Recent Stories with tag onthelist

Wednesday, February 2nd

• From the director of Cinema Paradiso, Baaria runs through Thursday @ SIFF Cinema
• Rain City Tales & Tunes presents the roots music of Coyote Grace and "Bitter Single Guy" Greg Brisendine at their radio-show taping @ Empty Sea Studios
• The Get Up Kids redeem emo @ Neumo's
• Read silently in the company of Christopher Frizzelle and others @ the Sorrento

Thursday, February 3rd

• Soul songstress Bettye Lavette funks it up through Saturday @ Jazz Alley
• On-air personality is explored in Babs the Dodo (runs through Feb. 14) @ Washington Ensemble Theatre
• Paula Vogel's Pulitzer-winning How I Learned to Drive opens @ Downstage Theatre
• Paul Budraitis's (IN)STABILITY opens @ On the Boards
• Siberian virtuoso violinist Vadim Repin plays Symphonie espagnole with Seattle Symphony (also Feb. 5 & 6) @ Benaroya Hall
• Conor Grennan talks about Nepal's trafficked children @ Town Hall
• The Dutch film The Indian touches on cross-cultural adoption @ the Northwest Film Forum

Friday, February 4th

• Our friends at Sound on the Sound presents Ivan & Alyosha's CD release show, along with Curtains For You and If Bears Were Bees @ Columbia City Theater
• Against Me! sells out (or do they?), with local tattoo aficionado Fences @ Neumo's
• The Satori Group presents nationally recognized comedy duo The Bengsons @ the Satori Loft
• Vincent Delaney's 3 Screams opens @ Theatre off Jackson
• A concert dedicated to the memory of local pianist Tricia Woods @ Good Shepherd Center
• Travis Hay's Guerilla Candy celebrates their official launch party (hosted by Brent Amaker) with Hounds of the Wild Hunt, Hot Bodies in Motion, Hobosexual, and My Goodness @ the High Dive
• With Schubert, Britten, and Shostakovich, there's some chamber music for everyone @ Benaroya Hall

Casper Babypants plays last week's Children's Film Festival opening party @ NWFF

Saturday, February 5th

• The Sci-fi on Blu-ray series brings Serenity and Starship Troopers @ SIFF Cinema
• Grand Hallway pop orchestras it up with Birds & Batteries @ Chop Suey
• Indie rockers Mal de Mer celebrate their debut 7" release @ the Sunset Tavern
• Buñuel and Dali's L'Age d'or will freak your shit out @ the Grand Illusion
• Nouveau cabaret exponents the Can Can Castaways present their newest, SHOW PONY @ the Can Can
• Kids! Caspar Babypants plays @ the Mount Baker Clubhouse
• Simple Measures performs the music of Significant Others (Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, and more) @ Kenyon Hall 
• Tamale-making classes @ El Centro de la Raza...

Solar panels will be added to Woodland Park Zoo's historic carousel this month in partnership with Seattle City Light. Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo

Wednesday, January 19th

• Crocodiles aptly play @ the Croc
• The Academy of Burlesque introduces the curious to the "Art of the Tease," a 2-hour workshop @ HaLo (500 E. Pike)
• Children of the Rain: A Night of Seattle Stories is a six-monologuist benefit show (Matt Smith, David Schmader, Keira McDonald, Troy Mink, Tina Rowley, Suzanne Morrison) @ Theatre Off Jackson
• The film Craneway Event (shot in the craneway of an abandoned Ford car factory overlooking San Francisco Bay) is a glimpse of choreographer Merce Cunningham's art @ NWFF

Thursday, January 20th

• Check out Low Vs Diamond lead singer Lucas Field trying out new solo material in his weekly January and February Thursday residency @ the Laadla Bar
• The FRED Wildlife Refuge opens with "Stay-Cation," a collaboration by artists Jason Wood and Sean M. Johnson @ FRED Wildlife Refuge 
• Celtic singer Colleen Raney holds a CD release party for her second album, Lark @ the Fremont Abbey
• The Women's Funding Alliance presents the panel discussion "In Our Own Backyard: A Closer Look at the Sex Trafficking of Local Girls" @ Town Hall
• Jeff Huston's abandonedsystems @ Project Space Available
• INCONCEIVABLE! Wallace Shawn is interviewed by Sean Nelson @ the Sorrento
• Otto Premingerfest! continues with Where the Sidewalk Ends @ SAM
• Spidermann, a musical opening and closing before Julie Taymor's Broadway monstrosity even opens @ the Satori Group's Loft

Friday, January 21st

• "Architecture 101: Windows on Seattle Style" is a 2-hour walking tour that starts @ SAF Gallery
• Hide your kids, hide your wife. Crispin Hellion Glover is in town for four nights, screening films and giving his trademark crazy slideshow @ NWFF
• The Thermals whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh @ Neumo's
• David Mamet's November @ New City Theatre
• The Bridge Project @ Velocity Dance Center
• Sage and Sons of Mothers @ Chop Suey
• It's Steve Zakuani's Birthday Bash @ the Vera Project
• John Beebe, MD is a Jungian, so he's qualified to talk about trauma and creativity @ the Good Shepherd Center...

SunBreak Flickr pool superuser Slightlynorth was at Qwest Field last weekend. Jealous?

Wednesday, January 12th

• It's a veritable cavalcade of local pop bands with Let's Get Lost, Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground, Exohxo, and Ravenna Woods @ Neumo's
• Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of the Emperor of All Maladies (among the New York Times' "5 best nonfiction books of 2010"), talks cancer history @ Town Hall (Great Hall)
• CANCELED: Eric Alterman explains that liberals will continue to be disappointed in Obama until we have more civic engagement @ Town Hall (downstairs) 

Thursday, January 13th

•  Friends of Emmet rock to raise suicide prevention awareness @ Tacoma Community College Student Center, while Kris Orlowski, Passenger String Quartet, and Star Anna raise money for Climate Solutions @ Triple Door
• First of two nights of 1928 black-and-white F.W. Murnau classic Sunrise with live score by cellist Lori Goldston @ NWFF
• Otto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon gets a screening @ SAM
• It's Blitz @ Capitol Hill Arts Walk
• Polish director Radoslaw Rychcik's stunning plat-cum-punk-concert In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields @ On the Boards
• Artifakt Art brings street art and music to Cap Hill for first Thursday @
• "Jan Steen is a hoot" is the terrific title of a talk by Rebecca Albiani on the Dutch painter @ the Frye Art Museum
• Almost Female: A Jockette's Awesome Journey opens @ Upstage Theater

Meanwhile, Flickr superuser Chris Blakely brought in the New Year with Orkestar Zirkonium. Jealous?

Friday, January 14th

• SIFF is back from winter vacation with Soderbergh-directed Spalding Gray doc And Everything is Going Fine @ SIFF Cinema
• Sound on the Sound's 4th annual birthday bash with pseudonymous The Allman Butters, super cover group The Petty Party, Pickwick, and Kelli Schaefer @ the Blue Moon
• More local rock, just not in birthday format when the Quiet Ones & Skeletons with Flesh On Them play @ the Croc
• Weekend 2 of 14/48: The World's Quickest Theater Festival @ ACT Theatre
• Ghost Light Theatricals' Metamorphosis opens @ the Ballard Underground...



