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COMEDY
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Virtually Yours feels just like the sarcastic sister of I Noticed U, The Stranger‘s model of Craigslist Missed Connections. Should you’re a fan of the heart-eyed drama that transpires on both website, head to this improv present, which “brings near-misses and ‘what ifs’ to life on stage” and is impressed by real-life unstated connections. It is the proper place to cry-laugh about what may have been. LC
(Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown, $15)
FOOD & DRINK
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Phaze Mud, an Imperial Hazy IPA with “acquainted citrus notes” and “candy hints of candied peach, mango, and tangerine,” is the newest launch in Elysian’s House Mud IPA sequence. To mark the event, they’re serving up a limited-run menu designed to pair with Phaze Mud, together with a trippy laser present, immersive visuals, and a dwell DJ. JB
(Elysian Brewing Firm, Capitol Hill, free)
LIVE MUSIC
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On her newest album Electrical Bouquet, Nebraska-born singer-songwriter Anna McClellan evokes indie folks favorites like Waxahatchee and Esther Rose with poetic lyricism about her experiences attending electrician college and transferring throughout the nation. She’s going to help the album alongside Olympia-based vocalist Kelsey Magnuson and native indie pop artist Shermy. AV
(Woodland Theater, Phinney Ridge, $10-15 donation)
PARTIES & NIGHTLIFE
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The ’60-themed DJ night time Boots will rejoice its third anniversary with a far-out birthday bash that includes go-go dancers, mod decor, and groovy tunes from the area age soundtracked by classic vinyl DJs (and Boots founders) Maxwell Edison and Sarah Savannah. Remember to decorate to impress! I am speaking paper attire, vogue helmets, and large assertion earrings. AV
(Sundown Tavern, Ballard, $15-$18)
VISUAL ART
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Should you’ve known as Seattle house for some time, chances are high you do not go to the House Needle as typically as you as soon as did. However this Friday, there is a dazzling motive to look within the Needle’s route: GuideStar, an immersive laser mild set up by artists Mendi + Keith. (You may watch the set up from Seattle Middle’s Worldwide Fountain garden, however it would even be seen from wherever you may see the House Needle.) Commissioned by Wa Na Wari, the starry paintings will illuminate the sky with 30 laser beams capturing from the highest of the observational tower on March 14 at 7:30 pm. The 2-hour expertise will mix ambient music with the mesmerizing beams, which Mendi + Keith devised by inspiration from celestial information stars. LC
(Seattle Middle, Uptown, free)
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Kirsten Anderson opened Roq La Rue in 1998 in a rundown Belltown storefront that was slated for demolition. It was proper across the time pop surrealism was beginning to turn into common, and it was the place to see artists similar to Femke Hiemstra, Todd Schorr, Mark Ryden, and Jim Woodring. Twenty-seven years later, after organising store in Capitol Hill, Pioneer Sq., and, most not too long ago, Madison Valley, Anderson is returning to her Belltown roots. The most recent incarnation of Roq La Rue opens March 14, in a 2,500-square-foot area contained in the NW Work Lofts on Denny Manner. Anderson’s marking the event with three completely different exhibits: Spectacle du Petit, a set of small works from a number of artists, Unveiled, that includes large-scale work by Beth Cavener, Josie Morway, Carles Gomila, and Jason Puccinelli, in addition to Frank Gonzales’s solo present Frequencies. When interviewing Anderson in 2023, to mark the gallery’s twenty fifth anniversary, I requested, “What’s subsequent? One other 25 years?” She chuckled and mentioned, “I’m most likely doing this till I die.” Viva Roq la Rue! STRANGER MANAGING EDITOR MEGAN SELING
(Roq La Rue, Belltown, free)
COMMUNITY
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LED lamps be damned, as a result of you may attempt beating SAD with SAM once more this 12 months. The artwork museum will supply free, first-come, first-serve wellness actions on choose Saturdays this winter to assist guests battle the drab seasonal doldrums. Drag your self off the bed and head to Olympic Sculpture Park for an intriguing menu of choices, together with workshops and dwell performances on Saturday evenings and sound baths, dancing, installations, and extra on “exercise days.” LC
(Olympic Sculpture Park, Belltown, free)
LIVE MUSIC
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Portland Mercury columnist Jenni Moore writes: “We’re traditionally followers of Portland band Evening Heron’s smooth heat tones and laid again grooves, just like the psychedelic, R&B-informed synth pop on their 2021 full-length Directions for the Evening; the album gives a superb late-night playlist, or the suitable sounds for learning, studying, or driving. Hell, at occasions it’s soothing sufficient to go to sleep to.” The ethereal “sleepcore” quintet will return to Seattle with new materials from their forthcoming album, ESCAPISM (out Could 9) with opening units from psych-pop band High-quality Arts, rapper Lil Lebowski, and digital rock challenge nonetheless fade.
