Whitmer Thomas As seen on GLOW, The Good Place, his HBO special The Golden One & more! Comedian/musician/skateboarder WHITMER THOMAS (Hardly Art Records) brings his music to The Miniplex! "Perhaps Thomas’ greatest skill as a comic and musician is his ability to let the tragic and comedic coexist." -PITCHFORK. A listen to his new album conjures the barefaced storytelling of John Prine alongside the ennui of Bright Eyes, with the lackadaisical humor of Colleen Green. Tour mate AL MENNE (of GREAT GRANDPA) calls back to Transatlanticism-era Death Cab for Cutie. Seated show, limited tickets! 21 & up.
Cate Kennan w/Spiritual Exit & Sterile Garden "A sonic reverie that buffer(s) you from the world’s horrors with utmost subtlety.I can’t wait to hear more." -THE STRANGER. Kennan’s sonic palette deftly matches spectral synthesizers to hazy lap steel guitars and watery analog effects, calling to mind Malcolm Cecil, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Deux Filles. With SPIRITUAL EXIT (Aaron Davis), who's been performing experimental music in the PNW since 1998 under many aliases, Acre being the longest running. Plus STERILE GARDEN, the alias of recent transplant, accomplished music journalist Jacob Deraadt. 21 & up. $10 - $15 sliding scale donation goes 100% to artists, no one turned away.
HELLRAISER. Despite the repeated implication — imprecation? — that I am a joyless churl and incapable of sitting in moments of celebration, I am working.
AMSTERDAM. When David O. Russell entered popular consciousness — with Spanking the Monkey (1994), an Oedipal rom-com that almost immediately went into heavy rotation on.