Wednesday, September 15th

• Take your mama out to Scissor Sisters @ Showbox SoDo
• A couple more nights with cinematic BFFrenemies Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski in Aguirre, The Wrath of God @ the Grand Illusion
• CityClub discusses the local impacts of Seattle's international healthcare with Thomas Hansen, CEO of Seattle Children’s Hospital, and David Fleming, Seattle/King Co. Public Health director @ Town Hall
• Weigh in on the Central Waterfront design finalist presentations @ Benaroya Hall

Thursday, September 16th

• Celebrate the restaurant's 13th birthday with $13 entrees (with purchase of an appetizer or dessert) @ Maximilien
• If ever there's a time to do the Puyallup, it has to be for Willie Nelson and the Family, right? @ the Fair
• The combo of Kele (of Bloc Party) and Does It Offend You, Yeah? guarantee an intense night @ Chop Suey
• The French Project encamp for a weekend of zany live culture mashing performances @ Northwest Film Forum

Friday, September 17th

• It's a lovely night of Danish orchestral pop of Efterklang @ Chop Suey
• Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead's new show, My State of the Union @ Theatre Off Jackson
• The Stranger crowns a new crop of geniuses, with entertainment by Emerald City Soul Club and Shabazz Palaces (who play at their own coronation) @ the Moore
• Seattle Dance Project's Project Orpheus, plus new choreographic works by Wade Madsen, Eva Stone, and Olivier Wevers, opens @ ACT Theatre
• Sleepy little Wallingford hosts the Wurst Festival all weekend and tonight's entertainment is BottleRockit, "Northwest's rockbluespopcountrysurf party band" @ St. Benedict School...

Wednesday, September 8th

• Not a bad lineup for a Wednesday, with The Walkmen and The Helio Sequence @ Showbox
• Get there early and avoid the lines at the first night of the symphony's Beethoven and Wine Festival (through the 10th) @ Benaroya Hall
• I know we just had a long Labor Day weekend of music, but that shouldn't keep you from the one-two party punch of Let's Wrestle and Man Man @ Neumo's
• That Broadway musical project was a joke; so the kids will have no choice but to behold the intensity of Ted Leo and the Pharmacists @ the Vera Project
• Stimulate Dance performs a site-specific performance as part of ArtSparks @ Occidental Park

Thursday, September 9th

Daliantaie McNeil, getting ready to appear with Seattle Arts and Lectures

• It's the second Thursday of the month, which means it's Blitz @ Capitol Hill Art Walk
• Solo performer Stokeley Towles continues his exploration of our public systems with Trash Talk: The Social Life of Garbage @ New City Theatre
• Catch a train to Portland to fill the Bumbershoot-sized hole in your heart with two citywide festivals just south of the border @ Musicfest Northwest & Time-Based Art Festival
• Only one night to catch Louis CK's new stand-up film Hilarious (Audrey's Sundance review here) @ Central Cinema
• Yes, his height is probably below average for a Swede, but the Tallest Man On Earth picks up the torch that gravelly Dylan dropped in Memorial Stadium this weekend and runs with it @ Neumo's

Friday, September 10th

• Sold out: It's Billy and a bunch of other dudes going by the name Smashing Pumpkins @ Showbox SoDo
• Check out the craggy folk of A.A. Bondy and the introspective lyrics of JBM @ Tractor
• Or, wait for Portland to come to you: Menomena @ Showbox
• Opening: Strawberry Theatre Workshop's Breaking the Code @ the Erickson Theatre
• Digital restoration of The Bridge on the River Kwai (through Sept. 12) @ SIFF Cinema

Saturday, September 11th

• Celebrate Patsy Cline's birthday with two shows of Sweet Dreams, Patsy Cline covers by some of the top Northwest singer-songwriter ladies, including Star Anna, Rachel Flotard, Kristen Ward, Kim Vivrant, and Victoria Wimer-Contreras @ Triple Door
• The National's albums were made for cool autumn evenings; bundle up and enjoy them with Okkervil River @ Marymoor
• If you like surreal British humor of The Mighty Boosh, be sure to stop by and see Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman @ the NWFF...

Wednesday, August 18th

• Lenny White's Anomaly with Jimmy Herring--former Miles Davis/Chick Corea/Return to Forever drummer teaming up with Widespread Panic/Allman Bros. guitarist Jimmy Herring for a jazz/rock/fusion extravaganza @ Jazz Alley
• "Crystal Beth," a solo performance by Beth Fleenor benefiting the Frank Agency @ Fandrich Piano Studio (1513 14th Ave.)
• The Hold Steady, America's favorite big time bar band, bring boisterous literate rock to town. With Jaill @ Showbox Original Flavor
• Mary Roach talks about the finer points of filling your suitcase for interplanetary travel, reading from her new book Packing for Mars @ Kane Hall

Thursday, August 19th

• The first of three nights of Brown Derby's take on Saturday Night Fever @ Re-Bar
• Earshot Jazz's monthly showcase features Art of Jazz with Marc Seales Group, UW professor and stellar pianist Marc Seales & co. playing music from the new CD American Song Book @ SAM
• Gnomedex 10 begins! (and runs through August 21) @ Bell Harbor International Conference Center
• Ivory in Ice World plays a rare unplugged set featuring members Ivory Smith and Sara Edwards @ the Can Can
• Singer David Lowery does double-duty with his bands Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven @ Neumo's

Friday, August 20th

• Squeee! It's the top ten contestants from the last season of American Idol @ Key Arena
• Two in the Wave documents the friendship-and-feudin' of Truffaut and Godard (through August 26) @ Northwest Film Forum
• Whedonists! Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog gets a live showing (through September 4) @ Balagan Theatre
• deComposition, a devised theatrical performance directed by Jess Smith opens @ the Erickson Theatre
• Artifakt Art's Fourth Annual Graffiti Jam @ Lo Fi Performance Gallery

Saturday, August 21st

• Be prepared for some serious weirdness with a private meet-and-greet with Tommy Wiseau @ Central Cinema, before yet another midnight screening of The Room @ the Egyptian
• For a less weirdo auteur interaction, check out the Vincent Moon retrospective (through the 26th), with the director of some of the best modern music videography in attendance @ Northwest Film Forum
• Whether you call him Frank Black or Black Francis, the Pixies singer will be @ the Triple Door
• Ira Glass tells his radio stories in a clipped, nasally manner @ Benaroya
• After Ira takes Benaroya with sentimental tales, he and Dan Savage spin (really?!) a late night dance party @ Re-Bar
• Get rootsy all day long [free 26-song sampler here] with No Depression Fest @ Marymoor
• FREE! Trumpeter Thomas Marriott and his "Flexicon" group, with Evan Flory-Barnes, Rick Mandyck and Jeremy Jones @ Lucid Jazz Lounge...

