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In her new e-book, How Girls Made Music: A Revolutionary Historical past from NPR Music, editor Alison Fensterstock highlights the important position that feminine musicians have performed within the music trade by compiling over fifty years of NPR’s protection. All through the e-book, Fensterstock challenges conventional male-centric finest album lists and the underrecognized contributions of girls within the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame. In the course of the Seattle cease of her e-book tour, Fensterstock will sit down with KEXP’s Emily Fox and native musician/label proprietor/author Rachel Flotard. AV
(City Corridor Seattle, First Hill)
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Way over simply easy snacks, banchan (the scrumptious shared aspect dishes that complement Korean meals) can characterize a bunch’s hospitality and generosity—as musician and author Michelle Zauner wrote of her late mom in her poignant memoir Crying at H Mart, “She remembered which banchan aspect dish you emptied first so the following time you had been over it might be set with a heaping double portion.” New York Metropolis-based chef, artist, instructor, and author Caroline Choe places these bites within the highlight along with her first-of-its-kind cookbook Banchan, which presents each conventional and trendy recipes for every part from smoky gochujang hen salad to hobakjeon (zucchini pancakes). JB
(Elliott Bay E book Firm, Capitol Hill)
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Hallowed Capitol Hill watering gap Pine Field celebrates Halloween yearly with a night of pumpkin carving and scary motion pictures. Pumpkins are $5 with a beverage buy and so they’ll present instruments and candles to light up no matter creepy creation you give you. Seize a seat within the lined outside beer backyard for 2 yet-to-be-announced horror motion pictures. For a really 4D expertise, attempt to time your sawing with on-screen stabbings or scoop out your pumpkin guts when there is a notably ugly scene. SL
(The Pine Field, Capitol Hill)
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Mercury author Ben Salmon writes: “There are round three million Tuareg individuals dwelling within the Saharan area of Africa, and so they end up a formidable variety of musicians who discover audiences in different elements of the world. There’s Tinariwen, Bombino, Tamikrest, and Imarhan, and now it’s unquestionably Mdou Moctar’s flip. The Nigerien guitarist first made a reputation for himself on African MP3-sharing networks and has raised his worldwide profile over the previous a number of years with a collection of fantastic albums launched on the Portland-based Sahel Sounds report label.” Moctar will play songs from his hypnotic new album, Funeral for Justice, after a gap set from indie rock artist Rosali. AV
(The Crocodile, Belltown)
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Way over simply easy snacks, banchan (the scrumptious shared aspect dishes that complement Korean meals) can characterize a bunch’s hospitality and generosity—as musician and author Michelle Zauner wrote of her late mom in her poignant memoir Crying at H Mart, “She remembered which banchan aspect dish you emptied first so the following time you had been over it might be set with a heaping double portion.” New York Metropolis-based chef, artist, instructor, and author Caroline Choe places these bites within the highlight along with her first-of-its-kind cookbook Banchan, which presents each conventional and trendy recipes for every part from smoky gochujang hen salad to hobakjeon (zucchini pancakes). She’ll chat concerning the launch with chef Rachel Yang of Joule and Revel. JB
(E book Larder, Fremont)
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Inviting attendees to have interaction instantly with Indigenous voices, Netse Mot—which interprets to “one coronary heart, one thoughts” in Coast Salish—addresses political and cultural variations and the looming local weather disaster with a “motion towards therapeutic and unity.” The occasion will embody a variety of Indigenous audio system and performers, together with Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe, writer of Crimson Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk, in addition to Infamous Cree, Black Lodge Singers, and WestShore Canoe Household, amongst many others. LC
(Paramount Theatre, Downtown)
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Hear, I really like kittens as a lot as the following particular person, however I have not spent a lot time contemplating their capability to encourage stand-up comedy. That stated, I am intrigued by this efficiency, which is billed as a “pet-themed comedy present” that includes a number of the metropolis’s funniest people. Can they make you snort about Goldendoodles, budgies, and the unbridled camp of Halloween pet costumes? It is attainable, and there is just one approach to discover out. LC
(Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown)
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In my current assessment of Lucio Fulci’s The Past for The Stranger‘s Psychotronic Movie Problem, I shared an admittedly scorching take: Should you suppose you wish to see an Argento flick, what you are really searching for is Fulci. No shade to Argento—he is a grasp of fashion and environment. (He may’ve even invented bisexual lighting accidentally.) However Lucio Fulci delivered giallo at its finest: His movies are sometimes psychological, trendy, and, most significantly, brutal. The Psychic is one other Fulci nice, however it seems like a departure for the gorehound giallo director—it is an understated, slow-burn homicide thriller, framed round unusual premonitions and 7 musical notes. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis)
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At this star-studded tasting tour, the James Beard Basis (named after the late, nice chef and writer) will convey collectively a stacked lineup of acclaimed culinary luminaries. This 12 months, the collection will “rejoice the native impartial eating places on the coronary heart of our communities,” with food and drinks stations hosted by TasteTwenty chef Janet Becerra of the acclaimed pop-up-turned-restaurant Pancita, Donald Adams and Paolo Campbell of the cult favourite Filipino-inspired fried hen joint the Hen Provide, Meesha chef Preeti Agarwal, Communion R&B chef Kristi Brown, Canlis chef Aisha Ibrahim, 4 Seasons cooks Brian Doherty and Danielle Grogan, Lil Crimson’s Takeout & Catering proprietor Erasto “Crimson” Jackson, Copine chef/proprietor Shaun McCrain, Paper Cake Store pastry chef Gabby Park, Maripili chef/proprietor Grayson Pilar Corrales, Beast and Cleaver chef/proprietor Kevin Smith, and chef/restaurateur Ethan Stowell. JB
(4 Seasons Resort Seattle, Seattle Waterfront)
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At this level, Charli XCX’s sixth studio album has left us with extra questions than solutions: Is brat summer season useless? Is Kamala brat? What colour is her underwear? The one factor I do know for certain is that politicians and types co-opting the craze are annoying as hell. Regardless, I’ve tried to not let it wreck my devoted love for the British hyperpop star. I’ll by no means declare to be an OG Charli fan (I hopped on board when her 2020 masterpiece how i am feeling now dropped) however I’ll endlessly brag that I noticed her on the quaint Crystal Ballroom in Portland earlier than this large area tour. Charli will probably be joined by her frequent collaborator/BFF Troye Sivan for his or her extremely anticipated Sweat tour. They higher ship a mashup of “1999” and “Discuss speak.” AV
(Local weather Pledge Area, Uptown)
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Maybe you’ve got perused a replica of the cult favourite mushroom discipline information All That the Rain Guarantees and Extra or noticed Alexis Nikole’s pleasant foraging movies on YouTube earlier than and thought to your self that you just’d wish to strive your hand at monitoring down your individual meals within the wild. In spite of everything, we do reside within the bountiful Pacific Northwest. Native forager, meals author, and meals remedy information Ashley Rodriguez, creator of the award-winning weblog Not With out Salt, is right here to assist along with her latest e-book Area Notes from a Fungi Forager, an “evocative and private survey” of fifty of probably the most fascinating mushrooms in our area, from icons like morels and chanterelles to extra obscure varieties just like the “wooden blewit” (which is alleged to scent like frozen orange juice). Rodriguez will chat concerning the e-book with native cookbook writer Becky Selengut. JB (E book Larder, Fremont)
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As a Mary Shelley stan, every of the Frankenstein movie diversifications has upset me—the unique textual content incorporates darkness and depth that the movies have by no means captured (we will see if Guillermo Del Toro delivers along with his upcoming adaptation). Nevertheless, I am prepared to confess that as standalone movies, Bride of Frankenstein and Younger Frankenstein are the perfect entries within the monster saga. Regardless of being filmed practically 40 years aside, each motion pictures reinvent the mad scientist story whereas not taking themselves too significantly. Get into the Halloween spirit this week because the Seattle Symphony performs the unique Bride of Frankenstein rating by Franz Waxman. For the second act, the orchestra will take a break whereas the viewers howls at Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy traditional Young Frankenstein. AV
