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Musician/comic/actor/memoirist Reggie Watts is just not your father’s quadruple-threat entertainer—except your dad’s into surrealist humor, shockingly soulful funk (and parodies thereof), and ingenious beatboxing. Watts has maintained busy and diverse parallel careers in these fields as a result of his skills are as outsized as his Afro. Most likely finest identified to Seattle old-timers because the frontman for standard funk/soul group Maktub, Watts moved to NYC in 2004 and attained virality with hilarious parody tracks “Fuck Shit Stack” and “What About Blowjobs?” Many different incomparable songs (see 2010’s Why $#!+ So Loopy?) and stand-up gigs led to Watts incomes the bandleader position on The Late Late Present With James Corden in 2014. Watts’s musical strategy might be summarized by his tune title “Pastiche in Lieu of Originality”; however even his self-deprecation is misleading. Toggling between profundity and absurdity, Watts achieves the miraculous feat of turning spoofs of musical and comedic tropes into works of ridiculous uniqueness. It is laborious to foretell what Reggie will do onstage on the Showbox, however it’s going to definitely contain rarefied fusions of humor and sonics that may make the late Frank Zappa’s mustache twitch in approval. STRANGER CONTRIBUTOR DAVE SEGAL
The Showbox, Downtown (Fri Feb 7)
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One would possibly describe Tom Papa as a comic book with broad enchantment—he is a daily on each NPR’s Wait Wait… Do not Inform Me! and The Joe Rogan Expertise. The comedy veteran, who launched his second e-book, You’re Doing Nice! And Different Causes To Keep Alive, in 2020, will deliver extra of his level-headed model to the stage for this efficiency. LC
Moore Theatre, Belltown (Sat Feb 8)
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Nikki Glaser—Golden Globes host, Emmy-nommed blonde, and potty-mouthed legendary roaster (she’s made appearances on the roasts of Rob Lowe, Bruce Willis, and Alec Baldwin)—will drop by Tacoma to supply up extra delightfully crass observations. You will dig her model when you’re sick of Amy Schumer’s problematic shit however down for prolonged bits on the horror and devastation of studying about blowjobs. (“My mouth?! That’s the place sweet goes, I can’t imagine you’ll put a dick there!” stated Glaser in her Netflix particular Bangin’.) LC
Emerald Queen On line casino, Tacoma (Thurs Feb 13)
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It will not be “Fats Lil Slut Summer season” but, however prep your ‘matches anyway. Stavros Halkias, the spunky, Baltimore-born Greek American comedian who beforehand hosted the often-controversial “dirtbag left” podcast Cum City alongside fellow weirdos Adam Friedland and Nick Mullen, will take a break from “posting to social media like his profession is dependent upon it” (GQ, lol) to roast your five-year plan on stage. Here is your probability to examine in with the body-positive king earlier than he begins grilling once more. LC
Moore Theatre, Belltown (Fri Feb 28)
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From the Solar Ra-penned pioneering science fiction movie Area is the Place to the Reagan-era area oddity The Brother from One other Planet and Saul Williams’s punky imaginative and prescient Neptune Frost, Afrofuturist works have constructed imaginative worlds with Black freedom entrance and heart. This celebration of Black contributions to sci-fi cinema will embody a pop-up exhibition, a screening of Males in Black, and a chat on Black science fiction with “tradition firestarter” Ashanti Davis. LC
MoPOP, Uptown (Sat Feb 1)
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Seattle’s largest indoor night time market is celebrating Lunar New Yr 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 listing: testing the drunken lion dance, slurping sizzling noods, and choosing up some cute equipment as Valentine’s Day presents. There’ll even be a bar devoted to 2 of Seattle’s favourite issues: alcohol and boba—a dream come true! Common admission tickets are $15, however for ten bucks extra you may deal with your self to “all day completely satisfied hour,” which features a tote bag, two drink tickets, and a “bling ring.” SL
Magnuson Park Hangar 30, Sand Level (Sat Feb 8)
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This winter has been lengthy, however we have been granted stretches of sunny days, and the plum tree on my road is exhibiting off tiny pink blossoms, which supplies me hope that spring is not so distant. This yr’s Northwest Flower & Backyard Competition celebrates that forward-looking spirit, with over 20 show gardens constructed across the theme “Spring Dreamin'” and a market filled with plant infants simply begging to be taken residence. With over 115 seminars and talks from gardening specialists, I am hoping to lastly find out how to not kill each dwelling factor I deliver into my place. SL
