The Top Things to See or Do in Seattle: October 2014
Images: Brantley Gutierrez; Autumn De Wilde
Battle of the MackleFriends
Fences and Mary Lambert, two of Macklemore’s Seattleite pals and the singers behind “Otherside Remix” and “Same Love,” each release a new album on October 14. So, naturally, we’ve pitted them head to head.
Oct 14 fencesmusic.com; marylambertsings.com
| Fences | ARTIST | Mary Lambert |
|---|---|---|
| Lesser Oceans | Album TItle | Heart on my Sleve |
| Fences | Debut LP | Heart on My Sleeve |
| "Arrows" | Lead Single | "Secrets" |
| "Arrows land, we're falling Arrows were fallen |
Single's Chorus | "I don't care if the world knows what my secrets are, So what?" |
| Yes, on "Arrows" | Macklemore Appears on Record? | No |
Chekhov in a Blender
What do you get when you mash playwright Anton Chekhov’s masterworks like The Seagull and Three Sisters with a modernity that includes Entourage and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? Apparently, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, 2013’s Tony winner for Best Play. Vanya and Sonia’s unemployed life full of Chekhovian misery receives a jolt of drama when their sister Masha returns to the family home with her much younger lover Spike and things take a turn for the absurd.
Oct 17–Nov 16 ACT Theatre, acttheatre.org
Pages to Soothe the Savage Beast
Animals have always had a knack for tugging on the heartstrings in children’s literature. The latest entrant in that pantheon is Ivan the lonely captive gorilla from Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan. Based on a real gorilla that spent 27 years as a Tacoma mall attraction, the story of Ivan bonding with a baby elephant taken from the wild earned the Newbery Medal in 2013. Now Applegate tells the nonfiction account in Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla.
Oct 7 University Book Store, bookstore.washington.edu
"I kind of treat (my parents) like a Walmart… I really don’t like going to them for any reason, I’d prefer it if they stayed out of my town, but I get a strange satisfaction from stealing from them.” —Ron Funches
The Undateable actor and @Midnight favorite brings his soft-spoken standup delivery and his disarmingly adorable Japanese schoolgirl laugh to Tacoma for three nights of shows.
Oct 16–18 Tacoma Comedy Club, tacomacomedyclub.com
Bows and Merlots
Seattle Symphony loosens its collar once again and steps out into Benaroya Hall’s grand lobby for the first installment of the 2014–15 Baroque and Wine series. Patrons can pair their evening drinks ($10 for four pours) with three classic concertos by Bach, a sinfonia by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and a suite by Telemann. Just make sure not to imbibe to Beethovian levels.
Oct 24 & 25 Benaroya Hall, seattlesymphony.org
