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NYC-based indie-pop duo Cults sound like entering into an City Outfitters circa 2011, in one of the simplest ways attainable. Their debut self-titled album noticed mainstream success with songs like “Go Exterior” and “Dangerous Issues,” which doubtless performed alongside bands like Sleigh Bells, Phantogram, and Metric in your lime inexperienced iPod nano. AV
(The Crocodile, Belltown)
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English artist Amber Bain, who performs wistful indie-pop as Japanese Home, will cease by the Woodland Park Zoo to help her second album, In The Finish It All the time Does. With the assistance of well-known mates Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Katie Gavin (MUNA), Charli XCX, Matty Healy, and George Daniel (the 1975), Bain crafts an ideal breakup album that by no means takes itself too critically. Do not miss a gap set from indie folks artist Skullcrusher. AV
(Woodland Park Zoo, Phinney Ridge)
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This 12 months’s outside film choices at Marymoor Park are old-school, dog-friendly, Americana F-U-N, full with dwell music and acquainted flicks beneath the hardly seen stars. (We dwell in a light-polluted metropolis—cannot have all of it.) The much-loved summer season movie sequence will proceed this month with Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone on August 13 and Encanto on August 20, which follows a Colombian teen from a magical household and consists of massively widespread songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The Princess Bride closes out the sequence on August 28. (You recognize the drill on that one—a legendary kingdom, a kidnapping, a love that transcends all evils, and so forth.) LC
(Marymoor Park, Redmond)
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Punksploitation traditional Intrépidos Punks embodies all the pieces that works about Mexico’s style cinema historical past—it is nasty, violent, and, within the Beacon’s phrases, a “continuous feast of brutality.” The 1988 movie follows a gang led by a dude named Tarzan as they mutilate and plunder throughout the countryside, leaving a path of anarchy of their wake. Movie restoration darlings Vinegar Syndrome will current this new 4K version of the cult rarity, and Limitless Pleasure, a self-described “bunch of fools playin’ undefined music,” will rock on earlier than the screening. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis)
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Grammy-nominated R&B gem Jhené Aiko will drop by on her Magic Hour tour for her first Seattle present in eight years. Contemplating she hasn’t launched new music since 2021’s Crusing Soul(s), you possibly can count on to listen to vibey, psychedelia-laced bops you understand and love like “Sativa,” “Keep Prepared (What A Life),” and “Mattress Peace.” She can be joined by kindred spirits Coi Leray, TINK, UMI, Kiana Ledé, and DJ STARRZA. AV
(Local weather Pledge Enviornment, Uptown)
READINGS & TALKS
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Willy Vlautin was born in Reno, however his inventive output discovered its footing within the Pacific Northwest—for over 20 years, he is been the singer-songwriter and guitarist for the Portland-grown alt-country band Richmond Fontaine. The expertise nonetheless informs his writing fashion and character improvement in fiction. (His final novel, The Night time All the time Comes, explored gentrification, greed, and opportunism inside Portland’s housing disaster.) His new tome, The Horse, facilities the working class once more however provides in fantastical components and dream sequences which may pique the curiosity of latest readers. Vlautin will chat about it with native writer Jonathan Evison. LC
(Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park)
SHOPPING
