Arts
Ballard High Brings Gun Violence to Center Stage
'Bang Bang You’re Dead' and 'Eric LaRue' are coming to local high school theater
“I don’t do high school theater I do theater with high school students,” says Ballard High School drama teacher Shawn Riley. Riley’s philosophy on treating students like young adults played a role in his decision to put on Band Bang You’re Dead and Eric LaRue, two one-act plays focusing on gun violence in high schools,…
Must List: The Color Run, Drinking Your Chocolate, ‘Pop-Up Magazine’
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST RUN The Color Run (5/12) Join Seattle’s most colorful 5K this Sunday and transform your boring white T-shirt into a rainbow. From start to finish, the Color Run always promises to be one big party with music and an historically upbeat crowd! This year’s run…
Backstory: Inside The Showbox’s Hidden Graffiti Room
A secret room in The Showbox is a time capsule of the city’s rock history
This article appears in print in the May 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. The Landmark: The graffiti room in The Showbox The Location: Downtown, The Showbox, 1426 First Ave. The Backstory: The Showbox—Seattle’s legendary live-music venue where everyone from Duke Ellington to Mudhoney has performed—has been well known to Seattleites since it opened in 1939. But a significantly smaller crowd…
Must List: ‘Carmen,’ Crosscut Festival, Translations Seattle Transgender Film Festival
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST SING Seattle Opera’s Carmen(5/4–5/19) It’s on the long side (three and a half hours), but otherwise Bizet’s earthy melodrama is the ideal opera for the novice. No matter how inexperienced you are, you probably already know at least three of the tunes, and the push-pull…
Amazon Studios: Inside the Tech Giant’s Employee Art Programs
Is life at Amazon really all work and no play? You might be surprised to learn its employees are stepping away from their computer screens to make pickles, pottery and music
AMAZON STUDIO: Members of Amazon’s creative program, Expressions, from left: program manager Tim Detweiler, Paint and Meditate instructor Jennifer Tucker and program coordinator Joseph Steininger, pictured in the Expressions lab
Local Corporations Build a Sense of Community With Employees
This month's Editor's Note from Rachel Hart
This article appears in print in the May 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. About 16 years ago I was planning a baby shower for my dear friend Erica, and we thought it would be fun to have a tarot card reader at the party. This was years before tarot card readers were at all the parties, so…
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