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Jerry Seinfeld is a corny asshole and a tacit supporter of the Israeli authorities. I do not fuck with that man. Sadly, his sitcom did one thing miraculously proper. Each time I see an episode, I am stunned that it nonetheless holds up. And so far as Jerry goes, I am extra of a George-Elaine hybrid, anyway. I haven’t got to let you know this, although. Co-creator Larry David is the ill-tempered man behind the present about nothing, in addition to Curb Your Enthusiasm, which led to April after 12 seasons. Apart from all of the widespread lore about David, a few of the most intriguing insights into his character come from a 2012 episode of Comedians in Vehicles Getting Espresso referred to as “Larry Eats a Pancake.” In it, he orders an natural tea (not espresso), puzzles over a pancake, and experiences that two items of pizza are his thought of “uncontrolled.” LC
Benaroya Corridor, Downtown (Fri Oct 4)
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Jenny Slate’s identify is in every single place, if you realize the place to look: The comic, actor, and creator performed your favourite character on Parks & Recreation, lent her voice to the character of Missy on Huge Mouth, penned the “carnival of observations” (Washington Publish) Little Weirds, and co-invented Marcel the Shell, for chrissake. Slate’s contemporary assortment of “private items,” LIFEFORM, has despatched the multi-hyphenate creator on an eight-city ebook tour, and we’re fortunate sufficient to dwell in one among her touchdown spots. MONEY PWEEZE! LC
Neptune Theatre, College District (Thurs Oct 24)
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Sebastian Maniscalco, who was described as “the most popular comedian in America” by the New York Instances again in 2019, has seen his fair proportion of success currently—he dropped a bestselling memoir and landed roles in Martin Scorsese’s crime flick The Irishman and the Oscar-winning Inexperienced Ebook. He’ll share extra of his energetic, exaggerated humor on the It Ain’t Proper tour, hopefully whereas sporting a mullet. LC
Local weather Pledge Enviornment, Uptown (Fri Oct 25)
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Do you know Seattle and Reykjavik are sister cities? Actually, Seattle is house to extra Icelandic individuals than anyplace else in the USA. To have a good time Iceland’s tradition, Seattle hosts an annual Style of Iceland pageant stuffed with frosty festivities. This 12 months, you’ll be transported to the magical Nordic land with a free live performance that includes up-and-coming Icelandic artists at KEXP, an Icelandic cocktail class, particular tasting menus, a DJ session at Shibuya HiFi, a dialog with bestselling crime novelists Ragnar Jónasson and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, and extra. Do not forget to spin the Icelandair prize wheel; you could possibly win a visit to Iceland! SL
Numerous places (Oct 3–5)
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Hispanic Heritage Month runs from mid-September to mid-October, a interval throughout which many Latin American international locations have a good time their nationwide independence days. MEXAM NW Competition is an exhilarating multi-event, multi-venue pageant curated by the Consulate of Mexico in Seattle that showcases the vibrancy of Hispanic and Mexican American tradition. The pageant concludes in mid-October with a Día de los Muertos live performance. Count on tons of Latin American meals, mariachi bands, people dancing, arts and craft markets, and neighborhood pleasure. SL
Numerous places (Oct 3–19)
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The stoke is excessive for the primary set up of Snowvana in Seattle. The Pacific Northwest’s premier snow sports activities pageant prepares you for the winter season with an enormous ski swap, gear village, squat contest, and a few of the greatest impartial ski and snowboard movies. You possibly can take a photograph in an enormous chair manufactured from skis, take part in a frozen t-shirt contest, and luxuriate in native music whereas kicking it together with your fellow snow shredders. SL
Magnuson Park Hangar 30, Sand Level (Oct 18–19)
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There is a new pop-up Halloween attraction on the town this 12 months: the Cosmic Carnival guarantees a family-friendly neon wonderland by day, and a bewitching adults-only playground by night time. Costumes are inspired for all visitors, who can discover the glowing wonderland, meet extraterrestrials, and play video games to save lots of the galaxy from a “darkish drive.” We’re not completely positive how completely different the after-dark expertise shall be, but it surely guarantees “cosmic libations” and encounters which can be extra mysterious than pleasant. SL
LIT Immersive, Stadium District (Oct 1–Nov 2)
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In relation to the historical past of the Georgetown Morgue, separating reality from fiction turns into murky. City legend has it that the morgue was house to creepy carcasses and is the positioning of a macabre freak accident. As of late, it transforms into a daunting walkthrough attraction each Halloween. The truth that there are emergency exits each 15 ft and the estimated time to undergo will depend on “if you’re strolling or operating” speaks to simply how scary it’s. The scene: a poisonous stench is coming from a dilapidated catacomb uncovered by a health care provider who’s rumored to be capturing the residents of Seattle. You or your family members could possibly be subsequent. Are you courageous sufficient to analyze? SL
