Arts
Seattle Nearly Lost One of Its Biggest Music Boosters. Instead, She’s Doubling Down With Upstream.
Los Angeles was beckoning music biz maven Melissa Darby. Fortunately for us, Paul Allen's new fest kept her in Seattle.
Melissa Darby in Pioneer Square before Upstream crowds arrive: After 24 years at the heart of Seattle’s music scene, she’s come of age for the biggest job of her life.
Tell Me About That Track: Bart Budwig’s “Goliath Got Stoned”
Singer/songwriter Bart Budwig recorded his new album ‘Paint by Numbers Jesus’ live at the nearly century-old OK Theatre in Enterprise, Oregon. There’s a warm, Americana rock tone throughout it—like Wilco meets Kris Kristofferson—lots of tongue-in-check biblical references and a few well-spun covers. Here, Budwig tells us more about the grooving single,”Goliath Got Stoned” and tour…
Brace for More Rain, and Take Shelter in Poetry
As we brace for yet another few weeks of record-breaking rain, it’s time to take shelter in poetry. Offering this salve of sorts is Poetry on Buses, a community partnership (between Sound Transit, King County Metro, 4Culture, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture and others) that invites budding and veteran poets to share their work…
2017 Seattle Record Store Day Round Up
The 10th annual Record Store Day—the event that single handedly helped re-ignite the current vinyl obsession, while helping countless small, independent brick-and-mortar record stores remain open—kicks off today, April 22, at record shops around town with all kinds of in-store performances, special releases, sales and more. We’ve compiled a small list of some of the…
An Art Collection for the Ages: Richard Berger’s Masterpieces of the Earth
Filled with planetary treasures, Richard Berger’s Masterpieces of the Earth collection—including a 6,000-pound crystal cluster, otherworldly sandstone formations and a 2-ton amethyst cave—is one for the ages
Collector Richard Berger, and his wife Miriam Dyak, stand with pieces of the collection including a 800-pound, 95 million-year-old three fossil ammonite nodule
The Must List: Earth Day Run, Giorgio Moroder, Elysian Brewing Superfuzz Bikini Downhill
Must Listen Vaddey Ratner (4/24) PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Vaddey Ratner visits the Seattle Central Library to discuss and sign her compelling new book, Music of the Ghosts, the powerful follow up to her debut, In the Shadow of the Banyan, which traced her experience as a child refugee of…
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