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Must List: Hot Sauce Fest, Big Day of Play, Mini Maker Faire
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MUST ADD HEATHot Sauce Fest (8/18) Make your Saturday sizzle at this event, presented by Seattle-based community engagement nonprofit The World Is Fun and local Ballyhoo Hot Sauce Company. Formerly Ballard Burrito Fest, the new event will feature lawn games, films at dusk, food trucks and, of course, hot sauce tastings. Wash down the heat…
The Brand New ‘festival:festival’ Is Aiming to Foster an Intersectional and Accessible Arts Community
Plus: a conversation with UW biology professor Jennifer Nemhauser on bridging botany and art
On the surface, this weekend’s inaugural festival:festival looks familiar if far from typical. There’ll be music: a triple bill from Bremerton rapper Guayaba, soul musician/sound designer Goodsteph and Olive Jun, who performs “bedroom-centric electro-pop” under the name Lushloss (Lovecitylove, 9 p.m. Friday). There’ll be film: shorts by young filmmakers Hanan Diriye and Kamyar Mohsenin (Northwest…
Must List: Sub Pop’s 30th Anniversary Festival, Taste Edmonds, Milk Ice Cream Social & Bake Sale
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MUST LOVE SUB POP SPF30 – Sub Pop’s 30th Anniversary Festival(8/11) Seattle is chock-full of live music this weekend. If you didn’t snag tickets to Pearl Jam’s Home Shows, you can catch some great tunes at SPF 30, Sub Pop’s huge birthday bash. This all-day all-ages party will have four stages with Sub Pop favorites…
Saving the Showbox Just Took a Big Step Forward, But What’s Next?
A Seattle City Council vote could happen as early as Monday. We take an in depth look at how this is all happening, the possible domino effect of proposed legislation and what this might mean for the music venue's future
Efforts to “save the Showbox” theater moved forward Wednesday, though not in quite the way council member Kshama Sawant envisioned when she proposed legislation on Monday to expand the Pike Place Market Historical District on a two-year “interim” basis to include more than a dozen buildings on the east side of First Avenue, including the…
The Home Shows Effect: 90+ Seattle Organizations Join Pearl Jam to Raise Millions to Fight Homelessness
Here’s how you can support Pearl Jam’s The Home Show efforts
Our city is buzzing this week with events as we gear up for Pearl Jam’s sold-out Home Shows, happening Aug. 8 and Aug. 10 at Safeco Field. If you’ve been out of the loop, the legendary Seattle rock band announced in January its return to the city’s stage with two shows, in efforts to raise…
Your August Music Festival Exercise Plan
If you walked from one Seattle concert to the next, how many miles would you walk?
This article appears in print in the August 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. Suppose you were lucky enough to score tickets (or free entry) to this month’s major music events, but because you’re a fitness-conscious, green Seattleite, you decided to walk? How many miles would you rack up, you Fitbitting fool? KEXP Concerts at the Mural, Fridays,…
Must List: Seafair, Art Fair, Seattle Night Out
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Get the Must List in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST CELEBRATESeafair Celebrations(8/3–8/5) Seafair hits its peak this weekend with celebrations galore. This traditional celebration includes hydroplane races and watching (and hearing) the Blue Angels roar through the sky. Want to see more than just planes? Then head over to Umoja Fest, a festival that is the…
Preview: Seattle Art Fair and Pioneer Square’s Weekend of Art Abundance
Take in the main event if you can afford it—the $35 and up art extravaganza taking place this weekend at Century Link Event Center—or check out these equally exciting (and free!) satellite happenings
Ceramic artist Timea Tihanyi created these with the help of a 3-D printer
Must List: Red, White and Brew, BAM Artsfair, Torchlight Parade
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MUST SAVOR Red, White and Brew (7/27) Sample sips from more than 60 breweries and wineries—many of them award winners—and nibble on delicious bites from local restaurants at Seattle magazine’s premier food and beverage event of the summer. 7–10 p.m. Prices vary. Fisher Pavilion, 305 Harrison St.; 206.684.7200; seattlemag.com Photo via bellevuearts.org MUST ART…
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