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BLACK HISTORY MONTH
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Have fun Black Historical past Month at this native fest that includes a pop-up market of Black-owned companies curated by ARTE NOIR and performances together with spoken phrase from the Griot Celebration Expertise, bounce rope by the Double Dutch Divas, and a Motown tribute from the Jewel Tones. Seize a candle from Noir Lux Candle Co. to maximise coziness for the remainder of this winter season. SL
(Occidental Sq., Pioneer Sq., free)
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The Central District Artwork Stroll’s Black Historical past Month choices will have fun town’s Black artists and tradition with “vibrant and vivid artwork, music, and meals.” Help the native economic system and study extra in regards to the Central District’s artistry in a single fell swoop with pop-up occasions up and down twenty third Ave, together with happenings at ARTE NOIR, Wa Na Wari, Coyote Central, and Ethiopian bites at Cafe Avole. LC
(Varied areas, free)
LIVE MUSIC
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Rock out for trigger as up-and-coming PNW punk and emo bands Princess Pulpit, KITCALICO, Circa 40, Alice, Candy Alice, Trash Fairy, Crime Scene Images, My Higher Half, and Tethered increase consciousness for blood most cancers. This present will present an ideal alternative to expel pent-up aggression with respectful moshing and scream-singing. AV
(Vera Mission, Uptown, $15.66)
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That is ain’t your grandparent’s curler disco—bands will carry out within the middle of the rink when you strive to not skate into them. Seattle-based experimental label Lithic Data will showcase a few of their best skills with performances from digital/noise mission Energy Skeleton, improvisational post-rock band T.R.O.U.T, digital ambient artist Undular Bore, and drone composer Barnacle. AV
(Southgate Curler Rink, White Middle, $18 cowl/$5 skate rental)
LUNAR NEW YEAR
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Peruse cozy fiber arts creations from native enterprise Octopus Knitting and fanciful treats from San Serif Baker at this market. Whilst you’re at it, seize a pint of certainly one of Fortunate Envelope’s new Lunar New 12 months-themed brews, like 12 months of the Snake Honey Amber Lager or 2025 Double Happiness Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout. JB
(Fortunate Envelope Brewing, West Woodland, free)
PARTIES & NIGHTLIFE
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Do you know that there’s a large Kendrick Lamar live performance on TV this Sunday? I believe it is referred to as the Tremendous Bowl or one thing. Gear up for the large occasion with a Kendrick-focused dance occasion that includes tracks from his mates and collaborators like SZA, Child Keem, Rihanna, and extra. I simply have two options: sport your greatest Canadian tuxedo, and please, for the love of god, do not request any Drake songs on the DJ sales space. AV
(Nectar Lounge, Fremont, $15)
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In case you like breakfast for dinner, would possibly I counsel going massive at Vice’s midnight brunch? This Friday, Capitol Hill’s snazzy new nightclub will peddle mimosas, cereal photographs, and free donuts till the wee hours of the morning when you dance to units by EDM DJs Brandon Ung, Grube, Sean Swan, and Zona. AV
(VICE Seattle, Capitol Hill, $0-$15)
VISUAL ART
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Ric’kisha Taylor’s life has at all times shimmered, and that radiance carries into her artwork. Her fascination with “hair equipment, DAX grease, [and] her mom’s glittery debit playing cards” informs a uniquely opulent and ultra-tactile collage model. In Gleaming, she delves into cultural assimilation and intimacy avoidance via augmented photographic imagery, intricate peyote stitching—a method honed by Indigenous beaders—and exact stitching strategies handed down by Black elders. The outcomes are as dazzling as they’re deliberate, evoking popular culture references whereas remaining layered, expressive, and deeply thought of. LC
(Gallery 4Culture, Pioneer Sq., free)
COMMUNITY
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LED lamps be damned, as a result of you may 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)
FOOD & DRINK
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In case you want a trip to ease you thru the final chilly days of the Huge Darkish, invoke the ability of make-believe with this summery soirée at the entire trendy Mexican spot Pablo Y Pablo’s areas (Wallingford, Leschi, and Woodinville). They will be giving freely free tacos and snacks, $5 margaritas and summer season drinks, and loads of “seashore occasion vibes.” One fortunate visitor per location may even obtain a staycation package deal with dinner for 2 at Purple Café & Wine Bar and a one-night keep on the Fairmont Olympic Lodge. JB
(Pablo y Pablo, Wallingford, free)
LUNAR NEW YEAR
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The Seattle Chinese language Backyard’s upcoming Lunar New 12 months celebration is not to be missed—the Sichuan-style Chinese language backyard is a stunning place to mirror on the brand new yr amid classical Chinese language structure and peaceable water options. Cease by for tea and knot-tying demonstrations, conventional Chinese language music, a lion dance workshop, an handle from Mayor Harrell, and extra all through the afternoon. LC
(Seattle Chinese language Backyard, Riverview, $6 recommended donation)
