Arts
The Must List: Beer Gardens, Robotics and a Lantern Parade
What to do this weekend
Must Go EastKirkland Arts Center’s InflorescenceOpens 9/20 — Roughly based around the concept of a cluster of flowers growing from a single stem (“inflorescence”), this group show features three Washington artists (Jean Bradbury, Lisa Conway and Patty Haller), each working from her own aesthetic but within a common theme of the plant world. Must DrinkBest…
#Throwback Thursday: 40 Years of Seattle Sounders Soccer
This week we’re celebrating Seattle’s premier soccer team’s 40th year
It was 1974 when the first iteration of Seattle’s superstar soccer team, the Sounders, was founded. Originally playing in the North American Soccer League, the team came out with a winning first season, but succeeded off the pitch (that’s a soccer field for any fùtbol neophytes) as well. The Sounders were the first team in…
What to See This Fall: Film
That Filmy Feeling’Tis the season when we’re starting to feel less guilty about heading out of the sun and into darkened movie theaters. Test the waters with the local premiere of Lynn Shelton’s new movie, Laggies, set in Seattle and starring Keira Knightley and Sam Rockwell, which SIFF will screen one night only (9/18; siff.net)…
Time in a Bottle: Next Step in the Washington State Time Capsule is Here
Knute Berger packs a time capsule for 400 years in the future
For 25 years, I’ve been waiting for the future. And it’s almost here. At least, the next step in a long chain of events leading to the year 2389 has arrived. It all started in 1989, when Washington celebrated its centennial of statehood and I was hired by the state’s Centennial Commission to come up…
The Must List: New Barbecue Resto, the Seattle Design Festival Continues
What to do this weekend
Must NoshJack’s BBQ Opened This WeekNearly six months after announcing that he was turning his famous Seattle Brisket Experience pop-up into a real-life restaurant, Jack Timmons has finally opened Jack’s BBQ. Go now for meat, meat and more meat. Must Meet and GreetTV Host Giuliana Rancic Comes to TownSunday (9/14, 9 to 11 a.m.) —…
#Throwback Thursday: Washington State Fair Way Back When
From 1900 to 2014, the state fair tradition lives on in Washington
“The Valley Fair” as it was formerly called started in the fall of 1900 as a means to help local agricultural and dairy farmers, miners, and manufacturers exhibit and sell their products in a community setting. The first fair took place on October 4th, 1900 and was only a three-day event. Admission for the whole…
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