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The Home Shows Effect: 90+ Seattle Organizations Join Pearl Jam to Raise Millions to Fight Homelessness

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

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,…

New Seattle Art Fair Artistic Director on Exploring the Good, Bad and Ugly of Tech

New Seattle Art Fair Artistic Director on Exploring the Good, Bad and Ugly of Tech

Philly native Nato Thompson says this year’s fourth annual expo will explore changing forces within Seattle’s art scene

Bay Area artist Mark Pauline with one of his art machines

Must List: Seafair, Art Fair, Seattle Night Out

Must List: Seafair, Art Fair, Seattle Night Out

Your weekly guide to Seattle's hottest events

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

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

"Porgy and Bess" Returns to Seattle Opera With Two Beloved Cast Members

“Porgy and Bess” Returns to Seattle Opera With Two Beloved Cast Members

It opens August 11

Opera Man: Tenor Jermaine Smith returns to McCaw Hall to reprise his role as Sportin’ Life for Seattle Opera’s 2018 production of “Porgy and Bess”

Sub Pop at 30: The Seattle Magazine Mixtape

Sub Pop at 30: The Seattle Magazine Mixtape

Seattle magazine editors and writers chose their favorite Sub Pop tracks for this playlist celebrating the legendary record label's 30th anniversary

Sub Pop artist photos at Hotel Max.

A Seattle Artist Is Making 3-D Printer-Created Ceramic Sculptures With the Help of a 'Potterbot'

A Seattle Artist Is Making 3-D Printer-Created Ceramic Sculptures With the Help of a ‘Potterbot’

At her Slip Rabbit studio, ceramic artist Timea Tihanyi pursues the possibilities of 3-D printed pottery

Ceramic artist Timea Tihanyi created this angular porcelain vessel with the help of a 3-D printer

Sub Pop at 30: Charting the Legacy of the Seattle Sound

Sub Pop at 30: Charting the Legacy of the Seattle Sound

How Sub Pop, a scrappy independent record label with the slogan ‘Going Out of Business Since 1988’ established the ‘Seattle sound,’ weathered the volatile music business and continues to make its mark on the city--30 years and counting

This article appears in print in the August 2018 issue. Read more from the feature story here. Click here to subscribe. Like Kurt Cobain, Nirvana and so many of the homegrown cultural forces it first nurtured, the origins of Seattle indie record label Sub Pop formed organically and humbly, specifically, in the 1980 dorm room of Evergreen State…

Sub Pop Employees Have Been Pulling Epic Pranks for 30 Years

Sub Pop Employees Have Been Pulling Epic Pranks for 30 Years

Founded on April Fools’ Day, Sub Pop has taken the date to heart, pulling notorious pranks over the years. Here are a few classic examples

Sub Pop CEO Megan Jasper, the woman behind the legendary “Lexicon of Grunge”

The Sub Pop Timeline

The Sub Pop Timeline

A highly abridged version of the label’s notable cultural contributions

Soundgarden’s first EP, 1987’s “Screaming Life,” was among Sub Pop’s first releases

Take a Self-Guided Tour of Seattle's Sub Pop Sights

Take a Self-Guided Tour of Seattle’s Sub Pop Sights

Bone up on your Sub Pop history with this tour of the city’s label-affiliated sights

MoPOP’s exhibit “Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses”

Sub Pop's Creative Director Waxes on the Label's Album Art

Sub Pop’s Creative Director Waxes on the Label’s Album Art

Sub Pop albums are defined by a certain aesthetic, and for the past 24 years, the label’s creative director, Jeff Kleinsmith, has helped convey it through the label’s record covers. Here, he waxes on a few favorites

Creative director Jeff Kleinsmith and office Sub Pup Kenny

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