Seattle Mag
The Seattle City Council Primary Election Is Heating Up: Part 1
The Seattle City Council race is different this year. Here’s why and who’s running—so far
Six years ago, Seattle voters decided they wanted to elect seven of their nine city council members by geographical district, leading to the city’s first district elections in 2015 in almost 100 years. It was a dramatic change in the way Seattle voters choose their representatives. Switching to districts, supporters argued, meant that candidates would…
Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s ‘Everybody’: Death, Life and Strobe Lights
Morality meets mortality (a smoke machine and other special effects) in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ 2017 play
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody opens very promisingly in its current production (through Feb. 16) by Strawberry Theatre Workshop. A long tour de force speech by Justin Huertas segues nimbly from a funny preshow turn-off-your-devices request to some interesting background about the show (an updating of a medieval morality play that in turn was adapted from a Buddhist legend)…
7 Cooking Classes To Try in Seattle
Leave these local kitchens with skills you’ll keep for a lifetime
Cooking classes have long been the perfect way to learn something new, whether on a date night, with a big group or as a fun antidote to an empty weekend. Seattle has no shortage of classes taught by regional experts – read on for a list of some of the most distinctive options. But take…
Seattle’s Chekhov-Only Theater Company Is Just What the Doctor Ordered
In its rigorous approach to Chekhov, The Seagull Project applies the work of the famous Russian playwright and physician as a salve for modern times
PLAYWRIGHT PRACTITIONERS: Members of The Seagull Project include, from left: Sunam Ellis, Julie Briskman, Gavin Reub, Alexandra Tavares, John Langs, Sylvester Kamara and Peter Crook (title role, Uncle Vanya) This article appears in print in the February 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. There’s no easy prescription for moving forward in these divisive times, although the members of Seattle…
‘Rock of Ages’ at 5th Avenue Theatre Hits a Timely, Local Note
With its cast of local rockers and a club on the line, 'Rock of Ages' hits home
WE’RE WITH THE BAND: From left: Rock of Ages local performers include Pickwick’s Galen Disston, Black Stax’s Felicia Loud, bassist Andy Stoller, and actors Nick DeSantis and Sara Porkalob
Must List: Seattle International Dance Festival Winter Mini Fest, Winter Drams Spirits Festival, Masquerade XI
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST DANCE Seattle International Dance Festival Winter Mini Fest(1/25–1/26) Cyrus Khambatta and his Khambatta Dance Company have anchored this festival since its 2006 founding, and he’s invited three other choreographers this year to create dances for the company: Shura Baryshnikov (you’ll remember her famous dad),…
This Week Then: Remembering Civil Rights Leader Edwin Pratt
Plus: Looking back on the region's most powerful earthquake
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. A Life Cut Short Fifty years ago this week, on January 26, 1969, civil rights leader and Seattle Urban League Executive Director Edwin Pratt was killed by a shotgun blast outside his home in Shoreline. The assassin was never found. Pratt’s funeral at St. Mark’s…
Celebrate the Lunar New Year in Vancouver and Richmond, BC
Ancient traditions come to life in a modern setting to celebrate family, food and good fortune.
Sponsored by Lunar New Year Festival It’s no secret that the Pacific Northwest can get a little gray in these winter months, but just a little ways up the I-5, the Lunar New Year Festival in British Columbia, Canada is a bright and colorful celebration that welcomes the coming of spring in fascinating style. A short…
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