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Must List: Seattle Center’s New Year’s Eve Celebration, Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony, Milkshake Pop-Up
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST PARTY Seattle Center’s New Year’s Eve Celebration(12/31) There are plenty of places to ring in the new year around Seattle, so don’t fret that T-Mobile’s New Year’s at the Needle Party is already sold out. If you’re looking to get close the Space Needle’s…
Must List: Sun Liquor Eggnog Extravaganza, Let There Be Light Program, SODO Track: Process and Prints
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST NOG Sun Liquor Eggnog Extravaganza (12/21–25) For five days only, Sun Liquor’s famous Fancy Aged Eggnog is available by the glass at the Sol Liquor Lounge (bottles of its 2018 batch are sold out). Meticulously aged 30 days under controlled circumstances (we assume some…
Seattle Opera at the Center Is the New Crown Jewel of Seattle Center
It's a civic center, cultural resource and treasure chest, all in one
It could be a jewelry box, or perhaps a treasure chest. At street level are all-glass walls; above, small panels of scrim—arranged as if fragments of a larger scrim had been broken up and scattered by the wind—can be lit up to glow and sparkle and programmed for variable lighting effects. This is the attention-getting…
Must List: A Bonsai Solstice, ‘Jane Eyre, The Musical’, Snow Day in Denny Park Kickoff
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST PRUNE 5th Annual A Bonsai Solstice (12/16) For one night only, the Pacific Bonsai Museum illuminates its collection after dark for a special, seasonal viewing experience. Flashlights (or phone flashlights) are recommended in order to navigate the space, and seasonal treats including hot beverages and tasty crepes, along with live acoustic music, enhance your tour through the carefully cultivated trees. 4–7 p.m….
Seattle Author Reveals What She Learned About President Trump in New YA Book
In ‘Unpresidented,’ Martha Brockenbrough documents Trump’s life, times and the current political era for young readers
This article appears in print in the December 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. Regarding Martha Brockenbrough’s latest young adult (YA) book, Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump (ages 12–18, Feiwel and Friends, $19.95), we asked the Seattle journalist and author, “What are the two most interesting things you discovered about the president?” “Trump’s love of crowds cheering…
Must List: Santa’s Lights Tour, May the Course Be with You 5K, Spectrum Dance
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST BUS Santa’s Lights Tour(12/8) MEHVA, the Metro Employees Historic Vehicle Association, hosts a handful of excursions each year using its fleet of historic trolleys and motorbuses. Only one trip, however, includes Santa Claus, who joins riders for a 3-hour tour of the city’s…
Seattle Rep’s ‘In the Heights’ Is an Emotional Carnaval
Its production of one of Lin-Manuel Miranda's early works brings an audience together like few shows do
Lin-Manuel Miranda, with book writer Quiara Alegria Hudes, put a lot into his first show, 2008’s In the Heights—which in retrospect is kind of amusing, as if he thought, as novices in any art form tend to do, that he might not get to do a second one. (No one reading this needs to be told he followed…
Must List: Enchant Christmas Light Maze, December Bird Walk, Urban Craft Uprising
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST ILLUMINATE Enchant Christmas Light Maze(11/23–12/30) Safeco Field is getting a magical makeover this winter, transforming into the world’s largest Christmas-themed light maze. Search for Santa’s twinkling reindeer in the massive maze, glide on the ice-skating trail, shop for holiday gifts at the Christmas…
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