The Vis-à-Vis Society perform at the Del Rey Monday (Photo by Jenny Jimenez)
There’s more to this city than Capitol Hill. Here’s a look at the week ahead in “things to do” on the Hill and beyond from our cousin site, The SunBreak.
Wednesday
- Icelandic composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Jóhann Jóhannsson performs a mix of classical and electronic @ the Triple Door
- 5@5, involving free pizza and cheap beer for bike-riders, kicks off @ Georgetown Via Tribunali
- Women’s Health Week continues with an information table hosted by NOW, through Friday @ Seattle University
- Giant Magnet is multi-culti circus-music-art-dance fun for the whole family, through Saturday @ Seattle Center
- Matt Crawford, the PhD-holding motorcycle mechanic, returns to talk about his now-in-paperback Shop Class as Soulcraft @ Town Hall
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Thursday
- “Species,” a show of new paintings by Leroy Davis, opens @ Ghost Gallery
- Jed Dunkerley, Curtis Taylor, and Jason Puccinelli open their new show “Backdrop” @ Vermillion
- Hell, it’s all part of the Capitol Hill Art Walk; check out the full details @ CHS
- Enjoy drinks and a roundtable discussion on the Great American Cocktail at the Cocktail Symposium @ Canlis
- Or grab a beer, because Seattle Beer Week kicks off tonight and runs through May 23. Brewer Kent Larimer will be serving up his Roslyn beers @ the Bottleneck
- A new, ensemble-generated version of the Oedipus Cycle opens tonight @ the Balagan Theatre
- Local writer/actor/genius Marya Sea Kaminski closes out with Condo Millennium at the first “Live at the Film Forum” series @ NWFF
- Friends-of-the-site Mal de Mer and the Redwood Plan play @ the Crocodile
- Out in Fremont, Half Light, Graystar, and Goldie Wilson play @ the High Dive
- And–wow!–a One Act Play Festival is opening @ Stone Soup Theatre!
Friday
- BoingBoing blogger and open source science fiction writer Cory Doctorow reads as part of the Verse Chapter Verse series with music by Pillow Army @ the Sunset Tavern
- Check out the new generation of Seattle artists @ Cornish’s 2010 BFA exhibition
- The 48-Hour Film Project kicks off–expect a mad rush of filmmakers around town
- Shel Silverstein’s grown-up side is on display @ Theater Schmeater
- The SCUBA touring network, featuring Amy O’Neal’s locust, is the first big show @ Velocity’s new space
- The CD Forum presents “The Creation Project,” the culmination of year-long development project for a group of talented artists
- Yes, the rumors are true. It’s the final show for math-rock noisemakers X-Ray Press with their current lineup @ the Josephine
Saturday
- Shout Out Louds sound like the Smiths rolling down a dandelion-filled hillside. The Swedish band recorded their latest, Work, in Seattle with Phil Ek giving it a touch of his trademark, bright clean indie sheen. With hard-touring Freelance Whales @ Neumo’s
- Closing night of Lingo’s Glimmer… @ ACT Theatre
- It’s finally summer! This Saturday and Sunday marks both the U District Street Fair @ the Ave and the 6th annual Seattle Cheese Festival @ Pike Place Market
- FREE: Novelist Catherine Kirkwood (the “dark, erotic” Cut Away is her first) and author Rebecca Brown (essay collection American Lights) team up for a reading @ Hugo House
Sunday
- Frightened Rabbit bring whiskey-soaked heartbreak from Scotland. Playing with Chicago’s technical pop band Maps & Atlases @ Neumo’s
- It’s the closing night of Translations: The Seattle Transgender Film Festival @ NWFF
- Enjoy some Mexican wrestling and saucy striptease, care of Lucha VaVoom @ Showbox SoDo
- Gordon Edgar, cheesemonger for the San Francisco Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, is in town for the aforementioned Cheese Festival, and discusses his book Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
Monday
- The Vis-a-Vis performs for the new release of Poetry Northwest @ the Del Rey
- North by Northwest continues its run (through a field, being chased by a low-flying plane) @ Central Cinema
- Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Isobel Coleman talks about how the often-overlooked women of the Middle East are bringing their own change to the region @ Town Hall
- AM‘s sun-soaked indie pop returns to Seattle, with Diane Birch @ the Croc
Tuesday
- Ukelooza 8 and Manifesto Book Launch @ Canoe Social Club
- It’s the first of a two-night stand for Mississippi bluesman Pinetop Perkins with Chicago blues harpist and vocalist Willie “Big Eyes” Smith @ Jazz Alley
- Are you considering investing for human impact as well as profit? R. Paul Herman talks about his bookThe HIP Investor @ Town Hall
