Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
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I’ll admit it: Jazz can really feel very intimidating! There are such a lot of subgenres to study, names to recollect, and historical past that feels gatekept by boomers with costly hi-fi gear. Nevertheless, nothing compares to listening to a talented jazz ensemble play dwell. It’s actually transcendental. If you happen to haven’t had the pleasure, Seattle-based ensemble Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio is a superb place to start out. The trio employs Jimmy Smith-style organs, Motown-spiced rhythms, and Jimi Hendrix-hazed guitars for timeless, feel-good soulful jazz you may dance to. AV
Jazz Alley, Belltown (Sept 19–22)
R-Day 2024
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R-Day is quintessential Seattle: it’s quirky, it’s enjoyable, there’s dwell music, and naturally, the Rainier shall be flowing. The annual free, 21-plus celebration commemorates the second when Rainier Beer’s iconic R was restored to its place atop the Outdated Rainier Brewery in Georgetown. Along with a herd of Wild Rainiers, wacky merchandise, eclectic artwork, and extra, anticipate explosive dwell performances. Take a look at the hazy grooves of LA band Allah-Las, the fierce ’70s rock-kissed punk of Sheer Magazine, and Seattle rock band Monsterwatch. SL
Georgetown (Sat Sept 21)
Charly Bliss
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On their new album Perpetually, Charly Bliss have shed what was left of their indie rock exoskeleton and brought flight as a elegant pop band. Opening monitor “Tragic” might be a Taylor Swift tune if it weren’t for the whirligig guitars, and “Again There Now” is as enjoyable and boppable as something Charli XCX launched throughout her Sucker/“Growth Clap” period. In truth, monitor for monitor, the band appears to ask comparisons to a few of at the moment’s most beloved pop girlies. Do I miss the times when CB would recklessly blast via crispity, crunchity upbeat rock songs the place vocalist Eva Hendricks would scream between lyrics about leaping so excessive on the trampoline that you simply pee your pants? Certain. However the band has at all times identified the ability of some well-placed punk patina, and I’m guessing they nonetheless will once they play the Crocodile in September. STRANGER ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR MEGAN SELING
The Crocodile, Belltown (Tues Sept 24)
Air Play Moon Safari
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French digital duo AIR is stopping by on their first tour in seven years to rejoice the twenty fifth anniversary of their debut album, Moon Safari. If you happen to’ve someway sneaked via the final 20 years with out listening to the album, simply know that it’s in all probability probably the most 1998-sounding music ever to exist. The album is spacy, horny, jazzy, and as mild as, effectively, air. It’s an album you’d anticipate to listen to at a highschool makeout occasion. (Had been these an actual factor, or simply one thing in TV exhibits?) AV
Benaroya Corridor, Downtown (Fri Sept 27)
Weezer: Voyage to the Blue Planet Tour
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Weezer is aware of. Regardless of the large success the band has seen for the reason that launch of their 1994 self-titled debut, Rivers Cuomo and firm are completely conscious that, in some followers’ eyes, they’ll by no means actually high what has come to be known as the Blue Album. With the explosive opening 15 seconds of “My Title is Jonas,” the cheeky “Undone — The Sweater Track,” and the heart-wrenched “Solely in Goals,” it’s iconic. (And it has aged higher than Pinkerton—nonetheless love you, although, Pinkerton!) To rejoice the thirtieth anniversary of the Blue Album, the band is heading out on a US tour, Voyage to the Blue Planet, the place they’ll play the report from begin to end. To spherical out the alt-radio rock circa 1995 soundtrack of the night, the Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr. open the present. STRANGER ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR MEGAN SELING
Local weather Pledge Enviornment, Uptown (Fri Oct 4)
Temples
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I turned a fan of Temples with their fourth full-length, Exotico, which got here out final spring, however this English neo-psychedelia-glam band has been making music since 2012. Noel Gallagher as soon as referred to as them “the perfect new band in Britain.” Regardless of their longevity, their vitality and sound really feel very now. When the band took the stage at Bumbershoot 2023, they danced and sang and rocked out with an vitality I wouldn’t anticipate from a bunch that’s been at it for therefore lengthy. They have been excited—to play music, to be on this second with us, to be alive—and I can’t wait to expertise that once more at their dwell present. SL
Neumos, Capitol Hill (Wed Oct 9)
