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3 Seattle Record Store Owners Wax About Their Favorite Albums

3 Seattle Record Store Owners Wax About Their Favorite Albums

In honor of Record Store Day, store owners from Silver Platters, Beats and Bohos and Sonic Boom dig their favorite LPs out of the crate

SHE’S GOT THE BEAT: Beats and Bohos’ Omaima Wolf going through the stacks in her Greenwood shop

Datebook: 12 Best Things To Do in Seattle in April 2018

Datebook: 12 Best Things To Do in Seattle in April 2018

Our hand-picked list of best bets for entertainment this month

“Black Boys,” a meditation on black male identity, is being premiered by On the Boards

ArtsWest Adapts a Dated Melodrama For the Times

ArtsWest Adapts a Dated Melodrama For the Times

"An Octoroon" will have a first look show on April 3 and then will run from April 19 to May 13.

From left to right: Actors Mike Dooly, Lamar Legend and Jose Abaoag each play three roles in ArtsWest’s “An Octoroon”

Must List: Tulip Festival, Mariners' Opening Weekend, Become Desert

Must List: Tulip Festival, Mariners’ Opening Weekend, Become Desert

Your weekly guide to Seattle's hottest events.

MUST LOVE FLOWERS 35th Tulip Festival in Skagit County(4/1–4/30) This renowned monthlong festival is jam-packed with daily activities: salmon barbecues, bike tours, 5K family runs, art walks and a lot of beautiful tulips filling fields and demonstration gardens. Join people from around the country who flock to this springtime event, and avoid the biggest crowds…

Macha Theatre Works' 'Smoke & Dust' Kicks Up History’s Dirt

Macha Theatre Works’ ‘Smoke & Dust’ Kicks Up History’s Dirt

A new play considers an extraordinary female composer’s life with a timely twist. Our review

Bianca Raso as Liv/Barbara Strozzi and James Lyle as Josh/Giovanni Vidman in Joy McCullough-Carranza’s ‘Smoke & Dust’

Must List: Taste Washington, Plate of Nations, Say It Loud: Simply Me

Must List: Taste Washington, Plate of Nations, Say It Loud: Simply Me

Your weekly guide to Seattle's hottest events.

MUST SIP Taste Washington(3/22–3/25) From serious wine snobs to simple enthusiasts, Taste Washington unites all lovers of the “juice” at its annual, multi-day tasting event celebrating the many flavors and styles of Washington state wine. You could opt for a wine seminar or farm tour, but the main event is Saturday and Sunday’s Grand Tasting,…

In West of Lenin's ‘Big Rock,' Dad and Daughter Take Each Other for Granite

In West of Lenin’s ‘Big Rock,’ Dad and Daughter Take Each Other for Granite

Sonya Schneider’s new play touches on family trauma, with mixed results

Todd Jefferson Moore (Sands), Meg McLynn (Signe) and Evan Whitfield (Hamish) in Big Rock at West of Lenin, 2018.

Seattle Students Take Their Shot at Performing for Hamilton Cast and Peers

Seattle Students Take Their Shot at Performing for Hamilton Cast and Peers

Now this is how kids should be learning U.S. History

Tommy Trerise a junior from Renaissance High School in Bremerton, WA performs at EduHam.

Must List: Snow White, Moisture Festival, UW Cherry Blossoms

Must List: Snow White, Moisture Festival, UW Cherry Blossoms

Your weekly guide to Seattle's hottest events.

MUST HI-HO Snow White (3/18, 3/24) Choreographed by renowned Tacoma native Bruce Wells, this beloved story is brought to life by more than 70 dancers from the Pacific Northwest Ballet School. Seattle actor Tim Hyland narrates the action, set to the classic score by French composer Jules Massenet. Prices and times vary. McCaw Hall, Seattle…

Q&A with 2018 MoPop Sound Off! Champion Micaiah Sawyer

Q&A with 2018 MoPop Sound Off! Champion Micaiah Sawyer

Singer and songwriter since she was 12 years old, Micaiah Sawyer offers a glimpse into her career and what’s next after Sound Off!

Micaiah Sawyer was this year’s winner of the Museum of Popular Culture’s “Sound Off!” competition, the region’s top under-21 battle of the bands. Runners-up include Strawberry Mountain, Misundvrstood and Maiah Wynne. Following her win, Sawyer talked with Seattle magazine. Here’s what she had to say. When did you fall in love with music?It wasn’t just…

'BirdNote' Answers All Your Questions About Our Avian Friends

‘BirdNote’ Answers All Your Questions About Our Avian Friends

The new book from Ellen Blackstone and Emily Poole follows the NPR segment of the same name

This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. Have you ever wondered what that little red dot on a seagull’s bill is for? Or why geese fly in a V formation? Answers to such questions—and more illuminating insights into avian species, such as the bird who grows its own snowshoes in…

Must List: Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Roomful of Teeth, Seattle Dog Show

Must List: Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Roomful of Teeth, Seattle Dog Show

Your weekly guide to Seattle's hottest events.

MUST MAZEL TOV Seattle Jewish Film Festival (3/10–3/18, 4/14–4/15) Among the galas, parties, concerts and screenings that make up this 11-day cinematic exploration of Jewish and Israeli life and culture, Emmy-nominated filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, director of The Tribe and Connected, will be awarded the Reel Difference Award, for what the festival describes as her contributions…

Father John Misty Is Headlining the 2018 Capitol Hill Block Party

Father John Misty Is Headlining the 2018 Capitol Hill Block Party

Headliners also include BROCKHAMPTON and Dillon Francis. See the rest of the announced lineup here.

Josh Tillman will again return to the city he once called home when Father John Misty headlines the 2018 Capitol Hill Block Party on Sunday, July 22. The enigmatic Sub Pop artist lived in Seattle for several years in the early 2000s, making music as a solo artist and later as the drummer of Fleet…

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