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FOOD & DRINK
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Faucet into the nostalgia of childhood summers at Dairy Queen with this pop-up that includes dipped gentle serve ice cream cones from the cellular operation Lil’ Dipper—simply pick your taste and add sprinkles. In case you’re craving some extra savory fare, Impeckable Hen Meals Truck will sling crispy battered poultry, and Ounces may have loads of beer to clean all of it down. JB
(Ounces, North Delridge, free)
LIVE MUSIC
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Native queer folk-rock powerhouse Amelia Day is understood for her diaristic lyricism and pitch-perfect harmonies. She’ll debut new tunes this weekend at this free in-store efficiency alongside her backing band the Cloves. In case you’re a fan of Tracy Chapman or Brandi Carlile, think about including Amelia Day to your September rotation. AV
(Simple Avenue Data, Junction, free)
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This vibrant Bollywood night time will showcase the various sounds of India with a dwell set from Hindi rock band FIKR. Acoustic duo Zubin/Meghna will open with covers of Bollywood classics and afterward, DJ Jay will arrange the decks for a high-energy Desi dance get together. AV
(Sundown Tavern, Ballard, $15.45)
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I shrieked once I noticed that the Softies had reunited! They among the finest, most underrated bands of the ’90s. The duo of Rose Melberg (Tiger Entice, Gaze, Go Sailor) and Jen Sbragia began their delightfully saccharine indie pop challenge again in 1994 with a handful of data on Olympia’s Ok Data and Oakland’s Slumberland Data. Their debut album It is Love is pure pop perfection with mild jangly guitars, breathy harmonies, and diary entry-esque lyrics. Belief me, I listened to loads of twee pop as a teen and none of it holds up for me the best way the Softies do. The pair will cease by KEXP for a dwell in-studio efficiency to help their first album in 27 years, The Mattress I Made. The studio session is free and open to the general public, however admission is proscribed—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 before set time])
PARTIES & NIGHTLIFE
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Whether or not you are celebrating or mourning the passing of summer season, be a part of your fellow Swifties in a Folkorian dance get together. Twirl your milkmaid costume to hits like “august” and “the lakes” as you make the seasonal transition from folklore to evermore. The final day of summer season is technically September 22, however with the rain clouds anticipated to roll in as quickly as subsequent week, I counsel stocking up on apple cider now. AV
(Nectar, Fremont, $15)
PERFORMANCE
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You may need already witnessed native laugher Dewa Dorje’s persistent hilarity at her discuss show-style comedy night time, Dee’s Nuts, the place she gathered up a few of her favourite fellow humorous individuals to debate every little thing from present occasions to beef jerky. The “working-class-first-gen-Tibetan-single-mom-with-C-PTSD and Stressed Coochie Syndrome” has returned with a dwell taping of her podcast Dank Mothers—head to this dwell taping to seek out out what the onetime Stranger Undisputable Genius of Comedy thinks of Sleeping in Seattle. LC
(Marination, Columbia Metropolis, free)
FESTIVALS
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Marking its ninth 12 months, this Ukrainian cultural pageant is the most important of its sort on the West Coast, boasting an actual trout fishing pond, vyshyvanka costume competitors, conventional delicacies, people dance performances, a vendor market, and extra. With the continued battle and devastation in Ukraine, it’s extra necessary than ever to return collectively in neighborhood and have a good time Ukrainian tradition whereas honoring these combating for the nation’s future. SL
(Bellevue Downtown Park, Bellevue, free)
FILM
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Seattle Parks and Recreation presents this summer season sequence of much-loved movie screenings underneath the celebrities, with pre-movie actions kicking off round 6 or 7 pm and every movie starting at nightfall. This night, a shiny pink convertible will roll in from the mid-’90s to enrapture us all with its shiny, hot-pink aura. (In different phrases, Barbie will display screen at Lake Metropolis Mini Park.) LC
(Lake Metropolis Mini Park, Lake Metropolis, free)
FOOD & DRINK
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Everybody’s favourite molten dessert emporium, Sizzling Muffins, is increasing to SoDo, and so they’re celebrating their grand opening by promoting sweets at their authentic 2008 costs, together with $9 truffles and $12 boozy shakes. Be among the many first to scope out the brand new location and lose your self in heat, gooey, chocolatey bliss. JB
(Sizzling Muffins SoDo, SoDo, free)
READINGS & TALKS