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(Baba Yaga, Pioneer Sq., $12)
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Aquíestoy is the challenge of multi-instrumentalist, singer, and rapper Carlos Snaider, who goals to “[explore] encounters of the current second by intimate and elemental expressions of sound, language, rhythms, and songs.” In anticipation of his forthcoming self-titled album, Snaider might be joined by synth wizard Souschef and drummers Rocky Martin and Mario Layne Fabrizio for a night of avant-Latin soundscapes impressed by “diaspora, macro and microcosm, English and Spanish, being misplaced in translation, silence, subjectivity, and the upper self.” AV
(Good Shepherd Middle/Chapel Efficiency House, Wallingford, $5-$20 donation upfront/at door)
PERFORMANCE
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Introduced as a part of Indian-born, Seattle-based artist Shruti Ghatak’s portray and sculptural exhibition Myths to Mundane, this kathak dance efficiency might be set to dwell music by celebrated tabla participant Ravi Albright. Dancer Pooja Ganesh will prepared the ground with a mesmerizing, narrative-inspired kathak efficiency “that has been handed on to her by her Gurus by generations.” Afterward, she’ll conduct a dance workshop. I am hoping to be taught extra concerning the rapid-paced chakkars (spins) which are a signature of the kathak kind. LC
(King Avenue Station, SoDo, free)
SHOPPING
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The Capitol Hill Swap Meet, or CHASM, pops up each third Saturday on fifteenth in a former High quality Meals Middle now dwelling a brand new life because the High quality Flea Middle. The swap meet gives zines, prints, and loads of classic clothes and jewellery to peruse. You can too browse quirky wares from bumper stickers that’ll garner a double take to handcrafted miniature clay magnets. Remember to convey reusable luggage to hold all of your finds! SL
(High quality Flea Middle, Capitol Hill, Donate at Entrance)
ST. PATRICK’S DAY
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Be part of town in celebrating Irish heritage on the 54th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, which is bound to be a really inexperienced, very healthful march by downtown. The parade begins at Fourth Avenue and James and travels north to Westlake Park—after the festivities, we advocate you retain heading north to take a look at the Irish Competition going down on the Armory all weekend. SL
(4th and James, Downtown, free)
VISUAL ART
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Make amends for the Henry’s newest exhibition—San Francisco-based multimedia artist Josh Faught’s tactile, ephemeral present Sanctuary—on the gallery’s spring open home. Artist-poet Mita Mahato will lead a drop-in artmaking workshop, the Seattle Trans and Nonbinary Choral Ensemble (STANCE) will belt out some highly effective choral tunes, and guests can scope out “hardly ever seen objects” from the gathering within the reopened Eleanor Henry Reed Assortment Examine Middle. It is a straightforward alternative to pop in your first spring ‘match and impress your mates with all of your cool up to date artwork data. LC
(Henry Artwork Gallery, College District, free)
FILM
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An intriguing Sundance hit you most likely haven’t heard of premiered almost 30 years in the past. Women City, led by Lili Taylor, Bruklin Harris, Anna Grace, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, follows highschool seniors as they prep for the true world in New York Metropolis. In accordance with The Beacon, Women City can also be “one of many first movies of its form to frankly tackle sexual violence as girls expertise it,” regardless of being directed by debut filmmaker Jim McKay. The approaching-of-age story and frank portrayal of patriarchal tradition hits a fever pitch because of an electrifying all-female soundtrack—actually, I’d present up only for ’90s legends like Queen Latifah, PJ Harvey, and Salt-N-Pepa. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, $12.50)
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The Beacon’s Sunday afternoon traditional cinema sequence continues this month with a Frye Artwork Museum partnership. The organizations have curated a sequence of Marilyn greats—assume Some Like It Sizzling, Niagara, and The Misfits—to complement artist Natalie Krick’s Boren banner, which deconstructs classic Vogue Marilyn Monroe portraits in a advanced strategy of masking, patterning, and layering, subverting the ability imbalance and inherent voyeurism of the unique photographs. The most effective half concerning the Frye’s Boren banners—billboard-sized works sited going through Boren Avenue—is you can view the paintings anytime. Earlier than the screening, drive by the Frye to scope it out in particular person. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, $12.50)