A previous Blitz Capitol Hill Art Walk scene, courtesy of TSB Flickr pool member JeanineAnderson

Wednesday, August 11th

• One last night for grocery-bagging competition doc Ready, Set, Bag! @ Central Cinema
• Daytime baseball, Mariners vs. A's @ Safeco Field

• UMAMI Performance's dance work home | bodies through Sunday @ INSCAPE
• If you listen to The Mountain, you'll like Western Australia's folk-rocking The Waifs @ the Triple Door
• Andy Butler brings his dancey Hercules & Love Affair project together with a live band @ Neumo's

Thursday, August 12th

• Hope you already have tickets to get retro with Blondie and the B-52s @ Chateau Ste. Michelle
• Second Thursday means it's Blitz @ Capitol Hill Art Walk
• Chromeo and Holy Ghost should be extra fun. Probably why the Green Label Sounds' show is already sold out @ Showbox
• Former Tonight Show bandleader Kevin Eubanks (through the 15th) @ Jazz Alley
• Contemporary Classics' The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee starts its closing weekend @ the Ballard Underground

Friday, August 13th

• KEXP's free outdoor concert series continues with tunes from hot hot hip hoppists State of the Artist, Noddy, and recently renamed Brite Futures @ the Mural Amphitheatre 
• Check out a reading, book signing, and musical presentation for Talking 'Bout a Revolution: Music and Social Change in America with ex-Journeymen and author Dick Weissman @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• Get all dolled up and head to the track for ladies-only Hats and Heels Night @ Emerald Downs
• Vancouver's Irish, Mexican & roots musical wonders, The Paperboys, hold a multi-culti hootenanny @ the Triple Door
• You love them in commercials of all sorts, see Melbourne's the Temper Trap selling nothing but their own tunes @ the Showbox
• More Mexican guitarists by way of Ireland?! Yes, please. If they were making Once about a couple who rocked their guitars as hard as acoustically possible, Rodrigo y Gabriela would've been the stars. Find yourself in awe of them @ Marymoor Park
• Irrealist Theatre opens Amniotes: an imaginary History of the End of the World from 1954-20XX @ Free Sheep Foundation (2115 5th Avenue)...

Joanna Newsom, harp not pictured (Photo: Annabel Mehran)

Last-minute Tuesday, August 3rd

• Neighborhood block parties should be popping up all around the city as part of SPD's "Seattle Night Out" program @ blocked-off streets near your home / Capitol Hill
• The Mariners, coming off the worst July in franchise history, could use some cheering and hugs when they return home against first-place Texas @ Safeco Field

Wednesday, August 4th

• Joanna Newsom, her harp, and Robin Pecknold sing, strum, and maybe play a Kid Rock [?!] cover @ the Moore
• Paco Jones and a trio of other acts rock @ the Comet
• Rick Moody reads from The Four Fingers of Death ("Mash up Isaac Asimov with Thomas Pynchon, with dashes of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut") @ Elliott Bay Book Co.

Thursday, August 5th

• First Thursday means art walking @ Pioneer Square
• It's a very special happy hour, featuring a free cello recital by the Seattle Symphony's Acting Principal Cellist Eric Gaenslen, followed by the first performance in years (!) from Wonderful @ Havana
• The Seattle Storm--the best pro women's hoops team in the world, undefeated at home this year--host Connecticut @ KeyArena
• Rafe Esquith is all "WON'T SOMEONE LIGHT THE CHILDREN ON FIRE?" @ Seattle Central Public Library

Friday, August 6th

• Throughout the month of August, KEXP presents a series of free after-work concerts at the Mural Amphitheater. The series kicks off at 6 p.m. ("doors" at 5) with Elliott Brood, Grand Hallway, and Gabriel Mintz @ Seattle Center
• Two One of baseball's top young pitchers @ Safeco Field: Zach Greinke of the Royals.
• Ex-Gay, No Way author Jallen Rix defenestrates the idea that being gay is a phase @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• The First Annual "Seafarer Follies" brings an aquatic cabaret guest starring Waxie Moon as King Neptune to an adoring public (also Saturday) @ the Triple Door

The irrepressible Amelia Reeber, one of the choreographers presenting new work at Velocity Dance Center's Strictly Seattle this Friday and Saturday. Photo by Tim Summers.

Wednesday, July 28th

• Gentlemen may prefer them, but legendary Portugese director Manoel de Oliveira dives deeper in Eccentricities of a Blond Haired Girl @ Northwest Film Forum
• Sounders take on Metapan of El Salvador in their first-ever CONCACAF Champions League came @ Qwest Field
• Eric Jay Dolin covers Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America @ UW Bookstore
• Before they play a 21+ show at Neumo's, check out We Are Scientists @ Sonic Boom Capitol Hill

Thursday, July 29th

• Let's Do It Again!: Another Night of Sex Worker Made Media is pretty much what it sounds like @ Northwest Film Forum
• The U.S. Senior Open tees off at the ass-crack of dawn @ Sahalee Country Club
• Quote along with Anchorman @ Central Cinema
• Now that Vitaminwater Social Club has finally vacated the premises, things can get back to normal, with City Arts' Off Hours reading series, in which writers present new works @ Sole Repair
• For one night only, Elvis hasn't left the building, thanks to the screening of some never-before-seen footage from 1972 in Elvis on Tour @ Pacific Place
• Toad the Wet Sprocket (still a band!) transport you back to 1991 via nostalgia; openers Hey Marseilles take you around the world via smile-inducing videos and maximalist orchestral pop @ the Moore
• Check out some short films care of Pacific Northwest filmmakers in Tall Beers, Short Shorts @ Re-bar

Friday, July 30th

• Human Prop's Summer Invasion is closing down after this Friday's performance @ Odd Duck/Eclectic Theatre
• Strictly Seattle, Velocity's annual summer dance festival, opens for three performances starting Friday @ Velocity Dance Center
• Her Mother Was Imagination, a new work by local playwright Elizabeth Heffron, opens @ Annex Theatre
• Meet up with Austin indie film hellraisers Bob Ray and Chad Holt when they screen Total Badass with CrashToons @ Central Cinema
• It's "Women of Inspiration" Night when the WNBA-leading Storm play Chicago @ KeyArena.
• The Yellow Wood continues its critically praised run @ the Center House Theatre
• Neumos, Chop Suey, The Morgue, and The Comet get taken over all weekend by metal/punk/hardcore mini-fest @ Hunting Parties
• The summer edition of 14/48: The World's Quickest Theatre Fest opens @ Theatre off Jackson...

There's Shakespeare and more in Seattle parks each weekend. Here's a round-up.

Wednesday - July 21st

• The morally ambiguous tale of Rudolf Kasztner, the Jew who negotiated with Eichmann to save his kinsmen, is on display in a new doc, Killing Kasztner, through Thursday @ NWFF
• Learn to win with The Coach! Pete Carroll reads from his new book Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion @ Town Hall
• Miniature Tigers bring their undeniably catchy pop to a tour kick-off show with the Spinto Band @ the High Dive
• Author Doug Dorst reads from his short story collection (of damaged people called) The Surf Guru @ Elliott Bay Book Co.

