RIP, Underground Performance Space the Josephine

Ballard venue the Josephine, a long-time bastion of adventurous underground music and other species of unhinged performance arts, ceased operations Tuesday, February 3. However, Josephine lease holder and show booker Malaki Stahl says in an e-mail interview that the tenants who live in the space and work for the venue have not been evicted. "We are there at least until the end of this lease and may continue to rent there depending. The people who live there will remain, as far