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Hacks star and LA-based comic Megan Stalter will cease by Neptune with a witty fashion that Harper’s Bazaar as soon as described as “a soothing comedy balm for a scathing grease hearth of a 12 months.” (That quote is from 2020, however does not “grease hearth” sort of describe yearly these days?) Take a look at the surreal oasis that’s Stalter’s humorousness at this present. LC
Neptune Theatre, College District (Thurs Mar 6)
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Properly-fed funnyman Matteo Lane will drop by Seattle to serve up his personal recipe for fulfillment: quick-witted comedy impressed by his Italian upbringing, The Barefoot Contessa, and extra. (Carbonara sadly not included.) “Fluent in 5 languages and with a singing vary of six octaves, Matteo lived in Italy as an oil painter and opera singer earlier than beginning his comedy profession,” reads his bio. Cool brag, Matteo! LC
Paramount Theatre, Downtown (Thurs Mar 13)
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Irish-born comedian Dave Nihill attracts from his huge worldwide experiences—he is been to 70 international locations, and lived in 12—to mirror on cultural norms, consuming classes, and his life as a barely confused US immigrant. Nihill’s unconventional rise to comedy fame started when he crashed festivals and comedy golf equipment, pretending to be a profitable comedian named “Irish Dave.” We hope to see extra of Nihill’s enterprising spirit, and listen to that cool accent, on this efficiency. LC
Neptune Theatre, College District (Sat Mar 15)
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The Irish Heritage Membership celebrates St. Patrick’s Day all through March with meals occasions, a movie fest, a 5K enjoyable run, a cultural competition at Seattle Heart, and rather more. It is the one time of the 12 months when my mom (a lady who’s 6% Irish) makes Irish soda bread; possibly I can persuade her to enter it into T.S. McHugh’s contest. There will not be a St. Patrick’s “pirates touchdown” at South Lake Union this 12 months, however the pirates will be becoming a member of the long-lasting parade by downtown on the fifteenth. SL
Varied places (Mar 2–16)
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It does not matter in the event you’re a gamer, sci-fi nerd, anime fan, fantasy fairy, or cosplay artist, Emerald Metropolis Comedian Con is for you! Do not miss this jam-packed weekend of panels, meet-and-greets, cosplay, comics, fanfic, and screenings. As a part of this 12 months’s “Return to Grunge” theme, the con is teaming up with 107.7 The Finish to throw a Grunge Promenade powered by a stay cowl band. The welcoming con gives youngling lightsaber coaching, furry meetups, and panels on matters like cats in comics and warrior girls of fiction. Movie star friends embody everybody’s favourite insurgent stormtrooper (John Boyega), Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame, queer icon Katy O’Brian from Love Lies Bleeding, and plenty of extra. Plus, there’s excellent news for Firefly followers; six of the present’s actors will make appearances, together with the charming Nathan Fillion. SL
Seattle Conference Heart, Downtown (Mar 6–9)
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Kells’ forty second annual shamrock-festooned celebration kicks off on March 8 and continues with day by day revelry by St. Patrick’s Day (in the event you’ve obtained the stamina). As standard, Submit Alley and First Avenue will probably be closed to site visitors and lined by a big tent to assist expanded celebrations, together with rugby watch events and performances by native musicians just like the Belfast Bandits, Máirtín Ó Huigin, and U2 tribute band Vertigo Zoo. Do not forget the house-brewed beers and basic Irish dishes—corned beef, anybody? SL
Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub, Pike Place Market (Mar 8–17)
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Dan Savage’s pioneering erotic movie fest will premiere an all-new lineup of attractive movies that includes all genders and orientations at On the Boards once more this 12 months. Since 2005, HUMP! has introduced inclusive, artistic, and kinky movies to the large display screen—scope out the sex-positive fest in individual for a tantalizing deal with. This 12 months’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 on your eyeballs. It is price a enterprise exterior of your intercourse dungeon, however you’ll be able to nonetheless put on the latex catsuit. LC