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Movie restoration whizzes Vinegar Syndrome will hawk a wide array of horror, exploitation and style Blu-rays, plus merch and different funky cinephile wares at Scarecrow Video on August 14. Cease by so as to add some hard-to-find movies to your assortment, and present Scarecrow some love when you’re there—as our mates at The Stranger reported in July, “Scarecrow workers put out an SOS—Save Our Scarecrow—and introduced that they should elevate $1.8 million earlier than the tip of 2024.” (Cannot get sufficient of Vinegar Syndrome’s cinema rarities? Head to their screening of Mexican cult nightmare Intrépidos Punks on August 13.) LC
(Scarecrow Video, College District)
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Longtime journey guru, hometown hero, and America’s sweetheart Rick Steves has shared his “backdoor” tips for making journeys extra stress-free and cost-effective for longer than a few of us have been alive. In his latest public tv manufacturing, Rick Steves’ Iceland, he explores Reykjavík’s thermal swimming pools, the Golden Circle’s gorges, geysers, and waterfalls, puffin-filled islands, and the 800-mile Ring Highway. Steves will display screen the particular and chat Iceland journey suggestions together with his co-host, Cameron Hewitt. Attendees can seize signed copies of the pair’s new Iceland guidebook and discover the museum earlier than the screening. LC
(Nationwide Nordic Museum, Ballard)
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It isn’t uncommon to see Doug Martsch’s ever-evolving indie rock troupe Constructed to Spill on an area marquee, but it surely is uncommon to see them carry out an older album in its entirety. They are going to carry out my private favourite, There’s Nothing Flawed With Love, on the album’s thirtieth anniversary. I can not wait to listen to them play lovelorn anthems like “Large Dipper,” “Automotive,” and “Dystopian Dream Lady.” Dreamy Hoboken rockers Yo La Tengo will be a part of the invoice with tracks from their newly launched album, This Silly World. AV
(Woodland Park Zoo, Phinney Ridge)
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In true KEXP summertime style, the station has partnered with the Seattle Heart to offer one other spherical of their free, family-friendly live shows on the Mural. This week, the sequence continues with a efficiency from the noise pop quartet DAIISTAR. Count on to listen to tracks from their newest album, Good Time, after a gap set from Spirit Award. AV
(Mural Amphitheatre, Uptown)
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Feminist rock icon Pat Benatar and her husband, guitarist Neil Giraldo, will as soon as once more grace the Northwest with their presence for a night of ’80s classics comparable to “Love is a Battlefield” and “Heartbreaker.” Simply do not count on “Hit Me with Your Greatest Shot,” which she has stopped performing in protest of gun violence. Do not miss a wide ranging efficiency from the brand new wave outfit Berlin. AV
(Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville)
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I dwell in a perpetual state of worry that Boy George will not get the reward he deserves till he’s not round to delight in it. This week, present as much as Marymoor Park and provides the queer pop icon his flowers and you will get to listen to Tradition Membership classics like “Karma Chameleon” and “Do You Actually Need To Damage Me” carried out dwell. New wave icons Squeeze can be there too (I haven’t got something good to say about them, so I am going to go away it at that). AV
(Marymoor Park, Redmond)
FOOD & DRINK
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At this annual occasion commemorating Pike Place Market’s anniversary, greater than 100 native eating places, wineries, breweries, distilleries, and different distributors commune on the cobblestones throughout a balmy August night, because the solar sinks low within the sky and casts a tender glow, and visitors take in meals, drink, and dwell music. This 12 months’s lineup options handmade cheese from Beecher’s, inventive Southern-inspired fare from Kristi Brown’s COMMUNION, cream puffs from Puffy Pandy, West African delicacies from Gold Coast Ghal Kitchen, Mexican meals from Maíz, handmade pasta from Pasta Casalinga, dreamy frozen yogurt from Hellenika Cultured Creamery, and extra.
