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Should you’re ready round for Solange to launch a follow-up to 2019’s Once I Get House, resist the urge to ship her passive-aggressive Instagram feedback that she’s going to by no means see and as an alternative end up some artists with the same sound and ethos—Alabama-born singer, songwriter, and rapper Mereba is simply that. Like Solange, her sound pulls inspiration from neo-soul, jazz, reggae, poetry, and digital music for profoundly reflective ethereal songs (take heed to the observe “White Doves” to see what I imply). Do not miss her on tour supporting her newest album,The Breeze Grew A Fireplace. AV
(The Showbox, Downtown)
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One of many hardest hitting, most politically-minded rap outfits taking part in out proper now must be Clipping. The LA three-piece consists of the MC Daveed Diggs and manufacturing duo William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes and so they do be comin’ to your preconceived notions of what the hip-hop style might be. Diggs’ circulate can attain breakneck speeds onerous to know—they’re so quick!—that are then woven right into a manufacturing fashion that pulls from noise, jungle, hardcore (each punk and UK), and a lot extra. It’s a difficult, exceedingly rewarding pay attention. Curiously, Counterfeit Madison is opening, with their music akin to Black spirituals with pop sensibilities. PORTLAND MERCURY MUSIC EDITOR NOLAN PARKER
(Neumos, Capitol Hill)
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The Piano Begins Right here collection showcases the work of musical icons who’ve innovated the piano jazz style with their data and appreciation of the instrument. This iteration will have a good time the dearly departed filmmaker and artist, David Lynch, whose distinctive movie and tv soundtracks with composer Angelo Badalamenti paid homage to traditional movie noir whereas establishing a particular, darkish, and enigmatic sound. AV
(The Royal Room, Columbia Metropolis)
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Yukimi Nagano has fronted the Grammy-nominated Swedish digital group Little Dragon for practically three a long time, however she has stepped into her personal on the solo venture For You. The songs really feel extra intimate, with a female power that emanates energy as she sings, “Nothing’s gonna break me down / Nothing’s gonna shake / Nobody’s gonna break me.” With out the confines of a band, she has the liberty to take dangers and discover new approaches, making a sound that is emotional, jazzy, soul-filled, and simply beautiful. SL
(The Crocodile, Belltown)
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Chicago-based singer-songwriter Haley Fohr (aka Circuit des Yeux) is understood for her four-octave vocal vary and distinctive stylings on the 12-string guitar, which she molds into avant-garde pop music. She is going to play tracks from her most up-to-date album, Halo on the Inside, which leans into harsh electronics and darkish mythological lyrics. For followers of: Björk, ANOHNI, Depeche Mode. AV
(Sundown Tavern, Ballard)
READINGS & TALKS
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Should you admire Solar Ra’s sonic stylings, Octavia Butler’s apocalyptic worlds, or Black Panther, you may have the Afrofuturist motion to thank. Coined by Mark Dery in 1993, the idea represents Black visionary artworks and speculative futures, seen in all places from fringe subcultures to main Hollywood productions. John Jennings—New York Instances bestseller, graphic novelist, Eisner winner, and UC Riverside professor—will discover the Afrofuturism motion for this lecture, monitoring the “timeline of its development, and positing future potentialities round this vibrant and ever-changing method of seeing the world.” LC
(City Corridor Seattle, First Hill)
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Rom-coms are filled with iconic meals moments. Consider the bœuf bourguignon in Julie & Julia, the sandwich in When Harry Met Sally, the Christmas fettuccine in The Vacation, the M&M pizza in The Princess Diaries…the listing goes on. Native creator Tara Theoharis has taken culinary inspiration out of your favourite heartwarming classics in her new cookbook, The Rom-Com Cookbook: Romantic-Comedy-Impressed Recipes that Will Make Them Say “I will Have What She’s Having,” filled with every part from “meat-cute” mains to cocktails and desserts. Be part of Theoharis for a dialogue of all issues rom-com, together with a Q&A and e-book signing. JB
(Third Place Books, Seward Park)
LIVE MUSIC