Georgetown Morgue, Industrial District (Oct 3–31)
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This three-day, Munich-inspired Oktoberfest celebration boasts German-style meals, steinfuls of beer, and dwell leisure, together with conventional music and dance performances alongside ’80s cowl bands. Festivities embody the “Bavarian Bier-lympics,” a “sports activities haus,” and a hammerschlagen event, the place people compete to throw a hammer within the air, catch it, and drive a nail right into a stump. There’s a whole day centered on the dog-variety of wieners, together with a trivia problem, longest wiener contest, peanut butter lick contest, and the favored wiener canine races. Households can benefit from the Stein Sprint 5K, a root beer backyard, pumpkin adorning, and extra till 6 pm when the occasion goes 21-and-up. SL
Washington State Honest Occasions Middle, Puyallup (Oct 4–6)
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Washington’s personal Bavarian-styled village hosts three weekends of Oktoberfest enjoyable, stuffed with conventional foods and drinks, music and dance performances throughout three phases, and a kinderplatz (aka youngsters’ zone) full with a 62-foot ferris wheel. Quench your thirst with imported German beer and wine and satiate your starvation with bratwurst—there’s even non-alcoholic, vegan, and gluten-free choices. Every Saturday begins with a polka band-led festzug march by city, and keg tappings are held day by day. Prost! SL
Leavenworth (Oct 4–19)
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Final 12 months, our social media supervisor Christian Parroco visited the Haunted Woods, spawning quotable gems resembling “I do not fuck with the dolls,” “Do I appear to be an individual who voluntarily runs?” and “AHHHHHHHHH.” Although he repeated “Youngsters undergo this” to himself, this 35-minute haunted walk-through isn’t really useful for these beneath the age of 12. In case you want a quiet down, there are not any actors within the night time corn maze or on the wagon trip, however we will not assure your mates will not attempt to make you soar. Come again to the farm throughout the day for the completely non-scary fall pageant. SL
Maris Farms, Buckley (Oct 4–27)
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Los Angeles-born mild expertise Astra Lumina will return to light up the Seattle Chinese language Backyard for 2 months this 12 months, reworking the botanical house right into a “surprise of visiting stars” with projections, dazzling lights, music, and “astral vitality.” Ooooo. Bundle as much as stroll down the celestial pathway; you are promised to come across “cosmic visions and astral track.” (You may additionally need to microdose first—laser exhibits of yore confirmed that nothing’s extra psychedelic than a superb light-and-sound projection.) LC
Seattle Chinese language Backyard, Riverview (Oct 17–Dec 15)
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October rolls round, and all of a sudden, everybody desires to observe vampires, ghosts, and cannibals get their freak on. Typical!!! In case you’re additionally feeling the sudden urge to emphasize your self out with Cronenberg and Murnau, All Monsters Assault! has your again. The collection shudders to life this month with creepy greats just like the colonial-era cannibal story Ravenous, the Nicolas Cage campy cult flick Vampire’s Kiss, Roger Corman’s The Masque of the Purple Loss of life, and a screening of Nosferatu set to a Radiohead rating, which ought to get you amped for Eggers’ remake releasing in December. LC
Grand Phantasm, College District (Oct 1–31)
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Bodily media professionals Scarecrow Video, the town’s personal nonprofit video archive and resident specialists on all issues cinematic, are celebrating Halloween all month lengthy at SIFF Cinema Egyptian. (Horror flicks are “each video retailer clerk’s favourite style,” says SIFF, and I am inclined to imagine it.) Present Scarecrow some love by testing the flicks they’ve curated for the collection. The choice is stable, with a variety of acquainted freakshows and barely screened deeper cuts. Scarecrowber will ooze to life with George Franju’s Eyes And not using a Face, the ’71 creep fest Let’s Scare Jessica to Loss of life, Dario Argento’s Opera, The Strangers (the ’08 unique, which is definitely terrifying), and different scares. LC
SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Capitol Hill (Oct 2–30)
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Dan Savage’s pioneering erotic movie fest premiered an all-new lineup of horny movies that includes all genders and orientations earlier this 12 months. Since 2005, HUMP! has introduced inclusive, inventive, and kinky movies to the massive display screen—and since this 12 months’s fest options not one however two feature-length lineups, you possibly can scope out the sex-positive fest but once more for a tantalizing deal with. Half two contains 25 brand-spanking-new feasts on your eyeballs, together with “smokin’ sizzling paranormal encounters, a mind-bending house carnival, spine-tingling ASMR, [and] all of the thermal eye sweet you possibly can eat.” It is price a enterprise outdoors of your intercourse dungeon, however you possibly can nonetheless put on the latex catsuit. LC