(Pike Place Market, Pike Place Market)
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Over the previous 5 a long time, PNW legend/bassist Toody Cole and her dearly departed husband Fred have stored Portland’s music scene alive with their bands—Lifeless Moon, the Weeds, the Rats, Pierced Arrows, and several other others—self-recording and self-releasing music of their self-built Clackamas County residence. Can we get this girl a key to town of Portland already!? Toody can be joined by Kelly Halliburton and Christopher March of Jenny Do not and the Spurs for a retrospective of fabric from her aforementioned bands. Fingers crossed that she performs certainly one of her solo deep-cuts “Coming On Sturdy” or “Quite Be Your Lover.” AV
(Tractor Tavern, Ballard)
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The reliably hilarious Comedy Bang! Bang! in all probability predates your fave podcast—funnyman Scott Aukerman has hosted the present for over 13 years. Mixing interviews, improv, and foolish, surreal antics, Comedy Bang! Bang! has heard from visitors like Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, and Seth Rogen, so you understand the jokes can be on level for this dwell efficiency. Better part? It will be solely improvised. LC
(Moore Theatre, Belltown)
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Kayla Brown and Dan Hurwitz, creators of the “award-eligible” mockumentary That is Spinal Damage, return to host this bimonthly showcase of native humorous people with disabilities, which is able to quickly head to Bumbershoot. The jokester troupe has been performing in and round Seattle since 2018, with a rotating forged every time. This month’s performances embrace dance by Gemini Thee Stone, “non-journalist” Michael Bellevue’s investigation into Canadian customs, and laughs from native faves Cheri Hardman, Gretta Gimp, and Danny Anderson. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill)
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It is all about set and setting relating to psychedelics, and the trippy confines of Right here-After are laborious to beat. Enter The Dose, a comedy present that is greater than only a comedy present—it payments itself as a “absolutely immersive psychedelic expertise.” Does that imply they will get you excessive? Truthfully, it is laborious to inform. However the present has been promoting out nationwide, and can function a decent lineup of comedians (Simon Gibson, Monica Nevi, Chris Mejia, Steven Gillespie, and Nic Dean) for a mind-melting, experimental foray into “laughter and therapeutic.” I like to recommend popping that microdose you have had sitting round. LC
(Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown)
COMMUNITY
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Head to Chinatown for a day devoted to Asian and Pacific Islander tradition, that includes two levels of dwell music from native and nationwide AANHPI artists, tasty meals vehicles, a beer backyard, automobile present, and extra. Positioned on King Road beneath I-5, the fest seeks to show the paved panorama right into a cultural oasis. Many distributors will pop up on the block social gathering, however the occasion offers the proper alternative to help neighborhood companies as properly. Afterward, wander over to Hing Hay Park for a screening of The Donut King as a part of the Seattle Asian American Movie Pageant’s C-ID Summer time Cinema programming. SL
(InterImCDA Parking Lot, Chinatown-Worldwide District)
FESTIVALS
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Get playful with native meals at this free pageant at Marymoor Park’s pastoral Willowmoor Farm, now in its tenth 12 months. You will get to peruse a farmers market, browse upcycled items from native makers, clamber up an oak tree named Alice, compete in a focaccia bake-off, take part in a scavenger hunt, compete in quirky “zucchini races,” pet cute animals at a petting zoo, style your personal musical devices out of upcycled recyclables and fruits and veggies for a parade, and extra. The music lineup does not disappoint both—absorb performances from indie rock trio Deep Sea Diver and Canadian legends Damaged Social Scene, plus soul icons Ural Thomas & The Ache, Scottish pop rockers Marmalade, sapphic singer-songwriter Amelia Day, and children’ musician Johnny Bregor, all hosted by radio persona Marco Collins. JB
(Marymoor Park, Redmond)