Thursday - July 22nd

• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a new musical, continues its run @ the Ballard Underground Theatre
• Fresh farm products meet big outdoor art for weekly markets @ Olympic Sculpture Park
• Unlike Roger Ebert, Tom Bissell argues that video games matter @ UW Bookstore
• Holy Fuck kicks heads up the Capitol Hill Block Party pre-party planning committee with a free show in Belltown @ the Crocodile
• Mel Brooks' true-life Western epic Blazing Saddles begins a pizza-and-beer run (through July 28) @ Central Cinema

Friday - July 23rd

• Human Prop, late-night comedy @ the Odd Duck Theatre
• The Capitol Hill Block Party takes over several blocks of Pike Street for a three day music festival weekend @ chbp
• Boogeymen are real, at least in the child abduction documentary Cropsey @ NWFF
• The Yellow Wood, another new musical theatre show @ the Center House Theatre
• It's the third and final night for the genre-twisting flamenco/jazz/bossa nova/Hindu meditation music of Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negra @ Triple Door
• Did you know that Big Head Todd and the Monsters still exist? Did you know that they just released a new album, Rocksteady? Will wonders never cease? They've got a show @ the Moore

Saturday - July 24th

• DJs spin Bollywood beats @ the Crocodile
• Get down with some sustainable music and culture at the GreenNote Festival @ Seattle Center
• Enjoy some outdoor shopping at the new outdoor market @ Occidental Park
• Check out a special advance screening of locally-made drama Hollow @ SIFF Cinema
• Meanwhile, there are outdoor movies a plenty: War Games @ West Seattle Outdoor Movies, Zoolander @ Fremont Outdoor Movies, and Moulin Rouge @ Carillon Point Outdoor Movie Nights...

Kylie Lewallen and Olivier Wevers' feet in a shot from "Coquette," Whim W'Him's burlesque turn as part of the Triple Door's Bastille Day show. Photo by La Via Photography.

NB: Through July 17th, enjoy sweet sweet alcohol (or coffee) with part of the proceeds going to the Vera Project @ Drink for the Kids various drinking establishments around town.

Wednesday - July 14

• As the photo up top indicates, le sexy among you will enjoy "L'Edition Française" @ the Triple Door
• Adventure School presents a Bastille Day Fête @ Corson Building
• It's Science! It's Art! Author Rob Mitchell talks about the exciting new field of bioart @ Town Hall
• For a counter-Bastille Day event, Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube are @ the Paramount

Thursday - July 15

• Cataldo (Eric Anderson and friends) play warm fuzzy pop songs suitable for campfires or picnics, some of which are about vampires. With Loch Lomond and Kyle Bradford @ the Crocodile
• FREE: Stanford University professor Gordon H. Chang talks about his book Asian American Art: A History (1850-1970), with Seattle writer Kazuko Nakane, artist Roger Shimomura, and writer/artist Alan Chong Lau @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• Catch Singing in the Rain or an '80s and '90s music singalong @ Central Cinema
• It took a while, but soul singer Bettye LaVette is now a star.  See why for one night only @ Jazz Alley

Friday - July 16

• The "From the Land of the Midnight Sun" film collection opens (and runs through the 18th), including Package Deals: Finland, the documentaries Helsinki Forever and The Living Room of the Nation, and Calamari Union @ the Northwest Film Forum
• The documentary Killing Kastner, about the Jewish-Hungarian journalist and lawyer who negotiated with Eichmann to save 1,600 Hungarian Jews and was later assassinated, opens (and runs through July 22) @ the Northwest Film Forum
• Three Dollar Bill Cinema kicks off their free summer film series "Blonde But Not Forgotten" with Gentlemen Prefer Blondes @ Cal Anderson...

Ryan Higgins as Romeo and Carolyn Marie Monroe as Juliet in Greenstage's Romeo and Juliet. (Photo: Ken Holmes)

Wednesday

• A collection of stories in which "the author seldom allows a trickle of hope to lighten her characters' anguish" are on tap when Maile Meloy reads from her lauded book Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• Punishment Park, a yes-it-can-happen-here glimpse of what American political oppression could like like plays @ NWFF
• A Freaks & Geeks party includes four of your favorite episodes @ Central Cinema
• That wascally Seattle Symphony plays along live to cartoon classics projected on a big screen for "Bugs Bunny on Broadway" (through Friday) @ Benaroya Hall

Thursday

• Action!, a group show featuring work by Joseph Patrick Gray, Keith Tilford, Izzie Klingels, Amanda Manitach, Frank Correa, Nick Bartoletti, Tabor Robak, and DUMB EYES opens @ Ghost Gallery
• Don't forget the rest of your Blitz Capitol Hill Arts Walk @ all over Capitol Hill, while Penetration, the Cap Hill art walk afterparty goes down @ Unicorn
• Enjoy the summer weather with the pop cutie pies of Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band at a lunchtime concert @ City Hall
• Strawberry Theatre Workshop's The Laramie Project opens @ the Erickson Theatre off Broadway
• John Roderick (of The Long Winters) and Jason Dodson (of The Maldives) make beautiful music @ the Triple Door
• Prepare for the opening of Ruined at the Intiman with the panel "America's Responsibility to Refugees," featuring Someireh Amirfaiz (Refugee Women's Alliance), Erika Berg (Refugee and Immigrant Children's Program, Lutheran Community Services Northwest), Mona Han (Coalition for Refugees from Burma), and Wemba-Koy Okonda (OKONGO) @ Town Hall
• Satirical auteur Preston Sturges gets a well-deserved film series retrospective @ SAM

Friday

• Glenn Barr's solo show Small Epics opens @ Roq la Rue
• Carissa's Wierd's one-night-only reunion @ the Showbox
• Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Ruined, about war in Central Africa, opens @ the Intiman
• Catch the dark, synthy weird-pop of Fol Chen @ the Sunset
• Shirin Nushat's adaptation of Shamush Parsipar's novel Women Without Men casts a light into the private world of Iranian women @ NWFF
• West Seattle Summer Fest kicks off with in-the-street beer, food, and free sets by Kim Virant, Hell's Belles, the rejuvenated Satchel, and others @ the West Seattle Junction...

The ladies of Stripped Screw Burlesque at the Rendezvous Jewelbox this weekend.

Tuesday/Last minute! Hey Marseilles play a free show at 6 p.m. in support of their newly remastered reissue of their fantastic orchestral pop album, To Travels and Trunks @ Sonic Boom Ballard

Wednesday

• Contemporary Classics' Zanna, Don't!, a madcap contemporary musical fairytale, plays through Saturday @ Seattle Rep's Poncho Forum
• Rhett Miller and his Old 97s alt-country @ the Showbox
• Brat Pack novelist Bret Easton Ellis reads from his new book Imperial Bedrooms @ Elliott Bay Books
• Widespread Panic is sure to jam, jam, and then jam some more @ the Paramount
• Dr. Bent Francis Mboyo Ndombo, president of Congolese United for Social Change, gives you a brief history that explains why the Democratic Republic of Congo has two lies in its name alone @ Town Hall
• The Herb Garden Patio opens (during happy hour: Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m.) @ Cafe Flora

Thursday

• Stripped Screw Burlesque tackles the American Dream in Paradise Glossed @ the Rendezvous Jewelbox Theatre
• Closing night of the Safdie Brothers' Daddy Longlegs @ Northwest Film Forum
• A panel discussion on the future of "Walkable Urbanism" @ Town Hall
• After Art Walk, vote for which artist gets $500 @ Pioneer Square Caffe Vita
• Ambiant pianist Keiko Matsui plays the second of four nights (through July 3) @ Jazz Alley
• Irony alert! Caged animals get to eat special Independence Day-themed treats @ Woodland Park Zoo...

