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The Must List: Georgetown Carnival, Pepe Le Pew Takes Over EMP
What to do in Seattle this weekend
Must Ramble
Georgetown Carnival Hits the Streets
Saturday (6/13, times vary) Head south to the one-of-a-kind Georgetown neighborhood for the annual street festival, featuring live music, food trucks, interactive art, carnival acts and the always thrilling if slightly deranged power tool races.
Must Kill the Wabbit
Bugs, Daffy and Pepe Le Pew at EMP
(6/13 to 1/17/16, times vary) Celebrate EMP’s 15th birthday with the new exhibit What’s Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones, featuring original sketches, films, storyboards and photos from the man behind the thuperbly thilly cartoons.
Must Hike
4 Local Hikes for Beginners
The forecast promises another weekend of stunningly sunny weather—hooray! Consider getting out and taking a hike at one of these easy-to-moderate local trails.
Must Dance
Get Down at the Seattle International Dance Festival
(6/12 to 6/28, 4 to 10 p.m.) Punctuating two performance-packed weeks, the dance festival’s free Art on the Fly event in South Lake Union (6/13) features flash mobs, roving choreography and widespread support for dancing in the streets.
Must Hear
Killer Whales Book Launch and Reading
Tuesday (6/16, 7 p.m.) In David Neiwert’s latest book, Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us, the Seattle journalist and author pulls together 25 years of observation and reporting on those black-and-white beauties that feature heavily in Northwest symbolism and history.
Follow Us
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
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
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
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…