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Who higher to advise you on what to look at this summer season than Scarecrow Video, the bodily media mainstay group with a video assortment that exceeds 130,000 titles?! They know what they’re speaking about, individuals. Their movie sequence, co-organized with the Maple Leaf Neighborhood Council, will serve up screenings on a “Girls (and Women) Saving the Day” theme this 12 months. The sequence continues with Greta Gerwig’s fairly pink cultural sensation Barbie. Moviegoers can pop up early to arrange their chairs and blankets, seize beers, and take some guesses at trivia. LC
(Maple Leaf Reservoir Park, Northeast Seattle)
FOOD & DRINK
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Cease at a sales space in Hing Hay Park to select up a menu, then stroll by Chinatown-Worldwide District testing $4, $6, and $8 meals specials and retail objects at taking part native companies. July’s lineup consists of attractive bites like bento containers from Onibaba, rooster wings from Phnom Penh Noodle Home, dumplings and chilly noodles from Szechuan Noodle Bowl, Swiss roll slices and almond cookies from Cake Home, and ube halaya, pandan cheesecake slices, and halo-halo tender serve from Hood Well-known—what extra do you want? Plus, buy some cute restricted version CID stickers, which embrace designs just like the Japantown streetcar and the Hing Hay Park pagoda, to assist help the nonprofit Chinatown-Worldwide District Enterprise Enchancment Space. JB
(Hing Hay Park, Chinatown-Worldwide District)
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Shock: The beloved Chinatown-Worldwide District establishment Chu Minh Tofu and Vegan Deli will host the official grand opening of this spinoff serving bánh mì and Vietnamese espresso in Beacon Hill! A peek on the menu reveals choices like spicy tofu bánh mì, jackfruit salad, egg rolls, purple curry, coconut juice, and peanut sticky rice. Go forth with this information and get your self a frugal but flavorful lunch. JB
(Chu Minh Sandwiches and Espresso, Beacon Hill)
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There’s actually nothing just like the dreamy, emotional territories of director Fritz Lang to make you overlook your Sunday scaries. You may’ve already seen the German Expressionist filmmaker’s sci-fi masterwork Metropolis, which Roger Ebert referred to as “one of many nice achievements of the silent period,” however this Sunday afternoon screening sequence introduces viewers to his different gold-standard movies. On August 10, the Beacon will display screen Hangmen Additionally Die!, which earns bonus factors from me for sounding just like the title of an emo band. The shadowy thriller, set in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, was impressed by the real-life assassination of “Hangman of Prague” Reinhard Heydrich by Czech resistance operatives. Your job does not appear so tough now, does it? LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis)
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TBH, I have been pissed at Dave Grohl ever since heinsinuated that Taylor Swift does not sing dwell, which is wealthy coming from a person whose performances do not require choreography. However, the Foo Fighters’ debut self-titled album will all the time occupy a particular place in my coronary heart. The album is true up there with ’90s slacker rock favs like Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque and Sebadoh’s Bakesale, showcasing peak pop songwriting on tracks like “Large Me” and “This Is A Name.” They are going to deliver their All or Nothing At All tour to T-Cell Park with help from Chrissie Hynde’s iconic rock quartet the Pretenders and indie rock star Alex G. AV
(T-Cell Park, SoDo)
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I first grew to become acquainted with Alabaman singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield (aka Waxahatchee) by her fifth album Saint Cloud—I am going to admit, I used to be late to the social gathering. My love of jangly Digital camera Obscura-esque tracks like “Cannot Do A lot” compelled me to offer your complete album a pay attention, but it surely was reflective folk-rock songs like “St Cloud” and “Lilacs” that made me a fan. After 4 years of taking part in the album to demise, Waxahatchee has lastly dropped a follow-up! She’s going to return to Seattle to help her sixth album, Tigers Blood, which leans deeper into a rustic sound with love songs that she describes as “gritty and unromantic.” AV
(Woodland Park Zoo, Phinney Ridge)
COMEDY
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See somebody? Say one thing. I Noticed U, The Stranger‘s tackle Craigslist Missed Connections, returned in March, which implies you possibly can learn pickup strains like “How’s your praxis? As a result of I feel we may very well be greater than only a concept ;)” everytime you need. Surprising Productions has since devised an improvised response to the column, reworking the weekly listings into comedy units that “think about what would occur if the people truly went out on a date.” I hope they tackle the love blossoming at Biscuit Bitch. LC
