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COMEDY
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This version of the recurring improv present Mad Science might crack up the sturdiest Bunsen burner. First, you may study just a few factoids from a collection of STEM smarties; then, a wacky forged of improv comics will twist the duo’s scientific analysis into surprisingly scholarly giggles. No lab coat required. LC
(Rendezvous, Belltown, $15)
LIVE MUSIC
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It is the second half of January, which implies it is the time of yr that I put my pajamas on at 5 pm and conceal indoors with my cat on Friday nights. Nevertheless, I wish to problem myself (and also you!) to emerge from our mid-winter slumps to see some dwell music at the least as soon as earlier than the tip of the month. Native music label Den Tapes is offering an incredible excuse to get bundled up and trek to Ballard: its annual Winter Jam encompasses a worthy lineup from their roster. Prepare for Prim’s ’90s-inspired school rock, Pitschouse’s mild dream pop, and Superb Arts’ reflective psych-rock to spice up your serotonin ranges. Remember to carry money so to take some tapes again dwelling to your melancholy cave. AV
(Tractor Tavern, Ballard, $12)
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On their debut album, I SHOULD CALL THEM, Sudanese American nonbinary artist Dua Saleh explores spirituality, resilience, and love by means of imaginative electronic-R&B compositions that vary from ethereal (“chi woman”) to nightclub-ready (“bo peep”). They are going to cease by the KEXP studio to play tracks from the brand new album. The studio session is free and open to the general public, however admission is restricted—you’ve got been warned! Snag your tickets in individual 90 minutes earlier than the set (or simply watch it on YouTube afterward). AV
(KEXP, Uptown, free with registration 90 minutes earlier than set time)
FILM
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In the event you’re a sucker for old-school cinema with a component of shock, this recurring collection offered by the Sprocket Society has your title written allll over it. Grand Phantasm will proceed a longstanding custom with its seventeenth season of matinee classics screened alongside a secret function movie each Saturday, all in dreamy 16mm. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, $9-$12)
FOOD & DRINK
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Get able to shift into soup mode, as a result of January is Nationwide Soup Month. At this inaugural soup sampling occasion sponsored by the Seattle Sister Cities Affiliation, volunteer cooks from 10 of Seattle’s sister cities will exhibit worldwide soups from 4 completely different continents. Strive specialties comparable to peanut butter soup from Limbe, Cameroon; khmer hen soup from Sihanoukville, Cambodia; potato leek soup from Nantes, France; and curried candy potato soup from Christchurch, New Zealand. Your ticket will get you 4 soup tastings, and you may get extra for a greenback every. JB
(PB Kitchen at Polish House Affiliation, Miller Park, $0-$50)
LIVE MUSIC
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Blood Lemon is a Boise, Idaho-born indie rock trio consisting of bassist Melanie Radford (of Constructed to Spill), guitarist Lisa Simpson, and drummer Lindsay Lloyd. Collectively, the band creates a boisterous sound harking back to harmony-driven ’90s rock bands like Helium and Throwing Muses. They are going to have fun the discharge of their new EP, Petite Deaths, with a free in-store efficiency at Simple Avenue Information. AV
(Simple Avenue Information, Junction, free)
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Port Townsend-based electropop outfit Marco Marco is without doubt one of the most enjoyable bands within the PNW proper now, however going off the truth that they solely have about 300 Instagram followers, I worry that lots of you might be lacking out. Their 2022 self-titled album is danceable, advanced, and highly effective. Whereas some tracks sound quite a bit like artwork punks Le Tigre or the Gossip (see: “Piece of a Peace”), tracks like “Section of Me” sound authentically ’80s with Kraftwerk-style synths and Janet Jackson-esque pop vocals. Do not miss the band as they swing by means of city supporting native folk-rock band OK Carol with Van Astro. AV
(Sundown Tavern, Ballard, $15)
LUNAR NEW YEAR
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Celebrating the Yr of the Snake, this group social gathering and market provides pups and homeowners an incredible alternative to take a look at Coby’s, a dog-friendly cafe that opened final yr. You will discover particular treats for pets and people, pet equipment, and handmade items alongside Coby’s standard foods and drinks choices—I am obsessive about the truth that they serve vegan pandan waffles and “woofles” for canines. SL
(Coby’s Cafe, North Queen Anne, free)
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Group gathering house Little Saigon Artistic will kick off its Yr of the Snake celebration with a lion dance earlier than attendees discover a market filled with Lunar New Yr-inspired creations. Native artist Quynh Nguyen will lead a paper flower-making workshop and signal copies of her debut e-book, The New Artwork of Paper Flowers: The Full Information to Crafting Beautiful Crepe Paper Flowers. I am wanting ahead to getting some lovable stickers and charms from nxn illustrations, vegan waffle mixes in flavors like pandan and durian from Dragonfly Items, and pet equipment from Chow Enjoyable Pet Co. SL
(Little Saigon Artistic, Chinatown-Worldwide District, free)