LIVE MUSIC
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Lemon Boy’s “Guitar Middle (Sucks)” is likely one of the biggest fuck-yous to know-it-all guitar bros that I’ve ever heard. Not solely does the band specific their annoyance by an especially catchy laborious rock jam (à la the Runaways “Cherry Bomb”), additionally they showcase their musicianship with a medley of common guitar riffs you can hear performed at Guitar Middle at any given time (“Smoke on the Water,” “Seven Nation Military,” and “Loopy Prepare”). The band will take over the Cha-Cha for a free present alongside like-minded locals Enjoyable Dad and mom and Crybabysitter. AV
(Cha Cha Lounge, free)
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In contrast to her beforehand launched acoustic works, Ellensburg-born singer-songwriter Star Anna’s new album Love & Intercourse & Concern Of Demise roars with plugged-in guitars and vocal belts that invite comparability to PJ Harvey and Brandi Carlile. She’s going to play tracks from the album in partnership with the mentorship program Sharing the Stage, which hyperlinks skilled artists with aspiring excessive school-aged musicians. Do not miss opening units from Sharing the Stage artists Ellie Grace, Alter Expressions, Sheer, and Paper Lower. AV
(The Royal Room, Columbia Metropolis, $15)
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Simply earlier than heading throughout the pond on their European tour, Seattle-based dance-punk trio Zookraught will play a hometown present supporting their new album, VIDA VIOLET. As a result of the band recurrently modifications up vocal duties, the album’s sound ranges from Rage Towards the Machine-style rap metallic to L7-esque feminist punk. Nevertheless, the album is cohesively bratty, high-energy, and genuine to their ’90s influences. They are going to be joined by hardcore trio S.W.A.G. (Sewage Waste and Women), punk outfit Karōshi, and self-identified “Bolivian fronted band of queer noise freaks,” Miscomings. AV
(Black Lodge, South Lake Union, $19.06)
ST. PATRICK’S DAY
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West Seattle deserves its personal St. Patrick’s occasion, so family-friendly taproom Ounces is internet hosting an all-day affair, kicking off with an Irish line dance class and inexperienced enjoyable run alongside the Alki Path at midday. Take pleasure in specials from smashburger joint Burbs Burgers, $6 draft Guinness, and green-dyed beer and cider. Preserve a watch out for pots o’ gold! SL
(Ounces, North Delridge, free)
FILM
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Ingmar Bergman swapped toy troopers for a film projector as a baby, igniting an odd and lifelong obsession with shadows, faces, and the silent depth of emotion. Bergman’s movies had been worshipped by just about each director you already know—Fellini, Kurosawa, and Kubrick amongst them. Even the reclusive painter Andrew Wyeth noticed Bergman as a kindred spirit. My advice? Present your self just a few moments to hunt the metaphysical throughout the mundane this month. SIFF Cinema Uptown’s sequence consists of screenings of Summer season with Monika, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Persona, and private favourite Winter Gentle. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Tickets $15, passes $92-$132, Friday–Sunday)
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Preserve Eggers’ Christmas vibes rolling proper into March with the bald, spidery, and downright yucky Rely Orlok in F.W. Murnau’s eerie 1922 traditional Nosferatu. Werner Herzog as soon as described it as “the best German movie,” and he ought to know, proper? This screening might be slightly completely different, although—Silents Synched pairs traditional silent flicks with “epic rock music.” One of the vital overtly millennial issues about me is that I like Radiohead, particularly their atmospheric aughts-era albums Child A and Amnesiac. So, I am really okay with this. The albums ought to add mysterious new layers of sonic depth to the 102-year-old movie. LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, $12, Friday–Sunday)
FOOD & DRINK
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Run, do not stroll: The sought-after Texas-style barbecue joint Grasslands Barbecue (which acquired its begin because the Seattle pop-up Bootleg Barbecue and now operates a brick-and-mortar in Hood River, Oregon) is coming again to Seattle this weekend and can serve dishes like tasso pulled pork, hatch chile cheddar sausages, and picnic potatoes (a smoked cheese hash brown casserole, topped with blackened butter cornflakes). Should you’ve missed pitmaster Drew Marquis’s mouthwatering smoked meats or have not gotten an opportunity to attempt them but, we extremely advocate you get in line early, as it would most likely promote out quick. JB
