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Comic and former Cosmo intercourse and relationships editor Lane Moore will head again to Seattle to deal with the Emerald Metropolis relationship scene. Audiences swipe alongside on a projected Tinder display, and in the event that they vote “sure” on a profile, Moore shoots the fortunate somebody a message. If it seems like a recipe for catastrophe and utter hilarity, you are proper—Tinder Dwell! with Lane Moore has been praised by the New York Occasions, VICE, NPR, and the Washington Put up. LC
(Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown)
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Drawing inspiration from her musical idols Carole King, Todd Rundgren, and Paul McCartney, UK singer-songwriter Fonteyn crafts mellow smooth rock that sounds prefer it’s from the Seventies. Should you’re a fan of fellow ’70s revivalists like Clairo, Cate Le Bon, or Marina Allen, then I promise you may love her, too—simply give her most up-to-date single “Jody” a hear. Do not miss Fonteyn as she drops by Baba Yaga with tracks from her debut album, Journey The Gentle Unbelievable. AV
(Baba Yaga, Pioneer Sq.)
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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 many others), 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 hear, I used to be caught off guard by the orchestral thrives 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 “Huge Ben Beat”), the album kinds a cohesively incohesive assortment of tracks that will be excellent for dissociating round completely satisfied folks—a typical thread that runs via Deal’s discography. She’s going to help 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)
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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 via 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. In the end, 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)
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Singer-songwriter Amaria pulls inspiration from neo-soul royalty Erykah Badu and Sade after which blends that sound right into a magical brew of early aughts pop and ’70s non secular jazz. The result’s ethereal, feather-light, and very catchy. She’s going to cease by on her Free Fallin’ tour to help her new album of the identical title. For followers of: Solange, Aaliyah, and D’Angelo. AV
(Neumos, Capitol Hill)
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Because the age of 13, I’ve wished nothing greater than to bang heads with Danzig. The belief of this teen dream isn’t for me alone, however for all of us to share in collectively. Come, allow us to bang heads with He Who Has Given Us So A lot, Glenn Danzig. Will he play Misfits classics or keep on with his solo catalog? Exhausting to say, however this kiddo can dream. Alongside for the trip are southern rockers, Down; Norwegian shredders, Abbath; and authentic punks from the ’80s, Cro-Mags. PORTLAND MERCURY MUSIC EDITOR NOLAN PARKER
(WaMu Theater, SoDo)
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As a founding member of the influential German digital rock bands NEU! and Harmonia and an early member of Kraftwerk, it is protected to say Michael Rother is the main man behind the krautrock style. He’ll cease by the Neptune for a uncommon Seattle efficiency taking part in songs from NEU! and Harmonia, in addition to his solo works. Native psych-rock duo Mega Cat will open. AV
(Neptune Theatre, College District)
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Whether or not you dream of procuring your individual elements from the good outdoor or simply wish 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 college you on catching fish, discovering intertidal edible species, and harvesting and figuring out mushrooms, then exhibit how one can put together your newfound haul.
(E book Larder, Fremont)
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If there’s something lacking from the everyday movie show expertise, it is a democratic voting course of and a lil’ little bit of intrigue. Proper? Proper??? Should you agree, you may dig 5 Minutes to Dwell, whereby the Beacon will display the primary 5 minutes of 4 totally different thriller films. The group will then vote on which flick to observe in its entirety. It is form of like a real-life choose-your-own-adventure sport, staged inside the theater’s cozy blue-and-red rows. Hold an open thoughts in case your flick choose does not find yourself on prime—nobody likes a grumpy movie-goer. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis)
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Self-taught musician, composer, producer, and orchestrator Adrian Younge is understood for his work with massive 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 together 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)
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The Linda Lindas have been onerous rocking towards sexism, racism, and homophobia since a few of them have been literal pre-teens. Now of their late teenagers and early 20s, the Linda Lindas are nonetheless RAT (rocking towards Trump), all whereas regularly honing their expertise. Give ‘em a number of years; they’re gonna be headlining stadiums and the largest music festivals on the market. Seeing them on theShowboxis essentially the most intimate setting you’ll get any longer. Iconic mid-’00s brat-punks, Be Your Personal Pet, get this rowdy get together began. PORTLAND MERCURY MUSIC EDITOR NOLAN PARKER
