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CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
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January is when the fact of winter actually begins to set in: Most main holidays (and alternatives for presents and gorging ourselves) are out of the best way, and now we’re staring right into a grey, drizzly abyss. When mixed with the strain to be additional onerous on ourselves within the type of stringent resolutions, January appears straight-up hellish. By no means concern, although: Well being psychologist Kari Leibowitz, PhD has some methods to share. Curl up for this digital workshop on “learn how to winter,” which can use workout routines and evidence-based practices to “assist members learn to domesticate a extra constructive wintertime mindset.” For additional feel-good power, I counsel heading to the Nationwide Nordic Museum in particular person to spend a while in Fischersund Artwork Collective’s scented exhibition. LC
(Nationwide Nordic Museum, Ballard)
LIVE MUSIC
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Punk luminaries Black Flag have taken on many kinds through the years, most notably when founding vocalist/Circle Jerk frontman Keith Morris was changed with perennial highschool bully Henry Rollins. One factor that has stayed constant is guitarist and first songwriter Greg Ginn, who’s the only steady member of the band. On this tour, pro-skater-turned-punk vocalist Mike Vallely will entrance the band in a efficiency of tracks from the band’s early years. AV
(El Corazon, Eastlake)
LIVE MUSIC
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Seattle-based singer-songwriter Tinsley takes the very best components of Nineteen Eighties and 2010s pop music and squashes them collectively for pure pop perfection. Her 2023 EP, Love Songs, is a dreamy, beachy, synthy effort within the vein of Taylor Swift’s 1989. She’s going to have fun the discharge of her debut self-titled album alongside like-minded native artists Beautiful Colors, Midnight Excessive, and Waltzerr. AV
(Neumos, Capitol Hill)
PERFORMANCE
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“Guess who’s Black in the home, bitch! Yas!” Fishy spitfire, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 4 co-winner, and Sibling Rivalry podcast host Monét X Change will head to Seattle for a night of stand-up comedy eleganza. You most likely already know Monét for her congeniality and lip-syncing abilities, nevertheless it ought to come as no shock that she will be able to additionally deliver sociopolitical hilarity—she slaughtered as Maya Angelou in RPDR season 10’s snatch sport. (Within the phrases of Monét as Maya, “If these hoes attempt to come for me, I certainly will minimize thee.”) LC
(Neptune Theatre, College District)
LIVE MUSIC
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From the place I stand, ’80s dream pop band Cocteau Twins must be one of the tough musical artists to cowl. Frontwoman Elizabeth Fraser famously sang in gibberish or mouth music, and typically even international phrases she did not know the meanings of, making the band’s songs almost inconceivable to sing alongside to. On high of that, Fraser’s distinctive featherlight soprano voice is tough to copy. For this tribute extravaganza, native tribute group Sugar Hiccup will tackle the inconceivable with a night of Cocteau Twins covers. Arrive in time to catch a further tribute from Bitter Instances, who cowl the songs of trip-hop legends Portishead. AV
(Tractor Tavern, Ballard)
VISUAL ART
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Should you 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 challenge was imagined as an “immersive rebrand of how we expertise, eat, and buy artwork.” Which means you may discover and store the STÖR house whereas considering the confluence of commerce and inventive manufacturing. Mary Anne Carter, Lilia Deering, and over 25 different collaborating artists have outfitted the set up with “surreal reinterpretations” of mass-produced house items and decor. LC
(Base Camp Studios, Downtown)
COMEDY
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You most likely acknowledge the Chicago-bred, Los Angeles-based stand-up Joel Kim Booster from, nicely, all over the place buzzy currently: He is lent his pen and his appearing chops to tasks like Hearth Island, Business, Shrill, Huge Mouth, and Search Get together. Named one of many Queer Younger Comics Redefining American Humor by the New York Instances, his 2022 comedy particular Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual “explored his experiences and observations as a homosexual Asian American male with commentary on id, sexuality, [and] cultural expectations.” It is much less necessary, however nonetheless value noting, that he additionally appears to be like like this. (While you head to this set, resist sitting on his lap.) LC
(The Crocodile, Belltown)
COMMUNITY
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LED lamps be damned, as a result of you may strive beating SAD with SAM once more this yr. The artwork museum will 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 reside performances on Saturday evenings and sound baths, dancing, installations, and extra on “exercise days.” I am intrigued by Dance Church and Mia Imani’s Dreamstation, each supplied on January 11. LC
(Olympic Sculpture Park, Belltown)
FILM
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Should you’re a sucker for old-school cinema with a component of shock, this recurring sequence offered by the Sprocket Society has your identify written allll over it. Grand Phantasm will proceed a longstanding custom with its seventeenth season of matinee classics screened alongside a secret characteristic movie each Saturday, all in dreamy 16mm. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District)