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If you’re unfamiliar, Funkadelic’s 1971 album Maggot Mind is a psychedelic explosion of freewheeling protest music that fearlessly combines their funk sound with onerous rock, jazz, and people music. Mike Squires’ Sofa Riff Podcast will honor the influential album with a reside taping of Seattle musicians taking part in the album in its entirety. Sit up for appearances from Brittany Davis, Wanz, Dehja, Ryan Waters, Jeff Angell, Jeff Fielder, Mike Musburger, Bob Lovelace, and many extra. AV
(Clock-Out Lounge, Beacon Hill)
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On his sixth studio album, King of the Mischievous South, Florida rapper Denzel Curry goes again to his roots with options from his Southern hip-hop colleagues Kingpin Skinny Pimp, 2 Chainz, Juicy J, Mission Pat, and Ski Masks the Droop God. The result’s irresistibly catchy, refreshingly playful, and would pair properly with Doechii’s Alligator Bites By no means Heal. Should you want any extra causes to like Curry, he has additionally been a powerful advocate for Palestine (we love a politically educated king). He might be joined by punk-inspired rapper (and collaborator) Kenny Mason, psychedelic rap artist 454, and “unhappy woman rap” queen CLIP. AV
(Showbox SoDo, SoDo)
AANHPI HERITAGE MONTH
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You would be hard-pressed to discover a higher strategy to kick off Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month than attending this annual cultural celebration. All through the day, the primary Armory stage is the place to look at performances like lion dance, taiko, hula, kung fu, and extra, together with the crowd-favorite hum bow consuming contest. Different schedule highlights embody a studying of Kelly Goto’s e-book, Seattle Samurai: A Cartoonist’s Perspective of the Japanese American Expertise, a hands-on Hawaiian artwork exercise led by Malia Peoples, and screenings of the 2023 quick movie She Marches in Chinatown in regards to the creation of the Seattle Chinese language Group Ladies Drill Workforce in 1952. In between, snag some tasty bites from Loumpia and cute greeting playing cards from Brilliant Spot Design. SL
(Seattle Middle, Uptown)
COMEDY
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Taiwanese American comic Jason Cheny blends sharp witticisms with fascinating cultural perception, typically opening for different new guard humorists like Iliza Schlesinger and Ronny Chieng. He is primarily based in Los Angeles, lights up golf equipment like NYC’s Comedy Cellar, and can head to our neck of the woods to debate whether or not 30,000 folks constitutes “quite a bit.” I, for one, admire that Cheny’s asking the necessary questions. LC
(Neptune Theatre, College District)
GEEK & GAMING
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Calling all Lukes, Leias, Reys, Finns, BB-8s, and C-3POs: the Museum of Flight is celebrating Star Wars Day with particular programming themed round George Lucas’s hit area opera franchise. Anybody wearing costume will get $3 off admission (or 10% off a membership) to the museum for lightsaber coaching, a spacecraft presentation, story time, and reside music from the 8-Bit Brass Band. Take a look at cubicles from Seattle LEGO lovers, an R2-D2 builders membership, and the 501st Garrison Titan cosplayers. SL
(The Museum of Flight, Tukwila)
EXHIBIT
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From the jaw-dropping “revenge gown” to the crimson sheep print sweater to her slouchy sweatshirts paired with bike shorts, Diana, Princess of Wales, sparked frenzies along with her show-stopping appears to be like and remains to be remembered for her iconic private fashion at the moment. Get a one-in-a-lifetime likelihood to take a peek at a dozen real objects worn by the Individuals’s Princess at this pop-up earlier than they go up on the market with Julien’s Auctions. The gathering contains Diana’s 1989 Belville Sassoon floral day gown (which she regularly wore to philanthropic engagements), 1989 Rayne Inexperienced satin night pumps, and extra. JB
(Museum of Pop Tradition [MoPOP], Uptown, Thursday–Sunday; opening)
FESTIVALS
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An expansive occasion brimming with intercourse positivity, the Seattle Erotic Artwork Competition curates top-notch erotic artwork from all over the world to feast your eyes on. Throughout common pageant hours, try the artwork, pageant retailer, and each day leisure together with movie screenings and a “motion lab.” After hours, there is a marked vibe change to attractive celebration occasions with extra titillating performances, DJs, dancing, and a bar. LC
(Seattle Middle, Uptown, Friday–Sunday)
FILM