(Benaroya Corridor, Downtown)
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Longtime Canadian indie-pop band Stars has discovered success of their distinctive capacity to inform sincere tales of life and love, delivering a sound that is each delicate and expansive. The band will return to Seattle to rejoice the Twentieth anniversary of their third album, Set Your self on Hearth, which incorporates their world hit “Your Ex-Lover Is Lifeless.” You may understand it from the long-lasting soundtrack of aughts teen drama The O.C. AV
(The Showbox, Downtown)
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Jenny Slate’s title is in all places, if you already know the place to look: The comic, actor, and writer performed your favourite character on Parks & Recreation, lent her voice to the character of Missy on Huge Mouth, penned the “carnival of observations” (Washington Submit) Little Weirds, and co-invented Marcel the Shell, for chrissake. Slate’s recent assortment of “private items,” LIFEFORM, has despatched the multi-hyphenate creator on an eight-city e-book tour, and we’re fortunate sufficient to reside in considered one of her touchdown spots. MONEY PWEEZE! LC
(Neptune Theatre, College District)
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Sebastian Maniscalco, who was described as “the most popular comedian in America” by the New York Instances again in 2019, has seen his justifiable share of success currently—he dropped a bestselling memoir and landed roles in Martin Scorsese’s crime flick The Irishman and the Oscar-winning Inexperienced E book. He’ll share extra of his energetic, exaggerated humor on the It Ain’t Proper tour, hopefully whereas sporting a mullet. LC
(Local weather Pledge Area, Uptown)
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Let’s face it—with Cherie Currie going full MAGA, it is unlikely that the Runaways will ever reunite. So, we should relish within the alternative to see Britain’s personal trailblazing all-female arduous rock band, Girlschool. Founding members Kim McAuliffe and Denise Dufort will lead the present lineup in classics like “Race the Satan” and “Please Do not Contact” for his or her last North American tour. New Orleans arduous rockers Lillian Axe and heavy metallic outfit Alcatrazz will open. AV
(Substation, Fremont)
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Wouldst thou wish to reside deliciously? Then cease by Boy, Howdy!’s Halloween-themed pop-up (possible their final pop-up of the 12 months) on the cozy Ghost Be aware Espresso for a collection of blood-curdling bakes, together with “Autumn Leaves” (a toasted oat cake with herb-roasted apples and whipped crème fraîche), “Cauldron Smoke” (a chocolate olive oil cake with torched pumpkin marshmallows, spiced pepita crumbles, and black cocoa buttercream), “Harvest Moon” (brown butter spice cake with carrot marmalade, cream cheese mousse, and maple buttercream), and cookies (triple ginger molasses and bourbon vanilla pecan shortbread). JB
(Ghost Be aware Espresso, Capitol Hill)
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I as soon as discovered the dance to “Thriller” for a fundraiser and truthfully, it is fairly enjoyable. It is greater than only a TikTok dance—you additionally get to decorate up in thrifted ’80s clothes and canopy your self in grime or pretend blood (in order for you). Should you’ve by no means had this thrilling expertise, now’s your probability! Be part of The Seattle Thrillers for Thrill The World, an annual worldwide simultaneous dance to “Thriller,” on Saturday, October 26 at exactly 3 pm. You’ll be able to spectate or get impressed by final 12 months’s efficiency and take part. The group can even carry out on the West Seattle Harvest Fest on October 27, and on Halloween at Trick or Deal with on the Ave in Queen Anne. SL
(West Queen Anne Playfield, West Queen Anne)
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Although the late ’80s and early ’90s grunge motion is commonly cited as probably the most celebrated time in Seattle music historical past, the present music scene is arguably simply as thrilling. For this particular Halloween bash, music from the native underground will swarm the Neptune (Evening of the Dwelling Lifeless-style) with bone-rattling tunes. Sit up for performances from dance-punk quartet Linda From Work, “funk-hop” six-piece Marshall Regulation Band, indie rock outfit Waxer, and surf punks I-90 Fiasco. AV
(Neptune Theatre, College District)
