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Tacoma Art Museum :
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. every Wed., Fri., Sat., Sun. from March 17 until June 10
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Hide/Seek is a gay-centric group show organized by the Smithsonian, now on its West Coast tour. The rainbow roster includes heavyweight names like Eakins, O’Keeffe, Rauschenberg, Mapplethorpe, and Warhol. Mostly men, with few up-and-comers here, the exhibit is like a pantheon of Dead...
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Tacoma
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Visual Art, LGBT Events, Arts, Art - Ongoings, Art - Museums |
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Vashon Island's hottest rock band has already had a busy 2012, releasing the raucous Dig Your Grave EP in February, filming two music videos, touring across the country, and having their groupie loving and hard-partying ways touted by The New Yorker. And they're just getting started: in July,...
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Belltown
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Barboza :
8:00 p.m. May 27
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Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart sings in a never-quite-breaking tremble, the
sort of delivery that, say, early Bright Eyes used to telegraph
emotional distress. But Stewart takes things to even more gut-wracking
and theatrically messy extremes, plumbing depths of self-loathing
oversharing that...
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Capitol Hill
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Chop Suey :
9:00 p.m. May 27
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Mixed format DJ nights are one of the pillars of most any healthy hip-hop scene. The usually artist-rich crowd creates an environment that's not only a haven for dancing, but networking, collaborating, and educating. Locally, current in-crowd hangouts like the Capitol Club's Jet Set have...
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Capitol Hill
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If you took the Ian Birk-John Williams shooting and moved it to an island off the coast of Australia, you'd get something akin to the situation explored in Tony Krawitz's superb documentary about the mysterious death of an Aboriginal drunk taken into custody by a white cop on Palm Island. Only...
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Downtown
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Film - Festivals |
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Blair Waldorf's wild adventures in romance on season 5 of Gossip Girl have finally wound down, but that doesn't mean GG star Leighton Meester is taking any breaks. Meester's dabbled in music for years, making pop songs that were a thousand times better than The Roommate but still not noteworthy...
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Downtown
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A violinist of Hilary Hahn's popularity and acclaim could easily be resting on her laurels—content with a very well-remunerated career playing Mendelssohn in Muncie and Sibelius in South Bend, never venturing further afield than, say, an album of Gershwin transcriptions. She didn't have...
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University District
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Opera, Music |
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It starts, like all good things in life, in Kent. There, few Seattle artgoers know, are some large, significant installations you can tour today during the Earthworks Tour Inaugural Bike Ride. Three loops range from a mostly flat 12-miler suitable for families to a hillier 23-mile circuit that...
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Kent
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Visual Art, Tours, Parks & Preserves, Cycling, Arts |
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Do you love Parker Posey, indie movie queen of the '90s? Of course you do. Do you love Dean Wareham, leader of indie bands Galaxie 500, Luna, and Dean & Britta? Again, yes. What if I said you could indulge both these ever-closer-to-40 indie affinities in one short, enjoyable comedy? But here't...
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Capitol Hill
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Whatever the fate of local band Maktub, the future of Reggie Watts is assured. Now based in New York, he's broken out nationally as a near-uncategorizable musician and performer. (Credit Conan O'Brien for having Watts open his post-Tonight Show concert tour in 2010; the accolades soon followed,...
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University District
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Music, Comedy |
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The Woman in the Septic Tank is a cheeky backstage farce of the poverty-film genre frequently exported by developing nations—here, the Philippines. Directed by Marlon Rivera, the film begins in the stench of the Manila slums, as a mother of seven (TV star Eugene Domingo) sets out to sell...
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Downtown
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Film - Festivals |
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This dingy bar in the Admiral Junction represents the roots of karaoke. The Japanese may have invented it, but back in its early days (the mid-80's) here in the states, it was the Chinese restaurant lounges that gave the art form its first home, providing it for drunken crooners seven nights a...
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West Seattle
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Music, Cheap Thrills |
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Henry Art Gallery :
11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. every Wed., Sat., Sun.
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James Turrell's Skyspace stands on two concrete pillars in the Henry's erstwhile sculpture courtyard. On the exterior, thousands of LED fixtures under the structure's frosted glass skin create slowly shifting colors, making the pavilion a spectacular piece of public art every night. Inside, the...