Seattle Conference Heart, Downtown (Feb 19–23)
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The Chinatown-Worldwide District’s Lunar New Yr celebration is one in all my favorites. It has all of the scrumptious choices of their common meals walks, plus cultural performances, craft distributors, and a way of communal pleasure that is laborious to beat. Try the principle stage in Hing Hay Park for martial arts demonstrations alongside conventional dragon and lion dances, then slither via the crowds to get pleasure from worldwide delicacies and family-friendly actions (it’s the Yr of the Snake, in spite of everything). SL
Hing Hay Park, Chinatown-Worldwide District (Sat Feb 22)
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I’ve lengthy lamented the dearth of cinema set within the Center Ages. Certain, we have movies like Braveheart and Excalibur and Andrei Rublev, however the folks want extra medieval storytelling, dammit! (Because of this I am so enthusiastic about Robert Eggers’ subsequent undertaking.) Anyway, the Beacon appears to agree with me—they’re going to display screen tales of unicorns, dragons, and the Knights Templar to “interrogate the load conferred upon the grandest of all legends within the Darkish Ages and past: King Arthur and his quest for the Holy Grail.” LC
The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis (Feb 1–6)
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Thinkpieces be damned—we nonetheless do not perceive a lot concerning the oeuvre of surrealist auteur David Lynch. He famously did not clarify his movies, leaving us all at midnight as to their true meanings. Such is the mark of an artist who was fully 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 definitely nonetheless studying new issues about him, and by no means extra so than after his loss of life at 78. The Beacon’s assortment of “Lynch’s biggest interviews, oddities, documentary items, brief movies, music movies, rarities, and secret mysteries” gives a chance to ruminate on, and maybe complicate, the director’s story. It is a choice of works that’ll increase even essentially the most atrophied, cobwebbed elements of your consciousness. Within the phrases of Lynch himself, “Repair your coronary heart or die.” LC
The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis (Feb 1–9)
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Originating in 2018 as a partnership between the Nationwide Nordic Museum and the cultural affiliation Pacific Sámi Searvi, the Sámi Movie Competition has blossomed right into a hybrid occasion with intensive in-person and digital movie programming from Sámi cultures (Indigenous folks of the northernmost elements of Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the Kola Peninsula). This yr’s pageant contains experimental works, brief movies, video artwork, and canonical flicks like Markku Lehmuskallio’s 1982 drama Skierri chosen by visitor curator/artist Matti Aikio. LC
Majestic Bay Theatres, Ballard (Feb 7–14)
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On this version of SIFF’s “Speaking Footage” sequence, which options movie picks curated by native luminaries, James Beard Award-winning chef, meals scientist, author, and bagel fanatic J. Kenji López-Alt will host a particular screening of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Manufacturing facility and clarify how the whimsical Gene Wilder traditional impacted him. Journey via a world of pure creativeness full with chocolate rivers, snozzberries, and Oompa Loompas, adopted by a e-book signing with López-Alt in partnership with E book Larder. JB
SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown (Mon Feb 10)
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The Fleischer studio’s loosey-goosey, rubber-limbed character model might not have meant to look eerie, however that is definitely the impact they achieved. Though the Fleischers produced super-recognizable characters like Koko the Clown, Betty Boop, Bimbo, and Popeye the Sailor, they ultimately ventured into phantasmagorical tales impressed by surrealism, dirty Nice Melancholy environments, and German Expressionism. Curiously, in addition they created some cutesy Valentine’s Day-worthy tales! Verify ’em out at this screening of among the studio’s freshly restored cartoons—you will catch Popeye and Olive Oyl’s love story, Betty Boop courting Prince Charming, and Bimbo climbing a beanstalk. LC
Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill (Fri Feb 14)
