WEDNESDAY 4/23
Kelly Goto with Lori Matsukawa and Seattle Kokon Taiko
(BOOKS/MUSIC) As soon as upon a time, Seattle had a homegrown comedian chronicling Japanese American life with a bit of little bit of samurai swagger. From 2012 to 2018, artist Sam Goto drew Seattle Tomodachi (“good friend of Seattle”) for the North American Publish, capturing tales of immigration, incarceration, and resilience with coronary heart and idiosyncratic humor. His daughter, “world lecturer” and creator Kelly Goto, revives his legacy in Seattle Samurai: A Cartoonist’s Perspective of the Japanese American Expertise, mixing cartoons, household reminiscences, and massive feels. Catch her in convo with Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist and native legend Lori Matsukawa, plus a badass drumming session by Seattle Kokon Taiko. (City Corridor, 7:30 pm, all ages) LINDSAY COSTELLO
THURSDAY 4/24
E book Signing: Mamrie Hart, All I Assume About Is Meals
(FOOD & DRINK/BOOKS) Along with her fashionable YouTube channel, You Deserve a Drink, New York Instances bestselling creator, comic, and podcast host Mamrie Hart was part of the wave of circa 2011 YouTubers that included personalities like Grace Helbig, Tyler Oakley, and Hannah Hart of My Drunk Kitchen. Her chaotic cocktail-making movies mixed her bartending job together with her aptitude for the dramatic (to not point out a penchant for puns, sexual innuendo, and popular culture references), and every comes with its personal built-in ingesting sport. Over a decade after the inception of You Deserve a Drink, Hart is again together with her third ebook, All I Assume About is Meals: A Vegetarian Cookbook That’ll Maintain the Celebration Going, a compendium of enjoyable, retro-inspired vegetarian get together bites starting from artichokes Rockefeller to pink pickled eggs. And naturally, there are many show-stopping cocktails, like saffron 75s and flaming cherries jubilee martinis. (E book Larder, 6 pm, all ages) JULIANNE BELL
FRIDAY 4/25
Kylie Minogue and Rita Ora
(MUSIC) If you have not heard concerning the cultural phenomenon that’s Kylie Minogue’s “Padam Padam,” then I recommend that you simply atone for your herstory STAT. Through the summer season of 2023, the music took the queer neighborhood by storm, echoing via Satisfaction parades, golf equipment, and Sephoras across the globe. The sleeper hit got here practically 4 a long time into her profession, proof of Minogue’s superstardom and endurance. The Princess of Pop will return to Seattle for the primary time since 2002 to assist her two-part album Stress. I’m crossing my fingers that she’ll additionally sing some older tracks from her early-aughts nu-disco staple Fever and ’80s bubblegum pop debut, Kylie. Oh yeah, and British pop phenom Rita Ora is opening—no huge deal! (Local weather Pledge Area, 7:30 pm, all ages) AUDREY VANN
SATURDAY 4/26
Seattle Indie Bookstore Day
(BOOKS) Seattle’s Unbiased Bookstore Day is extra like Seattle’s Unbiased Bookstore 10 Days, as a result of as soon as once more, native lit retailers have banded collectively to current the Passport Problem. It’s an invite for bibliophiles to go to as many collaborating bookshops as they’ll between April 26 and Could 5 and collect stamps from every location. In case you fill your passport with all 29 collaborating outlets, you earn a one-time 25-percent low cost to make use of at each retailer, legitimate for a full yr. Individuals embody Charlie’s Queer Books, Elliott Bay E book Firm, Fantagraphics, Left Financial institution, Ada’s Technical Books, Secret Backyard Bookshop, E book Larder, Paper Boat Booksellers, Queen Anne E book Firm, and actually 20 others. Discover the total particulars—and a useful map!—at seattlebookstoreday.com. (Varied areas) MEGAN SELING
SUNDAY 4/27
Ziwe’s America
(COMEDY) Though Showtime tragically canceled her pink-hued, confrontation-as-comedy present in 2023 after a mere two seasons, Ziwe Fumudoh’s button-pressing 2022 interview with Chet Hanks is nonetheless the stuff of legend. The snazzy satirist and queen of discomfort has a present for locating “iconic friends” (Fran Lebowitz, Gloria Steinem, Stacey Abrams) and bringing out cringe-inducing habits in privileged individuals (Andrew Yang, Hannibal Buress, Adam Pally, Caroline Calloway). She tends to do all of it in Cher Horowitz-chic outfits. What’s to not love (or be mildly nervous about)? She’ll drop by Seattle to remind us that Earth is in its flop period. (Neptune Theatre, 7:30 pm, all ages) LINDSAY COSTELLO
MONDAY 4/28
Mereba
(MUSIC) In case you’re ready round for Solange to launch a follow-up to 2019’s After I Get Residence, resist the urge to ship her passive-aggressive Instagram feedback that she is going to by no means see and as an alternative end up some artists with an identical sound and ethos—Alabama-born singer, songwriter, and rapper Mereba is simply that. Like Solange, her sound pulls inspiration from neo-soul, jazz, reggae, poetry, and digital music for profoundly reflective ethereal songs (take heed to her monitor “White Doves” to see what I imply). Do not miss her on tour supporting her newest album, The Breeze Grew A Hearth. (The Showbox, 8 pm, all ages) AUDREY VANN
TUESDAY 4/29
Gary Bartz
(MUSIC) Look, I hate to be the one to say it, however there’ll come a day once we will not have alternatives to see the jazz titans of the ’60s and ’70s carry out reside. So take a second to understand that we exist throughout a time when you’ll be able to see legends like Gary Bartz play his alto saxophone for lower than $40. Bartz is extensively recognized for his collaborations with family names like Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Artwork Blakey, and Miles Davis. He’s additionally a trailblazer in preserving and honoring the legacy of Black American music, bringing collectively Afrocentric themes and avant-garde music on his 1971 album Harlem Bush Music. Do not miss Bartz as he helps his upcoming not-yet-named solo album, produced by Om’Mas Keith (Frank Ocean, Erykah Badu, John Legend). (Jazz Alley, April 29–30, 7:30 pm, all ages) AUDREY VANN
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