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Finest generally known as the frontwoman of alt-rock outfits Throwing Muses and 50FootWave, Kristin Hersh has contributed to the historically male-dominated style because the early Nineteen Eighties. As a solo artist, Hersh blends punk, indie, and folks instrumentation with lyrics that contact on her struggles with nervousness and bipolar dysfunction. She’s going to rejoice the thirtieth anniversary of her solo debut Hips and Makers with an intimate, stripped-down efficiency that includes cello accompaniment. AV
(St. Mark’s Cathedral, Capitol Hill)
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If there may be any theater in Seattle that I belief to curate a reliably bizarre and chilling mix of Samhain shorts and creepy-crawly TV episodes, it is the cinema freaks (stated with love!) over on the Beacon. Their Halloween video “mega-mix” will serve up a mish-mash of methods and treats within the type of “spookies, ghoulies, occult rituals, and candy-mad youngsters” on display. Come on, you are not too scared, are you? LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis)
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Gourmands throughout Seattle rejoice over this twice-yearly occasion, which supplies diners the chance to strive curated menus for $20, $35, $50, and $65 at dozens of eating places. It’s a wonderful alternative to department out of your common rotation of tried-and-true favorites and cross some locations off your culinary bucket listing. Spherical up some mates to hitch you, and remember to tip your server generously. JB
(Numerous places)
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It is a rule akin to “shut up and get off your telephone within the movie show.” Do not contact the artwork. We have heard this since endlessly, proper? This is applicable in each gallery setting, proper? WRONG. Please Contact: Collectively, Breaking Boundaries invitations viewers to the touch the paintings on show, aiming to “elevate consciousness about accessibility for blind and low-vision people within the arts” by facilitating a tactile expertise. Viewers are inspired to “shut their eyes, use their open palms, and gently stroke their paintings, describing the that means it holds for them,” which sounds downright blissful. LC
(King Road Station, SoDo, Wednesday–Saturday)
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New York-based photographer Victoria Sambunaris car-camps throughout america for a number of months a 12 months, creating large-scale images that hint the transformation of the nation with “particular consideration given to increasing political, technological and industrial interventions.” In Traces of the Manifest, Sambunaris shares snapshots, highway logs, minerals, discovered objects, and movies from her travels, which doc “the affect of commercial websites, geological forces, and human traces present in panorama” from the Texas Gulf Coast to the southern California desert. LC
(Photographic Middle Northwest, Capitol Hill, Thursday–Sunday; opening)
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Los Angeles-born gentle expertise Astra Lumina will return to light up the Seattle Chinese language Backyard for 2 months this 12 months, reworking the botanical area right into a “marvel of visiting stars” with projections, dazzling lights, music, and “astral vitality.” Ooooo. Bundle as much as stroll down the celestial pathway; you are promised to come across “cosmic visions and astral music.” (You may additionally wish to microdose first—laser reveals of yore confirmed that nothing’s extra psychedelic than light-and-sound projection.) LC
(Seattle Chinese language Backyard, Riverview, Thursday–Sunday)
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You understand what’s going to make your cozy fall photoshoot higher? A wide ranging backdrop of Mount Rainier; which is precisely what you will get (on a transparent day) at Carpinito Brothers Farm. Deliver your Hinge date, your dad and mom, and/or your children (simply not your canine) and proceed to get misplaced in a number of mazes spanning acres of corn, pet cattle, and take your choose of pumpkins. SL
(Carpinito Brothers, Kent, Monday–Sunday)
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October rolls round, and immediately, everybody needs to observe vampires, ghosts, and cannibals get their freak on. Typical!!! Should you’re additionally feeling the sudden urge to emphasize your self out with Cronenberg and Murnau, All Monsters Assault! has your again. The collection shudders all month lengthy with creepy greats just like the colonial-era cannibal story Ravenous, the Nicolas Cage campy cult flick Vampire’s Kiss, Roger Corman’s The Masque of the Crimson Demise, and a screening of Nosferatu set to a Radiohead rating, which ought to get you amped for Eggers’ remake releasing in December. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, Monday–Sunday)
