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Must Party
5 Reasons You Should Attend Pop! Bubbles & Seafood
Saturday (2/21, 6 p.m) Seattle magazine’s food-and-drink-filled fete, Pop! Bubbles & Seafood, kicks off on Saturday, February 21. The tasting party, which is the precursor to the 7th annual Seattle Wine and Food Experience on Sunday, will be loaded with Pacific Northwest gems such as Dungeness crab and salmon, plus sparkling beverages aplenty.

Must Ring in the Lunar New Year
Tasty Destinations for Chinese New Year
(Dates and times vary) Celebrate the year of the ram/goat/sheep by eating your way through this range of sumptuous stops for Chinese and Taiwanese cuisine in and around the Seattle area. There’s an Eastside fete specially honoring the new moon, and plenty of restaurants from the International District to Wallingford serving up tasty fare.

Must Bravo
Seattle Opera Debuts Handel’s Semele
(2/21 to 3/7, times vary) You don’t really know true love until you’ve taken the form of an eagle, distracted dragons with a sleep-inducing wand or spontaneously combusted after seeing a god in his true form. Watch the pros do it in Seattle Opera’s debut production of Semele, Handel’s take on the sizzling Greek myth.

Must See
On The Boards Presents The Evening
(2/19 to 2/22, times vary) Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players present The Evening, a modern-day look at moral decline, based in part on Dante’s Inferno. Spoiler alert: the more things change….

Must Watch
Oscar-Nominated Movie Screenings at Cinerama
(2/19 to 2/22, times vary) Cinerama Theater wraps up its 8 Days of Oscars screenings, which spotlights one Academy Award-nominated motion picture per day, with Selma (Feb. 19), Birdman (Feb. 20) and The Imitation Game (Feb 21). Partygoers take note: The movie marathon culminates with the Three Dollar Bill Cinema’s 10th annual Academy Awards bash on Oscar Sunday.