On the Boards, Uptown (Oct 3–5)
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Celebrating all issues documentary once more this 12 months, SIFF’s DocFest contains screenings of current pageant faves just like the Berlin Movie Competition’s 2024 Golden Bear Winner Dahomey. There is a lot to like about this 12 months’s pageant lineup. I am jazzed for Yintah, a “riveting thriller recounting an Indigenous nation’s combat for sovereignty,” Nesa Azimi’s Driver, which follows the lives of feminine long-haul truckers, New Wave, a moody glimpse at Vietnam’s ’80s new wave music scene, Trying to find Amani, by which a 13-year-old aspiring journalist “investigates his father’s mysterious homicide inside one among Kenya’s largest wildlife conservancies,” and Wilding, primarily based solely upon this photograph of slightly piglet. LC
SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown (Oct 3–10)
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This 12 months’s Seattle Latino Movie Competition closes out Nationwide Hispanic Heritage Month with important cross-cultural views from 21 Hispanic and romance language-speaking international locations. Venues city-wide will host screenings for the pageant’s sixteenth annual version; I am stoked for the opening night time screening of The Shadow of the Solar, which “addresses themes related to the deaf neighborhood, marking a particular tribute to inclusivity and illustration,” and a slate of Iberoamerican brief movies screening on the Beacon. LC
Numerous places (Oct 4–12)
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In case you’re queer and in your doomer period, we will’t blame you, however an excessive amount of wallowing is corrosive to the soul. You must really feel, and it is advisable heal, and that’s what this 12 months’s Q-thartic Seattle Queer Movie Competition (SQFF) is all about. Introduced by Three Greenback Invoice Cinema, the 10-day pageant affords a wanted launch with a slate of movies championing intersectional queer narratives. As of press time, we don’t know what these films shall be, however Stranger contributor Chase Hutchinson deemed final 12 months’s pageant “their greatest but” after organizers have been capable of snag the critically acclaimed All of Us Strangers and The Folks’s Joker, so our hopes are excessive. STRANGER STAFF WRITER VIVIAN MCCALL
(Numerous places in-person Oct 10–13, Digital Oct 14–20)
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The Tacoma Movie Competition, which Stranger senior workers author Charles Mudede as soon as deemed “the Sundance of the Pacific Northwest,” will return to have a good time all issues impartial cinema. (“What makes this pageant among the best within the area,” says Mudede, “is the appeal of its principal location and good programming.”) Count on a killer roster of documentaries, shorts, and narrative movies, as standard. I am most intrigued by the candy Japanese animation Ghost Cat Anzu, the fantastical documentary Adrianne & the Fortress, and The Heirloom, primarily based on the poster alone. The fest may even display screen my private favourite movie Paris, Texas as a part of the Tacoma Artwork Museum’s new exhibition Charles Peterson’s Nirvana: On Pictures and Efficiency. (Paris, Texas was additionally a favourite of Cobain’s, and Peterson will supply a post-screening discuss.) LC
Grand Cinema, Tacoma (Oct 10–13)
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All hail Orcas Island’s annual movie pageant, which The Stranger has praised since its 2014 inception. (One 12 months, former Stranger workers author Jas Keimig referred to as it “our Cannes.” These are massive footwear to fill.) The pageant might not be set towards a Mediterranean backdrop, however the island’s Eastsound village is fairly rattling scenic, too. Plus, earlier 12 months’s flicks have earned dozens of Oscar nods, so that you’re sure to bear witness to one thing Letterboxd-review-worthy. On the docket this 12 months is Cannes favourite Holy Cow!, Edward Berger-directed Conclave, sleeper hit September 5, Almodovar’s The Room Subsequent Door, Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez, Cillian Murphy-fronted Small Issues Like These, and Nightbitch, by which Amy Adams kinda-sorta turns right into a canine. I am additionally wanting ahead to No Different Land, directed by a Palestinian-Israeli activist collective, and Sugarcane, a Sundance award winner following an investigation of the therapy of kids at an Indian residential college. LC
Orcas Island (Oct 16–20)
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It is HalloweeEEEeeeEEEeeeen! (Please learn that in your greatest Vincent Worth voice.) In case you are an indecisive Gemini (hello! I really feel your ache!) and also you want one Very Good suggestion, it’s this: Collide-O-Scope’s Halloween present on the Egyptian. Collide-O-Scope comes from the good minds of Michael Anderson and Shane Wahlund (The Stranger’s personal video wizards!). They string collectively cinematic masterpieces utilizing discovered footage from a few of the deepest, dankest corners of popular culture. It is all the time nice—they have been at it for over a decade, and you may see them month-to-month at Right here-After—however their proclivities for summoning the actually unusual and stunning recorded bits of our historical past shines like werewolf eyes within the moonlight throughout their annual Halloween extravaganza. STRANGER MANAGING EDITOR MEGAN SELING
SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Capitol Hill (Thurs Oct 31)
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Although pumpkin beer is a decidedly divisive beverage, Elysian Brewing Firm’s annual squash-themed pageant continues to attract followers, celebrating 20 years this October. The nice pumpkin in query—a big gourd weighing in at a number of hundred kilos—is scooped out, scorched, stuffed with pumpkin beer, sealed, conditioned, and tapped on the occasion. What’s extra, over 80 pumpkin beers, together with round 20 from Elysian, shall be poured. All proceeds profit the all-ages programming on the Vera Undertaking. JB
Seattle Middle, Uptown (Oct 4–5)
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You’ve got heard of farm-to-table, however what about “tree-to-glass”? That is the strategy of the Olympic Peninsula Apple & Cider Fest, now in its eighth 12 months, the place you possibly can style apples, meet brewers, be taught in regards to the course of, and sip the candy (or tart) juices to your coronary heart’s content material. Sunday’s Finnriver Apple Day is open to all ages, however different actions like Oktoberfest, the Cider Saloon, and Fall Fireplace Social gathering are reserved for these 21-and-up. SL
Port Townsend (Oct 10–13)
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Gourmands throughout Seattle rejoice over this twice-yearly occasion, which provides diners the chance to attempt curated menus for $20, $35, $50, and $65 at dozens of eating places. It’s a superb alternative to department out of your standard rotation of tried-and-true favorites and cross some locations off your culinary bucket record. Spherical up some pals to hitch you, and remember to tip your server generously. JB
Numerous places (Oct 27–Nov 9)
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I turned enamored of the Honduran American songwriter, musician, and producer Lorely Rodriguez, higher recognized by her stage identify Empress Of, after seeing her open for Carly Rae Jepsen in 2023. Rodriguez took her stage identify from the Empress tarot card, representing the divine female, and it is not arduous to see why—she channeled pure sensuality and energy as she commanded the viewers’s consideration, gyrating to horny bangers like “Save Me” and “Wild Woman.” On her newest launch, the bilingual album For Your Consideration, she deftly performs with energy dynamics inside love, intercourse, and the leisure business and has enjoyable doing it. The “Jolene” tribute “Lorelei” casts her as a home-wrecking femme fatale, whereas the only “Femenine” expresses her want for a subservient man: “Sabes que yo soy tu daddy,” she purrs. JB
Neumos, Capitol Hill (Tues Oct 1)
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Faye Webster’s star has been steadily shining since her 2013 debut Run and Inform was launched when she was simply sixteen years outdated. Nevertheless it wasn’t till her 2021 album, I Know I am Humorous haha, that issues actually started to take off. Critically, “In A Good Means” has practically 50 million streams on Spotify. The album mixes smooth R&B with a country-folk twang whereas using her whispery smooth vocal high quality to ship cheeky lyrics about basketball, falling in love, grasping landlords, and proudly owning your humorousness. Webster will play songs from her extremely anticipated follow-up album, Underdressed on the Symphony, alongside Japanese indie pop artist Mei Ehara. AV
Paramount Theatre, Downtown (Tues Oct 1)
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Philly-raised musician Santigold is thought for her genre-defying sound that blends digital, new wave, indie rock, reggae, and hip-hop components. She is going to cease by in help of her 2022 album, Spirituals. Describing the album as a “celebration of human resilience,” the title is a nod to conventional Black spirituals. “These contained songs that when sung and carried out bought Black individuals by the “un-get-through-able” she instructed Rolling Stone. “That’s what this report did for me.” AV
Showbox SoDo, SoDo (Wed Oct 2)
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Even when you haven’t heard indie rock luminary Sarah Tudzin’s identify, you’ve most likely heard her work. She’s an in-demand producer, mixer, audio engineer, and, since 2018, performer beneath the stage identify Illuminati Hotties. However her meteoric rise within the business began three years in the past. In 2021, she launched her third album, Let Me Do One Extra, on her personal Hopeless Information imprint, to important acclaim. Then she labored on boygenius’ the report and Weyes Blood’s Titanic Rising—arguably two of probably the most beautiful-sounding data of the final decade—and earlier this 12 months, she gained her first Grammy for her work with boygenius. It appears like her expertise is lastly on full show, and her knack for sonic perfection is obvious on her fourth launch, POWER, which she described as “all rippers” and “no filler.” She is going to help the album alongside fellow rock artists Maddie Ross and Daffo. AV
Neumos, Capitol Hill (Thurs Oct 3)
