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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.
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Rearview Mirror: Crocodile Guardians, Late-Summer Potato Salad, and a Halloween Costume Hunt
Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).
COOKING WITH ASTER PANTRY A few leaves turn, my inbox fills with fall festival pitches and cozy brunch menus, and suddenly I want to stay home with a glass of wine and cook. I love this nesting season, though I’m not ready to give up summer produce. Earlier this year, I wrote about Seattle chefs…
WALKDONTRUN Returns This Saturday, Turning Downtown Seattle Into a Sprawling Art Show
In its second year, the free festival brings 200-plus artists to a 20-block route September 19, with a secret garden and a former 7-Eleven stocked with art.
Most walks through downtown Seattle involve trying to get somewhere. On September 19, the crosswalk itself might be the reason to stop. Heap Troupe will turn a four-way crossing into a performance, one of dozens of encounters planned for this year’s WALKDONTRUN. The free, all-ages art walk stretches across more than 20 blocks. From 11…
At Two Dot Schoolhouse, Ruth Marie Tomlinson Builds an Artistic Community
For nearly 20 years, the Seattle artist and her husband have welcomed artists, writers, and musicians to a historic Montana schoolhouse. Now they’re searching for its next stewards.
At her solo exhibition last year at The Vestibule, Seattle artist Ruth Marie Tomlinson presented a new series of work inspired by her close readings of British nature writer J.A. Baker’s The Peregrine and Icelandic author Sjón’s The Blue Fox. As if on sheets torn from a sketchbook, her pages included excerpts and outtakes of…
Rearview Mirror: Seahawks Off the Field, Seattle on the Board, and Smoked Oysters
Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).
HOOKED ON KNOCKS Admittedly, I am late to this one. The Seahawks’ first season of Hard Knocks, the HBO series that follows NFL teams through training camp, premiered in August, but until last week, I had never heard of it. To be honest, my football knowledge starts with knowing what a touchdown is and doesn’t…