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Paris, Texas is my favourite movie of all time, and my second and third are True Tales and 3 Girls, each of which may arguably exist in Paris, Texas‘s universe. A raveled Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) meanders out of the matte desert, the place he is reunited along with his eight-year-old son, Hunter, and his billboard-designing brother within the neon canyons of Los Angeles. He tries on completely different roles: He imagines changing into the “wealthy father,” undertaking nothing however to chase after his son’s affection. A highway journey then guides Hunter and Travis again to the foundation of their trauma. The result’s a neo-Western that feels spiritually in tune with Twin Peaks, Repo Man, and—hear me out—the parable of Odysseus. It additionally did extra to advertise pink fuzzy sweaters than the whole thing of Barbie‘s infinite press marketing campaign. By the best way, I might sometimes balk at a 127-minute runtime, however Wim Wenders’ ultra-deliberate filmmaking (and Robby Müller’s choreography) calls for a sluggish learn. Sure photographs linger lengthy after the credit roll. LC
(SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown, Monday–Thursday)
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Bodily media professionals Scarecrow Video, town’s personal nonprofit video archive and resident consultants on all issues cinematic, are celebrating Halloween all month lengthy at SIFF Cinema Egyptian. (Horror flicks are “each video retailer clerk’s favourite style,” says SIFF, and I am inclined to consider it.) Present Scarecrow some love by testing the flicks they’ve curated for the collection. The choice is strong, with a spread of acquainted freakshows and barely screened deeper cuts. Scarecrowber will maintain the creepy occasions oozing with George Franju’s Eyes With out a Face, the ’71 creep fest Let’s Scare Jessica to Demise, Dario Argento’s Opera,The Strangers (the ’08 authentic, which is definitely terrifying), and different scares. LC
(SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Capitol Hill, Monday–Sunday)
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You may already be conversant in the Seattle 48 Hour Horror Movie Challenge, a fast-paced, strain cooker movie collection that includes dozens of quick movies created by Seattle expertise over 48 quick hours. (Filmmakers should “draw a style from a hat and incorporate particular parts comparable to a personality, prop, and line of dialogue into their movies,” so the outcomes really feel improvisational and invigorated.) This spine-tingling spin on the venture invitations members to create horror flicks in two quick days. I am anticipating the outcomes to be slightly extra humorous than terrifying, however who is aware of? There could be some really twisted greatness within the combine. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Wednesday–Thursday)
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New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders, who directed Good Days and a mysterious terrain of canyons and neon in Paris, Texas, may really be finest recognized for his ’87 masterpiece Wings of Need. Should you had been moved to tears by Tokyo rest room scrubber Hirayama, who crammed his days with cassette tapes and images of timber in Good Days, I like to recommend giving this movie your time—it feels much more experimental, however nonetheless within the spirit of Wenders’s oozy “sluggish” cinema and emphasis on isolation. Shot in black and white simply earlier than the autumn of the Berlin Wall, the movie follows two angels who soar over town till one falls in love with a human. LC
(SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown, Monday & Wednesday)
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In 2018, former Stranger employees author Lester Black wrote of the English-style cask ale vacation spot Machine Home Brewery, “[Their] beers are beloved within the metropolis for his or her nuance and steadiness, and it helps that almost all of their finest beers are beneath 4 % alcohol, an satisfying proposition for trade regulars who typically tire of extreme alcohol. When Machine Home is at its finest, and it often is, their beers are succinct little packages that ship beguiling taste with out hitting you over the top. They’re charming beers, like a witty comment that lingers in your head for hours.” Now, the small-batch brewery invitations you to embrace the transition into fall with a choice of 13 cask ales excellent for the cooler climate, together with a Pale Oat Delicate made in collaboration with Weird Brewing, a Scottish 60 Shilling made in collaboration with Beveridge Place Pub, and The Roots of the Mountain Rye Barleywine made in collaboration with Holy Mountain, plus a number of seasonal beers and ciders. The Wednesday Membership will set the temper with reside jazz on Saturday.
