Updated on 2/11 at 9:35 a.m.: A tipster on Twitter informed us that the ice sculpture had taken a bit of a tumble overnight and we confirmed with the DSA that the mix of too-high temperatures and precipitation caused the display to fall. The heart shape is no more, though the ice blocks are still…

Seattle has been home to some of the country’s ablest writers of true crime; the late Ann Rule, whose book about Ted Bundy, The Stranger Beside Me, is a classic of the genre. Jack Olsen produced deeply reported books, such as the complex story of Spokane’s South Hill rapist, documented in his book Son. Author…

While it’s only been open for three short years, Seattle’s Great Wheel has become an iconic part of the city’s skyline—as have the 175-foot-tall attraction’s light displays, designed by Gerry Hall. “It was a void in the job that needed to be done, so I volunteered,” says the wheel’s general manager. “If I can make…

Must HearSeattle Improvised Music Festival(2/4 to 2/6, 7:30 p.m.) Seattle musicians put their talents to the test during the 31st Seattle Improvised Music Festival. During the three-day event at Wallingford’s Good Shepherd Center Chapel, you can catch on-the-spot and off-the-cuff collaborations between the city’s bravest vocalists, saxophonists, guitarists, bassoonists, violinists and other musicians. Must PliePNB…

Seattle Superheroes is a regular series on seattlemag.com wherein artists depict standout people in our community as superheroes. While we’ve taken some artistic license with the narratives, the sentiment behind them is very real. Lonesome Shack is not the type of band that just saves a little old lady from a burning building. No, it…

Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s 1888 play Miss Julie, a dialogue between a young countess and her father’s valet, set in the kitchen of her family’s estate, remains a potent and complex drama in which the powerful relationships of class difference, sexual desire and gender roles are negotiated, with tragic results. Rio de Janeiro–based author and…

Expanding your social circle can be a bit daunting (see the dreaded and excessively discussed “Seattle Freeze“). And the more conventional way of connecting with others (e.g. bars) gets old. We did a little digging and uncovered a host of local groups, clubs and beyond where mixing and mingling with your fellow humans is encouraged…

News that Seattle’s pilot non-profit bike-share partnership with Pronto needs a financial bail-out after only a year was disappointing to some. The Seattle Times’ Danny Westneat said that it “deflates Seattle’s self-image.” I’m not sure anything is capable of deflating Seattle’s civic ego, but it’s a setback for a city that wants to be bikeable….

Must MarvelCris Bruch Solo Show at Frye Art Museum(1/30 to 3/27, times vary) The longtime Seattle sculptor and public artist, whose highly finished, self-contained monoliths and subtle, irony-laced smaller works have for decades discreetly responded to their often unsympathetic surroundings, is the subject of a solo show that also includes his recent photographic works. Must…