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Are you within the temper to see a dwelling legend? Not solely has Smokey Robinson thrived as each a solo performer and with Motown vocal group the Miracles, however he has additionally written numerous American requirements, like “My Woman,” “Tracks Of My Tears,” “My Man,” “You’ve got Actually Received A Maintain On Me,” and actually a whole bunch of others. And, maybe most notably, he’s my cat’s favourite singer. AV
Paramount Theatre, Downtown (Thurs Oct 3)
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Weezer is aware of. Regardless of the huge success the band has seen for the reason that launch of their 1994 self-titled debut, Rivers Cuomo and firm are completely conscious that, in some followers’ eyes, they’ll by no means actually prime what has come to be known as the Blue Album. With the explosive opening 15 seconds of “My Title is Jonas,” the cheeky “Undone — The Sweater Tune,” and the heartwrenched “Solely in Goals,” it’s iconic. (And it has aged higher than Pinkerton—nonetheless love you, although, Pinkerton!) To have a good time the thirtieth anniversary of the Blue Album, the band is heading out on a US tour, Voyage to the Blue Planet, the place they’ll play the report from begin to end. To spherical out the alt-radio rock circa 1995 soundtrack of the night, the Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr. open the present. STRANGER MANAGING EDITOR MEGAN SELING
Local weather Pledge Enviornment, Uptown (Fri Oct 4)
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Final 12 months, 73-year-old blues rock legend Bonnie Raitt gained the coveted Grammy for Tune of the Yr, beating out pop radio heavies like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Harry Kinds, Lizzo, and Adele—and for good purpose! Though a few of her hottest songs weren’t penned by her (“Angel From Montgomery” and “One thing to Speak About”), Raitt’s albums have included unique music for the reason that begin—my favourite being “Thank You” off her 1971 debut. After a protracted profession of her coated materials taking heart stage, it was wonderful to see Raitt’s songwriting expertise lastly get the popularity it deserves. She is going to help the award-winning album Simply Like That… for 2 consecutive nights on the Paramount alongside blue-eyed soul maven James Hunter. AV
Paramount Theatre, Downtown (Oct 4–5)
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On Anohni’s new album, My Again Was A Bridge For You To Cross—her first album with backing band the Johnsons in 13 years—the trailblazing balladeer gradual dances between orchestral ’60s soul, abrasive industrial, and intimate jazz. As standard, Anohni’s vocals are pitch-perfect, evoking the wealthy textures of Nina Simone, Terry Callier, and Robert Wyatt. The album shines brightest on intimate jazz guitar-driven tracks like “Sliver Of Ice” and “It is My Fault,” which permit her singular voice to take heart stage (à la traditional torch singers like Julie London or Dinah Shore). Do not miss the uncommon alternative to listen to Anohni’s unbelievable voice dwell—she hasn’t carried out in Seattle since 2009! AV
Paramount Theatre, Downtown (Mon Oct 7)
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In November of final 12 months, André 3000 stunned followers together with his first new music in 17 years—but it surely wasn’t what we anticipated. The OutKast rapper launched a full-length album completely of flute music. New Blue Solar is an odyssey of religious jazz and digital ambient sounds that might completely soundtrack an Octavia Butler novel. That includes devices like mycelial electronics, vegetation, shakuhachi, and sintir, the album is equal elements acoustic and digital with a number of varieties of flutes performed by André himself. Joined on stage by album collaborators Carlos Niño, Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, and Deantoni Parks, the ensemble will current an immersive live performance that enchants audiences with improvisational “sensory grandeur.” AV
Paramount Theatre, Downtown (Wed Oct 9)
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Are you able to D.A.N.C.E.? French digital duo Justice will return to Seattle for the primary time since 2017 with tracks from their new album, Hyperdrama. The album revisits the disco/funk and digital sounds of their previous however explores them in a brand new manner. Because the band explains it, “We like this concept of creating [the genres] combat a bit for consideration.” AV
WaMu Theater, SoDo (Wed Oct 9)
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English neo-psychedelia-glam band Temples has been making music since 2012, however I turned a fan after listening to their fourth full-length Exotico, which was launched final spring. Noel Gallagher as soon as referred to as them “the very best new band in Britain.” Their final two exhibits in Seattle included an look eventually 12 months’s Bumbershoot and on the outdated Crocodile in February 2020, in order that they’re due for a return go to. Regardless of their longevity, their sound nonetheless feels contemporary—when the band took the stage at Bumbershoot, they rocked out with an vitality I wouldn’t anticipate from a bunch that’s been at it for therefore lengthy. They have been excited—to play music, to be on this second with us, to be alive—and I am unable to wait to expertise that once more at their dwell present. SL
Neumos, Capitol Hill (Wed Oct 9)
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On her third album, Allure, Gen Z sensation Clairo trades the synthy bed room pop that turned her right into a viral star for elegant tunes impressed by ’70s smooth rock. The ensuing physique of labor is tender and dreamy, evoking the sullen nostalgia of wanting by your childhood bed room—an outdated diary, a drawer of charmed friendship bracelets, a transportable CD participant. There’s no higher time than the start of autumn to relish within the cozy and hushed tunes of Clairo, particularly with a gap set from South African singer-songwriter Alice Phoebe Lou. AV
Paramount Theatre, Downtown (Oct 10–11)
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For individuals who have been ready for brand spanking new music from Haley Heynderickx for six lengthy years, I’ve information for you! The Portland-based singer-songwriter has lastly introduced an as-yet-unnamed new album due November 1, with two beautiful singles to get us by October. Like her critically acclaimed debut, I Have to Begin a Backyard, the brand new singles “Foxglove” and “Seed of a Seed” look to the pure world to ponder philosophical questions on love and life. In case you’re a fan of indie people gems like Angel Olsen, Shana Cleveland, and Feist, then I wager you will adore Heynderickx’s emotive vocals. And when you’re a listener of traditional people guitarists like John Fahey and Robbie Basho, you will respect her melodic and complicated finger-picking. AV
St. Mark’s Cathedral, Capitol Hill (Fri Oct 11)
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Nada Surf has been a band for over 30 years, which suggests followers of all ages have been drawn to their music at completely different factors of their profession. My coworker remembers their 1996 debut hit “Common,” which catapulted them to alt-rock stardom; I fell in love with their fifth full-length Fortunate in highschool. Recognized for his or her bittersweet anthems, the band launched their newest album in September, with singles expressing an period of reflection, musing on the human expertise with notes of affection, grief, doubt, and hope, instructed by hovering harmonies and robust instrumentation. Up-and-coming New Zealand indie rock trio Workplace Canine opens the present. SL
The Crocodile, Belltown (Tues Oct 15)
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The queer legend Kehlani is embarking on a world tour to advertise their newest album CRASH, a fab, genre-bending work that comes with nostalgic ’90s neo-soul and R&B influences and explores themes of intimacy, pleasure, and sensuality. The music video for the only “Subsequent 2 U” each unequivocally makes their pro-Palestine stance clear and exhibits their crew of queer backup dancers performing some very horny choreography. They’re going to be supported by the irresistible Y2K-inspired British lady group FLO (who’re answerable for the breakup jam “Cardboard Field” and the cheeky postcoital bop “Stroll Like This”) and the sultry rising rap star Anycia. JB
Local weather Pledge Enviornment, Uptown (Fri Oct 18)
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At this level, Charli XCX’s sixth studio album has left us with extra questions than solutions: Is brat summer season lifeless? Is Kamala brat? What shade is her underwear? The one factor I do know for positive is that politicians and types co-opting the craze are annoying as hell. Regardless, I’ve tried to not let it spoil my trustworthy love for the British hyper-pop star. I’ll by no means declare to be an OG Charli fan (I hopped on board when her 2020 masterpiece how i am feeling now dropped) however I’ll without end brag that I noticed her on the quaint Crystal Ballroom in Portland earlier than this huge area tour. Charli shall be joined by her frequent collaborator/BFF Troye Sivan for his or her extremely anticipated Sweat tour. They higher ship a mashup of “1999” and “Rewind.” AV
Local weather Pledge Enviornment, Uptown (Wed Oct 23)
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Along with her present standing as an indie pop celebrity, it’d shock you that Maggie Rogers was previously a banjo participant and people music fanatic. Her newest album, Do not Overlook Me, leans into polished, radio-friendly pop whereas permitting rays of her trad-music-loving previous to peek by on tracks like “So Sick Of Dreaming” and “All The Similar.” She shall be joined by the R&B/pop artist Ryan Beatty, who’s touring together with his critically acclaimed third album, Calico. AV
Local weather Pledge Enviornment, Uptown (Tues Oct 29)
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Envisioned because the “starting of an arts hub by and centering Black and Indigenous disabled artists to current, collaborate, and get uplifted for his or her crafts,” the Mouthwater Competition espouses values we will get behind, anticapitalism and antifascism amongst them. The fest brings collectively artists with disabilities from throughout the nation for solidarity, community-building, and over a dozen artsy occasions. I am wanting ahead to Vanessa Hernández Cruz’s experimental piece Soul Seeker and the Mouthwater Cabaret, that includes performances by India Harville, Saira Barbaric, Mx. Pucks A’A lot, and others. LC
Numerous places (Oct 5–13)