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Seattle’s largest indoor night time market is celebrating Lunar New 12 months with an adults-only night of leisure, scrumptious eats, and a makers’ market filled with wares and treats from dozens of AAPI-owned companies. On our hit record: trying out the drunken lion dance, slurping sizzling noods, and choosing up some cute equipment as Valentine’s Day items. There’ll even be a bar devoted to 2 of Seattle’s favourite issues: alcohol and boba—a dream come true! Normal admission tickets are $15, however for ten bucks extra you may deal with your self to “all day glad hour,” which features a tote bag, two drink tickets, and a “bling ring.” SL
(Magnuson Park Hangar 30, Sand Level, $15-$25)
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Phinney Neighborhood Affiliation’s Lunar New 12 months celebration boasts a flurry of actions throughout two buildings, together with paper lantern adorning. LQ Lion Dance will carry out at 2 pm, working it again with one other lion dance at 3 pm. Plus, you may assist native Asian artists and creators on the pop-up market and seize some tasty snacks from the bake sale. Quite a lot of meals vehicles shall be on website, and there shall be purple envelopes out there to fill with money and feed to the lion dancers. SL
(Phinney Neighborhood Affiliation, Phinney Ridge, free)
PARTIES & NIGHTLIFE
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We do not want a selected motive to have fun Beyoncé. Nonetheless, final weekend she was lastly awarded a Grammy for Album of the 12 months (regardless of being beforehand nominated within the class six occasions), additionally successful Greatest Nation Album, making her the primary Black lady to obtain the award. Honor Queen Bey’s newest Grammy wins at Neumos this weekend as DJs Stas THEE Boss and JusMoni spin tracks from Cowboy Carter. Remember your boots and cowboy hats! Western apparel is extremely inspired.
(Neumos, Capitol Hill, $5-$10)
READINGS & TALKS
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Oakland-based cartoonist and highschool instructor Brianna Loewinsohn will current Raised By Ghosts, her new and charming “graphic memoir of adolescence” that follows her troubled center college years within the early ’90s. She’ll be joined in dialog by Thien Pham, whose graphic memoir Household Fashion: Recollections of an American from Vietnam paperwork the lifetime of a Vietnamese boy’s connection to varied meals after immigrating to California. (“Behind each reduce of steak and inside each croissant lies a narrative,” Macmillan Publishers explains.) LC
(Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery, Georgetown, free)
VISUAL ART
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You may have to 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 the whole lot from conventional Khmer krama scarves to outdated picket hat stands to interrogate commodity, sentimentality, and “unpack the intergenerational trauma of rising up in predominantly white middle-class suburban America a toddler 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)
FILM
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For a movie that’s sexiness personified, look no additional than The Starvation—the ’83 horror follows Catherine Deneuve as a ravenous vamp torn between two extraordinary hotties, performed by David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. (I might have a tough time selecting, too.) Scream queens Mae Flood and Princess Charming will add their signature wit to this slinky screening. LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, $14)
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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 nighttime as to their true meanings. Such is the mark of an artist who was utterly devoted to originality and curiosity; an artist who meditated, recited optimistic affirmations, made cool furnishings, and actually, actually needed his viewer to return 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 dying at 78. The Beacon’s assortment of “Lynch’s biggest interviews, oddities, documentary items, brief 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 probably the most atrophied, cobwebbed components of your consciousness. Within the phrases of Lynch himself, “Repair your coronary heart or die.” LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, $5)
FOOD & DRINK
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I am not an enormous fan of soccer or Taylor Swift, however it does heat my coronary heart to overhear outdated males speaking about how Taylor Swift’s foray into the soccer world has given them one thing to attach with their granddaughters over. In case you’re on the lookout for a family-friendly place to cheer on Kansas Metropolis or Philly, or (let’s be actual) see how Taylor Swift reacts to all of it, the Bale Breaker & Yonder Cider taproom is the place to be. You may take pleasure in tasty cider, seize a sizzling canine, make a friendship bracelet, and play “Taylor Bingo” in your probability to win prizes all through the sport. SL
(Bale Breaker & Yonder Taproom, Ballard, free)
PARTIES & NIGHTLIFE
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Queer/Bar will problem the Sunday scaries and the worst components 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 Pageant. Every Sunday in January and February, Jane Do not shall be joined by a rotating panel to evaluate the dolls. Pupusa (la reina Salvadoreña de Seattle), bearded glamazon Kenzie, babydoll monster MiMi Gina, and others will slay the home down with totally different themes every week. LC
(Queer Bar, Capitol Hill, $5 recommended cowl)
FILM