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University District
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Visual Art, Arts, Art - Ongoings, Art - Museums |
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Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery :
7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri. from April 5 until June 1
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Whatever happened to Earth Day? (It's Sunday, April 22—remember?) Established in 1970, in large part owing to Seattle's Denis Hayes, the eco-awareness festival has somewhat faded in public awareness—along with roadside litter and leaded gas. Today, recycling is routine, and the...
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Downtown
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Arts, Environmental, Art - Galleries, Art - Ongoings, Visual Art |
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The appeal of Lower Queen Anne is the idea of something for everyone. It doesn't matter if you're a barely legal frat brother or a 70-year-old karaoke nut, you're either going home with someone's digits, a beautiful stranger, or, at the very least, a good story. Karaoke enthusiasts flock every...
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Queen Anne
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Music, Cheap Thrills |
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You'll find two main varieties of SIFFgoers at the Seattle International Film Festival, now in its 38th year. First are the savvy veterans, passes dangling on lanyards, schedules heavily annotated, iSIFF apps glowing on screen while standing in the short line. They buy their premium passes...
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Downtown
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Venus Karaoke :
2:30 p.m. - 2:00 a.m. daily
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Private karaoke rooms should always be dark and dirty—stained cushions and rickety tables make screaming off-key into a microphone seem perfectly natural. Which is why Venus Karaoke in the International District is the perfect setting for your next songfest. Sure, their equipment crashes...
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International District
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Music, Food & Drink, Cheap Thrills |
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Central Cinema :
Daily from May 25 until May 30
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Cult movies should be mistakes, not intentional. In his 1977 feature debut, there’s no indication that Nobuhiko Obayahshi meant for House to appear—three decades later, to non-Japanese viewers—completely insane. But it is: batshit, Technicolor, fairy-tale-meets-softcore-porn...
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Central District
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Film, Film - Art House, Film - Repertory & Special Screenings |
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G. Gibson Gallery :
11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. from April 19 until May 26
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Returning home from several years Boston, UW-trained photographer Eirik Johnson soon set out for the woods of Oregon. And for the north shore of Alaska. His intent for the images in Camps & Cabins was to document what he calls “cultural and environmental modes of improvisation.” Or,...
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Pioneer Square
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Visual Art, Photography, Arts, Art - Ongoings, Art - Galleries |
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Washington Ensemble Theatre :
Every Mon., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. from May 11 until May 28
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Created by Washington Ensemble Theatre's Noah Benezra and Hannah Victoria Franklin, Bed Snake takes just 70 minutes to work its malevolent magic, all revolving around a slacker who sells his soul for mad microphone skillz and finds himself sucked into the underworld as if via pneumatic tube....
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Capitol Hill
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The Rickshaw Restaurant & Lounge serves greasy Chinese food and American fare, but nobody ever goes there to eat. The establishment is much better known for satisfying folks who’ve got an insatiable appetite for karaoke. It’s packed with singers until closing every night of the...
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North Seattle
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Music, Cheap Thrills |
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Teatro ZinZanni :
5:30 p.m. every Sun. from May 15 until June 10
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Mexico meets Moulin Rouge!. TZZ's new production features a cast rowdier than a pack of college kids on spring in Cancún. The Latin-themed dinner show sounds like a potential disaster, but Caliente! is an epic party well worth the steep cover charge. The storyline is, well, plausible: A...
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Queen Anne
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Theater, Food & Drink |
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Linda's Tavern :
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. daily
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New bars come and go on Capitol Hill, but Linda's Tavern has remained a popular neighborhood staple for 15-plus years. Granted, the once cash-and-beer-only establishment has seen a few changes—most for the good. It now accepts credit cards and houses a full bar and kitchen; and the...
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Capitol Hill
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Happy Hours, Food & Drink |
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McCaw Hall :
Daily from June 2 until June 10
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The danger in promoting a ballet as “family-friendly” is that a chunk of your potential audience will write it off as “kid stuff.” But Pacific Northwest Ballet's production of Coppélia, is not like Trix cereal—it isn’t just for kids. The work, with one...
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Queen Anne
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Seattle Art Museum :
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. every Wed., Sat., Sun.
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Some downtown office workers may feel deterred from merely browsing at SAM because of, well, the ticket price. If there's not some big marquee show to see, wandering at random through the galleries doesn't seem a good value. But for the cost of absolutely nothing, if you have 45 minutes to...
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Downtown
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Visual Art, Arts, Art - Ongoings, Art - Museums |
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