(The Showbox, Downtown)
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What could possibly be dreamier than internet hosting a backyard get together with cocktails made with contemporary botanical elements? Sisters Kelly and Venise Cunningham, authors of Drink Your Backyard: Recipes, Tales and Suggestions from the Easy Goodness Cocktail Farm, will exhibit make a seasonal cordial non-alcoholic spritz recipe from their ebook, discipline your burning newbie bartending questions, and signal copies. Discover ways to develop your individual elements, “from easy windowsill herbs to greens and flowers,” and seize and protect their pure flavors. JB
(E book Larder, Fremont)
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On their third album, Cartoon Darkness, 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 trendy terrors like local weather change, struggle, A.I., and web politics via pithy confrontational punk and onerous rock (à la X-Ray Spex or the Runaways). Contemporary off a stadium tour supporting the Foo Fighters, the band will drop by the Paramount Theatre with tracks from the album. AV
(Paramount Theatre, Downtown)
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After the discharge of their 2020 album, Prettiest Curse, Spanish indie rockers Hinds discovered themselves in a disaster when their bassist and drummer each left the band. Then, when their tour was canceled, the remaining members have been dropped from their label and cut up from their administration group. The band persevered via these obstacles, powered by the magic of friendship and creativity of childhood besties Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote. In 2024, Hinds emerged with maybe their most bold album but, VIVA HINDS, which options collaborations with Beck and Grian Chatten (of Fontaines D.C.) They’ll help the album after a gap set from Texas indie rock band Mamalarky. AV
(Tractor Tavern, Ballard)
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Emma Pattee’s debut novel Tilt takes place over the course of a single day, the day that the decades-overdue Cascadia earthquake rocks Portland. It unfolds by way of the wry interior monologue of Annie, who’s a swole 37 weeks pregnant and searching for a crib at IKEA when all of it comes down. Tilt follows her on a trek throughout Portland as she tries to stroll dwelling, coming throughout scenes each heart-warming and harrowing. Pattee is a Portland Mercury contributor and an environmental journalist whose local weather reporting has been printed by the Guardian and the New York Occasions, amongst others. Tilt’s trim, 227-page narrative displays her dedication to analysis. It’s as evocative a portrait of what Portlanders can anticipate as anybody has printed since Nathan Gilles’ “The First 4 Minutes,” which Pattee famous as a serious affect on the ebook, together with “The Actually Huge One” by New Yorker author Kathryn Schultz, which gained Schultz a Pulitzer. PORTLAND MERCURY ARTS EDITOR SUZETTE SMITH
(Third Place Books, Ravenna)
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World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma shaped the musical collective Silkroad Ensemble in 2000 as a venture beneath the broader Silkroad arts group. Over its lifespan, the ensemble has had as many as 59 musicians, composers, artists, and storytellers at a time with the joint purpose of encouraging cross-cultural collaboration. Ma handed the title of inventive director to Rhiannon Giddens again in 2020, however the mission of the ensemble stays the identical. Championing girls and non-binary performers, their latest program, Uplifted Voices, spotlights under-recognized voices from throughout the globe to vary our perspective of the historical past and migration of music. The ensemble will carry out a worldwide tapestry of people and ancestral items alongside the Indigenous activist, storyteller, and musician Pura Fé. AV
(Meany Heart for the Performing Arts, Northeast Seattle)
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Cease by Seattle Artwork Museum in your avant-garde best 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 form of angle the provocateur-artist Ai may get behind. LC
(Seattle Artwork Museum, Downtown)
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On-line relationship is notoriously bizarre, awkward, and uncomfortable. Swipe Proper pokes enjoyable on the complete shebang. For this improv present, two courageous (like, actually courageous) souls will share their relationship profiles with the viewers by way of projector. Then a forged of improvisers will devise a humorous set based mostly on the profile particulars. Who wants love once you’ve bought laughs? LC
(Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown)
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I’ve lengthy held the assumption that being James Spader within the ’90s was the top of human existence. It was all downhill from there. I do not know what he did in a previous life to deserve the unequalled mixture of puzzling hotness and Hollywood attract that outlined his profession, however I am going to go forward and say it: I am jealous. Anyway, this double characteristic makes an attempt to unpack why James Spader was so smoldering again then, in one of the simplest ways attainable–by looking at his face for 211 minutes. (That is the runtime of Crash and Secretary mixed.) If you have not seen these movies, there are additionally different causes to observe them, like Cronenberg’s sharp route, automobile crash kinks, and Maggie Gyllenhaal crawling on all fours. You are welcome. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill)