André 3000: New Blue Solar Stay In Live performance
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In November of final yr, André 3000 stunned followers together with his first new music in 17 years—however it wasn’t what we anticipated. The OutKast rapper launched a full-length album of flute music. New Blue Solar is an odyssey of religious jazz and digital ambient sounds that would completely soundtrack an Octavia Butler novel. That includes devices like mycelial electronics, vegetation, shakuhachi, and sintir, the album is equal components acoustic and digital with a number of kinds of flutes performed by André himself. Joined on stage by album collaborators Carlos Niño, Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, and Deantoni Parks, the ensemble will current an immersive live performance that enchants audiences with improvisation and “sensory grandeur.” AV
Paramount Theatre, Downtown (Wed Oct 9)
Nada Surf
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Nada Surf has been a band for greater than 30 years, which suggests followers of all ages have been drawn to their music at totally different factors of their profession. My coworker remembers their 1996 debut hit “In style,” which catapulted them to alt-rock reputation; I fell in love with their fifth full-length, Fortunate, in highschool. Now, the group identified for bittersweet anthems is ready to launch their subsequent album in September, with at present launched singles hinting at an period of reflection, musing on the human expertise with notes of affection, grief, doubt, and hope, informed via hovering harmonies and powerful instrumentation. Up-and-coming New Zealand indie rock trio Workplace Canine opens the present. SL
The Crocodile, Belltown (Tues Oct 15)
Kehlani: Crash World Tour
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The queer legend Kehlani is embarking on a world tour to advertise their newest album CRASH, a fab, genre-bending work that comes with nostalgic ‘90s neo-soul and R&B influences and explores themes of intimacy, pleasure, and sensuality. The music video for the only “Subsequent 2 U” unequivocally makes their pro-Palestine stance clear whereas their crew of queer backup dancers carry out some very horny choreography. They’ll be supported by the irresistible Y2K-inspired British lady group FLO (who’re liable for the breakup jam “Cardboard Field” and the cheeky postcoital bop “Stroll Like This”) and the sultry rising rap star Anycia. JB
Local weather Pledge Enviornment, Uptown (Fri Oct 18)
Charli XCX & Troye Sivan Current: Sweat
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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 lifeless? Is Kamala brat? What shade 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 spoil my devoted love for the British hyper-pop star. I’ll by no means declare to be an OG Charli fan (I hopped on board when her 2020 masterpiece, how i’m feeling now, dropped), however I’ll perpetually brag that I noticed her on the quaint Crystal Ballroom in Portland earlier than this large area tour. Charli shall 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 “Rewind.” AV
Local weather Pledge Enviornment, Uptown (Wed Oct 23)
Stay from our Dwelling Room 5
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The Vera Venture is bringing again their Stay from our Dwelling Room competition and fundraiser this October. There shall be an all-ages Halloween cowl present, a 21-plus home occasion 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 night time 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 shall 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 ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR MEGAN SELING
The Vera Venture and Black Lodge (Oct 24–27)
Richard Thompson: Ship To Shore Tour 2024
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Ah, lastly a chance to influence the plenty to take heed to Richard Thompson! As a silver-haired British man identified for guitar solos, Thompson isn’t the standard musician I might experience for. Nevertheless, this man has performed on so many flawless albums that I’ve begun to suppose he’s the particular ingredient. Alongside together with his begin within the pioneering people rock band Fairport Conference, varied solo albums, and duo albums together with his spouse Linda, Thompson has additionally performed with Nick Drake, Françoise Hardy, Shirley Collins, John Cale, and Sandy Denny—the listing goes on. At this level, if I hear an album that was recorded between 1967 and 1987, it’s virtually a provided that Thompson performed on it. The legend will grace Seattle with songs from his new album, Ship to Shore, which options drummer/former bandmate Dave Mattacks of Fairport Conference. AV
The Showbox, Downtown (Solar Nov 3)
Freakout Pageant
