Arts
Look Smart at One of These Elliott Bay Book Company-Produced Events
It’s time to trade in your trashy summer novels for something with more substance
This article appears in print in the September 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. It’s time to trade in your trashy summer novels for something with more substance; look smart at one of these Elliott Bay Book Company–produced events 9/4 Kim Brooks discusses her Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear, which explores how and why parenting…
Must List: Bumbershoot, Summer Rewind Film Festival, Bremerton Blackberry Festival
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MUST LOVE MUSIC Bumbershoot(8/31–9/2) Bumbershoot is supposed to be a festival, but it’s always had a slightly melancholy end-of-summer vibe—and it doesn’t help that it’s named after an umbrella, callously reminding us that eight months of rain are around the corner. Bold-face names in this year’s lineup include Lil Wayne and Fleet Foxes; other offerings…
Must List: Kidchella Seattle, Linda’s Fest, Little Saigon Festi-Roll
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MUST BRING KIDS Kidchella Seattle(8/25) Treat your children to one last hurrah before school starts at this premiere family-friendly festival produced by Seattle magazine and inspired by the popular Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. With amusements such as photo booths, trampolines and balloon animals, and performances by bands that include The Not-Its, Recess Monkey…
Seattle Fall Arts Preview: New Venues, Top Shows and Emerging Artists
This season, lean in and explore the resilient spirit of the arts
Mount Analogue gallery is among the Seattle arts organizations actively linking art forms such as performance and poetry under its roof; in July, the Pioneer Square space hosted “Escape Dimension,” by Chicago artist Ben Marcus
A Pacific Northwest Ballet Dancer Is Premiering an Ambitious, Out-Of-This-World Show
Kyle Davis has been creating dances regularly at PNB, but he's never done anything quite like what's in the works for a new show this fall
PNB soloist Kyle Davis photographed at the company’s studio at Seattle Center; his yet-to-be-named large scale work debuts this fall
The Music of the Night: In Praise of Seattle’s Musical Theater —and Its Fans
Broadway chestnuts Phantom of the Opera and Les Miz have made the rounds in Seattle, but fans can look forward to a fun crop of Broadway touring shows this fall
To paraphrase the tagline of one of my favorite local advertising campaigns ever (the brilliant Pemco ads of 2007), Seattle musical theater nerds, you’re one of us. You fill the Paramount to the rafters when The Sound of Music (The You-Can-See-It-At-Any-High-School-Now Sound of Music, people!) comes around on tour. You wait in line at the…
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