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Must List: Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes, Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, Duwamish Alive

Must List: Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes, Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, Duwamish Alive

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MUST NERD OUTMarvel: Universe of Super Heroes(4/21–1/6/2019) Billed as the largest exhibit ever staged at MoPop, Universe of Super Heroes is here to save the day, with more than 300 pieces of memorabilia, including iconic costumes, props and artwork from the adventures of Doctor Strange, Captain America, Black Panther, Spider-Man and others. Don’t be surprised…

These Seattle Artists Are Exploring China's Sociopolitical Transformation

These Seattle Artists Are Exploring China’s Sociopolitical Transformation

Lauren Yee's play "The Great Leap" and poetry by Western Washington University's Jane Wong address China's "Great Leap Forward"

This article appears in print in the April 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. There’s a darkly comic pun in the title of Lauren Yee’s play The Great Leap. Set in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square protests, it follows an American college basketball team that travels to China for an exhibition match, during which a…

How Seattle's Wave Press is Celebrating National Poetry Month

How Seattle’s Wave Press is Celebrating National Poetry Month

The Pulitzer Prize-winning local poetry press is celebrating with four new titles

This article appears in print in the April 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. “It’s moving, but you can’t predict where it’s going to be next,” said poet Eileen Myles in a 2012 interview, reflecting on why Seattle’s Wave Books chose the perfect name.   The poetry press launched in 2005, morphing out of the former Massachusetts-based…

Must List: Pacific Northwest Ballet's 'Emergence,' Orcas Island Literary Fest, Lindy West: The Witches Are Coming

Must List: Pacific Northwest Ballet’s ‘Emergence,’ Orcas Island Literary Fest, Lindy West: The Witches Are Coming

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MUST EMERGE Pacific Northwest Ballet: Emergence(4/13–4/22) For Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, whose 2009 work Emergence gives PNB’s spring show its name, inspiration came from insects: How do organisms build social structures? More specifically, how might this be a metaphor for a ballet company? Pite’s approach was collaborative: “Get everyone contributing material: delegate, divide and conquer…[a…

Jessi Harvey Strings Together ‘Things That Break’

Jessi Harvey Strings Together ‘Things That Break’

A Seattle composer’s ambitious cross-genre collaboration has potential but isn’t quite there yet

The “murmuring marimba” during a rehearsal of Jessi Harvey’s ‘Things That Break’

Must List: Brunch Run, An Evening with Anne Lamott, VegFest

Must List: Brunch Run, An Evening with Anne Lamott, VegFest

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MUST DINE AND DASH Seattle Magazine Brunch Run(4/7) Bring your friends and start the day right at the fourth annual Seattle magazine Brunch Run. The 5K dash begins at Magnuson Park and continues along Lake Washington. Waiting at the finish line will be brunch foods from 15 local Seattle restaurants and a variety of boozy…

3 Seattle Record Store Owners Wax About Their Favorite Albums

3 Seattle Record Store Owners Wax About Their Favorite Albums

In honor of Record Store Day, store owners from Silver Platters, Beats and Bohos and Sonic Boom dig their favorite LPs out of the crate

SHE’S GOT THE BEAT: Beats and Bohos’ Omaima Wolf going through the stacks in her Greenwood shop

Datebook: 12 Best Things To Do in Seattle in April 2018

Datebook: 12 Best Things To Do in Seattle in April 2018

Our hand-picked list of best bets for entertainment this month

“Black Boys,” a meditation on black male identity, is being premiered by On the Boards

ArtsWest Adapts a Dated Melodrama For the Times

ArtsWest Adapts a Dated Melodrama For the Times

"An Octoroon" will have a first look show on April 3 and then will run from April 19 to May 13.

From left to right: Actors Mike Dooly, Lamar Legend and Jose Abaoag each play three roles in ArtsWest’s “An Octoroon”

Must List: Tulip Festival, Mariners' Opening Weekend, Become Desert

Must List: Tulip Festival, Mariners’ Opening Weekend, Become Desert

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MUST LOVE FLOWERS 35th Tulip Festival in Skagit County(4/1–4/30) This renowned monthlong festival is jam-packed with daily activities: salmon barbecues, bike tours, 5K family runs, art walks and a lot of beautiful tulips filling fields and demonstration gardens. Join people from around the country who flock to this springtime event, and avoid the biggest crowds…

Macha Theatre Works' 'Smoke & Dust' Kicks Up History’s Dirt

Macha Theatre Works’ ‘Smoke & Dust’ Kicks Up History’s Dirt

A new play considers an extraordinary female composer’s life with a timely twist. Our review

Bianca Raso as Liv/Barbara Strozzi and James Lyle as Josh/Giovanni Vidman in Joy McCullough-Carranza’s ‘Smoke & Dust’

Must List: Taste Washington, Plate of Nations, Say It Loud: Simply Me

Must List: Taste Washington, Plate of Nations, Say It Loud: Simply Me

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MUST SIP Taste Washington(3/22–3/25) From serious wine snobs to simple enthusiasts, Taste Washington unites all lovers of the “juice” at its annual, multi-day tasting event celebrating the many flavors and styles of Washington state wine. You could opt for a wine seminar or farm tour, but the main event is Saturday and Sunday’s Grand Tasting,…

In West of Lenin's ‘Big Rock,' Dad and Daughter Take Each Other for Granite

In West of Lenin’s ‘Big Rock,’ Dad and Daughter Take Each Other for Granite

Sonya Schneider’s new play touches on family trauma, with mixed results

Todd Jefferson Moore (Sands), Meg McLynn (Signe) and Evan Whitfield (Hamish) in Big Rock at West of Lenin, 2018.

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