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T
he recent “Out of Reach” report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition was full of shocking findings about the cost of living in Seattle. The figure
of $23.56, which is the hourly wage required for a resident of King County to afford
a one-bedroom apartment, has dominated the discussion about the report—and not
without reason. But upon further inspection, The Stranger has found several more
statistics buried in the report that are every bit as shocking. For example:
$24.12/hour:
General Porpoise doughnut.
Wage required to afford
monthly Goodship
snickerdoodle.
$29.61/hour:
$26.34/hour:
Wage required to afford a large
ginger beet juice at Juicebox
once every six to eight months.
$26.44/hour:
Wage required to afford a small
bowl of guacamole at Poquito’s.
$27.73/hour:
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STEVEN WEISSMAN
WEDDING BAND-IT
On Saturday, May 21, the landlady of
the mother-in-law cottage where I live
in Ravenna signed for a small package
and propped it up on her stoop for me
to find. She should have taken it inside
or texted me like she usually does, but
she didn’t. You stole this package before
I realized it had been delivered. You
must have been a little surprised to find
two gold wedding bands inside, the only
jewelry worth more than $50 that my fiancé and I have ever bought. I wish I had
signed up for texts-upon-delivery from
the USPS. I wish I had better briefed my
landlady. I also wish people didn’t steal
boxes off doorsteps. If you happen to
read this, and you haven’t sold the rings
yet, consider returning them? If not, I can
show you a ringless finger.
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MEMORIAL DAY OVER MOUNT RAINIER
On Memorial Day, you were seated next to us
on a flight from O’Hare Airport to Sea-Tac. It
was just after 6 p.m., and the sun was beginning to dip west behind the Olympic Mountains as the plane made its approach to Seattle. We were on our way home after a hot,
humid, sweaty weekend in New York City. We
eagerly opened the window shade so we could
see the mountains, the green, the water. You
had headphones in, plugged into your personal Direct TV screen. But when we opened
the shade, you turned your head and looked
out the window to see Mount Rainier, hazy
and white, glowing and gorgeous. Your eyes
grew wide and your jaw dropped open slightly.
“Whoa,” you said. “What is that?” Dude, we
know the feeling.
SPEAKING OF MOUNTAINS
There was brisk wind and sideways rain on the
open faces of Mount Pilchuck over Memorial
Day weekend. The rain fell twice as hard and
fat beneath the firs—big drops that felt like
buckets of ice water even through a raincoat.
The slick boulders and the muddy river the
rain had made of the trail turned what would
have been an easy hike into a fun obstacle
course, and the mists transformed the sweeping views of other mountains into a gray void
more mysterious and mentally stimulating
than the sight of other mountains. Way-finding
became troublesome when the rain turned to
snow, and when the trail became nothing more
than other peoples’ footsteps in that snow, but
all was passable until, turning a corner, we saw
a thin, icy ridge carved into a particularly vertiginous part of the mountainside. Not too bad,
but enough to merit consideration. Maybe a 6
out of 10 on the danger scale. If we slipped,
which we could do easily, we would probably
die. As we were trying to decide whether or
not to take that risk, you lumbered up behind
Wage required to afford a
bottle of Rachel’s Ginger Beer
(any size).
$28.19/hour:
Wage required to afford a
us. You were a larger gentleman with long
hair, holding a flimsy umbrella above your
head. The umbrella hadn’t helped much: You
looked like a wet circus bear. And yet quietly
you passed us, and, with a sure, slow step you
traversed the icy ridge and stood triumphant
at the high point where the trail turns off
and winds farther up the mountain. “It was
easy for me, but I’m wearing rubber boots,”
you said, before waving and continuing along
your slow and silent way.
SHIRTLESS ON SNOQUALMIE PASS
We saw you rise, shirtless, out of your sunroof and look backward over the endless traffic jam at Snoqualmie Pass as so, so many
people headed east for the Friday start of
Memorial Day weekend. We had already
been sitting in this traffic jam for hours, and
your abs and pecs were a welcome interruption. Thank you, young sir.
MEDICAL ADVICE FROM A LYFT
DRIVER
We saw you driving for Lyft. We were in the
backseat and not feeling very well. You noticed something was not right with us and
asked: “How are you feeling?” We explained
we were suffering from insomnia. Not sleeping well. Up all night. That sort of thing. And
you thought for a moment and said: “Have
you ever tried camel milk? You can’t get it
in the US, but where I’m from [Somalia], we
drink it all of the time because it’s very good
for your body. It cleans everything. All of the
bad germs are gone and you feel you have
control of your life. But you can only get cam-
Wage required to afford a
brownie macaron at Amandine
Bakeshop.
$29.68/hour:
Wage required to afford any
menu item at Hot Cakes or
Hello Robin bakery.
$48.16/hour:
Wage required to afford to
share a 150-square-foot music
rehearsal space at Cloud
Studios.
$50/hour:
Wage required to afford or
justify making a single purchase
of any garment at Totokaelo.
el milk in a few countries in the world. The
US is not one of them. They will not let us
import it for some reason. I miss camel milk.”
PERFECT VIBES AT REVOLVER BAR
We walked into Revolver Bar on a gloomy
Sunday evening recently, and you—an underground hiphop producer in your 20s—were
spinning Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic
Echoes’ 1975 cut “Summer Nights.” To say we
were pleasantly surprised would be an understatement. The song’s ultra-blissful, classy,
jazz-fusion vibes were exactly what we needed
to hear right then, even though we didn’t know
it. It’s been a few weeks since that night, and
we can’t stop thinking about it. You said you
wanted to start a regular night devoted to old
jazz tracks that local hiphop producers sample,
and we hope your ambition comes to pass.
SICK MOVES ON RAINIER AVENUE
SOUTH
On a Tuesday morning, we saw you—a man
in a woven gray fedora, sunglasses, and
baggy embroidered jeans—on the corner of
Rainier Avenue South and Walker Street.
You were listening to music through your
headphones and treating everyone on their
morning commute up Rainier to your dance
moves—lots of juicy hip swinging and orchestra conductor–esque arm movements. At
first we thought you were passing the time
waiting for a bus, but then we realized you
weren’t standing near any bus stop. It was
only 8:30 in the morning, and the sun was
already shining brightly on Seattle—and, it
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Better Light Rail,
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Thousands of People Said They Wanted New
Light Rail Lines Faster—And Now Sound
Transit Has a Bigger, Better ST3 Plan
BY HEIDI GROOVER
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wo months ago, Sound Transit unveiled its most ambitious light rail
package ever: $50 billion, 58 new
miles of rail, long-awaited new lines in the city
to Ballard and West Seattle. But as the agency took its plan out to the public for feedback,
one factor was undermining even the most
enthusiastic light rail supporters’ excitement
about the package, known as Sound Transit 3:
It was going to take too damn long. Light rail
wouldn’t reach Ballard until 2038 or Everett
until 2041.
In 35,000 responses to an online survey
and thousands more e-mails and letters, “the
message we heard was simply ‘build light
rail faster,’” Sound Transit board chair and
King County executive Dow Constantine said
recently.
So the agency is back with an improved
version of ST3 that officials say will deliver
light rail faster for the same annual cost to
taxpayers. Citing a new financial analysis,
Sound Transit is promising to borrow more
money sooner, allowing it to shave years off
some of the project timelines. The changes
add $4 billion to the package and they improve timelines, add stations, and make an
important change to Seattle’s Ballard line.
The highlights:
• A line to West Seattle would come online in 2030 instead of 2033, and the line to
Ballard would be finished by 2035 instead of
2038.
• Instead of building light rail to Ballard alongside traffic on 15th Avenue, the
agency would elevate the line through that
area. That change would make that line more
reliable and add about $150 million to the
package. (Some want to go even further and
build a pricey tunnel under Salmon Bay for
this line, but the agency shows little appetite
for that.)
• Stations at Graham Street in South Seattle and Boeing Access
Road in Tukwila would
be done in 2031 instead
of 2036.
• The agency would
build a new station at
130th Street in North
Seattle after finishing
light rail to Northgate,
which is currently under
construction. This is a
big win for advocates in
North Seattle, including new Council Member Debora Juarez,
who represents North Seattle and has been
adamant about this station. Juarez called the
news “a giant step forward.”
• In addition to light rail, ST3 would make
some short-term improvements to Seattle
bus service. With the changes, those improvements will now include Bus Rapid Transit on
Madison Street, along with the city’s Rapid
Ride C and D lines.
• The new downtown transit tunnel
through which the Ballard and West Seattle
lines will run would be funded by taxpayers
from all over the region. The agency’s policy
of “subarea equity” generally says taxpayers’ dollars should be spent in the area where
those taxpayers live. But Sound Transit argues the new tunnel will benefit the whole
region because riders will use it to transfer
lines.
• Light rail would arrive in downtown
Redmond and Federal Way in 2024 instead
of 2028—just a year after already funded
extensions to Lynnwood, Bellevue, and Microsoft’s campus in Redmond open. Service
would reach Everett in 2036 instead of 2041,
and the Tacoma Dome in 2030 instead of
2033.
You can read the full list of changes at
SoundTransit3.org.
How, exactly, can Sound Transit offer all of
that without increasing the $400 in new taxes
per year the average household will pay if voters approve the plan?
Sound Transit officials say a new review of
the agency’s bonding program showed they
can borrow more money sooner than they
previously thought without endangering their
credit rating. This new financial review was
incomplete when the agency released its first
package in March, so the financing assumptions were “very conservative,” according to
the agency’s CEO, Peter Rogoff.
While the annual cost would remain
the same under these
changes,
taxpayers
won’t be getting something for nothing. The
taxes would last longer.
Under any version of
the ST3 proposal, projects would be done in
25 years, but taxpayers
would keep paying off
bonds beyond that time
frame (and then continue paying for operations
costs even after the bonds are paid off).
With these changes, that payback would
take a little longer. The agency does not yet
know exactly how much longer, a spokesperson said. In any case, paying back those
taxes will likely be combined someday with
another light rail measure—the eventual
Sound Transit 4—meaning we’ll all be paying the new taxes far into the future.
The Sound Transit Board will vote in
June on the final package to send to the November ballot. While improvements of just
three or five years can be hard to get that
excited about—light rail to Ballard is still
19 years out—the faster timelines will also
improve the package’s chances of passing,
says Shefali Ranganathan, the executive director of Transportation Choices Coalition,
which will run the pro-ST3 campaign.
“What we will be able to tell the public is
that you’ll see these projects open every few
years,” Ranganathan says. “That’s a very big
selling point.” ■
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is still 19 years out.
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package’s chances
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Families of Those Killed by Police
Push to Remove “State of Mind
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date. When a waiting list becomes longer than the amount of people we can service
within two – three years we stop taking applications. Because we have very few vacancies, we expect it will take a long time before we can assist applicants already on the
waiting lists. Therefore, we have no plans to reopen these waiting lists in the near future. The closures are effective June 1, 2016 and shall remain in effect until further notice.
No applications will be accepted while the waiting lists are closed. When CHH is
prepared to re-open these waiting lists, an announcement will be posted on our
website and in the local newspaper. While CHH will not be taking new applications during the time the waiting lists are
closed, staff will continue to process those currently on the lists and will make unit
offers as vacancies occur. You are still required to update your personal information by submitting changes in writing.
coalition of African American, Native T. Williams in 2010 by Seattle police officer
American, and Latino families who Ian Birk. The shooting provoked an outcry
have lost loved ones to police violence has and became the catalyst for Department of
filed an initiative with the State of Washing- Justice–ordered police reforms in Seattle.
ton to change the state law on deadly force The police department itself said Birk vioand make it easier to prosecute police officers lated policy; Birk resigned in lieu of firing.
who kill.
But King County prosecutors declined
State law currently requires prosecutors to charge Birk because, they said, they
to make a two-pronged argument if they couldn’t prove Birk acted with malicious inare going to prosecute
tent or that he didn’t act
cops for killing someone:
in good faith.
There have been 213
They must show that the
With the blessing of
officer acted “with malWilliams’s
brother, Rick
killings by police
ice and without a good
Williams, the initiative
officers in this state is being called the John
faith belief.” The law,
passed in 1986, is one of over the past decade. T. Williams Bill. Among
the most restrictive in
its endorsers are the
the nation.
families of people shot
The initiative would strike this so-called by police around the state, including the
“state of mind language” from the statute, family of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, killed
language that makes the justness of a kill- in a hail of bullets while he ran away from
ing hinge on how a police officer thinks and Pasco police in 2015, as well as the family of
feels at the time. The remaining language in Andre Thompson and Bryson Chaplin, two
the law centers on whether a police homicide unarmed teenagers wounded by an Olympia
can objectively be considered “reasonable” police officer who shot at them after they alin light of threats to the safety of the officer legedly shoplifted a case of beer.
or the public. Supporters will need to gather
The family of Che Taylor, killed by Seapproximately 250,000 signatures by the attle police in February 2016, has been
end of the year in order for the initiative to instrumental in organizing the coalition beappear on the 2017 fall ballot.
hind the initiative. (Taylor’s family says he
Critics say “state of mind language” cre- was murdered; police say Taylor was killed
ates a double standard between police and while pulling a handgun on officers.) Taylor’s
citizens, and gives officers a virtual license brother and sister have hosted meetings in
to kill. Police say it’s unfair to use hindsight Seattle’s Central District and forged friendjudgment when assessing decisions officers ships with other families in Tacoma and
are forced to make in the moment.
Olympia.
There have been 213 killings by police
“I think this is important, as a civil-rights
officers in this state over the past decade, ac- movement,” said Andre Taylor. “The people
cording to a Seattle Times analysis. But only need to be woken up. This is to make these
one officer has ever faced charges. Not one officers be accountable.” ■
has been convicted.
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Minimum-Wage Law
The Company Said Misinformation
Was to Blame for the Error
BY TOBIAS COUGHLIN-BOGUE
I
an Eisenberg, owner of Uncle Ike’s Pot
Shop, the city’s highest profile and most
successful cannabis retailer, is used to navigating complex regulations. But when it comes
to adhering to Seattle’s minimum-wage ordinance, even he is not immune from messing up.
Recently, one of his budtenders, Nicole
Stotts, noticed that she was being paid less
than minimum wage. The current minimum
wage for tipped employees at small businesses—budtending is a tipped industry these
days—is $10.50 an hour. But Stotts was receiving only $10 an hour, which is the wage
she started at eight months ago. (The minimum wage rose on January 1.)
After noticing the discrepancy, Stotts
texted Lia Yagelowich, who handles payroll
for Uncle Ike’s, and asked if there was some
sort of error. Stotts shared a screenshot of
her conversation with The Stranger.
“Your tips is [sic] about 6 to 7 per hour,”
Yagelowich texted back, “so we meet the
minimum requirements at
$15 an hour per city law.”
Stotts then sent Yagelowich
a link to the city’s latest
minimum-wage guidelines,
which clearly indicate that
the minimum wage for
tipped workers is $10.50 an
hour as of January 1, and
reiterated her concerns.
“When are you working?” Yagelowich replied. “I
will explain to you about minimum wages.”
Let’s take a moment to explain something about minimum wages: The system
Yagelowich described is a tip-credit system,
in which an employer can count a worker’s
total compensation—including tips, wages,
and benefits—toward meeting the minimum
wage. In Seattle, small employers must pay
a minimum compensation of $12 an hour, and
when considering tips and benefits, the minimum wage must be at least $10.50 an hour.
So how did Uncle Ike’s, the city’s most
prominent pot shop, miss that crucial detail?
According to Jen Lanzador, director of operations for Uncle Ike’s, the error was due to
misinformation given to them by their humanresources firm, which operates out of Spokane.
That’s not entirely surprising, given that
even companies right here in Seattle get
confused about the minimum-wage law. The
city’s Office of Labor Standards (OLS) has an
entire technical assistance program designed
to help employers. Stotts said she filed a
complaint with the OLS and has been in contact with an OLS investigator. And while the
OLS can’t comment on specific cases, Elliott
Bronstein, the agency’s spokesperson, said
that any complaint involving minimum wage
would likely warrant an investigation, especially if it involved multiple employees.
While there are not automatic penalties for employers found to have violated
minimum-wage laws, Bronstein said, the OLS
does make sure that employees receive all
back pay they are owed. He also stressed that
business owners who are unclear on the law
can call the agency to ask questions, with no
risk of investigation.
Lanzador said she was surprised and
dismayed to learn that Uncle Ike’s was in
violation of Seattle’s minimum-wage law. The
business had no knowledge of the minimumwage violation prior to Stotts’s complaint, she
said, and they would have fixed it if they had.
“I can’t believe this happened,” Lanzador
said. “We love our budtenders. It was certainly never done intentionally. It was not
done ignorantly, either. We thought that we
were in compliance.”
Eisenberg, Uncle Ike’s owner, was similarly flabbergasted. “[The] embarrassing part
is, I really followed the whole living-wage
deal and thought to myself about people not
understanding it, with all the outreach, ‘How
could they be so dumb?’” he
said. “Just needed a mirror.”
“I feel shitty about this
one, because I was pretty
psyched the city did the minimum-wage law,” he added.
But Stotts wasn’t buying
it. “They sell over a million
dollars in product a month,
and they pay poverty wages,” she said. “They tell you
that you should feel lucky
working there and that the tips are ‘amazing!’
But in reality, you make $15 an hour including
tips, and that’s still a low wage.”
Stotts said she was also unhappy that her
concerns about her wage were initially ignored.
“I just don’t see how they were so dismissive when I gave them all the info,” she said.
“It took me calling a newspaper and the civil
rights office to get them to listen to me.” (The
Office of Labor Standards is a subdivision of
the Office for Civil Rights.) Stotts said she was
quitting her job as a result of the experience.
It may be too late for Stotts, but Eisenberg appears to be taking steps to rectify
the situation. He estimated he owes 10 employees $2,834.63 in back pay for the time
period between January 1 and May 26. In a
post on Facebook that went up shortly after
I interviewed him, Eisenberg also vowed to
immediately raise all his lowest-paid employees to $11 an hour to make up for the error.