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Starring three of my absolute favourite messy queens (Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, and Willem Dafoe), David Lynch’s lurid melodrama Wild at Coronary heart follows two outcast hotties who flee their hometown to pursue a torrid, surreal romance. What ensues is a sex-fueled highway journey match for a cleaning soap opera, which looks as if it would be fairly cool, till the grotesquely terrifying Bobby Peru exhibits up and ruins every little thing. If you happen to appreciated final yr’s Love Lies Bleeding, you will dig Wild at Coronary heart‘s avant-garde ambition and manic depth. Cue up Cage’s rendition of “Love Me Tender” to get within the temper for insanity. And it goes with out saying, however: RIP, David. LC
Central Cinema, Central District (Feb 14–19)
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Sultry dames and secondhand smoke make me nervous in actual life, however they are a recipe for nice cinema. Simply ask Movie Noir Basis founder, Turner Traditional Motion pictures host, and “Czar of Noir” Eddie Muller, who will current the February 14–16 screenings at this yr’s Noir Metropolis pageant. The fest will return for its seventeenth yr with the most effective movie noir choices that the shadowy again alleys of Hollywood have to supply. This yr, they’re going to “shine a highlight on girls whose cinematic legacy is entwined with the rise of movie noir” with a brand new 4K restoration of Robert Siodmak’s Phantom Woman and 12 movies screened in lush 35mm. LC
SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown (Feb 14–20)
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Dan Savage’s pioneering erotic movie fest will premiere an all-new lineup of horny movies that includes all genders and orientations at Revolution Corridor once more this yr. Since 2005, HUMP! has introduced inclusive, artistic, and kinky movies to the massive display screen—scope out the sex-positive fest in individual for a tantalizing deal with. This yr’s HUMP! options not one however two feature-length lineups of “sizzling, heavy, and hilarious ‘soiled’ movie shorts,” and half one features a feast of spanking-new movies in your eyeballs. It is value a enterprise outdoors of your intercourse dungeon, however you may nonetheless put on the latex catsuit. LC
On the Boards, Uptown (Feb 15–Mar 15)
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There’s nothing like a steaming bowl of one thing sizzling, brothy, and restorative to bolster your spirits and beat back the nippiness of winter. Fortunately, Fremont eating places have risen to the event with a “neighborhood winter soup stroll” referred to as Fremont Soupocalypse, permitting diners to get their soup repair and help native companies throughout their slowest months of the yr as well. Merely amble via the neighborhood and luxuriate in dine-in and takeout specials from Fremont Mischief, Shawn O’Donnell’s, El Camino, SWeL, Triangle Spirits, Esters Enoteca, Paseo, Kaosamai, Crimson Star Taco Bar, Soul, Frelard Tamales, Pecado Bueno, The George & Dragon, Dreamland, Native Tide, and the Barrel Thief. You will acquire a stamp in your “soupassport” for every soup vacation spot—when you acquire eight or extra, you may redeem them at Mischief earlier than February 12 for a free tasting, shot glasses, and a seize bag of native treats. JB
Numerous areas (Feb 1–2)
Li’l Woody’s Burger Month
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The favored native burger joint chain Li’l Woody’s has revealed the lineup for its eleventh annual Burger Month sequence, which options 4 weeks of particular burger collaborations dreamed up by among the metropolis’s brightest culinary luminaries. This yr’s specials embody the Cambo-Diaspora Double Cheeseburger (two quarter-pound Royal Ranch grass-fed beef patties marinated in kroeung paste, two slices of American cheese, kroeung aioli, tomato relish, and pickled carrots on a Li’l Woody’s bun) from 2025 James Beard Award semifinalist and Sophon chef Karuna Lengthy (February 4-10); the Don Bronco Burger (a citrus soy garlic-marinated fried bone-in pork chop, fried egg, salsa criolla, and chimichurri aioli on a Li’l Woody’s Bun) from Dangerous Chancla chef Jose Garzón (February 11-17); the Lago Burger (a quarter-pound Royal Ranch grass-fed beef patty, goat cheese, roasted tomatoes, pomodoro con aglio and balsamic salsa, arugula, shaved crimson cabbage, pickled crimson onions, and parsley on a Li’l Woody’s bun) from Cafe Lago chef Lauren Thompson (February 18-24); and the Catahoula Burger (a quarter-pound Royal Ranch grass-fed beef patty, Tillamook white cheddar cheese, crimson eye barbecue sauce, honey jalapeño slaw, bread-and-butter pickles, and Worcestershire tabasco aioli on a Li’l Woody’s bun) from FlintCreek Cattle Co. chef Eric Donnelly (February 25-March 3). Burger lovers who buy all 4 specials will obtain a restricted version Li’l Woody’s woven market bag, and through their Burger 4 Burger program, Li’l Woody’s will donate the identical variety of burgers offered to a corporation of every chef’s selection. JB
Li’l Woody’s (Feb 4–Mar 2)
