate experiences, so I am listening! She’ll chat in regards to the e-book with Angela Garbes, the Filipino American meals author and former Stranger staffer whose e-book Important Labor: Mothering as Social Change reframed care work and mothering as a radical and important type of social justice. (Elliott Bay E-book Firm, 1521 tenth Ave, 7 pm, free, all ages) LINDSAY COSTELLO
FRIDAY 8/9
THING Competition 2024
(MUSIC) THING has stuffed the Sasquatch-shaped void in Washington State ever for the reason that latter’s demise in 2018, and this yr is not any exception! The lineup remains to be grander than your common small-town arts fest, with genre-spanning musical highlights like St. Vincent, Spoon, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Toro Y Moi, Killer Mike, Ethel Cain, Black Pumas, and Earl Sweatshirt. If you happen to want a break from the crowds, there may even be artwork installations, a buying market, crafting workshops, and a nightly lantern parade. Plus, to spice up accessibility, this yr’s competition is transferring areas from Fort Worden to Carnation’s Remlinger Farms, which implies a shorter commute from town (no ferry trip needed!), however no in a single day tenting lodging. (Remlinger Farms, 32610 NE thirty second St, Carnation, Aug 9–11, all ages, $97–$825) AUDREY VANN
SATURDAY 8/10
THE END
(VISUAL ART) Envisioning the expertise of an “alternate-dimensional life as a closeted (slash) ex-gay evangelist,” Christopher Paul Jordan’s THE END transforms the gallery area right into a “queer comic-tract” within the model of African American illustrator Fred Carter. (Unfamiliar? Learn extra about Carter’s zany, ultra-religious comics right here.) Jordan, a Tacoma-based artist, salvages textiles and considers removing and relocation to suppose critically about public area and human relationships. You may already be accustomed to his work: Jordan’s multimedia sculpture andimgonnamisseverybody is the centerpiece of the AIDS Memorial Pathway in Capitol Hill. (Veronica, 2915 Rainier Ave S, Ste 12B, by way of Aug 31, free, all ages) LINDSAY COSTELLO
SUNDAY 8/11
PCNW’s Picture Zine & E-book Truthful
(VISUAL ART) Images nerds unite! On Sunday the Photographic Middle Northwest hosts its third annual Picture Zine and E-book Truthful, the place greater than 40 exhibitors will arrange store to promote their picture books, zines, and prints. Some are handmade, some are professionally printed and certain, and all showcase the limitless potential of images as an artwork type. Anna Starr makes the Pacific Northwest’s magnificence look otherworldly by way of hazy photos captured by a toy Holga digicam, and on the other of the spectrum, don’t miss Craig Mammano’s desk. His black-and-white road images captures the vitality of town, making his work as a lot of a narrative about Seattle as it’s in regards to the individuals who dwell right here. (He is been documenting his book-making course of on Instagram, if you’d like a peek.) Sunday can also be the final day to take a look at Being Current, the middle’s juried images exhibition curated by gallery proprietor Gail Gibson. Go! (Photographic Middle Northwest, 900 twelfth Ave, 12:30–5 pm, free, all ages) MEGAN SELING
MONDAY 8/12
The Stranger‘s Slushie Week 2024
(FOOD & DRINK) It is sizzling. Too sizzling for pizza or nachos or burgers. So for our subsequent meals week we partnered with a bunch of native bars to deliver you Slushie Week! It is seven days of boozy, frozen choices designed that can assist you hold your cool this summer season, and, better of all, they’re simply $8 a pop! Huge on Capitol Hill is serving MASSIVE Brat, a Charli XCX-inspired shiny inexperienced concoction loaded with “all of the clear spirits,” Midori, and a citron foam (it may be made booze-free, too!); Wealthy Wealthy on Decrease Queen Anne has one other pop star-inspired drink with Name Your Girlfriend, a mixture of aquavit, apricot, Aperol, lemon, cucumber and orgeat; and Teku Tavern in Belltown is coming in sizzling chilly with the Hazy Strawberry Slushie, a tough cider slushie that includes Tieton’s Hazy Strawberry Cider and strawberry puree. And that is simply the tip of the slushberg! Discover the total checklist of contributors right here. (Varied areas, August 12–18, full particulars right here) THE STRANGER’S PROMOTIONS DEPARTMENT
TUESDAY 8/13
Un Bouquet de Breillat
(FILM) Catherine Breillat’s filmmaking strategy could be very, properly, French—she typically seeks to light up the taboo in provocative explorations of need, violence, and girls’s psychology. Grand Phantasm’s celebration of the controversy queen, which runs by way of September 14, spans each decade of her directing profession, together with screenings of Final Summer time, Romance, Abuse of Weak point, and Intercourse Is Comedy, brand-new 4K restorations of 36 Fillette and Excellent Love, and Janus Movies’ 35mm print of my favourite Breillat, the abrupt and rattling 2001 movie Fats Woman. Tuesday’s screening is a 4K restoration of her 1976 directorial debut—which wasn’t launched till 2000—A Actual Younger Woman. (Grand Phantasm, 1403 NE fiftieth St, numerous showtimes Aug 9–Sept 14, $9–$12) LINDSAY COSTELLO
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