This snafu—apparently more of a screwup
than a screwing over—also brings up the important and thorny issue of compensation for
low-level cannabis employees. Although labor
issues are not unique to the cannabis industry,
they are especially fraught for cannabis companies. Washington’s pot industry is watched
closely nationwide, and if workers aren’t making minimum wage while their bosses cash in
on the so-called “green rush,” it reflects poorly
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n mid-April, a panel of writers from
publications across the city gathered at
the Rainier Arts Center to address the
elephant in the newsroom: that #JournalismSoWhite. The tiny theater was
packed to the gills. People were eager to
discuss why diverse voices are critical for a
successful newsroom.
According to the Atlantic, 92 percent of
journalists in the United States are white.
And Seattle isn’t exempt. Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large told the audience that
people of color made up 20.8 percent of the
Times newsroom in 2015—nearly a 2 percent drop from 2004. Things are pretty white
around the offices of The Stranger, too.
Podcasts aren’t necessarily journalism—and they’re not hosted exclusively
by journalists—but white voices seem to
dominate the podcast scene here. There’s
The Stranger’s own Savage Lovecast and
Blabbermouth, KPLU’s Sound Effect, Too
Beautiful to Live, and The Fire You Can’t
Put Out. If Seattleites are looking to hear
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Podcasting
While Black
With the Launch of Hella Black Hella Seattle, Our
Podcasting Scene Is Becoming a Little Less White
by Ana Sofia Knauf
city is nearly 70 percent white. The Seattle
Times estimates that the Central District, the
city’s historically black neighborhood, will be
less than 10 percent black in the next decade
thanks to ever-increasing rents and the costs
of living in the city.
Eula Scott Bynoe, Alaina Caldwell, and
Jasmine Jackson, all age 31, grew up together
in the Central District. They watched many of
their neighbors and friends pack up and move
further south to places like Renton as wealthier white families moved in. In an effort to bring
together the community they watched scatter,
on May 26, the three women launched a hyperlocal podcast created by and for people of color.
So, podcast nerds and media critics, you
might want to skip this week’s episode of
This American Life, Call Your Girlfriend,
and Freakonomics and check out Hella Black
Hella Seattle.
•••
B
ynoe, Caldwell, and Jackson are huddled inside a small recording studio at 8
p.m. on a breezy Monday evening. With
seven people crowded inside, along with a
drum set, an electric guitar, a bass, and keyboards, the studio soon grows muggy. Bynoe
ditches her chambray shirt for the camisole
she is wearing underneath, while Jackson,
looking perfectly comfortable in her creamcolored sweater, nervously looks over her
notes. Caldwell, who is wearing an intricately
patterned tunic dress, passes around glasses
of Hennessy and apple juice.
It is showtime.
“Welcome to Hella Black Hella Seattle,
creating community for people of color in
Seattle,” Bynoe says into the microphone,
kicking off the inaugural episode of Hella
Black Hella Seattle, or HBHS for short.
Critical Sun Studios, where we’re recording
today, is tucked away in the heart of Beacon
Hill. Seattle music producer and musician Bubba Jones, who is Bynoe’s cousin, owns the studio
and is helping to produce the new podcast. The
three hosts all hope that, at the very least, their
podcast will remind us that people of color are
still integral to the fabric of Seattle—and help
people of color navigate this city.
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“To find other people of color [in Seattle],
you need to know where to go,” Jackson, who
serves as the podcast’s calendar curator, tells
me before the taping. “If I had just moved
here, absolutely I’d feel isolated. I wouldn’t
know where to go, where to eat, where to
meet people.”
The hosts of HBHS intend to be both tour
guides and local historians. Caldwell wants to
let listeners know about the best places to eat;
her latest favorites are Vendemmia and La
Cocina Oaxaqueña. (Her cohosts gasp when
Caldwell admits she isn’t a die-hard Ezell’s
Chicken fan. Instead, she says she prefers the
Nashville hot chicken at Georgetown’s Sisters
“When people think of
what a Seattle person
looks like, they do not
picture the three of us.
People imagine a typical
Seattleite to be a white
woman decked out in
Lululemon gear.”
and Brothers, a recent discovery.) Jackson
shouts out local dance and boot-camp classes
for the upcoming weekend to break Seattleites
out of their regular gym routines.
Another mission of HBHS, one close to
Bynoe’s heart, is introducing listeners to
notable Seattleites of color. Local hiphop artists Porter Ray and Nate Jack are the show’s
very first guests.
Bynoe leads the discussion, deftly steering
the conversation from music and the meaning
of everyone’s horoscope to how Ray and Jack
coped with their fathers dying and, eventually, their experience balancing their careers as
musicians with their responsibilities as fathers
themselves.
“I didn’t graduate high school. I lost my
father during high school, and I just lost interest. Due to my father getting sick, that’s
when I started struggling. But it’s not like I
grew up underprivileged,” says Ray.
•••
B
ynoe, Caldwell, and Jackson are all professionals—but none are professional
journalists. In fact, none of them even
work in media. Bynoe is a full-time doula,
Caldwell is an IT coordinator at Northwest
Hospital, and Jackson is a merchandising coordinator for jewelry retailer Blue Nile.
Bynoe was the driving force behind the
creation of the show—Caldwell and Jackson joke that they agreed to do the podcast
so Bynoe would stop bugging them about
it—and she plans to address the systemic
inequalities faced by people of color in this
city: high rates of incarceration among black
men, an education system that is failing black
students, and how the city has become more
segregated as gentrification and soaring
rents force people of color out of the city.
“I want this to be a show that everyone listens to, not just people of color,” Bynoe tells me
before the taping. “I want white people to listen
with it in mind that this will build [their] understanding of what it is to be black in Seattle and
to understand that Seattle is not all roses.”
Or all white.
“When people think of what a Seattle person
looks like, they do not picture the three of us,”
says Bynoe. “People imagine a typical Seattleite
to be a white woman decked out in Lululemon
gear waiting in line at Molly Moon’s.”
Our conversation shifts from a discussion
of the makeup of Seattle to the makeup of the
Central District.
According to census data, the black population in the neighborhood has dropped
dramatically—from 51 percent to just 21
percent over the last 20 years. To Bynoe, this
isn’t a sign of black flight. It’s a sign that the
residents of the historically black neighborhood aren’t wanted there anymore. Bynoe
and her husband routinely receive letters
from developers interested in buying their
Central District home.
“My mom gets letters in the mail asking
her to move—that’s not flight, that’s force,”
says Bynoe. “You never get letters in the
mail that are like, ‘I know that your husband
passed away and that your income has been
[cut]’… or ‘We want to get to know you better and have a block party.’ Those aren’t the
things that come to the door. What comes to
the door is ‘We would love for you to leave.’”
As a result, Bynoe says the neighborhood
feels like a hostile place.
“We don’t walk around and hang out as
much as we did [because] it feels much more
like it’s their neighborhood than it’s ours,”
she says of the white newcomers to the Central District. “There’s this racial difference
and this class difference as well. They’re
aware that we’ve been here forever and that
we’re not making the same income as them
because our homes aren’t as nice as theirs.”
In a follow-up e-mail, Bynoe, Caldwell,
and Jackson compiled a list of black-owned
businesses—community
landmarks—that
have closed in the last few years: Roger’s
Market, Catfish Corner, the Kingfish Cafe,
Polly Esther’s nightclub, and more.
The HBHS team says they’re tired of seeing
community staples close their doors, and they
see their podcast as a way of helping promote
POC-owned businesses—to white and black
listeners—so that these longtime neighborhood spots aren’t lost among shiny new housing
developments or swanky new grocery stores.
“As black people, we make less money
than white people, period,” says Bynoe. “So if
you’re a black-owned business that just gets
black people coming into it, [it’s hard to] get
rich off of that.”
•••
B
ack in the studio, Nate Jack is pattering away on the golden drum kit while
Bubba Jones plucks a bass line. The
room feels even warmer now—but maybe
that’s just the cognac. The women of HBHS
and Porter Ray jump back and forth between
debriefing their first two-hour recording and
their plans for the weekend. At one point,
Jones’s 10-year-old daughter comes into the
studio. Bynoe sits the little girl in front of
a microphone and asks her why she’s Hella
Black Hella Seattle.
“I’m Hella Black and Hella Seattle because I like recording music with my dad,”
she says.
“Yeah, that’s it!” Bynoe tells her.
New episodes of HBHS will be released
every other week until September 1, when
Bynoe plans to move to Los Angeles with
her husband so he can study animation at the
prestigious California Institute of the Arts.
When I ask whether she intends to continue
producing HBHS episodes while in California, Bynoe is vague.
“We are all the way Seattle girls, and we
know there is nothing to do in November. We
go into hibernation,” she says. “But we’re definitely going to do a winter-break episode!” n
Download episodes of Hella Black Hella Seattle on iTunes, Soundcloud, and
Stitcher, or check out their website at hellablackhellaseattle.com. Follow them on
Twitter @HBlackHSeattle and Instagram
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The Kid
BY DAN SAVAGE
There’s this boy—he’s 29; I’m 46 and female. We
met when we were 23 and 41. I was not and am
not into little boys. The Kid chased me, and I
turned him down for months—until I got drunk
one night and caved. It was
supposed to be a one-night
stand, but it isn’t anymore.
We’ve never been “together,”
because the Kid wants kids
and happily ever after and
all that horseshit, and I don’t
(and I’m too old even if I did).
The Kid has been in several
relationships over the years,
looking for The One, and I
genuinely hope he finds her.
In my wildest dreams, I’m
invited to their wedding and
their children call me auntie. But in the meantime, the Kid runs to me
when he hits a hiccup in a relationship, and I
let him—meaning, he gets mad at her and fucks
me madly. Afterward, I get him to talk about
it—he tells me what happened, and I always
try to advise him how to make it better, how
to make it work. But so far it hasn’t, and we’re
“us” again until he meets another girl. I do love
this Kid, for what it’s worth. But I’m afraid I’m
ruining his chances. I’m afraid that by being
an escape hatch, I’m giving him a reason not to
work on these relationships and he will never
find the kids/forever thing he’s looking for.
Should I let him go for his own sake? If I tell
him honestly why, he won’t accept it, so I’d have
to just vanish. I’d hate that. It would be worth it
if I knew he met someone and got to live happily
ever after. But I’d spend my life feeling bad for
disappearing on him, and I’d always wonder if
the Kid wound up alone.
Don’t Call Me Cougar
I don’t see any conflict between what the Kid
says he wants in the long run—kids and happily
ever after and all that horseshit—and the things
his actions indicate he wants now, i.e., your rear
and your ear. He’s young, he hasn’t met a woman
he could see himself with for the long haul, and
he appears to be in no rush—he can have his
first kid next year or 20 years from now.
And the meantime, DCMC, he has you.
Here’s where I detect some conflict between
statements and actions: The fact that you keep
fucking the Kid while he’s technically still with
other women—first you fuck him (madly) and
then you advise him (sagely)—is a pretty good
indication that you’re not ready to let go of him,
either. If you really wanted to encourage the
Kid to work things out with whatever woman he
happens to be seeing, DCMC, you would offer
him your make-it-work advice without fucking
him first.
Fucking someone who has a girlfriend—
especially someone who has a girlfriend he’s
supposed to be with exclusively—doesn’t
exactly telegraph “I think you two should work
it out.” So going forward, maybe you should
offer the Kid your advice when he’s seeing
someone, fuck the shit out of him when he’s
single, and don’t waste too much time worrying about whether fucking you incentivizes
being single. Because single/you may be what
he wants right now.
If I first met someone on a hookup site or at a
sex party and then we start seeing each other,
what’s the best way to explain how we met
when we’re at a social event and people ask?
Torrid Revelations
Undermining Totally Honesty
The truth is always nice—and in your case,
TRUTH, telling the truth about your relationship could be constructive.
There are a lot of people out there in loving
committed relationships (LCR) that had crazy
sleazy starts (CSS). But very few people in a
LCR with a CSS tell the truth when asked how
they met. A couple who met at a sex party will
say they met at a dinner party, a couple that
met inside a cage in a sex dungeon will say they
met doing a team-building exercise at a work
retreat, a couple that met during an impulsive,
drunken threesome will say
they met at a riotous protest
outside a Trump rally.
These lies are understandable: People don’t want to be
judged or shamed. But when a
CSS couple lies about how they
met, TRUTH, they reinforce
the very shame and stigma
that made them feel like they
had to lie in the first place.
And they play into the sexnegative, self-defeating, and
super-hypocritical assumption
JOE NEWTON
made by singles who attend
sex parties, spend time in cages, and have impulsive threesomes—these single people who do
sleazy things often refuse to date the people they
meet at sex parties, etc., because they believe no
LCR ever had a CSS. If couples that had sleazy
starts told the truth about themselves, single
people would be less likely to rule out dating
people they met sleazily.
I despised your advice to LIBIDOS, the poly
married woman who you counseled to have
sex with her husband even though she has zero
desire to do so. You came close to telling her to
throw away her consent. Somewhere between
a third and half of women have been sexually
assaulted. Would it be possible for most of them
to suck it up and sleep with someone they had
no desire for without ending up resenting or
hating that person? Even if LIBIDOS won
life’s coin toss on sexual assault, she would
most likely come to resent her husband if she
had passionless sex with him. From the husband’s perspective—assuming he’s not a piece
of shit who thinks he’s entitled to sex but rather
just wants a sexual connection with his wife—
wouldn’t being lied to in this way ruin him? I
also don’t think you would’ve given this advice
to a gay man—to let his husband fuck him the
ass, even if he didn’t want to get fucked. The
truth is really the only solution here. The road
you set this woman down leads only to bitterness and divorce.
Seriously Horrified About That
LIBIDOS, a poly woman with a boyfriend (who
she’s fucking) and a husband (who no one is
fucking), asked me if she should “force” herself
to fuck her husband. She also mentioned having
a kid and not wanting to get divorced. And it
was my opinion—an opinion she sought out—
that she might wanna fuck her husband once in
a while. Advice isn’t binding arbitration, SHAT,
and if fucking her husband is a traumatizing
ordeal, as opposed to a dispiriting chore, she
should ignore my advice and keep not fucking
her husband. And seeing as LIBIDOS asked me
if she should fuck her husband, it seemed safe to
assume that she was open to the idea.
You weren’t the only reader to take me to
task for my advice to LIBIDOS. Apparently,
there are lots of people out there who don’t
realize how many long-marrieds—men and
women, gay and straight, poly and mono—fuck
their spouses out of a grim sense of duty. It
seems a bit extreme to describe that kind of
sex as a consent-free/sexual-assault-adjacent
trauma. Choosing in the absence of coercion to
go through the marital motions to keep your
spouse happy is rarely great sex—for either
party—but slapping the nonconsensual label on
joyless-but-trauma-free marital sex is neither
helpful nor accurate. n
On the Lovecast, Emily Bazelon
and Mistress Matisse on decriminalizing
prostitution: savagelovecast.com.
[email protected]
@fakedansavage on Twitter
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podcast every week at
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Patte Loper: Seeking Higher Ground
Through August 19 at Suyama Space
Riffs: Photographic Center Northwest, SatThurs, free, through June 15
Sherry Markovitz: Time to Take a Walk:
Greg Kucera Gallery, opening reception
Thurs June 2, 6-8 pm, free, through July 2
Simple Means: SOIL, opening reception
Thurs June 2, 6-8 pm, free, through July 2
Unsettled~Resettled: Seattle’s Hunt
Hotel: Japanese Cultural and Community
Center of Washington, Mon-Fri, free
Women on the Brink: Vermillion, Tues-Sat,
free, through June 4
Yoona Lee: Run Race Ragged: Three
Takes on Racial Politics in America: Ghost
Gallery, Tues-Sun, free, through June 5
Complete listings at strangerthingstodo.com
R EA D ING S & TA LKS
Adam Haslett
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PATTE LOPER
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Patte Loper:
Seeking Higher
Ground
DON’T MISS In one of the final installations ever to materialize at Suyama Space,
which closes at the end of this year, Patte
Loper offers two sides of a historical mess,
the one we call Seattle. Referencing the
early-20th-century adventure of the slicing
off of downtown’s hills and the contemporary absurdity of blowing a tunnel the size
of the sky out from underneath that same
downtown, Loper uses construction materials, video, paint, and sculpture to evoke
models of things that can never be built and
yet won’t disappear. We are always Seeking Higher Ground. It is in the past, as in
the holdout hills of homeowners, or it is
in the future, as in the places we’ll run to
when warm oceans swallow coastal lands.
