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