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FOOD & DRINK
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The plant-based, natural doughnut specialist Mighty-O stays a stalwart native favourite of vegans and non-vegans alike. Assist them rejoice the primary decade of enterprise in Ballard with freebies, an unique birthday drink specials, and present card giveaways as much as over $500 from neighborhood companies. JB
(Mighty-O Donuts, Ballard, free)
LIVE MUSIC
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This improvisational live performance will honor the profession of the pioneering avant-garde dancer/choreographer Steve Paxton, who died final February. Seasoned music and dance improvisers from round Seattle, together with cellist Lori Goldston, bassist Evan Strauss, and motion artist Alia Swersky, will proceed his legacy of “small dancing,” which refers to refined inside actions. In his 2007 quick movie Small Dance, Paxton instructs: “Loosen up deep into the cone of the attention socket. Think about a line that runs between the ears. That’s the place the cranium rests. Make the movement, very small, for ‘Sure.'” AV
(Good Shepherd Middle/Chapel Efficiency Area, Wallingford, $5-$20 on the door)
PARTIES & NIGHTLIFE
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AZN GLO was created as an area for the Asian and QTBIPOC neighborhood to middle their pleasure, and this collaboration with Canada’s Ricecake Occasions is not any exception. Native drag gem Kylie Mooncakes will host an all-star roster of native and Vancouver-based drag artists Shay Dior, Skim, and Viper Fengz, plus go-go dancers Peach, Moonflower, Nikki Wong Jing, and Shaun. N_SO and Bella Sie will maintain down the DJ sales space. AV
(Neumos, Capitol Hill, $8)
READINGS & TALKS
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Muriel Leung will head to Third Place Books Ravenna for a dialogue of Tips on how to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Catastrophe: A Novel, her debut novel set in opposition to a “writhing backdrop of postapocalyptic New York Metropolis.” She’ll be joined by Yanyi, whose 2018 poetry assortment The Yr of Blue Water received the Yale Collection of Youthful Poets Prize and whose most up-to-date guide, Desires of the Divided Area, was described by Poets & Writers as “written with nice tenderness and intimacy.” (He additionally writes considered one of my all-time favourite newsletters.) LC
(Third Place Books Ravenna, Northeast Seattle, free)
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Timothy Heaphy, the lead investigator into the 2017 racist riot in Charlottesville and the January 6 rebellion, will go to Elliott Bay to debate his guide Harbingers: What January 6 and Charlottesville Reveal About Rising Threats to American Democracy. There is no higher time than now to get conversant in indicators of misinformation, and the context Heaphy gives in Harbingers may present useful, if harrowing, context as we transfer right into a second Trump presidency. LC
(Elliott Bay Ebook Firm, Capitol Hill, free)
COMEDY
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After the week we have had politically, an improv present that is each humorous and quiet needs to be welcomed. Blissful silence will likely be punctuated by some much-needed laughter at Mouth Broad Shut, a “love letter to the historical past of bodily comedy” that blends comedic components from silent motion pictures, miming, and up to date teams like Blue Man Group and Cirque du Soleil to create one thing that is “each nostalgic and cutting-edge.” As with many improv exhibits, it is also audience-involved, so prep for a number of surprises. LC
(Sudden Productions’ Market Theater, Pike Place Market, $12-15 advance, $20 at door)
COMMUNITY
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LED lamps be damned, as a result of you possibly can strive beating SAD with SAM once more this yr. The artwork museum will provide free, first-come, first-serve wellness actions on choose Saturdays this winter to assist guests battle the drab seasonal doldrums. Drag your self away from bed and head to Olympic Sculpture Park for an intriguing menu of choices, together with workshops and stay performances on Saturday evenings and sound baths, dancing, installations, and extra on “exercise days.” LC
(Olympic Sculpture Park, Belltown, free)
FILM
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Discover a seat for From Floor Zero—the anthology venture was shortlisted for Finest Worldwide Characteristic on the 2025 Oscars and it is poised to be some of the 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 continued 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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In the event you’re a sucker for old-school cinema with a component of shock, this recurring sequence 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 characteristic movie each Saturday, all in dreamy 16mm. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, $9-$12)
FOOD & DRINK