We are never now; we are always modeling. Here are the skeletons we pretend are
living things. (Suyama Space, Mon-Fri, free,
through Aug 19) JEN GRAVES
We also recommend…
ART EVENTS
2016 Ned Behnke Annual Lecture with
Artist Jefferson Pinder: Frye Art Museum,
Fri June 3, 6-9 pm, free
Backstreet Bazaar: The Hillman City Collaboratory, Sun June 5, 7-10 pm, by donation
First Thursday Art Walk: Pioneer Square,
Thurs June 2, free
Internet Meditations: Nat Evans: Henry
Art Gallery, Thurs June 2, 7-8 pm, free
SuttonBeresCuller with Sharon Arnold:
Town Hall, Mon June 6, 7:30 pm, $5
Sculptures: Henry Art Gallery, Wed-Sun,
$10, through Sept 11
Posing Beauty in African American Culture: Northwest African American Museum,
Wed-Sun, $7, through Sept 4
Young Blood: Frye Art Museum, Tues-Sun,
free, through June 19
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100% Kanekalon: The Untold Story of
the Marginalized Matriarch: Northwest
African American Museum, June 4-Oct 16, $7
Atoms + Bytes: Redefining Craft in the
Digital Age: Bellevue Arts Museum, TuesSun, $12, through June 26
The Brink: Jason Hirata: Henry Art Gallery,
Wed-Sun, $10, through June 26
The Duchamp Effect: Seattle Art Museum,
Wed-Sun, $20, through Aug 14
Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony
Fashion Fair: Bellevue Arts Museum, TuesSun, $12, through Aug 14
Journey to Dunhuang: Buddhist Art of
the Silk Road Caves: Asian Art Museum,
Wed-Sun, $9, through June 12
Martha Rosler: Below the Surface:
Seattle Art Museum, Wed-Sun, $20, through
July 4
Mood Indigo: Textiles From Around the
World: Asian Art Museum, Wed-Sun, $9,
through Oct 9
Northwest Art Now @ TAM: Tacoma Art
Museum, Tues-Sun, $14, through Sept 4
Paul McCarthy: White Snow, Wood
Cover Reveals: The Alice, Sat, free, through
July 2
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Maintenance, June 2-5, free
Gala Bent: G. Gibson Gallery, Wed-Sat, free,
through June 11
Imagined Futures: Science Fiction, Art,
and Artifacts from the Paul G. Allen
Family Collection: Pivot Art + Culture,
Tues-Sun, $5, through July 10
James Hayward: James Harris Gallery, WedSat, free, through July 2
Julie Alpert: Bridge Productions, Wed-Sat,
free, through June 4
Mark Mitchell: Casket Pall Residency:
Seattle Presents Gallery, Thurs-Fri, 10 am-4
pm, free, through July 15
Pat De Caro: Foreign Shores: Gallery4Culture, opening reception Thurs June 2, 6-8
pm, free, through June 30
Path with Art: We Are All Here: Seattle
City Hall, Mon-Fri, free, through July 5
Patte Loper: From There to Here: Platform
Gallery, Wed-Sat, free, through June 18
Rafael Soldi: Life Stand Still Here: Glass
Box Gallery, Wed-Sat, free, through June 30
DON’T MISS A publicist for Imagine Me
Gone recently described it as “the best
novel I’ve ever worked on.” Then I read it,
and I couldn’t believe how good it was. Full
disclosure: I’ve known Adam Haslett personally for a decade—and he has contributed
several pieces to The Stranger over the years.
But Imagine Me Gone is extraordinary, even
more gripping and devastating than his
novel Union Atlantic and his debut collection of short stories, You Are Not a Stranger
Here, which was a finalist for the National
Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Imagine Me
Gone centers on a white male character so
racked with guilt and sadness about the horrors of white supremacy that he can hardly
function. (University Book Store, Fri June 3,
7 pm, free) CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE
We also recommend…
PubSci: The Neuroscience of Sex and
Gender: Hilliard’s Tap Room, Wed June 1, 6
pm, free
Seattle StorySLAM: Grudge: Fremont Abbey, Thurs June 2, 8 pm, $10
Silent Reading Party: Sorrento Hotel, Wed
June 1, 6 pm, free
We Are All Here: Poetry Reading: Seattle
City Hall, Fri June 3, 12-1 pm, free
Complete listings at strangerthingstodo.com
F O O D & D R INK
Bad Jokes
DON’T MISS There’s a lot to like about this
event, including jokes told by local comedians Elicia Sanchez and Wilfred Padua, and
rap music played by indispensable Stranger columnist Larry Mizell Jr. and Andrew
Matson, the DJs behind Speckled & Drake’s
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We also recommend…
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Jewish Community Center, Mercer Island,
Thurs June 2, 7 pm, $20-$25
Negroni Week: Various locations, June 6-12
Sunday Pig Roast: Bell + Whete, Sun June
5, 5 pm, $24 per person
Yalla Pop-Up: Marjorie, Mon June 6, $50,
ongoing
Complete listings at strangerthingstodo.com
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Caught
DON’T MISS
I’d count Christopher Chen’s
Caught as one of the four smartest /
powerfulest / provocativest straight plays
I’ve seen in this town since I took on the
job of theater critic back in November. The
play is meta-theatrical, but in a meaningful
way—less of a self-flagellating/self-congratulatory annoying ouroboros kind of
thing and more of a flower blooming out
of another flower kind of thing. It’s about
Western responses to Chinese dissident
art. Sort of. It’s also about relative pain. It’s
also about how the truth is a collaborative
fiction, and about how nobody can really
know anyone else. Importantly, it’s about an
hour and a half long, tops. Go see it. (Bathhouse Theater, Thurs-Sun, $17-$34, through
June 12) RICH SMITH
We also recommend…
9 Circles: Strawberry Theatre Workshop at
12th Avenue Arts, Thurs-Sat, $36, through
June 25
The Central Comedy Show featuring
Andy Haynes: Gallery 1412, Thurs June 2,
8 pm, $5
Comedy Nest Open Mic: Rendezvous, Tues
June 7, 8 pm, $5
The Gay Uncle Time: Rendezvous, Wed
June 1, 7 pm, $6
Made in Seattle: Cherdonna Shinatra:
Founders Theater, Thurs-Sun, 7:30 pm, $20,
through June 12
Paint Your Wagon: 5th Avenue Theatre,
June 2-25
PNB: American Stories: McCaw Hall, June
3-12
Spin the Bottle: Annex Theatre, Fri June 3,
11 pm, $5/$10
Stick Fly: Langston Hughes Performing Arts
Institute, Wed-Sun, $20-$40, through June
19
Whim W’Him: OUT-SPOKEN: Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Fri-Sat, 8 pm, $25,
through June 11
Complete listings at strangerthingstodo.com
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Sonita
DON’T MISS This documentary must be
seen with two others in the Seattle International Film Festival, Presenting Princess Shaw
(which played during opening weekend)
and Marzia, My Friend (playing June 7-8).
These documentaries (which concern young
and poor women who live with very difficult
pasts and are trying to take control of their
futures) are connected in ways that deserve
careful examination and deep discussion.
In Sonita, a young Afghan rapper dreams of
becoming famous like Nicki Minaj, of having
lots of screaming fans, and of not being
forced to marry some old man for money.
She lives in Tehran, Iran, and most of her
family still lives in war-torn Afghanistan.
During a session of drama therapy, we learn
how her father and brother were killed
right in front of her and her mother. Rapping is all she has got. And when she gets
one chance to make a song and a video, she
becomes an internet hit. This music video,
which is at the center of the documentary,
is one of the best I have ever seen in my life.
(Shoreline Community College, Sat June 4,
3:30 pm, $13) CHARLES MUDEDE
We also recommend…
Aisha: Ark Lodge Cinema, Sun June 5, 6
pm, $13
Alone: SIFF Cinema Uptown, Mon June 6, 4
pm, $11
Another Evil: SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Mon
June 6, 9:30 pm, $13
BANG! The Bert Berns Story: SIFF Cinema
Uptown, Wed June 1, 4:30 pm, $11
Battle of Sevastopol: SIFF Cinema Uptown, Fri June 3, 3:30 pm, $13; Sat June 4,
Kirkland Performance Center, 6 pm, $13; Ark
Lodge Cinema, Sun June 5, 3:30 pm, $13
The Black Hen: SIFF Cinema Uptown, Mon
June 6, 8:30 pm, $13; Ark Lodge Cinema,
Tues June 7, 9 pm, $13
Bugs: AMC Pacific Place, June 4-5, $13
Burn Burn Burn: SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Fri
June 3, 6:30 pm, $13; SIFF Cinema Uptown,
Sat June 4, 2 pm, $13
Cameraperson: SIFF Cinema Uptown, June
1-2, $13
Ceviche’s DNA: AMC Pacific Place, Mon
June 6, 7 pm, $13
Checks and Balances: SIFF Cinema Uptown, Wed June 1, 4 pm, $11
A Copy of My Mind: SIFF Cinema Uptown,
Fri June 3, 6:30 pm, $13; AMC Pacific Place,
Sat June 4, 4 pm, $13; Kirkland Performance
Center, Sun June 5, 3 pm, $13
Dawn: Kirkland Performance Center, Sun
June 5, 8:30 pm, $13
Finding October: SIFF Cinema Uptown,
Thurs June 2, 8:30 pm, $13
The Girl Who Saved My Life: SIFF Cinema
Uptown, Sun June 5, 7:30 pm, $13
The High Sun: SIFF Cinema Uptown, Fri
June 3, 3:45 pm, $11; Ark Lodge Cinemas,
Mon June 6, 9 pm, $13
How Most Things Work: SIFF Cinema
Uptown, Mon June 6, 3 pm, $11
Lamb: SIFF Cinema Uptown, Tues June 7, 6
pm, $13
Marzia, My Friend: AMC Pacific Place, Tues
June 7, 7 pm, $13
Nakom: SIFF Cinema Uptown, June 6-7,
$11/$13
The Night Stalker: SIFF Cinema Uptown,
Sat June 4, 5:30 pm, $13; AMC Pacific Place,
Sun June 5, 1:30 pm, $13
The Queen of Ireland: AMC Pacific Place,
Thurs June 2, 7 pm, $13; SIFF Cinema
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9/30/16
PrideFest
Queer
Walk 2016
Venues denoted by a star on the map.
1400 10th Ave Seattle • 206.556.5781
1 Asian Art Museum
w1400
w wE.. Prospect
S o i C aSt.p206-654-3100
itolHill.com
810 E. Roy St. 206-324-0407
www.joebar.org
New paintings by Erin Pollock.
3 Cairo
507 E Mercer
www.templeofcairo.com
Everything Ends. Join us for the final art show at Cairo,
celebrating 8 years of DIY art, music and culture.
Opening reception 7–9p.
4 Kismet Salon and Spa
1417 10th Ave Studio C
Presenting JUICY: Freshly Squeezed Performance
from SC Artists in Residence. Featuring new works
by Laura Aschoff, Patrick Clark, Jolie Emmeff Laide,
Marissa Rae Niederhauser, and Alisa Popova. Activities
at 5p, Performance begins at 7p.
29 Out of the Closet Thrift Store
1016 E. Pike St. 206-307-4537
outofthecloset.org
Featuring two musical acts performing during Queer
edition of the Capitol Hill Art Walk. Happy pride! Stop
in and have a listen. 5–6p: Music by Matte Demon:
A musician possessed by a demon named “Matte”
bringing music to the mortals. 6–7p: Hip hop by ad
foll and Captaincy
30 Caffe Vita
1005 E. Pike St. 206-709-4440
16th Ave
28 Studio Current
15th Ave
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26 Cloud Gallery at Frame Central
27 Retail Therapy
905 E Pike St. 206-324-4092
www.ineedretailtherapy.com
Showcasing quality artwork by regional artists.
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25 SugarPill
900 E Pine St. 206-322-7455
www.sugarpillseattle.com
901 E. Pike St. 206-720-2054 www.framecentral.com
Adam Fung; constellation atlas. In this new body of
work Fung considers how painting can mimic our
attempts to map the unknown, investigate the make up
of the universe, and code such infinite matter. 5–9p
E Olive St
25
E Pine St
15 16 18
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E Howell St
12th Ave
1620 Broadway, Suite 100D 206-324-2517
www.refreshdesserts.com
QTAPI: Nutrients of Self. For Pride month, Queer Trans
Asian Pacific Islander self-identified artists showcase
their work which sustains and nourishes them. Artists
Raychelle Duazo, Darius X, and James Lawrence
Ardeña explore their intersectional identities though
illustration, print and mixed media collage.
15th Ave
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24 Refresh Frozen Desserts & Espresso
20
14th Ave
12
11
14th Ave
10
14th Ave
E Howell St
E Denny Way
49
13th Ave
818 E. Pike St. 206-397-3564
www.capitolcider.com
Drink and Draw: Use free drawing supplies to sketch
live models, 7–8:30pm. A live model will be onstage
along with a Gage drawing instructor. We provide
materials; watch the artists at work or try your hand
at creating your very own masterpiece! Live music to
follow.
E Denny Way
8
51
E Thomas St
11th Ave
501 E Pine St 206-838-9445
gammaraygamestore.com
23 Capitol Cider
9
E Harrison St
E John St
10th Ave
13b Gamma Ray Games
5
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Cal Anderson Park
13a Art Primo
415 E Pine St 206-365-4083
www.artprimoseattle.com
Video Pop-Up with Boozoka Films, 6–9p.
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22 Saint John’s Bar and Eatery
719 E. Pike St. 206-245-1390
www.saintjohnsseattle.com
Mathematica: LA-based artist Marty Knop's wild mixed
media and digital creations! On view through early
August. DJ Pavone spinning tunes during Art Walk!
Curated by Ghost Gallery.
E Republican St
10th Ave
1600 Melrose Ave 206-588-0375
www.pineboxbar.com
"SeARTle" A collection of Seattle inspired art by
Sensei 23. Join us for a pint and live painting from the
artist himself. Show your love for the Emerald City with
some local draft.
701 E Pike St. 206-323-0207
thestandardgoods.com
"RAISE HELL” by David Enriquez. New works
from the Cultective and the summer line! Raise
Hell is a collection of works from local Northwest
outcast artists—Joe Mcsween, Michael Chsiung,
MikeMckennedy, David Kaul, Natalia Czajkiewicz and
Ian Cunningham. 7p–midnight.
4
E Republican St
Federal Ave E
12 The Pine Box
21 Standard Goods
E Mercer St
3
Broadway
11 BH Real Estate Group and Jenn Andrea
Photography Studio
320 East Pine Street #110
www.BrianHuie.com
Stephen Cohen describes his paintings and drawings
as unrefined - they have empty spots just like the wood
itself—and reflect everyday people and landscapes
that are undistinguished and unrecognized in society.
20 Creative Blueprint
1617 Boylston Ave. 206-981-7202
www.creativeblueprint.ca
Featuring a queer-themed art show in celebration of
Pride month!
E Mercer St
Harvard Ave
1623 Bellevue Ave. 206-467-4717
broadcastcoffee.com
New local art and great coffee. Happy Pride!
616 E Pine St.
stumptowncoffee.com
MORE POLAROID DRAWINGS by Brandon Vosika.
E Roy St
2
E Roy St
19b Stumptown Coffee
Harvard Ave
10 Broadcast Coffee
614 E Pine St. 425-299-9737
rudysbarbershop.com
Boylston Ave
1550 E Olive Way 206-859-2757
beyondvape.com
The art of Cult Gnar and Joseph Mcsween
E Aloha St
19a Rudy’s Barbershop
Belmont Ave
9 Chroma Cloud Gallery at Beyond Vape
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E Prospect St
Crawford Pl
8 Ghost Gallery
504 E. Denny Way 206-832-6063
ghostgalleryart.com
Benefit show for the Gender Justice League
in honor of Pride Month! Co-curated by Grant
Rehnberg. Local artists will be selling T-Shirts,
Tanks, Totes & more featuring positive messages of
love/acceptance/equality. Live performance by Mal
DeFleur during Art Walk!
18 Revolution Wine
518 E Pike St. 206-849-7859
revolutionwineshop.com
Ko Kirk's artwork is eerily beautiful and thought
provoking. His mediums are lacquer, silkscreen,
archival pigment print collage and deconstructed
painting on canvas. Ko is new to Seattle but his
art work has been successfully shown in New York
galleries and is currently on displayAvailable
at The Hyogo
Museum of Art in Japan.
Now!
Summit Ave E
208 Boylston Ave E
apexaerialarts.com
The pop art by artist Zeuf playfully merges pop culture
icons with religious iconography to create modern
day saints. Join us 6–9pm to have a glass of wine,
enjoy the art, meet the staff and learn about upcoming
events. Come early to catch aerial yoga demos.
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Bellevue Ave
7 Apex Aerial Arts
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Volunteer Park
Melrose Ave
1718 East Olive Way, Suite A
www.dendroicagallery.com
"Talisman" – new work by Tracy Lang. Her in-depth
study of the world surrounding her is exposed in these
richly layered two-dimensional works, which integrate
the modern technology of digital printing with the
ancient technology of the woodcut. Light refreshments
will be served during the opening.
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102 lower
15thfloor
Ave.206-849-7859
E. 517 E Pike Street,
ingersollcenter.org
Seattle, WA 98112
Showcasing a group show of transgender and queer
www.drizzleandshine.com
art and artists in celebration of Pride month.
Belmont Ave
6 Dendroica Gallery
A fred arris and effry
asterpie es on paper and
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17 Ingersoll Gender Center
Summit Ave E
219 Broadway E. 206-328-4604
www.americanaseattle.com
"Thank you, Sir" Stretched vinyl and mixed media with
a provocative twist by Capitol Hill artist and designer
Brad Gordon.
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Melrose Ave
512 Broadway E. 206-860-0323
salonkismet.com
Skip Kerr, a former staff photographer for the Seattle
Sun, spent a day with iconic musician and actor Tom
Waits in 1975 before his performance at the Paramount
Theater. This black & white exhibit showcases a
young Tom Waits in and about Seattle. A must for
Tom Waits fans!
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www.seattleartmuseum.org
Mood Indigo: Textiles From Around the World honors
the unique ability of the color blue to create many
moods in cloth. From the sultry darkness of midnight
to the vitality of a bright sky, come let the myriad blues
in their multiple forms surround you. Free admission
during Art Walk.
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34 Pony
1221 E Madison St 206-324-2854
ponyseattle.com
BEYOND THE TARADOME! Featuring Tara-inspired
ART, so strap on your blonde wigs and come get
creative with us. Also hosting a beauty bar, crafts,
snacks, sounds and a coloring contest, too.
43 Vermillion
1508 11th Ave. 206-709-9797
www.vermillionseattle.com
Vermillion/Vermilion: New Work by Ellen Ziegler.
Vermillion Art Gallery and Bar celebrates its 8th
anniversary with an idea whose time has come:
"Vermillion/Vermilion", a show of new work by Ellen
Ziegler. The artist has worked exclusively with the
color vermilion for the past three years. The show
will also include historic tidbits of knowledge about
vermilion (the color, one L). There will be cake. Artist
reception 6–9p.
Check out StrangerThingsToDo.com
for up to the minute details!
35 The Growl Store
1222 E Madison St 206-726-1000
thegrowlstore.com
Featuring local artists and art work which complement
our selection of take-home beer from regional small
batch breweries.
