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COMEDY
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Native millennial and candy potato brownie critic Ricci Armani will head to Right here-After with one thing giggle-worthy impressed by “his life and the best way individuals speak to him.” Could not be vaguer, Armani, however I am nonetheless sport. He’ll be joined by humorous associates Mary Lou Gamba, “former crowd member” Zahnae Aquino, and Phil Burton, whose fashion “gravitates in the direction of race, illustration, and insecurities.” LC
(Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown, $15)
LIVE MUSIC
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Brooklyn-based guitarist Chris Cochrane has been a staple of the NYC experimental music scene since 1982, collaborating with boundary-pushing musicians like Zeena Parkins, John Zorn, Tim Hodgkinson, and Loren Connors—names would possibly imply one thing when you hearken to ’80s and ’90s avant-grade music. He’ll swing by city to carry out with longtime experimentalist Kevin Bud Jones. Collectively, the duo make use of electronics and guitars for his or her unpredictable neo-psychedelic improvisations. Do not miss a gap set from folktronica innovator Sue Ann Harkey. AV
(Good Shepherd Middle/Chapel Efficiency Area, Wallingford, $5-$20 donation on the door)
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Native musicians together with Townsend’s Solitaire, Okay Van Petten, Arthur James, and Miguel Escobar will have fun the twentieth anniversary of Brilliant Eyes’ seminal unhappy boy albums, I am Large Awake It is Morning and Digital Ash In A Digital Urn, by taking part in each albums of their entirety. I have been too afraid to revisit these albums, as I concern that what as soon as sounded nice to my lovelorn teenage ears will now learn pathetic to my grownup ones. Nonetheless, provided that proceeds from this live performance shall be donated to the Palestinian Youngsters’s Reduction Fund, this can be a good excuse to bask in some good old style nostalgia. AV
(Tractor Tavern, Ballard, $15)
COMMUNITY
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Acquired a bunch of garden-saved seeds or vegetable begins? Diversify your edible, medicinal, or floral backyard by exchanging them on the Nice Seattle Seed Swap, the place you will additionally discover a complete host of parents desirous to dish out gardening information and assets. The Tilth Alliance’s Neighborhood Kitchen Meals group shall be serving up Tuscan bean soup and chia seed pudding made with native seeds!! Remember to seize the recipe in your approach out. SL
(Rainier Seaside City Farm and Wetlands, Dunlap, free)
FILM
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For those who dug Daniel Radcliffe’s zany vibes in 2022’s Bizarre: The Al Yankovic Story, do not miss this ’89 Bizarre Al romp. He is on the high of his sport in UHF, starring as an outrageous misfit who creates satirical TV reveals and lands in sizzling water with a bitter media CEO. Roger Ebert hated the flick, and deemed Yankovic a “dispirited vacuum.” Respectfully, I disagree. This free screening shall be introduced by Good Rubbish, a brand new collection that includes “the perfect, silly-billy B-movies and cult classics to get us by the powerful occasions.” LC
(Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown, free)
FOOD & DRINK
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Channel your interior tea connoisseur with this free tasting in honor of the daybreak of the Yr of the Snake. Pattern a smoky lapsang souchong, Chinese language crimson, jasmine-scented qimen, rose bailin, and osmanthus-scented jiuqu, and study Chinese language tea from presenter Meng Huai, founding father of the Seattle Chinese language Tea Tradition Finding out and Analysis Affiliation. JB
(Volunteer Park Conservatory, Capitol Hill)
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Cofounders Raymond Kwan and Barry Chan named their Ballard craft brewery Fortunate Envelope for the colourful crimson envelopes historically full of cash and given out on Chinese language New Yr to carry luck, so it stands to motive that it is the good place to ring within the Yr of the Wooden Snake. This yr, they will host a kick-off social gathering on February 1 with 4 new beer releases, together with Sesame Warmth (a sesame chili cream stout brewed in collaboration with Halcyon and Ladd & Lass Brewing), Yr of the Snake Honey Amber Lager (brewed in collaboration with Highland Brewing), Pomegranate Hazy Pale Ale, and 2025 Double Happiness Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout (brewed with China Mist tea). Panda Dim Sum will sling Chinese language delicacies from its transformed faculty bus from 3-8:30 pm. JB
(Fortunate Envelope Brewing, West Woodland, free)
LIVE MUSIC
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As soon as upon a time, I used to be buying at a Portland file retailer after I requested the person working behind the counter if that they had any data by the Gits. The person received proper up into my face—his breath stale with cigarettes—and shouted, “No, you are going to must GITS it some other place!” So, after I noticed that Sub Pop was reissuing the Seattle punk band’s 1992 album, Frenching the Bully, I used to be deeply relieved that followers would now not be bullied by that comedian e book villain-of-a-man. This weekend, the Vera Undertaking will have fun the reissue with a screening of the brand new quick movie The Gits Stay at RKCNDY adopted by a vinyl signing from the band’s surviving members. Plus, the Vera will host an artwork exhibit of work by dearly departed frontwoman Mia Zapata. KEXP will host a 21+ model of the identical occasion at 8 pm with a bar on web site. AV
(Vera Undertaking, Uptown, free)
OUTDOORS
