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COMEDY
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Are you cool? No?!?! Me neither. Okay, so neither of us is cool, and the limitless march of time suggests we’re all slogging slowly towards our eventual demise. What may very well be funnier than that? One chance is that this totally improvised comedy present for St. Patrick’s Day, wherein native comics (Yolanda Suarez, Mia Iseman, Zak Nelson, Jaime Lazich, and others) cling desperately to cultural relevance by studying tendencies, slang, and goss from the viewers. Hopefully the terminally on-line will present as much as clarify issues; the remainder of us can simply nod alongside. LC
(Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown)
FILM
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If there’s anybody I am letting educate me in regards to the complexities of human consciousness, it is Werner Herzog. In a approach, he is kinda been doing that each one alongside—his filmography contains Into the Abyss and Grizzly Man, for chrissake. Within the 2022 movie Theater of Thought, although, it is much more intentional. The director-slash-weird-German-genius “dares us to query whether or not we actually have autonomy over our ideas, or if our brains will inevitably turn out to be infused with mind-controlling expertise within the not so distant future.” I am scared, however how may I not be intrigued, too? LC
(SIFF Movie Middle, Uptown)
ST. PATRICK’S DAY
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Kells’ forty second annual shamrock-festooned celebration wraps up over per week of revelry as we speak. As typical, Publish Alley and First Avenue might be closed to site visitors and coated 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)
LIVE MUSIC
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Vocal powerhouse Girl Blackbird, who’s generally known as the “Grace Jones of Jazz,” is taking up the Triple Door this week with tracks from her new album, Slang Spirituals. The album is a wild experience by jazz, soul, gospel, and psychedelic rock that may have you ever dancing one second and crying the following. AV
(Triple Door, Downtown)
FILM
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For these of us whose concept of true romance is a chunk of citrus left in a mailbox throughout a frosty winter, Little Ladies is a flawless film. It is not simple to enhance upon greatness, and to me, “greatness” is personified by the 1994 interpretation of Louisa Might Alcott’s novel, starring the trifecta of perfection that’s Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, and Kirsten Dunst. No, not the Greta Gerwig one. I mentioned what I mentioned. However I really feel like I am within the minority right here, as a result of everybody else appears to like the 2019 adaptation. That is most likely you! Head to Discipline Arts & Occasions Corridor to have fun Ladies’s Historical past Month in period-inspired model—attendees are welcomed to put on their Civil Battle-era-best and sip specialty cocktails—then catch a screening of Gerwig’s Little Ladies. LC
(Discipline Arts & Occasions Corridor)
LIVE MUSIC
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On her newest album Nice Doubt, Danish experimental artist Astrid Stone stepped into the pop music sphere along with her first assortment of non-instrumental tracks. Whereas her earlier works have been predominantly ambient, the brand new album’s diaristic lyrics and pop hooks will resonate with followers of Empress Of, Tirzah, and Carla dal Forno. She is going to assist the album alongside Seattle-based producer August V. M. AV
(Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown)
READINGS & TALKS
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You have most likely heard the thrill encircling Torrey Peters’s Detransition, Child for the previous couple of years—the pink motorcycle-riding, cabin-dwelling novelist’s debut work was named one of many 100 Greatest Books of the twenty first Century by the New York Instances. Stag Dance, Peters’s newest, takes the type of a novel and three tales. It is an uncommon format—I might love to listen to how she pitched it to her editor–however the contents sound tremendous intriguing. In Stag Dance, the titular novel, a “group of lumberjacks working in an unlawful winter logging outfit plan a dance that a few of them will attend as ladies.” The brief tales surrounding the novel envision gender apocalypses, Quaker romances, and Vegas social gathering scenes. Head to this discuss for extra context. LC
(City Corridor Seattle, First Hill)
LIVE MUSIC
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British saxophonist and spoken phrase poet Gus Fairbairn crafts timeless tunes impressed by religious jazz, conventional Ethiopian music, and ambient soundscapes below the pseudonym Alabaster DePlume. My fingers are crossed that he’ll play some tracks from his 2020 album, To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals, Vol. 1, which is right music to sit down outdoors in a backyard and ponder life. He’ll take the stage after a gap set from experimental composer and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Shiroishi. AV
(Tractor Tavern, Ballard)
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Extra Music options younger musicians who collaborate and play in quite a lot of types, offering them with a program that gives mentorship from music business people, manufacturing and promotional assist, and an opportunity to attach with native musicians. This 12 months, rising native artists like violinist Amrutha Achalla, lo-fi hip-hop artist BNH Deluxe, indie rock band Clover, rapper Issac Burdette, singer-songwriter Rainbow Jackson, psychedelic blues outfit Rose Peak, folks artist Thawdawaing Helmstetter, and Mongolian throat singing duo Zje Mongol will showcase what they’ve been engaged on below the mentorship of famend music director Kim Burse (greatest recognized for her work with Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Ciara, and Brandy). AV