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Celebrate the month of Pride with us with over half
a dozen artists from the LGBT community and a
live performance by Arson Nicki - an aggressively
transgressive drag creature expanding creative
boundaries. End your night of art with ice cream and
draft beer! After 9pm & get a second scoop free!
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37 HyBrid Space
1205 E. Pike Street Suite 2D 206-267-9277
www.hybridarc.com
Window|Pike : a transparent mural that both reflects
44 V2
1525 11th Ave.
Stop in for our very first open house at V2 during the
Capitol Hill Art Walk. Featuring The Family Connection
installation by Grant Rehnberg!
45 Blue Cone Studios
1520 11th Ave, Door B
"And Joy" in celebration of our LGBTQ friends and
fellow artists we are featuring Mark Meuller's works on
paper, photography by Meagan Hall, and live sounds
by noise artist Spoono Ghiefardi. Look for the Blue
Cone!
46 John Criscitello Studio
1202 E. Pine St
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Uptown Sat June 4, 12:30 pm, $13
Rainbow: Kirkland Performance Center,
Sat June 4, 1 pm, $13; SIFF Cinema Uptown, Sun June 5, 11:30 am, $8
Tag: SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Thurs June 2,
9:30 pm, $13; SIFF Cinema Uptown, Tues
June 7, 9:30 pm, $13
Uncle Howard: Lincoln Square Cinemas,
Wed June 1, 6:30 pm, $13
Vanity: Shoreline Community College,
Wed June 1, 7 pm, $13
Complete listings at strangerthingstodo.com
Q U EER
Fetish Night
DON’T MISS
Take yourself out to the ball
game at this month’s Fetish Night. The
theme is “Jocks & Jills,” so expect to see
some baseball caps and cleats mingling
amid the assless chaps. Anyone in fetish
gear gets to skip the line at the door, but
adherence to the sports theme is strictly
optional. But what if you don’t have any
sports gear? No problem—just strip down
to your undies and shake your rump like a
cheerleader’s pom-pom. The clothing check
benefits the Fireballers softball team, so
you can consider yourself slutty for a good
cause. (Aside from the cause of getting
laid, which is a good one, too.) (CC Attle’s,
Sat June 4, 8 pm, free, 21+) MATT BAUME
We also recommend…
ArtHaus 2.0 Finals with Max of RuPaul’s Drag Race: Kremwerk, Sat June 4,
7 pm, $15-$55
Clean Sweep: Capitol Hill, Sun June 5, 10
am-1 pm
DILF Seattle Underwear Jock Party:
Seattle Eagle Tavern, Sat June 4, 9 pm-3
am, 21+
FOMOHOMO: The Flourescent Forest:
Kremwerk, Sat June 4, 10 pm-3 am, $10,
21+
Mimosas with Mama: Chicago: Narwhal, Sun June 5, 1 pm, $25, 21+
Miss ECSA 2016: R Place, Sat June 4, 6:30
pm, $7, 21+
Mosaic: Trans & Genderqueer Show:
Gay City, June 2-5, 7 pm, free
Pride Skate: Superheroes vs. Villains:
Southgate Roller Rink, Wed June 1, 8:30-11
pm, $8, 18+
Queer Vision Access Project Drag for
Rice: Unicorn, Sat June 5, 6:30-9:30 pm,
$20/$25, 21+
Run/Walk with Pride: Seward Park, Sun
June 5, 9 am-12 pm, $40
Together for Justice and Equity: Mount
Baker Community Clubhouse, Thurs June 2,
6:30 pm, $25/$55
Complete listings at strangerthingstodo.com
F ES TI VA L S
We recommend…
Bellevue Jazz and Blues Festival: Various locations, June 1-5
Seattle International Film Festival:
Various locations, through June 12
Third Annual Big BLDG Bash: The Big
Building, Sat June 4, 3 pm, $20
Complete listings at strangerthingstodo.com
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6/2
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THURSDAY
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Iska Dhaaf
6/3
Champagne Champagne, Wampire
FRIDAY
All Ages
The Crocodile & ReignCity Present::
6/6
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Noteworthy Shows This Week
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@SEAshows
Rae songs like “Like a Star” and “Put Your
Records On” (her biggest hit), you were
lulled into a peaceful, almost bored state
by her gossamer voice and soft jazz stylings.
But listen more closely, and you’ll find a
voice that’s soulful and richly textured, as
well as music and emotions that grow more
complex with time. Rae’s last album, The
Sea, was haunted by the accidental death
of her young husband and went to darker
places, but it was still a commercial success.
Her latest, The Heart Speaks in Whispers,
featuring collaborations with KING and Esperanza Spalding, reaches in new directions,
creating a lush R&B-tinted landscape. “Tell
me you’re on fire,” she sings on “Tell Me,”
a standout track. “Tell me that you’re right
where you belong.” ANGELA GARBES
Iska Dhaaf
Fri June 3 at Crocodile
FRIDAY 6/3
MOTOR: Silent Servant, Raica,
IVVY, Archivist, Kirsten Dalen,
Mood Organ, Cleanser, Dr. Troy
W EDN ES D AY 6/ 1
Anti-Nowhere League, Expired Logic,
Noi!se, Potbelly, It Gets Worse
(Studio Seven, all ages) “We Are THE
LEAGUE!!! The ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE!!!
DON’T FUCK WITH THE LEAGUE!!!” That’s
from the first song on the first Anti-Nowhere League album, released in 1982, and
that’s what you need to know. Oh, except
that the singer sounds like he started life
as an alligator, and they all sound like they
should be sweaty in naught but leather
jockstraps and executioner’s hoods. (Imagine
my shock at the cover’s government-issue
oiks.) Wikipedia dubs them “hardcore,”
which must horrify the militant Anglophile
who turned me on to that first album.
“Hardcore” to him stank of unwashed SoCal
Levi’s sweat and cheap beer. No, the League
were bloody well English, hence his stamp
of approval. Well, he’s in Portland, with his
wife—my ex. The League? You never can replay your first shit, but they keep grinning.
ANDREW HAMLIN
T HUR S D AY 6/ 2
Discharge, Eyehategod, Toxic
Holocaust, Oxygen Destroyer,
Disciples of Dissent
(Studio Seven, all ages) Back in their
early-’80s heyday, Discharge’s atonal jams
registered like a series of screaming air-raid
sirens: shrill, panic-inducing, a dire warning
of imminent danger. Thirty-plus years later,
these crusty British hardcore pioneers are
still prophesizing nuclear annihilation and
“Looking at Pictures of Genocide” on new
record End of Days, their first in eight years.
One of the most influential bands of their
ilk (Metallica covered ’em even!), Discharge
are joined on their current tour by a pair
of bastard offspring: Louisiana feedback
fetishists Eyehategod and local badasses
Toxic Holocaust. Duck and cover. JASON
BRACELIN
Darto, Freak Heat Waves, Male/
Female, CMPLX/CMPLX, Newlywed
(Office Space, all ages) Atmospheric noiserock band Darto have been making #dark
ripples through the local weird-music scene
the past couple of years. Transitioning
from full-on Slint worship—with a noisy
guitar-driven sound marked by spooky spoken-word vocals—to something altogether
moodier and more sinister over time, Darto
recently had a lineup change, including the
addition of an omnichord. Victoria-based
post-punks Freak Heat Waves’ latest release,
Bonnie’s State of Mind, is their most danceable and synth-intensive to date, moving
from what I described as “kraut-garage art
pop” in 2012 to “dancey gloom-riffs” even
more indebted to an undead Ian Curtis.
Fusing ambient experimentation, choppy,
angular guitars, and pulsing synth beats,
Freak Heat Waves create a fresh take on
post-punk revival tropes. Songs like the
Gang of Four–esque “Dig a Hole” are familiar without overstepping their influence. A
slew of promising experimental/punk local
acts round out the bill, so come early and
stay weird. BRITTNIE FULLER
Moon Darling, Scott Yoder, Neu Yeuth
(Barboza) Moon Darling’s Dreams EP is the
debut release on new Seattle label Freak
Out. (Freak Out is also releasing a cassette
version of Newaxeyes’ original score to
Alien from Northwest Film Forum’s Puget
Soundtrack series this summer.) Anyway,
Dreams finds this local quartet dealing in
wide-eyed, melodic psychedelia that tweaks
your nostalgia ganglia for Stone Roses’ more
subdued moments and those early My Morning Jacket joints. Moon Darling’s is a fluid,
controlled strain of psych rock that encourages you to mellow the fuck out and hum
a pretty tune while you’re horizontal on a
grassy knoll at night. DAVE SEGAL
Weird Room’s First Anniversary:
cntrl_alt_dlt, Roddimus, Biome,
Jeremy Beledeiko, Deluded,
Eugene Fauntleroy
(Nacho Borracho) Seattle’s most claustrophobic techno night celebrates its
first anniversary with a stacked lineup
of residents and guest DJs who’ve made
Weird Room the intense blast it’s become.
Held in the absurdly tiny room at the back
of Capitol Hill bar Nacho Borracho, Weird
Room draws avid heads who are into latenight/wee-morning minimal/experimental
vibes. All the DJs on this bill have enough
killer cuts on their hard drives and record
bags to make you forget we’re in the most
nerve-racking shitshow of an election year
since the advent of television. Bring on the
disorientation, selectors! DAVE SEGAL
Corinne Bailey Rae, Moorea
Masa & the Mood
(Triple Door, all ages) You could be forgiven
if, upon first listening to early Corinne Bailey
(Kremwerk) The MOTOR monthly celebrates
four years of increasing the IQ of underworldly dance music fans with this exciting
bill. Headliner Silent Servant (LA producer
Juan Mendez) holds down the West Coast
branch of the minimal-techno juggernaut
Sandwell District, fostering a morbid canon
of end-times techno, ideal for breaking out
in a cold sweat. The titles of his stark, blackhearted 2012 debut album and his 2016 EP
on L.I.E.S. sum up his aesthetic: Negative Fascination and Hypnosis in the Modern Age.
IVVY (aka Seattle producer Madi Levine)
recently dropped their Diamond Eye cassette
for MOTOR, a five-track mini album that
shatters all your misgivings about minimal
techno. The elegant propulsion and intriguing atmospheres of IVVY’s music make you
feel as if you’re in for the rocket ride of your
life. The rest of the bill reaffirms the depth
and strength of Seattle’s experimentalelectronic and minimal-techno fields. We are
truly living in a golden age. DAVE SEGAL
Arbor Labor Union
(Barboza) Initially and superficially, new Sub
Pop band Arbor Labor Union hit you like a
denimy blue-collar rock machine with slightly
agitated white-guy vocals à la Protomartyr,
Tyvek, and their ilk. But repeated listens to
Arbor Labor Union’s bracing debut album,
I Hear You, reveal a group that slyly slots
into the headier mantra-rock canon wherein
sinewy riffs repeat intensely until a kind of
satori occurs—think Neu!’s “Lilac Engel,”
Endless Boogie, and certain Monster Magnet
and Volcano Suns songs. Sure, I received the
memo that we’re supposed to be utterly
over four white guys rocking out in 2016, but
Arbor Labor Union redeem the template for
just a little while longer. They may be in the
gutter culturally and sonically, but there’s a
bedraggled strain of transcendence lurking
in ALU’s musical DNA. Don’t give up on them
before you’ve even heard ’em. DAVE SEGAL
Fauna Shade, Animal Eyes, Sloucher
(Sunset) Everett, a town that I completely
forget about when I’m not mistaking it for
Edmonds, has been moving on up over the
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last five years with the Everett Music Initiative, which aims to foster and support the
music community within city limits without
having to rely on larger cities for cultural
outsourcing. One of the jewels in the EMI
crown of up-and-coming Everett bands is
Fauna Shade, a snarling, tonally dualistic
mass of heavily reverbed scratch-crooning,
easily at home in a dank (from both weed
and weather) basement, as in a sun-dappled
sylvan grove. It’s the sonic equivalent of
getting hammered alone outside while you
wander around reflecting on your summer
bummers. KIM SELLING
Iska Dhaaf, Champagne
Champagne, Wampire
(Crocodile, all ages) With a band name that
translates loosely to “let it go” (in Somali),
Nathan Quiroga and Benjamin Verdoes
weren’t destined to stay in one place forever. Physically (in Brooklyn) and creatively
(in the expanses of indie pop), the former
Seattle duo has materialized on new ground
with brilliant new art to share. In the realm
of The Wanting Creature, their sophomore
album, dance and indie rock aren’t mutually exclusive. The seeds of those elements
can be found on Dhaaf’s 2014 debut, Even
the Sun Will Burn, and Verdoes’s slept-on
2015 solo effort, The One & the Other,
though Creature’s burrowing synth bass and
polished harmonies in particular threaten to
expose them to new heights. Show up early
to enjoy sets by fun-loving Portland band
Wampire and an extra-rare set from hyperap third-wavers Champagne Champagne.
TODD HAMM
SAT URD AY 6 /4
Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop,
Marlon Williams
(Neptune, all ages) Love Letter for Fire,
the debut from Iron and Wine mastermind
Sam Beam and Manchester-based singer,
songwriter, and Shearwater associate Jesca
Hoop, is pitched somewhere between Gram
Parsons and Emmylou Harris and Ira Kaplan
and Georgia Hubley. Produced by Portland’s
Tucker Martine, the warm, intimate affair
features Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche and
Stranger Genius Award–winning violinist Eyvind Kang. At its worst, there’s an
old-school formality to Beam and Hoop’s
deliberate give-and-take, but that’s also its
biggest strength (in publicity photos, Hoop
sports ankle-grazing skirts and buttoned-up
blouses). The duo isn’t out to score points
with the cool kids, and they’d fail if they
did. If anything, they could’ve released this
record during the height of the countryrock era, and it would’ve fit right in. KATHY
FENNESSY
into some of the prettiest, most forcefully
rhythmic tunes of the 1990s and early 2000s.
When performing live, Leo plugs in just like
a guitar to an amp and lets it rip. I’m pretty
sure he’s ageless. ANGELA GARBES
Rotten Sound, Wilt, Mercy
Ties, Scalafrea, MRSA
(Highline) Since its inception, grindcore has
taxed nervous systems like a rock-and-roll
amphetamine, juicing heavy metal’s pulse to
aorta-exploding dimensions. But even under
these extreme terms, Finnish battering ram
Rotten Sound, perhaps the subgenre’s finest, fiercest act going, is more like a fistful
of bathtub crank delivered as cruelly as
a goose getting a foie gras feeding tube
crammed down its throat. The band’s tellingly titled latest album, total party-ruiner
Abuse to Suffer, thoroughly lives up to
its title via 18 tracks of breakneck, deathmetal-infused savagery. On it, these dudes
ironically decry “Inhumane Treatment”—
even though that’s precisely what they trade
in. JASON BRACELIN
Ted Leo, Chris Brokaw
Bottlenose Koffins, the Knights of
Trash, Porn Bloopers, LoudMotor
(Barboza) In recent years, Ted Leo teamed
up with the sloth-voiced singer-songwriter
Aimee Mann to create cool harmonies,
record an album, and tour as the group
the Both. It made him sound middle-aged,
which technically he is, but it’s difficult to
think of him as anything other than the guy
who, with albums like Chisel’s 8 a.m. All Day
and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists’ Hearts
of Oak, managed to turn his charmingly
nasal screeching and frantic guitar playing
(Lucky Liquor) Dang, looks like it’s punk
night down south, y’all! And the lineup is
ALL locals: Bottlenose Koffins are a singalong, slightly street, pop-punk band. Porn
Bloopers play raw and loose rock and roll.
LoudMotor play good mid-tempo late-’80s
Droogs-style punk. And perhaps the most
remarkable band of the bill, the Knights of
Trash are a Thee Milkshakes tribute band.
Thee Milkshakes were one of Billy Childish’s groups, an early-’80s garage-rock band
from England that adhered to strict 1960s
production techniques. I’m stoked as a
Milkshakes fan knowing Zac from the Statics, maybe the biggest Childish fan I know,
is involved, so the tribute will be dead-on!
MIKE NIPPER
SU NDAY 6/5
Kaki King, Glockabelle
(Triple Door, all ages) A routine singersongwriter Kaki King is not. Her toolbox of
guitar techniques includes fanning, finger
tapping, flamenco, and other uncommon
methods. Put another way, she knows how
to get more sounds out of a guitar than almost anyone, and it’s served her pretty well:
King has contributed to the Into the Wild
and August Rush soundtracks, as well as to
albums by the Foo Fighters and Miley Cyrus,
plus a collaborative EP with the Mountain
Goats. Solo, King’s versatility makes predicting her sound kind of tricky. She’s as adept
at pop songs as she is at experimental loops.
Always, though, her playing is pyrotechnic.
JOSEPH SCHAFER
The Sadies, Shadowy Men
on a Shadowy Planet
(Tractor) The Sadies get ornery, their old
publicist told me. They come down south
of the border (from Toronto, that is) and
stomp and jump and sprain ankles and
break an occasional tooth, she said—and
they get really mad that they’re beyond
their socialized health-care program. That
was in the days of old. Of course, we now
have something resembling what our neighbors to the north have, and we just might
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DOORS OPEN 30-60 MINUTES BEFORE.
Thu June 2
BALLARD HONKY TONK
THE
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THE GANGES RIVER BAND
9PM - $10
Fri June 3
CANADIAN ELECTROPOP
ISLANDS
HONUS HONUS
(OF MISTER HEAVENLY)
SEA MONSTER live music
7 nights a week featuring:
TUESDAYS w/JOE DORIA B3
organ live jazz fusion 10pm,
opening band 8pm
WESTSOUND WEDNESDAYS
live rare soul &
original funk family 10pm
MARMALADE THURSDAYS
live funk jam party w/ DJ’s
at 9PM $6.
FUNKY 2 DEATH FRIDAYS
live funk and soul revue w/
DJ ROC PHIZZLE at 9PM $7.