FOOD & DRINK
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Tuck into flaky golden galettes offered by La Parisienne French Bakery at this celebration of the Epiphany co-hosted by the Alliance Française de Seattle, the Union des Français à l’Etranger, and French Ciders & Spirits. Per custom, a trinket (fève) can be hidden in every galette, and the fortunate one to search out it will likely be topped king or queen for the day, thus fulfilling your Princess Diaries-fueled fantasy of discovering out you are secret royalty (or is that simply me?). Simply do not chip your tooth. You will additionally get the chance to glug loads of crisp French cider and/or mushy drinks. JB
(La Parisienne French Bakery, Belltown)
LIVE MUSIC
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LA-raised, Brooklyn-based artist Sofia Wolfson will cease by the Rabbit Field Theatre for an intimate efficiency supporting her newest album, Imposing on a Hometown. Should you’re a fan of indie rock royal Faye Webster, I believe you will recognize Wolfson’s delicate vocals and evident humorousness (she’s carrying a clown costume on the album’s cowl). AV
(The Rabbit Field Theatre, Pike Place Market)
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On her 2022 album, Riderless Horse, Nina Nastasia paperwork moments of empowerment and happiness that peek by way of gray clouds of grief. Nastasia’s sound, which has stayed constant since her 2000 debut Canine, is basic acoustic Americana with an plain veil of goth sensibility.
(Vera Mission, Uptown)
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If a live performance encourages viewers members to deliver pillows and blankets, you may depend me in. Get cozy as Portland-based ambient duo Otolithia make their Seattle debut, showcasing serene improvisational tunes that seamlessly mix vocals, flute, and koto (Japanese plucked half-tube zither) with digital devices. They are going to be joined by composer/poet/archivist María Dolores A. Matienzo and cellist Ruth Davidson. AV
(Good Shepherd Heart/Chapel Efficiency House, Wallingford)
PARTIES & NIGHTLIFE
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Revive your Tumblr alter ego at this sapphic dance occasion that encourages American Attire fashions, flower crowns, pastel hair, and different lewks seen in Rookie Magazine. DJs ToX!c will Child Van Beezly will spin your favourite 2010s cool-girl classics from the 1975, Lana Del Rey, the Neighborhood, Frank Ocean, Marina and the Diamonds, and extra. AV
(Nectar Lounge, Fremont)
FILM
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Seattle showgirl Monday Mourning will mud off her “Versayce” for her annual screening of Showgirls, so don your campiest eleganza and present as much as have fun all issues Nomi Malone. You most likely already know the plot of the movie, but when not, put together to thrill your eyeballs with the glitzy underbelly of Las Vegas golf equipment courtesy of Paul Verhoeven, aka the man who made Robocop. The screening guarantees gaggy leisure that’ll have you ever trying camp proper within the eye. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill)
LIVE MUSIC
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This tribute live performance is not the “we have now that at house” model of the Eras Tour. Native Swifties 13 ‘Til Midnight are a trio of singers who channel Taylor’s ethereal vocalizations in performances which might be greater than mere impersonation. They are going to take over the Royal Room for 2 consecutive evenings of hits and deep cuts alike. AV
(The Royal Room, Columbia Metropolis)
READINGS & TALKS
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It is January. The week’s forecast predicts clouds, showers, and highs within the 40s. Do your self a favor: Study coral polyps. No, significantly—Australia’s Nice Barrier Reef is considered one of our planet’s best and most colourful masterpieces. BUT IT’S IN TROUBLE! Local weather change is bleaching the panorama, however there’s “nonetheless a lot to see and lots to avoid wasting,” argues divemaster, marine biologist, digital actuality filmmaker, and Very Cool Individual Dr. Erika Woolsey. Personally, I might like to avoid wasting these pleasant clownfish. Dr. Woolsey will share concerning the “most weird, colourful species that reside in these underwater jungles,” and if that does not struggle off your doldrums, what’s going to? LC
(Benaroya Corridor, Downtown)
COMEDY
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Jap Washington College grad and The Younger Rock star Nate Jackson can also be the founding father of Tacoma comedy hang-out Tremendous Humorous Comedy Membership, one of many solely Black-owned comedy golf equipment within the nation. He’ll cease by Seattle for this particular taping, so watch your again if you happen to appear to be a Construct-A-Bear. LC
(Neptune Theatre, College District, Saturday–Sunday)
EXHIBIT
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Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós launched their first correct album in over a decade final yr—EverOut music calendar editor Audrey Vann described ÁTTA as “cinematic, serene, floaty, and harmonious.” Because it seems, although, lead singer Jónsi’s inventive follow extends past his immediately recognizable falsetto. Alongside his sisters (who make up the family-run artwork collective and perfumery Fischersund), he’ll current Fake Flora, an immersive collection of sculptures, sounds, scent experiences, and extra impressed by Icelandic native plants. The sensory exhibition imagines new plant species and explores “the scientific relationship between scent and reminiscence.” LC