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Together with her debut cookbook Amrikan: 125 Recipes From the Indian Diaspora, Meals & Wine author and editor Khushbu Shah asks the query, “What’s Indian meals in America?” She delves into the reply not solely with irresistible-sounding recipes I am keen so as to add into my rotation, like saag paneer lasagna, achari paneer pizza, spinach tadka dal with rice, panipuri mojitos, and masala chai Basque cheesecake, but in addition with photos and essays that meditate on the connection between meals and id. As Shah advised the New York Instances in a 2019 interview, “Meals is undeniably intersectional. It’s not possible — it’s irresponsible — to disclaim it.” She’ll chat in regards to the launch with chef and meals author J. Kenji López-Alt. JB
(City Corridor Seattle, First Hill, $10-$35 Sliding Scale + elective $35 ebook add-on)
SHOPPING
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Snag some candy Ballard FC gear at a reduction this Saturday—the 2024 (and 2023) USL2 Northwest Division champs are opening up their Ballard warehouse and docking 30% off costs. The native soccer workforce has some significantly sick merch, together with a jersey designed by native illustrator and muralist Stevie Shao and a corduroy cap with a bridge element I can not assist however love. Do not forget to seize a shirt celebrating the upcoming launch of our girls’s USL workforce subsequent season. SL
(Ballard FC HQ, Ballard)
VISUAL ART
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Envisioning the expertise of an “alternate-dimensional life as a closeted (slash) ex-gay evangelist,” Christopher Paul Jordan’s THE END transforms the gallery house right into a “queer comic-tract” within the fashion of African American illustrator Fred Carter. (Unfamiliar? Learn extra about Carter’s zany, ultra-religious comics right here.) Jordan, a Tacoma-based artist, salvages textiles and considers removing and relocation to assume critically about public house and human relationships. You would possibly already be acquainted with his work: Jordan’s multimedia sculpture andimgonnamisseverybody is the centerpiece of the AIDS Memorial Pathway in Capitol Hill. LC
(Veronica, Mount Baker, free; closing)
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Iran-born, Washington-based artist Mana Mehrabian and Seattle-based artist Mary Coss band collectively on this exhibition, which “examine[s] private and ancestral migrations” by way of a mix of sculpture and set up artwork. Too A lot to Carry feels spare and pensive, but materially well-considered; I am fascinated with Coss’ tangled metallic types positioned alongside Mehrabian’s curious metallic storage shelving items and wire baskets. LC
(The Vestibule, Ballard, free; opening)
FESTIVALS
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Get stoked on Seattle’s arts and tradition scene all week lengthy at this activation of areas throughout the town, which kicks off on September 7. Artwork + Tradition Week Seattle will pop up at a whopping 40 areas throughout the town, together with buzzy faves like Wa Na Wari, Mini Mart Metropolis Park, SOIL, Traver Gallery, and Frequent Space Upkeep, amongst dozens of different spots. Take a look at the calendar of choices for particulars on what is going on down every day—I am stoked about just about every little thing taking place right here, however the reductions on SIFF cinema screenings, ambient musical performances, neon artwork at Rainier Artwork Heart, and cyanotype workshop at Gallery 4Culture on September 10 appear particularly interesting. LC
(Varied areas, free)
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Seattle Heart Festál presents the Dwell Aloha Hawaiian Cultural Competition, sharing the cultural roots and up to date influences of Hawaii by way of performances, meals, workshops, a market, and extra. You’ll find leisure contained in the Armory and outdoors on the Mural stage starting from a spam musubi contest to dwell music from the world’s top-selling feminine Hawaiian music group Na Leo Pilimehana. Discover ways to make flower leis, weave lauhala (sunbaked palm leaves), and chow down on ono grinds from native distributors like Goodbelly Malasadas, Mike’s Shave Ice, and Uncle Mike’s Filipino Consolation Meals (we guessing it is not the identical Mike). SL
(Seattle Heart, Uptown, free)
COMEDY
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In case you dig Netflix’s I Assume You Ought to Depart or HBO’s A Black Woman Sketch Present, here is your alternative to see sketch consultants from past the confines of your sofa. SketchFest Seattle will return for its twenty fifth 12 months to assemble a gaggle of the strongest sketch comics within the nation. With slapstick exhibits deliberate throughout three nights, that includes native and farther-flung chuckleheads like Honey Roasted Hams, Drop the Beer and Run, Maple Daddies, Area Journey, and Dangerous Drugs, you may count on to listen to nonstop laughs coming from Sudden Productions’ Market Theater. LC
(Sudden Productions’ Market Theater, Pike Place Market, $15, Friday–Sunday)
EXHIBIT
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Stephanie Syjuco’s artworks had been objects of my obsession in artwork college—the Manila-born conceptual artist usually attracts from archives, museums, and library collections to craft disruptive responses to colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, and battle. It’s going to attraction to you should you’re a nerd for analysis and good politics. In Stephanie Syjuco: After/Pictures, the artist considers the digicam, describing it as a “know-how of imperialism that data and creates racialized American histories.” The exhibition’s reconstructed archival images, movies, and installations heart the US occupation of the Philippines, American colonization abroad, and the troubling ideology of Manifest Future. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, free, Friday–Sunday; closing)