9PM - $14
Sat June 4
HIGH ENERGY STRINGBAND
HORSESHOES &
HAND GRENADES
RABBIT WILDE
9PM - $10
Sun June 5
CANADIAN COUNTRY ROCK
THE SADIES
SHADOWY MEN ON
A SHADOWY PLANET
8PM - $15
Wed June 8
KEXP PRESENTS
KEVIN MORBY
JAYE BARTELL
9PM - $12
SAT & SUN BRUNCH
10am-3pm w/ LIVE JAZZ
12-2pm, ALL AGES TIL 10P
SCRATCH BAR FOOD and
HAPPY HOUR 3-6 DAILY
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6/9 FRANK SOLIVAN
6/10 REBIRTH BRASS
RAGAN 6/12 FRAZEY
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get to keep it if we can fend off Big Orange.
The Sadies love American country almost as
much as they love American punk, although
their shows sometimes out-punk their
records, and their guitars sometimes outpunk their voices. Co-Canadian conspirators
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet swear
they’re not surf. They’re right! Who the hell
surfs in Canada? ANDREW HAMLIN
MOND AY 6/ 6
Mirah, Jherek Bischoff
(Neptune, all ages) Two of the most versatile
musical talents ever to call the Northwest
their (former) home return in glory. Mirah
began as a classic Olympia singer-songwriter
with a one-of-a-kind voice and evolved
into a fascinating, multilayered musician
capable of thrilling big rooms and chilling
tiny ones. Jherek Bischoff launched from
the avant-gardish work of the Dead Science
into a universe of experimental composition (always with enough pop to keep it
sweet) that has included collabs with the
likes of David Byrne, Neil Gaiman, Zola
Jesus, Amanda Palmer, Ariel Pink, Ben Folds,
Sondre Lerche, and, uh, Al Gore. Oh yeah,
and Mirah. SEAN NELSON
Silversun Pickups, Joywave
(Showbox, all ages) I first heard Silversun
Pickups when their song “Panic Switch” was
the only good thing about the trailer to the
movie Sucker Punch. (Does anyone remember that movie?) After purchasing that
record, Swoon, I discovered that the band
had a less-than-stellar reputation in critical
circles. Screw the critics, I later thought,
watching the band open for Metallica in
Detroit. They’re energetic and driving live,
even though singer Brian Aubert has a
somewhat delicate voice. Every one of their
Nectar Lounge
412 N 36th St
206.632.2020
www.nectarlounge.com
6.2 Thursday (Indie Rock)
CHASTITY BELT
Posse, Mommy Long Legs, Hoop
6.3 Friday (Reggae)
GONDWANA
Fayuca, Nattali Rize
6.4 Saturday (80s New WaveTribute)
NITE WAVE
#All4Doras,DJ Indica Jones
6.5 Sunday (Hip Hop)
MEGARAN
RoQy Tyraid, Oso Negro
Don Dishes, New Track City
6.7 Tuesday (Blues Rock)
DEAD END FRIEND
A Shadow of Jaguar, The Mondegreens
6.8 Wednesday (JamGrass)
CORAL CREEK w/ Luke Bulla
The High Council, Naked Gypsies
6.9 Thursday (Country)
PNW COUNTRY NIGHT
ft. Left Coast Country, Deception Past
Bootleg Sunshine
6.10 Friday (Afrobeat)
POLYRHYTHMICS
with Scott Pemberton
6.11 Saturday (Reggae)
CLINTON FEARON
& BOOGIE BROWN BAND
Laborer and the Universal Roots Band
Selecta Matsui”
6.12 Sunday (Bluegrass)
HENHOUSE PROWLERS
Nick Drummond, Ben Hunter, Joe Seamons
records has at least a handful of excellent
chrome-plated-but-plaintive rock songs,
and last year’s Better Nature is no different.
JOSEPH SCHAFER
T UE SD AY 6 /7
The Bad Plus, guests
(Jazz Alley, all ages, June 7–8) I often get the
sense that modern jazz has a difficult time
communicating with listeners who are not
already steeped in the form. Much of the
music can seem too cerebral and disconnected from wider culture, unless a listener
has enough experience with the genre to appreciate its nuances. The Bad Plus neatly skirt
this problem. For one, their taste in covers
skews popular—they’ve included Radiohead
in their set list, among other rock acts. For
another, drummer Dave King plays with a
manic physicality that injects copious nitro
into the trio’s engine. JOSEPH SCHAFER
Tokyoidaho, the Stargazer Lilies,
Retirement, DJ Retina Burn
(Lo-Fi) The Stargazer Lilies create textbook
shoegaze rock that transports you to that
idyllic mauve miasma that enveloped us in
the early 1990s. Everything in their music is
hazy and blurry and opiated and you can’t
discern a dad-blasted lyric, but it doesn’t
matter because you’re too busy swooning
to and floating on the wispy bliss cloud
composed of reverbed and chorused guitars
and Kim Field’s distant, dulcet vocals. It’s
sort of like Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, and My
Bloody Valentine had a threesome and out
popped We Are the Dreamers, Stargazer
Lilies’ panoramically beautiful 2013 debut
LP. It’s hard to imagine that the new Door
to the Sun—of which I’ve heard only snippets—won’t be similarly enchanting. DAVE
SEGAL
UP & COMING: MOJAM
6.14 SNOW THA PRODUCT
6.15 PETE ROCK
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6.16 GRANT FARM
6.17 CUMBIEROS
6.19 NIGHTMARES ON WAX
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6.21 ISRAEL VIBRATION
6.22 TEN MAN BRASS BAND
6.23 THE GLADIATORS
+ CLINTON FEARON
6.24 TRL NIGHT
6.25 HIT EXPLOSION
6.26 CURREN$Y
6.30 NATASHA KMETO
7.1 SNUG HARBOR
7.2 JAI HO!
7.6 SAMANTHA FISH
7.7 LA INEDITA
7.12 RABBIT WILDE
7.13 BOOGAT
7.14 LAKOU MIZIK
7.19 I DRAW SLOW
7.20 SHERWOOD
7.22 CRACK SABBATH
7.26 KITCHEN DWELLERS
7.28 JOHN BROWN’S BODY
7.29 FIVE ALARM FUNK
7.30 PRINCE VS MICHAEL
8.7 TOWN MOUNTAIN
8.10 DEVON ALLMAN BAND
8.12 OTT & THE ALL-SEEING I
8.13 ELDRIDGE GRAVY
8.16 B-SIDE PLAYERS
8.18 THE SOUL REBELS
8.23 RED BARAAT
8.24 BUSDRIVER
9.2 EROTIC CITY
PRINCE TRIBUTE
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CAPITOL CIDER Faint
Peter, 8:30 pm, free
CENTRAL SALOON Skates!,
Th’ Rattletrap, Albion Bell,
8 pm, $5/$8
CHOP SUEY Sick Sister,
Charms, The Fame Riot,
Season of Strangers, 8
pm, $10
CROCODILE The Mowgli’s,
Pom Poms, The Greeting
Committee, 8 pm, $15
a EL CORAZON Insane
Clown Posse with Young
Wicked, Enasnimi, and
Homegrown Psychotherapy:
The Riddle Box Tour, 6:30
pm, $20-$25
HIGH DIVE Shawn Smith
HIGHLINE Easter Teeth,
Asterhouse, Sean Downey,
9:30 pm, $7
HIGHWAY 99 Drummerboy
with Billy Shew and Ron
Baker, 8 pm, $7
J&M CAFE The Lonnie
Williams Band, 8 pm, free
NECTAR Benefit For
Norman Baker: Mts and
Tunnels, Josh Clauson,
Norman Baker and the
Backroads, The Papillon
Saints, 8 pm, $7
OHANA Live Island Music,
9:30 pm, free
OWL N’ THISTLE Justin and
Guests, 9 pm, free
PARAGON Two Buck Chuck,
8 pm, free
SHOWBOX SODO The
Kills with LA Witch, 9 pm,
$25/$28
SKYLARK CAFE & CLUB
Open Mic, 8:30 pm, free
SOUND CHECK BAR &
GRILL Open Mic, 8 pm, free
a STUDIO SEVEN AntiNowhere League, Expired
Logic, Noi!se, Potbelly,
It Gets Worse, 6:30 pm,
$15/$17
TRACTOR TAVERN
Lindstrom and The Limit,
Ghost Town Whistlers,
Devin Sinha, 8 pm, $8
a VERA PROJECT Domo
Genesis: The Chore Tour, 7
pm, $15/$17
THURS, 6/2 - SAT, 6/4
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CONOR BYRNE Happy
Orchestra, 9 pm, free
a JAZZ ALLEY Tuck and
Patti, Through Jun 1, 7:30
pm, $31.50
a VARIOUS LOCATIONS Bellevue Jazz and
Blues Festival, Jun 1-5, 11
am-11:30 pm, $0-$30
DJ
BALTIC ROOM Bollocks
CONOR BYRNE Rainier Soul
Sounds, 9 pm, free
CONTOUR NuDe
Wednesdays, 9 pm, free
HAVANA COOLIN: DJ Night
with Stasia Mehschel and
Larry Mizell, Jr., 10 pm, $3
LOVECITYLOVE
LOVECITYLOVE X
WEDNESDAYS, 8-11 pm,
$5/$10
NEIGHBOURS Exposed: DJ
Trent Von and DJ Dirty Bit
PONY He’s a Rebel
Q NIGHTCLUB FWD, 9 pm-2
am, $11
STUDIO SEVEN Electric
Wednesday
C LA SSIC A L
a KEYARENA Andrea
Bocelli, 7:30 pm, $129-$160
TH U RS 6/2
LIV E M U S I C
BARBOZA Moon Darling,
Scott Yoder, Neu Yeuth, 8
pm, $8
BLUE MOON TAVERN Katie
Kuffel, Daniel Amedee
and Gold Light, and Small
Tribes, 9 pm, $7
CAFE RACER Molly Hardin,
9 pm, free
CAPITOL CIDER Holy
Pistola, 8:30-11 pm, free
CHOP SUEY Sashay,
Constant Lovers, Boyfriends,
Wolfgang Fuck, 9 pm, $10
CONOR BYRNE Patrick
Galactic and Harrison B, 8
pm, $8
CROCODILE Aqueduct,
Bardot, Wrinkles, 8 pm,
$10/$12
THE FUNHOUSE Adrian
Conner, Piston Ready, No
Bollocks, 8 pm, $8/$10
GHOSTFISH BREWING
George Grissom, 6 pm
HIGH DIVE Calliope
Musicals, Stucky Jackson
and The Boys, The Western
Red Penguins, 8:30 pm,
$8/$10
HIGHLINE Beverly Crusher,
The Nico Missile, Coke Nails,
Sir Coyler and His Asthmatic
Band, 9 pm, $10
HIGHWAY 99 Chris Eger, 8
pm, $7
J&M CAFE True Romans, 8
pm, free
JAZZ ALLEY Ms. Lisa Fischer
and Grand Baton, Jun 2-5,
7:30 pm, $40
NECTAR Chastity Belt,
Mommy Longlegs, Posse,
Hoop, 8 pm, $13
NEUMOS MxPx and
Millencolin, 7 pm, $7
RENDEZVOUS Garrett
and the Sheriffs, Waiting
on Wendy, Kristen Ford,
Heather Thomas, Alberta,
7:30 pm, $8/$10
THE ROYAL ROOM JFortino
and Elaine Bonow, 8 pm,
$12/$15
SCRATCH DELI Music Open
Mic, 7:30 pm, free
SEAMONSTER Marmalade,
10 pm, $5-$7
a THE SHOWBOX Cam’ron,
The Underachievers, G
Herbo, Smoke DZA, Nyck
Caution, 9 pm, $32/$35
a STONE WAY CAFE Open
Mic, 7:30 pm, free
a STUDIO SEVEN
Discharge, Eyehategod,
Toxic Holocaust, Oxygen
Destroyer, Shrouds, 5:30
pm, $23/$25
SUNSET TAVERN
Sleepwalkers, Bigfoot
Wallace and His Wicked
Sons, Pale Noise, 9 pm, $8
TRACTOR TAVERN The
Swearengens, Miss Lonely
Hearts, The Ganges River
Band, 9 pm, $10
a TRIPLE DOOR Corinne
Bailey Rae, 7:30 pm,
$25/$30
a UW MEANY THEATRE
Ade Suparman and Guests,
7:30 pm, $10/$20
JA ZZ
BARCA Jazz at Barca, 9
pm, free
OSTERIA LA SPIGA Jazz at
La Spiga, 7-9:30 pm, free
PINK DOOR Bric-a-Brac, 8
pm, free
a SHUGA JAZZ BISTRO
Chris James Quartet, 7
pm, free
a SULLIVAN’S
STEAKHOUSE The Collin
Provence Trio, 6:30-10:30
pm, free
a TULA’S David Arteaga
Quartet with Jeanie Mishler
and Billy Brandt, 7:30 pm,
$15
a UW MEANY STUDIO
THEATER IMPFest VIII: Bill
Frisell, Reid Anderson, and
Bill McHenry, Jun 2-4, 7:30
pm, $10-$20
a VARIOUS LOCATIONS
Bellevue Jazz and Blues
Festival, Through Jun 5, 11
am-11:30 pm, $0-$30
VITO’S RESTAURANT &
LOUNGE Casey MacGill,
5:30 pm, free
DJ
BALLROOM Throwback
Thursdays, 9 pm
BALTIC ROOM Sugar Beat:
DJ Bret Law, $3
CONTOUR Jaded
HAVANA Sophisticated
Mama, free
JAZZBONES College Night,
9 pm
MERCURY Sex.Wav:
Guests, 9 pm, $3/$5
NEIGHBOURS Revolution
OHANA ‘80s Ladies Night
R PLACE Thirsty Thursdays
SAINT JOHN’S BAR AND
EATERY Peel Slowly, free
TRINITY Beer Pong
Thursdays, free
CL AS S I CAL
a BENAROYA HALL
Shostakovich Symphony
No. 4: Seattle Symphony,
$21-$121
FRI 6/3
LIVE MUSIC
BARBOZA Arbor Labor
Union, 7 pm, $10
a CAFE RACER Spencer
Carlson, 9-11 pm, free
CHINA HARBOR Orquesta
la Solucion, 9:30 pm, $15
CHOP SUEY The Briefs,
The Derelicts, Dead Bars,
Topless, 9 pm, $12/$15
COLUMBIA CITY THEATER
Missy Higgins with Billy
Raffoul, 8 pm, $25
CONOR BYRNE The
Foghorns, Creeping Time,
Nicole Lund, 9 pm, $8
a CROCODILE Iska Dhaaf,
Champagne Champagne,
Wampire, 8 pm, $10
THE FUNHOUSE Max Pain
and The Groovies with
Sundrones, 8 pm, $8/$10
HIGH DIVE The Mentors,
Damned Pilots, Kings of
Cavalier, Hexengeist, 8 pm,
$10/$12
HIGHWAY 99 The Guessing
Game, Pigeonhed, Three
Bad Jacks, 8 pm, $17
a HOLLOW EARTH RADIO
Hex Horizontal, #tits,
fhtagn-lite, 9 pm, $5
JAZZ ALLEY Ms. Lisa Fischer
and Grand Baton, Through
Jun 5, 7:30 pm, $40
a LANGSTON HUGHES
PERFORMING ARTS
INSTITUTE Freshest Roots:
Expresso Open Mic, 7 pm,
free
a MARYMOOR PARK
The Lumineers with
Sleepwalkers and Isaac
Gracie, Jun 3-5, 6 pm,
$29.99-$35
NECTAR Gondwana,
Fayuca, Nattali Rize, 8 pm,
$15/$18
a NEPTUNE THEATRE
Brett Dennen and Firekid,
8 pm, $25
a NEUMOS Azizi Gibson,
Jarv Dee, Gifted Gab, 8
pm, $14
SEAMONSTER Funky 2
Death, 10 pm, $5-$7
SHANTY TAVERN The Albro
Swifts, 9 pm, $7
SLIM’S LAST CHANCE
Mother Crone, Big Bad, Sun
Crow, 9 pm, $9
SUNSET TAVERN Fauna
Shade, Animal Eyes,
Sloucher, 9 pm, $8
TIM NOAH’S THUMBNAIL
THEATER Friday Night
Open Mic, 6:30 pm, $3-$5
a TOWN HALL Seattle Rock
Orchestra Social Club, 8 pm,
$12-$20
TRACTOR TAVERN Islands
with Honus Honus, 9 pm,
$14
a TRIPLE DOOR Jane
Lynch: “See Jane Sing”, Jun
3-4, 7 & 9:30 pm, $55-$80
a VERA PROJECT School
of Rock: The British
Invasion, 6:30 pm, $12/$15
J AZ Z
LATONA PUB Phil Sparks
Trio, 5 pm, free
a SULLIVAN’S
STEAKHOUSE The Collin
Provence Trio, 6:30-10:30
pm, free
a UW MEANY STUDIO
THEATER IMPFest VIII: Bill
Frisell, Reid Anderson, and
Bill McHenry, Through Jun
4, 7:30 pm, $10-$20
a VARIOUS LOCATIONS
Bellevue Jazz and Blues
Festival, Through Jun 5, 11
am-11:30 pm, $0-$30
DJ
ASTON MANOR Cabaret
Fridays
BALLROOM Rendezvous
Friday, 9 pm
BALMAR Top 40, 9:30 pm,
free
BALTIC ROOM
Fundamental Fridays:
Guests
Juicy: ‘90s & 2000s Old
School Throwbacks, $10
BARBOZA Jet, 10:30 pm,
free
CUFF DJs, 10 pm-3 am,
free
HATTIE’S HAT Hella
Dope, 10 pm, free
HAVANA Viva Havana, 9
pm, $11
JAZZBONES Filthy Fridays,
11 pm, $10
LO-FI DUG, 9 pm, $7
MERCURY Gasp, 9 pm, $5
NEIGHBOURS Absolut
Fridays, 9 pm
OZZIE’S DJs, 9 pm, free
PONY Beefcake
R PLACE Swollen Fridays,
9 pm
STOUT DJ ePop, 9 pm, free
THERAPY LOUNGE Under
Pressure, 9:30 pm, $3 after
10:30 p.m.
