Grace Love, the big-voiced front woman of her band Grace Love and the True Loves, has always been a verbal person. She’s loquacious, direct, most often up for a conversation on any topic — even with her computer.  In fact, it was in conversation with her computer, so to speak, that the seeds for Love’s…

Film Silver Screen Star Courtney Sheehan, artistic director Under the leadership of artistic director Courtney Sheehan, who began as its intern in 2009 and served as its program manager for several years, the Northwest Film Forum (NWFF) has redefined film house programming and brought the institution to the fore of Seattle’s cultural life. Not content…

Performance Sarah Rudinoff 3/23–4/3 Seattle performer and singer Sarah Rudinoff is the rare talent who is as at home in an avant-garde theater production as she is belting out a tune in a Broadway musical. After many years taking on the guises of heroes, villains and fools on stage, she takes on the world of…

Poetry Jacqueline Woodson 4/12 Brooklyn-based poet Jacqueline Woodson reads and discusses her most recent book, Brown Girl Dreaming, which earned her the 2014 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. 7:30 p.m. Prices vary. Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Ave.; 206.652.4255 Literature Hugo Literary Series 4/15, 5/20 For this year’s Hugo Literary Series, Hugo House…

Fine Fellow Ahamefule Oluo, Musician and Comedian After debuting at town hall in 2012, completing a critically praised and sold-out run at On the Boards in December 2014 and performing in New York’s Under the Radar Festival in January, Seattle composer, comedian and trumpet player Ahamefule Oluo is bringing Now I’m Fine—an experimental, jazz-inflected pop…

Brave New Ballet Seattle choreographer Kate Wallich, who Dance Magazine included among its “25 to Watch in 2015,” is one of the most important and original artists to emerge from the city’s vibrant dance scene in the past few years. Perhaps more than any other dance maker in our midst, the 27-year-old Wallich brings the…

Brinkmanship Jason Hirata, Brink Award Recipient For those who find themselves confounded by the very nature and purpose of contemporary art, it takes a particular kind of artist to engage them; one who steadfastly embraces their confusion and ambivalence as characteristic of the larger world and the subject of his or her own work. Jason…

The new season ushers in brighter skies, warmer weather and motivation to get out and do something. Luckily, spring also brings a bevy of performances, exhibits, concerts and other arts events worth getting excited about. Mark your calendars—–we’ve rounded up 38 great things to see, hear and experience now and in the months to come….

To the women who trek, squat fireside and can effortlessly pair a matted French braid with bug-sprayed legs—or to those who have such aspirations—Oregon-based writer and geologist Ruby McConnell presents you with your new bible: A Woman’s Guide to the Wild (Sasquatch Books, $18.95). Highly comical and packed with authentic advice from veteran outdoorswomen and…

Must StrollGreen Thumbs Up at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show (2/17 to 2/21, times vary) The annual Northwest Flower & Garden Show provides acres of imagination and inspiration by way of a magnificent showcase of gardening ideas big and small. Must SeeBill Evans’ Dance Company Takes the Stage(2/20 to 2/21, 7:30 p.m.) Evans was…

On Saturday, the Seattle Rock Lottery will once again take over the Crocodile main stage for its annual mash-up, which includes some of the city’s highest caliber musicians. Prolific artists such as trumpeter Owuor Arunga (who regularly tours with Macklemore), haunting folk singer Annie Ford, space-age rapper Catherine Harris-White (a.k.a. SassyBlack) of THEESatisfaction and Dan…