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Must List: Kinky Boots Returns, Edible Plant Sale & More
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must Gawk
The Seattle Modern Home Tour
Saturday (4/30, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.) It’s time for the fifth annual Seattle Modern Home Tour, a self-paced, self-driving cavalcade to eight architecturally significant homes in the city. The design-obsessed will have the opportunity to walk through each home and meet the local architects behind the designs. Notable names include Tiffany Bowie and Joe Malboeuf of Malboeuf-Bowie Architecture, David Coleman, Susan Jones of AtelierJones LLC, Jim Dwyer of BDR Homes and Thomas Schaer of Shed Architecture & Design. See all the homes (there’s even a houseboat!) and map your tour.
Must See
Kinky Boots Returns to 5th Avenue Theatre
(Through 5/8, times vary) Back by popular demand, the multiple Tony Award–winning musical by Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper, with choreography by Jerry Mitchell, returns to the 5th Avenue Theatre with its huge heart and high heels.
Must Listen
Piffaro: Back before Bach at Town Hall
Saturday (4/30, 8 p.m.) The Renaissance band returns to Seattle to make Town Hall ring with its full array of shawms, sackbuts, dulcians, krumhorns, drums and bagpipes. Taking a journey through the chain of compositional history, Piffaro explores the richly varied musical world that inspired the Baroque master.
Must Marvel
Last Chance for Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture at BAM
(Through 5/1, times vary) This exhibition about the work and legacy of one of the 20th century’s most important and influential architects includes models, drawings, photographs and films as well as watercolors, pastels and charcoal drawings that Kahn produced during his travels.
Must Shop
Seattle Tilth’s Edible Plant Sale is Here
(4/30 to 5/1, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.) Wheel your red wagon to Wallingford’s Meridian Park for Tilth’s Edible Plant Sale, where you can satisfy your green thumb (both of them!) with an array of veggies, herbs, edible flowers and other warm-season crops such as tomatoes and squash.
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Rearview Mirror: Godzilla, Cork, and a New Sushi Spot
Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).
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Best Bookstore: Beguiled Books
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Best Art Gallery: Foster/White Gallery
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Best Museum: Seattle Art Museum
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