Fasten your seatbelts! It's time once again for some Seattle Pride! (Photo: TSB Flickr pool member shadowplay)

Wednesday

• Closing night of Circus Syzygy's Just Add Water @ SANCA
• It's nice out, so head Out to Lunch to see seminal ska band The English Beat @ Westlake Park
• Just a couple days left of lo-fi lowbrow auteur Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers @ Northwest Film Forum
• Making out on the beach leads to (spoiler alert) Pearl Harbor in From Here to Eternity @ Grand Illusion
• Geopolitical analyst and journalist Gwynne Dyer prophesies doom in Climate Wars @ Town Hall

Thursday

• Seattle Symphony closes its season with a Bernstein celebration (Chichester Psalms, The Age of Anxiety) featuring Misha Dichter, pianist (Thurs-Sun) @ Benaroya Hall
• FREE: If you liked the Intiman's The Thin Space, you might want to catch travel writer William Dalrymple talking about  his book Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• Clay Shirky talks about your cognitive surplus @ Town Hall
• Concrete Blonde, it turns out, is still in existence @ Showbox
• As previously mentioned, Wild Summer Nights kicks off @ the Bravern
• The term "singer-songwriter" doesn't even begin to cover Sally Seltmann, despite the fact that she wrote the song "1234" for Feist.  It's the pop songstress's first Seattle show in three years (and the first under her own name, rather than moniker New Buffalo) @ High Dive

Friday

• Parks & Rec's Aziz Ansari makes all the people laugh @ the Moore Theatre
• Rachel Randall's RandAll Dance Troupe performs @ Lo-fi
• The recipient of this year's Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Rae Armantrout, reads from Versed @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• Cocorosie does their quirky sister act @ Showbox
• NO COVER: "Elsa Nilsson Quartet are an improvisational groove quartet playing Deathjazz like Vikings who got sick of the cold and fled to Brazil" @ the Triple Door Musicquarium
• Mudhoney brings grunge to the great outdoors @ Olympic Sculpture Park
• To kick off Pride Weekend, get a free Po Dogs deep-fried danger dog blessed by Sylvia O'Stayformore at the fourth annual Hot Dog Blessing @ the Bottleneck...

The Aerialistas. Photo by John Cornicello.

• UW professor Peter Ward talks about how high the water will get as the ice caps melt (his new book puts 300 feet of the Space Needle underwater) @ Town Hall
• FREE: Cammie McGovern reads from her new mystery/thriller Neighborhood Watch @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• Canadian indie-rockers Stars play a second night @ the Triple Door

Thursday

• Opening night of Automatic Performance Ensemble's FOWL: an adaptation of The Birds by Artistophanes @ Open Circle/Freehold
• Your last chance to see Linas Phillips' Bass Ackwards @ NW Film Forum
• Tamara the Trapeze Lady's Broadway Follies benefits the YWCA's Women's Health Outreach program @ Julia's on Broadway
• The Nature Conservancy's Jen Molnar and Jon Hoekstra talk about the uses of their Atlas of Global Conservation @ Town Hall
• Cage the Elephant and the 22-20s bring the noise to a sold-out crowd @ Showbox
• Gerard Schwarz kicks off his Mendelssohn (Lobgesang) and Wagner (excerpts from Parsifal) program (also Fri/Sat) @ Benaroya Hall

Katy Hagelin's "from Phantastes".

Friday

• FREE: the awesomely talented Colson Whitehead reads from his memoir Sag Harbor @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• Closing weekend of Liquid Morality @ Annex Theatre
• Katy Hagelin Dance Project's adaptation of Phantastes opens for weekend only @ the Everett PUD Auditorium
• Save our Butts II, a burlesque fundraiser for Open Circle Theatre @ Open Circle/Freehold
• Quickies Vol. 11, Live Girls! Theatre's annual women's short-play festival opens @ the Ethnic Cultural Center
• Glittorus!, a fundraiser for the Lambert House, opens for two nights @ the Rendezvous Jewelbox
• The Seattle Pianist Collective, featuring Michael Owcharuk and others @ the Good Shepherd Center

Saturday

• "Cupcakes to Madrid," a fundraiser for the Aerialistas @ Hales Palladium
• HERE/NOW, an awesome, surprise collaboration between dancers and musicians @ Open Flight Studio
• FREE: Sasquatch Press's book about the Sounders' first year is out and it's a [soccer pun]! Meet the authors @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• One night only! Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra performs Ellington's Far East Suite @ Benaroya Hall
• Check out Jose Gonzalez's other band Junip @ the Vera Project
• If you've seen DIG!, please oh please do not intentionally rile up The Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Neumo's
• Eat a hot dog with some Capitol Hill cops @ the annual Picnic at the Precinct

Sunday

• Did someone say Pudding Pop? The original and still champeen Bill Cosby does two shows for all the dads on Father's Day @ Benaroya Hall
• It's the Mendelssohn and Haydn bicentennial and Onyx Chamber Players--violinist James Garlick, cellist Meg Brennand, and pianist David White, with Mel Butler and Laurel Wells, violas; and Steve Schermer, double bass--perform two Haydn trios and a Mendelssohn trio and quartet @ Town Hall
• FREE: local activists (and authors) Cecile Andrews and John de Graaf contributed to State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures, which is not about people who dress up like Optimus Prime @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• Before their show at El Corazon on the 24th, Halifax invites their fans to play Capture the Flag (potential team captains should email halifaxrock@me.com) at 1 p.m. @ Cal Anderson

Colson Whitehead. Photo by Erin Patrice O'Brien.

Monday

• Journalist Nicholas Carr, a voice crying out in the wilderness for less-wired living, will talk about his book The Shallows, which sez that too much online maek us dum 'n' stuff @ Town Hall
• FREE: Fortune's David Kirkpatrick, the official Facebook biographer, ah...really, a book? Now FB wants to waste my offline time, too? @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• If you missed it at SIFF, Laura Poitras' documentary on Osama Bin Laden's bodyguard and taxi driver, The Oath, plays through Thursday @ NWFF
• Funky, feisty, leggy lady Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings show ya how it's done, with British neo-soul-r&b-blues quartet The Heavy @ Showbox SoDo

Tuesday

• Oh, oh, oh! Polemicist and très bon vivant Christopher Hitchens is interviewed by Too Beautiful To Live's Luke Burbank @ Town Hall
• FREE: Kate Walbert reads from her slow-burning, much respected novel A Short History of Women @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• FREE: Humorist and book publicist Sloane "I was told there'd be cake" Crosley unveils her newest, How Did You Get This Number? @ the Sorrento Hotel
• Catch The Big Four, with Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax performing in Bulgaria, on the big screen for one nights only @ Pacific Place and @ Southcenter
• PBS' Ray Suarez talks global public health (yes, there's much to discuss) @ UW's Kane Hall

At PNB this Sunday: Lesley Rausch and Lucien Postlewaite in Red Angels. Photo © Angela Sterling.