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Iceland has all the time gave the impression of a magical place to me: it has the very best literacy fee on Earth, it is crammed with sizzling springs and glaciers and volcanoes, and lots of of its residents nonetheless imagine in elves. Although chances are you’ll not be capable of jet over to the land of ice and hearth anytime quickly, you may accept this Icelandic feast that includes Icelandic lamb and conventional food and drinks, with vegan and vegetarian choices obtainable. The night may even embody stay leisure and dancing. JB
Nationwide Nordic Museum, Ballard (Sat Feb 8)
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Valentine’s Day can typically be rife with stress, which is a recipe for inevitable disappointment. If you happen to’re in search of a extra laidback (however nonetheless enchanting) celebration that does not require reservations, Coyle’s has you lined: On February 14, they’re going to reopen from 4–7 pm for his or her annual Valentine’s Dessert Night time, which can embody a few of their fanciest treats, akin to macarons, Paris-Brests, Campari citrus fruit tarts, and their coveted coconut caramel chiffon cake, in addition to drinks and glowing wine. Linger within the eating room or take your baked items residence for Netflix and chill. JB
Coyle’s Bakeshop, Greenwood (Fri Feb 14)
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Mead, the traditional fermented honey drink, was historically the beverage of selection for Vikings. At the moment, nonetheless, a rising variety of craft producers are making the age-old brew their very own. At this occasion, Ballard’s Scandinavian beer corridor Skål (named for the Norwegian phrase for “cheers”) will showcase mead from a wide range of native makers, together with Hierophant Mead (Freeland), Odin’s Alchemy (Olympia), and Valhalla (Lakewood). Don’t overlook your horned helmet. JB
Skål Beer Corridor, Ballard (Solar Feb 23)
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Now in its twenty fifth yr, MoPOP’s Sound Off! will as soon as once more give native under-21 musicians the possibility to indicate off their authentic tunes on the snazzy Sky Church. Contemplating that Sound Off! has launched acts like Parisalexa, Bare Giants, and Travis Thompson, it is a excellent alternative to catch homegrown expertise on the very begin of their careers. In honor of the milestone, this yr’s lineup contains performances from alumni i///u, Maiah Wynne, and King Youngblood. AV
MoPOP, Uptown (Sat Feb 8)
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Trailblazing enviornment rock band Jefferson Starship will have a good time their fiftieth anniversary with an epic orchestral efficiency of their iconic hits alongside the Seattle Symphony. Led by authentic member David Freiberg (additionally of Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane), the present lineup contains drummer Donny Baldwin, keyboardist Chris Smith, guitarist Jude Gold, and singer/guitarist Cathy Richardson. Sure, I would like this anniversary tour to incorporate Grace Slick, however she’s dwelling her finest life as a retired musician/full-time painter who creates darkly whimsical work of rock stars and rabbits, and I really like that for her. AV
Benaroya Corridor, Downtown (Tues Feb 11)
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Mount Eerie is all the time a deal with to see stay. As a result of Phil Elverum’s experimental indie rock undertaking is fully his personal, every setlist contains freedom and variation. After I noticed him at Fisherman’s Village Music Fest in 2021, Elverum requested the viewers, “Is there something you need to listen to?” and proceeded to play decades-old rarities fully from reminiscence. For this efficiency, Elverum will likely be joined by a backing band to carry out songs from his eleventh album, Night time Palace, however concern not, I noticed the present lineup carry out final October and it was nonetheless delightfully fluid and improvisational. Arrive in time to catch a gap set from Olympia-based doom steel duo Ragana. AV
Neptune Theatre, College District (Fri Feb 14)
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Led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Luz Elena Mendoza, Y La Bamba’s singular fusion of Mexican people music and dreamy indie-pop has been a Portland treasure for over a decade. They are going to play songs from their seventh album Lucha, which the band has described as exploring the multiplicities of “love, queerness, Mexican American and Chicanx id, household, intimacy, craving, loneliness—and chronicles a interval of wrestle and development for Mendoza Ramos as an individual and artist.” If you have not watched their KEXP session but, I extremely suggest you throw it on and turn out to be hypnotized by their angelic harmonies and hypnotic rhythm part. They are going to help the album after a gap set from Portland-based pop undertaking Caicedo. AV