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Acid Tongue’s Man Keltner began Freakout Pageant with one factor in thoughts—he needed to throw a big occasion for his pals. Now in its twelfth yr, the lineup could also be greater and extra various than ever, however the spirit of the competition stays unchanged. Hop between a number of venues throughout Ballard to listen to mind-bending psychedelic tunes whereas tripping out to Freakout’s notoriously hypnotic visible projections (the competition has a strict no-kids coverage, so substances are frequent). You received’t need to miss performances from Texas-based psych rockers the Black Angels, experimental hip-hop undertaking Shabazz Palaces, storage rock outfit Black Lips, Martin Rev (of synth-punk pioneers Suicide), and counter-culture icon Lydia Lunch. AV
Numerous venues in Ballard and Fremont (Nov 7–10)
The Blood Brothers
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It’s been practically 20 years since Seattle’s experimental hardcore kings, the Blood Brothers, have carried out. Their reunion exhibits on the Showbox in November are gonna be nuts. However bear in mind, our our bodies are 20 years older than after we final thrashed round whereas screaming their songs till our throats have been uncooked. It’s vital to stretch and do vocal warm-ups to keep away from damage. Let’s fucking go. “OPERATOR, I LOVE YOU / OPERATOR, I WOULD NEVER LEAVE YOU / I’D LIKE TO SEE YOUR FACE PRESSED UP AGAINST THE GLASS / 1-900-USA-NAILS, OH BABY / 1-900-USA-NAILS, OH BABY / 1-900-USA-NAILS, OH BABY / 1-900-USA-NAILS, OH BABY / 1-900-USA-NAILS, OH BABY / 1-900-USA-NAILS, OH BABY / 1-900-USA-NAILS, OH BABY / 1-900-USA-NAILS, OH BABY!!” STRANGER ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR MEGAN SELING
The Showbox, Downtown (Nov 14–15)
Katie Gavin
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As a loyal stan of the queer indie pop icons, Gayotic podcasters, and self-proclaimed “best band on this planet” MUNA, I’ve loved watching member Katie Gavin step into her personal solo undertaking on the facet. She cites Alanis Morissette, Fiona Apple, Ani DiFranco, Tracy Chapman, Tori Amos, and Sarah McLachlan as influences on her debut album, What a Aid, which was largely written on acoustic guitar over the course of seven years. Her uncooked honesty shines via on nostalgic ‘90s-tinged singles like “Aftertaste” (a candy, woozy ode to the vulnerability of a nascent crush) and “Informal Drug Use” (a compassionate affirmation within the face of substance abuse points, penned within the wake of a breakup in 2016). JB
Neumos, Capitol Hill (Nov 18–19)
Seattle’s Final Waltz Tribute
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For 10 years now, Seattle’s Final Waltz Tribute has reserved the final Saturday of November, paying homage to the Band’s famend Martin Scorsese-directed closing live performance movie. Native musicians run via their variations of the well-known setlist, and it’s by no means not a good time. In truth, it’s the proper night time out for anybody needing to entertain a number of generations of household visiting for the Thanksgiving weekend. Your dad can’t scream about politics if he’s too busy dancin’ to “Thriller Prepare”! This yr’s performers embrace King Youngblood’s lead guitar shredder Cameron Lavi-Jones and Annie Jantzer, whose voice gave me goosebumps once I noticed her sing “It Makes No Distinction” at 2022’s occasion. STRANGER ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR MEGAN SELING
Neptune Theatre, College District (Sat Nov 30)
2024 HUMP! Half Two
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Dan Savage’s pioneering erotic movie fest premiered an all-new lineup of horny movies that includes all genders and orientations earlier this yr. Since 2005, HUMP! has introduced inclusive, artistic, and kinky movies to the large display—and since this yr’s fest options not one however two feature-length lineups, you may scope out the sex-positive fest but once more for a tantalizing deal with. Half two contains 25 brand-spanking-new feasts in your eyeballs, together with “smokin’ scorching paranormal encounters, a mind-bending area carnival, spine-tingling ASMR, [and] all of the thermal eye sweet you may eat.” It’s value a enterprise exterior of your intercourse dungeon, however you may nonetheless put on the latex catsuit. LC
On the Boards, Uptown (Sept 19–Oct 5)
Native Sightings Movie Pageant
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Again in 2015, Stranger senior employees author Charles Mudede wrote, “What is that this metropolis turning into? What have we misplaced within the rush and thrust of all these new developments? To whom does this rising metropolis belong? The good Native Sightings Movie Pageant will present movies that reveal the solutions to those questions via options, shorts, and animation which are born right here or hereabouts. There’s a lot to see and far to speak about.” The premise of the hybrid competition hasn’t modified a lot since then—Native Sightings returns for its twenty seventh anniversary this yr, providing up one other spherical of curated screenings and remodeling town right into a hub for indie filmmakers who forgo New York or LA for the Pacific Northwest’s endearing eccentricity. The always-great, hyperlocal movie competition additionally gives alternatives for regional filmmakers, emotional storytellers, and documentarians to fulfill on the competition’s occasions. LC
Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill (Sept 20–29)
Seattle Queer Movie Pageant
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If you happen to’re queer and in your doomer period, we will’t blame you, however an excessive amount of wallowing is corrosive to the soul. It is advisable really feel, and it’s essential heal, and that’s what this yr’s Q-thartic Seattle Queer Movie Pageant (SQFF) is all about. Introduced by Three Greenback Invoice Cinema, the 10-day competition gives a wanted launch with a slate of movies championing intersectional queer narratives. As of press time, we don’t know what these films shall be, however Stranger contributor Chase Hutchinson deemed final yr’s competition “their finest but” after organizers have been capable of snag the critically acclaimed All of Us Strangers and The Individuals’s Joker, so our hopes are excessive. All-access and digital passes can be found now. STRANGER STAFF WRITER VIVIAN MCCALL
Numerous places with at-home streaming additionally out there (Oct 10–20)
Luminata
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Deliver your individual lanterns or purchase one on-site at Fremont Arts Council’s annual autumnal equinox celebration, which is able to assist ease you into the less-sunny season. The night will kick off with a gap ceremony adopted by a parade round Inexperienced Lake and a blinding show of illuminated artwork. The neighborhood at all times exhibits up for this actually magical night—deliver your date, deliver your children, deliver your canine, and throw on any glow-in-the-dark and light-up objects you personal. SL
Inexperienced Lake Park, Inexperienced Lake (Sat Sept 21)
Stroll the Block
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This yr, Wa Na Wari’s annual Central District competition has transitioned right into a free occasion spanning two days! Centered across the theme “Who We Are…The place We Are…How We Are,” the fundraiser amplifies the anti-displacement organizing work of Wa Na Wari’s CACE 21 program. Friday’s Stroll the Block Institute will function artistic community-building workshops and a keynote from Miami-based architect and educator Germane Barnes. The beloved Stroll the Block Artwork Pageant takes place on Saturday, celebrating Black artwork with a day stroll via the Central District, the place recent installations and performances shall be on view in companies, parks, porches, and different frequent areas. Catch stimulating visible and sculptural artwork, video installations, dwell music, dance events, neighborhood tales, and extra. VIP ticket holders will get handled to meals from chef Donna Moodie, an aura photograph, and a headlining efficiency by soul songstress Aliah Sheffield. SL
Wa Na Wari, Central District (Sept 27–28)
Brief Run Comix Pageant
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In 2018, Stranger information editor Wealthy Smith wrote of Brief Run: “You’re going. You’re bringing at LEAST $50 money. You’re selecting up new artwork books, zines, buttons, and little strips of gorgeous screen-printed ephemera from internationally/nationally/locally-renowned comics creators.” Problem accepted! This yr’s version of the now-legendary DIY fest is their final on the Seattle Middle, and it contains lots of of exhibitors, together with particular visitors Mita Mahato, Powerpaola, and Sarah Leavitt. Go to shortrun.org for the complete lineup and schedule. LC
Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Middle, Uptown (Sat Nov 2)
Mouthwater Pageant: A Disabled Dance Pageant
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Envisioned because the “starting of an arts hub by and centering Black and Indigenous disabled artists to current, collaborate, and get uplifted for his or her crafts,” the Mouthwater Pageant espouses values we will get behind—anticapitalism and antifascism amongst them. The fest brings collectively artists with disabilities from throughout the nation for solidarity, community-building, and over a dozen artsy occasions. I’m wanting ahead to Vanessa Hernández Cruz’s experimental piece Soul Seeker and the Mouthwater Cabaret, that includes performances by India Harville, Saira Barbaric, Mx. Pucks A’A lot, and others. LC
Numerous places (Sept 23–Oct 13)
The Park
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I’d be hard-pressed to search out one thing extra Seattle than an intimate playhouse on a lake. Seattle Public Theater usually doesn’t get the eye it deserves, and I’m wanting ahead to trying out 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 pals who meet each week on the similar park bench below the identical tree to share their lives and seek for that means, and all the opposite creatures (together with canine and ghosts) who do the identical. The Park is a co-production with Seattle Public Theater and feminist nonprofit arts group Macha Theatre Works. SL
