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FOOD & DRINK
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It is time as soon as once more to snuggle into your most luxurious outsized knitwear and sip soul-warming drinks prefer it’s your job. Fortunate Envelope has you coated with three cozy new seasonal releases—Gingerbread Cream Stout, Tmavé Czech Darkish Lager and Buddha’s Hand Citron IPA. Must you work up an urge for food, the meals truck El Tacky Taco will sling its fromage-rich Mexican fare from 4:30-8 pm. JB
(Fortunate Envelope Brewing, West Woodland, free)
LIVE MUSIC
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Textures is the improvisational mission of avant-jazz veteran Lu Evers, bassist Domenic Chiaverini, and guitarist Tom Scully (of noise-rock duo CSTMR) who discover “the timbre and material of sound” by means of “nuance and undulation.” I extremely suggest utilizing this efficiency as a chance to meditate—shut your eyes, take a deep inhale, and let the gifted musicians take you to a distinct realm. AV
(Good Shepherd Heart/Chapel Efficiency Area, Wallingford, $5-$20 donation on the door)
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Chillwave jack of all trades Ernest Weatherly Greene Jr., aka Washed Out, will cease by to assist his newest album Notes from a Quiet Life. The album pulls conceptual inspiration from summary visible artists like Donald Judd, Cy Twombly, Barbara Hepworth, and Henry Moore, in addition to his newly embraced quiet life within the Georgia countryside. “Experimenting with portray and sculpture helps my music,” he explains. “I do not wish to look again on my life someday, and be like, ‘Oh, it was all about maximizing productiveness’—I wish to take pleasure in this.” The studio session is free and open to the general public, however admission is restricted—you have been warned! Snag your tickets in particular person 90 minutes earlier than the set (or simply watch it on YouTube afterward). AV
(KEXP, Uptown, free)
PERFORMANCE
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The “longest-running drag present in Washington State historical past” has a brand new dwelling, and it solely is sensible that the Unicorn would host the who’s-who of Seattle’s drag scene. This weekly present will host a few of the metropolis’s greatest drag names, together with Ladie Chablis, Londyn Bradshaw, Miss Texas 1988, Amora Namor, and LüChi. LC
(Unicorn, Capitol Hill, free)
READINGS & TALKS
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If Portland Metropolis Illustrator had been a job, I would need that function to go to Carson Ellis—one thing embedded within the Rose Metropolis-based artist’s naturalistic, folk-inspired, muted, but richly detailed aesthetic falls in excellent concord with the Pacific Northwest panorama. Ellis’ grownup debut is an illustrated memoir stuffed with work depicting reminiscences from a 20-something-year-old journal. One Week in January digs into Ellis’ first experiences residing in a Portland warehouse within the early 2000s, throughout which period she met future hubby Colin Meloy (who, as I am guessing you realize, fronts the Decemberists and penned Wildwood). LC
(Elliott Bay E book Firm, Capitol Hill, free)
COMEDY
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On-line courting is notoriously bizarre, awkward, and uncomfortable. Swipe Proper pokes enjoyable on the complete rigamarole. For this improv present, two courageous (like, actually courageous) souls will share their courting profiles with the viewers by way of projector. Then a forged of improvisers will devise a humorous set based mostly on the profile particulars. Who wants love if you’ve received laughs? LC
(Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown, $15)
COMMUNITY
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The Hmong neighborhood marks the tip of the harvest season with a brand new yr celebration full with conventional dancing and songs, ornate clothes, and pov pob, a ball-toss recreation. On the Armory, take a look at an exhibit of artifacts and embroidery introduced in partnership with the Burke Museum and chow down on meals from native distributors like I Coronary heart Hmong Sausage and Sap Sap Lao Deli & Café. The daytime pageant runs till 5 pm, that includes a papaya consuming contest and vogue present, adopted by a night live performance with quite a lot of singers and DJs beginning at 7 pm. SL
(Seattle Heart, Uptown, free)
FILM
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Gummo‘s dirty, feel-bad nature is a part of its appeal—Concord Korine’s ’97 flick was named the worst movie of the yr by the New York Instances, which is strictly why I like it. Foretelling what would turn out to be Korine’s lengthy profession of weirdo subversion, the movie follows the residents of a forgotten Ohio city stuffed with bigots, hedonists, and perverts. However Korine’s purpose is not simply shock worth; he at all times makes an effort to humanize his characters, regardless of how grody. (Chloe Sevigny’s on this one, if you happen to require a extra palatable cause to test it out.) LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, $12.50)
FOOD & DRINK
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I gotta focus, I am shifting into soup mode. Cookbook creator and “soup woman” Caroline Wright, who acquired a terminal mind most cancers analysis in 2017, will arrange in entrance of E book Larder and sling cozy, soul-soothing goodness impressed by her underground soup membership and her cookbooks, Soup Membership and Seconds. All proceeds go towards glioblastoma analysis on the American Mind Tumor Affiliation. JB
