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Must List: Kidchella Seattle, Linda's Fest, Little Saigon Festi-Roll

Must List: Kidchella Seattle, Linda’s Fest, Little Saigon Festi-Roll

Your weekly guide to Seattle's hottest events.

MUST BRING KIDS Kidchella Seattle(8/25) Treat your children to one last hurrah before school starts at this premiere family-friendly festival produced by Seattle magazine and inspired by the popular Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. With amusements such as photo booths, trampolines and balloon animals, and performances by bands that include The Not-Its, Recess Monkey…

Daria Kroupoderova

Considering 'Porgy & Bess,' Part 2: “There’s Someone for Anyone to Relate To”

Considering ‘Porgy & Bess,’ Part 2: “There’s Someone for Anyone to Relate To”

A talk with Dominica Myers about Seattle Opera’s current production

Angel Blue as Bess and Alfred Walker as Porgy

Gavin Borchert

Seattle Fall Arts Preview: New Venues, Top Shows and Emerging Artists

Seattle Fall Arts Preview: New Venues, Top Shows and Emerging Artists

This season, lean in and explore the resilient spirit of the arts

Mount Analogue gallery is among the Seattle arts organizations actively linking art forms such as performance and poetry under its roof; in July, the Pioneer Square space hosted “Escape Dimension,” by Chicago artist Ben Marcus

Gwendolyn Elliott

Seattle Fall Arts Calendar 2018: Words, Music, Theater, Visual Art, Dance, Film, Venues, More

Seattle Fall Arts Calendar 2018: Words, Music, Theater, Visual Art, Dance, Film, Venues, More

Everything you need to know about art in Seattle this fall

Come from Away returns to Seattle this fall.

Gwendolyn Elliott

The New Hugo House Opens in September

The New Hugo House Opens in September

Seattle’s esteemed writing center opens its new, multimillion-dollar home this fall

Hugo House prose writer-in-residence Kristen Millares Young (left) and executive director Tree Swenson

Gwendolyn Elliott

Considering 'Porgy & Bess,' Part 1: “Full of Black Excellence”

Considering ‘Porgy & Bess,’ Part 1: “Full of Black Excellence”

A talk with ChrisTiana ObeySumner about Seattle Opera’s current production

Jermaine Smith as Sportin’ Life with the cast of ‘Porgy and Bess’

Gavin Borchert

More Fall Arts Preview: Film Fests, Ghost Gallery Returns and David Rue on SAM Remix

More Fall Arts Preview: Film Fests, Ghost Gallery Returns and David Rue on SAM Remix

More arts news, from cinema and visual art to multidisciplinary bash, SAM Remix

A peek inside the new Ghost Gallery on Chophouse Row

Seattle Magazine Staff

Flying High With Parisalexa

Flying High With Parisalexa

A flowering new voice surfaces on Seattle’s soul scene

Breezy and fly is Parisalexa’s vibe, photographed here in July

Gwendolyn Elliott

A Pacific Northwest Ballet Dancer Is Premiering an Ambitious, Out-Of-This-World Show

A Pacific Northwest Ballet Dancer Is Premiering an Ambitious, Out-Of-This-World Show

Kyle Davis has been creating dances regularly at PNB, but he's never done anything quite like what's in the works for a new show this fall

PNB soloist Kyle Davis photographed at the company’s studio at Seattle Center; his yet-to-be-named large scale work debuts this fall

Gavin Borchert

The Music of the Night: In Praise of Seattle’s Musical Theater —and Its Fans

The Music of the Night: In Praise of Seattle’s Musical Theater —and Its Fans

Broadway chestnuts Phantom of the Opera and Les Miz have made the rounds in Seattle, but fans can look forward to a fun crop of Broadway touring shows this fall

To paraphrase the tagline of one of my favorite local advertising campaigns ever (the brilliant Pemco ads of 2007), Seattle musical theater nerds, you’re one of us. You fill the Paramount to the rafters when The Sound of Music (The You-Can-See-It-At-Any-High-School-Now Sound of Music, people!) comes around on tour. You wait in line at the…

Rachel Hart

Meet the Woman Curating Seattle's Most Interesting Art Gallery

Meet the Woman Curating Seattle’s Most Interesting Art Gallery

At Mount Analogue, Colleen Louise Barry takes a multifaceted look at Seattle arts

Curator and poet Colleen Louise Barry is right at home in the cross disciplinary settings of Pioneer Square gallery, Mount Analogue

Danielle Hayden

This Designer Is Making Some of the Most Innovative Theater Sets in Town

This Designer Is Making Some of the Most Innovative Theater Sets in Town

Scene designer Julia Hayes Welch has built sets that include a working kitchen, a bus stop and an island beach

Scene designer Julia Hayes Welch in her home studio in Ravenna with some of the tools of her trade

Gwendolyn Elliott

Must List: Hot Sauce Fest, Big Day of Play, Mini Maker Faire

Must List: Hot Sauce Fest, Big Day of Play, Mini Maker Faire

Your weekly guide to Seattle's hottest events.

MUST ADD HEATHot Sauce Fest  (8/18) Make your Saturday sizzle at this event, presented by Seattle-based community engagement nonprofit The World Is Fun and local Ballyhoo Hot Sauce Company. Formerly Ballard Burrito Fest, the new event will feature lawn games, films at dusk, food trucks and, of course, hot sauce tastings. Wash down the heat…

Daria Kroupoderova

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