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Miley Cyrus is Super Pumped About Jenny Durkan Becoming Seattle's Mayor

Miley Cyrus is Super Pumped About Jenny Durkan Becoming Seattle’s Mayor

The pop star took to Twitter to celebrate Seattle electing its first woman mayor since the 1920s.

The “We Can’t Stop” singer praised Jenny Durkan after her win.

Michael Rietmulder

A New Exhibit at the Frye Explores Appropriation and Emojis

A New Exhibit at the Frye Explores Appropriation and Emojis

The museum's new show appropriates the appropriated.

Portraits like Marks’ 2014 “Wat’sa with a Pearl Earring” appropriate familiar imagery to bizarre and unsettling effect.

D. Scully

Most Influential Seattleites 2017: The KEXP Gathering Space

Most Influential Seattleites 2017: The KEXP Gathering Space

Seattle Magazine presents the Most Influential Seattleites of 2017.

When Chris Cornell died in May 2017, Seattle’s community converged at KEXP.

Gwendolyn Elliott

Seattle Journalist 'Spyhops' the Alt-Right in Essential New Book

Seattle Journalist ‘Spyhops’ the Alt-Right in Essential New Book

David Neiwert has one of the more interesting beats.

Award-winning Seattle journalist David Neiwert covers an interesting beat: killer whales and politics (his blog, Orcinus, describes his efforts as “spyhopping the right”). He explores the latter subject in his recently published book, Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump (Verso, $29.95), essential reading for anyone who is—as Neiwert notes—“startled…

Gwendolyn Elliott

The Faces of Seattle Homelessness Will Be Displayed Across the City This Weekend

The Faces of Seattle Homelessness Will Be Displayed Across the City This Weekend

Renowned photographer Lee Jeffries teamed up with Seattle's Union Gospel Mission for a powerful exhibit.

Photographer Lee Jeffries visited Seattle this year and took portraits of people living outside.

Megan Toal

Get Ready for One of Seattle's Biggest All-Local Beer Fests

Get Ready for One of Seattle’s Biggest All-Local Beer Fests

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MUST LAUGH 38th Seattle International Comedy Competition(11/2–11/26) Thirty-two comedians from around the world compete to be the last comic standing in this regionally touring comedy competition that is the largest in the country. Past winners include Preacher Lawson, who took his routine on to the semifinals of America’s Got Talent. Times, prices and locations vary….

Seattle Magazine Staff

Seattle Symphony’s Grammy Award–Winning Record Label is a Reputation-boosting Innovation

Seattle Symphony’s Grammy Award–Winning Record Label is a Reputation-boosting Innovation

The labor of love is making waves in the industry.

Key players in the Seattle Symphony’s recording venture are (left to right) CEO Simon Woods and Grammy-winning chief recording engineer Dmitriy Lipay.

Gavin Borchert

Dazzling Cast Overcomes Hint of Contrivance in ArtsWest's 'The Nance'

Dazzling Cast Overcomes Hint of Contrivance in ArtsWest’s ‘The Nance’

The latest production at the West Seattle theater feels like an extra-naughty Teatro ZinZanni show with substance.

Richard Gray is magnificent as Chauncey Miles in “The Nance.”

Gavin Borchert

On-Sale Date For 'Hamilton' Tickets in Seattle Announced

On-Sale Date For ‘Hamilton’ Tickets in Seattle Announced

Here's how Seattleites can see the musical America's gaga over.

OMG!!! It’s time to freak the hell out, Seattle. Ticket information for Hamilton’s Seattle run at the Paramount Theatre has been announced. And it sounds like it’s a bit of a process. Given the after-market frenzy around events as hot as the hip-hop theater masterpiece, Ticketmaster is hoping to thwart the bots and opportunistic scalpers…

Michael Rietmulder

Here's a List of Seattle-Based Scary Movies for Halloween

Here’s a List of Seattle-Based Scary Movies for Halloween

Spy familiar sights around the city in these thrilling, scary or supernatural-themed, Seattle-based flicks.

Get spooked and spot downtown Seattle locations in “The Ring.”

Max Rose

Dan Savage's NSFW Film Fest Returns to Seattle

Dan Savage’s NSFW Film Fest Returns to Seattle

The Must List: Your guide to Seattle's hottest events.

Dan Savage’s celebration of DIY porn shorts is back for its 13th year.

Seattle Magazine Staff

There's an Artisanal Yarn Revolution Happening in Bellingham and It's Awesome

There’s an Artisanal Yarn Revolution Happening in Bellingham and It’s Awesome

Bellingham knitters now have a bounty of yarn colors and styles.

In Bellingham, a burgeoning community of yarn enthusiasts is helping knitters get cozy in style, hand-spinning and hand-dying yarns that stand strands and hues apart from their commercial brethren. Scarlet Tang of Huckleberry Knits (online only, huckleberryknits.com) uses wool from lesser-known sheep breeds, such as Targhee or Bluefaced Leicester, for a yarn that is softer…

Megan Lamb

5th Avenue's 'Ragtime' Shows Us The Persistence of America's Racial Divide

5th Avenue’s ‘Ragtime’ Shows Us The Persistence of America’s Racial Divide

The parallels between 1917 and 2017 are on display at 5th Avenue.

The 5th Avenue Theatre’s “Ragtime” production runs through Nov. 5.

Gavin Borchert

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