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In case you’ve ever gotten misplaced within the spine-tingling situations on the r/letsnotmeet subreddit, you will most likely dig this anthology podcast of terror and suspense. There’s one thing enjoyable and retro about listening to scary tales instructed out loud; it is slightly like swapping ghost tales round a campfire. Followers of Let’s Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast, hosted by Andrew Tate (no, NOT that Andrew Tate) appear to agree—the podcast has garnered 50 million downloads since its inception in 2017. What makes it particular? Properly, supposedly the tales shared on Let’s Not Meet are all actual. Sleep tight. LC
Triple Door, Downtown (Wed Oct 9)
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Likelihood is good that you just’re already acquainted with this ethereal story of affection, company, and good versus evil, however Swan Lake remains to be a must-see for the uninitiated and a swish reminder of ballet’s energy for die-hard followers. (I noticed a manufacturing of Swan Lake for the millionth time earlier this 12 months, and guess what? It is nonetheless unbelievable.) As a part of the World Ballet collection, this manufacturing of Swan Lake shall be carried out by a multinational solid of ballet dancers from 10 international locations. Crafted with precision, the manufacturing’s design contains hand-painted units and over 150 costumes that envelop viewers within the story of Prince Siegfried and Odette, Queen of the Swans. LC
Paramount Theatre, Downtown (Sat Oct 12)
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Acclaimed fashionable dance firm Pilobolus will return to city for a gravity-blurring repertory efficiency, which guarantees a “transformative odyssey of reinvention” mixing effervescent signature works and improvements. Count on a present impressed by delusion, historical past, and one thing sudden—the New Yorker experiences that Pilobolus performances “[make] you’re feeling as if you’ve glimpsed many worlds.” LC
Meany Middle for the Performing Arts, Northeast Seattle (Oct 17–19)
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Impressed by the Tim Burton traditional The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas, Can Can Productions’ unique musical adaptation will have a good time 16 years at Triple Door with a “darkish fantasy burlesque musical” and all issues Skellington—anticipate a spooky cabaret with burlesque stylings, dwell orchestral music, haunting vocals, and video projections. C’mon, I do know you former Sizzling Matter lovers have an interest. LC
Triple Door, Downtown (Oct 17–Nov 2)
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ACT Up to date Theatre’s second annual New Works Northwest pageant will current new works written by 20 Seattle playwrights over the course of 5 evenings. The fest’s progressive format contains pay-what-ya-can readings of Yussef El Guindi’s race, class, and privilege exploration Refugee Rhapsody, Gloria Majule’s Mount Kilimanjaro dramedy Uhuru, and Naghmeh Samini’s considerate Iranian family story Residence, plus a contemporary “monologue slam” with solo items by 15 native playwrights. LC
ACT – A Up to date Theatre, Downtown (Oct 30–Nov 3)
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The celesbian indie pop twin sister duo Tegan & Sara’s new middle-grade graphic novel Crush, a follow-up to the earlier installment Junior Excessive, is created in collaboration with queer cartoonist celebrity Tillie Walden and offers with the agony and ecstasy of adolescence, together with crushes, puberty, popping out, sisterhood, music, and friendship. The autobiographical collection, set within the current day, is “evenly fictionalized” however attracts on the Canadian siblings’ actual experiences. As a fan of the sisters’ poignant coming-of-age memoir Excessive College and its Amazon Freevee TV adaptation of the identical identify, I am unable to let you know how a lot a ebook like this is able to have meant to me as a tween, and I am so completely satisfied for the Gen Alpha youngsters who get to develop up with this sort of media. Cease by Washington Corridor to see Tegan and Sara communicate on every little thing from first likes to songwriting. JB
Washington Corridor, Squire Park (Tues Oct 1)
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Bainbridge Island’s inaugural ebook pageant affords all the standard components you’d anticipate from an occasion of its form—readings, panels, creator signings, Q&A periods–with the bonus of a scenic day journey to Bainbridge Island. (Perhaps you will spy some autumnal foliage. Image it now: Latte in hand, signed books, crunchy leaves. You are welcome.) Anyway, Friday’s ticketed launch occasion will have a good time novelist Nicola Yoon’s One in every of Our Form, however Saturday’s occasions are free, with much-loved authors like Sloane Crosley, Sonora Jha, Neely Tubati-Alexander, Jonathan Evison, Michela Tartaglia, Jon Mooallem, and Chelsea Bieker in dialog. LC
Bainbridge Island (Oct 4–5)
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Hugo Home’s first-ever Deaf Lit Fest, hosted by arts group Deaf Highlight, goals to amplify Deaf authors by workshops, interviews, and extra. Deaf novelist Sara Nović will supply a ebook signing, and on October 12, attendees can go to vendor cubicles, hear from authors Awet Moges, Elsa Sjunneson, Ross Showalter, and others, attend a personality improvement class, and really feel some heat fuzzies at Anastasia D’Nitta’s drag storytime. LC