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There will be many limitations to having fun with the outside—it feels such as you want all the best gear ($$$), to be tremendous match (tough), or that it’s essential to know every little thing about nature (time-consuming). Kick off Black Historical past Month on the Discover the Outdoor Household Truthful, the place organizations advocating for BIPOC reclamation of outside areas will assist make getting exterior extra accessible, even when you do not think about your self “outdoorsy.” The occasion will embrace video games, snacks, and workshops, in addition to shows from the host and out of doors fanatics featured on the Cascade PBS collection “Out & Again with Alison Mariella Désir.” SL
(Washington Corridor, Squire Park, free)
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I am lucky to stay close to a wetland park, and over time, I’ve come to understand wetlands because the unsung heroes of our ecosystem. They filter water, present a haven for assorted cuties (nutria, beavers, wooden geese), and retailer carbon, all whereas current humbly within the background of our every day lives. World Wetlands Day presents a possibility to be taught extra in regards to the cattail-covered legends that preserve our planet from turning into (extra of a) big, polluted mess. Hosted by the Metropolis of Bellevue, the Mercer Slough Environmental Schooling Middle will supply “hands-on actions and demonstrations exploring the science of wetlands.” LC
(Mercer Slough Environmental Schooling Middle, Bellevue, free)
SHOPPING
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Through the darkish winter months, it’s necessary to get on the market and assist small companies through the gradual season. This Saturday, Pike Place Market kicks off a month-long celebration of supporting locals with stay music, interactive murals, artwork demonstrations, and buying gives. For those who spend over $50 on market items, you will be rewarded with a restricted version Pike Place Market water bottle, and Washington state residents will obtain a bonus enamel pin. The climate is trying prefer it would possibly flip slightly colder with an opportunity of precipitation (snow?!), so bundle up. SL
(Pike Place Market, Pike Place Market, free)
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Rain or Shine, a group market that promotes and showcases BIPOC makers, is internet hosting its first-ever Lunar New Yr market at native candle store Lulumière. Take pleasure in Grayseas Pies and Vietnamese consolation meals from pop-up Ba + Mẹ when you store paper items, pottery, jewellery, and extra from distributors together with Bentley & Willow Classic, Terracotta Skincare, and City Belle Designs. JW
(LULUMIÈRE, College District, free)
VISUAL ART
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You may must make an appointment to cease by Specialist, however Khmer American artist Joe Bun Keo’s work is price the additional planning—in damaged braveness, he makes use of every little thing from conventional Khmer krama scarves to outdated wood hat stands to interrogate commodity, sentimentality, and “unpack the intergenerational trauma of rising up in predominantly white middle-class suburban America a baby of Khmer Rouge survivors and Cambodian refugees.” I am intrigued by Boreth Ly’s quote, used as a part of Keo’s exhibition assertion: “The Khmer time period for trauma is baksbat; a damaged physique that results in a damaged spirit, damaged braveness.” LC
(Specialist, Pioneer Sq., free)
SPORTS & RECREATION
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If you do not have tickets to the Seattle Kraken sport, do not fret, the Seattle Middle 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 Middle Armory, Uptown, free)
LIVE MUSIC
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Each different month, the Frye fills their gallery halls with vibrant jazz melodies, including one other dimension to the visible works. This month, jazz pianist and educator Darrius Willrich (who at present performs keyboard for hip-hop trio Digable Planets) will soundtrack the gallery’s present exhibitions. That is additionally a good time to see Iraqi-born artist Hayv Kahraman’s present Look Me within the Eyes, as it should come to an in depth on Monday. AV
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, $5-$15)
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 shall 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 recommended cowl)
EXHIBIT
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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 approach displays the unpredictability of id, resisting compelled assimilation with each bit’s distinctive patterns. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, free, Friday–Sunday; closing)
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 after I was a youngster, 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? Possibly!! However possibly you’re keen on Bob Dylan, wherein case A Full Unknown would possibly enchantment 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–Sunday)
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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 Andrei Rublev, however the individuals want extra medieval storytelling, dammit! (For this reason I am so enthusiastic about Robert Eggers’ subsequent venture.) Anyway, the Beacon appears to agree with me—they’re screening tales of unicorns, dragons, and the Knights Templar to “interrogate the load conferred upon the grandest of all legends within the Darkish Ages and past: King Arthur and his quest for the Holy Grail.” The collection continues this weekend with John Boorman’s medieval epic Excalibur. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, $12.50, Friday–Sunday)
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Thinkpieces be damned—we nonetheless do not perceive a lot in regards to 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, actually needed his viewer to come back to their very own conclusions. Maybe it is extra enjoyable that Lynch’s motivations stay a thriller. I am actually nonetheless studying new issues about him, and by no means extra so than 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” gives a possibility to ruminate on, and maybe complicate, the director’s story. It is a choice of works that’ll broaden even probably 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)