(Nationwide Nordic Museum, Ballard, Tuesday–Sunday)
FILM
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I am going to begin this blurb with some brutal honesty: I discover the trailer for A Full Unknown to be corny, annoying, and undoubtedly angling to snag Tiny Tim an Oscar nod. Is that this partially as a result of after I was a teen, a boy “broke up” with me by copy-pasting the lyrics to Bob Dylan’s “Do not Assume Twice, It is All Proper” into his AIM away message, thus cementing my everlasting and near-lifelong disdain for the grumpy troubadour? Possibly!! However perhaps you like Bob Dylan, through which case A Full Unknown may enchantment to you. The biopic is about in NYC’s ’60s music scene and follows Chalamet because the snarky, mysterious Dylan. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Monday–Thursday)
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Now that the hazy pink mushroom cloud is way behind us, I can admit that I did not take care of the cultural frenzy that was “Barbenheimer.” However hear me out. I might wish to suggest a brand new cinema mash-up. It is referred to as “Babyatu,” or “Nosygirl,” or perhaps simply “Nicole Kidman being scorching with a aspect of vampiric dread.” I assume what I am saying is that this: You can go see each Babygirl and Nosferatu on the identical day to witness two very completely different interpretations of the phrase “psychosexual.” I like to recommend it. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Monday–Thursday)
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Should you do not need to be the one who’s like, “Wait, what’s that?” whilst you’re watching the Oscars this yr, now could be the time to meet up with all the award frontrunners. One apparent decide is the stacked-cast drama The Brutalist, which follows visionary architect László Toth’s (Adrien Brody) postwar arrival in america. He settles in Pennsylvania, the place the industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Man Pearce) notices his expertise. LC
(SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown, Thursday–Sunday)
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When a plucky bunch of puffer coat-wearing analysis scientists helps shelter a wierd sled canine in distant Antarctica, they slowly study that the pooch is not all that he appears. John Carpenter’s icy basic horror stars a younger Kurt Russell battling it out in opposition to—you guessed it—a cold-hearted, shape-shifting alien. (What higher solution to say hi there to 2025 than by staring right into a frosty no-man’s-land?) You possibly can experience The Factor’s bone-chilling particular results whereas toasty and heat in your theater seat throughout Central Cinema’s post-holiday “The Different Carpenter” programming. LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, Friday–Sunday)
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It is by no means a nasty time to revisit the ’86 darkish fantasy Labyrinth, which solely serves to bolster the idea that David Bowie was a creation pulled straight from Jim Henson’s fantastical creativeness. Seize a beer and a few popcorn in honor of Henson’s oddball brilliance and Bowie’s cinematic mystique—this screening of the flick additionally celebrates Jareth the Goblin King’s would-be 78th birthday. Rumor has it {that a} Labyrinth remake is the subsequent challenge Robert Eggers has coming down the pipeline, so revisiting the unique may assist put together you for no matter freakish, puppet-laden twists he is envisioning. LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, Monday–Wednesday)
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Should you requested me what I did on December 25, you may count on my reply to be “Christmas stuff.” And you would be partially proper. Like, I undoubtedly did Christmas stuff within the morning. However come afternoon, I had one purpose. Notions of tinsel and mistletoe light from my consciousness like so many ephemeral snowflakes. The sky darkened. A fanged creature launched untold terrors upon nepo child Lily-Rose Depp. And I, pricey reader, was seated for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu. Take into account such a plan for your self this week. When has Eggers ever upset you? LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Monday–Thursday)
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A sure blisteringly scorching Italian man would approve of the Beacon’s newest movie sequence, which asks, “What would occur if we spoke fact to energy with gun in hand?” The Beacon punctuates Probably Unwell-Suggested: Movies About Assassinating Your Political Leaders with some delightfully acerbic quotes, like “The second of assassination is the second when energy and the ignorance of energy come collectively, with Dying as validator” (Thomas Pynchon) and “The perfect authorities is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination” (Voltaire). Let it’s recognized that I am not endorsing something right here. However, like, it is best to most likely go see these movies for cinema’s sake, proper? I like to recommend snagging seats to the primary one on the docket—Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s superior, anarchic satire The Third Technology. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, Wednesday–Sunday)
