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Hide/Seek Tacoma Art Museum : 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. every Wed., Fri., Sat., Sun. from March 17 until June 10
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... More >>
Tacoma	Visual Art, LGBT Events, Arts, Art - Ongoings, Art - Museums

Best Coast The Neptune : 8:00 p.m. May 22
Beach-rocker Bethany Cosentino is touring in support of her highly anticipated second LP, the Jon Brion-produced The Only Place. The rowdy Orrall siblings of Nashville's JEFF the Brotherhood open. ERIN K. THOMPSON More >>
University District	Music

The Washover Fans Musicquarium Lounge : 5:00 p.m. May 17
This quartet fits snugly into Seattle's current musical zeitgeist, playing rootsy music with pretty harmonies. The aren't reinventing any wheels, but the ones they're spinning sound quite lovely. MIKE SEELY More >>
Downtown	Music

Love Battery Lo-Fi Performance Gallery : 9:00 p.m. May 19
The story goes that Love Battery never really fit in with the grunge-era Seattle scene: that their psych-garage rock was too colorful, too Dayglo if you will, for the drab alternative times. I don’t know about that, but it does make them a weird candidate for a revival right now, when... More >>
Eastlake & South Lake Union	Music

Bike to Work Day Various locations : May 18
BIke to Work Day? Not already! Not again! And not the usual excuses, either: no air in your tires, can't find those shorts with the cushiony crotch, all the batteries in your blinky lights are dead. And think of the incentives: Over 40 sponsored stations will be offering swag, food, mechanical... More >>
Downtown	Cycling

KEXP Hood to Hood Sunset Tavern : 9:00 p.m. May 18
Another eclectic bill from some of the city's coolest curators in KEXP pits Wow & Flutter's jumpy indie rock against Grayskul's bubbling rap cauldron before The Redwood Plan's matte Gossip glam takes the stage. The show caps off a long day of festivities in Ballard to celebrate the... More >>
Ballard	Music

Justin Halpern University Book Store : 7:00 p.m. May 22
Okay, so maybe the William Shatner-starring TV adaptation of his book Shit My Dad Says didn't find an audience, but it broke Justin Halpern out of the Twitter-sphere and into sitcom-land. His new memoir I Suck at Girls (HarperCollins, $16.99) edges a little closer to narrative, but it's mainly... More >>
University District	Music, Literary Events

Caliente! Teatro ZinZanni : 5:30 p.m. every Sun. from May 15 until June 10
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... More >>
Queen Anne	Theater, Food & Drink

Rickshaw Restaurant & Lounge Rickshaw Restaurant & Lounge : 9:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m. daily
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... More >>
North Seattle	Music, Cheap Thrills

Venus Karaoke Venus Karaoke : 2:30 p.m. - 2:00 a.m. daily
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... More >>
International District	Music, Food & Drink, Cheap Thrills

First Date ACT Theatre : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. from March 10 until May 20
In this gossamer confection of a new musical, Aaron (Eric Ankrim), a successful young Jewish investment banker, meets the willful artiste-wannabe Casey (Kelly Karbacz) at a local bistro. Around them, the other patrons take on the imaginary guises of those who influence their... More >>
Downtown	Theater

Yen Wor Village Restaurant Yen Wor Village Restaurant : 9:00 p.m. daily
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... More >>
West Seattle	Music, Cheap Thrills

The Pitmen Painters ACT Theatre : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. from April 20 until May 20
Directed by Kurt Beattie, Lee Hall’s endearing hit about English coal miners during the 1930s-’40s who get turned on to art—a true story—is like watching an affecting, informative slideshow with a few duplicate images. These adult self-improvement students ruefully... More >>
Downtown	Theater

Damn Yankees 5th Avenue Theatre : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. from April 21 until May 20
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross' 1955 musical tells of the hapless, inept, cellar-dwelling Washington Senators and their Faustian quest to beat their titular archrivals: Middle-aged fan Joe Boyd (Hugh Hastings) sells his soul to be transformed into Joe Hardy (Christopher Charles Wood), a home-run... More >>
Downtown	Theater

Children of Paradise SIFF Film Center : Daily from May 11 until May 17
What's left to be said about Marcel Carné's towering intimate epic of early 19th-century love and the lives of performers, often heralded as the greatest French film of all time? That Children of Paradise, being shown in a new 4K restoration, was made at all only enhances its legendary... More >>
Queen Anne	Film - Repertory & Special Screenings, Film - Art House, Film

The Gurs Zyklus On the Boards : 8:00 p.m. daily from May 17 until May 20
A lot of composers today—practically every one under 40, and plenty over—spend a lot of self-conscious time and energy on the question of genre-crossing. This means "breaking down barriers" (or however they choose to describe it), writing effortfully funky ostinatos into string... More >>
Queen Anne	Theater

Lauren Weedman Northwest Film Forum : 8:00 p.m. daily from May 17 until May 19
Former Seattleite Lauren Weedman’s comedic prowess continues to turn heads in Hollywood. In addition to stealing scenes as the insatiable Horny Patty on HBO's Hung, she recently won raves as a tough yet needy top chef in The Five-Year Engagement (The New Yorker called her bit... More >>
Capitol Hill	Theater

Ozzie's Restaurant and Lounge Ozzie's Restaurant and Lounge : 9:00 p.m. daily
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... More >>
Queen Anne	Music, Cheap Thrills

Holiday Grand Illusion : 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. May 24
Holiday is a late addition to the GI's Cary Grant tribute, the third of four films pairing him with Katharine Hepburn. The 1938 comedy flips the dynamic of Bringing Up Baby, with Grant the hearty free-thinker and Hepburn the inhibited society girl brought to life by Grant, her sister's... More >>
University District	Film, Film - Repertory & Special Screenings, Film - Art House

Eirik Johnson G. Gibson Gallery : 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. from April 19 until May 26
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,... More >>
Pioneer Square	Visual Art, Photography, Arts, Art Openings & Events, Art - Ongoings, Art - Galleries

Linda's Happy Hour Linda's Tavern : 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. daily
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... More >>
Capitol Hill	Happy Hours, Food & Drink

Reclaimed Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery : 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri. from April 5 until June 1
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... More >>
Downtown	Arts, Environmental, Art - Galleries, Art - Ongoings, Visual Art

James Turrell: Skyspace Henry Art Gallery : 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri.
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... More >>
University District	Visual Art, Arts, Art - Ongoings, Art - Museums

Adrian Paci Seattle Art Museum : 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri.
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... More >>
Downtown	Visual Art, Arts, Art - Ongoings, Art - Museums

Pure Bathing Culture Neumos : 8:00 p.m. May 18
Last year Brooklynites Daniel Hindman and Sarah Verspille, in between tours with Vetiver, for which he plays guitar and she plays keys, moved to Portland and started a dream-pop band called Pure Bathing Culture. Their first single, "Ivory Coast," floats on a breeze of soft synths and reverbing... More >>
Capitol Hill	Music