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Make like a troll and head beneath the Fremont Bridge for the primary night time market of the yr. This month’s theme is “winter feast,” and a partnership with Cellular Meals Rodeo means you possibly can anticipate further meals vehicles alongside the same old dozens of native distributors promoting handmade crafts and classic items. It has been significantly chilly not too long ago, however you’ll heat up beneath patio heaters and revel in some sizzling frybread from Off The Rez. SL
(701 N Northlake Manner, free)
PARTIES & NIGHTLIFE
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Emerald Metropolis Soul Membership’s Soul Nite gives a much-needed respite from the bass-heavy EDM tunes that fill most of Seattle’s nightclubs. Hop and bop to a silky-smooth mix of soul and funk full with the occasional snap, crackle, and pop of classic vinyl. AV
(Black Lodge, South Lake Union, $10)
FILM
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I’ve lengthy lamented the dearth of cinema set within the Center Ages. Positive, we have got movies like Braveheart and Excalibur and Andrei Rublev, however the folks want extra medieval storytelling, dammit! (Because of this I am so enthusiastic about Robert Eggers’ subsequent venture.) Anyway, the Beacon appears to agree with me—they will display tales of unicorns, dragons, and the Knights Templar to “interrogate the burden conferred upon the grandest of all legends within the Darkish Ages and past: King Arthur and his quest for the Holy Grail.” The sequence begins this weekend with Robert Bresson’s chivalric quest Lancelot of the Lake. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, $12.50)
LUNAR NEW YEAR
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Slither into the Yr of the Snake with a Lunar New Yr celebration that includes a efficiency from Mak Fai Kung Fu Dragon & Lion Dance Affiliation, purple envelope giveaways, and citrus-inspired sweets and drinks. In the event you’re seeking to prolong the festivities, a second lion dance efficiency will roar to life down at Pike Road and First Avenue. SL
(Westlake Park, Downtown, free)
PARTIES & NIGHTLIFE
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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 guage 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 instructed cowl)
PERFORMANCE
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This yr, the Museum of Flight’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day occasion will embrace Roger Peltzman’s one-person present, Dedication. The efficiency recounts his household’s tragic historical past fleeing the Nazis in war-torn Europe utilizing components of drama, humor, highly effective photographs, and musical works from blues to Chopin. AV
(The Museum of Flight, Tukwila, free)
SHOPPING
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There is a new market on the town, Seattle. Beginning this month, the 4th on 4th Flea Market pops up in SoDo each fourth Sunday (thus the title) with classic finds, handcrafted items, and sips from Republic of Cider, Elsom Cellars, and 2Bar Spirits. I’ve excessive hopes for the flea’s choices; the market’s partnering with the Fremont Classic Mall, which has been rehoming eclectic treasures since 1990. Do not forget a reusable bag to deliver your goodies house! Youngsters and pets are welcome. SL
(Elsom Cellars, SoDo, free)
COMMUNITY
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You may in all probability really feel strongly about this slithery day of reptiles, bugs, arachnids, and amphibians—it is both tremendous cool or your worst nightmare. Alongside hordes of various scaly species, the expo may also embrace the newest creepy-crawly pet merchandise, merch giveaways, and “instructional shows” for newbie hobbyists. LC
(Washington State Honest Occasions Middle, Puyallup, $0-15 common admission, Saturday–Sunday)
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 undoubtedly angling to snag Tiny Tim an Oscar nod. Is that this partially as a result of once I was an adolescent, a boy “broke up” with me by copy-pasting the lyrics to Bob Dylan’s “Do not Suppose Twice, It is All Proper” into his AIM away message, thus cementing my everlasting and near-lifelong disdain for the grumpy troubadour? Perhaps!! However possibly you like Bob Dylan, through which case A Full Unknown may attraction to you. The biopic is ready in NYC’s ’60s music scene and follows Chalamet because the snarky, mysterious Dylan. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, $14.50-$15.50, Friday–Sunday)
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Thinkpieces be damned—we nonetheless do not perceive a lot concerning the oeuvre of surrealist auteur David Lynch. He famously did not clarify his movies, leaving us all at the hours of darkness as to their true meanings. Such is the mark of an artist who was fully devoted to originality and curiosity; an artist who meditated, recited optimistic affirmations, made cool furnishings, and actually, really needed his viewer to return to their very own conclusions. Maybe it is extra enjoyable that Lynch’s motivations stay a thriller. I am definitely nonetheless studying new issues about him, and by no means extra so than up to now week, after his demise at 78. The Beacon’s assortment of “Lynch’s best interviews, oddities, documentary items, quick movies, music movies, rarities, and secret mysteries” affords a chance to ruminate on, and maybe complicate, the director’s story. It is a choice of works that’ll develop even essentially the most atrophied, cobwebbed elements of your consciousness. Within the phrases of Lynch himself, “Repair your coronary heart or die.” LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, $5, Saturday–Sunday)