FESTIVALS
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This Georgetown Italian road honest returns for its tenth 12 months, bringing collectively the most effective native Italian delicacies with dwell music, a vendor market, and family-friendly leisure. In case you shut your eyes and ignore the structure (and the language), you may virtually think about your self at a market in Italy, consuming scrumptious meals amid the every day bustle. The procession of San Gennaro (the patron saint of Naples) is a trademark of the pageant, and can kick off Saturday morning. You’ll be able to even register your youngsters for a expertise present, and assist them seek for all 20 areas of Italy among the many vendor cubicles. SL
(1225 S Angelo St, Georgetown, free, Friday–Sunday)
FILM
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Channing Tatum looks as if unlikely casting for the function of a suspicious tech billionaire, however BlinkTwice—Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut—makes courageous decisions, I suppose. The flick follows a cocktail waitress who falls for Slater King (performed by Tatum) at a gala. When she joins him on a personal island, unusual occurrences deepen her questions round King and the island itself. In case you’re into Knives Out or White Lotus, it’s going to doubtless attraction. Plus, Kravitz stories that the movie is “based mostly on a real story,” however maybe not in the best way you’d count on—Blink Twice illustrates the “infinite obstacles girls usually face within the leisure business, significantly in relation to the ability dynamics with their male colleagues.” LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, $14.50-$19.50, Friday–Sunday)
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Though his dying of AIDS-related sickness in ’94 reduce his life and profession criminally quick, Derek Jarman’s revolutionary directorial fashion despatched shockwaves by way of the queer cinema canon that also reverberate now. Trendy administrators utilizing avant-garde aesthetics, poetic sensuality, and experimental storytelling strategies like Andrew Haigh, Xavier Dolan, and Luca Guadagnino have Jarman to thank—I stated what I stated. Jarman’s gutsy, myth-drenched movies will make your September extra vivid and romantic, with screenings of the homoerotic Roman Empire-set Sebastiane (full with a Brian Eno rating), the writhing, indignant AIDS disaster epistle The Backyard (that includes Tilda Swinton), and BLUE, Jarman’s ultimate work, through which the director “fills the display screen with blue—nonetheless and unyielding for an hour and nineteen minutes.” LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, $12.50, Friday–Sunday)
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A24 movies have felt hit-or-miss currently, maybe as a result of they’re consciously increasing in a extra industrial, mainstream cinema path. MaXXXine, Priscilla, and Civil Warfare had been met with polarizing critiques, whereas The Zone of Curiosity was (on this author’s humble opinion) a brutal, speedy basic. After a 12 months of whiplash-inducing releases, I will be fortunately seated for a straight-up scary film starring Brandy as a pregnant lady besieged by her weirdo mother-in-law. The flick can also be the primary function for director duo Max Eggers and Sam Eggers—yep, they’re Robert Eggers’ brothers. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, $14.50-$15.50, Friday–Sunday)
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I will sing the praises of The Secret Lifetime of Crops to anybody who asks—the ’79 flick begins as a psychedelic meditation on flora and expands to mirror on Earth, house, consciousness, and life itself, with groovy tunes by Stevie Surprise as well. Smoke a bowl and get thee to Northwest Movie Discussion board for consciousness-raising time-lapses of plant development, house rituals, and paradisiacal interpretive dance. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, $7-$14, Friday–Sunday)
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Cinephiles and stoners have waxed poetic about René Laloux’s visionary surprise Incredible Planet since its ’73 launch, and for good motive—the animated sci-fi takes a cool, mysterious method to creating a political assertion, developing an eerie panorama with cutout animations. However Laloux’s The Time Masters, a visionary house journey in its personal proper, tends to fly just a little additional underneath the radar. In case you dig Jean Giraud (aka Moebius’) chilly, futuristic aesthetic, you should not miss this legendary collab between the masters of French sci-fi fashion, screened right here in Janus Movies’ recent 4K restoration. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, $12.50, Friday–Sunday)
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Catherine Breillat’s filmmaking method may be very, nicely, French—she usually seeks to light up the taboo in provocative explorations of want, violence, and girls’s psychology. Grand Phantasm’s celebration of the controversy queen spans each decade of her directing profession, together with screenings of brand-new 4K restorations (A Actual Younger Woman, 36 Fillette, and ExcellentLove) and Janus Movies’ 35mm print of my favourite Breillat, the abrupt and rattling 2001 movie Fats Woman. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, Friday–Sunday)
