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Must List: Crosscut Festival, America’s Largest Antique & Collectible Show, Seattle Boat Show
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MUST DEBATE Crosscut Festival (2/2-2/3) Journalists and public figures converge for in-depth conversations on topics ranging from politics to social justice, climate change to immigration at this inaugural festival, presented by Crosscut, the online, nonprofit publication covering Northwest news. Hear from Washington state Governor Jay Inslee and state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, former Obama administration officials…
Local Theatre Legend on August Wilson’s “Two Trains Running” and Leaving Seattle
After 16 years in Seattle, most recently as associate artistic director at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Marya Sea Kaminski says farewell to Seattle with an August Wilson play.
That wailing you heard rising from Seattle’s theater community last Dec. 5 was a cry of pain at the announcement that Marya Sea Kaminski would be leaving Seattle Repertory Theatre after three years as associate artistic director to take the position of artistic director for Pittsburgh Public Theater. Losing her as an administrator was only…
Valentine’s Day Dining Guide: Seattle’s Restaurants Have Menus For Everyone—And Every Budget
Whether it’s Champagne and caviar or Netflix and chill, Seattle’s restaurants have you covered for Valentine’s Day.
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. For those not in a relationship, it’s a reminder or celebration of singledom. For couples, it can be a fun excuse to celebrate one another or a budget-busting, cringe-worthy corporate scheme. Whether you love it or hate it, want to spend some serious dough or settle in with…
Classical Music and Pancakes: Together At Last on Capitol Hill
Erin Jorgensen's "Bach & Pancakes" at Studio Current is the perfect way to spend a Sunday morning in Seattle.
In a grungy but cheery white-walled basement on Capitol Hill—the kind of space that’s been hosting DIY arts events for decades, but which is becoming one of the casualties of the ‘hood’s gentrification—Erin Jorgensen has a large concert marimba set up in front of about three dozen chairs, almost all full. One woman is knitting,…
Dazed & Amused: Turnpike Troubadours and Miranda Lambert at the Tacoma Dome
Country fans are in for a red-dirt reckoning in the City of Destiny on Feb. 1.
It’s probably going to be pretty cold in Tacoma—and temperature-controlled in the Tacoma Dome—on the night of Thursday, Feb. 1. That’s too bad, because the Turnpike Troubadours should really only be witnessed at a venue where it’s excruciatingly humid and at least 90 degrees outside (or, hell, inside). At such a gig, the mosquitoes must…
Must List: All-Female “Frost/Nixon,” Timbrrr! Festival, Seattle Spheres
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What’s happening this week in Seattle? Here’s what’s happening this week in Seattle. MUST SEE “Frost/Nixon” (1/18 – 2/17) One of the most buzzed-about performances in town is happening at 12th Ave Arts on Capitol Hill, where Strawberry Theatre Workshop is presenting “Frost/Nixon” with an all-women cast. The Peter Morgan play about the famous post-presidency…
Pearl Jam’s “Home Shows”: Two Safeco Field Concerts, Millions of Dollars to Fight Homelessness in Seattle
The band is playing in Seattle for the first time in years, and will be donating $1 million toward efforts combating homelessness in the city and county.
Pearl Jam is headed back to the Seattle stage, and will be bringing a purpose to the performance. The band is announcing “The Home Shows” — two shows at Safeco Field taking place on Aug. 8 and 10. Not only will the legendary Seattle band be performing “the largest headlining concert event in Seattle since…
Must List: St. Vincent, “Trojan Women,” Dark Beer and Chili
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MUST SEE Trojan Women: A Love Story (1/16–1/28) “My plays are broken, jagged, filled with sharp edges,” says American playwright Charles Mee. “That feels good to me.…It feels like the world. And then I like to put this…into a classical form, or some other effort at civilization.” Mee has done just this with this student…
Must List: Nordic Lights Film Festival, Sara Porkalob’s Two New Plays, Novelist Jesmyn Ward
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MUST WATCHNordic Lights Film Festival(1/11–1/14) Contemporary Scandinavian feature-length films, shorts and documentaries screen as part of this ninth annual film festival, presented by the Nordic Heritage Museum in partnership with SIFF. Among the offerings: the Swedish art world parody The Square by Ruben Östlund, and a documentary titled Arctic Superstar, about an aspiring rapper from…
These Cold War Artifacts Feel Eerily Relevant in 2018
A time capsule museum exhibit examines the impacts of citizen-led diplomacy during the Cold War.
If it’s eerie to view an exhibit of historical artifacts about a subject still dominating headlines today—say, what to do if a nuclear bomb strikes Seattle—it’s vaguely reassuring to note that ordinary citizens at the time continued to push for peace however they could. Among the many carefully curated items in the exhibit Glasnost &…
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