(Moore Theatre, Belltown)
COMMUNITY
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LED lamps be damned, as a result of you may attempt beating SAD with SAM once more this 12 months. The artwork museum will provide free, first-come, first-serve wellness actions on choose Saturdays this winter to assist guests battle the drab seasonal doldrums. Drag your self away from 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.” LC
(Olympic Sculpture Park, Belltown)
FOOD & DRINK
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Recognized for being Seattle’s oldest neighborhood, industrial-gritty Georgetown has turn out 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 may scoop up choices from dozens of distributors, together with El Sirenito, Lowrider Baking Firm, Jellyfish Brewing, Star Brass Lounge, Fran’s Goodies, El Pirata Tortas y Burritos, and extra. Plus, this 12 months has been expanded to incorporate retailers and artists, so you may store in between stuffing your face. JB
(Numerous areas, Georgetown)
LIVE MUSIC
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Ah, to be a tween once more, laying on the ground listening to Snow Patrol’s “Chasing Vehicles” on my iPod Nano and simply attempting to, effectively, “neglect the world.” (Should you declare you do not have a tender spot for that track, effectively, I merely don’t consider you). The Irish alt-rock band will return to Seattle with tracks from their first album in six years, titled The Forest Is The Path. Dublin-based singer-songwriter Sorcha Richardson will open. AV
(Paramount Theatre, Downtown)
PERFORMANCE
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Choreographer Bruce Wells’s Magnificence and the Beast tells a well-recognized, but all the time enchanting story of affection, id, transformation, and a glimmering rose beneath a glass cloche. The hour-long, narrated manufacturing (perfect for the antsiest theater-goers) is tailor-made for youthful audiences and carried out by the gifted college students of the Pacific Northwest Ballet College. My fingers are crossed for some sassy speaking teacups. LC
(McCaw Corridor, Uptown)
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You may know comic, actor, and author Caleb Hearon from his appearances in movies like Jurassic World Dominion, I Used to Be Humorous, and Sweethearts or from one in every of his many viral comedy movies on social media. In his self-described “most beloved podcast on this planet” So True, he preaches the homosexual gospel to his legions of followers (recognized affectionately as “Calebrities” and “Calesbians”) and chats with visitors like Brittany Broski and Chris Fleming about matters starting from the perfect hen wing order to infiltrating the LA lesbian elite. Be a part of him for “an unforgettable evening of laughter, surprises, perhaps some spirited debate, romance, and many others.” JB
(Moore Theatre, Belltown)
FILM
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For a movie that’s sexiness personified, look no additional than The Starvation—the ’83 horror follows Catherine Deneuve as a ravenous vamp torn between two extraordinary hotties, performed by David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. (I might have a tough time selecting, too.) Scream queens Mae Flood and Princess Charming will add their signature wit to this slinky screening. LC
(Central Cinema, Central District)
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The Twentieth-anniversary version of the Discovered Footage Competition is a VHS odyssey main viewers into the murky terrain of the fest’s all-time biggest finds. Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (The Colbert Report) do the crate-digging for the competition, an ongoing challenge bringing forgotten gems to the large display. If previous editions of Discovered Footage Competition are any indication of this 12 months’s choices, I am hoping for ’80s-era video courting providers, questionably horny striptease movies, mysterious New Age seminars, Jazzercise cast-offs, and long-lost pageant footage. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown)
LIVE MUSIC
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I might argue that almost all of Wes Anderson’s movies are model over substance. Nevertheless, they’re so trendy that it virtually does not matter. One of many greatest contributors to Anderson’s charming aesthetic is his use of music, which, by the years, has ranged from British rock just like the Beatles, the Kinks, and the Rolling Stones to kids’s classical tunes like Benjamin Britten’s “The Younger Individual’s Information to the Orchestra.” Jazz bassist Marty Isenberg and his troupe of gifted musicians will swing by city with tracks from Anderson’s oeuvre, reimagined for contemporary jazz. AV
(The Royal Room, Columbia Metropolis)
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Singer-songwriter Paris Paloma’s debut album, Cacophony, is a delightfully whimsical tackle darkish pop with poetic lyrics impressed by historical mythology and artwork historical past. Should you’re a fan of Ethel Cain’s Preacher’s Daughter or Taylor Swift’s Evermore, I believe you may admire Paloma’s mystical storytelling and ethereal vocals. Indie folks duo Sarah Julia will open. AV
(The Showbox, Downtown)
FILM