TRINITY Power Fridays,
$0-$10
DAN CE
NEUMOS Candi Pop: A
Bubblegum Pop Dance
Party, 9 pm-2 am, free
CL AS S I CAL
a BAINBRIDGE
PERFORMING ARTS
Dvorák’s Symphony No.
8 In G Major: Bainbridge
Symphony Orchestra, 7:30
pm, $16/$19
a BENAROYA HALL
Shostakovich Symphony
No. 4: Seattle Symphony,
$21-$121
a CHAPEL PERFORMANCE
SPACE Julio Lopezhiler and
Friends, 8 pm, $5-$15
THE STRANGER
THINGS TO DO All the Shows Happening This Week
a RESONANCE AT SOMA
TOWERS Michael Nicolella,
8 pm, $20-$40
a TOWN HALL Seattle Rock
Orchestra Social Club, 8 pm,
$12-$20
a TRINITY PARISH
CHURCH Rosa: Flower of
Paradise, 7:30 pm, free
a UW MEANY THEATRE
June Symphony with
Concerto Competition
Winners: UW Symphony
Orchestra, 7:30 pm, $10/$15
O’Brien, 6-10 pm, free
a UW MEANY STUDIO
THEATER IMPFest VIII: Bill
Frisell, Reid Anderson, and
Bill McHenry, Through Jun
4, 7:30 pm, $10-$20
a VARIOUS LOCATIONS
Bellevue Jazz and Blues
Festival, Through Jun 5, 11
am-11:30 pm, $0-$30
DJ
ASTON MANOR NRG
Saturdays
BALLARD LOFT Hiphop
S AT 6/ 4
LI VE M U S IC
THE ANGRY BEAVER The
Seattle Houserockers, free
BARBOZA Ted Leo with
Chris Brokaw, 7 pm, $15
a THE BIG BUILDING
Third Annual Big BLDG
Bash, 3 pm, $20
BLACK LODGE Greys,
Seattle’s New Gods, Rile,
Cool Void, 9 pm, $8
BLUE MOON TAVERN
Pacific Echoes, The Women
and Children, 9 pm, $7
a CAFE RACER The Flying
Tortugas, Fast and Friendly,
9-11 pm, free
CHATEAU STE. MICHELLE
Bob Dylan and His Band
with Mavis Staples, Jun 4-5,
7 pm, $70-$144.50
a CHOP SUEY School of
Rock: A Tribute to the
Ramones, 5 pm, $12/$15
CLUB HOLLYWOOD
CASINO Johnny and the
Saturdays, 10 pm, free
BALLROOM Sinful
Saturdays, 9 pm
HIGH DIVE Adrian H
and The Wounds, Legion
Within, AEdifice, DJ
Paradox, 8 pm, $10/$12
HIGHLINE Rotten Sound,
Wilt, Mercy Ties, Scalafrea,
MRSA, 9 pm, $10/$12
HIGHWAY 99 The Andy
Stokes Band, 8 pm, $18
JAZZ ALLEY Ms. Lisa Fischer
and Grand Baton, Through
Jun 5, 7:30 pm, $40
a MARYMOOR PARK
The Lumineers with
Sleepwalkers and Isaac
Gracie, Through Jun 5, 6
pm, $29.99-$35
NECTAR The Best 80’s Party
(So Far): 5th Anniversary
Edition, 8 pm, $15/$20
a NEPTUNE THEATRE
Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop
with Marlon Williams, 8:30
pm, $31
NEUMOS Sweet Water with
Shawn Smith and Stereo
Embers, 8 pm, $10
RENDEZVOUS Do Peterson
Band, 7 pm, $10
SHOWBOX SODO Chevelle
and Sick Puppies, 8 pm,
$34.75-$43
a ST. MARK’S CATHEDRAL
Cathedrals XII and Giant
Sound Bath, 8 pm, $10-$25
SUNSET TAVERN Kultur
Shock, 8:30 pm, $12
TRACTOR TAVERN
Horseshoes & Hand
Grenades, Rabbit Wilde, 9
pm, $10
a TRIPLE DOOR Jane
Lynch: “See Jane Sing”,
Through Jun 4, 7 & 9:30 pm,
$55-$80
a MARYMOOR PARK
The Lumineers with
Sleepwalkers and Isaac
Gracie, Through Jun 5, 6
pm, $29.99-$35
NORDIC HERITAGE
MUSEUM Mostly Nordic
Sadies, Shadowy Men on a
Shadowy Planet, 8 pm, $15
Young ‘80s Dance Party, 9
pm, $5
CHOP SUEY Dance Yourself
Clean, 9 pm, $5
CORBU LOUNGE Saturday
Night Live
CUFF DJs, 10 pm-3 am,
free
HAVANA Havana Social, 9
pm, $15
KREMWERK CREAM
LOVECITYLOVE Bad
Jokes: A Bad Rap + Food
& Sh!t Production, 7:30
pm, $5
MERCURY Machineries of
Joy, $5
RE-BAR Night Crush, 10:30
pm
SARAJEVO LOUNGE
European/Balkan/Greek
Night
STOUT DJ ePop, 9 pm, free
THERAPY LOUNGE This
Modern Love
TRINITY Reload Saturdays,
$15
C LASSI CAL
a TRIPLE DOOR Kaki
King and Glockabelle, 8 pm,
$20-$35
JAZ Z
THE ANGRY BEAVER The
Beaver Sessions, free
CAPITOL CIDER Savanna
DJ
BALTIC ROOM Jam Jam,
9 pm
BAR SUE Motown on
Mondays, 10 pm, free
THE HIDEOUT Industry
Standard, free
MOE BAR Moe Bar
Monday, 10 pm, free
PONY Fruit, 9 pm, free
TUE 6 /7
LIV E MUSIC
COLUMBIA CITY
THEATER The Best Open
Latin Jazz Quartet, 6:30-9
pm, free
Mic Ever, 7:30 pm, free
DARRELL’S TAVERN Sunday
EL CORAZON Verb Slingers,
Night Jazz Jam, 8 pm, free
3 pm, free
a HARISSA Sunday Bossa
Nova, 6 pm, free
SHUGA JAZZ BISTRO Shuga
a THE FUNHOUSE Angel
Du$t, Gag, Big Bite, Lowest
Priority, 7 pm, $10/$12
Sundays, 7:30 pm, free
HIGH DIVE The Walking,
a TULA’S Jim Cutler Jazz
Orchestra, 7:30 pm, $8
Tiger Rider, Sea Salt, 8 pm,
$6/$8
a VARIOUS LOCATIONS
Bellevue Jazz and Blues
Festival, Through Jun 5, 11
am-11:30 pm, $0-$30
VITO’S RESTAURANT &
LOUNGE Ruby Bishop,
6 pm, free; The Ron
Weinstein Trio, 9:30 pm,
free
DJ
BALTIC ROOM Resurrection
Sundays, 10 pm
CONTOUR Broken Grooves,
THE OULD TRIANGLE Open
Mic, 8 pm, free
PARAGON You Play Tuesday,
Joe and the RCs, 8 pm, free
a Shostakovich Symphony
No. 4: Seattle Symphony,
$21-$121; a Mahler’s
Titan: Seattle Philharmonic
Orchestra, 2 pm, free-$30
R PLACE Homo Hop
11 pm, free
DJ Vi, noon, free
a CHAPEL PERFORMANCE
SPACE Tender Buttons, 8
pm, suggested $5-$15
a BAINBRIDGE
PERFORMING ARTS
STUDIO SEVEN Kung Fu
Vampire, 4KMG, Dmise,
Jay$ilver, Malachi, Soulish,
TheKID, Zak Swift, 7 pm,
$15/$18
SUNSET TAVERN Dan
Mangan and Reuben & The
Dark, 8:30 pm, $15
Dvorák’s Symphony No.
8 In G Major: Bainbridge
Symphony Orchestra, 3 pm,
$16/$19
TIM’S TAVERN Open Mic:
Linda Lee, 8 pm
sound|counterpoint: Red
Earth Project, 7:30 pm,
$0-$25
a BENAROYA HALL Ravel
Piano Concerto, 2 pm,
$41-$126
JAZZ ALLEY The Bad Plus
and Guests, $29.50
a TOWN HALL Seattle Girls
Choir Presents All-Choir
Spring Concert, 1:30 pm,
$15/$20
a MOUNT BAKER THEATRE
The Emperor & the Titan:
Whatcom Symphony
Orchestra, 3 pm, $14-$44
Delvon Lamarr, 10 pm,
donation
WASHINGTON CENTER
FOR THE PERFORMING
ARTS Olympia Chamber
a QUEEN ANNE
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
a TRIPLE DOOR Cyrille
Aimee, 7:30 pm, $25-$35
a QUEEN ANNE
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Orchestra: Season Closer,
7:30 pm, $5-$20
S U N 6 /5
LIVE MUSI C
BARBOZA Mutual Benefit
and Florist, 7 pm, $13
BLACK LODGE Gaasp,
Combat Knife, Breeze, 8
pm, $5-$10
BLUE MOON TAVERN
Kaitlin Riegel, 9 pm, $7
a CAFE RACER Racer
Sessions, 7:30-11 pm, free
CHATEAU STE. MICHELLE
Bob Dylan and His Band
with Mavis Staples, Through
Jun 5, 7 pm, $70-$144.50
COLUMBIA CITY THEATER
sound|counterpoint: Red
Earth Project, 2 pm, $0-$25
a ST. MARK’S
CATHEDRAL Compline
OWL N’ THISTLE Jazz with
Eric Verlinde, 8 pm, free
THE ROYAL ROOM
DJ
BALTIC ROOM Drum & Bass
Tuesdays, 10 pm
BLUE MOON TAVERN
a TRINITY PARISH
CHURCH Swift as a
Blue Moon Vinyl Revival
Tuesdays, 8 pm, free
Shadow: Shakespeare in
Song, 3-5 pm, $15-$18
pm, free
LI VE MUSI C
BARBOZA Astronautalis,
Ceschi, Factor Chandelier:
World Tour 2016, 8 pm, $15
CAPITOL CIDER
EntreMundos, 9:30 pm, free
CONOR BYRNE Bluegrass
Jam, 8:30 pm, free
CROCODILE Local H:
“As Good As Dead” 20th
Anniversary Tour, 8 pm, $15
EGAN’S JAM HOUSE Mark
Christian Miller, 9 pm, $10
FRYE ART MUSEUM Noise
LUCKY LIQUOR Sid Law
a SULLIVAN’S
STEAKHOUSE Reid &
Yoga, 11:30 am
a NEPTUNE THEATRE
Mirah and Jherek Bischoff,
HIGH DIVE Citizen Corvus,
JA ZZ
Choir, 9:30 pm, free
MO N 6 /6
a EL GAUCHO Paul
Richardson, 6 pm, free
TOKYOIDAHO,
Tue Stargazer Lilies,
6/7 Retirement,
8pm
DJ Retina Burn
NECTAR Dead End Friend,
A Shadow of Jaguar, The
Mondegreens, 8 pm, $7/$10
SEAMONSTER McTuff Trio,
a CHURCH OF THE
REDEEMER Rosa: Flower
of Paradise, 7:30 pm, free
7pm
Tokyoidaho, Retirement, DJ
Retina Burn, 9 pm, $7
NEIGHBOURS Noche Latina
CLASSI CAL
Mon
6/6 PINE WOOD DERBY
Tuesdays, 9 pm, free
BENAROYA HALL
REVOLVER BAR No Exit:
Sun COLOSSAL BOSS
6/5 Algonquin,
8pm Deer Venom
LO-FI The Stargazer Lilies,
PARLIAMENT TAVERN Billy
RE-BAR Flammable, 9
STUDIO 429
Sat A NIGHT OF DISCO
6/4 Free before 10pm,
9pm
$5 after
J&M CAFE All-Star Acoustic
8 pm, free
pm, $10
Fri DUG
6/3 RARE FUNK DANCE
9pm PARTY - $7
Swampheavy, LB!, Witch
Ripper, 9 pm, $10/$12
CORBU LOUNGE Salsa
Sundays, 9 pm
Thu LITTLE CHILD MAN
6/2 Endo Glen,
9pm Tara Landers
HIGHLINE CHRCH,
free
Sarah Gerritsen and The
Shadow-Catchers, Redwood
Son, and Bart Budwig’s
Amperband, 8 pm, $12/$15
JA Z Z
TRIPLE DOOR
MUSICQUARIUM LOUNGE
a VERA PROJECT PUP,
Rozwell Kid, Charly Bliss,
7:30 pm, $10
pm, $5 before 12/$10 after
CENTRAL SALOON Forever
a TRIPLE DOOR Amos
Miller, 7:30 pm, $10
Tyraid, Oso Negro, Don
Dishes, New Track City, 8
pm, $7/$10
TRACTOR TAVERN The
‘90s Dance Party, 9 pm
a THE SHOWBOX Silvers
Pickups with Joywave, 8
pm, $35/$40
Crossrhythm Sessions, 9
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MUSIC
EMO NIGHT A full-grown man wearing a backpack considers a stage dive while other
full-grown adults sing along to Taking Back Sunday.
What Part of “Woe” Do
You Not Understand?
A Grown-Up Emo Kid Braces for the
Coming Wave of Emo Nostalgia
BY RICH SMITH
E
arly last Tuesday night, the only thing on the Crocodile’s
dance floor was a pile of black-and-white balloons dead-still
under harsh pink lights. The words SAD AS FUCK were printed
across some of them. Others featured a drawing of a cracked tombstone that read “Emo
Nite.” (The event was so self-aware, it contained its own obituary.)
Mopey hiphop was piped in through the
speakers. “Club Going Up on a Tuesday”
played twice. Protected by a thick coat of
irony, those in attendance would eventually
feel safe enough to rush the boards and enter
Emo Nostalgialand, where we could experience all of the joy and none of the drawbacks
of having a bluebird neck tattoo.
The PBR-sipping wallflowers who framed
the floor were wearing their Warped Tour
costumes: studded belts, Vans, lots of dudes
in mascara. About 20 percent of the crowd
looked like Rivers Cuomo, irrespective of
gender. A few soft goths sympathetic to the
cause were perched in the corner. The blackmetal bartenders showed admirable restraint
in their efforts not to systematically administer purple nurples to everyone in the crowd.
Lord knows I was trying to stop myself from
doing the same, and I’m the kind of guy who
used to get the purplest nurples.
But every ounce of irony and frustration
fell away when a skinny dude with dyed blond
hair wearing an oversize T-shirt and woolen
beanie—in late May—pressed the space bar
on his black MacBook Pro and blasted Brand
New’s “Sic Transit Gloria,” a song about trying
but failing to deny a woman’s sexual advances
in order to protect her from your bad-/sad-boy
self, a sentiment I felt deeply when the song
was released in 2003, a full year before I had
even had sex for the first time.
At the sound of that song’s marauding
bass line, a wave of deep recognition washed
across the faces of the crowd and the blackand-white balloons started flying all over
the place. The blond dude cut the volume
on the chorus, and the whole crowd, including me, screamed (forgive me), “Die young
and save yourself!” at the dude onstage who,
and I can’t stress this enough, was simply
playing a playlist that he and his similarly
skinny-and-oversize-T-shirted friend had put But the rest is punk without the politics, pop
together on a computer. Occasionally the two without the candy, rock without the rebellion.
would make those mangled hand gestures A bunch of white young men with Peter Pan
that emo frontmen make in the middle of a complexes shouting borderline and someparticularly strenuous scream sesh, or else times absolutely misogynistic lyrics about the
point at us and sing along. The stage was day she didn’t call back.
their bedroom, their beat-up Honda, full of
But you have to understand. It was the
their friends who were returning from a show early aughts. I lived in a hick suburb south of
with a gas station burrito in each of their laps. Kansas City, Missouri. In my town, you were
“They” are the people who organize Tak- who you listened to. The jocks were listening
ing Back Tuesday (aka Emo Nite), a traveling to rap, pop country, mainstream pop, and dad
emo club experience based in Los Angeles. The rock—and those people punched me in the
blond guy’s name is Morgan Freed. The other arm in the locker room. They hurled the word
guy’s named in T.J. Petracca. And the woman “fag” at me from the windows of their trucks
who may or may not have pressed computer before I ever considered putting on a sizebuttons in an official capacity at the end of last small black band T-shirt. I didn’t like those
week’s show is named Barbara Szabo. On their people. The poor-kid weirdos were slowly
website, they say they’re not a band. They say morphing into Juggalos and Juggalettes,
they’re not DJs. And they’re not. But they do and they freaked me the fuck out. The goths
serve a function. They’re selling my nostalgia looked sickly. Emo felt like the only alternaback to me, wrapping it up in packaging per- tive to the alternatives.
fectly suited to my affection for noncommittal
Plus, I was starting to make out with peoirony. For $7, they shout my joy back at me, ple and to feel semi-complicated emotional
affirming and validating an entire five-year feelings about that. The adults and peers in
period of my musicalmy town had absolutely
emotional life, a whole
no language to deera full of band names I thought we’d all agreed scribe the complexities
and song titles I blush to
of interpersonal relathat emo proper began tionships. “So you’re
think of.
And yet. Before the
crushing on Candice
with Sunny Day Real
non-DJs played the old
but you’re not sure if
Estate’s Diary, achieved she’s crushing on you
Brand New song, I had
been standing off to the
full glory on Weezer’s back, and she might
side of the stage feeling
be hooking up with
Blue Album, and had
like an elder statesman,
your best friend as we
privately forming a lot
been dead since 2004, speak?” Coach Gorky
of sharp opinions about
might say. “Great.
when Taking Back
the first two tracks of
Hand me that football
Sunday’s second album, and run a post pattern.
the set. They opened
with Fall Out Boy’s
Where You Want to Be, I’ll hit ya on the turn.”
“Sugar, We’re Goin’
Brand New singended up sucking.