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Should you’re not but acquainted with the work of Kath Bloom, enable me to introduce you. The Connecticut-born singer-songwriter launched a handful of albums within the late ’70s/early ’80s with the avant-garde guitarist Loren Connors. Each Bloom and Connors individually shine with their emotionally resonant, intuitive fashion, so their collaborative work is actually transcendent (if you happen to queue it up, be able to wrap your self in a blanket and cry for a number of hours). Bloom’s voice is uncooked, emotive, and sometimes sounds as if she’s on the sting of tears, crooning poetic lyrics about bodily and emotional closeness. Do not miss this uncommon alternative to see Bloom on her PNW tour alongside fellow folks troubadours Abbey Blackwell and Rob Joynes. AV
(Belltown Yacht Membership/Screwdriver Bar, Belltown)
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Queer musical comic and self-described “preacher’s child” Kristin Key typically blends melody and comedy in Los Angeles golf equipment, however she’ll head north to “uplift her group and create protected areas for comedy followers from all walks of life.” Aww, thanks, Key! (And take notes, Dave Chappelle.) I am hoping Key will reprise her viral 2023 hit “Lesbian Nationwide Anthem,” which shot-put her into the highlight with traces like “I drive a Subaru, donate to canine rescues.” The Pacific Northwest is the place she belongs. LC
(Neptune Theatre, College District)
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Are you standard, or was bonding time along 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 clarify 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 probably harmful culinary demonstration.” SL
(Paramount Theatre, Downtown)
COMMUNITY
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I am prepared to imagine that I am a weirdo for this one, however hitting up a free spelling bee seems like a blast. Eighty center schoolers trying to spell “psammophile,” “zwitterion,” and “schistorrhachis?” That is an surroundings Christopher Visitor may solely dream of conjuring up. Anywho, don’t sleep on the cuteness of the King/Snohomish County Regional Spelling Bee, which sees native smarty-pants middle-schoolers knock out phrases like “feuilleton” and “scherenschnitte.” (I should still be mad that I misplaced a spelling bee in ’99 by misspelling “phosphorescent,” however these children nonetheless have a shot at greatness.) Seattle Radio Theatre founder and KIRO Radio’s producer, host, and historian Feliks Banel will emcee the brainy occasion. LC
(City Corridor Seattle, First Hill)
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This biannual occasion run by Seattle Good Enterprise Community’s Good Meals Economic system program is right here that can assist you get away of your takeout rut and discover your new favourite restaurant. Here is the way it works: A slew of taking part eating places, bars, cafes, meals vehicles, caterers, and pop-ups throughout the better Seattle space serve as much as two particular menus for $20, $35, $50, and $65 for lunch and/or dinner, and lots of supply a “give a meal” choice so diners can donate to their in-house group meal applications or to Good Meals Kitchens. This spring, there’s additionally an Eat Native First digital passport choice—rack up factors by checking in with a QR code at designated areas devoted to serving regionally sourced meals, then redeem them for restaurant reward playing cards and earn an opportunity to win particular prizes. JB
(Numerous areas)
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Choreographer Bruce Wells’s Magnificence and the Beast tells a well-known, but at all times enchanting story of affection, identification, transformation, and a glimmering rose beneath a glass cloche. The hour-long, narrated manufacturing (excellent for the antsiest theater-goers) is tailor-made for youthful audiences and carried out by the gifted college students of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Faculty. My fingers are crossed for some sassy speaking teacups. LC
(McCaw Corridor, Uptown)
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For 15 superb years, actor-comedians Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, and Jason Mantzoukas have been gleefully choosing aside horrible films for his or her podcast How Did This Get Made? with a particular visitor readily available. (Their excoriation of the weird musical The Apple with Andy Richter is one for the ages.) And, as with all good podcasts, they’ve taken it from the studio to the stage with stay episodes recorded across the US. PORTLAND MERCURY CONTRIBUTOR ROBERT HAM
(Paramount Theatre, Downtown)
FESTIVALS
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It is spring, which might solely imply one factor: It is time as soon as once more to admire gently wafting pink cherry blossoms in full bloom on the College of Washington Quad. To have fun, over 80 U District companies have come collectively to supply cherry blossom-themed foods and drinks specials and reductions on retail gadgets. Earlier than or after your petal-gazing tour, cease by and luxuriate in treats like cherry blossom frappes from Sip Home, cherry blossom mousse and mini blossom “croffles” from Cafe Canuc, glazed cherry cake from Donut Manufacturing unit, sakura ice cream from Candy Alchemy, chewy sakura mochi muffins from Saint Bread, and extra. JB