Wednesday

• Noise for the Needy, a four-day cross-town collection of bands playing shows benefitting Teen Feed kicks off with Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside @ Chop Suey
• Britt Yamamoto of Antioch University Seattle’s Center for Creative Change and Mary Embleton, executive director of the Cascade Harvest Coalition, get sustainable on our food supply and how we eat @ Town Hall
• FREE: Bob Rosner (The Boss’s Survival Guide, Working Wounded) and a regular contributor to the Today Show and CNBC, talks about working smarter @ the Seattle Public Central Library

Thursday

• Noise for the Needy moves to Ballard. Single show tickets run $7-8 or a bracelet gets you into all shows. Horse Feathers & Tiny Vipers @ Tractor Tavern; Animals at Night headline @ Sunset Tavern; Pillow Army top the bill @ Conor Byrne; Neon Nights @ Two Bit Saloon.
• Living legend Bert Jansch lights up @ Triple Door
• It's second Thursday, which means it's Blitz @ Capitol Hill Art Walk
• Gerard Schwarz conducts the Seattle Symphony through Debussy (p.m. of a faun), Saint-Saëns (Piano Concerto No. 2), Ravel (dead princess) (also Sat & Sun) @ Benaroya Hall
• Cellist Joshua Roman and pianist Helen Huang throw down some Visconti, Schumann, Britten, and Brahms @ Town Hall
• FREE: Jonathan Alter gives Obama-fans something to talk about @ the Seattle Public Central Library

Friday

• Noise for the Needy takes Belltown with a massive lineup led by The Maldives & Whalebones with short films and comedy by The Entertainment Show @ Underground Events Center
• Although many of the teen-benefitting NFTN shows are 21+, kids of all ages can take in orchestral pop from the Portland Cello Project and Grand Hallway @ the Vera Project
• As Cinematic Titanic, the Mystery Science Theater 3000 crew reunites to celebrate and mock horribly great and outrageously cheesy movie moments for two performances (6:00 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.) @ Showbox
• It's a tough job, and thank god, there's somebody willing to do it.  The documentary Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors with Borders opens @ the Neptune
• Oh my my, oh hell yes, Tom Petty plays two days with Joe Cocker, sans party dress @ the Gorge...

The Mint Collective, part of the NW New Works Festival starting this weekend at On the Boards. Photo by Tim Summers

Wednesday

• Legendary English punk band Buzzcocks play their first two albums for the kids @ El Corazon
• Director Peter Bratt and his second feature La Mission show up @ Northwest Film Forum
• Singer-songwriter Patrick Park resonates @ the Tractor
• Science reporter Eli Kintisch and UW Professor David Battisti, authors of Hack the Planet, talk about geoengineering and what could possibly go wrong @ Town Hall

Thursday

• Build Here, part of the First Thursday Artwalk, explores how the urban environment changes over time @ Occidental Park
• Absent, a show of new works by Mona Lang, Jen Law, Cyn Moore, & Linda Jo Nazarenus, opens @ the Canoe Club
• I Suck at My Job is the first performance of WTF Productions, a new sketch comedy outfit @ Odd Duck Theatre
• Celebrate the fifth anniversary of our good friends @ Central Cinema

Friday

• The Vaudevillians, a late-night cabaret, opens @ the Balagan Theatre
• Cancer: the Musical--because mortality cries out for a big song-and-dance number--opens @ Washington Ensemble Theatre
• The first weekend of NW New Works Festival @ On the Boards
• It's the first Friday of the month, which means art, music, fashion, and mingling @ SAM Remix
• If you're tired of SIFF, you can always switch over to STIFF, which kicks off today @ the Jewel Box,  Central Cinema
• Heather Lende reads from her life-in-Alaska memoir Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs @ Elliott Bay Book Co....

Gbenga Akinnagbe in "The Thin Place" at the Intiman Theatre, through June 13. Photo by Chris Bennion.

Wednesday

• As Tiny Vipers, Seattle's Jesy Fortino brings whispery intensity to her performances @ the Triple Door
• Get your bone density checked at the Mayor's Office Healthy Aging Fair @ Downtown's Central Building
• Today's the kickoff, so check out all the festivities scheduled @ Green Week
• Take a break from SIFF with a very un-Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin film, Monsieur Verdoux @ the Grand Illusion

Thursday

• Author Sebastian Junger talks about his war tourism (and assuredly, his SIFF film Restrepo) @ Town Hall
• UW art historian Kolya Rice explores the political dimensions of Gerhard Richter's photorealistic paintings @ the Frye
• A screening of the classic The Long Haul, part of the "Empire of Night: Best of British Film Noir" series @ SAM
• It's another bike shop rock show with Paleo, French Quarter, Married in Berdichev, Shenendoah Davis, and Mega Bog @ 20/20 Cycle

• SIFF further expands its reach to the provinces, bringing Kyle Maclachlan to Everett to walk the red carpet for Mao's Last Dancer, followed by a gala reception @ Everett Performing Arts Center
• Candace Dempsey, author of Murder in Italy, digs deep into the Amanda Knox saga @ the UW bookstore
• Caribou, PhD mathematician Dan Snaith's electronic heavy solo recording project, warms up Seattle before heading Gorgeward with liquid sunshine electronic music enhanced with overwhelming visuals and a live touring band. With chillwave pioneer Toro y Moi @ Neumo's
• Henry Rollins Speaks! The Frequent Flyer Tour @ the Moore Theatre...

The Mark Morris Dance Group returns to Seattle for 3 nights at the Paramount Theatre. Photo by Stephanie Berge.

Tuesday

• At 8:15 p.m. tonight, Alice Gosti and Elizabeth Buschman present DO While, a site-specific performance on the kite hill @ Gasworks Park Eds.: Canceled due to weather.

Wednesday

• Wake up at 2:30 a.m. to see afroed erstwhile Seattleite Reggie Watts' debut comedy release Why S#!+ So Crazy? uncut and uncensored @ Comedy Central

• Screening the second slate of films from the 48hr Film Project @ Harvard Exit
• Closing: Jose Amador's El Hijo Prodigo @ Annex Theatre
• It's the one, the only Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars @ Triple Door
• Salmon Gone Wild continues today (through June 30) with an extra special happy hour, featuring grilled salmon bites, drink specials, and a chance to win whole Copper River salmon @ Elliott's
• Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer unveils her conjoined twin supergroup side project Evelyn Evelyn @ Showbox
• SAL's Linda Bowers defends Mulholland Drive @ NWFF's Curator's Defense
• A roundtable discussion of marijuana policy in Seattle @ Town Hall (RSVP req'd)

Thursday

• Let the film festival festivities begin! It's opening night for SIFF with The Extra Man @ Benaroya Hall

• Poet Karen Finnyfrock and the Vis-à-Vis Society @ SAM Word
• Scott/Powell Performance's Home @ the Erickson Theatre
• The Most Dangerous Woman in America opens @ Odd Duck Theatre
• Wiping My Mother's Arse opens @ ArtAttack Theatre
• The Thin Place opens @ the Intiman
• One Pot's Michael Hebb defends Dig! @ NWFF's Curator's Defense...