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Thinkpieces be damned—we nonetheless do not perceive a lot in regards to the oeuvre of surrealist auteur David Lynch. He famously did not clarify his movies, leaving us all at nighttime as to their true meanings. Such is the mark of an artist who was utterly devoted to originality and curiosity; an artist who meditated, recited optimistic affirmations, made cool furnishings, and actually, actually wished 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 dying at 78. The Beacon’s assortment of “Lynch’s biggest interviews, oddities, documentary items, brief movies, music movies, rarities, and secret mysteries” provides a chance to ruminate on, and maybe complicate, the director’s story. It is a collection of works that’ll increase even essentially the most atrophied, cobwebbed components of your consciousness. Within the phrases of Lynch himself, “Repair your coronary heart or die.” LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, Thursday–Sunday)
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Ingmar Bergman swapped toy troopers for a film projector as a baby, igniting an odd and lifelong obsession with shadows, faces, and the silent depth of emotion. Bergman’s movies have been worshipped by nearly each director —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 inside the mundane this month. SIFF Cinema Uptown’s collection contains screenings of Summer time with Monika, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Persona, and private favourite Winter Gentle. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Monday–Sunday)
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After directing the landmark wealth-hating flick that was Parasite, Bong Joon-ho has one other huge story to inform. Mickey 17, based mostly on the 2022 novel by Edward Ashton, is intriguing—it seems to be fairly wacky, and Robert Pattinson adopts a frankly bonkers accent for the main position, however I am nonetheless on board. He performs an “expendable”—an area mission crew member chosen to tackle treacherous duties and die again and again. I am hoping for some Alien-esque, capitalism-in-space critique. LC
(SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown, Monday–Sunday)
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The 2025 Academy Award winner for Greatest Documentary Function follows the extended compelled demolition of Masafer Yatta, a rural West Financial institution neighborhood whose houses Israel wished for goal follow. In No Different Land, Palestinian activist and Masafer Yatta neighborhood member Basel Adra documented the destruction for half a decade, constructing an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist alongside the way in which. For a glimpse of Adra’s documentation follow, take a look at his Instagram, which shares footage of Israel’s damaging practices. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Monday–Thursday)
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Preserve Eggers’ Christmas vibes rolling proper into March with the bald, spidery, and downright yucky Rely Orlok in F.W. Murnau’s eerie 1922 basic Nosferatu. Werner Herzog as soon as described it as “the best German movie,” and he ought to know, proper? This screening might be somewhat completely different, although—Silents Synched pairs basic silent flicks with “epic rock music.” One of the overtly millennial issues about me is that I really like Radiohead, particularly their atmospheric aughts-era albums Child A and Amnesiac. So, I am truly 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, Monday–Tuesday)
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The Seattle Jewish Movie Competition is likely one of the longest-running within the Pacific Northwest and one of many largest Jewish movie festivals within the nation. This 12 months’s “cinemanna” contains a gap evening screening of Midas Man at AMC Pacific Place, adopted by a ‘60s-themed dance social gathering and desserts, and a closing evening champagne toast with a screening of the darkly comedic Dangerous Shabbos. Viewers have the choice to attend occasions in particular person or watch nearly from residence. LC
(Numerous areas, Saturday–Sunday)
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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. Certain, 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 photos and David Lynch as one in every 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 Middle Theater will have fun his life’s work with screenings by August. LC
(Numerous areas, Monday–Sunday)
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Devoted to the efforts of rising French filmmakers, this screening collection can not help however be a little stylish. Go forth for screenings of Mati Diop’s Dahomey, which charts the return of Kingdom of Dahomey artifacts from Paris to the Republic of Benin, and Marie Amachoukeli’s candy comedy-drama Àma Gloria, amongst different festival-fave picks. You may witness an early work by the following Agnès Varda or Claire Denis. LC
(SIFF Movie Middle, Uptown, Friday–Sunday)
PERFORMANCE
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It is your final probability to see the real-life story-turned-book-turned-play Letters From Max at Seattle Public Theater earlier than it closes this week. The theatrical work follows a literary and mental friendship between a instructor and an aspiring younger poet going by most cancers therapy. Should you’re somebody who went to liberal arts faculty and truly reads all of the books in your shelf, you are going to wish to seize a seat. Whereas fairly heady at instances, I discovered myself swept up within the rhythmic prose and on the verge of tears. If the play strikes you because it did me, go for a stroll round Inexperienced Lake afterward and ponder existence. SL