Barboza, Capitol Hill (Feb 14–15)
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There seems to be a brand new development of Oscar-nominated actors pivoting to music careers, as evidenced by Timothée Chalamet’s SNL efficiency of Bob Dylan covers final month, and now, by Michael Shannon on tour performing the songs of R.E.M. My query is: what is the level? Simply because these actors can proficiently mimic these dwelling musicians does not imply they should. Bob Dylan and R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe nonetheless tour often—so what precisely is the draw of paying to see a subpar copy? Then once more, if my favourite actor introduced a tribute tour, I might in all probability pay up. (Watch me eat my phrases when Keanu Reeves drops dates for a Neil Younger tribute tour or Nicolas Cage decides he needs to cowl the Smiths.) Regardless, I am going to admit that this may in all probability be a enjoyable present. Shannon (who has gone all in by shaving his head to appear like Stipe) will carry out songs from R.E.M.’s third album Fables of the Reconstruction with longtime punk musician Jason Narducy. AV
Neptune Theatre, College District (Fri Feb 21)
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Even when you’ve by no means knowingly listened to Cymande (pronounced “sih-manh-day”), I guess you’ve got heard them. The British funk band’s 1972 psychedelic soul masterpiece “Dove” has been sampled in additional than forty modern R&B and hip-hop tracks together with Wu-Tang Clan’s “Issues,” EPMD’s “U Obtained Shot,” and Fugees’ “The Rating.” The ensemble stopped performing in 1974, however 4 many years later, they’ve determined to revive the cult-favored undertaking with a brand new album. Founding members Ray King and Steve Scipio will help Renascence alongside Brooklyn-based R&B duo Bathe.
The Crocodile, Belltown (Sat Feb 22)
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As a longtime admirer of jazz innovator Alice Coltrane, I typically sulk on the actuality that I’ll by no means get to see her carry out stay (she handed away again in 2007). And, given the mercurial nature of free jazz, I’ve needed to settle for that her studio albums and stay recordings are simply the tip of the iceberg relating to the genius that she supplied the mortal world. Fortunately, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane (her son with John Coltrane) is bringing his mom’s other-worldly compositions on a short three-date tour, performing alongside harpist Brandee Youthful, pianist Gadi Lehavi, bassist Rashaan Carter, and drummer Elé Howell. I’ve chills simply interested by listening to the opening bassline to “Journey to Satchidananda” carried out stay. AV
Moore Theatre, Belltown (Wed Feb 26)
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Iconic soul group WAR has a means of making songs that evoke the heat of laying out within the grass on a sizzling summer season day. You might know their traditional hits like “Low Rider” and “Why Cannot We Be Buddies,” however as you dig deeper, you’ll proceed to search out carefree and politically pushed songs that stay related in at the moment’s world. The legendary seven-piece band hasn’t stopped because the ’70s, working with modern frontrunners via the years akin to Tupac, Janet Jackson, and Kendrick Lamar. They return to Seattle for a four-night stint at Jazz Alley. My fingers are crossed that they’re going to play songs from their 1972 album, All Day Music. AV
Jazz Alley, Belltown (Feb 27–Mar 2)
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I lately attended a manufacturing of The Nutcracker and located myself seated subsequent to a small baby in a tutu who spent your complete runtime coughing and hacking prefer it was her private efficiency. Even so, it was tough to not be dazzled by the surroundings and the music and the ballet dancers on stage. I used to be dazzled, rattling it! Let this be a reminder that artwork has the facility to beat all obstacles, or no matter. Here is a efficiency that I can promise will dazzle you. Pacific Northwest Ballet’s “traditionally knowledgeable re-imagining” of The Sleeping Magnificence contains scenic design by Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary and costumes by Paul Tazewell (Hamilton, West Aspect Story, PNB’s Swan Lake). It is impressed by the Pacific Northwest, so I hope Aurora is carrying Gore-Tex. LC
McCaw Corridor, Uptown (Feb 1–9)
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”All proper bottoms, let’s take it from the highest, alright?” Hawaii-born Miss Continental 2012 queen Sasha Colby selected the title “Sasha” throughout her transitioning course of for its gender neutrality. The RuPaul’s Drag Race season 15 winner might be your favourite drag queen’s favourite drag queen, so head to queer/bar to search out out what everybody’s flustered about. Queen Mom will grace the MX stage to “say LOVE.” LC