Down,” which for me
er
Jesse
Lacey’s
is non-canon. I thought
arguably clever turns
we’d all agreed that
of phrase (“I’ve seen
emo proper began with Sunny Day Real Es- more spine in jellyfish/I’ve seen more guts in
tate’s Diary, achieved full glory on Weezer’s 11-year-old kids) and River Cuomo’s absurd
Blue Album, was reinvigorated by Saves the poetry (“Somebody’s Heine’ is crowding my
Day’s Through Being Cool, and had been dead icebox…”) helped me articulate the many
since 2004, when Taking Back Sunday’s sec- passions and rages of my teenage years.
ond album, Where You Want to Be, ended up
It’s been nearly 20 years since I listened to
sucking. There were pop punk and screamo Through Being Cool on repeat, and, accordbands who sought shelter under the emo tent, ing to some weird immutable law of the music
but that Fall Out Boy / Panic! at the Disco shit and fashion industries, we’re at the beginning
came out in 2009 and was already way passé of the emo nostalgia wave. Emo Nite offers
for this swoopy-haired sad boy. When the former sad kids the opportunity to get pitted
skinny duo played a song off the fourth TBS on that wave, a chance to acknowledge and realbum, New Again, I was ready to consider the flect on and so affirm a shared musical reality.
evening a third-wave emo wash.
But in that act of cultural affirmation, I am
But then they played the Get Up Kids, denied my individual relationship to and exan old Lawrence, Kansas/Kansas City, Mis- perience with that music, which is what made
souri band. They played “Seventy Times 7” it feel so special in the first place. I mean, Say
off Brand New’s first record, Your Favor- Anything are emo, but they weren’t fucking
ite Weapon. They played Dude Ranch–era emo, right?
Blink-182. They played Jimmy Eat World,
And what’s weirder still is the artists who
early My Chemical Romance, and Dashboard do fit in this genre haven’t finished making
Confessional, and suddenly I hoped that I was music. Brand New are touring with Modest
as happy as I was pretending. I was 16 years Mouse this summer in anticipation of the
old again, missing her. I fell in love with the release of their new (possibly final) album.
woman in the green sleeveless shirt standing Google searches for “Saves the Day” still
next to me as a kind of reflex. My heart leapt yield recent results, including an album from
when the soft goths swooped down from their 2013. Rockstar Energy Drink is sponsorroost, brushed past me, and jumped onstage ing the Taste of Chaos Tour with Dashboard
to sing “Say It Ain’t So.” This was the music Confessional and Taking Back Sunday, plus
of my teenage years—not my mom’s Motown special guests Saosin. Culture now moves so
or my dad’s 1960s folk or the television’s Brit- quickly that we’re getting nostalgic for eras
ney Spears—it was the first music I’d chosen that aren’t even over.
to love. And like all first loves, I’d never truly
I have feelings about that. ■
be rid of my affection for it.
Which sucks. Because most of the music Taking Back Tuesday/Emo Nite will return
sucks. Objectively. (Well, Piebald holds up.) to Seattle in the fall.
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B
ang, bang, bang, bang. Inside the
darkened Moore Theatre on May 23,
veteran Seattle Police Department SWAT
officer Jeff Geoghagan was taking out victims with a finger gun. Three more: bang,
bang, bang. Geoghagan lowered his arm.
“It happens pretty quick, doesn’t it?” he
asked the crowd in the auditorium. Before
he started “shooting,” Geoghagan asked
the audience to time him. The seven shots
took less than 30 seconds. The lesson: The
cops won’t make it in time to help you.
Geoghagan’s presentation—Safety in the
Arts: Active Shooter Training—was designed
to teach arts-organization staffers what to do
if a gunman opens fire in their theater, cinema, or music venue. (Geoghagan has been
involved in several officer-involved shootings,
including the high-profile killing of Joel Reuter, a mentally ill man on Capitol Hill.)
Geoghagan has given this presentation
plenty of times before. But this was the first
time in recent years that it’s been targeted
specifically at people who work at arts venues, according to the city’s Office of Arts &
Culture. Spokesperson Erika Lindsay said
the training came about when Seattle Theatre Group executive director Josh LaBelle
learned at a national conference that other cities offer theaters training on what to do in an
active-shooter situation. Seattle’s SWAT team
generally offers the training to “schools and
high-risk offices (Jewish Federation, CAIR
Washington, etc.),” Lindsay said in an e-mail.
Recent attacks have made it clear that
arts organizations are also at risk. About 200
people attended two sessions of Geoghagan’s
training, including staff from Seattle Opera,
Town Hall, EMP Museum, Holocaust Center
for Humanity, and more than 50 other arts
organizations.
“YOYO time,” one of Geoghagan’s PowerPoint slides read: “You’re On Your Own.”
Most of Geoghagan’s advice is boilerplate:
Be observant of your surroundings, learn
basic first aid, take notice of coworkers who
display repeated warning signs of potential
violence, and if a shooting starts, try to get
away, hide, or fight. But in a crowded venue
like a theater or arena, he said, running and
hiding aren’t really going to work.
“What do we do with our audiences?” someone asked during the
question-and-answer period.
“If the person is actually here, sitting in
the seat and stands up [and starts shooting]… I suggest you fight,” he told the room.
“Whoever is closest to that person—patron,
usher, staff, performer—fights. I’m gonna
tell you right now, there are no means of
protection right here. This person is in the
theater armed with a firearm and they’re
shooting people—you need to fight. That is
the best chance you have of minimizing the
loss of life, period. I wish I could give you a
different answer, but practicalities are such
that that’s the best answer I can give you.”
An audience member who works with
youth at a museum asked what he should do
if he leads the kids out of the building but
doesn’t have everyone he’s responsible for.
“Do I go back in?” he asked.
“First of all, that’s a personal decision,”
Geoghagan said. “You are talking about
placing yourself at your own personal risk to
go back inside. Your organization cannot tell
you that you have to place yourself in peril
for that purpose.”
Geoghagan reasons that the kids left inside
may have found a safe hiding place or another
way to escape, so it’s not a good idea to go back
in. But, “if you’re looking inside and you’re
seeing a child frozen in fear and perpetrator/
suspect/violator/active shooter going toward
that person and you choose to do so,” he says,
“that’s on you and that’s very admirable.”
After Geoghagan’s presentation, Thomas
Gilmore, a soft-spoken security guard who
works for a contractor at the Paramount,
Neptune, and Moore Theatres, said he
already knew most of what was in the presentation but that he and his coworkers have
never had this kind of training. “A lot of our
guys don’t have the first idea of what to do,”
he said. “We haven’t had this talk.”
After the attacks in Paris, Gilmore said the
contractor he works for began doing more
bag searches at events (“Even at a Broadway
show”). Gilmore said he’d feel a responsibility to fight an attacker if a shooting happened
while he was working. A coworker standing
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your job.”
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ART
SAM Is More Timid Than
the Art in the Powerful
Emblems of Encounter
B Y J E N G R AV E S
A
s far as anyone working there titles. Without discussion, the blatantly racist
knows, Seattle Art Museum has 18th-century English figurines in Emblems,
never before brought out the for instance, are just painful and stupid.
carved ivory elephant tusk that now stands
The most interesting creations in Emupright, gleaming in its glass case in a small, blems (and most of the pieces, period) came
out-of-the-way gallery on the fourth floor.
out of Africa. An early-20th-century CongoThe tusk is 18 inches long, in shades of but- lese wooden power figure wearing a tuxedo
tered white toast, and carved on it in a spiral jacket sits with a European rifle on his lap.
is a line of men, women, and babies moving He embodies the confounding, conflicting
upward around the tusk. They are being realities of a besieged Congo. The figure’s
marched into slavery at gunpoint.
protective power comes from the herb paste
Each figure is tiny but clear. The carver coating his shoulders. Yet he is redundantly
went into painstaking detail so we can make armed and in the formal dress of a European
out who is hungry by
overlord,
someone
his ribs, feel the texfrom whom protection
ture of each head of
is needed. He is both
hair, hear the cough
sides of a colonial coin.
issuing from the man
From the divided,
bent over for inspecsemi-abolitionist 19th
tion.
century, there’s a neeThe slaves are Afridlework
sampler—
can, and so are at least
also displayed for the
some, if not all, of the
first time at SAM—
guards.
hanging quietly in a
At the top of the spiframe, hand-sewn by
ral, the line culminates
a 10-year-old girl rein a single man seated
ceiving instruction at
with his body folded,
a missionary outpost
head in hands, in grief.
in Sierra Leone.
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
As the label exIn letters that lean
Emblems of Encounter
plains, this was a lateslightly,
as if she’s
Seattle Art Museum
19th-century tourist
practicing for dear
Ongoing
souvenir. These souvelife, the girl signs her
nirs were made by African carvers to deco- name as “Liberated African Charlotte Turnrate the homes of wealthy Europeans.
er.” Little is known about her. Most likely
This tusk is in a small show timidly titled she was captured by enslavers, dragged to
Emblems of Encounter: Europe and Africa the Atlantic Coast, put on a ship later interOver 500 Years, “encounter” being a slight cepted by British anti-slavers, and deposited
word for a half-millennium of culture shock, with missionaries near the coast, far from the
mutual awe, exploitation, slavery, murder, home where she couldn’t return for fear of
and mass dismemberment.
being enslaved again. The missionaries got
SAM European curator Chiyo Ishikawa funding by selling naming rights to the girls,
assembled Emblems—“gingerly,” she said, who made the samplers to be sent back to Euadding it isn’t thought-out enough to be a full ropean sponsors.
exhibition, just a sort of dredge—with input
And now that the tusk is out, what does it
from African curator Pam McClusky. The mu- bring with it?
seum went through a yearlong training with
Its scene is universally horrible. The
the City of Seattle’s Race and Social Justice question is whether the souvenir brought
Initiative, and Ishikawa asked one of that pain with it into the European household, or
program’s facilitators to help with the labels.
whether the sight of Africans enslaving AfriIn 2012, the Dallas Museum of Art put cans was an easy justification for dismissing
on display a similar tusk—also for the first such sordidness as merely foreign.
time. Museums are creaking open the doors
What I want to know more about is the
on the colonial legacies hiding in their base- carver. The best reason for this tusk to be in
ments, in part in response to domestic de- the gallery is that he recorded these scenes as
colonizing movements like Occupy and Black eyewitness testimony. Actual slave marches
Lives Matter.
happened on the Loango Coast, where he was
Museums often store things that are too working. The agony of the figure at the top of
painful, messy, or inconclusive to fit into the the tusk makes it impossible for me to believe
accepted stories told in galleries. But stories that this was just a job.
change, and objects emerge like ghosts comI recommend turning around and around
ing through the walls.
the glass case to follow the spiraling march.
I appreciate a 21st-century American mu- This is the best way to see every gesture and
seum openly scrambling for a better view of hear every tone of the carver’s voice. It’s
what it doesn’t know. Maybe next time these okay if you get light-headed. You can’t get
materials come out, after this dry run, we will your mind around this. ■
see a less nervous SAM, one willing to raise
its voice above a whisper and ask provocative
Read more Jen Graves at
questions directly in public events, labels, and
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THEATER
Caught Dares to Play
Cultural Appropriation
Drama for Laughs
BY RICH SMITH
W
cultural appropriation, the Truth, and the inhen you walk into the lobby of the
tersection of art and politics.
Bathhouse Theater to see playwright Christopher Chen’s Caught, which is
The play is about Western responses
something you’re going to want to do, you’ll
to Chinese dissident art. Sort of. It’s also
see art curated by Xiong Gallery lining the
about relative pain. It’s also about how
walls. The gallery, so Seattle Public Theater
the truth is a collaborative fiction and how
says, is a group that claims to “promote pronobody can really know anyone else. Imduce present projects that cannot be shown
portantly, it’s about an hour and a half long,
in museums” by artists
tops. (TAKE HEED,
“of asian descent unable
Seattle theater prounwilling undesiring of
ducers.) And it’s kind
conventional channels.”
of hard to write about
Prints on soft pabecause its chief joy is
per show immigration
structural, relying pridocuments plastered
marily on the element
with portraits of kids,
of surprise, and I liked
in what seems to me to
the show enough that I
be an effort to show the
don’t want to ruin any
faces behind the names,
surprises for you here.
the humans caught up
After Lin Bo’s inin what can be a detroduction, the play
humanizing
process.
goes full-blown metaFuzzy oil paintings of
theatrical, but in a
Caught
Mao blinded by a grid
meaningful way—less
Seattle Public Theater at the Bathhouse
Through June 12
of roses dominate the
of a self-flagellating/
room. Sculpted clumps
self-congratulator y
of industrial detritus are installed in the
annoying ouroboros kind of thing and more
theater space itself. The pieces work togethof a flower blooming out of another flower
er to create a critique of unfair immigration
kind of thing.
policies, authoritarian leaders, and indusChen balances his heady subject matter
trial waste.
and structure with plenty of humor, includAfter the lobby lights flickered a few
ing, surprisingly, a lot of absurd, slapstick
times, and the audience members shuffled to
gags. Daniel Wood, in particular, delivers
their seats. The artist, Lin Bo (Kevin Lin),
a terrific bit of physical comedy when his
approached the stage, thanked everyone
character flies into a Yosemite Sam–like rage
for coming, introduced himself, mentioned
after winning an argument. It’s the first time
a New Yorker article that was recently writin the play when you really begin to suspect
ten about him, jokingly said it made him feel
that something deeply weird is going on, and
like “the artist of all Chiit also reminds you that
nese suffering,” and then
it’s nice to watch someThe play is about body bust up a stage.
told his story about being
imprisoned in China for
while we’re talkhow the truth is a ingAnd
three years for organizing
about the quality of
a fake protest that never collaborative fiction the performances, it’s no
happened.
surprise that Keiko Green,
and how nobody
The parallels between
who plays artist Wang
can really know
Lin Bo’s and Ai Weiwei’s
Min, is able to glide beaesthetics and paths to intween different personas,
anyone else.
ternational recognition are
pulling out the more nuapparent enough to raise
anced bits of humor in her
suspicions about what’s real in this perforlines and playing the pathos without sap. She
mance and what’s not.
seems absolutely at home onstage, which is
I started wondering if the art lining the
an important quality to project in a play that
lobby walls was real, if the person standing
risks snootiness.
before me was Lin Bo or an actor playing Lin
There’s a lot to admire in the character
Bo or an actor playing Lin Bo playing an acwork and in the language of Chen’s play,
tor who was actually Lin Bo. Just as these
but the way he’s able to excavate cultural
questions began to swirl in my head, the acappropriation—a topic that elicits rage and
tion onstage dropped the audience into the
dismissive eye-rolls from both ends of the
offices of the New Yorker, where the writer
political-correctness spectrum—for belly
who wrote the article on Lin Bo, Joyce (Relaughs and earnest inquiry is particularly
becca Olson), and the editor, Bob (Daniel
laudable. He ends up presenting a pretty
Wood), begin to question the veracity of Lin
cynical argument about the limitations of
Bo’s narrative.
cultural exchange, which is a bummer, but
From there, the show takes off, exploring
it makes for an entertaining and thoughtful
several hard-to-talk-about issues involving
show. ■
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distant stars. And though this was an animation, it moved you like something real. Your
mind seemed to accept and work with the fiction it presented. Indeed, the mind got lots
of pleasure from it. But did the mind know
it was enjoying an illusion? Did it know this
was a trick? Did it matter?
Maybe there is a split between awareness
and the processes of the mind. I was well
aware of the fact that what I was seeing was
not real, but my mind was not. This is like
I slipped on the headset,
and it transformed the
room into a world I could
walk around in.
HUNGER IN LOS ANGELES Lessons in virtual empathy might make the real world a better place.
SIFFX Dares Seattle to Get Real
About Virtual Reality Right Now
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The night before the opening of the show,
his spring, I was invited to be a
juror for a competition of propos- I walked around the space with seven other
als for “art projects on the surface jurors and a Shiba Inu dog and examined
each successful entry (51 in
of the moon.” The criteria: It
SIFFX
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must be achievable by an artist
June 2–5, Seattle Center
were interesting, some made
and astronaut, it must not cost
me mad, and several were very
more than $500,000, it needed
to be set up on the moon within 48 hours, clever—but one caught and held my attenand so on. The exhibit, held at King Street tion like nothing else. It wasn’t so much the
Station, was called Giant Steps, and it of- proposal itself that got me (it was called Illuminous Analemma and involved placing 3-D
fered a prize of $10,000 to the best exhibit.
printer–built pyramids in a massive moon
crater), but its presentation, which was not
in the gallery space but in virtual reality.
You donned an Oculus headset and suddenly found yourself floating above 10
pyramids. You looked up: A spaceship was
rotating in the sky. You looked right: The
huge blue Earth was slowly spinning in
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the opposite of dreaming. The mind knows
exactly what it’s doing when, say, it presents
my dead mother as a living, breathing, talking, laughing person. But my awareness has
no idea that this is an illusion. It engages
with the ghost as if it were real. In virtual
reality, I’m aware of the fiction, but my
mind is the clueless one. It falls hard for the
frankly fantastic images of me flying around
the moon.
I did not vote for Illuminous Analemma. I instead picked a standard installation,
whose name and features I have completely
forgotten. Stranger still, it never occurred
to me to award Illuminous Analemma or
to see who made it (I later learned it was
by Brandon Aleson and Reilly Donovan).
Stranger still, I returned to Giant Steps the
next day and made a beeline to the headsets and spent nearly 30 minutes in space.
I did this again two days later. When the
artist DK Pan commented on an Instagram
picture of the headsets that he “loved” Illuminous Analemma and was “surprised
it didn’t win,” I also became surprised that
it did not win. Why did I not vote for the
installation that most captured my imagination? Why didn’t it occur to me that it
should win?