(Surprising Productions’ Market Theater, Pike Place Market, Friday–Saturday)
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Peep spectacular tattoo shows, store counterculture distributors, and interact in a little bit lighthearted flesh adornment at this three-day celebration of completely adorned our bodies. The Seattle Tattoo Expo has introduced fanatics {and professional} ink-givers collectively for over 20 years; attendees can thrill their eyeballs at a tattooed burlesque revue or enter contests for finest coloration tats, black-and-white designs, and extra. (There will be a contest for the worst tattoo, too, so roll up your sleeves and whip out your blurry anchors and tributes to Mother.) LC
(Seattle Heart, Uptown, Friday–Sunday)
FESTIVALS
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Deliberate as a part of town’s ongoing effort to “re-energize Belltown and welcome individuals again downtown,” the Belltown Mural Pageant is a major alternative to see one thing that we will nearly all agree is fairly cool: Creatives turning ugly clean partitions into huge artistic endeavors. 13 native artists will paint all through the week, however guests can do greater than stare at their work—comfortable hours, movie screenings, gallery reveals, strolling excursions, and road live shows will enliven the scene and improve your probabilities of assembly fellow art-loving people. LC
(Varied areas, Tuesday–Sunday)
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Nothing says summer season like chainmail and wool tunics!! Whether or not you are there for the Center Ages vibes or the unbeatable people-watching, the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire (or “Merriwick” for these functions) is all the time a mead-guzzlin’ good time. Harkening again to when musicians, jugglers, and falconers all caroused collectively, the fantasy-loving pageant (led by a faerie court docket) will happen on weekends in July and August. Present as much as feast on meat pies, acquire trinkets and baubles, and usually social gathering such as you survived the bubonic plague. LC
(Sky Meadows Park, Snohomish, Friday–Sunday)
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Centering the rise and fall of the 5,000-year-old Palestinian city of Lyd, this documentary delves into the aftermath of the Nakba bloodbath and expulsion. If you happen to’re nonetheless feeling a little bit at nighttime on Palestinian historical past, Lyd will make it easier to brush up—the movie options “never-before-seen” archival footage and spotlights the once-thriving area’s gradual devastation because of Israeli settlement. Within the phrases of Arielle Angel, the editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents, “The story of Lyd is the story of Palestine. The movie that bears its title confronts the horrors of what’s, with out shedding sight of what may very well be—a significant train in political creativeness.” LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, Wednesday–Sunday)
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Catherine Breillat’s filmmaking strategy could be very, properly, French—she usually seeks to light up the taboo in provocative explorations of want, violence, and ladies’s psychology. Grand Phantasm’s celebration of the controversy queen spans each decade of her directing profession, together with screenings of brand-new 4K restorations (A Actual Younger Lady, 36 Fillette, and GoodLove) and Janus Movies’ 35mm print of my favourite Breillat, the abrupt and rattling 2001 movie Fats Lady. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, Monday–Sunday)
FOOD & DRINK
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If you happen to could not get sufficient of Li’l Woody’s Burger Month, through which the native fast-food chain provides new burger specials created in collaboration with native cooks every week, prepare for his or her Seafood Month. This model provides the Burger Month format a fishy spin, with unique sandwich creations impressed by the bounty of the ocean. This 12 months’s chef specials embrace the “Saucy Li’l Satan” (panko-breaded fried rockfish, deviled Spam tartar sauce, and slaw on a Li’l Woody’s bun) from Kamala Saxton and Roz Edison of Marination (August 6-12) and the “The Coastal AKA Coast Model” (a smoked salmon patty, sharp white cheddar, arugula, and barbecue berry sauce on a Li’l Woody’s bun) from Jeremy Thunderbird of the Native Soul Delicacies meals truck (August 13-19). JB
