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The Must List: March Madness, Mamma Mia! Returns
What to do this weekend in Seattle
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: Godzilla, Cork, and a New Sushi Spot
Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).
POPPING OUR SENSES I don’t think I’ve ever given much thought to a wine cork beyond the satisfying pop it makes when opening a bottle, but after spending a morning at DeLille Cellars in Woodinville with about 50 other people, I have a new appreciation for it. The occasion was “(Pop) Open Your Senses,” a…
Best Bookstore: Beguiled Books
This Pioneer Square darling is easy to spot: pink doors and candy-striped details mark its home near Occidental Square. Beguiled Books started in 2024 as a mobile bookstore, making its way from table to tent to trailer, and finally to its current brick-and-mortar space. Labelling itself as “Seattle’s Original Romance Bookstore,” Beguiled specializes in just…
Best Art Gallery: Foster/White Gallery
A pillar in Pioneer Square’s arts ecosystem, Foster/White Gallery opened in 1966 (then called Richard White Gallery) as the first space of its kind in the neighborhood. It soon gained notoriety for showing preeminent Northwest artists such as Morris Graves, William Morris, George Tsutakawa, and Dale Chihuly. In the decades after founding the gallery, its…
Best Museum: Seattle Art Museum
A vote for Seattle Art Museum is really a vote for three different art outings. The downtown museum pairs ambitious exhibitions with a global collection; the Seattle Asian Art Museum occupies SAM’s original 1933 Art Deco home amid the 43 acres of Capitol Hill’s Volunteer Park; and the Olympic Sculpture Park puts art out in…