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MAY 18, 2013


Saint Genet MUSIC
Saint Genet
Where: On the Boards When: Thurs-Sun at 8 pm. Through May 19. ($12-$25)

It’s put up or shut up time for Saint Genet, their detractors, and their defenders. For years, company member Ryan Mitchell has said he wants to make a work not in a theater but on a city. Now is the time. The company has been working for years on Paradisiacal Rites, an “opera” that just had its trial run in Austria and promises, Dante-like, to descend into seriously ugly shit in an attempt to find paradise. Their dramaturgy has included ballet, cults, gold leaf, leeches, shooting each other with BB guns, nitrous oxide, and a rigorous investigation of criminal-artist Jean Genet and his hagiographer Jean-Paul Sartre. Frankly, I’m a little worried. (On the Boards, 100 W Roy St, ontheboards.org, 8 pm, $20, May 16–19) by Brendan Kiley

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SUN
MAY 19, 2013


Food Truck Roundup FOOD & DRINK
Food Truck Roundup
Where: Phinney Neighborhood Association When: 3 pm ($25 admission, $100 donation for Community Cookbook)

The U-District Food Bank serves more than 1,000 families a week out of an 800-square-foot church basement. Their proposed new facility will have four stories of youth-focused low-income housing, plus job training and counseling spaces. Also, food bank patrons will no longer have to wait outside in the rain. Tonight, help fund the building at a food truck roundup: Your $25 donation gets you food from eight different trucks (including Skillet, Veraci, and Seattle Biscuit Company), along with four tastings of local booze, and live music by the Blackberry Bushes, the Washover Fans, and Ali Marcus. (Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave N, udistrictfoodbank.org, 3–7 pm, $25/$100 with community cookbook, 21+) by Kim Fu

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MON
MAY 20, 2013


Black Moth Super Rainbow MUSIC
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Where: Neumos When: Today ($15)

No sound makes it through Black Moth Super Rainbow mastermind Tobacco’s studio without undergoing elaborate warpage and applications of alien sparkle. The Pittsburgh band’s albums ooze both a blissful naiveté —the vocals sound like a 9-year-old’s sighing wonderment—and subtle sinisterness. BMSR suck the LSD-laced juice out of “Strawberry Fields Forever” and spew out a much stranger strain of pastoral psychedelia. Their latest album, Cobra Juicy, refines the textural weirdness into tight globules of oddly catchy tuneage and dusted beats. (Neumos, 925 E Pike St, neumos.com, 8 pm, $15 adv, 21+) by Dave Segal

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TUE
MAY 21, 2013


Mike Birbiglia STAGE
Mike Birbiglia
Where: Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center When: Tues at 7:30 pm, Wed at 7:30 and 10 pm. Through May 22. ($35)

Mike Birbiglia is the beloved storyteller and This American Life contributor with the famous sleepwalking problems and habit of saying “uhhhhh…” after jokes. My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend is Birbiglia’s one-man show about his lifetime of love troubles, and its 2012 run off Broadway earned widespread raves. Tonight and tomorrow, Birbiglia performs My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend at Intiman for a bunch of lucky Seattleites and a professional camera crew, who’ll be taping the proceedings. (Birbiglia’s previous show, Sleepwalk with Me, recently hit cinema screens.) (Intiman Playhouse, 201 Mercer St, stgpresents.org, 7:30 pm, $35, also May 22) by David Schmader

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WED
MAY 22, 2013


Flying Lotus MUSIC
Flying Lotus
Where: Showbox Sodo When: 8 pm ($26.50/$28)

It’s now easy for me to see Flying Lotus as not just one of the most important musical thinkers of our times, but the most important musical mind of our times. In 2006, when Flying Lotus dropped the album 1983, I felt this way about Burial, the South London dubstep producer. But after Until the Quiet Comes dropped late last year, I came to feel this way about Flying Lotus. Based in LA and signed to the UK’s Warp label, Flying Lotus as a producer and performer understands that great music is always a combination of brains and soul. (Showbox Sodo, 1700 First Ave S, showboxonline.com, 9 pm, $26.50 adv/$28 DOS, all ages) by Charles Mudede

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THU
MAY 23, 2013


Don’t Talk to the Cops!, Katie Kate MUSIC
Don’t Talk to the Cops!, Katie Kate
Where: Neumos When: 8 pm (free)

Tonight, Seattle’s fun-loving hiphop trio Don’t Talk to the Cops! (featuring our own hiphop expert Larry Mizell Jr.) celebrate the release of their new album, Champions of Breakfast. They’re doing this party right by opening the show with Katie Kate, who we just announced as a 2013 Stranger Genius Award finalist, and Ononos, who wear spooky costumes and codpieces and will probably confuse as much as delight you. Best of all, it will cost you ZERO AMERICAN DOLLARS to get into this party of the month. It’s gonna get nuts. (Neumos, 925 E Pike St, neumos.com, 8 pm, free, 21+) by Megan Seling

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FRI
MAY 24, 2013


Sherry Markovitz VISUAL ART
Sherry Markovitz
Greg Kucera Gallery

For years, Sherry Markovitz made the most spectacular beaded sculptures: abstract, suggestive gourds or yams, doll heads, and sparkling hunting trophies. But in the last five years or so, she’s added a new strain to her work: portraits of dolls on loosely hanging cotton, each one a stainy, vivid, glowing freak flag that somehow also manages to be delicate and quietly mesmerizing. Markovitz is a Stranger Genius Award nominee this year. You need to see this show of her new works. (Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave S, gregkucera.com, 10:30 am–5:30 pm, free, through June 29) by Jen Graves

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