On the Boards, Uptown (Mar 1–15)
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David Lynch’s unusual, alchemical imaginative and prescient made an impression the world over, however let’s face it: The Pacific Northwest lays declare to the auteur. Positive, lots of Lynch’s movies are set in or round Los Angeles, however one cannot carry him to thoughts with out two phrases popping up. Twin. Peaks. Though Lynch solely lived in Washington for a portion of his childhood, the cinemas of Seattle have “proudly declared Twin Peaks to be the quintessential and defining work of PNW movement footage and David Lynch as certainly one of our biggest artists.” I’ve to agree. The Beacon, SIFF Cinema Downtown, the Grand Phantasm, Northwest Movie Discussion board, North Bend Theatre, and Pacific Science Heart Theater will have fun his life’s work with screenings by August. LC
Varied places (Mar 1–Aug 10)
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This night of festivities celebrates a sure very essential evening in Hollywood with stay commentary, “native movie star hosts,” photograph ops, meals truck bites, and an opportunity to win raffle prizes. Doll up in your finest award-stealing apparel for the costume contest (I like to recommend fashioning a swan gown), and do not forget us while you’re well-known. LC
Grand Cinema, Tacoma (Solar Mar 2)
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Ingmar Bergman swapped toy troopers for a film projector as a baby, igniting a wierd and lifelong obsession with shadows, faces, and the silent depth of emotion. Bergman’s movies had been worshipped by nearly each director you understand—Fellini, Kurosawa, and Kubrick amongst them. Even the reclusive painter Andrew Wyeth noticed Bergman as a kindred spirit. My suggestion? Present your self just a few moments to hunt the metaphysical throughout the mundane this month. SIFF Cinema Uptown’s sequence contains screenings of Summer season with Monika, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Persona, and private favourite Winter Mild. LC
SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown (Mar 4–Apr 30)
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“By means of the darkness of future previous, the magician longs to see, one likelihood out between two worlds, hearth stroll with me!” It has been 31 years since David Lynch’s batshit brilliance shone in his soapy nod to movie noir. Twin Peaks: Hearth Stroll with Me hit the large display screen and instantly launched a polarizing critics’ warfare—within the phrases of 1 New York Occasions author, “It isn’t the worst film ever made, it simply feels prefer it.” Fortunately all of us got here to our senses and the movie is now a cult basic of the homicide thriller style, and within the wake of Lynch’s dying, the misty, autumnal gloom of Twin Peaks feels essential to revisit. What higher time to reimmerse your self within the city’s murky underbelly? LC
Central Cinema, Central District (Mar 7–12)
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Maintain Eggers’ Christmas vibes rolling proper into March with the bald, spidery, and downright yucky Depend Orlok in F.W. Murnau’s eerie 1922 basic Nosferatu. Werner Herzog as soon as described it as “the best German movie,” and he ought to know, proper? This screening will probably be a little bit completely different, although—Silents Synched pairs basic silent flicks with “epic rock music.” One of the crucial openly 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 (Mar 14–18)
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I like each fiber arts and the delightfully cheesy, twisted works of the “Pope of Trash” John Waters, so I am particularly excited in regards to the second version of this craft evening, hosted by SIFF in partnership with the not too long ago opened Sew Cafe. Convey alongside your present non-messy work-in-progress (knitting, crocheting, hand-sewing, weaving, and doodling all welcome) and sew or sketch in bliss whereas watching the 1988 cult comedy Hairspray. Ricki Lake stars because the plucky ’60s-era teen Tracy Turnblad, who desires of dancing on her favourite TV program The Corny Collins Present. (Maintain your eyes peeled for appearances from Debbie Harry, Ric Ocasek, and naturally, iconic drag queen Divine.) If you do not have something to work on, Sew Cafe can have restricted supplies readily available for beginner-friendly wood coronary heart cross sew keychhains and bookmarks. JB
SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown (Solar Mar 16)
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This spirited weeklong occasion places a highlight on the movers and (cocktail) shakers of the Seattle bar scene with particular libations obtainable at taking part venues, plus excursions, the industry-only Bartender’s Circle Summit, and extra. Saturday’s Carnival of Cocktails occasion will characteristic over 200 spirits to strive, plus pop-up cocktail bars, grasp lessons, tastings, meals vehicles, and different festivities. JB
Varied places (Mar 2–9)
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Because of the nutrient-rich outflow of water from the Skagit River, stunning Penn Cove’s well-known mussels develop full-sized in report time and are harvested younger, making them impossibly agency, fats, and candy. This annual competition, which payments itself as a celebration of all issues “daring, briny, and blue,” options boat excursions of the Penn Cove Mussel Farm, stay music, a mussel consuming contest, cooking demonstrations with native cooks, a waterfront beer backyard, and the principle occasion: a tasting competitors with eating places from throughout Coupeville vying to have their mussel chowder declared the best on the town. JB
Coupeville Recreation Corridor, Coupeville (Mar 7–9)
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As daredevils try the annual Polar Plunge into the punishingly icy waters of Puget Sound, the Cellular Meals Rodeo will present warming sustenance for plungers and onlookers alike with a fleet of meals vehicles, plus 20 beers and ciders on faucet from native breweries. This 12 months can even characteristic a “Let the Good Occasions Be Chilly” theme, so bundle up in your finest ’70s-inspired threads. All proceeds will go in the direction of Particular Olympics. JB
Alki Seashore, Alki (Sat Mar 8)
Rachael Coyle’s charming Greenwood bakery goes all out for its brick-and-mortar’s tenth birthday with free mini slices of birthday cake (whereas provides final), a photograph sales space, coloring sheets, momentary tattoos, and certain “an absurd variety of decorations.” A small enterprise surviving the pandemic and making it to a decade is certainly a milestone price commemorating, particularly today: As Rachael wrote in an e mail e-newsletter, “I’m notably wanting to have fun ten years as a result of our five-year anniversary (in March of 2020), was marked by the start of the pandemic, and our future appeared particularly unsure…I’m grateful for the neighborhood that has grown up across the store: our fantastic employees, distributors, and naturally, our improbable prospects. My life is a lot richer for having this neighborhood and I hope that yours is just too.” JB
Coyle’s Bakeshop, Greenwood (Thurs Mar 13)
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Immerse your self in per week of pure oenophilia with this behemoth occasion billing itself as “the nation’s largest single-region wine and meals occasion.” The grand tasting unites greater than 200 Washington wineries, 75 West Coast eating places, and plenty of acclaimed native and nationwide cooks, whereas different signature occasions embody a swanky wine evening, a dinner sequence, Sunday brunch, a seafood occasion, an off-the-cuff wine evening, academic seminars, and extra. This 12 months’s lineup contains coveted culinary luminaries like Dangerous Chancla, Paju, That Brown Woman Cooks!, Taurus Ox, Spinasse, Matia, Kamonegi, and plenty of extra. JB
Varied places (Mar 13–17)
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Recognized for being Seattle’s oldest neighborhood, industrial-gritty Georgetown has grow to be a culinary vacation spot in its personal proper, with a excessive focus of underrated gems. At this annual spring meals stroll from the Georgetown Enterprise Associations, you’ll be able to scoop up choices from dozens of distributors, together with El Sirenito, Lowrider Baking Firm, Jellyfish Brewing, Star Brass Lounge, Fran’s Sweets, El Pirata Tortas y Burritos, and extra. Plus, this 12 months has been expanded to incorporate retailers and artists, so you’ll be able to store in between stuffing your face. JB