Seattle Public Theater, Inexperienced Lake (Oct 11–Nov 3)
Brett Goldstein: The Second Finest Night time of Your Life
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As a author and producer of Ted Lasso, the story goes that Brett Goldstein wasn’t purported to play the lovably gruff Roy Kent onscreen, however that as quickly because the workforce heard him learn some traces, it needed to occur, leading to mass fandom and back-to-back Emmy Awards. On what gave the impression to be a test-run stand-up tour in early 2023, Goldstein carried out on the Moore as one in every of his only a few US stops to a sold-out viewers and roaring laughter. He has since introduced a full tour throughout the nation, together with his return to Seattle in November. The person is greater than Roy Kent, although, so don’t anticipate him to easily be that character for his stand-up set. With tons of comedy writing chops (together with co-creating and executive-producing Shrinking), Goldstein can maintain his personal as a stand-up comedian with musings on America, being human, and naturally, soccer. SL
Paramount Theatre, Downtown (Fri Nov 1)
Creator Speak: Renee Erickson, Daylight and Breadcrumbs
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You’re almost definitely already acquainted with James Beard Award-winning chef and restaurateur Renee Erickson by way of her fleet of nationally acclaimed Seattle eating places, together with the Walrus and the Carpenter, the Whale Wins, and Bateau. Now, she’s following up her cookbooks—A Boat, a Whale & a Walrus: Menus and Tales and Getaway: Meals & Drink to Transport You—along with her newest launch, Daylight and Breadcrumbs: Making Meals with Creativity and Curiosity. Type of like a model of The Artist’s Approach for meals lovers, the brand new guide tells the story of how Erickson, a former artwork college pupil, reconnected along with her artistic facet via portray, images, ceramics, and cooking. The pages are full of elegant, unfussy recipes like melted anchovy toast, raspberry and pecan crumble cake, and white beans with pork sausage, lemon peel, and inexperienced herbs—which is able to little question encourage you to train your individual creativeness within the kitchen. Erickson will cease by Fremont Abbey for a chat with chef and bestselling creator J. Kenji López-Alt, adopted by a Q&A and signing. JB
Fremont Abbey Arts Middle, Fremont (Wed Sept 25)
The Sound of Seattle with Eva Walker and Jacob Uitti
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So much has been written concerning the Pacific Northwest’s music historical past, however of their new guide, The Sound of Seattle, authors Eva Walker and Jacob Uitti inform the area’s tales via the songs that put it on the map. Walker, vocalist for the Black Tones and a long-time KEXP DJ, and her journalist husband, Uitti, begin their journey within the Nineteen Forties with tunes from Tacoma’s personal Bing Crosby and Garfield Excessive Faculty alum Ernestine Anderson. From there, they journey into the current day—with some stunning pit stops alongside the way in which. Sure, there’s Nirvana and Mudhoney, but in addition the Fartz, the Emerald Road Boys, IMIJ, and Blimes and Gab. On the City Corridor occasion, Walker and Uitti will talk about the previous, current, and way forward for native music with Thunderpussy vocalist Molly Sides, the True Loves guitarist Jimmy James, DJ and emcee Vitamin D, and radio DJ Marco Collins. STRANGER ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR MEGAN SELING
City Corridor Seattle, First Hill (Thurs Sept 26)
Creator Speak: Kristina Cho, Chinese language Sufficient
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I’m a giant fan of Kristina Cho’s James Beard Award-winning debut cookbook, Mooncakes & Milk Bread, which demonstrates methods to flip your kitchen into your private Chinese language bakery with candy and savory recipes like steamed barbecue pork buns, scorching canine flower buns, juicy dumplings, almond cookies, and crackly-topped pineapple buns. (It’s additionally the primary guide of its sort to focus completely on Chinese language bakeries and cafés.) That’s why I’m so excited for her follow-up, Chinese language Sufficient, which revolves round savory dishes that “mix the flavors of conventional Cantonese cooking with California substances and a Midwestern sensibility,” leading to one thing “neither totally Chinese language nor totally American, however Chinese language sufficient.” I’m hungry simply occupied with dishes like San Francisco garlic noodles, miso pork meatballs, creamy tomato udon, smashed ranch cucumbers, and chili crunch salmon rolls, and the chapter on banquet-worthy dishes alone is sufficient to encourage you to plan a Babette’s Feast-level bacchanalian bash. Cho will chat with native baker and Pieometry creator Lauren Ko. JB