(Li’l Woody’s, Capitol Hill, Monday–Sunday)
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Pleased rosé season to those that have a good time! No matter your ideas on the ever-present blush beverage, it is laborious to think about a drink higher suited to summer season. All through the month, the farm-to-table pop-up-turned-restaurant Three Sacks Full will provide a weekly rotation of rosé specials by the glass, culminating in a particular rosé dinner on August 28. (Co-owner Matthew Curtis is a licensed sommelier, so you possibly can count on some well-curated picks.) JB
(Three Sacks Full, Roosevelt, Monday–Sunday)
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You’ve in all probability recognized because you have been a child making layered “graveyard” Slurpee creations at 7-Eleven that there’s nothing higher than a frosty, icy deal with on a sweltering day, and the forward-thinking innovators who’ve added booze to the equation have solely improved on that already wonderful expertise. The Stranger will staff up with bars all through the Seattle space to supply unique alcoholic slushies for simply $8 a pop. Let a bartender hand you one thing fruity and pleasant with a little bit paper umbrella and a straw, shut your eyes, and let your self be transported to paradise. JB
Varied areas (Aug 12–18)
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Former Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant remains to be going robust in any case these years, at the moment touring with frequent collaborator, bluegrass sensation Alison Krauss. The duo will carry out songs from their two collaborative albums, Elevate the Roof and Elevating Sand, which embrace eclectic covers of the Everly Brothers, Allen Toussaint, Townes Van Zandt, and extra. Rockabilly artist JD McPherson will open. AV
(Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville, Friday–Saturday)
PERFORMANCE
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Throw in your old-timey feathered caps and get thee to a nunnery—or perhaps simply head outdoor for GreenStage’s always-free Shakespeare within the Park, which returns for its thirty sixth season this 12 months. They will provide up productions of the Bard’s Henry VI—Elements Two and Three and acquainted rom-com Twelfth Night time, plus some scaled-back “Yard Bard” one-hour reveals, together with “downside play” All’s Properly That Ends Properly, at parks throughout Seattle. Peep their calendar for efficiency occasions and areas. LC
(Varied areas, Friday–Saturday)
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I will be sincere. It is information to me that the previous “However physician…I am Pagliacci” punchline is not truly from Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Nineteenth-century opera. The joke’s origins are murky, but it surely was popularized in Alan Moore’s Watchmen. That does not imply the unique opera is not additionally comedically tragic, although. The manufacturing follows a commedia dell’arte troupe in a small Italian village within the ’40s, the place cheerfulness turns to betrayal, rage, and jealousy. It is a time-tested method for Seattle Opera to open its 2024-25 season: Pagliacci is taken into account a traditional of the Italian verismo (“slice of life”) fashion. LC
(McCaw Corridor, Uptown, Wednesday–Saturday)
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Set within the aftermath of the autumn of Saigon, two younger survivors meet in Arkansas, the place they bond over the strangeness of burritos and weed. Playwright Qui Nguyen, who penned Raya and the Final Dragon, delivers a humorous, romantic story that “flips stereotypes and remixes historical past” in Vietgone. Pork Crammed Productions government director Roger Tang famous that the present responds to a brand new curiosity in Vietnamese tales in America. “There’s Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer and native artist Susan Lieu‘s memoir The Manicurist’s Daughter this 12 months…Vietgone kicked off this pattern as the primary murals to look at the primary technology of Vietnamese coming to this nation,” Tang defined. LC
(Theatre Off Jackson, Chinatown-Worldwide District, Thursday–Sunday)
VISUAL ART
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I wasn’t beforehand aware of artist Andrea Dezsö’s work, however I’ve shortly grow to be a fan: Dezsö’s detailed pochoir stenciling methods, charming birch-carved designs, embroidered musings, and pyrovitreography reveal an artist who fears no medium. Her work additionally feels distinctly extra bouba than kiki. I am in love with the bizarre little guys populating her compositions, and I wish to know all about their folktale-informed world, which additionally grapples with “girls’s roles, authoritarianism, household, ideological and societal affect on the person, relationships with nature, and the physique.” You will in all probability dig it, too. LC