(Machine Home Brewery, Hillman Metropolis, Friday–Sunday)
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Escape your finest goth finery: The swanky cocktail lounge Rob Roy is internet hosting Black Lagoon, a ghostly Halloween-themed expertise proclaimed “Canada’s Finest Pop-Up Bar” by Canada’s 100 Finest in 2022. The expertise, dreamed up by bartenders Erin Hayes and Kelsey Ramage in New Orleans in 2019, options dungeon-esque decor and deliciously morbid libations just like the “Blood Lust” (Giffard Sirop, miso falernum, rooibos tea, lemon juice, and ginger beer) and “Nosferatu’s Rise” (Coconut Oil Lot 40, Lustau Amontillado Sherry, cinnamon syrup, Bitter Queens Caribbean Bitters, and saline). JB
(Rob Roy, Belltown, Monday–Sunday)
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This annual EDM spectacular will hang-out your Halloweekend with a number of themed levels, ghoulishly enjoyable rides, larger-than-life artwork installations, and roaming performers. Plus, DJs together with Misplaced Frequencies, Afrojack, Illenium, Chris Lorenzo, and Maddix will rattle your bones. AV
(WaMu Theater, SoDo, Friday–Saturday)
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The Vera Challenge is bringing again their Dwell from our Dwelling Room pageant and fundraiser this October. There will probably be an all-ages Halloween cowl present, a 21-plus home celebration hosted by Seattle’s most out-of-this-world drag queen Irene the Alien, and an evening with mid-2000s math rock heroes Algernon Cadwallader (adopted by an “emo evening afterparty,” which is each unusual and intriguing to my borderline-millennial coronary heart). I’m particularly excited for the Rock Lottery on Sunday, October 27. Twenty native musicians will probably be randomly damaged off into 4 bands, after which they’ll have simply that day to write down songs collectively for the primary time earlier than performing for the viewers. STRANGER MANAGING EDITOR MEGAN SELING
(Vera Challenge, Uptown, Thursday–Sunday)
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When the drizzly streets of Emerald Metropolis are besieged by a violent serial killer, a collection of shady figures should catch the offender earlier than they get slashed themselves. OoOoO! This improvised expertise invitations audiences to make key selections concerning the solid, and the serial killer will change with every efficiency, so that you by no means know who could be lurking across the nook. Nothing says “improv” like unpredictable characters, proper? LC
(West of Lenin, Fremont, Thursday–Saturday)
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This world premiere opera reveals the story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, whose earliest members got here collectively to change the post-Civil Struggle musical panorama. With over 40 African American spirituals that had been “initially conceived, written, and carried out by enslaved peoples,” the brand new work by lauded director Tazewell Thompson chronicles the group’s early excursions, the place they persevered regardless of violence and even carried out for Queen Victoria. Anticipate one thing each triumphant and harrowing—Jubilee’s 13 performers seize the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ struggles and joys. LC
(McCaw Corridor, Uptown, Tuesday & Friday)
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As a result of typically the creepiest environments are these that are most acquainted, Go away No Footprints‘ Pacific Northwest setting feels pitch excellent. Emily Pike and Emily Sershon’s immersive thriller expertise, which incorporates a completely different solid and interpretation every week, tells the story of a lacking lone hiker in a state park. Audiences should enter the eldritch woods to unravel the puzzle—however do not veer off the trail, if you already know what’s good for you. LC
(Annex Theatre, Capitol Hill, Thursday–Saturday)
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I might be hard-pressed to seek out one thing extra Seattle than an intimate playhouse on a lake. Seattle Public Theater typically does not get the eye it deserves, and I am wanting ahead to testing one other manufacturing directed by Amy Poisson (she directed Maggie Lee’s As soon as Extra, Only for You final season, which I completely loved). The Park is a brand new piece written by Jenn Ruzumna and Lisa Each that follows the story of two mates who meet each week on the similar park bench beneath the identical tree to share their lives and seek for that means, and all the opposite creatures (together with canines and ghosts) who do the identical. The Park is a co-production with Seattle Public Theater and feminist non-profit arts group Macha Theatre Works. SL
(Seattle Public Theater, Inexperienced Lake, Thursday–Sunday)
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Impressed by the Tim Burton traditional The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas, Can Can Productions’ authentic musical adaptation will rejoice 16 years at Triple Door with a “darkish fantasy burlesque musical” and all issues Skellington—anticipate a spooky cabaret with burlesque stylings, reside orchestral music, haunting vocals, and video projections. C’mon, I do know you former Sizzling Matter lovers have an interest. LC
(Triple Door, Downtown, Monday–Sunday)