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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 Road and relocate, probably staying throughout the U District. Meaning this month’s screenings are your final probability to catch a flick within the beloved area. 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–Sunday)
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How a lot do you actually find out about Charlie Chaplin? In the event you’re on the youthful aspect, you may say one thing like, “He did slapstick and had a mustache,” and to be truthful, you would be proper. However the Little Tramp was additionally a captivating man with fairly radical views for his time, and his movies are extra complicated than they may appear from a distance. I like to recommend Fashionable Occasions, which is basically a plea for staff’ rights disguised as a sequence of humorous mishaps. LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, $12, Friday–Sunday)
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In the event you requested me what I did on December 25, you may anticipate my reply to be “Christmas stuff.” And you would be partially proper. Like, I undoubtedly did Christmas stuff within the morning. However come afternoon, I had one objective. Notions of tinsel and mistletoe light 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 disenchanted you? LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Friday–Sunday)
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A sure blisteringly sizzling Italian man would approve of the Beacon’s newest movie sequence, which asks, “What would occur if we spoke fact to energy with gun in hand?” The Beacon punctuates Probably Ailing-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 “One of the best authorities is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination” (Voltaire). Let or not it’s identified 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 subsequent one on the docket, veteran Japanese filmmaker Adachi Masao’s Revolution +1, which “extends the mode of politically outspoken activist cinema refined within the movies he has made since returning to Japan after spending virtually thirty years in Lebanon as a part of the Common Entrance for the Liberation of Palestine.” The movie addresses the controversial motivations of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s murderer. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, $12.50, Friday–Saturday)
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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 Evaluate, 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 guide The Buddy, a private favourite of mine, however Pedro Almodóvar has elected to adapt Nunez’s cheeky, sleek 2020 novel What Are You Going Via. 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’s going to occur after they meet once more? LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, $14.50-$15.50, Friday–Sunday)
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For these with no real interest in visiting Park Metropolis, Utah, initially: 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 stable alternative to have interaction 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)
LUNAR NEW YEAR
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The primary of Seattle Middle’s 2025 cultural festivals celebrates Tết, or Vietnamese New Yr. A vogue present will characteristic colourful ao dai, conventional Vietnamese attire, and the remainder of the schedule is jam-packed with artwork, music, performances, and extra experiences that showcase Vietnamese tradition. Anticipate purple and yellow in every single place (they’re thought-about fortunate colours) and get excited for lion dances and meals from Egg Roll Hut, Saigon Station, and extra. Plus, set the tone for a wholesome yr by stopping by the well being truthful free of charge companies, screenings, and help. SL
(Seattle Middle, Uptown, free, Saturday–Sunday)
VISUAL ART
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Winter appears like the proper time to view moody etchings and woodcuts by Aristide Maillol, a lesser-known French multimedia artist of the Nabis, and Francisco Goya, aka a very powerful Spanish artist of the late 18th and early nineteenth centuries. Maillol is praised for his stylized depictions of girls, which emphasize kind and ease in mediums starting from bronze to woodcuts. Goya’s profession is a little more dramatic—he charted an evolution from royal portraitist to pessimistic social commentator. Facet by aspect, Maillol and Goya’s works in Divergent Perceptions will make you ponder the hints of magnificence present in human wrestle. LC