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Should you hang-out the Elliott Bay stacks with any regularity, you’re probably aware of Sigrid Nunez, whose work has inked the pages of literary powerhouses like The Paris Overview, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and The Believer. She’s philosophical, but her prose is unadorned—it is an intoxicating combine. She’s maybe finest acknowledged for her ebook The Buddy, a private favourite of mine, however Pedro Almodóvar has elected to adapt Nunez’s cheeky, sleek 2020 novel What Are You Going By. The story follows Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton), two former journal staff whose paths diverge when one turns into an autofiction novelist and the opposite a conflict reporter. What is going to occur after they meet once more? LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Thursday–Sunday)
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For these with little interest in visiting Park Metropolis, Utah, to start with: I perceive. Secondly, you do not have to! Sundance Institute’s 2024 Indigenous Movie Tour brings eight quick movies by Indigenous administrators (4 from the 2024 Sundance Movie Competition, three from the 2023 Sundance Movie Competition, and one quick movie from the 2005 Sundance Movie Competition) straight to Northwest Movie Discussion board. The curated choice is a strong alternative to have interaction with new work by Native administrators like Erica Tremblay, Taika Waititi, Sterlin Harjo, and private favourite Sky Hopinka, who blends English and Indigenous dialects like Chinuk Wawa in his ground-quaking works. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, Wednesday–Sunday)
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The current days-long Amazon strike could also be over for now, however we must always proceed demonstrating solidarity with the Amazon Labor Union. (I do know you did not store on Amazon over the vacations, proper?) Other than breaking apart together with your Prime account, think about testing this documentary—Union follows the 2022 formation of the primary unionized Amazon office in America. The Amazon Labor Union had “no prior organizing expertise, no institutional backing, and a complete finances of $120,000 raised on GoFundMe,” however managed to win their election in opposition to Bezos’s reviled superpower. It is a story that kinda makes David and Goliath seem to be a playground spat over Roblox, or one thing. Go forth and be impressed. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, Monday & Thursday)
VISUAL ART
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Should you’re not aware of the groundbreaking work of Black artist, sculptor, performer, and printmaker Joyce J. Scott, now’s the time to repair that: Seattle Artwork Museum will current a significant profession retrospective surveying Scott’s multimedia works, which spans her 50-plus-year profession and emphasizes her “virtuosic use” of beads, glass, and textiles. Scott has “upended hierarchies of artwork and craft, insisting that inventive expression is that ‘additional inch of life’ that nourishes the soul even in essentially the most difficult circumstances,” the museum explains. I am eager about how Scott’s distinctive aesthetic imaginative and prescient addresses the racism, sexism, and inequality of the twentieth century and the fashionable period by way of a refined, typically humorous lens. LC
(Seattle Artwork Museum, Downtown, Wednesday–Sunday)
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Winter is a stunning time to go to Bainbridge Island—the quieter season infuses the island with a relaxed, serene allure. If I had been you, I might seize a latte from a comfortable cafe, benefit from the surroundings sans summer time crowds, after which head to the Bainbridge Island Museum of Artwork, the place visitor curator Fancy Vargas has conceived a gaggle exhibition to “discover, have fun, and elevate the sweetness and radiance of Blackness as an expertise.” Radiant Reflections: Celebrating the Great thing about the African Diaspora guarantees complexity; count on a “multifaceted” portrayal of Black resilience, and think about attending the January 18 panel with exhibiting artists for added context. LC
(Bainbridge Island Museum of Artwork, Bainbridge Island, Friday–Sunday; opening)
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Koplin Del Rio’s stylish annual winter salon facilities items from the woman-led classic boutique Casa Patina this yr. The gallery can be outfitted with a spread of the store’s treasures—suppose trendy antiques, classic furnishings, and moody work—positioned alongside up to date artworks that usually occupy the house. The salon goals to assemble distinctive new dialogues between objects; I am pondering it will have a soothing impact throughout a busy time. LC
(Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Georgetown, Wednesday–Saturday)
WINTER
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Seize some scorching cocoa and get cozy with your mates, household, or Hinge date at this wintertime immersive expertise filled with large glowing lanterns, every formed like natural world from across the globe. Children and people of us who’re youngsters at coronary heart will take pleasure in a magical world with a forest prepare, tree fairies, and illuminated unicorns (good luck explaining that these do not exist after your youngsters see this show) alongside brilliantly lit peacocks and different winged creatures within the Birds of Paradise zone and monkeys hiding within the Underneath the Jungle Cover. WildLanterns’ 2024–2025 season consists of nightly conventional Chinese language cultural performances akin to lion dances, umbrella juggling, face altering, chair balancing, and extra. SL
(Woodland Park Zoo, Phinney Ridge, Thursday–Sunday)
