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Must List: Halloween Pet Parade, Kinofest, Refract: The Seattle Glass Experience

Must List: Halloween Pet Parade, Kinofest, Refract: The Seattle Glass Experience

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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST DRESS UP  Halloween Pet Parade (10/20) Dress up with your favorite pet (species not specified!) and parade through Volunteer Park to celebrate Halloween. The event is sponsored by Mud Bay pet supply company and will have vendors selling their pet-related wares and services. Prizes will…

Must List: Burke Museum Grand Reopening, Seattle Queer Film Festival, 'Stabbin' Cabin'

Must List: Burke Museum Grand Reopening, Seattle Queer Film Festival, ‘Stabbin’ Cabin’

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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST DISCOVER  Burke Museum Grand Reopening (10/12-10/14) The Burke Museum’s $106 million rebuild, designed by Tom Kundig of Olson Kundig, opens up previously behind-the-scenes labs and research spaces via glass walls, making the museum more accessible and integrated. Visitors can now take a peek at the collections at the same time…

Local Musical Mountaineers Duo Plays Concerts in the PNW Outdoors

Local Musical Mountaineers Duo Plays Concerts in the PNW Outdoors

Combining their musical talents and passion for the outdoors, Anastasia Allison and Rose Freeman play trailside concerts for hikers and trees alike

Anastasia Allison (left) and Rose Freeman hike into the mountains to hold unannounced predawn concerts as the Musical Mountaineers

Paula Vogel’s Energetic, Elegiac Play ‘Indecent’ Now Running at Seattle Rep

Paula Vogel’s Energetic, Elegiac Play ‘Indecent’ Now Running at Seattle Rep

The play-within-a-play is complex, exploring ideas of creative determination, censorship, immigrants and more

Dim light leaks through a gauzy scrim, illuminating bodies crumpled on a dusty stage, everything gray, everything still. Three musicians play silent music, their instruments making no sound, as those bodies slowly rise, the ashes filling their sleeves and hands draining to the floor. Suddenly, the whole eerie scene bursts open, klezmer music blares, gray…

Frye Art Museum Fetes Seattle Choreographer Donald Byrd with a Retrospective

Frye Art Museum Fetes Seattle Choreographer Donald Byrd with a Retrospective

The exhibit will explore his life and work

This article appears in print in the October 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. To mark his 70th birthday and a body of work that has covered subjects from musicals to race relations (sometimes at the same time, as in his Tony-nominated dance for The Color Purple), the Frye Art Museum is honoring Seattle-based choreographer and Spectrum Dance…

Must List: Taste of Seattle Made, Earshot Jazz Festival, Delta's 17:00 Bar

Must List: Taste of Seattle Made, Earshot Jazz Festival, Delta’s 17:00 Bar

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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST EAT LOCAL  Taste of Seattle Made (10/6) Make your way to Pioneer Square to sample appetizers, dessert, boozy creations and so much more from local food and beverage makers including Broadcast Coffee Roasters, Gnocchi Bar and Dolcetta Artisan Sweets. This is the fifth annual…

11 Local Events to Get You in the Halloween Spirit

11 Local Events to Get You in the Halloween Spirit

From adult entertainment to family-friendly fun, Seattle has all the spooky happenings to get your Halloween fix

Halloween may technically only be one day, but that shouldn’t stop you from getting the celebration started early. Whether you’re in the mood to eat, run, laugh or scream, October’s spookiest events have you covered.  Here are our top picks for the month: Halloween Pet Parade (10/20) Don’t let your furry friends miss out on…

Greenwood's Taproot Theatre Brings the Lincoln-Douglass Debates to Life

Greenwood’s Taproot Theatre Brings the Lincoln-Douglass Debates to Life

An onstage clash between two giants of American history

Lamar Legend as Frederick Douglass

Kate Wallich + The YC x Perfume Genius: 'The Sun Still Burns Here' Debuts at The Moore

Kate Wallich + The YC x Perfume Genius: ‘The Sun Still Burns Here’ Debuts at The Moore

Local creatives combine soulful choreography with transcendent tunes in this much anticipated show—it’s deep, it’s erotic and it’s exactly what we want

From left to right: David Harvey, Thomas House, Mike Hadreas of Perfume Genius, Lavinia Vago, Alan Wyffels of Perfume Genius, Andrew Bartee, Kate Wallich

Must List: Northwest Tea Festival, Refuge Outdoors Festival, Samsoom Pop-up

Must List: Northwest Tea Festival, Refuge Outdoors Festival, Samsoom Pop-up

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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST SIP WITH PINKIES UP  Northwest Tea Festival (9/28-9/29) While Seattle may be known for its coffee, our Pacific Northwest climate is perfect for other hot beverage connoisseurs, which has kept the Northwest Tea Festival going for 12 years. Check out the fest at Seattle…

17 Best Things to Do in Seattle in October 2019

17 Best Things to Do in Seattle in October 2019

Our handpicked list of the best bets for entertainment this month

‘No Dominion,’ among the films showing at the Seattle Queer Film Festival

One Night in Seattle with Malcolm Gladwell

One Night in Seattle with Malcolm Gladwell

The author, public speaker, and staff writer for ‘The New Yorker’ discusses why we’re so bad at spotting liars at a sold-out show in Benaroya Hall

Malcolm Gladwell—if you haven’t read any of his recent best-sellers, you know him from The Tipping Point and Blink—is not interested in rehashing the election of Donald Trump. At least that’s what he told everyone on Wednesday evening at Benaroya Hall. Gladwell, who famously claimed, in his book, Outliers, that it takes ten thousand hours…

Must List: Luminata, Snohomish Tweed Ride, Seattle Children's Festival

Must List: Luminata, Snohomish Tweed Ride, Seattle Children’s Festival

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Celebrate autumn’s start with lights and sparkle at Luminata

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