Arts
Digital Artist Chiho Aoshima’s Adorable Apocalypse
Digital artist Chiho Aoshima creates dreamy dystopias in a new SAM exhibit
The environmental apocalypse is coming—but at least it’s awash in Technicolor. In the new show at the SAM Asian Art Museum, Chiho Aoshima: Rebirth of the World, the Japanese pop artist shares her vision of the future, where skyscrapers have minds (and bodies) of their own, red-eyed ghost girls drift along washed-out beaches, and puffy…
Tracking Seattle’s Epidemic of Growth
The Department of Planning and Development has conveniently created a website that tracks projects
In our bi-monthly Seattlemag.com column, Knute Berger–who writes regularly for Seattle Magazine and Crosscut.com and is a frequent pundit on KUOW–takes an in-depth look at some of the highly topical and sometimes polarizing issues in our city. Seattle loves to be at the top of various national lists, and a widely held belief is that…
Must List: Winery Opens in Georgetown, Capitol Hill Block Party
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must Party in the Streets Get Wild at the Capitol Hill Block Party (7/24 to 7/26, times vary) Stage dive into the urban music festival vibe at the Capitol Hill Block Party, featuring awesome local bands including Shabazz Palaces, The Flavr Blue, Chastity Belt, Industrial Revelation and dozens more. Must DrinkCharles Smith’s Jet City Winery Opens…
10 Quirky Seattle-Area Meetups
Time to get out and get weird. Drink while drawing, paint while dancing and much more
Whether we admit them or not, we all have our quirks. Do you worry what your buttoned-up office pals would think if they knew you practice the “Thriller” dance in your living room after work? Do you hide it from your workout friends that you’d rather spend Saturdays having philosophical conversations than doing deadlifts? Would…
17 Open Mic Nights in Honor of Seattle’s Future Civic Poet
Seattle will appoint its first Civic Poet in the coming months
Pacific Northwest poet Richard Hugo, whose name is attached to the Hugo House on Capitol Hill, wrote in his poem “Letter to Kizer from Seattle,” “I’m back at the primal source of poems: wind, sea/and rain, the market and the salmon.” Seattle and its distinct surrounding scenery often seemed to be the “primal source” of…
Inaugural Seattle Art Fair Brings an Exhibition, Lectures and More
Contemporary art from 60 local, regional and international galleries is coming this month
For a city that defines itself on innovation and creativity, Seattle is no stranger to art. Take our new rainbow crosswalks, our monthly neighborhood art walks, 4Culture’s many community art programs, and the dozens of galleries spanning the city, including the 82-year-old Seattle Art Museum. What we’ve lacked, however, has been an event assembling pieces…
The Must List: Nordstrom Anniversary Sale, Kirkland Uncorked
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must FestHead East for the Annual Kirkland Uncorked(7/17 to 7/19, times vary) This three-day summer food and wine festival takes over the scenic Marina Park on Lake Washington and features everything from wine tasting to dog modeling to a burger brawl, where chefs bust out every foodie ingredient necessary to win bragging rights as the…
31st Annual Lantern Ceremony Honors Victims of Violence
Green Lake sparkles and soothes during the annual lantern ceremony
The cool calm of Green Lake has always attracted Seattleites looking to take a break from the headaches of city living, and a deeper serenity comes to the tranquil basin this month with “From Hiroshima to Hope.” The 31st annual lantern-lighting ceremony commemorates those killed by atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 years…
Can Seattle Return to its Former Bike-Friendly Glory?
Making Seattle more bicycle-friendly is tougher than you might think
Anyone who negotiates Seattle on a regular basis asks at some point: Why can’t we just get around? It’s easy to blame geography—squeezed as Seattle is on a narrow, hilly hourglass isthmus surrounded by water—for our city’s transportation woes. But it’s much more complicated than that. By complicated I mean that some basic, and not…
Sci-Fi in Seattle: New Local Media Venture
Scout cofounder Berit Anderson answers a few questions about her new journalism venture
Berit Anderson stretched the frontiers of community-based journalism during her four-year tenure as managing editor of online journal Crosscut. With her new media company, she blows them into outer space. The member-supported website called Scout aims to provide a nuanced and constructive exploration of world-shaping tech developments—genetic augmentation, workplace automation, private space exploration and more—with…
8 Drop-In Sports to Play This Summer
13 Seattle-area gyms, rinks, and fields offer adult drop-in sports on the cheap
Do you fondly remember the days of aces and stuff blocks on your intramural college volleyball team? Did you once single-handedly vanquish your opponents in eighth grade P.E. pickleball? Maybe you’re curious to see if you can still hit a free throw or manage to put a little back spin on a ping pong serve….
The Inaugural Seattle Art Fair Opens This Month
The Seattle Art Fair brings a Biennale vibe to the Northwest
Presumably, one of the cool things about being Paul Allen is having enough money to fund all of your interests. The Microsoft cofounder has invested heavily in his hobbies, including planes (Flying Heritage Collection), brains (Allen Institute for Brain Science), music, sci-fi and moviegoing (EMP Museum and Cinerama). But he’s also an avid art collector,…
Swearing “Minions,” and Other Toy Rollout Disasters
From potty-mouthed Barbie to naughty Ninja Turtles, four of the most regrettable toy rollouts
This article originally appeared on Avvo. The long and profitable history of merchandising logged a new, strange chapter recently: A McDonald’s Happy Meal toy, created to help promote the new Universal Studios family film Minions is evidently prone to dropping F-bombs. Concerned parents in Florida and Ohio initially reported the would-be glitch, and a video…
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