The Must List: March Madness, Mamma Mia! Returns
What to do this weekend in Seattle
By Seattle magazine staff March 19, 2015
Must View
Mystical Works from Artist Maïmouna Guerresi on Display
(3/20 to 5/1, times vary) Mariane Ibrahim Gallery (formerly M.I.A Gallery) celebrates its new name and new space in Pioneer Square with a show of photographs by Italian Muslim artist Maïmouna Guerresi, who stages bold scenes featuring cosmic garment sculptures that blend African and Western iconography and customs.
Must Sing Along
Mamma Mia! Returns to Seattle
(3/24 to 3/29, times vary) Attention all dancing queens: The Abba hit machine is back in action. This popular, paternity-probing musical returns to the stage at the Paramount Theater.
Must Go East
A Month of Humphrey Bogart Films
(3/20 to 3/22, times vary) Every weekend in March, Kirkland Parkplace Cinema 6 is screening a different Humphrey Bogart film. If you missed last weekend’s showing of Casablanca, catch this weekend’s offering of the classic film noir The Maltese Falcon, starring Bogart as detective Sam Spade.
Must Cheer
March Madness is Here
(3/20 to 3/22, times vary) For the first time since 2004, KeyArena will host the second and third rounds of the NCAA Division I men’s college basketball tournament. Whether you’re attending games at KeyArena and looking for refreshments before and after, or just seeking the best venue to watch all the action on screen, Queen Anne has you covered with food and drink options galore.
Must See
Millennial Life Explored in The Flick
(Through 4/4, times vary) Along with the customary humiliations of a first job come first adult friendships, first time figuring out how to pay rent and first glimmers of what the future might bring. Three millennials experience such firsts together—while cleaning up popcorn at a struggling movie theater in The Flick, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner by Annie Baker (Circle Mirror Transformation), staged by New Century Theatre Company in its new home.
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Rearview Mirror: Storytellers in Clay, Wild Seattle, and an Alaskan Feast I’ll Never Forget
Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).
CLAY RELATIONS I went to see the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s new Kondō family exhibit expecting beautiful ceramics, and there are plenty. What I didn’t expect was a fascinating story that starts with samurai. Long before pottery became the family trade, earlier generations guarded Kiyomizudera, a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto. That role vanished when…
Studio Sessions: Jade Solomon Curtis
With an interest in how bodies retain memory, emotion, and experience, the award-winning choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Jade Solomon Curtis presents an immersive work at Seattle’s historic Union station.
Discover choreographer Jade Solomon Curtis and her immersive dance installation, Keeper of Sadness, at Seattle’s historic Union Station this August.
Northwest Tune-Up Bike and Music Festival Brings Big Air and Loud Sets to Bellingham
The three-day festival celebrates its fifth year with bike competitions and a genre-spanning music lineup—plus one unforgettable band of mummies.
If I were to summarize the sensation of attending Northwest Tune-Up, Bellingham’s three-day bike and music festival, in one image, it would be watching Tomomi Nishikubo—a Japanese street trials biker—doing acrobatic acts of derring-do on his bike while Seattle rockers Thunderpussy shred in the distance. My second lasting impression of the festival would be rounding…
Ferry Tales: Eight Indie Bookstores Worth the Ride
Plan a summer day around these bookshops in Seattle, Bremerton, Bainbridge Island, Kingston, and Poulsbo.
Independent bookstores tend to be cornerstones of the communities in which they reside, and Seattle is no exception. In addition to helping customers discover their next read, these neighborhood hubs host weekly gatherings and events, like publication release parties, author talks, and book clubs. Many of them have cafés and reading tables that encourage lingering…