Arts
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…
Seahawk Jeron Johnson’s Top 10 Things to Do in Seattle (Plus One We Made Up)
The strong safety for the Seahawks dishes on what he likes to do in Seattle
Seattle Seahawks strong safety #23 Jeron Johnson is now in his fourth season with our Super Bowl-winning team. Johnson had eight tackles this preseason and was mic’d up during the August 16 Seahawks/Broncos game. (Skip to around 1:52 for his sound bites during warm-up and to see the former Boise State player’s high energy–not to…
Our Picks for What to See and Do This Fall
This season’s arts lineup is packed with picks that will have you applauding for more
Coming-of-age choreography, sci-fi ceramics, film noir, new memoirs, kinky boots and the great society—pick your poison in one of the categories below for this season’s most impressive arts events, plus the new arts venues that are popping up all over town. VISUAL ARTS DANCE NEW ARTS VENUES THEATER LITERATURE FILM MUSIC
What to Do This Fall: Music Events
From opera to a jazz fest, our picks for the best musical acts in town
JAZZThe Earshot Jazz Festival features more than 50 performances, including an opening-night birthday tribute to Thelonious Monk, “Monk 10/10,” featuring 10 of Seattle’s best jazz pianists playing works by the jazz genius, and a 10-piece ensemble led by local jazz pioneer Wayne Horvitz. Seattle’s avant-jazz scene is well represented at the fest, with performances by…
What to Read this Fall: Literature
In new memoirs, Seattle writers battle demons— and live to tell the tale
My Fluorescent God ($14.95)Almost Live! alum Joe Guppy recounts the story of his self-described “crazy period” in 1971, when he stayed for a stint in a Seattle mental hospital, haunted by the hellfire of his Catholic faith as well as his dark determination to jump off the Aurora Bridge. Using journals and doctors’ notes from…
What to See this Fall: Theater
Angels in America [DRAMA]This year’s edition of the Intiman Theatre Festival features Tony Kushner’s mid-1990s exegesis of the AIDS crisis, the two-part creation collectively known as Angels in America. Featuring stellar local talent, including Marya Sea Kaminski (as the angel), Jennifer Zeyl (set design) and Mark Mitchell (costume design), the production will remind viewers…
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