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It is 1997, the island of Manhattan is now a most safety jail, and the president has been taken hostage by hostile inmates. Who else however soldier-turned-criminal Snake Plissken may save the day? This dirty futuristic imaginative and prescient from director John Carpenter stars Kurt Russell as Snake, whose rescue mission is an off-the-wall mishmash of gripping motion and utter weirdness. LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, $12, Friday–Saturday)
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I might pay to observe Colman Domingo fold laundry for 2 hours, so Sing Sing is hardly a tricky promote, however the story sounds heartfelt and provoking, too. Domingo stars as a wrongfully incarcerated prisoner on the infamous Sing Sing Correctional Facility, the place he finds his calling by appearing in a therapeutic theater group. (The movie’s story relies on the Rehabilitation Via Arts (RTA) program, which has been operational at Sing Sing since ’96.) Sing Sing additionally affords a refreshingly empathetic lens: Most of the actors within the A24 movie are previously incarcerated members within the real-life RTA program. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, $7-$14, Friday–Sunday)
FOOD & DRINK
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The restaurant trade is feeling particularly susceptible because the Trump administration threatens to implement mass deportations throughout the nation. Final week the New York Instances wrote, “In a 2024 information transient, the Nationwide Restaurant Affiliation reported that 21 p.c of restaurant staff in the USA have been immigrants.” They add that the Middle for Migration Research estimates that unauthorized staff account for a further a million workers. It is such a staggering pile of terrifying bullshit, it may be onerous to know the way to even start to assist those that are most impacted. Nicely, one factor you are able to do? Eat. This weekend, greater than 100 native eating places, cafes, bars, and bakeries will come collectively for a large fundraiser to assist immigrant rights, with companies throughout the Puget Sound area committing to donate no less than a portion of their gross sales to the Northwest Immigrant Rights Mission. The record of members is severely so large—and rising!—that organizers needed to make it right into a Google map as a result of they ran out of room to place all of them on a flier. Three days, three meals a day, in addition to some espresso and treats? You are able to do some severe snacking for trigger. STRANGER MANAGING EDITOR MEGAN SELING
(Varied areas, Friday–Sunday)
SHOPPING
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Nothing fairly says “I like you” like attempting on outsized classic jackets and complimenting one another. The Georgetown Trailer Park Mall is celebrating love in your mates, foes, and native crafters each weekend in February with the theme “Huge Hearted.” Pick the proper reward in your particular somebody(s), and do not forget to cease by Shotgun Ceremonies if you happen to’re seeking to get hitched in what could be the one transport container marriage ceremony chapel within the nation. SL
(Georgetown Trailer Park Mall, Georgetown, free, Saturday–Sunday)
VISUAL ART
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SOIL, Seattle’s longest-running nonprofit artist-run house, is a stable alternative in 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. Take into account it a chance to remain up-to-date on who’s who within the up to date artwork neighborhood. Plus, there is a twist—in Controllables, “every artist has been introduced collectively serendipitously, beforehand unfamiliar with every others’ work, presenting us with a state of affairs, a query, or a puzzle, honoring the opportunity of the unpredictable.” I am enthusiastic about Monté’s Styrofoam citadel 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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Winter is a stunning time to go to Bainbridge Island—the quieter season infuses the island with a relaxed, serene allure. If I have been you, I might seize a latte from a comfortable cafe, benefit from the surroundings sans summer season crowds, after which head to the Bainbridge Island Museum of Artwork, the place visitor curator Fancy Vargas has conceived a gaggle exhibition to “discover, have fun, and elevate the wonder and radiance of Blackness as an expertise.” Radiant Reflections: Celebrating the Great thing about the African Diaspora guarantees complexity; anticipate a “multifaceted” portrayal of Black resilience, and contemplate attending the January 18 panel with exhibiting artists for added context. LC
(Bainbridge Island Museum of Artwork, Bainbridge Island, free, Friday–Sunday)
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The place was Seattle-based photographer Nate Gowdy on January 6? I am going to provide you with one guess, however it’s not as a result of he aimed to rampage the Capitol. Taking pictures on task for Rolling Stone, Gowdy documented the surreal proceedings of the day, capturing militants “marching, kneeling in prayer, posing for group images, breaking for hotdogs,” and extra. WITNESS: Nate Gowdy’s Lens on January sixth, 2021 shares Gowdy’s stark black-and-white photojournalism of the dystopian chaos. You could be inclined to keep away from the feel-bad imagery, however the exhibition challenges viewers to “confront the complexities of identification, energy, and the fragility of democratic beliefs.” It is price an extended look. LC
(Spectrum Wonderful Artwork, Madrona, free, Friday–Saturday)