Varied places, Georgetown (Sat Mar 22)
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What might be dreamier than internet hosting a backyard occasion with cocktails made with recent botanical elements? Sisters Kelly and Venise Cunningham, authors of Drink Your Backyard: Recipes, Tales and Suggestions from the Easy Goodness Cocktail Farm, will show methods to make a seasonal cordial non-alcoholic spritz recipe from their ebook, subject your burning beginner bartending questions, and signal copies. Learn to develop your individual elements, “from easy windowsill herbs to greens and flowers,” and methods to seize and protect their pure flavors. JB
E-book Larder, Fremont (Thurs Mar 27)
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Throughout this annual occasion run by Seattle Good Enterprise Community’s Good Meals Economic system program, a slew of taking part eating places, bars, cafes, meals vehicles, caterers, and pop-ups throughout Seattle serve as much as two particular menus for $20, $35, $50, and $65 for lunch and/or dinner. Companies could take part with indoor or out of doors eating, takeout, supply, or meal kits, and plenty of supply a “give a meal” choice so diners can donate to their in-house neighborhood meal applications or to Good Meals Kitchens. JB
Varied places (Mar 30–Apr 12)
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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 time day. You could know their basic 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 present’s world. The legendary seven-piece band hasn’t stopped because the ’70s, working with modern frontrunners by 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 (Mar 1–2)
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California rapper and popular culture polymath Tyler, The Creator wants no introduction at this level in his profession. His musical output, which started in his teen years, began out with darkish themes and controversy earlier than delving into the softer components of himself. On Tyler’s newest album, CHROMAKOPIA, this trajectory continues with heavy raps woven along with vibrant pop hooks, jazz melodies, and narration from his mom. He’ll assist the album after opening units from lure rapper-turned-psychedelic rock wizard Lil Yachty and LA-based alt-hip-hop duo Paris Texas. AV
Local weather Pledge Area, Uptown (Mar 2–3)
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Nashville-raised singer-songwriter Sophie Allison, higher identified by her stage title Soccer Mommy, at all times manages to shock and impress me together with her introspective lyrics paired with irresistible pop hooks. I used to be launched to her by way of her cowl of Bruce Springsteen’s “I am On Hearth,” which reinforces the melancholy craving of the Boss’s enduring basic, and final 12 months, I could not cease listening to “Shotgun,” an unexpectedly romantic ode to the on a regular basis mundanities of a long-term relationship. Her fourth studio album, Evergreen, finds her grappling with the grief of a deep private loss—although there are nonetheless moments of playfulness, like “Abigail,” a wistful paean to everybody’s favourite violet-maned Stardew Valley love curiosity. Up-and-coming LA artist Hana Vu will be a part of her because the opener for her Showbox look. JB
The Showbox, Downtown (Mon Mar 3)
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Rebecca Black has efficiently shed the pores and skin of her notoriously dangerous 2011 viral bop “Friday.” At this time, her public persona leans into her standing as a queer icon, hyperpop sensation, and collaborator of style rule-breakers like Dylan Brady (100 gecs), Large Freedia, and Dorian Electra. She’s going to assist her debut album, Let Her Burn, which she likened to the teenager drama Euphoria as an exploration of the vulnerability she felt in “discovering steadiness with submission, dominance, and sexuality.” Ambient pop duo Blue Hawaii will open. AV
Neumos, Capitol Hill (Tues Mar 4)
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Ever since Nashville-based singer-songwriter Pleasure Oladokun noticed Tracy Chapman on TV at age ten, she has been underneath the spell of the acoustic guitar. Now, she churns out folky R&B, rock, and pop songs about her experiences as a queer girl of coloration. She’s going to assist her critically acclaimed fourth album, Proof of Life, which options visitor appearances from Mt. Pleasure, Manchester Orchestra, Chris Stapleton, Maxo Kream, and Noah Kahan. AV