(Davidson Galleries, Pioneer Sq., free, Friday–Sunday)
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I have been a fan of Daybreak Cerny ever since I wrote about her pandemic-era cellular exhibition Weeping Willow Folding Chair again in 2021. “There’s suspense in suspension,” I wrote on the time. “This pressure is fixed in our lives; we’re all studying to stability, endlessly.” This nonetheless feels true of life and of Cerny’s work—the Seattle artist’s summary sculptures really feel theatrical but humble, wavering inside terrains of artifice and earnestness with subtly humorous undertones. Exhibit A? The coupon tucked to the aspect of a latest wall sculpture. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, By donation, Saturday–Sunday; opening)
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The Frye Salon served as a option to beat the warmth this summer time, however spending the afternoon in a classy (and heat) museum area isn’t a foul apply for getting by means of the winter, both. Over 100 work from the museum’s founding assortment are displayed in a salon-style dangle that dates again centuries. “The set up approximates the dramatic viewing expertise loved by guests to Charles and Emma Frye’s Seattle house within the first many years of the 20 th century,” the Frye explains. Fancy! Periodically, the museum invitations artists to “experiment throughout the conventional assortment show,” and Daybreak Cerny (whose exhibition Portmeirion runs concurrently with Frye Salon) was as much as the duty. She’ll stage her sculptures close to the Frye Salon to “think about how we stay with artwork.” Guests will discover a window lower into the wall between the 2 exhibitions, creating intriguing conversations between the works. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, By donation, Saturday–Sunday; opening)
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In her largest solo museum exhibition but, the Iraqi-born artist Hayv Kahraman makes use of her signature motif—closely lidded eyes—to look at how surveillance and erasure form experiences of othering. That includes work, sculptures, and a “deeply private” audio set up, the present references Kahraman’s upbringing as an Iraqi/Kurdish refugee in Sweden. Disembodied eyes act as a not-so-subtle stand-in for Western oppression, from authorities iris scans to racist plant classifications, whereas Kahraman’s marbling method displays the unpredictability of identification, resisting pressured assimilation with each bit’s distinctive patterns. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, free, Friday–Sunday)
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ArtX Modern’s newest exhibition, Within the Darkish There may be Gentle, positions HiiH Lights’ artsy lamps (fabricated from supplies like resin, beeswax, and bamboo) subsequent to works you’d extra readily anticipate 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 instances.” Works by Juan Alonso-Rodríguez, Caryn Friedlander, Alla Goniodsky, Elaine Hanowell, William Tune, and others are moody and extremely contrasted—I am particularly serious about Tiao Nithakhong Somsanith’s glowy hammered gold leaf sculptures. LC
(ArtX Modern, SoDo, free, Friday–Saturday; closing)
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TIMBER! is loads of issues. Speculative? Examine. Cyborgian? Examine, 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 varieties, prompting that “if a tree falls within the woods…” query in an entire new method. “Hartunian levels an ambiguous setting, the place the glow of artificial fireflies is powered by an artificial gentle relatively 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–Sunday)
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Seoul-born interdisciplinary artist Lucy Kim has discovered to “embrace distortion” in her hybrid works. Whereas collaborating with scientists on the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the Nationwide Autonomous College of Mexico, Kim helped design a captivating new printing course of that makes use of “genetically modified micro organism cells that produce melanin straight on paper.” Okay, I am hooked already. The method reveals how melanin can kind photographs, and in Mutant Optics, guests can view examples comprised of vanilla vegetation, that are traditionally linked to colonization and international economics. In the event you’re intrigued by the intersections of bioengineering, notion, and “social and cultural constructions of race,” this present is a positive factor. LC
(Henry Artwork Gallery, College District, $0-20 instructed donation, Friday–Sunday)
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“Native artist Maja Petrić’s elegant work is finest skilled in individual,” the Seattle Occasions says. I am apt to agree: In Specimens of Time, the artist’s gentle sculptures use generative algorithms to conjure the influence 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 may discover the influence of your personal presence within the area. LC
(The Vestibule, Ballard, free, Friday–Saturday; closing)