Hugo Home, Capitol Hill (Oct 11–12)
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Typically it looks as if the identify “Ta-Nehisi Coates” has grow to be synonymous with up to date nonfiction itself. (Within the phrases of Stranger senior workers author Charles Mudede, “Ta-Nehisi Coates isn’t good.” He isn’t, in Mudede’s eyes, an important novelist.) Fortunately for us, he is again with one other ebook of essays, his first nonfiction work in nearly 10 years. The Message follows Coates to a few websites of battle—Dakar, Senegal, Columbia, South Carolina, and Palestine—to ruminate on the harmful historic legacies of ebook banning, racism, and nationalism. LC
Benaroya Corridor, Downtown (Solar Oct 20)
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In Warren Dykeman’s fifth solo exhibition at studio e, block-like figures are rendered in composite view—assume historical Egyptian artwork—whereas different items characteristic vases of tangled vines or ultra-stylized “pastures.” It did not shock me to be taught that Dykeman is a graphic designer by day; his model patchworks a folksy sensibility with a wise, up to date aptitude. Dykeman grew up in Kennewick, simply outdoors the Hanford Nuclear Reservation; this solo exhibition pulls its title from a “quick neutron” nuclear check reactor on the Hanford website, and feels infused with forgotten Americana. LC
studio e, Georgetown (Oct 3–26)
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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 pressured assimilation with every bit’s distinctive patterns. LC
Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill (Oct 5–Feb 2, 2025)
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Charles Peterson’s pictures of Seattle’s music scene by the late ’80s and early ’90s have lengthy been celebrated as jarring and fascinating snapshots from one of many Pacific Northwest’s most pivotal eras in fashionable historical past. However Peterson’s work is about a lot greater than being in the fitting place on the proper time. He’s a fucking nice photographer! And this fall, the Tacoma Artwork Museum has curated his work, not simply as important music historical past however because the artistic endeavors they honestly are. The present may even characteristic work from artists Sylvia Plachy, Nicholas Galanin, Jeffry Mitchell, and Peterson’s photographer professor, Paul Berger, to “draw out visible and contextual nuances of Peterson’s pictures.” Intriguing. STRANGER MANAGING EDITOR MEGAN SELING
Tacoma Artwork Museum, Tacoma (Oct 5–Might 25, 2025)
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To some, resembling myself, Keith Haring is seen as part of the hiphop tradition that emerged in New York Metropolis within the early ‘80s. He labored with Dondi White, a grasp and founding father of the type of graffiti you discover at the moment in Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, and, sure, Seattle. Certainly, Haring and Dondi did the quilt artwork for Malcolm McLaren’s weird however essentially hiphop album Duck Rock. For a lot of, this cowl launched Haring, whose work was easy however not simplistic, breezy however cosmically vibrant. After which there’s the quilt of McLaren’s Would Ya Like Extra Scratchin’. Right here, we have now nothing however Haring. His chalk-drawn figures popping and locking. You possibly can hear the scratching and chopping. You possibly can see New York Metropolis when it was the capital of the artwork world. Haring will all the time be hiphop to me. STRANGER SENIOR WRITER CHARLES MUDEDE
MoPOP, Uptown (Oct 12–March 23, 2025)
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In case you’re not acquainted with the groundbreaking work of Black artist, sculptor, performer, and printmaker Joyce J. Scott, now’s the time to repair that: Seattle Artwork Museum will current a serious profession retrospective surveying Scott’s multimedia works, which spans her 50-plus-year profession and emphasizes her “virtuosic use” of beads, glass, and textiles. Scott has “upended hierarchies of artwork and craft, insisting that inventive expression is that ‘additional inch of life’ that nourishes the soul even in probably the most difficult circumstances,” the museum explains. I am excited about how Scott’s distinctive aesthetic imaginative and prescient addresses the racism, sexism, and inequality of the twentieth century and the trendy period by a refined, typically humorous lens. LC
Seattle Artwork Museum, Downtown (Oct 17–Jan 19, 2025)
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Iran-born artist Tala Madani’s first solo exhibition in Washington State guarantees a spicy, funny-yet-critical mix of “mural-like” work, animations, and a glimpse of a forthcoming feature-length movie. By way of projected mild and surreal characters (typically “bare, bald, middle-aged males”), Madani’s slapstick violence drags viewers into dreamlike areas that disturb and intrigue. The artist is famend for her provocative, typically unsettling explorations of energy and vulnerability, tackling every little thing from bodily fluids to suicide with razor-sharp wit. (Protected to say that Be Flat comes with an enormous ol’ customer advisory.) LC
Henry Artwork Gallery, College District (Oct 19–Aug 17, 2025)