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Certain, you have 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 middle stage, with a screening of one in every of my all-time favorites (3 Girls) alongside Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf, Werner Herzog’s My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Achieved?, 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 unbelievable. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, Monday–Sunday)
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Programmed in collaboration with artist Rana San and Seattle author Chelsea Werner-Jatzke, this experimental pageant explores the boundaries of video poetry by screenings, workshops, and discussions. In celebration of Nationwide Poetry Month, the pageant honors video poetry as each a literary style and a posh visible panorama, facilitating in-person and on-line alternatives for important and inventive development inside the medium. Take a peek at final 12 months’s screenings for a way of the ethereal and intriguing themes you would possibly catch this time round. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, Monday–Sunday)
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It is about time that Frederick Wiseman’s documentaries received extra cinema display time. For over half a century, he is crafted uncooked and insightful movies that (though he rejects the time period) align with the cinéma vérité fashion. Within the phrases of SIFF, count on “no voiceovers, no speaking heads, simply life because it unfolds.” SIFF Movie Middle and the Beacon have teamed up for this collection, which presents 10 movies (5 at every venue) from the director’s oeuvre. I am keen on The Retailer, set inside a Dallas Neiman Marcus within the ’80s, though different alternatives (Titicut Follies, Juvenile Courtroom) are notably insightful, if harrowing. LC
(SIFF Movie Middle, Uptown, Monday–Sunday)
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Lebanese director Heiny Srour’s ’84 drama follows Leila—a Lebanese lady whose reflections on the ladies in Lebanese and Palestinian historical past translate into time journey on display—as she meets ladies residing by the Nakba and the Lebanese Civil Warfare. Leila and the Wolves took over seven years to direct, as Srour filmed below “harmful capturing situations” and constructed an elaborate fairy story amid trauma and destruction. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, Friday–Sunday)
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Ingmar Bergman swapped toy troopers for a film projector as a toddler, igniting an odd and lifelong obsession with shadows, faces, and the silent depth of emotion. Bergman’s movies had been worshipped by just about each director —Fellini, Kurosawa, and Kubrick amongst them. Even the reclusive painter Andrew Wyeth noticed Bergman as a kindred spirit. My advice? Reward your self a couple of moments to hunt the metaphysical inside the mundane this month. SIFF Cinema Uptown’s collection wraps up with screenings of The Silence and Persona. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Monday–Wednesday)
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The 2025 Academy Award winner for Greatest Documentary Characteristic follows the extended compelled demolition of Masafer Yatta, a rural West Financial institution neighborhood whose houses Israel needed for goal apply. 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 apply, try his Instagram, which shares footage of Israel’s damaging practices. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Friday–Sunday)
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Isao Takahata hive, stand up—however slowly and meaningfully, whereas maybe considering a close-by flower and/or the which means of existence. Look, I really like Miyazaki as a lot as the following particular person (and the following particular person and the following particular person), particularly after his stunning bitchfest about AI was publicized not too long ago. (Responding to “Ghibli-style,” ChatGPT-created imagery, Miyazaki’s response was, “Whoever creates these things has no thought what ache is in any respect. I’m completely disgusted…I strongly really feel that that is an insult to life itself,” which is perhaps essentially the most elegant “fuck off” ever voiced.) Anyway, again to Takahata. The director of my favourite Ghibli movies (Solely Yesterday, The Story of the Princess Kaguya) brings a stunning, soft-handed contact to the studio that, if not precisely slept on, is certainly a tad undersung. If you have not seen Pom Poko, his radical story of testicle-flippin’ tanukis preventing urbanization and gentrification, repair that this week. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, Friday–Sunday)