E-book Larder, Fremont (Fri Sept 27)
Creator Speak: Tu David Phu, The Reminiscence of Style
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Oakland-raised chef, High Chef alum, and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Tu David Phu, government chef and managing accomplice on the Las Vegas restaurant District One, lower his culinary enamel working in among the nation’s most prestigious eating places. Ultimately, he realized that it was his Vietnamese refugee dad and mom who imparted an important classes, together with however not restricted to “frugality, food-covery cooking, and sensible gill-to-fin consuming.” His new guide The Reminiscence of Style: Vietnamese American Recipes from Phú Quốc, Oakland, and the Areas Between captures this resourceful, pragmatic spirit with childhood reminiscences, tales of his household’s life on Phú Quốc, gorgeous images, and recommendations on all the pieces from fish butchering to whipping up Dungeness crab donburi. He’ll be joined by native creator Susan Lieu, who wrote the heart-wrenching memoir The Manicurist’s Daughter. JB
E-book Larder, Fremont (Mon Sept 30)
Tegan & Sara E-book Tour: Crush
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The celesbian indie pop twin-sister duo Tegan & Sara’s new middle-grade graphic novel, Crush, a follow-up to the earlier installment Junior Excessive, is created in collaboration with queer cartoonist celebrity Tillie Walden and offers with the agony and ecstasy of adolescence, together with crushes, puberty, popping out, sisterhood, music, and friendship. The autobiographical collection, set within the current day, is “calmly fictionalized” however attracts on the Canadian siblings’ actual experiences. As a fan of the sisters’ poignant coming-of-age memoir Excessive Faculty and its Amazon Freevee TV adaptation of the identical identify, I can’t inform you how a lot a guide like this is able to have meant to me as a tween, and I’m so completely happy for the Gen Alpha children who get to develop up with this type of media. Cease by Washington Corridor to see Tegan and Sara communicate on all the pieces from first likes to songwriting. JB
Washington Corridor, Squire Park (Tues Oct 1)
Jenny Slate: LIFEFORM Tour
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Jenny Slate’s identify is in all places, if you recognize the place to look: The comic, actor, and creator performed your favourite character on Parks & Recreation, lent her voice to the character of Missy on Huge Mouth, penned what The Washington Submit referred to as the “carnival of observations” Little Weirds, and co-invented Marcel the Shell, for chrissake. Slate’s recent assortment of “private items,” LIFEFORM, has despatched the multihyphenated creator on an eight-city guide tour, and we’re fortunate sufficient to dwell in one in every of her touchdown spots. MONEY PWEEZE! LC
Neptune Theatre, College District (Thurs Oct 24)
A Dialog with Casey McQuiston
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Bestselling creator Casey McQuiston, the thoughts behind One Final Cease, I Kissed Shara Wheeler, and Pink, White & Royal Blue, has a knack for crafting queer romcoms full of witty banter, scorching chemistry, popular culture references, and beloved tropes. Their newest work, The Pairing, tells the story of Package and Theo, two sexy bisexual exes who coincidentally guide the identical European meals and wine tour and, in an try to show to 1 one other they’re over one another for good, compete to see who can hook up with the most individuals over the course of the holiday. Unsurprisingly, three weeks of sensual meals, wine, and usually slutty habits comply with. McQuiston will cease at Rainier Arts Middle to talk concerning the artwork of capturing LGBTQ+ love on the web page. Higher but, the occasion is on Halloween (aka homosexual Christmas), so costumes, “literary and in any other case,” are strongly inspired. Who is aware of—possibly you’ll have your individual queer meet cute! JB
Rainier Arts Middle, Rainier Valley (Thurs Oct 31)
Jeffry Mitchell: Alligators, Elefants, & Alphabets
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“If Jesus comes again, I’m introducing him to Jeffry Mitchell,” former Stranger author Jen Graves as soon as opined. “Jeffry can deliver Christ up to the mark on issues like humor and gayness and artwork, and Jesus can be ok with what humanity’s been as much as, and collectively they will go to the Berninis in Rome.” The self-proclaimed “homosexual people artist” creates work that’s flatly not possible to not love. It’s playful, human, and elaborate, with a pleasant vitality that nods to the significance of each meticulous craft and self-acceptance. This solo exhibition of Mitchell’s work options sculptural works in clay, neon, and wooden, plus works on paper, which are “foundational” to his detailed course of. LC