(Holy Mountain Brewing, Interbay, Friday–Sunday)
SPORTS & RECREATION
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Get up babe, Seattle’s greatest new date exercise simply dropped. The limited-run occasion Smash Putt returns with 9 new mini-golf holes constructed by native makers, designers, and artwork collectives. Putt by holes with immersive themes like “Yr of the Snake,” “Summer season Sizzle,” and “Battleship” when you sip drinks curated by Belltown taproom Simply The Faucet. As somebody who’s been underwhelmed by Seattle’s mini-golf choices after experiencing the delights of City Putt in San Francisco, I am excited to take a look at this promising course that the creators name “pure hootenanny” and “an absurdly good time.” SL
(Base Camp Studios 2, Belltown, $15, Friday–Sunday)
ST. PATRICK’S DAY
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The Irish Competition is taking up the Armory this weekend in honor of St. Patrick’s Day! Take a look at dwell music and dance performances from quite a lot of native teams just like the Hanz Araki Band and Fireplace & Ice Irish Dance Firm. Upstairs within the lofts, you’ll discover tin whistle tutorials, family tree workshops, Irish literature readings, and a chat entitled “Synthetic Stupidity: The Ignored Historical past of Eire’s ‘Tech Bros’, Sisters, and Disruptors.” Guests may also catch movie screenings, together with The Cable That Modified The World, a documentary concerning the first transatlantic communication cable. SL
(Seattle Middle, Uptown, free, Saturday–Sunday)
VISUAL ART
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Norwegian artist Anne-Karin Furunes, who developed a “signature strategy of perforating canvas or metallic” over her three-decade profession, will present work in her first US solo exhibition since 2010. In Illuminating Nordic Archives, the artist’s new work are impressed by botanist Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen’s autochrome pictures of Svalbard, a frigid Norwegian archipelago “located between the North Pole and Norway.” With a watch towards the local weather disaster, glacial recession, and ice calving, Furunes’ atmospheric compositions recall the halftone printing course of. LC
(Nationwide Nordic Museum, Ballard, $0-$20, Saturday–Sunday; opening)
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Ricky Allman, a.p. gath, Melissa Monroe, Jesse Reno, and others will discover the “efficiency and dichotomies of notion, reminiscence, and the imagined” on this group present, which blends compelling portray, pictures, and textile components. I am particularly enthusiastic about Bean Gilsdorf’s contributions to As We Imagined—I final noticed the multimedia artist’s hand-dyed cotton collages in 2024, and Gilsdorf’s works for this present appear equally cheeky and colourful. Melissa Monroe’s unhappy zebra is one other stunner. LC
(AMcE Inventive Arts, Miller Park, free, Friday–Sunday; closing)
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I respect bravery in artwork, and in the cocoon tightens, Alex Department and Pablo V. Cazares envision their very own transformations. Let’s goooo! Department, whose web site I spent altogether an excessive amount of time exploring, presents sculptures that “appeared to lure her physique in ice” following an damage, and RISD MFA candidate Cazares’ gender transition echoes as he swathes his physique in “life-sized chrysalises.” The outcomes are earthy, tactile, and shocking. LC
(The Vestibule, Ballard, free, Friday–Saturday; closing)
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Buzzy Ballard gallery Get Good has determined that spring has sprung, equinox be damned. Their newest group present, reBLOOM, opened on March 8 for the Ballard Artwork Stroll, that includes a bouquet of contemporary artworks by over 20 artists. I am excited to see items by Brandon Vosika, whose portray graced the duvet of The Stranger‘s Fall Arts + Efficiency concern, and Portland-grown painter-illustrator Ryan Bubnis, amongst many different native and further-flung faves. Cannot make it to the gallery? You may peep the seasonal works on-line, too. LC
(Get Good Gallery, Ballard, free, Friday–Sunday)
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Annually, the historic Sou’wester Lodge invitations artists to experiment with supplies, works-in-progress, and the setting for a week-long residency that culminates in a weekend of studio excursions, installations, and performances. Rejoice a shift towards brighter spring days with a day journey to Seaview and have interaction with new works by a various vary of artists at Sou’wester, Ilwaco Artworks, and Wave Preschool—all occasions might be open to the general public. I am excited to scope new work by Epiphany Sofa, Jakelen Diaz, Mathew Vlach, and Julia Barbee. LC
(The Sou’wester Lodge, Seaview, free, Friday–Sunday)