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For those who hang-out the Elliott Bay stacks with any regularity, you’re possible accustomed to 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 Buddy, a private favourite of mine, however Pedro Almodóvar has elected to adapt Nunez’s cheeky, swish 2020 novel What Are You Going By. The story follows Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton), two former journal staff whose paths diverge when one turns into an autofiction novelist and the opposite a battle reporter. What is going to occur after they meet once more? LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, $14.50-$15.50, Friday–Sunday)
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Richard Linklater’s 1991 movie Slacker is an early embodiment of every little thing the Gen X grasp has come to be recognized for: Eccentric youth, oddball vignettes, philosophical ramblings, uncooked, naturalistic dialogue, and a fiercely impartial, DIY ethos. (The movie was shot on 16mm for under $23,000.) It is a humble and unusual snapshot of Austin that (sorta unintentionally) turned an enormous field workplace success, making a prescient preview of American indie cinema to come back. For those who’ve stoned-giggled at something from Clerks to Pineapple Specific throughout your youth, you might have Slacker to thank. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, $7-$15, Friday–Sunday)
FOOD & DRINK
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Assist Ballard’s mixed-culture saison specialist Truthful Isle Brewing have fun a half-decade of enterprise. This weekend’s festivities embrace a barbecue on Friday and stay music with native singer-songwriter Kate Dinsmore that night, adopted by mussels and frites and a “brewer’s lounge” for Knitting Circle bottle membership subscribers on Saturday. Sunday brings a brunch from Truthful Isle’s new in-house residency Tacos Extranjeros, complemented by micheladas and beermosas. JB
(Truthful Isle Brewing, Ballard, free, Friday–Sunday)
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There’s nothing like a steaming bowl of one thing sizzling, brothy, and restorative to bolster your spirits and chase away the chilliness of winter. Fortunately, Fremont eating places have risen to the event with a “neighborhood winter soup stroll” known as Fremont Soupocalypse, permitting diners to get their soup repair and assist native companies throughout their slowest months of the yr in addition. Merely amble by the neighborhood and luxuriate in dine-in and takeout specials from Fremont Mischief, Shawn O’Donnell’s, El Camino, SWeL, Triangle Spirits, Esters Enoteca, Paseo, Kaosamai, Crimson Star Taco Bar, Soul, Frelard Tamales, Pecado Bueno, The George & Dragon, Dreamland, Native Tide, and the Barrel Thief. You may gather a stamp in your “soupassport” for every soup vacation spot—when you gather eight or extra, you’ll be able to redeem them at Mischief earlier than February 12 for a free tasting, shot glasses, and a seize bag of native treats. JB
(Numerous places, Friday–Sunday)
SHOPPING
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Nothing fairly says “I really like you” like attempting on outsized classic jackets and complimenting one another. The Georgetown Trailer Park Mall is celebrating love to your associates, foes, and native crafters each weekend in February with the theme “Huge Hearted.” Select the right present to your particular somebody(s), and remember to cease by Shotgun Ceremonies when you’re trying to get hitched in what may be the one delivery container wedding ceremony chapel within the nation. SL
(Georgetown Trailer Park Mall, Georgetown, free, Saturday–Sunday)
VISUAL ART
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Winter looks like the right time to view moody etchings and woodcuts by Aristide Maillol, a lesser-known French multimedia artist of the Nabis, and Francisco Goya, aka crucial Spanish artist of the late 18th and early nineteenth centuries. Maillol is praised for his stylized depictions of ladies, which emphasize type 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 facet, Maillol and Goya’s works in Divergent Perceptions will make you ponder the hints of magnificence present in human battle. LC
(Davidson Galleries, Pioneer Sq., free, Friday–Saturday)
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SOIL, Seattle’s longest-running nonprofit artist-run area, is a stable selection to your weekend stroll. The gallery’s newest exhibition, Controllables, shares work by new members, together with Colleen Louise Barry, Tania Colette B., Sabella Flagg, Parisa Ghaderi, James Hartunian, Julia Monté, Cameron Day O’Connell, Warren Armando Pope, and Tim Roda. Think about it a possibility to remain up-to-date on who’s who within the up to date artwork group. Plus, there is a twist—in Controllables, “every artist has been introduced collectively serendipitously, beforehand unfamiliar with every others’ work, presenting us with a situation, a query, or a puzzle, honoring the opportunity of the unpredictable.” I am keen on Monté’s Styrofoam fort and O’Connell’s multimedia works, which use “printed silk, bells, thread, candle wax, [and a] wasp.” LC
(SOIL, Pioneer Sq., free, Friday–Sunday)
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Seoul-born interdisciplinary artist Lucy Kim has realized 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 an enchanting new printing course of that makes use of “genetically modified micro organism cells that produce melanin instantly on paper.” Okay, I am hooked already. The method reveals how melanin can type photos, and in Mutant Optics, guests can view examples produced from vanilla vegetation, that are traditionally linked to colonization and international economics. For those who’re intrigued by the intersections of bioengineering, notion, and “social and cultural constructions of race,” this present is a certain factor. LC
(Henry Artwork Gallery, College District, $0-20 recommended donation, Friday–Sunday; closing)