Traver Gallery, Downtown (By Sat Sept 28)
Virtually Stay! (Virtually an Exhibit)
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Seattleites of a sure age who make jokes about Ballard residents driving round with their seatbelts hanging out from beneath closed automotive doorways shall be very stoked for the Museum of Historical past and Business’s latest exhibit. Virtually Stay! (Virtually an Exhibit) is a set of props, costumes, and clips from the weekly sketch comedy present that outlined—and poked enjoyable at—the Pacific Northwest area from 1984 to 1999. On Tuesday, September 24, MOHAI will host the Trend Lecture: Virtually Grunge! occasion with Clara Berg, creator of @AlmostStyle on Instagram. STRANGER ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR MEGAN SELING
Museum of Historical past & Business, South Lake Union (By Feb 23, 2025)
A.Okay. Burns: What Is Perverse is Liquid
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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 via movies, sculptures, and installations, highlighting transfeminist points via an imaginative lens. Specializing in Burns’s Destructive House collection, this solo exhibition delves into the artist’s “intersections of landscapes, human our bodies, and water.” The works pull from nonlinear and sci-fi sources to problem the established order. What Is 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 methods for marginalized voices. LC
Henry Artwork Gallery, College District (By Might 4, 2025)
Charles Peterson’s Nirvana: On Pictures and Efficiency
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Charles Peterson’s images of Seattle’s music scene via the late ’80s and early ’90s have lengthy been celebrated as jarring and fascinating snapshots from one of many Pacific Northwest’s most pivotal eras in trendy historical past. However Peterson’s work is about a lot greater than being in the precise place on the proper time. He’s a fucking nice photographer! And this fall, the Tacoma Artwork Museum has curated his work, not simply as important music historical past however because the artworks they honestly are. The present may even function work from artists Sylvia Plachy, Nicholas Galanin, Jeffry Mitchell, and Peterson’s photographer professor, Paul Berger, to “draw out visible and contextual nuances of Peterson’s images.” Intriguing. STRANGER ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR MEGAN SELING
Tacoma Artwork Museum, Tacoma (Oct 5, 2024–Might 25, 2025)
Keith Haring: A Radiant Legacy
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To some, similar to myself, Keith Haring is seen as part of the hiphop tradition that emerged in New York Metropolis within the early ‘80s. He labored with Dondi White, a grasp and founding father of the form of graffiti you discover at the moment in Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, and, sure, Seattle. Certainly, Haring and Dondi did the duvet artwork for Malcolm McLaren’s weird however essentially hiphop album Duck Rock. For a lot of, this cowl launched Haring, whose work was easy however not simplistic, breezy however cosmically vibrant. After which there’s the duvet of McLaren’s Would Ya Like Extra Scratchin’. Right here, now we have nothing however Haring. His chalk-drawn figures popping and locking. You possibly can hear the scratching and slicing. You possibly can see New York Metropolis when it was the capital of the artwork world. Haring will at all times be hiphop to me. STRANGER SENIOR WRITER CHARLES MUDEDE
MoPOP, Uptown (Oct 12, 2024–Mar 23, 2025)
Joyce J. Scott: Stroll a Mile in My Goals
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If you happen to’re not acquainted with 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 ‘additional inch of life’ that nourishes the soul even in probably the most difficult circumstances,” the museum explains. I’m fascinated by how Scott’s distinctive aesthetic imaginative and prescient addresses the racism, sexism, and inequality of the twentieth century and the trendy period via a delicate, usually humorous lens. LC
Seattle Artwork Museum, Downtown (Oct 17, 2024–Jan 19, 2025)
Fischersund: Fake Flora
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Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós launched their first correct album in over a decade final yr—EverOut music calendar editor Audrey Vann described ÁTTA as “cinematic, serene, floaty, and harmonious.” Because it seems, although, lead singer Jónsi’s inventive observe extends past his immediately recognizable falsetto. Alongside his sisters (who make up their family-run artwork collective and perfumery Fischersund), he’ll current Fake Flora, an immersive choice of sculptures, sounds, and scent experiences impressed by Icelandic native flowers. The sensory exhibition imagines new plant species and explores “the scientific relationship between scent and reminiscence.” LC
Nationwide Nordic Museum, Ballard (Nov 8, 2024–Jan 26, 2025)