FILM
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Discover a seat for From Floor Zero—the anthology undertaking was shortlisted for Finest Worldwide Characteristic on the 2025 Oscars and it is poised to be one of the vital talked-about movies on the ceremony this yr. Spearheaded by famend Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi, From Floor Zero assembles 22 quick movies created amid the continuing genocide by filmmakers from Gaza, providing a wanted platform for Palestinian creators to share their tales. Anticipate a mixture of genres, together with narrative, documentary, animation, and experimental cinema works. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, $9-$12)
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Secret Cinema is strictly what it appears like—simply present up and put together to be seduced by no matter pops up on display screen. Alternatives to be totally shocked by a movie do not come alongside fairly often, so strive it out as a reminder that there are nonetheless mysteries to uncover on the earth. Or possibly you may hate it. Who is aware of! That is the enjoyable of the entire shebang. Go forth, change off your mind, and let the enigma reveal itself. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, free)
LIVE MUSIC
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Over the previous week, LA has skilled catastrophic fires which have devastated houses, lives, companies, and landscapes. This weekend, native musicians together with soul-grunge vocalist Shaina Shepherd (who lately carried out with Soundgarden), rock quartet Smokey Brights, indie rock undertaking Whiting Tennis, and extra will be a part of forces to lift cash to profit these affected. AV
(The Rabbit Field Theatre, Pike Place Market, $15 advised donation)
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Former Stranger author Amber Cortes writes of Wild Powwers, “Followers of guitar-driven rock will dig this trio’s wily, grungy methods. Every member contributes to the band’s immense sound: Jordan Gomes builds full and heavy bass traces, Lupe Flores wails on the drums like there is no tomorrow, and guitarist and vocalist Lara Hilgeman’s forceful voice will rip you aside (in a great way).” The band will jam tracks from their newest output, Pop Hits & Complete Bummers Vol. 5, alongside long-running post-punk band the Prids and native rock trio Blood Lemon. Let me make it straightforward for you: In the event you’re a fan of Sleater-Kinney, it’s best to go to this present. AV
(Vera Challenge, Uptown, $15)
MLK DAY
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Be a part of KEXP for its twenty fifth annual Expansions MLK Unity Get together in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy. The present will begin with a dwell broadcast of Sunday Soul with DJ Supreme La Rock, adopted by a particular version of the radio present dropped at you by DJ Riz Rollins, Brit Hansen, Child Hops, and Alex. In the event you can’t make the in-person celebration, you’ll want to tune in all through the day for a particular vacation broadcast. AV
(Clock-Out Lounge, Beacon Hill, $12)
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In the event you’ve had a dream of skipping city for a day journey these days, here is motive to take the ferry. The Kitsap Fairness, Race, and Group Engagement Coalition, the Dwelling Arts Cultural Heritage Challenge, and different native social justice organizations have teamed up once more this yr to current a “youth-led and youth-developed” Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration, which is a worthy motive to move to Bainbridge Island. Guests can count on poetry and dance performances, oratory displays, and dwell music, all in assist of “modern-day goals of social justice.” LC
(Bainbridge Island Museum of Artwork, Bainbridge Island, free)
PERFORMANCE
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SoDo DIY house Teatro de la Psychomachia will have fun the lifetime of butoh’s founder, choreographer Tatsumi Hijikata, with 4 solo butoh units by native performers, plus dwell music and poetry. (Butoh is a up to date type of Japanese efficiency impressed by ghosts, anguish, rapture, and the grotesque. If that sounds extremely cool to you, that is as a result of it’s.) Teatro de la Psychomachia founder Vanessa Skantze, Kaoru Okumura (a “scholar of Hijikata’s spouse Motofuji in Tokyo,”) and Joan Laage (aka Kogut Butoh) will share performances, whereas Invoice Horist takes up the guitar and Aoi Lee shares tanka poetry. LC
(Teatro de la Psychomachia, SoDo, By donation)
MLK DAY
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United Means of King County works side-by-side with communities in must construct an equitable future for everybody, a mission that’s aligned with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s doctrine. Help at any of the quite a few volunteer alternatives scheduled all through town, from a group backyard work day to a salmon habitat restoration occasion, and extra. SL
(Varied places, free)
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The Northwest African American Museum’s annual MLK Day program guarantees remarks from native leaders and motivational audio system, a group org expo, arts and crafts actions for youths and households, and distributors. Through the celebration, the museum hopes to carry collectively attendees and audio system to assist reply Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s query, “The place can we go from right here?” When you’re there, get a sneak peek on the museum’s two brand-new displays: Myron Curry’s The place Do We Go From Right here and AshaAung Helmstetter’s Recognition, Love, and Therapeutic. SL