The Showbox, Downtown (Wed Mar 5)
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Very like teen stars-turned-experimental pop artists Rebecca Black and Addison Rae, Swedish singer-songwriter Maude Latour is leaning into sexier lyrics and unconventional beats on her debut album Sugar Water. On the album’s title monitor, Latour asks, “Are you able to spit sugar water straight into my mouth?” atop a trance-like drum machine and glowing electronics—the result’s dreamy, enjoyable, and danceable. She’s going to assist the album after a gap set from rising pop singer MARIS. AV
Neumos, Capitol Hill (Fri Mar 7)
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Listeners of early-aughts pop will bear in mind the primary time they heard 14-year-old JoJo sing her 2004 chart-topping hit “Depart (Get Out),” a quintessential tween break-up track that made you need to spontaneously get your ears pierced at Claire’s. Her R&B-inspired manufacturing, emotional lyrics, and sassy-side ponytail stood out in opposition to the upbeat bubble-gum pop that commanded the charts on the time. After showing in a handful of flicks and being featured in a memorable episode of MTV Cribs, JoJo appeared to vanish from the limelight. Now, the singer is again on the highway to assist her not too long ago launched ’90s R&B-infused EP, NGL. AV
Showbox SoDo, SoDo (Sat Mar 8)
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Chicago-based husband-and-wife duo the Good-looking Household has been placing out alt-country data for the previous three many years. If you’re unfamiliar with the group, the very best I can describe their sound is just like the goth model of Yo La Tengo with a sprinkle of R.E.M’s jangly riffs. Brett Sparks’s haunted-sounding cadence bears a resemblance to that of gothfather Nick Cave—each sing just like the butler of a haunted mansion in an outdated horror film. AV
Tractor Tavern, Ballard (Solar Mar 9)
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I not too long ago found the Nashville-based singer-songwriter mxmtoon by way of the lovable online game Dave the Diver, through which the participant splits their time between catching seafood and managing a sushi restaurant—and through which mxmtoon, AKA Maia, makes a cameo as a pixelated model of herself. It wasn’t lengthy earlier than I discovered myself enamored of her charmingly confessional lyrics and floaty melodies. Her newest album, liminal house, evokes the relatable feeling of being caught in an in-between stage of life, with standout songs like “rain” (which explores nostalgia and the issue of staying current) and “i hate texas” (a cheeky kiss-off to an ex). JB
Showbox SoDo, SoDo (Wed Mar 12)
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As a Breeders fangirl who has obsessively adopted the Deal sisters’ numerous different initiatives (Pixies, the Amps, the Kelley Deal 6000, and so on), I used to be very intrigued to listen to Kim Deal’s debut solo album. No one Loves You Extra arrives practically 4 many years into her prolific profession,however Deal sounds as timeless and effortlessly cool as ever. At first pay attention, I used to be caught off guard by the orchestral prospers and large band-style horns that graze the opening tracks “No one Loves You Extra” and “Coast.” However contrasted with moodier downbeat songs (“Bats In The Afternoon Sky” and “Are You Mine?”) and gritty experimental tunes (“Crystal Breath” and “Large Ben Beat”), the album kinds a cohesively incohesive assortment of tracks that may be good for dissociating round comfortable folks—a standard thread that runs by Deal’s discography. She’s going to assist the album after a gap set from singer-songwriter Morgan Nagler, who has co-written materials for Phoebe Bridgers, Haim, and the Breeders. AV
Neptune Theatre, College District (Mon Mar 24)
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Self-taught musician, composer, producer, and orchestrator Adrian Younge is understood for his work with huge names like Kendrick Lamar, Wu-Tang Clan, Ghostface Killah, the Delfonics, and Snoop Dogg. Nevertheless, the multi-talented artist has additionally launched numerous albums and soundtracks on his personal. In 2011, Younge launched the primary installment of his One thing about April trilogy, a pseudo-soundtrack sequence of darkish psychedelic soul and cinematic instrumentals. After the album was sampled by hip-hop heavies Timbaland and Jay-Z, Younge went on to launch half two in 2016 and can drop half three on April 18. Do not miss Younge as he stops by the Tractor Tavern along with his 10-piece orchestra to play tracks from the trilogy. I simply have one query…how will that many musicians match onto the Tractor’s little stage? AV