Queer Bar, Capitol Hill (Fri Feb 14)
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Artist-performer Kathryn Seabron’s one-woman present stares misogynoir within the eye, mixing private tales, poetry, and media items to look at the troubling interaction of racism and sexism that Black girls face. Offended Black Girl 101 is ready at a Bay Space nonprofit, the place Seabron pulls from her personal experiences of “microaggressions and systemic obstacles.” Could you permit the present angrier and extra empowered to battle for change. LC
Theatre Off Jackson, Chinatown-Worldwide District (Feb 21–23)
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This Black Historical past Month, why not witness a harmonious merging of conventional African dance, modern choreography, and spoken phrase efficiency? If this sounds intriguing, iconic choreographer Ronald Ok. Brown’s dance firm EVIDENCE has obtained you lined. Brown, who makes use of motion “as a solution to reinforce the significance of group in African American tradition and to acquaint audiences with the fantastic thing about conventional African kinds and rhythms,” will current a program of Afro-Cuban dance kinds, Latin-inflected jazz, and poetic items that “look at ideas of stability and fairness.” LC
Meany Heart for the Performing Arts, Northeast Seattle (Feb 27–Mar 1)
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If you happen to do not observe PNW-born treasure Neko Case on Instagram, then do your self a favor and click on that “observe” button. She paperwork her life in rural Vermont with a sincerity and rawness that few well-known folks show today. There, you may anticipate finding an informal snap of her dinner, a blurry picture of her hair, and a trove of pet images. Due to her delightfully genuine presence and poetic songwriting, I’m not shocked that she has launched a memoir. Informed in lyrical prose, The Tougher I Combat the Extra I Love You recounts the story of Neko’s upbringing as a lonely artistic baby rising up in Tacoma. She is going to swing via Seattle to speak with KEXP’s Cheryl Waters concerning the new e-book. AV
City Corridor Seattle, First Hill (Wed Feb 5)
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Omid Roustaei, also referred to as the Caspian Chef, is a daily Renaissance man: He is a psychotherapist, meals author, and the culinary board director of Seattle-Isfahan Sister Metropolis Advocacy. He is additionally devoted to sharing Iranian tradition and traditions—his debut cookbook Bitter & Candy: International Flavors from an Iranian-American Kitchen is filled with 75 recipes, together with rooster in pomegranate walnut sauce, bitter cherry rice with petite meatballs, and crispy saffron-spiked tahdig, to not point out pretty prose and pictures. He’ll drop by E book Larder for an writer speak and a cooking demo of a dish from the e-book. JB
E book Larder, Fremont (Thurs Feb 6)
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With regards to nice band origin tales, Belle & Sebastian has the most effective: Again in 1994, Stow School college students Stuart Murdoch and Stuart David recorded a number of demos for a college undertaking with their music professor Alan Rankine (previously of the Associates). After one in all their singles was picked up by the faculty’s file label Electrical Honey, the label supplied to launch their debut album, Tigermilk, which went on to form the indie pop style as we all know it. Twelve albums and practically three many years later, Murdoch nonetheless fronts the ensemble, bringing their delicate twee sound across the globe. He’ll cease by the Fremont Abbey to have a good time the discharge of his debut novel, No one’s Empire, with a studying, Q&A, and stay music. Primarily based on his childhood, the novel digs into the “darkish days resulting in gentle and coming of age via music.” AV
Fremont Abbey Arts Heart, Fremont (Sat Feb 8)
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Science author and notable humorous individual Mary Roach is not the final individual on Earth I might need to give me “The Discuss.” In spite of everything, she appears to jot down with a darkly irresistible frankness about human cadavers and the historical past of flatulence analysis. If you happen to’re interested in “the peculiarities of intercourse in area” (let’s be sincere, you’re), head to this 21+ “date night time,” which can embody a chat with Roach, stay music, bites and sips, and actions within the Museum of Flight’s glass gallery. LC
The Museum of Flight, Tukwila (Fri Feb 14)
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Typically it looks as if the title “Ta-Nehisi Coates” has turn out to be synonymous with modern nonfiction itself. (Within the phrases of Stranger senior employees author Charles Mudede, “Ta-Nehisi Coates is just not excellent.” He’s not, in Mudede’s eyes, an amazing novelist.) Fortunately for us, he is again with one other e-book of essays, his first nonfiction work in virtually 10 years. The Message follows Coates to 3 websites of battle—Dakar, Senegal, Columbia, South Carolina, and Palestine—to meditate on the damaging historic legacies of e-book banning, racism, and nationalism. LC