The Vis-à-Vis Society perform at the Del Rey Monday, for the release of "Poetry Northwest" and "Mare Nostrum," Photo by Jenny Jimenez.

Wednesday

• Icelandic composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Jóhann Jóhannsson performs a mix of classical and electronic @ the Triple Door
• 5@5, involving free pizza and cheap beer for bike-riders, kicks off @ Georgetown Via Tribunali
• Women's Health Week continues with an information table hosted by NOW, through Friday @ Seattle University
• Giant Magnet is multi-culti circus-music-art-dance fun for the whole family, through Saturday @ Seattle Center
• Matt Crawford, the PhD-holding motorcycle mechanic, returns to talk about his now-in-paperback Shop Class as Soulcraft @ Town Hall

Thursday

• "Species," a show of new paintings by Leroy Davis, opens @ Ghost Gallery
• Jed Dunkerley, Curtis Taylor, and Jason Puccinelli open their new show "Backdrop" @ Vermillion
• Hell, it's all part of the Capitol Hill Art Walk; check out the full details @ CHS
• Enjoy drinks and a roundtable discussion on the Great American Cocktail at the Cocktail Symposium @ Canlis
• Or grab a beer, because Seattle Beer Week kicks off tonight and runs through May 23. Brewer Kent Larimer will be serving up his Roslyn beers @ the Bottleneck
• A new, ensemble-generated version of the Oedipus Cycle opens tonight @ the Balagan Theatre 
• Local writer/actor/genius Marya Sea Kaminski closes out with Condo Millennium at the first "Live at the Film Forum" series @ NWFF
• Friends-of-the-site Mal de Mer and the Redwood Plan play @ the Crocodile
• Out in Fremont, Half Light, Graystar, and Goldie Wilson play @ the High Dive
• And--wow!--a One Act Play Festival is opening @ Stone Soup Theatre!

Friday

• BoingBoing blogger and open source science fiction writer Cory Doctorow reads as part of the Verse Chapter Verse series with music by Pillow Army @ the Sunset Tavern
• Check out the new generation of Seattle artists @ Cornish's 2010 BFA exhibition
• The 48-Hour Film Project kicks off--expect a mad rush of filmmakers around town
• Shel Silverstein's grown-up side is on display @ Theater Schmeater
• The SCUBA touring network, featuring Amy O'Neal's locust, is the first big show @ Velocity's new space
• The CD Forum presents "The Creation Project," the culmination of year-long development project for a group of talented artists
• Yes, the rumors are true.  It's the final show for math-rock noisemakers X-Ray Press with their current lineup @ the Josephine...

Rimini Protokoll's "Best Before" at On the Boards. Photo by Milan Radovanovic.

Wednesday

• Dueling Stranger columnists! Lindy West hosts a showing of American Psycho @ Central Cinema, while David Schmader hosts Seattle poetry and prose writers Elizabeth Austen, Janna Cawrse Esarey, Midge Raymond, and Susan Rich as they read from their work @ Richard Hugo House
• Catch Sinem's exotic sounds @ the Skylark
• It's Cinco de Mayo! There's a special menu and cheap drinks (no happy hour, but pitchers of Pueblo Punch, please) starting at 3 p.m. @ Barrio, and there's a taco bar starting at 5 p.m. and the the promise of no "frat boys or amateur tequila drinkers" @ the Bottleneck
• Lee Hood, Institute for Systems Biology co-founder, presents all you need to know about bioinformatics theory and practice in "Genomics 101" @ Town Hall
• Through richly textured haunted songs, the Antlers make caretaking and broken love sound romantic. With Phantogram @ Neumo's
• Time for Jose Amador's El Hijo Prodigo @ Annex Theatre

Queen Shmooquan. Photo by Tim Summers.

Thursday

• Rimini Protokoll's Best Before opens @ On the Boards
• The Gulf oil spill will no doubt be a hot topic when Oxford economics professor Paul Collier talks about his book The Plundered Planet @ Town Hall
• It's the 25th anniversary of the Washington Composers Forum with a concert of world and regional premieres @ Wallingford's Good Shepherd Center
• "Cougar Fest" (a double-feature of The Graduate and Harold & Maude) begins a six-day run @ Central Cinema
• Why of course there's live music at a bike shop. Nymph, Tiny Light, Shana Cleveland of Curious Mystery, and Corespondents play @ 20/20 Cycle
• Queen Shmooquan goes Unplugged @ the Rendezvous Jewelbox Theatre
• ...

Harpist Baby Dee

Wednesday

• Dr. Joan Fitzgerald, author of Emerald Cities, talks about how cities are leading the eco-conscious way @ Town Hall
• For something completely different, circus sideshow vet Baby Dee offers up transgendered harpist cabaret @ the Triple Door
• Their big floor model store kicks off May 1, but you can get a sneak peek (and first dibs on the merchandise) through Friday @ 14th Ave home decor store Whimsy

Thursday

• Arthur Sze, Zhang Er, and Andrea Lingenfelter speak about contemporary Chinese lit @ the Seattle Asian Art Museum
• Fang Island, Red Sparrowes, and Caspian deliver a one-two-three knockout punch @ Neumo's
• The National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) kicks off at the EMP Sky Church and runs through Sunday, mainly @ SIFF Cinema
• Majestic Texans Shearwater, along with Wye Oak and Hospital Ships, make beautiful music together @ the Triple Door
• Definitely have dinner out tonight, as it's both the last night of Seattle Restaurant Week and the only night for Dining Out for Life @ restaurants all around town

Friday

• Elaine Pagels "decodes the Gnostic Gospels" for SAL @ Benaroya Hall
• Soundtrack for a Revolution, a documentary exploring the protest music of the Civil Rights movement, opens @ NWFF
• Break out the hackysack for Phish 3D @ Lincoln Square Cinemas and @ the Neptune
• Experimental ambient band Eluvium plays for the kids @ the Vera Project
• World famous Beat Junkie J Rocc will dj to mix the three hip hop films of Timeless into one cohesive whole @ SAM
• There's all kinds of events around town this week related to sustainable agriculture doc Fresh, which opens @ Central Cinema, while No One Knows About Persian Cats takes a look at the Iranian underground rock scene @ the Varsity...

