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Must List: Northwest Chocolate Festival, Short Run Comix and Arts Festival, Cinema Italian Style
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST BE SWEET Northwest Chocolate Festival (11/9-11/10) Get your fix of handmade truffles, caramels and quirky confections at the largest celebration in the world for chocolate lovers. Featuring about 100 artisanal chocolatiers from 20 countries, the event entices with handcrafted, dark and milk chocolate treats…
A ‘Beautiful’ Debut at Seattle’s Can Can Culinary Cabaret
Singer Renee Holiday, née Shaprece, is back in town to share a story of transformation with Seattle audiences
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Renee Holiday. Deep in the plush crimson grotto that is the Can Can Culinary Cabaret in Pike Place Market, one of the most reliably fun venues in town, a new star is preparing to rise. You may know her as Shaprece, with the dreamy vocals and powerful stage presence—a singer who…
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’ ‘Carpe Fin’ Tells Its Story at Seattle Art Museum
Commissioned by SAM, the new piece is a 6-by-19-foot watercolor mural condensing a Haida folktale into one immense color-drenched panel
This article appears in print in the November 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Sensing an affinity between the iconography of his First Nation art tradition and the boldness and sweep of the Japanese film/graphic-novel visual style known as manga, Haida visual artist and British Columbia resident Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas combines the two—“committed to,” as he puts it,…
Must List: Seattle Women’s Show, Bunka no Hi, ‘Beyond Bollywood’
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST IMMERSE Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation (11/2-1/26/20) This exhibit, which amassed over a year of residency at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, explores the history of Indian-American immigrants and their ancestors. Supplemented by MOHAI’s Northwest-specific addition, the artifacts, photographs and…
‘Dracula’ at ACT: How Does a Play About Blood Turn Out So Bloodless?
Steven Dietz’s new adaptation of the horror classic seems to have unintentionally landed on comedy
Watching Dracula, with a neckline cut to his navel, suck dry the tube of an old-timey transfusion machine is undeniably funny. That tasty tableau was one of many moments in Steven Dietz’s adaptation of the gothic novel that had an ACT Theater audience laughing out loud on opening night. But, strangely, it was one of…
Beyond Dead White Guys: Byron Schenkman Expands Classical Music
The musician and music director’s latest program, this Sunday at Benaroya Hall, explores connections among Czech composer Antonin Dvorak and pioneering American composers of color
Ever since their pathbreaking and provocative “Queer Baroque” concert in 1996, keyboardist Byron Schenkman has led the way in bringing issues of gender and sexuality into Seattle’s classical music scene. Now, Sunday evening’s concert, next up in their “Byron Schenkman & Friends” chamber-music series, will explore the connections among Czech composer Antonin Dvorak and some…
The Gregorys: How Seattle’s Theater Awards Work and Why They Matter
This annual party is an important part of an artistic ecosystem, and you’re invited
Theatre Puget Sound staff from the 2018 Gregory Awards. From left to right: Libby Barnard, Shane Regan, Ariel Bradler, Keiko Green, Eron Huenefeld and Heather Refvem
VR Brings Evocative Narratives to the Seattle Queer Film Festival
VR filmmaking is pushing the boundaries of traditional storytelling
Imagine stepping into the mind of a heartbroken lover staring into a bathroom mirror, or a former white supremacist traversing memories of childhood trauma. As virtual reality (VR) technology continues its steady evolution, VR filmmaking is pushing the boundaries of traditional storytelling. Each of the films featured at the “Immersively Queer: VR Showcase” at the…
Seattle Rep’s ‘The Great Moment’ Give Us Birth, Death, Aging—You Know, the Boring Stuff
Anna Ziegler’s world premiere play explores the expansive mundanities of life
How old were you when you realized that, in life, the center cannot hold? When The Great Moment begins, our narrator Sarah is 37, “the age my mother was when I first realized that my mother had an age.” Her grandfather Max is 98, son Evan is three, and time is the elephant in every…
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