(Seattle Public Theater, Inexperienced Lake, Thursday–Sunday)
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A real testomony to the recognition of underground cabaret leisure in Seattle, the longstanding Moisture Competition has fostered circus performers, comics, burlesque dancers, and musicians for years, and now claims to be “the world’s largest comedy/selection present competition.” The 25-day fest provides eye-popping occasions from the (comparatively) mild-mannered to the racy and scantily clad finish of the spectrum. LC
(Broadway Efficiency Corridor, Capitol Hill, Thursday–Sunday)
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Described as “somewhat slice of heaven” by Leisure Weekly, this manufacturing contains one thing I believe we will all get behind: Actual pies onstage. I imply, what may very well be extra engaging than that? Waitress follows Jenna, a gifted baker who goals of blending up a recent begin past her small city. Set to Sara Bareilles’s pop-rock rating, this oven-fresh staging of the Tony-nominated manufacturing is certain to be heat and uplifting. LC
(The fifth Avenue Theatre, Downtown, Wednesday–Sunday)
VISUAL ART
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In a backyard of connecting paths, 15 artists craft a “metaphor of a backyard plot, designed to specific how seeds of inspiration and roots of thought can unfold by formal teachings, inventive collaborations, and collective dreaming.” The collection of natural, floral work, collages, and sculptures feels completely in line with the approaching of spring. I have been intrigued by quinn mcnichol’s work, which calls upon tarot readings, climate shifts, and medicinal herb gardens as “narratives” in “visible adventures,” for just a few years now, so I am excited to see their identify within the combine amongst different native favorites, like Whiting Tennis and Saya Moriyasu. LC
(SOIL, Pioneer Sq., Friday–Sunday)
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Until you’ve got been residing beneath a meticulously carved marble couch, you may acknowledge Ai Weiwei’s identify—he is one of many world’s greatest 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 every thing 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 a long time—anticipate iconic provocations like Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn and Sunflower Seeds. Given Ai’s world 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. Along with the SAM retrospective, the Seattle Asian Artwork Museum may even present Ai Weiwei: Water Lilies, a “reinterpretation in LEGOs of one in every of Claude Monet’s famed water lilies work,” and a “circle of 12 monumental bronze sculptures” by Ai might be put in on the Olympic Sculpture Park in Might. LC
(Seattle Artwork Museum, Downtown, Wednesday–Sunday)
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A collection of works by Indigenous Australian artists like Jaclyn Holmes Nangala, Kurun Warun, Sheree Napanangka Anderson, and Janice Stanley explores “the cyclical nature of life, creation, and time.” All the artworks in The Creation Circle: Aboriginal Artwork and Time really feel complicated and vibrant, however I am particularly intrigued by Brenda Napaltjarri’s conventional dot work paired with Stanley’s marbled-effect portray model. LC
(ArtX Up to date, SoDo, Monday–Saturday; closing)
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To some, corresponding to myself, Keith Haring is seen as part of the hiphop tradition that emerged in New York Metropolis within the early ‘80s. He labored with Dondi White, a grasp and founding father of the form of graffiti you discover as we speak in Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, and, sure, Seattle. Certainly, Haring and Dondi did the quilt artwork for Malcolm McLaren’s weird however essentially hiphop album Duck Rock. For a lot of, this cowl launched Haring, whose work was easy however not simplistic, breezy however cosmically vibrant. After which there’s the quilt of McLaren’s Would Ya Like Extra Scratchin’. Right here, we’ve nothing however Haring. His chalk-drawn figures popping and locking. You’ll be able to hear the scratching and slicing. You’ll be able to see New York Metropolis when it was the capital of the artwork world. Haring will all the time be hiphop to me. STRANGER SENIOR WRITER CHARLES MUDEDE
(MoPOP, Uptown, Monday–Sunday; closing)
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Buzzy Ballard gallery Get Good has determined that spring has sprung, equinox be damned. Their newest group present, reBLOOM, opened on March 8 for the Ballard Artwork Stroll, that includes a bouquet of recent artworks by over 20 artists. I am excited to see items by Brandon Vosika, whose portray graced the quilt of The Stranger‘s Fall Arts + Efficiency concern, and Portland-grown painter-illustrator Ryan Bubnis, amongst many different native and further-flung faves. Cannot make it to the gallery? You’ll be able to peep the seasonal works on-line, too. LC
(Get Good Gallery, Ballard, Monday–Sunday)
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Susan Skilling’s watercolors on Thai mulberry paper have a hushed, ephemeral high quality, with dreamy compositions of bushes, gestural abstractions, and delicate figural kinds. The image discipline is full of washes of muted blues and greens, or stored spare with single figures floating in area. The works in Wanderings have a somber modesty, but additionally really feel imaginative—evaluate Untitled #7, as an example, to this determine from an illuminated manuscript. LC
(Greg Kucera Gallery, Pioneer Sq., Tuesday–Saturday)