Tractor Tavern, Ballard (Wed Mar 26)
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On their third album, Cartoon Darkness, the Aussie quartet Amyl and The Sniffers opens with commanding, bratty lyrics: “You are a dumb cunt.” The brash, critic-hating anthem “Jerkin'” units the tone for the album, which explores fashionable terrors like local weather change, warfare, A.I., and web politics by pithy confrontational punk and laborious rock (à la X-Ray Spex or the Runaways). Recent off a stadium tour supporting the Foo Fighters, the band will drop by the Paramount Theatre with tracks from the album. AV
Paramount Theatre, Seattle (Thurs Mar 27)
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Jim Henson’s Labyrinth is not a tough promote for most individuals. The 1986 cult basic has the whole lot: David Bowie, puppets, delightfully dated hairdos, a stolen child plot—what extra may you ask for? And even in the event you’ve seen this movie a bajillion occasions, I guess you have by no means seen it with a stay rating. At this screening, an orchestra and rock band will carry out the soundtrack in sync with the movie, complementing Bowie’s unique vocals (as a result of he’s the solely Goblin King). AV
Temple Theater, Stadium District (Sat Mar 29)
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Mozart’s 18th-century opera The Magic Flute tells of a mystical world full of freaky beasts, cheeky fairies, real love, and a really useful flute. So, do not anticipate the manufacturing to be classically stuffy. Barrie Kosky’s recent interpretation ups the ante much more, pulling inspiration from silent films and incorporating “eye-popping hand-drawn animation.” LC
McCaw Corridor, Uptown (Mar 1–9)
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Staged on the Broadway Efficiency Corridor, the Seattle Worldwide Dance Competition Winter Mini Fest will converge on the town for an additional celebration of collaborative modern dance. This time, SIDF blends recent works by the Seattle-based Khambatta Dance Firm with items by Ishita Mili and her New York Metropolis-based IMGE dance group. The gifted hoofers will share each signature performances and collaborative works that they choreographed over solely 10 days’ time. LC
Broadway Efficiency Corridor, Capitol Hill (Mar 1–9)
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The Dance Theatre of Harlem’s historical past dates again to 1969, when the corporate was based by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook on the top of the Civil Rights Motion. Often known as the primary main ballet firm to middle Black dancers, the corporate remains to be acknowledged for its inclusive method at present. For this efficiency, the 18-member firm will carry out a mix of classics, Balanchine works, and modern items. LC
Paramount Theatre, Downtown (Mar 8–9)
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Sly Jewish-Italian stand-up and former singing waiter Gianmarco Soresi final dropped by Seattle to bounce round on stage, chat about horse detectives, and recall the nice outdated days of grinding at bar mitzvahs on his Leaning In tour. He’ll head again to our neck of the woods for a stay version of The Draw back with Gianmarco Soresi. Russell Daniels, a founding member of the award-winning sketch comedy group Uncle Operate, cohosts the cynical comedy pod. LC
Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown (Sat Mar 15)
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Multi-hyphenate efficiency designer Keyes Wiley, who’s additionally a longtime native arts educator, will share their new work created throughout their Made in Seattle residency on the Seattle Competition of Dance + Improvisation. Wiley’s “mundane surrealist recreation evening,” As soon as Upon A Time in a Place Referred to as NOWhere, exists in an setting “the place the stakes are so excessive that shedding may imply the tip of the world,” Wiley explains. “This work serves as a public intervention in a world parallel to our personal.” LC