(E book Larder, Fremont)
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The Los Angeles-based collective Westside Winos, who curate the wine choice on the Italian deli and restaurant Darkalino’s, will oversee this natty wine social gathering. Look ahead to sips, glasses, and bottles, plus small bites from Darkalino’s. The lineup contains choices from a 2023 Dundee Hills pinot noir from White Walnut Property, a 2022 vermentino from En Cavale, a 2023 Bloom Section pink from California-based iruai wine (considered one of my favourite wineries), and a fizzy pink rosé of pinot noir pet-nat 2022 from Johan Vineyards. DJ Disco Diz will set the temper. JB
(Darkalino’s, Pioneer Sq., free)
LIVE MUSIC
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Lilly Miller is an Iowa-based singer-songwriter who evokes modern people favorites Laura Marling, Phoebe Bridgers, and Haley Heynderickx with emotional croons and delicately picked guitars. I extremely suggest including her 2021 EP The Idiot to your autumn playlist—the ethereal people songs have the rhythm of twirling leaves falling from a tree. She shall be joined by fellow people singer-songwriters Jeremy Ferrera and St. Yuma. AV
(The Rabbit Field Theatre, Pike Place Market, $15)
SPORTS & RECREATION
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Hockey is a quick recreation with a small puck and it is typically laborious to comply with every thing that is occurring on the ice. For simply 15 bucks, spend a day watching Kraken gamers show particular expertise in quite a lot of challenges, from taking pictures accuracy to breakaways. On-ice actions embody a relay race and 3-on-3 scrimmage, and all through the sector, you may get a photograph with Buoy and even make your personal Kraken hockey buying and selling card. For some enjoyable intrateam rivalry, followers are invited to decide on between the beloved goalkeepers and declare themselves Staff Grubi or Staff Joey for the day. SL (Local weather Pledge Enviornment, Uptown, $15)
VISUAL ART
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I am a long-time fan of Gretchen Frances Bennett’s deceptively easy coloured pencil compositions, which mix natural parts (flora, pure phenomena) to consider human emotion, interiority, and the way we is likely to be extra like flowers than we predict. Though Bennett’s flora-inspired works are alluring, I am significantly pulled towards this drawing impressed by Wong Kar-wai’s Completely happy Collectively. The picture’s hazy, blended colour subject appears to be like as if it has been rained on; nonetheless, there is a potent sense of relationship and tactile reminiscence right here. Bennett’s drawings really feel like well-loved pictures: smudged, folded up, and stored secure in a pockets. LC
(Veronica, Mount Baker, free; by appointment)
FOOD & DRINK
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When you’ve got a bounty of apples, pears, grapes, or different fruit rising in your yard and wish to rework it right into a refreshing juice, convey it to Republic Cider’s neighborhood urgent day, together with a container. Their resident consultants will train you the best way to mill and press your produce, and you may take dwelling your very personal do-it-yourself nectar. JB
(Republic of Cider, SoDo, free)
EXHIBIT
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Brat summer time is lastly behind us, which implies it is time for what EverOut music calendar editor Audrey Vann calls “scorching troll fall.” Seattle Japanese Backyard is the perfect place to put on a sweater and stroll like a cute little troll among the many autumnal bushes, simply as their leaves begin to tackle tinges of pink and gold. When you’re busy being troll-like, shuffle over to okirie (paper-cutting) artist Kanako Abe’s poetic solo exhibition Flower, Hen, Wind, Moon, a group of meticulous, season-appropriate paper-cut compositions. The serene, introspective present’s title is pulled from the Japanese philosophy of kachou fūgetsu, which is usually interpreted as “experiencing the fantastic thing about nature” or “discovering your self in nature.” I really feel calmer already. LC
(Seattle Japanese Backyard, Madison Park, $10, Friday–Sunday)
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Seattle-based dance firm El Sueño (“the dream” in Spanish) curated this colourful exhibition of Mexican Indigenous artwork. Noches De Anáhuac is a hymn for Mexican “traditions, colours, and tales handed right down to our current technology”—the present contains works by engaged native creators like Tlalokan, Devin Muñoz, Maribel Galvan, Tessa Bañales, and Alicia Mullikin, together with images, movie, sculpture, textiles, carpentry, work, and extra. LC
(King Avenue Station, SoDo, free, Friday–Saturday; opening)
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It is a rule akin to “shut up and get off your telephone within the movie show.” Do not contact the artwork. We have heard this since without end, proper? This is applicable in each gallery setting, proper? WRONG. Please Contact: Collectively, Breaking Limitations invitations viewers to the touch the art work on show, aiming to “elevate consciousness about accessibility for blind and low-vision people within the arts” by facilitating a tactile expertise. Viewers are inspired to “shut their eyes, use their open palms, and gently stroke their art work, describing the which means it holds for them,” which sounds downright blissful. LC
(King Avenue Station, SoDo, free, Friday–Saturday)
