Music
Record Store Day’s Best Confusing Exclusive Releases
From Toto’s Africa on an Africa picturedisc to Prince’s “Batdance,” we present the best of the weird.
Music
MoPop’s 2017 Pop Conference Gets Political
Academic music types will gather to chat about house music, tunes in the Reagan and Obama eras, and…
Arts & Culture
The Translator Poems of Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
‘Water & Salt’ is a book that spans the globe, from Seattle to Jordan and back again.
Eat Drink Toke
‘Thundercrack,’ Sativa, and Robot Hands With Collide-O-Scope
The duo behind Re-bar’s outlandish video mash-ups gives us a personal screening.
Film
The Plot-Free ‘Free Fire’
Ben Wheatley’s latest strips the action genre of all but its violent core.
Arts & Culture
Keiko Green’s ‘Nadeshiko’ Explores the Nuanced History of Idealized Japanese Beauty
Flitting between WWII Japan and the present-day U.S., the play connects the dots of a sterotype.
Arts & Culture
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Latest Program Adapts and Redeploys Numbers From Musical Theater
Ballet meets Broadway.
Arts & Culture
From Madam Damnable’s Hotel to Profanity Hill, a New Guide Walks You Through Seattle History
‘Seattle Walks’ outlines 17 walkable routes that reveal segments of this city’s past.
Arts & Culture
The Top 15 Things to Do This Week
March for science, check out a super-heavy Bulgarian folk choir, and much more.
Arts & Culture
Caché’s Townhouse of Horror
At Gallery4Culture, three artists realize Seattle’s real-estate nightmare.
Arts & Culture
We’re in Taurus Territory
The bull’s out of the pen! Taurus charges ahead while Pluto turns retrograde and planets switch signs.
Comix
Tall Tales of the Emerald City: Dr. Linda Hazzard’s Miracle Cure
In the early 1900’s, an eerie Olalla, WA quack doctor’s starvation diets killed countless believers.
Arts & Culture
The Top 15 Things to Do This Week
See Of Montreal (twice), catch a battle of the beats, heal the “ideological divide” and more.
Arts & Culture
The Art of the Dull
If artists truly hope to resist Trumpism, they must confront the ways they’re already failing.
Music
On ‘Being Here Is Hard,’ Whitney Ballen Sings the Existential Blues
“It’s not a happy album at all.”
Arts & Culture
Ballard Artists Walk Out on Art Walk
The community is creating its own independent art walk after a rift with the Chamber of Commerce.
Arts & Culture
Hari Kunzru’s ‘White Tears’ Wittily Takes on American Racism
Will upset folks be able to make it past the title? Find out at the Elliott Bay Book…
Arts & Culture
‘Ghosts of Seattle Past’ Is Chicken Soup for the Cynical Seattleite Soul
For those angry with our rapidly developing city, this book will remind you what we’re fighting for.
Arts & Culture
In ‘Dear Sarah,’ Ayana V Jackson Fights Photography with Photography
The artist’s portraits at Mariane Ibrahim Gallery are acts of countervisuality.