Seattle Mag
What to Do This Fall: Music Events
From opera to a jazz fest, our picks for the best musical acts in town
JAZZThe Earshot Jazz Festival features more than 50 performances, including an opening-night birthday tribute to Thelonious Monk, “Monk 10/10,” featuring 10 of Seattle’s best jazz pianists playing works by the jazz genius, and a 10-piece ensemble led by local jazz pioneer Wayne Horvitz. Seattle’s avant-jazz scene is well represented at the fest, with performances by…
What to Read this Fall: Literature
In new memoirs, Seattle writers battle demons— and live to tell the tale
My Fluorescent God ($14.95)Almost Live! alum Joe Guppy recounts the story of his self-described “crazy period” in 1971, when he stayed for a stint in a Seattle mental hospital, haunted by the hellfire of his Catholic faith as well as his dark determination to jump off the Aurora Bridge. Using journals and doctors’ notes from…
What to See this Fall: Theater
Angels in America [DRAMA]This year’s edition of the Intiman Theatre Festival features Tony Kushner’s mid-1990s exegesis of the AIDS crisis, the two-part creation collectively known as Angels in America. Featuring stellar local talent, including Marya Sea Kaminski (as the angel), Jennifer Zeyl (set design) and Mark Mitchell (costume design), the production will remind viewers…
What to do This Fall: New Arts Venues
Fresh arts spaces are popping up all over
Read all of our picks for fall arts, including music, theater, film and more here. FILM: We first heard the glorious news back in May: SIFF is taking over the lease on the Egyptian Theatre, and will renovate and reopen the historic space as a year-round movie theater. The grand opening is set for October,…
Behold, the Glorious Bake Sale at Café Pettirosso
Did you realize that Café Pettirosso on Capitol Hill, once closed on Mondays, now opens its door specifically to hold what is arguable this city’s best (only?) bake sale every week? For the past month or so, sisters Yukiko and Miki Sodos have been using their cute little café—nearly hidden with all the recent construction…
Complete Strangers Get Close in this Photography Series
In Richard Renaldi’s photos, strangers share a fleeting moment of intimacy
They clasp hands, link arms or sometimes lay heads on each other’s shoulders. In a few cases, someone kisses another on the cheek. At first glance, New York photographer Richard Renaldi’s street portraits seem to be of oddly paired friends—people you wouldn’t expect to see hanging out together, who paused on the sidewalk for a…
Old World Home on the Bluff Even More Beautified
A 1924 Edmonds-area estate gets a landscape update worthy of its timeless prospect
Just because you’ve had the good fortune to realize that real estate mantra “location, location, location,” it still doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. Such was the case for a 1924 Tudor-style manse in Woodway (an exclusive enclave south of Edmonds harboring a coterie of grand old estates). Situated on a beautiful bluff overlooking…
The Unparalleled Cobb Salad at Matt’s In The Market
Matt (of MITM) turns the expected Cobb salad exceptional
There’s a rather famous item on the lunch menu at Matt’s In The Market (MITM), and it’s not the fried catfish sandwich. The Cobb Salad ($15) has been an afternoon delight at this Pike Place Market perch since 2010. What makes it so special are equal parts flavor and flair. It’s a pile of crispy…
Corretto–The Italian Restaurant On the Block
Delicious food and a neighborhood feel makes Corretto one of our favorites
The biggest problem with Corretto (416 Broadway E; 206.328.7817; correttoseattle.com) is that it’s too easy to miss. It’s smack dab in the middle of Broadway, where loads of pedestrians walk by every single day without giving so much as a passing glance to anything new on their way to wherever. Owner Travis Rosenthal, who also…
Chinook Fest: A Reel Good Music Festival
Who likes music in the woods? Most Pacific Northwesterners, last time we checked
Perhaps the best way to introduce Chinook Fest–a Seattle-grown roots rock festival held in central Washington–is to explain that it currently occupies the desirable groove between fledgling production and overcrowded mobfest. Founded by Seattle band Cody Beebe & the Crooks three years ago, Chinook Fest has grown from a collection of close musical friends performing…
What to See This Fall: Visual Arts
Seattle Art Museum: Pop Departures Those Pop Art troublemakers have been at it for the last 60 years: shaking up everything we thought we knew about art by incorporating images from advertising, comic books and everyday cultural detritus to challenge the traditions of “fine art.” Now SAM mounts a major exhibition dedicated to showing…
New Fall Restaurant Openings in Capitol Hill
If you thought Capitol Hill reached its restaurant apex five years ago, you'd be wrong
The neighborhood is back for round two, with so many promising new restaurants this fall, it’s head-spinning. Interestingly enough, this time around, most of the new restaurants will be moving into old auto-row-era buildings. We are, after all, a city fond of repurposing. Toward the south end of the hill at Melrose and Pike, Tom…
The 50 Bands Rocking Seattle Music Right Now
Are you up on Seattle's music scene? Test your knowledge with these local bands
What’s your favorite current Seattle band? If you have trouble answering (or if you draw a blank after Macklemore), we’re not going to judge. But we are going to suggest it’s time to check in with the city’s thriving indie music scene. New local bands are exploring sounds, blurring genre boundaries (though we’ve wrestled them…
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