Must ScreenSeattle Art Museum Presents Cinema de Paris(3/31 to 5/26, times vary) This series is a salute to Paris and features the Seattle restoration premieres of seven films by Claude Sautet starring Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Gerard Depardieu, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Romy Schneider. Also included are films by Jacques Becker, Claude Autant-Lara and Francois Truffaut….

THROUGH 5/1  David Martin, curator of the newly opened Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, may well be our region’s leading authority on Northwest art history. His extensive knowledge, which encompasses the many forgotten strains of local painters and photographers, has been put to great use in creating Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Centennial Tribute to…

In September 2014, Hollow Earth Radio (hollowearthradio.org), the nonprofit, community-run, Internet-based music station located in Seattle’s Central District, was one of about a dozen stations granted licenses to acquire low-power terrestrial signals by the Federal Communications Commission. After streaming online for eight years, Hollow Earth would be allowed to broadcast its diverse programming as KHUH…

Many of us dream of one day writing a novel. Bellevue-based author Richelle Mead acted on that dream years ago. In less than a decade she’s churned out 26 novels, and she shows no signs of stopping. “I expect to be writing books for many, many years,” Mead says of her work, which most notably…

Imagine being a musician. Then imagine being assigned a musical theme one afternoon and having to compose–over the next 24 hours–five minutes of original music that will be given to a band filled with some of the city’s best musicians who will then perform that piece in front of an audience 24 hours later. Sound…

Often in today’s music scene, there’s a push for the four-on-the-floor, the dance track, the club hit or the thing that will make your body move. But the mind and body are, of course, moved by more than one style. Sometimes it’s the long, drawn out wait, the musical stretching and sonic patience that does…

It’s been a lousy couple of weeks for Seattle trees. The Seattle Times reports an absolute tree massacre in West Seattle where someone cut more than 150 maple trees in a publicly owned greenbelt on a steep slope. You’d think even the most sheltered, idiotic, knuckle-dragging Seattleite would know the consequences of clear-cutting a steep…

A few weeks ago, Seattle musician Joe Reineke (The Meices, Alien Crime Syndicate) played a show with indie rock band Joseph Giant at the modest Lo Fi performance gallery on Eastlake Avenue. He strapped on his bass guitar – an instrument he doesn’t normally play at gigs – complete with thumping flatwound strings and rocked. …

Pastor Kaleb’s Easter Sunday Service is not your typical day in church. This is church as Willy Wonka or the Mad Hatter might have envisioned it. The service though belongs to Seattle performer Kaleb Kerr, and it’s a polychrome extravaganza; a wild, all-inclusive spectacle of humanity’s hardship, comedy and fellow feeling. Pastor Kaleb has no…

Must BrunchWhere to Go for Easter BrunchSunday (3/27, times vary) Easter is on Sunday, March 27. If you haven’t already made reservations for brunch with the whole family, now’s the time. Herewith, spectacular brunches—some with endless mimosas—found all around Seattle. Must VoteCast Your Vote in our Washington Wine Awards SurveyWe know our readers love Washington…

Every season, Pacific Northwest Ballet offers a program of mixed repertory entitled Director’s Choice. At a ballet company committed to showcasing the works of George Balanchine, presenting new and traditional full-length story ballets, and featuring works by other established modern and ballet masters, the program is an opportunity to fulfill its other important mission: to…

Seattle children’s book author, illustrator and mother Sanae Ishida decided to add one more thing to her harmonious plate: sewing. Through a year of threading and hemming, Ishida produced all her daughter’s (ridiculously fashionable) clothes, some garments for herself as well as household crafts. In her new book, Sewing Happiness (Sasquatch Books, $22.95), she stitches…