(Numerous areas, College District, Monday–Sunday)
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Certain, you’ve got most likely heard the time period “Lynchian” roughly a thousand occasions, however how did David Lynch’s completely singular, idiosyncratic language translate for Otto Preminger or Robert Altman, for instance? The Beacon’s spring screenings of Lynch-inspired cinema makes an attempt to reply that query. Explorations of liminality, melodrama, absurdism, and the surreal take heart stage, with a screening of one in all my all-time favorites (3 Girls) alongside Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf, Werner Herzog’s My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Finished?, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendor, and Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating. Principally, level your finger on the lineup and you will find one thing unimaginable. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, Monday–Sunday)
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Bob Trevino Likes It is a heartwarming movie about selecting your pals, your loved ones, and finally, your self. The vulnerability of Barbie Ferreira (Euphoria, Unpregnant) and John Leguizamo (John Wick, The Menu) of their roles as a younger lady that befriends a person who fills the void left by her estranged father is each heartbreaking and uplifting. Ultimately yr’s Seattle Worldwide Movie Pageant, director Tracie Laymon mentioned throughout a Q&A that she needs her movies to have coronary heart and problem assumptions, and she or he positively succeeds right here. Remember the tissues! SL
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Thursday–Sunday)
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Ingmar Bergman swapped toy troopers for a film projector as a toddler, igniting a wierd and lifelong obsession with shadows, faces, and the silent depth of emotion. Bergman’s movies have been worshipped by nearly each director you recognize—Fellini, Kurosawa, and Kubrick amongst them. Even the reclusive painter Andrew Wyeth noticed Bergman as a kindred spirit. My advice? Present your self a number of moments to hunt the metaphysical inside the mundane this month. SIFF Cinema Uptown’s sequence consists of screenings of Summer season 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 massive 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 function, 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–Thursday)
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The 2025 Academy Award winner for Finest Documentary Characteristic follows the extended pressured demolition of Masafer Yatta, a rural West Financial institution group whose houses Israel wished for goal follow. In No Different Land, Palestinian activist and Masafer Yatta group 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, try his Instagram, which shares footage of Israel’s damaging practices. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Monday–Wednesday)
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The Seattle Jewish Movie Pageant is among the longest-running within the Pacific Northwest and one of many largest Jewish movie festivals within the nation. This yr’s “cinemanna” features a closing evening champagne toast with a screening of the darkly comedic Unhealthy Shabbos. Viewers have the choice to attend occasions in individual or watch nearly from dwelling. LC
(Numerous areas, Monday–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 convey 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 one in all 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 via August. LC
(Numerous areas, Monday–Sunday)
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Every spring, the MLK Enterprise Affiliation’s eating promo Plate of Nations presents a two-week-long alternative to pattern the wealthy and various cuisines of Rainier Valley, with shareable menus priced at $25 and $35. They promise that this yr’s lineup is about to be “the perfect but,” with over 70 taking part eating places, together with CheBogz, Bang Bang Kitchen, Creamy Cone Cafe, The Station, Buddha Bruddah, Emerald Metropolis Fish and Chips, Habesha Cafe, Loretta’s Northwesterner, Rainier BBQ, Spice Waala, The Consolation Zone, and extra. JB
(Numerous areas, Monday–Sunday)
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Queer efficiency legend Jibz Cameron, aka Dynasty Purse, is a West Coast treasure whose work ought to by no means be missed. Dynasty’s newest sends up the ’97 blockbuster Titanic with a freakish, particularly bleak twist. In Titanic Melancholy, Dynasty fashions “human vanity in as we speak’s period of runaway, consumerism-driven local weather change” via a layered multimedia tragicomedy. Shifting past mere efficiency, Titanic Melancholy blends animation, video, soundscape, and improvised parts to mirror on loss of life, Hollywood, and sophistication inequality amid catastrophe. LC
(On the Boards, Uptown, Thursday–Saturday)
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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 Pageant of Dance + Improvisation. Wiley’s “mundane surrealist sport evening,” As soon as Upon A Time in a Place Referred to as NOWhere, exists in an surroundings “the place the stakes are so excessive that dropping may imply the tip of the world,” they clarify. “This work serves as a public intervention in a world parallel to our personal.” LC
