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Must List: Indie Crafts Galore, ‘Willy Wonka’ in Smell-O-Vision

What to do this weekend in Seattle

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Must Get Crafty
Winter Urban Craft Uprising at Seattle Center

(12/5 to 12/6, times vary) Billed as Seattle’s largest indie craft show, the two-day Winter Urban Craft Uprising (there’s another show in the summer) at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall is free (a $1 donation is encouraged) and features more than 150 vendors of handcrafted goods.

Must Go Rogue
A Holiday Version of Town Hall’s Short Stories Live Program

Sunday (12/6, 2 p.m.) Local historian Paul Dorpat, program curator Jean Sherrard and other colorful figures offer offbeat Christmas-themed stories, poems and music in “A Rogue’s Christmas,” a holiday version of Town Hall’s Short Stories Live program.

Must See
Painter Cable Griffith Unveils New Works

(12/3 to 1/16, times vary) Painter Cable Griffith’s landscapes bring an electronic pulse to pastoral scenes, fusing the order of human-built infrastructure with the chaos of the natural world. He describes Sightings, his December exhibition of new works at G. Gibson Gallery, as “conceived in conversation with the history of landscape painting, notions of the sublime and reports of unexplained phenomenon in contemporary society.”

Must Smell
Willy Wonka in Smell-O-Vision

(Through 1/3/2016, times vary) Grab a goody bag as you arrive at The SIFF Cinema Uptown on Queen Anne and enjoy Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory–in Smell-O-Vision. Watch the trippy classic in a whole new way, with fragrant and tasty treats delivered on cue to heighten the experience.

Must Go East
The Big Chanukah Show on Mercer Island

Monday (12/7, 7 to 9 p.m.) The Shalom Klezmer Band headlines this free musical variety show. Seattle Rabbi James Mirel will lead the lighting of the candles.

 

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…