(Northwest African American Museum, Central District)
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The Seattle MLK, Jr. Coalition’s forty second annual region-wide Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration contains a chance honest, workshops, a rally, and a march. MLK Day coincides with Inauguration Day this yr, and as our nation faces the upsetting actuality of one other Trump administration, the theme of the day is appropriately “We Rise In opposition to Challenge 2025.” Come collectively to study pathways ahead and lift your voices in opposition to injustice. SL
(Garfield Excessive College, Central District, free)
LIVE MUSIC
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Powerhouse vocalist Johnaye Kendrick will have fun MLK Day alongside the South Hudson Music Challenge as they pay tribute to “The Girl in Satin” Billie Vacation and her legendary jazz hits. Whereas Vacation was not a standard activist, her document “Unusual Fruit,” a haunting protest anthem in opposition to lynching, is acknowledged as a catalyst for the Civil Rights motion. Whereas the tune made her a goal of the FBI upon its launch, the tune is now heralded as an incredible American commonplace with Time journal naming it the “Finest Tune of the Century.” AV
(The Royal Room, Columbia Metropolis, By Donation)
OUTDOORS
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Rejoice Martin Luther King, Jr. with an entrance fee-free day to all Nationwide Park Service websites. Simply keep in mind to depart no hint! Pack up the automobile and head to the majestic Mount Rainier; Olympic Nationwide Park, which is just a scenic ferry trip away; or Fort Vancouver down by the Oregon border. SL
(Varied places, free)
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On a typical day, entry to considered one of these pure gems will set you again $10 for a day cross or $30 for an annual cross, so fee-free days like this assist to make the outside extra accessible. The closest parks to Seattle correct are Bridle Trails in Kirkland and Saint Edward State Park on the northern shores of Lake Washington; each are a couple of 30-minute drive. SL
(Varied places, free)
PERFORMANCE
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Queer/Bar will problem the Sunday scaries and the worst elements of winter in a single fell swoop with THUNDERDOME, an eight-week drag competitors that sees sickening queens put up their dukes for a $5,000 grand prize and a assured reserving at this yr’s Queer Delight Competition. Every Sunday in January and February, Jane Do not will likely be joined by a rotating panel to evaluate the dolls. Pupusa (la reina Salvadoreña de Seattle), bearded glamazon Kenzie, babydoll monster MiMi Gina, and others will slay the home down with completely different themes every week. LC
(Queer Bar, Capitol Hill, $5 advised cowl)
FILM
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I will begin this blurb with some brutal honesty: I discover the trailer for A Full Unknown to be corny, annoying, and positively angling to snag Tiny Tim an Oscar nod. Is that this partially as a result of once I was a youngster, a boy “broke up” with me by copy-pasting the lyrics to Bob Dylan’s “Do not Assume Twice, It is All Proper” into his AIM away message, thus cementing my everlasting and near-lifelong disdain for the grumpy troubadour? Possibly!! However possibly you like Bob Dylan, through which case A Full Unknown would possibly attraction to you. The biopic is about in NYC’s ’60s music scene and follows Chalamet because the snarky, mysterious Dylan. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, $14.50-$15.50, Friday–Monday)
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The historic, volunteer-run Grand Phantasm Cinema is bidding farewell to its present location. When the lease ends in February, the theater will shut its doorways at 1403 NE fiftieth Avenue and relocate, doubtlessly staying throughout the U District. Which means this month’s screenings are your final probability to catch a flick within the beloved house. Drop by for a mixture of classics and cult flicks all through January, like Carl Dreyer’s Vampyr, Ghost within the Shell, Harold and Maude, Cinema Paradiso, and the anti-patriarchal jubilee Daisies. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, Friday–Monday)
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In the event you requested me what I did on December 25, you would possibly count on my reply to be “Christmas stuff.” And you would be partially proper. Like, I positively did Christmas stuff within the morning. However come afternoon, I had one purpose. Notions of tinsel and mistletoe pale from my consciousness like so many ephemeral snowflakes. The sky darkened. A fanged creature launched untold terrors upon nepo child Lily-Rose Depp. And I, expensive reader, was seated for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu. Take into account such a plan for your self this week. When has Eggers ever upset you? LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Friday–Monday)
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A sure blisteringly sizzling Italian man would approve of the Beacon’s newest movie collection, which asks, “What would occur if we spoke reality to energy with gun in hand?” The Beacon punctuates Doubtlessly In poor health-Suggested: Movies About Assassinating Your Political Leaders with some delightfully acerbic quotes, like “The second of assassination is the second when energy and the ignorance of energy come collectively, with Demise as validator” (Thomas Pynchon) and “The most effective authorities is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination” (Voltaire). Let it’s recognized that I am not endorsing something right here. However, like, it’s best to in all probability go see these movies for cinema’s sake, proper? I like to recommend snagging seats to the following one on the docket, John Carpenter’s Escape From New York, which follows soldier-turned-criminal Snake as he navigates a dirty, futuristic Manhattan. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, $12.50, Friday–Monday)