twelfth Avenue Arts, Capitol Hill (Mar 27–Apr 5)
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Are you standard, or was bonding time together with your sibling watching episodes of Alton Brown’s present Good Eats collectively? His aversion to “unitaskers” and use of yeast puppets belching CO₂ to elucidate bread-making stay rent-free in my head. Within the promo video for this “farewell tour” of his food-filled selection present, folks in hazmat fits wheel a mannequin of a cow out of a smoke-filled warehouse as Brown guarantees comedy, music, science, and “an epic but doubtlessly harmful culinary demonstration.” SL
Paramount Theatre, Downtown (Sat Mar 29)
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City Corridor’s new sequence, Psychedelic Salon, is a month-to-month panel that intends to discover how psychedelics akin to psilocybin, ketamine, and MDMA “are reshaping the psychological well being panorama.” Seeing as how the one expertise many Individuals have with ketamine remedy is watching that scene of Adrianna from Actual Housewives of Miami getting excessive as a kite after which uncontrollably bawling her eyes out and screaming for her useless dad in what regarded like a med-spa, it is in all probability a very good dialog to have! (Simply me?) It ought to be an interesting dialog, even for an uncool, stone-cold-sober individual like me. STRANGER MANAGING EDITOR MEGAN SELING
City Corridor Seattle, First Hill (Mon Mar 3)
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s impression on modern literature is troublesome to overstate—the Nigerian-born artist, writer, poet, and playwright, who penned the book-length essay We Ought to All Be Feminists and the 2013 novel Americanah, has had her work translated into 55 languages. That form of large worldwide readership is uncommon today, placing her within the firm of Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, and Elena Ferrante. Adichie’s newest, Dream Depend, follows a Nigerian journey author in america. It was deemed the “main publication milestone of 2025” by The Guardian. LC
Neptune Theatre, College District (Solar Mar 9)
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Portland’s personal beloved Pulitzer finalist, Karen Russell, usually pens fiction works tinged with magical realism (Swamplandia!, Vampires within the Lemon Grove). Her newest novel remains to be otherworldly, however set in opposition to a severe backdrop—The Antidote follows 5 figures in a small Nebraskan city in the course of the Mud Bowl. Among the many forged is a “prairie witch,” a basketball star and witch’s apprentice, a “voluble scarecrow,” and a New Deal photographer with a time-traveling digital camera. If you happen to’re intrigued (and are available on, you’re), head to this discuss for extra context. LC
Central Library, Seattle (Wed Mar 12)
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Bearing an appropriately absurd title, efficiency artist, poet, musician, and educator Karen Finley’s suite of poems COVID Vortex Nervousness Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco brilliantly captures the chaos and surrealism of residing by the pandemic: a mix of Zoom dance events, obsessive hand-washing, unusual rituals, coping mechanisms, grief, social upheaval, and political revolution. Finley initially carried out this assortment as a stay present at theaters in New York, garnering favorable comparisons to Beat legends like Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso from the Village Voice and incomes a New York Occasions Critic’s Decide. Finally, she identifies artwork, language, compassion, and humor because the keys to survival throughout our tumultuous occasions—a welcome reminder of our humanity which may serve us properly as we navigate the subsequent 4 years. JB
Elliott Bay E-book Firm, Capitol Hill (Mon Mar 24)
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Whether or not you dream of procuring your individual elements from the nice outdoor or simply need to incorporate extra foraged meals into your cooking, former sushi chef Taku Kondo’s new ebook Coast Harvest: Fish•Forest•Feast will present you ways. Taku, identified for his YouTube channel Outside Chef Life, will faculty you on catching fish, discovering intertidal edible species, and harvesting and figuring out mushrooms, then show how one can put together your newfound haul.