FILM
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Returning with extra horny shorts and feature-length movies this yr, the appropriately named SECS Fest will proceed to advertise intercourse positivity (and no, not simply the cishet, male-gazey variety) with an array of intriguing erotic flicks. Attempt thrilling your eyeballs with ’82 avant-garde archival function Café Flesh, which is able to display screen in a brand new 4K restoration, or Hidden Flora, which follows Roxii, a “queer/trans hopeless romantic.” LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, $12, Friday–Sunday)
SHOPPING
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Kind A of us, Virgos, and everybody else who relishes planning forward shall be pleased to know that they will kick off their vacation purchasing early, and in fashion, at this three-day artwork market. Over 100 creatives will share their ceramics, fiber artwork, jewellery, and extra within the light-filled, historic Magnuson Park Hangar 30, and meals vehicles will put up up all through the weekend. Those that choose a head begin on their head begin also can snag tickets to the “VIP preview,” which incorporates complimentary mimosas, pastries, and first dibs on artwork. LC
(Magnuson Park Hangar 30, Sand Level, $3-$20, Friday–Sunday)
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Oddmall just isn’t your peculiar craft present. Celebrating creativeness, creativity, and simply plain weirdness, the present is proudly located within the “between-the-holidays” time—if you nonetheless have a pumpkin in your porch and do not know if it is too quickly to place up Christmas lights. Store from over 170 distributors promoting items from D&D-themed jerky to creepy-yet-cute dioramas, snag a selfie with Krampus, enter the “Second Probability” costume contest, take a spin on the prize wheel of future, and extra. You may be taught LARPing sword fundamentals, take a look at yo-yo and juggling performances, and cheer on the Witches of Skagit throughout their “cosplay line dancing” routine. SL
(Evergreen State Fairgrounds, Monroe, free, Saturday–Sunday)
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Image this: you are curled up at dwelling knitting with hand-dyed yarn, surrounded by beeswax candles, and noshing on buljona pīrāgi (actually “soup dumplings” in Latvian, however truly nearer to a beef-filled turnover). You could find all these wares at this yr’s installment of the Latvian Christmas bazaar, together with conventional people dance performances, Latvian books, and crafts like puzuri or straw ornaments. SL
(Latvian Group Heart, Northgate, free, Saturday–Sunday)
VISUAL ART
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The Henry’s newest exhibition reimagines the function of sunshine in images, not merely as a “beacon of reality” however as an lively power that shapes, conceals, and distorts our perceptions. Featured artists like Karen Truax and Manuel Lucero study how mild reveals hidden layers of reality by shifting typical senses of area, identification, and time. With intentional overexposures, shadows, and subtle glows, their works additionally problem mild’s affiliation with objectivity. Head to Overexposures to glimpse the layered, advanced relationship between mild and actuality—the present contains experimental works from the Henry’s collections, together with photographs by Aneta Grzeszykowska and Arthur S. Siegel. LC
(Henry Artwork Gallery, College District, free, Friday–Sunday)
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For those who lately watched The Substance, Caroline Fargeat’s twisted, skin-ripping strike at youth obsession, do artists Holly Ballard Martz and Paul D. McKee have the exhibition for you. (And if you have not seen The Substance, it’s best to. Contemplate it prep work for this present.) Preserved continues to ponder our “futile makes an attempt” at clutching to youthfulness, connecting injectables to bigger concepts of preservation and reminiscence. The present’s preview photographs function works with hooks and holes and bottled specimens and phrases like “plump” and “taut.” I’m squicked out already, which looks like a very good signal. LC
(The Vestibule, Ballard, free, Friday–Saturday; closing)
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For those who assume STÖR is a parody of a sure meatball-serving Swedish mega-retailer, you would be proper—nevertheless it’s greater than that, too. The labyrinthine Base Camp Studios mission was imagined as an “immersive rebrand of how we expertise, eat, and buy artwork.” Which means you possibly can discover and store the STÖR area whereas considering the confluence of commerce and creative manufacturing. Mary Anne Carter, Lilia Deering, and over 25 different collaborating artists have outfitted the set up with “surreal reinterpretations” of mass-produced dwelling items and decor. LC
(Base Camp Studios, Downtown, $15 prompt donation, Friday–Sunday)
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Fulgencio Lazo’s second solo exhibition at ArtX Up to date continues to showcase the artist’s ultra-vibrant, visually advanced fashion, knowledgeable by his cultural identification as a member of Mexico’s Indigenous Zapotec individuals and his hometown of Oaxaca. As an artist, Lazo is integral to the material of Seattle’s Latine cultural scene—he is participated in Day of the Useless celebrations on the Seattle Artwork Museum and the Tacoma Artwork Museum. Head to this exhibition to familiarize your self with an area legend. LC
(ArtX Up to date, SoDo, free, Friday–Saturday)