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David Cronenberg’s chief cinematic obsession has lengthy been the human physique and all of the painful, pleasurable, and customarily fucked up issues that folks do with their corporeal kinds. However in each case—from the 1970 Crimes of the Future to the 2022 Crimes of the Future (which was not a remake of the 1970 movie), the beings on the middle of his work cope with uncommon growths, wild bodily transformations, or the starvation to be penetrated in any variety of methods. Together with his newest movie The Shrouds, the 82-year-old Canadian filmmaker houses in on the truth that these our bodies of ours will at some point rot away or be decreased to ashes. It’s an unsettling fact that is straightforward to stuff apart, whilst we watch a beloved one lowered into the earth. Learn the complete evaluation on the Portland Mercury. PORTLAND MERCURY CONTRIBUTOR ROBERT HAM
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Monday–Sunday)
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Calling it now: Should you’ve seen Cease Making Sense, it is most likely your favourite live performance movie. It is jangly and arty and all the different phrases one would possibly use to explain Speaking Heads’s catalog, and David wears the go well with. Not feeling the Byrne? Hear, I do know watching a live performance film for a band you do not take heed to feels like hell, however this one is likely to be an exception. If you have not seen it but, anticipate trying again on the expertise with a humorous fondness later, like celebration or the primary time you smoked weed. Jonathan Demme (sure, the man who went on to make The Silence of the Lambs) recorded all the live performance footage over the course of three days at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre in 1983, in the course of the peak of the Heads’ visionary fame. It is screening in a brand new restoration, so prep for a “as soon as in a lifetime” expertise. LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, Monday–Wednesday)
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Look, I hate to be the one to say it, however there’ll come a day after we will not have alternatives to see the jazz titans of the ’60s and ’70s carry out reside. So take a second to understand that we exist throughout a time when you may see legends like Gary Bartz play his alto saxophone for lower than $40. Bartz is broadly identified for his collaborations with family names like Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Artwork Blakey, and Miles Davis. He’s additionally a trailblazer in preserving and honoring the legacy of Black American music, bringing collectively Afrocentric themes and avant-garde music on his 1971 album Harlem Bush Music. Do not miss Bartz as he helps his upcoming not-yet-named solo album, produced by Om’Mas Keith (Frank Ocean, Erykah Badu, John Legend). AV
(Jazz Alley, Belltown, Tuesday–Wednesday)
PERFORMANCE
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Calling all daddies! Again in 2022, the postmodern nightlife efficiency duo Drama Tops dished up Boys! Boys! Boys!, a dance manufacturing responding to questions on lots of our minds: Are we sizzling sufficient to outlive on this financial system? And what is the cope with Delight-branded rainbow Oreos? The present flirted with the surreal, mixing popular culture phenomena with considerate reflections on trauma and white privilege. The duo’s newest endeavor, DADS, explores fatherly relationships, addressing “complicated ideas on turning into dads and neighborhood leaders and queer, male ideas of ‘getting a Daddy’ and ‘turning right into a daddy.'” LC
(twelfth Avenue Arts, Capitol Hill, Monday–Saturday)
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Should you dug Our Pricey Lifeless Drug Lord, Alexis Scheer’s Escobar-evoking fever dream set in 2008, you will admire the playwright’s newest manufacturing. Whereas Drug Lord centered teen women summoning the ghost of a cartel kingpin, Laughs in Spanish heads south to Miami, the place a stressed-out gallerist grapples with stolen work, a confused intern, and a telenovela-worthy crush. Oh, and her mom’s on the town. Good luck, girl! LC
(Bagley Wright Theater, Uptown, Wednesday–Sunday)
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The beloved three-act opera by Puccini tells the story of prima donna Floria Tosca as she fights to avoid wasting her lover Cavaradossi from the clutches of Baron Scarpia, the corrupt chief of police. Set in Rome throughout Napoleon’s invasion of Italy, the story contains loads of political intrigue, romance, and tragedy.
