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The Must List: Affordable Art Fair, Barsuk Records’ Concert Series

What to do this weekend

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!–paging_filter–pstrongMust Get Ticketsa href=” http://bit.ly/1bFM2vR” target=”_blank”brTickets Still on Sale for BREW Seattle/a/strongbrSnap up your $40 pass to Seattle magazine’s inaugural BREW Seattle, a beer tasting festival on November 14 with oodles of brews on tap. Your ticket earns you six tasting tokens, each one good for a five-ounce pour (in your own special BREW Seattle mini mug)./p
pstrongMust Celebratea href=”http://bit.ly/1cGDLZc” target=”_blank”brRock on with Barsuk Records/a/strong/p
p(11/7 to 11/10, times vary) — The Seattle-based indie label celebrates its 15th anniversary with a slew of stellar Northwest bands—including The Long Winters, David Bazan, Nada Surf and Jesse Sykes—playing venues around town.strongbrbrMust Shopa href=”http://bit.ly/HBaT6j” target=”_blank”brDeck Your Walls with Affordable Art/a/strongbr(Through 11/10, times vary) — The Affordable Art Fair at Seattle Center serves up art from all over, priced from $100 to $10,000. Look for work by local artists from Seattle galleries Blindfold, Abmeyer + Wood, G.Gibson, James Harris and Patricia Rovzar.strongbrbrMust Seea href=” http://bit.ly/1bdNzDd” target=”_blank”brHead East for the Telling Tales Exhibit/a/strongbr(Through 1/19/14, times vary) — This group show of visual art that tells a story features Nate Steigenga, Anna Torma and Cappy Thompson, artists who work in collage, fiber and glass, respectively.strongbrbrMust Swarma href=” http://bit.ly/192Jtwb” target=”_blank”brCrystal Pite’s Contemporary Dance at PNB/a/strongbr(11/8 to 11/17, times vary) — The edgy, inventive Vancouver B.C.–based choreographer had swarm intelligence on the brain when she crafted Emergence, a riveting, provocative work that explores the bug-eat-bug world of the hive mind via fluttery, flicky movement./p

 

Rearview Mirror: Godzilla, Cork, and a New Sushi Spot

Rearview Mirror: Godzilla, Cork, and a New Sushi Spot

Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).

POPPING OUR SENSES I don’t think I’ve ever given much thought to a wine cork beyond the satisfying pop it makes when opening a bottle, but after spending a morning at DeLille Cellars in Woodinville with about 50 other people, I have a new appreciation for it. The occasion was “(Pop) Open Your Senses,” a…

Best Bookstore: Beguiled Books

Best Bookstore: Beguiled Books

This Pioneer Square darling is easy to spot: pink doors and candy-striped details mark its home near Occidental Square. Beguiled Books started in 2024 as a mobile bookstore, making its way from table to tent to trailer, and finally to its current brick-and-mortar space. Labelling itself as “Seattle’s Original Romance Bookstore,” Beguiled specializes in just…

Best Art Gallery: Foster/White Gallery

Best Art Gallery: Foster/White Gallery

A pillar in Pioneer Square’s arts ecosystem, Foster/White Gallery opened in 1966 (then called Richard White Gallery) as the first space of its kind in the neighborhood. It soon gained notoriety for showing preeminent Northwest artists such as Morris Graves, William Morris, George Tsutakawa, and Dale Chihuly. In the decades after founding the gallery, its…

Best Museum: Seattle Art Museum

Best Museum: Seattle Art Museum

A vote for Seattle Art Museum is really a vote for three different art outings. The downtown museum pairs ambitious exhibitions with a global collection; the Seattle Asian Art Museum occupies SAM’s original 1933 Art Deco home amid the 43 acres of Capitol Hill’s Volunteer Park; and the Olympic Sculpture Park puts art out in…