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In the event you hang-out the Elliott Bay stacks with any regularity, you’re probably conversant in Sigrid Nunez, whose work has inked the pages of literary powerhouses like The Paris Evaluation, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and The Believer. She’s philosophical, but her prose is unadorned—it is an intoxicating combine. She’s maybe finest acknowledged for her e-book The Good friend, a private favourite of mine, however Pedro Almodóvar has elected to adapt Nunez’s cheeky, swish 2020 novel What Are You Going By way of. The story follows Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton), two former journal workers whose paths diverge when one turns into an autofiction novelist and the opposite a conflict reporter. What is going to occur after they meet once more? LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, $14.50-$15.50, Friday–Monday)
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For these with no real interest in visiting Park Metropolis, Utah, to start with: I perceive. Secondly, you do not have to! Sundance Institute’s 2024 Indigenous Movie Tour brings eight quick movies by Indigenous administrators (4 from the 2024 Sundance Movie Competition, three from the 2023 Sundance Movie Competition, and one quick movie from the 2005 Sundance Movie Competition) straight to Northwest Movie Discussion board. The curated choice is a strong alternative to interact with new work by Native administrators like Erica Tremblay, Taika Waititi, Sterlin Harjo, and private favourite Sky Hopinka, who blends English and Indigenous dialects like Chinuk Wawa in his ground-quaking works. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, $7-$14, Friday–Sunday)
GEEK & GAMING
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Even in the event you’re not a millennial for whom this clip lives rent-free in your head, you in all probability like trains. They have been round eternally, they’re powered by steam, and the miniature variations are actually enjoyable to play with. In the event you’re a hardcore fanatic, a train-loving child, or simply mildly curious, the Nice Practice Present is unquestionably price testing. That includes tables of trains and actions for youths, this present has one thing for each railfan. SL
(Washington State Honest Occasions Heart, Puyallup, $5-$15, Saturday–Sunday)
SPORTS & RECREATION
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If you do not have tickets to the Seattle Kraken recreation, do not fret, the Seattle Heart Armory will present it on an enormous display screen subsequent door. The Armory will open two hours earlier than every weekend match so Kraken followers can get hyped earlier than the puck drops with actions like sign-making, cornhole, flooring hockey, particular activations, and extra. Plus, snag a photograph with Kraken mascot Buoy and get a hockey-inspired portrait from a caricature artist. SL
(Seattle Heart Armory, Uptown, free, Saturday & Monday)
VISUAL ART
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ArtX Up to date’s newest exhibition, Within the Darkish There’s Mild, positions HiiH Lights’ artsy lamps (made from supplies like resin, beeswax, and bamboo) subsequent to works you’d extra readily look forward to finding in a gallery setting–oil work, steel sculptures, and the like. The result’s a luminous show that goals to “assist us discover pleasure and connection in darkish occasions.” Works by Juan Alonso-Rodríguez, Caryn Friedlander, Alla Goniodsky, Elaine Hanowell, William Tune, and others are moody and extremely contrasted—I am particularly eager about Tiao Nithakhong Somsanith’s glowy hammered gold leaf sculptures. LC
(ArtX Up to date, SoDo, free, Friday–Saturday)
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TIMBER! is lots of issues. Speculative? Verify. Cyborgian? Verify, examine. Boundary-blurring? That too. What it is not is an actual forest in Washington state (or anyplace else). As a substitute, artist Justin Hartunian creates a facsimile forest by means of robotic kinds, prompting that “if a tree falls within the woods…” query in a complete new method. “Hartunian levels an ambiguous setting, the place the glow of artificial fireflies is powered by an artificial mild moderately than the chemical response of luciferin of their abdomens…In the meantime, a grassland grows beneath engineered suns,” the present’s promotional supplies clarify. Now this I’ve gotta see. LC
(Gallery 4Culture, Pioneer Sq., free, Friday–Monday)
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Koplin Del Rio’s stylish annual winter salon facilities items from the woman-led classic boutique Casa Patina this yr. The gallery will likely be outfitted with a variety of the store’s treasures—suppose fashionable antiques, classic furnishings, and moody work—positioned alongside up to date artworks that sometimes occupy the house. The salon goals to assemble distinctive new dialogues between objects; I am considering it will have a soothing impact throughout a busy time. LC
(Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Georgetown, free, Friday–Saturday; closing)