Lingo Dance's "Glimmer..." opens Thurs. at ACT. Photo: Kevin Kauer

Wednesday 

• History Café discusses Earth Days @ Third Place Books in Ravenna
• Elizabeth George reads from her newest Inspector Lynley novel This Body of Death @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• Afro-Peruvian singer Susana Baca kills you softly with her take on Latin American poets Chabuca Granda and Federico Garcia Lorca @ Jazz Alley
• The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival continues through Sunday @ Central Cinema (closing night film Still Bill @ MOHAI)
• Terry McDermott tackles the neuroscience of memory @ Town Hall
• Felix Hernandez tackles the Orioles of Baltimore @ Safeco Field
• The Wedding Present are back to unwrap Bizarro in its entirety @ the Crocodile

Thursday

• Amelia Reeber's this is a forgery opening @ the Erickson Theatre off Broadway
• KT Niehoff/Lingo Dance's A Glimmer of Hope or Skin or Light opening @ ACT Theatre
• Deer Tick knows Americana @ the Tractor
• "Awesome"'s West, directed by Matthew Richter, opens @ On the Boards
• Greil Marcus talks about his Van Morrison book @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• Somehow, Aqua Teen Hunger Force is performing live @ the Showbox
• Break out the strings and fiddle. Arkansas Traveler Michelle Shocked sings @ the Triple Door
• Seahawks pick 6th and 14th in first round of NFL Draft. Celebrate @ the official draft party
• Sounders play at F.C. Dallas. Catch the action @ viewing parties

Friday

• Once Upon a Museum, a collaboration with the UW Drama Department, shows @ the Henry Art Gallery
• When I Come to My Senses, I'm Alive!, a new play by Scotto Moore, opens @ Annex Theatre
• SIFF presents "Next stop, rain city," a mini-fest of Alan Rudolph double features (through Sunday) @ SIFF Cinema
• The Seattle members of the Ford Fiesta movement host their second mission, a State of the Artist album release show @ Pravda Studios
• Obama won’t let you visit the moon, but you can still catch Mike McCready's Flight to Mars. The UFO-covering band's eighth annual benefit show supports the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America and Advocacy for Patients. Sweet Water opens @ the Showbox
• Nickel Creek's Chris Thile gets bluegrassy with his new band Punch Brothers @ the Triple Door
• Russell Brand, English comedian, actor, columnist, author, and presenter of radio and television, appears @ the Moore Theatre
• ...

One last-minute event for Tuesday:  Male Bonding's album ain't out on Sub Pop till next month, but you can still catch the loud London trio tonight with the super-catchy smart rock of The Soft Pack (nee The Muslims) @ Chop Suey

Wednesday

• Seattle Weekly's Voracious Tasting and Food Awards @ the Paramount and Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jogger, and AM @ the Croc are sold out.  Instead, try the new-wavey post-punk meets horn section of Sweden's Love is All @ High Dive
• Physicist and Caltech Professor David Goodstein talks about the scientific misbehavior in his book On Fact and Fraud @ Town Hall
• Bring books to swap during happy hour till 7 p.m. or show up at 10 p.m. to watch Top Chef Masters @ the Bottleneck

Thursday

• Get orchestral with Florence + the Machine @ Showbox or neo-jazz-band with the Zubatto Syndicate @ the Crocodile
• Jesse Sykes and Phil Wandscher are raising money for a sick dog named Ruby by playing a benefit @ Triple Door
• It's Tax Day, but that also means you can pick up a free taco @ Taco Del Mar
• Featuring Akufen, Stephen Beaupre, and Nordic Soul, Montreal's electronic music festival MUTEK teams up with Seattle's Decibel @ Nectar
• How about Megafaun @ the Tractor?
• Neuroscientist Gary Small is the co-author of iBrain and talks about how the internet stimulates our brains @ Town Hall

Friday

• Ching Chong Chinaman, from SIS Productions, appears @ Richard Hugo House
• Science journalist Rebecca Skloot takes on the controversial history of bioethics and blacks in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks @ Town Hall
• The dynamic duo of Werner Herzog and David Lynch is here to stay, as My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done has been held over for another week (through April 22) @ Northwest Film Forum
• Ken Griffey Jr. bobblehead night so, be among the 30,000 to get your retro Griffey. Plus Felix Hernandez is supposed to pitch, so the M's might actually win @ Safeco Field...

Ricochet at the Moisture Festival last week. Photo by John Cornicello

Tonight

• For one night only, SF-based aerial performance duo Ricochet bring STITCH @ Emerald City Trapeze

Wednesday

• Tom DeLonge's Angels and Airwaves is back and even hookier @ Showbox SoDo
  
• It's happy hour all night (and a mariachi band) for the bar's second birthday @ The Saint

Thursday

• Sam Shepherd's True West opens @ the Balagan Theatre
• If it's first Thursday, that means it's Blitz @ Capitol Hill Arts Walk
• Lots of bands and restaurants represent at the third annual Seattle Soundbite @ Showbox SoDo
• Oh yes! Make it Purple Rain with this star-studded Prince tribute night @ Havana
• Get Lucky with Mark Knopfler @ the Moore Theatre
• Hugh Raffles, anthropologist and author of Insectopedia, tells you all about insects @ Town Hall

Friday

• My Son My Son What Have Ye Done, the unholy product of the minds of David Lynch and Werner Herzog, screens @ Northwest Film Forum
• Pour a little out for Capitol Hill mainstay Slats at his benefit/memorial @ Merchants Cafe
• Robopop! opens @ Washington Ensemble Theatre
• Singer-songwriter Holly Miranda brings her lovely, dreamy vocals @ High Dive
• SPOON! (also Saturday) @ the Moore Theatre
• A host of your favorite local burlesque artists brings Smells Like Tease Spirit: A Tribute to the 90's @ Theatre off Jackson

Saturday

• Head to the Eastside for two days of festivities, including book signings, free hors d'oeuvres, and raffles during the annual Spring Fling @ Artisanal Brasserie
• Jonsi (also Friday), Sigur Ros' enchanting warbler in chief, strikes out on a solo effort, occasionally singing songs with English lyrics @ Showbox SoDo
• Perennial indie rock favorites Rogue Wave are back @ Neumos
• Studies in Monk, Mompou, and Melancholy is an event featuring the work of eighteen separate artists exploring melancholy @ The Fremont Abbey

Sunday

• Mayda del Valle and Staceyann Chin, both poets and original cast members of the Tony-winning Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, liven up @ Town Hall
• It's the last 12 Minutes Max of the 09-10 season, featuring a variety of Northwest artists including ticktock, the aerial/dance crew who are pushing the limits @ On the Boards
• Philly's favorite shape-shifting knob-twister RJD2 has been touring up a storm of late, stopping by Seattle @ Neumo's

Monday

• Corinne Bailey Rae (also Tuesday) sings about the sad, sad The Sea at the first of the 2010 (RED)NIGHTS concerts--a portion of the proceeds from each show goes directly to the Global Fund to help fight AIDS in Africa--@ the Moore Theatre
• The xx youngsters and their lovers' whispers in the dark take over @ Showbox SoDo
• Roger Lowenstein arrives late to the "Where'd that bubble go?" party @ Town Hall
• Everyone (including Aziz Ansari) loves Beach House's organic Brian Wilson meets Mazzy Star sound. That's why they're sold out @ Neumo's
• Author and charity founder Lisa Shannon will be raising awareness and support for the women of the Democratic Republic of Congo @ the Intiman Theatre

Tuesday

• The Biava Quartet and their fabulous hair play Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major with cellist Joshua Roman @ Town Hall
• Train headlines The Mountain's Earth Day concert @ the Moore Theatre
• Take me out to the book reading! Robert Elias reads from his baseball-and-America book The Empire Strikes Out @ Town Hall
• Go buckwild and get sweaty with the psychedelic soul of King Khan and the Shrines @ Neumo's