E-book Larder, Fremont (Tues Mar 25)
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Seize your greenest operating gear (or a fancy dress you can run in—there will probably be a contest!) and take part on Seattle’s forty first 12 months of celebrating the Irish with this 5K. It would not be St. Patrick’s Day with out Guinness, which you may discover loads of at a post-dash bash on the Fisher Pavilion together with meals from Shawn O’Donnell’s and performances by the Stout Pounders and Seattle Irish Dance Firm. There’s loads of enjoyable for the kiddos, too: they’ll run the “leprechaun lap,” get their faces painted, and take a look at the Irish Competition subsequent door within the Armory. SL
Seattle Heart, Uptown (Solar Mar 16)
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The Seattle Cherry Blossom Run won’t take people by the long-lasting timber on UW’s campus this 12 months, as a substitute winding runners by the beautiful nature of Seward Park. Saturday options the 5K and 10K; these seeking to go the gap can join the half marathon on Sunday. I am personally extra of a into operating than a fan of soccer, so I like that the organizers are calling themselves the “Legion of Bloom.” Convey your favourite heat beverage to the extra Sip and Stroll 5K on Saturday, the place children, pups, and strollers are welcome. SL
Seward Park (Mar 22–23)
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Standing only a few dozen ft (and some hundred steps) shorter than the Eiffel Tower, the Columbia Tower takes a grueling 1,311 footfalls to achieve the highest. Tackle the high-stepping problem for a very good trigger—the Large Climb raises cash for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and its mission to fund blood most cancers analysis. Don’t be concerned if you’ll want to sit down and relaxation for some time on the high; you’ll be able to simply say you are appreciating the breathtaking views from the Pacific Northwest’s tallest constructing. SL
Columbia Heart, Downtown (Solar Mar 23)
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Susan Skilling’s watercolors on Thai mulberry paper have a hushed, ephemeral high quality, with dreamy compositions of timber, gestural abstractions, and delicate figural kinds. The image subject is full of washes of muted blues and greens, or saved spare with single figures floating in house. The works in Wanderings have a somber modesty, but additionally really feel imaginative—examine Untitled #7, as an illustration, to this determine from an illuminated manuscript. LC
Greg Kucera Gallery, Pioneer Sq. (Mar 1–29)
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San Francisco-based multimedia artist Josh Faught’s assorted works mix weaving strategies, discovered objects, and ephemera to ponder the queer underpinnings of craft lineages and his personal historical past. (If you happen to dug Joey Veltkamp’s 2022 Bellevue Artwork Museum exhibition SPIRIT!, this present may enchantment.) I am intrigued by Faught’s cotton-hemp piece Sanctuary, adorned with a button that reads, “Be form. I’ve a young person.” The artist “reimagines methods of classification that assign social and cultural worth, investigating how collective and particular person identities are formed and analyzing constructions of social assist and visibility,” the Henry explains. LC
Henry Artwork Gallery, College District (Mar 8–Aug 3)
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Except you have been residing beneath a meticulously carved marble couch, you may acknowledge Ai Weiwei’s title—he is one of many world’s largest artwork stars, notably over the past 10-15 years, when his political clashes with the Chinese language authorities made headlines. Ai Weiwei doesn’t simply make artwork—he drops, smashes, carves, and questions the whole lot in sight. Ai, Insurgent, the artist’s first US retrospective in over a decade and his largest-ever exhibition within the US, is an enormous deal. The exhibition brings collectively over 100 works spanning 4 many years—anticipate iconic provocations like Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn and Sunflower Seeds, plus US debuts, just like the deliberately uncomfortable Marble Couch. Given Ai’s international star energy, SAM is bracing for crowds with timed tickets and a six-month run. Plan forward, seize your spot, and put together to see the acquainted made unfamiliar. LC
Seattle Artwork Museum, Downtown (Mar 12–Sept 7)
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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 images of Svalbard, a frigid Norwegian archipelago “located between the North Pole and Norway.” With an eye fixed towards the local weather disaster, glacial recession, and ice calving, Furunes’ atmospheric compositions recall the halftone printing course of. LC
Nationwide Nordic Museum, Ballard (Mar 15–June 8)
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Cease by Seattle Artwork Museum in your avant-garde most interesting for this night of trend shows, stand-up comedy, and different artistic encounters in celebration of the museum and its present exhibitions, together with Ai, Insurgent: The Artwork and Activism of Ai Weiwei. SAM Remix will run till midnight (it is a 21+ occasion, by the way in which), and the theme of this system,”punk stylish,” conjures precisely the sort of angle the provocateur-artist Ai may get behind. LC
Seattle Artwork Museum, Downtown (Fri Mar 28)