(twelfth Avenue Arts, Capitol Hill, Thursday–Saturday)
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A real testomony to the recognition of underground cabaret leisure in Seattle, the longstanding Moisture Pageant 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 “a little bit slice of heaven” by Leisure Weekly, this manufacturing consists of one thing I believe we will all get behind: Actual pies onstage. I imply, what could possibly be extra engaging than that? Waitress follows Jenna, a gifted baker who goals of blending up a contemporary begin past her small city. Set to Sara Bareilles’s pop-rock rating, this oven-fresh staging of the Tony-nominated manufacturing is sure to be heat and uplifting. LC
(The fifth Avenue Theatre, Downtown, Thursday–Sunday)
SPORTS & RECREATION
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Baseball is again! The 2025 Mariners season kicks off with seven video games at T-Cell Park, beginning with a house opener towards the Oakland A’s that includes visitor appearances and fan favorites. Ichiro, who might be inducted to the Corridor of Fame later this season, will throw out the primary pitch, and Seattle folks darlings The Head and the Coronary heart carry out the nationwide anthem. The hilariously foolish Salmon Run is again (I hope Humpy wins one this yr) as is “Sizzling Canines from Heaven,” the place literal scorching canine parachute down from the sky. And remember in regards to the precise baseball sport—Logan Gilbert is your beginning pitcher for opening day. Howdy Kitty followers take be aware: the primary 10,000 friends at Saturday’s sport get an lovable reversible bucket hat. SL
(T-Cell Park, SoDo, Thursday–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 via formal teachings, artistic collaborations, and collective dreaming.” The choice of natural, floral work, collages, and sculptures feels completely consistent 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 a number of years now, so I am excited to see their title within the combine amongst different native favorites, like Whiting Tennis and Saya Moriyasu. LC
(SOIL, Pioneer Sq., Friday–Saturday; closing)
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Except you’ve got been residing beneath a meticulously carved marble couch, you may acknowledge Ai Weiwei’s title—he is one of many world’s greatest artwork stars, significantly during the last 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 part in sight. Ai, Insurgent, the artist’s first US retrospective in over a decade and his largest-ever exhibition within the US, is a giant deal. The exhibition brings collectively over 100 works spanning 4 many years—anticipate iconic provocations like Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn and Sunflower Seeds. 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. Along with the SAM retrospective, the Seattle Asian Artwork Museum will even present Ai Weiwei: Water Lilies, a “reinterpretation in LEGOs of one in all 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 Could. LC
(Seattle Artwork Museum, Downtown, Wednesday–Sunday)
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In Reshimu, Diana Dvora Falchuk transforms on a regular basis fragments—rain-warped posters, torn wings, and extra—into considerate multimedia works that discover the chaotic fantastic thing about embodiment and decay. Drawing from the Jewish mystical custom of Kabbalah, the place the “materials and non secular” Hebrew phrase reshimu represents divine mild imprinted in matter, Falchuk’s artwork thinks in regards to the interconnectedness of all issues. The Jewish Venezuelan American artist’s labor-intensive creations end in sudden juxtapositions and “uncanny beings”—I am particularly on this 4″ x 4.5” work on mirrored glass. LC
(Gallery 4Culture, Pioneer Sq., Monday–Thursday; closing)
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Drawing inspiration from Frye Salon, sharp graphic designer and artist Jayme Yen’s Frye Parlor is “half lounge, half experimental set up.” The contemporary idea fills the museum’s frequent areas (the auditorium, café, and artwork studio) with playful, poetic, and interactive parts that welcome viewers ponderings and engagement. The museum plans to have a brand new artist reimagine these areas each two years, so you’ve got bought time to go to and see the adjustments, however why not be one of many first in line? LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, Thursday–Sunday; opening)
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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 contemporary artworks by over 20 artists. I am excited to see items by Brandon Vosika, whose portray graced the duvet of The Stranger‘s Fall Arts + Efficiency difficulty, and Portland-grown painter-illustrator Ryan Bubnis, amongst many different native and further-flung faves. Cannot make it to the gallery? You may 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 timber, gestural abstractions, and delicate figural kinds. The image discipline is full of washes of muted blues and greens, or saved spare with single figures floating in area. The works in Wanderings have a somber modesty, but in addition really feel imaginative—evaluate Untitled #7, for example, to this determine from an illuminated manuscript. LC
(Greg Kucera Gallery, Pioneer Sq., Tuesday–Saturday; closing)