The more I thought on this, the more I
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began to realize that I was just not prepared in its program. One is the science-fiction
for virtual reality (VR). I had no way of know- thriller Strange Days, arguably Kathryn
ing what was good or bad about it. For me, Bigelow’s best work. Released in 1995,
it was just something new and kind of cool— and set at the turn of the millennium, the
a technology rather than a form. It was not film is about a dandy on the streets of LA,
something that I had to (or even thought I Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes), who sells excould) form a strong opinion about. I’m used periences recorded on a Superconducting
to evaluating things that are in the real world, Quantum Interference Device (SQUID).
things I can see and touch and walk around. These memories, usually sexual or violent
How can you compare something that is with in nature, are contained on minidiscs, which
something that is not?
people buy as if they were crack. The more
“VR is so new, we need a basic educa- extreme the experience, the more addiction about it,” says Sandy Cioffi, Seattle tive the memory. Lenny, however, ignores
filmmaker, 2016 Stranger Genius Award number four of the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Ten
nominee, and VR activist. We are sitting at a Crack Commandments” (“Never get high
table in Vermillion gallery. Wine glasses are on your own supply”) and spends much of
on the wobbly table. Above us, the light from his free time in the VR of SQUID. But the
a skylight falls on a boxy machine that hums memories he consumes are gentle and senas it clears the air. Nineties hiphop fills the sual. They are of the sunny days he spent
background.
with a beautiful woman, Faith Justin (JuCioffi is describing the very ambitious liette Lewis). Whenever he is alone in his
VR show that she and a team of filmmak- messy apartment, he pulls out the minidiscs
ers, technologists, and media professionals and returns to the past to watch himself
put together for the Seattle International play, talk, and fuck Faith.
Film Festival. It’s called SIFFX. It runs for
The reason for showing this film during
four days (June 2 to 5), has 20 VR pieces SIFFX is obvious. The device in the film is
(some of which will be screened in the Pacif- very similar to contemporary VR delivery
ic Science Center’s Laser Dome), lectures, devices. In fact, I thought of Strange Days
installations, and something that looks a right after my second important experience
lot like a crash course in the coming age of with the technology, which came recently
VR (SIFFX: X-Academy). There will be a during the Taiwanese electronics manufacmakers lab where people will learn about turer HTC’s demonstration of Vive VR, the
performance capture devices and how to new headset it has produced with Seattleedit VR. “People who are nowhere near this based game developer Valve (Bloomberg
technology will be inrates it as “top of the
vited to participate,”
market”).
Cioffi says.
I walked into the
It isn’t going to
“You have to see
media event at HTC’s
change the nature of
this as an inquiry. Four
Pioneer Square ofdays of asking our- storytelling/filmmaking/ fice. A young man
selves if VR matters.
introduced me to the
Is this just good for consciousness itself. It is headset. I slipped it
entertainment? Or is
changing those things, on, and it transformed
it a potential doomsthe room into a world
even now.
day device? People
I could walk around
seem to have a pretty
in. When I got close
visceral reaction when
to a wall, it warned me
they experience it. And by it, we mean X. that reality was right in front of my nose.
The unknown. We are trying to solve for X, The details in this VR experience were just
the radical unknown. And it will be a terrific stunning. I walked around a sunken ship. A
opportunity for the community to experience column of water was filled with green light.
aspects of this X.”
Fish swam this way and that. A whole whale
Cioffi once ran for a seat on the Seattle approached me and stopped for a moment.
City Council on the promise of challenging Its big eye blinked. Calling the visuals anithe big-money interests that influence the mation does not begin to do justice to how
system. She has also made documentaries real they seem.
that deal with community and environmental
Later that night, I dreamed of my dead
issues. Surely, there has to be something po- mother. We were, of all things, dancing in
litical and potentially progressive that’s also her bedroom to “Under the Pressure” by
drawing her into VR.
the War on Drugs. She was so real, so alive,
“Yes, there is,” she says. “There has been so there. When I awoke, I was amazed by
over the years a terrific intersection of cre- how perfect the illusion had been. I wanted
ative technology, activism, and art. The best to go back to it. But I couldn’t. I have no
representative of this direction is Nonny control over my dreams. Now imagine if
de la Peña. She is the keynote speaker of someone had filmed my mother, who died in
SIFFX. Peña has been using gaming tech- 2003, dancing with a 360-degree camera. I
nology for close to six years. She rigs it so could enter a room in my house, or in a kathat you can be placed inside the world that raoke joint repurposed for VR consumption,
feels like the game world… It’s like being and visit my mother in the virtual world. I
in a first-person shooter game. But instead could walk to her and dance with her. I could
of first-person shooter, her thing has been do this again and again. I could be a Lenny.
to make you a first-person witness, a first- The addiction to the realness of the illusion
person empathizer.
would only grow.
The signature piece by de la Peña is Hun“Virtual reality” has been one of those
ger in Los Angeles, which places you in a line vague sci-fi neologisms that’s been hangfor food, waiting in 100-degree heat. A man ing around the culture for the past 30-odd
passes out right in front of you.
years without anyone really knowing what
“Though you’re looking at animated it means. But SIFFX, like Illuminous Anafigures,” Cioffi observes, “your body feels lemma, makes a strong case that the period
something. You are moved, truly. Her theory of VR existing only in theory is over. It isn’t
is that reporting is fine, but what if we could going to change the nature of storytelling/
place you in Syria and a cluster bomb ex- filmmaking/consciousness itself. It is changplodes behind your head? That experience, ing those things, even now.
plus reading the story, will deepen [your
This future is happening right now, in
understanding of and feelings for] what is front of our eyes. ■
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empathetic.”
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pineapple, sausage, and pepperoni.
I tried the sausage and assorted vegetables pizza, which was a grease-bottomed
nothing slice of blahness. It’s mainly a glutinous vehicle for ranch dressing, which the
cashier/server suggested I buy to accompany
my slice. As I ate it, an oil slick formed on my
hands. Even after a lot of napkin work, the
pizza left me with a post-lube sensation—my
hands were dry, but they didn’t feel clean. I
felt like a dirtbag in the dining room’s sterile,
cement cube.
I knew I was dealing with a Portlandbased pizza chain when, at Sizzle Pie on
Union Street, I had to double check whether
I was sprinkling Parmesan cheese or nutritional yeast on a slice of pizza that I was
forced to order by speaking its name, “High
on Fire,” aloud.
The best thing about Sizzle Pie is that you
can get a slice and a good salad for $7. Roughage accompanying pizza is a kindness, an
understanding between peoples. The other
great thing is that you can get “cuts,” which
are $2 half slices of pizzas that you might want
to try. These “cuts” solve the problem of feeling too full after a pizza session. Sometimes
two slices is too much! But a slice and a cut…
“Spiral Tap” is an excellent candidate for
a cut. If you don’t want to destroy your body
(or if you’re vegan), you can add this little
sidecar pizza to your main jam. It has an
JENNIFER RICHARD
onion sauce swirled with a tomato sauce, so
DINO’S TOMATO PIE Tangy tomato sauce, dreamy cheese, and a floppy, foldable crust.
it’s slightly sweet, slightly tangy. It goes well
with red pepper flakes and a lot of Parm.
I did not receive my pizzas at the height of
their powers (the place was packed for dinner),
but Sizzle Pie is good, and its wild ingredients
are wild without trying too hard. Also, a fine
and filling $12 meal on the Hill is no joke.
Dino’s Tomato Pie on Olive Way is the
swankiest of Capitol Hill’s new pizza joints,
brought to you by Delancey’s Brandon Pettit. A crystal chandelier (it’s actually made of
BY RICH SMITH
plastic) hangs over the big party booth in the
back. Dino’s other chandeliers look like dey pizza platform is one plank: Italian digestifs served me a classic repre- constructed pebbled-plastic tumblers, a wink
Pizza is the people’s snack. sentative of the Neapolitan genre: a wilted, to the humble family pizza parlor.
I ordered an on-tap old-fashioned and a
A slice should be cheap and soggy-bottomed pie with a salad piled on
unfussy but dignified. The crust should be top of it. If you try to fold and bite into this “fancy salad” while I waited for my 18-inch
crunchy-chewy and foldable, the toppings few pizza, prepare to eat all of the toppings at Hot Salami pie. (Dino’s also serves square
and fresh, the tomato sauce light and bright, once. The prosciutto and generous shavings Sicilian pizza but, out of fairness to the other
of grana were wonderful, but the mozzarella restaurants, I tasted only the round pie.) The
and the cheese a melty mozzarella.
For many years, people on Capitol Hill have was joyless and rubbery. The end crust tasted old-fashioned was strong, fumy, and better
looked to Hot Mama’s and Big Mario’s for their bitter-sour from the oven char in a good way, than half of the non-on-tap old-fashioneds
I’ve had on Capitol Hill. The fancy salad
quick lunches and late-night booze sponges, but it left a powdery finish in my mouth.
Further south at Ian’s, a Midwest college- tasted fancy—strands of arugula and shaved
or called in a party pie from Pagliacci. (I don’t
really want to talk about Amante, but despera- town pizza chain, the first thing you have to fennel flapping around in a metal bowl. The
tion has led me to that door more than once.) deal with is a little smell-bleed from the fro- real star is the dressing, which tastes like liqThese places all subscribe to the basic tenets of yo place next door. The second is the menu uid Parmesan.
The pizza came to the table on one of those
my pizza platform—and at times, silently nosh- of pies with wacky toppings such as buffalo
ing on a slice of Mama’s is an act akin to prayer. chicken or the “macadilla,” a spicy chicken elevated platforms that put the pie at eye
level and allow for easy swiping. The herby,
When I realized that five pizza places had quesadilla and macaroni mash-up.
I snagged a slice of the Mac n’ Cheese tangy tomato sauce cut through the salami
opened up on Capitol Hill in the last year—all
within eight blocks of each other—I got excited (“Ian’s All-Time Best Seller!”) as well as a pie’s high grease content. The cheese was a
dream—good chew, very
about the possibilities. I’m a bit of a purist, but slice of pepperoni and
stringy. The crust was
I can appreciate the variety of pizza ambitions. sausage. The crusts on
It’s nice when
bready but not a gluOccasionally it’s nice when someone cracks an both were crunchy and
ten bomb, crunchy with
egg on a pie, or fools around with figs and a chewy and receive high
someone cracks an
a nice amount of char.
pear, or just tries, through small, meaningful marks for their cornmeal
egg on a pie, or adds It’s floppy and has the
adjustments, to create the perfect tomato pie. dustings. The Mac n’
So with an open mind and maw, I went on a Cheese wants hot sauce
figs and a pear, or just best fold-action of the
bunch. At $22, the price
pizza crawl to determine what these new shops and a lot of black pepper,
tries, through small
is relatively high, though
without which it is an inbring to the Capitol Hill pizza scene.
Broadway’s Pizzeria 88 is a Neapolitan- edible block of cheddar
adjustments, to create you could feed a family
three with one pizza.
style pizza place with a casual date-night vibe. and noodles and unidenthe perfect tomato pie. of
(Dino’s sells only whole
There’s a marble countertop bar and one of tifiable white cheese that
pies until 10 p.m.)
those charming tile ovens in the corner. It’s a will grind your gut to a
Dino’s is the best of Capitol Hill’s new pizbit too sterile and spacious in the restaurant, halt. A sugary oregano tomato sauce domiso any flirtatious advances would have to be nated the meat pie, lending it a pizza-flavored zerias, and it serves what is technically the
pizza flavor. Both pies were decidedly average best round pie on the Hill. But those who
shouted at an unflirtatious volume.
agree that pizza is for the people would do
I ordered the Parma, topped with prosciut- but forgettable. Fine in a panic.
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to, a mountain of arugula, as well as grana and
mozzarella cheese, for $16. Over a draft Peroni, Pizza Co. serves sweet-sauced Papa John’s– Mario’s and grab themselves a slice to eat
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For the Week of June 1
ARIES (March 21–April 19): The voices in our heads are our constant
companions. They fill our inner sanctuary with streams of manic commentary. Often we’re not fully cognizant of the bedlam, since the outer
world dominates our focus. But as soon as we close our eyes and turn
our attention inward, we’re immersed in the jabbering babble. That’s
the bad news, Aries. Now here’s the good news. In the coming weeks
you will have far more power than usual to ignore, dodge, or even
tamp down the jabbering babble. As a result, you may get a chance to
spend unprecedented amounts of quality time with the still, small voice
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gaze. The mountaintop perspective affords a sweeping look at a vast
landscape. But sometimes this perspective isn’t perfectly useful. What
we most need to see may be right next to us, or nearby, and it’s only
visible if our vision is narrowly focused. Here’s how poet Charles Bernstein expresses it: “What’s missing from the bird’s eye view is plain
to see on the ground.” Use this clue in the coming weeks.
GEMINI (May 21–June 20): I foresee fertile chaos in your immediate
future, Gemini. I predict lucky accidents and smoldering lucidity and
disciplined spontaneity. Do you catch the spirit of what I’m suggesting?
Your experiences will not be describable by tidy theories. Your intentions will not fit into neat categories. You will be a vivid embodiment
of sweet paradoxes and crazy wisdom and confusing clarity. Simple
souls may try to tone you down, but I hope you will evade their pressure as you explore the elegant contradictions you encounter. Love
your life exactly as it is! Methodical improvisations will be your specialty. Giving gifts that are both selfish and unselfish will be one of
your best tricks. “Healing extremes” will be your code phrase of power.
CANCER (June 21–July 22): According to many sources on the internet, “werifesteria” is an obscure word from Old English. But my research suggests it was in fact dreamed up within the last few years by a
playful hoaxster. Regardless of its origins, I think it’s an apt prescription
to fix what’s bugging you. Here’s the definition: “to wander longingly
through the forest in search of mystery and adventure.” If you are not
currently seeking out at least a metaphorical version of that state, I
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Greed has a good chance to predominate, with its lush feasts and its
expansive moods. But the House of Obligatory Sharing has an austere
beauty that makes it a strong possibility, as well. Now here’s the trick
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rather celebrating her own. When’s the last time you gave birth to a
fresh version of yourself? From where I stand, it looks like the next
12 to 15 months will be one of those fertile phases of reinvention.
And right now is an excellent time to get a lightning-flash glimpse
of what the New You might look like.
SCORPIO (Oct 23–Nov 21): Author Rebecca Solnit offers some
tough advice that I think you could use. “Pain serves a purpose,”
she says. “Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you
cannot take care of.” With that in mind, Scorpio, I urge you to take
full advantage of the suffering you’re experiencing. Treat it as a gift
that will motivate you to transform the situation that’s causing you
to hurt. Honor it as a blessing you can use to rise above the mediocre
or abusive circumstances you have been tolerating.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22–Dec 21): Aphorist James Guida contemplates
the good results that can come from not imposing expectations
on the raw reality that’s on its way. “Not to count chickens before
they’re hatched,” he muses, “or eggs before they’re laid, chickens
who might possibly lay eggs, birds who from afar might be confused
with chickens.” I recommend this strategy for you in the coming
weeks, Sagittarius. Experiment with the pleasure of being wide open
to surprises. Cultivate a mood of welcoming one-of-a-kind people,
things, and events. Be so empty you have ample room to accommodate an influx of new dispensations. As Guida concludes: “Not to
count or think of chickens.”
CAPRICORN (Dec 22–Jan 19): “No gift is ever exactly right for
me,” mourns Capricorn poet James Richardson. Don’t you dare be
like him in the coming days. Do whatever you must to ensure that
you receive at least one gift that’s exactly right for you. Two gifts
would be better, and three sublime. Here’s another thought from
Richardson: “Success repeats itself until it is a failure.” Don’t you
dare illustrate that theory. Either instigate changes in the way you’ve
been achieving success, or else initiate an entirely new way. Here’s
one more tip from Richardson: “Those who demand consideration
for their sacrifices were making investments, not sacrifices.” Don’t
you dare be guilty of that sin. Make sacrifices, not investments. If you
do, your sacrifices will ultimately turn out to be good investments.
AQUARIUS (Jan 20–Feb 18): Life will invite you to explore the
archetype of the Ethical Interloper in the coming days. The archetype
of the Helpful Transgressor may tempt you, as well, and even the
Congenial Meddler or the Compassionate Trickster might look appealing. It will probably be both fun and productive to break taboos
in friendly ways. You could reconnoiter forbidden areas without
freaking anyone out or causing a troublesome ruckus. If you’re sufficiently polite and kind in expressing your subversive intentions, you
might leave a trail of good deeds in your wake.
PISCES (Feb 19–March 20): Your theme comes from the title of
a poem by Fortesa Latifi: “I Am Still Learning How to Do the Easy
Things.” During the next phase of your astrological cycle, I invite
you to specialize in this study. You may imagine that you are already
a master of the simple, obvious arts of life, but here’s the news: Few
of us are. And the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to
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Lindy West!
There were 1,200 people trying to cram themselves into Town Hall
as this photo was taken. It was the first Seattle date on Lindy West’s
book tour for Shrill, her hilarious new memoir about growing up in
a body that other people treat like “one big meat-blooper.”
She strode onto the stage looking gorgeous, with a phone in
her hand, taking video. The crowd was roaring. “Sorry if that was
gross that I came out with my phone, but it is so weird there are so
many of you!” she said.
She talked about how, in publishing, “women’s stories are niche
stories and men’s stories are universal,” and her gratefulness to
her publisher, Hachette, for letting her present the minutiae of
her life “as literature, which is the way men’s lives’ minutiae gets
presented.”
She read a section of Shrill about the exclusively negative
representations of fat people she saw as a child—including the
Queen of Hearts, Ursula the Sea Witch, and Lady Kluck from
Disney’s Robin Hood. Later, during the Q&A, on the subject of
representation, she said: “I’ve heard from so many people who said
they’ve never felt seen before. If five people have that reaction, I’m
glad to have done it.”
What’s her writing process? She answered: “So I start with 10 to
12 hours of sitting perfectly still unable to do anything—10 hours
of frozen misery. And then it sort of all just comes out in one big
dump at like 5 a.m. when I’m in my underwear eating Swedish fish
and crying.”
Someone asked her what the best moment of her year has been
so far, and she said: “This is it. Right now. This exact moment.”
West will be celebrated at the Stranger Genius Awards party
on September 24 at the Moore Theatre, and she’s in the running
for $5,000, no strings attached. To see all 15 artists nominated this
year, go to thestranger.com/genius2016. n
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