An ingrate! by Anonymous My husband and I opened the doors of our home to you and your family. For years we were there for you. We gave you a job, helped you with your kids and your boyfriend. You lived with us until we helped you find a place of your own. Then we babysat for you for free.  We did all of this because we wanted to help you, but then you found some lame excuse to be mad at us and to dump us for God knows what reason.  Today, you walked in front of us and pretended you didn't know us. You are a sad excuse for a relative, and you are a lousy person. We don't need an ..read more

One really great thing to do every day of the week. by Audrey Vann WEDNESDAY 4/17   Oneohtrix Point Never: Again Tour (MUSIC) Oneohtrix Point Never (aka Daniel Lopatin) is part of that elite club of challenging, electronic musicians who've gone on to score high-profile movies, which includes Mica Levi, Robert A.A. Lowe, and Bobby Krlic. (Even stranger, Lopatin also was the musical director for the Weeknd's 2021 Super Bowl half-time performance.) The Brooklyn-based composer's early work—desolate, alienating, oft-times abrasive—didn't exactly foreshadow a side hustle soundtracking big ..read more

Oh, and Fred Durst pops up too. by Chase Hutchinson In a world where arts and culture is often devalued, there is truly nothing like going out to experience the transformative power of cinema at a festival. The vast medium boasts works that can move us to tears just as it does those that may melt your face off. This year, the 50th Annual Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) has films that do each of those things and, in extra special cases, both at the same time. Taking place in theaters from May 9-19 and virtually May 20-27, SIFF's got a whole lot in store—261 films in total. Not only i ..read more

Best Seats Are the Cheap Seats by Rich Smith I did not know how Pacific Northwest Ballet could improve on its production of The Seasons' Canon, the ballet that took my head off when it premiered in Seattle a couple years ago, but improve it they did.  Last time, PNB Artistic Director Peter Boal & Co. paired choreographer Crystal Pite's masterful, hyperkinetic meditation on nature with some very good but more or less disconnected ballets. This time, the program felt so cohesive it amounted to a religious experience—one that, incidentally, might best be experienced from the cheap seats ..read more

The Stranger's morning news roundup. by Vivian McCall Pro-Palestine Google employees protest the company: Workers led sit-ins in Seattle and in other cities on Tuesday to stop Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and Google CEO Sundar Pichai from providing technology to Israel. Demands included dropping a $1 billion cloud and AI contract with the Israeli military called Project Nimbus, and ceasing alleged intimidation, harassment, and retaliation against Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim employees who speak out. Protesters claim numerous workers have quit Google because their mental health has suffered ..read more

Last night Matmos inflated a balloon into a hot mic, which is sexier than you'd think. by Dave Segal Influenced more by beetles than the Beatles, the Baltimore-based duo Matmos have been underground electronic music's arch conceptualists for nearly 30 years. Every album they release revolves around a different framing idea and consequently, every tour they do presents different approaches and vocabularies of sounds. Their latest LP, 2023's Return to Archive, finds Matmos repurposing Smithsonian Folkways' vast catalog of nature, science, and field recordings, and what the group's Drew Daniel ca ..read more

Check out the full video of his remarks. by Rich Smith While speaking to a group of Pierce County Republicans in February of this year, Republican gubernatorial candidate Dave Reichert declared that "marriage is between a man and a woman," expressing a stance on gay marriage we haven't seen from him since he proved himself as an anti-gay bigot in Congress.  What's a little bit wild here is that Reichert went out of his way to provide this homophobic answer, as he delivered the line in the context of a larger transphobic rant spurred by a series of questions from Dawn Land, who ran an unsu ..read more

Chastity Belt, Record Store Day, and More Top Picks by EverOut Staff Clear your calendar: With events like Record Store Day 2024 and 4/20 festivities like 4/20's Eve Eve Comedy Show feat. Stoner Chicks Improv and Reefer Madness (1936) and Stoned Shorts on 16mm around the corner, this week is sure to be packed. We've gathered those, plus more of the best things to do, from Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe with Tayi Tibble — 'Thunder Song: Essays' to Chastity Belt.  TUESDAY READINGS & TALKS Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe with Tayi Tibble — 'Thunder Song: Essays' With just a handful of pages to go i ..read more

The Stranger's morning news roundup. by Nathalie Graham SPD hired cop knowing his "checkered past:" The cop, Kevin Dave, who struck and killed 23-year-old pedestrian Jaahnavi Kandula last year while going 74 miles per hour, had a history of bad behavior and reckless driving when he worked at the Tucson Police Department. The agency fired Dave in 2013. According to PubliCola, Dave was the subject of six investigations while at TPD, including two collisions (one deemed "preventable"), two regarding firearm use, one about filing a police report incorrectly, and one for violating code of conduct s ..read more

Asian Fusion Brunch, A Desert-Themed Pop-Up Bar, and An Upcoming Italian Restaurant by EverOut Staff This week, we're welcoming Coffeeholic's new brunch spot M Cozy Fusion Cafe and the new desert-themed pop-bar The Mystic Motel. Plus, Conor Byrne Pub could make a comeback as a co-op, and chef Brian Clevenger has a new restaurant in the works. For more ideas, check out our food and drink guide. NEW OPENINGS  M Cozy Fusion Cafe Lately I've been addicted to the "Tropical Vine" (pandan coconut coffee) from the popular local cafe Coffeeholic House, which has locations in Columbia City, Greenwo ..read more