OUTDOORS
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Due to the tireless efforts of numerous ecological stewards, Washington’s salmon inhabitants is slooooowly rebounding, and you may be taught all about how these humble fish help our complete ecosystem at a family-friendly gathering by the Ballard Locks. Salmon might seem like slippery little weirdos, however their complete lives are fascinating quests rivaling these of probably the most intrepid adventurers. And right here in Seattle, we’re lucky to have the ability to cheer them alongside on their journey—one which helps maintain numerous different species from dropping off the face of the Earth. The Salmon Journey gatherings are hosted by educated naturalists on Saturdays from July to September; you’ll learn to spot a spawning salmon, about their surprisingly epic exploits, and the merciless enemy threatening to wipe them out. (Stunning twist: It’s individuals!) FORMER STRANGER STAFF WRITER MATT BAUME
(Ballard Locks, Ballard, free, Saturday–Sunday)
VISUAL ART
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First-generation Iranian American artist Audineh Asaf was raised listening to tales of imprisonment, execution, and persecution underneath an oppressive regime. After immigrating to the USA, Asaf’s world nonetheless felt formed by her cultural id, and the “ongoing battle for freedom in Iran” additionally discovered its method into her distinctive multimedia artworks. Drawing from each American quilting and Persian weaving practices, Asaf’s tapestries “illuminate and humanize the experiences of people who’ve confronted unimaginable hardship,” whereas textured collages depict political prisoners, poets, and protestors whose fearless views function inspiration. LC
(Gallery 4Culture, Pioneer Sq., free, Friday–Sunday)
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As a result of artists are, before everything, individuals with typical lives like the remainder of us, I am at all times intrigued when an paintings is impressed by somebody’s day job. For the final decade, Eric Chamberlain has been portray dishware—assume pitchers, vases, platters, cake plates, baking dishes, and bowls—impressed by his employment at a housewares retailer. Chamberlain’s observe entails “finding out and pondering the objects on show,” then portray them from reminiscence again in his studio, so the outcomes really feel speedy, intuitive, and delightfully wonky. LC
(Shift Gallery, Pioneer Sq., free, Friday–Saturday)
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Transnational, transdisciplinary artist-educator Zabia Avra Colovos is “a baby of Greek and Ethiopian origin” whose work goals to know the constellation of her lineage and transnational id. Head to King Avenue Station for Luminous Being, a myth-inspired journey that spans a decade of the artist’s inventive inquiries by way of multimedia set up, pictures, and sculpture. I am intrigued by the interaction of 2D and 3D works, which can even embody movie projections and drawings rife with dream symbols, landscapes, and ceremonies. LC
(King Avenue Station, SoDo, free, Friday–Saturday; closing)
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Tip Toland’s hyperrealistic aged figures deliver eccentric new life to the ceramic bust medium, a kind that feels underutilized in up to date artwork. In search of to “empathetically and intimately look at the latent elements of ourselves which might be nagging to be reckoned with,” Toland’s expressive sculptures—paired with large-scale pencil drawings in Behind the Scenes—really feel fantastically unusual and intimate. I am particularly intrigued by ALWAYS THE DIPLOMAT | 34689, a ceramic and mixed-media sculpture of an aged man flanked by two monstrous hand puppets. LC
(Traver Gallery, Downtown, free, Friday–Saturday)
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Queer diasporic Chinese language artists Antonia Kuo (who was born in 1987 in New York Metropolis) and Martin Wong (who was born in 1946 in Portland, and handed in 1999) signify inventive resonance throughout generations. Twilight Baby will mount Wong’s “not often exhibited biomorphic clay sculptures,” work, and archival supplies, every fastidiously chosen in partnership with Kuo as a part of the Frye’s “artists’ artists” sequence of collaborations. Alongside Wong’s work, Kuo will share “photochemical” work that reply to Wong’s poems and sculptures created at her household’s native industrial metallic casting firm. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, free, Friday–Sunday)
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Zachary Schomburg, a Portland poet who “combines narrative strategies with surrealism to nice impact” (Stranger information editor Wealthy Smith) is my favourite type of individual, insistent on creating in myriad mediums. And as an illustrator and painter, Schomburg’s work nonetheless feels knowledgeable by his writing observe. Cake, Arms, and Gentle, the artist’s first solo present at Koplin Del Rio, “leans into gentle and colour” with juicy, vivid compositions and nice titles. “Pity the Imply,” “Sorry Head,” and “Pawn Cake” are a few of my faves. LC
(Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Georgetown, free, Friday–Saturday; closing)
