On the List: March 9-15

Wednesday, March 9th

• A night of DJs and electro, starring Simian Mobile Disco, The Juan Maclean, and Blondes @ Neumo’s
• Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour (SPOILER, the “surprise” probably isn’t Jeff Mangum. OR IS IT?) @ Vera Project
• “Merce in Three” parts celebrates choreographer Merce Cunningham @ Northwest Film Forum

Thursday, March 10th

• An eclectic and excellent lineup: Diamond Rings (electroglam confessionals) and PS I Love You (Canadian yelpcore duo) @ Vera Project
• Sarah Michelson’s Devotion opens @ On the Boards
• Seattle rock photographer extraordinaire turns his lens away from the stage and immortalizes a few glimpses of the fans @ Paramount
• It’s an evening of colorful looks for spring with Kate Spade design director Sharon Lombardo @ Nordstrom Bellevue
• Second Thursday brings another helping of Blitz, including a new Wallrus animation installation  @ Capitol Hill Arts Walk
• Orkestar Zirconium welcomes (“the other”) Nick Cave’s sculpture exhibition, Meet Me at the Center of the Earth  @ Seattle Art Museum 

Friday, March 11th

• Spend a couple days with sexy screen siren Catherine Deneuve and her oeuvre @ SIFF Cinema
• Mad Rad and Truckasaurus make noise for the needy @ Neumo’s
• Dan Mangan, Vancouver’s entry into the Arts & Crafts stable crosses the border @ Sunset Tavern
• Ballard warms up for Austin with a SXSW pre-funk featuring Cobirds Unite @ Tractor Tavern
• Freeze to death in the snow with Brown Derby’s take on The Shining @ Re-bar
• Seattle Symphony’s Baroque & Wine is back with “Songs of Cleopatra” (also Saturday) @ Benaroya Hall
• Poet Nathaniel Mackey reads from From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate: Volumes 1-3 @ Northwest African American Museum
• Dance Contemporary presents Timothy Lynch, Karen Grady-Brown, Anne Motl, Joseph Schanbeck, and DC choreographer Tesee George @ the Erickson Theater Off Broadway

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Saturday, March 12th

• It’s the DC emo reunion you’ve been pining for, with the Dismemberment Plan @ Showbox SoDo
• The Seattle Jewish Film Festival (running through the 20th) kicks off for reals with The Human Resources Manager @ Pacific Place
• In the final round of this year’s Battle of the Bands, the audience helps to determine which one of these regional finalists will be crowned the winner and go on to compete to play the Hard Rock Calling festival in London: Fox and the Law, Goodnight Argent, or Shotty @ the Hard Rock
• Free afternoon screening of Congolese war family reunion documentary Pushing the Elephant @ the Frye Art Museum
• Dust off your zaniest costume: Head Like a Kite are having a masquerade ball with Atomic Bombshells @ Neumo’s
• Beekeeping 201 gets you up to speed on staring your hive @ the Good Shepherd Center
• “Handel’s Divas” is part of a month-long celebration of Handel @ Queen Anne Christian Church

Sunday, March 13th

• GOD is touring Japan, but not before playing the local version of K’s Dream, a.k.a. @ Chop Suey
• Diver and freshwater-conservation advocate Kenny Broad takes you to the underwater caves of the Bahamas @ Benaroya Hall
• The Greek film Dogtooth is both hilarious and perverse, says the critics and you can catch it (through March 17) @ Grand Illusion
• MvB’s favorite bee-movie Queen of the Sun has its last show (at 5:15 p.m.) @ Northwest Film Forum
• FREE! Rob Mermin tells the tales of “CIRCLE OF SAWDUST: The Mud, Myth, Mayhem and Magic of Circus!” @ the School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts
• Orchestra Seattle and Seattle Chamber Singers throw down some Handel themselves @ the First Free Methodist Church

Monday, March 14th

• What more can one say? Maya Angelou @ the Paramount
• James Gleick talks about how information defines you @ Town Hall
• Mumblecore goes noir with Aaron Katz’s Portland mystery Cold Weather (through the 17th) @ Northwest Film Forum

Tuesday, March 15th

• The first of two sold-out nights with mash-up master Girl Talk @ Showbox SoDo
• When a problem comes along, you must DEVO @ the Moore
• Marnie Stern schools the kids on how to shred the guitar @ Vera Project
• “Learn all about this new, local trend in beekeeping top bar hives” @ the Good Shepherd Center
• Seattle Science Lectures presents Sara Wheeler and her notes from the Arctic Circle @ Town Hall