(Traver Gallery, Downtown, Tuesday–Saturday)
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Little has been revealed about Seattle-based artist Claudia Fitch’s solo exhibition Fashions and Messengers, however I am already intrigued. The artist’s good, playful sculptural work is all the time a quizzical journey for the eyeballs, usually sourcing cultural narratives from pop and artwork historical past to daring, ingenious ends. I am excited to see what she’s give you this time—will she be working in bronze, ceramic, forged resin, or one other medium solely? (Fitch has additionally created fairly just a few of town’s public works; see for those who acknowledge any.) LC
(Greg Kucera Gallery, Pioneer Sq., Tuesday–Saturday)
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In Relaxation/Much less, Much less/Relaxation, Tacoma-born painter David Hytone renders difficult scenes in acrylic and on Okowara paper, a thick, fibrous Japanese handmade paper product of kozo and sulphite pulp. The solo exhibition feels rife with symbolism—titles like The Bureau of Hypnagogia Human Assets Division Would Like a Phrase and Three Seventeen AM within the Arms of Saint Dymphna really feel like glimpses into the artist’s dreamscape. “I’m within the intersection between specificity and approximation, notably how this relationship informs our notion of the world round us and the position reminiscence performs in that interface,” the artist defined in a current bio. That sense of interaction reveals itself in Relaxation/Much less, Much less/Relaxation; moments of heavy detailing are discovered amongst floating heads and abstracted varieties. LC
(Greg Kucera Gallery, Pioneer Sq., Tuesday–Saturday)
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Calling all puppet lovers! Hidden Worlds: The Movies of LAIKA will invite guests to peek behind the scenes of display screen faves like Coraline, The Boxtrolls, and the forthcoming Wildwood created by Oregon stop-motion animation studio LAIKA. The exhibition will grant “unprecedented entry” to the studio’s superior manufacturing methods, full with puppets, set shows, and sneak peeks. LC
(MoPOP, Uptown, Tuesday/Thursday–Sunday)
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Lino Tagliapietra: Maestro, Mentore welcomes the legendary Venetian glassblower, maestro Lino Tagliapietra, to exhibit works alongside his staff members, Nancy Callan, Jen Elek, John Kiley, Dante Marioni, and Dave Walters, for an exhibition that “inform[s] a narrative of inventive mentorship and mutual reverence.” The staff’s sense of sample and angular varieties is dizzying to behold. LC
(Traver Gallery, Downtown, Tuesday–Saturday)
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I attempt to keep away from saying a present has “one thing for everybody” until it is actually, really the case, however New York-based artistRaúl de Nieves’s a window to the see, a spirit star chiming within the wind of marvel… may match the invoice. De Nieves will transport aesthetic traditions of Mexican craft, Catholicism, Tarot, the European artwork canon, drag efficiency, and punk music to the Henry—critically, I am betting you are into at the least a type of issues, proper? The solo exhibition of work, sculptures, and performances by the Mexican-born artist will embrace certainly one of his signature “stained glass” installations (made with coloured acetate and tape), which is able to think about a celestial panorama and rework the museum’s largest gallery house right into a “container of coloured mild.” The aim? A reflective, meditative journey—anticipate temple-like seating, a kaleidoscopic environment of ever-changing mild, and ritualistic performances punctuating the run of the exhibition. LC
(Henry Artwork Gallery, College District, Thursday–Sunday)
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As somebody who simply spent just a few weeks in jap Oregon, the phrases “smoke season” elicit an all-too-familiar burn within the throat. Christian French’s Untitled (Exodus sequence), a brutal red-tinged and desolate {photograph} featured in SOIL’s new group exhibition Smoke Season, elicits an analogous somatic reminiscence. “The Anthropocene has grow to be the Pyrocene,” the present supplies assert; I am intrigued by Tim Marsden’s fiery embroidery and janet galore’s Smoke Break, a three-minute video looped on a classic tv set put in within the gallery. LC
(SOIL, Pioneer Sq., Friday–Sunday)
