Using playful trompe l’oeil elements and text fragments pulled from pop culture, Quarles explores the ambiguities of life in a body. The Art of Christina Quarles: Virtual Conversation Like Add to a List Christina Quarles's long-limbed figures twist and contort, seeming to want to escape their skin. John Mandel's imaginative, tender style tells a timely tale of human perseverance. As her characters encounter pandemics across centuries and space, St. John Mandel's immersive, layered storytelling journeys from Vancouver Island to a future moon colony in Sea of Tranquility, her latest novel. Compiling compelling research in his newest book, Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth, Ford presents an enlightening perspective on the wage disparities and history of exploitation of Black labor within US institutions. Ford draws from his background as a psychotherapist and mythologist to develop a uniquely layered writing voice.
Ford: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth Like Add to a List Clyde W. RICH SMITH (Moore Theatre, Belltown) READINGS & TALKSĬlyde W. The songs work every time because their pleasures-witty rhymes and arrangements, beginning-middle-end storytelling-are ancient. They distort the fuck out of it, dunk it in irony, sandblast it with spite-and yet each one comes out gleaming and impossible to resist. He and his Magnetic Fields have made a career out of stress-testing the diamond-cut pop song. The Magnetic Fields Like Add to a List Stephin Merritt sounds like a hunchback singing Cole Porter songs from a bell tower in the city of true romance, and I love him every second for it. Classics like “Jesus Built My Hotrod” introduced the mainstream to the band’s sonic brutalism and inspired a new generation of aspiring cyber degenerates." The band will be joined with opening sets from PNW doom-grunge gods The Melvins and heavy metal outfit Corrosion of Conformity.
Ministry with Melvins and Corrosion of Conformity Like Add to a List Back in 2017, former Mercury contributor Chris Sutton wrote of the groundbreaking industrial band: "The long journey of Ministry has transformed the dark wave pioneers into soul-destroying digital horror mavens.
Kyle Like Add to a List Cali-born rapper Kyle is known for his optimistic rhymes and feel-good production that have led him to collaborations with big names like Chance the Rapper, Lil Yachty, G-Eazy, and Kehlani. (Grand Illusion, University District) MUSICīob Mould: Distortion and Blue Hearts Like Add to a List Former Hüsker Dü frontman Bob Mould will play a solo electric set of songs from his 40+ year career in support of his retrospective box set Distortion and latest album Blue Hearts. When one of the sisters falls in love with a human, their lives on land unravel into a chaotic, grimy game of survival. The Lure Like Add to a List This twisty, feral fairytale by Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska centers two mermaid sisters pulled ashore by the allure of glamorous nightclubs, music, and performance. Jump to: Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Multi-Day MONDAY FILM We advise directly checking the specific protocols for an event before heading out. You won't miss a thing thanks to this roundup, with events from Pabllo Vittar to Stoner Chicks Improv Presents: All Night Bong and from Dinos Alive to Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2022.Īlthough Washington’s statewide mask mandate has been lifted, venues may have their own health guidelines in place.
On Friday, the trifecta of green occasions will be rounded out with Earth Day. Hey besties, hope you've filed your taxes-today is Tax Day! Once you've done that, celebrate or commiserate with a different sort of green on 4/20.