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Musical Chairs

Three planets change signs as we sprint into a lively month.

So Rickety

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So Rickety

Remembering the fleeting, neglected fancy of the Seattle Center Fun Forest amusement park.

BAD BOY COMIX: SECRET HANDSHAKE FOR BOYS ONLY (WITH PICTURES)

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BAD BOY COMIX: SECRET HANDSHAKE FOR BOYS ONLY (WITH PICTURES)

Ever wonder what’s going on when boys greet each other? Wonder no more.

John Cornicello

Arts & Culture

Grand Concourse and the Limits of Care

Seattle Public Theatre engages with one end of homelessness while missing the other.

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Loud Mouth Lit Takes Readings to an Aurora Sports Bar

Paul Mullin’s reading series is for fighters ready to get a little uncomfortable.

Digable Planets

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The Top 15 Things to Do This Week

If you’re cool like that, catch Digable Planets, a Seattle award winning film by way of Russia, and…

Performance intervention by Dana Claxton during Jaleh Mansoor’s talk “Marshall Plan Modernism,” as part of Red May. Photo by Hami Bahadori

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Notes on Red May

The month-long leftist festival offers interesting perspectives on art and politics–but who is showing up?

Photo by Conner Lyons

Music

The Radical Vulnerability of Hoop’s Soft Rock

The Seattle four-piece are the ‘anti-Metallica,’ but their new album is heavy in its own way.

The ghost sharks are neat, though.

Film

In the Fifth ‘Pirates of the Caribbean,’ Dead Men Tell Old Tales

The latest in the Disney series is a showy summer rehash.

Illustration by Taylor Dow

Arts & Culture

Choose Your Own Adventure

A new moon in Gemini wants you to choose with your heart.

Photo by Agatha Pacheco

Music

Six Years Later, Seattle Still Loves Fleet Foxes

The band’s long-awaited return at the Showbox was met with a rapt, adoring crowd.

The Young Karl Marx. Courtesy Diaphana Films

Film

A Bookish Movie Buff’s Guide to SIFF

All the SIFF films with literary pedigrees your heart could ever desire.

Maybe She’s Born With It, Maybe It’s Unpaid Reproductive Labor

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Maybe She’s Born With It, Maybe It’s Unpaid Reproductive Labor

Satpreet Kahlon’s curatorial debut inspects the devaluation of handicraft and motherhood.

Barfin’ With Garf

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Barfin’ With Garf

Garf’s gotten sloppy again and had a few too many.

Seattle Cemetery

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Seattle Cemetery

Even in death, municipal pride shines through.

Au Collective Invites Everyone Into the Dance World

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Au Collective Invites Everyone Into the Dance World

With the credo “You can’t be what you can’t see,” the group is taking on Eurocentrism via accessibility.

Sifting Through SIFF

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Sifting Through SIFF

The best of the upcoming enormous film fest.

The Latest Issue of ‘PageBoy’ Invites Writers to Write About Writers They Love

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The Latest Issue of ‘PageBoy’ Invites Writers to Write About Writers They Love

Writing about writing can be tedious, but here the exercise is invigorating.

Seattle Opera’s Magic Flute. Photo by Philip Newton

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The Top 15 Things to Do This Week

See the Opera’s fancy new costumes, celebrate Hardly Art’s 10th birthday, and more.

Illustration by Taylor Dow

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Twin Peeks

So long, Taurus. Let Gemini season begin!