(McCaw Corridor, Uptown, Saturday–Sunday)
READINGS & TALKS
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Should you’ve received questions on quantum idea, black holes, and cosmology, world-renowned physicist Professor Brian Cox is able to discover them. His world tour makes use of LED tech to mild up venues with cinematic imagery of distant galaxies and unusual worlds, inspecting the character of area, time, and life from an optimistic viewpoint. (Get able to really feel like an infinitesimal blip inside the vastness of the unknown universe, however like, in a great way.) LC
(Neptune Theatre, College District, Thursday–Friday)
SPORTS & RECREATION
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Baseball is again! The 2025 Mariners season kicked off on the very finish of March, beginning with a win towards the Oakland A’s on the residence opener. (We’re taking that as omen for the remainder of the season.) Catch a sport this month as The M’s tackle the Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, Texas Rangers, Miami Marlins, and Los Angeles Angels at residence. Plan an early arrival at T-Cellular Park as the primary 10,000 followers will rating swag like bobbleheads, hats, and plushies. You’d even be remiss to not strive the concessions’ new teriyaki rooster, which was co-developed by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. JW
(T-Cellular Park, SoDo)
VISUAL ART
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A.Okay. Burns, a New York-based multimedia artist (and present fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Superior Examine) dials into queer views by movies, sculptures, and installations, highlighting transfeminist points by an imaginative lens. Specializing in Burns’ Adverse House collection, this solo exhibition delves into the artist’s “intersections of landscapes, human our bodies, and water.” The works pull from non-linear and sci-fi sources to problem the established order. What’s Perverse is Liquid “displays on environmental vulnerability, marginalized communities, and their relationships with place,” utilizing adverse area as a setting upon which to think about new and evolving programs for marginalized voices. LC
(Henry Artwork Gallery, College District, Thursday–Sunday; closing)
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This solo exhibition celebrates Bethany Collins, the recipient of the 2023 Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize, which SAM awards biennially to an “early to mid-career Black artist—outlined loosely as an artist within the first decade of their profession.” I am intrigued by the text-and-image interaction of Collins’ work, which explores the subtleties of “language, racial id, and American historical past” with a fragile hand. (Take a look at The Odyssey: 1862 / 1837 for a way of what this implies.) LC
(Seattle Artwork Museum, Downtown, Wednesday–Sunday; closing)
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For a possibility to really feel fancy and cultured, I like to recommend up to date artist Diego Cibelli’s Fiori dei Miei Habiti (La Montagne Enchantée), a site-specific response to the Venetian nice Giovanni Tiepolo’s 1757 ceiling fresco The Triumph of Valor over Time. (You possibly can peep the fresco in SAM’s Porcelain Room beforehand.) Visitor curated by cultural historian Christian Larsen, Cibelli’s freestanding porcelain sculpture is a “mountainous peak,” lined in swirled slopes and tumbling, remodeling figures. LC
(Seattle Artwork Museum, Downtown, Wednesday–Sunday)
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Pressure of Nature incorporates a piece we’re notably jazzed about—Johanna Goodman’s collaged print Catalogue of Imaginary Beings, Plate No. 99, which graced the quilt of The Stranger‘s spring Arts + Efficiency problem. The group present contains works by 9 ladies artists who “pay homage to the sweetness and energy of the pure world,” and I am stoked to see names like Sophia Allison, Maija Fiebig, and Morgan Rosskopf on the listing. Count on a stunning mix of delicate ceramic works and daring, folkloric work that really feel divined by Mom Nature herself. LC
(AMcE Artistic Arts, Miller Park, Wednesday–Sunday)
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Previous to World Warfare II and the mass incarceration of Japanese folks in america, Seattle’s nihonmachi (Japantown) seemed very completely different. Happily, works by three issei artists have stood the check of time and serve as an instance the distinctive streets, companies, and dwellings of Japantown pre-war. Artists Kamekichi Tokita, Kenjiro Nomura, and Takuichi Fujii “fell into obscurity” later in life. Aspect by Aspect is the biggest exhibition that includes the artists’ work up to now; sprime by to step again in time. LC
(Wing Luke Museum, Chinatown-Worldwide District, Wednesday–Sunday)