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Should you’re something like me, you spent a good portion of the pandemic lockdown watching Netflix’s Blown Away, during which glassblowers competed for an illustrious residency on the Corning Museum of Glass. (As a onetime Pilchuck Glass Faculty workshop participant, I am rooting for these loopy children.) Traver Gallery and Chihuly Backyard and Glass have teamed as much as current this exhibition, which options works by Blown Away episode winners Gemma Hollister and Karen Willenbrink-Johnson and collection winner Morgan Peterson. Willenbrink-Johnson creates naturalistic varieties, whereas Hollister’s works “supply a critique of contemporary capitalism” and Peterson’s cameo portraits of Seattle drag legends “spotlight beliefs of female magnificence.” LC
(Traver Gallery, Downtown)
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Wallace & Gromit, Gumby, ParaNorman, Robotic Hen—fact be instructed, there’s one thing about clay animation that makes its storytelling distinct and memorable. Swedish artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg have a transparent understanding of this, and their immersive installations of sculpture, sound, and claymation will arrive on the Nationwide Nordic Museum this month. “Probing psychological states and the complexity of day by day life by utilizing anthropomorphic objects as metaphors,” the duo’s exhibition, A Place of Alternative and Transformation—which transforms the gallery area into an experiential, immersive realm—will function stop-motion movies and sculptures set inside legendary forests and a cavernous underworld. If this sounds too cool to be true, I like to recommend pregaming with this Art21 episode concerning the pair. LC
(Nationwide Nordic Museum, Ballard, Tuesday–Sunday; closing)
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In her largest solo museum exhibition but, the Iraqi-born artist Hayv Kahraman makes use of her signature motif—closely lidded eyes—to look at how surveillance and erasure form experiences of othering. That includes work, sculptures, and a “deeply private” audio set up, the present references Kahraman’s upbringing as an Iraqi/Kurdish refugee in Sweden. Disembodied eyes act as a not-so-subtle stand-in for Western oppression, from authorities iris scans to racist plant classifications, whereas Kahraman’s marbling method displays the unpredictability of identification, resisting compelled assimilation with each bit’s distinctive patterns. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, Wednesday–Sunday)
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Should you’re not conversant in the groundbreaking work of Black artist, sculptor, performer, and printmaker Joyce J. Scott, now’s the time to repair that: Seattle Artwork Museum will current a significant profession retrospective surveying Scott’s multimedia works, which spans her 50-plus-year profession and emphasizes her “virtuosic use” of beads, glass, and textiles. Scott has “upended hierarchies of artwork and craft, insisting that inventive expression is that ‘further inch of life’ that nourishes the soul even in probably the most difficult circumstances,” the museum explains. I am serious about how Scott’s distinctive aesthetic imaginative and prescient addresses the racism, sexism, and inequality of the Twentieth century and the fashionable period via a delicate, typically humorous lens. LC
(Seattle Artwork Museum, Downtown, Wednesday–Sunday)
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Should you not too long ago watched The Substance, Caroline Fargeat’s twisted, skin-ripping strike at youth obsession, do artists Holly Ballard Martz and Paul D. McKee have the exhibition for you. (And if you have not seen The Substance, it’s best to. Contemplate it prep work for this present.) Preserved continues to ponder our “futile makes an attempt” at clutching to youthfulness, connecting injectables to bigger concepts of preservation and reminiscence. The present’s preview photos function works with hooks and holes and bottled specimens and phrases like “plump” and “taut.” I’m squicked out already, which seems like signal. LC
(The Vestibule, Ballard, Thursday–Saturday)
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Named after a well-liked Haitian proverb, “Bear in mind the rain that makes your corn develop,” this exhibition of mid-Twentieth-century Haitian work goals to domesticate a spirit of gratitude and perseverance. The storytelling scenes of every portray draw from Haitian landscapes, communities, spirituality, and nature to replicate on day by day life on the island; I am intrigued by Barbara Earl Thomas’s folkloric iconography, James Washington, Jr.’s non secular animal sculptures, and Jamaican artist Ebony Patterson’s use of sequins in funereal scenes. LC
(Seattle Artwork Museum, Downtown, Wednesday–Sunday)
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In Warren Dykeman’s fifth solo exhibition at studio e, block-like figures are rendered in composite view—suppose historical Egyptian artwork—whereas different items function vases of tangled vines or ultra-stylized “pastures.” It did not shock me to study that Dykeman is a graphic designer by day; his fashion patchworks a folksy sensibility with a wise, up to date aptitude. Dykeman grew up in Kennewick, simply outdoors the Hanford Nuclear Reservation; this solo exhibition pulls its title from a “quick neutron” nuclear take a look at reactor on the Hanford web site, and feels infused with forgotten Americana. LC
(studio e, Georgetown, Thursday–Saturday; closing)
