Dario Robleto’s exhibit at the Frye is one of those shows you
read as much as see. On display is a simple button-down shirt next
to a pile of buttons that—the posted description informs
us—were made from melted Billie Holiday records, gathered
under the title Sometimes Billie Is All That Holds Me Together.
The whole show’s a death-and-pop-culture-obsessed mindblower, and you’d
be a fool to miss it. (Yes, even you.) (Frye Art Museum, 704
Terry Ave, 622-9250. 10 am–5 pm, free. Through Sept 1.)

David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest...