WEDNESDAY 3/12
mxmtoon
(MUSIC) I just lately found the Nashville-based singer-songwriter mxmtoon by way of the cute online game Dave the Diver, wherein the participant splits their time between catching seafood and managing a sushi restaurant—and wherein mxmtoon, aka Maia, makes a cameo as a pixelated model of herself. It wasn’t lengthy earlier than I discovered myself enamored of her charmingly confessional lyrics and floaty melodies. Her newest album, liminal house, evokes the relatable feeling of being caught in an in-between stage of life, with standout songs like “rain” (which explores nostalgia and the problem of staying current) and “i hate texas” (a cheeky kiss-off to an ex). (Showbox SoDo, 8 pm, $35-$40, all ages) JULIANNE BELL
THURSDAY 3/13
Coyle’s tenth Anniversary Social gathering
(FOOD & DRINK) Rachael Coyle’s charming Greenwood bakery goes all out for its brick-and-mortar’s tenth birthday with free mini slices of birthday cake (whereas provides final), a photograph sales space, coloring sheets, non permanent tattoos, and certain “an absurd variety of decorations.” A small enterprise surviving the pandemic and making it to a decade is unquestionably a milestone value commemorating, particularly today: As Rachael wrote in an electronic mail publication, “I’m significantly desperate to rejoice ten years as a result of our five-year anniversary (in March of 2020), was marked by the start of the pandemic, and our future appeared particularly unsure…I’m grateful for the neighborhood that has grown up across the store: our fantastic employees, distributors, and naturally, our improbable prospects. My life is a lot richer for having this neighborhood and I hope that yours is just too.” (Coyle’s Bakeshop, 7 am–3 pm, free, all ages) JULIANNE BELL
FRIDAY 3/14
Roq La Rue’s Grand Re-Opening Social gathering
(VISUAL ART) Kirsten Anderson opened Roq La Rue in 1998 in a rundown Belltown storefront that was slated for demolition. It was proper across the time pop surrealism was beginning to develop into widespread, and it was the place to see artists reminiscent of Femke Hiemstra, Todd Schorr, Mark Ryden, and Jim Woodring. Twenty-seven years later, after establishing store in Capitol Hill, Pioneer Sq., and, most just lately, Madison Valley, Anderson is returning to her Belltown roots. The latest incarnation of Roq La Rue opens March 14, in a 2,500-square-foot house contained in the NW Work Lofts on Denny Method. Anderson’s marking the event with three totally different reveals: Spectacle du Petit, a set of small works from a number of artists, Unveiled, that includes large-scale work by Beth Cavener, Josie Morway, Carles Gomila, and Jason Puccinelli, in addition to Frank Gonzales’s solo present Frequencies. When interviewing Anderson in 2023, to mark the gallery’s twenty fifth anniversary, I requested, “What’s subsequent? One other 25 years?” She chuckled and mentioned, “I’m in all probability doing this till I die.” Viva Roq la Rue! (Roq La Rue, 6–9 pm, free, all ages) MEGAN SELING
SATURDAY 3/15
Josh Faught: Sanctuary
(VISUAL ART) San Francisco-based multimedia artist Josh Faught’s different works mix weaving strategies, discovered objects, and ephemera to ponder the queer underpinnings of craft lineages and his personal historical past. (When you dug Joey Veltkamp’s 2022 Bellevue Arts Museum exhibition SPIRIT!, this present may enchantment.) I’m intrigued by Faught’s cotton-hemp piece Sanctuary, adorned with a button that reads, “Be form. I’ve a youngster.” In a press launch, the Henry defined the artist “reimagines methods of classification that assign social and cultural worth, investigating how collective and particular person identities are formed and inspecting constructions of social assist and visibility.” (Henry Artwork Gallery, Thurs–Solar, sliding scale, all ages) LINDSAY COSTELLO
SUNDAY 3/16
Lemon Boy, Enjoyable Dad and mom, Crybabysitter
(MUSIC) Lemon Boy is the band you take heed to whenever you’re pissed off at something and everybody. Mansplaining? “Guitar Middle (Sucks).” The male gaze? “Physique Horror.” Internalized misogyny? “Sugar Daddy.” Insecure assholes projecting their insecurity onto you? “Piss Child.” No matter bullshit you’ve got confronted, Yasiman Ahsani and Nicole Giusti have confronted it too, and so they’ve channeled that rage into delightfully bratty “fuck you” punk anthems. They actually have a metalcore-kissed cowl of Britney’s “Poisonous,” which feels particularly acceptable after studying Spears’s biography. Folks had been horrible to her! On a regular basis! Anyway, this weekend, Lemon Boy will rejoice the arrival of their new drummer with a free present at Cha Cha. It is means cheaper than a remedy session! (Cha Cha, 8 pm, free, 21+) MEGAN SELING
MONDAY 3/17
Kells forty second Annual St. Patricks Irish Pageant
(FOOD & DRINK) Kells’ forty second annual shamrock-festooned celebration kicks off on March 8 and continues with every day revelry by way of St. Patrick’s Day (if you happen to’ve obtained the stamina). As normal, Submit Alley and First Avenue shall be closed to site visitors and lined by a big tent to assist expanded celebrations, together with rugby watch events and performances by native musicians just like the Belfast Bandits, Máirtín Ó Huigin, and U2 tribute band Vertigo Zoo. Do not forget the house-brewed beers and traditional Irish dishes—corned beef, anybody? (Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub, 10 am, $20, 21+) SHANNON LUBETICH
TUESDAY 3/18
Nosferatu with Radiohead: A Silents Synced Movie
(FILM/MUSIC) Maintain the haunted vibes rolling proper into March with the bald, spidery, and downright yucky Rely Orlok in F.W. Murnau’s eerie 1922 traditional Nosferatu. Werner Herzog as soon as described it as “the best German movie,” and he ought to know, proper? This screening shall be a little bit totally different, although—Silents Synched pairs traditional silent flicks with “epic rock music.” One of the openly millennial issues about me is that I like Radiohead, particularly their atmospheric aughts-era albums Child A and Amnesiac. So, I am truly okay with this. The albums ought to add mysterious new layers of sonic depth to the 102-year-old movie. (Central Cinema, instances range, $12, all ages) LINDSAY COSTELLO
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