On the List: March 17-23

Scene from Under Great White Northern Lights

Tuesday 

  • There will be popcorn! During their 2007 Canadian tour, the White Stripes played a bunch of unconventional venues and captured their performances on film: Under Great White Northern Lights free screening @ the Crocodile

Wednesday 

  • Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s portly and hilarious Jeff Garlin talks about his book My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World @ Town Hall
  • Former Moscow Philharmonic principal conductor Vassily Sinaisky leads the Seattle Symphony in a performance of Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloe @ Benaroya Hall (through March 21)
  • Myrin (Jar City), the Icelandic crime film based on Arnaldur Indriðason‘s crime novel, plays @ the Swedish Cultural Center

Carrie Imler and Lindsi Dec in Vespers. Photo © Angela Sterling

Thursday

  • Opening: Pacific Northwest Ballet presents “3 by Dove” @ McCaw Hall
  • Let your freak-folk flag fly with Devendra Banhart @ the Showbox
  • Poet and Hugo House writer-in-residence Karen Finneyfrock celebrates the release of her newest collection, Ceremony for the Choking Ghost @ Richard Hugo House
  • Soul-funk saxophoner extraordinaire Maceo Parker plays the first of four nights @ Jazz Alley
  • The online-only Seattlepi.com celebrates their first year as a web newspaper with performances by the Lights and free cupcakes @ the Crocodile

Friday

  • Opening: The Two Gentlemen of Verona @ Seattle Shakespeare Company
  • Laws of Attraction brings together Copper Canyon Press poet Emily Warn, author Phillip Lopate, and actress Marya Sea Kaminski, along with Seattle rockers Happy Hour Hero @ UW’s Kane Hall
  • Award-winning local high school jazz bands play the annual Starbucks Hot Java Cool Jazz show @ the Paramount
  • Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, touring off their new album The Brutalist Bricks, make their Seattle stop @ Neumo’s

Saturday

  • Break out the vodka!  Comedienne Chelsea Handler does two sets @ the Paramount

Sunday

  • Start scouring craigslist, join the VIP club, or turning in favors. Metric returns to Seattle, rocking a sold-out show @ Showbox SoDo

Monday

  • Solo long-distance rower Roz Savage talks about rowing across the Atlantic, and her next project, the Pacific @ Benaroya Hall (also Tuesday)
  • Geopolitics expert Charles Emmerson talks about his book The Future History of the Arctic @ Town Hall