Benaroya Corridor, Downtown (Tues Feb 18)
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Meals and intercourse have all the time been inextricably linked. Creator Rachel Hope Cleves takes a deep dive into that age-old affiliation along with her new e-book Lustful Appetites: An Intimate Historical past of Good Meals and Depraved Intercourse, which explores every little thing from the invention of Parisian eating places (which largely served as a website for males to fulfill with intercourse employees and mistresses) to the position that girls and the LGBTQ group performed in creating early gastronomic tradition. Cleves will be part of Greta Hardin of the Historical past of American Meals podcast for a dialog about all issues culinary and carnal. JB
E book Larder, Fremont (Thurs Feb 20)
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Egypt-born, Portland-based writer Omar El Akkad, whose debut novel American Battle received an Oregon E book Award for fiction and whose second novel, What Unusual Paradise, tells the story of a younger Syrian refugee, will cease by Seattle Public Library to speak about One Day, Everybody Will Have All the time Been Towards This. El Akkad’s nonfiction debut attracts from current historical past (the Battle on Terror, Ferguson, local weather change, Black Lives Matter protests, and the genocide in Gaza) to reckon with the lies of the West and “carve out some sense of chance in a time of carnage.” He’ll be joined by Ijeoma Oluo, who penned the highly effective tomes So You Need To Discuss About Race, Mediocre: The Harmful Legacy of White Male America, and Be A Revolution: How On a regular basis Individuals Are Combating Oppression and Altering the World — and How You Can, Too. LC
Central Library, Downtown (Thurs Feb 27)
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SOIL, Seattle’s longest-running nonprofit artist-run area, is a strong selection 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. Contemplate it a chance to remain up-to-date on who’s who within the modern artwork group. Plus, there is a twist—in Controllables, “every artist has been introduced collectively serendipitously, beforehand unfamiliar with every others’ work, presenting us with a situation, a query, or a puzzle, honoring the potential of the unpredictable.” I am thinking about Monté’s Styrofoam fort and O’Connell’s multimedia works, which use “printed silk, bells, thread, candle wax, [and a] wasp.” LC
SOIL, Pioneer Sq. (Feb 1–22)
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Winter is a stunning time to go to Bainbridge Island—the quieter season infuses the island with a relaxed, serene appeal. 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 a good time, and elevate the sweetness and radiance of Blackness as an expertise.” Radiant Reflections: Celebrating the Great thing about the African Diaspora guarantees complexity, so anticipate a “multifaceted” portrayal of Black resilience. LC
Bainbridge Island Museum of Artwork, Bainbridge Island (Feb 1–23)
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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 harm, and RISD MFA candidate Cazares’ gender transition echoes as he swathes his physique in “life-sized chrysalises.” The outcomes are earthy, tactile, and stunning. LC
The Vestibule, Ballard (Feb 15–Mar 15)
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Amid the fallout of our new president’s anti-DEI orders, it is extra vital than ever to honor and have a good time Black Historical past Month. Head over to the Northwest African American Museum for a day of pop-up artwork markets, meals vehicles, group dialog, and guided excursions of their two new reveals, Myron Curry’s The place Do We Go From Right here and AshaAung Helmstetter’s Recognition, Love, and Therapeutic. Keep tuned for the museum to announce featured artists and company later this month. SL
Northwest African American Museum, Central District (Sat Feb 22)
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New Yorker Alex Katz is the 97-year-old painter who you may not have heard of, however whose works you will positively acknowledge. His simplistic figurative kinds and shade palette bravery aren’t simply related to the Pop Artwork motion—they helped invent it. Alex Katz: Theater and Dance on the Frye highlights Katz’s collaborations with choreographers and avant-garde theater teams, shedding gentle on his neglected influence on postmodern dance. The exhibition contains “uncommon archival supplies, main units, work, and never-before-seen sketches.” LC
Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill (Feb 22–June 8)